Piracy detected! The decline of the Nordic Army soon reached the headquarters of Field Marshal Mannerheim in Finland. This was followed by a resolution by the government in the rear.

"They rejected Germany's proposal for a military alliance between the two sides?!" Staring at the telegram in his hand, Mannerheim roared in a trembling voice like a tyrannical lion: "These idiots actually want us to expel all German military instructors at once and stop resisting the Soviet army!" ”

Looking at the angry Mannerheim, even if he hadn't read the telegram in his hand, the officers and staff officers on the side had roughly guessed the content of the telegram.

Obviously, the defeat of the Swedish division became the last straw that crushed the government's will to resist. Disheartened government officials, they have decided to end the war that is certain to be lost.

"They should really come to the front line to see," Colonel Silasvo, who was discussing the war with Mannerheim, as the first fierce general under Mannerheim, also snorted coldly: "Look at the shells that fell on our land, look at the Soviet soldiers who occupied our land!" All this now can be solved by weakness and compromise?! ”

Just like the old saying from Huaxia, when the gun goes off, there are ten thousand taels of gold. Moreover, the Soviet army has long lost more than money in this war. In this war, they lost a lot of troops and lost too much international prestige, and when the Soviet Union, which was mobilizing the army, won this war, they would definitely demand everything they had paid back.

"This is really a bad decision," Mannerheim covered his forehead in pain and said in a deep voice: "Although cooperating with the German army is like seeking the skin of a tiger, after all, the land of Finland is of little value to Germany, and they will not annex us." But if we compromise with the Soviet Union, we will lose our hard-won freedom and soul. ”

As a man who had managed to lead Finland to independence from Russian rule 23 years earlier, Mannerheim could not accept such a compromise with Russia again. What's more, at a time when Germany has already thrown out an olive branch of cooperation and proposed to send an airborne division to provide rapid support.

After circulating the telegrams from Mannerheim in turn, a senior staff officer, who felt that the situation did not seem to have reached the point of no return, raised his head, looked around, and said: "I say, the telegram does not say unconditional surrender. The government simply wanted to sign an armistice with the Soviet Union, cede Karelia to Vyborg, and lease the Hanko Peninsula to the Soviet Union as a naval base. ”

The idea of the senior staff officer was simple: Karelia had already been broken through, and the Norwegian branch of the Nordic Army in Vyborg could not hold it, and ceding these areas to the Soviet Union would not change much from the status quo in essence.

As for the lease of the Hanko Peninsula to the USSR as a naval base, then it is even more irrelevant. It would be better to take out a peninsula in the Barents Sea than to wipe out the whole country. Anyway, judging from the current development of the situation, it is unlikely that the Finnish army will win the Soviet army.

"Idiot!" Colonel Silas pursed his lips and cursed secretly.

"It doesn't matter what you think?!" Mannerheim's reaction was even greater, he took three steps and two steps, rushed to the senior staff officer, and then glanced around and said, "How many people think so." ”

The other staff officers whispered a few words of discussion below, but in the end, they still did not have the courage to approve of the senior staff officer.

Mannerheim watched every move of several staff officers. The soldiers on the front line are fighting bloodily with a tenacious will that can attract the attention of everyone in the world. But a few fools in the rear even tried in vain to end this war with weakness and concession.

The old marshal looked at these unsuccessful subordinates indignantly, and said loudly: "Their greedy appetite is like a bottomless pit, and it will never be fed!" ”

Mannerheim thought of his own generation who had overcome all odds to build such a small amount of land for independent Finland, but now those politicians do not cherish this land, and give it to others like throwing away grass.

Mow Karelia today, mow Vyborg tomorrow, so that you can sleep soundly after that. But when I got up tomorrow and looked at the borders, the Soviet troops came again. Again and again, the land had to be ceded again in exchange for a moment of peace.

Well, Finland has limited land, and the Soviet desire will never be satisfied, and the more land Finland cedes to them, the more the Soviet army will encroach on it in the future. In the end, there is no need for war, who is strong and who is weak, who wins and who loses can be determined at a glance.

"Now they are asking us to lease the Hanko Peninsula and make them a naval base, and at the same time let us dissuade the volunteers of various countries." Mannerheim's eyes were blazing, and his body trembled a little with excitement: "What about after that?" In the future, without external support, the Soviet Union, which has no worries about the future, will ask us for resources, ask us to cooperate with production, and then provoke a conflict with us under various pretexts, and then let us continue to make concessional compensation. ”

Hearing this, several staff officers finally reacted, and only then did they really understand how many tricks and traps set by politicians of enemy countries were hidden in this seemingly acceptable armistice treaty.

Once Finland did accept the armistice, endless oppression and encroachment awaited them. At that time, however, they would not necessarily be as fortunate as they are now, with the opportunity for an alliance offered by Germany.

Now, if we seize the opportunity, even if it is a temporary alliance with Germany, and find a way to return to neutrality in the future, it may not be impossible to repel the Soviets and regain lost ground. But if you use land and islands to curry favor with the Soviet Union, it will become a firewood to fight the fire, and if the firewood is not burned, the fire will not be extinguished!

"Look at the Germans. Faced with a seemingly desperate situation, they chose to follow their Führer, Reinhardt, and worked hard. In 20 years, it took them only 20 years to return to the top state from a weak defeated country. From the Demilitarized Zone of the Rhine to the Danzig Corridor, which time did they regain their territorial rights and interests by retreating! Because they know very well that only the victors can truly win peace. No fire, no rebirth! ”

"And now, now........" Mannerheim was emotional, and his words trembled and knotted: "These great role models, in response to our initial expectations, promised to come to the aid of the Airborne Forces as soon as possible......... We, as the people involved, have changed our minds and tried to compromise with our insatiable enemies........"

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Berlin, the Führer's residence.

Expecting that the Finnish government was about to surrender, Reinhardt, who had only planned to be a favor at the beginning, put away the Finnish government's polite reply document, and a smug smile hooked up on the corner of his mouth: "Since you voluntarily refused, then it's no wonder that we can't save us when we die." ”