Big things have happened!

At noon, before twelve o'clock to be exact, at the last minute of the preliminary consultation and preparation meeting for the armistice negotiations, the representatives of several member countries of the alliance finally reached an agreement to adopt the plan proposed by the Nuland Federation and hold armistice negotiations with the Liangxia Empire in the capital of Nanzhu Kingdom.

Subsequently, without prior notice, the representatives of the alliance group threw this result to the representatives of the Liangxia Empire.

The implication is that the Liang Xia Empire must agree, and there is no second choice.

This shows how arrogant the alliance group is.

It's just that for the Liang Xia Empire, this is an acceptable plan.

It's always better to go to Nanzhu than to go to the Sayi Imperial Kingdom.

Prior to the consultations, the Liangxia Empire made it clear that formal negotiations would not be held in the territory of any enemy country, but in neutral countries.

The reason is also very strong, this is not a surrender negotiation, it is an armistice negotiation, and the status of the two sides of the negotiation is equal.

For this reason, the consultations took more than a month, and they dragged on until the last minute.

Since other issues had already been resolved through consultations, formal negotiations began in late February, as agreed by both parties.

In addition to taking time to prepare, it is also to avoid the Spring Festival in mid-February.

According to radio propaganda, it is already a very remarkable victory to be able to sit down and negotiate with the alliance bloc, and it is an armistice negotiation!

It's an exaggeration, but it's true.

At the end of last year, after the defeat and surrender of the There Empire, the five main member states of the Alliance, the Locke Republic, the Bran Kingdom and the Locke Empire, as well as the Newland Federation and the Narrowish Empire, which had only entered the war later, held a meeting of war ministers in the capital of the Locke Republic.

At this meeting, it was also confirmed for the first time that, in principle, there would be no negotiations with the Entente in connection with any armistice.

To put it bluntly, the ultimate goal of the war was to defeat the Entente completely.

As a result, the Entente would either surrender because of the defeat or declare defeat by surrendering, and there would be no way to end the war through negotiations.

Now, it is not wrong to force the other side to sit down and negotiate an armistice, and it is not wrong to say that it will be victorious.

In the current situation, no matter whether it can be negotiated or not, it is impossible for the Liangxia Empire to achieve a final victory, and at most it can lose a little decently.

The cause of all this is actually the military rebellion that began to spread outward from the Luosha Empire.

To be precise, the Luosha Empire is finished, and the current country is called the Luosha Federal Republic, referred to as the Luosha Federation or Luolian.

To this day, only the Liangxia Empire and the Empire of the Empire recognize this fledgling state.

As for the members of the Alliance, all of them declared the Locka Federation to be an illegitimate regime.

This New Year is not destined to be peaceful.

A few days later, on the first weekend of the 79th year of the new calendar, a rebellion broke out at the largest naval base of the Empire, and angry sailors seized the arsenal and announced that they would march on the imperial capital, overthrow the wartime cabinet controlled by the capitulation faction, establish a military regime, and rewrite the glory of the empire.

On the same day, under pressure and in order to preserve the empire, Wilder II announced his abdication in the palace.

Tensions eased that night when Wilder II left the Empire in a military train to a neighboring country where his cousin was queen.

Early on Monday morning, after ascending the throne, King Fittilly III signed and issued the Edict of Surrender.

On January 11, in the forest near the battlefield, which had been called "meat grinder" and had lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers in a single day, the representatives of the Empire formally signed the instrument of surrender in front of the representatives of the allied group.

Because it was too hasty and the conditions were extremely rudimentary, the signing ceremony was held in a carriage that was temporarily towed.

Attention, it is a surrender, not a truce!

Although the Liang Xia Empire was still insisting, and the Liang Xia Empire and the Liang Xia Empire were still allies, except for a very few conditions such as retaining the imperial family, which were met, the Ming Empire gave up other more important and meaningful demands, and surrendered to the alliance group almost unreservedly.

To what extent?

Take the Navy, for example.

Within three months of signing the instrument of surrender, all submarines must be surrendered, or the combat effectiveness must be disarmed by destroying the ability to dive. Within half a year, the High Seas Fleet was disarmed, and after the destruction of the main guns, all warships of the High Seas Fleet with a displacement of more than 5,000 tons were sent to the military ports designated by the Kingdom of Bran, where they were guarded by the Royal Navy of Bran for future use to pay war reparations.

If it is still an insult to the Navy, then to the Army, it is fatal!

Also within half a year, the Empire had to disband all the regular army, keep only 100,000 military and police armed with light weapons, hand over all artillery, as well as most of the machine guns and mortars, and hand over all military trains, and even have to retreat from its own borders.

In the eyes of Bai Zhizhan, defeat is nothing more than that!

It's just that, for the Empire, it's not.

Objectively speaking, if you don't surrender and continue to fight, the Empire will still be defeated, and it is very likely that it will be dismembered by the enemy in the end.

If you don't do it, you will follow in the footsteps of the Luosha Empire.

It was in this way that immediately after the rebellion of the sailors, the position of the Empire changed 180 degrees, and the idea of an armistice was abandoned.

Surrendering when there is still a little bit of energy left, even if you suffer humiliation, you can still keep the foundation of the country and the hope of revival.

In fact, this is also the reason why the Empire explicitly asked to retain the royal family.

Perhaps, in the eyes of those who advocate surrender, as long as the royal family is there, the Empire can be revived and can rise one day in the future.

In terms of timing, it was also very well grasped.

After the alliance agreed to negotiate an armistice with the Liangxia Empire, as long as the war in the Western Continent could be ended, it was reasonable to make an appropriate compromise with the Empire.

When there was a huge disagreement in the negotiations with the Liangxia Empire, the alliance group might not necessarily make concessions to the Empire.

Is this a coincidence?

Bai Zhizhan had to suspect that the sailors' rebellion was a pre-planned conspiracy.

For the Liang Xia Empire, it is indeed not worth being happy that the Liang Xia Empire simply surrendered to the alliance group, because this is tantamount to pushing the Liang Xia Empire into a dilemma, making it difficult for the Liang Xia Empire to deal with the alliance group in the next armistice negotiations.

To put it bluntly, the Manman Empire has surrendered, where is there room for maneuver?

After the surrender of the Empire, all the newspapers of the Liangxia Empire regarded the Empire as a traitor, believing that the Empire had betrayed and betrayed its allies.

Now, there are only two options in front of the Liang Xia Empire. First, like the Hindan Empire, it simply surrendered to the alliance bloc. The second is to show the courage to break the cauldron and sink the boat, make preparations for the death of the fish, mobilize the strength of the whole country to fight a war, and force the alliance group to compromise and retreat.

In keeping with tradition, I would definitely choose the latter!

It is precisely because of this that from the first day of the new year, Bai Zhizhan was no longer idle, and the entire Puzhou Navy Shipyard was lively.

Whether it works out or not, you have to be prepared for the worst-case scenario.

The key is, a few months after the war has been extinguished, does the greedy alliance group have the courage to fight to the death against the Liang Xia Empire!

At what cost did the powers of the Alliance intend to defeat the Liangxia Empire?

After defeating the Liang Xia Empire, how many resources are you going to use to stabilize the international situation?