Chapter 742 Emperor's Battle
Compared to the current fierce world war, a small infectious disease is undoubtedly an surmountable obstacle. Neither the federal government nor Sheffield himself wants to delay the current war process.
Now the main purpose of the United States is to help Britain win the world war, and everything else can be put aside for the time being. Even if they hate Britain in their hearts, when Britain is in trouble, the United States will still help the British.
Just as the American general who ordered the British to attack Dagukou decades ago said, blood is thicker than water!
Even the citizens of the United States, who are already extremely anti-intellectual in later generations, may not be able to think of other countries except for domestic affairs. However, whenever there is a public opinion survey, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia are the most mentioned countries. As for Japan and South Korea? Sorry, I don’t know them. Who knows where they are?
In fact, the Five Eyes Alliance is a country that the United States will never give up. If any of them dare to touch it, the United States will not hesitate to start a war of any scale. The problem now is who is the boss of the Five Eyes Alliance. The British think it is themselves, and obviously the United States does not think so. But now they can put aside the dispute under the threat of the Germans and discuss this issue after the war.
Recently, Sheffield has visited Rockefeller more often, mainly to inquire about how Wu Lien-teh eradicated the plague. When the time came for the slave owner to use his knowledge, he realized that there was still a lot to be done.
After asking about the general anti-epidemic process, Sheffield showed his "no one knows better than me" spirit and formulated an anti-epidemic plan. In simple terms, we don't do what the Chinese do. It is based on herd immunity and guided by targeted blasting.
For the long-term stability of the United States, we must be willing to sacrifice everything. Everything must be paid for. Sheffield hoped to guide the flu to kill the people who needed to be eliminated, but never thought that they would be unscathed. Because of the population ratio, it is impossible for the white population to be safe and sound, but this is already within the scope of consideration.
Sheffield felt that even if the death rate was one to one, the white people would still be the ultimate beneficiaries. This was all for the future development of the country, and some white people had to sacrifice inevitably, but it wasn't him who was sacrificed anyway.
"Why isn't yellow fever breaking out?" The slave owners were actually not satisfied with the current strength of the flu, and only hoped that the closed environment of the prison trusts in various places could serve as a virus incubator.
If a super virus can really be cultivated through the prison trust environment, he has already thought about the next step. After the flu has spread around the world, he will consciously capture the infected black people and put them in prison. After completing an internal circulation through the prison system, he will observe whether there is a super virus in prisons across the country. Once it appears, he will release the black criminals in the prison and let them return to their own communities.
Of course, this is the most ideal result. If it is not ideal, we can only make do with the common influenza pandemic in history.
At the crossroads of history, Sheffield was faced with a choice: save the world or rush forward. Now he chose the latter. I believe no one would blame him. The emergence of the influenza pandemic was out of respect for history. Although this influenza pandemic would cause countless deaths around the world, it was all arranged by God. As a slave owner, he could not stop what was bound to happen, even if he had the conditions to stop it.
"Jesla, arrange for the domestic Black Gold Company to select people to airdrop into prisons across the country. Now we must know the entire prison system well. For a long time, we have neglected this stable profit point. In fact, we owe these free laborers too much!" Sheffield sealed the plan he had made in the past few days. The world war had nothing to do with him anymore. Now he had to solve the most concerning issues in the hearts of southern citizens.
The Germans' fighting on the Eastern Front took too long. Only after getting what they wanted from the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk did the German General Staff hastily mobilize the army back to the Western Front. Under the premise that the United States joined the war, the time wasted before was a luxury. The German army, which ended the war on the Eastern Front, together with the Austro-Hungarian army and even a Bulgarian army group, evacuated from the Eastern Front in a mighty manner.
Before the German troops on the Eastern Front returned to the Western Front, the German troops on the Western Front had already begun to counterattack. After enduring several attacks by the Allied forces, the German army that had settled the war on the Eastern Front began to consider ending the war completely.
In a letter to William II, Ludendorff, who had just directly commanded the German army on the Eastern Front to defeat the Russian Empire and had made great achievements, said in a letter to William II, "We have to consider the issue of the newly formed American Expeditionary Force joining the war this spring. It is unknown how many they can come; perhaps they can fill the gap left by the Russians; further, our advantage in the spring is greater than in the summer and autumn, but if we can achieve a great victory, the situation may be different."
When most of the Allied forces were still rushing to the western route, the German army's counterattack had already begun. In the night, the spirits of the German officers and soldiers began to tense up. The world was terrifyingly quiet, even the moon hid in the clouds, all the lights in the convoy were turned off, and the speed of travel was cautiously slowed down. The only sounds on the road were the panting of the engines and the rumbling of the tank tracks on the ground.
If there was any disturbance, they would bombard those uninvited guests without mercy. The soldiers on the armored vehicles dared not breathe, and their guns and eyes were carefully staring at the wilderness and woods on both sides of the road. Thinking that there might be a large group of French soldiers watching them not far away, the soldiers could not help but tighten their weapons.
This commando force was composed of elite veterans who had experienced four years of war. If Sheffield was also in the Allied command, he would have explained to the British and French generals how this German commando, later known as the Storm Troopers, fought. But now, as the saint was not around, Britain and France could only understand the enemy they were about to face after experiencing it on the battlefield.
Compared to the long battle line on the Eastern Front, it was much more difficult to break through the positions on the Western Front, and the vigilance of the local French was not comparable to that of the Russian soldiers. Before the German soldiers could react, a clear and loud gunshot came from the woods under the cover of the sound of artillery shells exploding.
The commando's actions were discovered and they were directly named by the decisive French soldiers. The remaining German infantry quickly jumped out, but they were immediately shot down mercilessly by the French firepower. For these German soldiers, the air seemed to boil in the whistling bullets, and the earth trembled with their rapid movement.
The elite German soldiers who survived the four-year war were not at all confused by the sudden bombardment. They immediately launched a targeted counterattack and covered each other for evacuation. This time, the German counterattack plan on the Western Front started badly, but large-scale fighting soon followed.
At the German General Staff in Berlin, discussions on how to end the war were still in full swing. "We must end the war before the American Expeditionary Force arrives in Europe. To this end, we must concentrate all our forces to attack. This offensive plan is called the Kaiser's Battle."
Dispersing troops on the front line, launching artillery attacks, and then suddenly launching a full-scale offensive will achieve unexpected results. However, the Western Front is not composed of a long and loose front like the Eastern Front. The complex tunnels in the rear and dense machine gun fortresses, observation posts, and temporary command posts form a complete defense system. Obviously, the experience of the Brusinov Offensive cannot be directly applied. A small-scale elite infantry destroyed the enemy's firepower points, observation posts, and command posts in a short artillery attack. Then quickly attack, rush into the enemy trenches, and then use grenades to hit the enemy in the trenches, and immediately break into the next trench, and then repeat the previous process to continue breaking through until the destination.
In mid-March, as German soldiers on the Eastern Front, as well as the Austro-Hungarian and Bulgarian armies arrived at the battlefield, the Battle of the Emperor officially began. More than 10,000 cannons roared, and after twelve hours of bombardment, the commandos composed of veterans immediately went into battle at night and launched a surprise attack on the Allied positions. Behind the German soldiers, the German army marched forward, followed by other Allied armies. The commandos really swept the positions of the British Fifth Army like a storm. On the first day, 20,000 British soldiers died on the battlefield and 35,000 were injured.
On the first day of the Battle of the Emperor, the German army destroyed all the British front-line positions with a storm-like momentum.
"We can send an average of 50,000 expeditionary soldiers to the battlefield every month." Newton said to the owners of the Sheffield Manor in Washington, "The German offensive is very fierce, and the British and French are urging us very urgently."
"So we can't go!" Sheffield said, holding his wine glass. "It's crazy. The German army has just finished fighting on the Eastern Front and wants to end the war in one fell swoop. Then the decision made by the British and French forces is to send our soldiers to Europe as soon as possible? I remember the plan of the Ministry of War at the beginning. Didn't the British and French agree to it? That would be safer and could consume the last bit of the Allies' accumulation."
"In fact, you know without me telling you that trained soldiers are different from soldiers in real wars. No matter what the British and the French think, we should join the war according to our own plan. We should not just do whatever they ask us to do. The Expeditionary Force is not the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. They have been independent for a long time." Sheffield's words made the Secretary of War nod frequently.
(End of this chapter)
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