When Silavos, commander of the Third Army of the Finnish Defense Forces and commander-in-chief of the Mannerheim Line of Defense, received the report, it was already half an hour later.
"Dabio, what did you say?" Silavos' eyes suddenly widened.
D'Abio said: "Your Excellency General, the No. 3 and No. 4 support bases on the right flank of the first line of defense have just been subjected to carpet bombing by a group of Soviet Air Force bombers and have been completely destroyed!"
"Impossible!" Silavos still couldn't believe this shocking bad news and said in disbelief, "Our support bases are all built in dense forests. How could the Soviet Air Force's bomber group discover them?"
"This is the second news I want to report to Your Majesty the General." D'Abio said with a solemn expression, "According to the report from the forward observation post, before the No. 3 and No. 4 support bases were completely destroyed, there were two groups of black men.
Smoke rose into the sky from the dense forest in the area. Therefore, there is reason to suspect that the Soviet bomber group was guided by these two black smoke to accurately drop heavy aerial bombs weighing several tons.
We have secured support bases No. 3 and No. 4."
"What did you say, two puffs of black smoke?!" Silavos' heart suddenly sank when he heard this.
After pondering for a moment, Silavas asked: "Dabio, where do you think these two black smokes came from?"
D'Abio replied: "If nothing else, the Soviet army must have sent multiple reconnaissance teams deep into the first line of defense of the Mannerheim Line. After finding our support base, they lit up the smoke again."
Silavos' eyes narrowed and he said in a deep voice: "Check immediately. Is there any skirmisher team that lost contact last night?"
"Your Excellency General, the subordinates have been checked." Dabio immediately replied, "Two teams have lost contact, and by coincidence, they happen to be in charge of that area."
"If this is the case, then it is basically certain that this was done by the Soviet skirmishers." Silavos's face immediately turned cold, and then he added, "However, the Soviet skirmishers did it."
The detachment has become so powerful? Even in the first phase of the battle, they were no match for our Finnish army detachment."
"This is what is worrying." Dabio said, "The 7th Division sent out multiple search teams in advance, and finally found the two missing teams in the dense forest, and found that all the two teams were missing.
He was killed and no one was spared. Besides the stab wound to the neck, the fatal injury was a gunshot wound to the head."
A stab wound on the neck means that he was killed at close range.
A gunshot wound to the head means that the opponent shot him in the head.
Such two deadly killing methods can only explain one problem, that is, the Soviet squad that hunted down this Finnish squad are all masters! Not only are they good at close combat, but their marksmanship is also excellent!
D'Abio continued: "There are various signs that the Soviet army has dispatched one or more squads that are very good at fighting in the forest, sea and snowy fields. The combat effectiveness of this one or more squads is better than that of the previous Soviet squads.
Several levels up, even if our Finnish army team encounters them, they will be no match at all."
Silavos' brows immediately tightened, this matter was a bit tricky.
D'Abio continued: "Your Excellency General, if we cannot eliminate this one or more Soviet squads in time, sooner or later they will find my support positions one by one, and guide the Soviet Air Force to carry out targeted clearing. Once all the support positions are
If it is destroyed by the Soviet air force, our defensive positions will lose material supplies. If this is the case, the first line of defense of the Mannerheim Line will be lost within three months at most."
Silavos's brows furrowed even more.
Dabio said that he would stick to it for three months at most, which was quite polite.
In fact, according to Silavos, if the support base is lost, the entire Mannerheim defense line will only last about a month at most. After all, the Finnish army has no air power, armor power, artillery firepower, and troop numbers.
, are all at an absolute disadvantage. The only thing they rely on is their close advantage in material support.
Because the Finnish army has been operating the Mannerheim Defense Line for nearly half a century, it has established hundreds of support bases of various sizes on the front and rear three defense lines of the entire defense line, and has stored a large amount of supplies.
Supplies, the Finnish defenders don’t have to worry about logistical support at all.
But this was not the case for the Soviet army as the attacking party.
The Soviet army had to transport military supplies from Leningrad or from Lodeinorepo on the north shore of Lake Lagado to the front line, and all military supplies had to pass through the vast forest sea and snowfield before they could be transported to the front line. This was
It provides the Finnish army with an excellent opportunity to intercept and attack. In most cases, the Finnish army team only needs to saw down a big tree to block the entire Soviet transport team for at least half a day. This gives the Finnish army an excellent opportunity to intercept and attack.
Opportunities to concentrate forces on the place where the incident occurred to fight a war of annihilation.
As a result, the Soviet army that was deep in the battlefield immediately fell into a desperate situation of running out of ammunition and food.
It was precisely for this reason that the Soviet army suffered a disastrous defeat in the offensive battle in the first stage of the Soviet-Finnish War.
But now, the Finnish army's support bases are also facing an unprecedented threat. Once the hundreds of support bases on the Mannerheim line of defense are destroyed, the Finnish army will have to follow the same example as the Soviet army, from Viborg or even from Helsinki.
Transporting military supplies gave the Soviet Air Force and Soviet infantry squads the opportunity to intercept.
As a result, the situation of the Finnish army is even worse than that of the Soviet army, because the Finnish army's logistical support capabilities are far inferior to those of the Soviet army!
Therefore, once the support base cannot be maintained, the Mannerheim Line of Defense will be completely lost within a month at most.
Therefore, nothing can happen to the support base on the Mannerheim line of defense, and we must try to reverse this unfavorable situation!
At that moment, Silavos said: "Dabio, immediately call General Darius of the Seventh Division and ask him to find out the details of the Soviet squad in the shortest possible time, and then report it as soon as possible!"
"Okay." Dabio agreed and turned around.
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At the eastern end of the Karelian Isthmus, on the right wing of Mannerheim's first defensive line.
Zou Chao was lying on a tree, holding a telescope and closely monitoring the Finnish army support base ahead.
This Finnish army support base is very hidden. It is not only covered by dense forests, but also has camouflage coats. However, the camouflage is still not professional enough. What's more, the Wolf Fang Brigade now has the king as a search vanguard, so it is even more invisible.
, so it was inevitable to be discovered by Lang Ya in the end.
The Finnish sentries at the support base did not realize that they had been discovered and under surveillance. They remained calm and hid in the dark and stood guard. They would only appear when the Finnish sled team came to transport supplies and disarm the support base.
The perimeter security measures allow sled teams to enter the base.
After observing for a moment, Zou Chao couldn't help but look back.
One thousand meters away from Zou Chao's lurking spot, Wang Bin was leading a team of people to set up a firewood pile.
Because it was daytime, it was not enough to have a fire, and thick smoke had to rise. So after piling up enough dry firewood, Wang Bin and the others covered the dry firewood with a large number of freshly cut pine branches to ensure that the fire burned.
After getting up, thick smoke will be produced, and the thick smoke can soar up to dozens of meters in the air.
After the firewood pile was set up, Wang Bin immediately signed.
Seeing Wang Bin's sign language, Zou Chao immediately slid down from the hidden tree silently, found the skis buried in the snow under the tree, and then slid back like flying.
Almost at the same time, Wang Bin also lit the pyre.
Within a few minutes, a large amount of dry firewood under the firewood pile was burning brightly, and then the flames reached the wet branches covering the top of the dry firewood pile, and then emitted a large amount of thick smoke. Looking down from a high altitude, this thick smoke
Like a vertical pillar, it rises into the sky from the dense forest and can be clearly seen from more than ten kilometers away.
At this time, Dalliu, a division commander of the 7th Division of the Finnish Defense Forces, led an infantry battalion and was rushing to the No. 7 support base.
Seeing that the No. 7 support base was already in sight, Da Liu looked out the window and saw a thick smoke rising into the sky from the dense forest ahead. Da Liu's heart suddenly sank. When he looked closer, he found that the smoke was thick.
The direction in which the smoke rose was near the location of the No. 7 support base. At that time, I screamed that it was broken!
Immediately afterwards, Darius and the accompanying Finnish officers and soldiers heard the roar of aircraft engines. They turned around and saw a large group of at least twenty heavy bombers or fighter jets, almost clinging to each other.
It roared from the low altitude above the treetops in the forest, and the airflow generated by the wings of the plane blew the snow on the treetops to fall.
In a short time, the Soviet Air Force's huge fleet of aircraft had flown through the black smoke, and then opened its belly and dropped aerial bombs.
Seeing the rows of aerial bombs falling from the sky like locust shit, all the Finnish troops were dumbfounded.
Immediately afterwards, waves of dazzling light suddenly rose in the dense forest ahead. After more than ten seconds, a low and faint explosion sounded. Hearing the explosion, Da Liu immediately closed his eyes in extreme pain.
If you open your eyes, there is no doubt that the No. 7 support base ahead must have been destroyed.
However, when Dalius opened his eyes again, they were filled with ferocious murderous intent.
Damn it, it seems that the guess is not wrong, it is this smoke that is guiding the Soviet Air Force! Therefore, if you want to keep the remaining support base, you must eliminate the Soviet skirmishers who released these smoke!
At that moment, Daliu didn't bother to check the damage of the No. 7 Support Base, and there was nothing better to see. After being bombarded with such intensity, it was impossible for the No. 7 Support Base to have any supplies left! At that moment, Daliu shouted sharply.
: "The first company is outflanking from the left wing, the second company is outflanking from the right wing, and the third company is attacking from the front with me. We must not lose a single Soviet soldier!"
After finishing speaking, Darius took out a skateboard from the back seat of the jeep, then stepped on the skateboard and propped it up with a ski pole, and then he slid out ten meters away with a pop.
