USSR 1941

The Germans actually blew up seventeen amphibious landing ships.

To be precise, it was not blown up, but destroyed... The amphibious landing ship was small in size and the target was small. In addition, it was dark at night, and it was difficult for even the German night fighters to drop bombs directly on the amphibious landing ship.

From this point of view, there were not many amphibious landing ships destroyed by the German army, only five were directly hit by fire or their ammunition exploded.

The problem is that the amphibious landing craft is very crudely made.

This is actually justifiable. On the one hand, the equipment of the Soviet army itself has the characteristics of "rough". On the other hand, because the amphibious landing ship is new equipment, there are still many problems in the combination of land and water power that have not been resolved.

Therefore, once these amphibious landing ships are hit by machine gun bullets, or bombs explode and vibrate violently nearby, the amphibious landing ships may be unable to move due to malfunctions.

Shulka therefore called Hisoy.

"They can't stand it, Comrade Sisoy!" Shulka said. "The enemy has launched an attack on the amphibious landing ship. I guessed that this attack would not cause us many casualties, but I didn't guess that there would be so much damage." Multiple amphibious landing craft malfunctioned!"

"It's inevitable, Shulka!" Hisoy replied: "You know, these amphibious landing ships are customized by the Navy for landing operations, and they don't require such ships to have good reliability!"

This is true.

The naval infantry brigade uses this kind of boat more for landing operations. All they need is to be able to rush to the beach and control the direction.

Then... it is basically used as a bunker by the naval infantry brigade to block bullets, so of course reliability is not needed.

"So, is there any way to solve it?" Shulka asked.

"I can send you a maintenance team!" Hisoy replied: "In addition, we will increase production and try our best to ensure transportation!"

Shulka put down the phone helplessly.

Increasing production may be a solution, but if the German Air Force dispatches only one time to make 17 Soviet amphibious landing ships scrapped or malfunctioned, the production of 10 ships per day may be a drop in the bucket.

When Shulka was worried, Andrianka, who was on the phone, reported: "Comrade Shulka, another batch of enemy fighter planes has taken off again, this time more than last time!"

An aviation regiment of the German army has three aviation brigades,

Coupled with the original dozens of night aircraft, its night fighters reached more than two hundred.

The more than two hundred fighter planes were divided into three batches by the German army, and then dispatched in turn to implement the blockade.

"Stop the transport!" Shulka ordered.

"Yes, suspend transportation!"

"Transport suspended!"

...

The order was passed down in a voice.

Major Akimovich has just reported the information to the Army Command.

Since Akimovich seldom cooperated with the 82nd Infantry Regiment, Golikov asked him to stay in the 82nd Infantry Regiment to coordinate the transportation mission of the amphibious landing ship... After all, the amphibious landing ship was invented by Shulka, and at the same time Shulka can also get in touch with Hisoy better, so it is understandable to entrust this task to Shulka.

Even the entire 82nd Infantry Regiment can be said to have been honored by this mission. They were withdrawn from the front line to be responsible for the coordination of supply transportation.

"The Army Group Command has roughly understood some relevant situations!" Major Akimovich said: "Comrade Golikov has no objection to the suspension of transportation, but this does not seem to be a long-term solution!"

Shulka nodded.

This is of course not a long-term solution, and even enemy pilots can rest if the transport ships are suspended.

This is the advantage of fighters, they are fast and basically independent of the terrain.

In other words, the Luftwaffe's blockade does not mean that its night fighters need to patrol the Volga sky all the time.

They only need to send a few reconnaissance planes to fly over the Volga River, laying down a few flares from time to time. Once the Soviet amphibious landing ship is found to be active, it is too late to call for night fighters.

However, the amphibious landing ships of the Soviet army... are always one step behind because of their slow speed.

To take a step back, if this suspension continues, it means that the German blockade is successful and Stalingrad will not be supplied.

If there is no suspension, the more than two hundred amphibious landing ships will soon be completely lost under such a large enemy night fighter fleet.

"How is the transport on the river?" Shulka asked.

"It's not optimistic!" Andrianka replied: "Although we deployed a lot of smoke, the transport ships are large in size and have large targets... So far, more than ten ships have been bombed! Preliminary estimates show that the pass rate is 1/3." About one!"

"These bastards!" Major Mikhailvich couldn't help scolding: "Why do they suddenly have so many night fighters!"

"From Germany!" Akimovich replied: "The British discovered this and passed this information on to us!"

At this time, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union had a certain degree of cooperation in intelligence, and at the same time, the United Kingdom was a veteran espionage country, so it was not surprising to know this.

What Shulka didn't know was that the intelligence from the UK came directly as "super secret".

But of course, the British would not have told the Soviets that.

At this time, no one except the British themselves knew the existence of "Super Secret".

If ever there was one, it was Shulka.

After a moment of silence, Shulka said: "Contact the navy, we need more landing ships!"

"Landing ships?" Major Akimovich asked suspiciously: "Landing ships can't solve the problem, Comrade Shulka, they can't cross the sandbar!"

"Indeed!" Shulka replied: "But the Germans don't know, and neither do their pilots!"

Major Akimovich couldn't help being taken aback for a moment, then said "oh", and immediately called the group army headquarters.

The answer is actually very simple.

The amphibious landing ship is built on the template of the Navy's landing ship, that is, the two have almost the same shape.

If anything, the amphibious landing craft has four more wheels.

Of course, if the amphibious landing craft is in the water, there is no difference between them at all.

In the same way, the German pilots sitting in the cockpit in the air certainly couldn't find the difference between them.

Then, if the landing ship and the amphibious landing ship are mixed together, the German pilots will not know which ones are their targets.

It can even be said that even if they attack a false target, they will feel complacent thinking that they have attacked a real target.

"Good idea, Shulka!" Major Mikhailvich praised: "Now, as long as we have enough landing ships, it is enough to keep the German planes busy!"

Andrianka laughed: "I hope they have enough fuel and ammunition!"