"Your Excellency the Imperial Marshal, considering that the United States is also actively seeking to build nuclear fission bombs, and that the Empire of Japan will henceforth be responsible for the maintenance of order in the Pacific and Greater East Asia. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The development of nuclear fissile weapons is therefore necessary and in the interests of your country and the European Community. Therefore, our empire hopes that your country can assist in the development of nuclear fission bombs, and only when the empire has nuclear fission bombs can it have peace of mind to fight the final decisive battle with the United States......"

In the General Staff of Tsosen, the Marshal of the Hesman Empire was receiving the visiting Japanese ambassador, Lieutenant General Hiroshi Oshima. The Japanese lieutenant general first gave a briefing on the bombing of Japan's oil fields and refineries in Southeast Asia, as well as the use of mustard gas by the United States on the Oahu battlefield and on the Japanese mainland (the Japanese are not sure whether the Americans used bacteriological weapons).

Then Hiroshi Oshima changed his words and put forward a request for Germany to assist Japan in the development of nuclear weapons!

Hersmann knew that in the original history, the Germans had partially fulfilled this request from Japan. However, in this time and space, the Wehrmacht was in charge of Hersmann, and he did not intend to really help Japan build the atomic bomb......

"If we don't provide you with the technology for nuclear fission bombs," Hersman looked at Hiroshi Oshima and asked lightly, "Is Japan going to make peace with the United States alone?" ”

"This ......," Hiroshi Oshima said, looking at Hersmann, "our empire will not make peace alone, but it is not opposed to the European Community, the Roman Empire, and Japan jointly negotiating peace with the United States." ”

"Oh." Hersman nodded, then opened the drawer of his desk, took out a photo of an airplane with six engines, and handed it to Hiroshi Oshima.

"It's ......"

"This is an intercontinental bomber of the Ju390 type." "It is the next generation of long-range bombers developed by Juncker, which has twice the range of the Me264 bomber, so it can achieve a combat radius of 6,000 kilometers," Hersman said. Do you know what kind of bombs such planes are used to drop them? ”

The Ju390 bomber does not have a combat radius of 6000 km at all, in fact such an aircraft has a maximum range of about 10000 km. The performance indicators are similar to those of the Me264, but it has stronger firepower and defense. As a result, the empty weight of the aircraft is close to 40 tons, which is much heavier than the American B-29, and the cost and fuel consumption have reached a daunting level.

Although the Luftwaffe wanted the Ju390 very much, it found that the fuel and procurement funds were not enough, so it had to retreat and buy the cheaper Me264 (which was actually sky-high). Now Hersman is fooling Hiroshi Oshima with a photo of the prototype of the Ju390.

"It was used to drop the Heisenberg device?" Hiroshi Oshima immediately thought that the usefulness of this Ju390 was to install a Heisenberg device to penetrate the east coast of the United States at night!

"Yes," Hersman said, "it will be commissioned in 1947 and used to drop the atomic bomb." But...... The United States will have the same aircraft then, they will call it B-36, and it is very likely that the United States will have an atomic bomb at that time! ”

"What?" Hiroshi Oshima was stunned for a moment, "The United States will also have an atomic bomb?" It can't be, right? ”

"How could it be?" In a mild tone, Hersman said, "There are two key factors in the manufacture of the Heisenberg device, one is uranium; One is electricity. As far as we know, there was a ready-made uranium mine in the Port Hope area of Ontario, Canada, before the war...... It is estimated that the uranium ore problem will not bother the United States for long. And electricity is not a problem for the United States, they had more than 200 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year before the war, about 8 times as much as yours, so they can refine uranium-235 at a very fast rate.

Oh, by the way, according to our intelligence, the American scientist Lawrence has also developed an electromagnetic separation device for refining uranium-235! If that's what you want, I can approve the transfer of a set. ”

In fact, Hersman does not know whether the Americans have mastered the technology to refine uranium-235. However, he knew that the isotope separation method developed by the American scientist Lawrence in history was the "electromagnetic method", also known as the "Lawrence method", which was a particularly wasteful method of national strength, so he casually said it to fool the Japanese.

Later, the electromagnetic method was generally used to produce gram weight isotopes for scientific use. It is characterized by a simple process that requires only one separation to obtain highly enriched isotopes, but the disadvantage is that it is particularly power-intensive, and it also requires the use of a large amount of copper.

While refining high-abundance plutonium-239 from plutonium production reactors in Germany, ways to refine uranium-235 were also being sought. Because the abundant uranium-235 is an essential raw material for energy-based reactors, energy-based nuclear reactors are currently a focus of research by the U Engineering Committee.

In order to refine enough 235, the engineers of the U Engineering Committee built two nuclear plants using the electromagnetic method and the gas separation method - Hersman actually knew that the electromagnetic method was not feasible, but he did not prevent the engineers of the U Engineering Committee from building the plant. Because that's what the scientists are responsible for, Hirschmann, the layman, had better not interfere.

As a result, in the Krosny Mountains of Bohemia, there is now a not-so-operating electromagnetic separation plant. However, Japanese engineers can be arranged to visit, and a set of electromagnetic separation equipment can be dismantled from there and shipped to Japan.

Hiroshi Oshima immediately showed a surprised expression: "Your Excellency the Imperial Marshal, what do you mean...... Has your country agreed to transfer the technology of the Heisenberg device to us? ”

"It's a key technology!" Hersman said seriously, "Specifically, a set of electromagnetic separators with uranium-235 isotopes in advance." With it, you can make imitations and eventually build a large-scale electromagnetic separation plant that uses electricity to produce high-purity uranium-235. As long as there is enough high-purity uranium-235, it will not be very difficult to make an atomic bomb, and I believe that Japanese scientists will find a way to detonate it. ”

The production of high-abundance uranium-235 using an electromagnetic separator is not technically difficult, and even Japan can quickly master it. However, the electricity consumption of the electromagnetic method is astronomical, and if Japan wants to produce enough weapons-grade uranium-235 as soon as possible, it is probably the only way to use all the country's electricity and copper in electromagnetic refineries......

However, whether Japan has electricity to drive electromagnetic separation equipment, Hersman does not care, and he now approves the provision of equipment, even if it gives Japan the key technology to make an atomic bomb -- as long as the Japanese people do not use electricity or copper for N years, plus a sufficient amount of uranium ore is mined, they can save enough uranium-235 to make an atomic bomb.

"But the electromagnetic separator we provide you with is also owned by the United States!" Hersmann immediately poured cold water on the Japanese, "Building an atomic bomb is a race, Germany is in first place, and the second place must be the United States!" We won the race because we started early, 2 years before the United States. And the United States will definitely have an atomic bomb before 1948, and it will have an airplane to drop it on Tokyo! ”

Of course, these words are also used to fool people, and Hersman does not know much about the situation of the Manhattan Project in the United States in this time and space.

"The German Reich would not allow such a thing to happen, would it?"

Hersman had a helpless wry smile on his face: "What can we do?" If we cannot completely defeat the United States in the present war, then after the war, we in Germany will be trapped in the internal affairs of Europe, and we will not be able to prevent the United States from possessing the atomic bomb, let alone go to war with the United States that has the atomic bomb for the sake of Japan...... So you either give your all to help us now, or you can immediately use all your electricity to extract uranium-235. ”

In fact, it is not enough for Japan to use all its electricity to extract uranium-235, and now Japan has more than 30 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, while the United States has more than 200 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity. Moreover, the United States is still two years ahead of Japan, so Japan will definitely lose to the United States in the race to build an atomic bomb.

Then it will depend on whether the American people will elect a soft-hearted Virgin Bai Zuo to be president, but considering the current hatred of the American people for Japan, it is estimated that Japan does not have much hope of not being bombed......

Hiroshi Oshima's face was a little ugly, and he asked, "So...... If Japan continues to fight the United States, what else can we get except a set of electromagnetic separation equipment? ”

"You can be safe," Hirschman said, "an absolute defense circle that can stop American intercontinental bombers." ”

Hersman paused. "For example, the Hawaiian Islands and Alaska can be neutralized and demilitarized."

Alaska is closer to the Japanese mainland than the Hawaiian Islands, and although the climate is cold, it is also likely to become a stronghold for American intercontinental strategic bombers in the future, given the advancement of aviation technology.

"What about the Soviet Far East?" Hiroshi Oshima asked tentatively, "Japan is ready to attack there in order to cooperate with your country to defeat the Soviet Union once and for all!" ”

Hersmann did not expect the Japanese to have such a great obsession with the Far East, and it is clear that they were not at ease with Germany either, hoping to have a larger absolute defense circle.

"We don't need your cooperation," Hersman said with some annoyance, "and I have nothing to say on this issue, because there are too many uncertainties, and I am only the chief of the general staff, and I can't manage so many things." ”

Hiroshi Oshima smiled. "We understand your difficulties. So we will never encroach on the territory of Her Majesty the Empress of Russia, we are only against the Bolsheviks...... It was a war against the Bolsheviks, and in no way against Europe. ”

Hersman had realized that he could not change the Japanese obsession, but he could not guarantee anything, because he could not control the development of the situation. Hersman said, "I believe that you have already understood our conditions, so please ask Tokyo immediately." If you are going to fight the Americans, it is best to have a decisive battle in the Hawaiian Islands as soon as possible, lest the Americans evacuate the fleet. If the United States had withdrawn the fleet there, our operations in the Atlantic-Caribbean would have been very difficult. It is likely that there will be a situation of confrontation, if the Americans drag it to the time when they will successfully develop the atomic bomb. Then Europe will have to choose peace...... Then we will face great difficulties in integrating the European Community, and you will be finished. ”