Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

On this day, Walter Model went to the Mannerheim Defense Line for an inspection.

"It seems that we overestimated the Soviets." Although the entire defense line became dilapidated under the fierce attack of the Soviet army, Model seems to be able to resist until the second half of this year at this pace.

"This is thanks to your country's strong help." Accompanying him was Vainamo, the new commander-in-chief of the Finnish Defense Forces. This man is far inferior to the late Marshal Mannerheim in terms of ability and qualifications, and can only be regarded as mediocre; if he were not a fanatical pro-Germany, he would not be the commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht.

Arriving at a command post, Model walked to the high-power telescope at the observation port and looked at the Soviet soldiers in the distance who were collecting the bodies of their comrades.

In ancient wars, the way corpses were disposed of was relatively cruel. After the war, the victorious party would collect the bodies of the defeated party and pile them up on both sides of the road. Then the corpses were covered with soil and piled into a huge "pyramid" shaped mound. The purpose of this was for the winning side to show off their achievements. It was called "Zhujingguan". There is also a terrifying name called "Skeleton Tai" .

However, with the development of civilization, this practice has naturally been gradually eliminated. In order to prevent the corpse from rotting and causing an epidemic, the corpse will simply be buried. Although it is simple, it is finally buried in peace.

In modern times, there have been many large and small wars around the world. After the war, it is time to clean up the battlefield. After the battle, no matter whether you win or lose, you are very tired, but you still have to deal with the corpses, because the corpses exposed on the ground will soon rot, not only have an unpleasant smell, but may even breed diseases, so in order to avoid the occurrence of immune diseases, these corpses are It must be disposed of.

If the losing party never looks back, there are probably three ways to dispose of the body.

The first is for the victorious side to bury the corpses of enemy soldiers on the battlefield. However, this is a huge project. There are too many corpses. The victorious side does not have so much energy to bury the corpses in a time-consuming and labor-intensive manner, so prisoners of war are usually used to bury the corpses. Dig a hole, throw the body in, and bury it.

The second method is more commonly used - cremation. This method does not require time and manpower to dig pits. It only needs to gather all the corpses, pour them with gasoline, and burn them cleanly. Cremation can prevent the corpses from decaying and causing plague, and there is no need to occupy land for burial. Corpses are a better method.

The third method is relatively simple and crude, and that is to throw the corpses directly into the wilderness without anyone paying attention. These corpses will either be picked up by wild beasts, or they will turn into white bones in the wild.

But if it is a tug-of-war and the other side wants to collect the body of his comrade, the other side will usually provide convenience and let the other side carry the body of his comrade down. One is out of humanitarian considerations, and the other is not wanting to accommodate these big troubles for the enemy.

Model sighed. "Look at how dejected and sluggish they all are, they don't even look like soldiers. Stalin's idea of ​​defeating Finland with such bad morale and such cowardly soldiers is simply a daydream!"

boom!

As soon as Model finished speaking, there was an earth-shattering explosion, and the ground shook. Unprepared people fell to the ground one after another.

"What's going on?!" Model, who was helped up by the adjutant, looked around. "What's going on? Is there an earthquake?"

Waynamo was also very surprised. "It shouldn't be, how could there be a big earthquake in Finland!"

Model shook his confused head. "Did a nearby arsenal explode? Check it out quickly!"

Several staff officers immediately contacted nearby troops, and finally someone found out the exact information. "It was a Soviet artillery shelling! A Soviet artillery shell fell into the defense line three kilometers away."

"What?!" Model was shocked. The shell that landed three kilometers away made such a big movement. How big was the shell? "Quickly, let the air force dispatch, find the Soviet artillery position and destroy it!" A cannon that can fire such huge shells must be a giant, and it is impossible to hide and fire artillery secretly.

"Go back to the headquarters and report the news to the country." Of course, this is just an excuse. What he was more worried about was that if the next shell landed nearby, they would all be wiped out.

Model and his team hurried back to the headquarters and sent a telegram to the German high command explaining the situation.

Marshal Rundstedt was also shocked when he received the telegram and immediately reported it to Yannick. "Your Highness, the Soviets bombarded the Naheim defense line. One shell blasted a deep crater the size of a football field." What the hell is this? What artillery shell can blast a crater the size of a football field with one shot? ! "Is this too exaggerated?" Model in the telegram also said that although the Soviet artillery position had been identified, the Soviet ground anti-aircraft firepower and air defense power were too strong, and the air force could not approach the artillery position for a while, let alone Talk about destroying the cannon.

Yannick smiled slightly. "Tsk, tsk, it's really difficult for Soviet engineers to actually build it?"

Seeing Yannick's reaction, Rundstedt couldn't help but think of the Maus tank last time. "Uh, Your Highness, is this cannon also a blueprint provided by us?"

Yannick nodded. "That's right, it's the 800mm-caliber super cannon I asked Krupp to design."

Rundstedt drew in a sharp breath. "800mm?!" The main gun caliber of the Bismarck battleship is only 380mm.

As mentioned earlier, Yannik gave Natasha the drawings of the Gustav cannon. Stalin liked it so much that he named it "Soviet Hammer" and ordered the weapons department to build the cannon as soon as possible.

However, the Soviet industrial technology could not complete the manufacturing of this super artillery. You must know that not everyone has the ability to produce super-large-caliber artillery. The Soviet Union has not produced many large-caliber artillery before, and the technology is also very immature. The entire project is full of difficulties.

But Stalin made it clear that the Soviet Union must have its own super weapon!

Don't say no to him. Whoever dares to say no will send his family to dig potatoes in Siberia!

In order to prevent themselves and their families from moving to Siberia, Soviet engineers could only bite the bullet and launch a vigorous artillery-building campaign. What's even more terrible is that Stalin said that the Soviet super weapons must completely surpass the weapons of capitalism. (In the Soviet-Finnish War in the original time and space, Finland's 70-round drum Somi submachine gun caused the Soviet army to suffer a lot. After the war, Stalin ordered the construction of a weapon that completely surpassed the Somi submachine gun in all aspects. In order to implement Stalin's order, Soviet engineers We made the PPSh41 submachine gun drum into 71 rounds).

This time, Soviet engineers changed the caliber of the "Soviet Hammer" to 805mm, which indeed exceeded the 800mm of the German Gustav cannon.