Imperial Overlord

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"We found the enemy's fleet ahead! We have caught up!" Putting down the telescope, General Lindeman breathed a sigh of relief and said to the adjutant beside him.

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Then he loudly ordered the battle, ordering all positions to prepare for battle: "Prepare for battle! Raise the battle alarm! Reload the main gun! Increase the speed!"

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A huge shell was loaded into the barrel of the main gun turret in the dark, and then the propellant pack was pushed in, and the breech block was closed.

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The artillery operators in the turret prepared everything before launching, and then quietly waited in their positions, waiting for the order to fire.

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On the bridge of the battlecruiser Scharnhorst, General Lindemann felt the speed of the warship under his feet increasing.

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This time, he threw away the large force and led the fastest battlecruiser force to the designated position, in order to find the Soviet Black Sea Fleet and deal a fatal blow to these Soviet warships.

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When the German fleet passes through Turkey, it will inevitably be leaked by Turkey. The German high-level officials are actually well aware of this situation.

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While leaking these secrets, Turkey also implicitly informed the Axis countries that they could not keep secrets.

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According to Turkey, the Soviet Union had its own spies in Turkey, and their work in monitoring the Turkish Straits has never been interrupted.

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Therefore, even if Germany is very annoyed at the leak of intelligence, Turkey can still put the blame on the Soviet spies and keep itself neutral.

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In order to ensure the elimination of the Soviet Union's Black Sea Fleet, the top management of the German Navy fully considered various possible problems when formulating the battle plan.

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For example, the intelligence leaked, the Soviet Union knew what kind of countermeasures the Soviet Black Sea Fleet would take after the German fleet entered the Black Sea.

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After all, there are only two possibilities: the first possibility is to stay in Sevastopol and wait for the Germans to attack as a defensive force; the second possibility is to leave Sevastopol immediately and go to a more Safe refuge in the Sea of ​​Azov.

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Because of this, Lütjens drew up a bold battle plan in order to weaken the strength of the Soviet Navy in the Black Sea as much as possible.

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This action plan is actually very simple to say, it is just a simple deployment of troops to intercept the Soviet fleet in advance.

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It is not surprising that the senior commanders of the German fleet who are used to guerrilla warfare at sea can come up with this plan.

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They have been judging the possible positions of the enemy on the vast Atlantic Ocean and intercepting a fleet in the Black Sea. It is too simple.

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The German army, who had already decided that the Soviet fleet was going to go through the Kerch Strait, naturally dispatched its own interceptor fleet.

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This interceptor fleet was not very strong. It consisted of only 3 battlecruisers and 4 cruisers. The commander was General Lindemann, the commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean Fleet.

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Although the force is not strong, the fleet's speed is quite fast. It can take 17 hours to cross the Black Sea diagonally and arrive at the Kerch Strait at 3 pm.

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Such a long-distance raid is a test for the command of the entire fleet. General Lindemann withstood this test, so near the Kerch Strait, blocked the Soviet fleet heading north.

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The German squadron that found the Soviet fleet continued to accelerate at this time, and the speed of the entire fleet increased to 26 knots.

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The speed of 26 knots is almost the limit of the battle cruiser Repulse. After a long journey all night, the performance of this battleship from the United Kingdom is still fairly stable.

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Compared to the opposing Soviet Navy fleet, which was about ten knots crawling, the advancing speed of the German fleet could be described as flying.

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You know, the Soviet fleet also followed countless civilian ships. There are also a large number of supply ships as well as special functional ships.

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The main reason why Gorshkov has been unable to speed up is actually because there are too many auxiliary ships in the Black Sea Fleet, which seriously affects the speed of his fleet.

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Another more serious problem is that the Soviet battleship Paris Commune, built around 1911, is an old-fashioned battleship of the Gangut class.

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Now Gorshkov has only one such warship in his hands, and this warship is very old, both from a design point of view and from a maintenance point of view.

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Even the brand-new Paris Commune battleship is only equipped with 12 305mm caliber cannons, each equipped on four triple-mounted turrets.

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Although it looks like a lot, compared to the battlecruiser in Lindeman's hands, it is not at all superior.

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Although the German Scharnhorst-class battlecruiser is equipped with a 283mm main gun, it is a new type of artillery, which has a long range and a fast reloading speed, which has obvious advantages.

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Moreover, because the German fleet is superior in number, it also has an obvious advantage in the artillery base. Germany has 16 283mm caliber artillery pieces, and 6 381mm caliber main guns on the counterattack.

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So, when the German fleet appeared on the sea level, Gorshkov realized that his fleet might suffer.

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But as the commander of the Soviet Navy's Black Sea Fleet~www.wuxiaspot.com~ he did not choose to escape, but led the battleship Paris Commune, with six cruisers, to meet the German fleet.

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Almost at the same time, Gorshkov also called the Soviet air force near the Caucasus, hoping that they could provide cover and drive out the German fleet.

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Now, he can only rely on the air force to drive away the powerful German fleet. It's a pity that because of the transfer, the Soviet Air Force in the Novorossiysk region really doesn't have any decent aircraft.

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Most of the people stationed here are old-fashioned aircraft like I-16s for training and patrol work.

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Not to mention decent sea attack aircraft, there are not even serious bombers here, and there are no pilots who can attack the sea on their own.

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Even so, after receiving Gorshkov's request, the Soviet pilots in the Novorossiysk region took off their own planes and headed for the Kerch Strait.

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"Boom!" When the distance was 20 kilometers away, the German Navy's 283mm caliber cannon fired first. The slender barrel sprayed a dazzling tongue of flame, showing the ferocity of destroying the dead.

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This new type of artillery has a range of more than 40 kilometers, and at a range of 20 kilometers, the accuracy is quite terrible.

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It is precisely because of this that General Lindeman, who has relied on it, decisively ordered to fire first, and accelerated to seize the dominant position of the T prefix.

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The Soviet-German naval battle of Kerch officially began at this moment. This naval battle was the first large-scale naval battle between the two sides in the Black Sea.