"Comrade Andrei, what we need most is a sufficient number of heavy artillery, and the Finns built their Menalien Line into a second Maginot Line. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"It is said that it was their General Batu who led the construction of this defensive line."

"Yes, this man had participated in the construction of the Maginot Line, and he was very experienced in the construction of fortifications. In the event of a war, our army will definitely have to force a breakthrough of the Finnish defense line from the front of the line, and it is estimated that the losses suffered will not be small. If there is a sufficient number of heavy artillery, the possible losses will be much smaller"

It can be heard that Debenko still has some concerns about how to break through the strong defense line in front of him. There is no shortage of heavy artillery in the Leningrad Military District, but every commander of the military district will think about "making some benefits" when he sees Lin Jun, which may be a professional habit.

"Moscow will give you a few heavy artillery divisions to be strengthened then." The problem of heavy artillery is easy to solve, and a few units can be temporarily seconded from other military regions, which is not within Lin Jun's authority. But it is expected that Stalin would have taken into account, not to mention that historically it was so.

"I'm not worried about the difficulties that the Karelian Isthmus might suffer, but the northern side of the Mansselkai hills is the big problem. The Finnish position here is solid, but our offensive firepower is not an ornament, and once we take the position, we will not have any worries. But in the north, the border is almost 500 kilometers from the hilly area to the south, and no matter which area we attack from, we will be attacked and harassed by the Finnish army, who is familiar with the terrain. In the field environment of the forest area, our superior armored assault forces will not be able to exert effective assault capabilities, but will benefit the Finnish infantry. ”

Lin Jun's concern is a historical fact, no matter how strong the defense line is, it can be broken through, as long as your firepower is strong enough, the warrior's willpower, combat skills and command are appropriate; Historically, although the Red Army forcibly broke through the "Mannarin Line" and suffered relatively heavy losses, it did not fall into the quagmire of war in this area -- building a strong defensive line also "lost the conditions" for fighting guerrilla warfare and carrying out sneak attacks, and once the position was lost, it would be a complete end.

In the north, however, the complex terrain was the last thing the Red Army wanted to encounter, and the dense taiga was a natural ally for the Finnish army, large and small, to engage in sneak attacks and encirclement warfare.

Difficulties are in front of him, and Debenko is an excellent commander who came out of the civil war, not a mediocre man who is at a loss when he encounters difficulties, not to mention that he still has enough time to prepare.

"In accordance with Moscow's intentions, we, the Leningrad Military District, have begun to focus on the study and training of breaking through fortified areas and fighting in woodlands. I mobilized a group of grassroots commanders from the army who had rich experience in guerrilla and counter-guerrilla warfare during the civil war for intensive training, and soon these commanders would be sent to the original units to reapply the old tactics to practical training and specialize in forest warfare. ”

"What level of commander?"

"There are all at the company, battalion, regiment, and division levels, most of them are battalion and regimental commanders, and all of them have actual combat experience in those years."

If the Chinese Communist Party's army fought guerrilla warfare and counter-guerrilla warfare (such as the suppression of bandits in the early days of liberation, those bandits fought a real guerrilla warfare. The ability is the first in the world, then the Soviet Red Army and Tito's partisans are tied for second!

During the civil war in the Soviet Union, not only did they have to face the large forces of the White Army and foreign intervention armies, but also fought more to deal with the attacks of small groups of White Army, and in turn, there were many times when the Soviet Army was also fighting against the White Army in the form of guerrilla warfare, and the vast land of Russia was the best guerrilla battlefield for the opposing sides.

Today, there are a large number of commanders in the army who came from that period and know how to fight guerrillas and how to deal with guerrillas. The main operational thinking of the Red Army had already entered the stage of large-scale armored cluster assault more than 10 years ago, and now it is under special circumstances that it has picked up its old profession, and the commanders' old foundation is still there.

Historically, the Red Army was not prepared for this during the Soviet-Finnish war, and as a result, it suffered a big loss, and now let the anti-guerrilla experts from guerrilla warfare deal with the Amateur Guerrillas in Finland, Lin Jun did not think that the Finns would do better than the Red Army.

During the Great Patriotic War, Soviet partisans were active everywhere in Ukraine, in the Caucasus, in Belarus, and on the Baltic coast, and the German army howled, and many of the leaders of the partisans were veterans of the Civil War.

Guerrilla warfare is not a tactic that a unit that has never experienced guerrilla warfare can fully master in a short period of time, let alone how to counter guerrilla warfare; Guerrilla warfare is not necessarily a petty fight between a few dozen or several hundred people, and history has proved that a large army of more than 100,000 people can also fight guerrilla warfare -- guerrilla warfare and counter-guerrilla warfare are only tactics of war, and have nothing to do with the number of troops.

"According to my battle plan, the tank corps and mechanized corps with strong assault capabilities will be mainly deployed on the Karelian isthmus line, with the support of heavy artillery units, to break through the Finnish Manaling Line, while the combat units in the north will be mainly infantry units. Due to the shortage of infantry units in our military region that are familiar with the field environment, we may need to support some units from other military regions. ”

"You don't have to worry about this, when it really comes time to use force to solve the problem, the Kremlin will send you a sufficient number of troops from Siberia who are familiar with woodland operations."

The infantry units of the Leningrad Military District have always been trained to fight in the cities and plains, and it is really not "professional" for them to fight in the woodland field, and the Siberian boys are exposed to the vast wilderness mountains and forests every day, and they adapt to the Manselkai hilly area as if they were at home. Historically, a large part of the support forces mobilized by the Soviet Union were troops of the Odessa Special Military District in the south, and a group of soldiers who were accustomed to a comfortable climate on the warm Black Sea coast encountered the particularly cold winter of 39 near the Arctic Circle, and their combat effectiveness dropped by a large margin without starting a fight, and non-combat attrition was enough to make a unit basically incapacitated.

Lin Jun wanted field troops from Siberia: they would not worry about whether the temperature at night would be minus 30 degrees or minus 40 degrees, they had the equipment to deal with the cold, and they also had the body, will, skills and tactics to adapt to the cold, and the cold in the north was their ally.

It was still some time before the truck arrived at the border, and Lin Jun had a copy of the latest Finnish army's "Mannarin Line" layout map provided by Debenko, which was marked with various fortification symbols densely, and only a small number of areas showed "unknown": part of this is the credit of the intelligence department, and part of it is the border guards, aviation high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft (if the plane flies to an altitude of 10,000 meters on the border on your side, plus it is a good weather with enough visibility, Large-aperture reconnaissance cameras can capture enemy depths of more than 10 kilometers. And the credit of the Red Navy.

Why is there still credit to the Red Navy? The Finns built the Karelian Isthmus along the Gulf of Finland like an impregnable wall, and the fortifications were even denser than the land frontage!

"Comrade Andrey, we do not have a sufficient number of transport ships suitable for landing operations on Lake Ladoga, and it is estimated that the Finnish army has also eaten through our weakness, and the fortification density on this side is not large, and the heavy defense they have adopted on the Gulf of Finland has led to us being able to attack only 70 kilometers from the isthmus, and the support that the Red Navy comrades can provide us with on this side is limited."

Lin Jun's fingers kept tapping on the Gulf of Finland side of the map on his lap, and Debenko knew what he was thinking.

"There are still weaknesses in the Maginot Line, and the Finns' defense line is really called an impregnable wall, and the fortifications are meticulously repaired, and there is no other way but to storm it."

Regardless of whether it is launching a landing from the sea or an assault on the road, the Red Army is faced with only one way to attack, and compared with landing operations, it is of course the land operations that the Red Army is better equipped at.

The natural favorable terrain and the rational arrangement of fortifications put in front of the Red Army were a super hard nut to crack, and what was even worse was that the Red Army had to gnaw it down.

Lin Jun's words made De Benko interesting and puzzled - "There are still weaknesses in the Maginot Line"? This is a super-strong defense system built by modern technology and strong national power, and the "Mannalin Line" is only a reduced version compared to it. If one were to compare the breach of the Maginot Line, to the breakout of the Mannerine Line, any commander would think that the latter would be much easier.

Lin Jun glanced at Debenko opposite, and then at a few "soldiers" in soldier clothes next to him: these writers are all Debenko's core staff officers and security personnel.

"With the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg captured, the French 'Maginot Line' would become synonymous with seemingly sturdy but worthless play. Unfortunately, we are facing a line of defense that has no other solution. ”

Two years later, the German army attacked the Low Countries, and Hitler had to avoid the front of the German-French border because of the existence of the "Maginot Line", and chose another direction to attack France: in May ~ June 1940, the main German force passed through the Ardennes Mountains, detoured from the left flank of the Maginot Line, broke through the Daraldian Line near Montmedy to occupy northern France, and then entered the rear of the Maginot Line, making the defense line carefully constructed by the French a pile of waste.

Hitler was forced, but history has proved that he chose the right strategy, Lin Jun This is just telling Debenko a fact that he was "known to passers-by" in his previous life, but Comrade Commander does not think so! What Lin Jun said gave him the feeling that it was a strong earthquake - in order to avoid a line of defense, he did not hesitate to go to war with the third or even fourth country, and the balance of "gain" and "price" in this was enough for him to digest for a while.

"Germany annexed the Saarland in '35 and occupied the Rhineland in '36, and the French Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Daralday decided last year to build a new line of defense from the northern end of the Maginot Line, along the entire French to the Belgian border and to the North Sea, called the Daladier Line, and is still strengthening the Maginot Line. Such a blind defensive strategy is like constantly putting armor on your body, waiting for others to fight. ”

Lin Jun's tone was a bit sadistic, "Don't say that the temporarily purchased fortifications are not as strong as the original fortifications, and the idea of blindly defending is pedantic." If you have the time and resources to build a new line of defense, it is better to build a few more mobile mechanized armies, at least a few small countries to the north of the French that can give it a few days. ”

"Comrade Andrey, what you just said is like a hammer, a new thinking in strategic thinking." Debenko can only describe it this way: Avoiding the enemy's heavily defended areas and striking from weak links is one of the most basic tactics in strategy, but if this "weak link" is a few other countries, it is a different matter, and the relationship between countries is difficult for many military commanders to understand, and it is not a problem for them to consider.

"Since those few countries that are in the way are allies of the enemy and will go to war sooner or later, it is better to deal with them first. The French have sensed the danger, but they have responded with an outdated choice: the fortifications are effective, but the blind defense can only wait to be beaten. ”

"That is, there must be effective means of border defense, and more importantly, there must be a highly mobile iron fist." Debenko understood what Lin Jun meant.

"China in the East has the Great Wall, which is the ultimate embodiment of defense thinking, but in fact, the Chinese do not regard the Great Wall as the most important means of ensuring national security. More than 2,000 years ago, China fought a great war with the Xiongnu for hundreds of years, and finally drove the Xiongnu to Europe, and their strategists described the Great Wall as follows: There is a Great Wall, and the Huns attack once or twice a year, and without the Great Wall, the Central Plains is a plundering ground for the Huns. ”

"2,000 years ago, China built a strong cavalry force, because they knew that even the strongest fortifications had to be breached, as long as they concentrated on attacking a little, they could succeed, and only a flexible and powerful iron fist was the most effective defense. However, defense is indispensable, and if the border is not defended, it will be difficult to predict the consequences. The French focused only on defense, and its army, which claimed to be the strongest army on the European continent, had fallen behind, at least in terms of the ideology of the War Department, and had become an appendage of defense, and in less than two years, the Germans would have taught the French what a truly modern war was. (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.) )