According to Lin Jun's strategic plan, since the Finns do not agree to the territorial exchange plan: 3,000 square kilometers for 60,000 square kilometers and you don't agree, then simply don't do anything and block the Finns' passage to the Arctic Ocean!

Due to the influence of the nearby North Atlantic Current, which flows through the Barents Sea, the temperature in this region is not very low at the end of November, although it is located in the Arctic Circle, and the night temperature is around -10 degrees Celsius. www.biquge.info This is a good thing for the heavily armored troops who are in charge of the main attack in this area, and Oleg Aleksandrovich Losyk does not have to worry about his equipment being frozen.

After the "Liberation Army," Losick's detachment was transferred to Murmansk as a whole and was newly formed into a special armored mixed brigade, with three medium tank regiments, four mechanized infantry battalions, and three artillery battalions under the jurisdiction of the main combat unit. With the exception of the old team of the Liberation Army, the rest of the personnel and equipment were all from Murmansk, who were very familiar with the operational environment in this area and had been training for a year to attack Finland.

All of the infantry equipment was specially prepared for high latitudes, and the basic light weapons and equipment were PPS39, without AK47, in order to form the same equipment as nearby friendly forces.

Although it is not equipped with the most sophisticated weapons, the offensive capabilities of such a force are terrifying relative to the opponent. Losik spent his days in the army, and within three months he had trained such a complex unit into an iron fist with a high degree of coordination.

Since most of the troops were from the original army, the most Losik did was to integrate the tank battalion he brought with him into the new formation. Let a young officer who has just been promoted to captain serve as the commander of a special mixed brigade, for the trust of the Deputy People's Commissar of National Defense, Losik is bent on repaying with his achievements, and will never fail Lin Jun's trust.

It turned out that Lin Jun meant to let Losik be the commander of a tank regiment, but from a strategic point of view, the capture of the Barents Sea coast requires the use of an armored mixed brigade.

It is not surprising that the captain served as a brigade commander, although "very unusual", but very treated in extraordinary times. If it weren't for Lin Jun's intervention in the "suppression", there would have been a "captain" commander of the brigade. Having a group of battalion and company commanders in command of divisional units often have disastrous results. Judging from his resume, Losik has already received command training for regiment-level troops, and he got the news from the military academy that Losik also had a certain study of the operations of division-level armored units during his advanced training, so he boldly appointed him as a brigade commander.

Would Lin Jun have seen the wrong person? No, the situation reported to Lin Jun from Murmansk before the war was very satisfactory to him, Losik was a potential commander and adapted to his new position in a short time.

In the early hours of 30 January, the armored brigade, which was preparing to move on the border, crossed the border from a frontage 15 kilometers wide, and was tasked with attacking the Finnish garrison, flanked by ski units transferred from Siberia.

This time it was no longer the same as the "Liberation March" had been, and along the road to Petsamo, the Finns had built a large number of fortifications, but Losik was stronger than the Finns had anticipated.

Losik took out the style of Guderian, who had been bombarded by him, in a special T34 command tank with two radios, and operated with the 1st Tank Battalion in the role of Sharp Knife, and the loader was also a generalist trained in telegraphy, in order to command the troops in real time.

Before the attack, the artillery carried out a suppressive artillery attack on the Finnish positions identified by aviation reconnaissance, and the tank battalion rushed to the front first, and most of the tanks carried infantry for fear of the threat of Finnish anti-tank infantry. The Finns did not cause much trouble to Losik, the small number of anti-tank guns of the Finns did not pose a substantial threat to the huge tank forces, and the Finnish infantry that survived the shelling was quickly cleared by the vehicle infantry, all armed with submachine guns.

Losik did not worry about the snipers of the Finns, which position was a threat to a machine gun, a few shells was solved, and the role of the infantry in front of tank clusters was limited.

At 11 a.m., the Outpost reported that a group of Finns was attacking with the help of a village and the nearby woods.

"Sasha, contact the aviation and let them drop the bombs in the woods!"

"Yes, Brigadier."

The operator immediately called for the bombers to support the attack, and two new Peter-2 dive bombers appeared in the sky five minutes later, and several solidified ****** landed accurately in the woods, turning a small sparse forest into a sea of fire.

"Attention to the 1st Tank Battalion, I am the brigade commander Losik, turn around and shell formation, target the village in front, high-explosive shells, five rounds."

Thirty-nine T34s slammed into dozens of houses a kilometer away, and the wooden farmhouse was blown into rubble by a high-explosive bomb, igniting a fire.

Tanks rushed into the village from the front along the road, and the outpost tanks ignored the remnants of the buildings and passed directly through the houses. The infantry on the follow-up tank jumped out of the tank and began to sweep to the sides.

Without any mercy, all the Finns found in the ruins were beaten into hornet's nests, because they had weapons on their side. It doesn't matter if you're a soldier or a civilian, as long as you resist, you're the enemy.

"How's it going?" Losik poked out his head and shouted to the infantry on the side.

"Cleaned up! They were all regular Finnish troops and partisans, and there were no civilians. "An infantry lieutenant ran over and reported.

Losik saw that the bodies on either side were adult men, and although many of them were civilian clothes, it was certain that the broken weapons were armed men.

I took out the map and looked at it, and Petsamo was 7 kilometers ahead, and there was no terrain conducive to defense.

"Contact the artillerymen in the back, how long will it take for them to get here?"

Sasha shouted into the intercom, "Brigade commander, the 1st Artillery Battalion will arrive in 20 minutes, and the 2nd Artillery Battalion will take 40 minutes." ”

One battalion is armed with 76.2 mm ZIS-3 cannons, while the other two are armed with 122 mm howitzers.

"Let the 1st Artillery Battalion keep up with the tank troops, and the 2nd Artillery Battalion will set up its position here, and I will need their fire support later."

"Yes, Brigadier."

Losik himself picked up the close-range walkie-talkie on the side, "I am the brigade commander, and the 1st Tank Battalion will rest in place for 20 minutes." ”

Forty minutes later, the vanguards arrived on the outskirts of Petsamo, in front of them a small city of 1,000 people, mostly built of brick and wood.

The tank troops were not in a hurry to attack, the small city in front of them was quiet, and it was impossible to see through the telescope.

"How long will it take for the 2nd Artillery Battalion to build a position?"

"20 minutes."

"Let those ZIS-3s stand up on both wings, and I'll probably need their direct support later."

"Yes, Brigadier."

Twenty minutes later, the tank group attacked, and just a moment after the tanks started, several shells whizzed down in the middle of the tanks.

"It's the mortar of the Finns! The second battalion of artillery was ordered to fire 5 rounds of rapid fire, and the ZIS-3 fired straight at all enemy fortifications! ”

For the small Finnish town of Petsamo in the far north, Losik's order was fatal. Lin Jun had a requirement for tank troops, and if they encountered stubborn resistance during an attack on the enemy's town, they could carry out devastating artillery bombardment when conditions permitted, without considering civilian casualties.

This was a cold order, but it was completely necessary in the environment that Lin Jun was in, and this would not be the era when Lin Jun shouted "minimize civilian casualties" in his previous life, although those who shouted this slogan in later generations never followed it.

Half of the town was destroyed by a single shelling, especially those ZIS-3 cannons were shelled by direct fire roll call, building by building.

But the Finns' resistance continued as the tanks stormed the town, and the infantry swept through building by building, room by room, and occupied the town at the cost of more than 100 casualties.

It was already dark, and the troops were constantly deploying defensive rings around the town, and Losik was in the original city hall (not surprisingly, it is not surprising that it is common for a settlement of 1,000 people in the Nordic countries to have a city government, and it cannot be measured by our standards). The headquarters was set up in the house.

Soon Losik got a report that the 3rd Tank Battalion had also taken Ostari with little losses.

The dark night of the Arctic Circle was not conducive to the offensive, and on the morning of 1 December, Losickh sent a mechanized battalion to the north to join the Red Navy infantry at 12 noon. The comrades of the mechanized battalion were shocked by what they saw on the seashore - the Finns were scattered with coastal fortifications and large and frightening craters on the ground, while in the distance on the sea, a majestic and huge battleship was heading east, escorted by several escort ships.

That was the pride and new symbol of the Red Navy - the USS "Soviet Union"! (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )