Mannalin himself disdained to command the ragged Finnish army, but he had to count on what he thought was a motley army of peasants. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Fortunately, some of his officers are quite good and well-trained in military affairs.

One interesting thing about the officers of the old aristocracy is that although they have their own ranks, many of them are civilians in normal times, more like intellectuals than professional officers. The vast majority of these people were quite versatile, and were able to move quickly from a quiet life of scientific research or business to a command position in the war.

There are most of the information of the veteran Finnish officers in the materials, and among them, Lin Jun pays the most attention to a few of them, all of whom can be regarded as troublesome opponents.

Mannarin's chief of staff, Lieutenant General Karl Ronnat-Ursch, was a forty-seven-year-old learned botanist known for his calm disposition and his enthusiasm for scientific details. On the other hand, he was a graduate of the 27th Ag Battalion of the Finnish Military Academy in France in 1915, where he distinguished himself in the Battle of Laotu against the Red Army in Finland. Ursch also had a doctorate in philosophy and was president of the Finnish Military Academy until 1929 and later Minister of the Interior until 1932.

It is possible that the commander in charge of the defense of the northern territory of Philfin, Major General Villeo Tuombo, was the son of a farmer, a historian and linguist. Tuombo was also a graduate of the Yag battalion, having fought the Red Army with the rank of captain, and later wrote a Finnish military manual in Berlin and later graduated from the Swedish Military Academy.

Tall and well-worked, Tuombo is a Finnish defense expert. His officers were all from the Finnish Border Guard Command, and he had long planned for the war between the Soviet Union and Germany, and had been training his subordinate units for this purpose.

The military commander of Finnish Lapland was none other than Major General Volnius, who had fought against the Red Army in 1918 and was well acquainted with the region. The Finnish army in Lapland was under-strengthened and poorly equipped, and Volnius could only count on this heavy firepower in the northern wilderness, but the small skiing force could withstand the Soviet attack.

The Finnish Fourth Army, commanded by Major General Heskanen, is currently stationed in the 440-kilometre-long area from Liksa to Tarawa.

Apart from Finnish Defense Ministers Yuho Nioukanen and Linde, there are few capable "generals" in the Finnish Army, but Major General Waldmar Hegdron counts as one. Hegdron was also from the Yager Battalion, a White Guard officer who had distinguished himself in the Civil War, and he was well acquainted with the terrain north of Lake Ladoga, and was a strong, black-haired officer who was beloved by his subordinates.

Four other officers in the Finnish army, with only the rank of colonel, also attracted the attention of the General Staff of the Red Army: Paavo Talvera, Yarma Silávuo, Ekholm and Ori Payari.

Forty-one-year-old Paavo Talvera has a wealth of combat experience, having trained at the German Age Battalion at the age of 20, and a year later became a battalion commander in the Finnish White Guards and later as a regimental commander in the Finnish Border Guards, while his real career is now that of a businessman, deputy manager of the Somi Film Company and deputy manager of the National Liquor Company.

Forty-seven-year-old Yalmar Silávuo is also an officer from the Yag battalion and, like Talvera, was a battalion commander of the Finnish White Guards. The son of a newspaper editor, he studied law, held public office in the Ministry of Education, and later served for several years as director of the mobilization bureau. This man was short, athletic, blonde, strong-willed, and a shrewd, resourceful commander.

The intelligence capabilities of the General Staff of the Red Army were still very good, not only were they basically familiar with the situation in the Finnish command, but they also had a clear understanding of the characteristics of those officers, and Mannalin was the top priority of intelligence work. The acquisition and access of information is inseparable from the contribution of the informants in Finland, especially in a few areas of northern Finland, where many Finns have begun to turn towards communism as a result of the efforts of the informants, which is very different from the current situation in other parts of Finland.

The reconnaissance of Men Nerin was the most, and the General Staff knew that he was familiar with the senior officers under him, and even more so that Mannalin knew the Red Army. As a result of his many years in the tsarist army, he could almost guess the thinking of the Russians and the strategy of the Soviet Union, and was also familiar with the military doctrines that had been implemented by the Red Army in previous years and were still openly enforced, because he had carefully studied them for many years.

The Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff believed that Mannalin himself believed that he was in a fortunate and wonderful position.

"He should know the characteristics of the Finnish army and think he understands us. The main force of the division was the reservists, who had gained experience in the White Guards and were not adapted to the present war, because they were fighting us along roads, villages and buildings, and I think they knew very well that the Finns would die if they did so this time. ”

Lin Jun said eloquently that the Finnish army had not formulated basic military regulations until 39 years, and the level of training was low; The officers, though distinctive, were heavily influenced by the tactics of Tsarist Russia, Sweden, and Germany, as is evident from the military careers of the officers under Manalin. The tactics of Tsarist Russia, Sweden and Germany basically required large corps and heavy firepower, and Finland did not have these two conditions.

The Finnish army was not even trained in specialized guerrilla warfare, nor did it develop workable military regulations for Finland's unique terrain, and officers and men had to learn about war as they went.

In contrast to the Finnish army, the Red Army inherited centuries of Russian war experience, even from the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, which suffered heavy losses, and applied this experience in World War I. He also said that he thought that it was fortunate that the Red Army did not make good use of this experience after the Civil War, and that the "purge" purged a large number of Red Army officers, and that the Red Army despised anything old, and that he believed that the quality of the sergeants of the junior officers and non-commissioned officers of the Red Army was very low!

Mannerlin believed that the Red Army insisted that it had abandoned the old ways, but that the old doctrines used only during the Civil War were the basis of their command, and that the "peasants", regardless of their rank, had only advanced on the battlefield by virtue of their violent nature and the guns of the political commissars behind everyone.

The old aristocracy finally miscalculated, if it were not for Lin Jun, the lack of experienced commanders in the Red Army in 39 would have been a fact, and some of the commanders of division-level troops turned out to be young officers with the rank of captain. Although the "rebellion" was very destructive, it was far less powerful than the Finns had heard of.

Behind everyone, the muzzle of the political commissar is up? -- This is the worst mistake of the old aristocracy, and his self-righteous arrogance may be his only weakness, and he looks down on any Bolshevik, and of course unconsciously imagines all those who believe in communism as useless inferior. The commanders and fighters of the Red Army fought for their faith, not because they were behind them with the muzzle of the gun! (This can be seen in some scenes from the Western film "Soldiers in the City," also known as "The Battle in the Decisive Battle," in which the West's fear and hostility against the communist system are stigmatized — the director has Vasily behind the machine guns of the Warlords.) ）

Men Nerin thought his only hope was to spread the Finnish army apart from the "Men Arena Line", where the "skiers" would carry their necessities through the wilderness and maneuver widely, attacking the Red Army trapped in the wilderness from the flanks and rear.

The ability to build a defense in the forest depends on the amount of time available, and it is best to establish a main line of defense deep in the forest, and cut down trees to block the road and clear the way for artillery. Given the time and manpower to do so, Mannalin also wants to build a second line of defense not too far from the first line of defense, or even a third line of defense at the right time.

Lin Jun estimated that Mannerin would prepare for war according to his own ideas, and this was also the point that Lin Jun summed up from intelligence and memory, not to mention that this was the only way Mannalin could choose to fight. I guess the old aristocracy didn't know if their methods would work - how many would have believed that the Finnish motley army could hold off the mighty Soviet Red Army?

If the Red Army was deployed according to Voroshinov's proposal, Lin Jun would have believed it.

The suggestion of Comrade People's Commissar of Defense was clearly based on a typical Russian mentality, which was well known to Manalin, who was speculating in Russian thinking that the Soviet Union would occupy Finland. There are no shortcomings in the arrangement of the old aristocracy to deal with this natural strategic goal of the Soviet Union, but fortunately, Lin Jun's thinking is not Russian, but deep-rooted Chinese thinking.

China's rich war and political experience accumulated over thousands of years is not something that Westerners can understand and learn, and even those so-called China experts will not really understand! Men knew that there was a fast-rising deputy People's Commissar of Defense in the Soviet Union, but he just thought that the 26-year-old guy named Andrei was just a few favored servants of the Tsarist period, and he had only achieved high positions because of Stalin's doting, and he would not have any real talent, that is, a useless straw bag.

Decentralized mobile warfare? Then let the Finnish army play hide and seek in the forest by themselves!

Mannalin's deployment of the "Russian-style strategy" made Lin Jun's plan more feasible, because in this way, the Finnish army's strength in the direction of the Red Army's main attack formulated by Lin Jun would not be the full strength of the Finnish army—attacking the defensive area that could be overcome by the familiar offensive method with its own full strength would become a battle between bulls and sheep, rather than a hidden danger between elephants and hares.

He and Gusev discussed until lunch time, and were about to go to the cafeteria together, when they saw a document on the bottom of the pile of documents on the table that he didn't have time to read, and after a cursory look, Lin Jun couldn't help but smile.

The document was sorted out by Gusev, of course he knew the contents of it, and suddenly heard Lin Jun burst out: "Hitler is a madman, he has read too many myths, and he has a problem with his brain." ”

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