On February 26, 1940, the Soviet Union officially declared war on Finland at 3 a.m. after all parties actively persuaded to make peace.

Finland, on the other hand, immediately declared war on the Soviet Union after receiving a declaration of war from the Soviet Union, and then began to deploy troops in accordance with the defense plan that had been set up long ago.

After the two Axis countries declared war on each other, Italy, Czech Republic, Poland, and Spain also immediately declared war on the Soviet Union in accordance with the "Axis Agreement", and only Germany did not immediately declare war because it had signed the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact" with the Soviet Union.

However, although Germany did not declare war on the Soviet Union, it was the country that helped Finland the most among the Axis powers - Lyon, like other Axis powers, not only sent a transport fleet carrying tens of thousands of tons of military supplies to the port of Bechaimo to assist Finland at the first time, but also notified the commander of the German army in Finland to change the number of the troops, and directly participated in the Soviet-Finnish war in the name of the German Volunteer Army to resist the Soviet Union and assist the Finnish army against the Soviet Red Army.

He even temporarily incorporated the aircraft carriers Count Zeppelin, the aircraft carrier Deutschland, the battleship Admiral Scher, the battleship Tirpitz, the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen and the heavy cruiser Lützov into the German Northern Fleet, which originally had only one heavy cruiser and a few light cruisers, led by Admiral Raeder himself, and rushed to the Barents Sea at full speed ahead of the transport fleet to deter the Soviet Red Navy.

At 6 o'clock in the morning of the 26th, the Soviet offensive officially began, and more than 540,000 troops attacked Finland by three routes: south, center, and north.

The central part of the main direction of attack, under the direct command of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR, Supreme Commander of the Soviet Army, Marshal of the Soviet Union Kliment Yevremovich Voroshilov, under the jurisdiction of the Seventh Army (ten infantry divisions, six tank brigades, a total of about 240,000 soldiers, 1,500 tanks, 900 artillery, 300 aircraft, according to the plan, is responsible for attacking north from the north of Leningrad along the west bank of Lake Ladoga, breaking through the Finnish Maniheim Line, and capturing Viipuri, Finland's second largest city, then advance to the capital Helsinki) and the Eighth Army (seven infantry divisions, one tank brigade, about 150,000 soldiers, 545 tanks, 520 artillery pieces, 200 aircraft, according to the plan, to attack west along the north shore of Lake Ladoga until it joins up with the Eighth Army and crush the resistance of the Finnish army in a pincer offensive)

The northern part is the direction of the auxiliary attack, which is under the direct command of Soviet General Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko (the previous Timoshenko did not take office in a hurry until a month and a half before the end of the Soviet-Finnish war, and formed the Soviet Northwest Front to clean up the mess Voroshilov, but in this life he took command of the northern offensive early because of the threat of the Finnish army), under the jurisdiction of the Ninth Army (five infantry divisions, 95,000 soldiers, 275 combat vehicles, 360 artillery, 100 aircraft), According to the plan, it was responsible for attacking the Bechaimo area westward from Murmansk, resolving the dynamics of the 50,000 Fender troops stationed at the Bechaimo army base, and then going south 500 kilometers along the "Polar Circle Highway" and then westward to the Swedish border.

Again, in the south, as in the central front, under the direct command of Voroshilov, the Fourteenth Army (three infantry divisions, 55,000 men, 165 tanks, 220 artillery pieces, and 70 aircraft) was responsible for attacking from Somussalmi to Oulu on the Gulf of Bothnia, cutting Finland in half and cutting off land communications with Sweden.

Compared with the careful deployment and planning of the Soviet Union, the Finnish side is very rough, and their combat thinking is still stuck in the First World War, deploying most of the troops on the Mannerheim Line on the west bank of Lake Ladoga, waiting for the Soviet army to advance all the way here.

The Soviet-Finnish War, although it did not take place at the end of 39 years due to Finland's accession to the Axis, did not take place as it did in history, but it did come anyway.

Soviet-Finnish border, Bechaimo, on the outskirts of the German defense zone.

Although spring is only two days away, Finland in the Arctic Circle still does not feel even the slightest warmth, especially in Bechaimo, the northernmost part of the country.

"Damn, it's so cold!" A Soviet private cowered in a makeshift trench, rubbing his hands together and complaining to his companion, "If I knew I was coming to this damn north, I wouldn't have been drafted to death." ”

"yes, why do we have southerners to fight in the north?" His companions were also dissatisfied.

"Hey, you two!" Just as the two of them were cursing that "the officers in charge of the assignment are a bunch of idiots", an officer with the rank of second lieutenant came out of the company headquarters set up in the trench not far away and shouted to the two, "Go get some firewood, the fire in the headquarters is going to be extinguished!" ”

"A group of masters!" The two of them cursed in a low voice.

Then he reluctantly stood up and asked, "Sir! Where do we go to get firewood? ”

"Are you idiots?!" The officer in the command headquarters, who had just wanted to walk back to the warmth, stopped, walked to the two of them angrily, and then pulled the two to the combat seat, pointed to a forest a few hundred meters away on the left, and said, "See there?" Go there and do it! ”

"Huh? It's too far away......" the two replied with dark faces.

"Don't talk nonsense! Let you go! The officer glared at the two men and turned to jump back into the trench, but with a "poof" sound, he fell straight down and collapsed in the trench like a puddle of mud.

The two soldiers stared at the thin-headed officer in the trench with wide eyes and surprise, and a word came to their minds.

"Sniper!" Both shouted at the same time.

At the same time, two hundred meters away from the Soviet position, a "snowdrift" moved, and a yellow-orange-orange shell was thrown from a "branch" in front of the snowdrift.

Simon glanced at the "lively" Soviet position not far away, silently picked up the bullet case from the ground, stuffed it into the white waist bag on his waist, and then pushed the bolt of the Mosin Nagant M28 in his hand to push a bullet into the chamber from the magazine.

"I didn't have a steel helmet, I should be an officer." Simon muttered.

"Phew!" As Simon spoke, a crisp gunshot rang out beside him.

There is another sniper here.

"This is the first officer you've killed?" Tias, who was dressed in a white camouflage suit like Simon, picked up the 7.92mm Mauser rifle cartridge casing that had fallen next to the gun, also put it in his pocket, and asked Simon.

"Seven." Simon thought for a moment and said, "What about you?" How many have you killed? ”

Hearing this, Tias touched the cloth bag around his waist and replied, "Almost twenty or so, but there are not many officers—not as many as you anyway." ”

"That's not bad." Simon smiled.

Two different gunshots alternated again on the snow-white plain, like a symphony.

Simon Heyer and Tias Heizenor are fascinated by their art.