Japan, Tokyo Cabinet Prime Minister's Office.

On the terrace of the low-rise Japanese official residence, which looks like a bunker, a terrace buffet cocktail party is about to begin.

The snow-white tablecloth was spread out, with bottles of French champagne, red wine, Italian sparkling wine, German Riesling white wine, and Japanese own beach wine, Yong wine, and crane yaki... everywhere. The waiters in black dresses were constantly putting various good wines and various dishes like handicrafts on the dining table.

Looking at this luxurious look, you can imagine that today's buffet must have been held for a huge joy.

Yes, there was a big news coming from Switzerland.

The Americans sought peace! And they also offered conditions to satisfy Japan! Just when Japan was already unsustainable, it was not that the losses on the front battlefield could not be afforded, but that the Americans' broken war made Japan breathless, the Americans sincerely sought peace!

Although the United States is so large, its industrial strength is ten times twenty times that of Japan, and its technology is much ahead of Japan, and its resources are even more unknown. Moreover, the United States' military strength has expanded for more than two years since the war started, and it is approaching its peak. After a long-term hard battle, Japan's national strength, military strength and resources are almost exhausted.

For example, the ongoing war of attrition in the Hawaiian Islands made Japan feel unsustainable. From March to now, it has only been more than two months, but the captain-level (pilot) pilot of the 6th Navy has lost many people! Before the battle began, the fighter jets reserved in the Hawaiian Islands were almost exhausted.

The bombers with large ranges such as the Galaxy, Dragon Swallowing and Flying Dragon can transfer through the airports located on Atu Island and use their own large range to land directly on Oahu Island.

However, fighter jets do not have that large range, so they can only risk dispatching a joint fleet and taking the North Pacific route, using night or rainfall clouds to cover the island slightly closer to Oahu, and launching Zero fighter jets outside 2ooo kilometers. However, using fleets to transport aircraft is not only very risky, but also too high.

Because every time a fleet is dispatched to send planes, it is a huge and complex plan. It includes feint attacks, luring the enemy, sneak attacks, assaults and escapes, which can not only be accomplished by a few aircraft carriers or a small aviation fleet. Usually, the main force of the joint fleet must be dispatched, but also prepared for a decisive battle at sea!

The main force of the joint fleet was dispatched, and the fuel consumption was nearly 15,000 tons per day! A single delivery operation took at least 20 days, and tens of thousands of tons of heavy oil was burned like this.

If countless American submarines were not destroying Japan's maritime transportation lines, tens of thousands of tons of heavy oil would not be able to come up with. However, since 1944, the activity of American submarines has become increasingly rampant. In March, the total tonnage of Japanese transport ships sunk by submarines and mines exceeded 150,000 tons! By April, the total tonnage of sunk increased further to 160,000 tons. Such cargo ship losses were simply fatal to Japan! Because the total tonnage of ships that Japan had before the war was only more than 50,000 tons, and after more than two years of consumption, the total tonnage had dropped to less than 40,000 tons, and the annual output of ships (excluding warships) was more than 10,000 tons.

In other words, the US submarine can now sink Japan's merchant ship production for half a month or 4% of the total tonnage of Japanese merchant ships. According to this sinking degree, if Japan's shipbuilding industry stops production, 25 months later, Japan will not have a merchant ship available.

Even if Japan's shipyards can maintain production under increasingly tight raw materials, at most, Japan will only have hundreds of thousands of tons of merchant ships left after 25 months. For an island country like Japan, where most industrial raw materials need to be imported from overseas, hundreds of thousands of tons of ships cannot maintain even the most basic industrial production, let alone support a world war.

What's even more terrifying is that American submarines are still in service, and most of them will be put into the Pacific battlefield. The Japanese Navy's destroyers, submarines and aircraft have no ability to sink many American submarines. Therefore, they are unable to suppress the surge in the number of American submarines on the Pacific battlefield. According to German intelligence estimates, the total number of submarines owned by the US Navy and the British Royal Navy (Canada and Australia) is likely to be close to 7oo!

This number is 15 times more than the destroyers that the Japanese Navy can use to escort anti-submarines. If all of them are put into the Pacific battlefield, the remaining merchant ships in Japan will probably be sunk within 12 months.

In addition, American submarines also laid a large number of mines on the Nanyang islands, the Taiwan Strait, the Indochina Peninsula, and even the coasts of the Korean Peninsula and the Liaodong Peninsula. Some of them are traditional anchor mines, and some are magnetic mines that sink the bottom. Although the ships sunk by these mines are not mostly sunk by torpedoes, the mines have the function of "blocking".

Once a mine appears in a certain area of ​​sea, the merchant ship can only detour or stop sailing until the minesweeper or minesweeper aircraft clears a channel (of course not 100% safe). However, because the Japanese Navy does not have enough minesweeper boats and minesweeper aircraft, the US military's mine laying degree is much faster than the Japanese minesweeper. Therefore, the transportation losses caused by mines (it does not have to be sunk, as it will be a loss if you cannot transport it). The materials transported into Japan are naturally less and less day by day.

If this trend continues, Japan will be defeated by American submarines and mines.

But luckily, it is not Japan that is fighting against the behemoth of the United States now.

The wars in the Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean, and the wars in the European Great Six are one after all.

The Soviet Union's disastrous defeat in the Moscow Peripheral Battle and the European Community, the Roman Empire's actions in South America have now finally forced the United States to seek peace with Japan!

The Japanese Empire is finally about to win!

Today, the restaurant will be held on the terrace of the Japanese official residence. It is a cocktail party to celebrate the victory.

Hideki Tojo, who has been under great political pressure these days because the war is getting worse and worse, can't wait to use the victory that has not yet been won to stabilize his power. This is the purpose of holding this Jockey Club.

Hideki Tojo, wearing a general uniform and a first-class sunrise medal hanging on his chest, was walking on the terrace where the celebration party was about to be held. But his face didn't look much surprised, and his brows were frowning.

Around him, one left and one right, there was a 6th officer. The 6th Army Lieutenant General was Japanese Ambassador to Germany Hiroshima, and the civil servant was Foreign Minister Ao Shigemitsu.

Hiroshima was recalled to Tokyo by Hideki Tojo after Matsuoka Yoei reached an oral agreement with Hopkins. And Ao Shigeki was about to set off for Switzerland to discuss the final peace agreement with relevant personnel from the United States, Rome and the European Community.

At this time, Hideki Tojo asked, "Ojima-kun, do you think the Germans are actually not interested in the land east of the Ural Mountains?"

"Yes." Hiroshima replied very affirmatively, "In fact, the German government and the National Welfare Force do not even want Russia's European part. They only want Ukraine and Belarus. The reason they are now attacking Moscow is entirely because they have not grasped the standard in supporting Belarus. In fact, Hitler and Hessman were dragged into the water by Queen Oliga. But the Ural Mountains are also at their limit. Germany's military and financial resources are limited, and the German population is not large, which is not enough to digest the entire Russia."

Hiroshima is a Japanese with a "German soul". He knows the thinking of the Germans very well, and also knows that Europeans think about their homeland and colonies. Of course, the larger the colony, the better. It is also very happy to be able to hold the land to dry.

But the bigger the local area, the better, because the local people of the European powers are different from the oppressed people of the colonies and the diligent civilians of Japan. They are all great men!

Blind expansion of the local area means that the number of old men is rapidly expanding. If you don’t serve these old men well, who can survive the revolution with you all day?

Therefore, European countries are very motivated when expanding their colonies and are very cautious when expanding their homeland. For Germany, integrating rich countries with large colonies with France, Britain, the Netherlands, and Belgium is of course a good thing. It is also beneficial to swallow small countries with very rich lands to strengthen their basic base.

But Russia...it's really hard to say.

"What if we send troops to capture the Far East?" Hideki Tojo asked again.

In the case of the collapse of the Soviet Union, it seemed natural for the Japanese 6th Army to seize the Far East. Aren’t they just preparing for this matter when they stationed hundreds of thousands of troops in Manchuria and Korea?

Moreover, if Japan does not take over the Far East now, the European Community will expand in the future. Will the Great Japanese Empire still be the overlord of the East? So Hideki Tojo is planning to send troops to the Far East after discussing peace with the United States, at least one puppet country was launched, and then discuss other things.

"The Germans will object," said Hiroshima. "This is the right question of the European Community's position, but they will not send troops east of the Urals."

"Are you sure?" Tojo asked again.

“Very sure!”

Hideki Tojo nodded, "So what about Australia and New Zealand? Can the Germans accept that they will become permanently neutral?"

"This..." Hiroshima, the "spiritual German", was not sure. "The British will be very angry."
Chapter completed!