March 26.

Including Qiu Fatzi and Lao Du, who participated together, the Allied Joint Staff Conference ended.

A decision was taken.

There were parties that formed a joint force, dispatched a hundred divisions, and under the cover of five thousand aircraft, launched another offensive against Caen and Rennes, completely occupying these two cities, and advancing the front to the capital of France, the metropolis of the world.

Paris.

To this end, the Allies even drew troops stationed in the British mainland, as well as air defense units.

During the meeting, Qiu Fatzi, one of the two giants, said that the British Empire had made great sacrifices for the Allies and needed to be compensated for the victory, but Lao Du ignored him at all.

There is still a way out for the United States, although the retreat is very tragic and the ending will be miserable, but it is also a retreat, but the British Empire really has no way out, and the mustache openly shouted that all the war criminals of the British Empire want to eliminate the empire on which the sun never sets from the root.

After Qiu Fatzi jumped for a while, he saw that the United States ignored him, and he was settled.

meantime

He was also more determined in his heart, and the decision to pit the United States after the war.

In the current international form, starting from the overall interests of the Augro-Saxons, after the war, the best option is to unite all the forces of Millican, England, and Europa, gather breakthrough technology, unite and xenophobia, and fight with the other side to regain the civilized world that belongs to them.

But at that time, the British Empire was probably only a regional power.

Not even necessarily.

The British Empire, which is now in ruins, is afraid that after the war, it will become a racetrack for American capital, kidnapped by the economic and military United States, and completely reduced to the younger brother and pawn of others.

Why did the pound fall so badly, only one-tenth of the pre-war period, in addition to the bombing of the homeland and heavy industrial losses, there is also an important reason, the United States swallowed up the core industrial wealth of the British Empire, as well as capital.

But if it's cooperation with the other side,

long-range close attack,

Europa, then, may still be the territory of the British Empire.

As for why the two giants are the big, it is naturally because the beard is already cold.

It's not that he was killed by the mustache, although the mustache wanted to, but he didn't have that ability, but because of the fiasco in the decisive battle on the front, several main armored armies were surrounded and annihilated, which led to a little chaos inside, and then, the beard was killed by his own people.

Without the suppression of the beard, the internal contradictions caused by successive failures suddenly broke out, and one of the original three giants collapsed in an instant and fell apart into several.

And they have different opinions.

Some people want to fight to the death with the mustache and would rather die than surrender, some people want to make peace with the mustache, and some even plan to directly join the continental alliance formed by the mustache to fool the countries, but the interesting thing is that among these different opinions, there is a rare unification.

Qi Qi plans to repay the debt, not admit the previous deal, and drive the devil out.

One of them, who is relatively strong, also plans to mobilize troops to fight to the death with Tanaka Qin and Yin To's Kotaro.

The bizarre decision of division really left the other allies dumbfounded.

A resolution was also reached.

A new round of military expansion was launched again.

Now, as in the last European war, Mustache has a large number of troops liberated from the Eastern Front, including a large number of servant armies, and they are very effective servant armies, so the Allies need more and more troops to maintain their superiority.

The next day, March 27.

The documents of the Joint Staff Conference were submitted to the Office of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.

"And go on the offensive."

Looking at the report on the budget, the finance minister was going to cry.

Caen and Ren fought twice, not only failed to complete the set goal, but also consumed far more funds than expected.

The two battles, which lasted three months, included logistics, infrastructure investment to expand domestic production capacity, factory investment, and the government's expenditure on purchasing raw materials from abroad, which consumed a total of $30 billion more than expected.

It reached $230 billion.

This figure is already the pre-war GDP of the United States.

Although the U.S. dollar has depreciated sharply compared with the pre-war period, in just three years, the U.S. dollar has more than doubled its value against gold, and the U.S. dollar has become the second largest international currency after gold, but this is also a huge expenditure that the United States cannot afford.

Compared to the gross domestic product of the United States today, half of the GDP is consumed in these three months!

One of the reasons why such a large consumption can be generated is that the price of advanced weapons and equipment is becoming more and more expensive, taking jet fighters as an example, a latest, second-generation jet fighter has a factory price of as high as one million US dollars.

The advanced and complex technology has greatly increased the production cost.

One hundred and twenty a day, that's 120 million dollars a day.

Then, after three months of fighting, not a single one survived at the front.

Overly advanced technology not only increases factory costs, but also greatly reduces reliability, according to statistics, more than half of all jet fighters are lost for non-combat reasons.

And ammunition.

offensive operations, which consume ammunition even more than the cost of equipment,

Those large-caliber shells, heavy artillery barrels, are notoriously expensive. A small Davy armor-piercing shell is a fighter jet, and an American giant artillery armor-piercing shell is two propeller fighters. A ground-penetrating bomb is two propeller fighters.

And then, another attack, a hundred divisions, five thousand aircraft, and how much money will it cost?

The Minister of Finance was a little dizzy.

There is still Paris to play behind, and the difficulty is only greater than that of Caen.

If we continue to fight like this, even if we win, even if the United States has more than eighty percent of the world's gold reserves, it will inevitably go bankrupt, and there will inevitably be an uncontrollable avalanche of depreciation of the dollar after the war.

"Still want to expand the army?"

"It's still five million!"

Seeing the next page of the document, the Minister of Finance jumped straight up.

The number of military personnel directly under the United States who directly served the war effort is as high as 15 million, and these people will consume $2.5 billion a month, and another 5 million.

It's an offense again,

It's another expansion.

Don't care about the economy?

Really go straight to bankruptcy?

In that case, what's the point of winning?

If there is no other side of the strait, it will be forgotten, as the only victorious country, the United States has enough space and time to recover, but according to this rhythm, after the war, the scale of the national debt is afraid to expand to 15,000 US dollars, coupled with the shrinking economy, the fiscal revenue will decrease, even if the annual interest is calculated at 3 percent, the annual fiscal revenue, it is estimated that the interest alone is not enough, and then, the dollar will depreciate greatly, the credibility will collapse, and the Ministry of Finance will not be able to take out so much gold, and the world currency will inevitably give way to the other side.

Unless, the other side is really all stupid and brain-dead.

This is obviously impossible.

"Minister?"

Looking at the Minister of Finance, who had not signed for a long time, the secretary on the side urged.

This is a plan approved by both the president and Congress, and it is not something that his secretary of finance can oppose.

Glancing at the secretary, the Minister of Finance signed his name without hesitation.

Then, handing the documents to the secretary, he scooped up the suit behind his back, ran out of the office without looking back, and rushed all the way to the parking lot, where the finance minister got into his special car, urged the driver, and rushed all the way to the presidential palace.

He's going to resign.

Even if the president doesn't approve it, he won't do it.

This Minister of Finance, whoever likes to do it, he can't do it anyway.

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Tokyo.

Underground Royal Palace.

"Your Majesty the Locust."

The attendant officer Wu came in from the tunnel with a pale face, and bowed his head to report to Tianhuang, who was also pale:

"The Ninety-seventh Brigade has mutinied."

"Ninety-Seven Brigades."

The devil locust was stunned.

Because there were large-scale resistance guerrillas all over the country, these guerrillas, with the support of the enemy, advanced weapons and equipment, were very strong, and some of them took the lead, and their combat effectiveness even exceeded that of ordinary infantry wings, which gave the locust army a great headache.

And also

A number of foreign armed forces have also joined in, including many retired soldiers and even officers.

In the case of divisional and regimental units, they will encounter direct interference from the enemy, and attack planes and coastal gunboats will follow them day and night, and they will suffer heavy losses before they get close to the enemy.

Faced with such a situation, the locust army had to be reorganized,

The division and regimental establishment and the 3,000-man wing establishment were completely abandoned, and the new brigade and regiment establishment of 5,000 men were completely abandoned, with five brigades under its command, so as to deal with the guerrillas and effectively avoid the enemy's air attacks and the shelling of coastal gunboats.

The Ninety-Seven Brigade is one of the most recently formed.

"What about the brigade commander?"

The locust asked.

In order to ensure the loyalty of the troops, the top leaders, including the brigade commanders, are all so-called wanted war criminals on the other side, and there is no possibility of rebellion.

"Shattered by jade."

Officer Wu bowed his head and replied.

"Shattered by jade..."

The locust's face turned even paler.

The so-called being broken by jade is a saying that has only appeared recently, just to sound better.

This refers to being killed by a subordinate, or captured, and surrendering to the enemy as a vote of surrender.

"Including the other captains, they were also shattered by jade."

Officer Wu continued.

"Yaga..."

"It's a shame on bushido."

The locust finally couldn't help it and scolded:

"What's going on?"

It is not uncommon for troops to mutiny before, and there have been more and more of them recently, so that the size of the troops has been reduced by half, but there has never been a single brigade mutiny, which requires very strong organizational skills.

The guerrillas don't have that ability.

"The Far East group intervened."

Chief Wu explained:

"According to the information obtained from the investigation, the 97th Brigade went to the Far East on the enemy's transport ship."

"Far East..."

The locust's face had turned pale.

Yoon Kotaro and Tanaka Kotaro, the two former generals of the empire, are now the biggest traitors of the empire and his worst enemies, and the two of them raised the flag to openly oppose the locust system, and most of the locust army defected here.

One brigade and 5,000 people are already a lot of pain for today's locust army.

And predictably,

Next, there will be more troops defecting, which is what the locust fears the most.

Without the army, he is nothing.

"Let's go down."

After a long time, the locust regained a little blood, waved his hand, and motioned for Officer Wu to leave.

"Hi..."

Officer Wu bowed his head and left the dimly lit underground palace.

At the last moment of closing the door, the locust's personal bodyguard, the commander of the guard corps, looked back at the locust through the gap, the pair of children's holes flashed with an inexplicable light, and his hand touched a secret letter in his pocket.

It was a secret letter from his men.

A secret letter from Kotaro Yoonto.

As the personal guard of the locust, he has never left the locust, and he has never participated in foreign wars, so he is naturally not a serious war criminal.

The bounty price is only one gram of gold.

At this price, it is clear that the other side has no murderous intentions towards him.

And Yin Teng's side, the reason why so many people take refuge in the past is because the treatment is really good, there is money and materials, life is comfortable, free, and there is no need to die.

Walking out of the lower palace, the locust guard's eyes fell into deep thought.