On the night of September 20, 1943, Foggy Wind Jevich stared out of the window of the car in a daze, because it was only pitch black, and under strict light control, it was forbidden to turn on the headlights of trains running at night, let alone villages and cities.

On September 19, Kirikazevich was still worried about the logistics of the Second Belorussian Front. As the political commissar in charge of logistics, the clothing, food, housing and transportation of hundreds of thousands of soldiers are his responsibility, and for this work, he does not even have time to harass Ulanova. And just as Operation Pluto was about to begin, a sudden transfer order transferred him away, which made him a little confused.

Misty Wind Jevich glanced at the strange order again, which had two positions, one for the Military Commission and the other for the People's Commissariat. The former conferred on him the rank of lieutenant general and put him at the head of a unit called the Office for the Development of New Weapons, while the latter appointed him as the People's Commissar of the People's Commissar of the People's Commissar of the newly created People's Commissar of the People's Commissar for New Energy.

Anyway, these two positions are inexplicable, and the only thing that can make Wufeng Jevic feel a little relieved is that the People's Commissar is a ministerial-level cadre and belongs to a promotion. As for whether it is rising and falling, it is difficult to say, because there was no news before.

Wufeng Jevic was a little confused about Li Xiaofeng's thoughts, it stands to reason that someone should notify him in advance of this major change, but there is no news at all, and he is not given time to hand over the work at all, he was almost escorted on the train by KGB, and he didn't know that he thought he was going to arrest him!

And this special train is also strange, the first few carriages are good to say, although three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, but in the war years, in order to protect the key big people, it is normal. At least ****** special train of bigwigs at the level of committee members is stricter than this guard standard. For Kirikaze Jevic, enjoying the treatment of the big guy in advance can also satisfy vanity.

What really scared him was the back cars, which on the surface looked like ordinary stuffy tank cars, but who let Kirikaze Jevic serve the big boss of KGB for a long time. Recognized that these carriages were the most classified carriages of the KGB, and were generally used to transport extremely important secret goods - such as gold from the treasury.

However, Kirikazejevich did not think that the carriages were pulling gold, because the carriages escorting gold were generally heavily guarded, while the guards of these carriages were not so strict, and the outside of these carriages were sprayed with black and yellow signs in the three-leaf pattern, and there was a clear warning: radiation hazards were strictly forbidden to approach.

Misty Wind Jevic didn't know what radiation was. But the pitch-black skull told him to get as far away from the carriages as possible, most likely carrying the KGB's top-secret weapons. If such a secret is not ****** let you know, then it is best not to ask around, it is easy to get into trouble.

Just as Kirikaze Jevic was thinking, there was three knocks on the door of his private room, and then a soft female voice asked, "Comrade Kirikazejevich, can I come in?" ”

This voice made Kirikaze Jevic sigh again, it was his secretary Natalia. Poklonskaya, too, was the only person he could take with him when he left the Second Belorussian Front. Of course. Misty Wind Jevich was not interested in taking this beautiful girl away, he knew very well that this was the object that some immortal had arranged for him, but he only had Ulanova in his heart, and if possible, he hoped that this girl would stay away from him.

Of course, this is impossible, because the will of a certain immortal is unshakable. And it's a matter for people in their thirties not to get married, for people who ******. This is especially crucial. After all, the bosses above think that only by starting a family can they start a business, and a man can't even get a wife, and he can do anything big. And this is also the biggest drawback of Kirikazejevic's "career". It's easy to affect the future!

"What's the matter? Natalia. Comrade Poklonskaia? Misty Wind Jevic asked calmly.

"This is a top-secret telegram from Comrade Andrei to you." The little secretary replied tremblingly.

Natalia. Poklonskaya was indeed a little afraid of her boss, and as a very sensitive woman, she was well aware that her boss did not seem to like her, or rejected her. At first, she thought that this job would not last long, and she would soon be driven away by Kirikaze Jevic, but what surprised her. Although the boss's estranged and exclusionary attitude has never changed, her work is as steady as Mount Tai.

This made the little girl very confused, and she wanted to ask someone: "Why don't you get rid of me when you don't like me?" ”

Of course, the little girl didn't have the courage to ask for the time being. After delivering the telegram, she escaped from the private room like a frightened bunny, as if it was not her boss but the big bad wolf in the private room.

Misty Wind Jevic looked at the escaped white rabbit a little speechlessly, which is why he doesn't like Natalia very much. One of the reasons for Poklonskaya is that he prefers the kind of mature strong woman to the timid vase.

Misty Wind Jevic opened the envelope with his hand, and a certain immortal finally uncovered the mystery, and the reason why he was transferred to his post was not because he was dissatisfied with his work and work ability, but because he was entrusted with more important work.

Although Kikikaze Jevic didn't understand the importance of his new job, a certain immortal should not deceive him since he said so. And this also made him a little more relieved, at least he didn't have to worry about this special train going directly to the penal colony in Siberia, or directly into the secret prison of the KGB.

A day later, Kirikazevich and his little secretary got off at a newly built military railway station on the outskirts of Moscow, and he finally saw the goods in the next few carriages for the first time, but to his astonishment, they were all stones - or ore!

Misty Wind Jevic didn't understand, what kind of ore needs to be transported by this special train? Gold mines? Even if it's a gold mine, you don't need to put those horrible signs, right? Is it a trick?

But there was no time for this, and he hurriedly boarded the truck that greeted him, and made a rapid drive along the newly built road, soon arriving at his future office, the building of the People's Commissariat for New Energy under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR.

Years later, Kirikazevich recalled: "When I first arrived at the No. 1 office building, I was disappointed, it was a small brick and wood building from the Tsarist period, with a total of three floors, and my office was at the top, a small room of less than 40 square meters. And my secretary is also my future wife, Natalia. Poklonskaya could only work awkwardly in the hallway. ”

Kirikazevich was a little disappointed, because the other councils of people's commissars were located in Moscow, and he was a full thirty kilometers away from Moscow. He didn't understand why the New Energy Committee was so remote, and was Moscow so crowded that it could accommodate such a small institution?

Of course, all these whinings and complaints disappeared after Kirikaze Jevic learned about the true mission of the new agency. This institution would be in charge of the Soviet atomic energy industry, with millions of employees below.

At that time, the task of Kirikazeevich was to coordinate the overall situation and do all the work of strengthening the Soviet atomic energy industry in accordance with the instructions of the ******. The most basic requirement is to provide sufficient enriched uranium and enriched plutonium as soon as possible. Not only are new nuclear tests waiting for these valuable raw materials, but the four new nuclear reactors that have already been built are also in dire need of nuclear fuel to operate.

Of course, these are not the most important jobs of Kikazejevich, his more important work comes from the Military Commission, the new weapons research and development office is not just an office, it is responsible for the development of nuclear weapons in the Soviet Union, and belongs to the two most important subdepartments, one is the launch vehicle research and development center, and the other is the explosives research and development center.

Let's not mention the Explosives R&D Center. Everyone knows what this center is all about. However, the launch vehicle R&D center is worth mentioning. The launch vehicle developed by this center is actually a nuclear bomb carrier, that is, a missile that later fell into the street.

Among them, the director of the launch vehicle R&D center was the later famous Sergei . Korolev. However, when it comes to Korolev, we have to mention another unit - the Soviet Jet Power Research Institute (RNII).

In fact, the RNII was established as early as 1933, and in that year it invested in an unprecedented research and development project - the development of an automatic winged warhead aircraft.

The name of this project seems to be very tongue-twisting, in fact, it is a research missile (specifically a cruise missile), because there was no such thing as a missile at that time, and all the missile projects had strange names. Similar projects in various countries are basically titled to the concept of winged autonomous aerial vehicles.

The Soviet Jet Power Research Institute was working on this "missile" project at the time. The German V-1 did not yet have a shadow, and the general designer of this project at that time was Ivan . Kremenov. And the deputy chief designer was none other than Korolev.

However, the cooperative relationship between Korolev and Kremenov was quite unsatisfactory, and the two men had many contradictions, and the final result was that Korolev was dismissed from his post and transferred to the director of another department of the Jet Research Institute.

By the end of 1936, the Jet Power Research Institute was assigned to the Defense Industry Commission (formerly part of the Heavy Industry Commission), and its code name became NII-3, which means Third Research Institute. It was also in this year that the Soviet Union's research on liquid rocket engine-powered ballistics and cruise missiles was combined into one, and Korolev took over all of them.

However, this is not a good thing, because the great purge in history soon reached its climax, and the head of NII-3 at that time was Andrei. Kostinov (whose greatest contribution was the Katyusha rocket launcher). And Korolev was the second-in-command, mainly responsible for ballistic and cruise missiles (and thus escaped).

At that time, Korolev's main work was to promote the aforementioned automatic winged warhead project, which is the so-called Type 06 aircraft research project.

This Type 06 aircraft is actually a rocket, using ****** but the whole aircraft does not control the rudder surface. Launched from a 20-metre-long wooden inclined trajectory, the craft flew 100 metres away in a second test conducted on 5 May 1934, but failed in the third attempt. Soon after, Korolev designed the 06/2, 06/3 and 06/4 flying machines.

The 06/3 was later improved into the Type 216 aircraft, with a total weight of 81 kg, and a new flight system was installed. The original 06/1 could only control the horizontal tail, while the 06/3 could also control the ailerons, which are two-axis stabilized pilots.

The 216 vehicle climbed to 600 meters during the experiment, and finally exploded 1.5 kilometers away from the launch position, deviating 1.4 kilometers from its intended course (it can be said to be flying in a random manner). The improved 216 aircraft received the number 212 (God knows how the Soviets numbered it), and the 212 further adopted the three-axis gyro-stabilized flight system (also called GPS-3, which has nothing to do with the current GPS).

According to the Soviet plan at that time, the 212 aircraft was supposed to be able to hit ground targets at a distance of thirty kilometers. Adopted ORM-65 engine. This is Valentine. The engine developed by Grush, weighing about 10 kilograms but with a thrust of up to 150 kilograms, was the most advanced rocket engine in the Soviet Union at that time, using a two-component propellant of kerosene and nitric acid.

However, the choice of this engine was very controversial at the time. The general designer of the Jet Institute preferred the engine of Glushko, but others preferred the Rocket Research Institute by Mikhail Brown. Liquid oxygen propulsion system developed by Tikhora Vov. The biggest trouble of the latter is that liquid oxygen needs to be stored at low temperatures, which is extremely inconvenient to operate, and the liquid oxygen bottle is a time bomb in actual combat.

At that time, Korolev chose to support the choice of the chief designer (that is, the ORM-65), and the supporters of the liquid oxygen engine were all members of the former Moscow counter-propulsion research group (Korolev was also Korolev), and the reason why it should be mentioned is that Korolev's later imprisonment has a lot to do with this choice.

Later, Project 212 continued to be tested, and by 1937, at the height of the Great Purge, the unrest also brought trouble to the tests. First there were all kinds of delays (which was terrible at the time. The top does not like to delay), and then the quality of the engines produced is very poor, which directly leads to the fact that the plan for the production of the 212 aircraft was not implemented. This gave Korolev's opponents an excuse, and soon Korolev and Grushko were transferred from leadership positions, and in 1938 they were imprisoned, and if it were not for Tupolev's help in mediating Korolev, Korolev would have been shot.

The 212 Aircraft Project did not bear fruit due to the interference of the Great Purge, and was officially canceled in 1939. Technically, the 212 is similar to the V-1, and if development continues, the Soviet Union will become the world's first cruise missile.

Of course. This is historically, in this time and space, the results of the 212 aircraft are much better. It was successful in 1941, just before the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War. There may be comrades who want to say, Lao Ma, you said before that the Soviet Union's missile research is not like that, if the 212 is successful, why is it not put into actual combat and use?

The reason is simple, the performance of the 212 aircraft did not meet the needs of the Soviet Red Army. Let's put it this way, the launch weight of this "missile" is 210 kg. The warhead is only 30 kilograms, the maximum range is about 80 kilometers, the actual effective range is about 50 kilometers, and the speed is 380 meters per second.

What can a 30-kilogram warhead do? The power of only a 203-mm gun can only be said to tickle a solid stationary target, and what is even worse is that this "missile" is inertial guidance. Its accuracy is ridiculously poor, and it can only be used to attack targets such as cities. Does this work?

Anyway, there is a long way from the requirements of the Red Army's precision strike, and immediately after the success of the 212 project, it was transferred to the technical reserve, in which Grushko was responsible for the development of rocket engines with greater thrust, and the guidance system has been fully transformed from inertial guidance of mechanical gyroscopes to laser and radar guidance.

Of course, the most important task for Korolev now under Kirikazeevich is to develop a ballistic missile with a maximum range of more than 300 kilometers and capable of carrying a two-ton warhead. This may not seem like a big deal from the perspective of later generations, but it was quite difficult back then.

However, Li Xiaofeng did not act as a shopkeeper, but sent some of the V-2 missile engines to the relevant departments. I believe that with the scientific and technological strength of the Soviet Union, the problem is not particularly big.

It's just that what Li Xiaofeng didn't expect was that at the beginning, Korolev did not plan to build a ballistic missile, but hoped to continue to develop cruise missiles. Because before that, the Soviet Union already had relatively strong technical reserves in this area, and in the last two years, the Soviet Union also obtained some physical V-1 missiles. It is conceivable that when Soviet experts saw the work of their German counterparts, they immediately thought of the previous unsuccessful 212 flying machine, which was too similar except for its size.

More importantly, Soviet experts were quite interested in the impulse engine of the V-1 missile, because the principle of this engine was very simple, and it was almost impossible for the Soviet Union to imitate it, and the only drawback was that the engine did not have enough thrust and was too noisy (the V-1 had the nickname of a buzzing bomb).

In the opinion of experts, the imitation V-1 engine is the easiest and fastest way to quickly revive the previously dismounted 212 aircraft. It's just that what they didn't expect was that this report was rejected as soon as it was sent to Li Xiaofeng's desk.

The reason is simple, the engine thrust of the V-1 is insufficient, even if the USSR is progressing well on the nuclear bomb project, it is foreseeable that the weight of the first practical atomic bomb will not be less than four tons, the Soviet version of the V-1 will not move at all, and the maximum range is still too small (less than 100 km). Moreover, the speed of the V-1 is too slow and easy to intercept, and Li Xiaofeng does not want the nuclear warhead he spent a lot of money to build to be shot down halfway or directly on his own land.

Therefore, Li Xiaofeng gave Wufeng Jevic one of the most important missions at that time, that is, to comprehensively promote the research of ballistic missile projects, temporarily give priority to ballistic missiles, and create ballistic missiles that can carry nuclear warheads and attack London in Poland as soon as possible.

As for cruise missiles, they are temporarily handed over to the Navy and Air Force for development, and they are not prioritized for carrying nuclear warheads and ground strikes, but on anti-ship needs. After all, in the future, the Red Navy will be under a lot of pressure in this regard.

Of course, Li Xiaofeng did not forget to urge Wufeng to solve his personal problems as soon as possible, and quickly took down the little secretary...... (To be continued.) )

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