In fact, the war with the Soviet Union has already begun.

The battlefield is in Finland.

With almost half a metre of snow under your feet and tall trees covering the sky overhead, this is the mountainous region of Finland.

The small detachment of several dozen people, they put on the uniform of the Finnish army, and took off their sign of the combination of edelweiss, anchors, and propellers, but the kind of essence in their eyes represented that they were the most elite troops.

They belonged to the German 3rd Mountain Division, which was originally part of the Austrian troops.

Austria was mountainous, and after the liberation of Austria by Germany, the Austrian army, which had special mountain units, was also incorporated into the Wehrmacht.

In this way, the German forces were first formed into the 1st to 3rd Mountain Divisions, and later by wartime they were expanded to a maximum of 10 divisions.

Compared with other troops, the German mountain division is famous for its combat courage and tenacity, the ferocity of the battle, the most direct political situation, the German mountain division soldiers in World War II were rarely captured by the Allies, they were all killed in battle, their will to fight, and the SS was no different.

At the same time, at the end of the war, this mountain unit was the last of the German Army to lay down its arms.

For example, in the Norwegian port town of Narvik, the German mountain divisions fought an unusually fierce battle with the Allies. More than 6,000 improvised mountain divisions stubbornly resisted the Allied attack of 20,000 men for six weeks.

At that time, the army was the Third Mountain Division.

At this time, walking in the snow were the soldiers of the 139th Mountain Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Mountain Division, who naturally came here to participate in the next battle.

After the Soviets broke through the Finnish defenses, they began to attack in depth towards Finland, everywhere in the mountains, everywhere in the woods, and now, snowflakes are still falling in the sky, one after another.

The biggest difference between a mountain division and an ordinary infantry division is that it is heavy-loaded, mountain roads are difficult to navigate, and many times even rock climbing, so the equipment of the mountain division must be light.

For example, now, their main armament is the latest MP40 submachine gun.

This submachine gun, of course, is not the historical 9mm pistol bullet submachine gun, but the latest assault rifle improved from the MP38, just to confuse others, it is still a submachine gun.

The use of a large number of stamping parts to make this submachine gun easier to produce in large quantities, and at the same time, the use of special cold-resistant gun oil, their arrival this time, also has the mission of testing the performance of their weapons, in the bitter cold, how reliable is this gun?

In addition to the MP40 of Yishui, they also carried a 75 mm recoilless gun, which is simply a single cannon, a favorite of mountain troops, which is easy to carry by one person, and at the same time powerful against the sky.

"Chirp, tweet." Suddenly, there was a bird cry ahead.

Royce, the squad leader, immediately raised his arm, and the white cloak raised with his arm, and he pouted his lips and made the same birdsong sound towards the opposite side, three long and three short.

I didn't see it clearly at all, just in front of them, in the snowdrift more than ten meters away, two Finns appeared, in their hands, only holding ordinary rifles, but on their backs, they also carried a Sumi 1931 submachine gun, a large-capacity drum, and they were in quite good shape.

"Hey, my friends, you're finally here." One of the Finns speaks German and, although not very fluent, can communicate: "We are here, waiting for you for two days. My name is Aalto. ”

"It's a pleasure to meet you." "The snow here makes it difficult for us to walk, and two of us got frostbite on the way here," Royce said. ”

Aalto looked at these German mountain masters and couldn't help but shake his head: "Your equipment is not good, in the snow, sleds are the best equipment, you must learn to sled." ”

In Germany, skiing is not a compulsory training subject, so most of Royce's men do not know how to ski.

"Let's chop branches first, make a few sleds, and those who can ski can join us in tonight's action." "They have tanks, they can't move anymore, we need to destroy them," Aalto said. ”

Here, it is near the Latai Highway.

After the Finnish defense line was overtaken by the Soviets, it seemed as if the Soviets could rush to the Finnish capital after they followed, but the Soviets then found themselves too optimistic.

Winter in Finland has arrived!

Most of the Soviet troops were Cossacks and Kalmyks from the Kuban steppe, who were so unfamiliar with snow-capped Finland that they fearfully called it the "White Desert".

The Soviets wanted to copy the tactics of the German blitzkrieg, but the terrain of Finland made the advance of the Soviet armored forces rather slow.

The Soviet troops, who could only advance along the road and could not take care of the two flanks, left the Finnish army with a large number of fighters.

The Finnish army not only blocked the attack one after another, but also deliberately cleared the fields along the way, so that the Soviet army could not find a stronghold where they could rest on the spot, and could not choose a detour road from the road, so they could only fight hard.

Now, a month has passed since the Soviets broke the defensive line, and the advance of the Soviet army, General Chuikov's 9th Army, is still blocked in the wasteland only 25 miles from the Soviet border, and it is difficult for them to advance every step.

They don't know that the bad situation will continue, and it will be even worse, because, secretly, the Finns received reinforcements!

"Okay, we can't wait." Royce said, "Five of my men can ski, so we'll leave tonight!" ”

Before joining the army, Aalto had always been a hunter in the mountains and forests, and here, he was like a fish in water.

It's just that they don't have heavy weapons in their hands and can't destroy the Soviets' tanks, and now, when German reinforcements arrive, they can finally do it freely!

Night soon fell, and a small detachment of several men left the camp, their sleds under their feet, like a gust of wind, their cloaks fluttering behind.

Three kilometres away is the Latai Highway.

"If it weren't for forgetting to release water, our tanks would have been no problem." A tanker, trembling, said that he did not dare to approach the tank at all, and if he accidentally came into contact with the steel on the tank, he would be frozen in an instant, torn off with all his might, and his skin would be gone.

They gathered together and lit bonfires in a vain attempt to ward off the cold.

Unbeknownst to them, danger was slowly approaching.