The sun never sets in America

Chapter 443 Forward and Backward
"Whoosh", the strong wind roared, rolling up a burst of white-gray smoke. When the smoke dissipated, broken tiles, broken corners of bricks and stones, and a "cross" stained with blood were revealed.

"Squeak, squeak," the rat's cry rang out under a pile of rocks, waking up a group of Han soldiers wearing gray military uniforms, helmets, and gas masks who were still marching around the waist.

"Go and see what's going on!!"

Feeling the push on his shoulders, Hu Fengyun swallowed, nodded to Captain Tang, then waved, pulled a few soldiers from his squad and broke into the rubble pile. The rubble pile was red. Pink, you can still see beautiful peacock window grilles broken into several petals on the ground, with only the head visible.

Looking at the short house in front of him, especially the so-called poems and articles on it, Hu Fengyun immediately concluded that this was a house where a woman lived.

Because men don’t use so many things that are obviously romantic. After all, in Hu Fengyun’s memory, men are not worthy of romance! !

To be precise, he didn't! !
"Zhizhi", the noise of the mouse in his ears became more and more obvious, and Hu Fengyun shouted in a low voice:

"Lighter, light the wood on fire!!"

"Yes, squad leader," the soldier responded in a low voice, and then took out a small windproof lighter from his pocket. This kind of steel lighter was specially customized for the Han army by "Xingyao", the largest lighter company in Han Dynasty. Because it is durable and wear-resistant, and can still maintain a good and stable condition during wartime, it was purchased in large quantities by the navy and army of the Han Dynasty as a lighter for soldiers and officers.

"Bang", the lighter ignited a wooden stick that looked dry and rough on the surface. By the light of the fire, the soldier stretched his head into the small room and immediately let out a "scream".

It was obviously the first time for the young soldier to see such a scene. Even when he spoke, his lips were still trembling, and the frequency of his words was somewhat incoherent.

When the soldier retracted his head, his face turned pale, he was still sweating, and he was gasping for air.

"One hundred and ten people..."

Captain Tang was stunned for a moment, and then said bitterly: "I am from Monan, and half of the team are descendants of Monan. So many people died at once, how can I explain to their families in the future...I, I am a sinner!"

Hu Fengyun immediately asked, looking at the short house with more and more sharp eyes. Finally, he pulled out the pistol from his waist, loaded it with a click, and pointed the gun at the short house, which looked like only mice.

Hu Fengyun, who was opposite him, just glanced at him, then grabbed the opponent's torch and got in. There was no sound for more than a minute after entering, so that the class deputy couldn't help but shout "Monitor Hu" .

"what??"

"Let's go on a mission!!"

"You go down now and count the people!!"

When more and more torches were thrown in, a few mice finally ran out. After a closer look, one of them still had a middle finger in his mouth. He was not afraid when he saw the soldiers around him and swaggered out directly. .

"Inside, there are corpses inside, and there are rats..."

It’s just that no matter how romantic you are, you can’t beat a mouse, and in the end you become someone else’s dish! !
"Captain Tang, it's nothing, just some Americans who committed suicide!!"

Hu Fengyun came out, but he looked a little more depressed than before, but soon he said with a smile:
"It doesn't matter, a bunch of dead people, what's there to be afraid of? When they're alive, they can't beat us, but if they're dead, can they still change the world??"

Hu Fengyun, who had just counted the number of people, stood in front of Captain Tang, looking like a primary school student "counting". Although his words were sonorous and his face was calm, it could be seen from the hands he kept rubbing that Hu Fengyun The inner tension.

Then, without waiting for those people to react, he spoke directly:
"There's nothing to see. Light a few more torches. This place will be unlucky. If you burn it down with one fire, the whole thing will be over!!"

When more and more rats ran out, Hu Fengyun kicked down the door of the low house with a "bang" sound. From then on, no rats could escape.

Hu Fengyun said this, but in his heart he cursed the Yankees for being disgusting and just dying, for doing this.

Hu Fengyun glanced at the "random" pictures he saw in his mind, and led the team out directly. However, he was still sighing at the absurdity of Americans. He just wanted to die, and so many men and women died naked. Before his death, he looked very romantic.

After Captain Tang finished speaking, he was obviously a little unhappy. After all, they had just come from South Street and lost a lot of people. Going to a new street at this time, or a place with no advantages at all in the west, was obviously to take them. Way! !
"Report to the captain, the quota is one hundred and fifty-two, now the number is one hundred and ten, over!!"

"It's okay," Captain Tang replied, and then said:
"The regiment headquarters just sent a telegram asking us to go to the block No. 17 to the west..."

After saying that, he came back to his senses, endured his nausea, and threw the torch in his hand. Soon there was a scream of "squeaking" and the "fried feeling" of the corpse being roasted.

"Captain Tang, this is what war is like. My friend also died on the street..."

Hu Fengyun didn't know how to comfort Captain Tang, and finally chose a friend "made out of nothing" for interaction.

Sure enough, after hearing that Hu Fengyun also died of his friend, Captain Tang obviously resonated with him, and then started to complain about those bastard "superiors".

"These bastards stay in the headquarters and don't understand the situation on the front line at all. They think they are all Zhuge Liang. If they fan themselves, the Yankees will fall to the ground and surrender. These guys just want to eat shit!!"

"If you ask me, take all those generals and serve as three-day soldiers under me. I guarantee that they will behave like Sun Tzu!!"

Captain Tang was bragging about his so-called "Sun Tzu Theory", while Hu Fengyun on the opposite side blinked his eyes, and finally said: "Yes, they are all Sun Tzu, and they all deserve to be punished. When the time comes, I will be the first to help Tang The team trains them, if nothing else, they have to go to this street, otherwise they will be shot!"

"Ha ha……"

"Xiao Hu, I knew you were a talent!!"

After Captain Tang heard Hu Fengyun's gritted teeth, he was so happy that he couldn't open his mouth from ear to ear. He patted the other party's shoulder and kept praising how "promising" Hu Fengyun would be in the future and "how rich" he would make.

Hu Fengyun didn't know whether he was going to make a living or not. He only knew that in this life, let alone getting rich, it would be good if he could save money.

"Let's go, we still have to deal with those bastards!!"

After Captain Tang finished venting, he felt much better, and then spoke in a lonely tone about what he was about to do.

Hu Fengyun twitched his lips, then turned around and shouted to the team behind him:
"Get to your positions, form a team, check guns and ammunition, fast!!"

Hu Fengyun's performance looked much more serious than before, causing Captain Tang beside him to blink his eyes repeatedly, and finally muttered: "He is not a young person, and he is not timid either. I think he will probably be a big kid in the future too!!"

With a gun on his waist, Hu Fengyun led the team into the battlefield in the Western District with high spirits.

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"I have long said that we cannot completely bet that the Han people will not attack the Great Lakes. Now it seems that their goal is very big. They will attack Chicago from the beginning. It seems that they have planned to conquer the entire Great Lakes region..."

“Everything we did in Mississippi, it was a joke, a complete joke!!”

"At least 300,000 Han troops have entered the Five Great Lakes now. According to our intelligence, the number of Han troops in the Five Great Lakes may exceed one million in the future. What does this mean? It means that sooner or later the Five Great Lakes will be lost!!" "Should we? Are you going to gamble, everyone, if we lose the Great Lakes, can we still hold on to the Mississippi River, and can our industrial production capacity be sustained?"

Lieutenant General Links stood in a secret conference room behind the Mississippi River and loudly discussed the recent situation in the Great Lakes War. The most important discussion was "whether to change or not."

The main meaning is actually to change the current defensive strategy in the Mississippi River area, change defense to offense, and use the US military along the Great Lakes area to attack the Han army that is still entering the Great Lakes. At the very beginning, Links will The tactic is named "sticky mouse board".

"Everything you said, I think we should wait a little longer, instead of immediately abandoning the trenches and fortifications we repaired and entering a state of war as soon as we hold the Mississippi River. Then our efforts during this period will not count. what??"

"What does the hard work of 700,000 of us count for?"

"Or do you think that as long as we attack, we can defeat the Han army? Let me tell you, we have died many times because of this reckless behavior. If America hadn't been rich enough, maybe we would be like this now Just like Spain, it was annexed by the French!”

Leitch's deputy, Connelly, directly took the initiative to confront Links, and even directly said "Fuck" at the end, causing a daily scolding war between the two factions.

When the sounds of "Fake" and "Bichi" continued to be heard, as the commander, Lei Qi did not make peace with him as usual, but slapped the table and shouted angrily:

"Are we still the headquarters here? Are you still the general?"

"Are you going to be laughed at by the Han people like fools? Don't you think we lost badly enough?"

"We lost the South, we lost almost the entire central part, and the North was compressed into the Great Lakes. Behind us is Washington, the East, and New York. Do we still have a choice??"

Leitch's series of questions made the two groups unable to raise their heads.

"Huhu", Lei Qi breathed heavily, calmed down, and then said:
"We don't have time, but the Han army on the opposite side has a lot of time. They can wear us down until we have a huge loophole, and finally they will be like rats, burrowing into our hearts and biting us to death!!"

"Now we, the United States, have only one way to go, and that is to defend. This is our only way at the moment!!"

There were tears on Leitch's face. It was obvious that he had shed tears just now, but he wiped them away quickly and couldn't see them clearly.

"But are we just going to watch the Han army take the Five Great Lakes? Once they take the Five Great Lakes, what will our current defense line mean? What will all our efforts mean? We have killed so many people. Is it possible that the achievement is... See these bastards raising their flags over our bodies?"

"Then eventually, they will erase our history, our blood, just like we did to the Indians!!"

Links held back tears and spoke out everyone's thoughts. Even Connelly, who had just been against him for Leitch, took off his glasses, wiped his eyes, and inhaled with his nose because of these words. , finally red.

"What will we get in the end, our descendants, everything we have in the United States, we grew up here, and finally, in our lifetime, see our hometown being slaughtered and destroyed, and all this is just because we are afraid of the Han people and want to Stable defense..."

"And in the end, the outcome is often not what we expected. We, and even our country, will really disappear in the long river of history because of everything that happened today..."

"Do we really want to watch all this?"

Links couldn't bear it any longer this time. He cried like a child. In fact, it wasn't just him. The other generals around him all burst into tears when they heard this. Even some with low tears burst into tears. He started crying, not caring about the star on his shoulder.

Naturally, this was accompanied by insults against the Han country and the Han people, and various English words starting with F kept appearing in this secret headquarters hidden under the cave.

Leitch pinched his eyebrows. He looked much more haggard than before, and even a little pale.

"General Leitch, I know what you think, but we also have the right to deny you. We are all for the United States. If we really lose, we..."

Before Links could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Leitch saying "Shut up", which caught him off guard and even made him feel uncomfortable.

The people around him were obviously frightened, and several of them who were still crying immediately wiped the tears from their faces.

"Everyone, do you really think the Han Chinese can take Chicago?"

Lei Qi stopped everyone in his tracks with one sentence, and even the large army had not yet reacted. After all, they Americans know the strength of the Han army best. Telling them now that the Han army cannot take Chicago is no less important than telling them "The Han army surrendered".

Leitch, who was in the active position, immediately stood up, pointed at the map behind him and said:

"This is Chicago, surrounded by the Great Lakes, there are at least twenty large-scale industrial cities here, the most developed railway lines in the entire United States, and the most abundant labor force. This is the real rear of the United States!!"

In Leitch's eyes, the so-called rear of the telegraph was never New York with Wall Street, let alone Washington with the White House, but the Great Lakes, and only the Great Lakes.

"The Five Great Lakes have our most abundant resources, second only to the 12 million people in the east. The population here is equivalent to one-third of the Han Dynasty..."

“The Han people thought they could conquer the Great Lakes, but in fact they couldn’t conquer them at all!!”

Leitch's expression showed a firmness that he had never seen before. It was obvious that he was very optimistic about the future situation of the Great Lakes.

"The Great Lakes has the most industrial cities, and the local agriculture is also very developed. There is no lack of ability to fight a protracted war. Even if the army is lost, we can recruit soldiers in the nearby factory and train them with a gun in a few days..."

"As for Chicago, if you look carefully, you will know that Chicago is located in the center and is the node of the entire Great Lakes Railway. They cannot win here because they are surrounded by reinforcements..."

Leitch punched Chicago's position with his fist. The people around him were instantly awakened, but some of them raised questions:
"But, they are Han troops!!"

The word "Han Army" suddenly made many generals who had just been excited by Lei Qi's efforts immediately feel depressed. After all, as the other party said, this is the Han Army! !
There is no defeat, only the victorious Han Army! !
Lei Qi looked at the generals who had been beaten by the Han Army and had no temper, even a bit like a mouse seeing a cat. He felt an unprecedented sadness in his heart. Unknowingly, the word Han Army had become a taboo among them. It can be described as miserable.

Lei Qi knew that if the curse of the Han army's invincibility was not broken, they would probably have to watch the Han people step on their shoulders until the end, leading to Washington and New York! !
"Everyone, the Han people are just like us, they are all people who need to eat. They are all made of flesh and blood. They still have parents and families!!"

"They are not steel, they need rest too!!"

Leitch first belittled the Han army, and then said: "And our Great Lakes are steel. Here are the most steels in the United States, the most manufacturing industries, and the most workers. Here is a Great Wall made of steel!!"

As Leitch talked, he even used a very Chinese-style metaphor like "The Great Wall", and then said:

"We should not be intimidated by the difficulties before us. President Lincoln gave us an order before the war, asking us not to take a step back and to defend the Mississippi River..."

"Now I make a request again, that is, we are not allowed to advance or participate in the war on the Great Lakes. This is not only my personal request, but also the request of the White House!!"

Leitch's words completely caused a sensation in the audience. Even Links, who had opposed him just now, stood up in a panic and asked:
"Is it really an order from the White House??"

"This is a warrant personally issued by President Lincoln, requiring us to hold the Mississippi River front and not retreat even half a step!!"

At the critical moment, the warrant issued by Lincoln himself before the war came into play, but soon "flanking factions" such as Links fell into "abusing" Lincoln himself, and even privately believed that Lincoln should be responsible for the future. Take full responsibility for the failure of the war! !
For Lei Qi, this is just the first step in his temporary delay. As the Han army continues to advance in the Five Great Lakes, sounds like today will reappear, even more violently! !
(End of this chapter)