April 2, 1936, Krasnoyarsk Fortress after a nuclear explosion.

Under the formidable exterior, this fortress, which does not know how much work has been stolen and how much material has been reduced, has actually withstood the bombardment of nuclear fission bombs!

After carrying a kerosene lamp along the dark passages and stairs inside the fortress for an unknown amount of time, the hanging hearts of Vasilevsky and Tolbukhin finally relaxed a little. Although the core fortress of Krasnoyarsk was shaken out of cracks everywhere under the shock wave of the nuclear explosion, and there were still many collapses, almost all the gates that were closed at the time of the nuclear explosion were stuck, and they could only be broken with force, and even explosives were used to break them - Vasilevsky, who knew a little about civil engineering, knew that there was some damage to the main load-bearing structure of the fortress. However, a fortress half buried in the earth is not a high-rise building after all, and even if more than half of the beams and columns are broken, it will not cause the entire fortress to collapse.

So these injuries are not in the hearts of Vasilevsky and Tolbukhin, what really worries them is that the communication system of the fortress is completely damaged, not only can they not communicate with the troops outside, but even the communication inside the fortress can only rely on the messengers! Since the headquarters of the Soviet Eastern Front is located in the Krasnoyarsk fortress, the interruption of communication means that the Eastern Front Command can no longer afford the mission of commanding operations, and the entire Soviet Eastern Front can be said to have lost its unified command, and if the Chinese attack on a large scale at this time, the consequences are really unimaginable!

In addition, due to the delay in communication, it was not possible to restore fù. The command of the Eastern Front inside the fortress also did not know how much damage the nuclear explosion caused outside the fortress, and did not know whether the Chinese took the opportunity to launch a fierce assault on the perimeter of the Krasnoyarsk fortress?

However, it is not so easy to repair the damaged communication equipment, because the power supply system of the fortress is also completely paralyzed! Without electricity, there is no lighting. How to repair communication equipment when the light is blind? And not only is there no way to repair the communication equipment, but even the armored batteries of the fortress that need to be powered by electricity are now unusable, and even the several electrically driven gates of the core fortress cannot be opened, so it can be said that the entire fortress has been paralyzed. If the Chinese army attacks at this time, it may really be able to capture the Krasnoyarsk fortress in one fell swoop!

Through a long dark corridor through Guò, Vasilevsky and Tolbukhin entered the power room of the fortress, where several kerosene lamps had been hung. Several engineers and technicians were whispering something around a table covered with a circuit diagram of the fortress's interior. Seeing Vasilevsky and Tolbukhin walk in, several people stood up and saluted.

"How's it going? When will the power of the fortress be restored? Tolbukhin asked with a gloomy face.

"I'm afraid...... I'm afraid it won't be able to recover for a while. An elderly engineer with the rank of lieutenant colonel said with a bitter face: "There is no problem with several diesel engines." But all the fuses in the fortress were blown at the same time, and the insulation of many wires was burned through, which could not be repaired in a short time, and ...... And there aren't that many spare wires available inside the fortress......"

"A blown fuse?! Wire insulation burned through?! "Vasilevsky and Tolbukhin are a little baffled. Of course, they don't know what an electromagnetic pulse is. Although the nuclear bomb that exploded near the Krasnoyarsk fortress failed to destroy the outer walls of the fortress up to 10 meters thick and the reinforced concrete slabs on the roof, as well as the overburden. However, the transient electromagnetic field or nuclear electromagnetic pulse generated by the nuclear explosion caused heavy damage to the radio station and power supply system inside the fortress. Scientists at the time did not yet know. Any nuclear weapon that explodes above the ground generates an electromagnetic pulse with an energy of about one millionth of the total energy of a nuclear explosion and frequencies ranging from a few hundred megahertz to several megahertz. Transient voltages of several thousand volts are sharply generated on exposed conductors (such as exposed wires and antennas), and such voltages are transmitted to the communication and power lines of the Krasnoyarsk fortress, causing extremely severe damage to the entire circuits and communication lines and equipment of the fortress.

In this era, no one knew that there was such a thing as a "nuclear electromagnetic pulse", and the Soviet Union was now in a tight supply of materials, so there was not enough electrical equipment in the warehouses of the fortress. It will not be possible to completely repair the power supply and communication systems of the fortress.

"We must restore the power supply as much as possible, and we must give priority to restoring the power supply to the headquarters and the battery." Vasilevsky confessed a few words. Then he said to Tolbukhin: "Fedor, go and see outside the fortress." ”

"Okay," Tolbukhin nodded, "Let's go together...... I am worried that the situation outside is still under control. He turned back to the lieutenant colonel engineer and asked, "Is there a way to get out of the bunker?" ”

"There is no problem, although there is no way to open several main gates, there are still several secondary passages that lead to the fortress superstructure, and I will lead the way to Comrade Chief of Staff and Comrade Commander."

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And at this moment, the scene outside the core fortifications of the Krasnoyarsk Fortress can probably only be described as the end of the world. The entire city, the Krasnoyarsk Fortress, was actually built on the plain on the eastern outskirts of Krasnoyarsk, the largest city in Central Siberia on the eastern bank of the Yenisei River. Civilians in Krasnoyarsk have now been evacuated to Novosibirsk, Kuibyshev, Leninsk and Kuznetsky, and most of the city's buildings have become barracks or storage sites for Soviet troops. Not all of the 500,000 Red Army troops who held the Krasnoyarsk fortress were stationed in the fortress or the fortifications around the fortress, and a considerable part of them were placed in Krasnoyarsk as a reserve.

But now, the city, where at least a hundred thousand Red officers and soldiers were stationed, was in ruins...... Everywhere there was a scene of smoke billowing and a pungent smell everywhere, and blue flames flickering everywhere. The nuclear fission bomb appeared to have exploded in an open field less than 200 meters west of the fortress, and the surface structures of several small fortresses in the area from the center of the explosion were gone, and a diameter of more than 200 meters appeared on the ground. A large pit more than 30 meters deep!

A little further away from the explosion, two very different situations arose, in the area of the eastern district of Krasnoyarsk, west of the site of the explosion. Collapsed and burning buildings were everywhere, the bodies of Soviet officers and soldiers were piled up, and in a tributary of the Yenisei River, there were all floated corpses with swollen bellies and hideous faces, and a pungent stench, all of whom might have jumped into the river during the explosion in an attempt to escape. The streets were also littered with dead bodies, mostly in rows. Some of them were still in their finished walking posture, but they had been burned to a piece of charcoal, apparently several Red Army squads patrolling or repositioning.

And to the east of the site of the nuclear explosion. The situation did not seem too bad, the core fortress of the fortress did not collapse, but the reinforced concrete slabs on the outside of the western protective wall were destroyed by the heat and shock wave from the nuclear explosion, revealing the red brick wall inside. The brick walls, which were up to 9 meters thick, were also destroyed by the force of a nuclear explosion about three or four meters. There is also a lot of red powder piled up in the corners of the remaining brick walls, I wonder if it is the product of those bricks being crushed by the shock wave?

The layer of earth at the top of the core fortress of the fortress, which was several meters thick, also completely disappeared, as if it had never existed! The potholed concrete roof of the fortress was exposed, and the anti-aircraft artillery fire positions originally deployed on the top of the fortress sealing layer naturally did not exist anymore, but the two triple 305mm armored batteries on the north and south sides of the core fortress were still in good condition. Although the surface of the armored turret has completely turned black, and there are traces of melting metal, the overall appearance is still intact...... At least it's still a fort, as for whether it can be fired. Whether it can turn or not is only God knows.

Further afield, in the central area of Krasnoyarsk, the situation is also dire. All the buildings that could be burned were burning, artillery, cars, carriages, armored vehicles, etc., all fell to the ground, and there were countless Soviet Red officers and soldiers groaning in pain on both sides of the road. The injuries of these people all looked extremely severe, most of the clothes on their bodies were already in tatters, and the exposed skin was burned extensively, and some of them even fell off, revealing bloody flesh! And most of them are already blind, probably burned by the flash of a nuclear explosion. There was not a single paramedic or anyone else resuscitating the wounded, only screams of despair.

"Oh God! Help me! ”

"Lord, forgive me!"

"Heavenly Father, I am guilty......"

There are also many dying wounded who seem to be in their deathbed confessions, but unfortunately the content is related to the reactionary God, if it were left in peacetime, there would have been security cadres in blue hats to go up and take people - believing in God, Allah, Shakyamuni or any other god is a crime against the Criminal Code of the USSR! But now that people are dying, and the GCIST faith has been shattered by an imperialist atomic bomb, who cares about the Soviet Criminal Code? If these wounded still had sight, they would have seen many security cadres with tattered blue hats on their heads, all with their hands folded and confessing to God and his old man! From God's point of view, these people's sins are probably the worst, and I don't know if they can be forgiven?

"Oh God! What's going on? What's going on? Is this the power of a nuclear fission bomb? How can we fight imperialism when they have such terrible weapons? How can you beat it...... We're going to fail, we're going to fail, we're all sinners, we're sinners of the Russian nation, we've ruined the whole of Russia, the USSR is finished, Russia is finished! ”

A crying voice sounded in the ears of Comrade Vasilevsky, and the chief of staff of the Eastern Front, who was stunned by the scene in front of him, which was supposed to be in hell, was awakened from his fear and consternation. He turned his head to see that the commander of the Krasnoyarsk Fortress, Lieutenant General Tolbukhin, was crying, and a Red Army lieutenant general who was tall and strong and had a sharp face that only a tough guy deserves to have, was now frightened and cried by the tragic scene in front of him!

Vasilevsky just looked at him fixedly, unable to say a word. He didn't even know how he got all the way from the Krasnoyarsk fortress to here? Probably from the moment he walked out of the fortress bunker, the whole person was completely stupid, right? When he was inside the fortress in the middle of winter, although he knew that something was wrong, he still had some fantasies, thinking that the fortress was directly hit by the nuclear fission bomb, so it was paralyzed. Who knew that the power of a nuclear fission bomb could be so powerful...... A single bomb razed most of the city of Krasnoyarsk to the ground, and if every large and medium-sized Soviet city was hit by one or two, would the Russian nation survive?

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