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The city of Erie is located in Pennsylvania, USA, on the shores of Lake Erie, one of the five famous freshwater lakes in the northeastern United States. The www.biquge.info is a continental climate on the east coast of the United States, with an average annual temperature of 10 degrees Celsius. January is the coldest month, with lows of -20C at times due to the cold Snap in Labrador to the northeast. Because of the Appalachian Plateau, the terrain is high in the south and low in the north, with a hilly terrain of four or five hundred meters. However, it is flat compared to other cities in Pennsylvania.

With all the near oceans, Like the city of lakes and rivers, the fishery and aquatic product processing industry of Erie City is also very developed, and the excellent harbor, as well as the proximity to the most developed commercial belt in Canada, as well as a large number of fresh water resources, also make the manufacturing industry here develop very well, especially after the opening of the railway, 130 kilometers to the south, Pittsburgh, and 100 kilometers to the northeast of Fabro, after years of development, Erie City has become the third largest city in Pennsylvania after Pittsburgh and Philadelphia!

However, all of this ceased to exist after Huo Jiajun came here! A large number of machinery and equipment and high-level skilled workers were taken away. and Edinburgh Rowe University, which was founded in 1857 and is the oldest and largest public higher education institution in the Northwest United States, even after the teachers and students were all moved away by Huo Jiajun. The economy of this once-vibrant port city has plummeted, and it is even more lonely in the context of the great economic crisis in the United States and the war between China and the United States.

However, all this has no effect on the Huo family army that occupies here, because it is already on the list they have given up. Moreover, the soldiers of the Huo family, who have been stationed here for two years, have already scavenged all the valuable things in the city. Not even a single wire, not a piece of steel!

Now the only value of Yili City to Huo Jiajun is the numerous reinforced concrete buildings inside. It would be the strongest fortification to hold back the advance of the U.S. Army on the Northern Front. And in order to hold this railway passage at the northernmost point of the line of fire between China and the United States. And to give the greatest damage to the American offensive troops, Diao Fei, who commanded the northern front corps of the Huojia Army, put four divisions and nearly 80,000 people here.

If we count the 56th Division, which belongs to the same county of Erie as the city of Erie and is stationed in the small town of Rice at the end of the main channel of the Ohio River, then nearly 100,000 troops are stationed in this section of less than 50 kilometers where the Huojia Army and the U.S. Army can be connected by land. It can be said that a quarter of the troops of the Northern Front Corps of the Huo Family Army are stationed here.

"Division commander, this is a telegram that has just been forwarded to us from the theater command!" Yang Junchen, chief of staff of the 48th Division, pushed the door in. He handed the telegram in his hand to Cao Guozhao, who was holding a copy of the textbook "On the Application of Artillery in Modern Warfare" from the Huo Jiajun Army Military Academy, looking at it with a serious expression and taking notes from time to time.

It has been two years since he was transferred from the deputy commander of the 2nd Division to the commander of the 48th Division. If you count the time he spent in the Huo family's escort team, Cao Guozhao, who is now Chinese New Year's Eve five years old, has already had a military career of nearly 16 years. It can be said that he is the oldest qualified officer in the Huo Family Army, which now has reached one million in number in this army! It is precisely because of this. He was appointed by the Theater Command to command the 48th Division in Erie. The 51st Division, the 5th Division of the Servant Army, and the 9th Division of the Servant Army had a total of 80,000 troops in four divisions.

Looking at the army textbooks that were put aside, yellowed because they were too diligent, but still neat and clean, a hint of admiration flashed in Yang Junchen's eyes, "The division commander is reading the military textbooks again?"

"Hehe, yes! There is no foundation in the first place, if you don't work harder, I'm afraid you really won't be able to keep up with the development of our troops!"

Listen to him. Yang Junchen's face couldn't help but show a look of identification, although he was in 1880. When the military training in Huojiahoushan had just begun, he joined the Huojia Army, which can be said to be the earliest batch of troops formed by Huo Shan himself, and received the latest modern military education. However, in the past five years, with the addition of a large number of light and heavy machine guns and artillery pieces of various calibers, as well as various combat examples summed up by Huo Jiajun himself, all kinds of new military theories have become more and more abundant. For many senior officers of the Huo Family Army who have not gone to military schools and are busy with the war in the Americas, they have become a little backward!

"Okay, let's not talk about that!" After waving his hand, Cao Guozhao's face became serious, "According to the intelligence of the theater headquarters, in the past few days, the US Army opposite our Northern Front Corps has suddenly seen a large number of troop movements, and the intensity of the attack has also increased sharply by several levels. A call from the theater command warns us to be careful of the large-scale offensive of the US Army on the Northern Front!"

"Well, according to the report of our reconnaissance force in the past few days, there have also been some changes in the Second Army, the Eighteenth Army, and the Twenty-eighth Army of the US Army stationed opposite us, and now it seems that the entire US Northern Army has changed!" After a pause, Yang Junchen's voice changed, "The theater command thinks this is a precursor to a large-scale attack by the Americans?"

Hearing this, Cao Guozhao nodded, "In order to ensure the safety and smoothness of logistics and transportation, we have long abandoned the triangle between the Mississippi River and the Ohio River, as long as the Americans are not stupid, they will definitely guess our strategy of abandoning the Great Lakes region." Ulysses Simpson-Grant, the current chief of the U.S. General Staff, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Joseph Johnston are all figures who fought in the American Civil War, and they are not only experienced in warfare, but also have more experience in commanding large corps of men than we do. They will not fail to guess our hidden purpose in abandoning the Great Lakes region. At this time, there was a sudden large-scale movement of the army under their command, and it was clear that it was ready for a real big war. ”

"According to the analysis of the theater command, the most likely place for the Americans to attack is us!" Cao Guozhao finally said.

Hearing this, Yang Junchen also nodded in agreement, although the low temperature in the north made a large amount of ice in the upper reaches of the Ohio River, but the thickness of the ice was only about twenty centimeters, and under the bombardment of a large number of artillery of the Huo Jiajun, it could not last long at all, and it was very easy to re-isolate the attacking troops. However, this problem does not exist in the less than 50 kilometers where Erie County is located, and there is no need to worry about the obstruction of the river, so it can gather forces to launch a large-scale attack, and it can also give full play to the superiority of the US Northern Corps in the number of troops.

"However, the theater command does not have accurate information, and it is not ruled out that the Americans may attack the west, so there is not much force to strengthen us!"

"We don't want anything else, just hand over the airship troops to our command!" Yang Junchen's eyes lit up and he said with some expectation. From the first time that the Southern Front Corps put the airship into use in the Memphis offensive and defensive battle, and the great results it achieved, as well as the strong combat effectiveness shown by the Northern Front Corps in suppressing the enemy's artillery with airships during this time, every senior officer of the Huo Family Army coveted it!

"Well, the headquarters has already agreed!" said Cao Guozhao, handing over the telegram in his hand.

"Great!"

"Hehe, yes!" After a pause, he turned to the guards beside him and said, "Send a telegram and ask the officers of the 51st Division, the 5th Division of the Servant Army, and the 9th Division of the Servant Army to quickly come to the headquarters for a meeting at or above the regimental level!"

"This time, we will use the fortifications we have built in the past two years to touch the iron spear of the Americans!

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"Boom, ......boom!" The choppy waves, with huge thrust, lifted the battleship of more than 2,000 tons high, and then after the wave crest passed, it fell with a bang. A large amount of seawater rushes onto the deck and then flows back into the ocean through the apertures in the ship's side, but it is inevitable that a lot of water will overflow into the cabins below. The duty officer rolled up his sleeves, barefoot, and led his comrades to continuously scoop out the seawater flowing into the cabin while holding the basin, and thought bitterly, "Now, I don't need to clean the deck tomorrow!"

Inside Cambridge, Yang Yonglin held the steel handrail tightly, stared at the dark scene outside the porthole with frowns, and thought with some sigh in his heart: "The waves of the Atlantic Ocean are really not comparable to the calm Pacific Ocean! The sea conditions are bad, the storms are frequent, if it were not for the radio connection, and the superior performance of the new destroyer, I am afraid that before it reaches New York, the fleet would have lost more than half!"

Although the American Fleet has been established for nearly two years, it usually stays in the Gulf of Mexico for training, and it is mainly to protect the islands in the Caribbean Special Administrative Region and the coast of Texas to prevent sneak attacks by the US Navy.

However, fortunately, when Huo Shan asked the ship design department to design the famous general-class destroyer, he paid special attention to the seaworthiness and speed of the warship, so he deliberately raised the dry suspension, used the technology of small watertight compartments, and reserved buoyancy. Although there is no 10,000-ton hydraulic press, it is impossible to make a real Atlantic bow, but it has a slight arc, which is different from the current straight bow of various countries, which still makes the Admiral-class destroyer perform better in the face of wind and waves.

"It's really fucking unlucky, I've been seeing this for almost half a month, and I'm going to New York soon, and if I don't meet you, I'll actually run into a storm!" Huo Qiyun scolded and took off the raincoat on his body, revealing the golden major general's epaulettes on his shoulders.

"Chief of Staff!" Facing the saluting guards, Huo Qiyun nodded, put away his raincoat, and strode to the front of the bridge. (To be continued.) )