Chapter 1320： Siege at sea

The fire illuminates the sea. The fuel of the destroyed destroyer spreads on the sea, forming a huge area of ​​fire. You can see the Soviet sailors on the battleship.

The ship is about to sink, they can't stay on the ship, but the sea around the ship is burning, if they want to jump off, it will be burned to death.

Unless you dive into the water immediately and swim across this area, after all, there are only a few who can swim so far.

A sailor jumped into the water and was immediately burned by the fire. His screams echoed on the surface of the sea, and his voice resounded on the surface of the Black Sea before dawn.

Damn German! Gorshkov's eyes burst into anger.

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

In the design of the Rage class, it was influenced by the Italian destroyers. The large single chimney structure, the basic ship type of the long first building and the layout of the power plant were adopted, but the 130mm single-tube ship of the Leningrad class was used. Cannons, small anti-shields, and 2 back and forth knapsacks.

One of its most basic shape identification features is a large chimney, which shows that this class of ships does not adopt a unitary power mechanical arrangement. There are 3 boilers in the boiler room, and 2 steam turbines in the engine room behind.

However, this kind of power arrangement caused some problems in the early stage of service for this class of ships. There were serious vibrations in the engine room and the propeller blades were broken.

After that, Germany provided a solution, which was to switch to a diesel engine produced in Germany. After installation, it was found to be a great improvement over the prototype. This new modification is called a 7U-class destroyer.

In other words, it burns diesel.

If it is a previous heavy oil boiler, it cannot 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, the diesel will burn.

(Diesel can not be ignited directly, but it can be ignited when there are other ignitors.)

Now, the entire surface of the sea is shining brightly, the Soviet warships are burning, and every Soviet sailor has an angry fire in the eyes.

"Found the periscope of the opponent's submarine, starboard position, in front of the burning destroyer, about a kilometer away!" At this moment, with the light of the burning battleship, the watcher actually saw the periscope on the water!

As long as you see the periscope, you see the submarine. Who would have thought that the German submarine had left its search area so quickly and went outside to ambush itself?

"Outside our formation?" Gorshkov was taken aback. At this time, he finally reacted: "All fleet, speed up, get out of this sea!"

Gorshkov stopped fighting, because he had guessed that there is definitely more than one German submarine in this sea area of ​​his side!

He doesn't want to fight anymore, he has no time, and if he continues to fight, his risk is still great. Because he only has depth charges.

During World War II, the only way was to use destroyers to anti-submarine. Several destroyers were dispatched to round up. After the target was discovered, depth bombs were continuously fired to destroy the opponent's submarine. This method is the only way, but it also faces certain risks.

Because the submarine is likely to jump over the wall in a hurry, the submarine will torpedoes on the opposing ship.

If it's daytime, that's okay, because the field of view is wide, and the submarine must use a periscope if it wants to launch a torpedo, and more observers can see it.

But it won’t work at night. If there is only one submarine, they can still pull the net to search. If there are more, their danger will be greatly increased. Now, German submarines are actually confident!

Gorshkov did not have any weapons at hand. This is also a later generation. In the late 1950s, Britain first improved the single mode that could only use depth charges for anti-submarine. Anti-submarine rockets appeared for the first time.

If Gorshkov’s naval formation is equipped with anti-submarine rockets, when the exposed periscope of the opponent is found, the roaring anti-submarine rocket can be launched in a few seconds, and it will surely sink the opponent.

But now, if he wants to attack, he can only rush up and throw the anti-submarine deep bomb, which will continue to damage his warship because there will be attacks in other directions.

As if confirming his guess, the sailor on the other destroyer in the other direction of the one-character line had already spotted bubbles emerging from the water.

"Attention, torpedo attack!"

This destroyer drove at full power and accelerated desperately toward the front. The bubbles on the sea were moving so fast, it was beyond their imagination. It was a terrible torpedo with a speed of fifty knots!

If it weren't for the light of the burning destroyer over there, they would see nothing. At the same time, Dongfang started to turn pale.

Those fast-moving bubbles drawn a line, and finally passed by the destroyer at the rear of the destroyer.

If they were not discovered in time, they must have been hit! Think of the terrible results, and look at the burning warships over there, they just shudder.

"Oh, no!" At this moment, the officers and soldiers on the destroyer shouted.

They hid the torpedo, but plunged into the other battleship alongside them! Since the battleship did not accelerate immediately, it was hit by mistake.

"Boom!" A terrible explosion sounded underwater again.

For the German submarine force, this is simply enough to make them proud of their lifetime recordMany submarines of the German Navy are actually at the door of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet, less than twenty nautical miles from the port. In the position, take turns to attack the Soviet fleet!

Nine submarines arrived here one after another. They formed an underwater wolf pack and launched a fierce attack on the Soviet surface ships. One after another torpedoes were launched as if they were free of money.

Faced with this situation, the Soviet Navy was unable to react and was at a loss! Gorshkov was beaten up.

This naval battle was talked about until the end of the war, and it was compiled into military textbooks. However, in the subsequent analysis, many military strategists are very clear that the tactics of this submarine hunting surface ship are impossible. It was copied, and it contained too much luck. Only by relying on submarines, it would never be able to compete with surface ships. This victory cannot be used as a representative of the submarine omnipotence theory.

If it is not night, if Germany does not decipher the Soviet telegrams, and accurately grasp the whereabouts of their fleet, if the German submarines are not advanced enough, if the Soviet fleet has enough sonar devices, if they have anti-submarine rockets, if they have a large number of destroyers and frigates , This naval battle will be completely rewritten! It can only be said that the Soviets made too many mistakes, and their biggest mistake is to be attracted by the German surface ships and ignore the underwater threat.