Chapter 490: Chairman Mannerheim's Guest

Today, two guests arrived at the Chinese New Year's Eve Building of the Ministry of Defence in Pori, the capital of Finland, two young men and women with Asian faces. Led by the guardsmen, they entered the office of General Mannerheim, the de facto commander of the Finnish army, the chairman of the Finnish Defense Council.

When the guest entered Mannerheim's office, the general, who had a beard that was almost identical to S Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve Lin, shook hands with the visitor with a smile and said in Finnish: "Welcome, beautiful Sister Cheng, do you want to surprise me today?" ”

At this time, the young Chinese woman also introduced in fluent Finnish: "Hello President Mannerheim, this is Captain Fan Bingbing sent by the Chinese government, and he will be in charge of the liaison between you and China. And my current profession is our translator. ”

"Oh, welcome, young Mr. Captain." Mannerheim's smile is so cheerful that people can't help but feel good.

Fan Bingbing smiled and said in Chinese: "Hello President Mannerheim, I have seen the hospitality of your country. I think we will have a great time working together in the future. ”

When Sister Cheng translated Fan Bingbing's words, Mannerheim smiled and said to Sister Cheng: "Beautiful Sister Cheng, it seems that you can't be a good journalist, and you are also a qualified translator, your Finnish is very good!" ”

"Thank you for the compliment." Sister Cheng smiled and nodded her head gently, and a unique intellectual beauty of Chinese women was involuntarily revealed.

At this time, Cheng Kai on the side spoke, "Chairman Mannerheim, I think we should get into the topic now. This time, at the invitation of your government, I have been appointed by your government to provide you with a batch of our weapons to help you resist the invasion of the Soviet and Russian invaders. ”

"Thank you very much for the help extended by your government, during this time only your government has expressed goodwill to us, unlike other countries that are afraid of the threat of Soviet Russia, but I don't know what kind of help your country can provide to our country?"

Mannerheim's straightforward words and military temperament won Cheng Kai's favor, he smiled slightly, and took out a list from the briefcase beside him, on which the performance and price of many weapons were densely written in Chinese characters and Finnish.

Mannerheim took the list and carefully examined the price and performance of the weapons, still muttering something to his mouth.

After a long time, Mannerheim let out a long breath after putting down the list, and said with a smile: "Mr. Captain, first of all, I want to recognize that according to what is written on the list, the performance of your country's weapons is very good, but the price is also very expensive!" You see, the Suomi submachine gun written on the list, this is a submachine gun designed by our country, although its cost is relatively expensive, but the cost in our country is only 300 dollars, but your country is asking for 500 dollars, don't you think this is excessive? ”

Cheng Kai spread his hands and said helplessly: "Oh, Chairman Mannerheim, this includes its labor costs and transportation costs, so we can't let us sell it to you at the factory price, you have to give some profits to the bosses of those military industrial enterprises." ”

Mannerheim stared at Cheng Kai for a long time before nodding, "Okay, that's reasonable, but why aren't there any of the heavy weapons we urgently need in these lists?" What about the Chinese New Year's Eve caliber howitzers such as 155 and 203, and the world-famous 'Northwest Tiger' tank in your country? ”

Cheng Kai smiled bitterly: "Chairman Mannerheim, you have to understand our hardships. We have all these heavy weapons of yours, but due to the limited transportation capacity, we do not have the body to transport them thousands of miles away, you must know that we completely rely on the transport aircraft converted from the Chinese New Year's Eve bomber to deliver weapons to you, the capacity of the aircraft is limited, and we are not capable of transporting such heavy equipment of the Chinese New Year's Eve type. ”

Mannerheim sighed regretfully, now Soviet Russia has gathered more than 200,000 troops outside the Mannohim defense, and follow-up troops are still coming one after another. At this time, the population of Finland was only 3.7 million, and the total number of national defense forces was only 127,000. The equipment of the Finnish Army also remained only at the level of the First World War. And weapons are scarce, many soldiers do not even have military uniforms, and the rifles are old rifles from the First World War Chinese New Year's Eve.

At this time, there were very few countries in the world that were willing to support Finland, and most of Chinese New Year's Eve countries refused to sell weapons to Finland for fear of annoying the Soviet and Russian governments, and the 50,000 reinforcements originally promised by Britain and France had so far only come to 6,000, and Sweden, as a neighboring country, was limited to the neutrality bill and could only secretly come from the frontier more than 2,000 people in the name of volunteers. One can imagine how difficult it was for Finland to defeat the hundreds of thousands of well-supplied and well-equipped Soviet Russian troops with such a small number of troops.

At this moment, an unknown female reporter from China who was covering in Finland brought the goodwill of the Chinese government, and they were willing to sell weapons to the Finnish government, which was tantamount to a relief from Finland, which was desperately short of weapons.

Of course, Mannerheim also understands that people who are willing to sell weapons to themselves must make a lot of money, otherwise they will not be able to bear the risk of being blamed by Soviet Russia and have to travel thousands of miles to transport weapons here.

However, to Mannerheim's surprise, the price of the Chinese government was much lower than the price expected by Mannerheim's psychology, and Mannerheim psychology silently calculated that the profit obtained by the Chinese government after throwing away the freight was actually not high.

Thinking of this, Mannerheim opened his mouth and asked: "The amount of weapons and ammunition we need is very large, can your country ensure that it will be delivered on time?" ”

Cheng Kai smiled slightly: "Please rest assured, as long as you need, we can deliver your goods to your designated address at any time."

In the end, Mannerheim, on behalf of the Finnish government, ordered 1,000 Suomi submachine guns, 5,000 Garand rifles, 500 MG34 general-purpose machine guns eliminated by the Chinese army, and 200 57-mm recoilless anti-tank guns.

After negotiating the deal, Cheng Kai assured Mannerheim that the arms would be shipped to Finland within a week, while Mannerheim would ensure that as soon as the weapons arrived, the Finnish government would transfer the money to the account of the Chinese government. In this way, a deal that both parties were happy about on Chinese New Year's Eve was negotiated.

While Cheng Kai was negotiating a deal with Mannerheim, a group of Soviet advisers were also making final preparations in the Kremlin in Moscow, Soviet Russia.

Zhukov, who was already in charge of the deputy general counsel, said to Si Nian Xinye Lin, who came to inquire about the deduction: "Comrade Chinese New Year's Eve Lin, according to our deduction, the situation is actually not optimistic. Although Finland has a small population, an army of just over 100,000 people, and a narrow land area and lack depth, it is densely forested and has poor roads, which is unfortunate for the advancement of mechanized armies. We have superior military strength, but the Chinese New Year's Eve army is difficult to deploy, so"

"That's why you're scared, aren't you?" Chinese New Year's Eve Lin mercilessly interrupted Zhukov's words, staring at his general with sharp eyes, "Zhukov, remember, you are facing an army organized by farmers, they have no heavy artillery, no new aircraft, and they even use rifles from the last Chinese New Year's Eve war. Do you have to be so concerned about this kind of army, which doesn't even have machine guns? I'm disappointed, Zhukov, what about courage? Did they all stay in Siberia? ”

Chinese New Year's Eve Lin's words were very heavy, and did not give face to this hero who had worked hard to resist the Chinese army in Siberia for more than two years.

Zhukov also said unceremoniously: "But Comrade Chinese New Year's Eve, this is a fact, and there is not the slightest exaggeration in my words. I'm just reminding you that the Finns are not soft persimmons that we can handle at will, and if we don't care, they will probably pierce our palms! ”

"Enough!" Chinese New Year's Eve Lin shouted angrily: "Comrade Zhukov, from today onwards, he will no longer be responsible for the battle plan against Finland, and will immediately hand over this battle plan to Comrade Vasilevsky. ”

After signing a ceasefire agreement with Su Tong, Soviet Russia's five-year plan grew relatively smoothly, and some time ago it carved up Poland with Germany, and S Chinese New Year's Eve linger's self-confidence began to rise again. He was convinced that the setback of the Soviet Russian army last time was only temporary, and as long as the Soviet Russian Red Army on Chinese New Year's Eve regained its former combat effectiveness, then when it faced the Chinese army again, it would no longer be as defeated as last time, and this operation against Finland should be regarded as a military training, who made Finland so close to Leningrad, I will not fight anyone.

But at this moment, Zhukov poured a scoop of cold water on the Chinese New Year's Eve Lin, what Finland is not good to gnaw, be cautious and other words, which makes the already confident Chinese New Year's Eve Lin how to accept it. Enraged, Chinese New Year's Eve Lin immediately stripped Zhukov of his command.

Zhukov sighed, he handed over the battle plan in his hand to a young major general, and slowly walked out of the combat command room.

Chinese New Year's Eve Lin didn't look at the lonely back behind him, stared at the major general in front of him and said, "Comrade Vasilevsky, what do you think of the upcoming Finnish campaign?" ”

Major General Vasilevsky of the young Vasilevsky hurriedly stood up and said: "Comrade Chinese New Year's Eve, I don't think there is any problem, we have prepared 23 divisions with a total of 450,000 troops. There is no reason why we should not achieve a final victory in this war, yes, no reason! ”

"Hmmm! Good fit! Listening to the major general's sworn guarantee in front of him, Si Chinese New Year's Eve Lin's eyes unconsciously narrowed into a slit. He suddenly realized that he admired this major general very much, didn't he? The Soviet Russian army on Chinese New Year's Eve lacked such confident generals.