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The Third Empire - Chapter 1161

Published at 19th of October 2021 11:35:43 AM


Chapter 1161: 1161

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In terms of distance, after entering the Baltic Sea, the German naval formation seems to be attacked by the Soviet naval aviation at any time.

Although the Soviet Navy did not receive much attention, after all, they were also combat effective, and in this environment of the Baltic Sea, they were really vulnerable.

In fact, the Soviet Navy had no such capability at all.

Although Germany did not bother to clean up the Baltic Fleet, it was not soft on their naval aviation. On the first day of the war, they wiped out their strength on the ground.

The Soviet air force can still mobilize aircraft from the rear, but the naval aviation is different. They can't transfer from other naval bases, can they? In this way, the Soviet naval air force was temporarily disabled.

Therefore, the German fleet can enter the Baltic Sea without fear. Even if a few sporadic aircraft fly, the fleet's dense anti-aircraft fire and the fleet's escort fighters are enough to let the other party drink a pot.

Moreover, the current Baltic Fleet has not found the attack of the German fleet at all. They lack maritime patrol aircraft, not to mention that now they want to run back.

Tallinn, the base of the Baltic Fleet, is full of thick smoke. These smoke are artificially placed. Of course, it also has the factor of the fleet's own boiler. Now, the black smoke in the boiler is even thicker.

Amid the black smoke, the flagship Mara first moved out of the berth.

Mara is the only class I battleship in the Soviet Union. In fact, its armor is not thick, which is a compromise for high speed.

Although it is old and has undergone a modern improvement a few years ago, it can still be accelerated to 30 knots when its boiler operates at full power.

On the bridge, Captain Peter's face was very dignified.

The war on the ground is too fast. The German attack is so fast. What will happen to their Soviet in the future?

Peter shook his head and put those ideas behind him. Now they have received the task to return to defend Petersburg, assist the ground forces and stop the attacking German army.

No matter how powerful those armored soldiers are, they are all slag in front of the guns of battleships.

Huge warships have drawn waves on the sea. After sailing for a few hours, they can see the military port of kronstad, which is also the main military port of the Baltic Fleet.

This is originally Finland. Hundreds of years ago, Peter the great at that time noticed the kotlin Island floating from the Gulf of Finland. It is only 29 kilometers away from Petersburg and belongs to the gateway position of Russia. It is very important to defend here.

Therefore, after seizing the island from Finland, that is, in 1703, when construction began in Petersburg, it was also built as an important military port.

Kronstad means the royal city.

The Gulf of Finland itself is not very deep. It is completely frozen in winter. Therefore, the construction of the Soviets was quite simple. They drove the workers to transport thousands of oak boxes full of stones from the ice to the local area by horses and sank into the ice cave, so as to build several artificial islands, and then built forts on these islands.

These forts completely blocked the waterway leading to Petersburg. There are only two narrow waterways that can still sail. The strong fortresses on both sides can guard the waterway tightly and firmly. It is completely the momentum that one man is in charge of the pass and ten thousand people can't open it.

The five fortresses formed in this way are the main defense facilities at the mouth of the Gulf of Finland. After its completion, it has played its due role in history. For example, in the Crimean War, they successfully repulsed the joint fleet of Britain and France.

In the 19th century, the fortress of kronstad was expanded and reinforced again. From 1856 to 1871, four new forts were built. They controlled the main entrance of the Gulf of Finland, and the other seven forts controlled the shallow north channel. All these fortresses are very low, protected by very thick armor and equipped with Krupp turrets.

Originally, this was the base of the Baltic Fleet. It was not until the three Baltic countries were conquered by the Soviet Union that the Baltic Fleet moved its fleet base to Tallinn. In less than a year, they came back.

Peter was filled with mixed feelings when he revisited his hometown.

The central waterway and the cannons on both sides are so clear. When he first joined the army decades ago, he became an artillery of coastal defense artillery here. When he remembered the cruel world war I, it seemed that there was a scene of gunfire in front of Peter's eyes.

Behind the Mara, the October revolution also followed into the waterway. In order to hurry, two warships each took a waterway. These two warships of the same model are running at high speed.

Behind them, there are large and small warships gathering towards the waterway.

In the sky, there are white clouds floating. Although the weather is very cold, the air is quite good. The fresh cold wind makes the lookout hands on the Mara very comfortable.

He put his hand to his mouth and took two breaths. Then he continued to raise his telescope and observe the sky above his head.

When he twisted the telescope into the clouds, suddenly, a light blue navy painted aircraft sprang out of the clouds. The black cross on the back of the fuselage was so eye-catching.

In an instant, he was anxious: "Stuka, German Stuka, jumped out of the clouds, come on, come on!"

Although the relationship between Germany and the Soviet Union was very good in the past, due to the geographical location, the main enemy of the Baltic Fleet was the Germans. Therefore, the lookout post of the fleet was quite clear about the German weapons and equipment.

Now, seeing the plane coming out of the clouds, he judged the model at the first time, and the combat ship in full battle immediately sounded the air defense alarm.

Find the German dive bomber!

As the largest warship in the Tsarist Russian era, gangut class weapons are also many. For example, he has four triple mounted 305 mm 52 times caliber guns as the main gun, and 16 120 mm 50 times caliber guns as auxiliary guns, but the auxiliary guns do not have the function of shooting in the air.

It has very few anti-aircraft weapons, only two 76 mm anti-aircraft guns, four 47 mm anti-aircraft guns and eight anti-aircraft machine guns.

Although it has been observed that in recent naval battles, dive bombers have become the biggest threat to the fleet, and the Baltic Fleet has also submitted a report to add more anti-aircraft guns to this battleship, the war began before the improvement project was approved.

At the stern of the ship, the anti-aircraft soldiers of the 47mm anti-aircraft gun were busy immediately.

When they came out of the port and couldn't use the smoke to escape, they were ready and waited on their artillery position. Now they suddenly found the situation. The gunner immediately shook the high and low aircraft quickly, and the anti-aircraft artillery commander on the side had issued an order.

"Distance 20, direction 009 to the left, height 75, adjust a secret bit, five consecutive shots, release!"

"Bang, bang, Bang..." black smoke came out of the muzzle, yellow orange shells were thrown out from one end, and 47mm anti-aircraft artillery shells had flown into the sky.

At this time, Soviet Navy soldiers showed their high quality. Unfortunately, compared with them, the quality of German soldiers was higher.




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