Chapter 787: The Land of the Decisive Battle
In the midst of a rooster and dog jump in the United States, Yang Feng's Lone Star truck continued ahead before completing the handover of his guards at the Ohio border.
In fact, it was already the second day.
He had traveled a thousand kilometers from yesterday morning until he entered Ohio, including at night, but he had been delayed in Missouri for some time before, and the rest of the road was unimpeded, and after entering Ohio, it was also unimpeded, and the Ohio National Guard carefully escorted him to Columbus quickly, and by noon he had reached the Pennsylvania border......
West Virginia border, to be exact.
West Virginia also has a small tail a few kilometers wide to the north, which is plugged right between Ohio and Pennsylvania on Route 70.
Here they can't move forward.
"How do you do the work?"
Yang Feng was like a leader inspecting a tofu scum project, and he angrily rebuked an Ohio National Guard officer.
The bridge across the Ohio River in front of him had been blown off, not only this one, but another road bridge not far downstream, the 500-meter-wide surface of the Ohio River blocking his way, and he certainly couldn't get out of his way. He had actually hardened the bottom of the river before, and then the heavy trucks on both sides of the exhaust pipe waded through those streams directly, but the real river was just as powerless, and if it weren't for the Missouri National Guard fighter jets driving out those A10s, he wouldn't even be able to cross a small river like the Laming River, let alone the Ohio River, which is now comparable to the Han River.
"I'm sorry, it's our dereliction of duty!"
The officer bowed his head and said.
"Is there any other way?"
Yang Feng asked, crossing his waist.
"Based on the results of air patrols, the Pennsylvania National Guard, along with those civilian fighters, blew up all the bridges over the Ohio River within a hundred kilometers of the river upstream."
The officer said.
"If we go any further, they'll continue to blow up, right?"
Yang Feng touched his chin and said.
"Definitely, the Ohio River is our boundary river with West Virginia, and we can't get around it all the way south, unless we turn north from here, and the Ohio River turns east into Pennsylvania a hundred kilometers upstream, and as for whether they will continue to blow up bridges over other rivers to block your way, it's hard to guarantee this, it's said that they're already evacuating Pittsburgh, and it's clear that they're well prepared."
The officer said.
"That's a piece of, turn around and go back to Columbus!"
Yang Feng said unpleasantly.
"No, no, sir, please keep calm, we will find a way to let you pass, it is not difficult to build an emergency pontoon bridge over the Ohio River, and from here cross the river and turn south into the hinterland of West Virginia, there are no real big rivers along the way, at most some streams twenty or thirty meters wide, and then turn east from the hinterland of West Virginia out of the mountains, and you can go directly north to New York."
The officer pointed the way to the map as fast as he could.
"Is there really no big river along the way?"
Yang Feng asked.
"No, absolutely not!"
The officer swore by it.
Youmu has something to do with him, anyway, he just needs to send this guy across the Ohio River, and there is really no big river to block it until he enters the hinterland of West Virginia, and those mountain streams definitely can't stop this guy, and although it is a mountainous area, the mountains of the Appalachian Mountains and the mountains of the Rocky Mountains are not at the same level at all, more figuratively hills, as long as there are no big rivers, they can't stop him. And once he enters the heart of West Virginia, even if there is another accident, it will not have a fatal impact on Ohio, the 200 kilometers of lofty mountains will protect the people of Ohio, and the northwest wind of this season will protect them from radiation fallout to the greatest extent.
As for the people of West Virginia......
We're going to pay a moment of silence to them, we're going to erce a monument to them, they're only a million people, and Ohio is more than 10 million.
"So what are you waiting for, hurry up, go! go! go! ”
Yang Feng shouted.
"Tom, apply to the headquarters for a boat bridge car, use a helicopter to lift it, send it as quickly as possible, and collect a batch of transport helicopters from the people, or paint our helicopters with civilian liveries, and then come here to provide support, including those boat and bridge cars are also changed to civilian paints, just mark the logo of the engineering company, we may have some trouble!"
The officer said into the microphone.
As he spoke, he looked across the river, where the Pennsylvania National Guard in the small town of Wheeling was already in full position, including a large number of civilian armed forces who had also set up positions with sandbags on the shore, and could even see machine guns and grenade launchers erected. Obviously, they won't allow the bridge to be built here, and this battle can't be avoided, but the Ohio National Guard can't invade West Virginia, and it doesn't matter what they want to do in their state, even if it's unconstitutional to fire at the U.S. military. But it can't go abroad, leaving the country is a rebellion, they can't break through the red line of rebellion, and it's not the same if there is an armed exchange of fire among civilian personnel, at most the Ohio government wants these armed people afterwards, and then it's gone, anyway, the people have guns, if some people who can't understand the righteousness have to send this guy over, this is also a normal situation.
This is not on the head of the state government.
"Also, go borrow some clothes from the neighborhood, we can't wear this!"
He looked at his military uniform and sighed.
You have to act a full set of acts!
"Colonel, air patrol reports that a White House helicopter is coming."
The communications soldier beside him said.
"They do theirs, we do ours."
The colonel said.
The White House helicopter must have come to negotiate with Yang Feng, but this kind of negotiation may not end in a short time, and the result is not certain, in fact, the Senate, or those forces that control the United States, are still reluctant to give up on the machine that is said to be a hundred years advanced, and are still holding all kinds of illusions, and the voice of force to solve the problem has not been stopped in the Senate. In this case, for the Ohio government, the negotiations between the federal government and Yang Feng have nothing to do with them, they have only one purpose, they must not let Yang Feng stay in Ohio, even if the federal government negotiations must be negotiated outside Ohio.
So, they have to do what they have to do!
Soon a VH60 helicopter with the logo of the White House appeared above them, and then descended under the guidance of soldiers on the ground.
His Excellency the President's security assistant tidied up his clothes and walked out of the plane, ignoring each other with the colonel and others, and even more ignoring the surrounding National Guards who hurriedly changed into civilian clothes, as well as the machine guns and artillery that had begun to be erected on the shore, and walked straight to Yang Feng with a few attachés, and when he arrived at the front of the car, he looked at the intruders who were in a state of intoxication and listened to the music, and knocked on the car door speechlessly.
"Is there anything I can help you with?"
Yang Feng returned to reality and said sincerely.
"Your Excellency, the contemptible Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security Affairs, has been ordered to come and negotiate with you."
The security assistant said with a smile.
"Please change to a beautiful woman."
Yang Feng continued to say sincerely.
"Uh, Your Excellency, will this help us in our negotiations?"
The security assistant said awkwardly.
"Of course, the decisions I make when I'm in a good mood are often more rational than when I'm not in a good mood, and the best way to make me happy is for me to face a beautiful woman, and you don't want me to make irrational decisions, right?"
Yang Feng said.
"Okay, we'll get you covered, but we'd like you to stay here for now."
The security assistant said helplessly.
"Colonel, Your Excellency the President has asked me to stay in Ohio!"
Yang Feng shouted at the colonel with a pure face.
The colonel's face changed suddenly.
"Sir, this is absolutely not going to work!"
He said without hesitation.
"Look, it's not that I don't want to stay, it's that they won't let me stay!"
Yang Feng said.
"Colonel, this is an order from His Excellency the President in his capacity as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces!"
The security assistant said to the colonel.
"I'm sorry, but the president doesn't have the authority to dictate the Ohio National Guard without the authorization of the Ohio State Assembly, and I got an order from the State Assembly that he must be sent out of Ohio, and that I must continue my mission without the State Assembly giving me a halt to this mission."
The colonel said.
"Do you fire at your own people?"
The security assistant shouted angrily.
"The Ohio National Guard doesn't fire at our fellow citizens, but the Ohio National Guard does the illegal civilian armed forces, and the Ohio National Guard is only responsible for building bridges."
The colonel said.
"But the surface of this river belongs to West Virginia."
The security assistant said.
"Colonel, the West Virginia government has announced that its borders will be open indefinitely, and that the federal government and the National Guard of other states will be free to move within its borders, including taking measures against its public facilities, but must compensate for the damage, and the West Virginia National Guard will not be mobilized for a short time, so it will not participate in the interception of extraterrestrial invaders."
The communications soldier next to the colonel said suddenly.
"Huh?"
The security assistant was dumbfounded.
"Ah, that's no problem at all."
The colonel said.
Obviously, as the second-to-last poor in the United States, West Virginia, which is a brother to the south and north of Mississippi, has adopted the tactics of shrinking its head, and has chosen the tactics of our Qing Dynasty in this war between the Great Lakes Economic Circle and the Northeast Coastal Economic Circle, they have chosen to be outside the neutral, what do you like, I don't care, don't forget to lose money when the time comes, anyway, whether this big Ivan explodes in Ohio or Pennsylvania, we have to be unlucky.
As for blowing up in our own home.
If it explodes, it explodes, what else can we do? Who do we dare to offend! It's a big deal for a poor ghost like us who has half the farts of chickens per capita to meet nuclear radiation with you rich people!