As time entered the beginning of 1940, the sea was no longer as calm as before.

In fact, since September last year, the brutal naval battle has begun between Germany and Britain.

This war was first initiated by the Germans. After Britain and France officially declared war, the dwarf ordered a comprehensive blockade against Britain.

At that time, he ordered in a tone containing worry, anger, anxiety and fanaticism: "If you can't let it die in battle, then you will completely trap it on the isolated island."

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

It was officially based on the occurrence of this incident that Washington, America, mobilized several large passenger ships to safely bring citizens from all over Europe back to the country.

Two days later, three more large luxury passenger ships were sunk along the coast of Spain, all of which were important British ships.

If the attack on merchant ships only angered the British, then the attack on Scapa Bay launched in October was a formal provocation to the navy.

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

This incident immediately aroused the reaction of the British Admiralty, and the British retaliated against it.

Churchill, then-Superior Secretary, visited Scapa Bay in person and held talks on Admiral Forbes' flagship to discuss the counterattack.

The meeting finally decided to strengthen water grids and obstruct ships in Scapa Bay, establish minefields and increase patrol boats in the unfortified eastern waterway.

In addition, artillery positions will be arranged to control the entrances and exits. In order to prevent air attacks, the Admiralty plans to add 92 heavy anti-aircraft guns and 60 light anti-aircraft guns to ensure that enemy planes cannot launch unscrupulous attacks above their heads.

Many remote searchlights, defensive balloon nets, etc. will be added to the base.

Churchill hopes that these deployments can be completed within March this year, bringing the threatened fleets to re-energies.

Until these deployments are completed, Scapa Bay can only temporarily act as a ship gas station.

At this time, the whole of Europe was in a "strange war", which was the so-called strange state of Britain and France "promoting no battle" against Germany.

Strange war is the name of the French, and the Germans called it "sitting war", and the British called it "false war."

No one knows when this situation will continue, but countries are trying to end this seemingly ridiculous 'war'.

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

Chamberlain and his wife were invited to visit the Naval Base and arranged for them to visit the defensive deployment in Scapa Bay, listening to Chamberlain boasting about how his father invested money to develop the land here at the end of the last century and earned a lot of money.

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

This position comes from deep-rooted class roots, and he is happy to see the war being transferred to the Soviet Union, allowing the German and Soviet tigers to fight to the death.

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

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

Both agreed to increase troops to Finland and negotiate again with Germany, allowing the German-Soviet conflict to break out again and divert the war trend.

At this time, Finland had been mobilizing domestically for February, expanding its troops to more than 450,000, of which the main force was about 150,000 and the reserve force was more than 300,000.

In addition, there are 100,000 reserves and 100,000 women's service teams, responsible for producing military needs during the war and providing various services to the troops.

The Finnish authorities are also actively seeking help. They first found Germany, because compared to Britain and France, which have betrayed the Czech Republic and Poland, the Germans' credibility is obviously higher than that of them.

However, the Germans' attention was not focused at all on it.

From the panic and anger of Britain and France officially declared war on them to the high ambitions now that he wanted to completely conquer Europe and change the world, his vision was much greater than his heart.

Unfortunately, the dwarf was preparing for the invasion of Western Europe wholeheartedly and had no time to "take care of" the younger brother around him, and he was even more unwilling to intensify the conflict with the Soviet Union.

Although Britain and France expressed their willingness to send troops to support, they were indeed prepared accordingly.

However, Sweden and Norway, fearing that the war would spread to the entire Scandinavia, rejected the request from Britain and France to borrow.

The war developed very quickly. Finland originally believed that it could resist the Soviets for half a year to a year with geography and people's hatred of invaders.

At first, the progress of the war was indeed unfavorable to the Soviet Union. In the four areas that launched an attack on Finland across the border, only the northern section successfully achieved the intended purpose. The Soviet army in the rest of the areas suffered a crushing defeat and was forced to stop attacks and redeployment.

In Karelia Isthmus, the Soviet army broke through the Mannaheim defense line and suffered another blow.

In the subsequent tough battle, the Finnish army used various anti-tank weapons and sled troops to beat the Soviets in the snow.

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

In the Kittelle area, a long-term offensive and defensive battle was carried out, and it was divided and surrounded by the Finnish army at the beginning of the year, and its supplies were cut off.

Most of the troops of the two divisions were surrounded and suppressed, with nearly 20,000 casualties, and the rest retreated and passively turned into defense.

There are many similar situations. Generally speaking, in the early stages of the war, the Finnish army exhausted the Soviets, and the polar bear was completely stunned.

Although the Finnish army bravely showed strong combat capabilities in order to defend the country, the gap between the two sides cannot be compensated by courage alone.

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

500 aircraft full of shells were launched, and more than 400 artillery pieces were deployed on the position, carrying out long and fierce large-scale attacks on the Finnish army and its rear.

Within 24 hours before the attack was launched, a total of more than 300,000 artillery shells were fired, destroying a large number of firepower points and fortifications of Finnish main forces.

The planes were dispatched frequently, dropping bombs at the Finnish military defense line, and using airborne machine guns to strafuse the snow and jungle below.

With the suppression of artillery fire, the Soviet army launched another offensive. After three days of cruel close-range battle, the Seventh Army of the Soviet Army broke through the Mannaheim defense line and opened a breakthrough in its main defense zone that was enough to accommodate mechanized troops to pass.
Chapter completed!