Vol 5 Chapter 26: Americans are preparing

Wilson managed to convince his political team to support the war. But the next question came again, what should the Panama Canal do?
Want to keep the Panama Canal? Once the canal fails, the US Navy is divided into two. As for the transoceanic military transfer, it is estimated that the US Navy will starve to death on the road!
The coalition forces dared to cross the ocean, and there were a lot of logistics supplies in Canada, Mexico, and South America. They were not directly from London and killed in the United States. Colonial governments were responsible for logistics along the way!
In order to plan this war, more than a year ago, the British were stockpiling materials in advance, otherwise how could they say they would send troops?
John Joseph Persh Chief of Staff of the Sixth Army, one of Wilson's most trusted generals. Well, in this era, the United States really has no famous generals and can only choose generals in short. John Joseph Pershing has passed the American-Spanish War!
With the help of a group of incompetent generals, he looked very powerful. In fact, he only killed the peasant rebels when he invaded Cuba, and then suppressed the indigenous uprisings in the Philippines.
Without participating in the World War, the US soldiers naturally have no chance to perform, so the 6 Chiefs of Staff promoted by Wilson has less actual combat experience than any of the divisions of Britain, France, and France!
William Scheffer Benson, US Secretary of the Navy, he was not promoted by Wilson. The US Navy is more powerful than the Sixth Army. The President Wilson has not been able to interfere with the appointment of their Secretary of the Navy.
Now they have come to the White House together, together with the United States Cabinet, and the President Wilson, they are working out a military plan, or reviewing the military plan!
Wilson said passionately: "You, the United States of America, have reached the most critical moment. Even when the British burned the White House, they could not compare with the present!
After winning this war, the United States is still the United States, losing this war, this land will be reduced to scorched earth again! "
Well, his expression is white. Everyone sitting here is old fritters. Who cares about these official articles?
Wilson's face sank. The majesty of his president was almost wiped out, he paused, and swallowed his stomach full of words. He said coldly, "Two generals, take out your battle plan!"
William Chevrolet Banson took the lead to say, "This time the enemy is menacing and attacking from both sides at the same time. Our navy has limited strength and cannot resist both sides of the enemy at the same time. The Admiralty has decided to concentrate all warships in the Atlantic to defend it. Our finest East Coast! "
Secretary of State Rice countered immediately: "How can this be done? The navy has all gone to the east coast, what about our west coast? Is it just thrown to the enemy?"
Banson said coldly, "I'm sorry, our navy has limited strength. Even if we can't keep our east coast, we can't do enough. If we divide our troops again, we don't even need the battle plan, we can directly admit defeat!
East Coast of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina , Georgia, and Florida are the best places in the United States.
From the perspective of maximizing benefits, if you can keep the East Coast as much as possible, you can maximize the vitality of the United States. As for the West Coast, are there still 6 troops?
It ’s a big deal to learn when the Big Six deal with the British. If you win, you fight. If you do n’t win, you run. The League of Nations is fierce, but they are also contradicted internally. As long as time delays, they will collapse by themselves! "
In fact, this is just a cut-scene. These states on the east coast of the United States occupy more than half of the country ’s population. There are more than seven levels of economic aggregate. Prioritizing the defense of the east coast is inevitable. As early as when Benson proposed this, the US Navy had already Acted.
The opposition was just for political correctness, proving that the government was really at a loss and was forced to abandon coastal defense on the Pacific coast!
As early as when countries overseas confiscated U.S. overseas assets, the U.S. Navy quietly transferred its main fleet to the East Coast, and it is now the last navy to be transferred.
And most of them are old warships, and several battleships are also the earliest generation of fearless ships of the US Navy, and their combat effectiveness is not good.
This is similar to the British conjecture. The real main force of the Royal Navy is also the Atlantic Fleet. Most of the main ships in the Pacific Fleet are the first generation warships.
The deployment of the navy naturally made the 6th Army very dissatisfied, and John Joseph Pershing retorted: "General Benson, I'm afraid you've made a mistake. This time, our enemy is the world, not just a British Empire!
The defense area of ​​our 6 army is to draw the United States in a circle. Do you think it is so easy? Enemies will climb from Canada, Mexico, and these thousands of kilometers of coastline. Can you tell me how to defend? "
Banson said coldly: "This question is also what I want to ask. It is good that the navy can defend the East Coast. As for the question of the 6th Army, I personally recommend that we continue to expand it!
The Germans could face the 8 million Allied Coalition forces in Europe alone for half a year, or they collapsed because of insufficient supplies!
You can learn. There can never be so many opponents against you. With our resources and industrial strength, as long as you can block the enemy, the government will never let you starve! "
The contradictions between the Six Marines are not small in each country, and the United States is no exception. Now that the navy is retreating from the west coast, and it is necessary for the 6 army to fill the pit, Pershing naturally cannot bear it!
Pershing said angrily, "Our 6th Army does not have this capability. Looking at our military expenses, we will know that a few years ago our total troop strength was only 26,000, which is just a division!
The army is now expanding. Immediately, 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 militia in the federal state. How many of them can be mobilized by the 6th Army? Is this still a serious problem?
By the time your navy holds so much military expenditure every year, what have you done? If all of them were given to the 6th Army, it would not be so much trouble now! "
Wilson interrupted angrily: "Stop, I'm calling you today, not to fight, the war has begun, we have no extra time to waste!
Everyone comes up with a battle plan and continues the topic just now. Everyone agrees with the plan of the Navy Department. Let's vote directly! "
Opposition goes against opposition. On the issue of the navy's concentration of forces to defend the East Coast, everyone still adopted this combat plan.
Pershing said embarrassedly: "The deployment of the 6th Army is very troublesome. We will not select militia from the coastal states and border states. The 6th Army's truly capable army can now be limited!
Because the enemy can attack from too many places, we plan to deploy the 6th Army on several nodes to facilitate reinforcement at any time.
Force deployment ... "
The total strength of the 6th Army of the United States is as high as 8 million, and the 6th Army ’s direct troops have just reached more than 3 million. Even these troops were coordinated by the Wilson personally with the consortiums and used their huge influence to pull out from the state governments Coming out of force!
Coastal states and frontier states, they are very supportive of government expansion, but this support is only verbal. Most of their expanded troops are left to defend their hometowns. As for defending the federation, this problem is left to others!
At present, the main forces of the 6 US Army are basically recruited from the 6 inner states. They also have little interest in defending the country!
Without World War I, the U.S. government could not establish a perfect national recruiting system. It is now very easy for states to recruit militia, and everyone is very active in defending their hometowns. If the 6th Army recruits, it will be almost nobody's attention!
Pershing ’s six armies now almost become shelters. In order to get together the number of soldiers promised to the central government, the states opened prisons, released prisoners, and made them guilty!
Of course, this is not enough, so some federal states have an idea. Is n’t there enough white people to still have black people? Everyone is an American. How can we lose them when defending our country?
So now the main force of the 6th US Army is actually Uncle Black, and this proportion is still increasing. At the same time, other races have appeared, such as the faces of Indians and Asian races.
The issue of combat effectiveness does not need to be discussed first. In this era, the 6th US Army was only able to bully the indigenous people. On the contrary, when the militia in each state was defending their hometown, they had some combat effectiveness!
Seeing that everyone was silent, Wilson announced helplessly: "Since everyone has no opinion, just do it!"
This combat meeting ended in disappointment. For a war where there is no hope, do not expect how passionate everyone can be. If there are choices, it is estimated that this time the U.S. military will become the most intense anti-war. send!
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When the US government started national mobilization, the pace of war was getting closer and closer to them, not that no one wants to take the initiative to attack, the problem is that winning now is useless!
What about a meal in Mexico and Canada? Is it possible to destroy them in just half a month?
Since the enemy cannot be killed, don't waste precious troops. The main job of the American people now is to dig trenches. Americans have learned a lot in this world war, and trenches are one of them.
In order to win this war, Americans began to dig trenches, and states are self-organized to defend, so many times they will laugh and cry.
For example: when the honest Americans dug trenches, they accidentally dug the road to the neighboring state; or they did not consider the actual situation and dug a large ditch; or they dug ...
That ’s good for nations with guns. Do n’t worry about weapons during wartime. Even with such a radical expansion of the US government, they can still guarantee a gun!
Don't mention the logistical problem. It is estimated that General Pershing does not know how many weapons his own troops are equipped with, let alone look at supplies!
It ’s not enough to have a gun, they still need a gun, so the old antiques preserved by collectors are invited out, and they are not too old. Most of them are the products of the Civil War. In one-third of the world, , These equipment are still okay!
Even though he was so hungry, Pershing only scraped more than 3,000 cannons for the 6th Army, and the rest was of course in the workshop of the arsenal!
In addition to artillery, machine guns, tanks, and armored vehicles are also indispensable. Even if the United States is the world's largest industrial power, it must not have them in the top three in the military industry.
Even during the World War, they added production lines, but by the end of 1917, the capitalists had dealt with these things, and now they have to start again.
With the US system, when the capitalists have completed the adjustment of the production line, there is not a year and a half, so don't extravagant!
No rabbits and no eagles, although the Wilson government has long required capitalists to conduct a wartime economy, it is a pity that if they do not see orders, they will not change the production line!
And in peacetime, the President Wilson wants to expand his arms, and pass the parliamentary level first! Without the approval of parliamentarians, this president has no right to expand arms and prepare for war!
The most important thing is that the government has no money. Whether it is a tax increase or a bond issue, it must be passed by Congress. Therefore, Secretary of State Rice again!
Secretary of State Rice said frowningly: "Mr. President, our bonds have been coldly treated in the market, and several major domestic consortia are not interested!
As our overseas assets were frozen, at the end of last year, the domestic economy was in trouble and the stock market had already fallen to the bottom. Now there is no sign of recovery, so we levied war tax and encountered trouble! "
Wilson said angrily, "Damn mess! Don't these capitalists know that their lips are cold? Once we are defeated, they will still count on the National League to protect their interests?
What plans do you have to get us through this crisis? "
If the U.S. consortium knew Wilson's ideas, they would definitely scream injustice. I thought they were so wealthy. The U.S. consortium in this era is not the U.S. consortium after World War II!
At the end of the World War in advance, they were at most a second-rate consortium. They approached the first-rate consortium. With the annihilation of overseas investment, they also suffered heavy losses and were again returned to the second-rate consortium.
We must also support the national defense construction of the base camp. Naturally, there is no time to buy the central government bonds. Of course, worrying about the government's ability to repay is also a very important factor!
Rice thought for a while and said, "There is no good way. Economic experts tell me that the government can take over the Federal Reserve and pass the dollar by the dollar!"
Hearing this suggestion, Wilson fell into silence. This was not the first time he had thought about the issue.
Taking over the Federal Reserve is not that simple! Of course, at this time, he doesn't care about offending the consortium either. The problem is that he doesn't have enough gold reserves in his hands?
The US dollar can become one of the world's mainstream currencies. The consortia behind the Federal Reserve have made great efforts. Without their support, the issue of gold reserves alone will be enough for the US government to fight for another 30 years!
Rice made this suggestion, apparently they also knew the problem, and the gold reserves had not increased, that is, to flood banknotes, use inflation, and plunder wealth from the people for war!
Wilson is not an economic idiot. Instead, he is an economic expert, and he knows that it can't stop at the beginning.
Maybe it only increased by 10% of the dollar ~ EbookFREE.me ~ But inflation may be 50%. This is mainly a question of public confidence in the dollar.
In peaceful times, you can think of ways to restore people's confidence. Don't think about it during the war. It is estimated that even the optimistic American people do not think they can win this war!
The purpose of most people is just to keep their hometown. Defeat the defeat. Definitely, as long as it does not harm your own interests!
"Well, do what you say!" Wilson said helplessly
After making this decision, it is estimated that the American people will become more and more impressed with his "worst president" in American history!
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