Zhuo Fei ignored the secret peace talks that were taking place in Chongqing, and commanded the independent army to move south quickly and successfully take Thailand. The strength of the Independence Army has also changed the already anxious situation in North China again, and now the North China Plain has become a meat grinding ground, no matter how many troops the Japanese army mobilizes to rush here, they will be entangled by the elusive New Army troops until they are completely left in this land of blood and fire.

The battlefield in North China has completely become a quagmire, and no matter how many troops the Japanese army mobilizes, it is in vain, and Okamura Ningji, who is trapped in Shijiazhuang, has actually lost hope, and he clearly knows that the enemy army is using Shijiazhuang as bait for fishing. At Okamura's strong request, the Japanese army no longer sent reinforcements to the Shijiazhuang front, and the cabinet had already planned to negotiate a ceasefire with the Chinese government, so an extremely strange scene appeared on the battlefield in North China, which was in full swing -- the Japanese army actually ignored the heavily surrounded Shijiazhuang and the trapped Japanese troops.

The situation in North China has changed so strangely that intelligence officers from various countries have turned their attention from South Asia, and they are eager to find out what happened to the Japanese army and why it suddenly put on a momentum of withdrawing troops and refusing to fight. The Japanese cabinet envoy who was far away in Chongqing also kept urging the Nationalist Government to give an answer, saying that signing a ceasefire agreement one day earlier was crucial to Japan's strategic arrangement, and the Japanese also wanted to rescue Okamura Ningji, who was trapped in Shijiazhuang.

The war in China fell into a strange silence because of the Japanese army's voluntary retreat, but the fighting outside China was still hot, and the independence army did not stop after taking Thailand, but gathered heavy troops to continue to attack Malaysia in the south, while drawing out part of the sick force to attack Cambodia. The indiscriminate attacks of the German submarine forces have made the British mainland have fewer and fewer opportunities to obtain supplies from the outside, and the British Isles have almost become isolated islands.

France had surrendered, the British were now too busy to take care of themselves, and the American continent had been ignited by the landing of the Japanese army and the alliance with Mexico, and a large number of recruits who had not yet completed their training were transferred to the defensive line. "The pigs fought better than them, and they blinded those tanks and artillery." With regard to the performance of the US military on the mainland, the officers of the New Army expressed their disapproval of the US military one after another, saying that if the Americans had not relied on a large amount of heavy equipment to support them, they would have been defeated by the Japanese army long ago.

Regarding the consensus of the officers of the New Army, the top level of the Chongqing government secretly did not know how many times they had laughed, although they had not been able to completely drive the Japanese army out of China, but the current situation of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression was very favorable to China. In fact, if we compare it with the example of the War of Resistance at home, the resistance of the Americans at home is indeed too inferior. A battle of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people breaks out in the domestic battlefield every few months, while the United States has so far fought skirmishes with thousands of men.

Although the Nationalist Government has a good relationship with the United States on the surface, in the modern history of the Republic of China, the United States was also one of the great powers and took advantage of China at all. However, the top echelons of the coalition government also privately felt that the United States, which rose after World War I, always felt that it was not majestic. Asking for this, snatching that, looking like an invincible one. I didn't expect that now I have been reduced to being beaten like a leper dog by the Japanese, not to mention miserable, and thousands of people have surrendered to the Japanese army.

"No way, it's absolutely impossible, God, it's definitely a sign of a nightmare." Just when Zhuo Fei followed the logistics troops into Cambodia, which had been completely controlled, Roosevelt, who had just finished visiting a tank factory in the United States, shouted angrily, and the telegram sent from Chongqing to the United States tore up to pieces to the furious Roosevelt. The telegram was sent by the US ambassador to China, and the ambassador who sent the telegram had long forgotten the time difference between the two places, and he just hoped that this important telegram would be delivered to President Roosevelt as soon as possible.

Roosevelt, who hurried back to Washington, immediately convened an emergency meeting, and as soon as the meeting began, Roosevelt, who was full of coldness, circulated the re-glued telegram to the public, and the high-ranking officials who had read the telegram bowed their heads and remained silent, in fact, they were also stunned by the contents of the telegram, and for a time they did not know what to say. "Guys, the Chinese are going to make peace with the damned Japanese monkeys, once the Chinese negotiate with the Japanese and sign a ceasefire agreement, those damn Japanese monkeys will be able to draw more troops to fight on the American continent, if so, for us in the United States, it will be the beginning of a nightmare."

Roosevelt's tone was very heavy, but no one in the senior officials present interrupted Roosevelt's words, "I don't know what to say about this, China and Japan are feuding, and these two countries should not have a damn ceasefire, but now it is different, the Japanese actually took the initiative to propose a cease-fire." Ladies and gentlemen, we must not be indifferent to watch the signing of a cease-fire agreement between the Chinese and Japan, and we must sabotage their talks, we need the Chinese to contain the Japanese army, and the United States will never allow a cease-fire agreement between the Chinese and Japan. ”

Roosevelt's final gesture of reaching out and slapping the table sparked a lot of discussion, the Japanese army had been very strong since the landing, and in fact, the American troops sent to the front had been struggling to support the Japanese attack. If the Japanese army wants to send more troops to fight in the United States, the senior government officials present do not know how to deal with it, not to mention that there are more than 100,000 Mexican troops eyeing the Japanese army

The war that took place in China would not seem strange to each of them, in fact, if it were not for the support and material supplies from the United States, the Japanese would definitely not have the strength to invade the whole of China, but now it is a little funny, and the Americans finally drank the bitter wine they brewed. Because of the war in China, a large number of Japanese troops were contained in China, but if the Japanese army and the Chinese truce, then the United States mainland will face the possibility of Japanese army coercion.

Previously, the United States' assessment of the Japanese army's combat effectiveness was only on paper, using the Chinese army and the Battle of Songhu as the benchmark for analysis, but the Japanese army and the Chinese army had been fighting for so long, and the Japanese army's tactical arrangements became more and more skillful. After the Americans' invincibility led to a surprise attack on Hawaii by the Japanese army, the unprepared U.S. Navy suffered a big loss at once. The combat effectiveness of the ground forces is much worse than that of the Japanese army, and the most serious thing is that the tactics of many American troops are still in the state of World War I, and they cannot adapt to the tactics of the Japanese army.

Taken together, the United States does not want to see a truce between China and the Japanese army, because they also need the Chinese to contain more Japanese troops for them. The emergency meeting of the White House lasted for a whole day, but Roosevelt and others still could not negotiate a result, but fortunately, at this time, the ambassador in Chongqing sent back a second telegram, and Roosevelt temporarily decided to urgently summon the Chinese ambassador to the United States, Hu Shih, to ask for details.

As the ambassador to the United States, Hu Shi is not a diligent person, but Hu Shi, who has received a secret telegram from Chongqing, behaved very calmly after meeting Roosevelt. "Mr. President, the information you have received is almost the same as what I know, that the Japanese Cabinet has indeed submitted a request for an armistice to our national government, and that representatives of the two sides are currently meeting in Chongqing. Hu Shi's eyes hidden behind the lenses paid attention to Roosevelt's facial expression, and while he was secretly happy in his heart, Hu Shi was already thinking about how to take this opportunity to fight the autumn wind of the Americans.

Roosevelt actually did not know that it was absolutely impossible for China to sign an armistice agreement with the Japanese, and unless the Japanese could completely withdraw from China, the secret meeting in Chongqing would only be a farce. As early as he received the first telegram, Roosevelt seemed to have preconceived ideas and habitually analyzed the matter with Western thinking, and according to the principle of the supremacy of the interests of Western countries, Roosevelt had already decided that China would definitely sign an armistice agreement with Japan.

"Mr. Ambassador, the contradictions between Japan and your country have been going on for a long time, and since the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Japanese have been eyeing your country in vain and trying to occupy all of your territory. Judging from the present situation, your counteroffensive has almost achieved fruitful results, and it does not seem to be in your country's interests to negotiate a cease-fire with the Japanese at this time. Roosevelt organized a rhetoric to try to continue to determine the true attitude of the Nationalist government from Hu Shih.

Listening to Roosevelt's remarks, Hu Shi smiled indifferently, "China's national strength is extremely weak, even if it wants to completely drive the Japanese out of Chinese territory, but unfortunately the national strength does not allow it." To be able to end this protracted war in a peaceful situation is no less than a new life for our people, not to mention that we no longer have much resources to fight hard against the Japanese, the country needs to recuperate, and the people also need a stable environment. ”

Hu Shi's reply made Roosevelt almost bite his teeth, he had always thought that Hu Shi was just a literati, but he didn't expect this person to be so difficult. After a little muttering, Roosevelt finally threw out a topic that was of great interest to Hu Shih, "Eliminating fascism is the task of all countries in the world, and we in the United States are naturally no exception, and the US government deeply regrets the war that took place in China." If the Chinese government is determined to continue to fight against fascist Japan, I think the US government will be willing to provide China with a batch of military aid and interest-free loans. ”