Vol 5 Chapter 26: , Americans are preparing

Wilson finally convinced his political team to support the war. But the next question comes again, what about the Panama Canal?
Should we try our best to keep the Panama Canal? Once the canal falls, the U.S. Navy will be divided into two. As for transoceanic military transfers, it is estimated that the U.S. Navy will starve to death on the road!
The coalition dared to make a transoceanic expedition. There were a large number of Canadian, Mexican, and South American countries responsible for logistical supplies, but they did not go directly from London to the United States. A colonial government was responsible for logistics along the way!
In order to plan this war, the British had stockpiled supplies in advance more than a year ago. Otherwise, how could it be possible to send troops as soon as they were dispatched?
John Joseph Pershing, Chief of Staff of the US Sixth Army, one of Wilson's most trusted generals. Well, there are really no famous generals in the United States in this era. Only short people can choose generals. John Joseph Pershing has passed the Spanish-American War anyway!
Under the support of a group of incompetent generals, he seemed very powerful. In fact, he only killed the peasant rebel army when he invaded Cuba, and then suppressed the indigenous uprising in the Philippines.
Without participating in the World War, American soldiers naturally have no chance to perform. Therefore, the 6th Army Chief of General Staff promoted by Wilson has actual combat experience not as good as any division commander in the three kingdoms of Britain, France and Bulgaria!
William Chevrolet Benson is the Secretary of the Navy. He was not promoted by Wilson. The US Navy is much stronger than the Sixth Army. President Wilson has not yet been able to interfere with the appointment of their Secretary of the Navy.
Now they came together to the White House, together with the U.S. Cabinet, plus President Wilson, they worked together to formulate a battle plan, or to say that they were reviewing the military's battle plan!
Wilson said passionately: "You, the United States of America have reached the most critical moment, even if the British burned the White House back then, they cannot be compared with the present!
If this war is won, the United States is still the United States. If the war is lost, this land will once again become scorched! "
Okay, his expression was done in vain. Everyone sitting here is old fried dough stick. Who cares about these official articles?
Wilson's face sank. The majesty of his president was almost wiped out. After a pause, he swallowed his stomach full, and said coldly: "Two generals, take out your battle plan!"
William Chevrolet Benson took the lead and said: "This time the enemy is coming and attacking from two sides at the same time. Our navy has limited strength and is unable to resist both enemies at the same time. The Admiralty decided to concentrate all warships on the Atlantic Ocean to defend Our best east coast!"
Secretary of State Rice immediately retorted: "How can this work? The navy has all gone to the east coast. What about our west coast? Just throw it to the enemy?"
Benson said coldly: "I'm sorry, our navy is limited. Even if we want to defend our east coast, we can't do it. If we divide our forces, we don't even need a battle plan. We can just give in!
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina on the east coast , Georgia, and Florida are the best places in the United States.
From the point of view of maximizing benefits, as far as possible to preserve the East Coast, the vitality of the United States can be preserved to the greatest extent. As for the West Coast, isn’t there still a Sixth Army?
The big deal is to learn to be the Big Six Army against the British, fight if you win, and run if you don’t win. Although the League of Nations is aggressive, they are also full of internal contradictions. As long as time delays, they will collapse on their own! "
In fact, this is just a cutscene. The states on the east coast of the United States account for more than half of the country’s population. They have seven layers of economic aggregate. It is inevitable to give priority to defending the east coast. As early as Benson proposed this as a plan, the U.S. Navy had already Acted.
The opposition was only for political correctness and to prove that the government really had no choice, and was forced to give up coastal defense on the Pacific coast!
As early as when various countries confiscated overseas assets of the United States, the U.S. Navy quietly transferred the main fleet to the East Coast, and now it is the last navy that has been transferred.
And most of them are old warships, and several battleships are also the earliest generation of dreadnoughts of the US Navy, and their combat effectiveness is not very good.
This is similar to what the British guessed. The real main force of the Royal Navy is also in the Atlantic Fleet, and most of the main ships in the Pacific Fleet are first-generation warships.
The deployment of the navy naturally made the Sixth Army very dissatisfied. John Joseph Pershing retorted: "General Benson, I am afraid you have made a mistake. This time our enemy is the whole world, not just the British Empire!
Our Sixth Army’s defense zone draws the United States in a circle. Do you think it is that easy? The enemy will board from Canada, Mexico, and these thousands of kilometers of coastline. Tell me how to defend? "
Benson said coldly: "This question is what I want to ask. The Navy can hold the East Coast. As for the issue of the Sixth Army, I personally suggest that it continue to expand!
The Germans can face the 8 million Allied Forces alone in Europe for half a year, but they collapsed because of insufficient supplies!
You can learn from it. There are absolutely no enemies you are facing. With our resources and industrial strength, as long as you can block the enemy, the government will definitely not let you go hungry! "
The contradictions between the six navy forces are not small in every country, and the United States is no exception. Now that the navy retreats from the west coast and requires the 6th Army to fill the pit, Pershing naturally cannot bear it!
Pershing said angrily: "Our 6th Army doesn't have this capability. Just look at our military expenditure for this question. A few years ago, our 6th Army had only 26,000 troops, which is just one division!
The army is now expanding. Soon the total strength of our 6th Army will reach 8 million, and it will even exceed 10 million in the future. Unfortunately, most of these troops are federal state militias. How much of them can be mobilized by the 6th Army. , Is this still a serious problem?
When it comes to your navy, with so much military expenditure every year, what are you doing? If all were given to the 6th Army, there would be no such trouble now! "
Wilson interrupted angrily: "Stop, I am calling you over today, not for a fight, the war has already begun, we have no extra time to waste!
Everyone comes up with a battle plan and continues the topic just now. If you agree with the Admiralty’s plan, please vote directly! "
Opposition to opposition. On the issue of the Navy's concentration of forces to defend the East Coast, everyone still adopted this combat plan.
Pershing said with embarrassment: "The deployment of the 6th Army is very troublesome. We do not select the militias in the upper coastal and border states. The army that can be transferred by the 6th Army is essentially limited now!
Because there are too many locations where the enemy can attack, we plan to deploy the 6th Army on several nodes to facilitate reinforcement at any time.
Force deployment..."
The total strength of the U.S. 6th Army is as high as 8 million, and the 6th Army’s direct army has just reached more than 3 million. Even these troops were coordinated by Wilson himself and the consortium, and used their huge influence to get out of the hands of the state governments. Out of troops!
The coastal states and frontier states are very supportive of the government's military expansion, but this support is limited to verbal support. Most of their expanded troops are left to defend their hometowns. As for the defense of the Federation, leave this issue to others!
At present, the main force of the US 6th Army is basically recruited from the inner 6 states, and they also have little interest in defending the country!
Without the First World War, the U.S. government has not been able to establish a complete national conscription system. Now it is very easy for states to recruit militias, and everyone is still very active in defending their hometowns. If the U.S. Sixth Army recruits almost no one is interested!
The 6th Army in Pershing's hands is almost about to become a shelter now. In order to gather the number of soldiers promised to the central government, the states opened the prison and released the prisoners to make them commit crimes!
Of course these are still not enough, so some federal states have an idea. Are there not enough whites and blacks? We are all Americans. How can we avoid them when we defend our country?
So now the main force of the US Sixth Army is actually the Black Uncle, and this proportion is still increasing. At the same time, other races have appeared, such as the faces of Indians and Asian races.
There is no need to discuss the issue of combat effectiveness. The US Sixth Army in this era is only able to bully the natives. On the contrary, when the militias of various states are defending their hometowns, they have some combat effectiveness!
Seeing that everyone was silent, Wilson reluctantly announced: "Since everyone has no opinion, let's do it!"
This combat meeting ended in unhappiness. Don’t expect everyone to have a high level of enthusiasm for a war with no hope. If there is a choice, it is estimated that the US military will become the most intense anti-war war. send!
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When the U.S. government began to mobilize the country, the pace of the war was getting closer and closer to them. It's not that no one wanted to take the initiative. The problem is that it won't work if it is won!
What can you do if you beat Mexico or Canada? Could it be possible to destroy them in this short half month?
Since you can't kill the enemy, then don't waste precious troops. The main job of the American people now is to dig trenches. The Americans also learned a lot during this world war, and trenches are one of them.
In order to win this war, the Americans began to dig trenches arbitrarily, and the states are self-organized defenses, so many times there will be ridicule.
For example: when the honest Americans dig trenches, they accidentally dug a road leading to a neighboring state; or they dug a big water ditch without considering the actual situation; or they dug...
This is good for countries where all the people have guns, and there is no need to worry about weapons during wars. Even with such a radical expansion of the US government, they can still guarantee a gun!
Let alone the logistics issue, I guess General Pershing doesn't know how many weapons his troops are equipped with, let alone supplies!
Guns are not enough, they still have guns, so the old antiques preserved by collectors are invited out. They are not too old. Most of them are the products of the Civil War, in one-third of the countries in the world. , These equipment are still improvised!
Even so hungry, Pershing only found more than 3,000 cannons for the Sixth Army, and of course the rest were still in the workshop of the arsenal!
In addition to artillery, machine guns, tanks, and armored vehicles are all indispensable. Even if the United States is the world's largest industrial power, it certainly does not have them in the top three military industries.
Even during the World War, they added production lines, but at the end of 1917, the capitalists disposed of these things, and now they have to start again.
With the American system, after the capitalists have completed the adjustment of the production line, there is not a year or a half of time, so let's not ask for it!
Don’t see rabbits or scatter eagles, although the Wilson government has long required capitalists to carry out wartime economy, it is a pity that people don’t see orders and just don’t change the production line!
In peace times, President Wilson wants to expand his armaments, so he must pass the Congress first! Without the approval of the congressmen, he, the president, has no right to expand and prepare for war!
The most important thing is that the government has no money. Whether it is tax increases or debt rolls, Congress must approve it, so Secretary of State Rice has found it again!
Secretary of State Rice said frowningly: "Mr. President, our bank's debt has been coldly treated in the market, and the major domestic consortia are not interested!
Due to the freezing of our overseas assets, the domestic economy was in trouble at the end of last year. The stock market had fallen to the bottom for a long time, and there is no sign of recovery. So we levied a war tax and encountered trouble! "
Wilson said angrily: "Damn shit! Don't these capitalists know that their lips and teeth are cold? Once we are defeated, they will still expect the League of Nations to protect their interests?
What plan do you have to get us through this crisis? "
If the American consortium learns about Wilson's ideas, it will definitely complain that they are so rich. The American consortium in this era is not the post-World War II American consortium!
The world war ended early. They were at best a second-rate consortium, and they were close to the first-rate consortium. With the annihilation of overseas investment, they also suffered heavy losses and were beaten back to the second-rate consortium.
To support the national defense construction of the base camp again, naturally there is no spare capacity to buy the bonds of the central government. UU Reading www. uukanshu. Com is of course worried about the government's ability to repay, which is also a very important factor!
Rice thought for a while and said: "There is no good way. Economists told me that the government can take over the Federal Reserve and get through the current hurdle with the US dollar!"
Hearing this suggestion, Wilson fell into silence. This was not the first time he thought about this issue.
Taking over the Fed is not that simple! Of course at this time, he doesn't care about offending the consortium. The problem is that he doesn't have enough gold reserves in his hands?
The U.S. dollar can become one of the world's mainstream currencies. The consortium behind the Federal Reserve has made great efforts. Without their support, the issue of gold reserves alone would be enough to make the US government struggle for another 30 years!
Les put forward this suggestion. Obviously they also knew about this problem. The gold reserves did not increase, that is, they were abusing money, using inflation, and plundering wealth from the people in war!
Wilson is not an economic idiot. On the contrary, he is an economic expert. He knows that this matter cannot stop at the beginning.
Perhaps it is only a 10% increase in the US dollar, but inflation may be 50%. This is mainly a question of people’s confidence in the US dollar.
In peace times, you can still think of ways to restore the people's confidence. Don't think about it during the war. It is estimated that the optimistic American people don't think they can win this war!
The goal of most people is just to keep their hometown. If you lose the battle, you will lose the battle. Anyway, as long as you don't harm your own interests!
"Well, do what you said!" Wilson said helplessly
After this decision is made, it is estimated that the American people will have a deeper impression of him, the "worst president" in American history!
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