A hurricane has just hit the Florida coast of the United States, and Washington, which is located on the east coast, is also affected by this hurricane and is raining heavily. At 1 a.m. Washington time, the Admiralty in Washington received a telegram from Admiral Ingram.

"The main forces of the Atlantic Fleet are being attacked!"

The telegram was handed over to the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Ernest at the first time? In the hands of Admiral Kim. At this time the Secretary of the Navy Frank? Admiral Knox was in a meeting in the president's office, and Admiral King took the phone directly to the White House.

"Our fleet suffered heavy losses ?! It's impossible! President Roosevelt's first reaction was incredulous.

"I have confirmed the veracity of the information, our fleet was indeed attacked during the night, and we lost three heavy cruisers, one light cruiser and four destroyers, and four aircraft carriers, four heavy cruisers and two light cruisers were heavily damaged, and our losses were enormous." "The enemy had already been ambushed, and the attack came very suddenly, and General Ingram focused on the German fleet, but it was not the German fleet that landed in Iceland that attacked us, but another German and Austrian fleet. ”

"Will our Navy still be able to keep the United States safe?" Roosevelt couldn't help but mutter, he was very disappointed by the course of the war, and the United States had gained nothing but a few British islands from the Caribbean, but had lost the Philippines, the most important base in Asia. He apparently forgot that it was precisely because of the enormous pressure from the White House that the Admiralty hastily reinforced Iceland with insufficient strength, which led to the defeat of this naval battle.

"We have to admit bitterly that the German Navy is now stronger than the American Navy, and that the Austro-Hungarian Navy is clearly far stronger than we had estimated before the war." Hopkins is playing the round for Knox. "The Austrians are doing their best to grab the British Empire's legacy, and perhaps our strategic focus should be shifted to the Pacific and the strengthening of the Australian defenses."

Hopkins clearly meant that the American strategy should be to abandon Europe for the time being, and instead seek to compete with Germany and Austria for dominance of Australia, the greatest legacy of the British, in the Pacific.

"Are we seeking to get more at the negotiating table?" Secretary of State Hull said suddenly, it can be expected. In the next year, the United States will not have the ability to fight back, and Germany and Austria now control the resources of all of Europe, the Middle East, and most of Africa, and their war capabilities are not inferior to those of the United States.

"Now is not the time, at least we need to take the initiative on the battlefield to start peace talks. And now...... At least they don't have the ability to get off the coast of the United States, do they? Roosevelt looked up and turned his gaze to Admiral Arnold, the commander of the Air Force.

"It's not much of a problem, at most their submarine force can make a small fuss and do some small damage!" Arnold said firmly that the US Air Force is now equipped with more than 28,000 combat aircraft. His self-confidence is not unfounded.

While the White House was urgently discussing what to do with the fleet in the event of an attack, the Austrian emperor was also discussing the overall strategy for the future in the Icelandic seas that Prime Minister Streicher and Foreign Minister Schühnigger, War Minister Schwarzenberg and Admiral Horthy were closely watching in the Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna.

"It is a pity that due to the impact of the storm, our fleet could not take advantage of the victory. Continue to expand the results of the war...... "Admiral Horthy unhurriedly reported the latest situation to the Emperor and the Prime Minister. Due to bad weather, the German-Austrian fleet could only temporarily sail to the Norwegian Sea to escape the storm. So that the Americans escaped death and escaped a catastrophe. According to the reports of the submarine forces, the battered American fleet has already left Iceland under the cover of wind and rain and retreated to the mainland.

What makes the German-Austrian side talk about the most important thing is that in one attack, the German submarine sank the US Navy's aircraft carrier "Yorkington", which had already suffered heavy losses.

"God won't always be on their side!"

Li Haiton said lightly on his lips. In the case of modern industrial warfare, the inferior side may win one or two battles, but it is difficult to change the course of the entire war. Now that the war has been going on, he can finally be sure of what is. Deo doesn't lose a lot of light like he did on another plane.

At least, neither the United States nor Russia has the ability to hit Berlin and Vienna.

Of course, he did not believe that the Axis powers had the ability to defeat the United States, and as for the complete subjugation of Soviet Russia, it was not the result he wanted, but it was in the fundamental interests of Germany and Austria to weaken Russia as much as possible.

"The Russians must be punished for their war deeds...... "Lehydon took a pencil and drew a straight line on the map along the line from Kursk, Voronezh, Saratov to the Urals, "this region will be compensated to the Don as war reparations, and the Turkestan region will break away from the Soviet Union and become some independent state." As for the border issue for the Finns, let the Germans settle it. ”

"Your Majesty, Prime Minister Franco hopes that the Kingdom of Spain will soon join the World Security Alliance that you have advocated, and that Spain will be able to regain the mandate of the Philippines." Foreign Minister Schühnig said.

"It is possible to partially agree to their demands, and the establishment of a new order will inevitably have some beneficiaries, and if you want to change the old system, you must first defeat these beneficial people. What we need is to share these benefits, not to exclude them. In this way, these countries that get benefits ...... They will be tied to our chariots and will do their best to maintain the new order we have established. The naval side will also intensify the campaign against the Falkland Islands, and before the Americans are fully ready, we will pull the Argentines into this tank. ”

Helton said that the Imperial Navy had drawn up a plan to capture the Malvinas Islands, and his idea was to hand it over to the Argentines so that there would be a feud between Britain and Argentina, and that the Argentines would inevitably turn to Germany and Austria in order to keep this territory, and willingly invited Germany and Austria to make Port Stanley a permanent naval base.

The vested interests of this war will inevitably form a huge military alliance, and in order to protect these vested interests, the members of this alliance will inevitably stand firmly on the side of Germany and Austria and charge forward to maintain the new world order established by the German-Austrian axis.

Every emerging challenger will be suppressed and sanctioned by the entire alliance, and will eventually be isolated and weakened, so that it cannot really pose a real threat to the entire interest group. Of course, the establishment of such a new world order and rules requires Germany and Austria to sacrifice some of the interests they seized in the war and "share" them with all their allies.

This is the final result he wants in this war. (To be continued.) )