The birth of the little girl is definitely not just as simple as Chen Feng having a daughter for the Chen family and the entire Eighth War Zone, her birth means that the Chen family has a successor, and it also means that in a country like China with a strong feudal ideology, a family has a strong force to continue, which will greatly contribute to the cohesion of the people's hearts and the army.

And Xiao Xiangxiang's performance after birth really shocked everyone, except for Chen Feng and Wang Qingya, the little girl cries when she hugs anyone, except for her mother's milk, no nurse can do it. In addition, the little guy is very worry-free, usually sleeps when there is nothing to do, and shouts when there is movement. In the past two days, the Chen family has also figured out the rules of the little girl, crying when they want to pee, and shouting twice when they are hungry, which shocked a large group of maids and nurses who were responsible for taking care of the little girl.

Originally, he was a little disappointed because Wang Qingya gave birth to a daughter, but since he saw the little girl, he immediately threw all his disappointments out of the clouds, and he didn't go out of the door all day, just guarding his little granddaughter.

The birth of the little girl also brought about a huge change in the atmosphere of the entire Eighth War Zone, Chen Feng obviously felt that there were more smiles on people's faces than before, and the top and bottom seemed to be more united than before, and the entire war zone was filled with a harmonious and warm atmosphere.

Just when the Eighth War Zone was rejoicing at the birth of the little princess, there was bad news from Japan that the United States and Japan wanted peace talks.

On August 18, 1940, the Japanese side revised the US-Japan understanding proposed by the US government, which was based on the understanding proposed by the United States. Japan has put forward six bills, namely: the international and national concepts held by Japan and the United States; the attitude of the two governments towards the war in Europe; the relationship between the two governments to the events in China; trade between the two countries; the economic activities of the two countries in the Southwest Pacific; The two governments' approach to stabilizing politics in the Pacific region.

The Japanese Government believes that the Japanese and American governments should have the common goal of achieving peace in the world and cooperate with each other not only to prevent the expansion of the war in Europe, but also to work for the speedy restoration of peace. The Government of Japan affirms that the Axis Coalition is defensive in nature and that its purpose is to prevent the participation in war of nations that have not yet participated in the European war; According to the Treaty of the Triple Alliance between Japan, Germany and Italy, the obligation of military assistance is to be fulfilled in the event of the provisions of Article 3 of the Treaty. It is also hoped that the United States Government will also publicly affirm its attitude toward the war in Europe, both now and in the future. There must be no offensive policy of aiding one side against the other. The U.S. Government affirms. The U.S. government has always been opposed to war, so its attitude toward war in Europe, now and in the future, will be determined solely on the basis of the consideration of defending its own interests and security.

About the ongoing Sino-Japanese war. The Government of Japan hopes that the United States Government will recognize the three principles of the Konoe Declaration. Acknowledging the principles expressed in the treaty concluded with the Nanking Government and in the Japanese-Manchurian-Chinese Joint Declaration. And believe in the good-neighborly and friendly policy of the Japanese government. Immediately advise the Chiang regime to make peace.

With regard to trade between Japan and the United States, the Government of Japan hopes that after this understanding is reached and agreed by the two governments, Japan and the United States will each have the goods that each side needs. The supply should be guaranteed by the other party. At the same time, the two governments should take appropriate measures to restore the normal relations that existed during the period of the Japan-US trade treaty. If the two governments want to conclude a new treaty, they can study it through the Japan-US talks and conclude it as is customary.

With regard to the economic activities of the two countries in the South-West Pacific, the Government of Japan has also made its own request, and in view of the fact that Japan has affirmed that it will pursue its development in the South-West Pacific by peaceful means, the United States should assist in Japan's activities to produce and acquire oil, rubber, tin, nickel and other materials in the region. In other words, Japan asked the United States to assist Japan in obtaining all the resources needed for the war in the Southwest Pacific.

With regard to the policy of the two Governments to stabilize politics in the Pacific region, Japan has put forward two proposals: First, the governments of Japan and the United States should jointly guarantee the independence of the Philippines on the condition that it maintains its permanent neutrality and does not discriminate against Japanese nationals on the island. Second, the United States should treat Japanese immigrants in a friendly manner and treat them the same as other nationals.

Emperor Hirohito ordered Foreign Minister Matsuoka to take immediate action, and on August 20, while dinner and others were busy delivering Wang Qingya's birth, Foreign Minister Matsuoka proposed a Japan-US neutrality treaty on the basis of the above-mentioned understanding and secretly informed Germany and Italy.

However, the foreign minister did not send a telegram to Ambassador Nomura to revise the proposal, and Matsuoka's idea was that as an ally of Germany and Italy, it was necessary for Japan to determine the intentions of Germany and Italy, revise the proposal if necessary, and then implement it. After all, according to the contents of the Triple Entente, Japan and Germany were military alliances, and the consent of Germany and Italy was necessary to negotiate with the United States.

Moreover, Foreign Minister Matsuoka also believed that what the United States had done so far was the same as entering the war, since the Anglo-French forces were defeated by the German army. US President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked the US Congress to increase national defense funding to strengthen war preparedness. In order to gain the support of the Republicans, Roosevelt appointed Henry. Stimson was Secretary of the Army, and Frank was the Secretary of the Army. Knox was the Secretary of the Navy.

Under Roosevelt's influence, the US Congress approved the expansion of the Army and Navy, and under his leadership, the Burke-Wadsworth Elective Conscription Act was passed.

Not long ago, Roosevelt signed an agreement with the British government to transfer 50 destroyers to Britain, and Britain leased part of its naval base to the United States. This agreement marked the end of formal neutrality and marked the beginning of limited U.S. participation in the war.

Japan, as a major power, should have protested, but instead of questioning the limited participation of the United States in the war, it pretended to be deaf and dumb. Hitler tolerated it to this day, but it is difficult to say that he will not take action against the United States. If Germany takes action, it is understandable that Japan will of course also act according to the Treaty of Alliance.

It is not easy for Japan to prevent the United States from entering the war and to withdraw the United States from China. Therefore. Foreign Minister Matsuoka believes that there is no need to rush negotiations with the United States.

On August 22, the Ambassadors of Germany and Italy visited Foreign Minister Matsuoka, and the German Ambassador conveyed the views of his government. The German ambassador believes that the Japanese Government itself certainly knows best how far the US President's proposal will limit Japan's future actions within the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

The German Government believes that this proposal is an attempt by the US side to ostensibly ease the situation in the Pacific so as to dispel the fear of anti-war elements in the United States and thus move toward the established direction of entering the war. This is nothing more than a kind of foresight on the part of the President of the United States. It seems that the only way to stop the leaders of the U.S. government from committing to war is to make it clear to them that the entry of the United States into the war will inevitably lead to the entry of Japan into the war. No doubt. The President of the United States first weighed the above facts. Attempts were made easier to make positive action towards the European side easier.

It is clear that the policy of the U.S. government is not to issue a declaration of war, but to gradually intensify the actual violation of the defense. After waiting for Germany and Italy to fight back. Shift the blame for the war to the Axis powers. The German Government therefore believes that the Government of Japan, in its reply to the Government of the United States, should emphasize the actions being taken by the Government of the United States. For example, patrols or escorts are violations of international law, and Japan believes that the United States intends to provoke war by continuing these acts. Therefore, it was inevitable that Japan would be forced to enter the war.

Second, the Japanese Government made it clear that if the US Government stopped such actions, then the Japanese Government would be prepared to study the US proposal.

Finally, in view of the fact that this question will have a major impact on the States parties to the Triple Alliance Treaty, the German Government earnestly hopes that the Government of Japan will inform the German and Italian Governments of the contents of the reply and seek their views before issuing the final reply.

Foreign Minister Matsuoka has a good idea, and he wants to delay it and try his best to seek benefits for the Japanese government. However, the Americans seemed to be in a hurry, and on the 23rd, Japanese Prime Minister Fumima Konoe received a telegram from Osashi Iwabe, who was in the United States. Iwabe Daisa telegraphed Konoe Fumima that it was necessary for the Japanese government to negotiate quickly, otherwise the United States would eventually enter the war. First of all, the mood of the people in the United States to participate in the war is very high, and the demonstrations on the streets of Washington and New York have been wave after wave, all demanding that the government enter the war.

The most important thing is that Roosevelt could do anything with his current position. In order to ensure the consistency of US foreign policy, Americans, especially isolationists, do not approve of a change of leadership, so in this year's presidential election, 55 percent of voters still chose Roosevelt. Thus, Roosevelt finally broke the American "Father of the Nation" George Lee. In a tradition established by President Washington, he was elected President of the United States for the third time. Coupled with his excellent performance in saving the American financial crisis, so now President Roosevelt's reputation in the United States is particularly high, and he is infinitely close to Washington and Lincoln, the greatest presidents in American history, if he really wants to participate in the war in Europe, I am afraid no one can stop him, because the vast majority of Americans will support him, and the United States is a democratic country, as long as the American people support Roosevelt, even Congress cannot change the will of the people.

In addition, both Iwabe Osa and Ambassador Nomura agreed that Foreign Minister Matsuoka seems to be trying his best to release the balloon at the moment. In fact, this will not be beneficial to Japan, but will cause the feelings of the United States to deteriorate. As far as they knew, neither Roosevelt nor Hull trusted Foreign Minister Matsuoka.

Although both the United States and Japan tried their best to keep the peace talks secret, as far as the all-pervasive spies of the Nationalist Government are concerned, as long as they are willing to pay a sufficient price, there is probably no information in the world that they cannot detect. Besides, the negotiation between the two countries is not a trivial matter, and there are too many urgency that can be investigated, so the Nationalist Government and Chen Feng have received news here.

Once the US-Japan peace talks are successful, it will mean that the United States has completely abandoned China, which is tantamount to adding insult to injury for China, which has just lost the Soviet Union. So the old man personally called Chen Feng to seek countermeasures.

Chen Feng is not in a hurry, he does not hold out any hope at all for the talks between the United States and Japan, because there are great differences between the two countries in terms of goals and stands, and the peace talks will not be successful at all. It is important to know that Japan is now an ally of Germany, while the United States is a friend of Britain in the traditional sense, and more than half of the Americans immigrated to the American continent from Britain.

Just as the German ambassador said, one of the most important reasons why the United States wants to negotiate peace with Japan is that the United States wants to concentrate its efforts on participating in the war in Europe. The Americans would definitely not watch Britain being wiped out by the Germans, it was not in their interests.

However, because of the existence of Japan as an ally, Hawaii, the backyard of the United States, and the Philippines, a colony in Southeast Asia, were directly within the attack range of the Japanese navy, so if the United States wanted to go to war with the Germans with all its might, it had to ensure the safety of its own backyard, so it had to negotiate peace with Japan.

The problem was that if the United States went to war with Germany, in view of the agreement between Germany and Japan, Japan would have to fight together with Germany, and even if Japan did not want to, it would have to declare war with the United States at that time. Then this peace talks can even reach some substantive opinions. There is no need for it at all.

Moreover, if Japan resolutely refuses to go to war with the United States, then the Germans and Italians will lose confidence in Japan's entire allies, and this will also be a blow to Japan, so the US-Japan peace talks are deaf ears. It's just a decoration. It was just a gimmick from the start.

Sure enough. Since August 20, the United States and Japan have held more than a dozen talks over the next two months, but in the end they have not been able to reach any substantive agreement. Nothing came of the peace talks.

While Japan was busy arguing with the United States, Chen Feng made a small adjustment to the defense and troop establishment of the Eighth Theater. The Eighth Theater has set up eight command units in the theater, including group armies, divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, companies, platoons, and squads.

Before the reorganization, the Eighth Theater had a total of 5 group armies and 10 integrated divisions, and after the reorganization, the Eighth Theater had a total of 6 group armies and 20 integrated divisions. A new 69th Army was added, which was mainly stationed in Ulaanbaatar.

After the reorganization, each group army has two combat divisions of 15,000 men and one mechanized infantry division of 12,000 men, and also has two artillery brigades, one air defense brigade, one armored brigade, one guard brigade, one logistics support brigade, and one army aviation brigade, and the total strength of the entire group army is as high as 84,000.

Before the reorganization, there were about 45,000 men in the reorganized division, and after the reorganization, each reorganized division had only 30,000 men, and it had three infantry brigades, one cavalry regiment, one artillery regiment, one armored regiment, one guard regiment, and one empty regiment.

In addition, Chen Feng also made adjustments to the armored units, air defense units, artillery units, army aviation units, and air force. The armored forces formed an armored group army, under the jurisdiction of 4 armored divisions, each armored division under the jurisdiction of three armored regiments, each armored regiment under the jurisdiction of 2 armored battalions, each battalion equipped with 97 light and heavy tanks, each division plus the command tank a total of 642 light and heavy tanks and 6,228 people.

The air defense unit was reorganized into an air defense group army, under the jurisdiction of three antiaircraft artillery brigades and six antiaircraft machine gun regiments, with a total of 24,000 people in the entire group army.

In view of the outstanding performance of the artillery units in the Sino-Soviet War, Chen Feng decided to re-set up the artillery division, and set up four mixed artillery divisions in the entire theater, and the so-called mixed artillery division is an artillery division composed of a combination of various artillery units. The mixed artillery division has a regiment of mountain artillery, field artillery, heavy mortar, heavy howitzer and self-propelled multiple rocket launchers, with a total strength of more than 9,400 people.

In addition, there are 2 mountain artillery brigades, 2 field artillery brigades, 3 heavy mortar brigades, 3 heavy howitzer brigades, and 2 multiple rocket launcher brigades in the 8th theater.

After the adjustment, the Northern Air Force was unified into 7 aviation divisions and 2 aviation brigades, namely 2 J-5 aviation divisions, equipped with 1,800 J-5 fighters; 2 J-6 aviation divisions, equipped with 1,800 J-6 fighters; 1 medium-range bomber division, equipped with 900 B10 bombers; 1 strategic bomber division, equipped with 900 B47 strategic bombers; 1 transport pilot, equipped with 900 Hercules transport aircraft. In addition, there are 2 helicopter brigades, equipped with 420 Wuzhijiu.

In addition, the Northern Air Force also has three airborne brigades under its jurisdiction, three more radar regiments, and a total strength of more than 100,000 air force personnel.

In addition, although the navy has not changed much, the Marine Corps has been expanded again, and now the expanded Marine Corps has a total of 6 brigades, each with 3,600 people, plus the naval crew officers and men and the port guard, the total strength of the Navy has also reached more than 80,000 people.

After the expansion, the Nanyang Escort Army has one division and three other brigades, two air force brigades, a radar regiment, and more than 40,000 police units, plus the navy is now stationed in the Nanyang Territory, so the armed strength of the Nanyang Territory has now swelled rapidly to 150,000 people.

Unlike other units in the Eighth Theater, the troops of the Nanyang Territory are not only Chinese, but more than 20,000 of them are Jews, and more than 10,000 are whites, and there is even a mountain regiment composed entirely of local indigenous people. (To be continued......)