USA.
District of Columbia.
James Madison, the current commander-in-chief of the United States and the fourth commander-in-chief of the United States of America, was frowning at the intelligence that had just been sent to him about the Ming Empire.
"Dear Andrew, Zhu Yixin, the second prince of the Ming Dynasty who restored the emperor, is about to arrive in Jinzhou by ship. He has brought three thousand officers. I think it is self-evident what this means!"
At the side of General James Madison.
He is the current Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army of the United States of America, General Andrew Jackson.
Historically, the United States of America has not had any strong opponents in the New World for a long time.
Therefore, the American Continental Army has been in a period of confusion in terms of military ranks and organization for a long time. It was not until the establishment of the "five-star general" in December 1944 that the United States had a complete military rank system.
However.
Because there is now a strong opponent on the west coast of the New World.
Under pressure, the new United States of America quickly completed some "system construction."
The first is the increase in the power of the federal government.
ten years ago.
In order to cope with the pressure of the Ming Empire.
The federal government of the United States has successively passed a series of laws that strengthened "centralization" such as the "Federal Powers Offenses", "The Grand Command Act", and "Continental Army Budget Act".
On the one hand, it took back many states' powers to the federal government, and on the other hand, it strengthened the power of the commander-in-chief.
At the same time, a systematic army was established.
This army was established with the "help" of France, the British Empire and other European powers.
The total number is 300,000.
It is divided into four major parts: the Missouri Garrison District, the Mississippi Grand Military District, the Great Lakes Industrial District Garrison District, and the Columbia Army General Reserve.
There are 15 corps and 45 divisions.
They are equipped with 1801-type needle guns produced in the United States of America, as well as a large number of mortars and howitzers.
The overall equipment level and training level are at the forefront of the world!
In order to support the military equipment of these 300,000 Continental Army, factories in the northern United States received great development and support.
Steelmaking, machinery, arms and other industries are in full swing.
at the same time.
Because the president has a huge army of 300,000 people.
The power of the federal government of the United States of America at this moment is unimaginable to Americans in another time and space - at least now it is unlikely that the American Civil War will happen.
However, there was no civil war.
But there is invasion - in the American propaganda, the Chinese are here to invade America's sacred territory and to take away the promised land flowing with milk and honey that God gave to his believers.
Therefore, Christians all over the world must unite to fight against the pagans from the East.
And in fact.
The Ming Empire did not have many regular troops in the New World: there were only two brigades in the Jinzhou Protectorate and only one brigade in the California Protectorate.
Counting the Japanese Samurai Legion, a Korean Brigade, and an Annan Brigade in the southernmost New Japan.
The total number does not exceed 80,000.
Moreover, the Japanese, Koreans, and Annan people in the southernmost part of the New World cannot be counted on. You cannot expect these vassals of the Ming Empire to travel tens of thousands of miles from the southern end of the New World to fight in the northern part of the continent.
That is to say.
Now I have a lot to spend.
The Ming Empire only deployed three brigades of land forces in the New World - as for the navy, the Pacific Ocean is now the inner lake of the Ming Empire.
The Pacific Fleet established a series of military ports in Southeast Asia, Australia, Hawaii, and California.
With the advent of the era of ironclad ships.
The importance of some key maritime nodes has been highlighted.
The Ming Empire Navy, which had already planned this, quickly took advantage in the ironclad era.
Ironclad warships from Europe would not be able to cross the ocean to fight without a midway supply port - this problem also existed for the Ming Empire.
It is impossible for the navy of the Ming Empire to appear in the Atlantic Ocean without a supply base in the Atlantic Ocean.
So now the focus of the struggle between the two major civilizations of the East and the West is in the New World!
Look at it from the map.
In the New World, Christian civilization had a certain advantage - they occupied more territory on the map.
The territory occupied by Eastern Chinese civilization is only two or three small circles in the New World as a whole.
Seems like nothing to worry about.
However, considering the strong national power of the Ming Empire.
Christian civilization does not dare to neglect - especially the United States.
Other European countries would not have lost their countries if they lost the Americas.
But for the United States, once the New World was occupied by the Ming Empire, the United States would cease to exist, and the white Europeans living in the New World would either flee from the New World or...
It is very likely that they will be driven out and exterminated by the Chinese.
Just like they did to the Russians on the steppes of Central Asia
"Yes, the Chinese are going to expand their army! They want to expand their army in the New World. According to intelligence, the Chinese have at least one million strong men carrying guns in the New World. They can easily expand their army by hundreds of thousands."
Andrew Jackson, who never expected that he could live the same addiction as a super general like Washington, said with a frown.
"The French are willing to provide us with their bolt-action rifle technology. Our factory needs to allow the Army to complete the replacement motherboard as soon as possible." Andrew Jackson said.
“Can the Chinese break through the Missouri Line?”
James Madison asked.
"This is impossible!"
Andrew Jackson immediately shook his head.
"This is impossible, Tatong is the first student."
"Can't they bypass this line of defense? Judging from the map, they only need to bypass this line of defense to threaten the industrial areas of the Great Lakes region! If our industrial production is destroyed, it will be devastating of!"
"Go around? How many troops can they have to go around? If hundreds of thousands of troops go around, how will their logistics supplies be replenished? How will their logistics lines be protected? A large army hangs alone, and the logistics line is always under the influence of Missouri. The threat from the fortress, I don’t think the Chinese are so stupid!”
Andrew Jackson said.
James Madison nodded.
"In other words, this war is likely to be a bloody mill for both sides on the Missouri Plateau. Maybe we will die a lot of people."
"It's worth it! We can't give up this fertile land to the Chinese!"
Andrew Jackson said.
"The Ming Empire is indeed powerful, but behind us is the entire European civilization!"
"What's more, our industrial production capacity in the New World far exceeds that of the Chinese! Their foundation here is always inferior to ours. If the war becomes a war of attrition, they will definitely not be able to consume ours!" (End of Chapter)
