In this battle, the result of the Soviet army's carelessness was that it was not until the heavy sound of artillery sounded on the Taman Peninsula that the Soviet army realized something was wrong... Qin Chuan also wanted to launch a sneak attack without a sound, but the problem was that Qin Chuan had too little intelligence, and they could not even determine whether the Soviet army had buried landmines on the shore.

Facts have proved that Qin Chuan's concerns were a bit redundant. The reason was as mentioned before. The Soviet army did not think that the German army had the ability to launch landing operations in a short period of time, especially the landing site was the Southern Peninsula, so there was no defense preparation at all, so of course there would be no landmines.

Several flares shot into the air, and the surroundings immediately turned snow-white like daylight.

Then the gunshots rang out quickly, but Qin Chuan felt half as he heard the gunshots, because the gunshots were sparse and not large, especially the machine guns were not large... Either the Soviet army was frightened and failed to organize defense in time, or the Soviet army had few troops here.

Qin Chuan believed it was the former, because the Soviet army seemed to be short of people anywhere.

However, no matter which reason it was, the failure of the Soviet army was unavoidable.

Qin Chuan guessed right, there were also many Soviet troops stationed along the southern peninsula... The Soviet army stationed the 47th Army on the Taman Peninsula, which has two divisions, two brigades, and a tank regiment.

Compared with the 44th and 51st Soviet troops who fought on the Kerch Peninsula before, most of the 47th Army's teams were veterans with combat experience, especially the 32nd Guard Infantry Division.

The so-called "guards" are somewhat similar to the "immune guards" mentioned in ancient China. The meaning of "Yulin" is that it once defended Moscow... that is, it completed various tasks outstandingly in the Moscow defense battle, so Stalin awarded these outstanding military troops the title of "guards" and the Guards flag.

From this we can also see that they are not comparable to those that Kerchi Island encountered by most of the new recruits.

But as Qin Chuan thought, considering that the Northern Peninsula is only 4 kilometers away from Kerch, it is more likely to be attacked by the German army, the 47th Army deployed its main force on the Northern Peninsula, including not only the 32nd Guard Infantry Division, but also the main force of the Tank Regiment.

In the direction of the Southern Peninsula, there are only the 77th Infantry Division, the 103rd Infantry Brigade and the 126th Tank Battalion, which have weak combat power.

"Comrade Kotov!" Avdjeevich, the commander of the 77th Division who was attacked, called Major General Kotov immediately: "The Germans have landed here, at least one division!"

"Comrade Avdjeevich!" Major General Kotov couldn't help but frown when he heard this: "The enemy has only one division, which means that your troops are twice theirs. So what are you worried about? Eliminate them on the sea!"

"But Comrade Kotov!" Avdjeevich said, wiping sweat from his forehead: "They have already arrived!"

"You mean...you only found them when they got ashore?" Major General Kotov couldn't help but roar.

"It's not my fault, Comrade Kotov!" Avdevevich explained: "They use a ship that can drive directly from the sea to the shore. They move too fast and we broke through our first line of defense before we could organize our defense!"

Major General Kotov was stunned when he heard this. His first reaction was that Avjeevich was making excuses for his dereliction of duty, but he still chose to believe Avjeevich's words. After all, he needed to block the enemy's attack at this time.

"Don't you still have tanks?" Major General Kotov shouted: "Send the tanks, they are landing troops, and they must have no heavy equipment!"

"No, Comrade Kotov!" Avdjeevich replied: "They have much more tanks than us!"

"How is it possible? You can't deceive me, Avdjeevich!" Major General Kotov couldn't help but be furious: "How did their tanks cross the Kerch Strait? You won't tell them that they drove the strait?!"

"Sorry, Comrade Kotov!" Beads of sweat drifted down Avdjeevich's forehead: "Although I can't believe it is true, but...yes, their tanks did come from the sea. I don't know what's going on..."

"Why don't you say that the German tanks flew over?!" Major General Kotov cursed: "That would be faster!"

Avjeevich didn't know how to answer, nor did he know how to explain. In fact, the officers and soldiers of the entire 77th Division were stunned by the sudden attack of the German army.

"No matter what!" Major General Kotov cursed on the other end of the phone: "I order you not to take a step back, otherwise I will send you to the military court without hesitation!"

As he said that, Major General Kotov hung up the phone angrily.

This is of course a misunderstanding. Let’s not talk about Colonel Avjeevich’s grievances and helplessness. Major General Kotov’s misunderstanding also caused him to misjudgment on the battlefield situation... If Major General Kotov believed Colonel Avjeevich’s report, he would definitely judge at the first time that Tamanan Peninsula could not be defended.

Another meaning that the Tamannan Peninsula cannot be defended is that the Solione Airport 35 kilometers away is in danger.

In this way, even if Major General Kotov did not have time to reinforce Solione, he could notify Solione Airport to let the more than 200 aircraft stationed there transfer or at least prepare for the transfer.

But Major General Kotov did not do so.

The reason is very simple. He thought that this was something Avjeevich said in order to agree to let him retreat... But this seems not surprising. Who can believe that there is a ship that can be driven in the sea and on land? Especially with tanks, it can do it.

So all the arrangements that Major General Kotov made next were to drive the Germans back to the sea rather than reinforce Solione.

He immediately notified the Black Sea Fleet and requested the Black Sea Fleet to reinforce the Southern Peninsula immediately.

On the other hand, he ordered a regiment of the 32nd Division of the Guard Infantry to take fishing boats and transport ships to cross the bay at the fastest speed to rush to the Southern Peninsula for reinforcements.

Major General Kotov's idea was that as long as the 77th Infantry Division could stop the Germans for an hour, reinforcements from the Guards Infantry Division could arrive, and then reinforcements from the Black Sea Fleet would also arrive, so the Germans had no choice but to admit defeat and surrender.

What he didn't know was that all the arrangements he made were useless.
Chapter completed!