As mentioned earlier, the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact signed between Germany and the Soviet Union was nothing more than a piece of paper to appease the Soviet Union. Germany needed a stable rear so that it could go to war with Britain and France. However, the Soviet Union wanted to bring disaster to the west, so the two sides hit it off, and the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact" was signed.

But the fundamental policy antagonism between Germany and the Soviet Union towards the Balkans and the Near East did not change at all, and Hitler would not miss the opportunity to clean up the Soviet Union as long as the time came. As a result, the German government unilaterally abandoned the policy of cooperating the Soviet Union with the Triple Alliance. At the same time, due to the sudden outbreak of war in the Far East of the Soviet Union and the poor performance of the Soviet Red Army in the war, Hitler quickly made up his mind to fight against the Soviet Union and issued a secret order to the whole army to prepare for battle. Therefore, at such a moment, the Germans also needed a trustworthy ally, so this Triple Entente came into being.

Hitler's actions were seen by the Soviets, and at the same time they were anxious, and the amazing performance of the German army in Europe made Stalin and others extremely worried. In fact, after the Soviet-Finnish war, Stalin was already aware of the huge negative impact of the Great Purge, for which Stalin also carried out certain remedies, releasing about 4,000 captured officers, and even including Rokossov's famous generals among the released generals.

Despite this, Stalin was extremely skeptical about the combat effectiveness of the Soviet Red Army, which had performed so badly in the Soviet-Finnish war that the situation in the Far East had taken a turn for the worse. Stalin did not make a very sincere statement, he actually had an unknown purpose in his heart, he wanted to use Chen Feng's department as a whetstone for the Soviet Red Army, as an outstanding officer, Stalin knew very well how much a hearty victory was stimulating for an army or even a country, so he sat back and waited for the situation to deteriorate until it developed to the point where it is today.

However, the war in the Far East did not develop in the direction that Stalin wanted to see, and in the first battle, the Soviet-Mongolian coalition army was hunted by Chen Feng's troops, and more than 70,000 people were killed and wounded in the first battle, and two additional aviation divisions were added. The ensuing war terrified Stalin. In less than half a month. The situation in the Far East has unexpectedly deteriorated to the point of being out of control, and although there are still more than 300,000 troops in the Far East, the main technical arms have almost lost all casualties.

More importantly, he lost air supremacy, but Chen Feng's air power was outrageously strong. If it weren't for Lieutenant General Vasilyev's risk, he fought a street battle at close range with Chen Feng's subordinates. With more than 30,000 people, more than 10,000 troops of the guard division were defeated. Hit the guard division hard, otherwise, Chen Feng's troops would probably have hit Zongmod or even Ulaanbaatar by now.

The war in the Far East made Stalin aware of a fact. That is, the Soviet Red Army, which he was proud of, was in fact not as powerful as it seemed on the surface, and even China, which he had always looked down upon. The army can't beat it.

In addition to creating a huge mess, the Far Eastern campaign also led to another huge consequence. The Germans, who were still unable to figure out the reality of the Soviet Union, finally had the bottom, and their mentality of being ready to move made people dare not look at it directly. Japan, another powerful enemy in the Far East, did not say anything about it now with the mentality of reaping the benefits of the fisherman, but the surge of troops in the puppet Manchurian region also gave Stalin a great headache.

Now Stalin regretted it, really regretted it, the chain reaction caused by the war was extremely unfavorable to the Soviet Union, and if it was not handled well, the Soviet Union was likely to be attacked from many sides by China and Germany, and even by China, Germany, and Japan. A German Stalin was not afraid, and in the face of Germany, Stalin's mentality was exactly the same as that of the old Chiang in the face of Japan, a strong enemy, and that Germany was just playing a game of swallowing elephants. At most, the price paid by the Soviet Union was a little greater, but it was not so much that the country was destroyed.

A Japan is nothing, after all, the Battle of Nomenkan and the Zhang Gufeng Incident have proved that the invincible Oriental dwarf is just like that, and Bushido can't do the great Soviet tank. If it's just against Japan, it's really not certain who will fight whom.

One China is nothing, don't look at the Chinese making trouble in the Far East now, it is just that the Soviet Union does not dare to transfer European troops to the Far East, and the main force of the Far Eastern Front is still in Boli and other places, and the only ones fighting with Chen Feng's troops are some second-rate corps, and only the First Red Banner Army can be listed in Moscow.

If only in the face of one China, Stalin would not have thought about the victory or defeat of the war at all, he would only think about how much benefit he could knock out from the Chinese.

But now that the entire Soviet Union is threatened from the west, center, and east at the same time, and any enemy must be confronted by the Soviet Union, the problem is serious.

As a last resort, Stalin had to send a telegram to Zhukov at the front, instructing Zhukov to end the war under Chen Feng as soon as possible, to fight hard or to negotiate peace, to reach an armistice agreement with the Chinese as soon as possible, the great Soviet Union must go all out to deal with Germany in Western Europe, and it is nothing for the Chinese to deal with afterwards.

However, less than an hour after Stalin's telegram was sent, Zhukov sent an urgent reply, and just half an hour earlier, Chen Feng's headquarters had suddenly appeared in Zonmod, and then surrounded the more than 40,000 Soviet-Mongolian regiments stationed in Zonmod, and could attack at any time.

It turned out that Ma Cao was extremely dissatisfied with the battle of Saiyin Shanda that had just passed, and now the total number of dead soldiers in the guard division has exceeded 3,700, and there are also seven or eight thousand wounded lying in the field hospital. Despite their brilliant record, the heavy casualties still made Ma Cao extremely angry.

Like Chen Feng, Ma Cao is also a kind of revenge that does not stay overnight. He asked the 101st Division to urgently transfer a regiment to garrison Saiyin Shanda, while he himself quietly set off north with the remaining 17,000 men of the guard division under the cover of night, rushing to Zongmod, the capital of the Central Province of Mongolia.

This time, Ma Cao and the others acted extremely secretively, and abandoned the railroad and marched along the uninhabited meadow. In order to achieve the effect of silently approaching the city, the guard post was placed thirty miles away when the guard division marched, and all the herdsmen encountered on the road were carried together to march, so until they were about to arrive in Zonmod, the Soviet-Mongolian coalition army did not find anything unusual.

On the night of June 19, the guard division suddenly launched an attack on Zonmod, although the Soviet-Mongolian coalition army reacted in time and finally repelled the attack of the guard division, but the four lines of defense on the periphery of Zonmod were all destroyed, and the guard division completed the encirclement of Zonmod, and at the same time, this battle also eliminated more than 20,000 Soviet-Mongolian coalition troops, and the sneak attack was very successful.

On the morning of the 20th, Ma Cao and others continued to attack the Soviet-Mongolian coalition forces in the city of Zongmod, and the battle lasted until 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and the city was broken! The defenders of the city received Zhukov's order and immediately retreated in the direction of Ulaanbaatar.

As Zhukov sent a mechanized corps to respond, Zonmod's defenders finally broke through after paying heavy casualties.

After the Guards Division captured Dzongmod, Chen Feng ordered the entire 101st Division to immediately accelerate its northward movement, then join forces with the Guards Division, and then march towards Ulaanbaatar, while the former enemy headquarters advanced to Dzongmod.

On the 22nd, Chen Feng's unit arrived in Ulaanbaatar.

Ulaanbaatar is the capital of Outer Mongolia and the political, economic, and cultural center of the entire Mongolian Plateau, so Zhukov and Choibalsan cannot retreat back in any case.

In order to defend this last line of defense, the Soviet Red Army mobilized 150,000 men in Ulaanbaatar, and Mongolia also urgently transferred more than 30,000 people from four cavalry divisions from all over the country, and at the same time temporarily recruited 60,000 young and middle-aged people into the troops and distributed weapons. As a result, the Soviet-Mongolian defenders in Ulaanbaatar reached as many as 240,000.

In addition, the Soviet-Mongolian coalition army in Ulaanbaatar also gathered 820 tanks and 1,800 artillery pieces, of which 70% of the tanks were the latest Soviet tanks. Here Zhukov made a bloody investment, although Stalin authorized Zhukov to wait for an opportunity to negotiate with Chen Feng's subordinates. But Zhukov knew that if there were no achievements in the military, then the negotiations would be nothing more than slaughter.

Therefore, although this negotiation must be carried out, how to proceed is still a long-term consideration. Zhukov has always believed that it is better to promote peace through simple peace talks, and only when the two sides have the strength to wrestle their wrists militarily can they make each other equal individuals in the negotiation process, otherwise the peace talks will just be sent to the door for slaughter.

Zhukov believed that as long as Ulaanbaatar was held, it would be best to drag out the war until the end of July, and then Chen Feng's strategic materials would be almost consumed, and peace talks would be a matter of course.

On the other hand, Chen Feng's department had only two divisions of troops assembled on the front line in Ulaanbaatar, of which less than 15,000 were left in the guard division, and the two main divisions together were only 50,000 people, plus an army aviation brigade and an armored division, the total strength was only more than 60,000 people, only about a quarter of the Soviet-Mongolian coalition army.

Despite this, on the Ulaanbaatar front, it was Chen Feng's troops who occupied the initiative in the war, so since the 6.8 air battle, the Soviet-Mongolian coalition forces have lost air supremacy, and how many of their troops can only nest in the fortifications, waiting for the Northern Air Force to bomb.

With Chen Feng's troops and the Soviet-Mongolian coalition forces putting on a strategic decisive battle posture, coupled with the signing of the treaty between Germany, Italy and Japan and the turmoil stirred by Japan's launch of the Battle of Changsha, the situation in the world became even more turbulent for a while, and everyone's eyes turned to the east and turned to the Chinese battlefield. (To be continued......)