Since the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, the differences between Li Xiaofeng and Sverdlov have become more and more wide, and after entering September, they have become even more contradictory.

Sverdlov and Trotsky thought that it was possible to fight a defensive battle on the Brest front, keeping the Germans out of Belarus. Li Xiaofeng, however, believed that he could not be defeated, and advocated continuing to retreat in great strides and retreating to the Minsk-Kiev line.

Sverdlov and Trotsky advocated an immediate alliance with Britain and the United States, or at least with Britain, for an anti-fascist coalition. However, Li Xiaofeng believed that this alliance would not benefit the Soviet Union at all, that the British were half-dead in the British Isles, and that North Africa had been completely destroyed by Rommel, and that they would have to look for relief from the United States with a dead face.

What are the benefits of an alliance with Britain at this time? If you don't get it right, there is no benefit, and you have to give the British a batch of heavy equipment for nothing, who made us allies?

On the contrary, Li Xiaofeng believes that the current state is very good, the enemy is to the enemy, the friend is the friend, or the brother is the settler, and no one should take advantage of anyone.

Not only are there many differences between the two sides on military and diplomatic issues, but also on the issue of military production, the contradictions between the two sides are also quite prominent. After the start of the war, Sverdlov sent Ruzutak to do Li Xiaofeng's work more than once, hoping that someone would do the work of NORINCO, so that NORINCO would share the technology of the T-35, T-54 and Sikorsky helicopters with the Soviet military industrial enterprises for free, and it was best to work for the Soviet Union for free.

This proposal was categorically rejected by Li Xiaofeng, there was no such method, NORINCO was not a Soviet enterprise, and before that, NORINCO did not get a dime of benefits from the Soviet Union. Why give you technology and products for nothing. Just because your face is big?

Not to mention. After the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, NORINCO still gave the Soviet government considerable preferential conditions, significantly reduced the prices of major weapons and equipment, and gave flexibility in the way of settlement, which is interesting enough. Feelings, you think that North Industry is easy to bully, this is ready to fight local tyrants and divide the land.

On the issue of North Industries, the two sides had a very unpleasant quarrel and broke up unhappily. And then on some advanced weapons research and development projects. The two sides are also at loggerheads. For example, Sverdlov thinks that the ongoing research and development project of the jet engine of Klimov and the Ilyushin Design Bureau can be temporarily suspended, and anyway, this seemingly particularly advanced engine will not be useful for a while and a half, so why waste precious military spending?

Not only the jet engine project, but also the related test bench construction project, Xiao Si was also dismounted, and he was also very dissatisfied with the 92-94 project within the KGB, believing that this project had swallowed up unimaginable funds and resources, but the results that could be seen were few and should be terminated.

What is Project 92-94? To put it bluntly, the Soviet atomic bomb project secretly led by the KGB, the project code name is taken from the atomic number of uranium and plutonium. The project was officially launched in 1936 and in the first few years swept away Soviet experts in atomic energy.

In order to maintain the normal operation of the project. It eats up nearly 60% of KGB's funding every year. Let's put it this way, if the project is suspended. Military spending in the USSR would have been much more relaxed.

It was not until 1941 that the project made a substantial breakthrough with the establishment of a graphite-moderated reactor with a solid nature, and initially realized a controlled chain reaction. Of course, there are still many problems to be faced, and it will take at least two to three years before the atomic bomb can be truly made.

Now, however, the shape of the war is quite bad, and the 92-94 project, which devoured a lot of resources, is like a bottomless pit, which makes Sverdlov a little unacceptable, and he began to wonder if the atomic bomb project should be just a big picture that can be seen but not eaten.

"I resolutely oppose the suspension of the 92-94 project, for this project we have already made five years of efforts, and we have also made initial progress.

Li Xiaofeng said in a very incendiary tone: "The atomic bomb will be a weapon of destruction, and if we can have this weapon this year, then we will be able to end the war this year." Whoever masters this weapon will first master the ability to destroy the miè world. According to the KGB's reconnaissance, Germany and the United States are conducting and will soon conduct relevant research, and all countries aspiring to win this war attach great importance to similar research. ”

Speaking of this, Li Xiaofeng suddenly raised his voice: "Let's put it this way, in the future, if there are no atomic bombs, we will not be able to speak up in the international community!" In order to avoid being blackmailed by imperialism, we must do our best, or rather, we must first develop this weapon! ”

Seeing that the Politburo was not particularly concerned about this, Li Xiaofeng raised his voice again: "As the person in charge of the 92-94 Project, I can assure the Politburo very responsibly that the atomic bomb will definitely be able to be built, and it will certainly be able to play a role in defending the broadest interests of the Soviet Union and the world proletariat. Three years, I only need three years, and after three years, there will be no atomic bomb, kill my head, cut off my head! ”

Trotsky and Sverdlov both looked at a certain immortal in amazement, this is a military order, if the atomic bomb is not made, although it will not really cut off someone's head, but someone's political life will definitely be ended.

Trotsky asked, puzzled: "Is the atomic bomb really so useful?" ”

Li Xiaofeng nodded heavily, and said with great certainty: "Yes, and the role is greater than what I described, with the atomic bomb and the mastery of nuclear technology, this means the right to speak in the world!" ”

Trotsky pondered for a moment, then said: "I don't think Comrade Andrei will joke about this, although I don't know and don't quite understand what the atomic bomb is, but I have no objection to the Soviet Union getting some of this weapon!" ”

This is the difference between Trotsky and Sverdlov, sometimes he seems too realistic, too calculating, lacking the ability to imagine and foresee the macroscopic. This is also a common problem of cadres like him who are the best at solving practical problems, who are more like doers than mentors.

Trotsky, on the other hand, possessed considerable ability and means to solve practical problems. At the same time, there is no shortage of relevant imagination. This leads to some issues that involve directionality. He saw farther than Sverdlov. To be honest, in terms of ability, Xiao Si is not as good as Stalin, and steel may be a little stronger than him.

Trotsky expressed his support, and Li Xiaofeng was willing to take responsibility for the military writ, and the 92-94 project was retained in a thrilling way. Of course, not all projects were as lucky as the 92-94 project, for example, the Navy's aircraft carrier project (Type 41 aircraft carrier project) was frozen. In addition to the continuation of the construction of the two Type 39 aircraft carriers, which have already started construction, the Type 41 aircraft carrier, which has completed the drawings and laid the keel, has been canceled.

At the same time, the Navy's Type 40 heavy cruiser project was also canceled, as an improved version of the Type 35 heavy cruiser, the Type 40 heavy cruiser, which had begun to take shape on the slipway, was suspended, and the remaining orders were also cancelled.

Along with the Type 40 Heavy Cruiser, the Project 39 Artillery Light Cruiser (an improved version of the Type 36 Light Cruiser) was cancelled, all of which were drastically cut except for two that had already begun to be outfitted.

During the entire war, the Red Navy was the most damaged, and the capital ship project was basically canceled. Destroyers, submarines and frigates were able to continue construction, and the only cruiser that remained was the 7,000-ton Type 40 air defense cruiser. However, the number and speed of construction have also been greatly slowed down.

All the resources and funds saved by the Navy were ceded to the Army, which was even more important to the Soviet Union in this brutal war of attrition.

Relatively speaking, the impact on the Air Force was relatively small, the jet fighter program was retained, among the bombers, the Ye-2 and SB-2 announced the discontinuation of production and the development of improved models, and the development of the Yak-12 (the historical Yak-2/4 series) was also terminated. The Tu-3 and Pei-8 continued to be produced and refined, while a long-range bomber program with a larger bomb load and longer range was launched.

Among the fighters, the only one out of the game is the MiG-1/3 series, which was required to stop production immediately, and as for the fate of its improved model MiG-7, it is undecided for the time being, and it seems that it is more than lucky.

On the whole, however, the losses of the Air Force were not significant, because a theory had already been proven in these months of fighting - it would never work without the Air Force!

Even in order to strengthen the Air Force, the Politburo demanded that military production be tilted towards training planes to a certain extent, and that training planes should be given the same priority as fighter planes and attack planes. This allowed the Yak-7 trainer to catch up with the good time, and Polikarpov also took advantage of this to make a comeback, he designed the Pol-5 trainer aircraft with low cost and superior performance to impress the air force, more than 4,000 were produced in the entire Great Patriotic War, and its improved version and Yak-18 in the post-war long-term Soviet primary flight training mission, training a large number of pilots.

On the part of the Army, it should be said that the top priority, almost no projects were cut, and the priority of the original projects was greatly increased, and the further production of the T-34, as well as the production of the T-54 in the USSR with a production license, was required to start immediately.

In fact, in terms of tanks, the Military Commission basically does not have to worry about it, whether it is the T-34, T-35 or T-54 in the face of German tanks, they all show a great advantage, and there is no need to tear down and start over like the Germans. All the armored department of the Red Army needed to do was tinker with it, and it was necessary to strengthen the original design, which was much less difficult than that of the German designers.

What really gave the Military Commission a headache was the problem of cars and artillery, especially cars, in the previous two counteroffensives, a large number of cars of the Red Army were destroyed by the Luftwaffe, a considerable part of which were specialized military models. And in this respect, the Red Army was relatively weak, and the vast majority of what the automobile industry could produce were civilian models, such as the Guise trucks. The only one that can produce military trucks in large quantities is the Ural Automobile Plant, where Li Xiaofeng introduced Czech technology, but the plant is also responsible for the production of MB-LT36, and the pressure is relatively large.

Trotsky sighed: "For the time being, only a part of the military trucks can be imported from the United States for emergency purposes!" ”

To tell the truth, Trotsky did not feel good about the Yankees, who were quite good at playing fire and robbery, and did not Britain drop a large number of heavy weapons in the Dunkirk retreat before? In order to counter the German landings, Britain was ready to import large quantities of heavy weapons from the United States.

At that time, the Yankees probably thought that the British cousin would not last a few days, so they did not agree to sell the most advanced heavy weapons to the UK, such as the tank for the M3, and the field artillery that was vital to the army was given to Miss 75.

This batch was still the seventy-five lady that the United States had obtained from France in World War I, and it was sold to the British at a high price. At that time, Niu Niu's face was quite ugly. It's just a matter of formality. can only be grudgingly accepted.

Li Xiaofeng is blind to the American cowboy's approach, and he has reservations about whether the United States can sell the cars that the Soviet Union really wants.

The final result did not surprise Li Xiaofeng, the Americans were willing to sell a large number of 2 and a half tons and 3 tons of trucks, while for more than 5 tons of trucks, they said that they could not supply them openly. As for the American half-track trucks that the USSR was most interested in, let's say the M2 and M3, it was completely impossible to sell. The reason was that the American cowboys thought that the Soviet Union was trying to steal their half-track truck technology.

It's a joke. It's not that the Red Army doesn't have half-track vehicles, and it's not that they can't produce them, the only problem is that they don't have enough production capacity. And to tell the truth, the Red Army was not interested in the design of the half-track at all, and wanted these half-track vehicles not to be used as reconnaissance and personnel carriers on the battlefield, but only as artillery towing vehicles.

Why? The main reason is that the Soviet Union has backward infrastructure construction, there are not so many high-grade roads, muddy roads have relatively high requirements for artillery tractors, and ordinary trucks cannot meet the requirements of the Red Army. And to let the Red Army with all self-propelled guns or tow with all-tracked vehicles, it really does not have that ability. In desperation, I had to import a half-track vehicle from the United States for emergency.

Who would have thought that the Yankees would still treat this thing as a treasure, and really treat the Red Army as a bun. For this reason, Ubolevich was crying and laughing. Half-track vehicles could not be introduced, and in the end a batch of agricultural tractors could only be imported in the name of cultivated land, which were used to relieve the embarrassment of the tension of the Red Army's artillery tractors.

However, the most infuriating thing about this is not here, but the more infuriating thing is that the Americans agreed to export trucks and tractors, but demanded cash settlements, and did not accept barter or paper money (including rubles and pounds) and only gold. This made Trotsky and Sverdlov angry, isn't this just a fire robbery!

Don't worry, the more infuriating thing is still to come, and as a partner in the sale of trucks and tractors, the US Congress also generously disposed of a batch of so-called "arms" to the Soviet Union. What munitions? For example, the American version of Miss Seventy-Five and the Mosinagan rifle produced by the United States for Russia during World War I are all World War I garbage anyway, and they are useless to the Soviet Union.

That's it, the Yankees thought that they had done a great good thing, and they almost didn't ask the Soviet Union to be grateful to Dade, as if without this batch of garbage, the defeat of the Soviet Union would be a matter of minutes.

At that time, Trotsky gritted his teeth and paid for this batch of garbage, and then handed it to the Turkish Communist Party, which made the Turkish Communist Party very happy.

Sometimes Li Xiaofeng wonders how the arsenal of the democratic country in history and the great savior of the people of the world, the US imperialism, have become the undisciplined state it is now. Well, it can only be said that at this time and that time, compared with history, the current losses of the Soviet Union are almost negligible, and they are not on the verge of defeat, so naturally the US imperialism will not make great efforts to support the Soviet Union against Germany, on the contrary, why not make a profit for them? It's a blessing and a curse.

Of course, at this time, the Soviet Union would not be able to hold out even without the assistance of the United States, at most it would be a little more troublesome. After this round of major adjustment of the Politburo, the Soviet Union's industry can be regarded as fully entering a wartime state, and countless aircraft, tanks, automobiles and artillery went off the production line at an astonishing speed, quickly filling the previous war losses of the Red Army, and even compared with the main forces of the Red Army before the war, the quality has been greatly improved.

For example, Guderian wrote in his diary: "After entering 1942, the equipment of the Russian army began to change dramatically, and the BT-5 and BT-7, which had appeared frequently, were almost invisible, and a large number of T-34 and T-35 appeared in front of us, which caused unprecedented pressure on our armored forces." Not only tanks, but also the I-15 and I-16, which had previously been used for reconnaissance and ground attacks, disappeared from the sky and were replaced by hordes of La-5, Yak-7 and Il-2. I really can't figure out how the Russians managed to increase the strength of their troops while suffering heavy losses. ”

Of course, Guderian couldn't figure it out, because he didn't expect that Li Xiaofeng had been preparing for this war twenty years ago, although the Soviet Union had taken some detours, but its industrial capacity was still much stronger than in history, and compared with history, the losses suffered in Barbarossa were smaller, so it was natural that it could quickly recover its strength.

The most interesting thing is not the attitude of the Germans, but the attitude of the United States, originally according to the US government's think tank, the Soviet Union will suffer heavy losses in the early stage of the war, and it will be difficult to catch this breath before 1943, so this is the direct recruitment to the Congress, agreeing to give the Soviet Union a certain amount of assistance.

But after entering 1942, although the Red Army was still passive on the battlefield, the German army's several large-scale active attacks were all returned, especially after entering the second half of the year, as more and more Red Army units completed the redress, the overall strength was steadily overpowering the German army, in the second battle of Kiev, fought a beautiful turnaround, in one fell swoop hit the German Army Group South, and began to gradually drive the Axis troops out of Ukraine.

This shattered the Yankees' glasses, and after another urgent assessment, they hastily interrupted the far less aid to the Soviet Union, and once again shamefully created a balance. (To be continued......)

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