readx; In the snow in the high mountains, dozens of soldiers wearing white cloaks walked step by step with heavy steps, and the sky was not snowing as usual, but the sky was clear, there was no dense fog, and the vision was extremely open in the weather without heavy snow. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After these dozens of people walked through a small group of mountain passes, suddenly the people in front stopped, and then several whispered commands in Finnish came down one after another from the front, and the whole team quickly stopped, and then quickly dispersed the skirmisher line and approached under the leadership of several non-commissioned officers.

At the head of the line, a bearded Finnish captain was talking to a man with a distinctly oriental face, who, despite wearing a heavy Finnish winter uniform, had a yellow face and black eyes and hair indicating that he was an Oriental yellow and wore the rank of lieutenant in the Finnish Army.

In the winter of 1939, when Finland and Soviet Russia were fighting in the dark, the only yellow people who could appear on the front line of the Soviet-Finnish war could be Chinese, and there was only one kind of person who could act with the Finnish troops, that is, the Chinese officer advisory group.

The officer advisory group sent by China to Finland was headed by Lieutenant General Hu Zeyun, three other major generals, more than 40 colonels, and most of the remaining 200 or so officers were lieutenants. Although these people are still on active duty in the Chinese Army, after arriving in Finland, they serve in the Finnish army as volunteers, and enter the Finnish army at all levels in the form of consultants, helping Finland formulate various battle plans, and even directly leading the Finnish troops in battle.

Although the combat effectiveness of the Finnish troops is strong, this is only about their individual combat level, while the command level of the officer class, especially the senior generals, is actually very average, and this is mainly limited by the influence of the rigidity of the overall tactical theory in Europe.

And there are not many other generals in China, that is, a large number of famous generals, those famous generals in China are all people with outstanding military achievements, most of them may not be well known by foreign people, but several Chinese generals are familiar around the world, such as Shen Gang and Zuo Yugang. Among them, Zuo Yugang was regarded by the Western media as a representative image of the Chinese [***] people in the twenties, brave in battle, resolute and handsome in personal image, and of course, more importantly, Zuo Yugang has not tasted defeat in his military life!

This kind of experience is rarely found in generals in other countries, even in the Chinese Army, where famous generals gather, Zuo Yugang's reputation is extremely prominent, among so many active generals in China, only Zuo Yugang has never been defeated.

The quality of China's senior officer corps, honed by countless wars, is absolutely second to none in the world, and even the quality of middle and low-level officers is the envy of other countries.

This is related to China's experience in many wars, so that it has rich combat experience, and it is also related to China's policy of giving preferential treatment to the army in recent decades, Chen Jingyun has been destined to have a superb status in society, a high social status, a rich income, and a service to the country and rejuvenate China.

The enthusiastic competition of a large number of young students has also enabled several major junior officer training schools in China to recruit the best students, and the participation of these outstanding talents has also laid the foundation for the high quality of the Chinese and senior officers.

In the eyes of ordinary people in various countries, the Chinese [***] official corps that believes in the theory of Chinese superiority is a stronger, more radical, and xenophobic group of officers than the German Junker officer corps.

Whether he is good or bad, but the high quality of China's officer group is recognized by all countries, and the fact that this entire social environment has caused it cannot be replicated by other countries. Almost all of the Hong family, Lin family, and Zheng family in the top wealthy families have descendants who serve in the army, not to mention that Chen Jingyun's sons are all in the army.

Besides China, what other country where middle-class children see military service as the best option to advance their family's status and step into the ranks of the republic's elite?

Apart from China, there is no other country where rural children regard joining the military as a life-changing choice, and getting rid of the shackles of the land is the best and easiest choice.

No!

Some people may say that you can be an official without joining the army! Being an official can also change your life and improve your social status, but if you become an officer in the army, it is best if you can rise all the way, as long as you can climb to the position of major general, it basically means that your family has stepped into China's elite class. Even if the speed of promotion is slow, but after reaching the age of service, after retirement, they are generally arranged to serve in civilian positions in the civil service system, in other words, retired officers are also civilian officials.

In addition, in the system of senior generals and civilian officials, it is also different, senior generals generally continue to serve in the army, even when they are sixty or seventy years old, they can still hold important positions, and there are very, very few cases of forced retirement, and there are relatively few cases of corruption in the army, and few generals will be pulled down because of economic or other problems. But the risk of civil officials is much greater, the first thing in the civil system is the problem of corruption, there are a few officials who are not greedy, and the treatment of civilian officials is far less convenient than that of officers, and there are more social entertainment, so greed for money is inevitable, and after the thirties, China's anti-corruption is becoming more and more severe, not only the picket department in the Ministry of Supervision and the anti-corruption bureau of the Ministry of Police are staring at, but more importantly, those agents of the Investigation Bureau, as long as the Investigation Bureau finds a big case and is determined to investigate, it is basically a big case. In the concept of the Investigation Bureau, the so-called big case does not refer to the amount of money involved, but specifically refers to the number of people implicated in a particularly large number; in a corruption case, there are no more than a dozen department-level officials and hundreds of department-level officials who have not been brought down, and the Investigation Bureau is embarrassed to say that it is a major case.

However, the agents of the Investigation Bureau are also very busy, and they generally do not deal with these ordinary corruption cases when they have nothing to do, and they will only intervene when they are related to national security, such as the military's procurement cases, or the greed for money in some key national projects, or collusion with foreign forces, and the investigation bureau's investigation and punishment of officials' economic problems are generally because of national security, not the corruption of officials themselves. But once it is investigated, then it will be very widely implicated, and it is possible to arrest and shoot hundreds of officials in a single case.

Therefore, in China in the 30s, being an official was actually a very dangerous job, in comparison, it was much safer to be in the army, although there was a saying that there was no eye in the war, but in actual battles, officers of the rank of colonel and above were rarely injured or killed, and this number was not even comparable to the number of natural life, death, sickness and old age.

In addition to the risks of corruption, there is also the extremely rigid promotion system of civil officials, China's officer system promotion system is rigid enough, but the promotion system of civilian officials is even more rigid, almost everyone has to boil up qualifications, no matter how great the merit is, they have to boil up qualifications, after all, there are still very few officials born as economic experts like Liu Dajun and Ma Yinchu, and the vast majority of China's civil officials still pass the civil service examination and then come step by step.

China's unique environment has created a high social status for China's military officers, and the high social status has also attracted a large number of outstanding young people to join the military community.

As soon as the more than 300 Chinese officers and advisers arrived in Finland, they served as advisers in Finnish institutions at all levels, and Lieutenant General Hu Zeyun led many senior staff officers in the advisory group to formulate an overall strategic plan for Finland, taking advantage of Finland's terrain and severe cold weather to conduct defensive operations, and using the high-quality individual combat effectiveness of the Finns to organize numerous hunting squads to carry out unconventional hunting operations, with the main goal of killing and injuring the Soviet troops.

In terms of defense, China is suggesting that Finland concentrate its limited armored forces together, and then implement a local armored counterattack, Finland's armored forces are equipped with about fifty Chinese T6 tanks, and dozens of T8 tanks, in addition to these Chinese tanks, there are also some tanks imported from other countries by Finland, but the quality of those tanks is very average, only some light tanks are not bad.

In the entire Finnish Army, there are less than 100 tanks that can be called advanced in terms of surname, and the rest of the rest are not good, while the Soviet army on the opposite side has at least 1,000 tanks for the offensive, and the number is still increasing.

Unfortunately, the T26 light tank and the BT5 fast tank used by the Soviets were quite effective against some of the other old tanks in the Finnish Army, but they were extremely weak against the Chinese T6 tank.

In a December snow tank duel, a T6 tank company in the Finnish Army was ambushed by the Soviet Army, the scene was four T6 tanks against the attack of the Soviet Army's eighteen tanks, in the absolute disadvantage of numbers, the Finnish Army's T6 tanks took advantage of the terrain and firepower to complete the seemingly impossible task, at the cost of their own loss of a T6 tank, destroyed the Soviet Army's twelve tanks, and the end of the battle was three T6 tanks chasing the remaining six tanks of the Soviet Army. In the end, the Soviets were forced to retreat and flee.

This battle is undoubtedly a miracle in the history of the world's tanks, this is not how good the surname of the T6 tank can be, in fact, the T6 tank in this year can only be said to be very general, although the protection has 25 mm, but it is vertical armor, this protection for the war in 1939 has been seriously insufficient, the speed is also very slow, and the firepower is not too strong. In 1939, the T6 tank could only serve as the main force in the Finnish Army, and it had long since withdrawn from the front line in the Chinese Army.

The reason why this battle is said to be a miracle is entirely because of his command, and the commander of this tank company looks like a Finnish officer on the surface, but in fact, the normal battle is commanded by a Chinese armored lieutenant who fought with him, and this armored second lieutenant just graduated from Shijiazhuang armored school last year, and is a veritable rookie, but it is such a rookie who has maturely used a large number of tactics in the Chinese armored corps, although the Soviet army on the opposite side has an absolute advantage in strength, But even if the Soviet army has been developing tanks for more than ten years, the use of tanks is still equal to zero, and Stalin's large-scale purge of the Soviet army has caused the quality of the Soviet army's officer group to decline to an outrageous level.

Speaking of Stalin's purge, it is very interesting that after a large number of officers in the Soviet army were removed from their posts or had a premonition that they would be captured, a large number of Soviet generals fled to the side of the Russian Republic, and then turned into senior advisers to the Wehrmacht of the Russian Republic, and even a commander of a Soviet army group stationed in Siberia defected, which has to be said to be extremely ironic.

The low quality of the Soviet army and the very high quality of the lieutenant officers contributed to this seemingly impossible victory.

Although he fought in Finland, the exploits of this second lieutenant of the Chinese armored corps were still recorded by the Chinese side, and then he was directly promoted to lieutenant.

And the Chinese [***] official advisory group entered Finland in large numbers, and it was naturally impossible for Soviet Russia not to know about it, and it also raised a strong opposition to China, believing that this was already equivalent to China's war against Soviet Russia, but Chen Jingyun was too lazy to pay attention to them, protesting and protesting, and Chen Jingyun would not lose a piece of meat for this.

As for the threat of Soviet Russia, it is basically the kind that can be ignored, and it is good if China does not take the initiative to send troops to fight Soviet Russia, and if Soviet Russia dares to take the initiative to attack China in Siberia under this situation, then it is obvious that Stalin has a fever in his head.

Stalin was not stupid, so such a thing would not have happened.

In order to quickly solve Finland, the Soviet army mobilized a large number of troops to replenish after half a month, and since it cannot win by quality, it can only win by quantity.

In the face of countless Soviet soldiers and tanks, Finland resisted very hard, although the individual ability of Finnish soldiers is not bad, but Finland's population base is too small, and the millions of people cannot raise more troops, and the disadvantage of the army in numbers is difficult to replenish.

In order to support Finland in the war, Sweden in Northern Europe also used a lot of strength to support Finland, and in addition, a large number of supplies from China began to be shipped to Finland through Sweden. In this war between Finland and Soviet Russia, China and Sweden together became the main supporting countries of Finland, while Germany adopted the principle of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, as for Britain and France, they are now facing the pressure of Germany's army, and they are not able to sleep peacefully, where they have time to care about Finland's life and death, and it is their business to destroy Finland, and there is a Sweden and Norway across it, and then block the Baltic Sea from the Atlantic, so that the Soviet Russians can toss in the nest.

"The situation on the Finnish side is very bad now, although we and Sweden have not been able to support each other, but these are limited to weapons and materials, and our country is too far away from Finland, and a batch of materials that were previously shipped to Finland was still transferred from Iran, and it will take a lot of time for us to transport them directly from the country. And the most important thing is that the Finnish side has too few troops, and they will never have a chance to turn the tables when they are at such a disadvantage in terms of troops, even if we arm them to the same level as our army! Chen Yi frowned and reported to Chen Jingyun about the Finnish war.

In the 1930-1931 Sino-Chinese War, many important generals were promoted, of course, it is impossible to say that they will be promoted as soon as the war is over, but with this qualification, it is enough for them to get great priority in the promotion in the future, and Huang Anyuan and Chen Yi were also successfully promoted, became generals and entered the State Military Commission to serve as military commissars.

In the early days, that is, during the First World War and the twenties, the military commissars in the State Military Commission were only regarded as a fictitious position, and there was no specific actual surname position, but after entering the thirties, due to the increasing number of military affairs, and Chen Jingyun did not have the time and energy to be in charge of many military affairs, he began to arrange things for the military commissars of these national military commissions, anyway, now the number of generals in China is also increasing, not just a few as more than ten years ago, We need to worry that their influence is too great, and now there are more than 20 generals in China's army, navy and air force combined, and these more generals will disperse the influence of the original many generals and bigwigs. And this is also what Chen Jingyun is happy to see, otherwise he would not have promoted a group of generals every few years, in order to expand the number of active generals.

Chen Yi was promoted because of his exploits in the Second Sino-Chinese War, and then he was mainly responsible for European affairs in the State Military Commission, and among the military commissars in the State Military Commission, in addition to the five major ministers who had their own fixed positions, the other generals were also more or less responsible for some aspects of affairs, and this kind of position was not a fixed position, at most it was a temporary function verbally ordered.

Chen Yi is now in charge of European affairs, and the affairs of Finland are naturally his concern.

Chen Yi continued: "According to our estimates, it should not be a problem for Finland to resist for three months, but if the time continues to drag, then the Finns will not be able to hold on!" ”

Finland fought against Soviet Russia with a weak force for more than three months, which is already a very good result, you must know that Poland, which has a much greater national strength than Finland, was completely defeated in half a month after starting the war, and the country was destroyed in less than a month.

"In addition, the confrontation of the armored forces on the Finnish side also found many problems, and in actual combat, it was found that our T8 series tanks were a little reluctant compared with the BT7 fast tanks of the Soviet Army in terms of surname, and could not gain the upper hand in actual combat." Chen Yi said.

"The Soviet army based on their BT5 fast tank research and development of improved BT7 fast tank in terms of firepower and maneuverability are good, if this tank appears in Siberia, our army can certainly use T6 and T9 series of medium tanks to fight, but there will be certain problems in practical use, after all, they have a lot of tanks, for this I have also communicated with the Armored Division of the Ministry of Equipment, their opinion is that if we should develop a light tank that can compete with it, And to replace the T8 light tank of our army! ”