This time I didn't wait until midnight, before the wee hours of the morning, almost 12 o'clock, I received a telegram from the command of the Navy.

All worries and doubts disappeared with this telegram.

Last night, to be precise, just after 2 o'clock in the morning local time on the 18th, Nuland President Lofos suffered a sudden stroke and died due to ineffective rescue.

About 2 hours later, the imperial authorities received the exact news, and Xue Yuanzheng immediately issued the order to stop the attack.

While the four task forces were retreating at full speed, the Imperial ambassadors to Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico simultaneously issued an ultimatum to the Nuland Federation through their host countries, demanding that the Nuland authorities cease all military operations within seven days and surrender to the Entente.

To this end, the Reich will unilaterally cease offensive operations within the next seven days.

Soon after, the Empire and other allies announced that they would stop launching offensive operations within the next seven days and demanded that the Nuland authorities surrender.

For the sake of the core interests of the empire, Xue Yuanzheng changed his position in time.

In the current situation, even if Xue Yuanzheng did not give an ultimatum to the Nuland authorities, when the news of Lofus's stroke death spread, the Manman Empire would issue an ultimatum to the Nuland Federation.

At that time, the Liang Xia Empire will be a follower.

In the Bran Kingdom, the Liang Xia Empire has already suffered a loss, and if it is slow down again here in the Nulan Federation, it will be more than a problem.

In order to avoid such an embarrassing situation, and in order to grasp a more important initiative, an ultimatum was issued first.

This also shows that the top echelons of the empire, including Xue Yuanzheng, believe that the Nuland Federation will soon be defeated and surrendered.

The point is, there is no other Lofos in the Nuland Federation.

Just as Xue Yuanzheng was in the Liangxia Empire, in the Newland Federation, Lofus was also an irreplaceable supreme commander.

As the first president of the Newland Federation to be elected three times in a row, Lofus's influence and appeal are actually above Xue Yuanzheng.

Moreover, the Allies have lost more than just Lofos.

Just a few hours earlier, the Bran junta, with the support and assistance of the Men and Liang Xia armies, had taken full control of the city of Luntai, and then formally surrendered to the Entente at Buckingham Palace, a symbol of supreme rule, and signed a surrender agreement and an armistice.

Although the melee in Bran itself is not over, the surrender of the Bran Kingdom is a fait accompli.

Crucially, the Men had captured Hastings, and the Liangxia Empire's ground forces had advanced to the outskirts of Portsmouth.

With the support of the fleet, it was possible to capture Portsmouth in a few days.

Even if the tens of thousands of Bran soldiers guarding the port, and the roughly 30,000 Nuland soldiers, refused to surrender and wreak havoc before they were wiped out, it would make little sense.

In order to take advantage of this military port as soon as possible, the Imperial Navy has sent dozens of engineering ships to the front line.

Not to mention repairing a damaged port, even if it is to build a temporary port nearby, it will only take a few months, which is not a problem at all.

According to Liu Xiangzhen's report submitted earlier, it is expected that Portsmouth will be operational by the end of the month, and the first armored unit will be sent to fight in Bran itself.

Using Portsmouth as a base to attack those port cities in Bristol Bay is even more effective with half the effort.

All in all, the battle in Bran will continue for some time, and the final result has long been sealed, and even if something unexpected happens, there will be no essential change.

As for the Luosha Federation, defeat is not far away.

Whether the Locka authorities are willing to admit it or not, it is impossible to deny the fact that strategic assistance from the Nuland Federation is of immeasurable importance.

Without the strategic assistance provided by the Nuland Federation, the Luosha Federation would have been defeated long ago.

The most important thing is that all the aid of the Nuland Federation is transported to the Locke Federation through the North Sunset Ocean Route, and this route has to pass near the Shetland Islands belonging to the Kingdom of Bran, and the patrol aircraft deployed on the mainland of the Kingdom of Bran are the main force covering the route.

In fact, this is one of the reasons why the Nuland Federation has deployed a million-strong army in Bran itself.

In the northern part of the kingdom alone, there are about 150,000 Newland officers and soldiers, of which nearly 100,000 officers and soldiers are specially responsible for anti-submarine patrol missions on the North Sunset Ocean Route. The patrol aircraft alone has a crew of more than 20,000 people, in addition to about 50,000 officers and men in charge of logistics.

Almost all of the thousands of anti-submarine patrol aircraft deployed in the area belong to the Nuland Navy.

It's not that Bran's army doesn't have patrol planes available, but it has to be used somewhere else.

Prior to the surrender, the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force were mainly covering the passage of the sea route from the central part of the North Sunset Ocean, as well as monitoring and blockading the Bay of Biscay.

Among them, the latter is the main one.

After the defeat and surrender of the Republic of Locke, the western part of the country, that is, the port facing the Bay of Biscay, was completely controlled by the Romanan army, which became the nest of the Romanan submarines. In previous years, two-thirds of the submarine relied on these ports to carry out the mission of breaking diplomatic relations in the North Sunset.

To mitigate the threat to shipping lanes, it is necessary to keep an eye on the Bay of Biscay.

In the past two years or so, the Bran Kingdom has spent more than half of its anti-submarine forces in this direction, and has also achieved very good results.

To this end, Bran Army's patrol aircraft are deployed mainly in the south of the mainland, as well as on the island of Ireland to the west.

But now, the kingdom of Bran has been defeated.

Because the Nuland navy had long lost the ability to regain sea supremacy, as the Imperial Navy's task force moved north, the route to the kingdom of Bran would definitely be cut off, so after a few months, the Nuland army trapped in Bran would run out of ammunition and food, and then have to surrender to the Entente army.

At that time, the North Sunset Ocean Route will also be cut off.

In fact, the Manman Navy has already taken action.

According to Dunz's deployment, nearly 100 submarine submarines have gathered on the route from the North Sunset Ocean to the Ice Ocean. The two large cruisers in the High Seas Fleet, as well as the fast battleship "Marshal", which has been in service for less than a year, will also enter the North Sunset Ocean in the near future.

If submarines are only a threat to the transport fleet, the fleet is capable of completely destroying the transport fleet.

As long as the Hormen fleet sails out of the North Sea and enters the North Sunset Ocean, ships departing from the Newland Federation will never reach the ports of the Locke Federation.

If all goes well, as soon as next month, the Locka Federation will not want to receive any aid from the Newland Federation.

Winter has passed, spring has long arrived, and at this time, without assistance, there is still hope for Luo Sha's army to withstand the upcoming strategic general offensive?

The impact on morale alone can make Luo Sha's army fall apart.

What's more, the Imperial Navy will also enter the Mohai Sea at the same time.

Before the beginning of spring, the strategic bombing of the Imperial Army Aviation had reduced the production of the Badong oil field by eighty, and the oil produced could not be sent to the industrial cities in the north because of the destruction of the railway. Affected by the lack of fuel, the Luo Sha army has begun to limit the intensity of sorties of combat aircraft.

Even if the Entente offensive runs into trouble, the Locke Federation will be defeated and surrendered this year.

If it goes well, then after the arrival of summer, when the attacks of the Liang Xia Empire and the Shan Man Empire reach their peak, the Luosha Federation may choose to surrender.

There is really only one problem before the Nuland authorities.

Do you want to be the last country to surrender!