American Celestial Master

Chapter 273, Joint Rapid Reaction Force

After New York successfully cleared restricted areas within its territory, especially in Central Park, the state has been receiving requests for assistance from other states in the New England region.

To unite the allies, of course, we cannot be indifferent to the needs of the allied states, but New York cannot work for nothing, and it seems too good to be true that the New York State National Guard goes to other states to fight. Besides, if the New York State National Guard is the only one to fight, then what are the other states doing with the National Guard?
So the final result of everyone's discussion is of course that the restricted areas and other extraordinary threats in each state will be mainly eliminated by the state's own National Guard, while New York will provide relevant technical or tactical guidance.

This technical guidance includes sending consultants to train combat troops. As for tactical guidance, nominally it is directly commanded by the New York advisory group, but in fact it also includes the New York National Guard as the main force, which is what the Japanese meant by tactical guidance during World War II. Some smaller states, such as Rhode Island and New Hampshire, said directly that we don’t need those fancy things, just give us Japanese-style tactical guidance.

Other states were more reserved and preferred to rely on their own strength to solve the problem. So they generally chose to accept technical guidance from New York State. The first state to accept such guidance was Massachusetts.

Massachusetts has top scientific research capabilities. The famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology has had a lot of scientific research cooperation with X School over the years. They have also been in contact with the Massachusetts National Guard in the study of mysterious forces. Before this, they also had some experience in dealing with mysterious events, but they had no experience in attacking restricted areas. There happened to be a restricted area near an important freight railway from Massachusetts to New York. Although this restricted area did not completely block the railway, it greatly reduced the transportation efficiency of this railway.

This restricted area will expand at night, and the edge of the restricted area will be very close to the railway. At this time, trains passing through the railway are easily attacked by monsters coming out of the restricted area, resulting in casualties and vehicle overturning. However, if it is just like this, the impact is actually very limited. After all, in the United States, train derailment and overturning are also common things. Even if the probability is slightly higher, it is not a big deal. Moreover, through the operation of train scheduling, trains can pass through here at a relatively safe time as much as possible. So although this restricted area poses a certain threat to the railway, the threat is still within an acceptable range.

However, Massachusetts still decided to start with this small restricted area, which was not even ranked in Massachusetts, and there was no other reason. It was mainly out of consideration of picking the weakest persimmon. Because the scope of this restricted area was not large, the distortion strength was also limited, and according to the testimony of some eyewitnesses, the monsters in this restricted area were relatively simple, just some physical dark creatures such as werewolves.

This type of physical monster, even if it is a little stronger, is relatively easy to understand, and it is easy to deal with if it is easy to understand. In particular, the US military has accumulated experience in how to fight physical enemies over the years. So as long as it is a physical monster, it doesn't matter if it has thicker skin and higher defense, anyway, the US military's 120mm depleted uranium armor-piercing bullet has a penetration depth of more than 800mm. Even if it is a little more agile and faster, it doesn't matter, anyway, a firepower coverage and no-dead-angle killing can solve it. What's more, some physical monsters, such as zombies, are so weak that an ordinary person can deal with them with a physical holy sword.

As for the first battle, of course, they had to win beautifully, to inspire people, and to get more budget. So although the danger of this restricted area was not that great, the Massachusetts National Guard still chose it as the first target.

However, the Massachusetts National Guard suffered a loss in this operation. What they did not expect was that there were not only werewolves in this restricted area. These were just puppets under control. Behind these werewolves were a group of mind suckers. As a result, the Massachusetts National Guard even attacked each other. If the advisory group sent by New York had not intervened in the battle in time and used a special EMP to interfere with the control of the mind suckers, the Massachusetts National Guard would have suffered heavy casualties.

The Massachusetts National Guard, whose attack failed, had to retreat and regroup. Fortunately, the monsters did not launch a large-scale pursuit.

This failure is certainly not a good thing for Massachusetts, but it is not necessarily a bad thing for New York. Some people in Massachusetts were not very welcoming to the impact on New York, especially in the National Guard, but after this failure, their voices became smaller - obviously, if there is no further integration with New York, Massachusetts's own strength alone is not enough to guarantee its own safety.

On the other hand, the US election is getting closer and closer, but the election situation is not ideal. The poll numbers produced by different media outlets vary greatly, but even in the fake news media that is most inclined to the Donald Trump Party, the president's election situation is not optimistic.

Especially in the TV debate a week ago, the president suddenly blacked out during the debate, which resulted in a sharp drop in his poll numbers. In fact, even without considering the blackout issue, it can be seen from just the Q&A that the president's Alzheimer's disease is already quite serious.

Under such circumstances, many people in the Donor Party have been discussing changing the candidate midway. However, even if the candidate is changed, everyone thinks the election situation will definitely not be optimistic.

More importantly, the areas where the Donald Trump Party is dominant can no longer tolerate a president from the Elephant Party, and the Elephant Party supporters who have tolerated it for four years can no longer tolerate a president from the Donald Trump Party. Coupled with the emergence of the actual alliance of states, many people suspect that this election may be the last US presidential election. Regardless of which alliance, everyone is actually waiting for the results of the election to come out so that they can make trouble. At this time, it is extremely important to improve the combat effectiveness of the National Guard. In this matter, no matter who it is, there is not much time to wait.

That’s why, after this failure, Massachusetts quickly adjusted its stance and proposed that in order to deal with the growing threat of monsters (we mean real monsters, not orange monsters), friendly states should establish a joint advisory group and a joint rapid response force.

(End of this chapter)