On the night of May 24, a fleet from the port of Constanta in southeastern Romania quietly approached the Crimean Peninsula on the sea in the west of Sevastopol Fortress.

In the fleet, on the transport ship "Sardin", Lieutenant Batistuta, the platoon leader of the first company of the NP battalion of the St. Mark's Marine Brigade, stood at the bow of the transport ship, holding a telescope and staring at the sea in the east.

The telescope flashed with winding and blurred coastline outlines, and from time to time, fires of all sizes flashed across the ground. It was the light shining of the shell explosion when the German-Italy united fleet bombarded Kelson Point.

According to the information revealed by Battalion Commander Major Garibaldi when the battalion headquarters held an operational meeting, the German-Italy combined fleet shelled Cape Kelson at night, not only to destroy Soviet fortifications on the ground, but also to indicate targets to the Saint-Mark's Marine Brigade, which was about to land at night.

After all, logging in on the sea on a dark night, if no one indicates the direction, it is easy to deviate from the target.

The St. Mark's Marine Brigade has the troops of four battalions, namely "Buffalo", "Grado", "Torbrook" and NP Battalion, of which the first three battalions are Marine Battalions, and NP Battalion consists of two special forces, NP and P.

The n unit is under the command of 580 people, and is good at swimming and diving operations.

The P unit is under its command of 240 people and is good at airborne combat.

The NP Battalion will launch an attack as the first landing force to seize a landing ground for the follow-up of the "San Marco" Marine Brigade at Cape Kelsen in the southwest of the Sevastopol Fortress.

Thinking of the upcoming battle, Lieutenant Batistuta put down his telescope and muttered in a low voice.

“There is too little preparation time for us.”

Looking at the waterproof watch on your wrist, I found that the watch hand was pointing to almost twelve o'clock in the evening. Lieutenant Batistuta returned to the cabin and met with his subordinates in the platoon.

Lieutenant Batistuta has a deputy platoon leader and two squads. The Italian infantry squad is different from Germany. Each squad has 20 people, divided into a machine gun group with 9 people and two light machine guns, and a rifle group with 11 people.

Called the officers and non-commissioned officers among the subordinates, Lieutenant Batistuta said: "Gentlemen, May 24 just passed, and it is May 25th. The time for us to set off is up. Our brigade will be a sharp knife and stabbed the Russians hard on the back, and our np battalion will be the tip of the sharp knife, piercing the Russians' defense line. We can only win without failure."

"Only win, no failure!" the officers and the non-commissioned officers shouted in unison.

"Get your subordinates down and gather outside the cabin." Lieutenant Batistuta said.

After saying that, Lieutenant Batistuta picked up the m1938 submachine gun placed on the table and hung it on his chest, carried his marching bag and walked out of the cabin.

On the deck, soldiers and officers from the NP battalion walked out of the cabin and arranged in an orderly manner, and then walked separately to the left and right ship side.

On the side of the "Sardin", the crew members organized lifeboats to the sea in an orderly manner.

Lieutenant Batistuta and five soldiers under the platoon slowly climbed off the side of the boat along the rope ladder and jumped into the lifeboat.

After they sat down, the crew on the lifeboat picked up their oars and rowed towards the east.

Lieutenant Batistuta looked up and saw the sparkling fire on Kelson's corner in the distance, which was particularly dazzling against the night sky, indicating the direction of the landing for the troops to land.

The sailors rowed hard, and lifeboats passed through the dark sea and quickly approached Cape Kelson.

Except for the fires burst out from the explosion of the shells, no other light was emitted on Kelson's corner, including searchlights that strafed the sea surface. The Soviet army strictly implemented the wartime light control order.

Armed swimming will consume a lot of physical strength, and the physical strength will be doubled under the stimulation of cold sea water. In order to save the officers and soldiers of the N unit to deal with the battle that will inevitably break out after landing, the first stage of the voyage will be completed by lifeboats.

As the lifeboat slowly approached about one kilometer from the coast, the soldiers on the boat, who were on high alert, jumped into the sea.

Lieutenant Batistuta first checked the equipment he was carrying, and then jumped into the sea with a black lifebuoy on his back.

The moment he fell into the water, a chill invaded the skin of his body, and Lieutenant Batistuta couldn't help but tremble.

With the strong body gained from years of hard training, Lieutenant Batistuta quickly adapted to the cold brought by the sea, waved his hands and feet, and rowed eastward in a breaststroke posture. Behind him, the lifeboat turned around and returned one after another.

Time and distance passed without realizing it while swimming. When Lieutenant Batistuta saw that he was five hundred meters away from the coastline, the flames of the shell explosion at Kelson Corner quickly weakened, and then disappeared, and the earth and sea surface were all shrouded in the night.

With the direction left before the flames went out, Lieutenant Batistuta continued to swim forward. With the help of the starlight, the tall outlines flashed on the cliffs on Kelson's corner could be vaguely seen in the distance.

Five hundred meters away one meter after another, Lieutenant Batistuta glanced at the rocky cliff at Kelson's Cape on his right, swam to the left, and continued along the shore to go deeper into the Kozacha Bay on Kelson's Cape.

The Kozacha Bay is sunken to the southeast, and from here you can go directly into Cape Kelson, and this bay has a pier facility built by the Soviet army. Along the pier, Lieutenant Batistuta and his subordinates can go directly ashore and bypass the cliffs that are difficult to climb.

Before departure, Lieutenant Batistuta had seen aerial photos of the pier. The photos showed that all the buildings on the pier were destroyed by previous bombings and shellings. As long as he and his subordinates could successfully get ashore and rush into the destroyed buildings, the first step of the mission could be said to be a successful completion.

As for the second step of the mission, it is to eliminate any enemies found in the building, and to deal with possible counterattacks by the Russians.

Less than 200 meters after entering Kozacha Bay, a rectangular dock extends from the coast to the right.

It was here, Lieutenant Batistuta swam towards the pier and soon found the pier made of cement.

Using the marina, sea water and night cover, Lieutenant Batistuta and his subordinates quietly approached the shore along the marina, and then rushed to the front slope of the shore.

Lying on the shore, Lieutenant Batistuta was shocked, and reached out to take off his wet military shoes from behind and put them on his feet. He then took off the m1938 submachine gun behind him and held it in his hand.

There is only one lonely house on the ground in front of it, which should be a building like a dock office. However, the roof has been lifted off and half of it collapsed.

The north and south of the dock office, after passing through an open land, each has a complex of buildings, each of which is not large in size, with only seven or eight houses.

Batistuta turned around and made several gestures to the deputy platoon leader behind him. The deputy platoon leader Romanioli then took a squad to the dock office.

The figure of Clan One entered the dock office. The whole process went smoothly and there was no fire exchange. Lieutenant Batistuta then led Clan Two to approach the building complex north of the dock office.

The process of occupying the northern building complex was also very smooth. After seeing the second class successfully occupying the broken building complex in the north, Lieutenant Batistuta's heart was resting back to his stomach.

The next task is to wait for dawn and wait for the follow-up troops...

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Lieutenant Batistuta saw a series of tracer bombs flying by, like an electric whip, cutting through the night.

Someone has been exposed, I wish you good luck!
Chapter completed!