Presidential palace.

As soon as Xiao Zhenlei came to work in the morning, the secretary Xiao Gao entered the office to report to him on today's work arrangements, "President, at nine o'clock in the morning, I will listen to the report of the General Staff on the war situation on the Liaodong Peninsula; Listen to the report of the Navy Command on the progress of the Navy Fleet's seizure of the Pacific islands, and convene a meeting of the staff group to discuss it; At 10:30 a.m., he will meet with US Special Presidential Envoy Princet to exchange views on the current world situation and hold talks on further cooperation in business and trade between the two countries. At two o'clock in the afternoon, the regular meeting of the staff group was held as usual; At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, he met with a delegation of national educators, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon he listened to the report of the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry of the Cabinet on the progress of agriculture and forestry work in recent months, and at 4:30 in the afternoon, he went to the military command academy to inspect the study class of senior generals! ”

Xiao Zhenlei looked up at the wall clock, it was already half past eight, and said to Xiao Gao: "You go and prepare, call me when the time comes!" ”

"Yes, President!"

After Xiao Gao withdrew from the office, Xiao Zhenlei lit a cigarette and smoked it, he thought about the next issue with Japan, after the destruction of the Japanese naval fleet, it can be said that it has lost its war potential, although Japan still has more than 200,000 troops in Korea, the Far East of Tsarist Russia, and Siberia, but if he sends a naval fleet to hold the Korean Strait, these more than 200,000 Japanese soldiers will become rootless, without local support, so many troops will not be able to make much waves. Japan lost its naval fleet, which is equivalent to losing contact with the outside world, Japan is only an island country, and its resources are insufficient, and after losing contact and contact with the outside world, even if it only encircles and does not fight, Japan can fall behind more and more, but Xiao Zhenlei will not only encircle and not fight.

There has not yet been any progress in negotiations with the Japanese, and the conditions have already been set. But the Japanese think that they have not yet reached the point of exhaustion, and all the conditions put forward by Xiao Zhenlei are so many. They did not agree to any of them, because Germany was in full swing at this time. The Japanese pinned all their hopes on Germany and Austria, and if Germany and Austria could defeat the Entente in Europe, then Japan had hope, and in the eyes of the Japanese, the German-Austrian alliance had a good chance of winning in Europe, after all, Germany now had an absolute advantage in shape.

But what about on the strategic form? The German-Austrian alliance still did not break through the blockade of the Entente. On the Eastern Front, Tsarist Russia, despite losing a large part of its cases, was still holding up stubbornly, even as Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, etc., attacked from the west and south at the same time. It has to be said that Tsarist Russia is extremely large in terms of war potential, and Tsarist Russia is located in the northern hemisphere, the climate is cold, the domestic ethnic groups are fierce and tenacious, and the long-term feudal serfdom has made the Tsarist people have a strong servile nature, and the top is still very firm at the bottom, which is one of the reasons why the Tsarist revolutionaries have not succeeded in their activities for decades.

On the southern front, the Entente had already organized 600,000 troops and was fighting fiercely with the German-Austrian forces in the Alps. Neither side could help the other, and on the Western Front, the Anglo-French Entente and Germany confronted each other in the English Channel, in general. The Central Powers remained under constant encirclement by the Entente.

However, the Allies were not without gains, and in the war that lasted for almost a year, the Germans not only occupied Belgium. It also occupied all of France, and also occupied most of the lands of Tsarist Russia. Immediately after the occupation of these places, Germany carried out a large-scale seizure of these places. At the same time, Germany also bought ore raw materials from the Nordic countries, and it was not the ore that Germany lacked, but the ore used to make weapons and ammunition was abundant in the occupied areas, and there was also coal, which it did not lack at all, but oil and population. Germany's total population is already small, and its conscription rate is already very high, with a total strength of more than six million.

In 1913, before the start of World War I, the total population of Germany was 65 million, the total population of Britain was 45.6 million, and the total population of France was 41.4 million.

And Germany's conscription rate has exceeded 10 percent, which means that one out of ten Germans has been drafted into the army to fight, such a high conscription rate is really appalling, and the impact on economic development is very great.

However, after the occupation of all of France by Germany, the Allies no longer had any advantage in terms of population, although this did not include China. Some time ago, under the guidance of a mysterious force, the German Emperor Wilhelm II seemed to have enlightened, and he ordered the German authorities to support a puppet government in France, so that the French government-in-exile in Britain became an illegal rebel, and the puppet government supported by the Germans was "orthodox".

Germany also ordered the French puppet government to organize the army, which was for the Free Army, and sent officers to serve in the French Free Army, and also sent a special German gendarmerie to supervise the French Free Army, which was broken up by the Germans and collapsed before The original French rout soldiers were quickly reorganized by the French puppet government, with a total strength of 1.3 million people, in order to distinguish the original French army in Britain, Italy and North Africa, the French puppet government reunified the clothing and distributed equipment to these free army, Germany also sent officers to train these Free French Army, in the hope that they would have a good performance on the battlefield.

In addition, Germany also supported puppet governments in other occupied areas, such as France, Belgium, Ukraine, and Poland, and used puppet governments to control the local population, collect local population and strategic resources for their own use, and serve Germany's powerful war machine.

According to the intelligence from the Iron and Blood Investigation Bureau, after seizing France, Belgium, Poland and Ukraine, and supporting the puppet government, Germany ordered the puppet government to repair the factories that had been damaged by the war, and to recall the workers who had been hiding at home and not going to work in the factories because of the war, so that the factories could be reopened to produce weapons, ammunition and daily necessities needed by the German army.

In this way, Germany not only solved the problem of insufficient soldiers due to insufficient population, but also solved a large number of military problems, and these series of measures could make the war between the Allies and the Entente led by Germany last longer, and also achieved Xiao Zhenlei's goal of weakening Germany.

In the eyes of Britain and France, although these areas were occupied by Germany, Germany was an outsider after all, and it was not a simple matter to rule these occupied areas, and it was not so easy to completely obtain the resources of the occupied areas, after all, the local people were definitely unwilling to cooperate, but after the puppet government, the situation was completely different, The puppet government still has a lot of support, and the Germans control the puppet government and the occupied areas, and completely occupy the population and resources of the occupied areas, which is the reason for the fear of the British and French, because everyone knows that if Germany has more people and resources, it will be able to last this war longer.

Xiao Zhenlei thinks that even so, Germany will eventually be defeated, and it will not be too long, because as long as the United States enters the war, Germany's good days will come to an end, Xiao Zhenlei's calculation is not only to use Germany and Austria and other countries to weaken Britain and France, but also to use Germany to weaken the United States, and the Americans want to hide behind and make a lot of war money, which makes Xiao Zhenlei extremely unhappy, Lao Tzu is not happy, you still want to make a fortune in a muffled voice, how can there be such a good thing in the world?

Xiao Zhenlei is this kind of heart, Lao Tzu is not happy, don't think about it, Lao Tzu likes to do this kind of thing that harms others and benefits himself.

It is not easy to weaken the United States, which is, after all, isolated between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, surrounded only by small countries such as Mexico and Cuba, and Canada is a member of the British Commonwealth. After all, the distance between Germany and the United States is too far, and it is necessary to strengthen Germany's military strength, especially its long-range strike capability.

In order to make trouble for the Americans, Xiao Zhenlei believed that it is necessary not only to strengthen Germany's strength, but also to work the neighboring countries of the United States, such as Mexico, Cuba, and Canada, and to find ways to support opposition opponents from within the United States.

After thinking about it for a long time, Xiao Zhenlei had a rough prototype of the plan in his heart, but this prototype still needs to be improved, and it involves all aspects, the specific executor is, of course, the intelligence system, if this plan can be fully implemented, then when this plan is fully realized, Huaguo will already be the most powerful country in the world.

It was already the second cigarette, when the secretary Xiao Gao knocked on the door and came in and said, "President, the time is up, the chief of the general staff of Jiang and the members of the staff are waiting for you in the conference room!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei retracted his thoughts, snuffed out the cigarette butt and said, "Okay!" ”

When he came to the conference room, Jiang Baili was laughing with the members of the staff group, and Xiao Zhenlei walked in and asked, "Brother Baili, how is the battle situation in Liaodong?" ”

After Xiao Zhenlei came, everyone stopped and didn't talk anymore. Seeing this, Jiang Baili began to report on the battle situation, "So far our army's progress is quite smooth, in the early hours of yesterday morning, the fourth and fifth divisions of the Second Army launched attacks on the front line of Pulandian and Piziwo respectively, and at dawn today, the fourth division captured Pulandian, and captured Yujiro Nakamura, president of the Manchurian Railway, in the early morning battle, and the fifth division also captured Piziwo in the early morning and marched overnight to cross the Shahe River this morning, and is currently advancing in the direction of Jincheng!" (To be continued......)