For the UA, it didn't matter whether Trump was alive or not.
Even if Washington and Lincoln crawled out of their coffins, it would be difficult to save the situation the UA was facing at the moment, let alone a man with no experience in governing.
However, it was different for Celestial Trade.
A reasonable reason or excuse could not only legitimize the aggression but also solve the sequelae left by the war.
Although it was not difficult to create an identical Trump with Celestial Trade's technology, after all, humans were inseparable from society. Even perfect AI would face many obstacles when integrating into society.
In the short term, it might not be obvious, but in the long run, it would inevitably lead to future disasters. For the blueprint of the Earth Federation in Jiang Chen's mind, this kind of hidden danger was unacceptable. He did not want to wait until the decisive battle with Harmony to solve the problems left by history.
Jiang Chen needed a "Zhang Yaping" -style president to manage the "spoils" of this war for him.
Based on Trump's answer, he could consider sparing his life.
Just as Jiang Chen's helicopter set off in the direction of Coconut Island, New York on the other side of the earth was in an unprecedented depression because of the war. Even the subprime mortgage crisis in 2007 did not make people living here so desperate.
The tunnels, bridges, and roads leading to the outside of the city were all blocked by Celestial Trade's military checkpoints. Now the entire city of New York was under martial law. Everyone was ordered to return home. Except for a short period of time during the day when they could go to the nearest aid station to receive necessary food and medicine, no one was allowed to stay on the street for a long time.
Violators would be detained for espionage.
The martial law lasted for a month, but everyone knew that it would not be lifted until the war was completely over …
At the port of Long Island in New York, cargo ships were slowly approaching the port.
After docking, the suspension ladder was lowered.
Groups of soldiers, carrying backpacks half the height of a person, walked down from the deck.
Most of these soldiers were Asian, but some were white, and the equipment on them was uneven. For example, some people had already put on the S1 kinetic skeleton, and a quad-rotor drone was stuffed in the backpack. Some people only wore urban camouflage without bulletproof vests, and they even had an outdated AK-47 on their back.
Excluding the enclaves of Hawaii and Alaska, the 48 states in the UA would at least eat up 48 divisions of Celestial Trade.
Even if they let go of the inland states with sparsely populated areas and weak industrial capabilities, relying solely on Celestial Trade's own force would definitely cause indigestion. Even more than a week ago, Xin had already mobilized 50,000 reserve soldiers.
From the beginning, Ivan adopted a blitzkrieg strategy.
Gather the air force, paratroopers, and amphibious assault troops and land directly on the East Coast of North America. Then, with their air superiority, they launched air strikes on North America's military factories, oil fields, and power facilities. Then, the armored spearheads swept across North America at the fastest speed, disintegrating the effective forces of the United States and preventing the states from completing their war mobilization.
As for the occupation.
Celestial Trade's underlings could do it.
As early as two months ago, Santos mobilized 520,000 reserves across the country and gathered all the forces in the country to respond to Celestial Trade's call for war. And the 100,000 people that landed were only a small part of Moro's 600,000 troops. Among them, two divisions came from Madagascar.
Moro's 12th Reinforced Brigade was responsible for occupying New York. After completing the defense handover, except for a guard battalion stationed on Manhattan Island, the majority of Celestial Trade's forces headed south, followed the highway to Philadelphia in the southwest, and opened up the route from New York to Capital.
For the people of New York, being occupied by Moro soldiers was definitely a nightmare …
Cypress Hill Cemetery, the bloodiest corner of New York.
People covered with shopping bags, and their hands and feet tied with hemp ropes were dragged together by Moro soldiers. They squatted in a row in front of the dug pit with their hands on their heads. Following the gunshots, corpses fell into the pit one after another, and were then buried on the spot by the trembling prisoners with shovels.
Celestial Trade had always treated prisoners of war with preferential treatment, but for those who resisted, they naturally didn't treat them kindly.
Although guns were prohibited in New York, the guns circulating in the black market still caused a lot of trouble for the local army stationed there. The endless stream of sniper shots and Molotov cocktails was annoying. At first, Celestial Trade took the trouble to arrest them, but when Moro soldiers arrived and took over the defense, these guerrilla patriots weren't so lucky.
All those who participated in the guerrilla were directly dragged out and executed. All those who were suspected of helping the guerrillas were directly arrested. The prisons in New York were emptied to prepare for those suspects. And those criminals who regained their freedom, especially those felons, were formed into a military police team responsible for assisting Moro patrols to maintain law and order.
For Santos, he didn't care about reputation.
Before independence, the Moro guerrillas were suppressed by UA planes and special forces for many years. Now that his people were fortunate enough to set foot on the soil of North America, he just wanted to kill as many people as he could …
If Jiang Chen didn't personally call and order him not to do anything, maybe he would have done it.
…
The Empire State Building on Manhattan Island was temporarily established as the Celestial Trade North American Theater Command, but the real command center was in the underground vault of the Federal Reserve. All intelligence was summarized here and then sent to various combat units to form the Celestial Trade Army Command System with the General Command Center on New Moon Island.
In front of the spread out map of North America, Celestial Trade North American Theater Commander-in-Chief Zheng Yufei was discussing the next battle plan with the officers of the General Staff.
"The Pennsylvania National Guard has withdrawn from Philadelphia and retreated to the vicinity of Harrisburg. Our main forces have already joined the orbital airborne brigade dropped into Capital. Moro's 27th and 28th Infantry Brigades are heading in the direction of Capital. We now have two choices. One is to march in the direction of Pittsburgh. Behind here are large inland towns such as Detroit and Chicago, as well as the Great Lakes Industrial Zone … "
"The other plan is to march along the East Coast to Florida, open the entrance for our allies to land, form a front extending from New York to the Florida Peninsula, and then push inland."
The essence of the first plan was speed, accuracy, and ruthlessness, and the essence of the second plan was stability. However, for Celestial Trade, their biggest advantage was speed. Going inland may be risky, but once the UA completed the war mobilization, it would not be as simple as the risk.
After listening to the opinion of the Chief of Staff, Zheng Yufei was silent for a moment and said.
"The headquarters doesn't want this war to drag on for too long, so we will adopt the first plan."
The Great Lakes Industrial Zone was known as the "manufacturing belt" of the UA. Heavy industrial bases such as steel, coal, and chemicals were concentrated in this area. Taking it away was equivalent to taking away the hope of North America's resistance.
"The Second Armored Brigade will march into Pittsburgh and pursue the Pennsylvania National Guard." Zheng Yufei's eyes turned to the map and stopped on Colorado in the hinterland of North America. His eyes narrowed slightly.
Cheyenne Mountain.
It was the last fortress of the UA.
As long as they tore apart this fortress and took away the Great Lakes Industrial Zone, they could almost force the UA to sign the surrender agreement.
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