The decisive battle against the Third Reich

At 11 o'clock in the middle of the night on the third day after the capture of Kerch Port, the commando team was ready in Punji, the southern suburbs of Kerch.

The commando team is divided into two parts:

Part of it is composed of mountain divisions... In a way, it is a waste to devote mountain divisions to amphibious landing warfare. Their specialty is mountains and they are thrown into the sea.

But on the one hand, this was a helpless move. On the other hand, they were not the leading force. The vanguard force was the amphibious tanks of the 22nd Armored Division and the 32nd Infantry Regiment cooperating with them. The role of the mountain division is actually to make subsequent landings and control the battlefield situation.

The other part is the First Infantry Regiment five kilometers away.

Obviously, the 1st Infantry Regiment is the main force in this battle. After landing, they will avoid the landing site and go straight into Soglione, located in the hinterland of the Taman Peninsula.

At 12 o'clock in the evening, the amphibious tank was launched into the water first.

This is because the speed of amphibious tanks is only 5 kilometers per hour, and it takes two hours for them to cover a distance of ten kilometers. In order to achieve the landing of infantry and tanks at almost the same time, the tank needs to go one hour first.

Of course, these tanks are also coordinated by infantry cover.

At 1 o'clock sharp, the 1st Infantry Regiment went into the water.

It has to be said that the convenience of the amphibious landing ship is unquestionable. If other ships were used, the beach would be very busy at this time, carrying supplies to the ship and pushing the ship into the water. In addition, Cars are also needed to help transport heavy equipment such as artillery.

But with the amphibious landing ship, all these can be saved, because these things have been shipped directly from the base. There is only one thing the First Infantry Regiment has to do... one ship after another. Take the amphibious landing craft into the sea.

There is only one thing to pay attention to. Be careful when going into the sea. You must slowly let the hull contact the sea water. If the speed is too fast, a large amount of sea water will enter the hull. This will seriously wet the equipment and ammunition, and may even cause an amphibious landing. The ship sank instantly.

Of course, this situation did not happen here. One of the reasons may be that the drivers are very unfamiliar with this new equipment... People sometimes have this strange mentality and will maintain enough patience and awe towards unfamiliar things. , when you are familiar with it to a certain extent, it doesn’t matter.

After the amphibious landing ship reaches the sea, it switches to navigation mode, and the engine drives the propeller to push the hull forward.

A gust of sea breeze made Qin Chuan feel relaxed and happy. If it weren't for the fact that several artillery shells flew from time to time between the two sides of the strait and exploded on the opposite side, and the soldiers on the ship all had serious expressions and were loaded with ammunition, Qin Chuan would really have thought that this was the case. It was a fishing trip.

Perhaps the explosion of the shells acted as a cover, and the Soviet army never noticed any movement on the sea.

This is actually a strategy of the German army. From the moment they occupied Kerch Island, they never stopped firing at the opposite side... There are only ten kilometers between each other, which is completely within the range of the howitzer.

Naturally, the Soviet army was not to be outdone. They also fired artillery shells from the opposite side, so the artillery fire was endless, although they actually failed to hit the target. It can even be said that there was no target. , some shells hit the sea directly and exploded into columns of water rising into the sky.

From this aspect, the Soviet army was actually fooled.

Because the purpose of the German army was to make the Soviet army adapt to the noise of this kind of shelling and treat it as a normal state, so that it could cover up the sound of the amphibious landing ship motor.

As a result, the amphibious landing fleet of the 1st Infantry Regiment successfully reached the offshore of the Taman Peninsula on the opposite side.

An unexpected surprise was that the reconnaissance fleet at the front discovered a Type 1125 gunboat being patrolled by the Soviet army.

However, this will not pose much of a threat to the fleet, because the fleet has been prepared for this... At least one artillery regiment is ready to coordinate with the fleet on the Kerch Peninsula. The reconnaissance ship discovered this Type 1125 gunboat After using the searchlight, artillery fire was immediately called to cover it.

A shell hit the Type 1125 gunboat, setting it on fire and then quickly left here.

Qin Chuan originally thought that the fleet would definitely be exposed, but after waiting for a long time, he found that there was no movement... There were neither flares nor shells, and there were no searchlights on the other side.

Later, Qin Chuan learned that the Soviet gunboat took it for granted that its searchlight exposed its position and attracted German shells, so after cursing, it reported nothing and did not continue patrolling and reconnaissance... The Soviets There will never be a shortage of such careless and sloppy people among them. This is somewhat similar to their equipment style, which is generally rough and simple, but also durable.

So carelessness is sometimes hard to explain.

There are always some comments on the Internet that boast that the Japanese are serious and pay attention to details. In contrast, the Chinese are careless and conclude that China has no future and so on.

However, the fact is: if you say that the Chinese are careless, when you go to the United States, you will find that this is not called carelessness at all. When you get to the Soviet Union, you will find out what is called carelessness. After seeing the Indians... they will teach you to be careless.

If the future of a country can be judged by its carelessness, the United States and the former Soviet Union will never become superpowers.

This aspect is easy to understand if we consider it from the theory of "gold mean"... Everything has a degree, otherwise it will be too much. Paying too much attention to details often makes it ignore the more important thing of strategy and focus on tactics.

Japan made such mistakes again and again during World War II and refused to repent.

In big aspects, for example, for the sake of the country's oil problem, he completely ignored the situation of his ally Germany and launched a sneak attack on the United States... Can't you slow down if you don't have enough oil? It would also be beneficial for Germany to provoke the United States after it wins the Soviet-German War or establishes a firm foothold in the Mediterranean. It will only give up if it kills its allies and then harms itself.

In small aspects, such as a naval battle with the United States, the commander directly stipulates what tasks each torpedo boat must complete in every detail.

This seems perfect, and each part knows what task it has to accomplish and what to do, but when put together it turns out to be a farce, with the United States beating them all over the place with bruises and bruises... The regulations are too strict, This will cause the troops to lose their combat flexibility and find it difficult to adapt to the ever-changing battlefield. The German army also made this mistake after Hitler strengthened his control over the troops.

So in this regard, India and Japan are actually going to two extremes, one is too sloppy, the other is too serious.

The ones with real promise should be those who are less careless and less serious, so that they can take into account both strategy and tactics.