Chapter 1158: The Baltic Fleet
The territory of the Soviet Union was vast, it was a country that straddled the Eurasian continent, and as a result, the Soviet navy was also divided into several different directions.
For example, in '41, the Soviet Navy had four fleets that were far from each other.
The three largest of these fleets were: the Baltic Red Banner Fleet based in Tallinn (Revere), the Black Sea Fleet based in Sevastopol and the Pacific Fleet based in Vladivostok.
In later generations, the largest Northern Fleet, which is now the smallest, was based in the ice-free port of Polyarnoye (near Murmansk).
Of course, there are also small fleets, such as the White Sea Fleet, the Pinsk Detachment, the Danube Detachment, etc., which are too small to mention for the time being.
The Baltic Red Banner Fleet in this era was the largest fleet of the Soviets, and originally, the base of the fleet was set up in Kronstadt, but last year, the base of the Baltic Fleet was moved forward to Tallinn, and Kronstadt was retained as a rear support base.
And now, with Germany's rapid advance on land, the Baltic Fleet faces a difficult choice.
"The Northern Army of the Germans, having already hit Latvia. Now, too, our bases are under threat at any time. "said the commander of the Baltic Fleet of the Soviets, Tributz.
In front of Latvia, there is Estonia, that is, their fleet base, and in this case, what should the Baltic Fleet do?
"We must not watch the Germans wreak havoc on our land, our fleet can protect our ports with naval guns, we will not be afraid of the Germans." In addition to the commanders and staff officers of the fleet, there were the captains of various large warships.
Now it is the flagship of the Baltic Fleet, the captain of the battleship Marat, who is speaking.
In previous years, the Soviets had been planning the construction of Soviet-class battleships, which gave the illusion that the Soviet Union did not have any battleships, and in history, the Soviet Navy did not fight any earth-shattering battles, and the Red Navy was best known for fighting on land.
However, this does not mean that the Soviets did not have any big ships, after all, the Soviets inherited the mantle of Tsarist Russia, and in the era of Tsarist Russia, there were still a number of battleships.
In the Baltic Fleet, there are two battleships, the Marat and the October Revolution, which are the pillars of the Baltic Fleet.
At the beginning of the war, Germany attacked at night, and the Germans could not cause much damage to the Soviet fleet in complex weather at night, and the main mission of the German armies in the three directions at that time was to crush the Soviets on the opposite side, and their fighters were mainly used to paralyze the enemy's fighters on the ground.
Coupled with the fact that it was night, the warships of the Black Sea Fleet did not suffer much damage, and when the war began, they strengthened their vigilance, although German planes often came to harass them, and did not achieve much success.
Their main force is still intact.
"Peter, do you think that our fleet can only play the role of support for the ground forces?" Hearing the words of the captain of the Marat, the captain of the October Revolution, Trosky, immediately sneered: "It turns out that since the battle of the Irbe, we have lost all courage. ”
Due to their geographical location, Germany and Russia were often adversaries.
As long as the German navy blockaded the waters northeast of its side, that is, the southern waters of Denmark and Sweden, it would close the entire Baltic Sea and turn the Soviet Baltic Fleet into an inland sea fleet.
And the Russians, sailing in the Baltic Sea, could easily get close to the northeast of Germany and launch a strike on the German mainland.
During World War I, the destroyers, cruisers, and old battleships of the Baltic Fleet engaged the German warships several times, and the two sides were basically evenly matched, and the superiority of the Russian warships in firepower sometimes gave them a slight advantage in battle.
However, in August 1915, a powerful German detachment was reinforced to the Baltic Sea, which included several dreadnoughts and ex-dreadnoughts, and in the face of the great strength of the German navy, the Russians wisely chose to take refuge after paying some losses, which became known as the Battle of the Irbe.
At that time, they avoided the war and blew themselves up, which had something to do with the weak navy of the Tsarist era, needless to say anything else, the sailors under their command often made trouble because they couldn't eat enough, and where did they have any combat effectiveness.
And now, the Red Navy, should it be the same as it was in Tsarist Russia at that time? It's definitely a travesty.
In history, because the German navy was not strong, therefore, at the beginning of the war, Germany used the simplest method, that is, to lay mines, by laying mines in front of the Soviets' homes, the entire Baltic Fleet was blocked at home, except for the Battle of Petersburg, the artillery of the Baltic Fleet bombarded the shore, making the German Northern Army miserable, there was no decent battle.
But now it is different, the Baltic Sea is still open, and they have a new type of pocket battleships imported from Germany, and they have a certain combat effectiveness.
"Trosky, what do you want to say?" Captain Peter blushed and asked Trosky.
"We must not stay in the port and do nothing, we should take the initiative." "We will go along the coastline and blow up the Germans in the three Baltic countries, and we can fight all the way to the German mainland and let the Germans know how powerful our Baltic Fleet is," Trowski said. ”
If you want to say that you want to hit the German mainland, the Baltic Fleet also has this capital, because they have the only Marine Corps in the entire Red Navy, but now, this statement, no matter how it sounds, seems like a fantasy.
Because there is no air supremacy, the Red Navy does not have aircraft carriers, and land-based air forces cannot fly far, and in the absence of air supremacy, they run to the door of people's homes to bomb, isn't this a joke?
The two soon quarreled, and Tributz looked at these people below him, feeling very helpless.
Now the situation is already very critical, the people present are divided into two groups, one is looking to attack, the other is wanting to defend, and now, Moscow is busy with the defense on the ground, Stalin has not noticed the navy, in the entire Soviet army system, the navy is a very embarrassing role.
"Not good, not good. Pskov fell, and at that moment an adjutant hurried in from outside to report the startling news to the crowd. ”
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