In the early morning of February 7, 1940, Timoshenko skillfully transferred two cutting-edge armored brigades to the rear of the 7th Army left behind by Meretskov, and launched a surprise attack on the main defensive zone of the southern front of the Mannerheim Line with the Seventh Army at dawn, opening a breakthrough 5 kilometers wide and 5~6 kilometers deep. After that, a large number of rapid clusters transferred from the Kiev Military District were put into battle, and the Finnish army was pressed back to the 2nd defensive zone.

In addition, the Nordic Army stationed in the northern part of the Mannerheim Line had already existed in name only, and the Swedish division and the Norwegian battalion were both separated from the battlefield, resulting in the opening of the northern defense zone. Since then, the Mannerheim Line has been in complete collapse.

On February 8, 1940, the Soviet government's tentative armistice negotiations with the Finnish government began to tentatively start armistice negotiations with the Finnish government due to the thwart of the joint attack of the Soviet 7th Army and the 13th Army on the Finnish Army's 2nd defensive zone.

At the same time as the Finnish government was in contact, the Soviet troops at the front were not idle. Under the command of Timoshenko, they adjusted their deployment and replenished ammunition in order to break through the second defensive belt of the Finnish army. As soon as the negotiations break down, they will quickly launch a new offensive.

On the other hand, the Finnish army, under the leadership of Field Marshal Mannerheim, took the opportunity to recuperate, replenished a batch of weapons and ammunition sent by the League of Nations, and transferred part of the troops north of Lake Ladoga to the south to strengthen the Vyborg defenses, which were empty due to the departure of the Nordic army.

On February 12, 1940, before the Soviet-Finnish negotiations were concluded, the Soviet troops on the front suddenly resumed their offensive and quickly approached the rear defense of the Finnish army.

With a large number of troops of the Leningrad Military District left behind by Meretskov, Timoshenko surrounded the Vyborg fortified area from the northeast. And the new troops of the Kiev Military District he brought crossed the Vyborg Bay from the frozen sea, bypassed the city of Vyborg, and cut off the road to Helsinki, the capital of Finland of the Vyborg garrison.

On February 13, 1940, Timoshenko dispatched more than 200 planes and ordered the deployment of more than 200 artillery pieces to prepare for fierce advance aviation fire and artillery fire on the forward positions of Vyborg and their rear.

Having destroyed most of the Finnish firing points in the main directions, Timoshenko marched westward, launched a full-scale assault on Vyborg, and quickly captured the city.

On the same day, the Finnish government, which had lost Vyborg, the last barrier of the capital, was disheartened and quickly agreed to the armistice request put forward by the Soviet People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Molotov, and sent four high-level Finnish representatives, including Rüsto Luti, Yuho Kusti Basikivi, Rudolf Walden, and Karl Voynma, to Moscow to sign the "Moscow Peace Agreement," which symbolized the armistice, with Molotov and other Soviet foreign commissars.

Thanks to the strong intervention of Britain and France, as well as the efforts of the German Foreign Office, Finland eventually retained its independent status.

It can be said that it was the joint efforts of European countries that did not want to sit idly by and watch the Soviet Union as a monopoly that smashed the Soviet Union's plan to annex Finland this time.

But even with the diplomatic support of various countries, Finland, which was on the disadvantaged side, paid a huge price in the treaty.

The Moscow Peace Accords stipulated that the Finnish government would cede to the Soviet Union the Karelian Isthmus, including Vyborg, Finland's second largest city, the Ribachi Peninsula in the Barents Sea, the four islands in the Gulf of Finland, and part of the Sara region of East Karelia in central China.

In addition, Finland had to lease the Hanko Peninsula to the Soviet Union as a naval base for 30 years at a rate of 1 ruble per year.

Finally, the Soviet Union also obtained the right of transit in the Béchaimo region of Finland through an agreement. The Finnish government had to agree to the Soviet Union building a railroad in the north of the country to link the Soviet city of Kandaraksha with Sweden's iron ore mines.

Most shamelessly, the Soviet Union Molotov also demanded that the Finnish government "compensate" the Soviet Union for "property damage" in this war, totaling 145 million gold rubles. Railroad cars and other materials in the ceded territories had to be handed over to the Soviet Union in full, and dozens of factories in the ceded territories had to be re-equipped with machinery.

"It's a disaster!" Mannerheim, who walked down the battlefield headquarters and returned to his office, covered his eyes in pain after seeing the specific contents of the treaty that had been transmitted back.

So far, the 105-day Soviet-Finnish war is over. In the past 100 days, the Finnish soldiers have been fighting and sacrificing day and night, forgetting their lives and deaths, and in the end, they have actually returned to this damn result?!

The death of more than 20,000 brave soldiers can be said to have drained the vitality of the entire Finnish Defense Force. They are all warriors who are one of ten, and there are many snipers who are called "White Death" by the Soviet soldiers.

In this war, the fall of every Finnish soldier meant the death of 10 Soviet soldiers. The Finnish Defense Forces, which did not have a single armored unit, destroyed more than 2,000 Soviet tanks. Even Stalin, who had always been conceited, was forced to change his commander on the spot and increased his troops twice.

If Finland could have one-tenth of the Soviet Union's national strength, Mannerheim believes that the Soviet Union would have failed today!

"Marshal, what are we going to do now? Is it just left to the slaughter of others? Like Mannerheim, Silasvo, who had returned to the rear since the government ordered the armistice, was indignant.

The signing of the Moscow Armistice Agreement meant that Finland, already weak, would now lose another 10% of its arable land, 1/5 of its industrial output, and the 222,000 people on the ceded land (only a few of whom chose to become Soviet citizens).

Just like in the period of war results in ancient China, the princes who were already on the weak side actually "used land to do things with Qin" and ceded a large amount of land to Qin to ask for a truce, so that their already weak self was further weakened by their own hands.

And if Finland did the same as the princes of the Warring States period, the consequence would be that the next time the Soviet Union invaded again, Finland would have even less resistance to it.

Then it will be defeat, ceding the land for peace, fighting again, defeating again, and cutting the land for peace...... of the constant vicious circle.

"Of course we can't sit still!" Mannerheim's eyes were like knives, and he said loudly: "I would have been in favor of maintaining neutrality and refusing to join any of the blocs. But now, Molotov put forward such harsh and cruel armistice conditions, which is simply trying to force Finland to fall to Germany! His treaty had disastrous consequences for our defense strategy, depriving us of all the points where we could guarantee that we would stop the advance of the invading army. We had no choice but to defect to the Germans! ”

"Germans?" "Our government has just rejected their proposal for an alliance. Will they still accept us today? ”

"Yes!" Mannerheim said in the most resolute tone: "After all, their Führer is by no means as mediocre as he seems, on the contrary, he is very smart!" With his wisdom, he could not fail to see how strategically important it would be for Germany to have a Finnish ally. ”

Nonsense! Twenty years ago, the situation in Germany was much harsher than Finland is now. The Treaty of Versailles at that time was far harsher than today's Moscow Armistice. How could such a person lead Germany out of such a desperate situation and return to the top of the European powers, how could such a person be mediocre and incompetent. At least, Mannerheim would never believe it!