Chapter 598 Carelessness

At 11 o'clock in the evening of the third day after the capture of Kerch Port, the commandos were ready in Punji, a southern suburb of Kerch.

The commandos were divided into two parts:

One part was composed of mountain divisions... In a way, it was a waste to use mountain divisions for amphibious landings. Their expertise was in mountains, but they were thrown into the sea.

But on the one hand, this was a helpless move. On the other hand, they were not the vanguard troops. The vanguard troops were the amphibious tanks of the 22nd Armored Division and the 32nd Infantry Regiment that cooperated with them. The role of the mountain division was actually to land and control the battlefield situation.

The other part was the 1st Infantry Regiment, which was five kilometers away.

Obviously, the 1st Infantry Regiment was the main force of this battle. After landing, they would avoid the landing site and go straight to Solyonyi, located in the heart of the Taman Peninsula.

At 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, the amphibious tanks went into the water first.

This is because the speed of the amphibious tanks is only 5 kilometers per hour. It takes them two hours to travel a distance of ten kilometers. In order to achieve almost simultaneous landing of infantry and tanks, the tanks need to go one hour ahead.

Of course, these tanks were also covered and coordinated by infantry.

At 1 o'clock, the First Infantry Regiment was launched.

It must be said that the convenience of amphibious landing ships is beyond doubt. If other ships were used, the beach would be very busy at this time, carrying materials to the ship and pushing the ship into the water. In addition, cars would be needed to help transport heavy equipment such as artillery.

But with amphibious landing ships, all these can be saved, because these things have been shipped directly to the base. The First Infantry Regiment only has to do one thing... drive the amphibious landing ships into the sea one by one.

There is only one thing to pay attention to. Be careful when going into the sea. You must slowly let the hull contact the sea water. Too fast speed will stir up a lot of sea water into the hull, which will wet the equipment and ammunition. It may also cause the amphibious landing ship to sink instantly.

Of course, this situation did not happen here. One of the reasons may be that the drivers are very unfamiliar with this new equipment... People sometimes have this strange mentality. They will maintain enough patience and awe for unfamiliar things. When they are familiar with it to a certain extent, they don't care.

After the amphibious landing ship reached the sea, it switched to sea navigation mode, and the engine drove the propeller to push the hull forward.

A gust of sea breeze made Qin Chuan feel a little refreshed. If it weren't for the occasional shells flying between the two sides and exploding on the opposite side, and the serious expressions of the soldiers on the ship, Qin Chuan would really think that this was a fishing trip.

Perhaps the explosion of the shells played a cover role, and the Soviet army never noticed the movement on the sea.

This is actually a strategy of the German army. They have never stopped firing at the opposite side since they occupied Kerch Island... There are only ten kilometers between them, which is completely within the range of the howitzer.

The Soviets were naturally not to be outdone, and followed closely behind, firing shells from the opposite side. So the artillery was exchanging fire, although neither side actually hit the target or even had any target. Some shells directly hit the sea and exploded into water columns.

In this respect, the Soviets were actually fooled.

Because the purpose of the Germans doing this was to make the Soviets adapt to the noise of the bombardment and treat it as a normal state, so as to cover up the sound of the amphibious landing ship's motor.

As a result, the amphibious landing fleet of the First Infantry Regiment arrived at the coast of the Taman Peninsula on the opposite side very smoothly.

An unexpected thing happened was that the fleet reconnaissance in front discovered a Soviet 1125-type gunboat on patrol.

However, this did not pose a big threat to the fleet, because the fleet had been prepared for this... At least one artillery regiment was ready to cooperate with the fleet on the Kerch Peninsula, and the reconnaissance ship immediately called for artillery fire to cover it after discovering the searchlight of the 1125-type gunboat.

A shell hit the Type 1125 gunboat, setting it on fire and then leaving quickly.

Qin Chuan originally thought that the fleet would definitely be exposed, but after waiting for a long time, he found that there was no movement... There were no flares or shells, and there were no searchlights on the other side.

Later, Qin Chuan learned that the Soviet gunboat took it for granted that it was its own searchlight that exposed its position and attracted German shells, so it cursed and did not report anything and did not continue patrolling and reconnaissance... The Soviets will never lack such careless and sloppy people, which is somewhat similar to their equipment style, which is rough and simple on the whole, but durable.

So sometimes it is hard to explain sloppiness.

There are always some remarks on the Internet that boast that the Japanese are serious and pay attention to details, and the Chinese, who form a contrast, are sloppy, and conclude that China has no future.

However, the fact is: if you say that the Chinese are sloppy, you will find that it is not sloppy at all when you go to the United States. When you go to the Soviet Union, you will find what sloppiness is. When you see the Indians... they will teach you sloppiness.

If you can judge whether a country has a future by its carelessness, the United States and the former Soviet Union would never become superpowers.

This aspect is easy to understand if we consider it from the perspective of the "golden mean" theory... Everything has a limit, otherwise it is too much or too little. Paying too much attention to details often makes people ignore the more important thing of strategy and focus on tactics.

Japan made this mistake again and again during World War II and refused to repent.

In the big aspects, for example, for the sake of its own oil problem, it completely ignored the situation of its ally Germany and attacked the United States... Can't you take it slow if you don't have enough oil? It would also be beneficial for Germany to provoke the United States after it won the Soviet-German War or gained a foothold in the Mediterranean. It had to kill its allies and then itself before it would stop.

In the small aspects, such as fighting a naval battle with the United States, the commander directly stipulated what tasks each torpedo boat had to complete.

This seems perfect, and each part knows what tasks they have to complete and what they have to do, but when put together, it becomes a farce and is beaten black and blue by the United States... Too rigid regulations will make the troops lose flexibility in combat and difficult to adapt to the ever-changing battlefield. The German army also made this mistake after Hitler strengthened his control over the troops.

So in this regard, India and Japan are actually going to two extremes, one is too careless, and the other is too serious.

Those who are truly promising should be those who are neither so careless nor so serious, so that they can take into account both strategy and tactics.