The Third Reich in Desperation

"Thank you for your kindness." Simon, who has not recovered from extreme exhaustion, waved his hand and said calmly: "But I want to stay and play for the motherland that is in crisis. Besides, I still need to find opportunities To avenge the death of my two brothers on the battlefield! I really like a life without worry, but it is not what I am looking forward to at this moment."

After hearing Simon's words from the translator, Cornings smiled at Simon with full respect: "I respect your ambition, you are a true patriot, and I respect your choice."

Conning paused, then looked into Simon's eyes and said seriously: "In my country, there are many patriots like you. We also faced desperation like you, but in the end we still walked out under the leadership of the head of state. Created a desperate situation and created the Third Reich in a desperate situation!"

"Thank you." Simon smiled happily.

Patting Simon on the shoulder, Konings said with emotion from the bottom of his heart: "Marshal Mannerheim is an excellent leader. I believe that one day in the future, you can also get out of desperation under his leadership. As for those hateful The Soviet snipers...... If I have a chance in the future, I will help you kill them and take revenge with my own hands."

Many years later, this promise of Cornings was jokingly called "an agreement full of coincidences among the sniper war gods" by later generations.

In the subsequent battle of Stalingrad, Konings set off from the Berlin sniper school and went to the front line of Stalingrad to deal with Soviet snipers.And his biggest opponent was the Soviet sniper Vasily who killed Remo in front of Simon.

In countless coincidences, Cornings fulfilled the promise he used to casually comfort Simon.

Text Chapter 256 Stalin's Change of Coach

"What? The three division commanders of the observation group were all killed, and the other eight commanders were not spared either!" General Meretskov, who learned about the situation from the political commissar, clenched his fists nervously and propped himself on the table asked.

Since the start of the war, as the commander of the Leningrad Military District, Meretskov has brought almost all the main forces in the military district to the Finnish front. The 35 troops are all elite, and the weapons and equipment are the best among all the troops in the military region.

Nearly a thousand aircraft and 1200 tanks were used to deal with the Finnish army that even lacked heavy weapons.Meretskov really couldn't figure out why the war had been going on for more than a month, but such a small Finland couldn't be defeated.

Now, one wave has not settled yet another wave has risen again. I wanted to mobilize 5 people from the "Shadow Army" to make up for the huge battle losses on the front line in the past month, but this army has not assembled yet. Their three divisions The division commander and almost all the regiment leaders are gone? !

The political commissar was convinced that what he had just said was very clear.However, seeing Meretskov's unbelievable expression, the political commissar repeated again seriously: "Yes, Commander. Our observation team was ambushed by Finnish snipers, and the top management was completely lost. There was only one team leader." Survive."

Hearing this, Meretskov yelled from the political commissar with undisguised anger: "In other words, the Finnish snipers took down the command center of our three divisions in one breath at our door? Those in charge of security Are all the idiots of wood!"

After roaring for a long time, Meretskov forced himself to calm down, and asked the political commissar who had vented on him innocently: "And then? The special forces accompanying the observation team should send someone to kill those damn Finns. Are you human?"

The political commissar was a little embarrassed. After sorting out his thoughts, he explained to the expectant Meretskov: "In fact, there is no! The sniper team of Captain Fyodor was accompanying the observation team. They were chasing the Finnish sniper team. On the way, we lost two excellent snipers and were forced to retreat."

"Fyodor escaped?" Meretskov was so surprised that he couldn't imagine, staring at the political commissar in disbelief and said, "I remember that they are not the team with the best record in our army? How could they be lost in the end? And escape?!"

The commissar's expression was also ugly, but even at this moment, he did not forget to correct Meretskov and said: "Commander, in fact, Captain Fyodor was one of the two who died in battle. They are the ones who survived in the end." There is a player named Vasily in the team."

Meretskov, who was sitting on the chair, seemed to have exhausted all his strength, leaned against the back of the chair, and said to himself: "How could this be? It shouldn't be? Those Finns were able to kill our last Good sniper team!"

The blow Meretskov received today was too great, which made it difficult for him to accept it for a while.

Because of the Finnish ambush, his fifty thousand reinforcements are now leaderless.But the culprit who caused all this, after killing the senior management of the 3 divisions on his side, conveniently wiped out the strongest sniper team under his command, and finally left swaggeringly!

The war for more than a month has already exhausted him physically and mentally.

In terms of the navy, except for the coastal operations that were supported by naval guns for a period of time at the beginning, it has not been able to provide any support for the army.

The air force has also failed to achieve the expected results.

Although the size of the Finnish Air Force is much smaller than that of the Soviet Air Force, with the help of German instructors, the training is very solid, and the tactical theory can be considered to have learned world-leading technology from Germany.

At this stage, the Finnish Air Force has already begun to use a 4-aircraft formation as their basic air combat system.

This formation is fully consistent with the basic concept of the tactical formation developed by Germany during the Spanish Civil War.

Among the four planes, two are used as a small team for the main battle, and the other two are responsible for cover and security, which is what later generations call a double wingman formation.

Usually, a relatively senior pilot is the lead plane in charge of the main battle, and takes the initiative in the battle.The other two are operated by relatively junior pilots, responsible for covering and waiting for opportunities to attack enemy aircraft.

At that time, the Soviet Air Force still adopted the 3-aircraft formation tactics that had been used since World War I, and it was far inferior to Finland in terms of individual training of pilots, tacit understanding between formations, and combat intentions.

Coupled with the large number of small airports that Germany helped Finland build, the Finnish Air Force can easily gather anywhere on the battlefield, forming a local advantage.

Therefore, the air force under Meretskov actually did not take advantage of it.And if it weren't for the huge number of advantages, they might have been completely wiped out by the Finnish Air Force long ago.

As for the Army, Meretskov was even more embarrassed to mention it. The 35 troops with superior weapons and equipment, faced the 8 troops temporarily expanded by Finland with less than 12 standing troops.

Meretskov was silent for a long time, and just when his political commissar almost thought that the commander had fallen asleep, he slowly said: "For more than a month, the Finns have used their actions to prove to us that Conquering Finland will not be as easy as we thought."

"It's a fool's dream to expect the Finns to surrender as soon as we fire the cannon!" Meretskov held his forehead and said in pain: "We were too arrogant and conceited before. Now, it is finally our turn to fight for I paid the price for my outrageous words.”

"Commander! I can't blame you." The political commissar who knew the inside story comforted: "Our officers at the grassroots level, and even many high-level officers, do not have sufficient military foundation. Although they are loyal, they lack the true ability to command troops."

It is already very pertinent for the political commissar to be able to say so far.After all, in his capacity, he shouldn't have said such things in the first place.

Looking at this political commissar who is rare to be regarded as a sensible person, Meretskov, who was in extreme pain, squeezed out a smile gratefully: "Thank you."

But before he had a chance to say a few more words, two well-dressed young men broke into the gate.

Among them, such a skinny young man, who didn't pay attention to honorific words at all, announced to Meretskov: "The general secretary has now issued an order that Timoshenko, who once captured eastern Poland in less than two months, Admiral, replace you who failed to capture Finland in the past two months."

Then, another relatively polite young man went on to add to Meretskov: "General Secretary Stalin has now ordered the establishment of a new Northwest Front Army in the Karelian Isthmus, and appointed Timoshenko, the former commander of the Kiev Military District. The general will be the commander of the front, and will succeed you as the commander in chief of the front. Under the command of the front is the 7th Army brought by Commander Timoshenko from the Kiev Military District and the newly established 13th Army. 24 infantry divisions, 20 artillery regiments and 15 new aviation regiments were added to the front..."

Meretskov, who was sitting in a chair, folded his hands and sneered without saying a word.

Your big cleansing has reduced the combat effectiveness of the troops, leading to the erosion of the frontline battle situation.It's all right now, and it looks like it's because of my incompetence, Meretskov.

Meretskov was sure that even with all the hard work he had already done, Timoshenko would still not be able to win Finland if it hadn't been two more months!

Substitution? I just don't want to do it anymore!Whoever likes to take care of this mess will take care of it.

Main text Chapter 257 Reinhardt's Big Move

Ross and Steve are also the first old members to follow Reinhardt.Since Reinhardt's position has become higher and higher, their rights have become greater and greater, and their tasks have become heavier.

Especially after the Gestapo expanded its intelligence work to foreign countries and the SS began to expand its army on a large scale, the two old comrades who went their separate ways rarely had the opportunity to meet.

But this time, through Reinhardt's seemingly "whim" speech in a Munich tavern, the two finally had the opportunity to meet.

Back to 20 years ago, Steve was just a small company commander in the Weimar Republic.Due to the hopelessness of personal promotion and the bleak future of the country, he was disheartened and dawdled all day long.

And Ross was even worse. After participating in Operation Rainbow, he was laid off and placed in the police station as a sergeant.

It's just these two small characters who should have been unknown for a lifetime, and apart from their patriotic blood, they didn't have many outstanding talents.Because they were the first to walk to Reinhardt's side, they eventually became the powerful second in command of the Third Reich.

Chief of the SS General Staff, who was the commander-in-chief of the Waffen SS, and Minister of Homeland Security, head of the Gestapo.Who would have thought that the two hottest deputy positions next to the head of state were actually occupied by two unknown soldiers in the original history, and they were still firmly occupied.

Of course, since even the capital of the head of state has been changed, it would not be justified if the head of state's cronies did not change.

"Führer, I heard that the fighting in Finland was extremely fierce. I was wondering if it is in the name of our SS, like Norway and Sweden, that we organize a support for the Finnish volunteers." Although Steve is very good at talking nonsense on weekdays , but now he asked Reinhardt for instructions with a serious expression.

As a group of Reinhardt's most trusted confidants, Steve fully understands Reinhardt's true attitude towards the Soviet Union.

For the Soviet Union, for Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, Reinhardt is definitely not as relaxed as it seems on the surface.On the contrary, he has been vigilant about every move of the Soviet army, calculating the relative benefits of cooperation between the two sides.

In this Soviet-Finnish war, although Reinhardt never publicly expressed any attitude, many people even thought that he was supporting the Soviet Union in a disguised way by default.But in fact, Reinhardt had already helped the Finnish army a lot in private.

On the one hand, Reinhardt transferred hundreds of German instructors from the Wehrmacht to the Finnish Army on the grounds of honing his quality and summarizing his war experience to strengthen the Finnish army's combat skills.