Thank you brothers for leaving a message of encouragement, the child has entered adolescence and began to rebel, he did his ideological work last night, and he is a teacher but he can't manage his own children, it's a bit ironic!

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But even with Mehris in coordination, the Soviets were limited in their ability to provide reinforcements from the port of Kerch.

In terms of the air force, the Soviets faced the same problems as the Germans...... The strategic focus was shifted to Kharkov. This, combined with the previous losses of the Crimean Front in air power, allowed the Soviets to barely amass 370 fighters on the Taman Peninsula.

Although this number is very large, in fact, most of the fighters that the Soviet army can put in place are weak Yi-15 fighters...... This fighter is an old biplane, with a top speed of only 442 kilometers per hour, the Soviet army once used it to gain an advantage over the old Japanese fighters in the Battle of Nomenhan, and later supported China, but because the Japanese army has been equipped with advanced "zero", so the aircraft suffered a crushing defeat in China.

The Soviet army called this biplane "Seagull" fighter because the upper wing structure of this biplane was a Seagull design.

Of course, it is no match for the German BF109 and F190 fighters, so although there are many of them, in fact, air supremacy is still in the hands of the German army.

It's just that this "Seagull" fighter has become popular again in the historical Caucasus campaign...... The reason is that the terrain in the Caucasus is complex and the mountains are towering, and the fighters flying at high speed are often unable or can not be said to have time to avoid the mountain peaks, but it is the "Seagull" that is a low-speed fighter in the Caucasus like a fish in water, frequently dispatching bombing and blockading the German army and the supply lines of the German army, playing an unexpected role.

Of course, similar problems would not have arisen if the Germans had bypassed the Caucasus along the Black Sea.

This is followed by the Navy.

The Black Sea Fleet had been frequently dispatched to provide fire support for Sevastopol during the previous Battle of Sevastopol, and even withstood the bombardment of German fighters several times, at this time many warships needed to be maintained, and only three warships and two transport ships could reinforce the Crimean Front, which was obviously not enough to provide sufficient supply and fire support for the three armies trapped on the other side of the German army.

In fact, they were often unable to resupply the three armies with confidence, because it would be a drop in the bucket and would be robbed by Soviet soldiers, and once they landed, the Soviets would flock to the army hoping to leave by transport ship.

Again, tanks.

The Soviets had hundreds of tanks in the Caucasus, but the problem was not in the tanks, but in the transportation...... Prior to this, the Soviet army had tried to deliver supplies to Sevastopol, while the Germans used the air force blockade, and in the blockade and counter-blockade, the Soviet army lost a considerable part of the transport ships, and in a short time it was simply impossible to transport a tank brigade to the Kerch Peninsula according to Kozlov's request, and finally only two tank battalions and fifty tanks were transported.

Among them, 3 KV2 tanks, 8 T34 tanks, 16 BT7 fast tanks, 23 T26 light tanks.

As soon as Kozlov received these tanks, he deployed them on the defensive line in conjunction with the defense of the 46th Army.

This can be called Kozlov's defeat.

Because the tank is mainly mobile, and Kozlov simply used the tank as a battery and deployed it on the defensive line, which could not pose much of a threat to the German army at all.

The correct approach should be, as Rommel did in Africa, to deploy tanks on the second line and shoot the enemy back wherever the enemy breaks through.

However, it seems that Kozlov cannot be blamed for this, he was born in the infantry academy, and not only him, but also the senior officers of the Soviet Union generally did not command tank operations flexibly.

Two days later, the Germans finally arrived at the port of Kerch after a great deal of hardship.

Manstein held up his binoculars and looked in the direction of Kerch, then frowned.

"The enemy has clearly made some preparations in the past two days!" Manstein turned back to Qin Chuan and Colonel Slain and said: "They occupy favorable terrain, and I seem to have seen KV tanks!" ”

Qin Chuan understood the meaning of Manstein's words.

The important message is twofold:

One is the "favorable terrain", Kerch is a port city, which was built at a higher altitude...... There is always a reason why more than 100,000,000 people would live here.

So, compared to the swampy surrounding area in heavy rain, the port of Kerch had a relatively dry and hard ground, which was very suitable for the Soviets to transport supplies.

The Soviets had their lines on the outskirts of the city, and they had built trenches, pulled up barbed wire, laid mines, and dispersed tanks into the trenches to bolster fire and cover.

Qin Chuan did not agree with the Soviet army's practice of dispersing tanks in the trenches, in fact, the Soviet army had dry and hard land in the city, which completely allowed the tanks to maneuver inside, but the Soviet army obviously did not seize this opportunity.

However, these tanks and defenses still caused a lot of problems for the Germans: the main reason was that the surrounding mud made it difficult for the Germans to march even on the march, let alone attack the Soviet lines...... It is conceivable that if this is done, the scene of the Soviet attack on Föodosia will be repeated in Kerch, but this time it will be the Germans who will suffer heavy casualties.

Another piece of information, that is, the KV tank.

The KV tank can be said to be a strange existence in the Soviet army, and the German army has basically no weapons and equipment on land that can penetrate its frontal armor...... THE FRONTAL ARMOR WAS UP TO 110MM THICK, AND AT THE SAME TIME IT WAS ARMED WITH A 152MM HOWITZER.

Because its turret towered like a small toilet, and at the same time with disdain for the Russian army, the Germans called this tank the "Russian toilet".

However, this tank once created a brilliant record, several KVs were like steel monsters, completely ignoring the German firepower, rushed into the German armored forces, and crushed and crushed more than 40 artillery pieces, and covered other tanks to destroy 40 tanks.

In the memories of the German soldiers, it is: "In this head-to-head battle, a third of our tanks were No. 4 tanks, and our tanks fired at the monsters (KV tanks) that drove forward in three directions, which was useless, and the shells were like scratching the enemy tanks, and our tanks were knocked down like dominoes!" ”

Therefore, as soon as he saw the KV tanks on the Soviet defense line, the Manchu Tein chuckled in his heart.

Of course, the KV tank cannot be said to be invincible, its flaw lies in the fact that the failure rate is so high that most of the KV tanks are not destroyed by the enemy, but are abandoned because they are unusable.

However, the Germans could not wait in front of the line for these KV tanks to break down, especially since the Germans simply could not afford to wait...... The first requirement of the blitzkrieg is to be fast, and if it continues like this, the Soviet army will become stronger and stronger, while the German army will become weaker and weaker.

Needless to say, what will happen after that, that's what everyone doesn't want to see.