When Stalin received the telegram, he realized the seriousness of the matter, so he immediately sent a telegram back to Mekhlis:

"You have taken a strange and irresponsible bystander position on the affairs of the Crimean Front...... Comrade Mekhlis, you are not a bystander, but a responsible representative of the Supreme High Command, responsible for all the successes and failures of the Front, and should correct the mistakes of the leadership of the Front...... If you don't take all kinds of measures to organize a fight, but just criticize passively on the sidelines, then your problem is even more serious! ”

Stalin's telegram made Mehlis realize that he could not dissociate himself from the defeat of the Crimean Front, so he had to return to command and continue to command.

But this may have been another tragedy, because the result of his command was the angry dismissal of the commanders of the 47th and 44th armies, Generals Chernyak and Kolganov, and demoted them to the rank of colonel. The commander of the 51st Army, Major General Bogdanov, could not escape this fate, but he was killed in the ensuing pursuit of the Germans, so he was spared this punishment.

These were the only means Mehris could threaten, and he certainly did not know that the dismissal of the front commander at this time would seriously damage the morale of the Soviet soldiers...... The Soviet troops on the front line were panicked and at a loss.

These were good things for the German army, which had already broken through the Soviet defensive line, and the "Grodeck" motorized brigade blocked the pursuit of the Soviet army with the rear of the 50th Infantry Division, and advanced all the way to the port of Kerch, advancing 50 kilometers in one day...... A day here refers to a day and a night.

This speed may be considered slow, the No. 3 tank can reach a speed of 40 kilometers per hour on the road, and it can travel 50 kilometers in just over an hour at full power.

However, the speed of advance and march in wartime is completely incomparable, because there will always be situations along the way, such as encountering an ambush by the Soviet army, entering a minefield planted by the Soviet army, and being blown up by the Soviet army on a highway bridge, etc.

So this speed can be considered quite fast, you must know that the Afrika Korps is advancing in the open desert at most a hundred kilometers a day, not to mention this kind of marching and fighting on the road.

"This is probably the easiest battle we've ever fought!" Werner laughed: "We haven't played until now, I feel like I'm here for sightseeing!" ”

"If you ...... at this rate," said the baker, struggling to light a cigarette in the rickety car, "tomorrow we will be able to fight to Kerch, and there will be a fierce battle there!" ”

"I don't think it's going to be a bad fight, second lieutenant!" Dominic said: "Perhaps you have also heard that the Soviets had only one army group in the Kerch direction, although I don't know how effective this army group was, but ......"

Speaking of this, Dominic reached out and took the baker's cigarette and lit it in his mouth, and then continued: "But the Soviets always put the more combat-ready troops in front and the weaker ones behind, so we won't have any bad fighting." If I'm not mistaken, they will be waiting for us in Kerch with their hands raised! ”

The Germans in the carriage burst out laughing when they heard this, and each of them was excited about the imminent victory in this battle...... The three Soviet armies had already been left behind by them.

In principle, the "Grodek" motorized brigade itself is also surrounded by Soviet troops, after all, there are Soviet troops in front and behind, and the Soviet army has much more troops than the German motorized brigade.

However, the "encirclement" on the battlefield cannot be concluded solely by military strength.

Although the Soviet army behind the German motorized brigade had as many as three army groups, they could not get supplies, ammunition, and fuel, so it is conceivable that as the war situation continued to develop like this, the three Soviet army groups would only become weaker and weaker, and eventually evolve into a situation in which there were guns but no ammunition, and vehicles and no fuel.

On the contrary, the German "Grodeck" motorized brigade destroyed the Soviet supply lines along the way and obtained sufficient supplies and equipment from the Soviet army...... Although the German and Soviet armies had different weapons systems, there were still many things that could be used.

For example, the 28th Chasseur Division of the German front captured truckloads of mines from Soviet supply teams and transported them to the 50th Infantry Division in the rear as soon as they changed hands. The mine does not recognize the owner, especially the Soviet Union also uses a large number of square wooden shell mines, which are what the Germans call "small coffins", this thing cannot be detected at all because it is a wooden shell, and the shrapnel produced during the explosion is also a wood chip, so it is usually only injured but not killed...... But that's what makes it more intimidating, because the wounded are much more in trouble than the corpses.

Another example is artillery, machine guns, Bobosha submachine guns, and so on.

Among them, especially the Deggalev light machine gun (turntable machine gun) and the Bobosha submachine gun, the German soldiers piled up in the car one by one, and the cars were also increasing all the way...... This also has a lot to do with the poor communication and coordination of the Soviet army, because the Soviet army is too large and the communication equipment is extremely backward, many units do not have radio communication until the regimental level, so although the Kerch command has long known that the German army has broken through the defense line and hit Kerch, but the transport and supply teams on the way cannot be notified in time, so one team after another went to the arms of the German army.

Even at 39 kilometers, the Germans captured a supply depot that the Soviets had brought by sea from Kerch or the Taman Peninsula and even from the Caucasus on the other side of the Black Sea...... Because the roads are muddy, shipping by sea will be much more convenient than shipping by land.

On the other hand, the Soviets did not dare to set up the transfer station too far forward, otherwise it would be easily bombarded by enemy artillery.

It is a bit strange that such an important place as the transfer station should have been informed that it should have been ready to blow up the supply station, but this did not happen, and even after the Germans occupied the transfer station, several transport ships docked in the port full of supplies.

Qin Chuan vaguely knew the reason: at this time, the command of the Crimean Front of the Soviet Army was not thinking about whether to stop the German army from advancing, but thinking about how to shirk responsibility, so there would be all kinds of mistakes in command that the German army could not imagine.

There were more supplies than the Germans could count, and the warehouses were full of bullets, shells, and food.

It's a pity that the Germans didn't use these bullets and shells, and at the same time they were still very dangerous for the Germans...... As soon as this supply fell into the hands of the Soviet troops in hot pursuit, it would restore them to combat effectiveness.

So, to be on the safe side, Manstein decided to blow them up on the spot.