The fire illuminated the sea, and the fuel of the hit destroyer spread across the sea, forming a huge ignition area. You can see the Soviet sailors on the warships in a dilemma.

The ship was about to sink, and they could not continue to stay on the ship, but the sea around the ship was burning. If they wanted to jump down, it would be the end of burning to death.

Unless you dive into the water immediately and swim through this area, 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 sea, and before dawn, his voice roared on the Black Sea.

Damn German! Gorshkov's eyes were filled with anger.

This destroyer that was hit belongs to the 7u class, which is an improved type of the Angry class.

During the design of the Angry Class, it was influenced by Italian destroyers and adopted a large single chimney structure, the basic ship type of the Changshou Building and the layout of the power plant, etc., but it followed the Leningrad-class 130mm single-barrel gun and a small anti-shield, and two doors were arranged in a back-and-back style.

One of its most basic shape recognition features is that it has a large chimney, which shows that this class of ships does not adopt a unit-type power mechanical arrangement. There are 3 boilers in the boiler cabin and 2 steam turbines in the cabin behind it.

However, such a power arrangement caused some problems in this class of ships in the early stages of service, with severe vibrations in the cabin and causing the thruster blades to break.

Later, Germany provided a solution, which was to switch to the diesel engine produced in Germany. After installation, it was found that it had been greatly improved compared to the prototype. This new modification is called the 7u-class destroyer.

That is, it is diesel-burning.

If it was the former heavy oil boiler, it would not be able to catch fire even if it was hit. Heavy oil was difficult to ignite, but diesel is different. When it was ignited by torpedoes, the diesel burned wildly.

(Diesel cannot be lit directly, but can also be lit when there are other ignition materials.)

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

"Discover the opponent's submarine periscope, starboard position, right front of the burning destroyer, about a thousand meters away!" At this moment, with the help of the light of the burning warship, the lookout hand actually saw the periscope on the water surface!

As long as you see the periscope, you will see the submarine. Who would have thought that the German submarine had left their search area so quickly and actually ambushed them 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 already guessed that there was definitely more than one German submarine in this sea area on his side!

He didn't want to fight anymore, he had no time, and if he continued to fight, he was still at a high risk. Because the only weapon he had on hand was the deep water bomb.

During World War II, the only way was to use destroyers to anti-submarines. Multiple destroyers were dispatched to round up. After the target was discovered, deep-water bombs occurred continuously in order to destroy the other side's submarine. This method was the only way, but it also faced certain risks.

Because submarines are likely to be in a hurry to jump over the wall, the submarine will torpedoes to the opponent's ship.

If it is during the day, it is okay, because the field of view is wide, if the submarine wants to launch a torpedo, it must use a periscope and send multiple lookouts to see it.

But it won't work at night. If there is only one submarine, they can also search online. If there are many, their danger will greatly increase. Now, German submarines are actually fearless!

Gorshkov did not have a handy weapon, which was also later generations. In the late 1950s, Britain first improved the single mode that could only use deep-water bombs to anti-submarine. Anti-submarine rockets appeared for the first time.

If Gorshkov's naval formation is equipped with anti-submarine rockets, when they find the opponent's exposed periscope, they can launch the roaring anti-submarine rockets in a few seconds, which will definitely sink the opponent.

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

As if it confirmed his guess, the sailors on another destroyer had already discovered bubbles coming out of the water in the other direction.

"Beware, torpedo attack!"

The destroyer drove at full speed 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, with a speed of fifty knots!

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

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

If they hadn't discovered it in time just now, they must have been hit! Thinking about the terrible result, looking at the battleships burning on the sea, they were shuddering.

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

They dodged the torpedo, but they plunged into another battleship side by side with them! Because the battleship did not accelerate immediately, they were actually hit by mistake.

"Boom!" A terrible explosion sounded again under the water.

For the German submarine forces, this is simply enough to make them proud of their lifetime record. Several German naval submarines actually attacked the Soviet fleet in turn at the doorstep of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet, less than twenty nautical miles away from the port!

There were nine submarines that arrived here one after another. They formed an underwater wolf pack and launched a fierce attack on the Soviet surface ships. The torpedoes were fired out as if they were not worth the 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 until the end of the war and was written into military textbooks. However, in the subsequent analysis, many military strategists knew very well that the tactics of submarine hunting surface ships were unreplicable, and it contained too many luck elements. It could never confront surface ships with submarines alone. This victory could not be used as a representative of the universal theory of submarines.

If it wasn't for the night, if Germany hadn't deciphered the Soviet telegram and had exactly the whereabouts of their fleet, if the German submarines were not advanced enough, if the Soviet fleet had enough sonar devices, if they had anti-submarine rockets, if they had a large number of destroyers and frigates, the naval battle would have been completely rewritten! It can only be said that the Soviets made too many mistakes, and their biggest mistake was that they were attracted by the German surface ships and ignored the underwater threat.
Chapter completed!