On a hot summer day, six large warships lined up on the sea north of Kaliningrad (formerly known as Königsberg) were bombarding the shore with powerful main guns. Most of these broad, high-bridge battleships have a typical British shape, and their main turrets are mostly twin-packed, but there are also triple-mounted and rare quadruple configurations, which are enough to shock people when firing in a salvo, but here they are alternately firing one cannon and one cannon. In this way, the firepower of each round of artillery fire is reduced by more than half compared with the full salvo, which has the advantage of ensuring the continuity of the shelling to the greatest extent and can avoid the barrel overheating early and limiting the fire support on the opposite bank.

Around this column of majestic and beautiful warships, more than 30 light ships were like the guards cavalry that guarded the king in the old days, and carrier-based aircraft and land-based fighters were constantly circling and alerting the fleet. Although the Allies had enough naval and air power to control the Baltic Sea, this did not prevent Soviet bombers, submarines, and high-speed torpedo boats. In total, since the outbreak of the war, the Allied side has lost a total of 230 ships in the Baltic, with a total registered tonnage of almost a million tons. Seventy percent of these losses were concentrated in a few landings and retreats at sea, but there were also careless failures such as the British heavy cruiser Norfolk - in the autumn of 1946, when it was escorting a convoy of convoys, it was suddenly attacked by Soviet torpedo bombers, and the officers and men were unable to withstand the enemy's stubborn attack despite their best efforts, and the Norfolk was hit by two torpedoes and exploded, losing nearly two-thirds of its crew, thus causing the heaviest defeat of the British Royal Navy since the nuclear explosion in the Norwegian Sea.

The Royal Navy was in full swing at sea, and on land, the reorganized 1st Army of the British Army was working with the US Army to storm the Soviet defenders in Kaliningrad. After the nuclear explosion in New York, the Western allies led by the United States launched a full-scale counterattack codenamed "Civilization Fury", although the Allied forces were still at a relative disadvantage in terms of land combat strength and technical weapons, the strategy of steady and steady tactics coupled with the full use of naval and air forces and atomic bomb deterrence enabled the Allies to recapture most of the land originally belonging to Poland in less than a month and a half, and the two sides gradually returned to the front in the winter of 1946, and the Soviet army at this time was obviously much inferior in terms of both war materials and military morale. In the eyes of the outside world, the Allies fought in a mourning posture and the unprecedented unity of all the people, even if they could not directly attack the hinterland of the Soviet Union before the arrival of winter, the enemy could automatically collapse due to the deadly internal turmoil, and the hope of ending this human catastrophe before the arrival of 1948 could become a reality.

Returning to the surface of the sea, the radars of the Allied fleet and carrier-based aircraft jointly alerted the surrounding area, and it was difficult for any Soviet aircraft or surface ship to approach this artillery fleet, which was dominated by conventional warships, by penetrating the defense at high speed, but the wise man was always able to take advantage of the weakness of the enemy's defenses. At a depth of several tens of meters, a Soviet PZ-class submarine, rebuilt from the continuation of the unfinished German XXIII-class submarine, slowly and quietly headed towards the Allied fleet, driven by a creep motor. In order to interfere with the effectiveness of submarine positioning sonar and acoustic torpedoes, Allied escort ships routinely dropped jamming buoys and towed sonar around the fleet, but for enemy submarines that were still far away, they became out-and-out guidance beacons. After patiently advancing to the vicinity of the Allied fleet, the superior miniature submarine released a communication beacon from underwater, which allowed the submarine to receive external radio signals while submersible. Prior to this, the Soviet defenders in Kaliningrad had calculated the approximate size of the Allied fleet from the scale of the shelling by enemy ships, and reported this to the higher command, and the Soviets also sent high-speed combat reconnaissance planes from airfields in Lithuania to make observational confirmations. …,

Receiving the expected instructions, the Soviet PZ submarine immediately used a mine-laying device to drop the atomic bomb mounted on the submarine and activated the timer, and the atomic bomb container with the addition of buoyancy was like the body of an anchor mine, suspended about 20 meters above the sea surface under the action of the anchor and hinge. After this, the PZ submarine sent an extremely brief radio signal using a communication beacon, and then turned away. During this period when the worm motor drove it to move slowly, the Soviet command began to coordinate ground forces to induce the Allies to increase their forces in Kaliningrad

On the one hand, they sent tank forces assembled in southern Lithuania to attack the Allied flank, and the aviation units also launched a short and powerful counterattack against the Allied front-line airfields in northeastern Poland, and on the other hand, after receiving confirmation orders from the command, the defenders in Kaliningrad began to break through the deployment. However, such a combat strategy was only a huge momentum, and the counterattack of less than 500 tanks and more than 1,000 artillery pieces only made the Allied officers and soldiers habitually panic for a while, and they quickly repelled the Soviet counterattack from the direction of Lithuania, and the losses of the air force were smaller than expected. As a matter of fact, after the United States announced that it would use atomic bombs on the battlefield, the Soviet army had to abandon the previous strategy of gathering thousands of tanks and artillery pieces and hundreds of thousands of officers and men to fight in one place, and instead switched to the conventional method of scattered deployment and all-front combat.

After nightfall, Soviet troops in the Lithuanian direction launched another offensive on the Allied flank, and Soviet troops in the city of Kaliningrad simultaneously launched a breakthrough operation in the direction of Lithuania, and the pressure on the Allied troops in the southeast of Kaliningrad increased sharply. Receiving a call for help from ground forces, the Allied fleet, which had already retreated and was on alert, sent destroyers and frigates to carry out limited artillery bombardment of the port and the city, and the fierce fighting continued from midnight until dawn. Most of the Soviet defenses in Kaliningrad were successfully withdrawn, and the Allied forces on the periphery also took advantage of the situation to attack Kaliningrad. By this time, the outcome of the battle for Kaliningrad seemed to be decided, but the Soviet troops who had moved to the Masurian Lake area overnight organized a counterattack, and the Allied forces were somewhat caught off guard, and the British vanguard armored brigade fighting southeast of Kaliningrad immediately fell into the encirclement. The tanks of the two sides engaged in a fierce battle in the early morning, and hundreds of Soviet fighters came to their aid regardless of their disadvantages, and the situation of the British troops, which had always performed poorly on land, was precarious, and the large fleets of the Allied fleet had to go to the shelling area near the shore again, and they launched attacks on Soviet artillery positions and supply lines with large-caliber naval guns and carrier-based aircraft units. At about 10 o'clock in the morning, the Soviet troops who participated in the battle gradually fell behind on the scene, and they suddenly collapsed on the whole line, and the British troops did not pursue them out of concern about the tactics of the Soviet army.

At a quarter past ten, the midsummer sun was already like a blazing fire, and after a bombardment, the turret of the battleship was as hot as a steamer, the battle on land had come to an end, the sailors were able to leave their positions and enjoy the cool sea breeze on the deck, and the fleet commander of the British Royal Navy also took his officers from the high bridge to watch the destruction of the port city by the shelling for several days. Four kilometers southeast of the fleet, the frigate in charge of the vigilance observed a lifeboat-like object coming to the surface, and they were about to lean over to check it, when the object burst out with a light that was a hundred times more dazzling than the scorching sun

In the blink of an eye, 3 battleships were fatally damaged, 3 heavy cruisers sank, 37 light ships capsized on the spot, more than 7,000 officers and men were killed, and many officers and men were seriously injured. In the face of this huge catastrophic blow, the losses that had been at best the sinking of a few ships and hundreds of casualties were not worth mentioning, and when the news reached London, no one wanted to believe that this was the truth, and in addition to surface ships, more than 1,000 US and British ground forces entering the city and port of Kaliningrad were also killed and thousands injured to varying degrees, and the overall casualty figure was comparable to that of a medium-sized fierce battle. …,

At noon on the same day, Radio Moscow made a rare announcement to the whole world: in retaliation for the Allied atomic bomb attacks on Soviet cities, the Soviet troops took a retaliatory strike on the Eastern Front that day. From now on, if the Allies dropped an atomic bomb on the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union would resolutely fight back. For the sake of protecting innocent civilians, the Soviet Union advised belligerents not to target undefended cities and populated areas, but if the Allies insisted on continuing to bomb cities in the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union retained the right to launch nuclear strikes on Allied cities and had the ability to attack national capitals, including Washington, London, Paris, and Warsaw. The Soviets loved and cherished peace, but if the enemy wanted to continue the war indefinitely, the Soviets would not back down.

The Soviet Union's proclamations shook the world and were widely regarded as the official declaration of the era of nuclear war. Most people were deeply frightened by the Soviet Union's ability to fight back, and dismissed Moscow's expression of a desire for peace as hypocritical. A few hours later, the U.S. government issued an explosive proclamation, declaring that it would counter violence and nuclear weapons against the Soviet Union, and that no matter which country in the camp of Western allies was attacked by the Soviet Union, the United States would be treated as if it had been attacked by itself, and every atomic bomb used by the Soviet Union would be retaliated with two atomic bombs. The United States has already started the nuclear weapons production line with all its might, and is filling its nuclear arsenal at a rate of 20 per month, and the United States is not afraid of a nuclear war with any country.

Unlike the warlike announcements of the US government, the British government, which has suffered the most this time, has maintained a surprising silence, but that does not mean that they have chosen to swallow their breath. Two days later, when a Lancaster bomber carrying an American-made atomic bomb attacked Brest in Belarus, the famous fortress and dozens of Soviet officers and soldiers deployed there came to naught.

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