Bulgarian Empire

Wilson had a hard time convincing his own political team to back the war. But the next question came again, what about the Panama Canal?

Do you want to save the Panama Canal? Once the canal is lost, the U.S. Navy will be divided into two. As for transoceanic military transfers, it is estimated that the U.S. Navy will starve to death on the road!

The coalition forces dared to go on an expedition across the oceans, because they had a lot of logistics supplies from Canada, Mexico, and South American countries. They didn't go directly from London to the mainland of the United States. The colonial government was responsible for the logistics along the way!

In order to plan for this war, the British had been stockpiling supplies in advance more than a year ago, otherwise how could it be possible to send troops as soon as they said they would send troops?

John Joseph Pershing, chief of staff of the U.S. Army, is one of Wilson's most trusted generals. Well, there are no famous generals in the United States in this era, so they can only choose generals among the short ones. John Joseph Pershing passed the Spanish-American War anyway!

Under the conjecture of a group of incompetent generals, he appeared to be very powerful. In fact, he only killed the peasant rebel army when he invaded Cuba, and then suppressed the indigenous uprising in the Philippines.

Without participating in the world war, the American soldiers naturally had no chance to perform. Therefore, the chief of staff of the army promoted by Wilson has actual combat experience that is not as good as that of any division commander in the three countries of Britain, France and Paul!

William Shepherd Benson, Secretary of the U.S. Navy, was not promoted by Wilson. The U.S. Navy is much stronger than the Army. President Wilson has not yet been able to interfere with the appointment of their Secretary of the Navy.

Now they have come to the White House together, together with the US cabinet, plus President Wilson, they are working together to formulate a battle plan, or they are reviewing the military's battle plan!

Wilson said passionately: "Everyone, the United States of America has reached the most critical moment. Even if the British burned the White House back then, it cannot be compared with now!

If you win this war, the United States will still be the United States. If you lose this war, this land will be reduced to scorched earth again! "

Well, his expression was in vain, everyone sitting here is old-fashioned, who cares about these official articles?

Wilson's face sank, his prestige as president had almost been wiped out, he paused, swallowed all the words in his stomach, and said coldly: "Two generals, come up with your battle plan!"

William Shepherd Benson was the first to say: "This time the enemy is coming fiercely, attacking from two sides at the same time. Our navy is limited in strength and unable to defend against enemies from two sides at the same time. The Admiralty decided to concentrate all warships in the Atlantic Ocean to defend The best of our East Coast!"

Secretary of State Rice immediately retorted: "How can this work? All the navy has gone to the east coast, what about our west coast? Is it just thrown to the enemy?"

Benson said coldly: "I'm sorry, our navy is limited, even if we want to defend our east coast, we can't do enough. If we divide our forces again, we don't even need a battle plan, we can just admit defeat!

East Coast Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina , Georgia, and Florida are the most elite places in the United States.

From the perspective of maximizing benefits, keeping the east coast as much as possible can preserve the vitality of the United States to the maximum extent. As for the west coast, isn't there still an army?

The big deal is to learn how to be the mainland army against the British, fight if you win, and run if you can't win. Although the League of Nations is coming fiercely, they are also full of internal contradictions. As long as time delays, they will collapse by themselves! "

In fact, this is just a formality. These states on the east coast of the United States account for more than half of the country's population. With seven layers of economic aggregate, it is inevitable to give priority to defending the east coast. As early as when Benson proposed this plan, the U.S. Navy had already acted.

Opposition is only for political correctness,

It proves that the government is really helpless, so it was forced to give up the coastal defense along the Pacific coast!

As early as when countries confiscated the overseas assets of the United States, the U.S. Navy quietly transferred its main fleet to the east coast. Now this is the last batch of navies.

And most of them are old warships, and several capital ships are also the earliest generation of dreadnoughts of the US Navy, and their combat effectiveness is not very good.

This is similar to what the British guessed. The real main force of the Royal Navy is also in the Atlantic Fleet, and most of the battleships in the Pacific Fleet are first-generation warships.

The deployment of the navy naturally made the army very dissatisfied, and John Joseph Pershing retorted: "General Benson, I'm afraid you have mistaken the target, this time our enemy is the whole world, not just the British Empire!

The defense zone of our army is to draw a circle around the United States. Do you think it is so easy? The enemy will land from Canada, Mexico, and thousands of kilometers of coastline. Tell me how to defend? "

Benson said coldly: "This question is also what I want to ask. It would be great if the navy can hold the east coast. As for the army, I personally suggest continuing to expand the army!

The Germans could face the 8 million Allied forces of the Allies alone for half a year in Europe, but they collapsed because of insufficient supplies!

You can learn, it is absolutely impossible to have so many enemies against you. With our resources and industrial strength, as long as you can stop the enemies, the government will never let you starve! "

The contradiction between the navy and the army is not small in every country, and the United States is no exception. Now that the navy is retreating from the west coast and the army is required to fill in the hole, Pershing naturally can't bear it!

Pershing said angrily: "Our army doesn't have the ability. Just look at our military expenditure on this issue. A few years ago, our army's total strength was only 26,000, which was only one division!

Now it's time to expand the army, and the total strength of our Army will soon reach eight million, and it will even exceed ten million in the future. Unfortunately, most of these troops are militias from the federal states. How many of them can the Army Department mobilize? , is this still a serious problem?

When it comes to your navy, what do you do with so much military expenditure every year? If they were all given to our army, we wouldn't have to worry about it now! "

Wilson interrupted angrily: "Stop, I called you here today, not to quarrel, the war has already begun, we have no extra time to waste!

Everyone come up with a battle plan, continue the topic just now, whether you agree with the plan of the Ministry of the Navy, let's vote directly! "

Opposition is opposition. On the issue of the navy's concentration of forces to defend the east coast, everyone still adopted this combat plan.

Perxing said embarrassingly: "The deployment of the Army's troops is very troublesome. We don't choose the militias from the states along the coast and on the border. The troops that the Army can really mobilize now are actually very limited!

Since there are too many places where the enemy can attack, we plan to deploy the army on several nodes to facilitate reinforcements at any time.

Troop deployment..."

The total strength of the U.S. Army is as high as 8 million, and the army directly under the Army has just reached more than 3 million. Even these troops were coordinated by Wilson himself and the consortium, and they used their huge influence to steal from the state governments. Come out with troops!

The coastal states and frontier states are very supportive of the government's military expansion, but this support is only in words. Most of their expanded troops have stayed to defend their hometown. As for the defense of the Federation, this issue is left to others!

Now the main force of the U.S. Army is basically recruited from the inner six states, and they also have little interest in defending the country!

Without the First World War, the U.S. government could not establish a complete national conscription system. Now it is very easy for states to recruit militias. Everyone is still very active in defending their hometown. If the U.S. Army recruits troops, almost no one cares about it!

The army in Pershing's hands is almost becoming an asylum now. In order to collect the number of soldiers promised to the central government, the states opened the prisons, released the prisoners, and let them commit crimes and make meritorious deeds!

Of course, these are still not enough, so some federal states have an idea, isn't there not enough white people, and there are still black people? We are all Americans, how can we miss them when defending our country?

So now the main force of the U.S. Army is actually black uncles, and this proportion is still increasing. At the same time, other races have also appeared, for example: faces of Indians and Asian races have appeared.

There is no need to discuss the issue of combat effectiveness. The U.S. Army in this era can only bully the natives. On the contrary, the militias of the states have some combat effectiveness when defending their hometowns!

Seeing that everyone was silent, Wilson announced helplessly: "Since everyone has no opinion, let's do this!"

This battle meeting ended in discord. For a war with no hope, don't expect everyone to have so much enthusiasm. If there is a choice, it is estimated that this time the US military will become the most fierce anti-war group!

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When the U.S. government began to mobilize the whole country, the pace of war is getting closer and closer to them. It is not that no one wants to take the initiative to attack. The problem is that it is useless to win now!

How about beating up Mexico and Canada? Could it be possible to destroy them in this short half month?

Since the enemy cannot be killed, then don't waste precious troops. The main job of the American people now is to dig trenches. Americans have also learned a lot during this world war, and trenches are one of them.

In order to win this war, the Americans began to dig trenches indiscriminately. The states are all self-organized defenses, so many times there will be ridiculous situations.

For example: When honest Americans dug trenches, they accidentally dug a road leading to a neighboring state; or they dug a large ditch without considering the actual situation; or they dug...

This is good for a country where all the people hold guns. You don't have to worry about weapons during war. Even with such a radical military expansion by the U.S. government, they can still guarantee that everyone has a gun!

Don't mention the logistical issue. It is estimated that General Pershing does not know how many weapons his troops are equipped with, let alone supplies!

Guns alone are not enough, they also need cannons, so the old antiques preserved by collectors are invited out, and they are not too old, most of them are the products of the Civil War, in one-third of the countries in the world , these equipments are all okay!

Even though he was so hungry, Pershing only searched for more than 3,000 cannons for the army, and the rest were of course still in the workshop of the arsenal!

In addition to cannons, machine guns, tanks, and armored vehicles are also indispensable. Even though the United States is the world's largest industrial country, they are definitely not in the top three in military industry.

Even during the world war, they added production lines, but at the end of 1917, the capitalists disposed of these things, and now they have to start again.

With the U.S. system, when the capitalists complete the adjustment of the production line, it will not take a year or a half, so don't expect extravagance!

If you don’t see rabbits, don’t spread eagles. Although the Wilson government has long asked capitalists to carry out wartime economics, it’s a pity that they don’t see orders and just don’t change the production line!

In peacetime, if President Wilson wants to expand his armaments, let's go through Congress first! Without the approval of the congressmen, he, the president, has no right to expand arms and prepare for war!

The most important thing is that the government has no money in its hands. Whether it is tax increases or debt issuance, it must be approved by Congress, so Secretary of State Rice has found it again!

Secretary of State Rice said frowningly: "Mr. President, our bank's bonds have been coldly received in the market, and several major domestic consortiums have no interest!

Due to the freezing of our overseas assets, the domestic economy was in trouble at the end of last year, and the stock market had already fallen to the bottom, and there is no sign of recovery now, so we have also encountered trouble in collecting war taxes! "

Wilson said angrily: "Damn bastards! Don't these capitalists know that their lips are dead and their teeth are cold? Once we are defeated, they still count on the League of Nations to protect their interests?

What are your plans to get us through this crisis? "

If the American consortium knew what Wilson was thinking, they would definitely be wronged. I really thought they were so rich and powerful. The American consortium in this era is not the American consortium after World War II!

The world war ended early, they were at best a second-rate consortium, close to the first-rate consortium, and with the complete annihilation of overseas investment, they also suffered heavy losses and were beaten back to the second-rate consortium.

To support the national defense construction of the base camp, naturally there is no spare capacity to purchase the central government's bonds. Of course, worrying about the government's repayment ability is also a very important factor!

Rice thought for a while and said, "There is no good way. Economic experts told me that the government can take over the Federal Reserve and use the US dollar to get through this hurdle!"

Hearing this suggestion, Wilson fell silent. This was not the first time he had thought about this question.

Taking over the Fed is not that simple! Of course, at this time, he doesn't care about offending the consortium anymore. The problem is that he doesn't have enough gold reserves in his hands?

The U.S. dollar can become one of the mainstream currencies in the world. The consortium behind the Federal Reserve has made great efforts. Without their support, the problem of gold reserves alone is enough to make the U.S. government struggle for another 30 years!

Rice made this suggestion, obviously they are also aware of this problem, if the gold reserve does not increase, it is a waste of money, using inflation, plundering wealth from the people for war!

Wilson is not an economic idiot. On the contrary, he is an economic expert. He knows that this matter cannot be stopped from the beginning.

Maybe it's just a 10% increase in the US dollar, but inflation may be 50%. This is mainly a matter of people's confidence in the US dollar.

In times of peace, we can find ways to restore the confidence of the people. Don’t think about it in times of war. No matter how optimistic the American people are, they don’t think they can win this war!

The purpose of most people is just to keep their hometown. If they lose the war, they will be defeated. Anyway, as long as they don't harm their own interests, that's fine!

"Well, do as you say!" Wilson said helplessly

After making this decision, it is estimated that the American people will have a deeper impression of him, the "worst president" in American history!

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