Lin Jun had already done everything he could for the upcoming Soviet-Finnish war, and by the way, he had also made that annoying Kuusinin lose Stalin's trust. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The annexation of Finland was unrealistic, and the biggest reason was Stalin's "purge" campaign, which was now over and much smaller in scale thanks to Lin Jun's intervention, but still had a lot of Communists from Finland purged, which led to a serious distrust of the Soviet Union among Finnish Communists and leftists.

Stalin now understood that the vast majority of the Finns, who had already reached the average level of the relatively developed Soviet regions, did not want to join the Soviet Union system, and even the use of force to solve the problem would only bring endless trouble.

Molotov asked the Finns to retreat at least 25 kilometers in the direction of Leningrad, and if they followed their own plan, the Soviets would get Vyborg, Finland's second largest city, and the strategic depth would become greater, and as long as Vyborg took the territorial needs in the north, Molotov would be able to easily solve the problem at the negotiating table.

Lin Jun doesn't like the Kuusinen who likes to stretch his hand too long, to be honest, he is still very enthusiastic about himself, but from historical reasons and strategic needs, Kuusinen can only become a victim of Lin Jun's goal. If the original plan for the war against Finland was followed, the Red Army would suffer huge losses, and the "Finnish People's Republic" established by Kuusinin would be a big burden at all, and even Stalin would have thought so at that time.

Once Kuusinen lost Stalin's trust, it was estimated that he would not be far from losing power, and now he himself did not know that the Central Committee was about to throw away his burden, Stalin strictly ordered the members of the conference to strictly abide by the content of the meeting, and never allowed it to leak out, and those who were usually close to the Finns understood the consequences of violating the strict order.

Stalin's direct attack on the senior leaders of the Comintern at the meeting did not make Stalin angry, although Stalin thought that young people should not be so impulsive, and at least they should repay him before speaking out in public. But Lin Jun's reason was simple: in order to reduce the losses of the Soviets, he dared to offend anyone who wanted to use the power of the Soviets to achieve his own private ends, no matter what high-ranking cadres he was or how powerful he was - the enemies and moths of the Soviets were resolutely eradicated!

Stalin was glad that he would think so, because Stalin's concept of "his own people" was so ingrained that there were probably very few ethnic Russians who could gain his real trust except for Lin Jun, otherwise Lin Jun would not have had to taste Georgian food at a Kremlin banquet - Stalin's chefs were all his countrymen. Stalin, the comrade of the nationalities within the Soviet Union, would have doubted that a Finn who wanted to be the supreme leader of the "Finnish People's Republic" would soon find a reason for himself to abandon Kuusinin under Lin Jun's deliberate provocation.

The Red Army and the Red Navy are about to move in accordance with Lin Jun's full set of strategic deployments, not counting the Red Navy, the Red Army will have more than 1 million troops on the northern front at one time, and after deployment, it will attack Finland with an overwhelming advantage of 10 times in any parameters. Voroshinov thought that Lin Jun had invested too much military force in his plan, and that the 30,000 standing army against the Finns did not need such a large force, so in Stalin's office, Lin Jun fought him for 300 rounds in front of several members of the Central Committee, and finally got the comrades of the People's Commissar of Defense to agree to his battle plan.

An army of 800,000 troops would be pressed on the 87-kilometer-wide front of the Karelian Isthmus, and the Red Army would storm the Men Narin Line with a wave advance, with only 200,000 "partisans" north of Lake Ladoga, and only a heavy army in the northernmost area.

After a quarrel, the relationship between Lin Jun and Comrade Marshal was obviously stiffened a lot, "Comrade Marshal, you shouldn't quarrel with me, but thank me!" Your 200,000-strong plan to deal with the Finns will put you in a corner of the Kremlin! ”

Of course, Lin Jun could not tell Voroshinov what he thought, and the arrogance and ignorance of Soviet decision-makers in history failed to invest decisive forces at the beginning of the war, and as a result, Finland concentrated 130,000 men and 500 guns on the main battlefield, while the Soviet Union only invested 200,000 men and 900 guns, although there were still 1,000 tanks, but they were not used well, and the Red Army suffered heavy losses. If the Red Army had directly invested 1.2 million troops in the end, Finland would have gone to the outskirts of Vyborg before even the reserves and militia had organized the Red Army, and the Red Army would not have fought so badly!

"Ten and surround it, five and attack it!" Lin Jun always kept in mind the words of his ancestors, that is, the Finns had a geographical advantage, but the troops he sent were also as adaptable to the cold as the Finns, and the ability to conquer the fortified area was not only trained for a day or two, coupled with the absolute superiority in equipment and firepower, Lin Jun was confident that he would end the war when it was most suitable for heavy combat, and would not drag it out until the season when the snow was too thick.

All arrangements are based on geography, the Karelian Isthmus has good transport conditions, 4 single-track railways and 10 stone roads to the north-west of Finland. This was the best solution for the Soviet heavy forces, and although the Finns had strong defensive lines, it was better to open the way with artillery than with human lives, not to mention that wasting one's life in the Finnish forest was not enough - the Soviets had artillery and shells. In addition, although the terrain of the isthmus about 100 kilometers wide is undulating, as long as the timing is right, in the thick snow season (friends who live in cold winter areas may know that the snow thickness is the deepest before the end of winter, of course, it is the wild area and environment where snow will be accumulated, and the snow is not the thickest when it first cools down sharply. ) is passable. The problem of the lack of a commanding height for long-distance observation can be overcome, and the observation of balloons and patrol aircraft of aviation will become the eyes of the ground forces, which the Red Army did not originally look at, resulting in artillery and air power being useless like elephants chasing hares.

In the northeastern part of Lake Ladoga, there is a approach road that bypasses the northern shore of Lake Ladoga to the south of the Karelian Isthmus, but it is far away, and there is a narrow pass between Lake Saimaa and Lake Ladoga that is blocked and cut off by the defenders.

In the middle of the border is the narrowest waist in Finland, and there are three approaches to the port of Oulu, an important part of the Gulf of Bothnia, along which the port of Oulu can be encircled by an outer line. The width of the line from Somussalmi to the port of Oulu is only 120 kilometres, and once opened, the Finnish barricade can be cut into two sections, north and south, which will greatly affect the entire situation of the war. But fearing that he would fall into the quagmire of the Finnish forest, Lin Jun only let the infantry units take a defensive position and did not take the initiative to attack. As long as there is a breakthrough in the isthmus area, it doesn't matter if it's close or not, there will be anything.

Finland's northernmost region of Besa is a perennial permafrost plateau, which is not only Finland's only good port in the Barents Sea, but also a heavy channel connecting the Soviet port of Murmansk with the important iron ore fields in northern Sweden. The armored forces of Oleg Aleksandrovich Lochik, who is a native of Murmansk, will be thrown into this area. Lin Jun is going to train the future marshal of the tank armored corps, hoping that Loshik can pass this level, which will be a severe pass in his military career.

The entire border from the eastern shore of Lake Ladoga to the Barents Sea is about 1,100 kilometres long, and the area is 80% uninhabited forest, with only six east-west roads, narrow and poor road conditions, and is isolated by numerous lakes and forests. The roads are separated by 200 kilometres of trees, which can be cut down to act as roadblocks and provide a natural shield for Finnish ski detachments to attack marching columns along the road, making it a paradise for Finnish partisans. Lin Jun knew the interests of the Finnish ski troops, so he put the ski guerrillas specially prepared for them in Siberia and Debenko here, only requiring that the flames of war not be burned to the east side of the border, and that the rest be controlled by each unit itself, and at least hide and seek in the forest.

In the snow-covered wasteland, if the timing and strategy are wrong, the Soviet tanks and heavy artillery will fall into the predicament of being useless heroes, so this is a very unfavorable battlefield for the Soviet army. And on the Karelian Isthmus, as soon as the main Soviet forces crossed the border, they were blocked by the Mannerheim Line and had to fight a difficult storm.

Lin Jun chose to attack the fortifications, and the experienced and cunning Debenko was more powerful than Kirill Afanasyevich Meretskov, and this time Stalin at his suggestion would appoint Debenko as the commander-in-chief of the military operation in the north, and the specific commander of the Karelian Isthmus Front was Konstantin Konstantinovich Roskovsky, deputy commander of the Leningrad Military District.

The opportunity to show his talent came to the "first handsome man of the Soviet Union", and it was expected that Roskowsky would live up to his name. And Lin Jun himself will not be idle, and will go to Leningrad as Deputy People's Commissar of Defense.

When leaving the Kremlin, Gusev asked Lin Jun: "Chief, the musician from Leningrad you are looking for has been in Moscow for some time, when do you want to meet him?"

"Oh, I forgot about it. Tomorrow morning at ten o'clock he will come to the office to see me. (To be continued.) )