709 turns to the ten key "sexual" breakthroughs of war

Gansu, China.

In the mountainous area 50 kilometers south of the provincial capital Lanzhou, an inaccessible valley has become a military restricted area since three years ago, and at each entrance to the valley, one post after another has been set up, the signs of military important places have been erected in every conspicuous position, and from time to time there are soldiers with loaded guns patrolling around the valley, making this isolated valley a little more solemn.

Sitting in the car, Leo. Professor Szilard looked at the tight guard, and couldn't help but have a cloud of suspicion in his heart, no matter how you look at it, this place looks like a secret base of the squadron.

In fact, he knew that this was nothing more than a plant for uranium-235, and it was no secret at all! In the past two years, I don't know how many of the world's top chemists and physicists have been here, and I don't know how many engineers and technicians from major companies in Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom have been sent here to install equipment. If there is any weapon being studied here, it is certainly not a secret, but until now, he, the chief engineer of the uranium enrichment plant, does not know what the Chinese want these uranium-235s to do?

When the sedan stopped in front of a checkpoint and went through a routine inspection, Leo . Szilard smiled mischievously at a thin young man beside him, holding a pipe and coughing: "Robert, in fact, they soldiers don't know what to check, there is no secret here to the outside world, just an isotope separation factory under construction...... A "door" is very cutting-edge technology, I don't know why those Chinese are willing to put money into it? ”

The young man coughed twice, looked at a large factory surrounded by a reinforced concrete wall and a bulky large iron "gate" in the valley not far away, blinked his eyes, and said with a smile: "A secret that is not a secret, this is attractive enough, there will be so many world's top chemists and physicists to come to China to engage in the research of separating uranium-235, maybe they are attracted by this sense of mystery?" He coughed twice, "I'm one of them." ”

By this time the routine inspection had been completed, and the car continued along the winding road, soon passing through a large and bulky iron "gate" controlled by electricity, and a reinforced concrete wall, and finally through two rows of Wehrmacht gendarmes standing facing each other with submachine guns, into the mysterious but unclassified factory.

The sedan stopped in front of a plain-looking building that resembled a university building, and an Oriental man wearing round glasses with a pinched nose and a black suit was already standing at the "door" of the building.

Leo. Silada got out of the car with the young man who had been coughing, walked in front of the Dongfang, and said with a smile: "I'll introduce you to you." He pointed to the Oriental: "This is Lieutenant General Lu Ming, the commander of the Lanzhou base of the U Project." Then he pointed to the young man: "Robert. Dr. Oppenheimer, who has a lot of research in cosmic "shooting" lines, atomic nuclei, and quantum electrodynamics, is a researcher I invited from the United States. ”

This young man turned out to be the head of the Manhattan Project in the United States. Oppenheimer! If Luo Yaoguo heard this name, he would definitely be "excited". However, Lieutenant General Lu Ming is a typical blind and ignorant of Mount Tai, and if he is an expert in metallurgy, he may have heard of it. But he didn't understand what was going on with quantum electrodynamics.

"Welcome to join, Dr. Oppenheimer." Lu Ming shook Oppenheimer's hand very politely and said with a smile: "Your work will be arranged by Professor Sylard. ”

As he spoke, he waved behind him, and a cute Wehrmacht "female" soldier appeared out of nowhere, this "female" child "spoke" in fluent American English and said hello to Oppenheimer, and then helped him remove his luggage from the car, and sent him to the dormitory of the scientific research staff to arrange his daily life for him. By the way, there are a lot of such "girl" children in the U Engineering Committee, and they are all "erotic" spies who have been strictly trained by the Military Intelligence Bureau! Each of them is one in a hundred beauties, and their tasks are naturally inappropriate for children.

After arranging a "glamorous" encounter for Oppenheimer, Lu Ming and Szilard walked side by side towards the building.

"Leo, how's it going? Can the diffusion film samples provided by Westinghouse be used? As soon as he walked into the office, Lu Ming couldn't wait to inquire about Leo. Szilard's trip to the United States was rewarded (Oppenheimer didn't count!) ）。

"Westinghouse is providing sintered nickel sheets, which are made by a special process to form many micropores on the surface of the metal sheet, about hundreds of millions of micropores per square centimeter of diaphragm, with a pore size of about 0.01 to 0.02 microns, and they are resistant to high temperatures and remain stable in the corrosive uranium hexafluoride industrial gas...... I guess that's what we want. "Leo. Sylard took out an aluminum alloy box from his leather bag, threw it to Lu Ming, and said with a smile: "This is the sample, with it, our gas diffuser will be able to be successfully manufactured." ”

"This must be hard to get, right?" Lu Ming opened the box and looked at a few metal films thinner than cicada wings and asked.

"It took a lot of work." Leo. Scilard looked exhausted, and both of them laughed, and Sylard said, "We pay Westinghouse two million dollars, and they will transfer this technology to us...... In addition, I would like to order three million dollars from them, so that 1,500 gas diffusers will be assembled by the end of this year, and more than 3,000 gas diffusers will be built by the end of next year, so that we can start making uranium-235 with an abundance of more than 90. ”

Lu Ming counted with his fingers and sighed softly: "Finally met his requirements...... It's 35, 36, 37 years now, and production can start in 37 years. Leo, do you know how much uranium-235 with an abundance of more than 90 can be produced in a year? ”

"About 10 to 20 kilograms, right?" Leo. Scilard shrugged his shoulders, looking like his "flesh" was in pain: "'Spending' so much, I can only get more than a dozen kilograms of high-concentration uranium-235 every year, I really don't know why?" ”

Lu Ming's face also fell: "Alas, it's only a little bit a year, and I don't know if I can satisfy him?" He sighed and looked out the window at the huge factory area, his right hand pressed on his temple. He smiled bitterly: "If this matter reaches the constitutional period, the government will have to impeach and remove the parliamentarians!" ”

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Xigu County, Gansu Province.

On the dim and silent railway station outside the small county town, a major of the National Defense Army opened the "door" of the car, and Lieutenant General Lu Ming got out of the car. He wore a well-tailored Wehrmacht lieutenant general's uniform, and a tweed army coat, the collar of which was raised high, and the grass-brimmed hat on his head was pulled down so low that it almost covered his entire face. He looked at the station, surrounded by heavily armed guards, who had cordoned off the station. The major gave a military salute to Lu Ming: "General, please come with me, the chief of the general staff is waiting for you." As he spoke, he made a gesture of please, and turned and walked towards the carriage at the back of the train.

Walking on the train, Lu Ming found that it was just an ordinary sleeping car, without any luxurious decorations, and the seat cover was full of dust and a little worn, which was not Luo Yaoguo's style at all. Lu Ming hung his coat and hat in a small suite, tucked his hair, and gently wiped his leather shoes with soft paper stained with some of the most common sand dust in the northwest. At this point, the train began to glide slowly, without vibrating or making a sound.

"Sit down, sit down, Ziyan." Luo Yaoguo sat in an easy chair and beckoned to him: "What do you want to drink?" Tea or coffee? Natalie is back to me now, and now she's getting me coffee, so you can have some too. ”

"Fuwen, I'd better drink tea, I'll lose sleep if I drink too much coffee." Lu Ming casually found a seat and sat down.

General An Sihua sat lazily on the sofa and said, "Ziyan, don't want to sleep tonight, Fuwen will definitely pull you to talk all night, he will be excited after he got your secret message." ”

The number one general of the Wehrmacht seems to be old now, and his "spirit" spirit is not as vigorous as in the past, so he has only been talking to Luo Yaoguo for a night about the secret weapon of the U project, and he is almost unable to support it, and he yawns there.

"Ziyan, these two years must have been busy, right? It looks like you've been cleared up a bit, and if you let Xiao Bei see it, you'll definitely say about me. Luo Yaoguo carefully looked at the slender elder brother for a while, and said with a smile: "But for the sake of our career, it is worth being busy, and people in thousands of years will remember everything you and I have done for this country." Luo Yaoguo picked up a copy of the newspaper on the table and glanced at it: "It says that uranium-235 with an abundance of 90 can be produced in 1937, at least 10 kilograms, is there really that much?" ”

"Is 10 kilograms too much?" Lu Ming was stunned for a moment, and then said: "This output was calculated by Professor Szilard, it is a theoretical output, and in fact it may not be that much, right?" However, from 1938 onwards, it should be possible to reach more than 10 kilograms...... The same is true for other industrial projects, there will always be problems of one kind or another in the first year of production, and they will be fine later. ”

"10 kilograms of high-purity uranium-235 is not much, you will know in a few years, by the way, can electricity be supplied?"

"There is no problem with electricity, although it is so expensive to refine that thing, but the thermal power plant in Lanzhou is also about to be put into operation, which is 1 million kilowatts of installed capacity, which can generate 6 billion kilowatts of electricity per year...... Even 5,000 gas diffusers won't be that much. ”

"That's good, then I'm relieved. I've heard that separating isotopes is a very power-hungry project, and that tritium oxide (heavy water) is also "quite expensive", so how is tritium oxide (heavy water) and high-purity graphite "getting"? ”

"A plant for the production of tritium oxide (heavy water) by electrolysis has been brought in from Norway and will be built by next year at the latest, and they built a plant for the production of heavy water last year. Graphite is industrially used for a wide range of purposes, so we can produce it ourselves, it's just a matter of purity, and I 'handed over' this project to China Iron and Steel and Zoomlion Steel, and they promised to 'make' it by the end of 37. ”

At this time, Natalie walked in with coffee, and she gave birth to a "girl" for Luo Yaoguo in October 34, named Nana. Not long after giving birth to the baby, she returned to Luo Yaoguo. However, the position was changed from Secretary-General of the General Staff to Deputy Secretary-General.

Seeing Natalie, Luo Yaoguo suddenly raised his eyebrows, as if he thought of something: "Lize. What progress has been made in Meitner's research? ”

Natalie is also a member of the U Engineering Committee, responsible for managing money and directing "erotic" spies to seduce Frankenstein - this is the despicable method of the Kuomintang reactionaries, and money plus beautiful "women" is of little use to true idealists. In fact, the effect of using this method against those Frankenstein is not good, and most of the scientists did not stay in China in the end, but only left more than 1,000 "private" children with super high IQs! In the decades that followed, there would often be "mixed" people in China's major scientific institutions......

"There has been little progress on Professor Meitner's project." Natalie put down her coffee and sat down next to Luo Yaoguo, she sighed softly: "For three years, hundreds of tests have been conducted, and no matter what is used to bombard uranium, there is no response...... It seems that transuranic elements are not available. ”

"Otto. What about Hahn? Luo Yaoguo thought about it and asked.

"There is no gain on the German side either."

"Okay, that's good, we won't be afraid when our isotope separation projects are all completed by the end of next year......" Luo Yaoguo seemed to be very satisfied with the slow progress of scientific research, he picked up his coffee cup and took a sip: "Who is staring at the two of them now?" ”

"We arranged for two doctors, Shi Shiyuan and Shu Xingbei, to enter the Royal Wilhelm Institute in Germany to serve as Otto. Hahn's assistant. In addition, Miss Wu Chien-shiung and Yuan Jialiu, who graduated from the Sino-German University of Technology, were arranged to be with Professor Meitner. ”

"Be sure to keep their eyes on Hahn and Meitner's research project." Luo Yaoguo gently turned the coffee cup in his hand, thought for a while, and remembered another person: "By the way, Enrik. Fermi, who is the academician of the Royal Italian Academy of Sciences, has to arrange for someone to go over there. The project he is working on is also very crucial, if not for Otto. Hahn and Meitner, that's what should be him......"

"Enrik. Fermi, member of the Royal Italian Academy of Sciences, got it, I wrote it down. Is there anything else to command? ”

"By the way, are those guys still safe? Japanese and Soviet scientists, spies. ”

Natalie thought for a moment and replied, "You mean Professor Kapitsa, Dr. Kurchatov, and Dr. Yoshio Nishina, right?" No espionage has been found. Moreover, the U Engineering Committee arranged for them to work on the development of cyclotrons. This thing was created by the American scientist Lawrence to accelerate protons, A-particles and neon nuclei...... Well, it should be a very useful experimental instrument, but it doesn't involve the core secrets of Project U. ”

Luo Yaoguo tilted his head back: "Ha, ha, there should be a lot of work like this, right?" Let's let the Japanese and Russian scientists do it for us? By the way, Ziyan, there is one more thing you have to remember, the gas diffusion machine is the core secret of the entire U project. Several key components must be purchased from German and American companies respectively, and the Americans or Germany must not be allowed to master the technology of the whole set of equipment, you know? ”

Lu Ming shrugged his shoulders: "We have always done this, but with the scientific research strength of Germany and the United States, it should not be very difficult for them to come up with a complete set of equipment, maybe it will take a few months." ”

"How many months?" Luo Yaoguo smiled coldly: "At that time, the United States and Germany will give everyone money for these few months...... During the world war, no one dared to lag behind even a day on this superweapon! After saying this, he waved his hand lightly at Lu Ming.

Lu Ming immediately stood up and smiled: "Fuwen, Sihua, I'm a little tired, let's go rest first." With that, he turned and left the carriage.

Seeing Lu Ming leaving, An Sihua sat up straight. He unzipped his briefcase and handed him a three-page document with a hand-drawn form attached to it. "Look at this, it's a summary of the draft plan sent by Wang Junhao to attack the Soviet Union in Central Asia."

Luo Yaoguo took the document and carefully read it page by page. This was a surprise attack plan drawn up by the General Staff of the Central Asian Front Army on the basis of Wang Junhao's instructions. According to this plan, Xinjiang should become another important point of attack on the Soviet Union. After the completion of the Xinhai-Dalian Railway, it is time to start transporting troops and hoarding supplies. It is estimated that 60 to 80 divisions of infantry, cavalry, an air force, and a large number of support troops should be concentrated in Xinjiang, and all the supplies needed for six months of combat will be stockpiled...... However, there was no mention of armored forces in this plan, and it is clear that the staff officers of the Central Asian Front did not understand how to use them.

"Sihua, what do you think? Is it possible that Central Asia will become another breakthrough? Luo Yaoguo closed the document and looked at An Sihua.

An Sihua smiled tiredly: "Fuwen, who will you let command the operation on the northeast front?" Is it me? If you let me go to the Northeast...... Then I don't think the plan is of much value, and at best it can only be laid out as a deceptive operation. ”

Luo Yaoguo thought for a while, sighed softly, and said: "Of course, the most suitable candidate for the Northeast is you, but if you go to the Northeast, who will the Northwest preside over?" Bai Jiansheng is not suitable, he is a Muslim, and he has always been very disgusted with the practices of the Youth Army...... You know, the only handsome people I trust are you and Bai Jiansheng, so I want Bai Jiansheng to be in charge of operations in the northeast and you in charge of the northwest. As for whether the northwest side will become the second breakthrough point, it's up to you to decide! If you want to teach Budyonny a hard lesson in the northwest, I will definitely find a way to help you transfer troops. ”

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