The decisive battle against the Third Reich

This is a battle without any suspense.

After landing, the soldiers jumped off the ship one after another and charged towards the Soviet defense line under the cover of tanks.

During the battle, the soldiers discovered a very interesting point, that is, the mortar can fire shells at the enemy when mounted on an amphibious landing vehicle. So after it landed on the shore, it became a movable fort that could fire shells while moving. Provide fire support to troops.

Of course, the benefits of an amphibious landing vehicle are not just that. It can transport ammunition directly to advancing soldiers without the need for a process of unloading and loading it into a car. If necessary, it can also carry soldiers to pursue the enemy.

This allowed the First Infantry Regiment to receive continuous supplies along the way and maintain strong firepower. Of course, the most important thing was that the entire landing operation was completed in one go and very quickly, so the German army defeated the Soviet army with a single charge and sent them fleeing everywhere.

During this period, the Soviet army pulled up a tank battalion with 21 tanks and "rumbled" up, hoping to push the German army back... But this obviously didn't work.

First of all, most of the tanks that the Germans landed were "Penzer IV" tanks, and there were as many as 28 of them. Their performance was not inferior to that of the Soviet tanks and they had an advantage in number.

Secondly, the German tanks have advanced communication equipment and can coordinate well with each other... This is especially important for night battles. The reason is that the tanks at this time are not equipped with night vision devices and basically have no night fighting capabilities. During night battles, they can only be guided and coordinated by infantry. . Otherwise, they would not even be able to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy in the dark, let alone fight.

Needless to say, the communication equipment of the Soviet tanks made them run around like a blind man touching an elephant, and even killed the fleeing Soviet troops... I don't know whether they killed by mistake or were trying to stop them. They run away.

In fact, these Soviet tank crews knew that they were going to die if they came up, and this was also a huge waste of tanks... But even so, they still had to obey the order and drove the tanks up with their eyes dark. All that can be done is to use one or two flares that occasionally rise in the sky to determine the enemy's position and fire.

The situation of the German army was much better.

In fact, they did not use tanks to deal with enemy tanks, they used rockets more... In the dark, tanks without infantry cover could not prevent enemy infantry from sneaking towards them.

So with a few "chirp" whistles, the Soviet tanks turned into scrap metal one after another.

After breaking through the enemy's defense line, Qinchuan and others left the battlefield to the 22nd Armored Division and the 1st Mountain Division... Their mission was to clear out the Soviet troops in the southern peninsula and cover the batch after batch of amphibious landing ships traveling to and from the Kerch Strait. In the meantime, the troops of the 11th Group Army were taken over one after another.

The 1st Infantry Regiment, with a sudden change of direction, withdrew from the battlefield and drove the amphibious landing ship along the road towards Soglione.

A few sidecars and a 38T tank were scouting at the front of the team... As mentioned before, the 38T tank is a light tank that cannot compete with the Soviet T34 tank. It took a lot of effort to modify the amphibious tank. It is actually not cost-effective to bring it from the Kerch Peninsula. (This is also the reason why most landing tanks are "No. 4" tanks)

The problem is that the "No. 4" tank has been gradually modified to adapt to the battlefield, making the body heavier and heavier. This allows it to only reach a speed of 35 kilometers per hour on the road, and the speed of marching at night is even slower.

The purpose of the First Infantry Regiment is to quickly penetrate Soglione, so the "Four" tank is obviously unable to meet this demand.

The 38T light tank does not have such a problem. It has a speed of 42 kilometers per hour, which is enough for the First Infantry Regiment marching at night... Although the amphibious landing ship can reach a speed of 80 kilometers per hour on land, no one can I wouldn't dare drive it to this speed on a night march and on a poorly maintained road.

Therefore, the First Infantry Regiment could only get three 38Ts to provide the necessary firepower and armor defense for the First Infantry Regiment.

Facts have also proved that this choice is correct, because any tank, even if it is a light tank, is a nightmare for infantry. In addition, its 25MM thick armor in front of the bunker is even more important...

In the first half of the road, the First Infantry Regiment encountered more retreating or escaping Soviet troops.

But because the Soviet army has abandoned its heavy equipment, it is basically vulnerable to the 38T tank.

Along the way, Qin Chuan heard the sound of gunfire and artillery ahead. Then when the amphibious landing vehicle drove up, he saw blood everywhere near the highway, and there were piles of corpses of Soviet soldiers next to it... The scouts had apparently cleared the road for the following troops.

Of course, there will still be some stumps and broken arms left on the road, after all, they can no longer stop the troops from advancing.

Later, Qin Chuan learned that not all the corpses on the roadside were cleaned up by the scouts.

In fact... every time the scouts fought with the Soviet army, they would leave some Soviet prisoners behind. The German soldiers would order these Soviet prisoners to clean up the corpses and even car wreckage, and then take them to the roadside and shoot them. .

This may seem a bit cruel, but as mentioned before, the 1st Infantry Regiment was an insertion force, and they could not accept prisoners due to mission and confidentiality requirements.

After about fifteen minutes, there were fewer and fewer such battles. In the end, the road was even empty with only German troops marching. So Qinchuan knew that the First Infantry Regiment was even ahead of the Soviet army's collapse.

This made the march of the 1st Infantry Regiment go more smoothly. Occasionally, they encountered several Soviet checkpoints on the road. A few Soviet soldiers with flashlights asked loudly in Russian. It was obvious that they were under the headlights of three-wheelers and tanks. Unable to distinguish friend from foe.

The German soldiers responded with bullets. At the same time, the 38T tank rumbled up and directly crashed into the ridiculous roadblock lying in the road.

After marching on the road for nearly an hour, the Soviet army had no proper response to the fast-moving unit of the First Infantry Regiment. Although this was expected by Qin Chuan, it was also a bit unexpected.

This is expected because the Soviet army's poor coordination is well known.

It was unexpected because how could the Soviet commander ignore Soglione, a strategic location, especially such an important place as the airport? This is somewhat unimaginable to Qin Chuan.

"Looks like we're in luck!" Colonel Slain said, "because I didn't hear any planes flying away from the sky, but I'm not sure if they moved before that!"

"They're still there!" Qin Chuan answered while holding up the binoculars and looking toward the airport.

"How do you know?" Colonel Slain asked.

"Because there are no lights at the airport!"