This report was also spread around the world through newspapers, radio and television. Countries around the world were shocked. The use of poison gas as a weapon had been banned at the Hague Conference in 1927 and the League of Nations Conference in 1933. European countries and
The South China Sea Federation, the United States, etc. have all signed these treaties. Even if the European war was so difficult,
France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Soviet Union did not use chemical weapons as a killer. This was not only because of treaty restrictions, but because these countries all had the technology to make chemical weapons. As long as one person used it, everyone would use it immediately. As a result
Even though everyone suffered, even France, which was about to be destroyed by Germany, never used this weapon.
However, the U.S. military actually used such banned weapons against the South China Sea Federation troops. This is a bad start. Governments of all countries are well aware of the technical capabilities of the South China Sea Federation in the chemical industry. They believe that the chemical weapons of the South China Sea Federation will only be inferior to those of the South China Sea Federation.
Countries are more powerful, and according to Liu Fu's petty character, he will never give up the opportunity to retaliate against the Americans. The United States may have caused big trouble for itself this time.
Although the Allies did not accuse each other because the United States took the lead in using banned chemical weapons, Britain, France, the Soviet Union and other countries kept silent about it. Obviously they did not approve of this disgraceful move by the Americans, but because
We are an ally, so we can't accuse, so we can only pretend to be deaf and dumb.
However, the governments of Germany, Italy, Turkey, Hungary and other countries all stood up and accused the US government of blatantly violating international conventions and laws of war, and demanded that US President Roosevelt be classified as a war criminal and sent to a military court for trial. Of course, this is nothing more than
It is a kind of public support. If you want to send Roosevelt to a military court, you have to defeat the United States.
The U.S. government has turned a deaf ear to these international public opinions. If it were not for the use of chemical weapons, I am afraid that New York would have been bombed by now, let alone any counterattack. Roosevelt believed that as long as this war was won, any accusations against him and the United States would be eliminated.
None of them existed. Even if he stood in the military court at that time, he would judge Liu Fu as a winner.
However, Roosevelt hated these three newspapers that blatantly violated the U.S. government's wartime news reporting. On the day the newspapers were published, the U.S. police closed down these three newspapers and arrested more than a dozen newspaper reporters and editors.
.and intends to prosecute them for treason.
Although the U.S. government is shameless, the American people who are still reveling feel like a bucket of cold water has been poured on their heads. Most of them feel a little chilled. Although Pocatello is occupied by federal troops,
Where are there more than 20,000 American residents? How many federal soldiers have been killed and injured by the US government’s chemical weapons offensive? The American people can selectively ignore it, but how are the lives of these 20,000 Americans counted?
According to this theory, will the U.S. government also drop poison gas bombs on Seattle and San Diego? And as the president of the South China Sea Federation said in the newspaper, the South China Sea Federation will definitely take retaliatory actions against the U.S. government. If the two sides are on the North American continent,
If we throw poison gas bombs at each other, will the American people survive?
If this war has made the American people somewhat disappointed with the capabilities of the U.S. government, this poison gas incident has also made many Americans doubt the morality of the U.S. government, especially several states in the western United States. They have no confidence in the U.S. government.
I am very angry about carrying out a chemical weapons attack on my state with the permission of the state government. This is simply an act that blatantly tramples on the Constitution of the United States.
Just the second week after the Pocatello poison gas incident, California and Washington State simultaneously declared their independence from the United States and implemented self-government. At the same time, the state government of Iowa, which was attacked by poison gas, also asked the people of the state to prepare for a referendum.
Whether to vote to secede from the United States, in the words of the governor of this state:
"The people of this state can tolerate the aggression of the enemy, but they cannot tolerate the betrayal of the government of the United States. Even if we win this war, we will ultimately lose because the Constitution can no longer protect us. It has been stepped on by the government of the United States. This war
It makes no sense and we decided to give the decision back to the people of Iowa."
This storm also affected the western states of Arizona and New Mexico. Local American residents took to the streets to protest against the state government, asking the state government to protect the residents of the state and prevent the U.S. military from entering the state. They also asked the state government to withdraw from this crisis as soon as possible.
war to avoid retaliation from the federal army. Even Texas and Utah in the Midwestern United States asked local people to march at the gates of US military stations, demanding that US troops withdraw from their states and not bring massacres to their homes.
Although it achieved a decisive victory, the U.S. government became notorious because of it. Many members of Congress expressed dissatisfaction with the government and the president's reckless decision. Although President Roosevelt also ruined his reputation for several years because of this,
But he feels that he is not wrong. This decision is a forced choice for the integrity of the country, although he may lose his position as president because of it.
After the US military recaptured Pocatello, they did not choose to repair and utilize the airport here because no US military troops were willing to station here. Every time after dark, US soldiers would hear various foreigners coming from the wilderness.
The screams made them even unwilling to drink the water from Falls Reservoir.
For this situation, the Western Theater Command had no choice but to push the station westward. Taking advantage of the serious shortage of federal ground troops to launch a counterattack, they pushed the defense line to the vicinity of Boise for rest and redeployment.
Although the federal army was severely weakened by the poison gas, their air force was still invincible. The closer they got to Seattle, the more intense the air attacks were on the US military.
In addition to retaking the strategic location of Pocatello, the U.S. military also gained many unexpected benefits in this battle. Because the federal army retreated in a hurry, even the wounded soldiers were unable to rescue, so many weapons and equipment were also lost.
Throw it here. Among them is the armor that has always troubled the United States.
The army's individual rocket launchers and multiple rocket launchers are extremely lethal to U.S. infantry. Moreover, the U.S. military has also collected more federal weapons and equipment from those radar stations, navigation stations, aircraft, and tanks that were hastily blown up.
The information is very helpful for the US military to develop newer weapons.
It is not that the US military has not thought about continuing to march towards Seattle and San Diego, but their logistics has also encountered problems. In these months of fierce fighting, the federal air force has blown up nearby roads and railways, transporting goods from the eastern United States.
Most of the incoming supplies have to be transported at night, so the replenishment speed is very slow. In addition, for fear of chemical weapons retaliation by the federal army, all US military units have to wait for a sufficient number of gas masks to be shipped, so it cannot be launched in the short term.
New offensive.
At this time, Liu Fu was lying in the hospital. This time he was really sick. After learning that Pocatello was submerged by poison gas, he still suffered from high blood pressure. In the subsequent examination, the doctor also found that
It turned out that he suffered from very serious lung cancer, and the entire right lung was occupied by cancer cells. According to the current medical methods, it may not be curable, and only conservative treatment can be adopted.
Liu Fu didn't wake up until the second day after being admitted to the hospital. When he heard that he had lung cancer, he didn't go around to find doctors for confirmation. Instead, he temporarily arranged his office in the hospital, and then started calling the Ministry of National Defense.
, officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and other departments began to continue arranging frontline war operations in the hospital.
The defeat in Pocatello caused the federal army to lose 4 divisions, accounting for almost half of all federal troops in the United States. What worries the Department of Defense even more is that a large amount of combat readiness materials have been concentrated in Pocatello.
During the retreat, they were all blown up. The reserves of various aerial bombs alone gave the logistics and transportation department a headache, and it was impossible to launch a counterattack in a short time.
Moreover, there is still a problem that the federal army needs to solve at present, that is, the number obviously cannot meet the needs of the war. Whether to continue to recruit reserve troops from the federal country or to recruit foreign troops from Japan and other countries also requires Liu Fu's final decision. In addition, according to the Ministry of National Defense
and financial sector re-
According to calculations, the federal plan to attack the United States will probably be extended for about 6 months, and these additional 6 months will require additional budget. Whether to allow the South China Sea Federation to enter general war mobilization and draw down the last part of the domestic war reserves is also an urgent decision.
