Chapter 1161： Kronstadt (1/2)

From the distance, after entering the Baltic Sea, the German naval formation seems to be able to be attacked by Soviet naval aviation at any time.

Although the Soviet navy is not taken seriously, after all, they are also capable of combat, and in the Baltic Sea environment, they are really vulnerable.

In fact, the Soviet Navy did not have this capability at all.

Although Germany did not care about packing up the Baltic Fleet, it had no mercy against their naval aviation and wiped out their power on the ground on the first day of the war.

The Soviet Air Force can still mobilize aircraft from the rear, but the naval aviation is different. They can't always mobilize from another naval base, right? In this way, the Soviet naval aviation was temporarily disabled.

Therefore, the German fleet can enter the Baltic Sea mightily, it is also safe, even if there are a few planes flying, the fleet's dense air defense artillery, the fleet's **** fighters, are enough to make the opponent drink a pot.

Moreover, the current Baltic Fleet did not find the German fleet's offensive at all. They lacked maritime patrol aircraft, not to mention that they had to run back in one mind.

In Tallinn, the Baltic Fleet base, thick smoke billowed everywhere. The smoke was artificially placed. Of course, there was also the factor of the fleet's own boiler. Now, the black smoke in the boiler is even denser.

In the black smoke, the flagship Mara first started out of the berth.

The Mara is of the Gangut class and is the only first-class battleship in the Soviet Union. In fact, its armor is not thick and it is a compromise for the high speed.

Although it is very old and has undergone a modernization a few years ago, it can still accelerate to 30 knots when its boiler is running at full power.

On the bridge, Captain Peter's face was very solemn.

The war on the ground is too fast, the German offensive is so fast, what will happen to their Soviets?

Peter shook his head and put those thoughts behind him. Now they have received the task of returning to Petersburg, assisting the ground forces and blocking the attacking German troops.

No matter how powerful those armored soldiers are, they are all scum in front of the battleship's guns.

The huge battleships lined out waves on the sea. After a few hours of sailing, they could see the naval port of Kronstadt, which is also the main naval port of the Baltic Fleet.

This place originally belonged to Finland. A few hundred years ago, Peter the Great at that time had noticed this Kotlin Island that emerged from the Gulf of Finland. It is only 29 kilometers away from Petersburg and belongs to the position of Russia’s gateway. Is very important.

Therefore, after the island was snatched from Finland, in 1703, at the same time as the construction of Petersburg began, it was also built as an important military port.

Kronstadt means the royal city.

The Gulf of Finland itself is not very deep, and it is completely frozen in winter. Therefore, the construction of the Soviets was quite simple. They drove the workers to use horses to transport thousands of oak boxes full of stones from the ice to the local area, sink them into the ice caves, and build several artificial islands. Fortresses were built on these islands.

These fortresses completely blocked the waterway to Petersburg. There are only two very narrow waterways that can still be sailed. The strong fortresses on both sides can guard this waterway tightly and solidly.

The five fortresses formed in this way are the main defense facilities at the mouth of the Gulf of Finland. After it was built, it played its due role in history. For example, they successfully repelled the combined fleet of Britain and France in the Crimean War.