The destroyer with the bow into the water could have been saved, and at this time, the sailors were carrying out damage control and wanted to try their best to save the battleship, but they did not expect that a 380-mm shell fell from the sky.

The destroyer, which was more than 3,000 tons, could not withstand such a blow at all, and the deck that was hit immediately collapsed, and the deck was torn apart, and then, below the deck, the terrible explosion was heard.

The explosion caused a larger opening in the side of the hull, and as fate had happened to the Marat, the destroyer began to sink rapidly.

"Long shots, the gauge is reduced by five hundred, four doors are fired at the same time, and two rounds of shooting." With the order of the artillery commander, an even more terrible roar came.

On the two turrets, four 380-mm naval guns roared, and black smoke rose from the muzzles, as if they were demons in hell.

The shooting of battleships is always the most exciting.

However, the protagonist of the shelling now is not the "Scharnhorst", but the "Strasbourg", which is two nautical miles away.

This is a French battleship, and in recent years, it has also gone through vicissitudes.

Britain, a former ally, attacked it, and then retaliated against Britain by shelling Gibraltar, which had been wandering in the Mediterranean Sea before, and this time joined the German fleet and came with it to the Baltic Sea.

Although the French warship belonged to Vichy France in terms of sovereignty and did not accept German orders, everyone could see that Germany was about to dominate the world. Therefore, there seems to be nothing wrong with fighting with Germany, not to mention that the enemy is the Red regime that they loathe.

In terms of the caliber of the cannon, the Strasbourg was 330 mm caliber, which was an order of magnitude smaller than the 380 caliber, however, its turret layout was different.

Unlike other battleships with turrets in the front and rear, the turrets of this battleship are in the front, with two quadruple turrets occupying almost half of the front deck.

The absence of a turret in the back made it suffer during the last British sneak attack, and now, as it sails forward, it can use all its firepower.

"Boom, boom!" The sound of artillery was so constant that it was impossible to distinguish at all, and the sight of eight naval guns firing together was the most spectacular.

The entire sea surface was reflected red by the fireball shot from the muzzle, as if the warship was rushing towards a sea of fire, and then, it was the terrible black smoke that enveloped the entire battleship, and the huge hull of tens of thousands of tons, when it fired, was actually recoiled back more than a meter.

Shells, fired at the Soviet fleet opposite.

On the cruiser Kirov, Captain Alexandrov only had time to open his eyes, his brain was hollow, because they had no countermeasures.

The Kirov's main guns were three triple B-1-P 180-mm naval guns, the maximum effective range of which was less than 20 kilometers, and they simply could not reach the German fleet opposite.

However, the battleships of the Germans were able to easily throw their large-caliber armor-piercing shells, as just now, a Tashkent-class destroyer, which was sunk with a single shot, was such a rebellion.

And now, the smoke rising from the sea in the distance seems to indicate something, a new round of terrible shelling, has arrived.

It was impossible to catch the shells that were almost three times the speed of sound with the naked eye, and they couldn't hear the roar of the shells as they fired, but they could clearly hear the hiss of the shells piercing the air, the howls of death.

"Boom, boom, boom!" At this moment, behind them, the shore defense artillery finally opened fire.

At the same time as the shells of the shore defense artillery flew past, the terrible shells also flew towards the Soviet fleet.

A huge 380-mm shell hit the rear armor on the Kirov, the armor tens of millimeters thick was torn apart, and the shell made a terrible explosion inside.

Then, the second shell smashed into the bridge again, and when the shell flew, everyone's eyes widened.

"Boom!"

The entire bridge was blown open, a huge air current hit, and Aleksandrov felt as if he were a fluttering leaf, lifted into the air, and then, knowing nothing.

The Kirov suffered a covering blow from the ship's guns, and the battleship was sunk in an instant, and the cruiser Gorky, which was less than a nautical mile away, was also patronized by 330-mm shells.

The main forces of the Baltic Fleet, gone.

There were only 3,000-ton destroyers and more than 1,000-ton frigates left, and now, the shore defense guns finally wielded, and huge shells were projected at the German battleships, but unfortunately, a nautical mile away from the German battleships, they fell into the sea.

"Damn, we've been fooled, these Germans!" Inside one of the surviving 305-mm shore defense guns, the commander cursed loudly: "The Germans fooled us!" ”

A few years ago, when the two sides were friendly and mutually beneficial, some Krupp experts came to Kronstadt to carry out medium-term life extension improvements for these coastal defense guns in accordance with the agreement reached between the two sides.

They cleaned the chamber of rust and applied a layer of anti-wear agent, which was said to improve the performance and life of the shore defense guns, and at the same time, because of the changes in the chamber, which caused the gauge to change, they gave a new gun meter.

At that time, after the improvement was completed, they also conducted a test shot, and according to the shooting table given by the Germans, they achieved good accuracy.

But now, it seems, apparently, is not the case, they were pitted by the Germans.

"Target, eighteen nautical miles ahead, 305 mm shore defense guns, the first test firing." At this time, having killed the cruiser Kirov, Aleksandrov began to look at the shore defense artillery positions in the distance, and now, let the Soviets taste the power of German artillery!

It is quite stupid to pin one's own country's national defense on other countries, and those coastal defense guns can only ensure that they are accurate at the time, and after a long time, the internal anti-wear agent will cause damage to the rifling and make the shells deviate from the intended target.

Moreover, the life of this kind of cannon is limited, and when the Soviets inspect the cannon, it is enough to test fire once, and it is impossible to fire a few rounds every year for fun. So, only now did they find out that the shore defense artillery had been scrapped, right?

As long as you kill those large-caliber shore defense guns, the rest of your warships can get close and sink the remaining warships with their own naval guns.

Well-trained gunners, in a minute, completed the reloading, target, shore defense artillery!