The year 1945 finally came.

In January, the Allied forces in North Africa were on the defensive because of their lack of supplies, preparing to stock up on supplies and then fight. Also this month, the summit of the League of Human Renewals was held in Berlin, with the participation of representatives of Belgium and Luxembourg, in addition to the heads of state already members of the League, and on the first day of the meeting it was announced that Belgium and Luxembourg would hold a referendum to decide whether to continue to recognize the former King of Belgium and the Grand Duke of Luxembourg in exile as their respective heads of state.

Once the referendum decided not to recognize the right of these two men, the Anglo-American coalition would lose the last shred of war legitimacy, and the pretext of "helping Belgium and Luxembourg to recover" would no longer exist.

On the evening of the announcement of this decision, Britain issued a telegram saying that the so-called referendum was a farce manipulated by Germany and had no legal legitimacy. Within an hour of the telegram, the Coalition summit responded by welcoming the neutral countries of Switzerland, Portugal and Spain to oversee the referendum, as well as the United Kingdom sending observers.

Britain completely ignored the summit's response, continuing to accuse "this is a farce."

Anyway, diplomacy is mostly a joke, especially this kind of diplomatic activity when the two sides are still at war, and it is considered to be in line with diplomatic etiquette if they do not swear at each other.

At the same time as the telegram was being shouted over the air, the secret talks in Portugal were still in full swing -- in fact, they were secret talks, but it had already taken two months, and the rumors had long since leaked out, and the heads and minds of all sides knew more or less that Germany was negotiating with the United States.

So the heads of Europe are somewhat relieved, and there is nothing more joyful than the imminent end of the war, because many people may be grilled on the fire by the people at home if the war continues.

In early February '45, the U.S. Army launched a counterattack in North Africa, intending to restore the front to the state it was in before Guderian began his offensive. Bradley had a battle plan that looked good, but the offense came to a standstill shortly after it began.

Bradley, another time and space, has also organized several offensive battles in the European theater, and it is not without relatively brilliant results, but as long as you carefully analyze it, you will find that all these attacks where Patton has received all-out support have been successful, and where Patton has not received sufficient resources, the progress is basically slow.

During the siege of Falaiz, Barton advanced quickly and made great achievements. However, in the ensuing battle, due to political reasons, the Allied supplies were tilted in favor of Montgomery's troops, and Patton ran out of fuel on the way to Metz, so that Patton did not capture Metz before the German fortifications. Later, Bradley's attack plan was also unable to be completed due to German resistance in Metz.

In the famous Battle of the Bulge, Patton was once again fully supported, and the siege of Bastone was quickly lifted, but after the Battle of the Bulge, Bradley again stumbled Patton in his battle plan, and Patton's Third Army was once again not adequately resupplied.

There is also an anecdote that Patton ordered his logistics personnel to disguise themselves as the logistics personnel of the First Army under Bradley's command, and to impersonate a large amount of oil from the First Army's oil transfer warehouses, which allowed the Third Army to continue the offensive, but the offensive was still severely blocked by the lack of fuel, which prevented the Allies from crossing the Rhine until the end of March.

In addition, Bradley also vetoed Patton's construction twice, one of which was in the Battle of the Bulge, when Eisenhower asked Patton to prepare six divisions to attack Bastone as quickly as possible to relieve the surrounded 101st Airborne Division, Patton not only made six divisions ready for attack within 48 hours, he also further prepared his Third Army for combat, and then he built a yì to Bradley, not directly to save Bastone, but to break through to the rear of the German army besieging Bastone, and implement a counter-encirclement of the German army.

This was vetoed by Bradley, so many German veterans who participated in the Ardennes offensive were able to withdraw to their starting points, causing a lot of problems for the American troops in the subsequent defensive battles.

And in this time and space, Bradley no longer has Barton's thighs to hug.

At the end of February, Guderian put aside Lin Youde's mixed offensive and played a German-style blitzkrieg that he was best at in another time and space, and surrounded about 100,000 American troops at once - the North African battlefield is small, and the troops that can be deployed are small, even if Guderian wants to encircle more American troops, there is no such condition.

After the surrender of these 100,000 American troops, the negotiations in Lisbon became completely one-sided.

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What is now hindering the armistice is actually the division of interests after the war -- after all, this is an armistice, and the truce means that both sides still have the ability to continue fighting, but they just feel that it is not cost-effective to continue fighting, so they want to discuss with the other side whether we should stop fighting and directly divide the spoils.

Since it is a division of spoils, it is necessary to fight for profits, and to put it bluntly, it is to divide the sphere of influence after the armistice.

At the beginning, the Americans demanded the dissolution of the Alliance for Human Innovation, the international condominium of the Suez Canal, the joint exploitation of oil in the Middle East, and so on, and so on, and Lin Youde could not agree to these conditions at all.

However, as the situation in North Africa changed, the Americans gradually stopped mentioning the dissolution of the Alliance for Human Innovation, and later did not mention the matter of Middle East oil at all.

However, on the issue of the Suez Canal, I don't know if the United States wants to pull Britain along, so it has not let go. The United States also did not relent, but also the proposal to divide the river in China, according to the American proposal, the south was the new Ming Republic, and the north was still ruled by the old Ming Empire.

Of course, Lin Youde could not agree to this, so the German secret envoy also clenched his bite and did not let go, that is, he did not agree with the two points that the United States had always insisted on.

Or, in diplomatic terms, "we have reservations about some of the views of the US side."

Later, Lin Youde thought about it and simply put it in a different way: it will no longer insist that the Xinming government control the whole of China, but the United States must agree not to interfere in the internal affairs of Xinming. According to this new formulation, if the new Ming government goes north after the end of the world war, the Americans will not be able to interfere at all, and according to the current balance of power between the new Ming and the old Ming dynasty, it is basically certain that the old dynasty will be exterminated.

The Americans are not stupid, how could they not see the cattiness behind this new proposal, so they directly rejected it and insisted on their own proposal.

As a result, the two sides are once again in a stalemate, and unless the army of the Human Innovation Alliance wins another decisive victory on the battlefield, this stalemate will probably not be broken for a while.