A few hours later, the Kremlin received another report of the results of the battle from the Northern Fleet: it was confirmed that it was the battleship "Bismarck" that was sunk! But the heavy losses of their own fleet, after being preliminarily confirmed, made Stalin and Orlov also painful!

The "Soviet Union" had to go to sea for at least two to three months to undergo major repairs before it could restore its full combat effectiveness, and more than 200 casualties were inflicted on a single ship, while the losses of the other ships were also quite large, and all ships needed to be repaired, and both battleships had to go into the dock to be completely repaired. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Are there any problems with personnel and materiel in Arkhangelsk?" Stalin asked Orlov with a large pipe in his mouth.

"There should be no problem, there is still a spare turret and four main guns, and the other losses are not a big problem that cannot be solved at once, but the radar needs to be called in from Moscow, and there may be a need to transfer comrades from the turbine plant from Kharkov to participate in emergency repairs."

"I'll coordinate." These are all under the jurisdiction of Lin Jun.

Can Orlov and Stalin not feel distressed ?! A battleship costs more to build and use than an integrated army group! Moreover, the formation of the group army is simple, and the repair of this battleship is a big problem!

"Comrade Orlov, I would like to see another introduction to the course of the battle." Just now everyone just listened to the simple battle story: this coded telegram is still less safe.

Within an hour, the two destroyers rescued a total of 285 Germans, including 12 officers, but no mid- and high-ranking German officers, and more than 1,000 other German sailors, including fleet commander Admiral Gonther Lütjens and captain Lindemann, were sunk with the ship.

"We had 9 salves against Bismarck and 11 salvos from Ukraine alone, so we were lucky." Lin Jun closed the folder, Orlov glanced at him, and there was a trace of incomprehension: luck?

"The report says that we hit at least 50 to 60 rounds of 406-millimeter shells, and hundreds of rounds of 180-millimeter shells, but it is still floating. And the secondary guns are still engaged in an artillery battle with us even though the deck is badly damaged and the main guns are all destroyed, which is a stubborn fleet. I'm wondering, what would have happened to our Soviet if it had been hit by so many large-caliber shells? It seems that the shipbuilding skills of the Germans have a lot to learn from us. ”

Lin Jun's words have a bit of a "pro-German" flavor, but the people here don't think so -- the deputy commander's mind is "drawing inferences" from one case to another, and he is probably thinking about "robbing people, money, and grain" in the German-occupied areas after defeating Germany!

In fact, Lin Jun will really have a "pro-German navy" meaning: now he knows that the "Soviet Union" has become what it is now after 19 rounds of 381 mm shells and about 20 shells of other calibers, which is already considered luck! (The typical example of bad luck is the Hood.) And the "Bismarck" in memory suffered from shells far and far more than that, and comparing the two compartments - who else dares to say that the "backward" "Bismarck"-class battleships are backward?!

What exactly is the design of the "Bismarck"? : Historically, the "Bismarck" was hit by at least 719 rounds of 406 mm and 356 mm shells before it sank, and then it was only the superstructure that was basically destroyed, while the hull was still largely intact, and finally it was sunk by 6 torpedoes! (Some speculate that the crew even sank the warship in order to ensure that the hull was not captured by the British.) ）

In addition to the "Bismarck", what would it be like to replace it with "Yamato", "Soviet", and "Iowa", and receive more than 700 rounds of large-caliber shells? This time, the Northern Fleet only hit the opponent with only a few dozen shells, and the deck of the "Bismarck" was basically destroyed, and this luck was already good, and it couldn't be better!

The radio station in Murmansk intercepted the telegram sent by the "Bismarck" to Berlin after ordering the other warships to retreat, in plain code! And according to the calculation of the time of the battle, it was a desperate telegram sent by Lindemann after losing power: "We will fight to the last bullet!" ”

The Germans did it - the officers of the destroyer who were close to firing the torpedo even saw through their binoculars that the Bismarck, in a completely hopeless situation, ignored the clear light signals from their own side and did not rush to escape by jumping into the sea, but on the starboard side of the burning battleship, lined up to carry heavy 150-mm shells by manpower, and operated the only remaining 150-mm secondary gun! Even when the torpedoes approached the battleship in rows, the sailors were still trying to manipulate the secondary gun, which was already inaccurate, and no one flinched! Because the naval flag of the Third Reich is still flying on the mast of the "Bismarck"!

It was the tenacity of the opponent that resonated with the Red Navy, and Kuznetsov, risking a big mistake, issued the "20-minute order", and it was the two destroyers that gave the "Bismarck" the final blow to the German sailors who came to the rescue, and the Red Navy sailors gave their clothes to the German sailors who were shivering with cold to change, and the captains also ordered the Germans to be given food and vodka that could only be used on holidays.

This was probably the only possible "preferential treatment of German prisoners" in the Red Navy, because the sailors of the "Bismarck" won the respect of the Red Navy soldiers.

Stalin asked Lin Jun what he thought of Kuznetsov's "20-minute order", and Lin Jun replied: "The navy has its own traditions, and it is no problem for stubborn opponents to respect it sometimes, and they can also engage in some propaganda, I think Kuznetsov's officers will think of it." Also, Comrade Stalin, the captured German sailors this time can give them the qualifications of prisoners of war and serve as a model for propaganda, so as not to make up nonsense in the Western world. We're still very humanitarian at times. ”

The old man knew that his deputy was a "thief", "let the Navy prison take him in, and let the Navy deal with the set of things, and there is no need to hand them over to the Ministry of the Interior." ”

"Yes, Comrade Stalin."

Batches of prisoners of war were eventually handed over to labor camps under the jurisdiction of the troops directly under the Ministry of Internal Affairs (of course, "those who were not delivered" did not count). Lin Junke knew that if he could still come out alive, there would be green smoke coming out of the ancestral grave! Handed over to the custody and management of the naval prison system, most of the sailors of the "Bismarck" survived, at least.

The Nazis were extremely brutal, but there should have been many of those sailors who had not become full-fledged Nazis, unlike the SS. Besides, in the future, Germany will have to build a socialist system after the defeat of fascism, and it will be useful to keep some prisoners of war, and of course the Nazis - there is no need to stay in this world.

"285 people, which is already more than 118 people. The "Shahoernst" was under siege by heavy enemies, and Captain Bell also sent Hitler the same telegram to Hitler as before the sinking of the "Bismarck": We will fight to the last bullet! The crew also braved shrapnel to carry the shells on the deck when the electrical and hydraulic systems were completely destroyed. When the Tirpitz was completely blown up in the Norwegian Tyrlingenfjord, more than 1,000 German officers and men were suffocated in the cabin because the battleship capsized, and they could still be heard outside singing the German national anthem hoarsely for a long, long time......"

Lin Jun seems to have a gritted hatred for the German Army and Air Force, but he can't form an extreme hatred for the German Navy like the SS, and of course such dangerous thoughts must not be revealed.

"I guess I read too many Western-style historical explanations in my previous life." I can only think about all this by myself, and maybe when I see the war atrocities of the German Navy one day, I will not have to be instilled with too much Western-style thinking to influence my judgment.

The naval battle was over, and the air force was unable to pursue the German fleet, which had not yet gone far, and the procedure for rewarding meritorious deeds was to be put on the agenda.

Stalin was delighted, and in one fell swoop he first set 6 "Heroes of the Soviet Union": 4 captains of warships and fleet commanders and chiefs of staff who participated in column artillery battles. Other meritorious personnel are asked to report to the Northern Fleet after their own statistical surveys, and as long as they command in battle and fight bravely, they will receive all kinds of commendations -- as long as their merits are outstanding and qualified, even if they are submitted for the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union" for another dozen nominations, the Supreme Soviet will approve it!

Tomorrow there will probably be news on the front pages of the world's major newspapers such as "The Red Navy Fleet Sunk Germany's Strongest Battleship", I don't know how the British ** fat man will feel when he sees it, or maybe Churchill has been shocked and scolded the sky - the Royal Navy was easily defeated, and the opponent who defeated them was sunk in the Barents Sea, and it was the Red Navy that the Royal Navy had always looked down on to make this feat! This is probably another brilliant contrast and irony of the declining British Empire!

The matter of the Red Navy was over for the time being, and Lin Jun took advantage of this meeting to report on a new situation on the northern front: the German Army officially appeared in Finland.

"It's the 26th Infantry Corps of the Wehrmacht, which has been arriving in Finland by ship since the end of last month, and just two days ago our scouts in the depths of Finland encountered a German detachment."

"How can you be sure it's the 26th Infantry Army? Are there any other German units? "It was Marshal Vorosinov who was questioning.

"The scout is a sniper team, and you have seen that shooter, named Shidorenko, turned out to be a member of our guard. Two men took out half a platoon of patrols and captured a staff officer of the German regimental headquarters. ”

Now Vorosinov believed: the "tongue intelligence" obtained by the agents of the sub-Ministry of Internal Affairs (as is generally said in the Soviet army. It should be fine.

"The Finns are hard-hearted." (To be continued.) )