"Head of the People, how do you answer the conditions for the British to modify?" After the meeting, Ribbentrop continued to report to Hoffmann.

"Do you think the British are sincerely making peace?"

"I see..." Ribbentrop, "Black Cat is sincere in peace, but it is hard for others to say, at least so far Churchill is still firmly in control of the overall situation, which means..."

"It means that the British still have a little fantasy. They are either waiting for the strength of the US Navy to recover or waiting for their own strength to recover." Hoffman smiled slightly, "But it doesn't matter. Erwin will be able to return to Spain in 10 days."

"Spain?"

"He went directly to Spain to meet with the troops and did not have to return to Berlin."

"Oh...that fleet."

"General Ozawa will provide cover. Crank is responsible for leading the material fleet back to Italy. In addition, we must prepare a new fleet to transport troops to South America. The strength of the Shoken cluster is still a little weaker, and we rarely have a naval advantage period." Hoffman laughed, "Churchill will reply like this here:

First, if Great Britain fights against the United States, the Panama Canal can be under their control, and British Guiana can appropriately obtain part of the territory from Venezuela or Colombia;

Second, the British troops stationed in Britain and the United States are responsible for disarming the United States and will be left to resolve the issue of the United States and Germany;

Third, we promise to start withdrawing troops three years after the peace agreement is reached and the retreat will be completed in one year;

Fourth, South Africa and Rhodesia can maintain the status quo, but I am not allowed to stop the strategies of European countries; India can talk to Japan, but if they lose all their territory before Great Britain announces peace talks, I am also not able to do anything;

You can see the other things as appropriate, but I never just hope for peace talks."

Ribbintrov nodded with a smile: "I understand."

He had just left, and Keitel came to report important military information: "Today, Japan sent another report on the situation, saying that this enemy fleet occupied the Maldives today, and the situation was relatively dangerous; Tokyo has sent a joint fleet to encircle and suppress, led by General II43 of Tsukahara; after repeated confirmation and verification, we speculate that this fleet is a remnant of the US fleet that had fought with Crank at the time."

"The Americans are going to counterattack India?"

"It doesn't seem to be very similar. This strength is not a counterattack. The Navy has put forward an idea. Will it cooperate with Stalin's counterattack on the Middle East?"

Hoffman pounded the table, which was a troublesome thing, and asked, "What are you doing?"

"Several targeted defenses have been made; first, given that the main Red Army forces have attacked the Caucasus front line and are preparing to deploy the airborne division from Iran to the Middle East; second, all Socotra Islands have been put into alert, and there are currently more than 400 students on it, ready to carry out combat missions; third, the Middle East Airlines team has strengthened its strength and increased its search efforts."

Hoffman nodded: "This is OK, let the Americans run away first and see what they want to do. Now the Japanese are anxious."

In fact, there is one thing Hoffman was wrong. The one who was anxious now was not the Japanese, but Spruins himself. When Crank led the fleet back to his country, Spruins led the fleet to attack the Japanese defenders in the Maldives. According to the aircraft's reconnaissance, the island's defenders had only 500-600 people and more than 30 aircraft. Although they did not pose a major threat, the existence of this point would hinder the fleet's retreat, so they rushed over and took it down.

I thought that more than 500 defenders could be defeated in one afternoon, but I didn't expect that I would have a hard nail.

In the afternoon, the gun suppression and shooting were completed, and the British Army had just landed. The Japanese firepower counterattack began. The beachhead was in a mess. Even a destroyer supported by close range was almost lost.

"This is Tom with a long foot!" A staff officer suddenly roared.

"What?"

"This is our army's standard equipment, 155mm howitzer, nicknamed Tom, long-legged."

"How could the Japanese devils have this equipment?"

"It must have been seized in the African battle."

"Army bastards!"

Even more jaw-dropping things are still behind. When the British army was advancing inland under artillery fire, the Japanese army suddenly dispatched tanks, and then the confidential staff officer cursed in anger: "Army bastard! Bastard! Bastard!"

"What happened again?"

"The British said that all those tanks were Sherman."

"Sheerman?" Spruins' eyes widened, "Our tank?"

"Yes……"

The British attack was defeated in a mess under this situation; they continued to increase their troops to a regiment, and even Spruins sent the Iowa to support them, and finally suppressed the artillery fire on the island. But after this, the British killed and injured nearly 1,000 people, more than the Japanese defenders. After the war, Spruins, who was in a heavy mood, came to the island to check the battle situation and found that Qingyishui's US military equipment: m1 Garland, Browning heavy machine gun, melon grenade, Sherman tank, long-footed Tom howitzer, and even American walkie-talkies! Of course, this guy reimbursed more than 0 British tanks.

The British Army troops saw that the Americans' expressions changed. If they hadn't been worried about the navy, they would have been furious on the spot.

In his combat diary, Spruenz wrote:...The Japanese were fearless and took our weapons and forced this battle that I thought was too long and caused more than 1,000 of us casualties. In the end, no Japanese soldier surrendered. Even the wounded soldiers shouted the slogan "The sky is black, onboard" and rushed to pull the grenades and died with our army, so that our army commander had to order the medical soldiers not to rescue the other party. I suddenly realized the bleak prospects of the Indian battle and wondered whether it was appropriate to send this division's British army to India...

On May 17, the TF44 fleet flew a shot and did not attack Ceylon as expected, but advanced northwest toward Karachi.

"Sir, the US military occupied the Maldives, and the defenders were all broken, but today the Ceylon Island reconnaissance showed that the US fleet had disappeared." Tsukahara led the fleet to pass through Palawan Island in the Philippines, and there was at least a week left to the Indian Ocean. He nodded and asked, "What do you think? Is this a sub-large South African smuggling or is the Americans taking advantage of the situation to rob?"

South Africa smuggling is an image name for the British army's Indian material supply. After the Japanese army controlled the Indian Ocean, the source of material supply for the British army was cut off. In order to import materials to the defenders, the British side smuggled a single transport ship, destroyer and even submarine to avoid the Japanese blockade. Of course, there were always intercepted. The Japanese navy, who knew the inside story, called this name South Africa smuggling, believed that the British people's brains were more confused than that of Guadalam. However, the situation in the UK was that India could solve the basic materials, only some equipment, ammunition and spare parts needed to be transported out. However, as the Japanese control area expanded, the British control area shrank step by step. The time for smuggling in South Africa was getting longer and longer, and it became more and more dangerous. Now the only point that can be used is Karachi.

Strangely, the German army obviously had an air force in the Middle East, but never came to bomb Karachi. The tacit understanding that British aircraft deployed in Karachi did not bomb transport ships passing through the Persian Gulf, which was a rare tacit understanding.

"There is no need to take advantage of the situation to rob. Such a large fleet is just to fight a few islands that cannot be defended?" Tsukahara smiled. "If the enemy is not here to fight Ceylon, then we must go to Karachi. Send the order and speed up, and we will go to the front line of the Indian Islands to block the entrance."

"Where is the battle between the Second Airlines? Are you going too?"

"No, tell Kakuda, cross the Sunda Strait around the Java Sea, stand by near the Kokos Islands, ready to intercept."

"Do you think the enemy will go to Australia?"

"Going to Australia is the best choice. It can also transport aircraft carriers to the US Pacific Fleet, so that the fleet trapped in Pearl Harbor can come out to move, so as not to be blocked by our fleet again. The Americans killed two birds with one stone. They just didn't expect that Chief Hori Teiki was so determined to take out all the main forces of the joint fleet to fight."

"The Germans have dispatched a large number of reconnaissance planes to search in the Arabian Sea. We will inform us immediately when there is any news. In addition, the pilots trained on Socotra Island have also entered combat readiness."

"Okay, the Germans are still good enough. Actually, I feel embarrassed to promote the second expedition. I must explain it to the German side." Everyone thought to themselves, General Tsukahara is a kind person

While Shoken was making various deployments in the American Republic, the order from the Chief of Staff of the Brazilian Army General Montero to demand the expeditionary force to attack was issued, but this order was controversial:

The Brazilian Expeditionary Force was gathered in Rio de Janeiro at this time. More than 80% of the soldiers were between the age of 5 and had two to three years of service experience. The core troops included three infantry regiments: the First Infantry Regiment "Sampayo", the Sixth Infantry Regiment "Ipiranga" and the 11th Infantry Regiment "Tiladendis". The division's artillery consisted of three artillery battalions equipped with one 105mm howitzer and one 155mm howitzer (Long-legged Tom). The direct troops also had a 1st reconnaissance squad equipped with m-8 "Greyhound" armored vehicles, the Engineer Battalion, the 1st Health Battalion, the 1st Transportation Company, and a total of 5,334 people, with a combat force of 1,506. According to the agreement, during the battle, the 751st Tank Battalion and the 84th Tank Destroyer Battalion of the United States will provide support to the Expeditionary Force, and this time it was also prepared as agreed.

Vargas believes that this army may not be able to defeat the Germans.

"This is our best force, and there is US air aid. If they can't fight, what area will we use to suppress the rebellion?"

"Didn't the Americans say they come?"

"Americans talk about July, will the Germans not increase their troops?" Montero's face calmed down. "If Americans say in July, it will be no longer the month, October, what are you going to do?"

Everyone was speechless.

"Your Excellency, let them go if you don't want to lose three more states." Montero's words were soft and hard, "There are four La Plata Group divisions or brigades on the border. If we don't do anything, we have no time."
Chapter completed!