Chapter 1,478 New York Depression

For the United States, it no longer matters whether Trump is alive or not.

Not to mention a glib talker with no experience in governing, even if Washington and Lincoln crawled out from under the coffin board, it would be difficult to restore the situation the United States is facing at this moment.

However, it is different for Star Ring Trade.

A reasonable reason or excuse can not only legitimize the act of aggression, but also deal with the sequelae left by the war.

Although it is not difficult to create an identical Trang with the technology of Star Ring Trading, humans are inseparable from society after all, and even a perfect AI will have many obstacles when integrating into society.

You may not be able to see anything in the short term, but if things go on like this, it will definitely lay hidden dangers for future troubles. For the blueprint that depicts the Earth Federation in Jiang Chen's mind, this kind of hidden danger is unacceptable. He is not willing to wait until the decisive battle with the harmonious civilization and have to go back and solve the problems left by history.

Jiang Chen needs a "Zhang Yaping-style" president to manage the "spoils" of this war for him.

Based on Trump's answer, he might consider saving his life.

Just when Jiang Chen's helicopter set off in the direction of Coconut Island, New York, far across the world, was falling into an unprecedented depression due to the war. Even the subprime mortgage crisis in 2007 has never made people living here so desperate.

The tunnels, bridges, and highways leading out of the city are all blocked by military checkpoints of the Star Circle Trade, and the entire New York City is now under martial law. Everyone was ordered to return home, and no one was allowed to stay on the streets for long periods of time, except for short periods of time during the day when they could go to the nearest aid station to collect necessary food and medicine.

Violators will be detained for espionage.

Martial law lasts for one month, but everyone knows that it will not be lifted until the war is completely over...

In New York City's Long Island Port, cargo ships are slowly approaching the port.

After docking, the hanging ladder was lowered.

Groups of soldiers walked off the deck carrying bags half as tall as a man.

The faces of these soldiers were mostly Asian, and some were white, and their equipment was uneven. For example, some people have put on S1 exoskeletons and have a quadcopter drone stuffed in the backpack behind their backs. And some people just wore urban camouflage, no body armor, and a dirt-repellent AK-47 hanging on their backs.

Not counting the enclaves of Hawaii and Alaska, the forty-eight states in the continental United States would have to eat at least forty-eight divisions of the Star Ring Trade.

Even if we let go of those inland states with vast territories, sparsely populated areas, and weak industrial capabilities, relying solely on Star Ring to trade their own troops would definitely cause indigestion in one bite. Even more than a week ago, the new country had successively mobilized 50,000 reservists to join the army.

From the beginning, Ivan adopted a blitzkrieg strategy.

Concentrate air force, paratroopers, and amphibious assault forces and land directly on the east coast of North America. Immediately afterwards, air superiority was used to attack local military factories, oil fields, and power facilities in North America. Then the armored spearhead swept across North America at the fastest speed, disintegrating the effective forces of the United States and preventing states from completing war mobilization.

As for the occupation.

You can leave it to the guys at Star Ring Trading.

As early as two months ago, Santos mobilized 520,000 reserves across the country, gathering all the forces in the country to prepare to respond to Star Ring Trade's call for war. The more than 100,000 people who have landed now are only a small part of the more than 600,000 Moro army, including two divisions from Madagascar.

The one responsible for occupying New York City was the 12th Strengthened Brigade of the Moro Kingdom. After the defense handover was completed, in addition to leaving a guard battalion stationed on Manhattan Island, the large forces of Star Ring Trading moved south and followed the highway to the southwest. Philadelphia went to open the route from New York to Washington.

For the people of New York City, being occupied by Moro soldiers is an absolute nightmare...

Cypress Hill Cemetery is the bloodiest corner of New York City.

The people whose heads were covered with shopping paper bags and whose hands and feet were tied with hemp rope were dragged together by Moro soldiers. They squatted in a row in front of the dug pit with their heads in their hands. With the sound of gunshots, corpses fell into the pit one after another, and were then buried on the spot with shovels by the trembling prisoners.

Star Ring Trade has always given preferential treatment to prisoners of war, but naturally it will not look kindly on those who resist.

Although New York City bans guns, those guns circulating on the black market still cause a lot of trouble to the troops stationed there. The endless stream of cold guns and incendiary flasks are annoying. At the beginning, Star Ring Trade took the trouble to arrest them, but when soldiers from the Moro Kingdom arrived to take over the defense, these guerrilla patriots were not so lucky.

All those involved in guerrilla behavior were directly dragged out and executed. All those suspected of helping the guerrillas were arrested directly. New York City jails were emptied out specifically for those suspects. Those criminals who regained their freedom, especially those with serious crimes, were formed into a gendarmerie team responsible for assisting the Moro patrol team in maintaining law and order.

Santos doesn't care about fame.

Before independence, the Moro guerrillas had been suppressed by American aircraft and special forces for who knows how many years. Now that his people were lucky enough to set foot on the soil of North America, he just wished he could kill more...

If Jiang Chen hadn't personally called him to order him not to cause trouble, he might have actually done it.

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The Empire State Building located on Manhattan Island was temporarily designated as the North American Theater Command of Star Circle Trade. However, the real command center is in the underground vault of the Federal Reserve. All intelligence is gathered here and then sent to various combat units, which together with the general headquarters on Crescent Island form the Star Ring Trade Army command system.

Standing in front of the spread out map of North America, Zheng Yufei, the commander-in-chief of the North American Theater of Starring Trading, was discussing the next battle plan with the officers of the staff.

"The Pennsylvania National Guard has withdrawn from Philadelphia and retreated near Harrisburg. Our main force has merged with the Orbital Airborne Brigade airdropped into Washington. The 27th and 28th Moro Infantry Brigades are heading towards Washington. We Now there are two options. One is to head towards Pittsburgh. Behind this are large inland towns in the United States such as Detroit and Chicago, as well as the Great Lakes industrial area..."

"The other plan is to march along the east coast to Florida, open the entrance for our Allied forces to land, form a front extending from New York to the Florida Peninsula, and then push inland."

The essence of the first option is speed, accuracy and ruthlessness, while the essence of the second option is stability. However, for Star Ring Trade, their biggest advantage is speed. Going deep into the inland may involve certain risks, but waiting until the United States completes the war Mobilization is not as simple as risk.

After listening to the chief of staff's opinions, Zheng Yufei was silent for a moment and then spoke.

"The headquarters does not want this war to drag on for too long and adopts the first option."

The Great Lakes Industrial Area is known as the "manufacturing belt" of the United States. Heavy industrial bases such as steel, coal, chemicals, etc. are clustered in this area. Taking away this place would mean taking away the hope of resistance in North America.

"The Second Armored Brigade marched into Pittsburgh to pursue the Pennsylvania National Guard," Zheng Yufei said, casting his eyes on the map and stopping at Colorado, located in the heart of North America, and narrowed his eyes slightly.

Cheyenne Mountain.

That's America's last bastion.

As long as this layer of fortress is torn apart and the Great Lakes Industrial Zone is removed, the United States can almost be forced to sign the surrender agreement.