Inside the front-line headquarters on the Soviet-Finnish border, Mannerheim felt as if he had been trapped. However, he couldn't figure out where he had been cheated.

The Germans agreed to send troops to help them regain their lost territory, and then expand even more territory that was not their own, thus establishing the Kingdom of Great Finland.

No matter how you look at it, it's a good thing.

The only thing Finland had to pay was to send a large army to keep up with the pace of the Allies' entire camp, advance all the way to East Carrelia and then occupy it within the time limit set by the German High Command.

In any case, this is Finland's own strategic goal, and sooner or later it will need to be accomplished. Now joining forces with the Germans is just a deadline.

Perhaps this kind of rapid advance battle plan is too heavy for the Finnish army and will lead to a large casualty ratio.

However, Finland does not have the national strength to fight a protracted war, and if it can fight a quick battle, of course, it must do its best.

"Marshal, our main forces have cooperated with the German Allies to defeat the Soviet garrisons deployed on the border, and the air force has also cooperated with the Luftwaffe to destroy most of the fighters in the northern airfields of the Soviets."

The report of the chief of the general staff of the Finnish army gave Mannerheim a reassurance.

During the Soviet-Finnish War, the Finnish Air Force was always weak. Despite its impressive success, the Finnish Air Force was completely incapable of competing head-to-head with the Soviet Air Force for air supremacy.

And now, the Soviet Air Force, in its previous offensive on the German eastern defensive line, was largely destroyed by the anti-aircraft fire deployed by the Germans in the East Prussia-West Poland-controlled zone-southern provinces.

And that's not all, as the attacking side of the Soviet Air Force, at the same time by more advanced German fighters frantically intercepted, often after participating in an air raid, only a small number of Soviet fighters can return to the airport station.

This is not unexpectedly difficult.

After all, the Luftwaffe had already achieved overwhelming air supremacy on the British battlefield.

As a result, the whole of western Germany, including the capital of Berlin, did not even have any need to deploy anti-aircraft fire.

Reinhardt first ordered that the anti-aircraft artillery captured by Germany in France, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Belgium, and other countries over the years be gradually transported to the Eastern Front and deployed on the Soviet-German border defense line a week before the start of the British campaign.

After that, the "Sea Lion Operation" officially began, and the Allied Triple Coalition successfully landed on the British mainland, all the way to the ground.

So Reinhardt further ordered that the anti-aircraft artillery originally deployed in Germany be shifted to the east, almost draining the anti-aircraft artillery in the west of Germany, and deploying it in the east of Germany with supersaturation.

In addition, in recent years, through Rossi's network, a large number of anti-aircraft artillery pieces have been imported directly from Italy at low prices, and then directly transported to the Soviet-German border without transit. Anti-aircraft fire on the Soviet-German border has reached a very abundant level.

This left the Soviet Air Force Alexander.

Although there are advanced fighters, the performance of most of the aircraft is low, and the Soviet Air Force, which has a weak anti-aircraft fire capability, has suffered unbelievable losses in the offensive over the past half month.

Of course, there is also the reason why the main forces of Germany's own air force are all deployed on the Eastern Front, which can be lifted off near the rear airfield, strangled with the Soviet Air Force, and shot down a large number of Soviet planes.

In order to avoid being suddenly destroyed by the Soviet Air Force along the border, these German fighters deployed on the Eastern Front deliberately built their airfields 30 kilometers away from the average distance of the Eastern Defense Line.

This gives them a certain amount of time to lift off.

With the assistance of the twelve large radar stations secretly built by Germany behind the Eastern Line, the Luftwaffe on the Eastern Front never had the problem of being destroyed by Soviet warplanes in airfields.

And that's just before Romania and Finland joined the Soviet-German war.

Even in a one-on-one hard resistance, the Third Reich as the defender was already much better than the Soviet Union as the aggressor.

It is true that a large reason why the Soviet-German war was fought like this was because Germany had long been prepared and had built a strong "eastern barrier".

The side that uses the defensive line to fight trench warfare is often easier than the attacker. This is the experience that the Germans gained with countless blood and sacrifices as early as the last world war.

And now, it was Germany's turn to strike back. Reinhardt was able to pull in a large number of allies in time to share the pressure on his empire as an attacker.

Through the chief of staff's report, Mannerheim seemed to have a little grasp of what his vague feeling of being cheated was.

"Are you sure that the Germans are attacking us as they have been agreed upon on every major front?"

Mannerheim dragged his chin in his hand, reconfirming to his chief of staff.

"Yes, Marshal." The chief of staff replied in a firm tone: "I am very sure that the Germans are indeed attacking together with us as originally planned. These are all reported by front-line commanders. ”

"I see." Mannerheim nodded thoughtfully, and then said to the chief of staff: "It's nothing, you go and pass on my orders, and the divisions will continue to advance according to the battle plan in place." ”

He's figured it all out.

The Germans did not lazy on every front in the process of recovering the lost territory of the Finnish army, and tried their best to join forces with the Finnish army to attack.

This is not to say that the Germans were noble, and for the sake of the national interests of Finland, which was also a member of the Allied Powers, they fulfilled their obligations as the big brother of the Allied Powers and selflessly helped Finland conquer the city.

On the contrary, the Germans had their own calculations.

Mannerheim did not react before, thinking that the goal of the Germans was only to completely repel the Soviet attack, at most to use all allies to occupy a large part of the Soviet land and weaken the power of the Soviet Union.

Now, though, he understood Reinhardt's intentions.

The reason why the Germans were on the Finnish front, which was outside their own counterattack route, was also not perfunctory. What was needed was not as simple as helping Finland to create a greater Finnish kingdom and weakening the territory of the Soviet Union.

If only to use Finland to occupy part of the Soviet lands, weakening the other side. The Germans who cooperated with the Finnish army did not have to work as hard as they did now, after all, the Finnish army itself would regain lost ground according to the goal.

There is only one reason why the Germans are working so hard to lead the Finnish army to attack, and that is that they also need to achieve a breakthrough in the direction of the Finnish attack.

The goal of the German army in the north may well be Leningrad!

And Reinhardt's true strategic purpose now seems unlikely to be just a successful counterattack.

Judging from Germany's current strategy on the Eastern Front, he wants to take the entire Soviet Union!

"The Führer of Germany is a madman!" Watching the chief of staff walk away, Mannerheim muttered to himself in a low voice.