"Comrade Livinov, how are diplomatic contacts going? What are the attitudes of China, the United States and Germany? Trotsky looked at People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Livinov and asked in a low voice.

"It's not going to be too good." Litvinov, who was sitting next to Krestinsky, chairman of the People's Commissariat of People's Commissars, grew more and more headed, and the thick fatigue and bloodshot in his eyes made the Soviet People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs in his forties a little haggard, and the secret diplomatic contacts with China, the United States, and Germany really made him a little haggard.

"Neither Germany nor China responded to our kindness, and the Americans proposed a peace plan." Litvinov continued: "The Americans demanded that we cede Eastern Siberia and eastern Central Asia to China, Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Transcaucasia to Germany, and withdraw from Persia, Turkey, and Finland. In addition, the Americans also demanded that we bear a huge amount of reparations, a total of 100 billion dollars to Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Finland, Romania, Turkey, Sweden, the Arab Empire and other countries! It is estimated that it will have to pay more than $130 billion in compensation for all the foreign debts of the Tsarist authorities before the revolution, as well as for the property losses caused by the revolution to the countries that have invested in Russia! Moreover, before all the reparations can be paid, the finances of the Soviet Union must be subject to the joint supervision of the United States, Germany, and China, and Germany, which also have the right to station troops in Leningrad......"

Hearing this series of humiliating conditions, Trotsky could not help but sigh. It's not that the conditions are too harsh, but because the United States is the only one who has put forward the conditions for peace talks!

"Comrade Trotsky, we cannot accept these conditions!" Tukhachevsky took over the words: "If we accept such humiliating conditions. All the citizens of the USSR will abandon us, and we will become sinners of the Russian nation! ”

"No, of course I won't!" Trotsky waved his hand: "Comrade Vatsettis, how is the work of the uranium refining committee going?" When will we be able to build a nuclear fission bomb? 6 months, or 12 months? ”

"Comrade Chairman, this is impossible!" Vasetis took a deep breath: "Making a nuclear fission bomb is not something that can be solved by a few scientists doing a few things in a real room, this project involves hundreds of industrial categories. It requires the mobilization of unimaginable manpower and material resources, and even the world's leading industrial power, such as the United States, has not yet broken through all the technological difficulties. How much more about us......"

Before he could finish speaking, Trotsky suddenly stretched out his hand and interrupted: "I don't need to listen to this, Comrade Vatsettis, may I tell you how long it will take for the Soviet Union to make a nuclear fission bomb?" ”

Vatsetis and Tukhachevsky looked at each other. Shaking his head: "Comrade Chairman." With all due respect, although we have now obtained a complete set of production drawings for the gas diffuser that is the key equipment for separating uranium-235 isotopes, our industrial technology alone cannot produce a few key components for the manufacture of the gas diffuser in a short period of time. Although Soviet scientists have come up with another method of separating uranium-235 isotopes - the electromagnetic method, which requires the production of equipment that is not difficult and can be handled by Soviet industrial technology, the electromagnetic method of separating uranium-235 requires too much electricity......"

"If we separate uranium-235 by electromagnetic method, there will be no way to maintain normal military-industrial production, so that the Red Army at the front will quickly fail due to lack of weapons and equipment." Tukhachevsky said emphatically: "Germany and China are likely to launch a full-scale attack on the USSR this spring!" ”

"We need a lot of weapons and equipment and more Red Army to defend against ...... from both the eastern and western theaters," Vasseitis added.

"Wait." Trotsky suddenly interrupted Vatzedis. Word by word: "Sue me if the Chinese and Germans use nuclear fission bombs to attack the Soviet Union." How do we cope? ”

How was the Soviet Union going to deal with an enemy who used nuclear fission bombs to wash the ground?

This sentence immediately made Tukhachevsky and Vatsettis speechless, although they didn't know what this nuclear fission bomb was, but it sounded very powerful! Otherwise, imperialism would not have spent so much money to concentrate so many scientists on research, right?

In the past few years, imperialism without nuclear fission bombs has beaten the USSR to the point where it is difficult to resist, and now that they have made this super bomb, what should the USSR do?

Seeing that both Tukhachevsky and Vatsettis were silent, Trotsky snorted coldly and said in a gloomy tone: "No matter how powerful the nuclear fission bomb is, it is impossible to defeat the Soviet people, the great Soviet GCD and the Red Army!" There is no doubt about this, the Soviet Union was not afraid of nuclear fission bombs, this was just a more powerful weapon, and the Soviet military and civilians could defeat any invader, no matter what kind of weapon they used! And...... The USSR must also have nuclear fission bombs, at any cost! Comrade Krestinsky, Comrade Vatsettis, I will go to the People's Commissariat of People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry, the People's Commissariat of Labor and Defense, from now on, devote all our energy to the study of nuclear fission bombs, and the first nuclear fission bomb in the USSR must be made within 12 months! Questions? ”

"No problem."

"There's a problem."

It was Vatsettis who said that there was no problem, and it was Krestinsky, the chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, who considered the problematic.

"Comrade Trotsky......" said Krestinsky, frowning: "According to the decision of the last meeting of the Political Bureau, we need to gradually withdraw from Leningrad, Moscow, Trotskygrad, Kharkov, Donetsk, Volgograd and other important industrial cities in the west from now on. This will severely affect our industrial production for a certain period of time, and it will take at least a year to rebuild all the factories in the Urals. ”

"Cancel this decision!" Trotsky waved his hand: "Now it looks like this decision is out of place, if we can't make a nuclear fission bomb in a year." The USSR may well perish! ”

"Comrade President, we have no choice!" Krestinsky gritted his teeth: "If the nuclear fission bomb really has the intelligence services to say so powerfully, the enemy is very likely to use it to attack our large cities and industrial centers!" And even if they don't use nuclear fission bombs. It is also possible to destroy our cities with ordinary bombs and air strikes, and at the same time kill thousands of Soviet people......"

"Don't think so much, Comrade Krestinsky!" Trotsky sharply interrupted: "The Soviet people are not afraid of sacrifice, and they would rather sacrifice than become slaves!" One thing is obvious, not a single Soviet person wants to live in a world without the USSR, without the Soviet GCD! None of the Soviets wanted to be Germans, Chinese, or Americans. For them, the USSR and the USSR GCD were just one qiē, without the USSR. They would rather die! Therefore, except for the party, government, and military leading organs in major cities to evacuate to the suburbs, all evacuation operations will be cancelled! ”

……

At this moment. China, in the great desert of the southern Xinjiang province. A convoy of cars is speeding down a road that crosses the middle of the desert. On this group of cars, the flag of the marshal of the Chinese National Defense Forces, which only Chang Ruiqing has, fluttered, and a huge golden five-pointed star waved in the wind. Probably no one would have thought that Chang Ruiqing, the premier of the Great China Federation, would be in full swing when the war for the unification of Greater East Asia was in full swing. Leave your capital city of Nanjing. Traveled thousands of miles to this desolate Taklamakan Desert, right?

The fact that he came to southern Xinjiang was indeed confidential and did not alarm anyone. Even Chen Y, the governor of Southern Xinjiang Province, and Liu Wenhui, the commander of the Southern Xinjiang Security Command, did not know about his arrival, and the two of them did not know that on the land of this remote western province they managed, there was a large military base codenamed "Tianhuo Base", and this base was the destination of Chang Ruiqing's trip.

Outside the car window, a large military base surrounded by high barbed wire has appeared at the end of the road. This is the "Tianhuo Base," one of the most secret bases directly under the management of the Ministry of Armaments of the Wehrmacht, and a secret test base set up on Chinese territory by the U Engineering Committee, a joint venture between China, Britain and Germany. The effect, of course, was used to test the atomic bomb.

The last stretch of road leading to the base was heavily guarded, and stood straight on both sides of the road and dressed in their most formal military uniforms. Sentinel wearing a white steel helmet of the Wehrmacht gendarmerie. Every time the convoy passed a sentry post, the sentries stood up straight and saluted, and refused to let go of the car for a long time. Even if he just glanced past them, Chang Ruiqing could clearly see the excited expressions on the faces of those soldiers, as well as the look of adoration revealed in their eyes. Although the Federation of Great China practices the evil path of democratic constitutionalism, the good idea of personality cult still exists among some people, especially among the soldiers of the National Defense Forces, and Chang Ruiqing is a god on the high. Today, they are actually visiting this Tianhuo base, which is so remote that it can no longer be remote, how can they not make these gendarmes who have been here for two or three years, who are not allowed to leave or contact their families, feel very excited? It seems that their work is still very important, otherwise how could His Excellency the Prime Minister come to this Tianhuo base where birds don't?

Chang Ruiqing leaned on the back of the car seat with a smile on his face, and said to Jiang Baili beside him with a smile: "The guards of the Tianhuo base seem to have high morale...... Do they know what they're taught? ”

Jiang Baili's spirit also looked very good, and he smiled and said, "Of course they don't know, in fact, including Major General Du Yuxin, the commander of the Tianhuo Base, all the base guards and base builders don't know the purpose of the Tianhuo Base. ”

"What? Even the commander of the base doesn't know? Lieutenant General Shi Jianfei, Chief of Air Force Operations, who was sitting in the co-pilot seat in front, turned his head to look at Chang Ruiqing, showing an interested expression.

Chang Ruiqing said with a smile: "If nothing else, after noon tomorrow, the officers and soldiers of the entire base will know what an important task they are engaged in." He glanced at Shi Jianfei and said with a slight smile: "This base is a weapons test base for the U Engineering Committee. ”

"U Engineering Committee? Prime Minister, what do you mean...... Is that thing finally going to work? Shi Jianfei's eyes rolled, and he immediately remembered the mission of the U Engineering Committee. As the chief of operations of the Air Force, he is naturally qualified to have access to the secrets of the U Engineering Committee, and he also knows what kind of secret weapons this U Engineering Committee is researching. After the atomic bomb is built, the long-range heavy bombers of the Air Force need to be lost, so the need to drop the atomic bomb has been taken into account in the process of developing the H-7.

Other than that. There is also a heavier strategic long-range bomber being developed, which of course can also carry atomic bombs. By the way, the current Great China Federal Defense Forces do not yet have plans to set up special arms and services such as the "Second Artillery," the "Strategic Rocket Force," and the "Strategic Air Force," which are dedicated to nuclear strikes. So China's atomic weapons will be managed by the Air Force for some time.

"Prime Minister, will this thing be used in the War for the Unification of Greater East Asia?" Shi Jianfei was recalled to Nanjing by Chang Ruiqing from the former enemy headquarters of the Air Force in Busan, and then came to the Tianhuo base together, so naturally he was quite ready to bomb Japan with an atomic bomb at the first time. Although the Japanese Red Army has now reached the point of defeat, the great leader of the Japanese Army, Takeda Heng, is still clamoring to defend Tokyo to the death, to fight to the end, and to break 100 million pieces of jade. Maybe drop a few atomic bombs and the world will be peaceful.

Chang Ruiqing smiled slightly, noncommittal. He really didn't think about the question of whether or not to use the atomic bomb on the Japanese people. It's not that I'm soft-hearted. Rather, he already regarded the Japanese archipelago as part of the sacred territory of the future Great China Federation, and it didn't seem very suitable for random bombing with atomic bombs, right? Besides, the young and middle-aged men in Japan are either in the Red Army or have died in battle, and their cities are full of old and weak women and children, and it is a bit wasteful to bomb them with atomic bombs.

And tomorrow morning, a 20,000-ton atomic bomb will be placed on a 30-meter-high steel frame and detonated. As for the larger bomber that could be used to deliver the atomic bomb, it has not yet been developed. Of course, there is nothing wrong with using a modified H-7 to make do. Anyway, it is less than 1,000 kilometers from the Vladivostok base to Tokyo, and the H-7 can carry 6 tons of heavy bombs at this distance. The atomic bomb codenamed "Little Thor", which will be realized tomorrow, weighs no more than 3 tons, and its body is also slender, so as long as the bomb bay and fuselage of the H-7 are slightly modified, it can be used to drop the atomic bomb.

Jiang Baili on the side saw that Chang Ruiqing didn't answer, so he smiled and changed the topic: "Even if the Japanese don't suffer this thing, the Soviets will also suffer!" Chancellor, will the Germans fight on the Western Front? ”

Chang Ruiqing smiled and said, "I didn't say that I wouldn't use it against the Japanese." To put it bluntly, this thing is a weapon, and of course the weapon is to be used on the battlefield. But what battlefield it should be used for needs to be carefully considered...... It's a valuable thing. And we don't have much stock on hand. ”

At this, his brow furrowed slightly. The general head of this engineering committee was the great German scientist Albert Brown. Albert Einstein and the great British scientist Rutherford, the leading scientists and researchers, also came from Europe, and most of the real bases were also located on the territory of the Germans and the British. Of course, there are still nuclear reactors and isotope separation plants and plutonium-239 production reactors on Chinese territory, and Chinese scientists are involved in all the real numbers and processes. But Chinese scientists are only involved rather than led, so Chang Ruiqing has little to do to influence the direction of the U Engineering Committee's research. For example, both Einstein and Rutherford believed that plutonium-239 had better nuclear fission properties than uranium-235, so they made plutonium bombs their main research direction and shelved uranium bombs.

Although uranium and plutonium shells are both imperialist weapons of killing, the development of the latter is significantly slower than that of the former, because the extraction of plutonium-239 requires the use of fuel-grade enriched uranium with an abundance of 3%, the construction of a production reactor for the combustion and irradiation of fuel-grade uranium-235 to produce plutonium-239, and the subsequent separation of plutonium-239 from unburned uranium and other fission products through complex extraction and separation processes. Because of the large number of new processes and technologies involved, the development of the atomic bomb was extended by at least one and a half years.

Moreover, he vaguely guessed in his heart that the choice of plutonium bombs, which had a more complex technology and a longer development time, might be the will of the German top brass -- they did not want China, which was the first to insist on a large isotope separation plant and had a certain reserve of high-abundance uranium-235, to have a few or even a dozen powerful nuclear fission bombs before them...... If China insists on interfering in the research direction of the U Engineering Committee or withdrawing from the U Engineering Committee and going it alone, it is very likely that Sino-German relations will deteriorate sharply. And relying on China's own scientific research strength, even if it takes the uranium bomb route, it may not be much faster, so Chang Ruiqing wisely chose to remain silent about this.

After the convoy entered the "Tianhuo Base," it drove inside for about 15 minutes, passing through more than a dozen checkpoints along the way, and also encountered two mobile patrols, and the vigilance was at its strictest. The convoy stopped in front of a row of two-story brick and wood buildings, and saw Major General Du Yuxin, a graduate of the third phase of the Central Military Academy, and Li Fuji, director of the Chinese Institute of Physics, standing side by side. Waiting for Chang Ruiqing's arrival. (To be continued......)