In fact, he was one of the lucky few of the 199 division commanders of the Red Army who were not purged, and his professional level was not much higher than that of the major and captain promoted by the rockets. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 However, in this Finn home field of ice and snow, he is destined to lose due to environmental discomfort and the incompetence of his subordinates.

As soon as the order from the division headquarters was issued, one Soviet infantry battalion that received the task immediately rushed to the rear where the explosion occurred. However, the battalion commander of this battalion had only attended a crash course for 14 weeks, and when the enemy situation was completely unknown, he directly chose to press the troops on the entire front, and did not think at all of sending a small force of men and horses to disperse in all directions to carry out avant-garde reconnaissance and information gathering. As a result, the battalion had only advanced a few hundred meters in the snow before encountering the Finnish squad, and the hundreds of men were slowed down by this sporadic gunfight at night, and they only cared about the enemy in front of them, and completely forgot that there were still friendly troops to rescue themselves.

While this support force was still lingering, the main force of the Finnish army, which had infiltrated the rear of the Soviet army, had already launched a general attack on the target. They were separate chasers directly under the Finnish Isthmus Army, whose mission was to attack the Soviet army's logistical supply lines and delay and hinder the advance of the main Soviet forces as much as possible. The Finns are equipped with skis that can come and go freely in the snow, which can easily form a local advantage over the Soviet baggage on the battlefield, and break through each one; The Soviet baggage personnel, who were already unable to move, were suddenly attacked, and they were beaten to the ground in a few rounds, throwing down the vehicles in their hands and fleeing with their lives. The Finnish soldiers did not chase after them, but simply blew up the military supplies in front of them with grenades and explosives they carried: without these supplies, the Soviet offensive would be greatly curtailed, and this method of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle would be much more useful than eliminating a few soldiers.

The Finnish hunters raged for more than an hour, and only then turned around and retreated when the other side's reinforcements could not be delayed. Using rifle butts as ski poles, they left the Soviets far behind at a speed comparable to that of motorcycles. Under the cover of night, the Finnish hunters managed to cross the edges of the two fronts, making a detour back from frozen lakes and dense forests. By the time Soviet reinforcements arrived at the scene of the incident, the perpetrators had already run away with no figures, only the blazing carts and fragments of ammunition clearly showed what kind of destruction had taken place here.

After receiving the on-site damage report sent back by the baggage team, the Soviet division commander could not help but turn pale. In the blink of an eye, the Finns had destroyed nearly half of his supplies, including a batch of ingredients that were about to be used by the cooking troops. In any case, tomorrow's offensive will be difficult to implement. Just as he was tossing and turning at the division headquarters, pondering how to explain the result to the commander of the army group, he received bitter but fortunate news from friendly forces that he was not the only one who had been attacked by the Finns, and that several other divisions had suffered greater losses than himself. Under the foil of this defeat, most of the commanders of the group army will only punish themselves with a small punishment.

"By December 5, the all-out Soviet offensive on the Finnish Mannerheim Line had been a complete failure. The Soviets advanced only 1~2 km on some sections, and the main highlands and road junctions remained firmly in the hands of the Finns. The fighting east of Lake Ladoga was also similar to that of the Karelian Isthmus on the front, with one and a half Soviet armies firmly held back from the main sector by two Finnish divisions, without any tangible results at all. ”

In the office of the Chancellery in Berlin, the commander-in-chief of the German army, Brauchitsch, was reporting to Hitler about the winter war in northern Europe. As soon as Hitler postponed the date of the Western Offensive on the Western Front, the dark clouds that hung over Brauchitsch's mind immediately drifted away, replaced by a passion for his work and an infinite hope for a better future. Whether it was the training and reorganization of the army, the formulation of battle plans, or the analysis of intelligence on all sides, Brauchitsch did it with relish, forgetting how he wanted to resign a month earlier in order to get rid of Hitler's domination.

"The only place where the Soviets made a breakthrough was in central Finland, where both divisions advanced more than 30 kilometers, but this was not because the Finns had suffered defeat, but because the latter had only a small force in this area due to the limitations of their forces. But even so, this Soviet army could not continue to advance in a short time. The area they are currently in is a rugged snow-capped hill, unfamiliar roads and logistical fatigue are big problems that cannot be solved; This, coupled with the fact that the Finns constantly sent ski squads to attack the rear transport lines of the Soviet army, made it impossible for the Soviets to defend themselves and not continue the offensive. If the Soviet commanders had forcibly ordered the march, they would have had to repeat the tragedy of the winter of 1914 in which the Turks froze to death and starved to death in the mountains of the Transcaucasia. ”

Hitler listened quietly, and there was a bit of happiness in his heart, which was like learning that a certain profiteer who had once knocked him a bamboo pole had suddenly been beaten with a sack and a smothered stick when he went out this morning, which made his resentment grow and he could not speak. Thinking of the nearly half of Poland that was reaped and gobbled up by the Soviet Union, the high prices set by the Soviet Union for raw materials on trade agreements, and the fact that the Soviet Union included Lithuania, which should have belonged to Germany, into his sphere of influence, Hitler couldn't help but cheer loudly in his heart: Russians, you also have today!

"General Brauchitsch, will this stalemate be broken soon by the absolute superiority of the Soviet Union?" Hitler controlled his emotions well and asked out loud. Brauchitsch shook his head and said, "Judging from the battlefield intelligence sent back by our correspondent in the Soviet army, it will be quite difficult for the Soviet army to break through the opponent's main line of defense. At present, the biggest obstacle to the advance of the Soviet army is the snow cover and the overly complex battlefield terrain: not only is it difficult to deploy heavy equipment, but the efficiency of its logistics support will be greatly reduced due to its heavy dependence on roads. The Finns had already taken a fancy to the latter point, and they continued to send ski teams to attack the roads and blow up Soviet supplies, making the Soviet offensive even more unsustainable due to material shortages. ”

Although the Soviet Air Force was not affected by this factor, due to the high latitude of Finland, there were less than six hours of sunshine in winter, which was tantamount to weakening the air superiority of the Soviet army in disguise, making their ground support far less than in normal times. In addition, the commanders at the grassroots level of the Soviet army generally lacked military qualities, and their actual combat command was extremely poor. None of this can be changed in a short period of time. Therefore, as long as the Finns had sufficient fighting spirit, ammunition, and food, the Soviet army would not be able to achieve decisive results for at least two months. Brauchitsch said.

Hitler was a little shocked when he heard this, he did not expect Brauchitsch to give him such a judgment. After all, from an emotional point of view, it was too strange for the Soviet Union to be able to attack Finland, a small country with a total population of less than its own army, for a long time. However, the current reality is so shocking: if according to Hitler's previous estimates, the Soviets have already swept through Karelia, conquered Vyborg, Finland's second largest city, and at the same time are heading towards Helsinki, where will they still be entangled with the Finns on the national border?

As his mind turned, Hitler couldn't help but think of his true homeland, Austria-Hungary. In the world war 25 years ago, Austria-Hungary launched a full-front attack on Serbia in the south with the strength of Mount Tai, but the result was that Austria-Hungary was knocked out of Serbia's teeth. It was not until the main German forces moved south the following year that the Balkans were completely wiped out. How similar is the situation of the USSR to Finland today to Austria-Hungary in the past!

Suddenly, the gloom of the East that hung over Hitler's mind dissipated for the most part. He found that today's **** Soviet Russia seems to be the same as the Tsarist Russia in the past, it is a skin bear paper tiger with foreign power and middle strength; Just rush up and give it a series of sharp long punches to knock this seemingly powerful foe to the ground!

"However, there is no war with the Soviet Union at the moment." Hitler pondered quietly. Not to mention that Britain and France are still eyeing the West, the current Soviet-Finnish engagement is still in its infancy, and Germany still needs more time to assess the true combat strength of the Soviet army. Suddenly, a thought crossed Hitler's mind: why didn't he make the touchstone of Finland more weighty and representative, so as to fully demonstrate the power of the Soviet Union in front of him?

"General Brauchitsch, thank you very much for the high professionalism you have shown on this issue. However, the Western Front is our most important battlefield, and I hope that the Army will be able to complete the offensive preparations as soon as possible and ensure that the weather is favorable to launch an attack immediately. Hitler had already made up his mind, and then he immediately admonished. Hitler always had concerns about Brauchitsch's will to fight, so he always knocked the other side from time to time. In fact, Hitler's misgivings are now somewhat redundant, and Brauchitsch, who had been remediated by Enwei last month, had lost all courage to disobey orders and no longer dared to rebel in his strategic decisions.

What's more, with the continuous training and rearmament of the German army, the combat effectiveness became stronger and stronger, and Brauchitsch's resistance to attacking Western Europe became smaller and smaller. I didn't dare to attack because of lack of preparation; Now that the soldiers are rioting, the blood of the troops is full, and the offensive and defensive technology has been completed, I feel that I have an advantage, and it is not impossible to go out to test the water in a wave!

After reporting to Hitler on the state of the army's preparations, Brauchitsch, who had completed the task, got up and took his leave. Hitler smiled and shook his hand goodbye, and the scene of harmony made it impossible to imagine what a bitter argument had taken place a month earlier. Seeing Brauchitsch's figure disappear at the door of his office, Hitler's eyes flashed with a sharp light. After a few moments, his expression returned to normal; Retracted his gaze, then picked up the phone on the table. (To be continued.) )