Chapter 811

In the early 1940's, the sea was no longer as calm as before.

In fact, since September last year, a brutal naval battle has been waged between Germany and Britain.

This war was initiated by the German. After the formal declaration of war between Britain and France, the dwarfs ordered a total blockade of Britain.

At that time, he ordered in a tone of worry, anger, uneasiness and fanaticism: "if you can't let it die in battle, you'll be trapped on an island."

That night, the British passenger ship Athena to the Caribbean was torpedoed by a German submarine, killing more than 100 people, including more than 20 American citizens.

Based on this incident, Washington, D.C. will mobilize several large passenger ships to safely take citizens from all over Europe back home.

Two days later, three more large luxury liners, important British vessels, were sunk off the coast of Spain.

If the attack on the merchant ship was merely to annoy the British, the attack on Scarpa Bay in October was a formal challenge to the Navy.

In October, the important British naval base, Scarpa Bay, was bombed by German aircraft, and the warship "Royal Oak" sank.

The incident immediately aroused the reaction of the British Admiralty, and the British retaliated.

Churchill, then Secretary of the Navy, visited Scarpa Bay and held talks at admiral Forbes's flagship to discuss counterattack.

The meeting finally decided to strengthen water barriers and obstruct ships, establish mine areas and increase patrol boats in the unprotected Eastern channel of Scarpa Bay.

In addition, artillery positions will be arranged to control the entrance and exit. In order to prepare for air attack, the Navy Department plans to add 92 heavy anti-aircraft guns and 60 light anti-aircraft guns to ensure that the enemy aircraft can't launch attacks on their heads without fear.

The base will also add a lot of long-range searchlights, defense balloon network and so on.

Churchill hopes that these arrangements will be completed by March this year, and that the threatened fleet will be re launched.

Until these deployments are completed, Scarpa bay can only serve as a temporary naval refueling station.

At this time, the whole of Europe was in a "strange war", that is to say, Britain and France "declared not to fight" against Germany.

Strange war is what the French call it. The Germans call it "sit in" and the British call it "false war."

No one knows how long this will last, but countries are trying to end this seemingly absurd "war."

In order to realize his ambition and complete the deployment of the Navy, Churchill took the initiative to ease the relationship between the two sides with Chamberlain.

The Chamberlain and his wife were invited to visit the naval base, arranged for them to visit the defense deployment in Scarpa Bay, and listened to Chamberlain boast about how his father had invested money to develop land here at the end of the last century and earned a lot of money.

In fact, in this period, because of the change of identity and the different patterns, Churchill agreed with Chamberlain's "bringing disaster to the East" plan.

He was happy to see the war passed on to the Soviet Union, and let Germany and the Soviet Union fight each other to death.

When he spoke to the outside world, his evaluation of the Soviet Union also changed, although he used many vague words to cover it up.

But in fact, the core he pointed out was no different from that of Chamberlain. He changed his original attitude and once again hated his Soviet Union.

Both agreed to send more troops to Finland, and at the same time to negotiate with Germany again, so that the conflict between Germany and the Soviet Union broke out again and the trend of the war was shifted.

At this time, Finland has been mobilizing at home for two months, with a total expansion of more than 450000 troops, including about 150000 main forces and more than 300000 reserve forces.

In addition, there are 100000 reserve and 100000 women's service teams, which are responsible for producing military needs and providing various services for the army during the war.

The Finnish authorities are also actively seeking help. They first found Germany, because compared with Britain and France, which sold Czech Republic and Poland successively, Germany's credibility is obviously higher than them.

However, the German's attention was not paid to it at all.

From the panic and anger of Britain and France to their official declaration of war, to their high ambition, they want to completely conquer Europe and change the world. His vision is much bigger than his heart.

Unfortunately, the dwarfs are wholeheartedly preparing for the invasion of Western Europe. They have no time to "take care of" their younger brothers, and they do not want to intensify the conflict with the Soviet Union.

Although Britain and France expressed their willingness to send troops to support them, they did make corresponding preparations.

But Sweden and Norway, fearing that the war would spread to the whole Scandinavia, rejected the request of Britain and France for taking advantage of Germany.

With the rapid development of the war, Finland originally believed that it could resist the Soviets for half a year by virtue of its geography and people's hostility towards the invaders.

At first, the progress of the war was really unfavorable to the Soviet Union. In the four regions that launched attacks on Finland along the border, only the northern part of the border successfully achieved the intended purpose, while the Soviet troops in the rest areas were defeated miserably and were forced to stop attacking and redeploy.In the isthmus of Karelia, the Soviet army broke through the manaheim line and suffered another attack.

In the subsequent battle, the Finnish army beat the Soviets in the snow with all kinds of anti tank weapons and sled troops.

In the northeast of Lake Ladoga, the two divisions of the Soviet army were surrounded and annihilated by the Finnish army, and the rest were forced to turn to defense.

At the beginning of the year, the kitaile area, which had been engaged in offensive and defensive battles for a long time, was partitioned and surrounded by the Finnish army at the beginning of the year, and supplies were cut off.

Most of the forces of the two divisions were encircled and suppressed, with nearly 20000 casualties. The remaining troops retreated and passively turned to defense.

There are many similar situations. Generally speaking, at the beginning of the war, the Finnish army exhausted the Soviets, and the polar bear was completely knocked out.

Although the Finnish army in order to defend the country, bravely demonstrated a strong fighting ability, but the gap between the two sides can not only rely on courage to make up for.

After many failures, the Soviet Union decided to increase its investment in the Finnish war.

500 planes loaded with shells were launched, and more than 400 artillery were deployed in the position, carrying out a long and violent large-scale attack on the Finnish army and its rear.

Within 24 hours before the second attack, more than 300000 shells were fired, destroying a large number of firepower points and fortifications of Finland's main forces.

The plane is more frequent, to the Finnish army line of defense dropped bombs, with airborne machine guns crazy fire under the snow and jungle.

With the suppression of artillery fire, the Soviet army launched another offensive. After three days of fierce close competition, the seventh group army of the Soviet army broke through the Mannheim line and opened a breakthrough in its main defense area to accommodate mechanized troops.

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