A hurricane had just hit the coast of Florida in the United States. Washington, on the east coast, was also affected by the hurricane and was raining heavily. At 1 a.m. Washington time, the Admiralty Department of Washington received a telegram from Admiral Ingram.

"The main force of the Atlantic Fleet is being attacked!"

The telegram was handed over to Admiral Ernest King, Commander-in-Chief. At this time, Admiral Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy, was having a meeting in the president's office, and Admiral King directly sent the phone to the White House.

"Our fleet suffered a significant loss?! This is absolutely impossible!" President Roosevelt's first reaction was incredible.

"I have confirmed the authenticity of the news. Our fleet did suffer attacks at night, and lost three heavy cruisers, one light cruiser and four destroyers, and four aircraft carriers, four heavy cruisers and two light cruisers, and our losses were huge." Knox said, "The enemy had been ambushed and the attack came very suddenly. General Ingram focused on the German fleet, but the attack was not the German fleet landed in Iceland, but another German-Austrian fleet."

"Can our navy still guarantee the security of the United States?" Roosevelt couldn't help but mutter. The process of the war disappointed him. The United States had nothing except obtaining several British archipelagos from the Caribbean. Instead, it lost the Philippines, the most important base in Asia. He obviously forgot that it was precisely because of the huge pressure from the White House that the Admiralty Department hurriedly provided reinforcements to Iceland under insufficient strength, which led to the failure of the naval battle.

"We must painfully admit this. The current strength of the German Navy is stronger than that of the US Navy, and the Austro-Hungarian Navy is obviously far beyond our pre-war estimates." Hopkins was helping Knox to smooth things over. "The Austrians are trying their best to seize the property left by the British Empire, perhaps our strategic focus should be shifted to the Pacific and to strengthen Australia's defense."

Hopkins' meaning is obvious. The United States' strategy should be to temporarily give up Europe and instead seek to compete with Germany and Austria for the dominance of the British's greatest legacy - Australia.

"Are we seeking to get more at the negotiating table?" Secretary of State Hull suddenly said, it can be expected that the United States will not have the ability to fight back in the next year, and Germany and Austria now control the resources of the entire Europe, the Middle East and most of Africa, and their war capabilities are not inferior to the United States.

"It's not the time yet. At least we need to take a certain initiative on the battlefield to start peace talks. And now... at least they are not able to enter near the coast of the United States, aren't they?" Roosevelt raised his head and turned his eyes to Air Force Commander General Arnold.

"This is not a big problem. At most, their submarine forces can do some small damage!" Arnold said firmly. The US Air Force is now equipped with about 28,000 combat aircraft. His confidence is not unfounded.

Just as the White House was urgently discussing the handling plan after the fleet was attacked, the Austrian emperor was also in the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Prime Minister Stletcher, Foreign Minister Schwarzenig, Army Minister Schwarzenberg and Navy Secretary Holtie were closely watching the battle situation in the Iceland waters and discussing the overall future strategy.

"Unfortunately, due to the impact of the storm, our fleet could not take advantage of the victory and pursue it. Continue to expand the results of the battle..." Marshal Holtie reported the latest battle situation to the emperor and the prime minister slowly. Due to the influence of bad weather, the German and Austrian fleet can only temporarily sail to the Norwegian Sea to avoid the storm, thus allowing the Americans to escape from death and escape. According to the report of the submarine force, the severely damaged American fleet has left Iceland under the cover of wind and rain and retreated to its homeland.

What makes Germany and Austria talk about is that during an attack, the German submarine sank the USS Yorkington aircraft carrier, which has been hit hard by the US Navy.

“God won’t always be on their side!”

Lee Haydn said lightly. The ending of a war will always be the result of the comparison of strength between the two sides. In the case of modern industrial warfare, the disadvantaged side may win one or two battles, but it is difficult to change the direction of the entire battle situation. Until now, what he can finally be sure of is that Germany and Austria will not lose everything like in another time and space.

At least, neither the United States nor Russia have the ability to fight to Berlin or Vienna.

Of course, he did not think that the Axis powers had the ability to defeat the United States. As for the complete conquest of the Soviet Union, it was not the result he wanted. However, it was in line with the fundamental interests of Germany and Austria as much as possible.

"The Russians must be punished for their war actions..." Li Heiden took a pencil and drew a straight line along the line between Kursk, Voronezh, Saratov and Ural City on the map. "This area will be compensated for the Don Republic as war compensation, and the Turkestan region will leave the Soviet Union and become some independent countries. As for the Finns' border issues, the Germans will solve them."

"Your Majesty, Prime Minister Franco hopes that the Kingdom of Spain can join the World Security Alliance you advocate as soon as possible, and hopes that Spain can regain the commissioned power of the Philippines." Foreign Minister Schnig said.

"We can partially agree to their request. The establishment of a new order will inevitably have some beneficiaries. If we want to change the old system, we must first defeat these immediate interests. What we need is to share these interests, not monopolize them. In this way, these countries that have benefited... will tie them to our chariots and strive to maintain the new order we have established. The navy's battle against the Falkland Islands must also be stepped up. Before the Americans are fully prepared, we will also pull the Argentines onto this chariot."

Lee Hayden said that the Imperial Navy had formulated a combat plan to capture the Malvinas Islands, and his idea was to hand it over to the Argentines, so that Britain and the Arabs would become a feud. In order to preserve this territory, the Argentines would inevitably turn completely to Germany and Austria, and willingly invite Germany and Austria to use Stanley Port as a permanent naval base.

The vested interests of this war will inevitably form a huge military alliance, and in order to protect these immediate interests, members of this alliance will inevitably stand firmly on Germany and Austria's side and charge to maintain the new world order established by the German and Austria axis.

Every emerging challenger will be suppressed and sanctioned by the entire alliance, and will eventually be isolated and weakened, thus unable to pose a real threat to the entire interest group. Of course, establishing such a new world order and rules requires Germany and Austria to sacrifice part of the benefits seized in the war and "share" with all the allies.
Chapter completed!