On the night of July 1, on the southwestern side of the Taman Peninsula, it was close to twelve o'clock in the morning.

Wave after wave of the Black Sea crashes on the shore in the breeze.

On the pitch-black sea, a periscope silently sticks out of the sea, slowly turning around like a cobra's head, and finally freezes in the northeast direction.

Soon after, the water churned like boiling water, first the conning tower, then the hull, and a Type VIIC submarine emerged from the surface.

The sailors drilled out of the conning tower and set up 20-mm anti-aircraft guns, and behind the 88-mm deck guns on the deck, the gunners were quickly put into position.

More figures got out of the submarine and stepped onto the deck, and Captain Gustav Schwarzenegger, commander of the first battalion and one company under the "Blackwater" special reconnaissance group, carried an STG 42 assault rifle on his back, coldly looked at the dark night around the submarine, and finally fixed his eyes on the northeast direction.

Under the starlight in the sky, in the northeast night, there is a faint outline of the land, and from a distance, it looks like a hump.

Beside him, the Scouts pumped the dinghy with pumps, leaving one to inflate like a balloon.

Soon, the dinghy was thrown into the sea, splashing white water.

Captain Schwarzenegger quickly jumped onto a rubber dinghy, followed by more scouts, and then grabbed the oars and rowed towards the land to the north.

Six rubber boats shot through the night and towards the Taman Peninsula like six arrows.

Behind them, the submarine completed its mission and sank again under the surface.

Captain Gustav looked at his watch, 12:20.

The hands of the watch turned briskly, and the ten-minute time flew away, and the outline of the land ahead became clearer and clearer.

Captain Schwarzenegger picked up the telescope hanging from his chest and looked ahead, and the trees could be faintly seen.

Captain Schwarzenegger was relieved that there were no cliffs ahead, and the rubber boat could rush directly to the shore, and after getting to the shore, he had to pray that there was no enemy patrol hiding in the woods ahead.

Five minutes later, the outline of the coastline ahead became clearer, and in the telescope, shadowy silhouettes of buildings appeared on the shore in front of the right.

Six dinghys turned around and rowed towards the shoreline away from the complex.

Captain Schwarzenegger was lying on the bow of the boat, and the rubber boat had just washed up on the shore and stopped, and he was the first to jump out of the rubber boat, staring vigilantly into the jungle in the distance with an assault rifle.

All the scouts jumped out of the dinghy, and Captain Schwarzenegger took the lead, stepping on the soft sand, and ran quickly into the woodland behind the sand.

Rushing into the dark woodland, Captain Schwarzenegger was completely relieved, the most dangerous first step of the landing operation was successfully completed, and the most difficult task to be carried out was to locate his landing site.

He could only determine that he and his men were in the southwestern part of the Taman Peninsula at this time, but he could not determine how far away he was from the town of Anapa, where the large force had landed, and in which direction of the town of Anapa was located.

Remembering that he had seen that complex on the sea before, Captain Schwarzenegger decisively decided to try his luck at the complex and see if he could catch his tongue and come back.

Having made up his mind, Captain Schwarzenegger led his men out of the woods, stepping on the sand, and walking along the seashore to the left.

In less than twenty minutes, behind the trees in front of me, dense architectural silhouettes flashed.

Captain Schwarzenegger and his men again burrowed into the woods and quietly approached the complex.

"Barbed wire, stakes, sentinels······ Tsk······"

Captain Schwarzenegger looked into the distance and muttered to himself.

Sensing that the defensive positions on the perimeter of the complex were well established, Captain Schwarzenegger decided not to risk the capture and completed his original mission first.

Leaving a squad of soldiers to monitor the complex, Captain Schwarzenegger led his men back into the woods and returned to the original landing site by the same route.

Captain Schwarzenegger asked his subordinates to open the navigator they carried, and soon, radio waves flew out of the antenna and into the night sky.

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In the southeastern corner of the Crimean peninsula, the German tanker "Good Luck" mixed with the landing fleet, cleaving the waves and moving smoothly on the sea.

The tanker "Good Luck" at this time did not participate in the battle as a tanker, but as a helicopter carrier.

On both sides of the flat and open deck of the tanker "Good Luck", more than 30 FI-382 "Black Hawk" helicopters are neatly parked in four rows.

Major Beatrich, the captain of the "cement" brigade under the 101 Special Air Service Regiment, walked in front of the neatly arranged helicopter queue.

On the deck, in front of the helicopter, the soldiers of the "cement" brigade were ready to go.

Major Bitrich looked at his watch, it was already 1 a.m. on July 2, and if the fleet had not been late, it would have entered the waters off the Taman Peninsula by this time.

The first landing site of the landing force was chosen on the north side of the town of Anapa, where the terrain was open and easy to attack and difficult to defend, which was very suitable for the landing force to attack.

However, it is possible that the Russians on the Taman Peninsula will anticipate the attack on the town of Anapa and focus on strengthening the defenses there, so Marshal Heinrich decided to open a second landing field south of the town of Anapa as a backup.

The unit responsible for opening up the second landing site was none other than the "cement" brigade under the command of Major Bitrich, and considering that the landing time was at night, the visibility was poor, and the helicopter unit could not determine its position, so there was a secret operation led by Captain Schwarzenegger from the "Blackwater" special reconnaissance group to land on the Taman Peninsula ahead of schedule and conduct navigation for the helicopter unit.

Without precise navigation, the helicopter unit would have crashed headlong into the Soviet anti-aircraft fire.

After waiting for about five more minutes, Major Bitrich's aide-de-camp, Lieutenant Raul, hurried across the deck.

"Major, we've got a signal."

Major Beatrich breathed a sigh of relief that the friendly troops had successfully infiltrated, and his own troops finally had "eyes" and no longer had to crash in the night like a blind man.

After another half hour or so, Major Beatrich noticed that the tanker "Good Luck" had slowed down, and the ships around it, large and small, adjusted their course and reposition.

"We have reached the vicinity of the Taman Peninsula and the offensive is about to begin."

Major Bitrich excitedly walked between the two helicopters, walked to the side of the tanker, and looked north.

With the telescope in hand, he had just found the winding coastline in the distance in the darkness when he saw four planes flying silently across the sky like bats in the night sky above him.

Soon, dazzling flares appeared in the distant sky, and the flames from the naval guns of the Axis Joint Landing Fleet followed closely to disperse the night, and the fierce shelling completely broke the silence of the night.

In the explosions, minefields on the coast were destroyed, barbed wire and wooden stakes were torn apart by air waves and shrapnel, the buildings in the rear collapsed in pieces, and most of the coast was obscured by flames and soot.

After about twenty minutes of shelling, bomber groups flew in from the Crimean peninsula to the west, dropping more flares and raining aerial bombs.

Taking advantage of the precious opportunity when the Soviet troops on the coast were suppressed by firepower, the marines of the Italian "San Marco" Marine Brigade jumped into the landing craft one after another on the two "Blue Whale" class landing craft carriers, and the cranes on the landing craft carriers were activated to lift the landing craft one after another and lower them to the sea.

Swarms of landing craft floated on the surface of the sea next to the battleship and did not immediately attack.

When the shelling and air raids continued for almost an hour, red flares swayed and flew into the sky.

Seeing the signal, the landing craft were activated one after another, rushing to the shore in droves.

Later in the fleet, on the tanker "Good Luck", the sound of helicopter propellers spinning at high speed filled the ears of Major Bitrich.

The first batch of twelve FI-382 Black Hawk helicopters took off and flew straight northeast under the guidance of radio waves from the Taman Peninsula.

Standing on the shore, Captain Schwarzenegger stared to the southwest, and the south-west sea shone with patches of fire, the traces of the landing fleet's guns firing.

Squinting, Captain Schwarzenegger saw a swarm of tadpole-shaped planes "swimming" across the sky and flying straight in his direction.

Receiving an order from Captain Schwarzenegger, two scouts fired a green flare into the sky.

Following the green flares, the helicopter group fine-tuned its direction and headed straight for the beach where Captain Schwarzenegger was located.

The helicopters landed on the beach one after another, and the soldiers of the 101st Special Air Service Regiment jumped out of the plane one after another, and then, under the guidance of Captain Schwarzenegger, ran into the woods behind them.

Having laid down the soldiers and equipment, the helicopter group took off again and returned to the tanker "Good Luck".

Helicopters flew in batches and sent all the members of the "cement" brigade to the beach.

Major Bitrich arrived on the coast with the last of the soldiers, and after finding Captain Schwarzenegger, Major Bitrich said: "The Russians must already know about our existence, and we must act before them." ”

Captain Schwarzenegger said, "I've already chosen the location, you come with me." ”

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