From a distance, after entering the Baltic Sea, the German naval formation seemed to be able to be attacked by Soviet naval aviation soldiers at any time.

Although the Soviet Navy was not highly valued, they were also combat-capable, and in this environment of the Baltic Sea, they were really vulnerable to attacks.

In fact, the Soviet Navy did not have this ability at all.

Although Germany did not have the time to deal with the Baltic fleet, it was not ruthless to their naval aviation. On the first day of the war, they wiped out their power on the ground.

The Soviet Air Force can still mobilize planes from the rear, but the naval aviation is different. They can't mobilize from another naval base, right? In this way, the Soviet Navy Air Force is temporarily disabled.

Therefore, the German fleet can enter the Baltic Sea in a mighty way, which is fearless. Even if several planes fly in, the fleet's dense anti-aircraft artillery fire, and the fleet's escort fighter jets are enough to make the other party drink a pot.

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

The Baltic Fleet Base Tallinn is filled with thick smoke everywhere. These smoke are man-made. Of course, there are factors such as the fleet's own boiler. Now, the black smoke in the boiler is even thicker.

In the black smoke, the flagship Mara first started to move out of the berth.

The Mara Ru belongs to the Gangut class and is the only first-class 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, now, when its boiler is fully operational, it can still be accelerated to 0 knots.

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

The war on the ground was too fast and the Germans attacked so quickly. What would happen to their Soviets in the future?

Peter shook his head and left all those ideas behind. Now they have received a task to return to defend Petersburg, assist the ground forces, and block the attacking German troops.

No matter how powerful those armored soldiers were, they were all scumbags in front of the naval guns of the battleships.

The huge warships drew waves on the sea. After sailing for several hours, they could already see the military port of Kronstadt, which is also the main military port of the Baltic Fleet.

This place was originally from Finland. Hundreds of years ago, Peter the Great had already noticed the island of Cotlin that emerged from the Gulf of Finland. It is only 29 kilometers away from Peterborough and is a Russian gateway. It is very important to defend here.

So, after snatching the island from Finland, in 170, when Petersburg began to build, it was also built as an important military port.

Kronstad means the city of royalty.

The Gulf of Finland itself is not very deep, and it is completely frozen in winter. Therefore, the construction of the Soviets was quite simple. They drove workers to transport oak boxes of thousands of stones from the ice to the local area and sank into ice caves, thus building several artificial islands, and then building forts on these islands.

These fortresses completely blocked the waterway leading to Petersburg. There are only two very narrow waterways that can still be shipped. The strong fortresses on both sides can protect this waterway tightly and strongly, and it is a momentum that one man can serve as a pass and ten thousand men cannot open it.

The five forts formed in this way were the main defensive facilities at the mouth of the Gulf of Finland. After they were completed, they played their due role in history, such as in the Crimean War, they successfully repelled the combined fleets of Britain and France.

The fortresses in Kronstadt were once again expanded and reinforced in the 19th century. Four new turrets were built from 1856 to 1871, which controlled the main entrance to the Gulf of Finland, and seven other turrets controlled the shallower Northern Passage. All of these forts were very low, protected by extremely thick armor, equipped with the Krupp turret.

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

When Peter revisited the old place, he felt mixed emotions in his heart.

The central waterway and the cannons on both sides were so clear. I remembered that when I first joined the army, I became an artilleryman of shore defense artillery here. When I remembered that cruel battle, there seemed to be a scene of artillery fire running through the sky in front of Peter.

Behind the Mara, the October Revolution also entered the waterway. In order to hurry up, the two warships walked on one waterway. These two warships of exactly the same model were running at high speed.

Behind them were warships of all sizes, gathering towards the waterways.

In the sky, white clouds were floating. Although the weather was very cold, the air was quite good. The fresh cold wind made the lookout hand on the Mala very comfortable.

He put his hand to his mouth and sniffed for a few breaths, then continued to raise his telescope and observe the sky above his head.

When he twisted his telescope into the clouds, suddenly, a light blue naval-painted plane popped out of the clouds, and the black cross on the back of the fuselage was so eye-catching.

In an instant, he became anxious: "Stuka, the German Stuka jumped out of the clouds, hurry, hurry!"

Although Germany and the Soviet Union had a very good relationship before, due to geographical location, the main enemy of the Baltic Fleet was the Germans. Therefore, the fleet's lookout post was quite clear about the Germans' weapons and equipment.

Now, when he saw the plane coming out of the clouds, he immediately determined the model, and the battleship, which was waiting for battle, immediately sounded the air defense alarm.

Discover the German dive bomber!

As the largest warship in the Tsarist Russian era, there are actually many weapons of the Gangut class. For example, he has four triple-mounted 05mm 52-caliber cannons as the main guns, and 16 120mm 50-caliber cannons as the secondary guns, but the secondary guns do not have the function of firing at air.

Its anti-aircraft weapons are pitifully few, with only 2 76mm anti-aircraft guns, 4 47mm anti-aircraft guns, and 8 anti-aircraft machine guns.

Although it was observed that dive bombers had become the biggest threat to the fleet in recent naval battles, and the Baltic Fleet had also submitted reports to install more anti-aircraft guns on such battleships, the war began before the improvement project was approved.

At the stern of the ship, the anti-aircraft artillery soldiers with 47mm anti-aircraft artillery immediately became busy.

After coming out of the port and unable to use the smoke to hide, they were ready and waited in their gun positions. Now they suddenly discovered the situation. The gunner immediately shook the high and low aircraft quickly, and the anti-aircraft gun commander beside them had already issued an order.

"Distance 20, direction to the left 009, high and low 75, adjust one secret position, send five consecutive times, release!"

"Bang, bang, bang..." A stream of black smoke came out of the muzzle, and the orange shell was thrown out from one end. The 47mm anti-aircraft shells had already flown into the sky.
Chapter completed!