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At 5:40 a.m. on 16 March, an H6N3 long-range bomber of the Imperial Chinese Army Air Force took off from Kwajalein Island and began a nuclear test mission codenamed "Lei Gong's Fury." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ╔╗

At about 8:59 a.m., the H6N3 bomber dropped an atomic bomb codenamed "Goldfish Monster" (the early atomic bombs of the Chinese Empire were named after the demons and monsters in Journey to the West).

Forty-five seconds later, the atomic bomb, which was equivalent to 23,000 tons of TNT explosives, exploded at an altitude of about 120 meters above the target ship "Li Shimin."

In order to ensure the safety of the visitors, two minutes before the atomic bomb exploded, the visitors, officers and men on the battleship Zhu Yuanzhang and other warships on alert wore special goggles to protect their eyes from the strong light caused by the nuclear test.

Immediately after the atomic bomb exploded, it produced a strong light that was hundreds of times stronger than the sun's rays, and as the smoke rose, the visiting ship could see red light and black smoke rising into the sky from 18 kilometers away. Heisenberg silently stared at the huge mushroom cloud that was rising, his mouth wide open, his eyes wide, and he was shocked by the tremendous power of the atomic bomb.

"Sure enough, it's a weapon that destroys the world!"

All the observers, including Heisenberg, had basically the same expression, and they were all seeing the effects of the atomic bomb for the first time. In addition to the shock, the military attaches shouted and released the horror in their hearts. The experts kept the data they saw in their minds, wondering when their country would be able to unleash such tremendous energy.

At 8:35 a.m. on 12 April, the Imperial Chinese Navy conducted another nuclear test of the "Hydra" in the waters off Bikini Island. Outcome. The nuclear test of the "Hydra" is still astonishing, with atomic bombs as powerful as 80,000 21-inch red-headed torpedoes exploding in shallow waters, and battleships within a radius of 150 meters, cruisers within 300 meters, and other ships within 450 meters of the center of the explosion were blown to shreds like children's toys.

The nuclear explosion stirred up huge waves more than 3,000 meters high, and soon a huge tsunami more than 20 meters high was set off on the sea surface with a radius of more than 10 kilometers. It also quickly spread to the sea area with a radius of more than 1,000 square kilometers, and when the tsunami reached the Japanese archipelago, it was still as high as 6 meters, causing huge casualties and property losses to the Japanese along the coast.

However, the Japanese authorities did not dare to protest to the Chinese Empire, so they reassured the Japanese people on the grounds that the earthquake caused the tsunami, and it was not until many years later that the Japanese people understood the real "murderer" at that time.

After the test, the reception staff of the Chinese Empire asked the visitors from various countries: "Who wants to take the risk of inspecting the inside of the bombed target ship?" ”

It is important to know that the radiation caused by nuclear tests is still highly lethal. In the end, only representatives of Germany, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and France asked to go.

After conducting on-the-spot investigations, German nuclear physicist Heisenberg discovered that by comparing the two nuclear tests of the "Yellow Fish Monster" and the "Hydra," the power of air-dropped atomic bombs to attack surface targets is much smaller than that of attacking ground targets. The mortality rate of the organisms carried by the target ship is about 15%-20%, the internal equipment of the ship is not very damaged, and the food is not contaminated by nuclear radiation. However, the "Hydra" nuclear test showed a different picture, with an atomic bomb exploding in shallow waters stirring up a large amount of water mist containing radiation and invading the ship's hold. As a result, it causes great damage to the creatures inside the ship.

The two public nuclear tests of the Chinese Empire finally convinced the whole world of the fact of the atomic bomb and the tremendous power of the atomic bomb, and the whole world was shocked for a time. The great powers had to admit that the Chinese Empire was an unshakable world hegemon.

"Even if you lose your pants, you must develop an atomic bomb as soon as possible!"

This sentence has almost become a mantra for the leaders of various powers and countries, and has also become a sharp sword hanging over the heads of nuclear physics and engineering experts of various countries. Not only must it be developed, but it must be developed as soon as possible. Because the Chinese Empire did not threaten it, it began to openly carry out nuclear blackmail against the great powers.

In order to make huge profits by exporting arms to all belligerent countries at the same time, the Chinese Empire used nuclear weapons as a bargaining chip, forcing the belligerents to acquiesce in the fact that the Chinese Empire exported weapons to their hostile countries as well as to them. ╔╗And the great powers of all countries are under the nuclear power of the Chinese Empire, knowing that they cannot confront the Chinese Empire with the conventional weapons in their hands, and can only accept the nuclear blackmail of the Chinese Empire.

"Do you really want to say yes?"

"What can I do if I don't say yes?

Paris, the Allied High Command. French President Albert? Lebrun and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill looked at each other for a long time, and finally both sighed in unison.

"Unless we can come up with nuclear weapons right away, we will have to put up with the fact that the Chinese Empire has stepped on two ships!"

"Damn it!" Albert slammed the table and said, "We endured the last war, do we have to endure it this time?" ”

Churchill said with a bitter face: "Then you tell me, if we can't bear it, will we go to war with the Chinese Empire?" Push them into the camp of the Allies, and set up for ourselves an enemy that we cannot defeat at all, and who will wipe us off the face of the earth at any moment? ”

Churchill's successive questions left Albert speechless.

Albert sat down and said, "You know what? I have been studying the European policy of the Chinese Empire, and I have been studying the last world war for quite a long time, when the Chinese Empire pinched the weakness of our dare not offend them, and at the same time exported weapons to us and the Allies. ”

"It's not news anymore!"

"Here's the news!" Albert continued: "After careful study, I realized that the Chinese Empire was not simply exporting weapons to make war money, but implicitly implicitly that we and our enemies were in a stalemate forever, and that they would be consumed forever. ”

Churchill nodded and said, "This is normal!" We'd think the same thing! ”

Albert said: "In fact we are fools! ”

Ignoring Churchill's glare, Albert continued: "I found a pattern! Whenever we were at a disadvantage on the battlefield, the Chinese Empire would export us a batch of advanced weapons. The performance of the advanced weapons of the Allies is equal to that of the allies, providing us with some enemy intelligence to help us recover from the disadvantage. Again, when we are at an advantage. The Chinese Empire changed to export more advanced weapons to the Allies. In this way, neither of us can achieve victory, nor can we completely lose, so we will spend it and put all our wealth and savings into the pockets of the Chinese Empire. This is their conspiracy, the conspiracy to bring down the entire Western world. ”

After hearing this, Churchill also felt very reasonable.

Albert then threw a bombshell at Churchill and said, "Do you know why you lost the Battle of Jutland?" ”

Churchill asked, "What do you mean?" ”

Albert snorted coldly. "The information we have indicates that the Chinese Empire has deciphered your highest military communication code and informed the Germans. At the same time, the news of the German code book that you salvaged from the shipwreck was also revealed to the Germans by the Chinese Empire. Such. The whole Battle of Jutland was calculated by the Germans from the very beginning. ”

Churchill was shocked, and although British intelligence had suspicions in this regard, there was no actual evidence.

Now from Albert's mouth, Churchill suddenly believed.

Churchill, however, smiled wryly: "So what? Covered in wounds, we don't care about one more scar! What if you know? Can you change the ending? In my opinion, it's better not to know than to know! ”

Albert paused for a moment. Immediately understood Churchill's distress, and couldn't help but sigh: "Yes! What if you know? Now that the Chinese Empire not only has a conventional military force far superior to ours, but also has a nuclear power, what can we do with them? It's better to know but not to know! ”

Then. Albert asked: "How far have you advanced your nuclear weapons!" ”

Churchill coughed dryly and said, "I don't know what you're talking about!" We didn't develop nuclear weapons! ”

Albert smiled helplessly. ╔╗ said: "Don't pretend to be garlic with me!" At this time, we should make concerted efforts to develop nuclear weapons one day earlier so that we will not be blackmailed by the Chinese Empire. After all, it's better for you to develop your own research and development than for our two countries to develop it together! The combined talents and funds of the two countries will be more abundant. ”

Churchill saw that Albert had said this. It's not good to hide it anymore, so he said: "There is some progress, but there is a lack of nuclear materials!" At the moment, the only uranium mine in the world that can be mined in large quantities is concentrated in Australia, but as you know, it has been occupied by the Chinese Empire, which controls the export of uranium, and we only have access to the amount of uranium used in the laboratory, and it is very difficult to achieve the amount of nuclear charge needed to make an atomic bomb. ”

Albert said: "We can find a way to get uranium raw materials!" ”

Churchill asked, "What do you mean?" ”

Albert looked smug and said, "We have discovered uranium, enough to mine for a while, enough to refine the uranium resources needed to refine hundreds of nuclear bombs." ”

Churchill's eyes lit up and he asked, "Where did you find it?" ”

Albert just smiled and didn't answer.

Churchill suddenly understood Albert's intentions, so he said: "Our centrifuge developed in the summer can already purify enriched uranium to 60%, and it is very close to the uranium enrichment required for the atomic bomb, if you can provide a large amount of uranium raw materials, then we will soon make the atomic bomb." ”

Albert asked, "So we can work together?" ”

Churchill nodded, noncommittal.

Albert thought for a moment and said, "Good! Britain and France formed a joint atomic bomb research and development team, we were responsible for supplying uranium raw materials, and you were responsible for upgrading centrifuge enrichment technology. In terms of funding, we are responsible for half of the money, but the technology needs to be shared, and you are not allowed to hide it. ”

"Deal!" Churchill suddenly held out his right hand.

"Deal!"

With the hands of the two giants of Britain and France shaking together, it was announced that Britain and France would work together to develop the atomic bomb.

But with the technological capabilities of Britain and France, it will be a long way to go before an atomic bomb can be built. Although France discovered uranium deposits in French African colonies, it was not yet able to achieve large-scale mining, and the mining equipment and funds were not yet available due to the impact of the world war. Even if uranium ore was mined, it would be difficult to transport it back home from Africa, because the German navy began to break diplomatic relations in the Atlantic and Mediterranean again, and German fleets and submarines attacked Allied ships everywhere.

It can be said that Albert's promise is not guaranteed, but is nothing more than an excuse and a bargaining chip for him to obtain nuclear technology from the UK.

Equally. Churchill also had reservations about Britain's allies. Britain's uranium enrichment technology has not reached the level of 60% at all, only 30%, which is far from weapons-grade uranium enrichment.

The two allies deceive each other politically and then become entangled over the distribution of funds. It will seriously affect the progress of the Entente in the research of nuclear weapons.

Of course, the biggest problem facing the Entente was not yet nuclear weapons. After all, Britain and France only need to not offend the Chinese Empire to avoid a nuclear attack. The biggest dilemma for Britain and France at present was that the German army attacked the Netherlands and Belgium in early January 1939 after destroying Norway and Denmark, preparing to bypass the Maginot Line and outflank France. Although the Italian army attacked unfavorably, it successfully pinned down 400,000 French troops on the Franco-Italian border. The Spanish army also completed the general mobilization for the war, Franco's 300,000 troops received a large number of weapons and equipment from Germany and Italy, and advanced aircraft, tanks, and artillery were being assembled on the Franco-Spanish border. France was besieged on three sides by German, Italian, and Spanish armies. France has been forced to spend almost all of its financial allocations on defense, with less than 2 per cent of its pledges for nuclear weapons development. ╔╗

In addition to sending hundreds of thousands of expeditionary forces to France to assist France in defending against the attack of the Central Powers, Britain also had to take on the role of fighting against the German Navy and preventing the German Navy from breaking diplomatic relations in the Atlantic. Because Britain had already tasted the bitter fruits of two broken wars (the Sino-British War and the First World War). The supply lines of life at sea on the British mainland have been given the highest priority by the British High Command, and 70% of the British financial expenditure on military spending is tilted towards the navy, 25% towards the air force, and less than 4% for the army. Less than 0.4 per cent of nuclear weapons have been invested.

It can be said that Britain and France joined forces to develop nuclear weapons, but until the end of World War II, they did not succeed in developing nuclear weapons, but spies from various countries, including the Chinese Empire, continued to sabotage them. It seriously hampered the pace of the Entente's development of nuclear weapons.

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In order to cope with the enormous strategic pressure on Britain caused by the German occupation of Norway and Denmark, Churchill had to prevent the German navy from attacking the British rear with the help of Iceland. Therefore, after the fall of Norway, the British invaded Iceland on a large scale.

Iceland's military is very weak. Can you even do it in seyeisfj? At the foot of the Reur fjord, there was only one ship fighting named El? Seventeenth-century sail cruiser from the Elgrillo. As a result, in front of the mighty British Navy, the 18-inch cannon of the battleship Queen Elizabeth thundered and sank her with one shot, leaving only a butter tank floating in the bay.

Iceland did not have an army in the strict sense of the word, and the British landed smoothly.

When the British army smashed the gate of the Icelandic National Telecommunications Company, they asked the Icelandic Prime Minister Herman? Johnson issued an ultimatum. Herman gave in and told his people to be like guests, and the British promised to compensate for the damaged gates, and the war ended in less than four hours.

Compared to the bombing and destruction of other European capitals, the Icelanders escaped and gradually began to sell fish and seafood to the British, and even more so, "work for the British". People from all over Iceland poured into the capital just for an opportunity to work for the British army, including the British army's base construction project in Iceland. Icelanders often saw World War II as the beginning of Iceland's modernization, and for many years afterward, the "blessaestrieie" ("blessaestrieie") was the Icelandic name for World War II, which was very different from the European and American hatred of World War II.

World War II, however, left a different kind of scar on Iceland. Soon after the British landed, Iceland's "Morning Post" reported that the Icelandic young girl seemed to be attracted to the British at first sight, which not only frightened the locals, but also surprised the British soldiers. Iceland's ruling men are terrified, fearing that these "guests" will ruin the shame of the country's younger generation.

Before the invasion, Reykjavik was a small town with a population of less than 40,000, and almost half of its inhabitants were under the age of 20. A few years later, when the Chinese Imperial GIs replaced the British gentry, Reykjavík's demographic composition changed dramatically. Empire Chinese soldiers of almost the same size as the city population were stationed in Iceland, young and well-dressed, and for a time Reykjavik was flooded with a male element from the East. A large number of Icelandic women became infatuated with the Chinese soldiers, and this special "war situation" was recorded in history. Historically known as "Ástandie" - "thesituation". Since the first article in the Morning Post, this phenomenon has become an eternal topic of conversation in the Icelandic literary world.

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The British occupied Iceland in order to control the seas, and similarly, German Field Marshal Hitler was dissatisfied with the low combat effectiveness of the Italian and Spanish armies. In order to occupy France as quickly as possible, the Germans chose to bypass the Maginot Line and attack the Netherlands and Belgium, and then attack France.

On February 10, 1939, thousands of German planes stormed the major cities and airfields of neutral Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands in the early morning, opening the way for an army invasion.

In the Netherlands, the Germans showed the might of the "blitzkrieg". Most of the major airports in and around Amsterdam were heavily shelled in the pre-dawn terror. German paratroopers. Some of them, dressed in Dutch uniforms, fell from the sky at the same time as the Army rapidly crossed the Dutch border. ╔╗ The surprise attack did not particularly surprise the Netherlands, and for a week the country had been preparing to resist German aggression. In fact. At least 6 German aircraft were shot down by anti-aircraft guns. However, the Germans' powerful and well-coordinated blitzkrieg eventually plunged the Netherlands into bloodshed and terror. Hitler even feared that the Dutch government would soon use its unique defensive weapon, water warfare, that is, to open the floodgates of the Dutch specially constructed flood control dams.

It goes without saying that this has always been the greatest concern of the German invasion of the Netherlands. Already after the outbreak of the last world war, Germany also had plans to invade the Netherlands. It's just that I'm worried that the Dutch will burn jade.

But this time Hitler was confident that the German blitzkrieg would take the Netherlands before the Dutch could react and stop the Dutch from breaking the embankment.

"In our country, after prudent and strict neutrality in conscience. ...... Germany, without issuing any ultimatum, suddenly attacked our territory. "On the day of the German invasion. The Netherlands immediately declared war on Germany. Queen Wilhelmina called on the public to take up arms. "Maintain the utmost vigilance and composure from the conscience."

Other German regiments crossed the Belgian border in the same fast and efficient way. In the early hours of the morning, the Nazi air force dropped bombs on Antwerp, Nivel and Brussels, and paratroopers landed at the fortress of Eben-Emar, located north of the Belgian defensive line.

While the defenders were engaged in a fierce battle with the German paratroopers, the German infantry poured in virtually unhindered on the nearby Albert Canal, and the Antwerp airport was heavily bombarded until dawn.

At dawn, more than 400 Belgians were killed at the airport, and the fire in nearby homes was uncontrollable.

Belgian Prime Minister Pierrot and Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spike met with King Leopold. The three leaders issued a "national emergency" order, protested to Berlin, and mobilized all possible men to go to war, believing that France and Britain would help.

German Foreign Minister Joshim von Ribbentrop argued that the joint invasion was to protect the Low Countries from the danger of an Entente attack. He said that Britain and France were prepared to use the Low Countries as a stepping stone to an invasion of Germany. He also claimed: "The Entente is plotting an attack on German territory, which Germany cannot tolerate." ”

Von Ribbentrop also issued a statement saying: "The German people are forced to fight life and death, and the government has no intention of waiting for the attack of England and France." ”

It can be said that Germany has completely shameless declaration. In response, the Allied governments disdained to comment on these fallacies, dismissing them as Nazi propaganda.

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In 1938, after the Chinese Empire tested the first atomic bomb "Red Baby" in western Xinjiang, it successively conducted a number of nuclear tests the following year, including various types and explosion methods. After the two nuclear bombs "Hydra" and "Yellow Fish Monster" were openly tested, the power of the explosion not only destroyed the Bikini Atoll, but also transmitted the shock wave as far away to Moscow in the interior of Europe and Asia.

At this time, the Soviet Union had the largest army in the world. Although the Soviet Union did not participate in the world war, it took advantage of the war between the Central Powers and the Entente and took advantage of the fact that Germany had no time to look westward to launch a war of aggression against Finland.

Of course, the USSR has always had greater ambitions. That is, he has always wanted to invade the rich Chinese Empire militarily and regain the territory lost during the Tsarist era. The Soviet invasion of Finland was just a pretext for Stalin's massive military expansion, and the Soviet High Command secretly revised the plans of the Yellow Russia of the Tsarist era, and the Red Army's strong combat effectiveness made the Soviets extremely proud. The entire Soviet Red Army boasted in front of Stalin: "The Soviet Red Army is confident that with bread and rifles, it will defeat the Chinese emperor, armed to the teeth." ”

But the test detonation of the atomic bomb of the Chinese Empire suddenly reversed the situation. Although the shocked Stalin pretended to be calm on the outside, he secretly summoned military scientific and technological personnel to mine uranium ore on a large scale and set up an atomic bomb laboratory in order to build his own atomic bomb in the shortest possible time.

In fact, as early as the early 30s of the 20th century, the Soviets had already established a nuclear research center, when the Jewish chemist Meitner, who worked with the German chemist Hahn, fled from Germany to the Soviet Union. After revealing to the Soviets that what he knew about the research on nuclear reactors in the Imperial Chinese was nothing more than an illusion and that real uranium fission might be used for military purposes, Stalin decided to also develop nuclear physics. But the Soviet Union had no money, and the talent and technical reserves were very limited. The equipment is not up to the precision of the study of nuclear physical science. At the same time, Stalin could not imagine the true power of the atomic bomb and therefore did not take it to heart.

The Soviet Union's real entry into the threshold of nuclear physics began in 1936, when the international economic crisis led to a large influx of foreign talents into the Soviet Union, coupled with the great achievements of the Soviet Union's economic construction. So by Kurchatov and Peter? Kapitsa and other scientists presided over the arduous work of nuclear physics research and experiments.

By 1938, the Soviet Union had established the "Uranium Research Committee". These scientists have completed a very important experiment showing that only a few grams of uranium-235 can be re-nuclear exploded through a continuous chain reaction in fast neutrons.

At the end of 1938. The Soviet Union received information about the Chinese Empire's nuclear tests in Western Frontier, although Stalin did not believe it at the time. However, the research on the atomic bomb was emphasized.

At the same time, Soviet geologists found rich uranium resources in Altai, Urals and other places in the Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust mining areas. And a special atomic research center was created there.

When Stalin confirmed the fact that the Chinese Empire possessed the atomic bomb and knew the enormous power of the atomic bomb, Stalin immediately ordered the Soviet Revolutionary Committee to allocate 3.3 billion rubles for the development of the atomic bomb.

Since then, the Soviet Union's uranium enrichment program has been rapidly launched, and the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons development rate has increased rapidly under the call of Stalin's powerful spiritual force.

At this time, the Soviet Union had already mastered the principle of the explosion of the atomic bomb, but the key was the storage of uranium with a nuclear charge of the atomic bomb. At this time, the Soviet Union secretly carried out several nuclear tests, but all failed because the concentration of uranium raw materials did not meet the standard. Because the equipment of the Soviet uranium enrichment centrifuge was not up to standard, the purification rate was less than 40%. Except for the advanced technology of centrifuges in the Chinese Empire, no other country has the technology to purify uranium raw materials to more than 90%. The Chinese Empire would certainly not export this technology, and even if other countries had, they would not give it to the Soviet Union. As a result, the Soviets, under Stalin's call, exerted their spiritual strength and used the most primitive method to deposit uranium raw materials one microgram at a time. It was not until the outbreak of the Soviet-German war that the Soviet Union's finances became tighter and the development of the atomic bomb was even slower.

On the one hand, Stalin ordered people to intensify the development of the atomic bomb, but on the other hand, the Soviet military also raised doubts. The nuclear test at Bikini Atoll showed that the H-6 bombers of the Chinese Empire could take off from mainland China and reach anywhere in the world, let alone bomb the Soviet Union. Because even if the Soviet Union occupied Finland and Western Europe, it lacked sufficient strategic depth to avoid the atomic retaliation of the Chinese Empire.

If it wanted to recapture Siberia, which had been occupied by the Chinese Empire, the Soviet Union would have to develop transoceanic long-range bombers. The Soviet Union used spies to steal part of the data about the H6N1 series bombers from the Chinese Empire, and secretly obtained the corresponding large aircraft design parameters from the large civilian airlines of the Chinese Empire through a third country, and actively copied the Soviet version of the Tu-1 bomber. However, due to the backwardness of the Soviet Union's material technology and mechanical manufacturing process, the precision of reverse engineering was also limited, and the copycat was the early H6N1 bomber of the Chinese Empire, coupled with the Soviet Union's inability to provide high-octane aviation gasoline, resulting in the Tu-1's combat radius of only a short 820 kilometers, taking off from the nearest Kurgan. It could only blow up parts of the western frontier of the Chinese Empire and the Republic of Ash. If you change to a one-way ticket, the combat radius can reach the entire western territory of the Chinese Empire, but it is still powerless for the core cities of the Chinese Empire and the developed central and eastern regions.

In this way, even if the Soviet Union had the atomic bomb, it would not be able to compete with the Chinese Empire one-on-one. Or suffer.

The crazy Soviets came up with a bunch of strange ideas: in 1939, Stalin ordered the air force to create a hundred bomber divisions that could take off from the Arctic ice floe, so that not only the huge and slow Tu-1, but even the small and fast Tu-2 and Il-1 bombers could cross the Arctic Circle to bomb the Chinese empire. Stalin's imagination apparently made the Red Army understand the pain of German allegiance to Hitler.

But soon the Soviets abandoned this unrealistic idea, because they received information that the Chinese Empire seemed to be concerned about a possible shortcut attack by the Soviets from the Arctic Circle, and set up more than a dozen large radar listening stations in the Arctic Circle, where Soviet planes were said to fly together. The radar stations of the Chinese Empire were able to detect it. The Soviet Union's radar technology was just in its infancy, and the belief in this intelligence forced Stalin to abandon this idea and devote himself to the development of a long-range bomber.

But. Neither the development of an atomic bomb nor the development of a long-range bomber was a problem that could be solved in a short time for the Soviet Union.

During this time, Stalin saw the outbreak of World War II between the Allies and the Entente in Europe, and decided to take the opportunity to expand the territory of the Soviet Union as a preparation to prevent a German counterattack. It was also used as the capital for a war with the Chinese Empire in the future.

In Stalin's eyes, the greatest hatred of the Soviet Union at present was Finland, so an invasion of Finland was inevitable.

Finland was conquered by Tsarist Russia as early as 1808 and became a vassal state of Russia. In the First World War, Germany, as the antithesis of Russia, had always encouraged Finland's struggle for independence. Immediately after the November Revolution in Russia, the Finnish government declared independence on 6 December 1917.

With the final strike of the First World War, peace was made. Germany-backed Prince Friedrich of Hesse? Karl became king of Finland, and the relationship between Germany and Finland became very close, which gave the Soviet Union a very big threat.

But in the fight for Finnish independence, Finland's relations with Russia and the Soviet Union have been cold. In early 1918, some armed men of Soviet Russia participated in an armed uprising led by Finland, which was suppressed by the Finnish government. In May ~ June 1919, during the intervention of foreign forces in the Russian Civil War, Finland sent troops to participate in the attack of the Yudenich White Army on Petrograd, owing the Red Army a lot of blood debt. In 1921~1922, thousands of Finns participated in the riots in the Karelia region of the Soviet Union, which was regarded by the Soviet Union as Finland's territorial ambitions in the region. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, supported the activities of the Finns in exile in the Soviet Union, thus causing Finland to be on guard. These historical entanglements cast a shadow over the relationship between the two countries, and Finland has always regarded the former Soviet Union as an old enemy.

In 1932, when the international situation was relatively calm, the Soviet Union and Finland adjusted their relations and signed a non-aggression pact. The treaty stipulates that the two sides undertake to refrain from violating each other's existing borders and to refrain from any aggressive actions directed at the other. The treaty also declared that the parties "will always endeavour to settle disputes between them of any nature or of any origin, in a spirit of justice". This treaty eased the contradictions between the two countries for a time. In 1934, the agreement was further established as valid for ten years.

However, the Western powers have always regarded Finland as a bargaining chip against the former Soviet Union, so Soviet-Finnish relations have been affected by the contradictions and struggles between the major powers.

After independence, Finland maintained good relations with Western countries and received military assistance from them. In 1933~1938, Britain provided Finland with weapons and equipment worth 211 million Finnish marks, Germany helped build an extensive airport network for the Finnish Air Force, and the Chinese Empire aided Finland with 300 M16 main battle tanks, and sold 200 Hellfire fighters to the Finnish Air Force, and sent military instructors to help Finland train officers.

With the support of these countries, Finland built a strong defensive line on the Karelian Isthmus named after Mannerheim. Such movements in Finland often aroused the alarm of the Soviet Union, which considered itself to be under "capitalist encirclement".

When the Soviet Union and Germany divided Poland and the Soviet Union took the initiative to hold secret negotiations with Finland, it began to explore the possibility of realizing its own attempt. During the negotiations, the representative of the Soviet Union bluntly put forward the demand that the Soviet Union use Finnish territory to meet the invading enemy in the event of a possible invasion of the Soviet Union by a third country and the invasion of the Soviet Union through Finland, and also expressed the desire of the former Soviet Union to obtain the right to fortify certain islands in the Gulf of Finland. But Finland pursues a policy of non-involvement in the conflict of great powers. Declare that it will never stand on the side of one great power against another. As a result, all secret negotiations failed to achieve any results because of Finland's rejection of the demands of the former Soviet Union.

As early as the signing of the non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and Germany, the Soviet Union demanded to invade Finland, but Germany opposed it. Now Germany is too busy with the war on the Western Front to look eastward. The USSR believed that the time had come to annex Finland.

From January 11 to January 22, 1939, negotiations between the Soviet Union and Finland were held in Moscow. In this negotiation, in addition to suggesting that the Soviet Union and Finland sign a treaty of mutual assistance to jointly defend the Gulf of Finland, the former Soviet Union also further put forward a demand for ceding and adjusting part of Finland's territory, that is, asking Finland to move the Soviet-Finnish border on the Karelian Isthmus 40 kilometers north, and to cede several islands in the Gulf of Finland and Finnish territory on the Rybaki Peninsula to the former Soviet Union; The Hanko Peninsula was leased to the former Soviet Union for 30 years at a cost of 8 million Finnish marks per year. To compensate Finland for territorial losses. The former Soviet Union has expressed its willingness to give Finland land twice the size of the area ceded to Finland northwest of Lake Onega.

However, the Hanko Peninsula was a natural barrier for Finland to defend itself against the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union's motives for doing so were highly questionable. Concerning national dignity and territorial integrity, the Finnish government rejected the Soviet proposal. So the Soviet army created the "Manila Incident". The Finnish government demanded an apology and a 20 to 25 km retreat of the Finnish army, but the Finnish government refused. The USSR used this as a pretext to absolve the Soviet-Finnish non-aggression pact.

On January 30, 1939, the Soviet army launched an offensive in four areas along the Soviet-Finnish border. After a fierce battle. Except for the northern end of the front, the Soviets suffered heavy defeats in other areas and were forced to stop their offensive and readjust their deployment. Deploy additional forces and prepare for another attack.

On the Karelian Isthmus. The Soviets failed to break through the Mannerheim Line. Soviet Vsevolod? Fedorovich? Yakovlev's 7th Army had 7 infantry divisions, 1 tank corps and 2 tank brigades under its jurisdiction, forming a far-reaching battle formation and in-depth echelons. The offensive was carried out on the Karelian Isthmus, the main assault was directed in the direction of Vyborg. The offensive began in the eastern section of the isthmus in an attempt to attract Finnish reserves to the east, followed by a major assault on the western section of the isthmus. The Finnish army concentrated the forces of 2 corps and 5 divisions to defend the area, first defending the narrow approach areas in the support zone with covering forces. During the day, the Finnish troops used close combat firepower to coordinate with the front of the formation under favorable conditions to kill and wound the enemy's living forces, and destroyed Soviet tanks from close range with various anti-tank weapons. At night, a ski detachment was sent to harass the rear of the Soviet army, and the Soviet troops who were sleeping in the snow and fire were beaten, and the Soviet troops were exhausted.

Although the Soviet army invested one echelon after another and attacked in turn, due to the failure to find out the main defensive zone and support zone of the Finnish army, the failure to find out the fortifications and obstacle system of the Finnish army, coupled with the ineffective coordination and poor command, by the end of December, after paying a heavy price, only the Finnish army's 20~60 km deep support zone was captured. At this time, the Soviet army was unable to break through the main defensive zone of the Finnish army and was forced to stop the offensive on the spot. The two sides formed a confrontation and turned into a war of attack and harassment.

In the northeastern area of Lake Ladoga, most of the two divisions of the Soviet army were annihilated and forced to go on the defensive. The Soviet 8th Army had 5 infantry divisions and 1 tank brigade under its jurisdiction, and carried out attacks in the north and south. Its task was to contain the Finnish forces from the flanks and cooperate with the offensive of the 7th Army. After crossing the border, the Soviets were blocked by two Finnish divisions and harassed by the guerrillas at night, and their progress was slow.

Six days later, the North Road cluster had advanced 40 kilometers. In the area of Lake Torva, fierce fighting broke out between the two sides. As a result, the Soviet army suffered more than 5,000 casualties, had no source of supplies, and was forced to go on the defensive, never daring to attack again. After advancing more than 40 kilometers in the southern road cluster, the offensive and defensive battles were carried out in the Kitailai area for more than one month, and by March 1, they were divided, encircled, and interrupted by the Finnish army, and most of the two divisions were annihilated, with more than 19,000 casualties, and the rest of the troops retreated and turned to the defense until the end of the war.

In the middle of the border, 2 Soviet divisions were annihilated, and the rest retreated. Soviet army Vasily? Ivanovic? Chuikov's 9th Army, with four infantry divisions, divided into two routes, north and south, attacked in the direction of the Gulf of Bothnia, in an attempt to cut Finland in two sections from the narrow waist. The South Road cluster attacked along two forest roads covered with deep snow in the direction of Port Oulu. After the vanguard reached the village of Somus Salmi, about 40 kilometers from the border, it was stubbornly resisted by a small detachment of Finnish troops relying on roadblocks. The division was forced to spread out into a longitudinal formation of more than 20 kilometers along the road, thus providing fighters for the Finnish army to divide and encircle. At this time, the 1st division of the Finnish Strategic Reserve rushed to the battlefield, and in the 3rd Army of the Finnish Army, Armar? Under the command of Silasvo, by the end of March, the first annihilation of the division was won, and then the transfer of troops to intercept and annihilate another Soviet division that was trying to reinforce it.

In the first battle of Somus Salmi, the Finnish army annihilated more than 23,000 enemies, creating a glorious example of winning more with less. The Soviets crossed the border without resistance, and by 16 April they were approaching Lake Kemi, the eastern terminus of the Bothnian Railway, posing a great threat to the Finnish army. The Finnish army transferred 1 battalion from the reserve to cooperate with the border guards to carry out continuous assaults on the flank of the Soviet army. The Soviet army on the road had no choice but to retreat to Sara, where it was constantly harassed by Finnish partisans and did not dare to take active action until the end of the war.

At the northern end of the front, the Soviets captured Besa Mou and other places. Two infantry divisions under the jurisdiction of the 14th Army of the Soviet Army, with the cooperation of the Northern Fleet, attacked in the direction of the Barents coast, but without Finnish resistance, they quickly occupied the port of Bessamo and the Rybach Peninsula, blocked the Finnish passage to the Barents Sea and Norway, and then turned to the defense on the spot.

In April 1939, in view of the heavy losses of Soviet troops on all fronts, the Soviet authorities decided to stop the offensive, redraw the battle plan, and organize a new offensive. On May 7, the North-Western Front was formed on the Karelian Isthmus, and the former commander of the Kiev Military District, Semyon? Konstantinovich? Timoshenko was appointed commander of the front, succeeding Meretskov as commander-in-chief of the front. The Front Army was under the jurisdiction of the 7th Army and the newly formed 13th Army. At the same time, 24 infantry divisions, 20 artillery regiments and 15 newly created aviation regiments were transferred to the Soviet-Finnish border. The Soviet troops in the area intensified reconnaissance and training, and practiced effective methods of breaking through the prepared defensive line and destroying strong fortifications.

At this time, the Finnish army also adjusted the deployment of troops in the area, increasing the first-line strength from 5 divisions to 6 divisions, and retaining only 1 division as a reserve in depth.

The Chinese Empire has always been concerned about the Soviet-Finnish war. On the surface, it was neutral, but in reality it was actively providing military assistance to Finland. After the Chinese Empire established its hegemonic position in the world by nuclear blackmail, any place in the world where a war broke out, it was always possible to find the weapons and equipment exported to them by the Chinese Empire from the positions of one or both sides. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )