Gulf of Finland, Kolint Island, Luang Kastadt Naval Fortress.

November 26, early morning.

Snow-white searchlights pierced the night, countless trucks rushed between the warehouses and the docks, the sailors of the Red Navy shouted from time to time, and the cranes on the docks swung back and forth more often than usual.

Standing on the top of the bridge of the battleship "October Revolution" and looking at the battleships being prepared around him, the brow of the commander of the Baltic Fleet, Orlov, has not been unraveled, and the pipe that has been in his mouth since last night has not been put down.

From 1915 to the present, the navies of Russia and the USSR have not added a single battleship! The current four Gangut-class battleships joined the Russian Navy in 1914. It's been more than 20 years old now! Although these battleships were modernized in 1936, they really had to go to the same time as the German and Chinese "Karl Brown." Marx" (as the Soviets like to call it) level confrontation, that is really not much different from looking for death!

Since the Soviet Red Navy had also purchased the drawings and design materials of this class of battleships, Orlov was very familiar with their performance, knowing that the 305mm guns of the battleships "October Revolution" and "Marat" did not pose any threat to their armor, while the opponent's 380mm guns could easily sink his two battleships!

But the problem is that Comrade Stalin is now close to madness, and when he heard that the port of Tallinn was captured by the Germans from the sea, he ordered the arrest of People's Commissar of the Navy Muklevich on the spot! He was sent directly to a military court and sentenced to death! I don't know if I've been targeted? Seeing that the next unlucky one should be the turn of himself, the commander of the Baltic Fleet, Orlov was forced to have no choice but to ask Stalin to fight in the name of the Baltic Fleet...... Live a little longer, it's a while! Maybe you can hand in the good luck and sink a "Carl. Marx". You can make up for it. Even if it doesn't work, there are tens of thousands of officers and men of the Baltic Fleet to be buried together, and you won't be alone in hell!

Behind him stood the captain of the battleship "October Revolution", Rear Admiral Kuznetsov, and the commander of another battleship, Marat, Rear Admiral Isakov.

These two battleships are the foundation of the Baltic Fleet, and they are also the main force of this outing. There are also three cruisers of the "Svetlana" class. The Red Caucasus, the Red Ukraine and the Red Crimea also followed with them to the funeral. In addition, there are some destroyers and light cruisers that have not entered the stream, and more than a dozen warships have been collected, and at this time they have anchored and lit fires. It's ready to go.

"Comrade Kuznetsov, keep in touch with the 1st Baltic Front at all times." Orlov said calmly: "As soon as we find the German and Chinese fleets, we will divert them...... Before we're done. It was hoped that the 1st Baltic Front would regain Tallinn. So that our deaths are worthwhile. ”

"Yes. Comrade Commander. Kuznetsov lowered his head heavily, his face gloomy and his expression solemn.

"Okay, so be it! Red Navy, go! Orlov raised his arms high, then swung down heavily, giving the order to strike. At three o'clock, in the expectant eyes of the officers and soldiers of the fortress and the families of the navy soldiers. The Baltic Fleet of the Soviet Red Navy slowly sailed out of the fortress of Luangkastadt and rushed towards the vast Baltic Sea.

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Poland, an important town on the west bank of the Bouag River. Biahua. Podlaska.

This small city is located on the trans-Eastern European railway artery, next door to the famous Brest Fortress in less than a month. There have been two earth-shaking changes. First, at the end of October, Red Poland raised their sacred banner here, from which the Soviet Red Army crossed the Bouag River and embarked on the revolutionary road to liberate all of Poland! Within a few days, however, they were defeated by the counter-revolution from Germany and China, and they fled across the Bouag River in fear. The Red Polish government, led by Lendsky, a Polish GCD, also became a government in exile and took refuge in the Soviet Union.

And now it has become the base camp for the counteroffensive of the German, Chinese and Polish armies. A long train slowly stopped at a temporary station in the west of the town. Tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery pieces were carried under the command and transportation of Chinese and German soldiers into the makeshift barracks that had just been erected on both sides of the railway. The soldiers wearing M35 steel helmets also got down from the top of the military column, marched in a neat line to the pre-booked cantonment site, and began to set up camp.

The 8th Armored Division of the Chinese National Defense Forces was also sent here by train. Hu Lian raised his wrist and looked at his watch, took the list handed over by the logistics officer, and his two tank regiments finally arrived after the completion of the reorganization. The Germans, according to the agreement, replenished him, the "Warsaw savior", with all the losses of equipment. Now the entire armored division has another 380 tanks, 72 self-propelled guns, assault guns, anti-aircraft combat vehicles, 400 armored vehicles of various types and 800 trucks. There are still nearly 19,000 officers and men in the division, and they can fully undertake the mission of attacking the Soviet Union! Together with the German 3rd and 4th Panzer Divisions, they would form the 16th Panzer Corps. Admiral Hoppner commanded the Soviet Union from the south of Belarus or the north of Ukraine, striving to join Army Group Center in eastern Belarus and put the Soviet Union's Second Baltic Front and Western Front in one fell swoop!

At that time, there will be two million Soviet troops in the pocket? Or three million?

Hum! Lao Maozi is finished now.

In Hu Lian's cold snort, Lieutenant General Wu Tuohao, deputy chief of staff of the expeditionary force, had already walked to his side.

"The commendation order of the General Staff is here, in view of your outstanding performance in the Battle of Wowomin, you will be awarded the Order of the Blue Sky and the White Sun of the First Class and the title of Hero of the Republic of China." The big brother of the first phase of Whampoa handed the telegram to Hu Lian with a smile.

"Brother Mouxian, when do you think we will cross the Bouag River?"

"Probably soon, right?" Wu Tuohao stomped his foot hard, and his boots made a gurgling sound when they stepped on the ground. "The ground is almost frozen, and the weather is going to get better soon, so it's time for us to go out."

"Will the Soviets run away?" Hu Lian's eyes flashed with coldness, and he asked.

"Huh. I'm afraid the determination to escape is not so easy to make, is it? Wu Tuohao turned his head, looked at the north and said with a smile: "More than a million people of the First Baltic Front are trapped in Estonia, if Stalin withdraws the Western Front and the Second Baltic Front, I am afraid there is no hope of saving more than a million people in Estonia, right?" ”

Hu Lian narrowed his eyes and looked at the gray sky. The heavy snow has stopped for days.

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At this time, the land of Western Belarus had also frozen and gradually hardened, and the vast Eastern European Plain was silvery white. Although the cold wind is like a knife. But there is no obstacle to military action. On both sides of the Bouag River, only occasionally artillery shells exploded above the positions of the Soviet and German armies. The long-range heavy artillery of the Soviet Red Army had stopped firing on the other side of the Bouag River. Because the heavy snow has stopped for days. The skies over Western Belarus are now under the control of German aircraft. For the Soviet army. There is no need to pay for extremely valuable heavy artillery fire in order to harass the opposing position. At this time, the only harassing artillery bombardment of the Germans was some mountain artillery fire. Since yesterday afternoon, the Soviet troops have been braving the fire of the German army to adjust their situation. The large army that was preparing to retreat began to rush to repair and strengthen the fortifications and arrange obstacles. Artillery regiments of infantry regiments were hurrying to enter positions, orders had been delivered, and the original plan to withdraw to the Stalinist line was temporarily postponed. Now turn to the defense on the spot. Prepare for a breakthrough of the Germans from the front of the Bouag River! The main forces of the Western Front and the Ukrainian side, all sixty infantry divisions of twenty infantry corps, together with eighty artillery regiments. They are already in place. Five base numbers of ammunition have already been prepared. However, General Shaposhnikov, who had just assumed the post of commander-in-chief of the Soviet Army on the Western Front, knew very well that with a million troops in his hands, it was simply not enough to hold the defense line of the Bouag River! Now we can only hope that the time for the German offensive will be delayed! So that the 2nd Baltic Front could free the 1st Baltic Front from the German encirclement. When the time comes. Even if they had completed the covering mission, they would have retreated to the "strong" Stalinist lines as soon as possible.

And Stalin, in Moscow, was also extremely concerned about the situation of the Second Baltic Front here and in the north. According to intelligence. The main forces of the German Army have already been assembled in Lithuania and Poland, and the direction of the attack is facing Western Belarus, and both sides are already the main forces against the main forces! As a result of the unexpected siege of the 1st Baltic Front of the Estonian side. Until they can successfully break through, the front on the Western Belarusian side must be maintained! As long as it can be stabilized, it will be able to contain the main force of the Germans. The 1st Baltic Front was always able to break the not so tight encirclement and flee back to Leningrad. The red country of the Soviet Union can more or less last for a few years. Now it's up to us to see if we can keep these two points! Stalin had already given the order to die, and the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army at the front, not a single step backwards, must maintain the front.

The Soviets were in the trenches, in the observation posts, in the machine-gun bunkers, in the civil fortifications, watching with wide eyes and panic at the movements of the German ** team opposite. The spirit of the front-line Red Army was stretched to the point of maximum tension, and they were all waiting for the enemy's attack.

And at this time in the small Estonian city of Kehra, Tukhachevsky was also waiting. Although his front army was already in a predicament of being attacked from the ground up, the marshal himself was not too alarmed. Because there are not too many German ** teams occupying Tallinn, there is only one army! If it weren't for the firepower of those six battleships, it would have been too perverted. This German ** has long been wiped out by the First Baltic Front, and there is not even a slag left. Fortunately, the fools of the Red Navy, now ready to atone for their mistakes, have come out of the Luang Kastadt fortress and are ready to lure the Sino-German combined fleet out of the waters near Tallinn...... As long as they can entangle with the Germans and Chinese at sea for two days, even if only for one day! The first Baltic Front had a chance to escape and ascend to heaven.

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"Lieutenant General, U162 discovered the Soviet fleet! The location is in the Gulf of Finland. The staff officer pushed the door open and entered Lysteyan's cabin, handing him a telegram he had just received.

"What? Soviet fleet? What are they out for? Lysteyan shook his head, took the telegram from the staff officer's hand, and stood up sharply when he looked at it. Two battleships and three light cruisers...... What did the Soviets want to do? Suicide or want to go to the Baltic Sea to break diplomatic relations? ”

Lysteyan's heart skipped a beat, if these two battleships left the Gulf of Finland and slipped into the Baltic Sea, then Germany's sea transport would be shocked into a cold sweat! And now there is a convoy of 24 transport ships sailing from Königsberg to Tallinn. If they were to run into this Soviet fleet, things would be in trouble!

But...... The fire support here in Tallinn is also your own responsibility! Lysyan just wanted to lead the entire fleet to attack, but suddenly it occurred to him that Tallinn could be surrounded on three sides by more than 100,000 Soviet Red Army, and it was all supported here by his own battleships. Otherwise, Manstein would have had to let the Soviets arrest him and take him to "labor camp."

"Send electricity to the battleship Zhenyuan, and order the Zhenyuan, Dingyuan, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Changsha, Xuzhou, Shaoguan, Huizhou and other ships to form the first detachment. Responsible for annihilating or intercepting the Soviet fleet leaving Leningrad. Lysteyan ordered.

In the bridge of the battleship Zhenyuan, the flagship of the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet, Yu Yanshou, who received the order, walked to the side of the chart, looked at the narrow Gulf of Finland and shook his head slightly. These Soviet navies were really not afraid of death. He actually wanted to use two "Gangut" class ships to compete with the six Zhenyuan-class ships of the Sino-German joint fleet. I don't know if to call them brave or stupid.

Yu Yanshou's fingers drew a straight line along the Gulf of Finland, and a cold glint flashed in his eyes, it was obvious that he couldn't let them enter the Baltic Sea. End the battle in the Gulf of Finland!

"Order the Dingyuan, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Changsha, Xuzhou, Shaoguan, and Huizhou to move closer to the ship. The first detachment was formed together with this ship, and the flagship was the battleship Zhenyuan. ”

After the staff officer took the order and left, Yu Yanshou looked at the sky outside the bridge, and the heavy snow had stopped for an unknown amount of time. The sun has appeared in the sky for the first time in a long time! It looks like a good day to go to sea for a decisive battle. Thinking of this, he ordered loudly: "Send out seaplanes and search northeast to the north." ”

"The ships were ordered to cruise eastward at a speed of 23 knots after completing the formation, and the first destroyer formation set off immediately. The route is northeast, search and advance, and the rest of the ships are ready for battle! ”

"Yes!"

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On the sea surface of the Gulf of Finland. A large fleet is sailing rapidly west along the Finnish coastline.

2 battleships of the "Gangut" class, 3 cruisers of the "Svetlana" class. There were also thirteen light cruisers and destroyers with a displacement of less than 2000 tons. There were 18 warships, and the billowing smoke almost obscured the sky, and it was spectacular from a distance. The entire Baltic Fleet, with the exception of the famous cruiser "Aurora", was almost outcast. The sailors of the Red Navy even looked forward to the arrival of a decisive battle at sea, so that the Germans and Chinese, who did not know the height of the sky, understood the strength of the Soviet Motherland!

However, on the flagship battleship "October Revolution", Admiral Orlov was not as optimistic as those sailors who did not understand the situation, and standing in front of the charts, his body even trembled slightly. Yes, he's shaking!

Speaking from the heart, he is now a little afraid of death, as an admiral and commander of the Baltic Fleet, his life is very superior, and the better his life, the more naturally he is afraid of death, which is in line with materialism. Moreover, Comrade Stalin, who had good intentions after Trotsky's death, basically stopped the purge of the Red Army in the upper echelons, and didn't he Orlov participate in the revolution for the sake of such a carefree and prosperous life? Why die? He also vaguely heard that some high-ranking generals of the Far Eastern Front were reused after taking refuge with Empress Anastasia, and were also named marquis and earl! If given a choice, he would rather wait inside the Luangkastadt fortress......

But Stalin, who was almost mad, did not let him wait comfortably for surrender. As the bad weather is about to pass, the chances of the besieged 1st Baltic Front successfully breaking through are also smaller! Now we can only take the risk and see if we can lure the Sino-German battleships out of the port of Tallinn! So that more than a million Tukhachevsky's people could live.

So even if he doesn't want to fight, he has to bite the bullet.

However, as soon as he left the fortress of Luangkastadt, a desire to live always occupied most of his thoughts, and he could not suppress it. It was under the control of this thinking that he chose to sail along the Finnish coastline instead of the Soviet coastline, so that he would have a little more chance to slip out of the Gulf of Finland and sail to the Baltic Sea, and perhaps break the diplomatic relationship and fight merchant ships to lure the Chinese and German fleets out. If he had not evaded the reconnaissance of the Chinese and German navies and could not defeat his opponent, then he could still choose to sail the fleet to the ports of Finland...... Finland is now a neutral country, they will disarm the Baltic Fleet in accordance with international law, and then detain them until the end of the war. Of course, this was a last resort, because his family is still in Stalin's hands!

"Comrade commander, received a telegram from the seaplane." The voice of the communications staff officer suddenly sounded in Orlov's ears. "They found two battleships, three cruisers, three destroyers 80 nautical miles southwest of us! Heading north. ”

"October Revolution" and "Marat" were modernized in the thirties and were able to carry seaplanes. As soon as it was dawn, Orlov sent them out to reconnoitre.

Orlov's gaze quickly focused on the chart, the Gulf of Finland was like a narrow corridor, and the opponent had now sent a detachment to block the exit of the corridor! Can you stand out yourself?

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