"Cha! Cha! "The engineer shovels dug up the soil. This was a depression in the middle of the mound, and a little digging would make the pit in the middle even bigger. Practice makes perfect, and with ample experience on the West Coast, Yuan Weiting could see that this pit was big enough to bury more than 2,000 people. At this time, the Japanese servants were doing one of their jobs, preparing for the landfill.
The battle was not over yet, but Yuan Shikai already believed that the outcome of the battle had been decided. No matter how the Americans struggled, they would be thrown into this big pit and buried in a few hours. With such a firm judgment, the people who dug the graves for the Americans were calm, and the area centered around the big pit even had a sense of joy.
Not too far from the big pit, the commander of the federal army in West Virginia was lying on a rock, shouting something to his subordinates around him. Translated from English into Chinese, the commander shouted sincerely, "Brothers! Hold on! Hold on! "
The federal army, which used to have more than 2,000 people, now had less than 800 left, and the troops on the periphery were still fighting in despair. Next to the commander, some of the priests knelt on the ground, pressing their hands on the forehead of the dying wounded, and reciting the prayers for them as fast as they could. If they recited any slower, these wounded soldiers would not have a chance to receive this last prayer.
Some of the priests were so frightened by the cruelty of the battlefield that they could no longer care about comforting the others. They knelt on the ground, shivering, and recited the scriptures to themselves.
The bullets on the high ground swept through the federal army's position like sickles, and the federal soldiers who hid behind a few rocks to avoid the bullets were beaten to the point that they could not even lift their heads. The battle for the high ground yesterday had entered a stalemate. After the commander learned that there were less than 200 China people on the other side, he sent all the reserve troops up. Using four times the number of troops to overwhelm the enemy was undoubtedly an orthodox tactical choice. The commander did not expect that the China people did not fight the federal army on the top of the hill. Instead, the China people sent troops from below the high ground and suddenly cut the federal army in half.
The federal army at the foot of the hill was unable to break through the tenacious resistance of the Chinese team, and could only watch the federal army on the high ground collapse under the attack from the front and the back, and then be annihilated. After occupying the high ground, the Chinese army immediately set up their machine gun positions. The dense bullets coordinated with the short counterattack of the Chinese army, causing the Federation army to retreat in defeat. On the other hand, the China Army, which had not taken the initiative to attack, suddenly joined the siege, forcing the Federation Army to retreat step by step.
Ma Xiaoming, the division commander, felt that he had done his duty. He led a platoon of guards back to the headquarters. Ma Xiaoming believed that the troops could do it on their own, be it annihilating or burying the enemy.
After returning to the headquarters, Ma Xiaoming handed a note with his name on it to Chief of Staff Qi Rui. In a normal sense, it would be inappropriate for a division commander to not care about a corps commander at all. However, Ma Xiaoming really did it. In Ma Xiaoming's eyes, the commander was an overqualified candidate. The young Chief of Staff, Qi Rui, who had specialized in motorized infantry, represented the future.
After reading Wei Jianjun's name, Qi Rui frowned slightly. Of course, he knew this lucky guy's name. The regiment commander and battalion commander were seriously injured, the vice regiment commander and vice battalion commander died in battle, and more than half of their comrades were injured. This situation led to this company commander becoming a battalion commander in a few days. Therefore, Qi Rui did not really agree with this person's opinion.
"This comrade has a strong will to fight." Ma Xiaoming explained his reason.
"How long do you think the retirement application will be sent in?" Qi Rui asked another question directly. At this moment, he no longer cared about the existence of the corps commander and political commissar. As his mentality changed, Qi Rui realized that as a prince, he had no reason to care about the existence of the corps commander and political commissar. As long as Qi Rui did not make any mistakes, the corps commander and political commissar were just a temporary existence. Moreover, Qi Rui believed that he would soon become the political commissar of the 24th Division, and his favorite candidate for the corps commander was Ma Xiaoming. And according to the regulations that Qi Rui had seen, after soldiers participated in a certain number of battles, once the war allowed the soldiers to retire, they could enter the retirement phase.
"I don't think those commanders who don't have the spirit to attack will voluntarily retire." Ma Xiaoming was not a bureaucrat. Regarding the standpoint of war, he naturally hoped that the 24th Division was a troop with a strong will to attack.
"I will consider it." Qi Rui did not give an immediate answer. He was a prince, but he was not the political commissar of the North American Theater of Operations. And even the political commissar of the North American Theater of Operations couldn't directly order personnel changes.
Ma Xiaoming immediately changed the question. "How long will the battle in the encirclement last?"
Qi Rui sighed softly before answering, "I hope that the battle in the Great Lakes will no longer be China fighting in foreign territory, but China fighting in its own territory?"
"What do you mean?" Ma Xiaoming was confused. He didn't understand what Qi Rui was trying to do.
"If we can get rid of all the local Americans, and the agriculture troops with the retired troops as the core become the dominant force, this place will be China's territory," Qi Rui explained his opinion.
Ma Xiaoming was stunned. He didn't think that Qi Rui would have such an idea. Just a moment ago, when Qi Rui mentioned the issue of retirement, Ma Xiaoming felt that Qi Rui was thinking too much. But now that retirement and the troops being stationed in the Great Lakes were linked together, the internal relationship between the two was completely different. After retirement, the soldiers could immediately return to their hometown. This was one of the options. Another option was for the troops to join many departments according to the administrative order. For example, under the orders of the North American Administrative Region, these troops would be transferred to various state-owned farms. And it wasn't that there weren't any more ruthless methods. Before the troops retired, they would have to follow the orders of the troops and directly become members of various military farms. These people weren't retired, but they were reservists. When there wasn't a battle, the reservists would farm as farm personnel. When there was a battle, the reservists would immediately become combat troops to suppress the rebels in the countryside.
If the feeling that Qi Rui gave people before was that he was aiming for the position of the highest commander of the 24th Division, then what he was showing now was his desire for a higher position as the commander of a small theater of operations.
Looking at Ma Xiaoming's stunned expression, Qi Rui said, "If some of the commanders don't have the fighting spirit of the motorized infantry, then let them do the work of the reservists that they're used to. Even if they aren't fast enough, the rebels in the Americans are even slower. "
"But it takes time to have enough commanders." Ma Xiaoming decided to focus on the construction of the troops.
"Although I don't agree with the idea of using war as training, there's no other way now. I'm doing some basic calculations now, and we need to kill at least three million soldiers of the American Federation Army. " After saying this, Qi Rui pointed at a large area in the Great Lakes region. "The enemies here must be completely wiped out."
Ma Xiaoming frowned slightly. The Great Lakes region was huge. If he wanted to use the 24th Division to wipe out all the enemies in this region, wasn't Qi Rui's idea a little too much?
Of course, the chief of staff could think this way, but the commanders at the frontline could only think of the current war as their only goal. From the highlands to the last area of the American Federation Army, there were two small roads that were washed out by the wind and rain. The other areas were rugged and tree-filled areas that were difficult to traverse. It wasn't that the troops couldn't move in this kind of terrain, but normal people wouldn't be willing to make such a choice.
Wei Jianjun ordered his troops to stop at the edge of this difficult area. He ordered the snipers and sharpshooters to annihilate the remaining enemies that had escaped into this area. Wei Jianjun's troops weren't the only ones participating in the battle. The first and second battalions that entered the battle in a very relaxed manner also joined the final battle without hesitation.
Before the battle ended, Wei Jianjun saw his old acquaintances, Yuan Weiting and Wang Shizhen, bringing the Japanese over. Japan and Korea were both China's slave armies, so China had different uniforms for both sides. The Japanese slave army was equipped with khaki uniforms. The color of these uniforms was chosen by Japan itself. The Korean uniform was mainly dark blue. It was said that this color was the same as the uniform of China's Railway and Telegraph Company's police force in Korea.
Wang Shizhen commanded the Japanese troops to clean up the corpses. For the dying enemies, the Japanese slave army mercifully shot them one by one. The group of lightly injured and uninjured were directly taken to the big pit by the Japanese army and executed.
Yuan Weiting didn't participate in this kind of work. He chatted with Wei Jianjun. "Battalion Commander Wei, you can be promoted to Regiment Commander in just half a year!"
Wei Jianjun didn't respond to Yuan Weiting's words. He only ordered the troops to start escorting the wounded. Yuan Weiting didn't show any signs of anger after being rebuffed. The slave army was only responsible for the dirty work and cleaning work. No one expected the slave army to be able to make the final decision and make outstanding contributions. Being looked down upon wasn't a strange treatment.
"Let us help the troops transport the wounded," Yuan Weiting said.
"Okay." Wei Jianjun finally responded to Yuan Weiting.
"I think Battalion Commander Wei has something on his mind." Yuan Weiting asked. Wei Jianjun's expression was like that of a lazy old dog. This kind of expression didn't match his young appearance.
"After this war, I will apply for retirement. Whatever happens in the future has nothing to do with me. I just want to go back to my hometown to find a job or find a place to farm. I don't want to fight anymore. "Wei Jianjun said with a slightly anxious mood.
Yuan Weiting was immediately stunned. For someone like him who hoped to make a meteoric rise through the war, running away after making a certain amount of contributions was really a stupid choice. According to Yuan Weiting's understanding yesterday, the three battalions under Wei Jianjun's command had undertaken the most difficult battle and also made the greatest contributions. Wei Jianjun, who chose to retreat at this time, made Yuan Weiting stare at him for a few minutes.
Everyone had their own work to do. Yuan Weiting couldn't put all his energy on Wei Jianjun. The Japanese slave army immediately began to search the many corpses. The metal coins and valuables immediately fell into the hands of the Japanese slave army. The notes were then taken to the exchange center directly under Wang Shizhen to be exchanged for RMB. The exchange rate was 1: 20. The Japanese slave army didn't care. American notes were not legal tender in Japan. Moreover, the United States was attacked by China. Their notes were meaningless. If these notes were kept in their hands, they would only become waste paper.
The biggest source of seized notes was not directly from the Americans who died in the war, but from the logistics personnel who surrendered. The money was directly seized in units of 100,000 US dollars. The money was quickly sent to the military headquarters. The military headquarters, with Qi Rui as the chief of staff, knew that there was no point in keeping the money. Therefore, the money was sent as quickly as possible to the frontline headquarters on the north shore of Lake Superior.
The frontline headquarters immediately gathered the money. The money was put into metal boxes and escorted by a group of foreign troops to the south and east.
Those who wanted to go south had to go to Chicago, the most important food center in the United States. The Americans had set up an agricultural futures center in Chicago. The futures data here not only affected the food prices in the United States, but also in Europe.
Those who wanted to go east naturally went to New York, the economic center of the United States. The New York Stock Exchange was the most important financial center in the United States. Whether it was steel, railways, or machinery, large sums of money were gathered in this city for all kinds of speculation. The banks and financial markets in New York had gradually replaced the United Kingdom as the source of the recent economic crisis.
The small unit to go to New York hired more than 20 guards. From the perspective of the Chinese, those mixed-race people were eye-catching European characteristics. People from all countries were the same. In the eyes of Europeans, the characteristics of mixed-race people were those of eastern descent. Therefore, this unit was all of European descent. Whether it was accent or appearance, there was no striking difference between them and the local Americans.
The best route from the Great Lakes to New York was the Erie Canal, which was funded by New York. It connected the Great Lakes of North America with New York City through the Hudson River and belonged to the New York State Canal System. As early as the early 19th century, the need for a line of communication from the Atlantic coast to the transAllegheny (Appalachian) area was clearly felt. It was suggested that a canal should be built from Buffalo on the east side of Lake Erie through the gorges of the Mohawk Valley. In the year of Albany, up the Hudson River, the state legislature passed a 584 kilometer (363 mile) long, 12 meter (40? Width and 1.2 metres (4?? Deep canals. In order to cross Troy, the elevation rose 152 metres (500???) We need to build 82 locks on the high ground. After painstaking construction, it was finally opened to traffic on October 25, 1825. The canal did as much for the development of the Upper Midwest as it did for the growth of New York City. Many pioneers flocked to the West through the canals into Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and from there brought their produce to market in New York, and returned with loads of manufactures and supplies to the West. From Buffalo to New York, the cost of transportation by land once amounted to $100 a ton, and by canal for $10.
Most importantly, New York City had since become a hub to the Midwest of the United States. All European goods that wanted to go to the Midwest of the United States had to go through New York. New York City, which had become a commodity hub, also prospered at an unprecedented speed. In a short time it surpassed Washington, the capital of the United States, and became the leading metropolis of the United States.
With great difficulty, this band of Europeans under the command of China managed to squeeze into a boat that sailed east along the canal. From 1825 to 1889, 74 years had passed. During these 74 years, people from the Eastern United States to the Western United States accounted for the majority of the population migration. Now the tide had turned, and the number of people fleeing from the West to the East exceeded the number going from the West to the East.
There were many boats sailing from the East to the West, but not many of them were manned, and only mountains of war material were on board.
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