Shocking Turn of Events: MacArthur's Ambition

The worst possible thing for the United States Army had arrived.

In just a few short hours, General Pershing received two pieces of bad news in succession from the rear and the front lines, which plunged the entire Northwestern Front Army into a massive predicament.

That was not all, and the objective of the Australasian Army was not so simple. Aside from circling around to encircle the Northwestern Front Army, a portion of the Australasian Army had already headed south toward Minneapolis, intending to directly cut off the retreat route of the Northwestern Front Army.

One could see from the map that there were only two lines of retreat available for the Northwestern Front Army. One was to retreat eastward to Minneapolis and then head toward the Great Lakes region, and the other was to head south along the river toward Kansas and then proceed straight to the eastern region.

If nothing unexpected happened, the fallback route of the United States Northwestern Front Army would definitely be the first one.

This was because they still had the task of defending the Great Lakes industrial zone. If Minnesota were handed over on a silver platter to Australasia, Wisconsin and Illinois would also become fish on Australasia's chopping block.

Now, however, the Australasian Army had taken action in advance, and the retreat route of the Northwestern Front Army had almost been cut off.

There were only two choices left for General Pershing: one was to head south along the river to Kansas State and then reorganize defense in Illinois.

Another was to rapidly fall back to Minnesota and launch a decisive all-out battle against the Australasian Army in Minnesota.

Yet with merely the force of under seventy thousand troops in General Pershing's hands, trying to break through the Australasian encirclement and achieve