The fire lit up the sea, and the fuel of the destroyed ship that was hit spread on the surface of the sea, forming a huge area of ignition, and the Soviet sailors on the battleship could be seen, in a dilemma.

The ship was about to sink, and they couldn't stay on the ship, but the sea around the ship was burning, and if they were to jump, they would also burn to death.

Unless you dive into the water immediately and swim across this area, there are only a few people who can swim this far.

One of the sailors jumped into the water and was immediately caught in flames, his screams echoing across the sea, and before dawn his voice resounded over the Black Sea.

Damn the Germans! Gorshkov's eyes lit up with anger.

The destroyer that was hit belonged to the 7U class, which is an improved version of the Fury class.

At the time of the design of the Anger class, it was influenced by the Italian destroyers, and adopted a large single-chimney structure, the basic ship type of the long head building, and the layout of the power plant, but it continued to use the Leningrad-class 130 mm single-barreled naval gun, small shields, and two front and rear knapsacks.

One of its most basic features is that it has a large chimney, which indicates that the ship does not have a unitized power-mechanical arrangement. There are 3 boilers in the boiler room, and 2 steam turbines in the engine room behind it.

However, this power arrangement caused some problems in the early days of service, with severe vibrations in the engine room and broken propeller blades.

After that, Germany offered a solution, which was to switch to a diesel engine produced in Germany, and after installation, it was found that it was a great improvement over the prototype, this new modification, called the 7U-class destroyer.

That is, it burns diesel.

If it was a heavy oil boiler in the past, it would not be able to catch fire even if it was hit, and it was difficult for heavy oil to be ignited, but diesel fuel was different, and when it was ignited by a torpedo, the diesel fuel burned brightly.

(Diesel fuel cannot be ignited directly, but it can be ignited if there are other igniters.) ）

Now the whole sea is glowing, the Soviet battleships are burning, and every Soviet sailor has a fire of anger in his eyes.

"Found the periscope of the opposing submarine, the starboard position, the right front of the burning destroyer, a distance of about a thousand meters!" At this moment, with the help of the bright light of the burning battleship, the lookout actually saw a periscope on the water!

As long as you see the periscope, then you see the submarine, who would have thought that the submarines of the Germans would have left their search area so quickly and actually ambushed their own side outside?

"Outside our formation?" Gorshkov was stunned for a moment, and at this time, he finally reacted: "The whole fleet, speed up, get out of this sea area!" ”

Gorshkov stopped fighting, because he had already guessed that there was definitely more than one German submarine in this part of his own seas!

He doesn't want to fight, he doesn't have time, and if he continues to fight, he still has a lot of risks. Because the weapons he had at hand were only depth charges.

During World War II, the only way was to use destroyers for anti-submarine. A number of destroyers were dispatched to round up. After discovering the target, a series of depth charges were fired in order to destroy the opponent's submarine. This is the only way, but it also comes with certain risks.

Because there is a high probability that the submarine will jump over the wall in a hurry, the submarine will fire torpedoes at the opposing ship.

If it's daytime, then it's okay to say, because the field of vision is wide, and if a submarine wants to launch a torpedo, it must use a periscope, and many lookouts can see it visually.

But not at night, if there is only one submarine, they can also pull the net to search, if there are many, then their danger will be greatly increased, and now, the German submarines are actually fearless!

Gorshkov did not have weapons at hand, and it was later that in the late 50s, the British first improved the single mode of anti-submarine warfare, which could only use depth charges. For the first time, anti-submarine rockets appeared.

If Gorshkov's naval formation was equipped with anti-submarine rockets, when the opponent's exposed periscope was spotted, it would be able to launch the roaring anti-submarine rocket in a few seconds, and it would definitely sink the opponent.

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

As if to confirm his suspicions, the sailors on the other destroyer, in the other direction of the linear, had already spotted bubbles emerging from the water.

"Attention, torpedo attack!"

The destroyer was speeding up at full speed, desperately accelerating towards the front, and the bubbles on the surface of the sea were moving so fast that it was simply beyond their imagination, it was a terrible torpedo, and the speed seemed to be fifty knots!

If it weren't for the bright light of the burning destroyers over there, they wouldn't have seen anything. At the same time, the east began to turn slightly white.

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

If they hadn't been caught just in time, they would have been hit! Thinking about the terrible results, looking at the battleships that are still burning at sea over there, they just shudder.

"Oh no!" At this moment, the officers and men of the destroyer shouted.

They dodged the torpedo, but plunged headlong into the other battleship next to them! Since the battleship did not accelerate immediately, it was actually hit by mistake.

"Boom!" Terrible explosions sounded again under the water.

For the German submarine forces, this is simply a record that they can be proud of for a lifetime, and many submarines of the German Navy actually attacked the Soviet fleet in turn at the doorstep of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet, less than twenty nautical miles from the port!

Nine submarines arrived here one after another, and they formed an underwater wolf pack and launched a fierce attack on the Soviet surface ships, one after another torpedoes, as if they didn't want money.

Faced with this situation, the Soviet Navy was unable to react and was at a loss! Gorshkov was stunned.

This naval battle, until the end of the war, was talked about and compiled into military textbooks, but in the later analysis, many military experts are very clear that the tactics of this submarine hunting surface ships are not replicable, and there are too many elements of luck in it, relying on submarines alone, they will never be able to confront surface ships, and this victory cannot be used as a representative of the submarine omnipotence theory.

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