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The Third Empire - Chapter 1320

Published at 19th of October 2021 11:31:51 AM


Chapter 1320: 1320

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The fire lit up the sea. The fuel of the hit destroyer spread on the sea, forming a huge fire area. You can see the Soviet sailors on the warship, in a dilemma.

The ship is going to sink, and they can't stay on the ship, but the sea around the ship is burning. If they want to jump down, it will also burn to death.

Unless we immediately dive into the water and swim over this area, after all, few can swim so far.

A sailor jumped into the water and was immediately burned by the fire. His scream echoed on the sea. Before dawn, his voice echoed on the Black Sea.

Damn German! Gorshkov's eyes flared up.

The destroyer hit belongs to the 7U class, which is an improved version of the anger class.

In the anger class design, influenced by Italian destroyers, the large single chimney structure, the basic ship type of the long head building and the layout form of power units are adopted, but the Leningrad class 130mm single barrel naval gun and small anti shield are used, and two are arranged in the front and back in a backpack type.

One of its most basic shape recognition features is a large chimney, which indicates that the class ship does not adopt the unit power mechanical arrangement. There are 3 boilers in the boiler room and 2 steam turbines in the subsequent engine room.

However, such power arrangement caused some problems in the early service stage of this class of ship, there was serious vibration in the engine room, and the propeller blades were broken.

After that, Germany provided a solution, that is, to use the diesel engine produced by Germany. After installation, it was found that it was much better than the prototype. This new modification is called 7U class destroyer.

In other words, it burns diesel.

If it is a former heavy oil boiler, it can't catch fire even if it is hit. Heavy oil is difficult to be ignited, but diesel is different. When it is ignited by a torpedo, diesel will burn brightly.

(diesel oil cannot be ignited directly, but it can also be ignited in case of other igniters.)

Now, the whole sea is shining, the Soviet warships are burning, and there is an angry light in the eyes of every Soviet sailor.

"Find the other submarine periscope, starboard position, right front of the burning destroyer, about 1000 meters!" Just then, with the help of the light of the burning warship, the lookout saw the periscope on the water!

As long as you see the periscope, you can see the submarine. Who would have thought that the German submarine had left its own search area so quickly and ambushed its own side outside?

"Outside our formation?" Gorshkov was stunned. At this time, he finally reacted: "all fleets, accelerate and leave this sea area!"

Gorshkov stopped fighting because he had guessed that there was definitely more than one German submarine in his own sea area!

He doesn't want to play. He has no time, and if he continues to play, his risk is still great. Because he has only deep-water bombs.

During World War II, the only way was to use destroyers against submarines. Several destroyers were dispatched to round up. After discovering the target, deep-water bombs occurred continuously in order to destroy each other's submarines. This is the only way, but it also faces some risks.

Because the submarine is likely to jump over the wall, the submarine will torpedo the other ship.

If it's daytime, it's easy to say. Because of the wide field of vision, if a submarine wants to launch a torpedo, it must use a periscope and send more lookouts to see it.

But not at night. If there is only one submarine, they can also pull the net and search. If there are multiple submarines, their danger will be greatly increased. Now, German submarines are actually confident!

Gorshkov had the first mock exam, and this was later. In the late 50s, Britain first improved the original single mode of using deep water bombs to fight against submarines. Anti submarine rockets appeared for the first time.

If Gorshkov's naval formation is equipped with anti submarine rockets, when they find the other party's exposed periscope, they can launch the roaring anti submarine rockets in a few seconds, and they will certainly sink the other party.

But now, when he wants to attack, he can only rush up and throw anti submarine deep bombs, which will continue to hurt his warships, because there will be attacks in other directions.

As if to confirm his guess, the sailors on another destroyer had found bubbles on the water in the other direction of the line-up.

"Attention, torpedo attack!"

The destroyer drove at full power and accelerated desperately towards the front. The bubbles on the sea moved so fast that it was beyond their imagination. It was a terrible torpedo, and the speed seemed to be 50 knots!

If it weren't for the light of the burning destroyer over there, they wouldn't see anything. At the same time, the East began to turn pale.

Those fast-moving bubbles drew a line and finally passed the destroyer at the tail of the destroyer.

If it hadn't been discovered in time, they must have been hit! Think about the terrible results and look at the burning warships over there. They just shudder.

"Oh, no!" Just then, the officers and men on the destroyer shouted.

They dodged the torpedo, but it plunged into another warship next to them! Because the warship didn't accelerate immediately, it was hit by mistake.

"Boom!" There was another terrible explosion underwater.

For the German submarine forces, this is a record that makes them proud of their whole life. Many German submarines took turns to attack the Soviet fleet at the door of the Soviet Black Sea fleet, less than 20 nautical miles from the port!

Nine submarines arrived here one after another. They formed an underwater wolf pack and launched a fierce attack on Soviet surface ships. Torpedoes were launched as if they didn't need money.

Faced with this situation, the Soviet Navy could not react and was at a loss! Gorshkov was stunned.

This naval battle was talked about with relish until the end of the war. It was compiled into military textbooks. However, in the later analysis, many militarists are very clear that the tactics of submarine hunting surface ships can not be copied. There are too many elements of luck in it. Relying on submarines alone, they can never compete with surface ships. This victory, It cannot be regarded as the representative of the omnipotent theory of submarines.

If it weren't for the night, if Germany didn't decipher the Soviet Union's telegram and accurately grasp the whereabouts of their fleet, if German submarines were not advanced enough, if the Soviet fleet had enough sonar devices, if they had anti submarine rockets, and if they had a large number of destroyers and frigates, the naval battle would be completely rewritten! It can only be said that the Soviets made too many mistakes, and their biggest mistake was to be attracted by German surface ships and ignore the underwater threat.




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