After more than a month of emergency repair, the Indo-Burma highway was also fully opened to traffic before the end of the month, from the Indian border to Khomalin, the whole journey is more than 110 miles, and the middle has to cross more Wanjiang River, and there are several mountains and valleys, the amount of work is simply unimaginable, this is also in wartime, are forced out, more than 100,000 laborers and tens of thousands of Chinese and Indian overseas Chinese work together to complete this almost impossible task.

With the road cleared, the three oil pipelines were completed, and gasoline, diesel and jet fuel flowed into the oil depot in Homarin after several pump transfers, but the construction team and technicians continued to push the line in the direction of Indolin.

According to Jiang Haoran's meaning, this oil pipeline is going to go directly to China, and it is still early before the end of the project.

The long rainy season has finally arrived, and the sleepless pouring rain has suddenly increased the water area of the Inovady River by dozens of meters in a few days, and the water level has risen in a straight line, rolling turbidity currents, rushing and roaring, cutting the whole of Myanmar in half, which also indicates that a period of relative safety for both sides has arrived as scheduled.

The expeditionary force needed time to rest and train, and the Japanese army suffered successive defeats, and at the same time, it was also overwhelmed by helicopter gunships, and it also needed time to relieve its breath, so this continuous rainy season was a timely rain for both the enemy and us.

The war situation in Burma had just stabilized, but suddenly a devastating news came from the European battlefield: on June 4, 1941, Britain announced through newspapers and radio that it was asking Germany to cease the war and ask for peace.

As soon as this news came out, the whole world was stunned, and the Axis powers rejoiced and celebrated, while the Allies were mourning and mourning.

If Britain surrendered, Germany would have no worries on the Western Front and would be able to devote more troops to attack the Soviet Union with all its might, and it would be extremely difficult for the Allies to open a second theater on the Western Front, because there would be no suitable islands in the Atlantic Ocean that could serve as a staging point for such a large number of troops and a starting point for a landing fleet.

If you start from the mainland of the United States, the battle line is too long, and the safety of the transport boat cannot be guaranteed under the care of the German submarine wolf pack tactics. It was precisely because Britain stood firm that Hitler was forced to build the "Atlantic Barrier" on the Western Front to defend against the landing of the Allied forces, which cost huge manpower and material resources, and the German Rommel's Army Group B was all contained here, which greatly eased the pressure on the Soviet side.

Once Britain surrendered, the greatest trophy that Germany received was the British Royal Navy fleet. Britain's Royal Navy was a world naval power that rivaled the United States and Japan at the time, and the Royal Navy had Germany's scarcest naval equipment, battleships, and aircraft carriers. As a result, the German Navy's ocean-going combat strength will be greatly strengthened, and it will even threaten the security of the US homeland. In this case, it will be much more difficult for the Allies to land on the Western Front.

If Britain surrenders, the North African theater will fall into the hands of the German army, and Germany will control the entire Mediterranean region, connect the entire Eurasian theater, especially the Suez Canal, and then obtain Arab countries, and even realize the rendezvous with the Japanese army in India, opening up the two battlefields of Eurasia.

The fact that Germany and Japan could connect their respective battlefields was the last thing the Allies wanted to see and what they could not accept. If the Germans used the British Royal Navy to enter the Pacific theater through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Strait of Malacca, they would support the operations of the Japanese Combined Fleet. Judging from the naval power of the United States, Britain, Japan, and Germany, once the German fleet enters the Pacific to fight, Australia will immediately fall into the hands of the Axis powers.

As a result, the United States will lose its material transfer base and springboard for counteroffensive in the southwest Pacific, and the situation of the Allied forces in the Pacific theater will be even more severe.

The impact on the entire Eurasian theater was even more profound, first of all, the Allied aid to the USSR would be cut off. In fact, an important guarantee for the Soviet Union's insistence on fighting against Germany in history was the large amount of aid given by the Allies, otherwise the Soviet Union would not be able to resist the German attack at all.

Second, the Allied aid to China will also be cut off, and under the east-west attack of Germany and Japan, the base of the 14th Air Force, the transit station of the Hump route, and the Yunnan-Burma Highway will no longer be able to be opened, and once the British army surrenders, India will directly become the territory of the German army, and the expeditionary force will completely become a lone army deep behind enemy lines.

Worse still, if the aforementioned foreign aid is lost, China will face the Japanese attack on its own, which is no less than a catastrophe for China.

Once the Chinese battlefield is lost, the Soviet Union will be defeated on its back, and its destruction is only a matter of time.

And if Eurasia is already covered by fascist forces, the United States will lose all its important allies, and in the case of isolation, they will not even have the need to fight on their backs.

Once the British surrendered, the Nordic countries would be unable to resist the German attack on their own. Germany will acquire iron ore from Norway and Sweden, oil resources from the Arab world, rubber from central and Southeast Africa, copper mines from eastern and southern Africa, and all other strategic resources.

Therefore, as soon as this news came out, everyone in the entire Allied countries was in danger, but they couldn't be the master of Britain, and they had no other way than to scold their mother.

When Jiang Haoran first heard the news, although he was a little suspicious, he was also so frightened that his face turned white. In his heart, he did not believe that Britain would easily sue for peace with Germany, although the current situation in Britain was quite grim, and the crazy air raids of the German army made them fall into the baptism of war, but it was far from the point where they had to surrender, after all, Britain still had a powerful United States behind it to support, and aircraft, artillery, and troops were constantly being put into the European battlefield, and the war still had to be fought. However, the British government's blatant announcement made him a little unbelievable, after all, this is news that is detrimental to the national prestige, and it cannot be joked.

Therefore, he did not dare to slack off, and flew to Imphal overnight, hoping to seek accurate information from Alexander and Stilwell, but he was very disappointed, the two of them did not get more information about this than him, and even both of them sent countless messages to the country, but the responses they got were ambiguous prevarication information, which had no substantive value at all.

Jiang Haoran did not leave Imphal because of this, for a few days in a row, together with General Stilwell to brainwash Alexander, in case Britain really surrendered, they hoped that Alexander could jump out of the control of the British government, set up a government in exile, continue to fight the German army, at least to ensure a temporary disaster in India, for the Allies to buy a little pitiful preparation time, but Alexander on the one hand did not dare to believe that the British government would surrender, on the other hand, he did not dare to make this decision easily.

Just after three days of panic, another shocking news came again, the Soviet Union actually launched an attack on Germany.