The Third Reich in Desperation

There is no doubt that the Soviet Union originally intended to completely wipe the country of Finland off the map.This point, as Stalin's diplomatic representative, Molotov also explained to Reinhard in Berlin.

The big talk has been released a long time ago, but it has not been realized now, which makes Stalin look very embarrassed in front of Reinhardt.

After the war, Finland's sovereignty was preserved, but it lost part of its territory.That's not what Stalin told Reinhard back then.

According to what he said at the beginning, it was a one-week preparation, two-week attack, three-week mopping up, and four-week Dacheng final victory process.That doggy Reinhardt, who looked adoring, took out a personal notebook and wrote it down himself.

How embarrassing and embarrassing it is now.Stalin regretted a little, why didn't he stop Reinhardt to make records at the beginning.Even with excuses such as secret treaties and inconvenient records, it should be stopped.

What made Stalin most unacceptable was not just shame!

By this time Reinhardt's German Third Reich had shown itself fully capable of destroying a very powerful enemy with lightning speed.However, the main force of the two major military regions under his command teamed up to attack a small Finland, and it had to be delayed for more than three months.

Who is strong and who is weak, you can almost tell at a glance!

This is really no harm without comparison...

As a result, the Soviet Union was condemned internationally.Even in front of a partner like Germany, it can't hold its head up and has to make concessions on many cooperations.

After all, the Soviet Union and Germany already bordered each other.If the combat power is calculated according to the performance of the Soviet army in the Battle of Finland, after offending Germany, what can it use to resist the German blitzkrieg.

If it was more than three months ago, Stalin might have had enough confidence that his huge army could resist the German army.And he still believes that with the combat power of the Soviet army, it is not impossible to attack Germany in the future.

But now, he only prays that Su De will not have conflicts, at least not in the short term.He wants to transform his weak and fragile army, and he wants to prevent the army that has already made a fool of himself in front of the whole world from continuing to make a fool of himself.

For this, he needs time and needs to stabilize all unstable factors so that he can develop himself with peace of mind.

In the Krem Palace, Molotov, who was summoned by Stalin, looked at the silent leader without saying a word.

It was not until a long time later that Stalin, who seemed to have come to his senses, said to Molotov, who had already been waiting by the side: "The war is over, and the outside countries... have anything?"

"Britain, France and other countries still accuse us as always, without any new tricks." Molotov recalled one by one: "...As for Germany, their official statement is that the German government is committed to ending the war. Fortunately, I am pleased that the Soviet Union and Finland followed their advice and reconciled, and expressed their willingness to work for the long-term peace of Europe."

This is really talking nonsense with your eyes open.

Since the German leaders have always been grateful for world peace, why did you send troops to the Danish border?

As for the Soviet Union and Finland following the German suggestion to stop fighting and make peace, isn't this nonsense?It is obvious that both sides are hurting, and they don't want to fight anymore. What is Germany's suggestion? !

"What do the Germans say in private?" Stalin didn't bother to listen to the diplomat's nonsense.In his view, since Germany is still cooperating with the Soviet Union, what does it think of this war that was negotiated in the supplementary secret clause of the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact" and is now stopped halfway.

Stalin guessed right, and Reinhardt did send a private message.Molotov on the side quickly continued: "General Secretary, the German head of state asked their Foreign Minister Ribbentrop to send a message."

"What did he say?" Stalin asked eagerly while smoking a big pipe.

"Reinhardt said..." Molotov hesitated for a moment, and finally said it out: "He believes that the reason for today's situation is, in the final analysis, the Our senior commanders are incompetent. If they were their senior generals, they would never fight so badly. He also said that he was annoyed for you, and suggested that you kill the senior leaders in charge of this battle and replace them with a group of more loyal and brave ones general."

"Kill them..." Stalin smiled bitterly: "Could he provide me with the missing commander?"

Stalin couldn't figure out whether Reinhardt was mocking himself, flattering himself, or had other plans.But he was really dissatisfied with these commanders under him.

Why couldn't Soviet commanders win more wars with less like those German officers did?Don't talk about winning more with less, as long as you can win more beauty with more battles and less......

In fact, the reasons for this situation are not just subjective reasons such as the incompetence of the upper-level commanders of the Soviet army and the low combat quality of the army.

All these are inseparable from the objective factors formed by Finland's lakes, dense forests, sparsely populated, inconvenient transportation, and severe cold climate.

Finland's geographical environment is not conducive to the Soviet army's heavy equipment and large-scale operations, but it is suitable for the Finnish army's use of light equipment and small forces.The Soviet troops who were not familiar with the complex terrain of the Finnish dense forest were often limited in maneuverability and inconvenient to deploy, which made it hard to see from the beginning to the end.

The Finnish army, which is familiar with the local environment, can give full play to its skiing expertise, avoid frontal combat, conduct ambushes and blocking warfare in small units, break up into parts, disperse and entangle, and wait for an opportunity to sneak attack on the flanks and logistics of the Soviet Red Army.

Facing the endless harassment of Finnish guerrilla squads who made up their minds to avoid large-scale head-on confrontations, they faced the sniper attacks of Finnish sniper squads at uncertain times and places.The Soviet army could not advance quickly, nor could it achieve any large-scale results.

And even if there were Meretskov and Timoshenko who were considered capable generals, most of the basic officers of the Soviet Army were young and strong who were loyal to Stalin and did not know how to command wars.These grassroots officers simply cannot command the troops well.They were so immature that they couldn't even protect a large battlefield observation group, so that the Simon sniper team of the Finnish army took down the backbone commanders of 3 divisions at once.

To blame these two Soviet generals for their incompetence alone is really wronging them.

Chapter 285 Churchill is very annoyed

With the end of the Soviet-Finnish War, the already unpredictable European situation has entered a new stage.

First of all, Germany, which watched Finland as a pro-German country defeated, gave up Finland's interests and demanded a new round of "political concession compensation" from the Soviet government after ignoring the end of the Soviet attack on Finland.

As compensation for Germany's support for the Soviet Union's attack on Finland, Ribbentrop and Molotov signed a new round of cooperation plans.In the new plan, the Soviet Union will further provide ports in the Arctic Ocean, the Black Sea, and the Pacific Ocean, so that Germany can import the war materials it needs from various places.

Since Germany and Britain were already at war, Reinhardt's Third Reich had already been blocked by the British Empire.If more than relying on the power of the Soviet Union, Germany would not be able to obtain imported materials during the blockade of the Royal Navy.This is also an important reason why Reinhardt accommodated Stalin's demands as he did in history.

On the other hand, even during the Soviet-Finnish War, the Soviet Union still did not forget to provide supplies to Germany according to the cooperation agreement.During the more than 100 days of Germany's selective silence, the Soviet Union shipped a total of 50 tons of grain, 20 tons of wheat, 40 tons of oil, 5 tons of cotton, and a considerable amount of other important raw materials to Germany. .

However, the Soviet Union, which needed Germany to give up aid to Finland, only received a small number of locomotives and some old working machines from its partner Germany during the war.

It is worth mentioning that the locomotives sent from Germany are all produced according to the standards of the German Railways.In other words, these locomotives could not be used on the railways built by the Soviet Union before, and could only be used on the European standard railway network assisted by Germany.

The cooperation of Sood and Germany also made Mussolini, who was a decent ally of Germany, more and more dissatisfied.

On the second day after the Soviet Union won the Finnish War, Mussolini warned Reinhardt in the tone of his predecessors, "As a born revolutionary, I want to tell you, don't sacrifice us for a long time for a temporary political strategy." revolutionary principles. If the relationship between Berlin and Moscow goes any further, it will have extremely negative repercussions in Italy. …”

Mussolini's mood when he said this was actually quite complicated.After all, he originally thought that Germany should be at odds with the Soviet Union, so he actively made a lot of anti-Soviet remarks.

Now, Italy has offended the Soviet Union to death, but Germany, the main anti-Soviet force recognized at the beginning, suddenly said no.This, this, this... isn't this a scam!

He Mussolini did not want to take the title of German anti-Soviet vanguard.How can this kind of hatred thing be the first?

In the end, Mussolini was finally relieved after receiving a letter from Reinhardt himself and Reinhardt himself confirming that Germany would not deepen cooperation with the Soviet Union.

However, Reinhardt, who has always regarded keeping promises as a bad habit, did not slow down his cooperation with the Soviet Union in the slightest because of his guarantee to Mussolini.

And Mussolini is still selling war materials to Britain, which declared war on Germany behind Reinhardt's back.

These two half-hearted true allies are not kind and helpful people. They only care about the interests of their own country.

In addition to the above two leaders, the most aggrieved one is the Prime Minister of the British Empire, Churchill.

Churchill, who planned to use the name of the Finnish Expeditionary Force to take the opportunity to occupy Norway's major ports when he planned to use the name of the Finnish Expeditionary Force to take the opportunity to occupy the major ports of Norway, finally persuaded his country's Congress and the French coalition president Marshal Gan Mo Lin, after a British and French expeditionary force arrived in Norway in the name of aiding Finland, the original plan ushered in a change.

At the moment when the expeditionary force was about to set off, they nominally passed through Finland, the object of Norway's assistance, but they had already surrendered.

Don't play like this.With great difficulty, the group of stubborn parliaments was managed and authorized to send troops to occupy Norway, a neutral country.After finally convincing the narrow-minded Gan Molin, a group is coming.

In this way, Churchill pieced things together, managed to create an expeditionary force, and obtained authorization to occupy part of Norway's ports.After all the formalities have been worked hard, the reason for the excuse disappeared!

Churchill has a saying "fuck you" that must be said, and it must be said now!

"I can't wait any longer. I heard that the Germans have fished in troubled waters. When the Soviet Union defeated Finland to divert our attention, they quickly took over the whole of Denmark." Churchill paced back and forth anxiously, facing the members of the wartime cabinet Said: "I came up with a plan three months ago, but it has not been implemented until now. In contrast, the Germans took the whole of Denmark in just one morning. There is such a huge gap in efficiency, Shouldn't we think about it?!"

Just as the British wanted to invade Norway and created momentum for "aiding Finland through roads", Germany had already begun to create momentum for revenge against Denmark.The difference is that the German army has already occupied the whole of Denmark before the British army set foot on the land of Norway.

"Reflection is definitely necessary." Chamberlain, who was sitting on the side, said lightly: "It's just that we have lost the reason to march into Norway now. For the reputation and international influence of the British Empire, we can't rashly send troops."