On November 30, 1939, when intimidation failed, Comrade Stalin decided to use the people's "iron fist" of the Soviet Red Army to implement his will. At six o'clock in the morning, the Red Army crossed the border and officially launched an attack on Finland.
attack.
The winter of 1939 was one of the three coldest winters in recorded Finnish history. The severe cold of more than 40 degrees below zero caused the Soviet army, which was ill-prepared, to suffer. After Zhukov was dismissed from his post, Stalin transferred him to
The Soviet Russian army on the Finnish front was mainly composed of troops from the south. The suspicious Stalin did not trust the troops on the Soviet-Finnish border at that time, fearing that they might have kinship or a common cultural history with the Finns, but this great Soviet Russian
However, the leader forgot that the troops in the south were not adapted to the cold Finnish winter and fighting in the forest, and they fell into the same old habits again. Kong put the Don River Army under the original command of Zhukov, which had gone through the baptism of the Siberian War for two years, in the south to bask in the sun.
However, a large number of commanders who had just been promoted quickly were used in large numbers.
The political commissar in the army supervises the military commander, and the military commander only directs the battle according to the book. For example, a day's battle of the Soviet army is like this. At eight o'clock in the morning, the artillery shells the Finnish army. The artillery does not care where the shells hit. The shelling
Half an hour later, often a regiment of infantry followed a dozen tanks and launched an attack on the Finnish army. The political commissar supervised the battle from behind and strictly prohibited the troops from taking a step back. Only after all the troops were killed would another regiment be sent up.
The Soviet Russian army did not have the equipment to fight in the forest in winter and used a large number of combat vehicles. These vehicles had to be kept on for 24 hours to ensure that the fuel would not freeze. Due to the arrogance and ignorance of the Soviet Russian decision-makers, they failed to start the war at the beginning of the war.
The decisive force was invested immediately: Finland concentrated 130,000 people and 500 guns on the main battlefield, while the Soviet Union only invested 200,000 people and 900 guns. Although there were 1,000 tanks, they did not
It can be used well, but it will suffer heavy losses.
On the first day, the Soviet Air Force dispatched two hundred SB-2 bombers to bomb sixteen southern Finnish towns. The attack on Helsinki in particular came suddenly to peaceful residents who had no idea about the outbreak of war.
The bombing caused huge damage. Ninety-one people were killed, 36 were seriously injured, and 200 were slightly injured in Helsinki. Most of the casualties were women and children, and many buildings were destroyed. One of the buildings was destroyed during the bombing.
A Soviet pilot's bomber was shot down and he was captured. Angry residents of many towns demanded that the Finnish officer ask him why he had chosen this location as a target: it was neither fortified nor had any valuable military or economic objectives.
The Soviet pilot replied: "Oh, the notorious reactionary propaganda agitator Luna Borg lives here." Note: J.L. Luna Borg, born in 1804, died in 1818
In 1977, the famous Finnish patriotic poet's brutal bombing by the Soviet Air Force aroused the anger of the Finnish people, and more and more people joined the ranks of resisting the invasion.
At 6 o'clock in the morning on January 6, 1940, in the knee-deep snow, a group of Finnish troops wearing white snow camouflage uniforms were paddling forward quickly on sleds. This was a group transporting ammunition to the front line.
The transport team. Fan Bingbing and Cheng Fangfang are also in this team. They are dressed the same as the soldiers around them. The only difference is that the soldiers around them are full of weapons and ammunition, while they are just carrying a backpack.
, holding two wooden sticks cut from tree branches in their hands. Beside them were two soldiers from the Longya Special Forces Brigade.
Led by local Finnish soldiers who were familiar with the terrain, this small Finnish force came to a Finnish position. This position belonged to the defense area of the 9th Finnish Infantry Division. After entering the position, the small force was immediately brought in
Fan Bingbing and his group entered a bomb-proof cave and immediately felt that the inside was completely different from the outside. A pile of blazing bonfires made the cave as warm as spring.
A bearded Finnish captain laughed and came up to Fan Bingbing and two soldiers from the Longya Special Forces Brigade. When he was about to hug Cheng Fangfang, he was rejected by Cheng Fangfang with a smile.
"Mr. Captain, in our East, women are not allowed to hug anyone except their husbands and family members."
"Oh, are you really a mysterious Oriental?" The bearded captain murmured, not knowing whether he was complaining or feeling regretful. Then he happily said to Fan Bingbing: "Dear Mr. Captain, what happened to you the day before yesterday?"
The recoilless rifles that were delivered are really great. The tanks of the Russian tanks will completely collapse as soon as they are hit by one shot. This is much better than our Molotov cocktails. You must know that a few days ago, for
We lost a lot of soldiers when dealing with those Soviet tanks. With these big guys you sent us, we no longer have to be afraid of Soviet tanks."
Fan Bingbing smiled and said: "Mr. Captain, what you are encountering now is only the Soviet T26 tank. The front armor of this tank is only 20 mm thick and the side armor is only 16 mm thick, so you can easily attack it."
Wear them. Even if you encounter the Soviet T34 tanks, you can penetrate their chests with the 70mm armor-piercing ability of the big guys in your hands. But if you encounter the Soviet KV1 heavy tanks, you will
Be careful."
Fan Bingbing's face suddenly became solemn when he said this, "The frontal armor of the KV1 heavy tank is a full 120 millimeters. The recoilless rifles in your hands cannot penetrate their armor. If you encounter this
Tanks can only be destroyed by going around to their sides or behind and attacking them. You must remember this."
Cheng Fangfang on the side kept translating Fan Bingbing's words.
The bearded man and the faces of the soldiers around him began to look solemn. He knew that the young captain in front of him was a veteran who had fought against the Soviets in Siberia for two years. His words were all based on the blood and blood of his predecessors.
Life was exchanged for it.
"Mr. Captain, I heard that your country and the Soviet Union fought in Siberia for three years in the past two years. How did you fight? Can you tell us?" A Finnish soldier asked Fan Bingbing curiously.
"Yes, we fought with the Soviets in Siberia for three years, and the fighting resulted in rivers of blood." Fan Bingbing smiled lightly, but was unwilling to talk more about these things.
"I have heard that those Soviet Russians dispatched more than 1.5 million troops in those three years. You just captured hundreds of thousands of them, and finally fought back the Soviet Japanese devils.
They had to withdraw their troops, you Chinese people are like this." The bearded captain extended his thumb and praised, and the Finnish soldiers behind him also showed admiration on their faces. In their view, the Soviet Russians are now talented
With more than 400,000 people mobilized, Finland was struggling to cope. They couldn't imagine how they would be able to resist if more than 1.5 million Soviet Russians poured in.
Seeing the admiration on the faces of these Finnish officers and soldiers, Fan Bingbing couldn't help but think of what Commander Su said at that time, "The dignity of a country does not depend on others' charity, but must be built by ourselves. The rise of a country requires
We have paid countless blood and sacrifices, and all we have to do is regard ourselves as those who have sacrificed." Yes, how many good men Chahar has sacrificed in these three years.
"Captain Fan, Captain Fan." Cheng Fangfang's voice startled Fan Bingbing, who was distracted. He smiled sheepishly at Cheng Fangfang and the bearded captain. Fan Bingbing was about to say something when a sharp whistling sound suddenly sounded outside the air-raid shelter.
"Under shelling, get down quickly, don't lean against the wall." Fan Bingbing, who had long been trained to have conditioned reflexes by countless tons of shells, pulled Cheng Fangfang beside him and couldn't help but protect her by his side.
"Boom, boom, boom" bursts of artillery sounds that shook the ground rang out near the gun cave.
The bombardment continued for an unknown amount of time, and finally stopped. Fan Bingbing shook off the snow that had hit him, and pulled Cheng Fangfang up underneath him.
After Cheng Fangfang stood up, she gave Fan Bingbing a hard look, and the blush on her face disappeared in a flash. Fortunately, at this time, the bearded captain was calling the Finnish soldiers to the battlefield, and no one noticed the two people in the corner.
Fan Bingbing grabbed a Somi submachine gun, called to the two soldiers from the special brigade next to him, and rushed out of the position.
On the Finnish army position, Fan Bingbing and the others stared dumbly at the attacking Soviet troops in front of the position. If they hadn't been wearing Soviet military uniforms that Fan Bingbing was familiar with, he would have been a little unbelievable. This was that.
A Soviet army that had been confronting them in Siberia for more than two years.
Five hundred meters in front of the position, hundreds of Soviet soldiers slowly pressed towards the Finnish position under the cover of more than a dozen T26s. From time to time, a cloud of white smoke would appear on the Finnish position. That was the Finnish army.
Soldiers were shooting at Soviet tanks with recoilless rifles. From time to time, violent explosions were heard in front of the position. This was caused by the destruction of the Soviet tank, which triggered a chain explosion of shells in the tank.
After losing the tanks, the Soviet infantry was like sheep without the protection of the sheepfold, screaming and falling under the dense rain of bullets from the Finnish army.
"Is this still the cunning Soviet army that has been confronting us in Siberia for more than two years?" The eyes of Fan Bingbing and the two special operations brigade soldiers around him almost bulged out. The Soviets were
Are you here to fight or to die?
"Haha, Mr. Captain, what do you think? Our soldiers are very tenacious, right? No matter how many Soviet and Russian devils come, they won't be enough for us to kill." At this time, the bearded captain was very proud.
"Damn it, if the old man who fought with us was at this level, I would have fought in Moscow long ago." A soldier from the special operations brigade beside Fan Bingbing couldn't help but complain.