"Nani?"

Senetori, the commander of the 1st Division, Lieutenant General Kotaro Hattori finally waited for news from China, but the content was too unexpected for him:

"The ambassador, military attaché, and expatriates in Germany have all been arrested?"

"Or did the Germans capture it?!"

With his eyes wide, Hattori couldn't help but ask about the accuracy of the information in his hand.

The Reich and Germany are allies!

Ally.

And it is an ally with resources for technical cooperation.

Although the scale is relatively small, after all, there is no direct line of communication, and only communication can be carried out by submarine, and the Reich sends some scarce materials to Germany, and Germany sends technology to the Reich.

But it also represents the cooperation and trust of both sides.

As far as he knew, not long ago, the Empire also provided aircraft engine technology to improve the horsepower and stability of the Empire's aircraft, and the Empire sent a batch of rare ores to the other side.

Why did it suddenly collapse?

"Hey."

The debriefing staff officer replied:

"It has been confirmed that the military attaché and the embassy in Germany can no longer be contacted in China, and the German ambassador stationed in the Reich has been secretly evacuated, and the news has been published in German commercial newspapers."

The abdomen listened to the mouth and the corners of the mouth twitched.

"In addition, Germany has withdrawn from the Axis, and several other European countries have also withdrawn, and now..."

The staff officer's tone was bitter.

Now, the empire has really become a lonely axis.

"Let's go down."

Hattori waved his hand, his tone helpless.

He has no problem asking about night vision device technology, and now that both countries are in this situation, technical exchanges are impossible, and the weaknesses of the night vision device he wants are naturally out of play.

So, what's really going on?

Let Germany and the Reich completely tear their faces, even at the expense of capturing ambassadors, military attachés, and even expatriates?

Although accepting the reality, Hattori was still puzzled.

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Shikazhuang.

Yamamoto Headquarters,

"Germany withdrew from the Axis Alliance, and captured the Reich's military attachés, masters, journalists, and expatriates in Germany?"

Hearing the news, Yamamoto's shock did not last long, and he quickly began to think deeply about the matter.

At the national level, there is no friendship, only interests.

The two countries that were hooked up one second ago, and the next second, suddenly fought more often, These seemingly absurd things, under the cocoon, the core reason is interests after all.

The alliance between the Reich and Germany was based on strategic mutual needs, on the needs of national interests.

The Reich needed Germany's powerful army to hold back the European powers, to buy time for the southward movement and invasion of Southeast Asia, and also needed a source of technology, while Germany needed the Reich's powerful navy to contain the United States, Britain, and the Reich's Kwantung Army to threaten the Soviet Union.

Everything is for their own benefit.

Now that the world situation has become clear, Germany has been defeated and retreated one after another, and the empire is also declining, and the communication between the two sides depends on underwater submarines, which is a drop in the bucket.

But as I said before, between countries, there are only interests.

There must be something, or some interest, that deserves to turn Germany against the Reich for this.

Thinking of this, Yamamoto Kazuki narrowed his eyes and looked at the map on the table next to him, focusing his gaze on Ping'an Prefecture on the map.

"Is it ·····?"

Yamamoto thought of a person.

A person who is a nightmare, a person who has been investigated by the imperial intelligence department for four years but has gained nothing, a person who has single-handedly contributed to the current situation in Shanxi, and even the entire Republic of China.

What is it that deserves to turn the other cheek between Germany and the Reich now?

It's actually easy to think about.

The current situation in Germany is clear to Yamamoto.

Resources, fuel, weapons and equipment, food, and one person, or a force, could supply it in large quantities and transport it to the Germans.

"Interesting."

Thinking of this, Yamamoto suddenly laughed.

All the while, he had been thinking about the man's purpose, but things were so weird that at first, he couldn't even make a valid guess, because the series of actions didn't make sense at all.

Later, it was discovered that this person was hiring Li Yunlong to target the Japanese Empire, although it still felt strange and unreasonable.

By now, he had already understood that no matter where this Chen Fan came from, his purpose was to transfuse blood to that group of people and make that group of people strong in this world.

For this purpose, these actions are justified.

If what he speculated was true, that person and the forces behind him provided Germany with a large amount of supplies, not much, as long as there was half or even a third of Li Yunlong's, it would be enough.

With the current state of the world, it becomes very interesting.

He's looking forward to what's next.

"General?"

Looking at Yamamoto's smile, the staff officer who reported was stupid.

The empire was abandoned by its allies, ambassadors, military attachés, and even expatriates were arrested, and the empire lost its allies, and it actually laughed, and it seemed to be a sincere smile, which made the staff officers weird.

"Navy, is there any news about the U.S. fleet?"

Yamamoto smiled and asked.

He remembered that not long ago, the Americans had abruptly stopped exerting pressure on the empire, under the pretext that Europe had opened a second theater of war, and that it was necessary to mobilize naval forces to maintain the security of maritime transport in the Atlantic and to fully supply the landing force.

With the production capacity of the United States, will it not be able to supply two battles?

Yamamoto didn't believe it.

"Yes."

The staff officer replied:

"The Americans have already sent some destroyers to the Atlantic, and they have stopped their offensive, but they have increased their shipping to Southeast Asia only."

"But..."

Speaking of this, the staff officer paused before continuing:

"According to the intelligence of the special high-tech department, the Americans even took away the bombers in the Republic of China, saying that they were going to Europe."

"Sure enough."

Yamamoto nodded suddenly, and the smile on his lips was even worse.

The purpose of the Americans, he could not be clearer.

Although Li Yunlong's gang was frantically killing the Imperial troops, they were also giving the Empire food and fuel, and giving the Empire blood transfusions, especially heavy oil, so that the Empire had the ability to continue to fight the Americans.

Its own strength has increased rapidly, and near Ping'an County, a super-large industrial zone has been established with the naked eye.

According to the information he had, this alone had one-fifth of the industrial capacity of the empire, and even the technical capacity was far exceeded. And the scale cares about the incredible speed of expansion. It won't be long before the industrial scale of the Republic of China will completely surpass the peak of the empire.

And its troops.

Not only Li Yunlong's independent regiment, but also other units began to change their outfits.

That unit, all the staff of the independent regiment were equipped with the same set of equipment, tanks, planes, artillery, trucks, armored vehicles, and directly completed mechanization.

Although the current progress is slow due to a lack of talents, the scale of the light infantry, he is sure, has long surpassed the total number of troops sent by the Republic of China. If you add recruits, militia, etc., I'm afraid that if it weren't for the Kwantung Army, it wouldn't be able to compare.

It's just that because of the short time and the lack of officers and talents, there is no action at present to concentrate on the development of industrial education.

It is foreseeable that with the support of that Chen Fan, it will not be long before a super force will rise.

Clearly, the biggest beneficiary of this war.

The Americans he was in a hurry.

So he relaxed the pressure on the empire, intending to let the empire and the people of the Republic of China consume each other.

And the other side, the backhand is to support the Germans and make the excuses of the Americans come true.

"Interesting, really interesting."

Yamamoto couldn't help but laugh.