Chapter 66: Fragile Solidarity
Now retreat.
Only 300,000 conscripts from the southern United States and more than 300,000 Mexican soldiers could be withdrawn.
There are still about 400,000 European coalition troops on the east coast that have not yet had time to fight.
Other words.
If retreat now.
Hundreds of thousands of the elite of the US military.
It's all going to be lost on the Western Front - if they retreat, it's a miracle that these hundreds of thousands of American troops can withdraw a third.
And the Western Front was withdrawn.
This vast plain area east of the Narocky Mountains and west of the Appalakia Mountains.
It's all in the hands of the Chinese!!
Not to mention.
It's still a fierce battle.
How to withdraw?!
Boom, boom, boom.
The sound of the artillery did not stop for almost a moment.
Fertile land in the Missouri Plains.
The shells kept blasting the dirt away.
Close to two million soldiers on both sides.
The bloodiest battle in the history of mankind is taking place on the great plains of North America.
The Ming army launched a magnificent assault operation.
The results were much more magnificent than those estimated before the war.
The gate to victory.
It's completely open.
The joint command of the corps of the Western Front of the coalition forces.
At this time.
There's no more busyness.
Only low and anxious.
The high-spirited staff officers a few days ago.
Now they are all crying and mourning.
They know.
The consequences of the defeat in this battle were very severe - the Ming army retreated from west to east to the west of the Appalakia Mountains.
The order to retreat from the rear command had already arrived by telegram - of course, at the same time as the "special intelligence center" of the Ming army in Golden State.
Napoleon gave the order to retreat.
However.
Whether it's Andrew. Jackson or John. Stark, or any other U.S. military officer.
How willingly are they?
Let's not say if they can get out safely.
Where can they go after they withdraw?
The Missouri Plains and the Missouri Plateau are two places that are lost.
The U.S. Northern Industrial Region became a huge salient.
Defensive pressure has skyrocketed – that's still the way high emotional intelligence goes.
In fact.
If they retreat to the south.
It almost means.
The United States lost the North.
Lost the industrial regions of the North!
In this era when steel production determines the strength of a country.
What it means to lose an industrial area.
Almost every American knows it.
Sometime.
They are likely to form a new country with the Mexicans.
An agrarian nation – if they could keep some of the land in the Mississippi River Valley.
And an agrarian country that wants to confront the Ming Empire.
The only reliance.
It's the European countries behind them.
To be more specific.
It's France and England!
And so it goes.
America's dream of great power.
It was completely ended.
This order to retreat from Napoleon.
Hardly.. There is no such consideration in it.
From the beginning.
This great unity of Christian civilization in Europe.
It's the appearance.
Every European country has its own interests.
Especially at such a moment of imminent defeat.
"We can't retreat!"
John. Stark exclaimed.
"If we withdraw, the whole north will fall into the hands of the Chinese, and what it means to lose the north, I think we all know very well!"
"Those damn Europeans want us to have a confrontation with the Chinese in North America! The French absolutely do not want us, the United States, to become a great power on the North American continent! ”
John. Stark yelled.
Even if.
French Field Marshal Ney sat across from him.
He doesn't care anymore.
Fragmentation of the coalition forces.
After the defeat.
It has already begun to manifest.
As mentioned earlier.
Leadership.
It's typed.
If Napoleon led the coalition forces to a brilliant victory.
Then he will deserve the position of leader!
But
What he is suffering now is a big defeat
Then his position was shaken and questioned.
That's normal.
"Retreat."
Andrew. Jackson was silent for a long time.
Finally squeezed out such a sentence.
"We're going to keep the army!"
"But."
"Nothing, though. We are not an unconditional retreat! We need to be assured that the blood of Americans cannot be shed in the Missouri prairie without objection. ”
"Conditions? What conditions? ”
"The French and the British must help our Highness! I'm going to bring out as many Americans as I can! ”
"Will they?"
"They will be willing. Because they can surrender to the Chinese, we can't! ”
Andrew. Jackson said.
The Chinese came to North America to compete for living space.
Even if the Americans surrender, there is a high probability that they will be exiled by the Chinese to some corner of the corner.
But the British are not the same as the French.
They can go back to Europe.
American..
But there is no way back.
"What if they don't want to?"
"Then we will withdraw from the alliance and surrender directly to the Ming Empire - I don't think the Ming Emperor will refuse." Andrew. Jackson said, "Nothing is more important than survival!" ”
"Will the Ming Emperor agree?"
"He'll agree, and there are only 10 million Americans now. And his Ming Empire has a population of five or six hundred million! What can 10 million white people do? As far as I know, within the Ming Empire, in their west, there is also a minority of Turkic origin, right? ”
"Then the French and the British will surely go crazy."
"So they'll definitely agree to my retreat!"
Andrew. Jackson said.
Retreat can.
But.
Please use the blood of the French and the British to cover the retreat of the American soldiers!
"As long as you keep enough troops, even in the South, America can survive."
"As long as there is an army, there is hope."
Although the British and French knew about Andrew. Jackson was just threatening them.
But as soon as they thought of the possibility of the Ming Empire taking the North American continent without a fight, they felt chills.
After all.
Although the Ming Empire repeatedly stated that their territorial claims in the Eurasian part were limited to the area east of the Ural Mountains.
But.
If the Ming Empire gets the North American continent.
Next.
Will they look to Europe?
Who dares to guarantee that the Ming Empire will not be interested in Europe?
Therefore.
Let the United States hold on, at least keep the territory in the south, and form a long-term confrontation with the Ming Empire in North America.
to ensure the safety of Europe!!
Therefore.
Both the French and the British can only agree with Andrew. Jackson's scheme.
400,000 troops from Europe covered the withdrawal of nearly half a million American troops to Kansas City.
In Kansas City, there are permanent concrete fortifications.
There is also the main Mississippi River that connects the entire southern United States all the way to the Caribbean Sea.
Hold Kansas.
It would allow the United States to at least have the South. (End of chapter)