Section 519 Review of the Russo-Finnish War

Although Qiu Fatzi praised Finland, he said, "Finland alone, outstanding and noble Finland under the threat of death, shows what a free man can do." Finland's contribution to humanity is great, and if the light of freedom is finally extinguished in northern Scandinavia, it may well herald the return of the Dark Ages. But in private, Wu Daguan thinks that if the Indians can fight hard with China under the leadership of the British, maybe Qiu Fatzi's tone will be higher, and in short, the children who die are the children of other families.

"We can also see the gap in comparison with the Polish war. First of all, we must admit that the Finns are far superior to the Polishes in terms of culture, physical fitness, solidarity and morality. In Finland, there are farmers and lumberjacks who are tall and athletic, with a cold expression and a certain amount of cultural knowledge. It can be seen that in any era, it is extremely important for children, whether boys or girls, to carry out cultural education, physical training, team spirit cultivation and will quality training. "Chief of General Staff Zhang Jianyuan speaks at a review meeting on the Russian-Finnish war." Although our country's overall strength far exceeds Finland's, it may not be stronger than Finland in terms of the quality of unit personnel, so there is still a lot of room for improvement in our national defense soft power. There are two key points in the next stage of national defense construction: First, we should continue to enhance our overall national defense strength, base ourselves on the idea of joining the war as soon as possible and fighting a protracted war, make full ideological preparations and material plans, and quickly complete the main attack with absolute superiority, which is the only way to shorten the course of the war and reduce the war losses. ”

"According to the plan, Finland carried out a national mobilization in late October last year and evacuated the population on the Karelian Isthmus, clearing the wilderness. By the beginning of the war, the Finnish Army had expanded to 127,000 men, consisting of five corps, nine infantry divisions, one cavalry brigade and a number of independent border guards. There are also 300,000 reservists, 100,000 reserve "National Guards" and 100,000 women's service corps. However, the Finnish army was very short of anti-tank guns and ammunition and fuel, and there were only about 100 anti-tank guns in the whole army, and the ammunition was only enough for two months and the artillery shells were only enough for three weeks of combat. The Air Force is also insufficient, with only 30 bombers, 56 fighters, and 59 reconnaissance aircraft. The disparity in absolute strength was the result of the fact that the Finns had to endure humiliation and make peace at the same time as they had achieved great results. As the head of the logistics department, Zhu Yunjie also has a deep understanding of the demand for materials in modern warfare.

"Well, during the war, Finland actually expected to receive assistance from Western powers, but Germany was busy preparing to fight with France and Britain at that time, and was unwilling to intensify the contradictions with Russia, so although there were small moves against the Russian-Finnish conflict, it could not be put on the table. Although Britain and France expressed their willingness to send troops to support Finland, Sweden and Norway refused to allow British and French troops to cross the border for fear that Germany would spread the war throughout Scandinavia. As a result, it was not until February this year that Finland received 156 aircraft, more than 400 artillery pieces, 85 anti-tank guns and some other military supplies from Britain and France. However, at this time, Finland had fallen into the point of running out of soldiers and ammunition and food, and British and French aid was only a drop in the bucket and of no avail. For these small and medium-sized countries, big countries can never be allies that can be relied on. When we are preparing for war mobilization, we should pay attention to strengthening our relations with our subject countries, so that we can fully mobilize the troops and manpower of our subject countries to serve our war process, and at the same time, we must also take into account their interests and demands. "Although Mr. Duan has taken a back seat, today's war mobilization preparation meeting is of great importance, and he must also attend to cheer for his apprentices. Lao Duan's 30-year-old General Staff is no longer comparable to ordinary generals, and he pays more attention to the game at the national level. China now has many vassal countries, and if we count the younger brothers like White Russia and Borneo, if we can get the subject countries to contribute through the equalization of interests, it is equivalent to the war potential of China as a country comparable to the two camps of Europe.

"Yes, the mobilization of the subject countries is also an issue that we must consider before we fully participate in the war, and I believe that the Ministry of National Defense, the General Staff, the Government Affairs Yuan, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will appoint relevant responsible persons and experts to form a mobilization committee for the subject countries to make overall arrangements for this work. The mobilization forces of the subject countries should be unified under the command of the General Staff Headquarters, and a joint command center may be established when necessary. Wu Chenxuan pondered for a while, he was also very worried about the war situation in Europe, after all, his boss had not come back from the European battlefield, so he took a few formal photos in the uniform of a lieutenant colonel of the German army, and asked his sister to snatch it to show off in the class, which attracted a large group of fans for her brother. In addition, we must strengthen our forces in Europe, mainly to prevent the Red Russia from making trouble for Germany in the Balkans, and if we can delay this summer, we will be able to free up the Germans to deal with the Eastern Front, and then the time will be ripe for our full involvement. ”

Although Finland maintained good relations with the Western countries and received military aid from them, when it came time to fight the behemoth of Red Russia, Finland received little help. Britain has provided Finland with weapons and equipment worth 211 million Finnish marks, Germany has helped build an extensive network of airfields for the Finnish Air Force, and British and German military instructors have been helping Finland train officers. Finland built a strong defensive line named after Mannerheim on the Karelian Isthmus with the support of Western experts, and Russia's proximity to the West often raised the alarm of Russia. As early as the spring of the seventeenth year, when Russia took the initiative to hold secret negotiations with Finland, it began to test the possibility of realizing its various attempts on the Finnish question. During the negotiations, the Russian representative bluntly put forward the demand that Russia use Finnish territory to meet the invading enemy in the event of a possible invasion of Russia by a third country to the east and through Finland, and also expressed Russia's desire to obtain the right to fortify certain islands in the Gulf of Finland. However, Finland pursues a policy of non-involvement in great power conflicts, declaring that it will never stand on the side of one power against another. As a result, all secret negotiations did not yield any results because of Finland's rejection of Russia's demands.

On August 23, the 17th year of the Lunar New Year, Russia and Germany signed the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact, which included a secret clause dividing spheres of influence among the Eastern European countries between the two countries, including Finland being assigned to Russia. On 1 September, Germany attacked Poland, followed by Red Russia in the east, and within a few weeks, the two countries partitioned Poland. Germany, out of the need not to provoke Russia too much and thus concentrate its forces on defeating Britain and France, was not very active in helping Finland.

On December 1, the seventeenth year of the Lunar Republic, Russia supported the establishment of the government of the "Finnish People's Republic" headed by Otto61 Wilhelmovich61 Kuusinen, hoping to incite the socialists in the Finnish army to revolt, but without success, and the republic only existed until March 12 of the following year, when it was later incorporated into the Karelia-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic. During this period, Russia's behavior was regarded by the vast majority of Finns and most countries of the world as an invasion of sovereign states, and Uncle Georgia was clearly not good at international relations, and he was not even as good as a mustache in this regard.

The Russo-Finnish war took place on the Finnish side of the Soviet-Finnish border, which stretched for nearly 1,500 kilometers. The terrain, transportation, and climate here are different from those of the Central European Plain, and it is a special battlefield that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, which is conducive to the operation of the Finnish army's lightly armed small units, but not conducive to the operation of the Russian army's heavy and large troops. In this case, if China intervenes in the Russo-Finnish war, it may not be able to obtain benefits, after all, compared with the Red Russian army, the Chinese defense force has more heavy troops, and the demand for transportation and logistics supplies is also greater.

"Now it seems that the pit in Finland is still too shallow, and the polar bear's front paws have not even passed, so the time is not yet ripe for us to wait. It will also take at least half a year for the Germans to turn around against polar bears after landing in the UK. The power of Britain and France in Southeast Asia has been weakened to a certain extent, and the focus of the next stage is still on the south, and the north is mainly on containment. Although the strength of Britain and France has been exhausted, the commercial strength of the United States continues to erode the Southeast Asian market, in this case, there is a small Japan with an ambiguous attitude in the East China Sea, and the risk of rashly opening a copy of the north is extremely great, and the benefits are not obvious, China has no need to give the mustache a chestnut, it is better to continue to maintain the continental communication line between China and Germany, and the technology exported by China is rapidly developing in Germany. The large number of laborers in the concentration camp was now happy, and there was no danger of being sent to the bathroom to collect soap, because there were not enough manpower, and the three shifts could not supply the German army. The appetite of the recovering big fat man is also good, and the ammunition he wants from the mustache has surged, which has the meaning of helping Britain to build a new city. After a large number of Jews were sent to concentration camps, some people found the Chinese foreign offices, and they had to be paid for with money. Although the trade between China and Germany is not very transparent, but such a large amount of Chinese equipment appeared in the hands of the German army, and the fool also understands the secret, the Sino-British war in India has not ended, and if the mustache takes the old nest of the British, it will be beneficial to China, and since China and Germany have actually formed an alliance, it is most appropriate for the Jewish rescue plan to be handed over to the Chinese side.

Zhou Zhongfu's visit to five European countries this time, except for Turkey, which belongs to the strategic layout, the other countries are all for the same purpose, to get more benefits from the mustache, of course, the sweetness can not forget him, several technologies, especially the transfer of production technology for the improved Hound tank, the "Whirlwind" bomber and the "Eagle" fighter plus the upgrading and transformation of the Romanian oil field, are enough to make the mustache bleed, so the first batch of 500,000 Jews were sent to Italy by train from the concentration camps, and then sent to China on an American passenger liner. Of course, the rules of plucking geese are not easy to break, and China does not accept everyone, except for a small number of technicians, most of whom are teachers, doctors and other technical personnel, and the rest of the young and middle-aged people are sent to the icy and snowy Irkutsk region and near Tashkent, where they exist in the name of the Jewish Production and Construction Corps to build a large base for logistical support for strategic operations in the north. There are also many young Jewish girls who fall in love with the local Chinese Wehrmacht soldiers, after all, China's beliefs are not xenophobic, and over the years, the resident foreign population who have settled in China alone has been on the list of tens of thousands, and foreign-related marriages are not uncommon, except for the iron-gray uniforms of the Wehrmacht and the field gray of the German army, there is basically not much that can prevent Jewish girls from falling in love with Wehrmacht officers and soldiers. Northern Xinjiang also began to prosper after a large influx of people, but in Wu Chenxuan's eyes, all this was ultimately to prepare for the next Northern Expedition.

Now China will face an important choice, just like the little devil back then, whether to go north or south, of course, China's capital is not generally thick, once the time is ripe, this gamble will determine the pattern of the world in the next hundred years.