"Damn, we don't have clean fresh water anymore!" Jim grumbled.

Since Chicago's waterworks were paralyzed by the bombing, and even some of the main pipe networks were damaged and cut off, the entire Chicago water pipeline has ceased to operate.

"At least there is enough food and wine, much better than when we were in Stalingrad!" Mashkov, who was beside Jim, poured a large amount of water into the kettle without paying attention, then took out a silver flask from his bosom and took a long sip of the spirits.

Chicago was originally a gathering place for grain, meat and dairy products, and for the Battle of Chicago, the U.S. military stockpiled a large amount of food, and there was no shortage of food, but it was not fatal when it came to drinking water.

Cities close to the Great Lakes are never short of water, and Chicago is dotted with rivers and lakes.

It's just that Chicago in this era also had to pay the price for the rise of industry, and many lakes and rivers fell victim to industrial pollution.

At the end of the 19th century, the Chicago River even formed a liquid rainbow of grease, which led the ambitious Americans to use a series of sluices to change its direction, causing the Chicago River, which had been flowing to Lake Michigan, to flow backwards, along the newly opened channel, to the Illinois River, and finally to the Mississippi River.

Although Americans have begun to pay attention to the environment, some water sources in Chicago are still polluted. Americans' advanced water supply system and per capita abundance have made Americans not feel the urgency of water resources, but when the bomb cut off the pipeline connecting various places and even the water plant was paralyzed, Americans had to face the problem of uneven water resources.

In some places, there are polluted water sources that do not have access to clean fresh water.

Normally, there are many ways to solve the problem, even if you use trucks to carry water. But after the Chinese army poured into the city of Chicago and began brutal street fighting, all logistics and transportation became a luxury.

Those huge Kirov airships, together with the warplanes, not only strangled the Americans' transport lines, but also had three ships floating directly in the air above the city of Chicago. Monitor every corner of the city.

The US fighters, who were desperately trying to regain air supremacy in Chicago, could not break through the defense line of the Chinese fighters at all. It is difficult to pose a threat to the airship.

And the threat of American missiles, which once worried Meng Xiang, can hardly become a deadly threat after the Kirov airship is upgraded to the third level, and it also makes Meng Xiang understand why the Kirov airship is still one of the ultimate weapons of the base.

Since Tesla's research has led to the improvement of the electromagnetic system, there is a magnetic storm protection system on the third-level Kirov airship, which can actively impact all fast flying bodies that enter the defense circle, becoming its life-saving trick. For the shells those metal bumps that quickly cut the magnetic field. can use the powerful electromagnetic field to slightly interfere with the direction of flight, not to mention the more fragile missiles of this era.

Even if the Americans' missiles are vacuum tubes and have strong anti-jamming capabilities, they can detonate from a distance under the instantaneous attack of a magnetic storm that is comparable to lightning.

As long as it is not a missile that hits the airship directly, Kirov's perverted defense and regenerative repair capabilities. You can ignore the bits and pieces that may hit your body.

The active defense capability of the third-level Kirov airship may not be very perfect, but with the continuous upgrade, the magnetic storm ability will be strengthened, and it can eventually become an important cornerstone for the Kirov airship to step on the ultimate throne.

It's just that there is a big gap between the research of the electromagnetic system and the output of the base, in order to cover up the secret of the airship and also to strengthen the insurance, Meng Xiang added decoy missiles to the Kirov airship with a more powerful load, and with the three 6-barreled 30mm close-in defense guns on the Kirov airship, there is no need for a magnetic storm weapon. It will be enough to deal with the Americans' slightly primitive missiles.

Those large-caliber anti-aircraft guns in Chicago had already counterattacked the bombers of Huaxia who bombed the city of Chicago. But as soon as a large-caliber anti-aircraft gun is found, the Vanguard cannon or V-3 rocket is immediately summoned to bombard the surrounding area devastatingly. After the clone spies stole the layout of large-caliber anti-aircraft artillery secrets. They have been cleaned up by Huaxia one after another.

Occasionally, it is difficult to pose a mortal threat to the Kirov airship.

Ignoring the threat of missiles, warplanes and large-caliber anti-aircraft artillery, the Kirov airship was nearly invincible in the skies over the city of Chicago. In conjunction with radar stations and satellites, their bombing directly cut the cooperation of the Americans' various areas to pieces, and the logistical supplies sent by the Americans to the front line were even more insufficient, and even the trucks carrying water were easy to fall victim to the bombs.

The strange smell of natural water was a little unacceptable to American GIs, but it didn't matter to Soviet Russian veterans who had experienced life and death struggles.

In order to truly turn Chicago into a quagmire that dragged the Chinese, the Americans, who were not confident in the level of the army, colluded with the British and even the Soviet Russians, who were past allies.

Both the British and the Russians had accumulated a wealth of experience in urban warfare in the battles with the Germans. In the face of the same enemy of Huaxia, they still came.

The price of the peace talks between the Chinese was too high, and both the British and the Soviet Russians hoped to use the power of the Americans to suppress China.

There are still many people who are unwilling to hold this kind of thought, and the remnants of the younger brothers in the hands of the Americans have gone into battle, so the volunteer armies of various Western countries continue to gather in Chicago, and even all the Japanese and Southeast Asian people who remain in the United States have joined in to express their determination.

The whole of Chicago has become a battlefield for the allied forces of the Chinese race.

"I'm going to convince them completely!" Meng Xiang also plans to use this battlefield to show Huaxia's powerful urban attack ability without avoidance, and use the enemy's cannon fodder to completely fill this quagmire trap advocated by the Americans.

Even if those Soviet and British veterans who had been tempered in the war broke in under the banner of volunteers, the systematically trained Chinese army was not afraid at all, and the urban battle of Chicago was fierce from the beginning.

The roar of the TJ-38 and AK-47 automatic rifles gradually overwhelmed the American modification of the M4 automatic rifle; The original and Huaxia's self-made Uqi submachine guns and MP5 submachine guns even lowered the tone of the Thomson and M3 submachine guns by a few notches; The sound of the MG-42 machine gun tearing cloth still echoed in the city of Chicago, the explosion of the grenades used by the Chinese soldiers to clean the room was incessant, and the screams of rocket launchers and mortars streaked through the trajectory and most of them smashed into the positions of the Americans.

The smoke of gunpowder and the smell of burnt corpses had long since masked the pungent smell of the Chinese smoke bombs, but the flames of napalm still bloomed in the flames burning everywhere.

Even at night, flares and flashbangs still flash from time to time in the sky over Chicago.

The point shooting of the Chinese snipers was like the clock of death, which sounded continuously, shattering the confidence of the British snipers little by little, and also piercing the bitter gall of the Americans with bullets with the grim smile of death.

The American GIs were terrified of everything around them. Even the elusive cloned dogs made American GIs scream, and they would involuntarily shoot as soon as they found the figure of the animal.

But they were helpless in the face of multi-purpose vehicles that drove into the city.

Although urban warfare is not conducive to the movement of tanks, multi-purpose vehicles with a wide field of view are fearless to fight back against attacks from all directions. Even a sniper from a tall building can raise the barrel of an anti-aircraft gun to deliver a devastating counterattack. Both the 20mm cannon and the 12.7mm cannon can also penetrate the walls of some buildings and tear through the sniping enemies that are lurking.

At first, the Americans thought that the rooftops of those high-rise buildings were their safe place, and fortifications and positions were set up on the roofs of almost every building, but after the appearance of the Black Hawk and Hind helicopters in the sky, the commanding heights of those roofs had been firmly controlled by the Chinese army.

Without air supremacy, the Americans lost half from the start.

In just one week, Americans lost half of Chicago. If it weren't for the elite veterans of the Soviet Union and the British, who posed a great threat to the Chinese soldiers, I am afraid that the Americans would have lost even more. But the 110,000 casualties have already demoralized the Americans.

In the face of death, the American army deserted and captured constantly.

Although the city of Chicago was besieged by the Chinese, those civilians could still leave after being inspected by the Huaxia outposts. By letting go of these openings, it was not only civilians who were evacuated, but also thousands of American GIs who fled one after another, which shook the morale of the US military.

But there were also American GIs who learned to survive better under the threat of death, and with the help of familiarity with the geographical conditions, the resistance of the Americans became stronger and stronger, and the support of Soviet and British veterans across the Atlantic was also continuous.

Washington also realized that in the case of unable to evacuate property, it could only rely on the Chicago hard top, even if it negotiated peace, it could win a strategic advantage, so it continued to send reinforcements to lurk into this meat grinder from the field at night.

Heavy weapons from both sides of the frustrated were constantly added, and neither of them cared about the integrity of Chicago, and a large number of casualties piled up on the rubble.

It took another two weeks for the Chinese army to take the other quarter of Chicago, which was in ruins. Although compared with the 470,000 casualties lost by the allies, the more than 70,000 casualties in Huaxia were not heavy, but they were enough to make Meng Xiang feel distressed.

"His grandmother's, the Americans are not dead yet, let them destroy their city together!" Thinking that there were still more than 500,000 U.S. troops active in Chicago, Meng Xiang no longer hesitated and directly launched the trial plan. (To be continued......)