Chapter 600 Interspersed

This was a battle without suspense.

After landing, the soldiers jumped off the boat one after another and charged towards the Soviet defense line under the cover of tanks.

During the battle, the soldiers found a very interesting point, that is, the mortar mounted on the amphibious landing vehicle can fire shells at the enemy, so it became a mobile turret after landing, which can fire shells while moving to provide firepower assistance to the troops.

Of course, the benefits of the amphibious landing vehicle are not only that, it can directly deliver ammunition to the advancing soldiers without the process of unloading and loading the car, and can also carry soldiers to chase the enemy when necessary.

This enabled the First Infantry Regiment to receive continuous supplies along the way and maintain strong firepower. Of course, the most important thing is that the entire landing operation was done in one go and very quickly, so the German army defeated the Soviet army with a charge and beat them to flee everywhere.

During this period, the Soviet army pulled up a tank battalion with 21 tanks "rumbling" up in the hope of repelling the German army... but this was obviously not feasible.

First of all, most of the tanks that the Germans landed were Type 4 tanks, and there were as many as 28 of them. Their performance was not inferior to that of Soviet tanks, and they had an advantage in number.

Secondly, the German tanks had advanced communication equipment, and they could coordinate well with each other... This was especially important for night battles, because the tanks at that time were not equipped with night vision goggles and basically had no night combat capabilities. They could only be guided and coordinated by infantry during night battles. Otherwise, they couldn't even distinguish between the enemy and ourselves in the dark, let alone fight.

Needless to say, the Soviet tanks had poor communication equipment, which made them rush around like blind men touching an elephant as soon as they drove up, and even killed the fleeing Soviets... It was unknown whether they killed them by mistake or stopped them from escaping.

In fact, these Soviet tank crews knew that they were going to die, and it was also a great waste of tanks... But even so, they had to obey orders and drive their tanks up in the dark. All they could do was to use one or two flares that occasionally rose from the sky to determine the enemy's position and open fire.

The situation of the Germans was much better.

In fact, they did not use tanks to fight against enemy tanks, they used more rockets... In the dark, tanks without infantry cover could not stop the enemy infantry from approaching them secretly.

So with a few "chi chi" whistles, Soviet tanks became scrap metal 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 troops in the southern peninsula and cover the amphibious landing ships to travel between the Kerch Strait in batches to take over the troops of the 11th Army.

The 1st Infantry Regiment turned around and withdrew from the battlefield, driving the amphibious landing ship along the road towards Solyon.

Several sidecars and a 38T tank that were scouting in front of the team... As mentioned before, the 38T tank is a light tank that cannot fight against the Soviet T34 tank. It is actually not cost-effective to use the modified amphibious tank to get it from the Kerch Peninsula. (This is also the reason why most landing tanks are "Panzer IV" tanks)

The problem is that the "Panzer IV" tanks are gradually modified to adapt to the battlefield, making 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 penetrate Solyon, so the "Panzer IV" tank obviously cannot meet this demand.

The 38T light tank does not have such a problem. It has a speed of 42 kilometers per hour, which is enough for the First Infantry Regiment marching at night... Although the amphibious landing ship can reach a speed of 80 kilometers per hour on land, no one dares to drive it at this speed during a night march and on a poorly maintained road.

Therefore, the First Infantry Regiment can only get three 38Ts to provide the First Infantry Regiment with the necessary firepower and armored defense.

Facts have proved that this choice is correct, because any tank, even if it is a light tank, is a nightmare for infantry, and its 25MM thick armor in front of the bunker is even more important...

In the first half of the road, the First Infantry Regiment encountered more retreating or fleeing Soviet troops.

But because the Soviet army had abandoned its heavy equipment, it was basically vulnerable to the 38T tank.

Along the way, Qin Chuan heard the sound of gunfire and artillery in front of him, and when the amphibious landing vehicle drove up, he saw blood everywhere near the road, and piles of Soviet soldiers' bodies were piled up next to it...The scouts had obviously cleared the road for the follow-up troops.

Of course, there will still be some broken limbs and arms left on the road, after all, those can no longer stop the troops from advancing.

Later, Qin Chuan learned that the bodies on the roadside were not all cleared by the scouts.

In fact...the scouts would leave some Soviet prisoners in every battle with the Soviet army, and the German soldiers would order these Soviet prisoners to clean up the bodies and even the wreckage of the car, and then let them be taken to the roadside and shot.

This seems a bit cruel, but as mentioned before, the First Infantry Regiment was an infiltration unit, and they could not take prisoners because of the mission and confidentiality.

After about fifteen minutes, such battles became less and less frequent, and in the end, the road was even empty with only German troops marching. So Qin Chuan knew that the First Infantry Regiment was even ahead of the Soviet army's rout.

This made the march of the 1st Infantry Regiment go more smoothly. Occasionally, they encountered several Soviet checkpoints on the road. A few Soviet soldiers with flashlights asked loudly in Russian. It was obvious that they were under the headlights of three-wheelers and tanks. Unable to distinguish friend from foe.

The German soldiers responded with bullets. At the same time, the 38T tank rumbled up and directly crashed into the ridiculous roadblock lying in the road.

After marching on the road for nearly an hour, the Soviet army had no response at all to the fast-moving troops of the 1st Infantry Regiment. Although this was expected by Qin Chuan, it was also a bit unexpected.

This is expected because the Soviet army's poor coordination is well known.

It was unexpected because how could the Soviet commander ignore Soglione, a strategic location, especially such an important place as the airport? This is somewhat unimaginable to Qin Chuan.

"Looks like we're in luck!" said Colonel Slain, "because I didn't hear any planes flying away from the sky, but I'm not sure if they moved before that!"

"They're still there!" Qin Chuan answered while holding a telescope and looking toward the airport.

"How do you know?" Colonel Slain asked.

"Because there are no lights at the airport!"