Chapter 599 Misunderstanding

In this battle, the result of the Soviet army's carelessness was that the Soviet army did not realize that something was wrong until the dense artillery fire sounded on the Taman Peninsula... Qin Chuan also wanted to launch a sneak attack without making any noise, but the problem was that Qin Chuan had too little intelligence, and they could not even determine whether the Soviet army had buried mines on the shore.

Facts have proved that Qin Chuan's worries were a bit redundant. The reason is as mentioned before. The Soviet army did not think that the German army was capable of launching a landing operation in a short time, especially the landing site was the southern peninsula, so there was not much defense preparation at all, and of course there would be no mines.

A few flares were fired into the air, and the surroundings immediately became snow-white as if it were daytime.

Then the gunfire sounded soon, but Qin Chuan's heart was half relieved when he heard the gunfire, because the gunfire was sparse and not on a large scale, especially there were not many machine guns... This was either the Soviet army was frightened and failed to organize defense in time, or the Soviet army did not have many troops here.

Qin Chuan believed more in the former, because the Soviet army seemed to have no shortage of people anywhere.

But no matter what the reason was, the Soviet army's defeat was inevitable.

Qin Chuan guessed correctly that there were many Soviet troops stationed along the coast of the southern peninsula... The Soviet army stationed on the Taman Peninsula was the 47th Army, which had two divisions, two brigades, and a tank regiment.

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

The so-called "Guards" are somewhat similar to the meaning of "Imperial Guards" and "Yulin" in ancient China, which means that it once defended Moscow... That is, it completed various tasks in the Battle of Moscow, so Stalin awarded these outstanding troops the title of "Guards" and awarded them the Guards flag.

It can also be seen from this that they are not comparable to the troops that were mostly recruits encountered on Kerch Island.

But just as Qin Chuan thought, considering that the northern peninsula is only 4 kilometers away from Kerch and is more vulnerable to German attacks, the 47th Army deployed its main force on the northern peninsula, including not only the 32nd Guards 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 with weaker combat effectiveness.

"Comrade Kotov!" Avdeevich, the commander of the 77th Division under attack, called the army commander Major General Kotov at the first time: "The Germans have landed here, at least one division!"

"Comrade Avdeevich!" Major General Kotov frowned when he heard this: "The enemy has only one division, which means that your troops are twice as many as theirs, so what are you worried about? Destroy them at sea!"

"But, Comrade Kotov!" Avdeevich wiped the sweat from his forehead and said: "They have already landed!"

"You mean... you only found them after they landed?" Major General Kotov roared.

"It's not my fault, Comrade Kotov!" Avdeevich explained, "They used a boat that could sail directly from the sea to the shore. They moved too fast. They broke through our first line of defense before we had time to organize a defense!"

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

"Don't you still have tanks?" Major General Kotov shouted: "Send the tanks up, they are landing troops, they must not have heavy equipment!"

"No, Comrade Kotov!" Avdeevich replied: "They have many more tanks than us!"

"How is it possible? You can't fool me, Avdeevich!" Major General Kotov was furious: "How did their tanks cross the Kerch Strait? You won't tell them that they drove across the strait?!"

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

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

Avdeevich didn't know how to answer, let alone 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 not hesitate to send you to the military court!"

Major General Kotov hung up the phone angrily.

This was of course a misunderstanding. Colonel Avdeevich's grievance and helplessness aside, Major General Kotov's misunderstanding also caused him to misjudge the battlefield situation... If Major General Kotov believed Colonel Avdeevich's report, he would definitely judge that the Tamanan Peninsula could not be defended at the first time.

Another meaning of the Tamanan Peninsula being undefendable is that the Solyony Airport 35 kilometers behind it will be in danger.

In this way, even if Major General Kotov did not have time to reinforce Solyony, he could notify the Solyony 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 was simple. He thought that Avdeevich was frightened by the enemy and said some nonsense in order to get him to retreat... But this did not seem strange. Who could believe that there was a ship that could sail both in the sea and on land? Especially tanks could do it.

So all the deployments made by Major General Kotov were to drive the Germans back to the sea instead of reinforcing Solyon.

He immediately notified the Black Sea Fleet and asked the Black Sea Fleet to reinforce the South Peninsula immediately.

On the other hand, he ordered a regiment of the 32nd Guards Infantry Division to take fishing boats and transport ships to cross the bay as quickly as possible to reinforce the South Peninsula.

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

What he did not know was that all his deployments were in vain.

Because, just as the reinforcements were rushing to the southern peninsula, the tracks of the German tanks had already rumbled over the defense line of the Soviet 77th Infantry Division.