On June 6, 1942, German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop flew from Berlin to Egypt to celebrate the first anniversary of the establishment of the Kingdom of Egypt, a new Nazi regime.

Similar to what Europe had done, Ribbentrop, on behalf of Nazi Führer Adolf Hitler, declared Germany's friendship to the Arab regions that had just entered the arms of the Axis powers.

Ribbentrop said that Germany's enemies were the British and French colonizers, as well as the Jews they supported, and that Hitler had always had great respect for Arabs and the historic Arab culture, that Germany was by no means Britain or France, and that it would never be a new colonizer, and that the liberators brought security and stability in addition to freedom and equality.

Through the military occupation and diplomatic efforts in the early stages, Ribbentrop was able to enter into a number of secret agreements in less than a week. A number of Arab countries, including Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Oman, were to be established, while Germany had consistently renounced its colonial status and relied on its status as the big brother of the Axis bloc to gain enormous benefits including garrisoning, resource exploitation, and even recruiting soldiers.

Previously, thanks to the intelligence assistance from friendly country China, the German Nazi political axe discovered a number of large oil fields in the Middle East, and the ecstatic Hitler doubled the size of the North African Army with a stroke of the pen.

After more than a year of fighting after the Egyptian War, the German Nazi North African Corps, under the command of Rommel, lived up to Hitler's expectations and took a number of Arab countries, including Iraq, in one go.

It is better to liberate these areas than to drive out the remnants of the British and French forces here. As in other regions, Germans are interested in this resource-rich region as never before. Although Hitler did not understand why the friendly Chinese head of state would authorize the intelligence services to send him information on top-secret resources in the Middle East, he was willing to understand that the Asian head of state wanted to maintain a long-term and solid friendship with Germany. Moreover, facts have also proved that the information provided by the Asian head of state is correct.

Hitler believed that since the Asian head of state sent people to secretly explore these areas, he must also be desperate for the resources here, and he even suspected that the reason why the Chinese were able to obtain so much detailed mining information was probably prepared to cooperate with the British, as they did in other parts of the world, to secretly survey the resources, and then buy the land at a low price, or to mine the resources there with local colonists.

In return, with a stroke of his pen, he gifted Saudi Arabia's oil exploration rights to China's political axe. That's right, it's a gift, and in wartime, it's given to the Chinese for free mining, and their output doesn't even have to be shipped out of the Middle East, and the German political axe will buy them.

The major discovery of resources in the Middle East gave the Germans a big breather, not only the armored corps in North Africa based on these oils, had a longer-term offensive plan, but even Germany's energy pressure was greatly eased, and the previous embargo between the United States and the British, the embargo on various resources, especially oil resources, even forced Hitler to the point of ordering the navy to formulate a decisive battle at sea.

And today's Middle East is too important for Hitler. Inexhaustible oil resources, a large population, a new wave of pro-German local Nazi political axes and, of course, an excellent geographical location.

You know, all the way from the Middle East to the east, as long as you take Iran again, it will be India.

The Germans found that the entire situation in World War II, the Soviet battlefield was not so full of uncertainties, but the Middle East could become a new base for decision-making.

As a result, Hitler, who was ambitious, not only ordered the implementation of the Greater Africa Plan, but also ordered the formulation of a huge plan for an attack on India. Of course, in this plan, the client states, and even the newly trained troops of the Arab countries, will act as the main force.

Subsequently, Ribbentrop boarded a Chinese merchant ship in the Persian Gulf and secretly headed for Asia.

In China, Ribbentrop repeatedly applied to the Chinese political axe, hoping to personally meet with the Chinese head of state, Zhang Shusheng, in order to complete the task personally assigned to him by the Führer Hitler.

For him, the trip to the Middle East was just a routine affair, but what was really important was the trip to China and China in Asia, which was the most important purpose of his departure from Germany.

Soon he was given this opportunity, and the staff of the Chinese Foreign Ministry informed him that the chairman of the committee had granted the request of the Germans.

After three long days of waiting, Ribbentrop was suddenly picked up on a bus to Hanjing Mountain, where Zhang Shusheng was to meet him in the West Hall of the Hall of Nations.

"Honorable chairman, I haven't seen you for a few years, and you are still so young."

When Zhang Shusheng walked into the west hall, he saw an old German man with a lot of gray hair hurriedly getting up from his seat, walking in front of him, and first saluted before stretching out his hand.

"Mr. Ribbentrop, you are now a busy man in the Third Reich, and it is not easy to come from afar."

Because of the secret mission involving Hitler, in addition to Zhang Shusheng and Ribbentrop, who did not even bring a translator, there was only Zhang Shusheng's translator and secretary, Lu Yunyan.

It was a very small meeting, but Zhang Shusheng knew that the German must have a heavy responsibility, otherwise, some trivial matters between the two countries could be negotiated by the German ambassador to China, von Royings, who had very high authority.

"The friendship between China and Germany can be traced back to ......"

Sure enough, as Zhang Shusheng expected, even if there were no outsiders here, even Ribbentrop himself knew that the head of state in front of him was taking his secretary and wife to accept his advance, but he still talked a lot about the friendship between China and Germany.

Fortunately, Zhang Shusheng's concentration is good now, and when he was in the southwest period, such a scene was enough to make him fall asleep. To his surprise, Ribbentrop actually spoke in proficient Chinese, and this old man was really prepared without a translator.

After Ribbentrop said a lot of nonsense, Zhang Shusheng nodded a few times, and did not agree, with his current status, it is already very unconventional to accept this old man's Jin Jian, where do you need to pay attention. Diplomatic matters have never been louder than others, rightly, compared to those, Zhang Shusheng is far inferior to others.

"Honorable Chairman Zhang Shusheng, I wonder when your country is ready to declare war on the Allies? When I arrived, I received information from the intelligence services that the Americans were strengthening their military forces at Pearl Harbor, which I feared would pose a great threat to the security of the Pacific region. ”

Sure enough, Ribbentrop cleared his throat, and after seeing Zhang Shusheng 'um' a few times, he decisively put forward the business of his visit this time.

Zhang Shusheng was awe-inspiring in his heart, and said in his heart, Is Hitler really so uncomposed, and he is about to force himself to stand in line so soon? Of course, this is not possible, China has not made enough money, the blood of the enemy has not been shed enough, and the world is not chaotic enough, how can it stand in line in advance?

"Mr. Ribbentrop, we in China have a saying that military affairs are not a child's play, and judging from the current indications, China's external environment has not yet been so bad that it has to go to war. You must know that China is a peace-loving nation, and we advocate peace and are not willing to start a war lightly.

As the supreme leader of the republic, I am responsible for the whole country, and the voice of the people against the war is high. Zhang Shusheng finally said the longest sentence since the beginning of the talks.

Ribbentrop nodded, groaned slightly, and finally shook out his hole cards, "When I left Germany, the Führer specially instructed me to convey a word to the great chairman of the committee, now is the best time to join the war, and if the war goes well, it may be over next year."

Well, the post-war world order needs China's accession. At that time, China will get part of the Middle East, as well as half of India, or all of Australia and the Philippines. ”

Zhang Shusheng secretly said that the crazy Hitler couldn't wait to prescribe the conditions for war, and it seemed that he was going to attack the Americans. In order to seduce the Germans to increase their troops in North Africa and attack the Arab region, he threw out extremely important resource bait, and even in order to let the Germans take the bait, Zhang Shusheng did not hesitate to reveal the information of two important oil fields to the British in advance, so that the British could find a large oil field in Iraq decades in advance. As a result, naturally, less than three months after mining, it was captured by the Nazi North African Legion.

After occupying the Middle East, Germany, which seemed to be at ease in the entire battlefield of World War II, in addition to focusing on Africa, the Middle East and the Soviet Union, had begun to plot the last crotch of the British: India.

Of course, Zhang Shusheng can understand Hitler's strategic concept, once India is eaten by the German attack again, then Britain will either surrender or be defeated, it will only take about a year. This is exactly what he meant, the Nazi chariots of the Germans are already strong enough, if they are not 'guided' to induce them to start a more violent war with the British and the Americans, then how can World War II fight the real global war wonderful?

The British family assets seemed huge, but they were so short of troops that Hitler could even imagine who else would be the opponents of the Axis powers in the world when India fell like the British-occupied regions of the Middle East.

Zhang Shusheng can imagine it, and the Americans can also imagine it, so the problems and contradictions are also very acute: India may be the Pearl Harbor in the original history, and whoever touches it is equivalent to touching the United States.

"Could it be that the powerful Axis coalition will launch a final offensive against Britain? However, Mr. Minister, according to the report of my intelligence services, the Americans are re-evaluating the proposal to join World War II, and the aircraft carrier fleet at Pearl Harbor has increased by five more than when you left Germany, and there are also three and four port facilities, all of which are already under emergency construction. Of course, there is a much larger phase II airfield, and even the runway has been basically paved. The worse news is that the US military in the Philippines will also be boosted. ”

Zhang Shusheng smiled and threw out this information, it was during the period when Ribbentrop left Germany, of course, it was also the time when the Germans completely took over the Arab region, and the Americans were more and more touched.

"If Britain does not enter the war again, Britain will lose the last of India, and at that time, the Germans will attack the United States from the Atlantic or South America, and the other will land in the United States from the Pacific......"

This kind of crisis theory of the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species has increased in the United States, and even Zhang Shusheng believes that the Americans may send troops at any time, and there is no need to provoke the Americans and find an excuse for Roosevelt with the original historical Pearl Harbor plan.

Because, this time, the situation in World War II was much worse for the Allied powers, which were already in name only, and perhaps the Americans only had to hesitate for another half a year to sit back and wait for the Axis powers to come to their door, or be blocked by the new global order...... The Americans, who did not even want to lose their interests in the Pacific region, recently urgently strengthened their border defenses, but also urgently deployed three aircraft carrier fleets to the Atlantic Ocean to prevent Hitler from attacking the mainland from the sea.

The current World War II seems to be about to come to an end, and maybe even Hitler and Yue himself think so, but Zhang Shusheng knows that it was when the Americans did not join, and once the Americans joined, World War II had almost just begun...... Ribbentrop was slightly stunned, then smiled: "Yes, Mr. Chairman, I received similar information a few days ago. This is also related to my second task. ”

With Ribbentrop's explanation and lobbying, Zhang Shusheng finally understood the true intention of the Germans coming to the door.

Pulling China into the war was a matter of routine, and even Hitler might have thought that the task was too difficult, and Ribbentrop saw that Zhang Shusheng had no intention of actively declaring war, so he no longer asked for China to enter the war.

To his surprise, in the second clause, Hitler actually wanted to persuade China to lease or sell a number of advanced submarines to Germany in Asia, so that Germany could form an Asian expeditionary fleet.

Regarding this request, Zhang Shusheng's understanding is that the Germans want to confront the Americans, or to form a certain strategic deterrent capability against the Americans in the Pacific region. This is because the so-called submarine proposed by Hitler is not an ordinary submarine.

What Hitler wanted was China's advanced ocean-going submarines in service.

Originally, there was no absolutely impermeable wall in the world, China's batch of Xia-class deep-sea ocean-going submarines named 'Ao Guang' type can be very outstanding, it is a new type of submarine with finalized equipment after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and it has truly achieved ocean-going operations, followed by supply ships, it can fight in the sea area thousands of kilometers away, and its endurance and concealment ability under water have made a qualitative breakthrough compared with the previous Nanhai-class submarines.

Did Hitler really just want to create a Pacific Fleet, a threat to the Americans?

Zhang Shusheng has quite doubts about this.

After all, in the United States today, those who have issued calls for war against the Axis countries have even changed from official to non-governmental, and those with a political sense know that perhaps only the last straw is needed for the United States to declare war on the Axis countries.

And if it is a little later, the situation will be unfavorable for the Americans across the board.

And all this reminded Zhang Shusheng that in the original history, he launched a surprise attack on the United States, not because American soldiers had already participated in the war, but because he was completely embargoed, and it was not as good as now, he was able to get or buy resources from Malacca and China.

And this time, he was not as anxious as he had been in history, but a German, and he was very anxious.

Was it Hitler who saw the dawn of the final victory in World War II and was afraid of the Americans entering the war? Or did Hitler think that the Americans would definitely enter the war because of the imminent fall of Britain?

One thing is certain, and Hitler was in a hurry, even though he was not in a hurry.

After all, although the Germans today have more advanced weapons and submarine wolf pack tactics have also caused the British to suffer extremely heavy losses, once they are provided with this kind of advanced ocean-going submarine for many years, at that time, maybe the Germans will dare to shadow all the people in the depths of the ocean, including China.

Zhang Shusheng hopes that many countries will fight more fiercely, but he does not want to raise tigers for trouble. He also wants China's arms business to reach every corner of the world, but he does not want these weapons to be used against himself.

Ribbentrop, though a little disappointed, seemed to have expected it, and after two more days in China and two or three political discussions with the Chinese government, he finally set out for the city.

The arrival of the Foreign Minister of the Third Reich made Zhang Shusheng smell an alternative political conspiracy, so he ordered the Ministry of Intelligence to find out the real reason why the old man went to Yuben anyway.

A week later, on Zhang Shusheng's desk, there was a top-secret piece of information sent by Luo Feng personally.

Zhang Shusheng opened it and looked at it carefully, then raised his head for a long time and smiled at Luo Feng, "Sure enough, the Germans are in a hurry." The plan to attack Pearl Harbor, which was vetoed by the emperor and not implemented, was actually taken by the Germans. ”

Luo Feng: "Chairman of the committee, can Germany force him to comply?" Perhaps the day after tomorrow will have a final outcome in the final negotiations, and the chairman of the committee may wish to predict it once. ”

Zhang Shusheng smiled and waved his hand, but his eyes looked at the map of India in front of him, and then he said, "The matter of the Nazi legion's attack on India has been put on the agenda, and I will definitely agree if I can reduce the burden of the war and share more fruits of the war, and I can only agree, otherwise, if I anger Hitler, not only will I be excluded from the Axis powers, but they will even lose more in the Soviet Union and southern Asia." The interests of the country have always had a natural exchange, and what the Germans took out in exchange for must be their favorite dish. ”

As he spoke, the corners of Zhang Shusheng's mouth showed a hint of an evil smile, this kind of smile, Luo Feng has not seen it for many years, but he is the chairman of the committee in the southwest period, and he often has such a whole smile.

"Then, what the chairman means......" Luo Feng knew that at this time, the chairman would make relevant 'preparations' for the enemy.

"I mean, I want to see a Pearl Harbor that even the sea is burning

(To be continued)