By the time Eleanor arrived in the room, Roosevelt was lying quietly on the bed under the care of the medical staff, Truman sitting beside him, the heavy curtains being drawn, and the sun shining on Roosevelt's peaceful face, as if he had not died, but had fallen asleep. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Eleanor's nose was sore, and she couldn't help sobbing, she has been running back and forth in the hospital and home for the past few months, and has received many signals from medical staff about "danger", but she didn't expect it to be true this time.

Truman stood up, gently placed his hand on her shoulder, and said calmly: "Madam, I am very sorry that the president has died, but he walked peacefully. ”

"I can see it."

"Is there anything I can help you with?" He asked.

Eleanor shook her head, "No." How can we help you? Now it's you who have difficulties. ”

Five minutes later, the senior members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the members of the Cabinet rushed to the hospital to see Franklin Roosevelt for the last time, and great grief enveloped everyone: the future of the United States was uncertain, and the leader who had led the United States to reverse the trauma of the Great Depression had left for heaven......

At 3:40 p.m., the funeral team was set up in the hospital, with Truman as the leader, Hull and Stimson as the other two deputy leaders, and of course Hopkins. The news was immediately announced to the public opinion circles as a public information made by the government.

At 4:40 p.m., the voice came over the radio: "We interrupted the program to report to listeners a special telegram that the beloved President Roosevelt had tragically passed away this afternoon from a cerebral hemorrhage......"

The news of Roosevelt's death made many people gasp with sadness, and many people were immersed in grief, and even Dewey, who had been blaming Roosevelt two days ago, had to change his tone in the interview, saying that "the president is a great man, and he has given everything to this country."

In the evening, Goebbels called into Hoffman's office: "Führer, I must inform you of the news that US President Roosevelt died this afternoon. ”

"Oh, good...... Wait a minute. Hoffman suddenly reacted, his eyes widened in disbelief and asked, "Who?" Roosevelt? Did I hear me right? ”

"Yes, you heard it right, Roosevelt - the warmonger who has been working against us all this time is dead!"

"How did he ......?" Hoffman almost uttered "why did he die so early?" Roosevelt should have hung up in 1945, according to his memory, a full 10 months earlier. Of course, he already knew that history was wrong: Wallace was forced to commit suicide before he finished serving as vice president, Truman became vice president ahead of schedule and acted as president, and Roosevelt gave up his attempt to be re-elected for a fourth term. But all of this was not enough to withstand the news of Roosevelt's death.

Compared with history, Goebbels was now very happy, but not to the point of ecstasy, because Germany was now in full swing and in a strong position, and Roosevelt's death or not did not seem to him to change the course of the war.

"It is estimated that the United States always loses, and Roosevelt's personality can't stand it, right?" Goebbels guessed the reason, "But this is in our favor, and after removing this obstacle, there should be no principled obstacle to making peace with the United States." ”

Hoffman nodded: "We should still show our gesture and express our condolences on the death of Roosevelt on tonight's Voice of Europe, reaffirm our desire for peace and call on the new American leaders to stand on the side of peace with Germany......"

"News from Moscow?"

"Wait a minute, wait until the treaty is actually signed before it is announced, this will have a continuous impact on the Americans." Hoffman admonished, "Don't attack Roosevelt personally, don't get involved in the whirlpool of political struggle between the two parties, we can say that Roosevelt brought America out of the Great Depression, and don't say much about other issues." We are not vile and shameless villains, we are a bunch of fighting gentlemen! ”

Earlier than Goebbels, Truman sent a telegram to Churchill informing him of Roosevelt's death, and at the same time implicitly agreeing to his request to "stabilize the situation" and saying that the relevant orders had been sent to the American troops stationed in Britain.

Churchill took his cabinet members to the U.S. Embassy to mourn Roosevelt, and when he drove back, he was so preoccupied that he didn't know what he was thinking, and when he returned to the prime minister's mansion, he fell asleep on the sofa......

It wasn't until a long time later that he suddenly woke up and summoned his henchmen.

The lean but capable Jonathan Churchill of the "Old ......" stood in front of him - he was also a member of the Churchill family, but a side branch.

"Are all the candidates I have you appointed?"

"It's all right, the list of family members and property are divided into two parts, and the candidates for the Canadian side have also been confirmed."

"There's something you need to do."

"Yes?"

"D-Day!"

The other party was a little shocked, but still reflexively said: "Understood! ”

"The power that Director Donovan has left you must be mastered, and they must be unconditionally obeyed by your command."

"No problem."

"Give you 3 days to prepare, I need to brew a ......"

"Master, has it really come to this point? Can't you go quietly? ”

Churchill shook his head: "It's not easy to say, you can't retreat when you get to this point, and if you retreat, you're broken...... I hope you don't expel me from my family in the future. ”

Jonathan immediately kept silent, and Winston Churchill was not only prime minister to him, but also a parent - although Churchill did not have the title of duke, everyone recognized that only Winston Churchill was worthy of the title of heir to the Duke of Marlboro, and that in his current power, he had long since outdone an empty duke, so the whole family looked up to him.

In the past two days, all the top noble families in the row have been dividing into two, and those who are moving quickly are still looking for a place to live in Canada, and the prices of high-end villas in Ottawa, Vancouver and other livable places have actually risen a lot - although Britain is very blocked, there is no problem for the nobles to have funds to go abroad, and there is Switzerland as a transit point.

The news of Roosevelt's death also reached Japan, the base camp paid more attention to the Battle of Delhi in the past two days than to any affairs, after Britain got 2 reinforced local divisions and corresponding materials and equipment, morale was greatly boosted, and they actually played a rare bravery, Slim, Auchinleck, and Wilson respectively commanded the troops to manage a section, and the Japanese army was inseparable, and some sections even staged an unprecedented white-knuckle battle, and the entire Delhi campaign showed a stalemate!

The Tiger tank, which the Japanese relied on, was also heavily damaged by the Firefly tank, especially when the 17-pounder gun fired the armor-piercing shell (APDS), the armor-piercing power increased dramatically, and even the Tiger front armor was not immune at close range. Yamashita repeatedly warned his troops not to try to fight street battles with tanks, but the army deer always forgot this when they were dazed.

The battle in the sky was also extremely fierce, and the British army got a batch of new Spitfire 14 fighters, which were a little better than the performance of earlier models such as the Bf-109 and Fw-190 in the hands of the Japanese army.

The base camp is also a headache for this, now the Japanese army in India has exceeded 450,000, and there are as many as 140,000 Japanese troops on the front line in Delhi alone, and intelligence shows that the British army in Delhi is only more than 90,000 people, but the battle is so fierce that it still greatly exceeds the expectations of the base camp. And it's useless to add more troops, the battlefield is so big! However, everyone knows that the battle situation has reached a critical moment, as long as Delhi is taken and the last bit of the British heavy army group is defeated, the Indian strategy is basically the same.

Now the armor can't break in, the plane can't break in, and it's far from the coastline to get on the ship's artillery support, Yamashita Fengwen muttered that he wanted to engage in railway artillery pressure formation, Tokyo really urgently contacted Germany to ask about the railway artillery, and he shook his head after hearing the price of the K5 and the difficulty of transportation, but Germany promised to deal with a few Russian-made and Polish-made railway guns captured by Japan cheaply, and the base camp said that it would consider it.

Even so, news of Roosevelt's death caused waves in the base camp, but the bigger stir was the news that Kohl had brought that the Reich had initialed an armistice with Stalin, and that the Soviet Union was expected to retreat east of the Ural Mountains.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and as soon as the news arrived, the base camp even put aside the war in India and Roosevelt to discuss the northward advance!

King Minoru Higashikurenomiya rubbed his hands together and said, "Special Envoy Koll also conveyed the invitation of the German Führer to prepare for the Tri-National Axis Summit to be held in Cairo in late August, and invited me to participate!" I hope to resolve the Indian issue as soon as possible before we leave. Today, of course, the focus is on the north. ”

"It's not easy to fight in the north......" Ishihara sighed.

Hori Yoshiyoshi also said: "It's okay to get a little cheap, but the army and the navy don't support it." ”

This statement made Minoru Higashikunomiya's face stiffen, but he knew that he was two pounds, so he didn't dare to refute rashly, and asked, "Then what should I do?" ”

Tada Jun also shook his head: "Kohl's news couldn't be clearer, in the future, Soviet Russia will have 2 million troops, and they only need to keep 50-700,000 on the Western Front, and 1.3 million in the Far East, and we have to prevent the Russians from secretly expanding their troops." ”

"With the geographical location and characteristics of the Far East and the number of enemy troops, it is simply impossible to attack without 2 million troops, and it is necessary to greatly strengthen the mecha forces." Ishihara sighed, "The Kwantung Army is only one-third of this number, and it is more than self-preservation, and it is not enterprising. ”

"But ......"

Do you know what King Minoru Higashikuremiya means by "but ......", Germany has beaten the Soviet Union down, if you don't take the opportunity to get a handful, will the Russians still have a chance to recover in the future? I'm afraid that the group of red deer in the Kwantung Army will be raging again, right? Hate only hates that the Germans did not wipe out all the Soviet troops. Of course, this sentence will not be said explicitly: Japan and the Soviet Union have a neutral relationship, so why should Germany wipe out the Red Army? What's in it for Germany?

"I have a suggestion......" Horikichi said after a moment of contemplation.