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Chapter 189: The City of Death

While An Yi was staying in Kabul, he helped Diana gradually improve the formation of governments at all levels under the Afghan Kingdom (previously managed by the Military Control Commission), and a large number of people became talents through the process of Boy Scout Military Academy or Political Science and Law School. An Yi was absolutely indebted to An Yi.

Loyal young people have entered various jobs, occupying almost all important departments in Afghanistan, continuing to deepen the political and economic reforms of this small landlocked country, emphasizing religious and political separation, and increasing the control of the central government.

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As the heart of Central Asia, West Asia and the subcontinent, the quality of Afghanistan's environment directly affects the climate and ecological conditions of the three places.

11 South Group originally developed large-scale projects such as the Samit Gold Mine in Takhar City in the north, the Shebel Dry Gas Field and Darunsu Coal Field in Jowzjan City, and the Aynak Copper Mine 30 kilometers south of Kabul City.

On the basis of the mineral deposits, there are plans to invest heavily in the development of the Lugar copper mine in Kabul, the Hajik iron mine in Bamiyan, the lithium, Yu, bond, and tin mixed mining areas in Nangarhar, and Hull.

Mining areas with high development value include the Nanhan Nixin Na, Yu, and rare earth symbiosis mining areas in Mandeb City.

According to Plan 1, Afghanistan will build a preliminary modern industrial system within ten years, covering all aspects of light and heavy industry. The profits generated by these enterprises will mainly be used to improve the natural conditions of the region, restore forests and greening on the plateau, and build large and medium-sized rivers on large and medium-sized rivers.

The construction of water conservancy projects and the implementation of the agricultural reclamation system in the desert and Gobi areas will make Afghanistan truly a green lung for improving the surrounding environment in the next ten to twenty years.

On the 19th day of the lunar month, Kabul Palace.

After getting up in the morning, An Yi first practiced boxing with Shen Fengdao for more than an hour, and then had breakfast with Dianna. Around nine o'clock, the couple came to the study room to discuss whether to build a comprehensive university in Kabul to improve the current situation.

Education system, Shen Fengdao came in at the right time.

Diana knew that if there was nothing important, Lao Shen would not trouble An Yi at this time. She smiled and nodded to Shen Fengdao, then kissed An Yi on the cheek and left the study.

Lao Shen walked to An Yi and reported in a low voice: "The German Wolf News Agency has just published an editorial, saying that at two o'clock in the morning, German time, Leningrad was captured by the German army, and the door for the German army to attack Moscow will be reopened."

An Yi was stunned for a moment and asked smoothly: "Leningrad was lost?"

Shen Fengdao nodded: "Our intelligence department in Germany quickly confirmed this news, and the detailed information will be sent by the General Staff soon!"

An Yi shook his head regretfully.

Although this news was expected, it still sounds a bit jarring when I hear it. After all, it is in Nanhua's best interest for the Soviet Union and Germany to consume each other. If one side gains too much advantage, the balance will be broken.

It would be difficult to handle.

After Germany switched from offensive to defensive on the battlefield in Eastern Europe this year, the situation in this region became relatively calm, but local exchanges of fire continued. The current battlefield is mainly focused on the German army's suppression of guerrillas and the siege of Leningrad.

Since the siege of Leningrad last September, the Soviet army has been holding on in that heroic city for a full year.

In fact, as early as the end of last year, all food and fuel supplies in Leningrad were exhausted, and more than two million citizens and half a million troops fell into famine.

During this period, Leningrad maintained a water channel with the outside world through Lake Ladoga. Although it was a drop in the bucket, the number of people dying of starvation every day continued to increase, from 300 people dying a day in December to 4,000 people dying a day in February this year.

, but it can at least allow the citizens to get two taels of rations every day, and especially allow the troops to ensure the most basic supply of military rations.

However, in March, as the German army changed its main attack direction from Moscow to Leningrad, the Finnish army sent troops to occupy the north bank of Lake Ladoga, and the German army occupied the east bank of Lake Ladoga, completely sealing off Leningrad from the outside world on land and water.

Passage, Leningrad gradually fell into despair.

Since then, although the Soviet army continued to supply food and ammunition to Leningrad through airdrops, airdrop operations were very dangerous in front of the German Air Force fighter planes equipped with radars. Every time the pilots went on a mission, it was like a life and death battle.

journey.

In order to keep Leningrad resisting, Stalin ordered that food and ammunition must be supplied to Leningrad at all costs. The air route from Moscow to Leningrad became a veritable death route. Every day, several or even

Dozens of planes crashed. If it were not for the large number of fighter planes purchased by the United States from South China for the Soviet army to consume, the Soviets would probably not be able to hold on long ago.

In order to conquer this city that was ordered by the founder of the Soviet Union, the German army dropped a snowstorm of leaflets and tried its best to use force and coercion: One leaflet read: "Russian soldiers and civilians, in order to save their lives, come to the German side."

Come, you will find that your enemies are the bloodthirsty Bolsheviks."

Another leaflet threatened serious consequences and an ugly death if he did not surrender.

Although the food transported by air was nothing more than a drop in the bucket, the soldiers and civilians of Leningrad used their brains to maintain it for a long time with substitute food - food made by bakers using sawdust, moldy bread flour and flour dropped from the air, and initially

Toxic cottonseed cake intended for use as ship fuel.

After all these were eaten, the pictures on the wall and the paste on the books were scraped off and mixed with a small amount of flour to make soup. People walked with their belts in hand because the belts had been boiled into soup, just like in Chaplin's movie

Just like the scene in "The Gold Rush", leather shoes become delicacies, and the aroma of rat soup wafts in the city. When even the rats are eaten, tragedy inevitably occurs: cannibalism.

The Soviet army set up a special division for this purpose to prevent the spread of the brutal cannibalism. As a result, several soldiers disappeared during the first mission and were most likely turned into food.

As the German army gradually encircled Leningrad, it began to ration electricity. Civilian electricity was basically cut off, and the city fell into darkness. Fortunately, the cold winter was over, and although the heating was turned off, it was not harmful. However, the water plant was blown up and it was troublesome.

Civilians had no choice but to hang buckets around their necks and drag heavy steps to fetch water from canals and the Neva River. The bodies were soaked in the water.

In the summer, when the war in other parts of the Soviet Union was easing, Leningrad was full of hunger. Especially the drinking of unclean water led to the outbreak of the plague. The whole city fell into terrible silence. Thousands or even tens of thousands of people died every day.

The corpses were covered with old curtains, rags and brown paper. These corpses were placed at home, on the streets and in piles in hospital corridors. Because the survivors were too weak to move them, the city was filled with a terrible putrid smell.

A month ago, a desperate Soviet journalist wrote on the wall: "After gritting one's teeth and holding on for nearly a year, this city is about to die."

By mid-August, it can be said that his words became a cruel reality. Hunger had spread to the army, and hungry soldiers were digging in the trenches, not to build tunnels, but to find grasshoppers, rats and even earthworms.

small animals to satisfy their hunger.

Just a week ago, the German army felt that the time was ripe for combat and launched a general attack on Leningrad.

The German army detonated 1 million tons of high explosives buried under the Pulkovo Highlands as the prelude to the final battle in Leningrad. Then tens of thousands of cannons bombarded thousands of fighter planes and thousands of tanks, roaring in unison, and more than half a million people

The Russian and Ukrainian volunteers poured into the dying city from south to north, and the same number of German troops from east to west.

The big explosion lifted mud and smoke more than a thousand meters into the sky, turning the Silkovo Highlands, which served as a barrier to Leningrad, into a huge crater and killing more than 10,000 Soviet troops on the spot.

The shock caused by the explosion could be felt in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, and in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, early risers could see the smoke rising over Leningrad.

The exhausted Leningrad actually persisted for a week before finally announcing its fall. In fact, it was already a high-level performance. After all, it is not easy for an army that even raises a gun to resist an attack by millions of troops.

This shows the tenacity of the Soviet people's will to fight.

An Yi frowned and said to himself: "What's wrong with Mr. Liushenkov and the others? They haven't launched a decent attack for more than half a year. This is completely inconsistent with Stalin's character!"

Shen Fengdao shook his head: "Last year, the Soviet army lost three million troops and almost lost all the troops on the Western Front. Although it was later supplemented by the Red Flag Cluster in the Far East, in terms of the overall situation, it was still unable to compete with the Soviet Union, which integrated the forces of all Europe.

The German army is facing a challenge. At present, in addition to building strong defensive positions and using urban and defensive warfare to consume the strength of the German army, the Soviet high command is also opening up battlefields behind enemy lines. The "guerrilla republic" in Belarus and the "Red Self" in Ukraine

By the Legion, Tito's guerrillas in Yugoslavia are all targets of key support.

"However, judging from the situation in the past few months, as Germany's policies have gradually changed, the situation of various guerrilla organizations has become increasingly dangerous. With the fall of Leningrad today, the Soviet army has begun to show strategic decline.

Once the German army is freed up to eradicate the guerrilla organizations in its heart, the next step will be a violent attack, and it will be difficult for the Soviet Union to defend Moscow!"

An Yi was also thinking about the changes in the war situation.

This time and space is different from history. Because the German army occupied the Baku oil fields and the Caucasus region early, it had abundant supplies for combat from the beginning.

Now that Ukraine has been basically pacified, coal fields such as Donbas, Lviv-Volyn, and Dnieper account for almost half of the Soviet Union’s total coal production. The oil fields on the continental shelf along the Black Sea near Crimea and the Caspian Sea centering on Baku

The loss of the oil field area suddenly caused the Soviet Union's oil production to shrink by more than three-quarters. The three major iron ore areas of Krivoy Rog, Kremenchug, and Belozerskoye and the manganese ore area in the Dnieper River Basin all accounted for

More than half of the total output of the Soviet Union, coupled with the abundant pottery ore, iron, gallium ore, graphite, siliceous quartzite, kaolin, lignite, building materials and other mineral resources here, once Germany is completely digested, even if it gets

The Soviet Union, which was heavily aided by its allies, was inevitably headed for failure.

Will Stalingrad and Moscow fall to the German attack?

An Yi stood up and paced back and forth. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this possibility was getting bigger.

But after careful consideration, An Yi is still not prepared to change anything. Now the nuclear base in Daraa is continuously refining high-concentration weapons-grade sodium, and at the same time, the first atomic bomb named "Big Pudding" has been officially loaded.

The Nuclear Research Institute began to build a nuclear test base in the Kizer Desert in the interior of Central Asia two years ago. It built a large number of solid fortifications and patches of civilian buildings. Various types of equipment were installed in the reinforced concrete structures above and below the ground. Detection instruments and photographic facilities.

The first nuclear explosion test has been decided to be carried out on a certain date in mid-December. At that time, a number of tanks, artillery, aircraft, and animals such as cattle, sheep, horses, pigs, dogs, chickens, ducks, monkeys and orangutans will also be mobilized for in vivo experiments. , once the power of the atomic bomb is successfully verified, a steady stream of atomic bombs will be manufactured.

"It seems it's time for me to return to Xinjing!" An Yi returned to his seat, sat down, and told Shen Fengdao: "Ask the Military Commission and the Third Headquarters to send people to meet me in Baisha, while we inspect the military deployment and transportation conditions along the railway. , while holding a military meeting to discuss the current situation!"

"yes!"

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