"Comrade Livinov, how are you doing diplomatic contacts? What are the attitudes of China, the United States and the United States in the three aspects?" Trotsky looked at Livinov, a diplomatic people's committee member, and asked in a low voice.

"The situation is not very good." Livinov, who was sitting next to Klestinsky, the chairman of the People's Committee, became more and more tired. The strong tiredness and bloodshot in his eyes made the Soviet Union's people's committee member in his forties feel a little more haggard. His secret diplomatic contact with China, the United States, and Germany really made him a little physically and mentally exhausted. Everyone knows how difficult it is to seek peace after defeating a war. Not only is it hard to be more pleased afterwards, but he is treated as a scapegoat if he is not careful.

"Both Germany and China did not respond to our kindness, and the Americans proposed a peace plan." Livinov continued: "The Americans asked us to ced the East Siberia and the eastern Central Asia to China, the Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, and the Transcaucasus to Germany, and withdraw from Persia, Turkey and Finland. In addition, the Americans also asked us to bear huge compensation and compensate Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

, China, Finland, Romania, Turkey, Sweden, the Arab Empire and other countries have a total of 100 billion US dollars! They also have to bear all foreign debts from the Tsarist Russian authorities before the revolution, and also have to compensate for property losses caused by the revolution to countries that have investment in Russia. It is estimated that more than 130 billion US dollars will be compensated! Moreover, before paying off all the compensation, the Soviet Union's finances must accept joint supervision from the United States, Germany and China, and China, the three countries of China, the United States and Germany still have the right to station troops in Leningrad..."

Hearing these series of conditions that were to lose power and humiliate the country, Trotsky couldn't help but sigh. It was not because the conditions were too harsh, but because the only one who proposed the terms of peace talks was the United States!

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

"No, of course I won't accept it!" Trotsky waved his hand: "Comrade Vasedith, how is the work of the uranium refining committee going? When can we build a nuclear fission bomb? 6 months or 12 months?"

"Comrade Chairman, this is impossible!" Vatedius took a deep breath: "Making nuclear fission bombs cannot be solved by just a few scientists doing a few experiments in the laboratory. This project involves hundreds of industrial categories. It requires the use of unimaginable manpower and material resources. Even a world's largest industrial power like the United States has not yet broken through all technical difficulties, let alone us..."

Before he could finish his words, Trotsky suddenly reached out and interrupted, "I don't need to listen to this, Comrade Vates, please tell me how long it will take for the Soviet Union to create a nuclear fission bomb?"

Vasedis and Tukhachevsky looked at each other and shook their heads: "Comrade Chairman, please be honest, although we have now obtained a complete set of production drawings for the key equipment for isotopes of uranium-235 - gas diffusers, our industrial technology alone cannot produce several key components for the production of gas diffusers in a short period of time. Although Soviet scientists have come up with another method to separate uranium-235 isotopes - electromagnetic method. The production of equipment required for this method is not difficult, and the Soviet industrial technology can handle it. However, the electricity used to separate uranium-235 by electromagnetic method is too much..."

"If we use electromagnetic separation of uranium-235, there is no way to maintain normal military production, so that the Red Army on the front will quickly fail due to the lack of weapons and equipment." Tukhachevsky said heavily: "Germany and China are likely to launch a full-scale attack on the Soviet Union this spring!"

Vates said again: "We need a lot of weapons and equipment and more Red Army to defend against the two battlefields from the east and west..."

"Wait." Trotsky suddenly interrupted Vates and said word by word: "Tell me, if the Chinese and Germans use nuclear fission bombs to attack the Soviet Union, how can we deal with it?"

How did the Soviet Union deal with the enemy who used nuclear fission bombs to clean the floor?

This sentence immediately left Tukhachevsky and Vatedith speechless. Although they didn't know what this nuclear fission bomb was, it sounded very powerful! Otherwise, imperialism wouldn't have spent so much money to concentrate so many scientists on research, right?

In the past few years, imperialism without nuclear fission bombs has made the Soviet Union unbearable. Now that they have created such a super bomb, what should the Soviet Union do?

Seeing Tukhachevsky and Vatedith were speechless, Trotsky snorted coldly, and said in a gloomy tone: "No matter how powerful the nuclear fission bomb is, it cannot defeat the Soviet people, and it cannot defeat the great Soviet GCD and the Red Army! This is beyond doubt. The Soviet Union is not afraid of nuclear fission bombs. This is just a more powerful weapon. The Soviet military and civilians can defeat any invaders, no matter what kind of weapons they use! And... the Soviet Union must also have nuclear fission bombs, and must own them at all costs! Comrade Klestinsky, Comrade Vatedith, I want to go to the People's Committee, the People's Committee of Heavy Industry, and the People's Committee of Labor and National Defense from now on, I will devote all my efforts to the research of nuclear fission bombs. I must create the first nuclear fission bomb in the Soviet Union within 12 months! Is there any problem?"

“No problem.”

“There is a problem.”

The one who said there was no problem was Vates, and the one who thought there was a problem was Klestinsky, the chairman of the People's Committee.

"Comrade Trotsky..." Klestinsky said with a frown: "According to the decision of the last Politburo meeting, we need to gradually retreat from now on important western industrial cities such as Leningrad, Moscow, Trotskygrad, Kharkov, Donetsk, Volgograd, etc. This will seriously affect our industrial production within a certain period of time, and it will take at least one year to rebuild all factories in the Ural region."

"Cancel this decision!" Trotsky waved his hand: "It seems that this decision is inappropriate now. If we cannot create a nuclear fission bomb within a year, the Soviet Union will likely perish!"

"Comrade Chairman, we have no choice!" Klestinsky gritted his teeth: "If the nuclear fission bomb is really as powerful as the intelligence department said. The enemy is likely to use it to attack our big cities and industrial centers! And even if they do not use nuclear fission bombs, they can destroy our cities with ordinary bombs and air strikes, and kill thousands of Soviet people at the same time..."

"Don't think so much, Comrade Klestinsky!" Trotsky interrupted sternly: "The Soviet people are not afraid of sacrifice, and they would rather sacrifice than be slaves of the country! One thing is obvious: No Soviet is willing to live in a world without the Soviet Union and without the Soviet GCD! No Soviet is willing to become Germans, Chinese or Americans. For them, the Soviet Union and the Soviet GCD are everything, and if there is no Soviet Union, they would rather die! So except for the party, government and military leadership in major cities, all evacuation operations will be cancelled!"

...

At this moment, in the desert of China, southern Xinjiang Province, a fleet of cars were galloping on a highway that crossed the middle of the desert. On this fleet, the flag of the Chinese Defense Army Marshal, which was only Chang Ruiqing, was floating, and a huge golden five-pointed star was fluttering in the wind. Perhaps no one would have thought that Chang Ruiqing, the Prime Minister of the Greater China Federation, would leave his capital Nanjing, and travel thousands of miles to this desolate Takramagan Desert?

The incident of his visit to southern Xinjiang was indeed confidential and did not alarm anyone. Even the governor of Southern Xinjiang Province Chen Y and the commander of Southern Xinjiang Security Liu Wenhui did not know about his arrival, and they did not know that there was a large military base code-named "Sky Fire Base" on the land in the remote western province they managed, 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 "Sky Fire Base", which is directly one of the most secret bases managed by the Ministry of Military Affairs of the National Defense Forces. It is also a secret test base established by the U Engineering Committee jointly organized by China, Britain and Germany, on Chinese territory. It is of course used to test the atomic bomb.

The last section of the road leading to the base has been closely guarded. Both sides of the highway were standing upright in the most formal military uniforms. Sentinels wearing white steel helmets of the National Defense Forces military police. Every time the convoy passed by a sentry, these sentries stood upright and saluted. After the car passed by, the car refused to let go. Even if it just passed by them, Chang Ruiqing clearly saw the excited expressions on the faces of the soldiers and the admirational eyes revealed in his eyes. Although the Greater China Federation implements the evil of democratic constitutionalism.

But, the good idea of ​​personality worship still exists among some people, especially among the National Defense Forces soldiers. Chang Ruiqing is a noble god. Today he will visit this remote Tianhuo Base, which is so remote that it cannot be further away. Why don’t the military policemen who have been guarding here for two or three years, and are not allowed to leave or contact their families are extremely excited? It seems that their work is still very important, otherwise how could the Prime Minister visit this Tianhuo Base where birds do not shit?

Chang Ruiqing leaned on the back of the car seat with a smile, and said to Jiang Baili beside him: "The guards of the Tianhuo Base seem to have a high morale... Do they know what tasks they are taking on?"

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

"What? Even the commander of the base doesn't know?" Lieutenant General Shi Jianfei, the Air Force Operations Minister, turned his head and looked at Chang Ruiqing, showing an interesting expression.

Chang Ruiqing smiled and said, "If nothing unexpected happens, after noon tomorrow, the officers and soldiers of the entire base will know how important they are in a job." He glanced at Shi Jianfei and smiled slightly and said, "This base is a weapon testing base serving the U Engineering Committee."

"U Engineering Committee? Prime Minister, what do you mean...that thing is finally going to succeed?" Shi Jianfei's eyes turned and immediately remembered the mission of the U Engineering Committee. As the Air Force's Operations Minister, he was naturally qualified to get in touch with the secrets of the U Engineering Committee and also knew what kind of secret weapons the U Engineering Committee was studying. After the atomic bomb was made, it was necessary to throw away the Air Force's long-range heavy bomber, so the need to drop the Atomic bomb in the development of the H-7 was considered.

In addition, there are more heavy strategic long-range bombers under development, and this aircraft can certainly carry atomic bombs. By the way, the current Federal Defense Forces of Greater China has not yet established special military services such as the Second Artillery, the Strategic Rocket Force, and the Strategic Air Force, so China's atomic weapons will be managed by the Air Force for a period of time.

"Prime Minister, will this thing be used in the Greater East Asian Unification War?" Shi Jianfei was recalled by Chang Ruiqing from the front headquarters of the Air Force in Busan and then came to the Tianhuo Base together. Naturally, he had to use atomic bombs to bomb Japan at the first time. Although the Japanese Red Army has now reached the point of defeat, the great Japanese leader Yuki Takeda was still yelling to defend Tokyo to the death, fight to the end, and have 100 million total jade breaks. Perhaps if a few atomic bombs are thrown down, the world will be peaceful.

Chang Ruiqing smiled slightly and refused to comment. He did not think about whether to use the atomic bomb on the heads of the Japanese. He did not think about it. It was not that he was soft-hearted, but that he had long regarded the Japanese archipelago as part of the sacred territory of the Greater China Federation in the future. It seemed that it was not very suitable for 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. Their cities are full of old, weak, women and children, and it is a waste to use atomic bombs to bomb.

Moreover, a 20,000-ton equivalent atomic bomb that will be tested tomorrow morning will be placed on a 30-meter-high steel frame to detonate. As for the larger bomber used to drop atomic bombs, the larger bomber used to drop atomic bombs has not been developed yet. Of course, it is not impossible to use the modified H-7 to make do. Anyway, it is less than 1,000 kilometers to fly from the Vladivostok base to Tokyo. At this distance, the H-7 can carry 6-ton bombs. The atomic bomb code-named "Little Thor" to be tested tomorrow will weigh only 3 tons, and its size is relatively long. As long as the bomb bay and fuselage of the H-7 can be slightly modified, it can be used to drop atomic bombs.

Jiang Baili, who was standing by, saw Chang Ruiqing not answering. He smiled and changed the topic and said, "Even if the Japanese don't get beaten this thing, the Soviets will still get beaten! Prime Minister, will the Germans have been delaying the war on the Western Front be arguing about this idea?"

Chang Ruiqing smiled and said, "I didn't say I wouldn't use it to deal with the Japanese. To put it bluntly, this thing is a weapon, and of course the weapon should be used on the battlefield. But it requires careful consideration to be used on the battlefield... This thing is very expensive. And we don't have much inventory in our hands."

Speaking of this, his brow frowned slightly. The general head of the U Engineering Committee is the German great scientist Albert Einstein and the British great scientist Rutherford. The main scientists and researchers are also from Europe, and most of the experimental bases are also located on the territory of the Germans and the British. Of course, Chinese territory still has nuclear reactors, isotope separation factories and plutonium-239 production reactors, and all experimental data and processes are also participated by Chinese scientists. However, Chinese scientists are only involved rather than leading, so Chang Ruiqing has no way to influence the research direction of the U Engineering Committee. For example, Einstein and Rutherford both believed that plutonium-239 has better nuclear fission performance than uranium-235, so they regarded plutonium bombs as the main research direction and laid off the uranium bombs.

Although uranium bombs and plutonium bombs are all murderous weapons made by imperialism, the latter's research and development progress is obviously slower than the former, because refining plutonium-239 requires the use of fuel-grade enriched uranium with a 3% abundance, and a production reactor that burns and irradiates fuel-grade uranium-235 to generate plutonium-239. Then, it is necessary to separate plutonium-239 from uranium that has not been "burned" and other fission products through complex extraction and separation processes. Due to the involvement of a large number of new processes and new technologies, the development time of the atomic bomb has been extended by at least one and a half years.

Moreover, he vaguely guessed in his mind that choosing a plutonium bomb with more complex technology and a longer development time as the research direction of nuclear fission bombs may be the wish of the German senior management - they do not want to be the first to stick to large isotope separation factories and have a certain high-abundance uranium-235 reserves in China, which had several or even a dozen powerful nuclear fission bombs before them... If China insisted on interfering in the research direction of the U Engineering Committee or withdrew from the U Engineering Committee alone, it is very likely that China-German relations will deteriorate sharply. Moreover, 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.

After entering the "Sky Fire Base", the convoy drove inside for about 15 minutes. After passing by more than a dozen checkpoints along the way, they encountered two mobile patrol teams, and the alert reached the most severe level. The convoy stopped in front of a row of brick and wood two-story buildings, and saw Major General Du Yuxin, who graduated from 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.)
Chapter completed!