It may be due to the fact that peace with Japan was reached, and the worries were solved. Recently, the Soviet Union's demands on Finland have become more and more excessive.

Stalin first demanded the mining rights of Portusamo, and then Finland to provide the Soviets with the right to cross the border with arms.

The Finns also had a temper, and once again did not buy the demands of the Soviet Union and again asked Germany for help. This time, the two sides finally hit it off, and the two sides immediately started consultations at the level of foreign ministers.

The Finnish Foreign Service instructed the Minister to inform Germany that the Helsinki authorities hoped that Germany would be able to negotiate with the Soviet Union at that time to secure Finnish independence and, if possible, restore the borders of 1939 as much as possible, with only a few adjustments that would enable the Soviets to retain the strip which they considered to be of great importance to the defence of Leningrad.

Of course, these Finnish proposals were naturally useless, because, contrary to the claims to the Finns, Reinhardt did not enter into any negotiations with the USSR.

When this instruction was issued, it was less than a month before Reinhardt invaded Britain, and once Britain and Germany fought, how could the Soviet Union still be able to calm down and listen to the mediation proposal put forward by Germany for Finland.

The feelings are justified in your German occupation of the land, and the Soviet Union takes advantage of Finland's fart, so you should always be talked about? That's not appropriate, is it!

It was not until February 3, 1940, that the German delegates approached Mannerheim and bluntly asked whether Finland was willing to participate in the joint operation of the Allied camp against the Soviet Union, and what Finland wanted to get if it wished.

Mannerheim began to be taken aback and wanted to turn the conversation to the question posed by Finland: what was Germany going to do if the Soviets attacked Finland again?

But the German delegates, in turn, asked: what should the Finnish side do if the USSR was an attack on Germany?

In the end, Mannerheim had no choice but to say that if Germany promised to send troops to Finland's aid when it was attacked, then Finland would also promise to help when Germany was attacked.

But Reinhardt is not happy, you have to go to war if you are beaten, and when you are beaten, why do you only provide vague "help"?

No, absolutely not!

Reinhardt, who had never been willing to suffer, immediately instructed the Foreign Office that Finland must give Germany a clear answer as to how much they could help.

Mannerheim then agreed to the stationing of troops from the two Allied divisions of the German camp into the province of Lapp.

But Mannerheim was clever here, and it was the German Allied forces that agreed to enter the country, not the German army.

After all, if the Germans were to enter Finland, the problem would be even more troublesome. If Stalin had heard about this, he might have been ready to fight the Soviet army in Germany first, and perhaps he would have come to Finland to start the first round of the clean-up war.

However, Mannerheim's cleverness coincided with Reinhardt's desire to conserve German troops.

Eventually, the Allied forces were transported to Lapp Province by a newly created infantry division in Norway and an Italian infantry division that passed through Rapp Province to Serkenes in northeastern Norway and then into Finland.

With these two divisions, the Finns themselves are actually quite sure-footed. After all, it can also be their helper in the future.

However, Mannerheim did not pin his hopes entirely on the Allied forces.

Immediately after secret agreements with Germany, Italy, and Norway, the Finnish army ordered a partial mobilization on 10 February, and an expanded mobilization on 14 February, deploying defensive troops on the eastern border.

As of 16 February, the Finnish armed forces, consisting of combat troops, home defence units and border guards, totaled 550,000 men, including 440,000 combat troops.

The Finnish Army was reorganized into 12 divisions, 5 corps, 3 army commands, and 1 naval command. The army is equipped with 556,000 ordinary rifles, 14,500 rapid-fire rifles, 5,400 machine guns, 13,700 submachine guns, 3,500 artillery pieces and mortars, 86 tanks, 22 armored vehicles, 761 anti-aircraft guns, and 180 anti-aircraft machine guns.

But Reinhardt's purpose was to completely bring Finland into the group, and he was ready to get help from hundreds of thousands of Finnish troops in the future war against the Soviet Union.

So later, when a Finnish military delegation, headed by Mannerheim's chief of staff, General Heinrichs, visited the German High Command. Reinhardt signaled Paulus to tell the Finnish delegation that Soviet troops had already concentrated a large number of troops along the western borders of the Soviet Union, which made it necessary for Germany to act in response.

The German side noted that Germany did not intend to start a war against the Soviet Union, but in the event of an attack by the Soviet Union, Germany would be forced to take military action in the far north, including the transfer of 2 divisions in Finland to fight. After the final negotiations on this plan, the Finnish side also agreed to this request.

On the surface, Reinhardt was sending two divisions to defend the independence and freedom of the Finns, and then having them fight for Germany when needed. It seems a bit like a thankless old good guy who doesn't get much in return.

But this is only an indication of the phenomenon, in fact, the Finns did not realize how miserable they would be in the future if they wanted to protect themselves wisely.

As soon as war broke out between Germany and the Soviet Union, Reinhardt unilaterally declared in a radio address that German servicemen were "allied with the Finnish comrades" and "fought together on the shores of the Arctic Ocean."

Then, even if Finland had not yet formed an alliance with Germany at this time, and even if the Finnish government issued a statement that morning denying Reinhardt's claims and declared neutrality, with two divisions in Finland launching an offensive on the northern flank of the Soviet army from Finland, Stalin would certainly regard the Franco-Finnish alliance as a fait accompli.

From Stalin's point of view, there were already troops attacking the Soviet Union in Finland, so Finland must have formed an alliance with Germany.

Under these specific conditions, designed by Reinhardt, it is difficult to envisage Finland not getting involved in a future Soviet-German war.

In the end, Reinhardt believed that Finland would have no choice but to join the German army and really go to war with the Soviet Union in order to regain the lost territory.

After that, Reinhardt also deliberately hypothesized that after the Soviet-Finnish war began, as in Spain and Norway, German generals with excellent military talents should command part of the army in Finland to maximize the effect.

But Mannerheim knew that if he accepted this proposal, he would have to bow down to Reinhardt in the future, at least after Spain and Norway had accepted the request and never escaped German control again.

As a result, the Finnish side once again rejected Reinhardt's "good intentions".

The cautious Mannerheim always demanded that the Finnish war be limited to the reconquest of Soviet-occupied lands, and was unwilling to commit further.

In his opinion, this move would not lead to a deep hatred of the Soviet Union, and at the same time agreed to the request to fight with the German army.

Mannerheim calculated very well, if the situation allowed, the Finnish army could start a battle with the German army, but once the Finnish army regained the lost territory, it had already fulfilled its promise and could leave the German army behind.

However, he didn't expect Reinhardt to calculate more accurately: if the Soviet army launched a large-scale counteroffensive in the direction of Finland because of the provocation of the Italian infantry division and the Norwegian infantry division of the Allies, do you think the German army would divide its forces to rescue?

Only fools go!