On the outskirts of Moscow, Villa Konwatze.

"Comrade Chairman, the Krasnoyarsk Fortress and the Eastern Front Command have been contacted, the main fortifications of the fortress are basically intact, and the main cadres of the Eastern Front Command have survived because of the protection of the fortress. But...... However, the two army groups stationed in the city of Krasnoyarsk suffered heavy casualties, and the troops deployed on the eastern outskirts of the fortress also suffered heavy losses, at least 70,000 people were killed, and nearly 50,000 were seriously wounded...... "Speaking of this, Marshal Vatskis, People's Commissar of Labor and Defense of the Soviet Union, did not hold back, two lines of tears rolled down, and a fat face was still trembling.

On April 3, 1936, the atmosphere of the enlarged meeting of the Central Committee of the United States was gloomy and depressing, and everyone hung their heads and sighed secretly, and even Trotsky himself, who had received the news in advance and had some mental preparations, turned ashen and did not say a word.

"Comrade Vatseties, how many troops have we deployed around Krasnoyarsk? How many are left now? Did the Chinese on the opposite side take the opportunity to attack? The question was asked by the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Krestinsky, who, as the number two man in the Soviet GCD, had always deliberately avoided military problems, but today he broke with the norm and asked about the state of affairs on the Krasnoyarsk front.

Vatetivis was stunned for a moment, glanced at Trotsky, who was sitting at the head of the conference table, and replied in a low voice: "There are six army groups and a fortress headquarters around Krasnoyarsk, with a total strength of about 500,000 men. There should still be 350,000 to 400,000 people still fighting at all, and the Chinese opposite them have not attacked. ”

"So the Krasnoyarsk fortress can still hold out?" Krestinsky then asked.

"This ......," Vatsettis thought for a moment, then looked at Trotsky, who was silent. Sighing, he said: "Comrade Tukhachevsky and Comrade Belov both built a fortress to immediately abandon the Krasnoyarsk fortress and retreat to the area of Mount Kuznetsk and Mount Salaire to establish a new line of defense. ”

Krestinsky shook his head and said: "The area around Mount Kuznetsk and Mount Salaire? Not far from Novosibirsk, it is an important industrial center, and there are several very important coal mines in the Kuznetsk Mountains...... Comrade Vatsetis, since the Eastern Front still has 350,000 to 400,000 people around the Krasnoyarsk fortress, why should it retreat so much at once? ”

Novosibirsk is the largest city in the entire Siberian region, due to the large number of refugees received from Eastern Siberia and the Far Eastern Republics. Today, it has a population of more than 3 million and a large number of factories, making it a heavy industrial city under construction. Moreover, the plain around the city of Novosibirsk is one of the most important grain-producing regions in the Soviet Union. In 1935, the entire Novosibirsk region had an agricultural sowing area of up to 2 million hectares, and more than 1.5 million tons of grain were produced. In addition, Novosibirsk is also extremely developed in animal husbandry, and is currently one of the more important meat and milk supply bases in the Soviet Union. After Ukraine, the most important breadbasket of the USSR, was reduced to a battlefield, the Novosibirsk region and the adjacent northern regions of Kazakhstan. It became the hope of maintaining the food supply of the Soviet Union. The Council of People's Commissars headed by Krestinsky also intended to significantly increase industrial and agricultural inputs to these regions in 1936 and 1937. turned it into an important logistics base for sustaining the war, but now the squadron can push the front to the gates of the Novosibirsk region with only one nuclear fission bomb, and Krestinsky, the chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, cannot sit still anyway.

"Comrade Vatsitis, is the Krasnoyarsk fortress really unfortunate?"

"Yes, if the imperialists threw a nuclear fission bomb, the Red Army would have to retreat a few hundred kilometers, so if the Germans also threw a few nuclear fission bombs on the Western Front, wouldn't they be able to hit the city of Moscow very quickly?"

"The Red Army could not be intimidated by the imperialist nuclear fission bomb. Be sure to resist to the end! ”

"Only when the Red Army is on the front line will the rear have time to make nuclear fission bombs!"

The members of the Political Affairs Bureau in the conference room also spoke one after another, echoing Krestinsky. Although most of these people did not understand military affairs, there was always basic common sense - the more territory was abandoned, the closer the day of the end of the Soviet Union became! Naturally, the end of them, the leaders of the Soviet party and state, is getting closer!

"But, but...... The Krasnoyarsk fortress really can't be held! Vasetis spread his hands and said helplessly.

This military thing is not a simple arithmetic problem, as long as you do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, you will know whether you can hold it. Yes, the Chinese's nuclear fission bombs did not blow up the Krasnoyarsk fortress, nor did they destroy all the Soviet troops around the fortress, only 70,000 were killed and another 50,000 were seriously injured, and the remaining 300,000 nearly 400,000 Red Army seemed to be able to hold the Krasnoyarsk fortress. But those who put forward this opinion completely ignored the role of the spirit, ignored the morale of the troops, and the nuclear fission bombs of the Chinese, although did not destroy all the Red Army around the Krasnoyarsk fortress, completely destroyed their morale. According to the secret telegram sent back by Tukhachevsky, the spirit of the Red Army on the Krasnoyarsk front had completely collapsed, they all experienced the terrible scene of the nuclear explosion, some of them even witnessed the hellish scene in the center of the nuclear explosion, everyone was frightened, and all kinds of "rumors" about the great power of nuclear fission bombs spread rapidly among the army, and it was impossible to stop it.

Even such high-ranking generals as Belov and Vasilevsky were on the verge of breaking down, and the day after the explosion, Belov and Vasilevsky moved the headquarters of the Eastern Front from the Krasnoyarsk fortress to Kemerovo, west of the Kuznetsk mountains. Such an act seemed to the Red officers and soldiers around Krasnoyarsk to mean only one thing - the Chinese would soon drop the second or third nuclear fission bomb! So now the Red officers and soldiers of the Krasnoyarsk front only think about running away quickly, and in any case they can't wait for the Chinese to drop nuclear fission bombs on their heads!

Listened to Vatsettis's explanation. Krestinsky asked with a grim face: "What do the political cadres of the Eastern Front do to eat?" Have they forgotten their mission? ”

Vatsettis looked helpless, unable to answer Krestinsky's question, and glared at the other party. Krestinsky was stunned for a moment. It occurred to me that the political work of the army was not the competence of the People's Commissar of Labor and Defense, but was directly under the responsibility of the Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council, that is, Trotsky himself (according to the system of the Soviet Red Army, the Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council was the General Political Commissar of the Red Army). Krestinsky's gaze turned to Trotsky, the chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council, who had kept his head down and remained silent, seemed to sense Krestinsky's gaze, snorted softly, and said with a wry smile: "Comrade Krestinsky, nuclear fission bombs are not the same as enemy rifles, machine guns and tanks!" In the nuclear explosion on April 1. We had two group army political commissars, six divisional political commissars, and thirteen regimental political commissars sacrificed...... The location of the political department of the two group armies was completely razed, and all the political cadres in it were sacrificed! ”

Krestinsky frowned, as if he did not understand what Trotsky meant. But when he thought about it, he quickly understood. If it is a traditional mode of operation, political committee members and security cadres at all levels will basically not go to the front line to fight, and they will all hide in the rear to supervise the battle, so the risk of sacrifice is relatively small. It is a matter of leaving death to others. Leave the credit to yourself for the beauty difference. But this time, under the bombardment of the Chinese's nuclear fission bombs, whether it was carrying rifles on the front line or supervising the battle in the rear, it was basically an end, blown into powder! Under such circumstances, the lives of the political committee members at all levels are almost unsaved, so where can they take care of supervising the war? I'm afraid these guys are in a hurry to escape from Krasnoyarsk than the infantry at the front, right?

Thinking of this, the faces of the members of the Political Bureau in the conference room were all ugly, and just when the atmosphere was low to the freezing point, a rush of footsteps suddenly came in from outside. Then the door to the conference room was pushed open, and in came the deputy chief of the General Staff of the Red Army, Shaposhnikov.

"Comrade President. Something big is wrong! The 55th Army of Tivnogorsk reported that just 30 minutes ago, the Krasnoyarsk fortress was again attacked by nuclear fission bombs! ”

It was as if the hearts of all the people in the room had fallen into the valley of hell, as if they could hear the miserable cries!

Krestinsky closed his eyes, and although he did not know much about military affairs, he still knew what it meant to be attacked by a second nuclear fission bomb on the Krasnoyarsk fortress - Chinese had a lot of nuclear fission bombs in his hands!!

The brief silence in the room was quickly broken, and several members of the political bureau and alternate members of the political bureau with iron faces suddenly stood up and roared like madness.

"Comrade Deputy Chief of Staff, is this news confirmed? How could the Chinese drop two nuclear fission bombs on the same target in just a few days!? ”

"How many nuclear fission bombs do they have? Isn't it said that it is extremely difficult to create a nuclear fission bomb and requires very strong industrial power? How can the Chinese have such strong industrial strength? ”

"Don't forget Jì Germany! Comrades, do not forget Germany, the most powerful industrialized country in Europe, must have more nuclear fission bombs in their hands than China! Our western cities are ready to be attacked by nuclear fission bombs at any moment! ”

"The city must be evacuated, our factories must be moved to the safe Ural ......"

"The Red Army must find a way to continue fighting under the attack of imperialist nuclear bombs, otherwise everything will be finished!"

This nuclear fission bomb is indeed a powerful weapon, and the key to whether China and Germany can use this weapon of mass destruction to destroy the Soviet Union lies in the number of nuclear fission bombs that these two countries have! In another time and space in history, if the Japanese had known that the United States only had two atomic bombs, they would have continued to resist for a while, but at that time, Japan estimated that the United States had 200 atomic bombs, so they completely lost the courage to resist. In the same way, what the "Soviet people who are not afraid of nuclear fission bombs" are not afraid of at the moment is probably one or two nuclear fission bombs.

And now, the Chinese are actually repeatedly using nuclear fission bombs against the same target! This shows that for the Chinese, nuclear fission bombs are not a rare thing at all! And the Germans are far ahead of China in industrial technology. Even nuclear bombs, which are not rare in China, will there be less in the weapons warehouses of the Germans? This world war, it really looks like it can't be fought anymore!

But what if you can't fight? Surrender to China, Germany? This is also obviously unrealistic. Not to mention that China and Germany have made up their minds to destroy the Soviet Union (Russia), even if they are willing to accept the surrender of the Soviet Union, they will not agree to retain a Soviet Union under the leadership of GCD after the war, at most a small disarmed Russia. What will happen to them, the bigwigs of the Soviet GCD? Speaking of Russia, the country was destroyed in their hands, and even if China and Germany did not investigate their "crimes of defeat" after the war, the Russian nation would not let them go!

Just when the bigwigs of the Soviet GCD were at a loss for what to do, someone suddenly muttered: "What about Comrade Trotsky?" Comrade Trotsky seemed to have left. Now is the time for him to make a final decision......"

These words reminded the members of the Political Bureau, who were all looking around with wide eyes, and sure enough, there was no sign of Trotsky. Not only did the elder Trotsky leave the room, but even his son Lev. Trotsky also left with him.

……

"Father, what now?"

Lev. Trotsky looked at his father, who was standing on the balcony on the second floor of the Konnwatze villa, and asked in a low voice. He had just seen Trotsky leave the tumultuous conference room. He immediately followed. All the way to this point.

"Of course we will fight," said Trotsky's voice, cold. "We have no choice but to keep fighting!"

"But comrades......"

"Their panic is only temporary." Trotsky's voice had calmed down, and Lev. Trotsky breathed a sigh of relief. Trotsky went on to say: "Lev, remember what I said to you the day before yesterday? ”

Lev. Trotsky nodded: "Father, you say...... We still have time to plan for the future. ”

Trotsky looked up at the grey sky, which was covered with dark clouds and a dull thunder in the distance. He sighed: "Yes, there is still time. But it's already very nervous! ”

"Father......" Trotsky interrupted his son as he raised his hand. The Soviet Union is almost finished, and nuclear fission bombs will fall on the Soviet people and the Red Army one after another, and they will soon lose their fighting spirit...... If there are enough fission bombs, our secrecy will soon become weary. So the resistance of the USSR could not last much longer. He glanced at his son and said in a low voice: "Lev, my historical mission has been completed, and the future revolutionary task can only be undertaken by you." ”

"No, father, we left the USSR together, the world revolution cannot be without your ......"

"I can't go!" Trotsky said categorically: "I am ready to return to the Kremlin, where I will command the final battle!" But you and Yue Fei have to leave, and Kurchatov and the scientists of the Soviet Institute of Physics have to leave the Soviet Union, and the uranium metal stored in the Soviet Union and the gold and foreign exchange in the Central Bank of the Soviet Union will be taken with them...... Bring it to India! ”

"Go, go to India? Going to India GCD? ”

"Yes, go to India GCD, the hope of the world revolution is in India!" Trotsky said solemnly.

"But without the Soviet Union, how could the Indian GCD survive alone?"

Trotsky smiled bitterly, looked at his son and said, "They are able to save zài, their luck is better than ours...... The most fertile land in the South Asian subcontinent has been controlled by two vassal states of the Chinese, and now the land in the hands of the Indian is very poor, and there are at least 250 million people waiting to be fed. So the Chinese have no plans to conquer the remaining lands of India, they just want the Indians to fend for themselves, which gives us a chance to preserve our vitality. ”

Lev. Trotsky also smiled bitterly helplessly. Compared with India, Russia is a very good territory, with vast land, abundant resources, and a lot of land suitable for cultivation, which China and Germany, the two imperialist countries, are unwilling to give up. Therefore, after the defeat of the Russian and Soviet GCDs, there is no chance of revival again. On the contrary, the Indian GCD was too poor in its territory and there were too many people to eat, so no one was interested in destroying it, and it was able to survive.

"But if China and Germany know that we have taken all the technical results of Soviet nuclear bomb research to India, I am afraid that they will change their original policy." Lev. Trotsky hesitated for a moment, then said.

"There is no problem, I have already planned it, you guys will secretly go to India and leave the USSR in a submarine right away." Trotsky paced a few steps on the balcony with his hands behind his back: "In addition, I will arrange for Skryansky and Blyukherr to jointly lead the Siberian Front, and after the fall of Moscow, I will make Skryansky the chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council and chairman of the Soviet GCD, and raise the banner of GCISM in Siberia to attract the attention of the enemy." (To be continued......)