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 little unrealistic?" Secretary of State Lights immediately retorted, saying with a look of disbelief: "If we give up the west coast first, I am afraid that the entire west will be reduced to in 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 gathered, 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. Lights, 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 into 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 realize part of General Pershing's plan.

The enemies facing the western United States are most likely Russia and Australasia, among 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 had relaxed too much, General Pershing could not help but remind him: "Mr. President, our enemies now cover half of the world, so we cannot be careless or careless.

In addition to concentrating the navy on the East Coast, we should also expand the army as soon as possible, at least to more than 2 million army personnel, so that we can defend the entire eastern region from the enemy's attack.

During the previous world war, Germany had also been able to challenge the whole world alone. If it were not for the lack of logistics and materials that dragged down Germany, it would have been no problem to drag it on for a few more years, and it could even drag down Britain and France in the opposite direction.

Currently, we are fighting on our homeland, and our country The land area and material reserves are more abundant, and theoretically it is possible to drag down Britain and France.

Not only are we suffering from an economic crisis, but the whole of Europe is suffering from a very serious economic crisis.

As long as we can hold on for a few years, Britain and France will sooner or later collapse in the 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. "

I originally wanted to remind President Hoover not to be too careless, but I didn't expect that General Pershing's reminders would make President Hoover lose some fighting spirit. Pershing could only say some encouraging words and draw a pie to let President Hoover regain hope.

As for the front-line operations, President Hoover doesn't need to worry about it. As long as President Hoover can stabilize the US government and provide more supplies to the military as much as possible, General Pershing is confident that he can complete his plan.

President Hoover rubbed his brows, barely cheered up and said to General Pershing: "I will notify the military factories under the major consortiums to resume production and produce as many weapons and ammunition as possible for the army.

At the same time, the government will issue a new batch of treasury bonds, hoping to raise more military funds for the military."

At present, the US Army has three major problems in recruiting soldiers. The first is the problem of manpower, which can be barely solved by spending more money.

The second is the problem of weapons and equipment. Calling on US military factories to expand on a larger scale and continuously expanding production lines can barely make up for the gap in weapons and equipment.

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

The current number of US Army soldiers is three times that of six months ago, which also means that the number of middle and lower-level commanders is also three times that of the previous time.

Because the US Army did not have too many reserves in terms of grassroots commanders before, many recruits have become commanders just after joining the army, which is 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 is also a weakening for the army from which the soldiers are transferred.

The Americans are anxiously preparing for the war, and in Australasia, Arthur is also keeping an eye on 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 the official territory of the United States after all, and its defense force is naturally much stronger than that of the previous American Philippines.

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

The reason why Arthur is more concerned about the intelligence on Hawaii is because of Hawaii's unique geographical location, coupled with the American defense deployment in Hawaii.

Not counting the deployment of the navy, the United States has a full three infantry regiments stationed in Hawaii. After the outbreak of the war, these three infantry regiments were quickly organized into infantry brigades.

It is worth mentioning that one of the three infantry regiments is a regular American force, and the other two are militias in Hawaii, whose combat effectiveness is relatively weak compared to regular regiments.

From the deployment of American military forces in Hawaii, it can be seen that in the hearts of Americans, Hawaii is indeed much more important than the Philippines.

If the original US army was only 80,000, Arthur believed that the United States would at least station one division in Hawaii, and even more people would not be a problem.

But unfortunately, the Americans chose to disarm after World War I, and now it is impossible to increase the garrison in Hawaii, because Hawaii has been completely surrounded by the Australasian and British Indian Ocean fleets.

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

In fact, according to 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 as mentioned by Arthur, Silvio basically did not allow the Australasian army to land by force.

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

Such a large-scale bombing was also very effective. When the Australasian army forcibly landed on the fourth day, it faced very few counterattacks from the Hawaiian garrison.

In fact, this does not mean that most of the Hawaiian garrison died in the explosion. In fact, most of the US military has not experienced war. They are all new recruits who have served in recent years.

It has been more than ten years since World War I. The soldiers who once represented the United States in World War I have long retired, and some have died in the Washington Massacre.

Most of them were new recruits. After facing a large-scale bombing, these American soldiers naturally had no courage to stand up and resist.

After all, shells don't have eyes. If a shell falls on you, you will break your arms and legs at best, or even lose your life.

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

This was a telegram sent directly to Arthur by General Silvio, which detailed the current results of the Hawaii landing battle and reported the latest news to Arthur, that is, Honolulu, the capital of Hawaii, had been captured.

More than a thousand soldiers of an entire infantry brigade of the United States were killed, and all the others were captured by Australasia and became prisoners.

Because of General Silvio's prudence, the casualties on the Australasia side were relatively small, with less than a hundred deaths and only a few hundred injuries.

It is worth noting that as one of the bases of the US Pacific Fleet, no trace of the US Pacific Fleet was found in Hawaii.

However, General Silvio was not surprised by this. After all, Hawaii was just a bridgehead, and California, the entire western region of the United States, was the most important.

Especially when the Panama Canal had been blocked, where could the US Navy go? Most likely it would be on the West Coast.

After encouraging General Silvio and all the soldiers on the telegram, Arthur smiled and ordered the government to announce the good news in a timely manner and arrange for personnel to take over Hawaii.

Arthur was sure to annex the Hawaii region. After all, it was located in the center of the Pacific Ocean and could radiate eastward to the west coast of the United States, making it convenient 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 could better control the west coast of the United States, and Arthur could rest assured to enfeoff his other sons to the countries to be established on the west coast.

The development potential of the west coast of the United States is still good, especially in California, which has developed to a scale that is not inferior to that of European countries in the future.

Splitting the entire west coast of the United States into several countries and giving them to his sons will allow him to better control these countries. Secondly, it will allow his family to branch out and support each other, and maintain the royal rule and status after Arthur.

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