In fact, the two German escort ships were anti-submarine ships converted from large offshore high-speed patrol boats: after the refit, only one 75-mm cannon on the foredeck was retained, because the new 88-mm naval guns were in short supply. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The info secondary gun was originally to be equipped with a 37mm anti-aircraft gun, but in the end only a 20mm machine gun was installed. The saved weight was retrofitted with anti-submarine equipment for coastal anti-submarine warfare - since the main function was anti-submarine, such naval gun firepower was sufficient.

This time, two anti-submarine patrol boats escorted the German freighter "Altkik" back to East Prussia from Finland, and the cargo ship was loaded with about 2,000 tons of high-grade silver ore and nearly 3,000 tons of zinc ore -- silver and zinc, extremely important metals in the military industry, which are the strategic materials that Germany urgently needs at present.

Finland and Germany have long signed an agreement on the export of non-ferrous metals, because Finland is still relatively rich in non-ferrous metal deposits compared to Germany, especially in the north-east of the country, where there are many non-ferrous metal and precious metal deposits.

The Germans had already discovered it the moment the Soviet submarine rushed to the surface, but the warship was turning, and the 20-mm gun at the rear of the anti-submarine ship was almost out of angle, and the gunners were turning too late to aim and shoot! In just a few seconds, the German ship's stern guns lost their firing angle.

The German gun emplacements were unprotected, completely open, and had just made the first round of deep bomb attacks, and everyone's attention was focused on those positions that were once again ready to turn and throw deep bombs, and although there were people on the gun emplacements, they were not focused. When a sailor saw the submarine appear on the surface, the diesel engine of the C-1 had already started and shouted: "Left wing, the submarine is out of the water!" Anton's bullet also arrived!

If the AK-47 assault rifle is firing at a single target six or seven hundred meters away, it will basically have no effect, but as long as it is not blind, the German anti-submarine ship tens of meters long can still hit most of it!

Intermediate power rifle bullets can no longer penetrate any armor at a long distance, but dense scattered bullets can play a very good suppressive role! Just when Anton ran out of the first magazine, there were already 5 assault rifles on the bridge and foredeck of the submarine firing fiercely at the German ship, and all this was only 6 seconds from the time Anton went to the bridge!

Suppress the gun positions on the German ship and buy your own artillery crew a few tens of seconds!

Lieutenant Shutov, the gunner, was the third to rush to the foredeck, followed by 4 gunners who operated 100 mm deck guns, and in the midst of the dense gunfire, the 5-man gun crew went crazy to prepare for the shelling!

In Shutov's opinion, German ships should be equipped with 88-mm naval guns, and it depends on who can fire the first shell and who can hit the opponent's first shell! As long as one hit hits, it is a very fatal blow for both sides!

Cook Corporal Ganev went to the bridge for the fourth, and as soon as the пд 7.62 mm machine gun in his hand stretched out of the baffle, the gun rested on the edge of the baffle and roared and fired at the German ship a few hundred meters away, and one burst shot emptied half of a single chain of 100 rounds! In the roar of Comrade Chef, bullet casings are bouncing everywhere!

There are already sailors running to the 37mm anti-aircraft guns in the back, and it will take 15 seconds to complete the preparation for shooting at the earliest! Crucial 15 seconds!

I have done countless artillery battles in the past, and the speed at which the soldiers get on the surface of the boat is not slow at all, but the comrades who are still queuing up in the boat are eager for the submarine to have about seventy or eighty exits! Senior Warrant Officer Taran, the boatswain, was holding his large-caliber machine gun, and the senior sailors Moskalenk and Dmirenko were his secondary shooters, both of whom had several chains of 12.7mm machine gun rounds hanging from them, and the black and white coloring on the front of the bullet indicated that these heavy bullets were extremely lethal!

The Germans were apparently stunned at once, and although the bullets fired from a few hundred meters away did not kill a German sailor in the first few seconds, the whistling and crashing sound of the bullets was more terrible than anything else! The open gun emplacements were surrounded by sparks from bullets hitting steel plates, and the shrill howling made the Germans panic all at once - they had no idea that the Soviet submarines would surface so quickly, and as soon as they came up, they would be frantically strafed by fully automatic weapons!

The distance was too close, and the Germans simply didn't have time to pick up the MG34 machine guns that were still lying on the weapons racks in the cabin, and it completely became a situation of passive beating! No wonder the quality of the German sailors is not good, there are seven or eight fully automatic assault rifles and machine guns firing wildly at the small ship of four or five hundred tons from a few hundred meters away, and anyone will be stunned for a few seconds -- only the 75-mm cannon can bombard the submarine at an angle!

The German captain was not slow either, and immediately ordered the right full rudder, which would be too much of a loss for himself! Otherwise, the surface of the bullet is small, but the machine gun that can play a suppressive role at close range will become an ornament!

The two German ships began to turn around in the face of a dense number of bullets, and Senior Warrant Officer Taran on the submarine's side had already mounted the large-caliber machine gun on the machine gun mount on the baffle, and with the cooperation of Moskalenk, the long bullet chain consisting of four 25-round bullet chains was in a state of readiness!

The German ship was turning, the boatswain closed the firing grip fiercely, and the 12.7mm machine gun roared! (I don't know if you have ever seen a large-caliber machine gun burst fire?) Blood bats have fought a few times, and the cotton stuffed in their ears is a huge gunshot that can make the heart beat wildly, and it can even be described as terrifying! It wasn't that Taran didn't have an aimless sweep, but he aimed at the back half of the ship first, where there was the secondary gun that was currently the most threatening to him!

The power of armor-piercing anti-personnel shells fired by large-caliber machine guns is amazing, and at a distance of six or seven hundred meters, the thin superstructure of the German anti-submarine ship cannot withstand the 12.7-mm armor-piercing shells fired at this distance!

"Yikes! Yikes! Yikes! "The boatswain's two long bursts turned the back half of the German ship into hell - five or six bullets hit the vicinity of the gun emplacement, and the German sailors who were turning the muzzle of the guns immediately fell in a pool of blood: only one unlucky man was directly hit by the bullets, while the others were all hit by small shrapnel and fragments of the ship's planks, and immediately screamed and lost their combat effectiveness!

With a slight horizontal adjustment, it was excited again, a small column of water and a small amount of sparks appeared, and Taran poured the remaining dozens of bullets on the front half of the German ship!

The C-1 did not need to be steered, which was the biggest advantage in hand-to-hand combat at sea - the German main guns in the steering could not be effectively aimed at all, and the submarine was also accelerating, and the threat of a single shell attack in a short period of time was not as good as that of machine gun bullets!

Because of the speed and turning angle, the two German ships overlapped in the field of vision, and the German ship in the distance could only stare dryly!

A puff of white smoke rose from the German ship, and in an instant, a huge column of water appeared more than ten meters in front of the bow of the C-1 and did not hit! The main gun in front of the German ship, which was passively beaten, finally succeeded in turning the muzzle, but because of the turn, the first shot was missed! The crew of the C-1 was drenched in the falling seawater, and Shutov was already aiming at the number one target - "clang", "reloaded"!

The 100 mm was finally ready, Shutov pulled the starting rod, the cannon let out an earth-shattering roar, and in an instant, a cloud of fire and black and white smoke appeared on the No. 1 target - the shell hit the bridge of the German ship, and all the German troops in the bridge were killed instantly!

There was no time to celebrate, the shells were withdrawn, the red-hot brass shells fell on the deck, and no crisp crash was heard, because the fierce gunfire drowned out everything!

Taran's machine gun was loaded again, and the second large-caliber machine gun was making its first roar - an even louder noise came from the aft deck, and the 37mm anti-aircraft gun finally began to fire!

The anti-aircraft gunners did not aim their guns at the No. 1 target, but frantically shelled the No. 2 German ship, which was outcropping nearly 1 km away! The magazine is loaded with 5 rounds, the magazine capacity is 10 rounds, and the ammunition supply funnel allows it to achieve continuous ammunition supply with multiple magazines, and the 5-person running group of the submariners has brought the performance of the anti-aircraft gun to the extreme!

Inside the magazine were four grenades and one armor-piercing round, with a rate of fire of 330 rounds per minute! While it's impossible to reach such a rate of fire in a minute, the loader is an octopus unless it's an octopus! But in the first ten seconds, the artillery poured almost forty shells on the German ship!

Both the grenade and the armor-piercing shell weighed more than 1.4 kg, and the warhead power was enough to kill and injure the personnel outside the cabin of the German ship! Target No. 2 was immediately surrounded by smoke and fire, and the hull of the ship was also pierced in many places!

Shutov on the foredeck had already hit the No. 1 target with a third 100-mm shell, and the personnel involved in the surface battle were already on deck and on the bridge!

"Deck guns on target number two! Deck guns aimed at target number two! "Marinesko kept shouting on the bridge!

Without the commander's command, Shutov, who heard the fourth sound of "reloaded", had already aimed his gun at the No. 2 target, and the shell hit the front half of the No. 2 German ship that had just appeared in the field of vision like an eye!

The cannon gunners of target number two were blown up and flew up! And the German sailors who were still fighting on the deck also stepped on the firing plate of the 20-mm machine gun, and the shells hit the side of the C-1, and the two sailors who were taking the shells were hit by shrapnel!

But the Germans had no chance, 37-mm anti-aircraft shells hit the aft deck intensively, and the German sailors were torn to shreds!

All the assault rifles and light and heavy machine guns were pouring bullets on Target One, it was completely surrounded by smoke and fire, and there was not a single living person outside the cabin! (To be continued.) )