Chapter three hundred and ninety fourth: Tune the tiger away from the mountain
Shurka's purpose of doing this is very simple, in fact, it is to lure 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 had been clear from the beginning that it wanted to attack Feodosia, then as long as the Germans were willing, it would be basically impossible for the Soviet Air Force to fly over Feodosia and carry out effective bombing.
However, if Kerch successfully organizes a counterattack, and it is a counterattack supported by the air force, it will definitely attract the attention of the Luftwaffe.
Needless to say, the German Air Force will invest a limited number of fighter planes in the direction of Kerch to resist the Soviet counterattack.
As a result, the air defense over Feodosia will be exposed.
"Maybe you are right in this regard, Captain!" Major General Vladimir looked at the map and said: "If we do this, it is indeed possible to successfully bomb Feodosia and lose the coastal defense guns distributed on the beach.
effect!"
Ironically, these coastal defense guns actually belonged to the Soviet army. They were captured by the Germans and became a threat to the Soviet navy.
However, precisely because they belonged to the Soviet army, the Soviet army knew their location and distribution very well.
"But you don't know the difficulties and dangers of amphibious landing operations, Comrade Captain!" Major General Vladimir said and looked at Maihelis who was pretending to read the newspaper on the other side. He was obviously worried that what he said would
Be heard by the "King of Snitches."
"You know nothing about it!" Major General Vladimir lowered his voice and continued: "So, if you are as smart as they say, you should cancel this stupid plan immediately. It will not only make me and my soldiers
You’ll get nothing but freezing to death on the beach!”
"Tell me what's the difficulty?"
"What?"
"I want to know those difficulties!" Shulka said: "Then we can solve those difficulties, don't you think so, Comrade General?"
Major General Vladimir couldn't help laughing: "Do you think you can solve those difficulties? No, Captain, no one can solve these difficulties, at least so far!"
What Major General Vladimir said is the truth. It should be said that the US military fought well in the amphibious landing battle, but that was also because they had accumulated experience time and time again in the Pacific battlefield, and the Pacific War had just broken out at this time...
That is to say, there is not much experience in amphibious landing operations around the world.
"Maybe I can!" Shulka replied without changing his face.
A disdainful smile appeared on Major General Vladimir's face. He obviously thought Shulka was too conceited.
"The problem of coastal defense artillery can be considered solved!" Major General Vladimir said: "But what about the problem of air supremacy? Without air supremacy, our transport ships and warships are equivalent to targets for German fighters and bombers... We may
We can deceive the Germans for a while, which is the time to bomb Feodosia. However, when the Germans react, their air force will soon target our warships. What do you think we should do? Use
Anti-aircraft guns? 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 be effective at night, especially over the sea!"
As a naval commander, Rear Admiral Vladimir certainly knows this. The sea level is pitch black at night, and the sky is pitch dark at the same time. This makes pilots unable to tell which is the sea and which is the sky, so they often fall headlong into the sea.
I thought it was an embrace thrown into the sky.
In comparison, it would be much safer to fly or even forcefully fight on land. Night battles at sea would mean killing one thousand enemies and damaging oneself eight hundred.
"But we can't bomb Feodosia at night, right?" Major General Vladimir asked.
"Of course!" Shulka replied: "But we can choose to carry out the bombing in the evening before dark, and then the fleet will approach Feodosia and use naval guns to carry out the second round of bombing. At this time, even if the Germans react..."
"It was also dark then?"
"Yes!" Shulka nodded: "So the Germans can only withstand our artillery shells in the dark. They may hope to take revenge after dawn, but... the dark nights in the Crimean winter are very long, and they may
I’ll never wait until dawn!”
Major General Vladimir cast an unexpected look at Shulka again, and he found that everything on the battlefield seemed to be under the control of this captain.
"If the landing is carried out at night!" Major General Vladimir continued: "It will cause new difficulties. The visibility will be low, which will increase the danger of preparing the landing craft!"
"I think this won't trouble you, right?"
Major General Vladimir was silent for a moment, then nodded: "We need a few days to practice, I mean landing at night!"
"Two days!" Shurka said: "We only have two days at most. We have to attack on time on the evening of the third day, because the German follow-up troops may arrive by then, and then we will spend more money on the attack.
Odosia is even more difficult!"
"No problem!" Major General Vladimir said: "But more importantly, it is the climate problem, Captain, I think you also know this!"
Shulka nodded, this is the most difficult thing.
"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 soldiers to suffer frostbite 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, they may even run aground on the shoals, which means
The soldiers had to jump into the water and wade ashore... No one could survive in that situation, Captain, no one! They didn't even need the enemy to waste bullets shooting at them, just wait ten minutes and they would freeze
Got it!"
This is indeed a big problem.
So it is normal for it to be considered a "stupid plan". If this plan has a chance of success, it would be if teams of soldiers relied on their unyielding will to rush into the enemy's trenches and consume the enemy's vitality before being frozen.
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After the enemy was exhausted, it was possible for the subsequent Soviet troops to land calmly without letting the sea water soak their feet.
Mykhlis will not care about this, but Shulka and Major General Vladimir cannot avoid it.
However, Shulka then thought about it and drove the boat ashore?