"Where are our reinforcements?" Even though he already knew it in his heart, Roosevelt still asked.

After the Bering Strait crisis, in order to give an explanation to the people, the United States still sent another 200,000 reinforcements from the mainland.

It's just that the Americans still didn't expect that the Chinese people's surprise attack would be so rapid, and because of the many inconveniences brought by the severe cold area, the preparations for the time being were not in place, and at this time, half of them were still staying in the many harbor cities on the northwest coast or sailing on the vast sea. The more than 80,000 people who had already arrived at Valdez and several other ice-free ports in Alaska had only just disembarked in a hurry, and could only help defend the area south of the Alaska Mountains, and there was no time to stop the Chinese army that had turned east in the north.

The Americans originally had an airdrop plan to reach Alaska, but after the news came from the front that the ferocious Chinese Air Force fighters had been operating on the Canadian border, and more than a dozen C-47 transport planes were shot down one after another, the airlift transport group did not dare to get too close to Alaska, and finally either stopped in the safe zone in southern Alaska, or chose to dock in the border area on the Canadian side, and less than 5,000 people were airborne in the area occupied by China or in the frontline theater, and under the sweep of the Chinese army, I can't make any waves.

In the absence of the Americans regaining air supremacy, the risk of airdrops is unacceptable to the Americans for the time being.

"Our follow-up reinforcements are being redirected to Skagüey Harbor to further support Whitehorse!" Marshall explained.

The vanguard of China had reached Beaver Creek on the Canadian border, the westernmost settlement of Canada with less than 100 men in later generations, and could not support the movement of the army. Even the British and Canadian troops who hurried there were more concentrated in Whitehorse, the capital of the Yukon Territory.

Whitehorse was easily accessible as a shipping port and hunting base on the Yukon River, with a 110-mile railroad built in 1900 that passed through mountains, glaciers, bridges, and waterfalls and connected directly to the Skagway Seaport in Alaska. The port left over from the Gold Rush era was strong enough to remain frozen in October, relieving logistical pressure on the U.S. military.

"Whitehorse? Is the crude oil refinery still in operation? We must not let the Chinese occupy it! Roosevelt, after a moment of contemplation, grasped the strategic importance of Whitehorse.

Although the Chinese army has been attacking fiercely so far, it lacks stamina.

Although their army and air force are powerful, they have not captured a single seaport on the American continent until now. It is expected to maintain a land logistics line in the bitter cold of the north. Supporting large-scale operations on the front line is undoubtedly a fool's dream.

This is also a major reason for the misjudgment of Britain and the United States on China's actions. In his heart, Roosevelt wished that the Chinese army would continue to advance more into the heart of Canada, and he didn't care if it even hit the American border.

The elongated logistics line is enough to become the fatal point of this lonely Chinese army.

The American generals also saw this, and they did not rush to order the American troops in southern Alaska to attack and support the north of the Alaska Mountains, but strictly ordered them to hold the ports in the south and along the coast, and even the American fleet operating in the Bering Sea. They are not in a hurry to cut off the ice in the Bering Strait, but more are deployed to protect coastal ports and combat Chinese shipping.

As long as the Chinese people cannot take advantage of the cheap sea transportation, even if the Chinese people create a miracle of long-distance land transportation in cold areas, the high price can drag down the Chinese people over time.

Although the Chinese army swept through Alaska quickly, there were occasionally a few small towns in the Alaskan wasteland along the way. It is simply impossible to provide too much material support to the Chinese people. Who would have thought that the Huaxia people would be able to attack so quickly despite the threat from the flanks?

"No matter how strong the army is, as long as there is no ammunition and fuel, it has to obediently admit defeat!" The Allied generals unanimously recognized this and even focused on oil supplies early on.

In the case of inconsistent ammunition specifications, it can only be supplied by the country itself, while oil can be scavenged on occupied land like food to be looted nearby.

When the Americans discovered that the Inuit of Alaska had appeared in the ranks of the Chinese army. It is no longer expected that food can stump the Chinese people.

Perhaps the American young soldiers were not accustomed to the food of the Inuit, which was also of the race. But in Alaska, which is rich in wild resources, these can ensure that the Chinese army will no longer worry about food for a short time.

The only thing that the Americans could easily hold the throat of the Chinese army was oil.

As long as the hidden danger of oil supply is eliminated, it will be supplied nearby. The Chinese army could only bring in oil from the rear. According to the title of the oil tiger of the armored forces on which the rapid advance of the Chinese army depended, the burden of oil would soon crush the Chinese logistics line.

Thinking that they had guessed the plans of the Chinese, the Americans were extremely strict in controlling the oil in Alaska, and although they did not do well in other aspects of the strong walls and wilderness in the areas occupied by the Chinese, the oil did not leave much for the Chinese people at all.

To be honest, Alaskan oil, which only emerged during the oil crisis in the seventies, has not yet been discovered and exploited on a large scale in this era. The high cost of extraction caused by the harsh environment also makes oil extraction in Alaska a small operation, and the output is not much, and how much can be expected to be kept. Even if some oil remains, it is difficult to apply without refining and purifying.

There are not many places in the whole of Alaska and even the Yukon Territory of Canada that can refine oil, and Whitehorse is a very representative place.

During World War II, a petroleum refinery was built here to process oil from the Northwest Territories oil pipeline.

Seeing that the Chinese army did not attack the oil refineries in southern Alaska, but went directly to the Canadian border, the US military believed that the target of the Chinese army's hurried attack was Whitehorse, in order to obtain oil and convenient transportation here.

"We have already discussed with the British, and we would rather blow it up than leave a drop of oil for the Chinese!" That's all Marshall can say.

Under the rapid offensive of the Chinese army, he did not dare to guarantee whether he could hold Whitehorse, and could only say that he would ensure that the Chinese would not get oil.

Roosevelt also heard the meaning, and did not say much, as long as the American reinforcements arrived one after another to defend the seaport of Skagway, the former gold rush gate, and ensure that the Chinese could not open the sea passage, even if the Chinese army occupied Whitehorse, they would still have to lie there.

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"Did we do something wrong?" Meng Xiang couldn't help muttering to himself.

The two new operational channels opened by China did not play a significant role in restraining the Anglo-American offensive in Europe.

The Chinese army has already conquered the Strait of Gibraltar. While purging the remnants of the enemy and sealing off this choke point, a large number of troops that had set foot on the European continent continued to attack Spain in the north.

The Spanish army, which had experienced the tempering of the Spanish Civil War, received a lot of benefits from the Germans and Britain and the United States in the following World War II, and its combat effectiveness was not weak, but it was still weaker when it encountered the Chinese North African Army that repeatedly swept the Middle East and North Africa.

After two large-scale battles in Seville and Malaga, the fact that 400,000 Spanish troops were defeated by 120,000 Chinese troops and suffered more than 100,000 casualties made the Spaniards realize that the weapons they had looted from Germany and Britain and the United States had long been outdated, and that China was no longer the old and weak empire of the era when the Spanish Armada was crisscrossing.

Franco, who regretted that he had defected to the Allies too early, asked for reinforcements from Britain and the United States, and at the same time secretly contacted China and the Germans, in a vain attempt to re-erect the banner of neutrality.

The Germans were too busy dealing with unrest at home and elsewhere in Europe and Allied attacks to ignore the repeated Spaniards; Huaxia, who had intended to take revenge on the Europeans, had already made up his mind to plunder everything he had passed, and did not bother to pay attention to the olive branch extended by the Spaniards; Britain and the United States are now concentrating their forces against the Germans, and for the dictatorial Spain, which has promised a lot of benefits before taking refuge, they have been counting on them to fight with China from the beginning.

The 200,000 Chinese troops who continued to land on the European continent from North Africa continued to gallop across Spain, but no matter how much they plagued the Spaniards, it was difficult to panic Britain and the United States.

"By the time the Chinese cross the Pyrenees, we will have already killed the Germans!" Britain and the United States are very optimistic.

Not to mention that it took a lot of time for China to penetrate Spain and come to the foot of the Pyrenees on the border with France, even when it reached the Pyrenees between Spain and France, it was difficult to cross without the support of the navy and the luck of Napoleon.

Moreover, there was still a France for the Chinese army to continue to wreak havoc, delaying enough time for Britain and the United States to completely defeat the Germans.

In the face of the gradually growing Chinese navy in the Mediterranean, Britain and the United States both issued orders and focused their strategies on the confrontation to delay time, as long as the Chinese army could not occupy the Mediterranean ports of France and Italy, it could not quickly and directly threaten the back of the Anglo-American European Army.

In the battle of Alaska on the other side, Meng Xiang did not hesitate to arouse suspicion and even expose the danger and activated the logistics supply capacity of more sub-bases to support the rapid advance of the Chinese army on the American continent, just to cause panic in Britain and the United States, but the reaction of Britain and the United States was not so anxious, but instead increased the blow to the Germans, causing the Germans to constantly complain to China.

Although these two armies won successes, they did not achieve the strategic goal of holding back Britain and the United States, so Meng Xiang had to reflect on the mistakes of his plan. (To be continued.) )