The melodious waltz, the elegant and luxurious long skirts whirlpooled on the dance floor, and there was still fighting in front of them, but the palace in Vienna seemed to be in peace. After the welcome dinner for the German emperor, the dance party began.

At this time, in a secret room on the second floor of the palace hall, the emperors of Germany and Austria, Marshal Rudendolf, Marshal Spee, Marshal Boloevic, and Marshal Negovan, who represent the military forces of the two countries, are conducting a dirty deal on the future division of influence in North Africa and the Middle East.

"Very good. The Sinai Peninsula and the Asia Minor Peninsula belong to you, while Egypt and British Somaliland belong to Germany and the Suez Canal area is left to Germany and Austria. As compensation, Germany agreed to transfer the Crim Peninsula to Austro-Hungary." William II was generous. Germany was coveted against Lithuania, Belarus and Latvia. The Austrians were unwilling to get involved in the matter between them and the Russians. In the division of power in North Africa, the Germans seemed to have a great advantage and gained control of Egypt.

Lee Hayden didn't want it there, but the Suez Canal was bound to win. As long as the Germans refused to give up Egypt, their grudges with the British would continue forever. In this way, the German-Austrian alliance would become more reliable, and Germany would have to accommodate Austro-Hungary in many international affairs and disputes, and act as a free protector.

"Well, after controlling the Suez Canal area, we can sit down with the British and Americans to discuss the issue of peace. Judging from the current situation, the possibility of landing in the UK is very small, and our navy does not have an advantage over the British and Americans." Lee Hayden said, "How is the negotiations with the Russians going?"

"It's not very smooth. Although the Social-DPP is in power in Russia now and they also hope to withdraw from the war as soon as possible, they feel that the peace conditions we have proposed are too harsh." Ludendolf said.

"But this is better than unconditional surrender. Although such a peace treaty is not very decent, the war compensation of 3 billion rubles is not a small amount. It seems that we have to continue to put military pressure on them." Li Haydn said. Germany and Austria proposed to Russia that the crippled peace agreements of Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia and Belarus to Germany, and all Ukraine to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the compensation of 3 billion rubles was harsh terms of peace talks, which caused serious differences within the Bolshevik party, which had just ruled in Russia, and the peace treaty was delayed.

Despite this, the war on the Eastern Front was actually over, and the Petrograd regime could now command only about 350,000 Red Army troops, which could not resist the attack of the German and Austrian coalition forces.

"Yes, your majesty, we are developing new combat plans to put more pressure on the Russians," Boloevich said.

"Very good, when will we be ready to attack Egypt?" said William II.

"According to the battle plan formulated by Marshal Markenson and General Kovis, the Egyptian battle will be launched around mid-November. We plan to invest a total of about 900,000 troops from four armies. In addition, the Austro-Hungarian North African Legion will also launch an attack on the Alexander area at the same time." Ludendolf said.

"Haydn, I heard you are preparing to dispatch the Central Army in the Middle East?" William II suddenly said, "Will those yellow people fight? The British and Americans are putting pressure on that Eastern country."

"William, the East is a large market, with more than 400 million people." Li Haidn said, "In the history of the East, there was a very famous prime minister in ancient times. When he was a merchant, he met a prince who was hostage in the capital of Zhao State. At that time, the great power in the East had not been unified and was divided into many countries and fought against each other. In order to avoid war, sometimes the prince with a lower status would be sent to the other party's country to be hostages. After seeing the prince, the merchant immediately said: 'Investing in a prince and supporting him to become a king is a profitable business!' So he spent a lot of money on this prince and finally let the prince inherit the throne. In this way, he controlled the country, became the prime minister, and became the richest person in the world."

"What do you mean? Do you want to control that country?" William said in surprise.

"Why not? To control it, it is worth it, and we will eventually get a generous reward." Lee Hayden said with a smile: "In the current situation, the most effective way to control this country is to control their army. You understand what I mean, Stoser?" He turned his head and said to Bolojevic.

"Yes, Your Majesty, I understand your intentions." Boloevich said, but His Majesty the Emperor once said that the officers sent by that country are divided into two factions, but they have allowed these two factions to control about half of the Chinese team. They seem to be unbiased and no one supports them. He is not very clear about the emperor's intention to do this, but in front of the German emperor, some things cannot be said now.

After reaching a dirt-shattering agreement, Boloevich quickly rushed back to the Ukrainian front. He now needs to work with the Germans to let the Russians taste the taste of failure and collapse again. Only in this way can the Russians quickly accept the humiliating treaty that is close to unconditional surrender.

Russia is over. The question now is how far the German and Austrian coalition forces want to advance. If they force the Russians to aggravate, they can retreat to Siberia and continue to fight against Germany and Austria for a long war of resistance. The result will be more than worth the loss. But the problem is that a powerful Russia is by no means in the interests of Germany, nor in the interests of Austria-Hungary. The British have been ruling away the responsibility for the war and have been accusing that the real cause of this war was that the Austro-Hungarian Empire wanted to annex Serbia, thus entangling all countries into the war.

In fact, there is a deeper reason here. The Russians have always coveted the Balkans and are deluding to establish a Great Slavic country dominated by Orthodox Church. This is naturally inseparable from the Catholic Austro-Hungarian Empire. In fact, if the British were not supporting them, Nicholas II would not dare to go to war with Austro-Hungarian.

Nothing is useful to comment on this now. The Tsar has fallen and it is said that his entire family has been imprisoned. Now, the poor former Tsar has lost his ability to protect his family.

To weaken Russia to the greatest extent possible, this is a strategy formulated by the imperial emperor himself. A split former empire is of course most in line with Austro-Hungary's interests, but why did the emperor confidently say that Russia would inevitably be in turmoil? At least for now, there is no such sign. The Soviets have controlled the situation in Russia. In fact, Russia's political situation became stable after overthrowing Kerensky's provisional government.

The Soviet regime also announced that it would hold its first Duma election in December.

Anyway, there is no sign of turmoil at all.

"Where is the opportunity?" Bolojevic thought.
Chapter completed!