Although in the subsequent war of public opinion, Germany had the advantage by virtue of the Katyn massacre, but after all, the two sides had to rely on real knives and guns to divide the victory and defeat on the battlefield, so the battle for Leningrad still continued.

It's just that the pressure on Marshal Voroshilov is really huge like a mountain now. His troops were less than 200,000 men, but they had to hold on to Leningrad and large swathes around it.

The main problem that bothered him was that the loss of personnel was simply too great. The 18th Army of the German Army Group North was attacking westward, while the 16th Army was preparing to make a detour to the north to join the Finnish army.

Now, as soon as the 16th Army arrives at the designated position, then Leningrad will be surrounded and become an isolated city.

A lonely city that can't get supplies can't hold out for a long time. The German side needed time, and the troops under Marshal Voroshilov needed time too.

Leningrad was not a front-line city, it was an important city in the very heart of the Soviet Union until it became a front-line city.

Against this background, it was simply impossible for Leningrad to hoard large quantities of weapons and ammunition, nor to hoard large quantities of food for consumption.

Without weapons and ammunition, as well as food and soldiers, it was clearly impossible for the city to resist for a long time.

To make matters worse, more and more warships of the German Navy began to appear on the outskirts of Leningrad, in the Gulf of Finland.

In the beginning, there were only 4 battleships that could barely be scraped together, and only a few destroyers to escort them. At that time, it was really not large, but there were more battleships.

In recent days, when these battleships reappeared, the number of battleships was reduced to two, but there were three more cruisers and 10 destroyers.

The significant increase in the number of these warships indicates that the training of the German Navy has been effective.

The first batch of new seamen who were trained took over the positions of the old seamen, so the number of warships that the German Navy could use at the same time increased.

Dozens of British warships, which had been docked in Wilhelmshaven, had now formed a new naval fleet and began training in the Atlantic.

The sparring was German submarines, and the subject of training was anti-submarine warfare. Germany is trying to grow its navy as much as possible and not miss an opportunity.

There were four German battleships that had appeared in the Gulf of Finland before: the Warrior, the Warweary, the Tirpitz and the Ramirez.

The seamen on these four battleships have been tempered and formed combat effectiveness. The actual combat training with real guns and ammunition allowed the novices of the German Navy to grow up rapidly.

Today, the battleships Warweary and the Warrior have become the flagships of another fleet, going to the Atlantic for even more arduous training.

The Tirpitz was the flagship of the Baltic Fleet, followed by the battleship Ramirez.

The two battleships, escorted by 3 cruisers and at least 10 destroyers, lined up in the Gulf of Finland in a menacing manner, began the daily shelling of Leningrad.

The main reason why Leningrad has not been threatened from the sea in history is that the German navy is really incapable of making waves in the Baltic Sea.

The French coastline itself, as well as the Norwegian coastline, needed warships to garrison and threaten the British sea routes, where did the troops be drawn out and wasted on the Soviet Union.

So Leningrad, although it was shelled and bombed in history, has it never been subjected to such a catastrophic attack.

Germany is clearly not ready to take a whole city, what they want to take is a port, and a railway station - and beyond that, it seems that what is left of Leningrad is superfluous.

Hundreds of artillery pieces of various calibers were aimed at the city of Leningrad and began a day of raindrops.

Anyway, these warships are not afraid of consumption, and ammunition is also supplied, and the training sailors on the battleships only need to follow the instructions in the manual and control the war machines they control.

"Boom!" With a loud bang, the outermost battleship Tirpitz, the lonely queen of the ice sea, opened fire first, and with her massive 381mm heavy gun, began the day's shooting game.

Now, of course, she is not called the lonely queen of the north, but the Leningrad killer......

After the bombardment began, the battleship Ramirez, which followed closely behind, also began to roar, firing deadly shells one after another.

In the enclosed fighting compartment, the soldiers could not feel the impact of the huge artillery, they just worked in a closed and dark environment, and loaded the shells transported by the machinery into the artillery.

And the ones who can really feel the power of these shells are the enemies who are taking the blow of these shells.

For example, in a basement on the outskirts of the city, Marshal Voroshilov, who felt the earth tremble, and his chief of staff.

The chief's proposal to surrender was blocked by Voroshilov, so the two of them barely spoke to each other.

Marshal Voroshilov sat in his chair and allowed the dust above his head to fall and fall to his hair.

"Comrade Marshal! Every minute, soldiers are surrendering, and the German SS has already stormed the southern city of Nancheng, and now the shelling of the German Navy is opening the way for them. An officer walked into the room, glanced at the silent chief of staff, and opened his mouth to report to Marshal Voroshilov.

The Soviet submarines, which were still docked in the port of Leningrad, are now completely unusable.

On the one hand, it was because the quality of the offshore submarines that Germany sold to the Soviet Union earlier was not good, and on the other hand, it was also because the Soviet Navy was too rough and the equipment was not well preserved.

Now that Leningrad is almost surrounded, how can it be used to transport naval supplies because of the small holes and loopholes in the remaining encirclement, and it is too late to transport weapons, ammunition and food?

Therefore, after several sorties, the Soviet inshore submarines had to lie down in the harbor and wait for death because of the lack of spare parts and not enough fuel.

Even the officers and men on the submarine had already been issued weapons and filled with the army as commanders, of course, letting the German fleet do whatever it wanted in the Gulf of Finland.

This was also a helpless move, and Marshal Voroshilov could only resort to this method in order to make his troops look as strong as possible.

At this moment, his troops were losing ground one after another, and some areas south of the city had become German-controlled areas.