The Fleet 1934 exercise is divided into two stages. The first stage of the ships is a separate assessment stage. The actual combat efficiency of the participating ships is assessed through live ammunition firing, and then it enters the second stage of the exercise, and the most important stage - the fleet confrontation exercise.

The data obtained in the first stage will be directly substituted into the second stage, which means that in the first stage, the actual use effect (hit rate) of various artillery, torpedoes and other weapons of each ship will become an important basis for the second stage exercise.

"You hear it clearly for me, and you must make a good move! This is related to the victory or defeat later and the future of the naval aviation!" Sukhoi roared at his pilot.

In fact, if Li Xiaofeng had not strictly forbidden him from taking off to participate in the exercise, the commander-in-chief of the Blue Fleet would have dropped the fleet directly into the cockpit and headed towards his favorite blue sky and white clouds. In a sense, Sukhoi was more like a flight wing captain than a fleet commander.

More than ten minutes later, fighters and torpedo planes took off on the decks of Leningrad and Moscow and flew quickly towards the shooting range. Looking at the batches of fighter jets taking off, Sukhoi felt so disappointed. He wished he was in the cockpit of the aircraft, not in the combat intelligence room of the aircraft carrier.

"He requested to lead the participating ships out of the formation, please approve it."

Sukhoi waved his hand and said impatiently: "It's accurate!"

After saluting, the messenger smiled and left quickly. He was more familiar with the big ships and giant cannons, but more unfamiliar with aircraft carriers and aviation. When formulating specific combat plans for the exercise, the two sides quarreled. In the end, Sukhoi had to take the airs of commander-in-chief of the Blue Army to settle the debate... He strongly disapproved his battlecruiser formation as a bodyguard and supporting role in aircraft carriers.

Of course, Kuznetsov was unwilling to act as a supporting role. As an officer who received traditional Russian naval education and gradually promoted from surface ships, he believed more about the role of cannons and torpedoes. Of course, he also believed that sea-based aviation troops would play an important role in the future, but this important role was not the protagonist, but the eyes of the surface ship formation and the surprise troops that disrupted the enemy's formation.

But now, in Kuznetsov's eyes, the sea-based aviation force, who should be a surprise and a supporting role, has taken the lead role without authorization. Do you think he can be happy? What's even more unhappy is that under the command of the superior, he, the newly promoted major general and the commander of the Baltic Fleet Battlecruiser Team, could only let the beard do whatever he wanted.

Standing on the bridge of the Red Ukraine (Hindenburg), Kuznetsov looked at the formation behind him, feeling a little melancholy. His fleet included the four fastest battle patrols and four light cruisers in the Baltic fleet. Such a formation was supposed to compete with the "Red Army" at sea, but now, he has become a poor nanny. This makes Kuznetsov a little bit of a secret spell.

Kuznetsov's fleet was indeed powerful, including four battle patrols, including the Red Ukrainian, the Red Samara (Moltch), the Red Belarus (Sedritz) and the Red Caucasus (De Fringer).

Of course, everyone knows that these four battle patrols are all German goods. After a series of transformations in the 1920s and 1930s, the speed of these four battle patrols generally exceeded 30 knots. They were also generally equipped with a b12 305mm main gun, and their combat effectiveness was incomparable to the past.

Among the Baltic Fleet, these four fastest battle patrols generally serve as leading reconnaissance missions. Their main mission is to eliminate heavy cruisers and light cruisers that were used to reconnaissance in imperialist countries, laying a good foundation for the subsequent decisive battle of the fleet.

Speaking of this, we have to mention the main battleships used by the Red Navy for the decisive battle of the fleet. As for the Baltic Fleet, the main force of its decisive battle was six German battleships, namely the October Revolution (Bavaria), the Paris Commune (Baden), the Red Lithuania (King), the Communist International (Election Emperor), the Red Estonia (Governor), and the Red Latvia (Crown Prince William).

These six battleships also completed a series of modifications in the 1920s and 1930s. For example, the October Revolution and the Paris Commune uniformly dismantled the old coal-fired boilers and steam turbines, and replaced them with new oil-fired boilers and new steam turbines with gear transmission. Their speed jumped from a level of about 21 knots to about 27 knots.

In fact, according to Li Xiaofeng's requirements, these two ships should have a speed of 28 knots after transformation. Unfortunately, Russia's industrial capacity is not ideal, and it is constantly overweight during the transformation process, which eventually leads to a failure to meet the speed. Of course, the speed of 27 knots is actually quite good.

As for the four king-class ships, they were more thoroughly transformed than Bavaria. The turret in the middle of the hull was removed and the entire engine compartment was completely renovated. By replacing the boiler and the steam turbine with gear transmission, the speed still reached 28 knots when the construction was overweight.

The only regrettable thing is that the turret transformation project of these four battleships has not yet begun. According to Li Xiaofeng's requirements, after participating in the Fleet 1934 exercise, these four battleships will have to change turrets and artillery one after another. From the current perspective, the combat effectiveness of these four battleships has been reduced. However, even if the combat effectiveness of the four king-level battleships is reduced, the overall strength is still much stronger than the Kuznetsov Battle Patrol formation with the foundation of the four battleships.

However, for Kuznetsov, who is determined to do a big battle, although the "enemy" main ships have more numbers and higher quality, he is not without the power to fight. After all, his formation still has two aircraft carriers. If these two aircraft carriers can play a good role in the decisive battle before the start of the decisive battle and can use aviation troops to disrupt the enemy's position, then he has a chance.

But now, this opportunity has been lost due to the interference of his superiors. His combat patrol and light patrol were firmly tied by the aircraft carrier and could only engage in some jobs to drive away flies. How could Kuznetsov not be angry?

Of course, if you are angry, Kuznetsov is not the kind of person who deliberately pretends to be angry because he is angry. The more unfavorable his temper is, the more he interferes with his superiors, the more he wants to prove himself. So he has no intention of letting go or making things worse. Instead, he constantly cheers the sailors and encourages them to achieve good results.

As mentioned earlier, the first stage of the exercise is live-fire shooting assessment, and the results of the assessment will also be brought into the second stage. In short, the higher the hit rate in this stage, the more beneficial it will be in the next stage of the confrontation exercise.

Why? It is very simple. The confrontation exercises must not be able to shoot live ammunition anymore. Otherwise, wouldn’t it be a killer? No one would be so stupid that they organized the exercises like this. Therefore, the subsequent stage of the confrontation exercises test the formation’s command ability, that is, the two fleets in the confrontation seize positions and then launch simulated attacks, and the result of the attack is determined by the previous "hit rate" of the live ammunition shooting.

So how is the performance of the Red Navy's live-fire shooting? To be polite, it's not ideal, but to be polite, it's terrible. In the live-fire shooting assessment that day, the average hit rate of battleships and battlecruisers achieved less than 5% from a distance of 15 kilometers to 20 kilometers, and the hit rate of cruisers within 15 kilometers was less than 6%.

Some comrades may say that this is not bad. The hit rate of both sides in the Jutland Naval War is only around 3%, and it is good to get a hit rate of 50% or 6%. Is that true? It is definitely not. Because Jutland is the actual hit rate, while the Red Navy is just an exercise.

In the 1930s, during the exercises, the level of Britain, the United States and France was about 7% to 9%, while the Japanese hit rate was close to 15%. The Red Navy was really at the bottom!

Moreover, from the perspective of later actual combat, generally speaking, none of the participating countries did not perform at the level of training. It can be imagined that in actual combat, the Red Navy may have a hit rate of at most 2%. To be honest, if the equipment is not as good as the opponent, the hit rate will be so many times, and I will be beaten!

So why did the Red Navy perform so badly? In the words of the then Navy Minister of Operations Ornov: "...In the entire 1920s, the navy had very few opportunities to go out to sea to train, especially live-fire training. When military expenditures are very difficult to maintain equipment, the training work is naturally unsustainable..."

This is the truth. The army is a gold-swallowing beast, and the navy is even the big eater among the gold-swallowing beasts. In the 1950s, the Soviet Union once gave Indonesia a huge fleet, making the latter the second strongest maritime force in Asia. What was the end of this fleet? With the interruption of the Soviet aid, it all turned into scrap iron.

It can be seen that building a ship is not cheap, but it is even more difficult to maintain a fleet and constantly replenish fresh blood!

The Red Navy was hungry for a time, so naturally there was no question of maintenance and training. In other words, the economic situation improved in the 1930s, and the normal maintenance and training of the troops could be carried out, which achieved a hit rate of nearly 5%. If you let the Red Navy be tested in the 1920s, you would probably not even have 2%, and you would even take risks by driving the ship out of the port!

In fact, when I saw this report card, neither Li Xiaofeng, Stalin or Tukhachevsky meant to accuse the Red Navy, because the previous exercises conducted by the Air Force and the Army also reflected the same situation, only the Army was in a slightly better condition.

"In the next few years, we must pay close attention to the training work!" Tukhachevsky summarized it with this sentence.

The second phase of the exercise is about to begin. According to the arrangement of the director department, this is a naval fleet confrontation exercise, which mainly examines the commander's formation command capabilities, and indirectly examines new weapons and new tactics.

At the beginning of the second phase of the exercise, Stalin was full of confidence. In his opinion, the Red Army formation had six battleships and four light cruisers, which could completely defeat the Blue Army's four combat patrols and four light patrols. As for aircraft carriers, such flat-top ships had never been placed in the corner of steel's eyes.

In the eyes of Steel, the aircraft carrier is an unarmed canned iron, which will be torn to pieces under the bombardment of the giant ship and cannon. So he proudly declared: "The Red Party will undoubtedly win the final victory!"

At that time, those who agreed with Stalin's conclusion were definitely mainstream. No one thought that four battle patrols could defeat six serious battleships. Even when the exercises were just beginning, Stalin and the traditional navy were already discussing the topic of what kind of battleships the Soviet Union would need in the future.

During the vigorous discussions of these people, it seemed that the Soviet Union's battleships that could rival the seven giants of the Treaty should start construction as soon as possible. The standard displacement should not be less than 35,000 tons. It is best to have more than 9 406mm cannons. Even those radicals believe that the next-class battleships of the Red Navy should not be bound by the treaty at all, and the displacement should be around 50,000 tons, and it is best to have 18-inch (457 mm) heavy artillery.

Li Xiaofeng looked at these old antiques coldly, and said nothing, and there was no need to say anything, because he did not believe that the result of the exercise would be what the mainstream old antiques expected. Judging from the current directorial setting, the Red Party had no advantage at all.

Why do you say that? Because the Red side’s air power is not as powerful as it seems, in fact, the land-based air support that the Red side can obtain is quite limited, and it can even be said that nothing else except air reconnaissance can do. Why is this happening?

The reason is very simple, because in the Red Army, whether it is the land-based naval aviation or the Red Air Force, there are only a few types of aircraft that can be used now, such as the Iran 5, Iran 15 and Iran 16 fighters, and the attack aircraft are Lenin 2, which is on the verge of retirement, which is the Lenin 2, which is on the verge of retirement, and the bombers are TB-1 and TB-3. Among them, fighters are naturally not worthy of any attack on the sea, while Lenin 2 is old and unbearable. As for horizontal bombers such as TB-1 and TB-3, they really have no choice but to use warships at sea.

In other words, there is no type of aircraft in the current Red Army's land-based aviation sequence that can effectively attack seas. If that is the case, what's the terrible thing about such an enemy?

On the contrary, although Sukhoi's sea-based aviation force is bad, it can still be used to imitate the US Wright's T2B carrier-based torpedo. Even if the T2B is slow to fly, it still has attack power, right? If Sukhoi is smart enough, he should make good use of this advantage. Even if he uses the kite-flying style, he can defeat his opponent.

So how is Sukhoi preparing to face the enemy? It should be said that he is even bolder than Li Xiaofeng imagined. In the second hour of the exercise, the Red Fleet was attacked at the Kronstad naval base while igniting the fire and burning the boiler! Sukhoi released all the torpedo planes and fighters in one breath, and caught the Red Fleet off guard with a wave of flowing posture!

Most of the fighter jets, attack aircraft and bombers at the Hongfang Airport were ruthlessly "destroyed", and a large number of pilots lost their lives while waiting, and most of the Redfang's air power was killed before the war began.

Of course, compared with the lost aircraft, Kronstadt's naval ships suffered more serious losses. Six battleships were directly sunk "two", and light cruisers and destroyers also suffered "losses" to varying degrees.

And what price did Sukhoi pay for this? There was no price. Except for a fighter and torpedo plane that forced a landing due to mechanical failure, he won a great victory!

"This is cheating! This is a shameful sneak attack! This result cannot be counted at all!"

The commander of the Baltic Fleet, Wakeman, was a little furious. His fleet was crippled just now. How could he do this? He strongly protested the result, believing that Sukhoi had violated the rules.

So did Sukhoi violate the rules? It is not completely illegal, because this guy took a little advantage. According to the previous exercise plan, the exercise officially began after the Blue Party left Kronstadt and "disappeared" in the Baltic Sea. According to the requirements of the Director's Department, his fleet should send power to the Director's Department to confirm before the fight could be started.

At that time, both the director's department and the mainstream ideas of the Red Navy believed that Sukhoi's fleet should try to stay away from the narrow Gulf of Finland and would announce the start of the exercise after hiding far away in the sea.

But this guy was better. He was less than three hours away from Kronstadt and announced the start of the exercise. And while generating power to the director's department, his fighter jets and torpedo planes had already launched a full deck attack. In other words, Wakeman just received a notice from the director's department and was still raising fire on the ship, the attack came. It was indeed a bit unfair to look at it.

However, Li Xiaofeng didn't think so. He criticized bluntly: "The enemy will not wait until we are ready to launch an attack. The despicable imperialist bandits will use all means to achieve their evil goals. And as the commander of the Baltic Fleet, the vigilance you show is really speechless. Is it how you defend our great motherland?"

Wakeman was speechless, and even Stalin on Wakeman's side couldn't help. If he accused Sukhoi of being too mean, wouldn't he defend the evil imperialism and think that imperialism is not that evil?

However, it is impossible to let Stalin give up completely. He asked bluntly: "Then will the exercise end like this?"

It is definitely impossible to end like this with a slight start. It took so much money and energy to announce the end after five hours of the war. There is no way to explain this!

Li Xiaofeng suggested: "Of course, it can't be over. I think it can be announced that the Blues won the first round of confrontation, let the exercise continue according to the original plan, and after two hours of delay, all the Red Fleet members will attack!"

"Why do you need to delay two hours?" Stalin was a little dissatisfied.

Li Xiaofeng shrugged and said, "It's okay not to delay, so let the warship that was sunk in the Red side withdraw from the exercise..."

Stalin naturally couldn't accept this. He gritted his teeth and replied: "If you delay, delay. Next time, the Blue Party will not be able to cheat and cheat!" (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!

ps: Bow and thank the sweet potatoes in the melon fields, instantly killing potatoes and comrade Juventus!

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