During this time, Chen Feng's life was very leisurely, he wandered around every day accompanied by the Soviet high-level officials, and occasionally went back to watch Wang Chonghui and the Soviet representatives arguing, and he had a beautiful life.

However, it was at this point that news came from the South Pacific that broke the temporary calm - the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and the United States declared war on Japan.

This happened suddenly, and even Chen Feng himself was not prepared, although it was said that Japan would attack the United States and declare war on the United States was inevitable. But isn't it December in this world, so although Chen Feng told Li Zong and others, who were far away in Japan, to pay attention to the dynamics of the Japanese government and base camp at all times, he did not expect that Japan would start a war at this time.

In addition to eliminating the prank, it was determined that Japan did launch a sneak attack on the Pearl Harbor Naval Base in Hawaii on the morning of July 22, 1941, causing a large number of warships anchored at the Pearl Harbor Base to be sunk and damaged, and also causing a large number of casualties, a total of 6 American warships were sunk: 6 battleships, 1 heavy cruiser, 2 oil tankers, 2 heavy damage and Zhongchuang battleships, 1 heavy cruiser, 6 B-class cruisers, 3 destroyers, and 3 support ships; A total of 300 Army and Navy aircraft were destroyed.

In addition, the Japanese navy's sneak attack also caused considerable damage to harbors, airfields, and other facilities; The U.S. suffered 2,403 killed and 1,178 seriously wounded. The losses of the Japanese side were only 8 fighters, 15 carrier-based bombers, and 5 ship-based attack planes, a total of 28 planes, and 74 bombed planes.

In addition to the time, the tactics of this sneak attack and the Warring States Fruit caused by the most reluctant are the same as in history. Nothing has changed. When the news came, the world world shook.

After receiving the news from China, Chen Feng immediately received his resignation, and he needed to return to China immediately to cope with this change in the overall situation.

Before leaving, however, Stalin again invited Chen Feng to the Kremlin for talks with him.

Chen Feng did not refuse Stalin's invitation, the situation in the world has changed so much, Chen Feng also wants to hear Stalin's views, after all, the Soviet Union is also an important part of the anti-fascist forces in the world, which is far more important than China.

It's still that study. Or these two people. One drank Chinese tea, the other drank European coffee, and nothing changed. But now Chen Feng and Stalin are in a very different mood from the last time they met, and Stalin was choked like a grandson by Chen Feng last time. But he could only pinch his nose and admit it.

However. The news came that the United States and Japan had declared war on each other at the same time. Stalin was in a good mood, the war between the United States and Japan was undoubtedly good news for the Soviet Union, as soon as the two countries went to war. There were three major advantages for the Soviet Union, the first of which was the elimination of the threat from the Far East, and Stalin did not believe that Japan would attack the United States and the Soviet Union at the same time.

In fact, this morning the Japanese ambassador to the Soviet Union had already offered to hold talks with Stalin, but Stalin refused, and only arranged for the Soviet foreign minister to meet with the Japanese ambassador for a while. In fact, there is no need to meet Stalin to know the meaning of the Japanese, which is the same as the meaning of sending people to Tokyo after the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, that is, to ask the other side to strictly abide by the neutrality treaty and not to do the thing of robbery while the fire is hot.

Now that Japan is at war with the United States, the Japanese, of course, are also afraid that the Soviet Union will attack the puppet Manchukuo at this time, hoping that the Soviet Union will stick to the neutrality pact.

This was very good news for the now crumbling Soviet Union, which at least could concentrate on dealing with Germany without having to be distracted by the Japanese.

Secondly, the war between the United States and Japan means that the United States is also involved in this war, whether the United States wants to or not, it has been tied to the same chariot with the Soviet Union, and it is inevitable to assist the Soviet Union to block and consume Germany's vitality, as long as the United States agrees to aid the Soviet Union, then the Soviet Union has the confidence to persist in fighting.

The last point of benefit is about Sino-Soviet relations, before Stalin was most worried about Chen Feng, a bastard, who had to return the millions of square kilometers of territory to the Soviet Union, but from the bottom of his heart, Stalin was very reluctant to do this, as I said before, although those territories were forcibly plundered back from the Chinese government, but in order to develop these lands, the Russian government also invested manpower, financial and material resources, and now the return involves the ownership of hundreds of towns. Tens of millions of Soviet people were involved.

There was no way before, after all, Chen Feng showed the butcher knife nakedly, and if he didn't agree, he would beat you, and if he promised, he would help you, so the Soviet Union would give in.

But now it is different, as soon as the United States and Japan declare war, the Soviet Union feels that its opportunity has come, the threat is lifted, and the supplies of aid can be expected. The most important thing is that the United States and the Nationalist Government are on good terms, the two sides are now communicating frequently, and the relationship between the United States and Chen Feng is also very good, and Chen Feng will definitely not let Chen Feng send troops to attack the Soviet Union, so Stalin has other ideas about the ongoing negotiations.

"Chen, Japan has attacked the US naval base, Roosevelt has declared war on Japan!" Stalin said with emotion.

"I already know this, the Americans have suffered a lot!" Chen Feng replied.

"Chen, you are an excellent tactician, who do you think can achieve the most victorious victory between the United States and Japan?" Stalin asked with a smile.

Chen Feng looked at Stalin and said, "Your Excellency Stalin, do you think Japan can achieve the ultimate victory in the war?" ”

"This is not necessarily, but the Japanese Navy is indeed very strong, although the strength of the US Navy is developing rapidly, but it is not enough to compete with the Japanese Navy, especially this sneak attack on the United States has suffered such heavy losses, it is difficult to do anything in a short period of time." Stalin Road.

Without waiting for Chen Feng to answer, Stalin continued: "The Japanese Navy not only has a strong fleet, but the most enviable thing is that it has a group of naval commanders with rich combat experience, and there is no one who has more say in this than our Soviet Navy. ”

Chen Feng knew what Stalin meant, and the reason why the Soviet Union knew so much about the Japanese Navy was because the Soviet Navy had suffered losses at the hands of the Japanese Navy, and it was a big loss. In 1905, the two countries fought a naval battle in the Tsushima Strait between the Korean Peninsula and Honshu, Japan, in which the combined fleet under the command of Japanese Admiral Heihachiro Togo faced the Russian Second Pacific Fleet under the command of Vice Admiral Rozed Stefansky.

In this battle, 21 of the 38 Russian warships were sunk, 9 were captured, a total of 270,000 tons of ships were lost, 4,830 were killed, and 5,917 were captured; The Japanese lost only 3 torpedo boats, less than 300 tons, 117 killed and 587 wounded, and Japan achieved an unprecedented victory.

Chen Feng also agrees with what Stalin said, especially the use of carrier-based aircraft to sneak attack US naval bases, this tactic is absolutely advanced.

"Your Excellency, there is no doubt that the Japanese navy is indeed strong, but I think that even so, the Japanese will not be able to achieve the ultimate victory in the war, because Japan is only a snake, and this snake now wants to swallow all the elephants in the vicinity, which is impossible, because a snake is a snake, and no snake can swallow an elephant." Chen Feng said.

"But the Japanese did succeed, the U.S. Pacific Fleet suffered heavy losses, the United States, which lost air and sea supremacy, could not hold their colonies at all, and when the warships transferred by the Americans from the continental United States arrived in the South Pacific, I am afraid that the Japanese would have occupied all the islands in the South Pacific a long time ago, of course, including your territory and Australia, with the support of the resources of these places, the Japanese are fully capable of carrying on the war, aren't they?" Stalin retorted.

Chen Feng smiled and said: "Your Excellency Stalin, you think too simply, the Japanese Navy has indeed achieved an unprecedented victory, as you said, under the premise of an unprecedented victory in the Navy, the Japanese Army will also achieve an unprecedented victory, and the entire South Pacific region will fall, but it does not include my territory and Australia." ”

"But the victory of the Japanese was a fluke, not because their strength really surpassed that of the United States and Britain, but for another reason!"

Stalin smiled and said, "Chen, what are you talking about about the changes in the international situation?" The victory of the Japanese is indeed a bit of a fluke, but victory is victory, even if it is an element of luck, it cannot change the fact that the US Navy has been hit hard, sometimes luck is strength, many people are excellent in all aspects, but they have never been able to succeed, and some people may have such and such shortcomings, but they succeed, this is luck, sometimes luck is far more important than strength. ”

"What if it's not luck?"

Stalin obviously did not understand Chen Feng's words, and asked with a frown: "How do you understand this sentence?" ”

"Hehe, I mean, what if the Japanese victory wasn't just a fluke or a matter of luck?" Chen Feng said with a smile.

"It's not luck, what's that? According to information obtained by our intelligence agencies, the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, a huge formation of six aircraft carriers, two battleships, three cruisers, and nine destroyers, set sail from the Kuril Islands and headed eastward, passing through the northern route, which is windy in winter and has few ships, and adopted radio silence and other covert means to approach Pearl Harbor, the main base of the US Pacific Fleet. ”

"And this sneak attack on the US naval base, Japan used a new tactic, this new tactic is to use carrier-based aircraft to carry heavy bombs and torpedoes to attack the US fleet at Pearl Harbor, this tactic has proved to be very successful, after more than two hours of attack, the US Pacific Fleet has been heavily damaged, it is said that the Japanese planes near Pearl Harbor when the US radar has found them, but they think it is their own plane, so they ignore it, otherwise the casualties and losses will be much smaller, This can only be said that the luck of the Japanese is too good. Stalin said.

Chen Feng smiled and said, "What Your Excellency saw was only a superficial phenomenon, in fact, the Pearl Harbor incident was a conspiracy through and through!" (To be continued......)