The sun never sets

The Alliance once fought closely with the Syndicalists in Central America, forcing Germany to recognize the Central American Syndicalist Alliance. After that, the British-French Alliance squeezed out the People's Revolutionary League, and the relationship between the two sides changed from close comrades to competitors.

During the Indian War, the relationship between the Syndicalists and the League changed from competition to confrontation. Trotsky wanted to seize the leadership of the People's Republic of India, and the League simply cut off its aid to the People's Republic of India. Only after the Syndicalists failed did they stop and stabilize the situation in India.

The American Commune had a very close relationship with the French Commune. The People's Revolutionary League did not want to come into conflict with the Anglo-French alliance and the United States. It wanted to expand its influence to the American continent. The best option was to liberate Cuba first.

"Well, these are all good ideas, but we don't have to rush. The United States is many times larger than the United Kingdom, and it will take a while to determine the winner."

In the ward, Lin Yongchang said to Yang Du: "Xizi, don't worry about those things. Take good care of yourself and wait until you recover before working for the country."

After the weather turned cold, Yang Du fell ill and has not recovered until now. The doctor said that he had tuberculosis, which has been cured after taking medicine. The reason why he still fainted was because he was overworked. As long as he can rest well and rest for a while, he will recover.

“Time waits for no one…”

Lin Yongchang waved his hands repeatedly, "Xizi, you are not yet sixty years old, and there is still a long time before retirement, so don't worry. Let's do our own things well first, and other things will be a natural process of history."

Yang Du wanted to say something else, but was suppressed by Lin Yongchang. Comrade Yang Du is very capable and has made many contributions to the alliance. There is no need to keep staring at such a good comrade and exploit him. Since you are sick, you should have a good rest. The alliance is not without people.

After chatting with Yang Du for nearly two hours, Lin Yongchang left the sanatorium. After the outbreak of the American Civil War, he had more things to deal with. Wang Qi was the chairman of the alliance and the highest leader of the Human Innovation Alliance, but Lin Yongchang was the chairman of the Military Commission and the chairman of the Party, and many things required his approval.

The current situation in the Americas is very chaotic. Not only are the four American regimes fighting each other, but other countries are also involved.

After the British royal family and the bourgeoisie fled to Canada, they controlled the situation in Canada and for a long time they were dependent on the United States. Now that the United States was in a mess, Canada took the opportunity to move westward and annexed Alaska in the name of helping the United States temporarily manage it.

The four US governments all remained indifferent to the matter and acquiesced to Canada's occupation of Alaska. Alaska was not an important place. It was extremely cold and produced almost nothing except furs and a small amount of gold.

The People's Revolutionary League is eyeing Alaska covetously. Rather than letting the enclave fall into the hands of the People's Revolutionary League, it is better to temporarily put it in the hands of Canada. It will not be too late to deal with Canada after the United States is reunited.

Canada easily annexed Alaska, but did not stop there. Instead, it continued to expand its military and conduct diplomatic work around the world. Perhaps it was still thinking about restoring the former glory of the British Empire, or perhaps it wanted to join forces with the United States to attack the American community.

The British royal family was driven to Canada by the syndicalists, and they have an irreconcilable relationship with the syndicalist Britain and the French Commune. Now that the Anglo-French alliance is vigorously supporting the American Commune, Canada cannot help but feel worried.

However, Canada had few troops and was not well equipped. Although it had deployed 200,000 troops on the border, it did not launch an attack to the south.

It's just a deployment of troops on the border.

The Anglo-French alliance, as keen as ever to export the revolution, provided the American Commune with a large amount of aid and planned to send out volunteer troops.

In contrast, Germany and Italy provided a lot of assistance to the Confederate States of America in the South and also planned to send volunteers. Politicians from all countries saw clearly that the outcome of the American Civil War would greatly change the world situation.

If the French Commune wins, the syndicalists will become the strongest on the Blue Planet. If the Confederate States of America wins, the fascist camp will gain power. Whether it is the Anglo-French alliance, or Germany and Italy, they will have to interfere in the American civil war.

The war brought killing and destruction, but it also had its benefits. The Great Depression was immediately stopped and unemployment was no longer a problem. Several American regimes were expanding their armies, and young and middle-aged people either joined the army or went to military factories. There was no longer a scene of refugees migrating in groups.

From this perspective, war is not entirely useless.

Chapter 857 Caesar

The American Civil War was extremely fierce and bloody from the beginning. The country had no shortage of steel or population, and soon raised millions of troops. Iron and blood became the main theme of the United States, and the American Labor Syndicate took the initiative to attack MacArthur's military government.

The small-scale attack was quickly repelled. MacArthur, who called himself the new Roman Caesar, clamored to hang all traitors. He ordered Patton to march north and asked Canada to cooperate with the government forces.

MacArthur's plan was a good one. He would attack from both sides, crush the traitors in the labor union first, seize Chicago and other industrial cities, strengthen his own strength, and then deal with the fascist rebels in the South and the liberal elements in the West.

However, his plan failed from the start. Although the Canadians had troops stationed on the border, they refused to send any troops.

The Canadians saw the issue in a unique way: they were not prepared to support MacArthur's federal government, which was just a hollow shell with the stars and stripes but no legitimacy. They were more willing to support the American Pacific State and recognize it as the "real United States."

After learning the news, MacArthur flew into a rage and declared that he would destroy Canada as well. This new Roman Caesar had great appeal in the military and was good at commanding operations. His troops achieved some results by relying on their bravery.

MacArthur thought that the workers in the North had no fighting power at the moment and lacked weapons. They also occupied the most important heavy industrial areas in the United States. They must be wiped out immediately and not given the opportunity to reorganize their troops. If the labor unions came to help, millions of armed mobs would be a big trouble.

However, the troops formed by the northern workers were more combat-effective than expected. Before the aid of the labor union arrived, the American Commune had formed a Red Army of 600,000. Thanks to the American tradition of carrying guns, the American Red Army was not short of light weapons. Military factories worked overtime to produce many machine guns and grenades. What they lacked now was only large-caliber heavy artillery and aircraft.

With the current equipment and organization of the American Red Army, it is difficult to defeat MacArthur's troops in a field battle. However, if the battlefield is placed in a city, the situation will be different.

The complex urban environment offset the military government's slight organizational advantage. The tall buildings made the government's artillery useless. Small-caliber artillery was not very useful against reinforced concrete buildings. Sometimes the shells broke the stairs, which caused more trouble for the attacking party.

Even with heavy-caliber artillery, it would take a long time to flatten a tall building. The collapsed buildings became new shelters, and the government forces had to clear them one building at a time and occupy one block at a time.

After the government troops entered the city, they were attacked from all sides, and a large number of soldiers died on the empty streets before they could react. The remaining troops fired fiercely at the surroundings, firing a volley of bullets at any noise or suspicion of the enemy's presence.

The battle quickly turned into a chaotic battle. The troops lost their organization. There was no distinction between the front and the rear. Fighting was everywhere. It was common to encounter the enemy around corners. In the sudden encounter, rapid-fire weapons and grenades played a big role. The rifles used by the US military often could only fire one bullet, and then they were forced into hand-to-hand combat.

The chaos and bloodiness of urban street fighting caused great headaches for both the German Army and the People's Army, not to mention the U.S. Army.

MacArthur knew that he could not give the Yankees a chance to breathe. As time went on, the American industrial complex with its heavy industrial base would become stronger and stronger. But his troops were weak. The arrogant government troops and the Red Army fought in many towns, with casualties increasing day by day, but there was no hope of victory.

General Patton, commanding the troops at the front, threw one troop after another into the battlefield and asked the "soldier boys" to win victory. But victory was far from being achieved, and Patton received fierce criticism from Washington.

An angry Patton drove to the battlefield. "It's been eleven days. We have been blocked in such a shabby place for eleven days!"

"General..."

"what do you want to say?"

Patton roared angrily, "What else do you have to say when the battle is like this?"

"General,

There are Red Army gunners everywhere..."

"Damn it! Gunmen, you're talking to me about gunmen? We are the army, would we be afraid of a few gunmen?"

Patton was furious, and suddenly his whole body shook, and he fell to the ground with the sound of gunfire. "The general has been shot!"

"There are Red Army gunners!"

"where is it?"

"Someone come and carry the general back!"

"Fire!"

The people around Patton immediately became confused. Some people fired at the people around them, and some people dragged Patton to run to the car. The real battlefield was extremely dangerous, and it was not comparable to the old soldiers driven away by cavalry and tanks in Washington.

It is said that many veterans joined the Red Army and became its backbone. In particular, those who were beaten up by MacArthur and Patton in Washington joined the Red Army. Their main purpose was not revenge, but to make a living.

The Red Army did not pay as much as the government army, but they did not delay payment of wages.

Patton was shot twice, one in the right chest and one in the crotch. He was sent to a rear hospital for treatment and treated with a variety of expensive drugs, including those smuggled from the Alliance. One of his testicles was shattered by the bullet and the other was also affected.

But this is not a big problem. Although he lost his testicles, his life was saved, which is the most important thing.

The government army had been fighting the Red Army in the north for several months, and the situation was getting worse and worse. After the aid from the British and French alliances and the arrival of the Volunteer Army, the government army could no longer suppress the Red Army.

Before, the government army had some advantages and could force the Red Army to take a defensive position. When the volunteers of the labor syndicate arrived, the Red Army's weapons and equipment were upgraded, and they began to counterattack continuously and were able to win in field battles.

If that were the case, MacArthur would still have the confidence to fight the Red Army. However, the Confederate Army in the South and the Pacific Army in the West both launched attacks on the military government.

Huey Long received assistance from Germany, Italy, Turkey and other countries, and took advantage of Washington's main force being trapped in the north to continuously capture cities. The Pacific States of the United States knew that it was weak and had to expand its power as soon as possible in order to avoid being wiped out in the ensuing chaos, so it also attacked vigorously.

In addition, National France took action against the United States' colonies in Africa, just like Canada's annexation of Alaska, swallowing up all the Americans' territories in Africa.

For a while, MacArthur's military government was surrounded by enemies on all sides.

Chapter 858 Purchase

Although it was a multi-front war, MacArthur's military government was still able to hold on for a while. The government army even maintained an advantage for a long time. During the field battle, the government army's tanks and cavalry units had a strong impact.

However, MacArthur had a limited number of tanks, and he did not have any tank factories. It would take time to convert civilian factories into military ones, and the damaged tanks could not be replenished for the time being. The faulty tanks could be repaired by replacing parts at first, but gradually, even the spare parts were gone.

MacArthur wanted to destroy the American communes in the north first. In addition to being afraid of the destructive power of the labor unions, wanting to seize the arsenals in the north was an important reason.

Unfortunately, the troops he had were not enough to march into Chicago and hang the traitors from street lamps. Instead, the government forces were besieged from three directions.

In order to win the war, MacArthur sent out a conscription team to send a large number of young and strong men to the military camps. After three months of training, they were sent to the battlefield. Generally speaking, recruits need a year and a half of training time to master various technical and tactical capabilities. In emergency situations, they also need to train for six months.

If the situation is particularly urgent, three months is not a bad idea. You can learn to shoot, throw grenades, fight with bayonets, and understand simple commands. The rest of the training can be completed on the battlefield. Getting some experience on the battlefield is better than any other training, but the casualty rate is a bit high.

The current situation is extremely urgent. MacArthur is not unaware of the importance of training, but he does not have that much time to train troops. The most important thing now is to produce enough troops to fill the display.

Moreover, the resources he had did not support long-term training of new recruits.

On the northern battlefield, the battles between the government army and the Red Army were extremely bloody. When the government army captured the Red Army political commissars, they were brutally executed. This led to the Red Army's revenge, and then the battles became increasingly brutal.

The north has been bleeding and needs constant reinforcement, and the same is true for other fronts. Reinforcement is easy, just recruit more people into the barracks, train them for three months, and then send them out to fight.

Light weapons are easy to say. Before the Civil War, the United States was the world's second largest industrial country. Even without the heavy industrial areas in the north, it was not a problem to make some rifles and light weapons. The United States of America completed the transition from a civilian economy to a wartime economy at a rapid speed, and continuously produced a large number of guns and cannons. The cost was that the living standards of the United States of America fell rapidly, and the prices of civilian goods and food soared.

The military government controlled food and various strategic materials, and forcibly purchased food and other materials from the people at very low prices, which caused the prices of various daily necessities on the black market to increase by more than ten times.

"A temporary lack of food will not kill people, but we are short of tanks, planes,

Large-caliber artillery and shells will put the government in an irreparable situation!"

MacArthur took off his corncob pipe. "Can't our military factories produce tanks?"

Airplanes are easy to make, as they can be assembled from a few wooden boards. However, tanks are not easy to make, as they require a specialized tank factory. Tractor factories can be converted to military use, but that takes time and requires upstream and downstream supporting factories to produce various parts.

"Then spend money to buy it from abroad!"

The military government controlled Washington and New York and had enough hard currency. After the Civil War, the American Commonwealth, the Confederate States of America, and the Pacific States of America all issued their own currencies. The original US dollar was so worthless that it was no longer accepted internationally. If you wanted to buy something, the best way was to use hard currency.

Germany and the Anglo-French allies were unwilling to sell military equipment to the military government, but there were still countries willing to sell.

MacArthur tapped his pipe and said in a very domineering manner: "We need more planes, tanks and cannons! Buy them with gold. As long as we eliminate those damn traitors, we can make the money back later!"

“But they tripled the price…”

"Give it to them! Give it all to them! The most important thing now is to win the war, nothing else matters!"

The price of international arms has never been cheap, and the prices of high-end goods such as aircraft, tanks and artillery are even more expensive. Take the "Type 24 Tank" of the Alliance as an example. The factory price is 10 yuan, which is the price after mass production, so it does not seem high.

In the international market before the outbreak of the American Civil War, a Type 24 tank and a basic number of shells sold for 15 yuan. Now the price has risen to 30 yuan. At that time, the average salary of the Allied workers was only 400 yuan/month, and the price of 30 yuan was really not cheap.

But even at such a high price, MacArthur still decided to buy it. Now the only company that had a large amount of stock and was willing to sell it to the military government was the People's Revolutionary League. MacArthur had no choice but to grit his teeth and import 600 tanks and transformable vehicles from the alliance, and also bought a lot of planes and artillery.

During the World War, the United States made a fortune in the early stages and obtained more than 40% of the world's gold reserves. Now it has used up hundreds of tons of gold in one go just to buy expensive arms from the Allies.

But the money was well spent. After receiving the gold, the Alliance immediately packed and shipped a large number of active equipment. Because Panama refused to open the canal, the Alliance's fleet had to go around South America and it took an extra three months to transport the equipment to the military government's territory.

This batch of heavy equipment helped the military government to survive the most difficult times. The Type 24 tanks and transformable vehicles are at the leading level in the world, only slightly inferior to the German "Panzer IV". However, the Alliance can come up with a large amount of ready-made equipment at one time, which is something other countries cannot do.

The Union's Type 24 tanks crushed the fascist bandits from the South in Virginia, driving Huey Long's army back to Charlotte.

After a great victory on the southern front, MacArthur took out more golden bars and bought more weapons and other supplies from the Allies. This time, the military government wanted not only planes, tanks and guns, but everything, including machine guns, mines, assault guns, mortars, raincoats, military boots, kettles and engineer shovels. There was nothing that the United States did not want.

As the war expanded, MacArthur's troops further expanded and now exceeded 140 million people. He urgently needed weapons and equipment to arm these troops.

The war destroyed the original social order, and the people in the military government's territory fled, further reducing the United States' military industrial capacity. The current United States military government can no longer rely on its own production capacity to arm all the troops, and can only spend more hard currency to purchase from abroad.

Chapter 859 Signs

The European powers have always looked down on the US Army, believing that the Americans are only second-rate in terms of weapons and equipment, strategy and tactics, and morale. Indeed, the US Army's combat effectiveness has never been very good, and there is no army tradition, but that is because the United States and Europe are separated by the vast Atlantic Ocean, so there is no need to maintain a large army.

A large army will not only consume a lot of military expenditure every year, but also pose a threat to the American tradition of freedom. Because of the above factors, it seems that the martial virtues of the Americans are not sufficient.

After the outbreak of the Second American Civil War, America quickly became full of martial virtues. The army in North America expanded to three or four million in more than half a year, showing a strong war force. No one thought that the Americans were not full of martial virtues.

Although many troops were hastily formed and had little combat effectiveness, and many were volunteers from foreign countries, it was an army of several million after all. Even in Eurasia, only the People's Revolutionary League, the Anglo-French Alliance and Germany could compare with it.

On the fragmented North American continent, the American Commune and the Confederate States of America, one with the support of the trade unions and the other with ties to Germany and Italy, had the strongest combat effectiveness and could easily mobilize a million-strong army.

The remaining two regimes also had to do their best to expand their armies, but their military production capacity could not keep up, so they could only purchase military equipment from abroad. In this time and space, the alliance's arms production capacity was the highest in the world, and naturally played the role of an international arms dealer.

In fact, Germany

Countries like the United States and Italy are all selling arms, but the quantity they sell is not large, and most of them are light weapons such as rifles, machine guns and bullets. Unlike the People's Revolutionary League, they are selling all their main equipment in service.

The Alliance is in the process of upgrading its weapons and equipment, and many of the replaced weapons were originally to be stored. Taking advantage of the American Civil War to sell a batch of them can also help to reduce some inventory costs.

However, the outside world did not know much about this news. The European media strongly condemned the alliance's arms trafficking and deaths. Both the Anglo-French alliance and Germany were very disgusted with the practices of the People's Revolutionary League.

Although the companies that export weapons are in Southeast Asia and India, how could they have produced so many planes and tanks without the authorization of the top leaders of the alliance?

The alliance also had its own media, and domestic newspapers and television outlets rarely talked about the arms sales, but instead detailed the political positions of various American states, as well as the support of the labor syndicate and Germany and Italy for the American Civil War.

The people of the Alliance were very concerned about the American Civil War, which was a hot topic second only to the "Third Five-Year Plan", and many people would discuss it enthusiastically after dinner.

The technological development in this time and space is much faster than that in the other time and space. Color TVs have been around for many years. In many shopping malls in big cities, you can see neatly arranged color TVs. In order to attract customers, the TVs play various music videos or scenes from the tragic American Civil War.

The Alliance sent a number of reporters to the United States - from all four camps - and shot a lot of images and sent them back home, allowing the people of the Alliance to clearly understand the destructiveness and lethality of modern warfare.

Many of those reporters were part-time or professional intelligence personnel. Their tasks were not only to keep abreast of the situation of the American Civil War, but also to collect intelligence information.

The Anglo-French Alliance has sent more than 200,000 volunteers, and the number is still growing. They have also deployed the Syndicate's most advanced tanks and fighter planes. The Alliance needs to know the performance and parameters of these weapons.

Similarly, Germany also sent its most advanced tanks and fighters to the North American battlefield, including the "Panzer IV" which had just begun mass production. The German "Panzer III" was a tank with very good performance, whether in terms of mobility, armor or firepower, and it was considered first-class in the world.

If the Allied tanks had not beaten the Germans badly in the Indian battlefield, the Type 24 tanks of the Allied tanks would have been used for at least another four or five years. The Type tanks of the Allied tanks were superior to the Type tanks in every aspect, forcing the Germans to quickly upgrade their tanks.