In the United States' strategy, there are three places that cannot be defeated, one is the Pacific, the second is the Middle East, and the third is Russia.

As early as early 2053, after Russia joined the war, the United States sent a military advisory group to Moscow to conduct a comprehensive investigation of Russia's military power and war strength. However, this investigation was not of great significance, because the United States' military advisory group mainly engaged in Moscow and attended banquets held by Russian senior officials all day long, and there was no chance to go to the troops and grassroots to conduct field inspections.

In fact, Russia was very optimistic at that time and believed that victory was in sight.[..com]

Given the situation in early 2053, the Russian authorities were not blindly optimistic. After Russia joined the Western camp, the Western Alliance Group mostly exceeded the Eastern Alliance Group in various war factors, such as the territory was three times that of the opponent, the total resources were twice that of the opponent, the strength was 1.5 times that of the opponent, and the total industrial production was 1.4 times that of the opponent. The only difference is the population size. In fact, this gap is not very large, because the CIS economy with Russia as the core has about 300 million people. More importantly, by this time, China has not yet come back to its senses and is still strategically passively beaten.

However, Marshall, who had just become the chairman of the Joint Conference, was not so optimistic.

At that time, there were enough signs that China's war potential, war mobilization speed, and military combat effectiveness exceeded the US military's estimates. There was even reason to believe that the Western group was too happy and that China's strategic counterattack would definitely arrive in 2053.

Obviously, what happened next proved Marshall's judgment.

But at that time, only General Marshall could have such a clear understanding. Not to mention anything else, even US President Lucas believed that victory would belong to the United States and was expected to win by the end of 2054, otherwise he would not actively encourage Russia to participate in the war.

Marshall cannot shake the confidence of the US president and can only do something that must be done.

For example, in April 2053, he sent a military delegation to Russia again, and did not go to Moscow, but went directly to Yekaterin Arbor. Then hundreds of inspectors rushed to various places to conduct in-depth investigations on Russian troops, industrial centers, transportation centers and other institutions directly related to war strength, and submitted first-hand data to Marshall, that is, inspection reports all from grassroots levels.

The report, released at the end of May, was locked up by Marshall and was not handed over to Lucas until September.

The reason is very simple. This is a very unoptimistic report. In May, Lucas still did not believe that the United States would lose its strategic initiative within the year. According to the situation at that time, if Marshall sent the report to the White House in May, it would be very likely to be burned by Lucas. In September, after the Battle of Solomon, when China launched a strategic counterattack was a foregone conclusion, the result would be different.

No matter how Lucas feels, the facts are right in front of him and no one can deny them.

The most difficult fact that Lucas accepts is that without the direct military aid from the United States, Russia's Volga defense line will definitely be broken by the Chinese army within the year, and it is definitely not a myth to lose in the first half of 2054. The United States must send troops to Russia as soon as possible.

Instead of sending the air force to participate in the war, we directly dispatch ground troops.

Of course, the air force must be sent to the war, and the tactical aviation force must be the main one.

While Lucas was still hesitating, the Battle of Tehran began.

Although the US-Russian coalition was not driven out of Iran, the result of this battle made Lucas realize that the warning issued by Marshall was gradually becoming a reality.

By early October, the United States had no room for improvement.

At this time, the Russian president also issued a request that the United States must send troops to Russia immediately, otherwise Russia will be forced to make peace with China alone sometime next year.

On October 10, Lucas signed a presidential decree to send troops to Russia.

On that day, four US military divisions boarded the transport fleet to Russia, and two of them were the main divisions, namely the First Armored Division and the Second Armored Division who retreated from the Middle East two months ago to rest. At that time, the US Army had only ten main divisions, and all of them were adapted. Except for the 101st Air Assault Division and the 82nd Airborne Division, the other eight divisions were all upgraded to armored divisions.

There is nothing we can do about it, because the armor advantage of the Chinese army is too obvious.

Before obtaining main combat equipment that can compete with the ground war platform, the only way for the US military is to expand the armor scale of the master-level combat troops.

Among this unit is Lieutenant General Lobrook, the commander of the US Army of the Russian Theater, appointed by Marshall himself.

Among the US military, Lieutenant General Lobrook is famous. This lieutenant general, who was only 47 years old at the time, can be regarded as a young general in the US military, because the average age of the US Army was 54 years old. Many people did not even get into major generals when they were 47 years old.

Lobrook is most famous in his predictions of future ground wars.

In some ways, Lobrook is very similar to Qi Kaiwei, that is, in his opinion, rapid advancement of technology will completely change the face of ground war.

The impact of this is that Lobrook is the most determined supporter of the ground warfare platform among the US military.

Unfortunately, in the US military, the status of the army is not very high, and due to the influence of the naval arms race, the US Army has not received sufficient military expenditure. As a result, the ground war system that Lobrook had high hopes for was not successfully developed until the war broke out.

In fact, before the outbreak of the war, Lobrook issued a warning that if he didn't care about the army, it would sooner or later lead to the United States' defeat in the war. At that time, Lobrook clearly mentioned that in a total war, the army had an irreplaceable position and was no longer just a military force that performed ground occupation tasks, but a combat force that undertakes strategic offensive and strategic defense, which is no less important than the air force and the navy.

The problem is that he was still a major general at that time, and no one believed his point of view.

You should know that before the war broke out, the United States believed from top to bottom that as long as the air force and navy were strong enough, the US military could easily defeat China.

It was not until the US military suffered on the battlefield that it remembered the warning issued by Lobrook.

At the end of 2052, Lobrook was promoted to lieutenant general, and his first task was not to command operations, but to be responsible for the development and production of the US military's ground warfare system. With his efforts, the US military's ground warfare system completed the military acceptance at the end of June 2053 and is expected to be mass-produced by the end of 2053. By October, Lobrook had basically nothing to do in this regard.

That's why Marshall thought of him and decided to send him to Russia.

At that time, Marshall personally made a guarantee that as long as he could stabilize Russia's Volga defense line, he would be awarded the rank of four-star general.

Obviously, this is something that happened in 2053.

In other words, Lobrook is likely to become a four-star general before he is forty-eight.

If he can achieve such a success, there is reason to believe that in less than two years, this general who was highly anticipated by Marshall will become the commander of the US Army. It can even be said that as long as time goes by, Lobrook will sooner or later become a super general like Qi Kaiwei, Wei Chenglong and Jiang Bowen.

Unfortunately, Lobrook was not lucky.

According to common sense, he should take a special plane to Moscow, establish a US military headquarters before the large army arrives, and establish a good relationship with the Russian army.

However, the general who was unnatural on the road did not fly directly to Moscow, but decided to follow the large army to Russia.

That is to say, he took a ship carrying combat troops to Russia.

At that time, he handed over the task of establishing the former U.S. command to Chief of Staff Colonel Randolph, but only spoke to Brushilov before boarding the ship.

At this time, no one expected that Lobrook was embarking on a road of no return.

Five days later, the US fleet passed through the Azores and headed toward the Strait of Gibraltar. That night, the fleet of twenty-four fast transport ships was ambushed by a submarine, and a heavy torpedo hit the cargo ship "United States of America" ​​that Lobrook was riding. In less than five minutes, the giant ship with a displacement of more than 100,000 tons was broken into two pieces, and more than 5,000 officers and soldiers, including Lieutenant General Lobrook, sank into the sea.

The ambushing of the US fleet was the "Seal" sent by Zhou Yusheng to the Atlantic Ocean to attack the nuclear submarine.

In fact, this is also the first time that the Seal has gone to the North Atlantic to carry out a break-in mission, and it is the first time that it has attacked the US fleet in the North Atlantic.

At that time, a total of seven transport ships were attacked, and only the United States of America was sunk.

The result was that Lobrook, the star that had not yet risen, fell like this.

This battle is both accidental and inevitable.

Because Chinese submarines had never come to the North Atlantic before, the US Navy did not pay much attention to the anti-submarine escort missions on the North Atlantic. It only arranged two anti-submarine destroyers for the fleet, and only arranged anti-submarine patrol aircraft to clear the waterway west of the Azores.

Although the US Navy strengthened its anti-submarine escort on the North Atlantic after this, it was impossible to bring Lobrook back to life in any case.

After the war, some people believed that if Lobrook had not died, the outcome of the mainland battlefield would definitely be different.

Of course, this is just a speculation, and there is a certain possibility. Although many people call Lobrook a warrior who can compete with Qi Kaiwei, these people cannot prove that Lobrook does have the talent to command the army to fight, because Lobrook has never commanded combat operations.

Don’t forget that Qi Kaiwei has such a high status, and he fought on the battlefield.

Of course, even if Lobrook is a genius general like Guderian, Patton, and Zhukov, there is no army that can conquer and fight, he is just a commander.

You know, in terms of talent, Brushilov is no less than Qi Kaiwei, but he has never defeated Qi Kaiwei.

Lobrook's death did not stop the United States from sending troops to Russia, but instead made his assertions take seriously, thus allowing the United States to speed up its efforts to send troops to Russia.
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