Voroshilov cruiser 12th section

  "Alright, let this landing site become an anvil and the 3rd Motorized Infantry Corps be the hammer. With one strike, the blood of the Russians will redden the sea." The Führer said coldly.

  According to this plan, the two regiments defending the beachhead must stop the Soviet landing forces. If the Soviets break through the German beachhead defenses, they will be able to turn around and attack the rear of Manstein's troops attacking Sevastopol, forcing them to retreat from the Crimean Peninsula. In that case, the Commander-in-Chief of the Third Reich would lose face, and people like Halder would laugh at Hitler.

  Li De called the tall advisor over and asked if he was confident in holding onto the Tan Tou position. The other party replied very calmly that as long as they had sufficient ammunition, he believed they could hold onto the position.

  "Manstein, send ten truckloads of ammunition here immediately. Also bring the heavy artillery battalion here." Li De ordered.

  "Yes!" Manstein replied loudly, walking over to the phone and picking up the receiver: "Send two trucks of ammunition immediately, yes, I've calculated it, two trucks will be enough."

  Lee De returned to the front of the telescope, clumsily adjusting the angle, and aimed the lens at the beachhead that was in fierce battle. Through the smoke, Lee De saw a Maxim gun spewing flames, and Soviet soldiers fell one after another. Suddenly, a big-headed Soviet soldier rushed out from the side, charging forward with a rifle equipped with a bayonet. The German machine gunner was slightly distracted, and seven or eight enemy soldiers rushed up and knocked the Germans to the ground.

  "Damn it." Li De blurted out. Next, he let out a shout of surprise: the pile of Soviet soldiers scattered like flower petals, apparently, the German machine gunner underneath had detonated his ammunition. Shortly after, three German soldiers rushed over from the neighboring position, bowing their backs, with the leading German sergeant holding a pistol in one hand and a submachine gun in the other, shooting left and right, sending any enemy who dared to block their way to the afterlife. The two soldiers following behind carried a general-purpose machine gun and an ammunition box on their backs, taking advantage of the opportunity to rush into the machine gun nest, moving aside the corpses, and two seconds later, the machine gun spat out flames again. Another large group of Soviet soldiers fell down in front of them.

  Li De left the telescope. With such a brave and skilled soldier, what was there for him to worry about?

  Lee sighed. Everyone thought the leader still had something on his mind, and he said with a sigh: "Alas. It's just a pity that the United States sent them so many new landing craft from halfway around the world. If I had half as many good landing craft, I would immediately land on Malta."

  "So you were worried about the enemy." Seeing the leader's carefree expression, everyone else relaxed too. The cold wind mixed with the smell of sea salt howled, and everyone gathered around the stove to warm up with wine, even Li De took two sips.

  Ran Niya was reeking of alcohol, her face as red as a peach blossom, wandering around the room in a loud and boisterous manner. After being scolded by Li De for a few sentences, not only did she not know how to restrain herself, but instead wrapped her arms around his shoulders from behind, only to be pushed away by him in annoyance.

  She stumbled backward a few steps, her lower back against the telescope, she frowned and pouted, Li De involuntarily sat up straight, but she laughed, pointing at Yuan Shou with a coquettish tone: "Don't you forget that I saved your life, and this is how you treat your lifesaver? Hmm?"

  Bao Man whispered to her for a while, she was quiet for a minute, then turned around and listlessly rotated the telescope, which rose and fell greatly. Li De scolded: "Hey, if you want to look, just look, don't flash it aside, do you think that's a toy?"

  She slapped the rotating valve with her palm, glanced at Yuan Shou, stood with exaggerated crossed legs, and put her eyes to the telescope, shouting loudly: "Come on, I'll beat you with laser cannons, whoosh-whoosh-crash, sink to the bottom of the sea!"

  Lee Deqi was panting, but not making a good show. Army Deputy Officer Schmunte muttered: "This Renya, after drinking a little wine, can't hold it in, like a ** bitch, really embarrassing the leader."

  Bormann whispered to Hitler: "Adolf, R?hm is trying to intimidate you with this."

  As the leader's mouth turned into an O shape, he bluntly pointed out: "It was Rania who determined the landing site of the Soviet army and made a great contribution to the German army. You should reward her instead."

  Li De Maosai suddenly opened, like a face-changing performer in Sichuan, China, with a smile on his face, walking towards Ran Niya, but saw her panicked, grabbing wildly in the air: "Ah yeah——cruiser, Yuan Shou quickly run! Run Ah Duofu! Hitler, hurry up and leave here!"

  Lee thought it was a prank, the tall adjutant and the soldiers who had been holding out here reacted quickly, seven or eight of them carried the Führer and Bormann out, everyone rolled and crawled on the small hillside, just as they reached the middle of the slope, the gun emplacement exploded in a loud roar, at the last moment, the Führer felt a small swallow jump out of the gun emplacement and land on his body.

  After a long, long time, the head of the Third Reich emerged from the frozen earth and black snow like a turtle waking up from hibernation. It was a turtle because it carried a heavy shell on its back. The turtle cried out to the shell on its back, louder and louder: "Rennia, wake up! Rennia, wake up!"

  "Adolf, how are you?"

  "Rania, I'm fine, how about you?" Li De moved slowly and carefully, afraid of shaking off the things on his back.

  "I——ha——" The shell jumped agilely from the top of the mountain slope, and the turtle also returned to human form: "Scared me half to death, I thought you were blown up on my body."

  "Bullshit, try lifting it?" Rania pulled him up, shaking off the dirt clods and patting the black snow on his pants.

  Li De was stunned: "What's going on? What's happening?"

  "The Soviet cruiser's guns were pointed right at us. Luckily I reacted quickly." Rania replied, smoothing her hair.

  Li De looked at her with a smile that was not quite a smile: "Thank you for saving me again, no, for saving everyone."

  Rania wiped Adolf's face with her sleeve: "Don't be polite, Adolph, you said we both have a big fate and great luck."

  Lee De was enjoying someone wiping his face while lecturing: "I've said it before, only Aiwa has the right to call me Adolph."

  Rania stopped, then threw a handkerchief at him: "Wipe it yourself." She said and walked away.

  Braun, the adjutant, and Manstein struggled to their feet, Braun rubbing his backside and saying with a sigh of relief: "Next time we'll stay in headquarters, no one forced us to come to the front line. We've had several close calls recently, oh dear..."

  "Several times? You have at least a count, I've encountered countless times. Two days ago I was on a Romanian speedboat patrolling the sea, an airplane strafed and bombed, several of my staff and drivers were killed, but I escaped unscathed, that's fate."

  On the way back, Rania sat in the armored vehicle, recalling the shocking scene just now, her heart was still racing wildly, and the wine was also awakened.

  What Rennia saw through the telescope was a Soviet Kirov-class light cruiser. Her standard displacement was 7,880 tons, powered by steam turbines, 113,000 horsepower, twin-screw propulsion, with a speed of 36 knots. The main armament consisted of three triple 180mm guns, six single 100mm guns, two triple 533mm torpedo tubes and two small seaplanes.

  The Soviet Union built six ships of this class: Kirov, Maxim Gorky, Voroshilov, Molotov, Kalinin and Kaganovich. The Kirov was attacked today by the Voroshilov, which caught them in the crosshairs and sent a 180mm shell their way as a greeting.

  ……

  The German 46th Infantry Division resisted the Soviet landing on a broad front of 27 kilometers, where only a small section was shallow water, with strange rocks and easy to defend. The 50,000 Soviet troops who landed with great difficulty, along with 122 tanks and several hundred infantry guns, were crowded into a beachhead area of just 5 kilometers wide and 8 kilometers deep, covering less than 40 square kilometers, unable to move.

  On January 7, in response to Feodosiya, a Soviet army corps suddenly launched a small-scale landing at Kerch, but the Germans had anticipated this and a division of the 3rd Motorized Corps was stationed just a few kilometers behind Romanian troops. A counterattack threw the Soviets back into the sea.

  The stubborn Soviet troops were reluctant to leave Crimea easily, a company of Red Army marines, or more precisely naval infantry, occupied the reefs several kilometers off the coast, provocatively hoisting on them white with blue edging naval flags with sickle, hammer and red five-pointed star, as a result they became targets for daily routine exercises by Romanian artillery.

  On January 8, under the personal guidance of the commander-in-chief, Manstein launched an offensive against the Kerch Peninsula, codenamed "Operation Trappenjagd". He first launched a feint on the northern flank, and then the entire 3rd Motorized Infantry Army pressed up. On the Eastern Front, the German army had always been winning with fewer troops, but this time it was reversed. The Germans were confident that they could see the outcome within two days.

  However, the powerful Black Sea Fleet played a role, on the first day of the attack, the 22nd Tank Division roared towards the beachhead, and the cruisers "Voroshilov" and "Molotov" had smoke billowing from their foredecks: 6 180mm guns, 12 100mm guns fired shells that swept across the sea, exploding around the tanks, and some small gunboats also used their dense small-caliber shells to block the tanks' advance. Several tanks were torn apart by 180mm shells, and the infantry following behind were stunned and killed with blood flowing from their mouths and noses. The formation was in great disorder, and the other tanks quickly turned around and fled.

  Manshtein decided to launch a night raid, the tanks did not dare to turn on their lights, and crept in the dark to within hundreds of meters of the Soviet troops. Before they could even let out a cheer, searchlights lit up the sea surface, and almost simultaneously, naval gunfire came over.

  "Rushed in, entangled with the Soviet army, making his warship's guns ineffective." The tank regiment commander personally drove the first tank into the enemy formation, unexpectedly the cruiser's cannon fire was accurate, and both German and Soviet soldiers fell into a pool of blood. Faced with such ferocious and ruthless fighting, the Germans were at a loss, and had no choice but to retreat.

  Lehde ordered the 8th Air Force to focus on attacking warships first, but these land-based aircraft were only powerful on the ground and could not keep up with high-speed moving warships. Lehde was dismayed to see that despite the planes chasing after the warships back and forth, the bombs all fell into the sea, so he immediately called Goering to send in naval aviation troops.

  Goring said on the phone, "My Fuehrer, naval aviation is being formed. Aren't you worried about the warship's cannons? Just let the planes entangle the warships and make them unable to fire."

  "Damn it!" Li De slammed down the phone. "Bastard, did I spend a fortune building planes just to harass the enemy?"

  Despite this, he still acted according to plan, ordering the air force to stop bombing the Soviet troops on the beachhead and instead strafing the warships. The German army, led by the 22nd Tank Division, broke through the Soviet defensive line, while the 3rd Army and the 46th Division attacked from both flanks. After two days of fierce fighting, the Germans counted their victorious spoils: 38,000 people were captured, nearly 80 tanks, half of which were superior T-34 and KV tanks, became war trophies.

  In order to get these new tanks, several divisions competed with each other. The leader simply and neatly solved this problem: a special independent tank regiment was established, which immediately went west to attack Sevastopol with these tanks.

  Manstein accompanied the Führer on an inspection of the battlefield, which was a scene of utter devastation. In just a few days, the Soviet troops had dug shallow trenches in the frozen ground, which now served as their graves. Some Soviet and German soldiers were found dead embracing each other, with severed limbs and brains scattered everywhere. Destroyed tanks were still burning, with the charred remains of their crews hanging from the vehicles; the tires of artillery pieces were still smoking, emitting a pungent smell. In areas near the coast, the sea water was stained red by the blood of the dead, fulfilling the German leader's intention to "blood the sea".

  Lee Te walked up to a tank piled high with sandbags, the one driven by the regimental commander himself. The regimental commander jumped down to receive the decoration from the leader. The leader wanted to pin an Iron Cross First Class on his chest, but found that there was little space left on his chest, and he already had three wound badges.

  Although the results of fighting against warships were not good, the leader still awarded a medal to an air force pilot and pinned a flying badge under the young man's left chest pocket. The bomb he threw was closest to the cruiser, and the water column that rose up swept an amphibious plane on the ship into the sea.