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Gorshkov's confidence is not unreasonable, the German-class pocket battleship is a miracle, with a volume of more than 10,000 tons equipped with 6 doors 280 and 8 doors 150, and still maintain a relatively decent speed (28 knots), what kind of level can such a battleship be?

Anyway, look at the 10,000-ton treaty re-patrol at that time, under the same displacement, what level the treaty re-patrol was, in comparison with the German class, you can understand what kind of warship this is.

To put it bluntly, the Germans' positioning of the Deutsche class is that of a treaty cruiser killer, and when carrying out the task of breaking diplomatic relations on the ocean, they can beat the treaty cruisers of major naval powers, and when facing other people's battleships and battle cruisers, they can have a certain speed advantage in order to be able to escape.

So did the Germans' thinking succeed? It should be said that it was not very successful, which battleship after the treaty of 1936 basically ended did not have a speed of more than 27 knots? I'm afraid that the German class has rammed into the new battleship with only one word - death! If you can't beat it, you can't run away. Even a treaty cruiser that bullies others doesn't necessarily have much advantage.

It looked like the German-class had a lot of firepower, but the number of main guns was too small, and the rate of fire per unit of time was a cut slower than that of treaty cruisers, and compared to the general speed of more than 30 knots for treaty cruisers, this cargo could not get rid of its opponents. The end result was that the treaty cruisers could actively choose whether to engage or track, that is, once the Deutsche class was discovered. That's basically no fun.

Back to the battle itself. It looks like the Admiral Scheer is good and strong. But it is not necessarily useful against destroyers that are fast and maneuverable. The rate of fire of the 280 guns is slow, and the number is too small, and it feels like a cannon to fight mosquitoes when used to fight destroyers. As for 150 guns, it was really suitable to attack the destroyers, but the number was too small, there were only four guns on each side of the ship, and the firepower was too weak.

In the case of the Excellence, as long as the speed is kept high. With the appropriate engagement distance, the Admiral Scheer basically didn't have much to do with her. On the other hand, the Excellence, while seemingly vulnerable, was not without the means to threaten its opponents, with eight 130mm guns with a high rate of fire that could continuously sweep through the superstructure of the Scheer, even if they could not sink their opponents. Judging by the experience of naval battles in the Sea of Japan, medium-caliber artillery swept the superstructure of enemy ships and was able to effectively create fire and chaos.

Anyway, Gorshkov didn't think about sinking his opponent, that's unrealistic. All he needed was time for the Guardian. What's more, the Excellence also has two quintuple 533 torpedo tubes. With the power of 53-36 torpedoes, just one hit could make the Admiral Schell drink a pot.

Of course, the use of the 53-36 torpedo is still relatively risky, because the maximum range of the torpedo is only 4,000 meters at a speed of 43.5 knots, and the maximum range is 8,000 meters at 33 knots. Everyone knows that it is difficult to attack the Admiral Scheer class at a speed of 33 knots. And even with a speed of 33 knots, it is not possible to launch an attack at a distance of 8,000 meters, and the hit rate is too low, and the hit rate is only a little higher when it enters within 5 to 6 kilometers.

To tell the truth, with the firepower configuration of the Admiral Scheer, the hit rate at a distance of 8,000 meters will probably be very high, and the Excellence will rush forward regardless of it, I am afraid that it will be abused to the point that it will not be able to take care of itself.

Anyway, Gorshkov was not ready to look for abuse, under his orders, the Excellence and the Guardian accelerated rapidly on one side, and the other side also quickly began to release smoke, anyway, the Guardian turned around and ran, while the Excellence harassed the Admiral Scheer from a relatively safe distance, forcing the other party to constantly change direction.

For the Germans, the situation in front of them is not too good, the fog is originally very limited and the visibility is limited, even if it improves with the sun and improves to a certain extent, but to tell the truth it is more difficult to bite the other side.

Especially the cruiser of the other side (yes, the Admiral Schell took the Excellence for a cruiser, presumably the Excellence is relatively long) is very difficult to deal with. The ship's logbook impressively recorded: "At 9:21 a.m., a Soviet cruiser and destroyer were spotted besieging the Spanish gunboat, and in accordance with the captain's order, our ship immediately opened heavy fire on the Soviet cruiser......"

The Germans were full of interest in this powerful Soviet cruiser, and the combat thick specifically asked the officers and men of the ship to find out the technical performance of the new Russian cruiser, and finally the Germans came to an outrageous conclusion: "The ship has 8 152-mm guns and a maximum speed of more than 36 knots, and it is especially noteworthy that the ship also has powerful lightning equipment, which should be a ship specializing in torpedo attacks." ”

And the Germans also estimated a considerable displacement for the Excellence - more than 6000 tons! Well, a displacement of six thousand tons is enough for two fully loaded Type 33 destroyers. Anyway, the intelligence work of the Germans was outrageous enough.

Returning to the battle itself, starting with the Guardian's accelerated retreat until the Red Caucasus arrived on the scene, the Admiral Scheer engaged in more than twenty rounds of fire with the Excellence, in which the Admiral Scheer fired fifteen salves and half salvos from the main guns alone. The Excellence, on the other hand, fired more than 900 shells due to its faster rate of fire (10 rounds per minute), almost half of the ammunition in the ammunition depot.

So what are the results of the battle between the two sides? It can only be said that the Germans, according to the records of the Germans, hit at least 4 shells of the enemy cruiser, including two shells of the 150-mm secondary gun and two shells of the 105-mm high-level dual-purpose gun. The Germans said: In the end, the enemy cruisers withdrew from the battlefield at high speed, and the German navy succeeded in driving out the communist devils. As for the damage to the Admiral Scheer, the Germans did not say a word, as if not even a piece of skin was broken.

And what about the Soviet side? According to the Excellence's logbook and Gorshkov's memoirs, the Excellence was not hit by a single shell, and the only damage was the shrapnel of the ship from a 280-mm near-miss, but it did not even penetrate the hull and was out of battle. It took the sailors an hour to fix the unsightly scratch.

Meantime. According to Gorshkov's recollections. The Excellence hit at least 30 shells of Admiral Scheer, and at one point the opposing hull began to smoke and catch fire. In his words: "Our ship proved one thing with practical actions that the German Navy was not as strong as they boasted!" ”

So what's really going on? Which side is lying?

Let's put it this way, neither side told the truth at that time, whether it was out of propaganda needs or the bad weather at the time, which led to the fact that the "facts" witnessed by both sides were actually untrue.

Let's start with the Soviets, the Excellence was really uninjured. During the naval battle, the Excellence maintained a fairly high speed, and the heavy fog also greatly reduced the reliability of the Germans' sighting equipment, and the 280 mm guns were too slow to pose any threat to the Excellence. Especially later, when the Excellence released a large amount of smoke, the Germans stopped firing for a time because of the difficulty of observation. The so-called hits recorded by the Germans were actually the fire of a salvo from the main gun of the Excellence in the fog.

For the same reason, the Excellence, which installed the radar, also encountered the same difficulties as the Admiral Scheer. Although their rate of fire is higher, it is due to the fog and frequent high-speed maneuvers. The hit rate is actually not ideal. Of course, that's not to say that the Excellence didn't have any successes.

Just look at the follow-up to this encounter, that afternoon, according to the logbook of the Admiral Scheer, they carried out an emergency repair, the official explanation was routine maintenance, but there was such a coincidence of routine maintenance? If you don't maintain it early or late, you just do it on the day of the end of the battle? You know, according to the ship's officer: "The Admiral Schell is in very good condition. "And the last time the Admiral Scheer was undergoing routine maintenance was only three days ago, so such frequent routine maintenance is not normal to look at it.

In fact, it was also unusual, because during this routine maintenance, the Admiral Schell temporarily dismantled a 105-mm high-level dual-purpose gun and a twin 37-mm anti-aircraft gun. Okay, it's okay, what are you doing with it?

The reason is very simple, the door 105 was hit one after another by the rain of bullets from the Excellence, the gun shield was pierced, and the gunners of the entire gun position were almost killed and wounded, and even caused a fire at one point. The flames and smoke seen in Gorshkov's memories are just that!

Of course, this is not to be seen in the official German records, but on the contrary you can see the propaganda of Goebbels' triumph, in which the trumpeter said that the Soviet warship had been badly damaged, that it had returned to Malaga with scars and a belly full of seawater, and that the Excellence had not been able to sail for the next year.

The British, the French, and the Italians took all of them, and were genuinely eager to help the Germans remove the Excellence from the Red Navy's roster. Anyway, according to these European mainstream media: "It's a joke that the Red Navy is a paper tiger, and compared with their old hooligan elite old navy, they don't even deserve to carry shoes!" ”

The problem was that the bastards were simply blind, and after the battle, the Excellence continued its mission in the waters off the Strait of Gibraltar for three months, until another sister ship, the Flawless, which had just been commissioned, came to take over, and she returned to Kronstadt. On more than one occasion, he met with British, French, German, and Italian warships, and the cargo pretended not to be seen.

After the war, in the face of the evidence provided by the Soviet side, the conscientious historians of these democracies unanimously declared that the evidence of the Soviet Union was unreliable, and that it was all forged by the dictatorship, and even made up a story: "In order to cover up the fact that the Excellence was heavily damaged, the Soviets urgently let the second ship of the Type 33 destroyer, the Flawless, replace the Excellence, and also said that the Soviets urgently eradicated the name of the Immaculate and then repainted the words of the Excellence, because they made a mistake in their busy work and wrote the wrong letters." ”

To be honest, you have to admire the ability of these people to make up stories, which is probably the so-called brainstorming!

Of course, the focus of this chapter is not to discuss the brain-dead story of the so-called "tanuki for prince", but to discuss how this naval battle ended.

According to Goebbels on the German side, under the powerful blow of the Admiral Schell, the Soviet fleet suffered heavy losses and could only flee with the tail between its tails, and the German Navy won its first victory since its self-sinking in 1919!

Is this the case? It is a pity that the Germans lied, because it was the Admiral Schell who escaped in the end. In the pursuit, while the Excellence destroyed one of the Admiral Scheer's 105-mm anti-aircraft guns and two 37-mm hand-pulled machines. Out of the fog rushed a steel behemoth!

The Red Caucasus murderously blocked the way of the Admiral Scheer. Bombarded with 8 305-mm guns. The Admiral Scheer was suppressed in minutes. At the same time, the Excellence and the Guardian also turned around and quickly charged at the Admiral Scheer, firing all the torpedoes in one go at a distance of four kilometers.

At that time, there was a lot of jumping in the bridge of the Admiral Scheer, and under the threat of the enemy battle cruisers, he quickly turned around and ran. But the funny thing happened, when the Admiral Scheer kept accelerating, trying to get rid of the enemy battle cruiser as it was designed. But it was very tragic to find that she could not even shake off the enemy's frigate.

The reason is this, according to the design requirements, this cargo should have a speed of about 28 knots, but because of the long-term sea, the bottom of the ship is epiphytic with a lot of marine life, and the guide resistance is greatly increased, even if the throttle is stepped on, the speed of this cargo can not exceed 25 knots.

At the same time, the Red Caucasus underwent two rounds of modernization and achieved a maximum speed of more than 30 knots. According to the memories of the officers and men on board at that time, the maximum speed of the ship could reach 31 knots. Even if the bottom of the ship is "too dirty" because it has been at sea for a long time, its maximum speed can still reach more than 27 knots. As for the Excellence and the Guardian, they are both new ships that have just arrived in Spanish waters, and their speed is maintained quite well.

Therefore, the tragic Admiral Scheer could not get rid of the opponent at all, and was beaten by the opponent all the way to escape, and in the end, it was the Soviet Politburo that was worried about triggering a direct conflict with the Germans, so it ordered the three ships to stop the pursuit, which allowed the Admiral Scheer to pick up a small life.

It can be said that in this naval battle, the Germans were really not good, and it stands to reason that such a humiliating thing should be kept shut, as if there was no such thing. Who would have thought that these skinless and faceless goods would dare to claim that they are victors, it is really ridiculous.

However, if you think about it, the Nazis can only propagandize like this, and they who have been preaching how good the German race is, naturally cannot accept the fact that they lost to an inferior Slavic nation like pigs. If the truth comes to light, it could shake the foundations of the Nazis. And an important reason why the Nazis came to power was that the Germans were always dissatisfied with the Treaty of Versailles and the inexplicable defeat in World War I.

No matter what, the mustache can only blow hard in the swollen face, anyway, the Soviet Union has no sense of zài in the European public opinion circles, as long as the mouth cannon is powerful enough, a loss can become a win.

Facts have proved that the mustache did not guess wrong, the two big hooligans of Britain and France were expecting the Soviet Union to suffer, and the German Navy was not bad in World War I, so naturally they preferred to believe that the Germans had won, and anyway, it was a sarcastic ridicule of the Red Navy, and even for a long time after the war, mainstream European naval war historians wishfully believed that the Germans were the victors.

However, the truth of the matter is not difficult to find out at all, why? Because there were Spaniards on the battlefield. According to German propaganda, if the Admiral Schell had damaged the Excellence and the Guardian and driven them away, the Germans, who were very humanitarian, would not have looked at their Spanish friends, right? After all, the two remaining Spanish gunboats at that time had not yet sunk, they were just catching fire and burning.

If the Admiral Scheer is the victor, they should pull their brothers and save the Spanish friends from the sea of suffering, right?

So what about actually? In fact, the Germans only cared about boasting about the victory of the non-existent zài, and simply forgot about their Spanish partners. Let these poor creatures be caught by the Red Navy. All the officers and men of the Nationalist Navy, including Sunico, were arrested by the Red Navy and dragged the two burning gunboats back to Malaga and handed them to the Republican Army.

Later, when a reporter who wanted to explore the facts asked Goebbels: "Why is Canovas. Morality. And what about the Castillo and Canalehas gunboats that were finally captured by the Soviets? Didn't the Navy of the Third Reich go to stop the raids of the Soviet Navy? Why did only the Admiral Schell return to the anchorage alone in the end? ”

Faced with this question, Goebbels was also sweaty, because this lie was not easy to fulfill, and in the end he could only reply hesitantly: "At that time the fog was too great, and the Admiral Scheer lost Canovas. Morality. The trail of Castillo and Canalejas, which were eventually captured by the Spanish Popular Front, can only be said to be regrettable......"

After saying that, the sharp-toothed propaganda minister hurriedly flashed people, because the reporter took out a tape recorder, which was full of interviews with Canovas. Morality. The passage of the crews of the Castillo and the Canalehas, according to these Spanish captives, was ruthlessly abandoned by their German friends......

Of course, conscientious European historiography selectively forgets this scene, and they keep saying in their minds: "These Spanish sailors were coerced into testifying against Germany." These prove the evils of the Soviet Union and communism from the other side, and these despicable devils who enslave freedom deserve hell! ”

There is no cure for this kind of stereotype and selective ignorance, but fortunately, the Soviet side does not care what these brain-dead people say, whether it is for the Politburo and the Military Commission, or for Kuznetsov, who commanded on the spot, this victory is just a trivial matter, just a little joy, there is no need to celebrate, because the situation they will face next will be very tricky, the Germans will not be willing to suffer, they are likely to retaliate.

Then how to deal with the retaliatory actions of the Germans and even the combined Germans, Italians and the Nationalists is very crucial. It is necessary to let these fascist bandits retreat in the face of difficulties and not to trigger a full-scale conflict with Germany and Italy, which is a great test of the political and military wisdom of the Soviets...... (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)

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