:i>Dsipgex #58&8Chapter 698: Feint, Rift
The war captured the attention of nearly every nation in the world and naturally drew in the interest of populations globally.
Since the outbreak of the war, Caucasians in Europe and Black people in Africa had both developed the good habit of keeping up with the news every day.
Of course, the two groups had different ways of accessing news. Europeans could listen to broadcasts and freely buy any newspapers they wanted to read.
But for Africans, aside from what they heard along the way, they could only catch news comntary while working for their employers.
It was unusual for one country to take on almost the entire world at any given ti, even during the previous World War.
Wasn’t Germany, powerful as it was at the ti, still allied with nations such as Italy, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Turkey, and Bulgaria?
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What’s more, Germany failed to win the World War despite having so many allies, let alone the United States, which nearly single-handedly achieved a 1v30 feat.
For this reason, when Arica would be defeated beca a topic of concern for people of various nations.
Especially in European Nations, many citizens were praying for Arica to be defeated quickly so their own countries could benefit greatly from Arica, and then use these gains to ease their dostic economic crises.
At this mont, Arica, bravely taking on the whole world, had beco the savior in the eyes of Europeans. Although the courage of the United States did not move the European people, the massive industry and developed economy of the United States constantly impressed them.
Of course, for Africans, they perhaps hoped even more for Arica to win the war.
After all, compared to Europe, which was excessively discriminatory towards Black people, the situation for Black individuals in the United States could at least be considered human.
If the Allied Army erged victorious, the only Power among the major nations that recognized Black citizens would dissipate into thin air.
For these Black individuals to regain their rights, they might only wait for a Lincoln to erge in other nations.
The perspective shifts back to Arica, where the country had re-entered a state of bustling activity.
Naturally, the governnt and the people had different angles and purposes for their busyness. The Arican Governnt busied itself aiming to win the war, or at least to gain so early advantages for negotiations with other countries.
Whereas the majority of Arican people who busied themselves did so with a more uniform goal, either fleeing to rural areas far from urban cities and major transportation routes and facilities, or directly boarding ocean liners to leave the country about to be engulfed in gunpowder.
Would they pine for the United States where they had lived for a long ti? Perhaps only their hearts knew the true answer to that.
But even if they did pine for Arica, it definitely wasn’t for the governnt or President Hoover’s rule; it was for the land and their own properties.
Arican Governnt.
In recent tis, President Hoover had finally breathed a sigh of relief. By printing a massive amount of US dollars, the governnt had attracted a significant portion of Arican people to enlist excitedly.
At least in appearance, the total number of soldiers in the United States Army had already surpassed 300,000, and the ranks were still swelling.
About ten thousand new recruits from the earliest conscription had already been deployed to the battlefield, resisting Canada’s attacks from the North to the South.
Indeed, the situation was as predicted by the Arican army. The Canadian military force, numbering over 10,000, was only feinting. They halted their advance north of Augusta and engaged in a war of attrition against the forces led by MacArthur.
Although in the long term the more nurous Arican army would have the upper hand, the strategy successfully pinned down 30,000 Arican troops in Augusta, significantly reducing the number of soldiers the Arican army could mobilize.
The battle of Augusta lasted just over one week before the Allied Army launched a new campaign within the Canadian region.
More armies were involved in this battle, and from their attire, one could tell this was a true Allied Army, including over 50,000 soldiers from the United Kingdom, France, and other nations.
Compared to the feigning Canadian army, this Allied Army had a simpler, but more deadly purpose for Arica.
They aid not to threaten the eastern coastal cities from the South to the North, but to thrust directly into the heart of Arica’s interior through the Great Lakes region like a sharp sword.
With a map, one would notice that most of the United States–Canada border is a straight line, but Ontario Province in the Great Lakes region juts into Arica’s interior like a sharp sword.
This area leads directly to New York and Boston, the two major cities in the Northeast of the United States, whose importance is self-evident.
Even further down south, one could potentially threaten Washington, the capital city where Arica’s power structures are centralized.
Indeed, because of this, the Allied Army launched a fierce assault on Buffalo right from the start of the campaign, clearing a path through the Great Lakes region to penetrate deep into Arica’s heartland.
Although the United States had also deployed troops in the Buffalo area, their numbers paled in comparison to those of the Allied Army.
This was, in fact, quite normal considering that the Arican army was only about 200,000 strong at the ti, with about ten thousand trained.
The remaining eighty thousand, even if only deployed along the border with Canada, could definitely not cover all the border areas.
The majority of Arica’s forces were directly positioned to the west of New York in Scranton and to the west of Boston in Burlington, and of course in Augusta, which had already beco a battleground.
Such military deploynts naturally couldn’t stop the Allied Army, and by July 28th, the Allied forces had already advanced to Binghamton, east of Buffalo, just a few hundred kiloters from New York.
For the mont, this army’s objective was not Washington, as a solo venture deep into enemy territory was simply too risky. The attack on Washington would have to wait until more troops could join the offensive; after all, the United States was still a great Power and warranted cautious treatnt by the Allied Army.
The aim of this army was to advance east and attack New York, or, at the very least, to press on toward Boston, and together with the northern forces in Augusta, encircle MacArthur’s forces.
As long as the thirty-thousand-strong Arican force under MacArthur’s command could be defeated, there wouldn’t be many “old soldiers” left in the United States Army; the remainder would all be new recruits, and their combat effectiveness would naturally be much weaker.
On July 30, 1928, the Arican Governnt.
A eting regarding army combat plans convened at the White House, with participants including President Hoover, Secretary of State Lestes, General Panxing, MacArthur, and other high-ranking military officials.
“Gentlen, we have reached the most critical mont in the history of the United States of Arica. No past disasters can compare to what we face today. We must co together, united as one, to overco this catastrophe.
If we can win this war, I will use all my efforts to repay your support. But if we fail in this war, gentlen, we will beco sinners in Arican history, forever marked by our actions.
I believe neither the governnt nor the military would like to see the fall of our Union.
No matter our previous relations, now I hope we can unite, and not let our beloved country face the threat of extinction,” President Hoover said sternly, his gaze fixed on the military and governnt higher-ups, passionately making his case.
Regrettably, this speech clearly did not move the high-ranking officials from the military and governnt below him, as they scarcely showed even superficial cooperation.
President Hoover’s expression chilled as his previously passionate deanor vanished instantly, replaced by the self-important and arrogant man: “General MacArthur, what is the situation at the front?”
After the second offensive by the Allied Army, the troops led by MacArthur had increased from thirty thousand to seventy thousand.
This ant that, apart from several defensive positions, almost all the troops in the northeast of the United States were now under MacArthur’s command, making his battle plans the most crucial for the country.
MacArthur, absorbed in organizing his docunts, noticed everyone’s gaze and President Hoover’s increasingly icy look. Only then did he stand up, nonchalantly stating, “Currently, the enemy has been held at the Scranton—Binghamton—Burlington line.
As long as the enemy doesn’t reinforce their troops, I am confident we can keep them outside our defense line.”
Ever since the tragedy in Washington, MacArthur had grown increasingly at odds with President Hoover.
President Hoover wanted to lay all the bla on MacArthur, while MacArthur was equally eager to shift the bla onto President Hoover.
This not only resulted in a bla ga between the President and the Army Chief of Staff after the Washington disaster but also caused many Arican people to beco disillusioned with the governnt.
After all, to all ordinary Arican citizens, the military is supposed to be subordinate to the governnt, and the head of the governnt is President Hoover.
Moreover, MacArthur did, indeed, have orders from President Hoover. Although these orders sowhat differed from MacArthur’s actions, the call to mobilize the troops was still issued by President Hoover.
Because of this, President Hoover lost the trust of the people and also saw a strengthening of the military’s power.
At least now, even with considerable discord between President Hoover and MacArthur, President Hoover still did not have the nerve to dismiss MacArthur from his post.
To be aware, MacArthur controlled over seventy thousand Arican troops, more than a fifth of the total strength of the Arican forces.
The old troops in Arica were largely under MacArthur’s control. Should MacArthur have any grand designs, it was feared that the newly trained Arican recruits would be entirely incapable of stopping him.
The size of the forces under his command allowed MacArthur to no longer regard President Hoover, who had finally tasted the bitter fruit once experienced by President Coolidge—that is, the threat to his own political power brought about by excessive leniency.
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