Although Chang Ruiqing, as the supreme commander of the Chinese National Defense Forces, does not interfere much in the command of front-line generals, the exception is the matter of dropping the atomic bomb, and the "nuclear button" must be personally controlled by the supreme commander. Therefore, the plan proposed by Shi Jianfei and Tian Yuchen to drop atomic bombs with HE-177 "heavy dive bombers" was immediately placed on the desk of Premier Chang Ruiqing's office.

"I think it's okay, don't worry about the nuclear fission bomb detonation, and don't worry about the problem of delayed detonation, these are all easy to solve." Without waiting for Chang Ruiqing to read the report, Li Fuji, the new president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was the first to speak in support: "There is no big problem in making a nuclear fission bomb into an armor-piercing bomb, at most it will be a little heavier." ”

Chang Ruiqing looked at Jiang Baili, Jiang Baili nodded silently, after many years of being the Minister of Armaments, he has become half of a military industry expert, he thought for a while and said: "The 'ground-penetrating nuclear bomb' used to attack fortresses and underground targets has long been secretly developed, and our goal is to develop a nuclear bomb that can drill 100 meters underground, although it is still early to succeed...... However, the Krasnoyarsk fortress is not 100 meters underground, according to intelligence, the top of the core fortress of the fortress is nothing more than a reinforced concrete slab several meters thick, which can be smashed through with a 1000-kilogram armor-piercing bomb, let alone a nuclear bomb weighing several tons? I think if a conical ramming angle was installed in the head of the nuclear bomb, it would be enough to break through the roof of the Krasnoyarsk fortress. ”

"Prime Minister, during the last test at the Skyfire base, a nuclear fission bomb was detonated on top of a 30-meter-high steel frame, if the explosion occurred inside the Krasnoyarsk fortress. Will it be less powerful? Chief of the General Staff Zhao Zhen hesitated and said: "Is it to do another underground nuclear explosion test?" ”

"There's no need for that, and it's too wasteful." Jiang Baili said. "With an explosive yield of 15,000 to 20,000 tons, I don't believe that the Krasnoyarsk fortress will not collapse into the sky. However, I still do not approve of sending a large number of J-4E and J-1 to participate in the nuclear bomb dropping operation. ”

"Do you want He-177 to strike alone? It's too dangerous. Air Force Commander-in-Chief Yang Xianyi shook his head and said.

"I don't think it's a big problem." Jiang Baili was confident about this: "Aren't we ready to destroy the Krasnoyarsk fortress with 3 nuclear fission bombs?" It is better to first use one to carry out an air blast and destroy the anti-aircraft fire on the surface, and then use the He-177 to dive and drop an armor-piercing nuclear bomb to destroy the core of the Krasnoyarsk fortress. In this way, the hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops around the Krasnoyarsk fortress should lose the will to hold on, and it is very likely that they will surrender or flee westward. ”

"It's better not to persuade them to surrender, but let them flee west." Chang Ruiqing thought about it and said.

Although the weapons-grade plutonium-239 and weapons-grade uranium-235 in the hands of China and Germany are now enough to assemble dozens of atomic bombs. But these atomic bombs were not enough to kill all the Soviets, and it was impossible to kill all the Soviet Red Army, in a sense. Trotsky's eloquent essay made sense, the Soviet Union was very big, there were many Soviet people, and the atomic bomb of China and Germany could not destroy the Soviet people. So the real role of the atomic bomb was not to destroy the Soviet people. Rather, it was to frighten the Soviet people. Therefore, it did not make much sense to kill or capture the hundreds of thousands of Soviet Red Army troops around the Krasnoyarsk fortress. Nor will it play a decisive role in the outcome of this war, and it is better to let them be used as a tool for spreading nuclear terror...... As long as more Soviets knew about the horror of the atomic bomb, this world war would probably be over!

"Just follow Mr. Baili's method, first blow up a nuclear bomb in the air, and then hit an 'armor-piercing nuclear bomb'. In addition, send another telegram to Guo Songling, telling him to pay attention to the danger of nuclear radiation and nuclear contamination, and not to let the infantry attack the Soviet troops in the nuclear contaminated area. They are left to flee on their own. Chang Ruiqing made the final decision.

In the evening of the same day, the order reached the command of the Chinese Siberian Front and the command of the former enemy of the Strategic Air Force in Nizhny Udinsk.

"Mao Shuai. If a nuclear bomb is used to attack the Krasnoyarsk fortress in the air, the strategic air force can be dispatched at any time as long as the weather is suitable. Shi Jianfei's expression was stern, no one knows how many people will be killed in this bombing, but it is definitely unprecedented, as the supreme commander of this operation, he will definitely leave his name in history in the future, I don't know if it will be notorious.

"The weather in Siberia is very good during this time, but the daytime hours are still a little short." Tian Yuchen was the chief captain of the first nuclear attack, and if he wanted to fly the HE-177, he was not sure about it, and he needed to continue training, and if he used the H-7 to drop a nuclear bomb at high altitude, there would be no problem at all.

"It is possible to act at night, and two Ju.88 bombers can be dispatched to drop flares." Liu Feijian, chief of staff of the Siberian Front, said that although Liu Fei was not from the Air Force, he was no stranger to ground-air cooperative operations, and he had stayed in Siberia for three years, so he was very familiar with the long nights in winter and the white nights in summer. Although it is early spring, the daylight hours here in Krasnoyarsk are still very short, only a few hours. And these few hours are the most intensive period of Soviet air defense, not only all anti-aircraft firepower is in a combat state, but also the Soviet army basically does not move on the ground, all cats do not come out in trenches and bomb shelters, the effect of nuclear explosion will definitely not be too good, it is better to wait until it gets dark before acting.

Due to the fact that the Krasnoyarsk front was very calm during this period, the Soviet officers and soldiers did not squat in the trenches all day long, and they would still come out to carry out activities after dark. Moreover, the movement of troops and the delivery of materials within the Soviet line were also carried out after dark, so the best effect was to drop nuclear bombs at night.

In order to confuse the Soviet army, Shi Jianfei also proposed to continuously dispatch planes to attack the Krasnoyarsk fortress during the day in the next few days. Usually, after a large-scale air raid, the Soviet army will definitely drill out of the hidden place to rest and repair the fortifications, treat the wounded, etc., and the effect of a nuclear explosion is best at this time.

In this way, a few people quickly drew up a preliminary plan. From the Siberian Front and the command of the former enemy of the Strategic Air Force, the day after receiving the task of carrying out a nuclear attack, that is, on March 31, 1936. The originally calm Krasnoyarsk front has once again attracted the flames of war.

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In the Krasnoyarsk fortress, Belov was pacing back and forth in the headquarters of the Eastern Front, which was located in the bunker, and his mood was very nervous. The Chinese army's bombardment of the Krasnoyarsk fortress had been going on for three days and days, and the bombs were falling like raindrops, and the roar of thunder like a dull thunder lingered in his ears. Although the fortifications of the Krasnoyarsk fortress were not easily destroyed, this does not indicate that the bombardment did not bring damage to the fortress.

In fact, the Krasnoyarsk fortress was not as strong as it looked from the outside, and as the commander of the Eastern Front, he knew this very well. Because this fortress is in the shape of the world revolution. It was built in the Soviet Union in the absence of sufficient building materials and steel. Beneath the seemingly indestructible exterior is actually the product of a bunch of corners. The engineer commander who was in charge of the construction of the fortress once reported to him privately that when the fortress was built. The steel bars they get are all thinner than the standard, and the composition of the steel bars may be problematic, and the strength is obviously not enough! In addition, there was not enough high-quality cement to pour the main protective plates of the fortress. As a last resort. The fortress could only be built by wrapping the brick walls with cement. From the outside, they look as if they were made of reinforced concrete. The outer walls of the core fortress of the fortress with a thickness of 10 meters are actually "sandwich biscuits", and between the two 50 cm thick reinforced concrete slabs is a brick wall up to 9 meters thick! Such a defense is equivalent to a standard reinforced concrete slab with a thickness of 3 meters at most, and if converted to steel plates, it is equivalent to a homogeneous steel plate of more than 200 millimeters. Although it was enough to withstand the bombardment of most army artillery, it could not withstand the train guns converted from naval guns.

Moreover, this is the defense of the outer wall of the core fortress of Krasnoyarsk, which is weaker in armor at the top, but only a 3-meter-thick reinforced concrete slab and a few meters of earth. It looks like that. But if the Chinese really bombarded it with large-caliber train artillery, they could still easily destroy it. If the Chinese bomb with that nuclear fission bomb, which is said to be as powerful as the explosion of 20,000 tons of TNT explosives. I'm afraid it's even more irresistible......

Belov was even more worried about the Soviet troops on the perimeter of the Krasnoyarsk fortress. They had no thick "walls" to protect them, only ordinary trenches, anti-artillery fortifications, firing points, anti-tank trenches and various obstacles, which were used to resist the attack of the Chinese ground forces somewhat barely - if they were determined to pay a certain number of casualties, they could still take the fortified defensive zone on the perimeter of the fortress. If a nuclear fission bomb were to bombard, I am afraid that a considerable area would be able to be flattened, right?

By this time, the sound of the explosion had gradually thinned out. Belov looked up at the wall clock on the wall, it was already 3:30 p.m., and the days in Siberia were short now, so it should be getting dark outside, right? When it gets dark, it will be safe, and the Chinese planes will not waste bombs at night.

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Just when Belov thought that a safe night was about to fall. At a large airfield on the outskirts of Nizhny Udinsk, just a few hundred kilometers from the Krasnoyarsk fortress, there was already a lot of buzz. Searchlight beams from several towering lighthouses illuminate the runway and apron at dusk. A heavy bomber with 74 rounds and three Ju.88 twin-engine bombers with a large circle of small size were already neatly lined up on the runway. Ground crews at the airport are busy filling up the three planes.

A six-wheeled heavy truck was slowly driving towards the H-7 plane with a large flatbed truck fixed with a wire rope on it - this is of course something that the Soviet people were not afraid of, the atomic bomb!

Although the news of the test explosion of a nuclear fission bomb has spread so much that there are probably not a few people in the entire Greater China Federation who do not know about it, most of the officers and men of the Chinese Strategic Air Force who are currently on duty at the airport actually do not know that the big bomb in front of them is the legendary nuclear fission bomb that can raze a city!

Lieutenant General Tian Yuchen, who was ready to personally fly the plane to drop such a "harmful" atomic bomb, had never seen the scene of an atomic bomb explosion. At this time, he was standing next to the H-7 plane, staring at the slowly approaching atomic bomb.

"Chief Shi, tell me again, what was the scene like when the nuclear explosion occurred? Is this really as powerful as it says it is? It won't blow up when the time comes, right? He pointed to the atomic bomb and asked Shi Jianfei beside him half-jokingly.

Shi Jianfei just smiled faintly and didn't answer Tian Yuchen's question, in fact, he had already answered the same question I don't know how many times. With a solemn expression, he asked Guo Songling, who was standing on his right, "Mao Shuai, have our troops been withdrawn from the front-line positions?" ”

On the plain to the east of the outer perimeter of the Krasnoyarsk fortress was the front line of the confrontation between the Chinese and Soviet armies, and although the fighting was not very fierce, tens of thousands of Chinese officers and soldiers always remained on the front line. However, this front-line position is still far away from the planned nuclear explosion site, more than 20 kilometers, as long as you hide in the bunker, there should not be much danger. However, for the sake of insurance, Shi Jianfei still moved the first-line troops of the Chinese army to the second-line position, so as not to be affected by the nuclear explosion.

"Don't worry, it's all transferred." Guo Songling glanced at the nuclear fission bomb -- the bomb had been towed to the H-7 plane, and more than a dozen ground crew members were working together to push the board truck containing the nuclear bomb into the plane's lower abdomen. He paused for a moment and then asked, "How's the preparation for the second nuclear bomb attack?" ”

"It's basically ready," Tian Yuchen smiled and replied, "It can definitely be implemented as planned in two days...... If the Soviets had not fled from the Krasnoyarsk fortress. ”

"Or are you in charge of dropping bombs?" Guo Songling asked again.

"Of course not, Mao Shuai, I don't have the skills to fly a HE-177 to dive and drop bombs." Tian Yuchen shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands and said: "I have only flown fighter jets and heavy bombers, not dive bombers, in our entire strategic air force, there is only one person who can fly the HE-177 for dive bombing, named Lin Yaichiro, is a lieutenant colonel of the Air Force, once flew Stuka, and later changed to fly HE-177, he is very experienced, and today he will serve as my co-pilot." ”

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