"I need the latest intelligence on Turkey and their movements, it must be accurate!"

Along with Stalin's order, an extremely detailed piece of information was soon sent to him, along with the Soviet People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Molotov.

"The Germans have recently become more and more active in Turkey, and there are now voices in Turkish politics that they are joining the war against us, and our people have not found that the Turkish military has a large-scale military deployment, but there are various indications that a part of the Turkish army has indeed been transferred to the vicinity of the border, but it seems that the number of troops is not very large, and it is a secret transfer, so our information is not particularly accurate."

Molotov was uninvited, and although his position was only that of the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, he had an extraordinary position within the Soviet Union, and he was also a man whom Stalin trusted himself.

"You mean, they're going to turn the other cheek with us?"

"No, I don't think they have the courage to turn against us, and now these moves, I guess they are only trying to prevent our troops from rushing down from the Caucasus and attacking Germany via Turkey. So in the Turkish direction, there is not much need to scruple. But at the same time, it is absolutely impossible for our fleet to sail into Istanbul, so the preservation of the Black Sea Fleet is absolutely a luxury, and it is absolutely impossible to accomplish it. ”

"Two days, exactly when the German fleet crossed the Aegean Sea from Volos and then across the Sea of Marmara to Istanbul, Comrade Stalin, we cannot wait any longer, we must make a decision at once! Abandon the Black Sea Fleet and thus save the entire USSR! ”

Hearing that Molotov was also agreeing with his idea, Budyonny immediately stepped forward and gestured with his hand on the map, trying to prove it to Stalin.

"Must be sunk?"

"The ship must be sunk!"

"Okay, then sink it......"

Stalin hung his hands to his side a little weakly, and the Black Sea Fleet had not fired a single shot so far, but it was going to sink itself to the bottom of the sea, and this kind of thing was definitely a very helpless decision for Stalin.

With the order from Moscow, the Black Sea Fleet immediately went out and went straight to the place where the Marmara Strait connects with the Black Sea.

The German fleet was also moving at full speed, and the target was there.

The Germans used the simplest conspiracy to force the Soviet side to agree to a 48-hour truce, and all the units of the German Army on the surface stopped combat operations at the first time, but this did not mean that the German Navy needed to stop.

The German Navy will never let go of this 48-hour armistice.

Two huge fleets traveled opposite each other for the same destination, but in terms of distance, the Soviet Red Navy was clearly faster than the German fleet, they were closer to the Strait of Marmara!

Finally, after just 20 hours, the first battleship of the Black Sea Fleet arrived outside Istanbul.

The Turkish government was in danger of being afraid that the Russians would blow up Istanbul directly, and all the troops were fully put into combat readiness, ready to fight at any time, and at the same time immediately contacted the German government for help.

However, on the German side, German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop only told the Turkish side to be calm and did not say a word.

Sure enough, as Ribbentrop said, the Black Sea Fleet did not launch an attack on Istanbul, but instead chose the shipwreck at the entrance to the strait, leaving only life-saving sampans and very small ships as ferries to transport the Red Navy soldiers who had chosen to sink and had nowhere to return to Ukraine.

The sinking of the Black Sea Fleet to block the Strait of Marmara caused the Germans to be furious, and at the same time, the Turkish government began to protest to the Soviet side, because all the Soviet ships sank within the territorial waters of Turkey......

Stalin laughed at the protests of Turkey and the irritability of the Germans, which seemed to have succeeded in preventing and disrupting the next battle plan of the Germans, leaving the Germans without a chance to attack Ukraine from behind.

Before 48 hours had passed, the German fleet stopped advancing, and it seemed that knowing that the strait was blocked, there was no way to proceed with the next battle plan, but to wait for new orders.

The navy has no choice, but the army is still mighty.

Field Marshal von Bock personally led an armored division as an escort and led dozens of media reporters from all over the world to Smolensk with a bold swagger along the way.

But in reality, no one even noticed that the number of this army was always one or two less than inadvertently, and every time they passed through some important place, this would be the case.

......

Compared with the calm and usual on the surface, secretly the Soviet Union and Germany, and even the United States and Japan outside the region, are surging undercurrents.

The Soviets and Japan privately armistice between the Soviet Union and Japan were able to withdraw their troops stationed in Siberia and quickly move to Europe by rail, while the Japanese side increased the clearance of the Chinese-occupied areas after less pressure from the north, and the Japanese navy was also formulating a new battle plan, and they would use all the forces they could to solve the unprecedented predicament that Japan was facing at present.

Under Roosevelt's arrangement, the United States continued to move to the brink of war, and at the same time intensified all kinds of interrogations and interrogations of the Japanese in the United States.

On the German side, although the Navy's plan to enter the Black Sea was broken, it did not mean that the Germans had nothing to do during these 48 hours, and the constant telegrams from the wolf's den had proved that the Germans were moving even more massively.

Because of the 48-hour armistice, after the plan to attack the Caucasus was temporarily terminated, Rommel finally waited for the order from the wolf's den again, according to the order, as soon as the 48-hour truce time arrived, his troops would immediately enter the combat state and rush into the Caucasus as soon as possible.

As for Li Ling, well, it should be said that he is the only one who is idle, after returning from Germany, Li Ling originally wanted to move his army north, but because of this incident, he was delayed, and the troops completely stopped moving.

In this case, Li Ling, who had nothing to do, obviously did not have the consciousness that a military commander should have, and did not study the next operational deployment, did not reorganize the troops, and did not care about the wounded in the troops, but instead chatted with Lin Chenxi, the recruit he had just brought back from Germany, about his parents.