The envoy smiled slightly and said: "If the Chinese want to attack Finland, it is nothing more than two directions: land and sea. There are a large number of lakes on the territory of Finland, and these lakes are a natural obstacle to the mechanized units of the Chinese army, and they will never be able to get through, as for the sea, you can rest assured, our British Empire has united Denmark and Sweden, and laid a tight defense in the Skagerrak Strait, and it is impossible for Chinese warships to enter. ”

King Gotop nodded and said, "That's good, that's good, but I'm still a little worried......"

The envoy frowned, and said in a cold voice: "Dear King Gotop, you can't hesitate any longer, your country's Patriotic Youth Association has already detained the members of the mission, which means that your country has offended China, and Lin Yuan will not let you go!" ”

King Gotop was forced by the envoy to do this, and immediately panicked, and hurriedly asked, "Then what should we do?" ”

The envoy said: "Of course, send a telegram to declare independence!" Otherwise, our fleet of the British Empire would not have agreed! ”

When King Gottorp heard the threat, he panicked and agreed, and immediately ordered his subordinates to send a telegram declaring the independence of the Grand Duchy of Finland, officially known as the "Finnish Empire".

The call-on was announced at 2 a.m. local time in Finland on April 2, six hours behind China's Beijing time, which was 8 a.m. on April 2.

Lin Yuan was overjoyed when he saw this telegram, thinking that Xu Jingcheng had talked about Finland, but then he wondered why Xu Jingcheng did not send a telegram back to inform him in advance, so Lin Yuan asked people to send a telegram to Xu Jingcheng to ask, but the telegram did not reply, which made Lin Yuan very surprised.

At 8:30 a.m. on April 2, Beijing time, Britain, Germany, the United States and other countries suddenly announced the recognition of Finland's independence, which really shocked Lin Yuan.

However, Xu Jingcheng still did not reply, and Lin Yuan couldn't help but get anxious, until 10 o'clock in the morning, a British news agency in Finland sent a message that the Finnish non-governmental organization Youth Patriotic Association had detained members of the Chinese mission.

Lin Yuan was taken aback when he heard the news, and hurriedly instructed the diplomatic department to negotiate with Finland, and although Finland confirmed the news, it had no intention of releasing the detained members of the Chinese mission.

Lin Yuan went directly to the foreign minister and asked, "What did Finland say?" Why not release the detained members of the Chinese mission? ”

The Minister of Foreign Affairs replied: "The reply given to us by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland is that the YMCA is a civil organization, and their imperial government does not have the power to order them directly. ”

Lin Yuan frowned, and there was anger in his tone: "They don't have the power to order other things, and they don't care about criminal things?" It is not permissible to detain a citizen of a country, let alone a diplomat of another country! ”

The foreign minister said: "I think Finland is just looking for an excuse not to let people go. ”

Lin Yuan thought for a while and said, "But what good is it for Finland not to let people go?" ”

"From what we know, Finland is not really going to benefit Finland by not letting them go, and perhaps the only benefit is to get the support of Britain and Germany," the foreign minister said. ”

Lin Yuan shook his head lightly and said, "Even if you want to win the support of Britain and Germany, there is no need to detain the members of the mission. ”

The foreign minister nodded, silent, and Lin Yuan said, "You go get busy first." The foreign minister said goodbye, and Lin Yuan thought to himself: "Now that Finland has detained the members of our mission, we must rescue them, and we must send troops to rescue them. ”

"The special combat team should be useless, we don't even know where people are being held now, and the dispatch of special operations teams is simply without a purpose, and the only feasible way now is to send troops into Finland to put pressure on them and force the Finnish king to release them."

Although Lin Yuan had this idea, he felt that it was not appropriate to enter Finland, because the Finnish nation is different from the Estonian nation, the Estonian nation does not have its own culture, and it is easy to accept foreign culture, while the Finnish nation is a descendant of the Vikings, and the land is located in a cold high latitude region, and it has developed a tenacious and tenacious character in the confrontation with nature, and it has pride in its bones.

In Lin Yuan's time, the Soviet Union attacked Finland, and the Soviet-Finnish War broke out between the two sides for several months, in which the Finnish army shuttled through the ice and snow in a sled, causing great casualties to the Soviet army. In this war, the world's most killed sniper was born - Simon? Haye, who sniped 542 Soviet Red Army soldiers in the war, is known as the "White Grim Reaper".

Lin Yuan knew that if he also marched into Finland, he would probably face the dilemma of the Soviet Union in his own time, Lin Yuan thought carefully, and suddenly the Siberian Front Intelligence Department sent a top-secret piece of information.

Lin Yuan took a look at the intelligence, only to see that it was written that aerial reconnaissance found that Germany was building heavy-haul railways in Estonia and other places, preparing to connect with the German railways in Poland, and more than a dozen high-grade highways were being built. In the small town near Narva, we also found that the Germans were building an airfield.

After reading this information, Lin Yuan smiled secretly in his heart: "The logistics of the German army are obviously inferior to ours, the current war requires a lot of materials, and whoever can't keep up with the logistics supply will suffer a big loss!" ”

Lin Yuan was thinking about it, and suddenly a thought flashed in his mind - the commander of the German army was Moltke Jr., he was a famous general in history, it was impossible for him not to know that the logistics of the German army were inferior to ours, and he would definitely postpone the war until the logistics supply could keep up, what way could they postpone the war? Finland! Finland is an excellent way for them to postpone the war!

Could it be that the hostage incident in Finland had something to do with Germany? If so, it all makes sense, Germany wants us to enter Finland, and then be dragged by the lake-heavy terrain of Finland, and they can take the opportunity to complete the preparations for war.

Lin Yuan figured out Germany's plan, and secretly sneered in his heart, I won't let your conspiracy succeed!

Lin Yuan picked up the phone on the table and said, "Pick me up Yuan Zhen, the commander of the First Division of the Siberian Front!" The call was quickly connected, and Lin Yuan said directly: "Tomorrow, April 3, according to the scheduled plan, launch an attack on the German Fifth Heavy Division in Estonia!" ”