Tall and wicked man Otto with a scar on his face. Skorzny has now also been promoted to the rank of captain. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info and Rudolph. Feng. Like Ribbentrop, he also left the tepid Irish battlefield - before the world revolution in the Eastern Front repelled the Soviet Union, the German High Command could not spare enough troops to end the Irish campaign, so it had to maintain it for a while.

And Otto. Skortz, a warrior who distinguished himself on the Irish battlefield, was given the command of Kurt Kort Korts, who was in charge of the capture of the fortress of Kronstadt. General Student was transferred to the Eastern Front as the captain of an air assault group.

On August 13, 1942, when gunfire rang out on the beachhead of Kotlin Island, Otto Brown, heavily armed, was in full swing. Skortz is climbing from a speedboat onto a flying boat. It is a 6-engine BV222 spacecraft, which is actually a spaceship-style seaplane, moored in the port of Tallinn.

This extra-large seaplane was originally used by Lufthansa for transatlantic commercial flights to Heinkel, Dornier and Blom. FOSS (this is a shipyard) placed a tender order. And the final winner was Blom. The design submitted by FUCHS Shipyard was a large seaplane with a boat-shaped fuselage, six 800 hp BMW 132 engines (the last production was equipped with a 1,000 hp BMW 323 engine) and a high monoplane and stable pontoon design. With a take-off weight of up to 49 tons, it is capable of carrying 11-12 crew members and 24 passengers.

However, after the production of this large seaplane, it was not given to Lufthansa, but was requisitioned by the German naval aviation because of the outbreak of war, and became a long-range water transport aircraft.

At first, the German naval aviation only acquired 12 such large aircraft, but after the Mediterranean Campaign, because of the improvement of Germany's resource supply situation, the production capacity also increased greatly due to the industrial capacity of France, the Netherlands, Belgium and other countries. Therefore, naval aviation ordered more BV-222 for long-range transportation. By August 1942, naval aviation had a total of 40 BV-222 spacecraft, all of which were now concentrated in the port of Tallinn.

The BV-222 has been upgraded with a 1,200 hp engine, which further improves the ability to carry personnel and equipment. Each BV-222 can now carry 30 heavily armed soldiers, for a total of 1,200 soldiers in 40 BV-222s. It's not a lot, but Tallinn is only 280 kilometres from the island of Kotlin, where Kronstadt is located. Even if you count the time to board and disembark, 4 hours is enough for a round trip. It can fly at least three times in a day, sending 3,600 soldiers to Kotlin Island.

"I'm Second Lieutenant Ley, the captain of the V13, the plane is about to take off, please fasten your seat belts, all personnel, and I wish you all a nice journey."

Otto. Skortz was the last person to board the BV-222 seaplane, and as soon as he got on the plane, a crew member pulled the hatch shut. Then the captain's voice came from the speakers on the plane. Skortz immediately sat down in an empty chair and buckled himself up. This is the engine of the plane has begun to turn, and there is a loud noise.

"It's really a race against time!" Skortz closed his eyes, and the general content of General Studenter's speech when he summoned him and a dozen other air assault team captains came to mind.

There is nothing else to do this time, just be fast! A blitzkrieg in the air must be fought! It was necessary to seize at least half of Kotlin Island before the Soviet Red Army could send reinforcements to the island.

Therefore, the aircraft will not fly in formation, but will take off as soon as it is fully manned, so as to save valuable time.

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The 22 tanks moved forward in a slightly faded fog, followed by an equal number of LWS amphibious transport vehicles, and more than two hundred Marines who had already jumped out of the amphibious transport vehicles. Even with headphones, Captain Ribbentrop could hear the sound of shells exploding from 2,000 meters behind.

It was the battery of the Soviet Red Army bombarding the beachhead where Ribbentrop had just landed, and this was the island of Kotling, where the Kronstadt fortress was located, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was the Tiger's Den in Longtan!

Not to mention how many batteries there are on Kotlin Island, but in the Gulf of Finland on the north and south sides of Kotlin Island, there are 42 reclaimed fortress islands! Each fortress island has an armored turret with heavy artillery with extremely thick armor protection.

However, these turrets are very old, all built before the First World War, and the oldest armored turrets date back to the time of Tsar Alexander II.

Because the turret was too old, and the installed cannons also had problems such as too slow rate of fire, insufficient range, and blind spots, not all of them could get the German amphibious assault force landing on the beach on the southwest coast of Kotlin Island.

Moreover, German intelligence knew the situation on Kotlin Island and the Kronstadt fortress inside out (many of the old white men in Olga were former senior admirals of the Russian Navy, and even Hersmann himself had been on Kotlin Island more than 20 years ago), and knew the specific location of each armored battery (including the batteries on the island), the defensive situation, and the arrangement of firepower. I also knew the location of the roads, barracks, and warehouses on the island, and even learned where the newly built airfield on the island was through aircraft reconnaissance and shooting.

Now Captain Ribbentrop's tank company was grouped with another armoured company of marines to seize the island's only military airfield, the Red August airfield. The airport is located in the west-central part of the island, about 3.5 km from the city of Kronstadt, near a barracks of the Red Marines. The barracks house was already faintly visible, and about a platoon of Marines quickened their pace, past the tanks that were advancing along a wide road, and ran towards the buildings in the distance.

Ribbentrop knew that there would be a Red Army defense, and that the battle was about to begin, so he retreated into the crowded turret and closed the hatch.

"I'm Ribbentrop, all vehicles pay attention to the search target! Now stop advancing, the artillery is ready to fire high-explosive shells. He closed the hatch and gave orders with the intercom.

The No. 3 P tank is equipped with a KWK40L/2475mm main gun, which is not good against tanks, but it is absolutely good against infantry and infantry fortifications, and it is 75mm caliber.

"Boom!" As soon as Ribbentrop's order was given, he felt a slight shake of his tank, or the clanging of shrapnel on the steel plate. He knew that there was Soviet artillery firing on his side nearby!

"Has anyone found the target? Where is the enemy? Ribbentrop hurriedly asked. He is now riding in a No. 3 tank, not a "Tiger" and a "Panther", the Soviets' 45mm anti-tank guns and 76.2mm cannons can beat his tanks into flames!

"Captain, at 10 o'clock, it seems to be at 10 o'clock......" The voice of Sergeant Major Max, the commander of car No. 4, came from the headphones, "it looks like there's a cannon there!" ”

"No, it's 12 o'clock, and the artillery is in the woods next to the gate of that barracks." At this time, the commander of the other tank gave another answer.

Ribbentrop pushed open the hatch again, leaning out half of his body to see what was going on.

"Boom ......" another group of shells whizzed, and the sound of the shells bursting through the air made Captain Ribbentrop creepy.

"Boom!" Dozens of huge columns of smoke suddenly erupted in the woods on the right side of Ribbentrop's car, and it was clear that it was not a 76.2mm cannon that could be fired, and the heat wave rushed towards Ribbentrop, frightening the battle-hardened young master to think that he was going to die for the country.

"Yes...... It's a howitzer, it's a 122mm howitzer! Ribbentrop, who was trembling, sat back in his seat, and found that he was unscathed, so he said in a big gulp, "There must be an artillery observer of the Soviets nearby!" All vehicles immediately start moving in the direction of the barracks ahead! ”

The Soviet artillery fire just now missed the hit, but it was already very close, so Ribbentrop did not dare to leave the vehicle here to be bombed. Although the No. 3 tank is not very afraid of howitzer bombardment, the LWS amphibious transport vehicle is not very armored.

At the very moment when Ribbentrop's tank and armored vehicles were almost shelled, fierce fighting was taking place inside and outside the barracks of the 2nd Marine Brigade of the Baltic Fleet of the Red Navy.

This barracks was the one that stood in front of Ribbentrop and was home to a brigade headquarters and two battalions of marines. However, there were no 2nd Battalion in the barracks, and the 2nd Marine Brigade of the Soviet Union was tasked with defending the entire island of Kotlin together with the Kronstadt Fortress Brigade.

So two of the four battalions of the brigade were stationed in various locations, and the other two were responsible for patrolling the island. When the Germans came, there was less than one battalion of officers and men in the barracks, and they did not have many anti-tank weapons, they were marine brigades defending the island, and theoretically they did not need anti-tank weapons.

Theoretically, when the enemy tanks landed on Kotlin Island, the turret group of Kronstadt Fortress should have been flattened by the enemy battleships. What can an anti-tank gun be used for surrounded by a large group of enemy battleships?

But now something strange happened, obviously the German fleet was not found approaching, and the turrets of the fortress were not bombarded, but the German tanks suddenly landed on the island!

How did these tanks come to be? At the headquarters of the Baltic Fleet in Kronstadt, Vice Admiral Tributz was in a daze when a fleet staff officer rushed into the war room.

"Air raids! The radar station reported the detection of a large number of enemy aircraft approaching! (To be continued.) )