Chapter 740 Kansas Military Camp
"According to our news in Constantinople and Vienna, there is no unrest in the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The imperial governments are still able to control the situation. On the contrary, in Rome, the Kingdom of Italy is generally tired of war." Jesla said everything. "Last year, when the Battle of the Somme and Verdun were taking place at the same time, I heard that Britain and France tried to win over Italy, wanting the Italians to withdraw from the war and promise not to settle accounts with the war. Since the United States entered the war, the atmosphere in Italy has become a little subtle."
"Is that so? It seems that the Alliance is still far from being unable to hold on." Sheffield moved his swivel chair and spun it around, patting it and saying, "I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing."
In 1918, Germany ended the battle on the Eastern Front and launched the Kaiser Offensive on the Western Front, but the balance of victory had already gone to the Allies, not Germany. Germany could still hold on, but the bad news was that the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire, the Allies, were already exhausted, and if the Kaiser Offensive did not achieve the desired results, the consequences would be disastrous.
According to history, at the beginning of the second half of the year, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire will fall into a state of national shutdown. The entire national government will be on the verge of collapse and will not be able to provide any help to Germany.
But now, the Allies are in good shape, the United Company's trade of more than 500 million US dollars has not been in vain, and the collapse of the Russian Empire also made the Allied camp breathe a sigh of relief.
It seems that once Germany turns west, it will still get support from the Allied camp. Unlike in history, when the two major allies have already shut down their countries, the Allies have already seen that the emperor's offensive will not last long this time, and they have enough confidence to bet that Germany will eventually end the war.
The protracted struggle between General Pershing and the British and French forces finally paid off, winning independent command for the American Expeditionary Force. However, this did not mean that a steady stream of expeditionary soldiers would land immediately, as the slow training would take time.
Because there was no land opponent for a long time, the combat effectiveness of the United States Army was questionable. In order to make up for this, the federal government used the simplest method, which was to organize a large army. Whether it was the Allied Powers or the Central Powers, the organization of a division was about 15,000 people. The United States, which announced its participation in the war, chose a huge organization of 28,000 people as the general organization of the expeditionary force. The number of soldiers in a division was at least equal to the organization of two divisions in other countries.
In the world, only two small Eastern European countries chose to align with the United States, namely Bulgaria with a population of 24,000, and Romania with a population of 27,000. Unlike history, Romania did not participate in the war from beginning to end and remained out of it.
Historically, Romania would have chosen to join the Allied Powers after the Battle of Verdun. However, in the world war of this time and space, there was no opportunity for the small countries nearby to see the situation clearly. After the Battle of Verdun, Britain suffered a disastrous defeat in the Battle of the Somme, which led to Romania's continued inaction.
After the collapse of Imperial Russia, Romania was about to join the Allies, but then President Wilson announced the United States' entry into the war, which forcibly curbed Romania's idea of joining Germany.
Romania never joined the war, which prevented the real Tsar Bulgaria from sharing energy, thus successfully delaying the death of the fake Tsar Nicholas II. Bulgaria's stability also led to Greece's delay in making the decision to join the war.
The butterfly effect brought about is that although the Allied camp is exhausted, it still has the energy to fight back. It is not like in 1918 in history, except for Germany, other Allied members are no longer able to provide any meaningful support.
After the United States entered the war, Sheffield United's trade with the Allies was cut off and remained at a figure of US$500 million, but it would take some time for the impact to be reflected.
In response, Sheffield informed the three Pashas in Constantinople through John Connor in Kuwait that the Eighth Army would not participate in military operations against the Ottoman Empire, and would still not allow the American Expeditionary Force to pass through its defense zone and enter Mesopotamia.
In February, John Connor sent a telegram from Kuwait, successfully suppressing the surrounding Arab rebel forces and capturing the eldest son of the Hashemite family, asking how to deal with him.
"Of course we can't crucify the eldest son of the Holy Land Guardian family. We live in a civilized society now." Sheffield rubbed the stubble on his chin with his hand and said lightly, "Just shoot him. Say that this Arab leader fought to the last moment on the battlefield and returned his body to the Hashemite family to reflect our chivalry."
"Okay, got it, boss!" Jesla replied with a stern face. He didn't realize where the so-called chivalry was. He was about to leave, but Sheffield called him back. "Give me a distribution map of all black communities in the 48 states. I'll give you one month. I need detailed data. To save time, you can ask Konstantinovich for help. This is very important. Go do it!"
The relationship between the Eighth Army and the American Expeditionary Force in the Persian Gulf was not as harmonious as it seemed on the surface. The reason was that the soldiers of the American Expeditionary Force, like their successors, could not control their lower bodies.
As for military discipline involving the lower body, Sheffield didn't know whether it existed in the history of the United States Army. In any case, it no longer existed in 1918, but this problem was not unsolvable.
While letting the Eighth Army keep a close eye on the expeditionary soldiers, John Connor was also spreading the American Expeditionary Force's remarks about crimes involving women to tarnish the reputation of the United States. Or it could be tarnishing, because these were all real facts.
The expeditionary soldiers were definitely not wronged in this regard. There were loopholes. No wonder during the Pacific War, the Japanese army deliberately spread women with sexually transmitted diseases on islands that they predicted the US military would attack, and American soldiers were successfully infected.
Did this solve the problem of collateral damage? Actually, it didn’t, because the Eighth Army’s main advisory group was also composed of citizens of the United States. The Eighth Army’s advisors had the same problems as the American Expeditionary Force, except that they had a president of a joint company to back them up, tirelessly cleaning up the mess behind the scenes.
In principle, Sheffield will give the Eighth Army advisers a chance to choose: they can bring back the women they have had sex with, or live in Kuwait. If the other party is unwilling to do so, an additional fund will be allocated, and the consultant involved will be required to share 10% of the cost and use financial ability to solve the problem. If that doesn't work, the United Company will raise the illegitimate child and try its best to prevent the illegitimate child from becoming a burden to local women in the conservative area of the Middle East.
Because the country has declared war, many places in the mainland have become large military training camps. There are more than one million soldiers in training, and the number is still increasing.
At this point, Sheffield asked all the women to come back and held a rare family dinner. He tilted his head and asked Edith Rockefeller to light a cigarette. He blew out a puff of smoke and said, "My dears, I hope you can promise me one thing."
"What's the matter that has called us all back? Do you want to make a will?" Louisa Morgan knew that her man was a man with no taboos, so she spoke without hesitation.
The slave owner really didn’t take Louisa Morgan’s words to heart, but this sentence made Edith Rockefeller, the oldest, very sensitive. She stared at Louisa Morgan fiercely and shouted angrily, “What to say and what not to say, is this what the Morgan family taught you?”
"Okay!" Sheffield suppressed the matter before Louisa Morgan could speak. "This may be a small sequelae of my recklessness. I believe Louisa was just saying it casually and she doesn't really want me to die. This is the problem. I hope that in the next year, you all go to live in Arlington for a year."
"All of them?" Natalia said timidly, "That's the family's base camp. Annie has always been there. Will it be a problem if we go and live there?"
Evelin also nodded, agreeing very much with what Natalia said. Sheffield shook his head and said, "I am going to do something seriously now. For the sake of your easy life, you'd better listen to me and tell the truth. I am using a negotiating tone to let you do it according to my ideas. Do you understand now?"
"What's so serious? You need someone to take care of you." Alice Roosevelt wanted to say more, but Sheffield glared back and changed the subject, "When are we going?"
"Go now, take the children with you. Arlington is the base of the family, and it is the only place that can isolate all external factors. If I don't let you out, you will stay here." After Sheffield finished his words, he drank the rest of the red wine.
The slave owner has been going to church more often recently, but he is not confessing his sins before God. The two sides are in an equal cooperative relationship. He is not as good as the slave owner in most things, so it is nothing more than a casual chat.
"We heard from the FBI that Konstantinovich sent some agents to Kansas." Jesla reported to his boss who had just come out of the church.
"No specific news?" Sheffield kept walking, and his black shadow was stretched out long under the sunlight.
"It seems that an infectious disease of unknown cause has appeared in a military camp." Just as Jesla finished speaking, he turned around and saw his boss with his hands on his waist and his legs spread apart like a cowboy ready to duel. He asked, "Boss?"
"Is that so?" Sheffield smiled brightly. "Have you prepared the distribution map of black communities?"
(End of this chapter)
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