Chapter 700 Landing in Hawaii West Coast Strategy

"Mr. President, I think under the current situation, we have to give up something in exchange for peace in the core of the United States.

Compared with the west coast, I think the navy should give priority to protecting the security of the east coast and concentrate all the navy on the Atlantic to protect our most elite areas. "Seeing that the situation in the meeting was a bit awkward, the highly respected General Pershing stood up and reiterated the most important purpose of the meeting, which was the army's combat plan.

"General Pershing, is your proposal a bit unrealistic?" Secretary of State Lights immediately retorted and said with a look of disbelief: "If we give up the west coast first, I am afraid that the entire west will be reduced to into the hands of the enemy.”

"Although this seems stupid, it is indeed our best solution at the moment." General Pershing explained with a cold face: "You have to know that our naval strength is limited and it is impossible to completely defend the east and west coasts.

To put it bluntly, even if all the navy is assembled, the east coast may not be able to defend it.

Splitting the Navy to the West Coast will only increase pressure on the East Coast. Don't you, Mr. Leites, want to see Washington fall again? "

Hearing what General Pershing said, U.S. Secretary of State Wrights looked embarrassed and did not dare to say anything more.

In any case, General Pershing's prestige in the army is relatively high, and even MacArthur wanted to give General Pershing a face.

Under such circumstances, it was naturally impossible for him, a Secretary of State with little foundation in the government, to have a head-on conflict with General Pershing.

"General Pershing, continue." Seeing that someone finally proposed a plan, President Hoover, who was originally a little embarrassed, breathed a sigh of relief and quickly looked at General Pershing expectantly.

"I think our current combat plan can be divided into two parts." General Pershing nodded, looked at everyone, and introduced very seriously: "

Laissez-faire defensive decisions can be made throughout the West. Don’t all the western states have a large number of National Guards? Let them take charge of their own defense.

Concentrating all the main forces of the Army in the eastern states and doing our best to protect the best part of the United States is our current top priority. "

"But, won't this accelerate the independence of the western states?" Although President Hoover was blind and arrogant, this did not mean that President Hoover was a pure fool.

At least President Hoover could see that being too laissez-faire would give the western states more power.

"There is nothing we can do about it, Mr. President." General Pershing spread his hands and said helplessly to Hoover: "With our current military strength, it is impossible to defend the western states.

Rather than being captured by the enemy in our hands, it is better to let them form their own defense forces and engage the enemy.

Even if the states want to be independent, they must first face the coming enemy, right? They should also understand that being occupied by the enemy also means the failure of independence, and believe that they will pay everything for their own interests.

Compared with the coalition army, the National Guards in these states can only play a blocking role, which can help us consume the enemy's strength.

As long as we can train more troops to go to war, we may not be unable to win the Eastern Defense War despite the huge disparity in supply consumption.

As long as we firmly defend the east, the coalition army that only occupies the west will inevitably create rifts. This is also an opportunity for us to counterattack and end this war. "

President Hoover nodded excitedly, finally understanding the general idea of ​​General Pershing's battle plan.

After all, he was a qualified politician. Let’s not talk about his ability to govern the country. President Hoover’s political vision was still qualified. Otherwise, he would not have successfully become the President of the United States.

As long as the United States can successfully defend the eastern region, it will actually achieve part of General Pershing's plan.

The enemies facing the western United States are most likely Russia and Australasia, of which Australasia is more powerful.

This also represents the fact that the main force of the coalition army is actually in the eastern region.

If the west gains a lot but the east gains nothing, the issue of profit distribution alone is enough to cause rifts within the coalition army.

I believe that Britain and France are not willing to see Australasia monopolize the western United States and they gain nothing. If they have rifts or even direct conflicts due to carving up the western United States, it will be time for the United States to counterattack as General Pershing said.

The biggest reason why General Pershing's plan is hopeful to come true is because currently nearly 70% of the population of the United States is in the East.

Although the economic crisis forced some of the population to flee to the west, the population in the east is still as high as over 60 million.

More importantly, the economy and industry in the east are also more developed. From all angles, the importance of the east is far greater than that of the west.

"Then how will our Pacific Fleet be transferred to the Atlantic Ocean? Do we have to detour to South America?" President Hoover suddenly thought of a question and looked at General Pershing.

"Perhaps this is the only way, Mr. President." General Pershing said helplessly: "The Panama Canal was lost too early. It is impossible to pass through the Panama Canal under the surveillance of the enemy. A slight mistake may lead to the loss of the Pacific Ocean." The fleet was wiped out.

Although it will take more time to detour to South America, it is still much better than losing half of the Pacific Fleet. "

Seeing that President Hoover's expression had relaxed too much, General Pershing couldn't help but remind him: "Mr. President, our enemy currently is half of the world, so we can't be careless or careless.

In addition to concentrating the navy on the east coast, we should also expand the army as soon as possible. We must at least expand the number of the army to more than 2 million in order to defend the entire eastern region against the enemy's attack.

During the previous world war, Germany also managed to challenge the whole world. If the lack of logistical supplies and materials had not brought down Germany, there would be no problem in delaying it for a few more years, and it could even bring down Britain and France in reverse.

At present, we are fighting on our own territory, and our land area and material reserves are more abundant. In theory, we can completely defeat Britain and France.

Not only are we suffering from an economic crisis, but Europe as a whole is suffering from a quite severe economic crisis.

As long as we can delay for a few years, Britain and France will sooner or later collapse in an economic crisis due to high war expenditures. We can even take this opportunity to become the world's number one power and dominate the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. "

Originally, he wanted to remind President Hoover not to be too careless, but General Pershing's few reminders made President Hoover lose his fighting spirit. Pershing could only say some words of encouragement, and first drew a big pie to let President Hoover resume his career. Let’s talk about restoring hope.

As for frontline operations, President Hoover did not need to worry. As long as President Hoover can stabilize the U.S. government and provide the military with as much supplies as possible, General Pershing is confident that he can complete his plan.

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President Hoover rubbed his brow, managed to pull himself together and said to General Pershing: "I will notify the military factories under the major consortiums to resume production and produce as much weapons, equipment and ammunition for the army as possible.

At the same time, the government will sell a new batch of national bonds in the hope of raising more military spending for the military. "

At present, the U.S. Army has three major problems in recruiting troops. One is the problem of soldier resources, which can be solved by spending more money.

The second is the problem of weapons and equipment. The U.S. military factories are called upon to expand on a larger scale. Only by continuously expanding production lines can they barely make up for the vacancies in weapons and equipment.

The third and most serious problem is that there are too few low-level officers in the United States, and the military is currently seriously lacking in middle- and lower-level commanders.

The current number of U.S. Army personnel has tripled that of half a year ago, which also means that the number of middle- and lower-level commanders has also tripled.

Because the U.S. Army did not have much reserves for grassroots commanders before, many new recruits became commanders just after joining the army. This was a huge test for the combat effectiveness of the new army.

At present, General Pershing can only transfer some veterans to become the commanders of the new army. Although this barely strengthens the order of the newly formed army, it also weakens the army of the transferred soldiers.

The Americans are anxiously preparing for war, and in Australasia, Arthur is always paying attention to the situation in Hawaii.

Since the Hawaii landing battle started on July 17, Arthur has been paying attention to the telegrams from Hawaii, waiting for the good news from General Silvio.

However, Hawaii is an official territory of the United States, and its defense power is naturally much stronger than that of the previous U.S.-controlled Philippines.

Especially after the United States lost the Philippines, Hawaii became an important Pacific springboard and one of the important locations for the Pacific Fleet.

The reason why Arthur is more concerned about Hawaii's intelligence is because of Hawaii's unique geographical location and the American defense layout in Hawaii.

Not counting the deployment of the Navy, the United States has three infantry regiments stationed in Hawaii. After the war broke out, these three infantry regiments were quickly organized into infantry brigades.

It is worth mentioning that one of these three infantry regiments is a regular U.S. infantry regiment, and the other two infantry regiments are militia from the state of Hawaii. Their combat effectiveness is still relatively weak compared to the regular regiments.

It can be seen from the deployment of U.S. military forces in Hawaii that in the hearts of Americans, Hawaii is indeed much more important than the Philippines.

If the original U.S. army had not only had 80,000 troops, Arthur believed that the U.S. would have stationed at least one division in Hawaii, or even more.

But unfortunately, the Americans chose to disarm after World War I. Now it is impossible to increase the military garrison in Hawaii, because Hawaii has been fully surrounded by Australasia and the British Indian Ocean Fleet.

More than ten days have passed since the Hawaii landing battle, and the battle has basically achieved results.

In fact, judging from the combat effectiveness of the Australasian army, this landing battle should be resolved in a short time.

But in fact, in order to implement the spirit of reducing casualties mentioned by Arthur, Silvio basically did not allow the Australasian army to land forcefully.

The first few days at the landing station were all suppressed by firepower from the Air Force and Navy, plowing through all the areas in Hawaii where US troops were stationed, and the number of artillery shells and bombs consumed has exceeded 100,000.

This kind of large-scale bombing was also very fruitful. When the Australasian army forced a landing on the fourth day, it faced very little counterattack from the Hawaiian garrison.

In fact, this does not mean that most of the Hawaiian garrison was killed in the explosion. In fact, most of the U.S. military has not experienced war. They are new recruits who have only served in recent years.

More than ten years have passed since World War I. The soldiers who once represented the United States in World War I have already retired, and some have died in the Washington Massacre.

Since most of them were new soldiers, it was naturally impossible for these American soldiers to have the courage to stand up and resist after facing large-scale and large-scale bombing.

After all, cannonballs don't have eyes. If a cannonball falls next to you, you may lose your arms or legs, or you may lose your life.

On the 7th day of steady advancement, which was the 11th day of the official siege of Hawaii, Arthur finally received a telegram from Hawaii.

This is a telegram sent directly by General Silvio to Arthur. It details the current results of the Hawaii landing battle and reports the latest news to Arthur, that is, Honolulu, the capital of Hawaii, has been captured. Lu.

An entire American infantry brigade lost more than a thousand soldiers, and all the others were captured by Australasia and became prisoners.

Because of General Silvio's prudence, Australasian casualties were relatively few. The number of dead was less than a hundred, and the total number of injured was only a few hundred.

It is worth noting that, as one of the bases of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, no trace of the U.S. Pacific Fleet has been found in Hawaii.

However, General Silvio is not surprised by this. After all, Hawaii is only a bridgehead, and California is the most important in the entire western United States.

Especially now that the Panama Canal has been blocked, where can the U.S. Navy go? Most likely it's on the west coast.

After encouraging General Silvio and all the soldiers in the telegram, Arthur with a smile on his face ordered the government to announce the good news in a timely manner, and at the same time arrange for manpower to take over Hawaii.

Arthur will definitely annex the Hawaii area. After all, it is located in the center of the Pacific Ocean and can radiate eastward to the west coast of the United States, making it easier for Australasia to support its own puppet state on the west coast of the United States in the future.

With Hawaii as a springboard, Australasia can better control the west coast of the United States, and Arthur can safely entrust his other sons to the countries that will be established on the west coast.

The development potential of the West Coast of the United States is still good, especially in California. The scale of development in later generations is not inferior to that of European countries.

Split the complete West Coast of the United States into several countries and entrust them to his sons. Firstly, he can better control these countries. Secondly, he can let his family spread. The few little guys support each other. In A The royal family's rule and status can also be maintained after Se.

In fact, it has been decided from the political system of Australasia that if the country is to be supported on the west coast of the United States, there is a high probability that this new country will be a monarchy.

After all, Australasia is a monarchy, and his younger brother is still clamoring for democracy and freedom. Isn't this creating a bomb that can threaten him at any time?

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