Chapter 215 Greetings From the Red Navy

As one of the four major rivers flowing through the Soviet Union, the Neva River, with an average water depth of 28 meters, is wide enough to accommodate the navigation and draft of large warships. This also provides the opportunity for this cruise squadron belonging to the Baltic Fleet to catch up. To provide naval gun support for front-line ground forces to establish a guarantee.

This small squadron is made up of the "Maxim-Gorky" light cruiser, which was just commissioned in 1940 and is still the most advanced warship in the current Red Navy. "Three destroyers provided support to frontline ground forces via the Neva River that flows through Leningrad.

It is one of the most powerful and cutting-edge cruisers in the entire Red Navy's current fleet. The performance of the new cruiser, which was given the name of a generation of Soviet literary giant "Maxim Gorky", is naturally extraordinary.

The "Maxim-Gorky" cruiser, which was improved on the basis of the previous Type 26 "Kirov" cruiser, is the same as its predecessor. It is also equipped with three destructive and powerful firepower in the light cruiser class. Triple 180mm main gun.

Thanks to the powerful artillery manufacturing technology of the Soviet Red Army, the Gorky cruiser, which was assigned long-range interception and strike missions in the Red Navy's operational planning, is equipped with a powerful 57-fold caliber 180 mm B-1-P triple main body. Cannon, this has a powerful artillery performance that is enough to arrogant among the light cruisers of all countries in the world at the same time.

The powerful destructive power brought by the 180mm large-caliber crushing is beyond reproach. The high-caliber gun barrel and enlarged propellant chamber give the projectile a longer rotational acceleration process in the barrel and stronger propellant combustion kinetic energy.

All this ultimately allows the cruiser Gorky to launch 180mm naval gun high-explosive projectiles weighing 97 kilograms at a muzzle speed of up to 920 meters per second to effectively strike targets up to 38 kilometers away, and this is already completely Ultra-long range of battleship main gun level.

The Gorky, which had just led the squadron into effective firing range, had contacted the field division headquarters of the 10th Infantry Division of the Reserve, which had just been deployed and set up a radio station, through the bridge communication equipment nearly half an hour ago.

After learning the approximate coordinates of the German artillery positions from the remnants of the artillery regiment of the 21st Border Defense Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the field division headquarters of the 10th Infantry Division of the Reserve immediately sent it to the squadron on the Neva River. Flagship Gorky.

After receiving the coordinates of the German artillery position, the Red Navy fleet immediately began to adjust and fire the elements to prepare for the artillery attack. This happened to be the moment when the German offensive troops were completely driven out of the position by the Soviet army.

The German artillery that had just launched an artillery bombardment on the Soviet pursuit force obviously did not realize that an entire red navy fleet with powerful firepower had quietly targeted them at this moment.

The cruiser Gorky, which fired all nine 180mm main guns in broadside salvos, immediately created three puddles of muzzle shock waves visible to the naked eye on the calm Neva River beneath the ship. Nine full-caliber 180mm OF32 rounds were fired. The high-explosive grenade immediately cut through the sky and roared towards the distant target.

As the leader, the cruiser Gorky began to fire and roar, and the three Red Navy destroyers that were escorting it, which were relatively petite but equally powerful, were not idle either.

The 130mm B-13 single-mounted naval gun equipped as the main gun on these Red Navy destroyers also began to fire salvos. Although the 130mm high-explosive grenade with a projectile mass of 33 kilograms is smaller, its 870-meter per The muzzle velocity of 2 seconds and the warhead charge of 6 kilograms still demonstrate the incomparable powerful performance of naval naval guns compared to traditional army artillery.

The naval gun projectiles that flew over the German artillery positions after crossing a shooting distance of twenty kilometers played the note of death like a roaring train.

Because he came from a professional artillery department, he could slightly distinguish the whistling sounds of various caliber projectiles. The face of German artillery Lieutenant Colonel Harrienberg, who was directing his troops to keep firing, immediately froze on the face of what seemed to be the scene. The evil ghost crawled out of hell with a terrifying face.

"Shellardment! Heavy artillery fire! Everyone spread out and take cover!"

Although the German artillerymen who noticed that something was wrong were reminded by their commanders, they immediately dropped the belongings they were working on and the shells they were holding in their arms and ran away to avoid them. However, the two-legged man and the user The speed of naval gun shells, which use propellant kinetic energy as the source of flight power, is still far behind.

The 180mm high-explosive grenades that flew at the highest speed and were the first to fall on the German artillery positions were unprecedentedly powerful. The A-IX-2 pure black aluminum explosive loaded in the warhead of the projectile was a hybrid type of highly explosive high-explosive charge. The equivalent is 148% of ordinary TNT explosive, which is 48 times.

When a 180 mm high-explosive grenade containing 9 kilograms of pure black aluminum explosive in the projectile warhead explodes, it is enough to release a powerful explosion power equivalent to more than 11 kilograms of TNT. Its destructiveness and killing radius are far greater than those of the army artillery. On top of the 152mm high-explosive bomb.

The entire artillery position was screaming and wailing in an instant, as if it was an apocalyptic scene. The German artillery position was shaken by the earth and the mountains. At this moment, only the soaring flames and thunderous explosions were left on the German artillery position.

The vast majority of German artillerymen who had no time to escape the killing radius were instantly engulfed by the flames of the explosion and completely disappeared from the earth, leaving no trace of their flesh and limbs.

The sky-high explosion flames after the nine 180mm high-explosive grenades fell together, and the black explosion smoke after the German artillery shells exploded together had not yet completely dissipated, and the 130mm high-explosive grenades with a slightly slower flight speed followed again with a death roar.

After a wave of salvos, the Red Navy fleet, which had begun to pour out firepower at the fastest loading speed of each ship, had already been filled with noise. The 130mm and 180mm naval guns, which were roaring and firing non-stop, sent heavy projectiles one after another to the distant sky with the full efforts of the crews of each ship.

The German artillery positions, which had long been bombed and devastated, had no chance to fight back or counterattack in front of the Red Navy's naval guns, which always pursued firepower first, except to passively take the beating and escape.

The Gorky cruiser, which had more than twice the range of the German 150mm heavy howitzers, was the invincible symbol of the conqueror on the battlefield at this moment.

The large-caliber naval gun shells that kept piercing the sky and whistling through the sky overhead sounded the final attack horn for the Red Army's pursuit troops on the ground, and at the same time, like a death knell, announced that the end of the German army, which had just retreated to the starting position and had not had time to catch its breath, was approaching.

The victory that was rendered as red as blood was no longer far away.