"It's terrible!" Churchill, who had just been in a slightly better mood because of Roosevelt's promise of reinforcements, was soon confused by another piece of news.

After occupying most of Morocco some time ago, the Afrika Korps in China has conquered Johannesburg in South Africa, which was defended by 80,000 Allied troops, and has already captured more than half of South Africa.

The gold and diamond mines near Johannesburg became the spoils of war for the Chinese. The money bags of the British Empire have deflated a few more points.

It is still unknown whether Canada's rear industrial park can be saved, and if it loses South Africa's purse, I am afraid that in the future, it will be embarrassing to even buy American weapons.

"When will South African reinforcements arrive?" Knowing that it was unrealistic, Churchill couldn't help but ask Roosevelt.

"The battlefields in Canada and Europe need us to do our best!" Roosevelt politely refused.

The Americans now have to attack the Germans with all their strength and try their best to defend against the Chinese, which makes their battlefields concentrated on Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and in the African battlefield, only a part of Morocco remains, relying on naval support, and preventing China from completely controlling the Strait of Gibraltar.

Especially after the opening of the Alaska battlefield, the Americans have decided to abandon the South African battlefield.

The Americans also found it difficult to confront the two great enemies at the same time, Germany and China.

The U.S. military now surpasses its previous history, climbing to more than 13 million. And that number continues to grow as China pushes toward the Canada-U.S. border.

However, the number of US troops is relatively large, and many of them are just logistics support personnel.

While this ensured the invincibility of American logistics, it also reduced the proportion of combat troops.

The Americans generally rely on the rain of bullets to wash away the enemy's positions first, and then send out ground fighters to clean up the battlefield, so the damage in the war is generally very small. This was particularly evident when fighting against Japan in the previous life, and when dealing with Germany in the previous life, the Soviet Union and the British had already beaten the Germans and caused the Americans to take advantage of them.

But this time and space. was overshadowed by Meng Xiang. Whether it was against the Japanese, or the Germans, the damage was not small.

And in the end, when they encountered China, which also liked to use bullets to clear the enemy, the number of casualties of the Americans continued to surge.

More than 200,000 were continuously planted in Japan's coordinated operations; in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, the island of New Guinea and the Philippines, more than 100,000 were lost; After the fall of the European part of Turkey, including Greece, where the war was still burning, the US army had lost more than 300,000; More than 200,000 have been lost in the Middle East and North Africa, and that number continues to surge. Retreating in Morocco, West Africa, Central Africa and other places, more than 100,000 US troops are still fighting with more than 200,000 Chinese troops; In Alaska and Hawaii, the fighting is also raging, and the more than 200,000 Americans have already lost may be just the beginning.

So far, the Americans have lost almost 1 million just by fighting against China. Not to mention the losses of Japan and Germany since the beginning of the war, or the even larger ranks of the wounded.

In a top-secret document in Washington. The number of conscripts in the United States has already exceeded 15 million. For the United States, which has a population of only about 140 million, this is already a huge burden of 1 out of 10.

Washington struggled to explain the huge casualties to the population, but it had to continue to invest heavily in the fighting to deal with more intense fighting.

The Americans found that their superiority in the performance of their weapons did not seem to work, and that the only thing that could gain superiority on the battlefield was numerical superiority, and the number of combatants on the battlefield around the world continued to proliferate. Even if the proportion of logistics personnel is specially reduced, a large army base is still needed.

But even it has broken through to this huge number that many people in the country have complained about. The top level of the United States still feels that it is not enough.

Europe also needs to work with Soviet Russia, the British, and so on. to suppress the Germans. After the Chinese attack from the Ural Mountains and Central Asia, the Russians almost left a stall. If it weren't for Stalin, he would have understood the critical moment. Britain and the United States promised a lot of benefits, so they did not give up the battlefield against Germany, but because the rear was tight, they had to send a large army to the rear, which made the battlefield against Germany fall into a confrontation and it was difficult to maintain pressure.

This also allowed Germany to draw some troops from the Eastern Front to deal with the many crises of the Western Front and the riots in Europe, and in the case of the decline of British manpower and the civil strife of the French, in order to continue to maintain pressure, the Americans had to increase the deployment of troops.

The vast European theater seems to be underfilled, and the rest of the world seems to be in desperate need of manpower.

The war-torn Philippines and Morocco are already calling for help, and the threatening US territories of Alaska and Hawaii are constantly asking for help. What's more, the Chinese army is still passing through Canada and assaulting the northern border of the United States, and the Americans, who have not experienced a war on their homeland for many years, are not enough to shrink their forces and stick to their homeland, so how can they send out a large army to protect the British?

Especially in South Africa, the Americans understood that even if they helped the British to defend it, the British would not give the Americans much benefit, and even less than the benefits they would get from recovering from the Chinese.

Around the Indian Ocean, the interests of the Americans were not great, much smaller than those of the British, and even the shipping lanes of the Cape of Good Hope were not indispensable to the Americans, who could make separate detours from the two oceans.

At a time when the gold system had not collapsed and the dollar and oil had not yet been pegged, the Middle East, with its unknown oil reserves, was not as attractive to Americans as the European market.

After a series of setbacks, the Americans readjusted their strategy, focusing on Europe and defending their existing interests, and abandoning many parts of Asia and Africa.

Just look at the Fifth Fleet's constant withdrawal to see the attitude of the United States toward South Africa. Churchill also clung to the last glimmer of hope, but Roosevelt's answer completely cut it off.

"Then we'll get those yellow-skinned pigs out of Canada first!" After all, Churchill was a generation of heroes, and he immediately put it behind and took the initiative to cooperate with the Americans to prepare for the war near Edmonton.

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"The Americans are still so persistent!" Meng Xiang shook his sigh and said, "In the face of interests, the isolation policy doesn't work!" ”

Even though the approaching Chinese army posed a great threat to the United States and even caused some panic in the United States, the American troops in Europe still did not transfer a single soldier, but quickly gathered 300,000 troops from the country to cross the US-Canada border and set up a defensive army in southern Canada.

"Few people can look up to us!" Fan Chong also shook his head slightly and said, "In the eyes of others, our expedition is tired, and logistics may collapse at any time, but the Americans are at home this time, without the logistical drag of transoceanic operations, and with the help of the Canadians and British, who are familiar with the terrain, their combat effectiveness has skyrocketed." And they outnumbered us, and even if reinforcements from the rear kept up, we could afford less than 200,000 troops near the Athabasca River to take care of the security of Alaska and the Northwest Territories of Canada. The momentum of the forward attack has become weaker and weaker! ”

Meng Xiang heard the meaning of the exhortation in Fan's language.

In order to stimulate the Americans fiercely, Meng Xiang's goal was to hit Edmonton in one go.

The Americans' reinforcements had been considered in advance, but Meng Xiang still insisted on fighting a beautiful battle in Edmonton, so that the pressure in the United States could drag back part of the American forces in Europe, and finally revitalize the whole chess game.

The Americans are like committing two crimes, only beating the Germans, and even if the several harassment teams behind Europe beat Europe to pieces, it seems that they will not be able to make the Americans feel distressed, and they will not be able to stop the Americans' determination to continue to put pressure on Germany.

Contradictions in Germany were intensifying, and the sound of SS gunfire shooting prisoners echoed over Berlin every day. But all this could not stop the morale of the Germans from declining, and even if the Chinese army entered Europe, the Germans were attacked more violently by the Allies, and everything seemed to have become worse everywhere.

Meng Xiang also needed to use a victory to ignite the confidence of the Germans to hold on to victory, and since those European wars could not shake the determination of the Americans, then they would ignite a shock wave at the gate of the United States.

"We can't avoid this fight! Either we take advantage of their lack of preparation and break through the Allied blockade in one fell swoop, making them even more panicked; Either we are kept out of Canada's bountiful towns, and all passion and hope for victory are consumed in the cold wind that gradually cools down in the ensuing Allied raids from the flanks and the pressure of more and more reinforcements from the oncoming troops! Meng Xiang said without hesitation.

"We're well prepared!" Meng Xiang's sentence is to comfort the fan who has been worried about logistics, it is precisely in consideration of the need to fight a beautiful battle at the gate of the United States, Meng Xiang not only prepared rich strategic materials, but also prepared several killer moves.

"Even if we fight more with less, with less than 200,000 against 400,000 allies, we still have the confidence of victory!" As long as he thinks of his hole cards, Meng Xiang definitely has the confidence to surprise the Americans again. (To be continued.) )