I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

"You mean, we are now facing an enemy with a highly unified overall consciousness, whose weapons are organised so that the logistical requirements are extremely simple, who does not need ammunition or maintenance, and whose military organisational capabilities are extremely advanced?"

Stans watched the knife worm being cut into pieces alive on the operating table, its two pairs of compound eyes staring at the experts around it without emotion until the experts took out a green bead from its body.

A chill spread from head to toe, causing Staines to shiver.

"In fact, they don't even have any sense of pain or feeling. Their vitality is terrifyingly strong."

Now, they don’t have to use movies and novels to imply that the collapsed superpower is the Zerg, because now the Zerg is really here.

What's the use of interests? Now the whole of America might become the other party's new nest.

As accurate and authoritative data reports were submitted layer by layer, the military-industrial complex, which had previously planned to make a fortune from the insect plague, also realized that something was wrong. Of course, they did not realize it themselves, but the pressure from other forces was a bit too great.

So when the states around Washington State that were affected by the insect swarm were fighting for their lives, all the well-known military-industrial groups in America held press conferences and gave speeches lasting two and a half hours. In a nutshell, it can be summed up in one sentence.

As the threat of insect swarms in China grows, major companies have offered substantial discounts on their missile and bomb products to support the US military.

The weapon model with the largest discount is even 5% off.

New modern artillery shell manufacturing plants have also begun to be built and recruited in various states in the safe rear areas. It is not very difficult for them to resume the production of artillery shells, but the profit margin is too low and they are too lazy to do it.

Take missiles for example. Because they are "high-tech" weapons and equipment, and they integrate a large number of "advanced" chips, they have the power to set prices and can set prices based on what they say.

Now even if the profit is cut in half, it is still much higher than producing artillery shells, and there is no need to pay wages to so many workers. Most of the equipment for manufacturing missiles are intelligent operating platforms, so why not sell artillery shells instead of missiles?

With the nod from these giants of the military-industrial complex, the US military naturally unleashed a powerful fighting capability (ability to destroy the enemy), and began to make drastic moves in the use of cruise missiles.

Previously, when a single cannon bug was discovered bombarding their positions, the commanders would often order the nearest fleet of armed helicopters to fly over and kill it, but now the air above the bug-occupied area is not safe.

The omnipresent nature of microscopic insect swarms and the extremely fast flying speeds of flying insects can cause fatal damage to helicopters, which also led to an extremely high casualty rate for the helicopter units of the 82nd Airborne Division.

It is easy now. With the support of space satellites, as soon as the cannon bug emerges and fires a liquid bullet, a ship-launched Tomahawk will arrive over the sky and clear it out within two minutes, allowing the Navy's First and Second Marine Corps, which are struggling to defend, to breathe a sigh of relief.

The number of insect swarms has been increasing, but as time went on, the front line was pushed back by the US military. Previously, under the command of Medea, the mother nest immediately destroyed all the large and small air force bases in Washington State.

The American Air Force's spell was interrupted unintentionally, resulting in a limited number of aircraft that could attack the Zerg in the sky at the first time. Part of the reason was that the US military believed that its ground armed forces could defeat the Zerg and wanted to save money.

But now that so much time has passed, many state governments have opened up their airspace to allow air force bases in other areas to take off, and the damage caused by gunships like the AC-130 flying over the positions is extremely terrifying.

In addition, the two sides have been entangled for so long, and the US military itself is also adjusting the types of support weapons to resist the attacks of the insect swarm with more effective firepower projection methods.

Various multiple rocket launchers, howitzers, air-to-ground vehicles, tanks and armored vehicles equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns used in World War II were pulled out one after another. These retro weapons actually dealt a considerable blow to the Zerg.

Chapter 490: Fall! The Cloud of Nuclear War

However, the only battlefield where the US military has an advantage is the naval base. The insect swarm has basically completely consumed the entire Washington State and spread in all directions.

The US regular army has more than just these famous ace divisions. There are more unknown divisions in the total army. Although they are also standard American-equipped mechanized units, their combat effectiveness and fighting will are terribly low.

Not many serious Americans would choose to join the army. They have better job options. The US military itself is a blind box. The top military already has a third-sex major general. Can you believe it?

Neither Huangmao nor Lao Deng dared to open the box to try it out, so you can imagine how chaotic it is.

This is indeed the case. After the Department of Defense issued instructions for each state to station troops and the National Guard to jointly fight the Zerg, various places took turns to have fun.

The troops stationed in Oregon were not even as skilled in combat as semi-militia organizations like the National Guard. A large number of Haki black soldiers did not defend themselves but ran away when they saw the insect tide.

They come to America to enjoy life, not to be hacked. Why would they risk their lives for a few hundred dollars a month?

With the blessing of racial talents, most of the Hakihiros could not be caught up by the knife bugs after they lost their equipment, and those who could not run fast could not reach America at all, which made life difficult for the Aramean soldiers who were with them.

Among them, the armed helicopters and Walmart shopping bag soldiers, whose number increases year by year, even try to surrender to the Zerg and then be killed by the knife worms. From their birth to the past few days, the knife worms have never encountered such easy-to-kill proteins.

He was very sensible and knelt down twenty centimeters to make it easier to cut.

This is not an exaggeration. In the American Army, many Asians have become officers, and the overall trend is very obvious. This is because their reading and writing skills allow them to understand human language.

The real elites are all in the few elite troops ranked at the front. These are the strongest ones. The vast majority of the rest are morons who are just there to do a job.

Morale is sometimes a very strange thing.

Humans are not like insects that have almost no individual thoughts. Insects will faithfully carry out their set mission objectives until they die, and their morale is always at a constant full value.

Humans have complex emotions, and they do not have the Zerg's way of communicating through pheromones to perfectly understand the plan. As long as they don't want to carry out the mission, they will always find a way to over-interpret the mission given by their superiors and then mess up.

They need a reason to sacrifice their lives for knowledge, but this is obviously not given.

In this context of life and death, it is the soldiers from the Rust Belt who have shown amazing fighting power.

Being able to escape from the living environment of the Rust Belt and serve in the army represents a lot of meaning in itself. They don't want to fall into depravity, and joining the army is the only way out. The opportunity to stand out and change their lives is now in front of them.

Trump's deputy Vance's resume is that he joined the army and then retired. He obtained recommendation letters and funds from the army to enter university for further studies. After graduating from law school, he entered politics. He also came from the Rust Belt.

In fact, the problems happening in America now have always been a concern for people in the Rust Belt. They are a group of workers who have been completely abandoned. America does not have so many factories to feed them, and they have no future.

And now all of this has taken a turn for the better. The insect swarm that hit Washington State has had many impacts on America. First of all, it is no longer safe here and the stock market will be in turmoil because of this.

This is not a good thing for them, but it is not entirely a bad thing either. They already have nothing, and they can't be poorer than they are now. Could there be a worse future than being jobless, houseless, drinking, leafing, fighting, and doing nothing?

In order to resist the insect tide, the army must produce something, right? As long as there is demand, they can have work, which is also one of the main goals that Xiao Huangmao has been emphasizing on X during this period.

The Rust Belt region is a mixture of red and blue, with each side basically occupying about half. In the stereotype, the Rust Belt should be one of the red side's bases, but in fact it is not.

The sleepy old Deng party is still willing to give some money to assist with life, at least for the sake of appearances, while the party headed by the little yellow-haired boy advocates a more cruel approach.

For example, his deputy Vance advocated cutting off all financial assistance. Of course, he would not say so, but he gave a perfect explanation.

Because the money is unlikely to reach them, it would be better not to give it, which would save a lot of money. But why do some people in the Rust Belt still support them? Because Vance's suggestion is even worse.

He believes that aid cannot solve the problem, but as long as they win the election, he can help them find jobs, and as long as they have jobs, all problems will be solved. This is the so-called work-for-relief.

If it were before, this would be pure nonsense. America doesn't have the ability and scale.

During World War II, stimulated by the demands of the war, the region's industrial output and population reached historical peaks. By the 20s, more than 50% of the total economy and more than 45% of industrial workers were concentrated in the "Rust Belt".

The key point is 'during World War II'.

The Great Lakes supported America's military explosion, and their decline is also the source of America's current top-heavy situation.

If the Great Lakes Rust Belt could be revived under the previous conditions, it wouldn't be Roosevelt's reincarnation, but Roosevelt would have to get out of his wheelchair and kneel down in front of him when he met him.

But it just so happened that now, when Huangmao played the industrial return and gave you the job card, the Zerg came...the big pie in the sky is about to fall.

He promised that if he won the election, he would open various military factories in the Rust Belt as soon as possible to provide the various materials and equipment needed for the subsequent development of the other world.

With Huang Mao's previous style, the probability of achieving this goal is very high. What they need most is work, and with work there is a future.

Besides, it should be mentioned that their geographical location is tens of thousands of miles away from the insect swarm, so their lives will not be safe anyway.

The Zerg put the little yellow-haired man's big pie into practice. In the overall sluggish environment, they dared not fight back externally, while Lord Squid was riding on their neck internally. The arrival of the Zerg solved their dilemma.

In fact, as the current president, Sleepy Joe should be able to take over the campaign slogan of the little yellow-haired guy and directly open up military production to eat the big pie. However, in a series of previous actions, his ZZ credibility has been bankrupt, and even because of immigration issues, he has forced some blue state groups to turn conservative and change from blue to red.

Compared to this person who can't control his own ass, the lower class people are more inclined to believe the yellow-haired man who said: "America's capital is all in the boxue poor. How do I know? Because I have exploited them too."

But Sleepy Joe still wants to save himself, or the faction he represents still wants to save itself. The war at the frontline base in Washington State must be won as quickly as possible, and then the teleportation array must be approached for occupation.

In this way, media opinion will instantly reverse, shifting the focus from the losses of surrounding states in the Zerg attack to the richness of another world, thus shifting the focus away.

In the video of the Security Committee meeting, an old white man in military uniform slammed the table and said, "So, I think we should directly drop fuel-air explosives and thermobaric bombs to deal a fatal blow to the bedbugs on the ground and in the caves."

"After clearing the target, the three defense forces will quickly airdrop into the alien world to drop the nuclear bomb. This way, Washington State will not be affected by nuclear radiation, and we can effectively kill the enemy to the greatest extent."

"We can't continue to use the same tactics as we are now. God! This tactic is too ugly. Our soldiers can't bear such meaningless consumption for a long time!"

'How many elite troops can we mobilize at the earliest?'

'The 25st Mechanized Infantry Division in Germany and the 5th Light Infantry Division in Hawaii have already boarded the ship and are on their way. It will take about 7-45 days. The 82st and 70nd Marine Divisions on the battlefield currently have about % combat capability, and the newly joined nd Airborne Division has about % combat effectiveness.'

'The 1st Armored Division and the 1st Cavalry Division in Texas will go to Idaho and Nevada respectively to rebuild their defensive positions.'

Defense Minister: 'That means the forces we can mobilize now are simply not enough.'

No one present mentioned the regular troops. They themselves knew that with their combat level, they would be thankful if they could hold the position together with the National Guard and wait for reinforcements from Texas.

If we leave aside the naval and air weapons and equipment and only talk about the land warfare elites, America's greatest reliance is the 20 elite troops in the thirteen divisions of ten army and three navy.

"Damn it, if the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division hadn't been abandoned so casually, we wouldn't be in such a passive position now."

America's three aircraft carrier groups are here, and the pressure on logistics supply is already very great. Now they have more than enough defense but less offensive capabilities.

To be honest, these people have no confidence. If something unexpected happens and these soldiers are killed, they will be so miserable that they won't know how to cry.

The Minister of Defense shook his head: "Forget it, let's not consider nuclear weapons for now. Let's get the Air Force guys moving first. The BLU-82 fuel-air bomb inventory is sufficient, but let the rear information department calculate the use of BLU-118/B thermobaric bombs to achieve the greatest degree of damage."

"We will discuss the next issue after the two divisions arrive. For now, we need to stabilize the positions on all fronts. Except for nuclear weapons and cluster bombs, all other weapons and ammunition are allowed to be used."

President Lao Deng half-closed his eyes and listened to the officials discussing the decision. His task was the simplest, just sit there and don't die suddenly. The rest of the work was done by the relevant senior officials of Congress, the House of Representatives, and the highest decision-making advisory body.

At present, they cannot use nuclear bombs. Neutron bombs have strong radiation but their killing range is not enough. Hydrogen bombs have a large enough range, but if they really hit Washington State, they will have to bear a huge infamy for the rest of their lives, and the benefits are still unclear.

If a nuclear bomb were to really be detonated, the problem of light radiation would greatly affect the subsequent pace of conquest and advancement into the new world, and they might end up suffering losses instead.

In comparison, using sub-nuclear weapons such as fuel-air bombs and thermobaric bombs is enough.

To put it bluntly, the threat posed by the Zerg swarm is indeed high, but it is not to the point where they have to deal with it at any cost. The current size and destructive power of the Zerg are still within their control.

After all, something that can kill a large number of people with one explosion from a 155mm howitzer is really just a larger insect. Insects are just insects after all.

If they delay a little longer, they will have the ability to push back after the two legions arrive.

In fact, using nuclear weapons at this time may be the most likely way to completely eliminate the insect swarm, which is also the underlying reason why the staff is not in a hurry to use it.

Under the close monitoring of satellites, they can see the trend of the insect tide clearly. Now it is not only America that is unlucky, but the four Canadian provinces near Washington State are even more unlucky.

The four provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Mantoniba were all attacked by the Zerg, and the worst hit was British Columbia. Vancouver fell without much resistance in the first wave of the Zerg.

On the contrary, Victoria Island nearby escaped the disaster. After the insect swarm flooded Vancouver, it moved straight into the Rocky Mountains in the east.

If the insect swarm was only targeting America, a nuclear bomb would have fallen on her sooner or later, but the movement of the insect swarm made America stop thinking about it, or rather, the chaebols deeper inside stopped thinking about using nuclear weapons.

Although the insect swarm is terrifying, it is also because of this that they are helping America expand its territory like scavengers. Canada's military strength is definitely not enough to withstand the request for assistance.

When America has recovered and is able to clear out the insect swarm, the heavenly soldiers will directly cross the border into Canada, and Israel can then follow as reinforcements.

Once they go in, it’s hard to tell when they will come out.

Wherever the insect plague passed, only a clean environment was left. All human races and groups were wiped out. What is this? This is the next chosen place given to Israel by Immanuel!

They are now hoping that the insect swarm will quickly clean out these Canadian states. How could they possibly end the lives of the insect swarms now?

In the eyes of America's top brass, the Zerg's genetic chain is single and stable, and the radiation destructive power of nuclear weapons can instantly kill the Zerg. Since they have a decisive magic weapon to win, they must rely on it to plot for more things.

Coincidentally, the alliance on the other side also holds a similar idea. The genetic stability of the Zerg is the result of human intervention. Most people do not understand the Zerg, and only think that their strongest point is the brainless massive base push.

In fact, the Zerg's greatest reliance is precisely its extremely unstable genetic characteristics. This instability is a deliberate backdoor that only requires slight guidance to cause genetic mutations.