Thank you brothers for leaving the message and encouragement. The child has become rebellious when he enters adolescence. He did his ideological work for the whole night last night. As a teacher, he can't manage his children well. It's really ironic!

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But even if Mehlis comes forward to coordinate, the Soviet army can provide a limited amount of reinforcements to Kerch Port.

In the air force, the Soviet army also faced the same problems as the German army... shifted its strategic focus to Kharkov. Coupled with the previous losses of the Krim front in the air, the Soviet army could only barely gather 370 fighter jets on the Taman Peninsula.

Although this number is very large, most of the Soviet army can get into the position of the Iran 15 fighter jets with weak performance... This fighter jet is an old biplane with a maximum speed of only 442 kilometers per hour. The Soviet army once used it to have an advantage over the Japanese army's old combat institutions in the Battle of Nomenhan, and later supported China. However, because the Japanese army had already equipped the advanced "zero" type, the aircraft suffered a crushing defeat in China.

Because the upper wing structure of this biplane is a seagull-shaped design, the Soviet army called it the "Seagull" fighter.

Of course it is not a rival to the German BF109 fighter jets and FW190 fighter jets, so although there are many, air supremacy is still in the hands of the Germans.

However, this "Seagull" fighter has become popular again in the Caucasus Battle in history... The reason is that the Caucasus region has a complex terrain and high-speed fighter planes often cannot or can be said to have no time to avoid the mountains. On the contrary, the "Seagull" low-speed fighter planes are like fish in the Caucasus region and frequently bombard the supply lines of the German and German troops, playing an unexpected role.

Of course, if the Germans were bypassing the Caucasus along the Black Sea, there would be no similar problems.

The second is the Navy.

During the previous Battle of Sevastopol, the Black Sea Fleet had been frequently dispatched to provide fire support to Sevastopol, and even repeatedly withstood the bombing of German fighter jets. At this time, many warships needed maintenance. Only three warships and two transport ships could reinforce the Krim Front, which was obviously not enough to provide sufficient supply and fire support to the three armies trapped on the other end of the German army.

In fact, they often cannot provide supplies to the three armies with confidence, because it is a drop in the bucket and will be snatched by Soviet soldiers, and once they dock, the Soviet army will rush up to hope to leave on a transport ship.

Again, tanks.

The Soviet army had hundreds of tanks in the Caucasus region, but the problem was not the tanks but the transportation... Before that, the Soviet army tried to transport supplies to Sevastopol, while the German army blocked the air force. During the blockade and anti-blockade, the Soviet army lost a considerable portion of the transport ships. In the short term, it was impossible to transport a tank brigade to the Kerch Peninsula as required by Kozlov. In the end, only two tank battalions and fifty tanks were transported.

Among them, 3 KV2 tanks, 8 T34 tanks, 16 BT7 fast tanks, and 23 T26 light tanks.

After receiving these tanks, Kozlov immediately deployed them on the defense line in conjunction with the defense of the 46th Army.

This can be said to be Kozlov's failure.

Because tanks are mainly mobility, Kozlov simply used tanks as turrets to deploy them on the defense line, which could not pose much threat to the German army.

The correct approach should be to deploy tanks on the second line, like Rommel did in Africa, wherever they were broken by the enemy, and they would be driven back from wherever they were broken.

However, this seems that Kozlov cannot be blamed. He was from the Infantry Academy. Not only him, but also senior Soviet officers generally did not flexibly command tank operations.

Two days later, the German army finally arrived at Kerch Port after great hardships.

Manstein held up the telescope and observed in Kerch for a while, then frowned.

"The enemy obviously made some preparations in the past two days!" Manstein turned around and said to Qinchuan and Colonel Slein: "They occupied the favorable terrain, and I seemed to have seen the KV tank!"

Qin Chuan understood the meaning of Manstein's words.

There are two important information contained in this statement:

One is the "favorable terrain". Kerch is a port city, built in a place with higher altitudes... There are always reasons why more than 100,000 people will live here.

Therefore, compared to the surrounding areas that are muddy and like a swamp in heavy rain, Kerch Port has relatively dry and hard ground, which is very suitable for the Soviet army to transport supplies.

The Soviet army's defense line was just outside the city. They built trenches, pulled up barbed wire mesh to lay mines, and then scattered tanks into the trenches to strengthen firepower and cover.

Qin Chuan did not agree with the Soviet army's practice of scattering tanks among trenches. In fact, the Soviet army had dry and hard land in the city that could allow tanks to operate internal operations, but the Soviet army obviously did not seize this opportunity.

However, these tanks and defenses will still cause great trouble to the German army: the main reason is that there is mud around, and it is very difficult for the German army to march, let alone attacking the Soviet defense line... It is conceivable that if you just keep your head in this way, the Soviet attack on Fodosia will be re-staged in Kerch, but this time the German army will be killed and injured.

Another information is the KV tank.

The KV tank can be said to be a strange existence in the Soviet army. There are basically no weapons and equipment on the German land that can penetrate its front armor... The front armor is 110MM thick, and it is also equipped with a 152MM caliber howitzer.

Because its turret is towering like a small toilet and at the same time it is disdainful of the Russian army, the German army called this tank "Russian toilet".

But this kind of tank once created a brilliant record. Several KVs were like steel monsters, storming into the German armored forces regardless of the German firepower, crushing and destroying more than 40 artillery pieces, and covering other tanks to destroy forty tanks.

To use the memories of German soldiers, it is: "In this battle, one-third of our tanks were tanks No. 4. Our tanks fired in three directions at the monster (KV tank) that was driving forward, which was useless at all. The shells were tickling the enemy tanks, but our tanks were knocked down like dominoes!"

So, when he saw the KV tanks on the Soviet defense line, the Man tribe Tain felt a little nervous.

Of course, KV tanks cannot be said to be invincible. Its flaw is that the failure rate is too high, so that most KV tanks are not destroyed by the enemy but are abandoned because of failures that cannot be used.

However, the German army could not wait for these KV tanks to break down in front of the defense line, especially the German army could not wait at all... The first requirement of blitzkrieg is to be fast. If you continue to wait like this, the Soviet army will become stronger and stronger while the German combat effectiveness will become weaker and weaker.
Chapter completed!