In contrast, the total strength of the two major fronts of the Soviet Army has been replenished, and the total strength has returned to more than one million, and the Nordic army has no cold winter to help this time, and no matter how powerful Marshal Mannerheim's military talent is, it is simply powerless to return to the sky in the case of "it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice".

After losing more than 100,000 troops, Finland's main force had been almost completely lost, and Mannerheim, who had always held an anti-Soviet stance, had no choice but to send a secret envoy to sue for peace with the Soviet Union, and was even ready to abandon the Karelian Isthmus. However, the Soviet government was unforgiving, not only demanding that Finland once again recognize the Karelian Isthmus as Soviet territory, but also demanding that "war criminals" such as Mannerheim be tried and reorganize the government, and the most excessive thing was that the Soviet Union actually proposed to "borrow" Finland to attack the other two Nordic Axis powers (Sweden in the middle of history has always remained neutral, so there is no such excuse, but Stalin obviously will not let go of this point and not use it). In fact, it was to station a large number of troops in Finland, which was absolutely unacceptable to Mannerheim and the Finnish government.

If you can't talk about it, you can only fight again, but although the Finnish government is in a hurry and even conscripts a large number of old and weak women and children into the army, so that the total strength of the Finnish army has swelled to more than 300,000 again, but the combat effectiveness is not comparable to the elite of the past, even if there are 100,000 German troops (including the SS Viking Division) help, it is still submerged by the sea of Soviet troops, and the Soviet Union is now much more manpower than Finland with a small population. Finland, which bears the brunt of the attack, will not be able to withstand it in any case.

Although the Soviets paid a heavy price of more than 400,000 casualties, they finally occupied the main populated areas of Finland before the cold winter of 1947, and all towns with a population of more than 10,000 people, including the capital Helsinki, fell into the hands of the Soviets. Mannerheim also committed suicide after failing to break out. Although the Finnish people still did not stop resisting, making full use of the advantages of Finland's many lakes and dense forests to fight guerrilla warfare, which caused a lot of trouble to the Soviet troops stationed in Finland, after all, the population was too small to withstand attrition, and Finland still could not escape the fate of exile after all.

Although Georgian, Stalin was undoubtedly more Russian than most Russians, and although he did not dare to rashly announce the annexation of Finland for fear of international influence, the Soviet Union's delay in installing even a puppet Finnish government is enough to see what he really thought.

The Soviet army's intention to annex Finland immediately aroused strong dissatisfaction from the United States and Britain, and opposition to the Soviet Union's aggressive act was one thing. More importantly, the two countries feared that the Soviet Union would take advantage of the situation to sweep northern Europe and obtain ice-free ports with direct access to the North Sea. However, while the strength of Germany and Japan still existed, the United States did not dare to completely cut off its aid to the Soviet Union. As a result, the United States and Britain had no choice but to send troops to attack northern Europe, trying to control Norway and Sweden before the Soviet Union. Thus continuing to stubbornly block the Soviet Union's access to the sea. It would be better if it could be forced to abandon the idea of annexing Finland

Although by this time Germany had already sent reinforcements to Northern Europe. However, due to the geographical disadvantage, it was difficult to confront the Allied and Soviet armies at the same time, which were both in the millions, and it took less than a month. The Norwegian government surrendered to the Allies, and the Swedish government took the initiative to withdraw from the Axis powers and join the Allied camp when the situation was not good, and was immediately accepted by the United States and Britain.

After all, Stalin did not dare to really turn against the United States, so he had to order the Soviet troops who had already entered Sweden to immediately return to Finland, and also gave up the idea of directly annexing Finland, but supported a "Democratic Republic of Finland" as a puppet, so that it is easier to explain a little in the international community

Although Finland has a small population and the overall scale of its industry is not large, the level of craftsmanship is quite high, and controlling it in the palm of your hand is of great help to the Soviet Union, which has a relatively extensive industry. However, it was not possible to obtain an outlet directly to the Atlantic, which was still very regrettable to Stalin, who knew very well that after the war, it was inevitable that he would turn against the United States and Britain, and that this naval blockade would be inevitable at that time

Roosevelt was deeply disturbed by the news of China's atomic bombing, and the pace of the US offensive was greatly accelerated, and sometimes even risked to gain time. In 1947, the U.S. military not only opened a second theater on the Western European continent (although it was only a half-tone second theater and did not pose a mortal threat to Germany). ), and even fought back wildly in the Pacific Ocean.

Under the fierce and continuous offensive of the American army, Japan quickly lost New Zealand and the Solomon Islands, and the southeastern coastal area of Australia's elite area was forced to abandon after fierce fighting. During this period, the U.S. military killed and captured nearly 300,000 Japanese soldiers with 200,000 casualties, further widening the already disparity in military strength between the two countries

However, the subsequent military venture of the American army to take advantage of the victory and conquer all of Australia in one fell swoop was thwarted, of course, because the geographical location of northwestern Australia was very favorable for the Japanese supply and greatly disadvantageous for the Allies (but because the American army regained the advantage at sea, this negative factor was far less important than it was at home). It is also because the Japanese government is well aware of the extreme importance of the Pilbara iron ore mine to Japan, and does its best to protect it, and in the past few years, Japan's continuous migration to this area has also received obvious results, because it can replenish the lost soldiers nearby, the Japanese army's sustained combat capability has been greatly enhanced, and after a hard battle, it finally won this battle of great strategic significance.

In this "Northwest Australian Counterattack", the number of permanent attrition of the Japanese army was less than 50,000, while the number of Allied killed, missing and captured was as high as more than 130,000, which can be said to be a wonderful Jedi counterattack, but among the permanent attrition of more than 130,000 Allied troops, there were only more than 70,000 U.S. troops, and the remaining 50,000 or so were Commonwealth troops, of which more than 30,000 Australian troops were reorganized after the liberation, and the New Zealand army also had tens of thousands. These two countries were able to send so many troops to fight against Japan in a short period of time at a time when they were in ruins, not only because of the bravery of the two countries, but also because of the numerous crimes committed by the Japanese army during the occupation of the two countries, which made the governments and peoples of the two countries regard Japan as a mortal enemy (to be continued......