Chapter 1890: The City of Death

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During his stay in Kabul, An Yi helped Diana gradually improve the formation of all levels of government under the Afghan kingdom (previously managed by the Military Management Commission), and a large number of young people who had become talents through the process of the Boy Scout School and the School of Political Science and Law and were absolutely loyal to An Yi entered various jobs, occupying almost all important departments in Afghanistan, continuing to deepen the political and economic reforms of this small landlocked country, emphasizing religious and political separation, and increasing the control of the central government. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

As the hinterland of Central Asia, West Asia and the subcontinent, the quality of Afghanistan's environment has a direct impact on the climate and ecological conditions of the three regions.

On the basis of the original development of large-scale mineral deposits such as the Summit Gold Mine in Tahar City in the north, the Xuebell Dry Gas Field and Dalunsu Coal Field in Zhuzjan City, and the Enak Copper Mine 30 kilometers south of Kabul City, the 11 South Group plans to invest heavily in the development of the Logar Copper Mine in Kabul City, the Hajik Iron Mine in Bamiyan City, the lithium, Yu, Jian and Tin mixed mining area in Nangarhar City, and the Nanhan Nikhin Na, Yu and Rare Earth Symbiotic Mining Area in Helmand City.

According to Plan 1, Afghanistan will build a preliminary modern industrial system within 10 years, covering all aspects of light and heavy industries, and the profits generated by these enterprises will be mainly used to improve the natural conditions of the region, restore forests and greenery in the plateau, build water conservancy projects on large and medium-sized rivers, and promote agricultural reclamation systems in the desert and Gobi regions, which will make Afghanistan truly a green lung to improve the surrounding environment in the next one or two decades.

On the 19th of the month of Lou, the royal palace in Kabul.

After getting up in the morning, An Yi first practiced boxing with Shen Fengdao for more than an hour, then had breakfast with Diana, and the two came to the study at about nine o'clock to discuss whether to build a comprehensive xing university in Kabul to improve the current education system, and Shen Fengdao walked in at the right time.

Diana knew that if there was nothing important, Lao Shen would not trouble An Yi at this time, so she nodded to Shen Fengdao with a smile, then wrinkled An Yi's cheek and left the study.

Lao Shen walked up to An Yi and reported in a low voice: "The German Wolf News Agency just published an editorial, saying that at two o'clock in the morning this morning German time, Leningrad was captured by the German army, and the door for the German army to attack Moscow will be reopened."

An Yi was slightly stunned, and asked casually: "Leningrad is lost?" โ€

Shen Fengdao nodded: "Our intelligence department in Germany quickly confirmed this news, and the detailed situation will be sent by the General Staff soon!" โ€

An Yi shook his righteousness with some regret.

Although this news was expected, it still felt a little harsh when it sounded at the moment, after all, it was in the best interests of South China to consume each other between the Soviet Union and Germany, and if one side achieved too much advantage, the balance would be broken, and things would not be easy to handle at that time.

After Germany switched from offensive to defensive in Eastern Europe this year, the situation in this region has become relatively calm, but local exchanges of fire are still continuous, and the current battlefield is mainly focused on the German army's elimination of partisans and the siege of Leningrad.

Since the siege of Leningrad in September last year, the Soviet army has held out in that heroic city for a full year.

In fact, as early as the end of last year, Leningrad's food and fuel were all gone, and more than 2 million citizens and 500,000 troops were plunged into famine.

During this period, Leningrad maintained a water passage with the outside world through Lake Ladoga, and although the number of people dying of starvation increased every day, from 300 deaths a day in December to 4,000 deaths a day in February this year, at least two taels of rations a day could be provided to the citizens, especially to ensure the most paper supply of military rations.

However, in March, as the Germans shifted their main attack from Moscow back to Leningrad, the Finnish army sent troops to occupy the northern shore of Lake Ladoga and the German army occupied the eastern shore of Lake Ladoga, completely closing the land and water passages between Leningrad and the outside world, and Leningrad gradually fell into a desperate situation.

Since then, although the Soviet army has continued to supply food and ammunition to Leningrad through airdrops, the airdrop operation is very dangerous in front of the fighters of the German Air Force equipped with radar, and every time the pilots go on a mission, it is like a life-and-death journey.

In order to keep Leningrad resisting, Stalin ordered to supply food and ammunition to Leningrad at all costs, and the air route from Moscow to Leningrad became a veritable death route, and several or even dozens of planes crashed every day.

In order to conquer the city, which was ordered by the founders of the Soviets, the Germans did their best to help and coerce the Germans: "Russians, come to the German side to save your life, and you will find that your enemy is the bloodthirsty Bolsheviks." โ€

Another leaflet threatened that if you don't surrender, the consequences will be serious and you will die an ugly death.

Although the food transported by air was a drop in the bucket, the soldiers and civilians of Leningrad used their brains to sustain themselves for a long time with substitute food: bakers made from sawdust, moldy bread flour and flour dropped from the air, and poisoned cottonseed cake that was originally intended to be used for steamship oil.

When all this is eaten, the paste from the pictures and books on the wall is scraped off and a small amount of flour is used to make soup. People walked with their kushikos on their hands, because the belts were boiled into soup, as in the Chaplin film "Gold Rush", leather shoes became a delicacy, and the city was filled with the aroma of rat soup, and when even the rats were eaten, the tragedy inevitably unfolded: cannibalism.

The Soviets set up a division to stop the spread of cannibalism, and as a result, several soldiers went missing during the first mission, most likely turning them into food.

As the German army gradually closed in, Leningrad began to ration electricity, the civil electricity was basically cut off, and the city fell into darkness, fortunately, the cold winter had passed, although the heating was turned off but harmless, but then the waterworks were blown up and it was troublesome, and the civilians had to hang buckets around their necks and drag heavy footsteps to the canal and the Neva River to carry water. And the corpse was soaked in water.

In the summer, while the fighting in other parts of the Soviet Union was slowing down, Leningrad was starving, especially drinking unclean water, which led to the outbreak of the plague and plunged the city into a terrible silence. Thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people die every day, and the bodies are covered with old curtains, rags, and brown paper, and the bodies are piled up in homes, on the streets, and in the corridors of hospitals, because the survivors are too weak to move, and the city is filled with a terrible smell of putrefaction.

A month ago, a desperate Soviet journalist wrote on the wall: "After gritting its teeth and holding on for almost a year, the city is dying." โ€

By mid-August, it could be said that his words had turned into a harsh reality. Hunger had spread to the army, and hungry soldiers were digging in the trenches, not to build tunnels, but to find small animals like grasshoppers, rats and even earthworms.

Just a week earlier, the Germans, sensing that the time was ripe for battle, launched a general attack on Leningrad.

The Germans detonated a 1-ton high-explosive charge buried under the Pulkovo Heights as a prelude to the final battle of Leningrad, followed by tens of thousands of artillery bombardments, thousands of warplanes and thousands of tanks roared in unison, and more than half a million Russian and Ukrainian volunteers poured into the dying city from south to north, and the same number of German troops from east to west.

The explosion lifted the earth and smoke into the air at an altitude of more than 1,000 meters, and the Shirkovo Heights, which served as the Leningrad barrier, turned into a huge crater and killed more than 10,000 Soviet troops on the spot.

The shock of the explosion can be felt in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, and in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, early risers can see a smoke screen rising over Leningrad.

The exhausted Leningrad even held out for a week before finally declaring its fall, in fact, it was already a high-level performance, after all, it was not easy for an army that had difficulty even lifting guns, to resist the attack of millions of troops, which shows the tenacity of the Soviet people's will to fight.

An Yi frowned and said to himself: "Teacher Liushenkov, what's the matter with them? For more than half a year, he did not launch a decent offensive, which is completely inconsistent with Stalin's character! โ€

Shen Fengdao shook his head: "Last year, the Soviet army lost three million troops and almost lost all the troops on the Western Front, although it was later supplemented by the Red Flag Cluster in the Far East, but in the overall situation, it still could not match the German army that integrated the forces of all Europe. At present, in addition to building a solid defensive position and using urban and defensive warfare to consume the strength of the German army, the Soviet high command is also to open up a battlefield behind enemy lines, and the "guerrilla republic" in Belarus, the "Red Sรจ Free Corps" in Ukraine, and the Tito guerrilla force in Yugoslavia are all key objects of support.

However, judging from the situation in the past few months, with the gradual change of German policy, the situation of the various partisan groups has become more and more dangerous, and with the fall of Leningrad today, the Soviet army has begun to show a decline in strategy. Once the Germans were freed to eradicate the guerrilla groups in their hearts, the next step would be a stormy attack, and it would be difficult for the Soviet Union to hold Moscow! โ€

An Yi was also pondering the changes in the battle situation in his heart.

This time and space is different from history, because the German army occupied the Baku oil fields and the Caucasus region early, so it had abundant supplies for combat from the beginning.

Now that Ukraine has basically been pacified, Donbass and Lviv-Volyn, Dnepr and other coal fields account for almost half of the total coal production of the Soviet Union, and the loss of oil fields on the continental shelf of the Black Sea coast near Crimea and the oil field area centered on Baku in the Caspian Sea has suddenly shrunk the oil production of the Soviet Union by more than three-quarters, and the three major iron ore areas of Krivoy Rog, Kremenchug, and Belozelskoye and the manganese ore area of the Dnieper River basin account for more than half of the total output of the Soviet Union. Once Germany is allowed to completely digest various mineral resources such as siliceous quartzite, kaolin, lignite, and building materials, even the Soviet Union, which has received great assistance from the allies, will inevitably fail.

Could it be that Stalingrad and Moscow would have fallen under the German offensive?

An Yi stood up and paced back and forth, and the more he pondered, the more he felt that this possibility was getting bigger.

But after careful consideration, An Yi is still not ready to change anything, and now the nuclear base in Draa is continuously refining high-concentration weapons-grade sodium, and the first atomic bomb named "Big Pudding" has been officially reloaded.

As early as two years ago, the Nuclear Research Institute began to build a nuclear test base in the Kzer Desert region in the interior of Central Asia, and built a large number of strong fortifications and a large number of civilian buildings, and installed various detection instruments and photographic facilities in reinforced concrete structures above and below the ground.

The first nuclear explosion test has been decided to be carried out sometime in mid-December, at which time a number of tanks, artillery, airplanes, and animals such as cows, sheep, horses, pigs, dogs, chickens, ducks, monkeys, and orangutans will be dispatched to conduct ** experiments.

"Looks like it's time for me to go back to Xinjing!" An Yi returned to his seat and sat down, and instructed Shen Fengdao: "Let the Military Commission and the three general departments send people to meet me in Baisha, and we will hold a military meeting to discuss the current situation while inspecting the military deployment and transportation along the railway!" โ€

"Yes!"

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