Struggle in Soviet Russia

It was already late at night, and on the silvery moonlight sea surface, microwaves like fish scales rippling. From time to time, you can see the broken ice layer floating up and down on the water surface. Under the moonlight, a faint white light is turned.

This is the southern coast of the Baltic Sea close to Pomerania. To be more precise, it is in the offshore waters between the Port of Grossendorf and the Port of Leba. If it is not because it is night, it is estimated to be standing on the side of the ship. , you can see the continuous coastline through the telescope.

It happened to be near the end of January. Although the temperature in the Baltic Sea region has picked up, it is still relatively cold. Especially today, with a cold current from the Arctic region, the water temperature of the sea has suddenly dropped to minus 20. degrees.

Just after 9:30 in the evening, on the originally quiet sea, a periscope drilled out of the sea abruptly, quietly peeping towards the coast.

Below the periscope is a dark submarine. The hull of the submarine is marked with the serial number of "S-13". At the same time, there is a logo of a sickle and a hammer. Obviously, this is a submarine belonging to the Soviet Union.

Inside the bridge of the submarine, the captain, Major Alexander Malinis, put his eyes tightly in front of the periscope, hoping to spot a German ship, even if it was just a small merchant ship, from the sea within sight. .

When he came out this time, Malenisgaard had been in command of the submarine for more than 20 days. His only thought was to sink a German ship and return to port with such a feat.

No way, before he came out this time, the matter of Major Malenis high drinking and recruiting prostitutes was stabbed to the fleet military committee. If nothing else, after returning to port this time, he will accept the punishment from the military committee, so , he hoped to be able to make a contribution to somewhat reduce the punishment that he might receive.

It is with such a hope that Malenisgaard took a huge risk and led his men to drive the submarine to this place. You must know that this place is on the verge of Danzig Bay and definitely belongs to the sphere of influence of the Germans.

It's a pity that in the past three or four days, Major Malenis has been cruising around the submarine under the command of Major. Although he has found German ships several times, he has never found a chance to launch an attack. A meritorious deed will ruin his own submarine. While launching an attack, it is the best solution to ensure that the submarine can retreat smoothly.

After holding the periscope and observing for four or five minutes, there was nothing within sight distance, which greatly disappointed Major Malanis. According to his estimation, tonight's hunt would probably end with no gain.

With a forceful sigh, Major Malenis threw the right hand holding the handle of the periscope forcefully, throwing the periscope away from his eyes as if venting his anger.

However, just as he threw off the periscope, a very weak light seemed to flash past in front of him.

Major Malenisgao was stunned for a moment, then reacted, and immediately pulled back the periscope that was being retracted. He quickly brought his eyes together and turned to look for the fleeting flash of light just now.

The sea is quiet, and the periscope is also a world of silver moonlight. Other than that, there is nothing.

Major Malanisgao turned a few directions, but still found nothing, so that he had to suspect that it was his own delusion.

But just as he was about to give up, a red light suddenly flashed within the sight of the periscope. This time Major Malenis saw it very clearly. He was 100% sure that it was definitely not an illusion.

Staring intently at the location where the red light flashed before, Malenian Guinness counted the seconds silently in his heart. Unsurprisingly, after three breaths, another green light flashed on the sea surface—the red and green signal lights flashed alternately. The evasion signal from the ship's navigation lights.

Major Malenis Gao quickly issued the azimuth order, and at the same time, he quickly raised the reconnaissance telescope.

Hearing that there was an attack target, the crew members who had been floating at sea for nearly a month were instantly excited. According to the command of the major, the submarine quickly turned underwater and drove silently in the direction of the navigation lights on the sea. past.

Night is the best cover for submarines. Under such conditions, it is extremely dangerous for any ship to be discovered by the submarine first, but the German passenger ship with its navigation lights on the sea obviously did not find itself. It has been targeted by the "sea wolf".

That's right, the ship with the navigation lights on is indeed a passenger ship. With the rapid approach of the submarine, even if you only use a periscope, you can see the situation on the sea clearly.

Major Malenis Gao was extremely excited. In his sight, there were a total of three ships flying the German flag. The first one was a torpedo boat, and the rest were two passenger ships.

Attacking a small torpedo boat is obviously not in the character of Major Malenis High. Therefore, he can only choose the remaining two passenger ships. Fortunately, the major observed from the periscope, the two The larger one of the passenger ships clearly had anti-aircraft guns. At the same time, the ship also carried some military vehicles, which were parked on the deck in a grand manner.

Since it is equipped with military facilities, this ship is not a simple passenger ship protected by international agreements. Major Malenis Gao chose the target of the attack almost immediately.

With a kind of excitement, the major quickly gave the order to use fish attack. Considering that this is the waters controlled by the Germans, he did not have the mentality of fighting. From the beginning, the idea was to sink a ship and then retreat immediately. . Therefore, his order was to send four torpedoes in succession to the passenger ship in an effort to sink it directly.

The major's orders were faithfully carried out, but unfortunately, one of the four torpedoes got stuck in the launch bay. As for the remaining three torpedoes, in just a few minutes, they hit the huge ship. passenger ship.

In the periscope, he saw that the bow, stern and the middle of the hull of the target ship were hit by torpedoes successively. Major Malenis Gao gave the order to dive without hesitation, and led his crew out of the battlefield as soon as possible to avoid being hit by Germans. Man's boat bites on.

But at this time, Major Malenis High did not know that the three torpedoes he launched caused the largest shipwreck in human history. In this shipwreck, people were buried in the belly of fish and became victims of war.

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A sudden cold snap directly affected the weather in Moscow. Originally, the precipitation this winter was less than in the past two years, but this unexpected cold snap gave The Moscow region brought a widespread snowfall, and at the same time, the heaviest snowfall this winter.

On the train from Moscow to Ryazan, it was clear after the rain. In the No. 4 car, Victor sat on the seat by the window, frowning slightly at the snowy scene outside the window.

This late winter snowfall not only affected Moscow, but also affected eastern and central Poland, which was obviously not a boost for the Soviet army who had just launched the winter offensive before.

According to the report sent back to Moscow by the 1st Ukrainian Front Army, due to the impact of the blizzard, the Front Army has been unable to receive support from the aviation force during the offensive. At the same time, the march of the mechanized troops also encountered difficulties that were not predicted in advance. . Compared with the situation of the Ukrainian 1st Front Army, the situation of the Belarusian 1st Front Army was even worse. After they conquered Warsaw, the offensive had to be suspended.

The 1st Belorussian Front and the 1st Ukrainian Front are the two sharp knives on the Soviet front. According to the battle plan submitted by Konev and approved by the General Staff, the two fronts should go hand in hand on the road to Berlin. , cover each other.

However, the delay in the offensive of the 1st Belarusian Front clearly caused trouble for the 1st Ukrainian Front. The right flank of the front was directly threatened by the German army. In order to prevent a crumbling protrusion on the offensive line, the 1st Ukrainian Front The front army also had to slow down the offensive to wait for the friendly groups on the flank to catch up.

This situation has aroused the dissatisfaction of Comrade Konev. In the past few days, he has submitted reports to the People's Commissariat of Defense three times in a row, requesting the 1st Belorussian Front to speed up the attack.

Victor knew that what Comrade Konev was dissatisfied with was not only the slowdown in the offensive of the 1st Belorussian Front, he was even more dissatisfied with Comrade Zhukov, the commander of the front, and he obviously did not mind expressing his dissatisfaction. , so that everyone can see clearly.

Smart people can always make the smartest choices when necessary, and in Victor's view, Comrade Konev is indeed a smart person. Perhaps in this general's view, he is dissatisfied with Comrade Zhukov or not. It is not important, what is important is that Comrade Stalin was clearly dissatisfied with Zhukov.

Taking his eyes back from the rapidly retreating car window, Victor picked up the pack of cigarettes on the table, lit one for himself, took a deep breath, and looked at the document placed in front of him.

The document comes from the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, and in addition to an official document submitted by Comrade Molotov to the High Command, there are also several photocopied newspaper clippings from The Washington Post, Western newspapers such as The Times.

The **** case caused by three torpedoes, yes, Victor can only use this sentence to summarize the content of this document.