At 4 a.m. on August 13, 1942, 15 nautical miles west of Kotlin Island, a sizable submarine formation was quietly moving forward in the dawn fog of the Gulf of Finland. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Hans. Feng. Lieutenant Colonel Tysenhausen stood in the conning tower of the brand-new Type 9D1 submarine U195, which had been commissioned only a month earlier, and was very excited, because he had finally waited for an important combat mission.

As sea power in the Atlantic has changed hands, the captains of U-boats who are still serving in the submarine force have very few combat missions. The blockade of Britain was now the job of battleships, heavy cruisers, missile cruisers and aircraft. Submarines can only be used for reconnaissance, to lay mines, or to transport supplies to areas that are inaccessible to large surface ships.

Major Tysenhausen, the former ace captain of the U-boat, is no exception to the idol of thousands of German girls. From April 1942 onwards, he did not carry out a single combat mission to break diplomatic relations. A month ago, the above simply decommissioned the submarine he originally commanded for breaking diplomatic relations in the Atlantic, and then replaced him with a "special transport boat" U195.

Just when he thought he was going to be a transport captain for the rest of the war years. His "special transport boat" U195 was allocated to the Marine Corps. And he also learned that what the large submarine with a displacement of 1616 tons on the water and 1804 tons under the water was going to transport was tanks.

This is a submarine capable of transporting amphibious tanks to the landing on enemy beachheads! It's an unbelievable idea that a submarine and a tank are combined.

Listen to the commander of the 1st Tank Company of the 1st Amphibious Assault Battalion of the Marine Corps, Rudolph Murphy. Feng. Captain Ribbentrop said that this "genius idea" came from the Japanese Navy, which was a navy with tank forces! Those people who were full of strange ideas did not put their tanks on the landing ship, but used submarines to transport tanks to launch a surprise attack, and actually achieved good results.

Therefore, the senior officers of the German Marine Corps decided to follow the tactics of the Japanese, and also built dozens of large submarines, which were modified to transport tanks and landing troops.

At the same time, a "customized version" of tank No. 3, which could be used for amphibious landings, was created. This tank was improved on the basis of the Type 3 N-type tank, with a waterproof treatment, with the addition of detachable pontoons and propeller thrusters, which allowed it to propel at speeds of 5-6 kilometers per hour on the water. The KWK40L/2475mm gun of the Type 3 N tank has also been retained, making this tank quite powerful against infantry.

Now there is a Type 3 P tank and an LWS amphibious transport vehicle tethered to the deck of the U195.

The LWS amphibious transport vehicle is also a brain-opening equipment, which is a combination of a tracked tractor and a water tugboat. It is 9 meters long, 3 meters wide, 3.15 meters high, weighs 15 tons, and has 4 crew members. In the water, the LWS can propel at speeds of up to 12.5 km/h and on land at a top speed of 40 km/h.

This kind of equipment integrating vehicles and ships began to be developed as early as 1935, but it has never been put into mass production. It wasn't until the German Marine Corps was formed that there were big buyers.

And the first unit to receive the LWS was the 1st Amphibious Assault Battalion of the Marine Corps. According to the plan, this strange "vehicle" would tow its own underpowered Type 3 P tank towards the beachhead of Kotlin Island.

At the same time, a squad of amphibious commandos will also go ashore on this LWS amphibious transport vehicle and the No. 3 P tank.

In addition, these LWS amphibious transport vehicles were equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns or anti-tank guns. The anti-aircraft machine gun is a French M1930 13.2mm large-caliber machine gun, while the anti-tank gun is a detachable 28mm conical gun.

"Can you see the Kronstadt Fortress?" Captain Ribbentrop's voice came from below the conning tower, and then there was a rattle of escalators, and Captain Ribbentrop had climbed up and squeezed to Major Tysenhausen.

"How is it possible to see Kronstadt?" Major Tysenhausen smiled and said, "It would be bad if we could see it, if we could see the fortress, then the Soviet Red Army could also see us." ”

Captain Ribbentrop stood firm at the top of the crowded submarine conning tower, and then his eyes scanned around, and the surroundings were foggy, and the visibility was only a few hundred meters, and indeed nothing could be seen.

"So how do we know when it's time to set off for landing?" Captain Ribbentrop squinted his eyes and tried to look forward, but he still couldn't see anything.

"There will be searchlights to guide us, the Soviets' own searchlights." Major Tysenhausen said, "Closer it will be ...... We couldn't see Kotlin Island clearly, but we couldn't go in the wrong direction. When we see their searchlights, you can go. ”

Through reconnaissance, the Germans already knew that the Soviet Navy had set up a number of searchlights on Kotlin Island to illuminate the waterways north and south of the island. In fact, what the Soviets were worried about was not the landing of the Germans, but the fact that German submarines sneaked into the harbor of Leningrad and threw a few mines, and by the way, a few spies went ashore to cause sabotage.

So they put submarine nets and mines on the waterways on both sides of Kotlin Island, and used searchlights to shine on the water when visibility was poor. These searchlights now pointed the way for the German submarines that came to sneak attack.

"Captain, searchlight! 11 o'clock ahead. This is the lookout post on the U195 boat shouting loudly.

Tysenhausen and Trove hurriedly raised their binoculars and looked in the direction of 11 o'clock in front of them, and found that there was indeed a flash of light in the fog, and then another one.

Obviously, this is a searchlight constantly sweeping the sea.

……

"Comrades, take heart and don't let anything suspicious slip under our noses."

Squad leader of the reconnaissance battalion of the 2nd Marine Brigade of the Baltic Fleet of the Red Navy of the USSR, Nikolai Murray. Golubkov clenched the Bobosha submachine gun he was carrying around his neck, and then shouted loudly to his comrades behind him. On this foggy early morning, he and his comrades were on a routine patrol on the beach west of Kotlin Island.

This is a somewhat unsettling task, and now is the climax of the world revolution!

The invincible Western Front of the Red Army had already occupied Warsaw (the news of the occupation of Warsaw had been announced at the end of July), although the German Nazis had rushed over the Baltic Sea to the Soviet border, in a vain attempt to put Empress Olga, who had long been swept into the dustbin of history, once again on the throne of Tsar. But their plot will eventually fail, and the heroic Leningrad military and people will teach these imperialists and their White Russian lackeys who dared to invade the Soviet Union a hard lesson.

At a time when millions of Red Army commanders and fighters were fighting hard at the front and making contributions to the world revolution, Golubkov and his comrades were walking on the beach of Kotlin Island...... It is said that they are catching spies, but the question is where can such stupid spies run to Kronstadt and Leningrad to die?

The families of the Red Navy officers and the workers of the naval factories who live in Kronstadt are the most politically reliable people. As for the glorious Leningrad working class, it was they who started the Russian Revolution, they were the sworn enemies of the tsar!

So Comrade Golubkov had already written a bloody letter a few days ago, asking to go to the front to fight the Nazi troops. However, his request has not yet been granted, so he can only continue to patrol the beaches of Cortlin Island every day with a dozen or so Red Marines who are just as absent-minded as he is.

"Got it, Comrade squad leader."

"We'll keep our eyes open."

"I'm afraid that the agents of Germany and the White Guards will not dare to come."

The soldiers replied loudly, and their morale seemed to be okay, but Golubkov could still hear how impatient they were with the task they were doing.

Just as Golubkov was searching for a few words that would boost the morale of the big guys, someone suddenly shouted.

"Goal! There are suspicious targets on the sea! ”

This shout immediately caused Golubkov's blood to rush to his head.

The legendary spy is finally here!

He hurriedly looked over to the surface of the sea, and saw a, no, several small boats slowly moving on the water.

It seems that there is more than one agent!

"Quick, find a place to hide, Sasha, set up the machine gun!" Golubkov immediately ordered.

"Yes, Comrade Squad Leader!"

Everyone's spirits suddenly rose - there were spies, and it was simply an opportunity to join the party and promote cadres.

"Don't shoot yet, wait for the spies to come ashore before shooting, remember, be sure to leave a few alive." Golubkov and his men rushed into the woods on the edge of the beach, loading their submachine guns and giving orders to their men.

The comrades listened to him and could not help but fire at the approaching boats. As they got closer and closer, they reached the beachhead, but no one came down from it.

"Comrade squad leader," Sasha suddenly shouted, the machine gunner, "the ship with the spies seems to have come ashore!" ”

The ship went ashore? Then it's not a boat, what kind of amphibious vehicle!

Golubkov and his comrades immediately knew that something was wrong, they were not native infantry, but marines, amphibious vehicles, amphibious tanks, they had seen them.

"Oh my God," the sharp-eyed Heavy Sasha then shouted, "there are so many ships on the sea, this is not a spy, this is a landing!" The Germans are going to land! (To be continued.) )