"Ulla! Ulla! Ula ......"

The terrible shout was accompanied by the click of the crawlers crushing the ground, and Carol. Rommel leaned back against the fortifications, trying to breathe in the air mixed with the choking smell of gunpowder. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The smell of this air is not good, but it is precious air of freedom! Carol. For the past few decades, Major General Rommel has never realized how precious the air of freedom is, because he will soon lose his freedom, and perhaps his life.

The bloody battle of the fortress of Terespol has been going on for almost 72 hours, and the fierceness of the offensive of the Soviet Red Army, the strength of the firepower, the bravery of the soldiers, and the superb tactics of the Soviet Red Army are all beyond Carroll. Rommel's anticipation!

In fact, even Guderian and the German General Staff did not expect that the Soviet Red Army would make such great progress in just 2 years after the Soviet-Finnish war.

And this kind of progress is first embodied in the strengthening of the ability to tackle tough problems. The Soviet Red Army, which suffered two losses in the Brest fortress and the Karelian line, now had very effective tactics and equipment for attacking the enemy's fortified positions.

Of course, the equipment for attacking the fortification is the B-4 howitzer with exaggerated appearance and firepower, but what really makes this B-4 howitzer powerful is indeed a "B-4 howitzer assault battle group" that appeared in the Soviet-Finnish war.

Charge with a howitzer of 203mm caliber!

It's a really brain-bending game, but it's very effective. The "B-4 howitzer assault battle group" of the Soviet Red Army was composed of 1 B-4 artillery company plus 1 infantry battalion, 1 76.2mm artillery battalion, 1 combat engineer company, plus 5 T-34 tanks or KV-1 tanks.

In the storming of the fortress of Trespol, this "B-4 howitzer assault battle group" played a great role. Guderian's elaborate so-called "battalion-sized ring fortifications" were effective against tanks and infantry, but not at close range against B-4 howitzers.

In fact, there is no artillery or machine gun bunker in the world that can block the close-range direct fire of a 203mm howitzer, except for armored batteries. And such an expensive thing as an armored battery is, of course, impossible to install in such a "cannon fodder fortress" as the Trespol fortress.

And the tactics of the Soviet army's "B-4 howitzer assault battle group" made Carol . Rommel and his Polish soldiers had nothing to do. B-4s in a group of 4 (1 company of B-4s is 4) tend to shoot at a direct aim less than 400 meters from the front of the Polish ring fortifications, under the cover of tanks, infantry and 76.2mm guns!

Although quite a few B-4s were also destroyed by Polish 50mm anti-tank guns, 75mm infantry guns or mortars. But the Soviets had a lot of B-4 howitzers, and as long as these B-4s were allowed to fire at close range, the Polish positions would soon be bombarded into a mess of mud, and the officers and soldiers guarding inside would most likely be dead.

In addition, the psychological pressure caused by the B-4, a 203mm howitzer, when fired at close range, is too great. During the engagements on June 2 and June 3, many of the company-level strongholds were not destroyed, but surrendered voluntarily after the B-4 howitzers approached and opened fire.

The company commanders and platoon commanders who had been knighted in Poland, as well as the officers and non-commissioned officers who had joined the Solidarity party, would rather go to Siberia for labor reform than be bombarded into a pulp by this terrible cannon!

So in less than 72 hours, all four battalion-sized ring positions guarding the core area of the Trespol fortress were lost. With 6 infantry battalions, 1 artillery battalion, 1 anti-tank battalion, 1 engineer battalion and 1 anti-aircraft battalion, the Trespol Brigade, with a total strength of more than 7,000 troops, was reduced to less than 2,000 men, and retreated to the strongest core of the fortress for the last resistance.

However, such resistance obviously did not last long, the morale of the officers and soldiers was close to collapse, and more and more people tried to surrender. Rommel had to patrol the position and shot several deserters in a row. But he can temporarily stop his men from surrendering, but he can't stop the approaching B-4 howitzer.

These terrible howitzers were now following the attacking T-34s and infantry, dragged forward and slowly by tank repair vehicles. And by the time the attacking T-34s and infantry were repulsed, the B-4 howitzer assault group would appear less than 400 meters from the Polish positions.

Looking at the approaching Soviet tanks and infantry, Carol. Rommel sighed softly and said to the chief of staff beside him: "Go and send a telegram to Warsaw, tell them that the fortress of Terespol will fall in a few hours, and all the officers and men of the Terespol brigade will fight until the last man can ...... a single shot."

Hit the last man with a bullet!

"Major General, are we all going to die here?" The chief of staff asked.

Carol. Rommel shook his head with a wry smile: "We will die in the concentration camps of the Soviets...... Because we are Catholics, we cannot commit suicide. ”

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"Reich Marshal, Marshal Kesselring just called, and Terespol has fallen!"

Stauffenberg hurried into Hersmann's office and reported the bad news, while Hersmann was in the office with the new head of the General Armaments Agency, Albert Brown. Speer spoke.

Speer now replaced Goering as the head of German armaments production. And the fat man Goering chaired the recently formed Economic Commission of the European Communities.

Since the United European Fleet now controlled sea power in the Atlantic, Germany had more resources to advance European integration. Thus, the European Communists now have not only a common navy, but also a common economic and financial policy, and perhaps a European federal government will emerge in the near future.

The key to the emergence of this unified European federation is, of course, whether the German-led European Community army can occupy the LinkedIn mainland and repel the Soviet Red Army's attack on Poland.

"Trespol has fallen?" Hersman raised his wrist and looked at his watch, frowning slightly, "It's less than 80 hours...... It seems that I underestimated the Soviets a little. ”

He had seen the Trespol Fortress with his own eyes, and although it was a big gap from the Brest Fortress on the other side of the river, it was still a bit surprising that it fell in just 80 hours. Originally, Hersman estimated that the fortress could hold out for 7-15 days, but now it was only a little over 3 days before it was destroyed by the Red Army. This shows that the Red Army's ability to attack fortifications is much stronger than imagined!

It is nothing that a cannon fodder fortress like Trespol, which is used to consume the strength of the Soviet army, falls, and it is a large-depth defense, of course, it is necessary to be mentally prepared to lose some territory and troops. However, the two fortified cities of Warsaw and Lviv cannot be lost, otherwise the situation on the entire Polish-Western Ukrainian battlefield will be devastated.

"Albert, the matter of arms production will be left to you." Hersmann stopped talking to Speer, stood up and shook his hand, and then explained: "The current opponent is the Soviet Union, and in order to deal with the Soviet Union, there must be quantity in arms production, so arms production must shift from focusing on quality to focusing on quantitative superiority." And the general mobilization of the entire European community should be carried out soon, and it will be a general war in Europe. Germany's military industry must be coordinated with the military industry of France, Belgium, Denmark and other countries.

In addition, you personally serve as the director of the Uranium Engineering Committee. The production reactor and the power reactor can be advanced at the same time. Gather scientists willing to produce bomb 94 for the Reich and carry out Project 94, and others let them continue to work on power reactors. Both can get the same priority level of supply. However, Project 94 must be a classified project of the Uranium Works Committee, and only the scientists involved will know of its existence. ”

The uranium project is currently progressing relatively smoothly, which is different from the historical dispute between the "bomb faction" and the "energy faction" in the German atomic bomb test. In this space, because of Hersmann's support, the work of the Uranium Engineering Committee developed along the line of the energy faction from the beginning, so it did not invest too many resources in the isotope separation project (which is very power-intensive), but followed the line of reactors. In the process, two more lines, the heavy water reactor and the graphite reactor, were introduced, but both were successful.

However, the laws of scientific development were not changed by the peaceful use of atomic energy by Hersmann, and in the course of reactor tests conducted by scientists of the Uranium Engineering Committee, element 94 plutonium (named after Hersmann) was discovered as a product of a nuclear fission reaction!

Soon the study of plutonium showed that it was a more suitable element than uranium as a charge for atomic bombs. Because plutonium-239 can also carry out nuclear fission reactions, and the production of plutonium-239 does not need to carry out high-cost isotope separation, only heavy water reactors and graphite reactors are used for low-burnup operation (that is, insufficient reaction) to produce uranium rods containing plutonium-239, and then chemical separation can be carried out to obtain plutonium-239!

On the other hand, the power reactor used for power generation operates with deep combustion consumption (full reaction), which produces large amounts of plutonium-240 and plutonium-241. If the plutonium element of the atomic bomb charge contains more plutonium-240 and plutonium-241, the atomic bomb will not reach the design yield and become a dirty bomb. Historically, Hitler's atomic bomb probably encountered the problem of excessive plutonium-240 and plutonium-241 content, and as a result, the explosion was not powerful enough and became a dirty bomb.

The research of the Uranium Engineering Committee has now advanced to the design and construction of "power reactors" and "production reactors". At this time, the scientists of the Uranium Engineering Committee had different opinions, and some of them thought that a plutonium bomb should be built to blow up New York and Moscow! Others believe that atomic energy should be used in a more peaceful way, such as building several 100,000-ton aircraft carriers or battleships powered by nuclear reactors to destroy the U.S. Navy.

Hersmann's solution, on the other hand, was to move the two projects together. A top-secret Project 94 was created within the Uranium Works Committee with the task of producing bomb 94 (plutonium is element 94).

But bomb 94 wasn't right away. Because the production process of plutonium was relatively slow, with a combustion reaction period and a decay period of up to 4 months, and then a difficult chemical separation process was required to separate a very small amount of plutonium-239 from the uranium metal, the atomic bomb could not fall on the heads of Mr. Roosevelt and Comrade Stalin for the time being. (To be continued.) )