Chapter 593: Interspersed
It's a battle without suspense.
After landing, the soldiers jumped from the ships one after another, and under the cover of tanks, they charged the Soviet lines.
During the battle, the soldiers found it very interesting that the mortar mounted on the amphibious landing vehicle could fire shells at the enemy, so it became a mobile battery after it came ashore, and it could fire shells while moving to provide fire assistance to the troops.
Of course, the benefits of the amphibious landing vehicle are not limited to this, it can directly deliver ammunition to the advancing soldier without the need for a process of unloading and loading it into the car, and if necessary, it can also carry the soldier to pursue the enemy.
This allowed the 1st Corps to receive continuous supplies along the way, and maintained strong firepower, of course, the most important thing is that the entire landing operation was carried out very quickly, so the Germans broke the Soviet troops with a single charge, and they fled everywhere.
During this time, the Soviets pulled up a tank battalion and 21 tanks "rumbled" up, hoping to push the Germans back...... But this obviously won't work.
First of all, most of the tanks landed by the German army were "four" tanks, and there were as many as 28 tanks, which were not inferior in performance to the Soviet tanks and had an advantage in terms of numbers.
Secondly, the German tanks have advanced communication equipment and can coordinate well with each other...... This is especially important for night battles, because tanks at this time are not equipped with night vision devices and basically have no night combat capabilities, and can only be guided and coordinated by infantry in night battles. Otherwise, in the dark, they will not even be able to distinguish between friend and foe, let alone fight.
Needless to say, the Soviet tanks were in terms of communication equipment, which made them run around like blind men touching elephants, and even killed fleeing Soviet troops...... It is also not known if they were killed by mistake or if they were preventing them from escaping.
In fact, these Soviet tank crews knew that they would be sent to death when they came up, and this was also a great waste of tanks...... But even so, they had to obey the order to come up with their tanks in the dark, and all they could do was to use one or two flares that occasionally rose from the sky to determine the enemy's position and open fire.
The situation with the Germans was much better.
In fact, they did not use tanks against enemy tanks, they used rockets more ...... In the dark, tanks without infantry cover could not stop the enemy infantry from sneaking towards them.
So with a few whistling sounds of "chirping", the Soviet tanks became scrap metal one after another.
After breaking through the enemy's defensive line, Qin Chuan and others left the battlefield to the 22nd Armored Division and the 1st Mountain Division...... Their task was to clear the Soviet troops on the Yugoslav Peninsula and cover the arrival of amphibious landing ships between the Kerch Strait and the 11th Army.
The first corps, with a twist of the spear, withdrew from the battlefield and drove the amphibious landing ship along the road towards Soglione.
At the head of the team were several side tricycles and a 38T tank...... As mentioned before, the 38T tank is a light tank that cannot compete with the Soviet T34 tank, and it is actually not cost-effective to go to great lengths to get it from the Kerch Peninsula by modifying an amphibious tank. (This is also the reason why most of the landing tanks are "four" tanks)
The problem was that the "four" tank was gradually modified to adapt to the battlefield, and the body became heavier and heavier, which made it only reach a speed of 35 kilometers per hour on the road, and the speed of the march at night was even slower.
And the purpose of the first regiment was to quickly intersperse Soglione, so the "four" tank obviously could not meet this need.
Such a problem does not exist with the 38T light tank, which has a speed of 42 kilometers per hour, which is quite enough for the first corps on the night march...... Although the amphibious landing ship can reach speeds of up to 80 kilometers per hour on land, no one dares to drive it to that speed on night marches and on poorly maintained roads.
Therefore, the First Tier Corps could only get three 38Ts to come over to provide the necessary firepower and armor defense for the First Tier Corps.
THIS CHOICE PROVED TO BE THE RIGHT ONE, AS ANY TANK, EVEN IF IT WAS A LIGHT TANK, WOULD BE A NIGHTMARE FOR INFANTRY, AND ITS 25MM THICK ARMOR IN FRONT OF THE BUNKER WAS EVEN MORE IMPORTANT......
In the first half of the road, the First Advance Corps was more likely to encounter retreating, or rather fleeing, Soviet troops.
But because the Soviet army has discarded heavy equipment, it is basically vulnerable in front of the 38T tank.
Along the way, Qin Chuan heard the continuous gunfire and artillery sound in front of him, and then when the amphibious landing vehicle drove up, he saw blood everywhere near the road, and there were piles of Soviet soldiers' corpses next to it...... The scouts had apparently cleared the road for the follow-up troops.
Of course, there will still be some stumps and broken arms left on the road, after all, they can no longer stop the advance of the troops.
Later, Qin Chuan learned that the corpses on the side of the road were not all cleaned up by the scouts.
In fact...... The scouts would leave behind some Soviet prisoners in every battle with the Soviets, and the German soldiers would order the Soviet prisoners to clean up the corpses and even the wreckage of the car, and then have them taken to the side of the road and shot.
It may seem a bit cruel, but as said before, the first corps is interspersed with troops, and they cannot receive prisoners because of the need for mission and secrecy.
After fifteen minutes, there were fewer and fewer such battles, and in the end the road was empty only with German troops marching. So Qin Chuan knew that the First Infantry Corps was even ahead of the Soviet rout.
This made the march of the 1st Regiment smoother, and on the road there were occasional Soviet checkpoints, and a few Soviet troops with flashlights were asking loudly in Russian, apparently unable to distinguish between friend and foe under the headlights of the three-wheeled and tank vehicles.
The German soldiers replied with bullets, and at the same time, the 38T tank "rumbled" and directly smashed the laughable barricade in the middle of the road.
After marching on the road for nearly an hour, the Soviet army did not have any due reaction to the rapid penetration of the First Infantry Corps, which was expected by Qin Chuan, but at the same time it was somewhat unexpected.
It is well known to say that it was expected because of the poor coordination of the Soviet troops.
It is unexpected, because Soglione, a strategic location, especially such an important place as the airport, how could the Soviet commander ignore it? This is a little unimaginable for Qin Chuan.
"Looks like we're going to have good luck!" "Because I didn't hear any planes flying out of the sky," said Colonel Slein, "but I'm not sure if they were transferred before then!" ”
"They're still there!" Qin Chuan replied while holding the binoculars and looking in the direction of the airport.
"How do you know?" Colonel Slane asked.
"Because there are no lights at the airport!"