Wu Aihua's antipathy towards the Russians is exactly the same as his antipathy towards the Japanese. They are all due to national hatred and have nothing to do with any doctrine or belief. Wu Aihua must take back the territories that belong to China occupied by the Russians, and must continue to do so.
The capital was recovered with profit. Therefore, the strength of the Soviet Russians was reduced a little, even if only a few more soldiers died, Wu Aihua was happy.
This short assault in the Soviet-Finnish War allowed the Soviet Russians to once again taste the power of the Finns. The offensive that the Kremlin put a lot of effort into organizing was disintegrated by the Finns almost in one morning.
If you fight, you can't win or it's difficult to win; if you don't fight, you've already reached this point, how can you stop?
However, the Kremlin's worries were unfounded. After this victory, the Finns returned to their defense lines and did not launch an attack on the Soviet Red Army.
If you don't attack, well, I'll attack. The Soviets began to organize their forces again and bombarded the Mannerheim Line of Defense indiscriminately! However, the effect of this indiscriminate bombing was worse than in the first stage of the battle.
There are too many. This is because the Chinese Volunteer Army has fully penetrated into the command of the Finnish army (no way, who made the Chinese so capable). What about troops being light in the front and heavy in the back, and firepower being heavy in the front and light behind? What about tunnel warfare?
Fortress warfare, three-dimensional fire, cross fire, reverse fire, etc., unheard of tactics began to become popular among Finnish troops.
History has made Chen Dajun famous here. At least in the minds of Finns, the Chinese soldier Chen Dajun is their savior. And the reason why Chen Dajun and the Chinese Volunteer Army can rely on the Mannerheim Line of Defense to fight against the Soviet Union so confidently is
Russia's indiscriminate bombing was actually based on the experience of later battles.
In the later Korean War, during the Battle of Shangganling, two or three companies guarded tunnels on several mountain tops and were able to resist American aerial bombings and ground attacks for several months. It can be said that the battlefield form of tunnel warfare is a Chinese invention.
.And the Soviet and Russian aircraft and artillery at this time cannot be as powerful as the US military more than ten years later!
In this way, after more than 20 days of ineffective attacks and the loss of nearly 200,000 troops, the Soviet Union finally sat at the negotiating table with peace of mind.
However, the Finns did not overly force the Soviet Russians, but made some concessions. Finland leased the Ribach Peninsula on the Barents Sea, four islands in the Gulf of Finland, and the Hanko Peninsula to the Soviet Russia for a period of 30 years.
years; and retained Karelia and Finland's second largest city Viborg. In fact, most of the places "leased" previously were "ceded" rather than leased in history.
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While Wu Aihua was leisurely wandering in mainland China, Germany had almost digested the results of occupying Poland. In Hitler's strategic layout, all of Western Europe was to be captured by him, with Denmark and Norway naturally bearing the brunt.
Denmark and Norway are located at the intersection of the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, standing like a gate at Germany's seaport. Germany's main military port, Kiel Port, is located on the Jutland Peninsula on the west coast of the Baltic Sea. Ships entering the Atlantic Ocean must pass through Denmark and Scandinavia.
In the narrow waters between the Navia Peninsula (Skagerrak and Kattegat), enemy countries can effectively block the German navy as long as they lay mines here.
In addition, the iron ore used in the German arms industry also had to be transported through the Norwegian port of Narvik. If this area was under the control of Britain and France, the consequences for the Germans would be disastrous.
At the end of 1939, the German Navy's pocket battleship "Graf Spee" was unable to return to its home port. It fought alone in the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. Finally, it was besieged by the British Navy in the Port of Montevideo, Uruguay and scuttled itself. Its supply ship also sank.
It was captured by the British forces in neutral waters of Norway in 1940. This series of events became Hitler's excuse to occupy the two countries.
In the early morning of April 9, 1940, the German army suddenly attacked Denmark along the northern border, and the Danish king soon announced his surrender. At the same time, the German paratroopers and navy launched an attack on Norway and encountered stubborn resistance from the Norwegian defenders. Near Oslo,
The German navy was severely damaged and the special task force was almost wiped out. However, the German paratroopers' attack achieved effective results and occupied Oslo.
However, the battle in Norway was not over. At Narvik, the British naval fleet attacked the unprepared German destroyer fleet that night, and other ships of the German fleet that arrived later fought back against the British; however, the British
The troops quickly came back. In this way, the Battle of Nawei actually lasted until June 10, before Germany completely occupied all of Norway.
It was only during the Battle of Norway that Britain and France ended their history of "declaring but not war" against Germany.
At this time, Germany was fully prepared for the offensive on the Western Front.
In the early morning of May 10, the 28 divisions of the German right-wing Army Group B (including 3 armored divisions and 1 motorized division), under the command of General Fedor von Bock, suddenly pointed the German sword at Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
The Three Kingdoms and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg surrendered without a fight. Under the cover of the air force, the German Army Armored Forces advanced in three columns from Belgium and the Ardennes in southern Luxembourg. The depth of the advance reached 160 kilometers that day. The Belgian army was "blitzed" by Germany.
, the army was defeated, and a total of 250,000 Belgian soldiers became prisoners of the German army.
The Dutch army destroyed roads, bridges, and set up obstacles at barricades to block the advance of German armored fighting vehicles, but with little effect; the fate of the Netherlands was no better than that of Luxembourg and Belgium.
In fact, when the Dutch army was destroying the roads and bridges that the Germans must pass through, the Luftwaffe's JU87 Stuka bombers were also working hard to destroy the roads and bridges behind them.
The German Army Group B achieved an unprecedented victory in its attack on the three "Low Countries" mentioned above. The French army hurriedly went to help. The result was that it played into Hitler's hands. I heard that Hitler was so excited that he cried because the French were going
The rescue of these three countries was in line with the German plan.
While the German Army Group B was working to harvest the three low-lying countries, the German Army Group C also concentrated 17 divisions to launch a "violent attack" on the Maginot Line. The French were confused for a moment: What exactly were the Germans going to attack?
Where?
The real trump card of the Germans is Army Group A in the middle. Army Group A concentrated Germany's 64 elite infantry divisions (including 7 armored divisions and 3 motorized infantry divisions), led by General Gert von Rundstedt.
After they passed through the dense Ardennes forest, Luxembourg, a small country with a population of only 300,000, surrendered without a fight that day.
Leading General Rundstedt was the Armored Corps commanded by General Paul von Kleist, which was under the jurisdiction of Guderian's 19th Armored Corps.
Hermann Huth's 15th Panzer Corps and Joerg Hans Reinhardt's 41st Panzer Corps. Among them, Guderian's 19th Panzer Corps has the strongest combat effectiveness.
The main force and vanguard force of the Kleist Armored Corps has 3 armored divisions. The 15th and 41st Armored Corps only have 2 armored divisions each.
After easily breaking through the loose resistance of the Belgian Army, Guderian's 19th Panzer Corps took only two days to cross the 110-kilometer-long canyon of the Ardennes and penetrate deep into France.
On the afternoon of May 12, Guderian's three armored divisions had reached the north bank of the Meuse River and captured the famous French fortress city of Sedan. That night, Guderian began intense preparations to cross the river. To this end, Guderian
An threw all his three armored divisions into it.
"The Germans' forcible crossing of the Meuse River was the key to the Battle of France. There were other equally bold actions in the next five weeks, but none of them had such a shocking impact on the development of events." Later commentators commented.
The value of the Battle of the Maas.
At 11 a.m. on May 13, the German army dispatched nearly 400 JU87 Stuka bombers in batches to carry out indiscriminate bombing of the French army positions and artillery groups on the south bank of the Maas River for five hours, causing the French army to
Mental paralysis occurred.
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the German army took hundreds of rubber boats and began to forcefully cross the Maas River.
At 5:30 pm, the German army finally gained a foothold on the south bank of the Maas River, and the German engineers immediately began to build a pontoon bridge.
By 8 p.m., the 1st Armored Division under Guidry had penetrated the French position and penetrated quite deep. The 2nd Armored Division and the 10th Armored Division also crossed the Meuse River at midnight. On the same day, Hull
Erwin Rommel's 7th Armored Division under Mannhot's 15th Panzer Corps also crossed the Meuse River near Nantes, 40 miles to the west.
Once the Meuse River defense line was lost, the road to Paris and the English Channel was open. The British and French troops fighting in Belgium were in danger of being outflanked. The French army on the Maginot Line would also be attacked from both sides. Only then did Britain and France feel that the situation was serious.
The British quickly dispatched 10 additional fighter squadrons to join the British Air Force and the French Air Force stationed in France to counterattack the German army!
On the afternoon of the 14th, the most intense air battle since the war broke out over the Meuse River. The British Blenheim bombers and the French latest Breguet bombers, under the cover of fighter jets, headed straight for the Meuse River. About 5 German troops
The fighter jets of the wing took off to intercept, and both sides invested more than 500 aircraft.
As a result of this air battle, the British and French lost about 300 aircraft, while the German army only lost more than 40 aircraft. Most of the German pontoon bridges across the river were intact.
At 6 pm on May 14th, Chinese time, the air battle over the Maas River had long ended. Wu Aihua sent a congratulatory message to Hitler and Guderian in a private capacity. The content of the message was "Congratulations"!
It’s no wonder that the Germans couldn’t win the air battle! Historically, the Germans also won this air battle, but lost nearly 200 aircraft. After Germany obtained armor and aircraft technology from China, German tanks were very
It has obviously become stronger and sharper than the same period in history!