When Zhu Jishi in the San Francisco Castle heard the "Juan Plan" from Han Sibao, he was playing chess with Zuo Zongtang, and he was also stunned when he heard the news, and said in his heart: "It's a pity that Lan Fangxing can't build a tank, otherwise this Juan would really be famous in a fight!" ”

"Your Majesty, King Juan is really a bit strange. "www.biquge.infoZuo Zongtang is only 64 years old this year, and he is an old man in this era, but because of proper maintenance, his body is still extremely tough, and he has been familiar with Chinese and foreign military books in the past few years at home, and he has become an amateur military strategist. "It's just impossible to achieve a complete breakthrough."

"Why do you say that?"

"Isn't it obvious, King Juan wants to use cavalry to disturb the enemy's rear, but Meiyi's cavalry is not weaker than me, once it is found that my cavalry is attacking behind the enemy, he will definitely order the horse team to come to fight."

It is not surprising that such words come from Zuo Zongtang, who has never really been on the battlefield. Zhu Jishi smiled and shook his head, "Now the battle line of the Missouri River is hundreds of kilometers long, and it is impossible for Meiyi's horse team to be concentrated in one place. Juan, on the other hand, was able to concentrate most of his cavalry, and there were always tens of thousands of cavalry. ”

Isn't this the original version of Blitz? Tear a gap with infantry and artillery, then throw the cavalry into the rear of the enemy. Zhu Jishi thought, it's a pity that there are no tanks, and the attack power of the cavalry can't be compared with those steel giants after all, and it can't cause the collapse of the entire U.S. army. But with 800,000 people to defeat 1 million people, forcing the US army to retreat 100 kilometers? One? Root? Read? It is possible to write m.ybdu., so that the Donghua Army on the Missouri River line can move south to Kansas City and force the main forces of the Union Army back. Maybe they can take Missouri and Arkansas and push the front to the Mississippi River.

But it's not easy to make a breakthrough. Zhu Jishi thought again. After all, there is no tank with a very strong impact to use. Only infantry and artillery could be relied upon. Moreover, it is not possible to carry out artillery bombardment for several days and nights in a row, which will reveal the intention of the attack, give the other side time to adjust its deployment, and can only use a short period of artillery fire to prepare to clear the obstacles to the attack...... Unfortunately, the electrolytic chlorine plant has not yet been put into operation, so there is not enough chlorine gas to carry out poison gas warfare, otherwise it can help Juan make a breakthrough. But in next year's battle, this weapon should be used, right? It's just that the electrolytic chlorine method was invented as early as 1833, because there was no good generator to produce chlorine in large quantities. Now the generator is already there. At that time, I'm afraid that gas warfare will not be the patent of the Ming Dynasty, right?

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"To carry out a large-scale rush operation, it is necessary to form a powerful cavalry group, not a cavalry of 10,000 or 20,000 people, but a powerful group of 100,000 and 200,000 people!"

"There's no problem with that, you can concentrate all the cavalry divisions, and if you can't, you can draw cavalry from the infantry units. Cavalry could not enter the trenches anyway, and now the cavalry regiments deployed in the divisions of the Missouri River front had nothing to do. ”

"In this case, 150,000 cavalry can be scraped together! However, a large number of spare horses and wagons are needed...... Can you recruit horses? ”

"No problem, the horse has! Horse-drawn carriages can be manufactured immediately...... Now the question is how far do you need to run? It's 270 miles (about 430 kilometers) from Chamberlaintown Train Station in South Dakota to North Platte (from where the Pacific Railroad North Line passes and the South Line passes through Kansas). If you want to reach Lorda, you have to cover 530 miles (850 kilometers per month). It seems too far away. ”

"It's impossible to walk 530 miles, even if you have one person and two horses, you have to walk for half a month or even 20 days. Combat for at least ten days, even without taking into account the attrition of the return trip, it is necessary to carry a month's worth of supplies, and also to carry at least ten base ammunition......"

"However, the capture of North Platte Town can only cut off the northern line of the Pacific Railway, and the East Chinese Army can still obtain supplies and mobilize troops through the southern line of the Pacific Railway."

"The need for the Coalition to strike from Texas, how far is it?"

"570 miles from Midland, Texas!"

"It can't be."

"Then strike from Missouri, bypass the southern end of the East China Army's line, and take a maximum of 250 miles to reach the southern line of the Pacific Railroad."

"Maybe we could delay the start of the assault until this fall, so that the crops in Nebraska and Kansas could ripen, and the logistical pressure would be greatly reduced."

At this time, in the headquarters of the Imperial Army of America in New York's Central Park, it was already a tense and busy scene. In the operational command center, the staff officers of the Emperor ** and the Union Army gathered together for the first time after the First North American War, discussing an almost high-risk attack plan around the map. The core of this plan was to concentrate the cavalry of the United States in the north and south, bypass the frontal battle line that stretched for hundreds of kilometers, raid the railway line in the rear of the East China Army, and cut off the logistics line of the main force of the East China Army that relied on the railway for supplies. At the same time, the American Imperial Army** and the Confederate American Army, concentrated on the Missouri River-Kansas City front, will also launch an offensive on all fronts, forcing the East China Army to be unable to send the main force back in time.

"General Lee, how much cavalry will the Alliance side be able to concentrate before the end of October? Is it possible to conduct a period of non-logistical maneuver operations behind enemy lines? ”

William. Sherman propped his hands on the edge of the table, his eyes scanning the dense troop numbers and military symbols on it over and over again. The rear of the Donghua Army was indeed empty, and the plan to concentrate the cavalry for a surprise attack was ...... There is a certain degree of feasibility, but the difficulty lies in the suddenness! It was almost impossible for a hundred thousand cavalry to walk for twenty days without being detected, and now there was an advanced means of communication called wireless telegraphy. So now it's time to think about maneuvering after a failed raid.

Castis. Lee and his late father, Robert. Lee looks alike, tall and handsome. Hearing Sherman's question, he lowered his head and pondered, and only said after a moment: "100,000 cavalry can be concentrated, if it is November or December, there should be no problem without logistics maneuver, the autumn harvest has just ended, and it is not difficult to get supplies on the spot in Kansas." ”

"We can concentrate 150,000 cavalry...... In this way, 250,000 cavalry could break through behind enemy lines, which was enough for the Chinese. ”

William. Sherman was clearly not as optimistic as his staff officers and did not believe that he could cut off the rear route of the main forces of the East China Army by controlling the railway line. However, it was believed that the activities of these 250,000 cavalry could force the main force of the East China Army to withdraw from the Missouri River-Kansas City front.

"Maybe we can force them back to Lordan House." "At the same time, they're forcing them to give up their crops in Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma." ”

"It's a big win to be able to achieve that."

"Indeed, it is a success to block the Chinese in the Rocky Mountains." Castis. Lee is also not as crazy as Bush and the Ku Klux Klan, and does not have the idea of trading the lives of 6 million Americans for a "clean North America." But he could not tolerate Juan's aggressive pace of eastward expansion, let alone Donghua's annexation of Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma.

Admiral Li paused, suddenly looked around, and then lowered his voice: "Admiral Sherman, if we reach a plan to force the Chinese out, is it possible to reunite the United States into a republic?" ”

William. Sherman nodded quietly and said softly: "This is also Mr. Bush's ideal...... However, it is not easy to achieve this ideal, because behind King Juan is the whole of China! They have a population of 750 million people. ”

"If you can occupy the danger of the Rocky Mountains, you should be able to stop them!"

"I hope so." William. Sherman was silent for a moment, and immediately put an end to these sensitive topics and turned back to the war. "General Li, the north has already paid 450,000 casualties! Our forces along the Missouri River are in a state of depletion, so we hope you can take on a little more responsibility in the next phase of the operation. ”

"Vitality? There won't be any problems, right? If another 150,000 cavalry are drawn......"

"There's nothing wrong with that." William. Sherman took a breath, "Two hundred thousand people have already been replenished, and another two hundred thousand can be added by the end of October." By then, it should be enough to maintain an army of 800,000 along the Missouri River. ”

"That's good." Castis. Lee breathed a sigh of relief, "By the end of October, we will be able to gather 650,000 troops on the Kansas City front!" Let's start the main attack! (To be continued......)