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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 more powerful 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 bombardment. 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 were relatively petite but equally powerful.

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, which flew over the German artillery position after crossing a shooting distance of twenty kilometers, sounded the note of death like a roaring train.

Because he was a professional gunner, 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 sensed something was wrong, and were reminded by their commanders, immediately dropped the belongings they were working on and the shells they held in their arms, and ran away to avoid the situation, the two-legged people and the users 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 projectile warhead was a mixed 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 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 with flying sand and rocks. The only thing left on the German artillery position amid the earthquake and trembling mountains was the soaring flames and thunderous explosions.

The vast majority of the German artillerymen who had no time to run out of the killing radius were instantly engulfed in the flames of the explosion and completely disappeared without a trace on the earth. Even the fragments of their bodies and broken limbs were not left behind. The slightest drop.

Before the nine 180mm high-explosive grenades fell into the sky, and the black explosion smoke and dust that accompanied the German artillery shells had completely dissipated, the 130mm high-explosive grenades flew at a slightly slower speed. The roar of death followed again.

After a wave of firing salvos, the Red Navy fleet, which had begun to pour out firepower according to the fastest loading speed of each ship, had already become a roar. The 130mm naval guns and 180mm naval guns that were constantly firing and roaring, with the full efforts of the crews of each ship, sent heavy projectiles one after another into the distant sky.

The devastated German artillery positions that had long been bombed faced the Red Navy naval guns, which always pursued firepower supremacy. Apart from being passively beaten and escaping for their lives, there was no room for retaliation or possibility of counterattack.

The cruiser Gorky, which has a range that is more than twice the range of the German 150mm heavy howitzer, is a symbol of conqueror-like invincibility dominating the battlefield at this moment.

The large-caliber naval gun shells whizzing through the sky from mid-air overhead sounded the final attack horn for the Red Army pursuit troops on the ground. At the same time, they also announced like a death knell that they had just retreated to the starting position before they had time to breathe. The German army's doom is near.

The victory that is as red as blood is no longer far away.