At 11:05 p.m., the first step corps arrived at the location of the power station.

Although they rushed to the location of the power station, they did not see any buildings in front of everyone except a high ground and darkness.

However, Qin Chuan knew that the power station was here.

As mentioned earlier, once a Soviet officer is captured, he will be considered a traitor to the motherland and cannot return to the Soviet Union, although this can make many Soviet officers and soldiers prefer to die rather than surrender, but the advantage for Germany is that the prisoner can easily cooperate with the German army in full.

So at this time, the first step was to have the detailed location of the power station in its hands, and even a sketch.

From this sketch, Qin Chuan and others knew that the power station was actually built by the Soviet army in the mountains of the highlands, and the external reinforced concrete was camouflaged and looked like a part of the mountain, and it was normal to not find it in the dark.

A few flares shot into the air, and then the soldiers saw a few doors and windows open in front of the high ground, and the Soviets stationed inside mounted their machine guns on the windows and fired nervously at the Germans below...... This made the Germans secretly relieved.

On the one hand, this is to tell the Soviet troops stationed in the power station that they are not veterans, and that veterans will not shoot indiscriminately because they are nervous.

On the other hand, the Germans found that the flank defenses of the power station were not strong...... The main thing about the power station was the top air defense, after all, for the Soviets, they thought that if the Germans could attack the position of the power station, it would also mean that the Sevastopol fortress had been breached, so it was completely unnecessary to build thick protection on the sides of the power station.

Unexpectedly, this idea gave convenience to the German army, if the Soviet army built the power station into a fortress, the first regiment that floated over and did not carry heavy equipment really did not know how to attack.

But now......

A few soldiers with bazookas came up, and with a few whistling sounds, the rockets went straight to the gate of the power station.

After the explosion, the gate was blown down.

Then a group of German soldiers jumped away, divided into two rows, stepped on the "S" shape, and under the cover of other people's fire, rushed to both sides of the gate, threw a few grenades into it, and after the explosion, rushed in with guns.

At this point, another benefit of the MP43 comes into play: it is more suitable for street fighting in narrow areas than a rifle.

This is beyond doubt, first of all, it has a short body, only more than 800 millimeters, unlike a bolt rifle that is more than a meter at every turn, and it is inevitable that it will not be able to be used in places with small spaces, such as rooms full of furniture, corridors, etc.

The second is the MP43's bullet capacity and high rate of fire, which makes it more like a submachine gun than a rifle in street fighting.

Just like now, after the German soldiers rushed into the power station, there was a "whooshing" gunshot, and the screams and frightened shouts of the Soviet soldiers could be heard inside, and some people were even shouting in stiff German: "Don't shoot, we surrender!" ”

The Soviet Independence Primorsky Army was not a combat-ready force in general, and historically they relied mainly on the Sevastopol fortress, most of which surrendered after the fortress was bombarded...... With a total strength of 120,000 men, a total of 97,000 were captured, which shows that they did not actually put up much resistance after the fortress was breached.

Of course, the reason for this was not only the breakthrough of the fortress, but also the mass retreat of high-ranking Soviet officials.

Sevastopol gathered many high-ranking Soviet officers, and in addition to officers of the Black Sea Fleet, there were also the main commanders of the Caucasian Front, that is, the four armies located on the Kerch Peninsula...... This was due to the fact that they believed that the fortress would be difficult to break through by the Germans, and that Sevastopol was a good place to command the entire campaign, since Sevastopol was a cold deep-water port with easy transportation.

If, on other occasions, Oktyabrysky, as commander of the Navy, could not disobey the orders of the commissar, that is, he could not withdraw these officers.

But the Battle of Sevastopol was somewhat different because Marshal Kuznetsov, People's Commissar of the Navy and Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy, had ordered Oktyabrysky to withdraw to the Caucasus a few months earlier, but Oktyabrysky refused this order and voluntarily stayed in Sevastopol to command the operation.

Stalin believed that this was enough proof that Oktyabrisky was not a cowardly man, and that he proposed to retreat because Sevastopol could not hold on in the hope of saving the senior commander.

Actually, this is indeed true.

The total number of Soviet troops in Sevastopol was two lines of defense and four defense zones.

The first line of defense consisted of a half-circle of the second, third, and fourth defense zones, stationed on the fortress to block the Germans.

The second line of defense was the construction of a field fortification outside Sevastopol by the first defense zone as a final buffer.

But now......

In order to reinforce the power station, Oktyablisky has already transferred the troops of the first defense zone back, that is, the second line of defense has already existed in name only.

This might have solved the urgent need for the power station to be attacked, but if the power station could not be saved, then the Germans could drive straight to all the senior officers captured there in Sevastopol.

As a result, Stalin specially agreed to Oktyabrysky's request for retreat, after all, the Soviet Union at this time urgently needed experienced and capable senior commanders, which could not be exchanged for any equipment and wealth.

With Stalin's orders, the Anatoly commissar, of course, could not stop it.

That night, the retreat procedure was carried out in secret, a Douglas transport plane landed in Sevastopol, and then evacuated the first batch of more than a dozen senior commanders, including Oktyabrysky, to the Caucasus.

The reason why this operation was carried out secretly was because they feared that the leak would affect the morale of the Soviet soldiers stationed in the fortress and make them give up resistance.

But everyone knows how long this will not be able to be hidden, after all, Sevastopol will lose its unified command because of this.

The 388th Soviet Division was not aware of these circumstances at this time, and when the division commander Igor hurried to the power station with his troops, he found that the Germans had already stormed the power station and built fortifications on the high ground.

Major General Igor did not think much about it and immediately ordered the troops to surround the heights and launch an attack on the enemy.

The 388th Division of the Soviet Army is the most combat-effective ace division in the independent Primorsky Army, and its role is somewhat similar to that of the modern Marine Corps, that is, a branch of the Navy that is responsible for landing operations. In fact, most of the soldiers in this unit are selected from among veterans with rich combat experience in the army and then trained for landing operations, and they are not only of good quality but also well-equipped...... That's why Oktyablisky will put them in the last line of defense and pull them back to reinforce the power station.

"Move fast!" Major General Igor ordered loudly: "We must stop them before they completely capture the power station!" ”