Before the meeting was adjourned, an officer rushed into the president's office, hurriedly spread the telegram on the desk in front of President Roosevelt, and whispered to Roosevelt, who looked a little old: "Mr. President! This is an urgent telegram from Moscow!"

When the people in the conference room heard that the telegram was coming from Moscow, which had already been surrounded by Germany, they immediately exploded, and everyone was talking about it in their ears, and they were extremely curious about this telegram from the Soviet Union.

After all, everyone now knows that it has become impossible to support the Soviet Union, so this telegram from Moscow is worth everyone's enjoyment. There is no shortage of smart people who have already guessed that this may be the last pen sent to Roosevelt by Stalin, who was dying in Moscow.

Roosevelt pressed the telegram with a trembling hand, and then slowly read it with his glasses, as if he saw the bearded Soviet tyrant standing in front of him with a pipe.

"Dear President Roosevelt, thank you for your strong support of the Soviet Union in its resistance to German aggression...... After a hard battle, we regret that we have not been able to complete our mission of defending our country. As he read this, Roosevelt closed his eyes, and this sentence made him feel restless - if Stalin did not complete his mission of defending the country, could he really do it Roosevelt?

It is true that the United States is a country of great geographical choice, and in the special environment of North America, the United States seems to have no natural enemies at all. Any country that wants to challenge the United States will have to contend with two desperately wide oceans, but that does not justify America's lack of progress. The superior geographical location can sometimes be a good helper for others to impose isolated sanctions.

Although the United States will not necessarily lose its country, it is very likely to be excluded from the mainstream social circle by the world, and an isolated United States can only be backward and closed, which in the eyes of the American high-level people, there is no essential difference from the death of the country.

Roosevelt thought of this, sighed, and then continued to look down: "Now, I, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, have no hope of victory, and the first regret of my life is that I have not been able to save my country, and the second regret is that I have not been able to meet such an outstanding person as you. ”

The US president shook his head with some regret, Stalin regretted that he had not met Roosevelt, and how could Roosevelt regret that he had not met with the most outstanding people of his time? German Führer Accardo, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill...... Too many people who should have been seen have just missed it.

After sighing for a while, Roosevelt's eyes swept and he insisted on looking down: "No matter what, I will fight until the last moment, and I hope you can continue to fight with the United States...... May the United States be victorious, and may the world always remember the Soviet Union as a country...... Your dear friend, Stalin. ”

After reading the entire message, Roosevelt raised his head, looked at the politicians and generals who had not left the office, and showed a bitter smile: "The leader of the Soviet Union, Stalin, wishes us the United States to win...... I hope that everyone here will be like him and believe that the United States can achieve the final victory!"

There was silence in the office, and then everyone nodded, in response to President Roosevelt's encouragement. The men with the documents began to gather the documents and materials in front of them, and the slightly interested politicians talked about the telegram from Moscow as they walked out the door. This is probably the most worthwhile topic in the whole meeting, at least the content of this telegram has nothing to do with the current war situation.

"Mr. President, are you going to give up the established policy of winning over China?" pushed Roosevelt out of the president's office, and his attendant pushed his wheelchair forward, and asked President Roosevelt softly while contemplating.

Roosevelt came back from his thoughts, leaned back in his wheelchair chair, and was silent for a few seconds before he spoke: "I want Japan to consume the Germans as much as possible, and then accumulate strength to defeat them in Southeast Asia in one fell swoop...... It's the quickest way we can take Southeast Asia, isn't it?"

"However, if Germany had gained the upper hand in the war against Japan and then fulfilled its territorial commitments to China, perhaps China would have fallen to the Axis ...... ahead of time," the waiter pushed Roosevelt through the long hallway, then opened the door and pushed Roosevelt into the bedroom with floor-to-ceiling windows.

Roosevelt did not speak, and waited until the waiter had closed the curtains for him and helped him to lie down on his bed, and then said slowly: "We can only pray, child, we can only pray...... Pray that China will not immediately fall to Germany, and when we open up the transportation line, we will be able to use countless supplies to convince them to fall to us......"

When the waiter closed the door, Roosevelt closed his eyes, he felt too old, too nostalgic for those old days. He remembered Stalin's telegram, and those old friends who had been friends for a long time had now left the stage of history one by one. Now there is only him left, which makes him, who is seriously ill, feel cold and lonely. As he fell asleep, Roosevelt muttered, "Go all the way, old friend......"

As an important part of Germany's strategy to improve the integration of Europe, Asia and Africa, China's assistance actually occupies a very important position. It's not that China was so powerful at the time, but that the land of China is really geographically much more important than the Japanese islands.

If the United States co-opts China, then the United States can easily turn Southeast Asia into a large rear under its control, even if it is just a Chinese battlefield that it has been fighting for many years, and thus retain India's sphere of influence -- and then the United States can reach through the Indian Ocean to the Middle East and then interfere with Africa. At this point, everyone immediately understands why China is so important to the United States.

In the same way, if Germany is the first to establish a solid alliance with China, then Germany may use China's hand to force the United States to withdraw from Southeast Asia and encircle India on all sides to take India as its own -- and then the Middle East will completely become Germany's backyard, and Europe, Asia and Africa will be monolithic for at least 30 years.

At this point, everyone will surely understand why Germany and the United States have chosen China as their future partner instead of Japan, which now seems much stronger. At this time, the United States reluctantly postponed its plan to attack Japan, and it seemed that as long as Germany won in the Far East, Accardo would be able to win the war.

But in fact, Germany was still a long way from winning the war. Berlin, Führer's Residence, inside Accardo's office. While Roosevelt was saddened by Stalin's defeat, Accardo was worried about the situation in the Far East.

In front of him, Field Marshal Rommel, who had just recovered from a serious illness, Field Marshal Brauchitsch, who had rushed back from the Eastern Front, and several generals of the logistics department, were sitting in front of a huge world map, sorting out the current situation in the Far East and the possible countermeasures of the German army.

"Although our army won a preliminary victory in the Battle of Nomenkan, we all know that this was only a small result of the elite troops' surprise attack on the unprepared enemy. Accardo put his hands together, looked at Rommel and a few other generals, and said: "In fact, we do not have the ability to fight a quick battle in the Far East, nor do we have the capital to expand the front. ”

"Indeed it is, my Führer. A general in charge of logistics said to Accardo in front of a thick stack of logistical reports: "Our strategic reserves of materials in the Far East are far from meeting the corresponding requirements, and these materials are simply not enough to support a large campaign, not even a medium-sized one......

"Although we achieved absolute superiority in the local battlefield in the Battle of Nomenkan, the ammunition consumption rate of the front-line troops reached an astonishing 70%, and if this was on the Eastern Front, the General Staff would have given the order to retreat. Brauchitsch nodded, agreeing with what the logistics general had said.

Rommel put down some of the documents in his hand with top-secret official seals, glanced at Brauchitsch and the other generals, and finally turned his gaze to Accardo and said: "Counting the troops in front of Komsomolsk, the troops we transported to the Far East are only a little more than a division...... There is no problem in winning local battles, but in order to make substantial progress, I think these forces are too small. ”

Although the Germans won victories in the Far East, the absolute disadvantage in terms of troops and logistical supply problems limited the ability of the Germans to expand the victory into victory. The Germans had no way to complete the division and encirclement of the Japanese army as they did on the Eastern Front, and there was still a great depth of advance. Even if it terrified the Japanese army locally, the German army in the Far East really could not continue to maintain this offensive momentum.

"It seems that I am still in a bit of a hurry...... Accardo sighed, smiled bitterly twice, and then said: "Try to keep the transportation of materials as smooth as possible, and in any case, we must maintain about 6 divisions in the Far East, and the scale of 100,000 people...... This is the bottom line for us to win, and I hope you can come up with a concrete and feasible plan as soon as possible. ”

Speaking of which, Accardo looked out the window: "Because, after all, we don't have much time left...... It's really not much......"