Chapter 593 Interspersed
This is a battle without any suspense.
After landing, the soldiers jumped out of the ship one after another and charged towards the Soviet defense line under the cover of tanks.
During the battle, the soldiers discovered something very interesting, that is, the mortar can fire shells at the enemy when it is mounted on an amphibious landing vehicle. So after it gets ashore, it becomes a movable turret, which can launch shells while moving and providing fire assistance to the troops.
Of course, the benefits of an amphibious landing vehicle are not only that. It can directly transport ammunition to the soldiers advancing towards the front without unloading and loading the car. If necessary, it can also carry soldiers to pursue the enemy.
This allowed the First Infantry Regiment to receive continuous supplies along the way and maintained strong firepower. Of course, the most important thing was that the entire landing operation was completed very quickly in one go, so the German army defeated the Soviet army and fought them everywhere.
During this period, the Soviet army pulled a tank battalion, 21 tanks rumbled up to drive up to the Germans... but this obviously didn't work.
First of all, most of the tanks landed by the German army were "Four" tanks, and there were as many as 28, which had an advantage in the number of tanks that were not inferior to that of the Soviet army.
Secondly, the German tanks have advanced communication equipment and can cooperate well with each other... This is especially important for night battles, because the tanks at this time are not equipped with night vision instruments and basically have no night battle capabilities. During night battles, they can only be guided and coordinated by infantry. Otherwise, in the dark, they can't even distinguish between the enemy and us, let alone combat.
There is no need to mention the communication equipment of Soviet tanks. This made them rush around like blind people touching elephants when they drove up, and even started killing the fleeing Soviet troops... I don't know whether they were killing them by chance or preventing them from escaping.
In fact, these Soviet tank crews knew that they were going to die when they came up, and this was also a huge waste of the tank... But even so, they still had to obey orders and drive the tank up in the dark. All they could do was to use one and two flares that occasionally rose up in the sky to determine the enemy's position and fire.
The situation in the German army was much better.
In fact, they did not use tanks to deal with enemy tanks, they used rockets more to use rockets... In the darkness, tanks without infantry cover could not stop enemy infantry from approaching them secretly.
So with the sound of "chubby chirping", the Soviet tanks became scrap iron one after another.
After breaking through the enemy's defense line, Qin Chuan and others left the battlefield to the 22nd Armored Division and the 1st Mountain Division... Their mission was to clear the Soviet army on the Southern Peninsula and cover the amphibious landing ships to and from one batch after another to take over the 11th Army troops from the Kerch Strait.
The First Infantry Regiment turned his finger and left the battlefield, driving an amphibious landing ship along the road towards Solione.
Several side three-wheeled and a 38T tank that was walking in front of the team to reconnaise... As mentioned before, the 38T tank is a light tank that cannot fight against the Soviet T34 tanks. It is actually not cost-effective to get it from the Kerch Peninsula by modifying amphibious tanks. (This is also the reason why most of the landing tanks are "Four" tanks)
The problem is that in order to adapt to the battlefield, the gradual modification of the "Four" tank has made the body heavier and heavier, which makes it only reach 35 kilometers per hour on the road, and the speed of marching at night is even slower.
The purpose of the First Infantry Regiment is to quickly intersperse Solione, so the "Fourth" tank obviously cannot meet this demand.
There is no such problem with the 38T light tank. It has a speed of 42 kilometers per hour, which is enough for the First Infantry Regiment that marchs at night... Although the amphibious landing ship can reach a speed of 80 kilometers per hour on land, no one dares to drive it to this speed on a road that is not properly maintained.
Therefore, the First Infantry Regiment could only get three 38T vehicles to come over to provide the necessary firepower and armor defense for the First Infantry Regiment.
Facts have proved that this choice is correct, because even if any tank is a light tank, it is a nightmare for infantrymen. In addition, the 25MM thick armor it has in front of the bunker is even more important...
In the first half of the road, the First Infantry Regiment encountered more of the retreat or the escaped Soviet army.
But because the Soviet army had abandoned heavy equipment, it was basically vulnerable in front of the 38T tank.
Along the way, Qin Chuan heard gunfire and cannons in front of him. Then when the amphibious landing car drove up, he saw blood everywhere near the highway, and piles of bodies of Soviet soldiers were piled up next to him... The scouts had obviously cleared the road for the follow-up troops.
Of course, there will still be some broken limbs and broken arms left on the road, after all, those who can no longer stop the troops from advancing.
Later, Qin Chuan learned that the bodies on the roadside were not all cleaned up by the scouts.
In fact... the scouts would leave some Soviet prisoners in every battle with the Soviet army. German soldiers would order these Soviet prisoners to clear the bodies and even the wreckage of cars, and then let them be taken to the roadside to shoot.
This may seem a bit cruel, but as mentioned earlier, the First Infantry Regiment was interspersed with troops, because of the mission and confidentiality they were unable to receive prisoners.
Dalei, after fifteen minutes, there were fewer and fewer such battles. In the end, the only German troops were marching on the road. So Qin Chuan knew that the First Infantry Regiment was even ahead of the Soviet defeated army.
This made the marching of the First Infantry Regiment smoother. On the road, you could occasionally encounter several Soviet checkpoints. Several Soviet troops with flashlights asked loudly in Russian. Obviously, they could not distinguish between the three-wheeled wheels and the tank's headlights.
The German soldiers used bullets as their answer, and at the same time, the 38T tank "rumbled" and directly crashed the ridiculous roadblock across the road.
After marching on the highway for nearly an hour, the Soviet army had no due response to the rapid interspersed troops of the First Infantry Regiment. Although Qin Chuan expected it, it was also somewhat unexpected.
It is well known that it is expected because the Soviet army's coordination is not smooth.
It is unexpected because Solione, especially the strategic location of the airport, was so important, how could the Soviet commander ignore it? This is a bit unimaginable for Qin Chuan.
"It seems we're going to have good luck!" said Colonel Slain. "Because I didn't hear any planes flying out of the air, but I'm not sure if they had been transferred before that!"
"They are still there!" Qin Chuan answered while holding up the telescope and looking towards the airport.
"How do you know?" asked Colonel Slain.
Chapter completed!