At the same time as referendums were being held in various states of the United States, the General Staff of the British Army and Navy began to study the feasibility of landing in Helgoland Bay, which sounded strange but was the best way to end the war quickly.

It is almost impossible for the Western Front to break through the Franco-German border, although they drove the German army out of France, but also paid a heavy price, especially the British army, 500,000 casualties can almost be said to be the highest record of a single British battle since the beginning of the war, and the French in the later Verdun salient encountered front and rear attacks also caused them to lose nearly 300,000 people, now the Germans are indeed unable to provide supplements for the attrition of the front, but the British and French also do not have this ability, The present situation was one million Anglo-Portuguese and Belgian troops plus French troops against about 1.9 million German and 200,000 Dutch troops on a long front stretching from Switzerland in the east to Belgium in the west.

In addition, there were 200,000 Dutch troops and 50,000 German troops in the Netherlands, which were used to guard against another British landing from the flanks.

Although the German-Dutch army was inferior in strength, it had strong fortifications, especially on the German-French border, before the war, Alsace and Lorraine had built a large number of permanent fortifications in order to cooperate with Count Schlieffen's right hook plan to delay the French army, and then they were not used, but now these reinforced concrete fortresses have become an insurmountable obstacle for the Entente.

Originally, the only hope was the Eastern Front, but as the war situation developed, the Russians also began to attack weakly, and the breakthrough some time ago was smashed out of China's loan, and the loan of one billion Chinese dollars was like a mouthful of ya tablets for a seriously ill person, which made the originally weak Russia explode quickly. But now, because the loan has been spent, the supply shortage has returned to its original state, and the 8 million Russian army is blocked by 1.5 million Germans, 2 million Austrians, and 500,000 Romanians, and with the gradual rise of civil unrest in Russia, the front-line army is unstable. It's hard to expect them to break out again anytime soon.

As for the Italian battlefield, not to mention, and on this battlefield, the Allies still have enough room for advance and retreat, even if they can't hold Venezia, they can also retreat to Gorizia, the front that could be easily held by two armies, now there is no pressure to replace it with four armies.

Of course, if China enters the war at this time, then the problem will be solved, and those three million Chinese soldiers will be thrown into the European battlefield, even if the Allies do not surrender. The rest is nothing more than a matter of time, but now that the Chinese are not willing to pay even the smallest casualties for Europe, the Entente is left with only one way to land in Helgoland Bay, and since Emperor Yang can provide a mine map of Helgoland Bay, then this plan is completely feasible.

When another large-scale rebellion broke out in Tsaritsyn, and Nikolai had to send an army from the front to rush back to quell the rebellion, this plan became not only feasible, but necessary.

Having decided on the plan, the British began to withdraw their troops from Italy in batches. Of course, under the banner of reinforcing the French battlefield, this move was really strongly opposed by the Italians, and the stunned people are now all protected by these three dissatisfied British army groups, why did you withdraw Germany and fight? We managed to regain most of the territory. Do you want to throw it away again?

However, their opposition did not affect the British determination to withdraw their troops from Italy, but fortunately, the British also told Sù Littini that they had not withdrawn all British troops, but only two army groups. It is now a critical period to return home to rest and replenish the troops, and then stuff them all into the French battlefield, break through the German defense line in one fell swoop, and completely end the war. Everyone has overcome the difficulties, Italy still has 1.7 million troops, hard work, refueling, will definitely be able to stop the invaders.

Of course, this is pure nonsense, the Italians have to have this ability, and the European battlefield does not have to come to this point today, anyway, now the British are going to abandon Italy, this news has caused great indignation in Italy, and some people even claim in the newspapers that Britain betrayed Italy's friendship, coupled with the slander of Italy by the British and French media some time ago, Italy condemned the British for this kind of behavior for a while, and the contact between Her Majesty and her father became more and more frequent.

Although the Italians can't fight, they still have the mind to play vertical and horizontal, and they are also very clear about their ability to influence the situation of the war, Foch's army group has long since withdrawn from the Alps to reinforce the northern front, at this time, the south of France can be said to be completely open, and there will be no defensive force, even if it can't be scraped together, Italy really wants to stab in the back, 1.7 million Italian soldiers with a million Aussie Hermes rushed into France, and the result of this war was immediately reversed.

And in terms of interests, at this time, Italy stabbed France in the back, and the benefits that can be reaped are definitely much more than continuing to fight side by side with the French, of course, Italy will also be notorious in this way, although the Savoy family did this kind of thing back then, but after all, it has been hundreds of years, and Britain still keeps an army group in Italy, which also makes it difficult for them to make up their minds.

While the Italians were constantly struggling with honor and interests, the referendum in the United States was also completed in the shortest possible time, and the final referendum results of the states were counted, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Seaver, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York, Rhode Island, Ohio, Maryland, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maine, a total of 18 states supported the United States to enter the war, while the remaining states opposed to the war, so that the two camps were officially established, The next step was to organize their respective parliaments and governments.

On September 1, 1907, on a rainy and windy day, President Wilson of the United States of America officially announced the dissolution of the Government and Congress of the United States of America in front of the lawn in front of the White House, in a heavy tone in front of countless reporters and envoys of various countries.

Immediately after the flag-bearer lowered the American flag on the roof of the White House, looking at the slowly falling Stars and Stripes, including President Wilson, countless onlookers of the American people choked up and sang the song that the Stars and Stripes will never fall, and many people were already crying silently in the end, so that the envoys of various countries who came to witness the end of the United States could not help but sigh for a while, no one expected that this once the world's largest industrial power would fall in this way in just ten years.

Thinking back to the time when the sages of the United States fought bloodily to build this country inspired by the spirit of freedom, who would have thought that their bloody sacrifices would be short-lived? At this time, many envoys couldn't help but wonder why the United States had gone from the peak of prosperity to such a point in just ten years.

However, this question is not difficult to consider, think about the other side of the Pacific, how that huge empire has become the world's top power in the past ten years, from a poor and backward sick man, it is estimated that you can know why the United States fell, at this time, those envoys looked at the Chinese Minister to the United States Wu Tingfang's eyes one by one It is inevitably very complicated.

At this time, the ambassador was accompanied by a photojournalist who set up a camera to record the whole process of the Star-Spangled Banner falling, and you must know that Emperor Yang in Beijing had specially instructed him to record the entire process of the American closing ceremony, so as to satisfy his dark psychology of taking it out and admiring it at any time.

Of course, the end of the United States did not mean that the reinforcements expected by the Entente could immediately appear on the European battlefield, and immediately after the dissolution of the US government and Congress, those congressmen went to the temporary congressional residence of their respective countries to reconstitute their respective congresses, and then met to study the names of new countries, the composition of the government, the organization of the army, and so on. The temporary congressional seat of the North is in New York, but in the future their capital will certainly not be there, nor in any coastal city, this is the unanimous view of all the northern legislators, who are said to be planning to set their capital in Chicago, far from the coast, because New York and Philadelphia have been devastated by the war, and the city is now the economic center of the whole United States.

And the South or the anti-war states actually divided up again, anyway, it has reached this point, the states can do whatever they want, and those who are willing to form a country separately will form a separate country, and if they have other ideas, they will be free, and finally among the anti-war states, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee have joined the Confederacy, and this does not even need to negotiate, as the main members of the Confederacy that year, these four states have long been thinking about it for more than a day.

Originally, Arkansas also wanted to return to the Confederacy, but the western states did not agree, because in this way they lost the right to control the shipping of the Mississippi River, and finally Arkansas did not join the Confederacy under the mediation of China, so that in fact, the original United States was divided into three parts.

The first was the Northeast states, and in the end they still used the name of the United States of America, the capital of Chicago, a country of 30 million people and a strong industrial power.

The second is the Confederate State of America composed of eight southern states, that is, the so-called Confederation, the capital was originally Austin, and after the annexation of Georgia and other states, it was finally settled in Atlanta, with a population of about 25 million, and equal emphasis on industry and agriculture, but industry was completely controlled in the hands of the Yang consortium, and the exclusive right of the People's Bank of China to issue notes also determined that the real ruler of the country was Emperor Yang.

The third is the remaining fourteen states in the west and northwest, which finally gave itself the name of the American People's Democratic Republic, often called the West America, with its capital in Kansas City, with a population of less than 10 million, and its economy completely dependent on agriculture and animal husbandry, which was in fact equivalent to a protectorate of China, and in less than 15 years the country's main population became Chinese, and finally joined China as an autonomous republic. (To be continued......)