Li Xiaofeng really doesn't plan to do anything in Greece in the near future, it's not that he doesn't want to, but the strength really doesn't allow it, although the current Soviet Union has carried out extensive mobilization, but the pressure brought by the Germans is still very great, and before defeating Germany, it is impossible for ****** to put the precious reserve forces in other directions.

For example, the short-term deployment of three group armies in Turkey this time is the product of patchwork together, and the combat effectiveness of these newly formed group armies is very good, even if their names on the surface are old group armies that have been tested by the Great Patriotic War, but ****** and the Military Commission know that this is a cover-up. Moreover, these three armies could not be deployed on the Turkish front for long, and they had to return to the front line against Germany by the end of 1943 at the latest. Now they are deployed in Turkey only for strategic deterrence and for the training of new recruits.

However, this is enough for Li Xiaofeng, anyway, he doesn't plan to really do it in Turkey, he just wants to attract the attention of Britain and the United States to Turkey, so that they can forget about Greece for a while. This is also the legendary Dafa of diverting attention.

It should be said that Li Xiaofeng's method has achieved results, Britain and the United States are really staring at Turkey, constantly mediating, and they would never have imagined that when they were running around to solve the crisis, the tentacles of the KGB had penetrated deep into Crete, and with the help of the local Orthodox Church, a militia was quietly growing.

Leave aside the Balkans and the Middle East for the time being, there is no new chess to move there, return to the battlefield of the Great Patriotic War, let's see the situation on the battlefield.

The Baltic front of the Northern Front was still in a state of stalemate, and Army Group North and East Prussia and the Soviet Red Army were still staring at each other, and no one could help anyone anyway. It is estimated that this stalemate will continue for a long time until the decisive battle on the southern front is decided.

On the Belorussian front of the Central Front, Army Group Center did not have an easy time, with the rout of the strategic offensive. The front was sharply retracted, and the German troops on the Minsk front in the north were forced to abandon the attack on Minsk and go on the defensive. And the southern front has retreated from the Gomel line to Mikashevich.

Army Group Center was not only forced to go on the defensive, but more importantly, its vital forces were dealt a heavy blow, and a large number of armored units were wiped out, resulting in Army Group Center almost becoming a pure infantry army.

And what's even more terrifying is the trade-off. The Red Army, however, was growing rapidly. At this time, the Red Army on the territory of Belarus had three fronts, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Belorussian Fronts, under the commanders of Triandafilov, Rokossovsky and Chernyakhovsky, respectively.

The strength of these three fronts was strong and weak, and the strongest were the 1st and 2nd Belorussian Fronts, both of which had the strength of five armies and were supported by strong front-line aviation. As for Chernyakhovsky's Third Belorussian Front, which had only three army groups, most of them were newly formed.

Among them, the 1st Belorussian Front was responsible for launching an attack from the Minsk front. And Rokossovsky's 2nd Belorussian Front, which was in charge of the southern front, presented a pincer offensive, preparing to advance towards Poland from two directions.

One more thing, the commander-in-chief in charge of the Belarusian battlefield is Trian Dafilov, who has to personally command the First Belorussian Front to fight, and at the same time take into account the overall situation of Belarus, the task is quite heavy, in order to reduce the burden on Trian Dafilov. The military commission assigned him a deputy, Sokolovsky.

The situation was even worse for the Germans in Ukraine, although the great retreat of Manstein pulled quite a few German troops out of the encirclement. But they were generally demoralized and poorly equipped, there were fewer tanks than Army Group Center, and a considerable number of artillery pieces were abandoned. What's even more terrifying is that Army Group South's front is still quite long, and it has to be responsible for the front-line battles in Ukraine, Romania and even Yugoslavia, which can simply kill Bock.

Anyway, this veteran can only desperately plug the holes and try to build more pillboxes and fortifications on the defensive line. to compensate for the lack of weapons and personnel. On the opposite side of Bock were the five fronts of the Red Army - the 1st Ukrainian Front, the 2nd Ukrainian Front, the 3rd Ukrainian Front, the 1st Romanian Front and the 1st Bulgarian Front.

The commander of the 1st Ukrainian Front was Zhukov, and after his old superior, Timoshenko, took over Shaposhnikov as commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian direction, he became the commander of the Front, which had five fully manned armies.

The commander of the 2nd Ukrainian Front is Tolbukhin. He had performed well before, and was recognized by the Military Commission, and he was responsible for commanding four army groups to cooperate with Zhukov in the battle. The main goal was to recover Ukraine and wait for an opportunity to instigate the advance of Vasilevsky's Third Ukrainian Front in the direction of Bessarabia, Romania.

The commander of the 1st Romanian Front was Konev, and his Front, like Vasilevsky, had only three army groups, but his task was not light, and the enemy in the Romanian and Yugoslav directions was his target. Of course, Vasilevsky would give him some support, and the Romanian Second Front would also fight with them.

There may be comrades who want to say that Lao Ma, you are talking nonsense, there is obviously no Romanian Second Front Army in front, where did this come from? Well, let's put it this way, this Romanian Second Front Army is actually the Romanian army after Romania's defection, it is said to be a front army, and the actual strength can only be regarded as a group army, but it was given the name of a front army in order to take care of the face of the Romanians.

Further south was the 1st Bulgarian Front, which was very weak, with only two army groups, and its commander was Biryutsov. Don't look at the smaller number of troops than Ryuzov, but the pressure is the greatest, because the area where his front is located is too sensitive. Moreover, Bryuzov's task was not at all light, and according to the secret order given to him by the Military Commission, all his actions were completely under the direct command of Li Xiaofeng, and after the liberation of Bulgaria, he should actively make preparations for the continued liberation of Albania and Greece.

The situation on the battlefield was presumably like this, according to the plan of the Military Commission, after September 1943, a full-scale counterattack was to be launched, which would completely crush the German front on the Belarusian and Ukrainian fronts. In the first half of 1944, all of Poland and most of Romania, Hungary and Yugoslavia were recovered, and in the second half of 1944 the final stage of the offensive was to enter the final stage of the attack, breaking through Germany and Austria in one fell swoop.

Li Xiaofeng was not very interested in these arrangements, because now that Ubolevich was in charge of the General Staff, he did not need to quarrel with Tukhachevsky as he did before, and always waste his energy on some unnecessary problems. This allows him to focus on doing something he wants to do. For example, the trouble with the British in the previous paragraph was unthinkable in 1942, when he really did not dare to leave Moscow, for fear that Tukhachevsky would die on his back as soon as he left.

A certain immortal who has been liberated from the "cage" can focus his energy on some more important issues, such as the Soviet Union's 235 Project. Of course, comrades already know that this project is actually the Manhattan Project of the Soviet Union. The KGB's investment in this project was quite large, and more than 65% of the annual funds were thrown into the project, which began in 1939 and finally achieved a breakthrough in the second half of 1943.

The so-called breakthrough progress certainly does not refer to the theoretical aspect. The theory of the atomic bomb is not complicated at all, but the difficulties are actually material, such as enrichment U, high-performance ********, and reliable ignition devices. If these three are solved, you can also save nuclear bombs at home.

Of course, these three articles are not particularly difficult for a superpower like the Soviet Union, as long as there are sufficient funds and enough manpower, it can be piled up in time. For example, in the past year or so, the main energy of the Soviet Union has actually been to concentrate U.

U235 in the natural environment is extremely rare. It must be enriched by artificial means, often from hundreds or thousands of tons of U ore to extract a few kilograms of weapons-grade concentrated U. As for the process of concentration, it is nothing more than the difference between using the gas diffusion method or the gas centrifugation method. The difficulty of the gas diffusion method lies in the membrane that only allows certain molecules to pass through (and the power generation requirements are high). The gas centrifugation depends on the number of centrifuges.

From a global perspective, the US imperialists took the route of the gas diffusion method, and the Soviet Union was better at the centrifugal method, not because the US imperialists were more advanced in their methods, but because the US imperialists first mastered the gas diffusion method, and invested heavily in this purpose. It is really impossible to discard and transfer to gas centrifugation, so it has been used all the time.

If you ask Li Xiaofeng what method he uses, it is naturally in line with the traditional gas centrifugation method of the Soviet Union, isn't it just tens of thousands of centrifuges, it's done!

After more than a year of operation. At the end of July 1943, the Soviet Union finally obtained weapons-grade enrichment U, capable of producing the first atomic bomb. What remains******** what reliable ignition devices are not a problem at all in the USSR during the war, the Great Patriotic War greatly contributed to the development of the Soviet arms industry, and the only question is whether the will of the state supports it.

"You decided to conduct the first test on September 10, 1943? Won't it be too rushed? ”

In response to Li Xiaofeng's questioning, the experts unanimously claimed: "There is no problem at all, all the preparations will actually be in place in July, and we have postponed it by a month in order to be more prepared." ”

Li Xiaofeng shrugged his shoulders and said, "Since that's the case, then I have no opinion!" ”

With the stroke of Li Xiaofeng's pen, the nuclear test site on Novaya Zemlya immediately entered a tense state, and the Northern Fleet began to carry out intensive patrols in the Barents Sea to disperse all suspicious ships, while the Red Air Force conducted reconnaissance and patrols around the test site 24 hours a day to ensure that the test was completely secret and undisturbed.

Just when the test entered the final state of preparation, Li Xiaofeng was not idle, he estimated that the atomic bomb was not a big problem for the Soviet Union, but the atomic bomb was not satisfactory in terms of power or size, and the real test for the Soviet Union was a thermonuclear weapon, that is, a hydrogen bomb.

There is a super big step between the atomic bomb and the hydrogen bomb, so to speak, learning to make an atomic bomb is equivalent to the level of a junior high school student, and the hydrogen bomb is a real university level. Letting junior high school students go to university is naturally super difficult.

Judging from later history, 99% of the countries in the world, most of the countries or regions with some strength, are at most at the level of the atomic bomb, such as India, Pakistan, or later Cao County.

The difficulty of the hydrogen bomb lies in its configuration, yes, not in principle but in configuration. Because students who have taken junior high school physics classes can understand the operation principle of thermonuclear weapons, they will say that it is to use the high temperature and high pressure produced by the detonation of an atomic bomb to ignite deuterium or tritium, isn't it nuclear fusion, what's so difficult?

But in reality, it is very difficult, because the above theory is only an ideal assumption, and the first hydrogen bomb tests of mankind soon discovered that the use of the atomic bomb as a trigger has unavoidable problems. Because the atomic bomb that had just exploded quickly blew deuterium and tritium away, only a small amount of deuterium and tritium reacted, and most of the deuterium and tritium were wasted.

This is the problem of Land Rover, how to ensure that deuterium and tritium participate in the subsequent fusion reaction, bothering scientists. It was the Americans who first solved this problem, which later became known as the Taylor-Ulam configuration, and then it is said that the Soviet Union stole this configuration and made the Soviet Zeldovich-Sakharov configuration, and then the Yumin configuration of the Harmonious State.

What exactly are these configurations like? It is the top secret of the big hooligans, and 99.999% of the people in the world only hear it and don't see it. However, it is likely that the cause of the radiation implosion was used.

Anyway, before the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb was ready to be tested, Li Xiaofeng made a big stroke of a pen to compare the new nuclear weapons research plan -- that is, the hydrogen bomb research plan, and in order to cut corners, he even bought the classic hydrogen bomb configuration principle directly from the cornucopia and sent it to the research department in the name of anonymous notes.

Some comrades said, you are cheating! That's right. Li Xiaofeng is cheating, and there is only one reason why he cheats -- it's too unpleasant to bomb a little devil with an atomic bomb. Or is the hydrogen bomb more powerful, of course, it would be better if the relevant experts of the Soviet Union were powerful enough to make a neutron bomb, kill all the little devils and drag their property home, this is a kind of enjoyment!

Li Xiaofeng can't wait, anyway, after the atomic bomb, the Soviet Union's nuclear project has already laid the foundation. The hydrogen bomb is nothing more than a matter of how many brain cells are consumed and the calculation of computers.

This level is actually window paper, and it is naturally best to be able to pierce it independently, and it is not a big problem to pierce it if you can't click it. Because this is a theoretical thing, it has little to do with the industrial base and industrial capacity, and it is enough to do a cheat.

Time flies. In the blink of an eye, it was September 10, 1943. At 10 o'clock in the morning of this day, with Li Xiaofeng's order, the countdown to the first Soviet nuclear test officially began......

“10…… 7…… 5…… 3…… 1…… 0！ ”

After a brief silence, a loud bang made the entire island of Novaya Zemlya tremble, and a bright fireball burst out from the surface, sending a mountain of waves of air in all directions.

The explosion was noticed thousands of miles away in Greenland, where seismographs recorded an earthquake of around five magnitudes. However, the researchers did not take it to heart, because this level of shaking was really nothing, and the earthquake also came from the Soviet Union, so it had nothing to do with them.

In fact, there are many countries that have monitored this earthquake, but none of them have paid attention to it, completely unaware that a force capable of destroying the world has been unleashed for the first time.

Of course, the Soviets who learned the truth would not have been so calm, and after monitoring data proved that it was a successful nuclear explosion, Li Xiaofeng personally dialed the Kremlin's telephone line.

"Comrade Trotsky, I have good news for you. At 10 o'clock this morning, the first Soviet nuclear test was a complete success, and various monitoring data proved that it was a successful nuclear explosion, with a power of more than 20,000 tons! ”

Trotsky on the other end of the telephone line was also quite excited, and the 235 Project had been like a bottomless pit that could not be filled, and the funds for this plan were enough to arm the five fronts or build 100,000 warplanes. And now the plan has finally paid off!

"Very good, comrades have worked hard, please bring sincere greetings to all the comrades who are fighting on the front line on behalf of ************ all comrades, encourage them to make persistent efforts and make new contributions, and when they return to Moscow, I will personally award medals to all meritorious heroes!"

Trotsky was in a good mood when he hung up the red telephone, but immediately he frowned again, for he had just been so happy that he had not paid much attention to the power of the explosion that Li Xiaofeng had said.

"Two thousand tons, right?" While Trotsky picked up the telephone again and asked the operator to pick it up again, he guessed in his heart that he thought that 2,000 tons was an exaggeration, and as for 20,000 tons, he could not even think of it.

"Comrade Andrey, you can guarantee that it is indeed more than 20,000 tons, not 2,000 tons!"

Trotsky's throat trembled as he said this, this statistic is too staggering, what kind of power is the explosion of 20,000 tons of explosives? He couldn't imagine it!

Trotsky spent the next two days in an inexplicable state of agitation, especially on the third day, when the video was airlifted to the Kremlin and saw the power of the atomic bomb with his own eyes, the second mentor bounced up from his chair like a child and danced in a tone of exuberance peculiar to a mentally ill person: "Comrades, from this day onwards we have the ultimate power in the world, and we can at last proudly declare that the national security of the Soviet Union has been guaranteed." No more forces will dare to threaten us with force! (To be continued.) )

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