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The two talked for a while, and then they sat together in Natalie's limousine and walked slowly through the crowded Zhongshan Avenue during commuting hours in the heavy rain. "Natalie, I heard that the Soviet Union is about to attack Poland. Will Poland be safe?" Wei Bojian said with a look of worry on his face.

"Oh, no problem, they can defeat the Soviets, Poland defeated the Soviet Union in 1920!" When Natalie said this, her face was full of pride, as if she had no memory of which side she was at that time!

"That would be great!" Wei Bojian grinned, "If Poland wins, the war won't last too long."

"I'm afraid it won't be too short." Natalie said, "Don't underestimate those Bolsheviks, they are still very stubborn sometimes. Xiao Wang, turn on the radio and let us listen to the news."

Xiao Wang is Natalie's driver. He turned on the radio, which was broadcasting the news of the Sino-Japanese (Korean) border confrontation.During this period of time, the armed forces claiming to be the Korean People's Army suddenly became active, continuously launching attacks in Japan (Korean Peninsula), and at one point occupied several small hills and established some kind of revolutionary base. Let the Japanese be driven to the side of China.But the Chinese side refused to disarm the Korean People's Army... and the Japanese army threatened to "cross the border to suppress."

"I really don't know why we are involved in the matter of the Japanese and the Koreans?" Wei Bojian said, "While we are going to fight the Soviet Union, we are fighting Japan at the same time... Sigh, the assistant commander is really too tough."

"The Japanese are just bluffing. Could it be that they still want to use 200 divisions to deal with our more than [-] divisions?"

"But the problem is that we still have to go to war with the Soviet Union." Wei Bojian sighed, and said, "Japan just took advantage of this opportunity to launch an attack. If they stab us in the back when we go to war with the Soviet Union..."

"How are the Japanese scientists on the committee doing now?" Natalie changed the subject.Now many people are worried that Japan will turn against the water at a critical moment, but those who really understand the military strength gap between China and Japan will not have such thoughts.The main reason is that the air forces of the two sides are not in the same series. The scale of the Chinese Air Force (including naval aviation) is ten times larger than that of the Japanese army and naval aviation, and the quality is much higher.

"You mean Yoshio Nishina and the others?" Wei Bojian slowly loaded his pipe. "They work very hard and are very serious, but they have not found any wrongdoing."

"Or maybe they haven't found anything worth risking their lives for?"

Professor Wei Bojian breathed out blue smoke, and said: "Even I don't know what intelligence is worth stealing in our U engineering committee? Is it the separation of uranium isotopes? If he sees the bill, the Japanese emperor will definitely faint... …almost 90 million has been spent! We just got more than 235 kilograms of uranium-[-] with a purity of [-]%, but no one knows what is the use of that thing! If this is really a constitutional country, we will definitely waste it state property and go to prison."

Natalie lowered her head, frowned and looked at Wei Bojian.This question gave her a headache, and she couldn't explain it, because she didn't know what was going on.And she can almost be sure that even Luo Yaoguo cannot know the military use of uranium-235, because all the confidential documents that Luo Yaoguo can see will pass through her eyes first.So far, there is no document showing that this kind of thing may be used to make weapons!And even if it can be used in the military, it is definitely not worth the price-how many bombs will it cost hundreds of millions?How many people can be killed is enough!Hopefully, this time Meitner's experimental discovery can make the whole thing look less absurd...

"Oh! My God! It must be like this! It must be...Miss Wu, hurry up! Give me the chalk, I thought..."

Natalie and Wei Bojian had just approached Meitner's laboratory in Academia Sinica when they heard this Frankenstein screaming at the top of their lungs.

"...the atoms must have torn themselves apart! That must be it. Oh, I can almost imagine the nuclei beating, I can hear the hissing of the atoms as they tear apart! I guess right The answer is that when free protons bombard radioactive uranium, the increase in protons makes the uranium nucleus very unstable, thus splitting! Barium and krypton are formed... It should be like this, I have to do another experiment, and I will do it tonight... ... Wu, you go ask Professor Frisch to come to me."

"Professor Meitner, have you discovered anything new?" Natalie and Wei Bojian pushed the door into this messy laboratory, only to see Professor Meitner writing like crazy on a large blackboard With a series of equations, her assistant Wu Jianxiong was frantically calling Meitner’s nephew Otto Robert Frisch—this was the scene when human beings entered the threshold of the nuclear age!

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Looking out from the windows of the newly built five-story office building of the Sino-German Technical University, you can have a panoramic view of the campus at a glance.Looking at this university, which represented the highest academic level of science and engineering in China and was already well-known in the world, Luo Yaoguo was really moved.He has watched this university grow step by step. To him, this university, like the National Defense Forces, is the hope of China's future!It is the summer vacation of the school, there are almost no students on campus, and several tall teaching buildings are empty, only a few laboratories are flickering with lights, although the Jewish scientists who preside over these laboratories are called to this meeting The meeting was held in the laboratory, but their Chinese disciples continued to study in the laboratory.

Today's meeting is probably the most important meeting since the establishment of the U Engineering Committee. What is the purpose of the four years of continuous work?Now the mystery can finally be revealed!Although Professor Meitner did not show up, the series of equations and calculation results hung on the small blackboard on one side of the conference room wall still made all the scientists present break out in a cold sweat!If this equation and calculation are correct, then what they have been doing all these years is to create the most evil and terrifying weapon in the history of mankind!And what makes them feel even more chilling is that they started making nuclear fission bombs before the process of nuclear fission was discovered!

"...The most optimistic estimate at present is that this bomb can be manufactured, at least it is theoretically feasible. If we go all out, it may take two years, maybe ten years, or even longer. This is unknown. But The premise is that we must go all out, and we must not let other countries take the lead in this area! The United States can’t do it, and neither can Germany! Of course, we are lucky to be one step ahead in this area. We have established an isotope separation plant that can More than a dozen kilograms of uranium-90 with an abundance of more than 235% have been extracted. Moreover, we have stored a large amount of uranium ore, uranium dioxide, and even 38 kilograms of uranium-90 with an abundance of 235%. In addition, we have another advantage , there are some amazing minds working for us including Ms. Meitner, Mr. Szilard, Mr. Oppenheimer, Mr. Kapitza, Mr. Frisch... We are really lucky in that. But, the assistant Handsome, I really can't promise you that this kind of bomb can be made! In fact, I don't even know where to start, everything is unknown, and what I want to do now is something that no one has done before."

Wei Bojian frowned and talked eloquently. As a Chinese scientist, he must be the most excited among all the scientists here. Of course, he will not feel too much guilt for making a powerful killing weapon for his motherland. !Moreover, he also believes that the world war that has not yet broken out is likely to be a competition to make this kind of uranium bomb in the end!Compared with making this kind of bomb, everything that is going on now, millions of troops, tens of thousands of tanks and aircraft, various warships, and all kinds of warships formulated by the world's most professional staff elites All these plans are meaningless!But his brain is definitely not the best here. Compared with these talented Jewish scientists present here, Wei Bojian can only be said to be an ordinary scientific researcher. Even if he has the greatest determination and the highest enthusiasm, he is not sure. Can create such a weapon of mass destruction for the country!

Luo Yaoguo frowned and did not speak. The new Minister of Armaments, Ma Junwu, heard Wei Bojian and asked, "What kind of weapon are we talking about here? How powerful is it? Can it be used against Make it before the end of the war in the Soviet Union?" He, the deputy minister in charge of the Armament Department since Luo Yiqun's time, complained about this U project for not a day or two!This is simply a money-burning machine. This inexplicable project took up a large part of the insufficient funds, causing many urgently needed projects to be delayed!

Wei Bojian glanced at Luo Yaoguo. Although the U Project is nominally under the Ministry of Armaments, it is actually directly responsible to Luo Yaoguo, but this time the Minister of Armaments appeared here. Could it be that the U Project will be under the jurisdiction of this stingy Minister of Armaments in the future? ?Luo Yaoguo nodded slightly towards him, meaning that he had nothing to say and nothing to hide.Wei Bojian thought for a while, and said cautiously: "Minister Ma, for the uranium bomb, I can only say that it is an unknown quantity. The combined power may be too large, that is to say, before the bomb can really work. It has to be divided. In theory, a bomb can wipe out the city of Wuhan, or a larger area. But everything is still unknown. I don’t know if such a bomb can be made, and I don’t know how long it will take. But I'm afraid it won't work until the end of the war with the Soviet Union... I only pay, if the equations on this blackboard are correct, then we have to make this bomb, if our enemies are preempted, maybe it should be Chinese civilization perish!"

Ma Junwu was so frightened by Wei Bojian's words that he gasped, one bomb could wipe out the three towns in Wuhan!Is there really such a perverted weapon?If that is the case, it looks like it must be made.According to the CCP and other anti-war activists, the road China is currently taking is a road of no return!That is to say, we can only win but not lose... He glanced at Luo Yaoguo, saw that his expression was somber and did not respond, and he knew that the other party had already made up his mind to make this bomb!As for the funds... Anyway, it has been transferred to the wartime system now, the base camp has also been established, and the entire country's economy has to serve the war, and one billion to eight hundred million can always be squeezed out.

"We will be the first to create this kind of bomb, so Chinese civilization will not be destroyed, and it will always exist." Luo Yaoguo turned to look at Ma Junwu, "Mr. Junwu, this project has been under my direct control in the past. Let's transfer it to the Armament Department now. This project is the highest priority supply right, and it is also at the top secret level from now on." As he spoke, he glanced coldly at the scientists present. "I know that some of you here are still serving foreign governments. In the past, this U project was an academic research... I just turned a blind eye. But from now on, U project is already a top-secret secret weapon program! So the management It will also become very strict, and anyone who does not adapt can choose to leave. However, if you are willing to stay, then I can guarantee you the most generous rewards, and after the entire U project successfully develops the uranium bomb, you can bring Leaving China with a lot of money... wherever you want!"

"Your Excellency Marshal, but what if someone doesn't want to make a uranium bomb for you, but doesn't want to leave China?"

The one who said this was Professor Lise Meitner, the dean of the Sun Yat-sen Academy of Sciences in China, and the scientist who discovered the phenomenon of nuclear fission.As in history, this somewhat stubborn pacifist refused to participate in the development of nuclear weapons.

Luo Yaoguo smiled slightly: "Professor, I can understand the feelings of those scientists. They don't want their intelligence to be used as a tool to manufacture murderous weapons... However, the nuclear fission process you revealed does not necessarily have to be used in military affairs. Use methods, such as using the energy produced by nuclear fission to generate electricity, to provide human beings with inexhaustible energy. Professor, are you willing to lead a research institute to do this work? I guarantee that this research institute can also get Same level of supply as U Engineering Board.”

Chapter 0723 Stalin's Assault ([-]) The Great War is Coming

Time flies by amid the intense and busy war preparations at home and abroad.Eastern Europe has entered the autumn scene. From southern Poland all the way north to the Baltic Sea, you can see stretches of farmland, pastures, and quiet villages.If there were no troops marching along the road, and trains full of military supplies, it would almost be a peaceful and beautiful era.The current map of Eastern Europe is very different from this time last year. The three sovereign states of the Baltic Sea no longer exist. They have become the states of Lithuania and Latvia in the German Empire, and the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union. !

On the land of Latvia, which was annexed by Germany, it has almost become a large barracks for "multinational forces" during this period.In addition to flying the swastika flag, the whole body is showing a bit of the capable and arrogant German army unique to Germany, and flying the Russian tricolor flag, always looking at this area with excited and sad eyes. There are white Russian officers and soldiers in the land; there is the Italian Kingdom Army with a tricolor flag with a red background and a white cross shield badge in the middle. These handsome Italian guys look so elite now, and they should perform well on the battlefield, right?In addition, there are convoys of Chinese National Defense Forces flying the blue sky and white sun flags running back and forth on foreign lands.Whenever they drive across the fields of Latvia, they always attract everyone's curious eyes - no one thought that this army from an ancient country in the far east is actually the best equipped among all the armies of various countries in Latvia !

The No.18 Army of the Chinese National Defense Army has completely realized motorization, and more than 3000 vehicles of various types have put wheels on this army of 5 people.And the Eighth Armored Division of the Chinese National Defense Army with 380 tanks also has more and better tanks than all German armored divisions... It seems that Germany's war preparations are a bit hasty compared with China.

Admiral Wei Lihuang, who just finished attending a meeting in Wolfsburg in East Prussia, returned to his station in Latvia in a four-wheel-drive car, looking at the vast fields on both sides of the road, without any expression on his face, just watching A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth when he arrived at the convoy of the Chinese Expeditionary Army on the road.China seems to be the one that has truly armed itself the most.The Chief of Staff Du Yuming sitting next to him seemed to be preoccupied, frowning all the time thinking about his own thoughts.The Chief of Staff of the Du General Staff was invited by the Polish Army to visit the Polish Army's defense line in Poland not long ago. After returning from Poland, he looked sullen.

The Poles seem to have the habit of saying one thing and doing another, not only for others, but also for preparing for war that is related to the destiny of their own country.

The defense line on the east bank of the Bouage River was sloppy, not enough anti-tank trenches were dug, and there were not enough anti-gun bunkers. The trench defense zone was also very simple from the experience of the Far East War.In addition, the equipment and training of the Polish army is far from enough to cope with a war. The tanks are second-hand goods eliminated by China and Germany, and they are scattered among the various infantry corps, forming only a small number of armored cavalry brigade; aircraft are more antiques; infantry has almost zero anti-tank weapons, and has not received any training in this area;

However, the self-confidence of these Poles who do not know where they come from and the wariness of their allies Germany and Russia make people speechless.They are not ready themselves now, but they don't want others to help them, and they don't admit that they are not ready for everything.Moreover, he conceitedly concentrated his troops on the east bank of the Buwag River, posing as if he was preparing to defend the enemy from outside the country... But in Du Yuming's view, as long as the Soviet Red Army stationed behind Stalin's line of defense showed their strength in the Far East At half the level in the war, the Polish army on the east side of the Bwag River may be facing annihilation.

"What's the matter? Why have you been depressed since you came back from Poland? Could it be that those Poles were sloppy in their preparations?" Wei Lihuang seemed to see Du Yuming's mind, he smiled lightly, and said: "Guangting, let me tell you something. Good news! The base camp has agreed to add a bombing regiment to the 4th Aviation Division, and it is a bombing regiment equipped with the latest A-125A Thunderhawk dive bombers. With these 18 Thunderhawks, our expeditionary force will have a few more Forget it." At this point, Wei Lihuang took out a report from his briefcase and threw it to Du Yuming. "This is the "Barbarossa Plan" of the Germans. Our Eighth Armored Division will be assigned to General von Bobo's Central Army Group, and will be directly under the command of General Guderian's Armored Group. It is estimated that the first batch of attack Enter the Soviet Union? The No.[-] Army will form the St. Petersburg Army with five White Russian armies, two German infantry armies, and an Italian infantry army. The commander of the army group is Lieutenant General Falkenhausen, who is also our old acquaintance. You will be the deputy commander-in-chief of this army group, and you are the chief of staff. The St. Petersburg army group will be assigned to Admiral Rundstedt’s Northern Army Group, which will be responsible for the siege of Leningrad.”

"Is the time for the attack set?"

"The tentative date is April 1938. As you can see, the Germans are not as prepared for the war as we are. After all, they just got rid of the Treaty of Versailles not long ago."

Du Yuming took over the "Barbarossa Project" and carefully flipped through the pages. After seeing it, his eyebrows gradually tightened. "There are both the Northern Army Group and the Central Army Group...but what about the Southern Army Group? Why didn't you see it? Could it be that there is no such army group? But the total strength of the Northern Army Group and the Central Army Group is only more than 240 Ten thousand, of which the German army is no more than 200 million, they should still have the strength to organize a powerful army group..."

"Poland!" After hearing Du Yuming's words, Wei Lihuang smiled bitterly, and then said: "I think the Southern Army Group must exist, but they should be deployed in East Prussia, the Oder-Tavarta area. This Army Group I guess the task of the group is to cooperate with the Central Army Group to encircle the main force of the Soviet Red Army breaking into Poland...if they have not withdrawn from Poland in the spring of 1938."

"Mr. Wei, do you mean that the Soviet Red Army will be in Poland waiting to be surrounded by us?" After hearing Wei Lihuang's words, Du Yuming seemed a little confused.

"Who knows?" Wei Lihuang shrugged and said with a smile, "The Germans won't tell us all their secrets. I'm just guessing. Maybe they wanted to make a sudden move at the end of 1937 and copy the Soviet Union's secrets. People's way out?"

"Haha! That would be a surprise!" Du Yuming closed the report and laughed loudly: "Now it depends on whether the Soviets will give Hitler this chance."

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Mid-September 1937.As the scheduled time for the invasion of Poland approaches, the air on the Great Plains of Eastern Europe is gradually filled with the smell of gunpowder.Everyone knows that the first shot of World War II is about to start!

At this time, the situation in Northeast China is becoming more and more tense. On September 9, the headquarters of the National Defense Forces issued an order for comprehensive martial law in the Northeast region, and this region officially entered a wartime state. On September 1, some infantry armies had already deployed on the south bank of the Heilongjiang River, and the armored group composed of the First Armored Army, the First Cavalry Army, and the Fifth Infantry Army had also moved into the grassland south of Manzhouli. Standby in the area.But most people still don't think this is China's real preparation to attack the Soviet Union.They believe that this is still only a diversionary action, the purpose is to attract part of the main force of the Soviet Red Army to reduce the pressure on Poland.

On September 9, the headquarters of the Armored Group, the Western Group, the Heilongjiang Group and the Amur River Group under the Northeast Front began to operate.The headquarters of the Armored Group is located in Xinbaerhu Banner on the southwest bank of Hulun Lake.The headquarters of the Western Group is located in Hailar Camp.The headquarters of the Heilongjiang cluster is located at the Sun Wu camp on the south bank of the Heilongjiang River.The Amur River Cluster Command is located in Khabarovsk, an important town in the Far East that has been recovered by the Chinese and Russian troops.The commanders of the three clusters are: Lieutenant General Huang Guyu, Commander of the Armored Cluster, General Xia Wei, Commander of the Western Cluster, General Xue Yue, Commander of the Heilongjiang Cluster, and General Wang Zhongyi, Commander of the Amur River Cluster.

At this time, Marshal Luo Yaoguo, Chief of Staff of the Chinese National Defense Forces, also personally rushed to Shenyang's former Marshal of the Fengjun Mansion.There, he will preside over a high-level military meeting attended by senior officials of the National Defense Forces, the Chinese Communist Party's Border Guards, the Belarusian Army, and the Japanese Army to coordinate the positions and tasks of these four parties in the war against the Soviet Union.In the Tiger Hall of Fengjun Marshal's Mansion, a long conference table was set up, looking at the past, all the generals were shining.The electric sand table and the huge one-fifty-thousandth map are all placed where they should be.There was no sound in the entire conference hall, only the slight sound of orderlies shuttled back and forth to get coffee for these generals.

At this meeting, Luo Yaoguo seemed to be in trouble beyond imagination.Although in the current command and combat system of the Chinese National Defense Forces, the General Staff has absolute authority, and Luo Yaoguo actually controls the entire National Government, he can quickly make decisions on almost any major decision, and the following will be uncompromising Execute withholding ground.There has never been such a large-scale coordination meeting, and there has never been a coaxing "subordinate" to carry out orders with rhetoric, or even real money!But now, the CCP and the Japanese will definitely not obey orders so obediently.

The representatives of the CCP were Zhou Enlai, Chairman of the Central Committee, and Zhang Xueliang, Chief of the General Staff. On the Russian side, Marshal Denikin, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, and on the Japanese side, General Nagata Tetsuyama, Chief of Military Command of the Army, and General Hidesuke Yamamoto, Chief of Military Command of the Navy.As soon as these leading figures in various fields arrived in Shenyang, they were settled into the spacious and luxurious Marshal's Mansion.The rooms of Zhou Enlai and Zhang Xueliang happened to be opposite to the room of Lieutenant General Hou Jingru, Chief of Staff of the Northern Front Army.

The two revolutionary leaders sent out top-secret information on the day they arrived, and they only had one copy, and they had to sign for it. After the meeting, they had to return it to the confidential department of the National Defense Forces headquarters immediately.Pick up again at the meeting the next day.This war plan against the Soviet Union, called "Red Plan", was actually thicker than a tome.The formation and equipment of the troops are detailed to each battalion, and the firepower preparation plan is detailed to the minute, and the bombing plan is also accurate to each aircraft. For the assault formation of the armored forces, there are clear regulations on how many meters should be advanced per minute!The complex and meticulous multi-arms coordinated combat plan, the coordination of air and tanks, and the formation of troops really opened the eyes of these two revolutionaries of the Communist Party of China.It also made them deeply feel the huge gap between their border guards and the National Defense Forces of the Kuomintang, and they really understood how wars in the industrialized age were carried out.The various strategies and tactics of the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party that were conceived before now seem to be very outdated.

At this moment, what the two of them are very concerned about is the exact time when the attack will be launched; as well as the 20 frontier troops of the CCP and the [-] volunteers who are still at the end of the Soviet Union, which battle line will be formed and in which area will the battle be carried out? What is the task that may be given to them, should this kind of task be accepted, or how much should it cost to accept it?

Among the materials, they found that the time of the offensive had been determined to be between April 1938 and April 4, 8.And their border guards will be assigned under the sequence of the Northern Front Army, serving as the vanguard of the invasion of the Soviet Union!In addition, the volunteer army actually controlled by the CCP will act as an internal response. After the offensive begins, let go of the defense line in the eastern part of the Amur River, allowing 4 White Russian infantry troops and 20 Japanese divisions to pass smoothly. Then these Japanese and White Russian troops will be in Japan. With the cooperation of the Navy's Amur River Squadron, it launched a surprise attack on the flank of the Soviet Red Army!

For such a task arrangement, Zhou Enlai, the leader of the Communist Party of China, was still a little embarrassed.You know, although he has already discussed with the senior officers of the border guards and hinted that the Soviet Union may face unprecedented failure in the near future, he dare not tell them that the CCP intends to follow the National Defense Forces to attack the Soviet Union... to the following For comrades, not preventing the National Defense Forces from attacking the Soviet Union through Mongolia, nor participating in the battle to defend the Soviet Union is the bottom line they can accept!There will even be many comrades who will devote themselves to this war to defend the Soviet Union in their own names!If they were to command troops to serve as the vanguard of the invasion of the Soviet Union, this is really unimaginable for them!At that time, the party's faith may be shattered. Without the power of faith, the combat effectiveness of the CCP army will be greatly reduced!

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"Your Excellency, Marshal! It may be difficult for the Imperial Japanese Army to complete the campaign preparations stipulated in the "Red Plan" in April 1938! The economic situation in Japan has been bad these past few days, and the war in the Far East has consumed a large amount of material reserves of the Imperial Army... ...and the situation in North Korea is not stable at the moment. So the empire can no longer provide additional divisions for the campaign in the eastern part of the Amur River, unless it can get enough material assistance from China. And the Amur River has long been blocked by Soviet Red Army mines , the actions of the Imperial Army's Amur Fleet would be very dangerous. In addition, the Japanese Army Air Force is not capable of filling the vacancy left by the German Condor Legion. Our Type 4 fighters are not significantly different from the Soviet I-97 fighters. Advantage……"

It was Nagata Tieshan, the head of the Japanese Army Staff Headquarters who was speaking. Under Luo Yaoguo's dignified gaze, he frowned and spoke in a nonchalant manner, with helplessness in his tone, as if he was pouring out bitterness there, rather than taking the opportunity to threaten.

"...If the Chinese side wants our aviation and navy to take on the combat tasks in the eastern part of the Amur River, it needs to provide some help! For example, provide us with a batch of the latest aircraft engines so that we can improve the performance of the Type 97, So that it can undertake the air defense mission in the eastern part of the Amur River. In addition, the army also needs China to provide material assistance of 20 tons of special steel, [-] tons of aluminum and [-] tons of copper. Only in this way can the Japanese army dispatch more The army has been used in operations in the Far East."