The 829th nuclear bomb could not frighten the Soviet people IV

Guo Songling slapped the table suddenly, stood up, glanced at a room of staff officers with burning eyes, and laughed coldly: "What did the eloquent article on the Soviet Pravda say? Nuclear bombs could not frighten the Soviet people! Hehe...... The tone is big and the determination is not small. But whether it's bragging or not is unknown! This time, we will probe the courage of the Soviet people at the Krasnoyarsk fortress, whether they are afraid of nuclear fission bombs or not! Didn't our military book say: Siege the city is the bottom, and the heart is the top? In addition to being a siege weapon, this nuclear fission bomb is also a weapon for attacking the heart! I have decided that the three nuclear fission bombs in our hands will be thrown one by one, and they will be used as a trump card for the Soviet defenders who forced the Krasnoyarsk fortress! He glanced at Shi Jianfei and said with a slight smile: "If the power of the nuclear fission bomb is really as great as the information says, I believe that the nerves of the hundreds of thousands of Soviet people in Krasnoyarsk will not be so thick, and if they are hit by three such bombs in a row, they will definitely flee even if they do not surrender!" ”

This Wehrmacht general, who commanded troops on the Siberian front and fought bloody battles with the Soviet Red Army for three years, knew his opponent all the better. In fact, the current Soviet Red Army has long been permeated with defeatism and war weariness. The nearly four-year world war has consumed too many Soviet lives and brought too much suffering to the living. Now the economy of the Soviet Union has long since collapsed, and their light industry and agriculture are already very bad, and they can barely meet the basic needs of the Soviet people before the war. And at present, it is under the domination of the two major policies of "one qiē for the front" and "doing everything possible to expand the Red Army". Light industry and agriculture have shrunk dangerously because of a lack of inputs and labor. According to the information provided by various parties, the total grain production of the whole USSR in the 1935 year fell by at least 30% compared to the previous year due to the lack of labor and the massive requisition of agricultural machinery and livestock!

According to the confessions of Soviet Red officers and soldiers who were captured or defected. Now, with the exception of the two metropolises of Moscow and Leningrad, the rear regions of the Soviet Union are almost hell on earth. The rationing of all kinds of necessities has been reduced to the point where it is not enough to sustain life, and the people of the Soviet Union are now truly living in "hunger and cold". At present, a worker on a Soviet collective farm receives only 750 grams of grain per working day, while a worker working in heavy industry in the Soviet Union receives 800 grams of grain per day (only 300 grams of grain per day for students and ordinary clerks, and 500 grams per day for workers in light industry), but their labor intensity is unbearably high. Workers are set to 14 hours a day, and an endless stream of temporary overtime and voluntary work on rest days awaits. Many undernourished workers are forced to work day and night for heavy labor.

But even so, the Soviet industry and agriculture were still unable to meet the supply of the 30 to 40 million uniformed Red Army and non-uniformed Party members and cadres in the front and rear, as well as to produce the weapons and equipment needed to sustain this "damned war". For this, the Soviet GCD had to impose the harshest rule. From the end of 1935. The targets of "counter-revolutionaries, sabotage, and assassins" in the Soviet Union's local governments, Party committees, and branches of the NKVD have increased several times! Millions of women, the elderly, and teenagers were arrested in just a few months in all sorts of labor camps - all of which were production units, and the use of completely free labour for the hardest and most arduous work had always been an important pillar of the Soviet economy.

However, even if there are millions or even tens of millions of free laborers who are "selflessly laboring" for the world revolution, they will still not be able to sustain the growing Red Army and the increasingly tragic wars. Therefore, the supply of supplies to the Red Army at the front could only be reduced again and again. It's reached the point where I can't even fill up the black bread with I don't know how much sawdust and bran I don't know. Ordinary soldiers had only one kilogram of "adulterated" black bread per person per day.

In this case, the Soviet Red Army, which was difficult to fill even its belly, naturally did not have much morale. And Ivan, who had just hung up the rank of marshal. Panfilovich. The Eastern Front of the Soviet Union, commanded by Belov, was probably the lowest of all Soviet Fronts. Not only because the troops on the Eastern Front of the Soviet Army had suffered successive defeats in the past few years, but also because a large number of experienced Red officers and soldiers had been transferred to the more tight battlefields on the Western Front, and they were supplemented by extremely poor Indian soldiers -- although the Soviet authorities kept the news of the fall of Delhi and the division of India tightly sealed, the Indians in the Soviet Union still had a general understanding of the plight of the motherland through all kinds of gossip, which completely collapsed their already weak revolutionary will. They can only be escorted to the battlefield by the Warlords as the cheapest consumables, and such soldiers naturally have no morale at all. Either resign to death and wait for death, or do everything possible to find a way to escape.

Krasnoyarsk Fortress, the command of the Eastern Front of the USSR. Marshal Belov, who had just replaced Kamenev, who had died of illness at the end of last year, as commander and political commissar of the Eastern Front, looked at the stack of reports in front of him, and his two thin and long eyebrows tightened more and more. The report was submitted by the Military and Political Department of the Eastern Front, and the content was about the declining morale of the Eastern Front. Cadres of the Ministry of Political Affairs complained in the report: "...... There was a sense of pessimism among the officers and soldiers, including many political cadres, who no longer believed in the inevitability of the world revolution, and political agitation was often merely formal, especially the political mobilization of Indian internationalist fighters was almost completely stopped, and they were only forced to fight with simple beatings and scoldings and warlords. Rumours abound among the Indian internationalist fighters that the Indian GCD and the Japanese GCD were facing total defeat, many of whom had become completely hopeless and spiritually empty, and some had even secretly revived their Hindu faith......"

With a snap, Belov threw the report on his desk, picked up a pen and gave a casual comment on it: "It is necessary to strengthen political and ideological work, and we must reverse the situation of low morale of the troops." However, he himself has no confidence in the effect of this instruction, because his own morale is not very high. In his opinion, the world revolution has failed. The USSR is already facing a desperate situation! With the imminent complete defeat of the two allies, India and Japan, China and Germany were soon able to concentrate all their forces on the Soviet Union from the east, south, and west, and the Soviet Union's war potential was in fact completely exhausted. Even without that kind of nuclear fission bomb that "the Soviet people are not afraid", the USSR could not resist for long. It seems that it won't be long before the Soviet GCD is about to usher in its own end, and the entire Russian nation looks very likely to become the burial object of the Soviet GCD. But these thoughts only flashed through his mind, the Soviet army general who had just been promoted to marshal. He picked up the report on the table, stood up and strode towards the front war room in the Krasnoyarsk fortress.

"Comrade Vasilevsky, how is the situation at the front? Is there anything unusual about the Chinese devils? "As soon as I walked into the war room. Belov asked Vasilevsky, chief of staff of the Front, with a straight face.

Vasilevsky was bending over to make some marks on the military map, and when he heard Belov's voice, he hurriedly straightened up and replied: "It's still the same, the Chinese devils don't make any big moves, and the front line is very calm." It seems that China does not have enough forces to attack the Krasnoyarsk fortress. At least they did not have such power until the defeat of Japan. ”

Belov did not say anything about his analysis, in fact he himself thought so, although the Red Army could not defeat the Chinese invaders in the field, but they could still rely on the Krasnoyarsk fortress to inflict heavy losses on any attacker. Belov estimated that if the Chinese wanted to capture the Krasnoyarsk fortress, they would need to invest at least 1.5 million attacking troops and thousands of heavy artillery, as well as train guns of more than 300mm caliber to bombard the fortress's core fortress. As for the powerful armored forces of the Chinese, it was completely useless in the operation of attacking the fortress. So now the question he asked Vasilevsky was nothing more than a routine. He went on to ask, "What about the defense against superbombs?" Did the front-line troops deepen and strengthen the bunkers as required? Is there any preparation for a counterattack on the offensive of the enemy's infantry that could be launched along the passage opened by the super-bomb? ”

Hear "Super Bomb". Vasilevsky's expression was much stricter than that of Belov, and the so-called "super bomb" was the name for the "nuclear fission bomb" in the Soviet Union. In order to avoid causing unnecessary panic and affecting the production of heavy industry, the Soviet authorities blocked the news of the "nuclear fission bomb" internally, as if such a superweapon had not appeared at all! However, the Revolutionary Military Committee of the Soviet Union immediately issued the "Guiding Opinions on the Work of Defending against Super Bombs" to the troops below and the large and medium-sized cities of the Soviet Union. In the guiding opinions, the Revolutionary Military Council of the Soviet Union claimed that imperialism was building a giant bomb, which could weigh several tons and be far more powerful than ordinary bombs, and therefore demanded that large and medium-sized cities carry out a "deep burrowing" campaign, mobilize party and government cadres, ordinary workers, students, and staff members to participate in the voluntary labor of digging air-raid shelters, and demanded that 5 million large air-raid shelters for 1,000 people be built in large and medium-sized cities throughout the Soviet Union by May 1, 1936. At the same time, the Red Army, which was on the front line, was required to do everything possible to strengthen the fortifications so that they could resist the attacks of superbombs.

However, the subordinate units of the Eastern Front Army actually did not carry out the instructions of the Revolutionary Military Committee, because the food supply of the troops was difficult, the vast number of soldiers were obviously insufficient to undertake too heavy labor, and the news that the enemy had a "super bomb" would definitely severely damage the already very low morale.

"Comrade commander," Vasilevsky hesitated, but said: "The work of defending against super-bombs is not going well, the troops below are mostly perfunctory, in case Chinese really drop nuclear fission on the Krasnoyarsk fortress, uh, drop super-bombs, I'm afraid of ......"

"Don't worry, the fortress is strong enough!" Belov glanced at the thick reinforced concrete walls of the war room and smiled bitterly: "If such a strong fortress can't withstand nuclear fission bombs, then what's the use of field fortifications even if they are strong?" He waved his hand and interrupted Vasilevsky, who wanted to argue: "Now the most important task of the front command is to improve the morale of the troops, so any work that may hit morale must be postponed for the time being. As he spoke, he handed the document he had just signed in his hand to Berezovsky, director of the military and political department of the front: "Comrade Berezovsky, go and think of a way." In order to give full play to GCD's expertise in political and ideological work, we must convince the fighters that the future of the world revolution is bright. GCISM will surely triumph over capitalism, and the world of the future must belong to the proletarians! ”

"Yes, Comrade Political Commissar (Belov is also a member of the Military and Political Committee of the Front)."

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"The accuracy of dropping bombs from an altitude of 10,000 meters is indeed a problem," Tian Yuchen said, sitting on a broken and dirty sofa with his legs crossed, and reading the training reports of several strategic bombing groups under the Strategic Air Force with his head down. He was transferred from the position of commander of the 3rd Bombardment Division of the Air Force to the post of Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Air Force, during this time. Every day, he threw himself into the training of several bombing groups under the Strategic Air Command, but the results of the training were still somewhat unsatisfactory.

"Yes, horizontal bombardment at an altitude of 10,000 meters...... An error of less than 1000 meters is not easy. I'm afraid that the accuracy within 200 meters is extremely difficult to achieve, Zhenghui, are your requirements a little higher? Shi Jianfei leaned back in his chair and rested his legs high on the desk. He also personally played two 10,000-meter-high dropped-bombs. As a result, the atomic bomb model was at least 3,000 meters away!

"It's training now, so the requirements must be higher than the actual combat!" Tian Yuchen glanced at Shi Jianfei, shook his head and said: "In actual combat, he is already an ace pilot who can play a fifty-percent level of training, and if he encounters the interference of the enemy's ground artillery, I am afraid that he will not be able to play a three-percent level." So the requirements within 200 meters are not high, after all, nuclear fission bombs are not ordinary high-explosive bombs, and if they are missed, they will suffer heavy losses! He paused and said: "The 200-meter error I led by the crew has already reached it in training, so if it doesn't work, I'll be responsible for dropping the bomb myself!" ”

"In this case, the problem of bombing is temporarily solved. However, the issue of bomb safety has to be summed up, and the explosive power of throwing a nuclear fission bomb is not as powerful as an ordinary bomb. Shi Jianfei said with a frown.

Ready to be dropped on the Krasnoyarsk fortress were three plutonium shells with a power comparable to that of the "Little Thor". The power of a nuclear explosion is equivalent to 15,000 to 20,000 tons of TNT explosives, and such a huge explosion power will also pose a serious threat to the aircraft that drop nuclear fission bombs in the air, and the radiation produced by the nuclear explosion will also cause harm to the pilots who fly the aircraft.

In order to protect the pilot from nuclear radiation, the cabin of this aircraft is equipped with lead plates with a total weight of more than 2 tons, and the fuselage and wings have also been greatly strengthened to resist the impact of the nuclear explosion shock wave, which has increased the empty weight of the H-7H a lot. In addition, in order to avoid the threat of Soviet ground artillery fire and fighter planes, and to buy more time for aircraft to escape from the bombing airspace, the altitude of the nuclear fission bomb was set at an altitude of 9,500 to 10,000 meters. The output of the four 1,800 hp air-cooled engines equipped with the H-7H at this altitude will drop significantly, making it difficult for the aircraft to reach the limit, at most it can only be maintained at about 400 km/h for a short time.

According to the bombing plan, the nuclear fission bomb will explode within 45 to 60 seconds after being dropped out of the cabin. In other words, the H-7H aircraft, which escaped at a speed of 400 km / h, can fly a little more than six kilometers at most, and it is difficult to guarantee absolute safety.

"I don't think there's much of a problem, 6 kilometers plus an altitude of more than 9,000 meters should be safer, if you don't worry, you can also use a dive to accelerate." Tian Yuchen stood up and walked to the blackboard, picked up chalk and wrote and drew on the blackboard, and explained: "The fuselage of the H-7H is very strong, comparable to Ju.88, if you dive at a 30-degree angle for 60 seconds, it should be able to accelerate to more than 500 kilometers, and it will take a little time for the shock wave to be conducted from the explosion point, so there is basically no need to worry about the danger of the shock wave, the real threat is nuclear radiation...... I think I can fly the plane in a special radiation suit, and it should be no problem. He paused and said: "What I'm worried about now is not so much the danger of dropping nuclear fission bombs, but the fact that nuclear fission bombs are not powerful enough to destroy the Krasnoyarsk fortress." It would be nice if you could make a nuclear fission bomb into an armor-piercing bomb and drop it with a dive bomber to smash through the top of the fortress and let the nuclear fission bomb explode inside the fortress. ”

Tian Yuchen drew an armor-piercing bomb on the blackboard, and wrote "He-177" next to it, this is a heavy bomber produced by the Germans, to be honest, the performance is really not good, installed a bad-performance BD606 engine, resulting in an overweight aircraft structure, the engine is often on fire, and it is not as good as China's H-7 -- this is the unanimous evaluation of the commanders of the bomber units of China and Germany (the Chinese Air Force also has a small number of He-177 bombers). In order to meet the emergency, the Luftwaffe had no choice but to order 120 H-7s from China's Central First Aircraft Factory Co., Ltd., and also obtained a production license to produce 1,200 H-7s in Germany.

However, this HE-177 is not without some strengths...... It's the biggest dive bomber in the world right now! It is a heavy bomber that can dive bombing at a 60-degree angle! Dive bombing is now the most reliable method of precision bombing.

Tian Yuchen said and drew another pattern symbolizing the fortress, and drew a straight line with a 60-degree angle of dive, holding chalk in his hand and tapping on the blackboard: "A 3-to-4-ton armor-piercing bomb, coupled with the inertia of the HE-177 when diving, can definitely smash through a reinforced concrete slab 10 meters or even thicker." At that time, a nuclear bomb equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT explosives will bloom in the center of the Krasnoyarsk fortress, not only will all the people inside the fortress not survive, but the huge explosion power will also be transmitted through the surface of Guò, and the underground anti-artillery fortifications within a few kilometers around the fortress will definitely collapse! ”

"Damn, this Tian Yuchen is really a madman!" Shi Jianfei cursed in his heart, although the method of dive bombing can make the nuclear bomb accurately hit the core bunker of the fortress, but the danger of the plane being shot down is also greatly increased, after all, this he-177 is a heavy bomber, too big, and it is easy to be hit by ground artillery fire!

"What if it's shot down?" Shi Jianfei expressed the worry in his heart. "Will the nuclear fission bomb be captured by the enemy?"

"No, you can turn on the time-delay explosive device and then dive...... So that even if the plane is shot down, the nuclear bomb will be guaranteed to explode! Tian Yuchen thought for a while and said: "But if you want to play dive bombing, you can't engage in a single-plane raid." Otherwise, all the Soviet ground artillery fire would have come up, and this He-177 would have died. ”

"Zhenghui, what do you mean ......?"

"Wouldn't it be nice to organize more planes to bomb them? Among them, it is necessary to include medium and light fighters with strong ground attack capabilities such as the J-4E and Qiang-1, and use them to suppress the ground fire of the Soviet army and cover the He-177 dropping nuclear bombs. ”

"What?" Shi Jianfei's face darkened with a brush: "Zhenghui, will so many planes have time to break away before the nuclear explosion?" ”

"No problem, just set the time on the time-lapse explosive device a little longer, say 5 minutes...... Even at a speed of 300 kilometers per hour, it can fly 25 kilometers per hour, so there is no need to use special modifications to drop nuclear bombs. ”

"What if...... What if the He-177, which dropped the nuclear bomb, was blown up in the air and the nuclear bomb was also detonated? ”

"This is unlikely," Tian Yuchen shrugged and said, "Because the shell of a nuclear bomb is very strong and made of the best alloy steel, even if a few hundred grams of explosives explode inside, it will not destroy the shell, so there is no need to worry about the problem of martyrdom." If there is really any case, then we are too unlucky, where is there anything foolproof in such a thing as a war, Commander Shi, don't you say? ”

In fact, the worry of a nuclear bomb being detonated is superfluous, because the explosion principle of a nuclear bomb is different from that of an ordinary bomb, and the charge of a nuclear bomb, plutonium-239, will not be detonated by a high-temperature shock wave at all, which is a chain reaction process, if the shell of the nuclear bomb is really blown up, the plutonium-239 inside is scattered everywhere, of course, there is no way to produce a chain reaction.