However, what Mannerheim did not expect was that until noon, there was still no news returned, not only from the more than 100 ski teams that first attacked, but also from the 9th Infantry Regiment that later came from Losevo.
Contact was also lost. More than a hundred ski teams and an infantry regiment seemed to disappear like thin air!
It was also at this time that Mannerheim's expression finally became serious.
"It seems that something happened to all the ski teams and the ninth infantry regiment that attacked." Mannerheim closed the war theory in his hand, frowned and said to Silavos, "Silavos, we can't continue
If we continue to wait like this, we must immediately send a force to respond, and we must find out what happened?"
"Okay." Silavos nodded, "I'll make arrangements right away."
Silavos went down to arrange the troops, but Mannerheim's attention returned to the simulation sand table.
Beginning at noon, eighteen flying regiments of the Soviet Northwest Front launched a carpet bombing of Mannerheim's second line of defense, especially the two defensive lines of Serovo and Kirillovskoye.
The small town that supported it had been heavily bombed by the Soviet Air Force. Without stepping out of the door, standing inside the headquarters, the combat staff of the headquarters could see the dazzling fires that were blooming in the residential areas outside.
However, the frontline headquarters of the Finnish Defense Forces is still very safe, because the main bunker where the headquarters is located not only has a high-strength fortress wall that can withstand thousand-pound aerial bombs, but also has realistic camouflage on the surface of the main bunker, which can be seen from the sky.
Looking down, the main bunker is just an inconspicuous lump of earth.
Therefore, the outside had exploded into a sea of fire, but Mannerheim was not even interested in turning his head to take a look. Instead, he just looked at the simulated sand table intently, repeatedly calculating the strength, weapons and equipment of both sides in his mind.
To ensure material protection, check whether there are any omissions in previous calculations. If there are any omissions, they can be made up for in time.
However, after repeated calculations, Mannerheim did not find any omissions.
According to the current strength, weapons, and logistics support levels of both sides, the Finnish army is still confident of holding on to the second line of defense. After coming to this conclusion, Mannerheim couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.
By two o'clock in the afternoon, the Soviet Air Force's indiscriminate bombing finally ended.
However, before the Finnish army could take a breath, twenty Soviet artillery regiments began shelling!
The bombing by the Soviet artillery was even more frenzied. The air force's bombing lasted only more than two hours. However, the frenzied bombardment by the Soviet artillery group lasted for more than four hours. Until 7 o'clock in the evening, twenty Soviet artillerymen
The regiment finally stopped shelling. After the shelling stopped, the Finnish soldiers who emerged from the bunker were surprised to find that not only the snow on the position had completely melted, but even large areas of the forest had been burned.
If you look down from a high altitude, you can see that the Soviet artillery plowed almost the entire area with a length of more than 20 kilometers and a width of more than five kilometers. In some areas, the soil could even be dug up to plant potatoes.
From this, it is enough to know how frantic the shelling of the Soviet artillery group was.
However, this is just the beginning.
At around seven o'clock in the evening, it was just getting dark, and not long after the shelling of the Soviet artillery group ended, fifteen tank regiments belonging to the Northwest Front of the Soviet Red Army, under the protection of more than twenty infantry regiments, began to
The twenty-kilometer-wide front faced Mannerheim's second line of defense and launched an overwhelming general attack.
At first, the Soviet Red Army advanced very smoothly. However, after penetrating five kilometers into the Finnish Army's defensive positions, it began to become difficult to advance further because the Finnish Defense Force's counterattack gradually became fiercer, especially the Finnish Defense Force's anti-tank
The gun posed a serious threat to the tanks of the Soviet Red Army!
After the tank group's offensive was blocked, the Soviet Red Army's advance immediately slowed down.
The war situation immediately fell into a stalemate, but this stalemate was beneficial to the Finnish Army, but extremely disadvantageous to the Soviet Red Army, because every quarter of an hour such a stalemate lasted meant that the Soviet Red Army had to spend a large number of personnel.
Casualties and losses of a large amount of technical equipment.
Although the Soviet Red Army has a strong financial background, it cannot last long with such high-intensity consumption. If there is no problem with the command system of the Finnish Defense Forces, then at most it will persist until dawn, and the Soviet Red Army will have to shrink and retreat. Otherwise, they will not even be able to
There is no chance of retreat.
After falling into a stalemate, Timoshenko could still keep his composure, after all, he had estimated this, but the senior staff officers in the headquarters could not sit still.
Ivan said: "Commander, we can't waste any more, the losses are too great!"
Alexey also said: "Yes, less than an hour has passed since the general offensive began, and we have already lost two entire tank regiments. At this rate, at most, by dawn tomorrow, our fifteen tanks will
The regiment will be completely lost, and by then it will be a problem not to mention attacking, but even withdrawing."
Another staff officer said: "There are also infantry regiments with greater casualties, so let's change the troops!"
The casualties of the infantry regiments are indeed greater. Ten regiments have been lost since the beginning of the general offensive!
Although the entire Northwest Front now has five armies and nearly 500 infantry regiments, these 500 infantry regiments are also divided into levels. The most elite first-line infantry regiments are being lost now! If the five most elite infantry regiments are
If all ten infantry regiments are used up, how can we fight the rest of the battle?
Several senior staff officers were furious, but Timoshenko showed no expression at all.
Finally, after being annoyed by the complaints from several staff officers, Timoshenko simply hid in the lounge and ignored him, leaving only the senior staff officers outside to stare.
Brother Timoshenko is waiting, waiting for news about Xu Rui and Langya. Anyway, the general offensive has been launched, and such a large amount of money has been invested. This is already the case. If he doesn't dare to take a chance again, then
It is impossible for Timoshenko to become one of the three giants of the Red Army, let alone be promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union!
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So what are Xu Rui and his elite team doing?
Xu Rui and the others are also waiting for the person who will lead them to show up!
After all, Xu Rui is a human being, not a god. He only knows that the Soviet Defense Force must have a frontline headquarters on the second line of defense, but he is not sure whether the frontline headquarters is located in the town of Serovo or in Kirillov.
In the town of Skoye? Or perhaps, this frontline headquarters is simply in the wilderness.
Therefore, it would be unwise to go directly to the frontline headquarters.
Because no matter what, there are only nineteen Wolf Fang members around Xu Rui now. Even if each person searches ten square kilometers, how big an area can nineteen people search? A radius of dozens of miles? Unfortunately, Mannahai
Mu's second line of defense covers an area of more than one hundred kilometers in length and fifty kilometers in width!
Therefore, it is unwise to rely solely on Langya's own power to search.
Therefore, they must rely on others to lead the way and bring them to the area where the Finnish Defense Forces’ frontline headquarters is located!
If it were anyone else, he might not think this is possible at all, but Xu Rui firmly believes that this is something that can be easily grasped!
The Soviet Red Army on the front line has reached a stalemate with the Finnish army, but the Wolf Fang team led by Xu Rui is still waiting for the leader to appear.
Time passed quietly, and Mo Zichen gradually became a little anxious.
At that moment, Mo Zichen approached Xu Rui and asked, "Captain, isn't anyone coming?"
"Why are you anxious?" Xu Rui glanced at Mo Zichen and said calmly, "What time is it?"
"It's getting late." Mo Zichen raised his wrist and looked at his watch and said, "It's already past eight o'clock in the evening!"
Xu Rui shook his head and said: "You have to give people some time. Think about it, searching for traces left by others in the wild is more time-consuming than marching directly. Therefore, when the reinforcements sent by the Finns arrive, it will take more than ten people.
hours, if they set out at noon, they would not be able to find this place until after ten o'clock in the night."
Mo Zichen immediately let out an ahhhhhhh and shouted with a grimace: "We still have to wait two hours?"
"Maybe you don't have to wait so long." Xu Rui shook his head and said, "That depends on the Finns' ability..."
Before the last word "already" was uttered, Xu Rui's expression suddenly changed slightly, and then he said suddenly: "If you say Cao Cao Cao Cao is here, the Finns are already here!"
Mo Zichen and others immediately became energetic after hearing this.
Not long after, there was a burst of imperceptible footsteps in front of him, and then the king's figure walked out of the dense forest like a ghost, walked to Xu Rui, circled twice, and whined to please him.
After two noises, Xu Rui threw another large piece of beef jerky to the king as usual, and the king immediately ran away with the beef jerky in his mouth.
About a quarter of an hour later, there was a faint sound of dog barking in front of me.
"Here we come, spread out and take cover!" Xu Rui gave the order, and the Langya team members immediately dispersed.
Xu Rui stayed at the end. Although the Finnish troops looking for them might not pass by where they were hiding, Xu Rui still carefully removed the traces and spread a lot of wolf dung to cover up the traces left by the Wolf Fang team members.
In this way, even if the Finns' hunting dogs pass by here, they will never be able to find any traces of the Wolf Fang members.
Facts have proved that Xu Rui was overly worried, because the Finnish army who was following them entered the valley directly along the route that the Finnish ski team and the 9th Infantry Regiment had taken before. Then, this group of Finnish soldiers discovered
The entire valley was strewn with corpses of Finnish soldiers, thousands of them at least!
After a while, a ski team of more than a dozen people separated from the Finnish army and hurried back. Xu Rui immediately summoned the Wolf Fang members hiding around and followed them from a distance.
