In fact, the biggest reliance of these opponents is the support of the United States and Britain. It was inevitable that the United States and Britain would support the Soviet Union, after all, they had a common enemy. As early as April 15, the night of the Soviet attack, Churchill made a radio speech in London, in which he foresaw that the war against the Soviet Union was a prelude to an attempted invasion of the British Isles, and that Britain and the Soviet Union shared a common goal, and threw an olive branch to the Soviet Union.

Subsequently, parts of this speech were published in Pravda. Although the Kremlin had not yet reacted to Churchill at that time, his speech was satisfactorily accepted by the Soviet government and people. Overnight, Cripps became popular. On May 12, at the suggestion of the Soviet Union, a joint Anglo-Soviet declaration was signed, pledging to support each other in the future and not to make peace with the common enemy alone.

At the same time, in the United States, Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell. Hull's views were largely in line with Churchill's, and they were anxious to come to the aid of the Soviet Union. On May 26, Summer. Wells announced that the Soviet Union would not be excluded by the neutrality bill. The Soviet Union reacted immediately, and the Soviet ambassador to Washington, Omansky, submitted to the US State Department a manifest requesting supplies of a staggering amount, worth almost two billion dollars, one of which alone included three thousand fighters and three thousand bombers.

Washington, however, was reluctant to let the United States undertake such a huge aid program, fearing that the Soviet Union would soon lose and the supplies fall into the hands of the Germans. It was felt that the political and military situation in the USSR needed to be investigated, since the US Secretaries of the Army and the Navy believed that the USSR would not be able to keep itself from defeat for no more than three months. Judgments of intelligence and reports received by Washington are contradictory and inconsistent.

U.S. Military Attache in Moscow Ivan. Major Yeaton liked to find fault with the Soviet army and was pessimistic about the chances of the Soviet Union surviving. The British chiefs of staff in London believed that within six weeks the Germans would enter Moscow. So now the Kremlin is tangled. Although the United States and Britain promised to support the Soviet Union, they did not have a specific and detailed plan, and now that the Germans are pressing forward step by step, many high-ranking Soviet officials, including Stalin, are really worried about whether the Soviet Union can wait for the assistance of the United States and Britain.

When Stalin brought this telegram and all the other intelligence gathered by the intelligence officers to all the top leaders present, everyone fell silent, they knew very well what was going on in the Soviet Union, and if they were given time, they were convinced that the Soviet Union could hold out. After all, Slavic peoples are peoples with a long history. It has formed its own national character and national culture, and it is not so casual to be conquered.

But if the German army continues to maintain this sharp offensive and endless offensive, then the Soviet Union will not have the time, energy and money to continue to build new troops, which will mean that the Soviet Union's defense strength will be less and less. If there is another force to intervene at this time. That's a big problem.

Moreover, the Soviet Union has only been a state for 20 years. 20 years is still very young for a country, and being young means that it has not gone through much wind and rain and cannot withstand the wind and rain. This war was an unprecedented test for the Soviet Union. The test of life and death must be dealt with carefully.

The Kremlin meeting, which lasted three hours, was not only longer than the previous meetings, but also relatively more formal, and at Stalin's request, special minutes and minutes were made for this meeting, and every high-level statement was recorded.

After all, this is the ownership of millions of square kilometers of land, and any decision must comply with the regulations, otherwise Hu will have to bear the infamy for thousands of years.

On the morning of July 10, at the invitation of Stalin, Chen Feng went to the Kremlin again for an interview with him, and this meeting was much more harmonious than the previous one, and the smell of gunpowder was very light, although the two people were not necessarily very friendly, but on the surface they were harmonious.

After some long talks, Stalin, on behalf of the Soviet side, agreed in principle to Chen Feng's demand that all the inherent territories that originally belonged to China be returned, and that the two sides of the territories of all Chinese vassal states negotiate to determine their ownership.

However, Chen Feng's department must provide the Soviet Union with the weapons and equipment needed for 70 infantry divisions within three months, and all the 2,400 tanks produced by the tank factory on the Soviet-Mongolian border between the two sides must be replenished to the Soviet Red Army.

In addition, there were two places where the Soviet Union wanted not to return China for the time being, which was considered a lease from the Soviet Union, one was Sakhalin, and the other was Vladivostok, that is, Sakhalin and Vladivostok.

The Soviet Union also explained the reason, Sakhalin was the largest oil-producing area of the Soviet Union in the Far East, and if Sakhalin was returned to China now, the Soviet Red Army in the Far East would have to transport oil from Siberia. Moreover, it is now in the period of partition between the north and the south of Sakhalin, according to the "Peace of Portsmouth" after the Russo-Japanese War, Tsarist Russia ceded the area south of Sakhalin Island south of 50 degrees north latitude to Japan, so Japan also has a general say on the island, even if the Soviet Union returns Sakhalin Island to China, with China's current strength, it will not be able to hold it, but will cheapen the Japanese in vain.

And then there is Vladivostok, which is actually Vladivostok in China. The Soviet Union, called Vladivostok, is the most important city of the Soviet Union in the Far East, and it is also the most important port of the Soviet Union in the Far East.

According to the agreement between the Soviet Union and the United States government, the two sides would open a sea route from the west coast of the United States to Vladivostok to transport weapons and equipment and supplies aided by the United States. If the Soviet Union returned Vladivostok to China, it would have a great impact on the plan, so the Soviet Union asked to keep these two places for the time being.

Considering the practical difficulties, Chen Feng agreed to Stalin's request. After the two of them reached an agreement, the general direction was determined, and the specific things were left to the people below to do.

When Chen Feng sent someone to inform Wang Chonghui, he asked him to start negotiations with the representatives sent by the Soviet side tomorrow, and he, the foreign minister, would be the chief negotiator and have full authority to handle the negotiations.

After receiving this notice, Wang Chonghui and the others were stunned, they could not imagine that the Soviets would accept Chen Feng's request, which was incredible. You must know that this is a forcible cutting off of several million square kilometers of land from the Soviet Union, which is no less than a direct invasion of the Soviet Union.

Although it is said that all these lands were acquired by the tsarist government through improper means, from the Soviet side, it was the place where their predecessors had worked hard to plan for future generations to survive, and they were all returned at once, and no one wanted to leave it alone.

In the past few days, news has been coming out among the high-level leaders of the Soviet Union, and they also have a certain understanding of the results of the talks. But I didn't expect Chen Feng to change the Soviet Union's mind, this method is really amazing.

In fact, the submission of the Soviets was expected by Chen Feng. It is true that there are some people in the Kremlin, and more than one person, who do not agree to the return of the part of the territory occupied by China, and if this kind of thing had been put three months ago, it is likely that the Soviet side will continue to increase its troops in the Far East, and even a war will break out.

But when the Soviet Union was attacked by Germany, the situation was different, and Stalin had every reason to fear that Chen Feng and the Japanese would also intervene. Not long ago, the Soviet ambassador to Tokyo asked the Japanese Foreign Minister whether Japan wanted to abide by the neutrality pact, and he received a vague reply, that is, Japan was likely to enter the war.

Chen Feng's department gathered more than 100,000 troops in Ulaanbaatar, although it was ostensibly used to deal with the Kwantung Army, and it did fight a battle with the Kwantung Army, but as long as there were troops, attacking Japan and attacking the Soviet Union only depended on Chen Feng's mood, and in essence, it had formed a huge threat to the Soviet Union.

Therefore, Chen Feng had long predicted that the Soviet Union would not really be at ease before the United States entered the war, and they would always be worried that they would be threatened by the Kwantung Army and the Chinese side, and would not dare to reduce the troops there.

The Soviet Union is right to have such worries, Chen Feng's subordinates are better to say, after all, with the bastard of Japan, even if it really sends troops to the Soviet Union, it will not bring down Moscow. But this is not the case with Japan, which is a first-class military power. The Japanese army and navy aircraft were qualitatively superior to the Soviet Air Force, and if Japan had made a move, the Soviet Air Force in the Far East could have been quickly destroyed.

On the other hand, the Japanese tank forces were relatively weak, and sixteen infantry divisions could hardly be a strong enough force to penetrate deep into Siberia. But it would allow the USSR to lose the coastal industrial zones of Vladivostok and Sakhalin in the Far East, which would affect half of the West's import aid.

On the other hand, if Japan had gone all out against the Soviet Union without fighting the United States and Great Britain, the entire Soviet Union might have been quickly occupied by others if Japan had entered the war in the summer as a close ally of Germany.

Now Chen Feng came over with cheese and a machete, not to mention Stalin, anyone would choose cheese, although Chen Feng's cheese was a little salty and sour, but it was better than being hacked to death with a knife.

At this point, Chen Feng was also greatly relieved, as long as they Stalin reached a consensus on the general direction, then the rest of the things would be easy to do, and China's recovery of the lost territory would be considered a success.

Looking at the territories that China has lost in the past few hundred years, they were mainly occupied by Tsarist Russia, and now that this problem has been solved, then Chen Feng's mission and tasks will be equivalent to completing more than half of them, and the rest is Japan, the second hooligan, and the British little hooligan. (To be continued......)