Soviet bombers appeared over a city under the cover of a large number of La-7 and Yak-3 fighters with fuel tanks attached. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Soviet Tu-2 and Pe-8 bombers dropped bombs one after another at high altitude, and Pe-2 light bombers and Il-2 ground attack planes dived downward, aimed at a factory, and dropped bombs from a low position above the ground, accurately hitting the factory.

Suddenly, the factory was blown into ruins, and a series of explosions ignited flammable materials including explosives inside the factory, causing an even larger explosion.

The workers and technicians in the factory had no way to escape, they were either killed by the explosion or burned to death by the fire. Those who escaped were also crippled by the bombing, and they were no longer able to work.

This factory is not an old German military industrial enterprise such as Mauser, Krupp, and Rheinmetall, nor is it a civilian-to-military enterprise such as Daimler-Benz, BMW, and Junkers, but a Finnish arms manufacturer called Tikakoski (Oy_Tikkakoski_Ab).

Located in central Finland, this arms manufacturer is one of the most important military industrial enterprises in Finland. Firearms, including the Suomi M1931 submachine gun, are mainly produced for the Finnish army, which are used to arm the Finnish army.

On June 25, 1941, three days after the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, the Finnish parliament passed a resolution declaring war on the Soviet Union. Since then, Finland has been part of the Axis powers.

Immediately after the adoption of the decision to declare war, the Finnish army began to plan an attack on the Soviet Union, massing 18 divisions to the border, but did not cross the border.

Until July 10, 18 divisions of the Finnish army, together with 5 divisions of German troops, launched an attack on the Soviet Union.

On the Southern Front, the Soviet army, which had a small number of troops, was losing ground one after another, and the Finnish army occupied Vyborg (a city ceded by Finland to the Soviet Union after the Soviet-Finnish War) and other places, completely recovering the territory they ceded after the Soviet-Finnish War.

However, the battle on the Northern Front did not go well, and two German divisions tried to attack Murmansk, but they were also met with the strength of two Soviet divisions.

The Soviet troops of these two divisions had participated in the Soviet-Finnish war and had rich experience in polar warfare. The Germans were not adapted, coupled with their lack of air supremacy, and the little tanks on hand needed to be warmed up for several hours before using because of the severe cold weather, and they were also very easy to break, and it was difficult to exert combat effectiveness, so they were beaten by the Soviet T-34 and suffered heavy casualties, and finally had to stop the attack.

Subsequently, the Soviet Red Army transferred several divisions from other regions, and the number of Soviet troops deployed on the Soviet-Finnish border reached 24 divisions. The Soviet-Finnish stalemate began on the border in 1939 until December 1941, when the Finns attacked the Soviets again.

This time, the goal of the Finns was not only to seize the Soviet-controlled Karelia region, but also to capture Leningrad, the second largest city in the USSR.

In order to carry out this offensive smoothly and take the entire Karelia region in one fell swoop, Finland sent 23 divisions.

In order to find a breakthrough in the northern front and take Leningrad as soon as possible, the Germans also reinforced 10 divisions to Finland, provided Finland with a large number of weapons and ammunition, and sent experienced instructors to train the Finnish army to improve the combat capability of the Finnish army.

However, just before the offensive was launched, Stalin, confirming that Japan would not attack the Soviet Union, mobilized 600,000 elite troops from Siberia and the Far East to the front, of which 10 divisions of troops were deployed on the Soviet-Finnish border, plus reinforcements from elsewhere, bringing the Soviet strength on the Soviet-Finnish border to 40 divisions.

With the superiority of the Soviet troops, the Finns could not pick up anything. In the last Soviet-Finnish war, the Finns were able to resist the hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops with small casualties because they knew the terrain well and their fortifications were strong and secretive.

But this time, the Finns were fighting on Soviet soil, again on the side of the active attack, without the cover of fortifications. Will they be able to defeat the Soviets with less?

On the very day after the Finns launched their offensive, the Soviet Air Force flew into Jyväskyl and blew up the Tikakoski factory, Finland's most important military-industrial complex, and Finland's weapons supply became even more strained.

Even so, the Finns did not abandon their plans to attack the Soviet Union, and 23 divisions of Finnish troops, together with 10 divisions of German troops, launched an attack on the lines of the Soviet Red Army.

"Rush!" Rows and rows of Finns, rushing towards the positions of the Soviet troops.

Just as the Finns were charging, the Soviet artillery was also ready, adjusted the firing angle, loaded the shells, and greeted the "distinguished guests" from afar with a loud "salute".

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "The Soviet artillery was constantly roaring, and countless shells were pouring down on the battlefield like torrential rain.

The onslaught of artillery fire brought the Finns down one by one, but did not stop the Finns' offensive. The Finns who came to charge and die came one after another.

But when they rushed to the front of the position and prepared to exchange fire with the Soviet troops, they were strafed by the machine guns of the Soviet Red Army. The charging Finns fell one after the other, with extremely heavy losses.

From time to time in the sky, several Il-2 attack planes appeared, strafing the Finns on the ground with machine guns.

After several hours of fighting, the Soviets held their ground, and the Finns, having paid a great price, were still unable to take advantage of anything.

The situation of the German army was not very good, although they had planes, tanks, and a sufficient number of artillery, but in the face of the superior Soviet Red Army, the attacking German army was always at a disadvantage.

On the third day after the offensive was launched, Finnish President Risto Ruti realized that they simply did not have enough strength to stand up to the Soviets, and that the defeat of the Germans on the battlefield made the Finns wonder if they should be on the side of Germany.

Coupled with the entry of the United States into the war, the anti-fascist front had such a powerful ally as the United States, and the form was very unfavorable to the Axis camp.

If the Axis powers did lose the war, Finland would most likely be defeated by the Soviet Union, and instead of recovering the territory ceded during the Soviet-Finnish war, they would have to cede more land to the Soviet Union, and might even be annexed by the Soviet Union as the three Baltic states did.

Thinking of this, Risto Ruti also felt a little regretful, he regretted letting Finland join the Axis camp, regretting going to war with the Soviet Union.

If Finland had been able to maintain neutrality between the Soviet Union and Germany, it might have been able to escape the threat of war, as Sweden had done. But since he chose the path of war, since the Finnish army had crossed the border and attacked the Soviet army, he could only let the war continue.