Chapter 172

Thunderbolt

Under the bright moonlight, Private Ivanov, who belongs to the 4th Guard Naval Infantry Brigade of the Soviet Navy, wore a round naval cap and a long magazine pps-43 submachine gun, stood brightly on the rear deck of the armed fishing boat "Victory M7". [. Updated

Fastest and most stable] Please visit the latest free chapters of this book. Although it is already April, the weather in the north is still cold, and the temperature is also hovering at the edge of zero during the day, and it quickly drops to about ten degrees below zero at night. In order to keep the cold, Ivanov’s military coat was paired with a fur collar with a fur collar and thick gloves on his hands. This combination has improved a lot compared to the most difficult period. However, after enduring the blowing of the sea breeze for a long time, a faint layer of frost has condensed on his eyebrows.

Ivanov has left home to join the army at a young age. Now Ivanov has just turned 20 years old. He has not caught up with the series of painful and tragic battles in the early stage of the war, but he has become a tried and tested warrior. During the landing battle of the Montreal Islands, the Battle of East Prussia and the operations to the East for combat against Japan, he fought as a member of the Marine Force, and developed a strong body and sensitive reaction ability in a difficult and dangerous environment that ordinary people can imagine, and a strong fighting will as strong as steel

He and his companions have sufficient confidence to defeat all enemies. Now, the smoke of the world war has dissipated, and the confrontation between the East and the West is quietly forming. In just half a year, the Union Republic reborn in the ashes has experienced one challenge after another, from being strongly questioned and criticized by the Western world due to the atomic bomb incident, to the confrontation between the occupied areas and the loss of spiritual leaders without warning. This has not only failed to defeat the Soviet military and civilians, but has instead made them politely

The hatred of Western countries is increasing day by day. Warriors like Ivanov, who are simple-minded, are all looking forward to a war that can be ended in a short time, so as to eliminate all evil imperialism and militarism once and for all. As long as this wish can be achieved, bloodshed and sacrificed. Therefore, after receiving the order to sail with the ship, the elite naval infantry were excited. Although they soon learned that their destination was not Britain, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands

Western European countries such as Lanzhou, but on the surface, remain neutral, but in fact, the Norwegian government, which is obviously inclined to the British and American camps, is not a friendly neighbor. It is vast and sparsely populated, with a special geographical location, and is a natural pedal to attack Britain and Western Europe. At present, the Soviet army, which matured through the Patriotic War, is at its peak of scale and will. Their active total force exceeds the sum of the Western world. Their tanks that exceed the other side can easily rush to the Western European plains...

In addition to the faint laughter from the cabin, there was only natural sound of wind and waves in my ears at this time. Dozens of ships were moored in their sight, ranging from freighters and passenger ships with displacement of thousands of tons, destroyers of about thousands of tons, as well as gunboats, submarines, and barges, fishing boats and minesweepers, together forming an expeditionary fleet with basically complete functions. As for the armed fishing boats here, machine guns and small-caliber artillery were installed on fishing boats with relatively ideal hull conditions to make up for the shortcomings of military ships. During the war, even the British with strong naval strength modified many such civilian ships for military operations of offshore patrol, escort and anti-submarine, not to mention the Soviet Union, where the maritime power was at the end of a strong country.

Although this Soviet fleet that gathered from Arkhangelsk could not be compared with the huge fleet of the Allied landed in North Africa and Normandy, it still seemed majestic and mighty when sailing on the sea. During the voyage, the Soviet officers and soldiers learned from the commander the real purpose of the trip - to find the secret camps of German remnants of German troops in the snowfield glaciers in northern Norway. The enemy may not be powerful, but must be brutal and violent. Therefore, the order issued to the Soviet soldiers clarified the principle of force, that is, no matter what kind of person he met, any person who resisted by force would be shot dead.

By following such orders, it is entirely possible to issue direct conflicts between the Soviet Union and Norway, and then launch diplomatic sieges for the Western world and even full war. However, the concerns of the Soviet soldiers did not reach the far-reaching level of politicians. After receiving the new instructions, they were all full of confidence. The Third Reich had collapsed with the fall of Berlin and Hitler's suicide. After nearly a year, what scale and combat effectiveness can the remnants of the Nazis who fled and flee?

In this way, more than a thousand officers and soldiers from the 4th Guard Naval Infantry Brigade climbed the Norwegian coast with their heads held high, carrying mules, horses, machine guns and cannons, and a company-scale T-34.

The 85 tank was also transported to the shore. Considering that various changes may occur during the operation, especially the strong pressure from the international community, all transport ships remained at the landing site so that all landing personnel would be brought up when necessary and leave Norwegian territorial waters.

"Private, is there any situation?"

The officers who walked onto the deck from the cabin had a smell of alcohol, and the trout they caught during the day had become delicious food on the plate. Putting aside the cold weather and the bumps of the waves, the days I stayed in northern Norway were more peaceful than I imagined, especially without strict military training and strict discipline control, the food standards were significantly improved. On nights like this, I didn’t have to worry that those officers would come to patrol in small boats. In the past two days, the landing troops

No traces of people's cluster activities were found. The only episode was that a few unlucky guys were injured by falling into a snow pit on the ice field, and there were also sporadic gunfires on the eve. It was said that a Norwegian hunter using a hunting rifle, probably dissatisfied with the Soviet army's entry into their territory. The guy protested with a warning shot, and then fled north with his familiarity with the terrain. A small team of Soviet soldiers was ordered to pursue it, but it seemed that the complex terrain covered with rocks would make them very troubled.

Ivanov turned and saluted: "Everything is normal, Comrade Lieutenant."

The officer wore a burly cap, took out cigarettes from his pocket, and rowed matches against the railings. Ivanov frowned slightly. Although this violated the light control order, the landing troops stationed on the shore cooked food and kept warm on open flames. Some of the flames in the fleet two or three kilometers apart seemed to be irrelevant. He did not speak, but quickly looked at the submarine parked quietly beside the cargo ship not far away. This was a pike-class submarine, which looked short and narrow in shape, carrying an overly large command cabin, with only machine guns on the deck but no artillery, and the most powerful weapon was two 450 millimeters.

The torpedo launcher is quite behind German submarines and British and American submarines. At the end of the war, although the Soviet Union accepted dozens of completed or near-complete submarines from Germany, mastering their performance and forming mature combat power was not achieved overnight. With a vast territorial waters and a long coastline, every ship that is still usable is served in various fleets. Of course, the rapid recovery of industry has enabled the Soviet Union to build more advanced combat ships at an unprecedented speed. It can be imagined that the embarrassing situation of lack of equipment will gradually improve in the next few years.

On the pike-class, the Soviet Navy type IIII submarine, you can see several crew members smoking and chatting on the deck. During the day, it and other submarines arriving in Norway with the fleet are active in the surrounding waters. Ordinary soldiers like Ivanov will naturally not know their specific combat missions. With the patrol of long-range reconnaissance aircraft and the cover of these submarines, the safety of their own fleet should be basically guaranteed.

Inadvertently looking at the sea slightly far away, Ivanov suddenly saw a strange scene: the ups and downs reflected the rippling white moonlight, and a black "big fish" appeared faintly under the water. In my childhood memory, I had seen similar scenes by the riverside of the summer night, but it made him feel bad when it appeared in this cold ice sea. It was only a thousand meters away from the target object. It was impossible to determine whether it was an illusion or a terrible existence by the naked eye. So Ivanov asked for help from the second lieutenant officer who was carrying the telescope: "Comrade lieutenant, look at the sea over there, it seems that there is something happening... the telescope!"

"Mum?" The officer looked in the direction of Ivanov's finger with his somewhat confused gaze. His eyes did not cross the pike-class submarine and landed on the distant sea. He reluctantly picked up the telescope, but his attention was obviously not in the right position.

Ivanov was anxious. He rushed to the officer two steps in three steps, saying "sorry", trying to use the binoculars in the officer's hand to observe the strange sea surface. As a result, the telescope's belt strangled to the officer's neck. He shouted in anger: "What are you doing? What are you doing!"

Ivanov didn't use the telescope at all when he was pulled rudely by the officer. He was eager to explain, but the officer stubbornly looked at the sea area just now with the telescope, and said in a obviously drunken tone: "Nothing...uh! Nothing..."

With a rush, Ivanov squinted his eyes and looked again. More "big fish" appeared under the sea with sparkling waves, as if a group of whales or dolphins were swimming in the same direction, almost close to the sea. At this time, someone on the submarine deck obviously noticed this situation, and then finally heard a heart-wrenching scream, and someone shouted "torpedo" that no one here wants to hear. Ivanov's heart sank, and he quickly removed the submachine gun from his shoulder and shouted "Enemy" in his mouth.

". If those "black fish" that are moving quickly are really torpedoes, they will have an extremely fatal blow to ships in a stationary state of mooring. After all, this is not so comprehensive. The troops only have one week from assemblage to departure. Only a few destroyers and frigates in the fleet are equipped with limited anti-submarine equipment. The only thing that is thankful is that the three-piece ship berth is equipped with anti-torpedo nets, and people can only hope that they can prevent underwater attacks as much as possible.

The officer next to him was sobered up in shock, holding the railing, hurriedly pulled out his pistol from the holster, and shouted in horror: "Comrades, come out quickly! Nier, Emil, Nikola... Come out quickly!"

Before he finished speaking, a flash of lightning appeared in the distance. The red and yellow light formed a strong visual contrast with the white moonlight. The strong air waves almost arrived in sync with the huge rumbling sound. In the blink of an eye, more flashes, roars and violent air waves made the sea area boil. Ivanov was so excited that he could not open his eyes by the strong light that his ears were also buzzing. Because his main perception of the outside world was extremely disturbed, he seemed to have lost himself, and suddenly fell from the human world to purgatory. Everything had far exceeded his acceptable range. This was completely lost...

On the Soviet destroyer "surrounded by multiple cargo ships", although the lookout failed to observe the abnormality on the sea surface and issued an alarm at the first time, his position was the most capable of exploring the sea situation after the incident. The lightning protection net located around the berthing area was set at a depth of two meters and was towed and fixed by spherical floats. However, the first explosion was fired beyond them and happened in the berthing area. The lookout lookedout with incredible eyes as the gunboats and gunboat cargo ships in the berthing area on the left that were originally intended to provide fire support to the landing troops at any time exploded one after another. The initial explosion was simple, and it occurred at the side of the ship and the instantaneous rise of water columns.

Most of them temporarily enveloped the ships in water mist and gunpowder smoke, but those shells that were not yet available were quickly affected by the rockets, and the subsequent explosion formed an astonishing momentum and destructive force. Some ships almost split into pieces in an instant, and huge flames soared into the sky, forming a powerful mushroom-shaped shape. Some decks and superstructures were instantly lifted away, and various objects and fragments sputtered into the air. What is difficult to understand is that the draft of these ships is either less than two meters or just slightly more than two meters. Could it be that the lightning protection net was destroyed before the float moved? Or did the enemy use magnetic torpedoes that were equipped but not so reliable?

The first wave of explosions was like a heavy rain that was airtight. Then, the lightning protection nets set up outside the ship's mooring area played some role. They obviously hung some underwater attack objects coming from the outside. For dozens of seconds, they and the upper float were like troops retreating in an orderly manner in the defense war and moving backwards. However, the enemy's torpedoes were obviously equipped with time-delay explosion devices. When the power was exhausted, the torpedoes hung by the lightning protection net burst out with terrifying impacts. The unprecedented huge water columns were lined up.

It rises from the sky and easily overlooks this landing fleet that is shaking and turbulent in the waves from the top. Once the underwater lightning protection nets and floats become fragments, the torpedoes that follow will be detached. They rushed straight toward the concentrated berthing ships. With the destructive power that they could just witness, they only need one to give a fatal blow to thousands of tons of cargo ships. For small ships that are only hundreds of tons or even about one, those torpedoes that sail almost against the water will not be missed. One is enough to destroy two, three or more.

Boom!

With this extremely powerful violent explosion, the ocean freighter less than five meters away from the left side of the destroyer seemed to be pushed hard by an invisible giant hand. The entire hull tilted to the right with an exaggerated amplitude, and the white water waves came. The Soviet lookout on the destroyer had to hold on to the guardrail tightly to avoid being washed down. The large waves had not yet fallen, and the hull of the freighter seemed to be installed with a spring. After reaching the extreme inclined position, the deck suddenly swung backwards quickly - but it could not maintain this normal state. The hull suddenly tilted to the left and quickly reached the extreme position close to the angle of 45 degrees. Next, the hull swung back again, but it was obvious that the swing back speed slowed down this time.

Many, as if the impact of the explosion just now was weakening rapidly. However, the explosions around made the lookouts and other personnel who barely reacted to the destroyer were completely in a state of dizziness. The torpedoes were fired like machine gun bullets. In just a dozen seconds, there were only two cargo ships and barges outside the destroyer who were not attacked, and several were even attacked by two or even three torpedoes. The worst-case ship, the bow, stern and the hull in the middle, had broken, and few of the seamen left behind had time to escape from the cabin. Even if they jumped into the water, they were swallowed by the wild waves caused by the subsequent explosion before they could snatch them...

On the deck of the destroyer, an officer who had not even had time to put on a military cap was shouting at the top of his lungs: "Everyone will return to the battle position and fire to intercept the torpedo!"

In such a short period of time, no more than ten sailors arrived at the deck from the cabin. The first person to enter the artillery position was on duty. Although they were full of fear of the status quo, they still operated the guns and cannons on the ship conscientiously. Seeing that the first high-level dual-purpose dual-machine gun had turned to the defensive gap due to the sinking of the outer cargo ship, without any warning, a roar of terror came from the bottom of the ship, which was even more terrifying than the striking thunder.

The thousands of tons of destroyers actually trembled all over. The waves aroused on both sides were strong. In an instant, they crossed the deck to reach the height of the bridge or even higher. Several Soviet sailors who had just arrived at the artillery position but had not yet had time to stand firm were swept down by the violent waves. Before they could get up, the second, third, and fourth equally terrible thunder came from the bottom of the ship. Its berth was no longer the offshore area of ​​Pingjin, and it was an explosive barrel with sea water at all!

"Ivan! Ivan!"

The extremely rapid shouts of his companion finally made Ivanov return from the confused nightmare to a reality worse than any dream. He barely supported himself to get up from the deck. As the senses recovered, he suddenly felt a cracked pain on his head. As for the pain from his hands, feet and body, it was nothing in comparison. He looked around in a daze. The armed fishing boat he was in was obviously not directly attacked by torpedoes, but the sea area was completely boiling, burning and exploding ships everywhere were torpedoes dragging white tails everywhere. Two companions had just set up machine guns on the back deck. It roared rattle. Under such a magnificent momentum, it was like a cricket trying to stop the car's advance, powerless and hopeless...
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