At the same time, he also knew that he had too few opportunities to shoot, because the rate of fire of his warship was too low, and the naval guns on his warship did not have the ability to automatically reload, and they were completely reloaded by hand, which was of course quite slow. Wasting shells at long distances, it is clearly inappropriate.

The column continued to sail forward at high speed, and the line of the Italians quickly approached, and at this time, the other warships in the Italian fleet also opened fire one after another.

Every time they shot, they brought huge black smoke to block their view, and when the black smoke passed, the fleet of the Soviets was still rushing towards them!

This made the Italian Navy extremely depressed.

"Is this the level of our fleet gunners?" On the bridge, Cataño said angrily: "Until now, our shells have not touched the battleships of the Soviets!" ”

Catanio knew that the firing of naval guns was actually a process of constant adjustment, first test firing, constantly fine-tuning according to the situation of the test firing, gradually approaching the target, and finally hitting the opponent.

However, seeing the two sides getting closer and not being able to hit each other, Cataño's mood was terrible.

The distance between the two sides was already close to five nautical miles, and Gorshkov finally gave the order: "Fire!" ”

The defect of the one-line column is that the firing range of the warships behind is easy to be blocked by the warships in front, so in the actual process of advancing, it is not a complete one-line column, but each of the rear ships is more to the right than the front, so that it is vacant.

Having received the order to open fire, the gunners, who had already been prepared, immediately pulled their gun ropes.

"Boom!" The 180-mm twin guns roared, black smoke covered the turret, and two high-speed armor-piercing shells flew towards the Italian battleship!

The draft does not forget to dig wells, and the armor-piercing bullet at this time is simply ungrateful.

When the Soviet Union designed the Red Caucasus, it was intended to fight beyond the ranks, using 4 180-mm guns against 6 to 10 203-mm guns of an imaginary opponent.

Therefore, they have no choice but to choose to increase the chamber pressure and pipe length to achieve, and when your cannon is not powerful enough, then increase the propellant!

As a result, the Soviets did it, and the muzzle velocity of this naval gun was as high as 1000 m / s, which was so powerful that it could completely suppress Western 203-mm naval guns.

However, the rifling of this kind of artillery wears out very quickly, and even the life of the barrel does not exceed 10 rounds, which means that as long as a few shells are fired in actual combat, there will be a huge deviation in the shells fired later, which is equivalent to a waste gun!

The Soviets had no choice but to ask for help from the outside world, and they couldn't hang themselves from the German tree, so they turned to Italy.

With the technical assistance of the Italian company Andolsa, they shortened the barrel to 57 times the caliber, reduced the cartridge to 37.5 kg, reduced the bore pressure and muzzle velocity to 3200 kg/cm² and 920 m/s respectively, and adopted a sparser rifling distribution to alleviate the problem, so that the life of the barrel reached 320 rounds, with actual combat capability.

The Italians probably never dreamed that they had helped the Soviets to rebuild their naval guns, and now they were going to fire at them!

In addition to the 180 naval guns, the other naval guns also opened fire.

In addition to the 180 naval guns, the Red Caucasus also had four 1911 102 mm 60 caliber single-mounted shieldless secondary guns, which were full-fledged naval guns designed and manufactured by the famous Obukhovsky Iron and Steel Plant.

At this time, the Red Caucasus roared and fired its own shells over, and at the same time, the other warships were also firing, although their guns were not large enough, they also wanted to show their presence.

Moreover, their targets were all aimed at the battleship in the middle of the opponent's horizontal line, concentrating their firepower, even if it couldn't hit, they would beat it to the point where they cried wolf.

"Boom!" In the huge impact sound, a 102-mm armor-piercing bullet actually smashed accurately on the Count Cavour!

On the emplacement of an anti-aircraft gun, several Italian soldiers let out a scream, and it happened that their position was shot!

"Boom!" Under the attack of this shell, the shell of the anti-aircraft artillery actually exploded, and in an instant, smoke and dust billowed here.

For a battleship, a 102-mm armor-piercing projectile can be carried down hard, like a tickle, but now, black smoke rises from this unlucky anti-aircraft gun position, making Cataño, who was standing in the bridge and saw all this, sank in his heart, no, what's going on?

For any country, battleships are quite valuable, after all, it takes all the strength of the whole country to build a few, such as the Soviet Union, which transported half of the country's steel to shipyards, and did not build the Soviet battleship.

Therefore, once the main warship suffered losses in a naval battle, the country could not afford it, and even Germany in history could not afford it, and after the Bismarck was sunk, the German surface fleet never took the initiative to attack again.

At this moment, the glory of the navy in Catanio's mind had been put aside, and he was thinking about one thing, this battleship could not be fine! If there were any accidents with this ship, his military career would be over!

Cataño was a little weak-hearted, watching the Soviets fight so bravely, or should he retreat to the side? Why don't you change the formation and call a few ships around to protect you?

The naval battle was fierce, in the air, and the battle was going on.

"Tom tom!" It was the sound of shaft cannon fire again, and with the firing, the Il-4 bomber in front of Ancruz fell downward with black smoke in tow.

At this moment, suddenly, Ancruz saw bullets coming from his left side, and he knew that he had been ambushed by Soviet fighters!

It was very difficult for the biplanes to fight the monoplanes, especially since the Germans used the tactics of dive-climbing, hit-and-run, which they simply could not reach.

However, just now Ancruz has been greedy for credit, he has already shot down four Il-4s, and as long as he shoots down one more, he can become the first HNA man to become an ace pilot in one battle.

Therefore, when he shot down the fifth Il-4, he unknowingly missed a blow and chased after him, and as a result, he was attacked by a sneak attack.

Pull it up! Ancruz no longer coveted the low altitude and began to climb upwards, but unfortunately, he fell into the arms of the other party.

Alexander Milonenko's eyes were almost on fire, they were escort fighters, but they watched the Germans jump up and down, constantly shooting down their own bombers, and now, he had to shoot them down!

The opponent actually made a mistake and maneuvered horizontally, so he quickly went around behind the opponent and opened fire.

When watching the opponent pull up, Alexander followed and pulled his own nose, and the 7.62mm machine gun bullet climbed up and hit the opponent accurately!