The torpedoes that appeared on Lake Constance did not deter the Soviet troops, who were determined to win, and on New Year's Day, more than 200 boats of various types carrying Soviet troops of considerable size arrived on the shores of the lake at the northern end of the Upper Henry Valley. Under the eyes of the whole world, they did not set foot on the "sacrosanct" territory of Switzerland, but concentrated on the five-kilometer lakeside of Austria to launch a landing attack.

Bregenz, previously garrisoned and reinforced by Soviet troops, was located at the easternmost point of the five-kilometer lake, and its topography was an ideal observation point and command post on the battlefield, and Lynn's flag was planted on the highest tower of Bregenz, but he himself and the corps headquarters were not here. Less than three kilometers to the southeast is a hill with an altitude of more than 700 meters, where the mountains are steep and the vegetation is luxuriant, and the Imperial Engineers, who are good at building strong fortifications, spend a week building an underground shelter system here, where the real communication command center, equipment and ammunition depots, and medical stations for wounded soldiers are all located, so as to avoid the waves of air raids from the stubborn participation of Soviet fighters.

Standing at the observation port of the underground command post, Lynn looked north, and from here, the blue Lake Constance was as vast as the sea, and the falling shells made the otherwise calm lake have the waves of the sea. Stranded and sunken ships and various floating debris can be seen in the water near the lake, and the explosives kick up the silt in the lake, and together with the blood of the dead, form a lumpy, strip-like dark ribbon in the near-shore waters. On the lake, the Soviet ships used to carry soldiers were still approaching the lake with heavy guns, and those Soviet officers and soldiers who were lucky enough to land were pressed to death in an open area less than 50 meters inward from the lake, where there were neither trenches nor fortresses, the original trees were cut down and carried away, the gentle slopes, mounds, and any landscape buildings that might be used as obstacles for shooting were all demolished, and the Soviet soldiers who landed on the shore of the lake could only use the wreckage of their companions to dodge the oncoming bullets and shrapnel, and the situation was quite unfavorable.

The defensive force, consisting of more than 600 officers and men of the Imperial Guard and more than 1,000 soldiers of the Free Regiment, had captured and recently arrived more than 40 artillery pieces and a number of large-caliber mortars, and these supporting firepower were all deployed in pre-built fortifications with a certain resistance to shelling and bombing, and the relatively abundant ammunition reserves made them cause serious problems for Soviet ships and landing forces from the beginning. And despite the increasing number of Soviet ships that were sunk before they landed, most of the follow-up ships were able to reach the shore. Although the Soviets did not have much experience in landing operations, they still had successful examples in the late stages of World War II, and it was not difficult to draw some valuable experience from the landing experiences of the allies and figure out a set of effective landing plans. Without strong naval artillery fire support, the Soviet aviation attacked with all its might regardless of the weather; The landing infantry struggled to open the situation, and tank-carrying boats followed. In the absence of transoceanic operations. The performance requirements of the landing ships carrying tanks were not demanding, and after the initial seizure of the beachhead, the Soviets decisively put into use a number of tank carriers in the second echelon of the landing force, which were simple in shape and moderate in speed. And it was protected by landing ships and gunboats.

When the Soviets were still assembling an attack on the other side of Lake Constance, Lynn and his staff team obtained a lot of information from the periphery and made targeted deployments. During the engagement, a good viewing position helped them to see through the Soviets' intentions early, and then direct their own artillery fire to intercept and fire at the Soviet tank carriers. In this battle of wits and courage, the sudden fierce artillery fire sharply accelerated the offensive and defensive rhythm on the battlefield. At a distance of four or five thousand meters, the Swiss-made mountain artillery showed good rapid-fire ability, and the number of cannons captured by the Free Corps from Soviet strongholds in this area was a cut higher than that of mountain artillery, although it was not large. Driven by clear operational directives. The defenders' field artillery and mountain artillery fired rapidly for nearly a quarter of an hour, and as the Soviet second-echelon boats gradually approached the lakeside, the defenders' light and heavy mortars deployed in the forward and deep positions also began to wield, and the spectacular scene of shells raining down on the shore in a short period of time appeared near the shore. Under such a high-intensity strike, the number of damaged ships of the Soviet army has increased dramatically, and most of them are civilian ships that are structurally incapable of resisting strikes. The situation of those small military ships brought in by train was only slightly better, the thin armor could only withstand bullets and shrapnel, and if they were directly hit by medium-caliber shells, they would be reduced in strength and incapacitated at worst. …,

After all, the interceptive artillery bombardment could only play a certain intercepting role, and gradually, the second-echelon Soviet ships approached the lakeside area where the guns swept away, and the Soviet infantry who left the ships and landed were faced with a situation similar to that of the previous group of comrades. Many people fell before they could set foot on land, and the soldiers who rushed to the shore of the lake had to pay a great price for every step forward, and the area of the lake for forty or fifty meters was almost covered with the corpses of these brave soldiers, and this shocking scene would shock anyone who saw it, but the operators of the MG-42 and the Soviet-made Deshka heavy machine gun seemed to come from hell, and the bullet chains were depleted one after another. Their feet were already piled up with bullet casings, but they tirelessly repeated the firing action, pouring down the dead bullets on every Soviet officer and soldier who dared to get up and move forward.

The killing pushed the battle into ** again, and in Lynn's telescope, the Soviet landing ships with tank turrets in the cabins of several ships finally arrived on the shore of the lake, they did not look like the Allied tank landing ships, the front baffle could be completely folded. The Soviet tanks inside drove out of the landing ship slowly and heavily, like a hill climb, and as soon as their figures appeared, the ferocious artillery fire fell down, and when the dust and smoke from the explosion of the shells dispersed, the large tanks with hideous faces ran over the wreckage all over the ground......

The IS-3, the Soviet heavy tank that has been invincible on the European battlefield in the past two years, is called the "Soviet King Tiger Tank" by the allied armored troops and infantry, with extremely thick armor and super firepower, especially the comprehensive protection of the side and rear, making it a more difficult target than the German Tiger and King Tiger tanks. Because he had already learned that the Soviet heavy tank regiment had arrived on the north shore of Lake Constance, Lynn was not surprised by the appearance of these Soviet heavy tanks, but even if he was at the command post thousands of meters away, he could feel the psychological shock of the officers and soldiers in front of him witnessing the appearance of the IS-3. It's hard for ordinary artillery and anti-tank rockets to penetrate the 110 mm thick frontal sloping armor of these big guys, and if they only break the tracks, they are still formidable fixed fire points in an engagement area of less than a kilometer!

With the direct support of three IS-3s and two T-34/85s, the Soviet landing soldiers, who had been suppressed, were able to advance inland, and at this critical moment when the situation on the battlefield turned sharply, it was not the Imperial mountain tanks that had shown their skills in the previous phase of the battle that played a heroic role for the defending side, in fact, the Leopard tank's 75mm guns could only penetrate the main armor of the IS-3 at very short distances, and these two representative tanks had never had the opportunity to fight each other on the battlefield. With a strange whistling sound, a white, trailing bright tail flame and billowing gray smoke appeared behind the defenders' positions, which at first glance looked like an ordinary anti-tank rocket, but witnesses soon realized that it was larger than any known anti-tank rocket, and even surpassed the large-caliber Soviet rockets. At first, it was not very fast, and its trajectory was not straight, and there was a noticeable shaking halfway through, but in the blink of an eye, its speed increased exponentially, and it was running towards a Soviet heavy tank. Before the Soviet tank crew and the infantry around it could react effectively, it hit the tank in the front, and the fireball that burst out instantly engulfed the front half of the tank, a deafening explosion louder than any previous firearm fireball. Before people's minds turned around, two identical "super-large rockets" appeared with the same sound and wake, they seemed to have eyes and flew from more than 2,000 meters away and could still accurately hit the moving Soviet tank, and when the flames and smoke cleared one by one, the three IS-3s only ended up in the same fate -- the wreckage left in place was like a chariot with internal ammunition detonated, with twisted limbs and unrecognizable faces. …,

The battlefield backbone was destroyed by the enemy's mysterious weapons in less than five minutes, the morale of the Soviet landing force was immediately hit, and the machine gun fire of the defenders also exploded, and the anti-tank fighters who were ambushed in the forward positions took advantage of the situation to use individual anti-tank rockets to concentrate on the remaining two T-34s, their defense was actually no worse than the IS-3, but the battle situation was irreversible, one of them was quickly damaged tracks, and more "Bazooka" rockets roared, and finally turned it into a pile of scrap metal, the other was difficult to support, and slowly withdrew to the lake to cover the follow-up landing force, leaving two eye-catching bright red blood marks under the tracks......

It is not Lynn's patent to transform from ground-to-air guided rockets into anti-tank weapons, long before the imperial ** team fully occupied Tromsø, the imperial base camp formulated a corresponding weapons development plan according to the strategic plan, and the guided weapons are obviously in line with the current situation and ideas of the imperial high-level to have fewer enemies and more enemies, and to strengthen the weak enemy. After receiving covert help from the Allies, the Imperial side dismantled and transported five sets of surface-to-air and anti-tank launchers to the European continent while transporting combat personnel, and equipped with 30 ground-to-air guided rockets and 60 anti-tank guided rockets.