"Da da da..." Violent machine gun sounds rang out.
What is surprising is that it was not the Germans but the Soviets who fired first, the Soviets on the amphibious landing ship.
In fact, they did not see the target at all and did not even know where the German defense line was.
During pre-war training, Shulka told them: "Don't save ammunition, especially heavy machine gun ammunition, because it will basically be useless after the amphibious landing vehicle lands. The saved ammunition can only be thrown on the beach to feed the fish."
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The soldiers laughed.
They had indeed not discovered this before, but now that Shulka reminded them, it was indeed the case... When the amphibious landing ship was driving on the sea, the machine gun on the bow might be able to maintain balance and barely aim at the target.
"Barely" is used here because the bow of the amphibious landing ship will shake violently when it is moving, so the machine gun bullets are actually flying everywhere without much accuracy.
This situation will get worse when the amphibious landing craft rushes ashore. The reason is that the amphibious landing craft cannot control the direction, so it cannot even ensure that the gun muzzle is pointed towards the enemy.
"So!" Shulka said: "This machine gun is only used to suppress fire. You should shoot out all its bullets before landing!"
The soldiers of the Marine Infantry Brigade did exactly that. They started shooting at the beach one kilometer away, even though it was pitch dark and they could not see anything.
The dense bullets "swish" flew over the heads of the German soldiers. At that moment, it could be said that the German soldiers were frightened... This was also due to the psychological shock caused by the previous naval gun bombing.
As a result, the German soldiers retracted their heads into the trenches and did not dare to poke their heads out.
Major Weber knew what was going on, and he ordered loudly: "Raise your weapons, bastards, they are just bluffing!"
After the German soldiers were ready, Major Weber shouted: "Listen to my order and fire!"
In an instant, shells and bullets poured towards the Russian landing ship on the sea.
The bullets made a series of splashes on the sea, and made a series of crisp sounds after hitting the hull. However, because the bows of the ships were equipped with shields and additional armor, they could not cause much damage to them.
This even gave the Soviet machine gunners a target, because the sparks from the muzzles were clearly visible in the darkness, so they immediately adjusted their shooting direction and fired back with bullets.
The explosion of mortar shells on the sea raised water columns, but because the amphibious landing ships were fast and low, it was difficult for the shells to hit them.
Occasionally, one or two shells directly hit the amphibious landing ship, and a ball of flame would burst out. The dozen or so soldiers in the ship would be immediately thrown into the air and then fall back into the water... In this temperature, they have almost no chance of survival.
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However, most of the amphibious landing ships escaped the artillery fire. After all, the defending German army only had one reinforced battalion. They were only equipped with a mortar company and the few remaining coastal defense guns after being bombed by the Soviet Air Force. These firepower were simply not enough to stop them.
Soviet troops landed.
Of course, Major Weber did not place any hope on destroying the opponent at sea.
In fact, for the attacker, the most dangerous part of the beach landing battle is the transition moment from the sea to the shore, especially in the Soviet winter.
Major Weber knew this, so he held up his binoculars and quietly observed the enemies charging under the flares, waiting for this moment.
Major Weber believed that he could block these enemies, at least this wave of attacks.
Because he knew that the beach in front of him had at least a hundred meters of shoal between the sea and the coast. The depth of this shoal was only over one meter... It actually gradually became deeper from the coast to the deep sea.
Major Weber believed that this section of the shoal would become the most difficult obstacle for the Russian army to cross, because the ship would soon run aground, and the Russian soldiers would have to jump into the cold water and charge to the shore while stepping on the water up to their thighs.
This is not only a problem of low temperature and coldness, but also a problem of slow movement while wading through water.
Therefore, the German army could take advantage of this moment to shoot at them. With the German army's firepower and marksmanship, Major Weber believed that the Russian charging soldiers would be killed before they were frozen to death.
Even if some of them make it to the beach, mines and barbed wire are waiting for them.
But soon Major Weber discovered that the truth was not what he imagined.
Because the speed of the enemy's landing craft did not slow down at all, not only did it not slow down, it accelerated and rushed forward.
Then something even more surprising happened to Major Webb. He found that several landing craft that had entered the shoal and were supposed to be stranded were still moving forward under the bright light of the flares.
"What's going on?" Major Weber put away his telescope and looked at everything in disbelief.
At first, he thought that this was just a coincidence. It might be that there was special deep water somewhere that allowed the landing craft to continue moving forward. However, the landing craft that kept entering the shoal and all moving forward quickly made him realize that this was not the case.
Then, under the astonished eyes of Major Weber and the Germans, the landing craft got closer and closer... The shoal seemed to them not to exist.
Then, the Germans knew what was going on, because at this time several amphibious landing ships had "jumped" out of the water, and the wheels under the hulls were clearly visible under the bright light of the flares.
"God!" Major Webb couldn't help but exclaimed: "Wheels, they actually put wheels on the landing craft!"
The next second, Major Weber ordered: "Hold them, don't let them come up!"
But it's already too late...
The German army's deployment on the beach could not effectively block the Soviet charge.
If, as Weber imagined, Soviet soldiers had to wade through water to attack, then mines and barbed wire would certainly play a very good role.
But now the Soviet army drove amphibious landing vehicles directly to the shore, and they rushed ashore quite quickly.
Although there are many tragic car rollovers... there are many reasons for car rollovers, such as running over landmines, being caught by barbed wire, or driving into bomb craters and losing balance, etc.
But even so, a considerable number of Soviet soldiers were quickly transported ashore.
At this time, they were only more than 200 meters away from the German army... There was nothing to say, of course they would launch a charge.
The combat quality of the naval infantry brigade is indeed not comparable to that of the Soviet Army. They do not blindly charge towards the enemy positions, but use grenades to clear the way, use mortars and machine guns to suppress enemy firepower, and even have snipers lying in the dark to take aim.
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Among them, there is also the SVT semi-automatic rifle commonly used by the naval infantry brigade. It gave the Soviet army much greater firepower than ordinary troops. Coupled with the Soviet army's advantage in strength, it easily suppressed the German army.