"In the face of absolute strength, any resistance is meaningless! But to maintain absolute strength, you need to invest a lot of resources! Manturov's casual remark caused Stalin to ponder. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The Soviet Union had an armed force of 10 million people, as well as tens of thousands of planes and tanks. Such military strength is stronger than any other country in the world, and it has an absolute superiority in strength in front of most countries in the world.

But to maintain such a strong force, it will require a huge investment of resources.

The food supply, clothing supply, guns and ammunition for 10 million people alone is already an astronomical investment, and the production of aircraft, tanks, and artillery, the construction of related factories, the research and development of weapons, and the investment in transportation vehicles are a huge amount.

After the development of the three five-year plans, the strength of the Soviet Union has been greatly enhanced, the government's finances have become more and more abundant, the industrial production capacity has become stronger and stronger, and the resources available to the state have also increased.

The Soviet Union's strong industrial production capacity allowed it to produce large quantities of ordnance and munitions, enough to supply the needs of 10 million troops.

The production of tens of thousands of planes and tanks has also provided the country with a more powerful combat capability -- tens of thousands of tanks form an unstoppable torrent of steel, and the huge flying aircraft group in the sky can provide sufficient support for the troops on the ground, and can also supply enemy targets from a long distance to strike at enemy planes in the air.

Such a powerful army is simply a huge monster in front of the Finnish army. The sheer crushing power is enough to make a small country like Finland, with a population of just over three million, disappear from the world map.

Stalin was determined to eliminate the Republic of Finland in order to eliminate the hidden dangers of the right flank, to expand the gains of the revolution (to occupy Finnish territory), and to pay tribute to the Red Army who died in the Finnish Civil War in 1918.

He sent an army of nearly a million people, thousands of aircraft and tanks, to crush the Finnish army with absolute strength. As a result, three months later, most of Finland's territory had been liberated by Soviet troops.

But so far, the best areas of Finland have not yet fallen into the hands of the Soviet army, and the cities of Helsinki, Vaasa, Turku and other cities are still firmly controlled by the Finnish White Army or the German army.

The main forces of the Finnish army had already been routed by the Soviets, and the Finnish army, with its heavy casualties, could no longer pose any threat to the Soviet Red Army. However, the number of German troops in Finland continued unabated, and now reached 200,000 men (including the Germans who entered northern Finland from Norway), replacing the Finnish army as the main force on the Finnish battlefield.

The combat capability of the German army is more than one level higher than that of the Finnish army, their equipment is more sophisticated and complete, and their individual combat capability and officer command ability can be regarded as the first in the world.

To deal with such a formidable enemy, the Soviet army also dispatched a sufficient number of troops, as well as aircraft, tanks and artillery several times that of the enemy, in order to have absolute superiority in strength on the battlefield. Only superiority in strength can destroy a powerful enemy, and in the face of strength, any resistance is futile!

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"Boom, boom! Boom Boom! Boom Boom! "The battleship Soviet took part in the assault on Helsinki, using nine 406mm guns on the surface of the sea to hit targets on the ground.

Helsinki was garrisoned by 100,000 Axis troops, including 30,000 Germans, and some SS units made up of Estonians, Latvians, or Lithuanians.

The remaining tens of thousands of people are composed of the elite of the Finnish army, whose individual combat ability and officer command ability are the best in the Finnish army, and are personally commanded by Field Marshal Mannerheim.

Helsinki is the capital of Finland and the most populous city in the country, making it a huge part of the country. In the event of the loss of the capital, the morale of the military and civilians of the whole country will be greatly affected, and the strength of the country will be greatly weakened by the loss of the capital, and it can be said that the fate of Helsinki is the fate of the Republic of Finland.

But both Risto Rüti (President of Finland) and Field Marshal Mannerheim (Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Defence Forces) were mentally prepared for the loss of the capital. They had already moved some important confidential files to Turku, and they had also evacuated some important personnel there, preparing to move the capital to Turku after the fall of Helsinki.

In the event that Turku was lost, they could also evacuate to Germany by sea and save their lives.

But the Soviets did not give them this opportunity, they had already surrounded Helsinki, and the sea route was also blocked by the Soviet Navy, and there was no other way to escape Helsinki than to break through and defeat the Soviet army.

Isn't it okay to escape by plane? I'm sorry, but air supremacy has long been firmly in the hands of the Soviet Air Force, and the airport has become the target of the Soviet Air Force's key "care", and the plane will be smashed by the Soviet plane before it takes off, and the difficulty of escaping Helsinki is close to the difficulty of escaping hell.

As commander of the Finnish army, Field Marshal Mannerheim, of course, had to stay in the capital and command the battle that would determine the fate of the country.

Finnish President Risto Ruti also expressed his determination to defend the capital, and also accompanied Marshal Mannerheim to stay in Helsinki, worthy of being a good president who leads by example.

But in this way, in the event of the loss of Helsinki, Finland's military and political leaders will be killed or captured by the Soviet army, and the loss of the capital, coupled with the "death" of the president and marshal, will bring a major blow to the military and people of Finland.

Stalin, of course, knew the strategic value of Helsinki, so he transferred Soviet-class battleships from the North Sea to the Gulf of Finland through the White Sea Canal for naval fire support, and also mobilized the killer weapon of the Soviet artillery - the B-4 howitzer, known as "Stalin's hammer".

For Stalin, "Caliber is truth!" ”。 The larger the caliber of the artillery, the more powerful it can exert and the greater the casualties and losses caused to the enemy.

Both the "Stalin's hammer" and the main guns of Soviet-class battleships had a larger caliber. The caliber of the B-4 howitzer reached a staggering 203 mm and was able to easily destroy fortifications on land; And the 9 406 mm guns of the battleship Soviet, which were more powerful than the B-4 howitzers, did not know where.

After repeated shelling, most of the Finnish/German fortifications have been destroyed, coupled with the positioning of the Soviet reconnaissance planes and the target positions provided by the hidden intelligence officers, the Soviet army's artillery accuracy has been greatly improved, not only destroying the enemy's fortifications, but also blowing up some important buildings in the city, including military warehouses and ammunition depots.

The destroyed fortress did not play any role at all in front of the artillery outside the city and more than 200,000 Soviet troops. The fate of the defeat of the Republic of Finland is irreversible.