Chapter 416 Tune the tiger away from the mountain
Shuerka's purpose in doing this is very simple, in fact, it is to divert the tiger away from the mountain.
The German Air Force has always been superior in quality rather than quantity, while the Soviet Air Force is superior in quantity.
In this case, if it is clear from the beginning that they want to attack Feodosia, then as long as the Germans are willing, it is basically impossible for the Soviet Air Force to fly over Feodosia and carry out effective bombing.
However, if Kerch successfully organizes a counter-offensive, and it is still a counter-offensive supported by the Air Force, it will definitely attract the attention of the Luftwaffe.
Needless to say, the Luftwaffe will deploy a limited number of fighters in the direction of Kerch to resist the Soviet counterattack.
Then the air defense over Feodosia will be exposed.
"Maybe you are right in this regard, Captain!" Major General Vladimir said, looking at the map: "If we do this, it is indeed possible to successfully bomb Feodosia and lose the coastal defense artillery distributed on the beach." effect!"
The irony is that these coastal defense guns actually belonged to the Soviet army. They were captured by the German army and became a threat to the Soviet navy.
However, because they belong to the Soviet army, the Soviet army knows their location and distribution very well.
"But you don't know the difficulties and dangers of amphibious landing operations, Comrade Captain!" Major General Vladimir looked at Mehlis who was pretending to read a newspaper on the other side. Be heard by the "King of Small Reports."
"You don't know anything about it!" Major General Vladimir continued in a low voice, "So, if you are as smart as they say, you should immediately cancel this stupid plan. It will save me and my soldiers Nothing but freezing to death on the beach!"
"Tell me about the difficulty?"
"What?"
"I want to know about the difficulties!" said Shulka, "then we can solve them, don't you think so, Comrade General?"
Major General Vladimir couldn't help laughing: "You think you can solve those difficulties? No, Captain, no one can solve these difficulties, at least so far!"
What Major General Vladimir said was true. It should be said that the U.S. military fought well in the amphibious landing battle, but that was also because they had accumulated experience time and time again on the Pacific battlefield, and at this time the Pacific War had just erupted... Just looking at the world, there is not much experience in amphibious landing operations.
"Maybe I can!" Shulka replied without changing his expression.
Major General Vladimir showed a disdainful smile on his face. He obviously thought that Shulka was too conceited.
"The problem of coastal defense artillery can be regarded as solved!" Major General Vladimir said: "But what about the problem of air supremacy? Without air supremacy, our transport ships and warships are equivalent to the targets of German fighter planes and bombers... Maybe we can The Germans can be fooled for a while, that is, the time to bomb Feodosia. However, when the Germans react, their air force will soon point the finger at our warships. What do you think we should do? Use air defense Cannons? Or dispatch all fighter planes to compete with them for air supremacy?"
"We don't need to worry about this problem!" Shulka replied: "Because we landed at night!"
"What?"
"You know, General! It's hard for fighter planes to work at night, especially on the sea!"
As the commander of the navy, Rear Admiral Vladimir certainly knows this. The sea level is dark at night, and the sky is also dark at the same time. Thought it was thrown into the arms of the sky.
In contrast, flying on land or even barely fighting will be much safer. Fighting at sea at night means killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred.
"But we also can't bomb Feodosia at night, can't we?" Major General Vladimir asked.
"Of course!" Shulka replied: "But we can choose to bomb before dark in the evening, and then the fleet will go straight to Feodosia to carry out the second round of bombing with naval guns. Even if the Germans react at this time..."
"It was dark then too?"
"Yes!" Shulka nodded: "So the Germans can only bear our shells in the dark. They may hope to take revenge after dawn, but... the winter night in the Crimea is very long, and they may never I can't wait until dawn!"
Major General Vladimir once again cast an unexpected look at Shulka, and he found that everything on the battlefield seemed to be under the captain's control.
"If the landing is carried out at night!" Major General Vladimir continued: "Then it will cause new difficulties, and the low visibility will increase the danger of preparing the landing craft!"
"I guess it's not a problem for you, is it?"
Major General Vladimir was silent for a while, then nodded: "We need a few days to practice, I mean landing at night!"
"Two days!" Shulka said: "We only have two days at most, and we will attack on time on the evening of the third day, because the follow-up troops of the Germans may arrive at that time, and then we will think about the cost of the attack." It will be even more difficult for Odocia!"
"No problem!" Major General Vladimir said: "But more importantly, it is the climate problem, Captain, I think you know this too!"
Shulka nodded, this was the trickiest.
"We can only hope that the weather will improve by then!" Shulka said: "If the wind and waves weaken, we can shorten the time for the soldiers to be frostbitten as much as possible!"
"Even so!" Major General Vladimir shook his head and said, "I mean, even if the weather is calm, frostbite is still unavoidable! Because our assault boats and landing craft cannot go ashore, and they may even run aground on the shallows, which means Soldiers have to jump into the water and wade ashore... Nobody survives that, Captain, NOBODY! They don't even need the enemy to waste bullets on them, just wait a dozen minutes and they'll freeze !"
This is really a big problem.
So it is normal for it to be considered a "stupid plan". If this plan has the possibility of success, it is that groups of soldiers rush into the enemy's trenches with unyielding determination to consume the enemy's vital strength before being frozen. .
After the enemy is exhausted, it is possible for the follow-up Soviet army to land calmly without letting the sea water soak their feet.
Mehlis would not care about this, but Shulka and Major General Vladimir could not avoid it.
However, Shulka thought about it and drove the boat ashore?
why not?
(end of this chapter)
