Wuhan, East Lake.

The Moshan Mansion is brightly lit this night.

Since the beginning of the Anti-Soviet War two years ago, this modest East-meets-West presidential residence has been one of the world's most focuses, and with the successive victories of the Chinese National Defense Forces on the battlefield, China has unwittingly regained its former heyday as a leader in Asian politics and diplomacy, and it has rightfully become the center of power in the entire Eastern world.

As the theoretical master of the Eastern world, Luo Yiqun, who has just begun his second presidential term, now has to devote a considerable amount of time and energy to focusing on international affairs that he is not familiar with, as well as this world war that seems to be in a good situation.

Sitting behind his desk, President Luo Da, who was wearing glasses, was seriously looking at the latest report on the American battlefield that had just been turned over by the Japanese side.

The report was personally delivered to the presidential palace by Japanese Ambassador Shigemitsu Aoi an hour ago. After Japan joined the "Iron Alliance", every time there was a major military operation, it would immediately report the war to Luo Yiqun, the "leader of the East", as if to express its recognition of China's leadership status.

However, in President Luoda's view, the report sent by the Japanese side is showing off one victory after another that they have achieved! Although China and Japan are allies at the moment, seeing the appearance of little Japan's triumph still makes Luo Yiqun's heart a little depressed, why is this US imperialism so can't help fighting? Actually let little Japan run to the American continent to spread wild! It's so unbelievable!

"Whew......." After exhaling a sullen breath, Luo Yiqun seemed to feel much more relaxed, pinched his eyebrows and handed the report to Luo Yaoguo opposite, "Fuwen, the Japanese have won another battle in the Americas!" Three American aircraft carriers were sunk and two were heavily damaged...... And his own loss was only the sinking of the Wyvern and the heavy damage of the Canglong. In this way, I am afraid that the sea control in the eastern Pacific will fall into the hands of Japan! ”

"Oh, really?" A hint of contemplation flashed on Luo Yaoguo's face. Hurriedly took the report with both hands, and looked at it carefully.

After the kamikaze suicide plane showed its skills, the Japanese suicide torpedoes really appeared in advance! In the early morning of March 5, during the battle off the coast of Nicaragua, Japan used suicide torpedoes to sink the French aircraft carrier Béarn, and severely damaged the Xiafei and Companion. And in the naval and air decisive battle that broke out a few hours later, the Japanese kamikaze forces once again showed their skills, and two waves of 140 kamikaze aircraft sank two large American (French) large aircraft carriers and seriously damaged one, in addition to two New Orleans-class heavy cruisers and three light cruisers! Although the two counterattacks launched by the American side also brought losses to the Japanese fleet in the sinking of one aircraft carrier, heavy damage to one aircraft carrier, sinking one heavy cruiser, and sinking two light cruisers. But the ultimate winner of this sea and air war is undoubtedly Japan! After losing the combat power of at least four aircraft carriers. The United States has only a maximum of two aircraft carriers available in the Pacific Ocean, while Japan has six.

And this is only a victory for Japan at sea. The Japanese army landed on the American continent with unexpected success, and within a few days they captured San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica, and Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, and forced their governments into exile in the United States. In addition, a Japanese force of about 30,000 men has repelled the American troops who came to the aid of Costa Rica, invaded Panama under American protection, and is now advancing towards the Isthmus of Panama.

Now that the United States has lost its naval supremacy in the eastern Pacific, the US forces in Panama will certainly not be able to sustain themselves under Japan's coordinated attack by land, sea and air, and it seems that the fall of Panama will be sooner or later!

And after the fall of Panama. Can America's leadership in the Americas be maintained?

Apparently impossible. As things stand, U.S. domination in Latin America has begun to falter. Mexican President Lázaro. Cárdenas announced last night that Mexico would remain neutral in the war between the United States and Japan. Even Mexico, which is close to the United States, refuses to follow the United States in the war against Japan, let alone the grass in South America. Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, and other countries seem to have turned a blind eye to the United States, which was unimaginable in the past.

It seems that Japan's cannon fodder has inadvertently hit the soft underbelly of the United States! What the United States has to think about now is not to compete for world hegemony, but how to maintain its traditional hegemony in the Americas.

Thinking of this, Luo Yaoguo gently closed the report sent by the Japanese and let out a long sigh. "Uncle, the situation is very favorable to us. The Japanese landing operation in the Americas was an unexpected success. In Australia, however, they encountered stubborn resistance from the British...... With Japan's true nature of bullying the weak and fearing the hard, it is estimated that the focus of their military operations in the next stage will shift to the Americas. In this way, our American friends will really have a headache for a while. ”

Luo Yiqun hesitated when he heard this, and then said hesitantly: "Fuwen, go on like this...... The United States will not be defeated by Japan, will it? ”

Luo Yaoguo shook his head. "Not really, Japan did not have the strength to defeat the United States, they just took advantage of the United States' lack of preparation to carry out a surprise attack and seize the lead. Although they won several big battles, they did not weaken the actual national power of the United States. As long as the United States survives these few months, the Japanese will be beaten next! ”

Luo Yiqun sighed softly and was silent for a while. Regarding this US-Japanese war, he and some Kuomintang veterans had a very ambiguous attitude. They hope that the United States will suffer some hardship, but they do not want the United States to be really defeated by Japan, and they do not want to see the United States fight hard to fight Tokyo in one go...... The side of the couch of the Eastern Overlord is not allowed to be peeped at!

"Fuwen, then can we and Germany make a ...... with the United States," Luo Yiqun asked tentatively.

Luo Yaoguo shook his head again and said: "No, uncle, our alliance with Germany cannot be without a common enemy, if that is the case, China and Germany will be friends and enemies." Moreover, if the United States is really defeated by China and Germany, it will definitely benefit Germany the most, after all, the United States and Germany are only different branches of the same civilization, while China and the United States are two different civilizations. German-Americans are the largest ethnic group in the United States, and in South America, there is also a significant proportion of Germans. In addition, the best part of the United States is also on the East Coast, and the distance between the East Coast and Europe is much closer than that between the West Coast and China. Once the United States is defeated by China and Germany, seven or eight out of ten of their talents, capital, and industry will fall into the hands of Germany, and Germany will be too strong at that time! ”

"In addition, Germany has not yet defeated the British and French to dominate Europe, and we have not finished the Australian and Indian campaigns. It is simply impossible to send troops to the Americas, when we can free up our hands. The United States is afraid that it has completely armed itself. It will not be so easy to defeat them at that time, especially when defeating the United States, and always be wary of their allies......"

"But......" Luo Yiqun was still a little unwilling, "After fighting for a long time, we are still surrounded by strong enemies, so when will we be able to develop with peace of mind in China!" ”

Luo Yaoguo smiled faintly and said, "Without the external troubles surrounded by strong enemies, can our country still have the momentum for development?" When the time comes, I'm afraid that the peace of mind development will become a comfortable pleasure, right? ”

"So what if the United States now proposes to form an alliance with China and Germany to carve up the world? Are we going to say yes right away? This question has been holding in Luo Yiqun's mind for a few days. The division of the world between China, the United States and Germany has always been the result pursued by Luo Yaoguo, and Hitler seems to have approved of this post-war situation. It's just that Roosevelt has always been against it, and now that the United States has suffered an unexpected setback in the American-Japanese war, will it change its mind?

"It's late!" Luo Yaoguo shrugged his shoulders, a hint of mockery appeared on the corner of his mouth. "If Roosevelt had proposed an alliance with China and Germany before the fall of Hawaii, it would have been all right. But now...... Isn't it wishful thinking that the Americans want to divide the world with China and Germany when the war is like this? Even if we could agree, Hitler wouldn't have agreed, and as far as I know, all the dictators and warlords in Latin America were admirers of the Führer. In the past two days, the 'neutrality' of the United States in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia may be indispensable behind Germany's influence, right? ”

"Is Germany going to extend its tentacles into Latin America?" Luo Yiqun raised his eyebrows. A hint of surprise flashed across his face.

"Yes! Definitely. The wealth, resources, and markets of the New World were fatally attractive to them Europeans, besides. There are still many Germanic descendants of blonde hair and blue eyes in South America waiting for the German Führer to protect! Besides, the United States is now a paper tiger, why should it dominate Latin America, which is so fat and oily? If I were Hitler, I would ...... too" Luo Yaoguo shook his head with a smile, and was about to continue talking when there was a sudden knock on the door.

It was Natalie who came in, she went to the presidential palace with Luo Yaoguo, and there was an office dedicated to Luo Yaoguo in the presidential palace. There was a hotline to keep in touch with the General Staff, and Natalie was there just now. At this moment, she hurried to the president's office.

"President, Auxiliary. Something big is wrong. Natalie gasped for air, she had obviously run from Luo Yaoguo's office in one go.

"I just received a secret telegram from the Empress of Russia, and the U.S. government has asked Japan for peace through her!"

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Tokyo, Japan.

On the second floor of the Prime Minister's Residence, the Cabinet room used for Cabinet meetings.

The five prime ministers of the Japanese Cabinet, the chief of staff of the army, the director of the navy's commanding department, and other high-ranking figures gathered together, and all of them sat solemnly. Everyone was in a daze as they looked at the document they had just sent to their hands. There was a look of surprise on his face

Japanese Prime Minister Fumihiro Konoe turned his back to them, looking at the huge portrait of the emperor hanging in the conference room, and tears welled up in his eyes...... Could it be that the Great Japanese Empire was really victorious!?

The document was a top-secret telegram sent back by the Japanese embassy in Petersburg this morning, a few hours after the results of the naval battle in the eastern Pacific Ocean were released. The content turned out to be the US ambassador to the Russian Empire, William Brown. Stanlid asked the Russian Empress Anastasia to be the intermediary and made a peace appeal to the Japanese ambassador to the Soviet Union, Mamoto Morishima! The conditions for the US peace are that the United States is willing to cede the Hawaiian Islands, Midway, Wake Island, and Guam, withdraw US troops from Australia, plus $2 billion in indemnity, and lift trade sanctions against Japan in exchange for Japan's withdrawal of troops from the Americas and the signing of the "Japan-US Peace Treaty."

The United States has sued for peace! The invincible United States of America, the master of the American continent, is now bending its knees to little Japan and begging for mercy!

Moreover, when Japan was already unsustainable, had already exhausted all its family funds for this war, and owed huge debts to China and Germany, it proposed to sue for peace!

The scale of the war was too great, and Japan's national strength was so weak, especially after the defeat on September 18, all "continental interests" were lost, and the domestic economy and heavy industry fell into a situation of long-term stagnation. If it were not for the ulterior motives of China and Germany, Japan would not have been able to launch such a "risky" war. And this "gamble" battle did not go as smoothly as the outside world seemed, although except for the South Pacific naval battle, which was a pyrrhic victory, there were successive victories everywhere. But the Pacific theater is also too vast. The battlefield itself was consuming Japan's small resources and troops.

For example, after the Truk Atoll was attacked by the British army, the Japanese base camp had no way to withdraw a mere 250,000 tons of shipping capacity to make up for the loss, so that the southward battle, which was regarded as the country's fortune in Japan, was postponed by three months!

It's just that it's hard to say whether it will be able to come up with enough capacity in three months, because American submarines are also extremely active during this time, and almost every week there will be news of several attacks on merchant ships and sinking! What is even more odious is that US submarines have not only attacked cargo ships used for military transport missions, but have also been mercilessly sunk by those small ships of less than one or two thousand tons used for civilian shipping. What the Americans are now waging is the so-called "unrestricted submarine warfare".

And the area of activity of these American submarines has even expanded to the coastal waters of Japan! If this continues, the transportation of goods that sustains the Japanese economy will have to be suspended. At that time, Japan's domestic economy will face a total collapse. If Japan wants to prevent this catastrophe, unless Japan transfers more than half of the destroyers of the Combined Fleet to protect merchant ships, then who will escort the aircraft carriers, battleships, and heavy cruisers of the Combined Fleet?

However, the enormous difficulties facing Japan are still kept under absolute secrecy. Except for a few people in this conference room, only the Emperor of Japan, the Minister of the Imperial Household, the Commander of the Combined Fleet, and others knew about it. As for the others, especially the two allies of China and Germany. I can't say that I don't know anything about this, but I don't know much about it.

Because. In order to maintain morale at home and deceive its enemies and allies, the current Japanese government is like a crook who is directing a Ponzi scheme, doing everything in its power to maintain a semblance of false prosperity. The city is more prosperous than Wuhan, the capital of China, and Berlin, the capital of Germany, despite the fact that the high-end shops in the bustling areas of Tokyo are full of dazzling goods, and the various parades of congratulations are held every once in a while.

But everyone knows that such a false prosperity will not last long! In fact. If it weren't for China's recent transfer of the Philippine trusteeship to Japan, which made Japan loot a lot of money from the Philippine government, it would have taken less than a month. The prosperity of Tokyo is coming to an end.

Of course, after exposing their weak cards and exhausting all the forces to sustain the war, what awaits Japan is not defeat. Rather, they have been completely reduced to China's vassals and cannon fodder! China, which will soon occupy all the rich land in Asia, will of course be able to come up with enough resources to support Japan to resist the United States, but it is not Japan's desire to resist the United States, what Japan wants is expansion! Especially to expand into Australia! Can China agree to this?

After the battle of Truk Atoll, someone in this room was already secretly preparing for further concessions to China. A plan to occupy Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and Eastern Australia was also proposed by some in the Army. A discerning person can see at a glance that someone is ready to exchange half of Australia for resources to maintain the war with China.

However, at such a critical moment, the behemoth of the United States, without encountering a fatal blow, put forward a peace request!

In the face of such a sudden victory, several core figures of the Japanese Empire were left with nothing but shock and only suspicion! Isn't this the United States trying to delay the war? Everyone knows that over time, the power of the United States will become stronger and stronger......

But doubt is doubt, and no one can say no to such a big pie that almost fell from the sky.

This is the only chance for Japan to turn the situation around and save its fortunes, even if it is just Roosevelt's lie, which is too tempting! So much so that it is impossible to say no to it.

At this time, Konoe Fumiro had already turned around, facing the Japanese high-ranking officials attending the meeting, and took in their strange expressions of surprise and suspicion and longing.

After another half an hour, Konoe Fumiro sat back in his seat, picked up the document in front of him, looked at it twice, and muttered softly as he looked at it: "The empire can come this far, thanks to the heroic spirit of our imperial army......"

Foreign Minister Yoyo Matsuoka immediately understood what the Prime Minister meant, and quickly echoed: "Yes! Americans are the most greedy for life and afraid of death, where have they ever seen such a kamikaze attack style of play! Naturally, they can no longer muster the courage to fight, and the Latin American countries have also revealed anti-American sentiments that have been hidden for a long time when they see that the United States has suffered defeats one after another, so President Roosevelt had to ask for peace with the empire! ”