In this battle, the result of the sloppiness of the Soviet troops was that the Soviet troops did not realize that something was wrong until the dense artillery fire rang out on the Taman Peninsula...... Qin Chuan also wanted to launch a sneak attack without a sound, but the problem was that Qin Chuan had too little information, and they couldn't even determine whether the Soviets had planted mines on the shore.

Facts have proved that Qin Chuan's worries are somewhat superfluous, because as I said before, the Soviet army does not think that the German army has the ability to launch a landing operation in a short period of time, especially since the landing site is the South Peninsula, so there is not much defense preparation at all, and of course there will be no mines.

A few flares shot into the air, and the surroundings were immediately as white as day.

Then the gunfire rang out quickly, but as soon as Qin Chuan heard the gunshot, he let go of half of his hanging heart, because the gunfire was sparse and not large-scale, especially the machine guns were not a few ...... Either the Soviets were frightened and could not organize their defenses in time, or the Soviets did not have many troops here.

Qin Chuan believed more in the former, because the Soviet army seemed to be short of people anywhere.

Whatever the reason, however, the defeat of the Soviet army was inevitable.

Qin Chuan guessed correctly, there were also many Soviet troops stationed along the coast of the South Peninsula...... The Soviets garrisoned the Taman Peninsula was the 47th Army, which consisted of two divisions, two brigades, plus a tank regiment.

Compared with the 44th and 51st Soviet armies that fought on the Kerch Peninsula before, most of the ranks of the 47th Army were veterans with combat experience, especially the 32nd Guards Infantry Division.

The so-called "guard" is somewhat similar to the meaning of "Janissake" and "Yulin" in ancient China, which means that it once defended Moscow...... That is, in the defense of Moscow, he successfully completed various tasks, so Stalin awarded these outstanding troops the title of "Guards" and awarded the Guards flag.

It can also be seen that they are not comparable to the mostly new troops encountered on Kerch Island.

But as Qin Chuan thought, because the North Peninsula was only 4 kilometers away from Kerch and was more vulnerable to German attacks, the 47th Army deployed its main forces on the North Peninsula, including not only the 32nd Guards Infantry Division, but also the main tank regiment.

In the direction of the South Peninsula, there are only the 77th Infantry Division, the 103rd Infantry Brigade and the 126th Tank Battalion, which are weakly combat-ready.

"Comrade Kotov!" The commander of the 77th Division, Avdeyevich, who was under attack, immediately called the commander of the army group, Major General Kotov: "The Germans have landed here, at least one division!" ”

"Comrade Avdeyevich!" Major General Kotov couldn't help frowning when he heard this: "The enemy has only one division, which means that your troops are twice as large as theirs, so what are you worried about?" Wipe them out at sea! ”

"But, Comrade Kotov!" Avdeyevich wiped the sweat from his forehead and said: "They have already come ashore!" ”

"You mean to say...... When they came ashore, did you find them? Major General Kotov couldn't help but roar.

"It's not my fault, Comrade Kotov!" "They used a kind of boat, which could be driven directly from the sea to the shore, and they were so fast that we broke through our first line of defense before we could organize a defense!" explained Avdeyevich! ”

Hearing this, Major General Kotov couldn't help but be stunned, and his first reaction was that Avdeyevich was making excuses for his dereliction of duty, but he still chose to believe Avdeyevich's words, after all, he needed to block the enemy's attack at this time.

"Don't you still have tanks?" Major General Kotov shouted: "Send the tanks, they are the landing force, there must be no heavy equipment!" ”

"No, Comrade Kotov!" Avdeyevich replied: "They have much more tanks than we do!" ”

"How is that possible? You can't fool me Avdeyevich! Major General Kotov couldn't help but be angry: "How did their tanks cross the Kerch Strait, you won't tell them that they drove through the strait?!" ”

"Sorry, Comrade Kotov!" Beads of sweat dripping down Avdeyevich's forehead: "Although I can't believe it's true, but ...... Yes, their tanks did come up from the sea. I don't know what's going on......"

"Why didn't you say that the tanks of the Germans flew over?!" Major General Kotov scolded: "That will be faster!" ”

Avdeyevich did not know how to answer, let alone how to explain. In fact, the entire officers and men of the 77th Division were stunned by the sudden German attack.

"Whatever!" Major General Kotov scolded on the other end of the phone: "I order you not to take a step back, otherwise I will not hesitate to send you to a military court!" ”

With that, Major General Kotov hung up the phone angrily.

This was, of course, a misunderstanding, not to mention Colonel Avdeyevich's grievances and helplessness, and Major General Kotov's misunderstanding also caused him to misjudge the situation on the battlefield...... If Major General Kotov had believed Colonel Avdeyevich's report, he would have judged at the first time that the Tamannan Peninsula could not be held.

Another implication that the Tamannan Peninsula is untenable is that the airport in Soglione, 35 kilometres thereafter, is in danger.

In this way, even if Major General Kotov did not have time to reinforce Soglione, he could notify the Soglione airfield to transfer or at least prepare for the transfer of more than 200 planes stationed there.

But Major General Kotov did not do this.

The reason is simple, he thinks that this is Avdeyevich is frightened by the enemy, in order to agree to let him retreat...... But it doesn't seem surprising that who can believe that any ship can sail both in the sea and on land? Especially with tanks, it can also be done.

So all Major General Kotov did next was to drive the Germans back into the sea instead of reinforcing Soglione.

He immediately informed the Black Sea Fleet and requested that the Black Sea Fleet immediately reinforce the South Peninsula.

On the other hand, he ordered a regiment of the 32nd Guards Infantry Division to cross the bay as fast as possible by fishing boats and transport ships to the South Peninsula for reinforcements.

Rear Admiral Kotov's idea was that as long as the 77th Infantry Division could hold back the Germans for an hour, reinforcements from the Guards Infantry Division would arrive, and then reinforcements from the Black Sea Fleet would also arrive, so the Germans would have no choice but to surrender.

What he didn't know was that all the deployment he had done was in vain.

Because, just as the reinforcements rushed to the South Peninsula, the tracks of the German tanks had rumbled through the defense line of the 77th Infantry Division of the Soviet Army.