The world is starting to get lively.

Before the first protagonist of World War II has acted, the other participants have already begun to perform vigorously.

First, the Soviet Union wrote, directed, and staged a small conflict, and then hundreds of thousands of troops went straight to the small Nordic country of Finland...... In the expectation of the Soviet leadership, in less than three days, the great Soviet Red Army should break the blockade of the Finnish army, take the Finnish capital Helsinki within a week, pacify the whole of Finland within a month, and then leave part of the army to stabilize the post-war order on Finnish territory, and the main forces can also be withdrawn. In order to deal with the possibility of a quick end to the war and ensure the post-war order in Finland, Stalin appointed a man named Kursi as the leader of the "Finnish People's Republic" on the third day after the outbreak of the war and formed a government. However, the ideal is plump, but the reality is so skinny. A week later, all the Soviet armies that had been planned to have joined forces in Helsinki were struggling with the Finnish defenders...... They were attacking, but they couldn't get a step out of it for a few days.

Tiny Finland has shown the whole world how strong they are. Although the fight was hard, they withstood it.

Stalin was furious at this and sent more troops, and the original 450,000 power quickly increased to 600,000. Unfortunately, the increase in troops did not achieve the victory that Stalin expected, but the commander of the Finnish Defense Forces, Mannerheim, seized the opportunity to eliminate two integrated divisions of the Red Army, more than 27,000 Soviet soldiers were eliminated, and more than 1,000 were captured, while the Finnish Defense Forces lost only 900 men in this battle.

The colossal defeat finally brought the top of the USSR to its senses. They finally realize that Finland is not as easy to clean up as they thought...... Stalin formed the North-Western Front, again increased his troops, and at the same time appointed Timoshenko as commander, and after rectification, again launched a fierce attack on Finland. This time, the Soviet Red Army finally showed the momentum it deserved. It took only three days to break through the lines of the Finnish Defense Forces. The tide of the war began to tilt sharply in favor of the Soviets.

However, Timoshenko's performance did not bring Stalin to a sigh of relief. Because in the Far East, an even more terrible opponent than Finland has already bitten off a chunk of flesh from the USSR.

On the second day of the Soviet attack on Finland, the Japanese Kwantung Army marched in the Far East towards the Soviet Union and Outer Mongolia at the same time. The commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, Umezu Mijiro, opened the way with the air force, and with detailed and accurate intelligence, he first carried out a surgical precision strike on the Soviet Far Eastern Military District before the army acted.

In this large-scale bombing, Zhukov, the commander of the 1st Army that Stalin sent to the Far East to deal with the Kwantung Army, was accidentally killed, which made the Soviet army lose its mind. Coupled with the exemplary large-scale bombing of the Japanese Air Force, the sustained combat capability of the Soviet army was greatly hit. As soon as they came into contact with the Japanese army, they began to retreat almost on all fronts. Of course, there are reasons for Stalin's "Great Purge", but the Soviet Union will definitely not admit it...... Although it was also in Europe and Finland at the time. and knocked out two big "front teeth"......

And the attack on the small country of Finland did not go well, and it was easily ravaged by the small country of Japan. Let the people of the whole world have the widest territory of the Soviet Union. The country, which is also considered to be one of the strongest, raises a huge question: is this power, which threatens almost the entire capitalist world almost single-handedly, not as powerful as it appears? In fact, it's just a push, and it's an object that can be bullied?

For a time, the German government halted negotiations with the Soviet Union on a non-aggression pact and did not resume until Timoshenko had broken the Finnish defenses in three days. But this has already sounded an urgent alarm bell in the minds of the Soviet leadership, especially Stalin, so. He ordered the new commander of the Far Eastern Military District, Vasilevsky, to drive the Japanese out of the territory of the USSR in the shortest possible time, and at the same time to provide support to the Far East in every possible way. However, the situation of war does not change with the subjective attitude of one of the parties. The Japanese are in the presence of air supremacy. Massive bombardment of Soviet transport lines. The Trans-Siberian Railway was blown up numerous times, and the baggage of the Soviet troops could hardly reach the front. The Red Army in the Far East, which lacked ammunition and all kinds of heavy weapons, could only be passively beaten against the well-prepared Kwantung Army, and although Vasilevsky tried his best to organize the defense, it did not have much effect at all. And the Japanese fought so smoothly that almost all of their troops fell into a state of frenzied attack. Umezu Mijiro began to be unable to command his troops, and took divisions, brigades, and wings as units, and the various departments of the Kwantung Army only rushed forward with their heads in their heads, and Hideki Tojo, the chief of the Kwantung Army's air forces, even openly clamored to drop bombs on Moscow and the Kremlin......

The USSR seemed to be in some danger. However, because of the invasion of Finland, Stalin and others fell into unprecedented international isolation, and even expelled from the League of Nations a month after the start of the war...... This leaves them alone. Faced with this situation, the Soviet Union began to expand its army, but these expanded troops were not sent to the Far East, but were used to defend against the Germans. Because the Germans are also starting to move! Although it had long been known that Poland was to be the primary target, the Soviet Union had performed poorly in the war between two small countries, and Stalin was very worried that Hitler would attack him first and then go to trouble others. The great USSR was so strong, but it was also difficult to withstand the black hands of the Germans in such a state.

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The fighting in the north was so lively, everyone was focused on the Soviet Union, but China, which had been fighting the war for two years, seemed to have been forgotten by the countries of the world.

However, the Chinese themselves are still quite 'hot'.

Chiang Kai-shek did not first target foreign enemies at this moment, but set off a huge wave of anti-communism: Hu Zongnan led an army of 300,000 to surround the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border area, encroach on five counties under the jurisdiction of the CCP, and planned to blitz Yan'an; Yan Xishan's headquarters launched a surprise attack on the anti-Japanese death squad led by the CCP; Shi Yousan's 39th Army and Zhu Huaibing's 97th Army actually joined forces with the Japanese puppet army to besiege the Taihang Mountain headquarters of the Eighth Route Army......

It can be said that Lao Jiang is vigorous and has the courage to decide the battle! But here's the thing: the Communist Party seems to be specifically about him.

Three days before Hu Zongnan's plan to "blitz" Yan'an officially began, a letter from Zhu De was sent to Xi'an, which contained all Hu Zongnan's action plans, and Hu Zongnan was forced to stop the action; Yan Xishan's troops were repelled by the anti-Japanese death squad and the Eighth Route Army, and suffered heavy losses. The 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army cooperated with the southbound troops of Jinchaji to annihilate the three major divisions of Shiyou, and at the same time annihilated most of the two main divisions of Zhu Huaibing's main force and more than 10,000 anti-communist wanderers......

This situation really made Lao Jiang very faceless.

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"Niang Xipi—"

As soon as Qin Wei walked to the door of the conference room of the Ministry of National Defense, he heard this extremely personal scolding.

"The chairman is angry?"

Qin Wei was quite surprised to see Tang Zong actually standing outside the door of the conference room, but he still leaned over as soon as possible: this guy is Lao Jiang's cronies, and it may not be possible to find out any news.

"Can it not be hot?"

Tang Zong smiled wryly. As Lao Chiang's personal intelligence officer, he was extremely familiar with Lao Chiang's plan for this operation. It can be said that he knows exactly what Lao Jiang is planning. On the one hand, it attacked Yan'an, and on the other hand, it attacked the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army...... Lao Chiang simply wanted to settle China in a war. didn't expect the Communist Party to be so fierce, not to mention cracking his tricks one by one, and gasping a few times...... Lao Jiang has always loved face, how could he not be angry.

"If it were me, I'd be angry, too." Qin Wei looked lamenting, "You said that this Hu Zongnan is okay, someone under him leaked secrets, there is no way." But Zhu Huaibing and that Shi Yousan are too unproductive...... By the way, I heard that Shi Yousan is in contact with the Japanese? ”

"Defect General! I've known it for a long time. Tang Zong snorted coldly. Shi Yousan was once a general under Feng Yuxiang, and he was at the same level as Han Fuqu, who once seized Shandong. It's a pity that this person didn't learn from Feng Yuxiang, but he learned a real thing. Feng Yuxiang rebelled eight times in his life, and Shi Yousan was also similar, betraying Feng with Feng, defecting to Jiang, joining the Communist Party and anti-communism, and voting for Yan and leaving Yan...... A life of speculation and capriciousness. He has taken refuge in Wu Peifu, Feng Yuxiang, Yan Xishan, Chiang Kai-shek, Zhang Xueliang, Wang Jingwei, the Japanese and the CCP many times, and betrayed them one after another.

Just like last year, after Shandong was occupied by Japan, Shi Yousan was ordered to stay behind enemy lines and conduct guerrilla warfare. In order to preserve his strength, Shi Yousan turned to cooperate with the CCP, hoping to establish control over Shandong with its support, and Deng Xiaoping and Yang Xiufeng, among the CCP leaders, also worked in Shi Yousan. At the end of the same year, Shi Yousan was promoted to commander of the 39th Group Army. However, in the first half of this year, after Lao Chiang secretly ordered Shi Yousan to oppose the Communists on the condition of ruling North China, Shi Yousan's position immediately changed to outright anti-Communism, demanding that all the officers and soldiers of the station join the Kuomintang, and constantly clashed with the Eighth Route Army. This time, he directly sent troops to attack the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

However, after being beaten hard by the Eighth Route Army, Shi Yousan's so-called 39th Army has already suffered a devastating blow, and with his human nature, he will definitely find another thigh to rely on. It's just that he definitely doesn't dare to rely on the Communist Party now, and it is unlikely that Lao Chiang is annoying him, so it is already predictable that he will throw himself into the Japanese.

"Shi Yousan still has the hat of Chairman Chahar on his head, just let him throw it over, wouldn't Chairman Jiang be very faceless?" Qin Wei knew that Tang Zong didn't actually take Shi Yousan seriously. That guy has a lot of reputation, but it's not really good news at all. Now the strength is even more damaged, and it can no longer be on the table. But then again, Tang Zong and people like him know that Shi Yousan can't do it, but others don't know. Another provincial chairman defected to the Japanese, and the impact was not small.

"He can't vote." Tang Zongyin smiled: "We have received news that that bastard has been buried alive by Gao Shuxun of the New 8th Army, right on the bank of the Yellow River!" (To be continued......)