Chapter 17: Soldiers and Scores (Three)

From the second half of 30 years, Liu Chenggong and Zhou Mingyuan mined uranium mines near Darwin, northern Australia to extract uranium octadecatalytics in the name of mining rutile, to the official launch of the "Sunset Gold" project in 35 years, Li Yunshan and others successfully manufactured high-speed centrifuges according to relevant technical plans in early 37 years, and the first graphite reactor was put into use at the end of 38 years. In addition, the sufficient power output from the Liujiaxia Hydropower Station after the completion of the Liujiaxia Hydropower Station, and the idea in the meantime attracted the participation of well-known nuclear physicists such as Wang Ganchang and Ye Qisun, Zhao Zhenzhong had been preparing for nearly eleven years in order to sow mushroom clouds!

Compared with the Americans who started to conduct nuclear weapons theory research in 1939 and the successful atomic bomb explosion in the summer of 1945, Zhao Zhenzhong and others took much longer. However, considering that the Americans had a complete industrial system and the People's Party, after establishing itself in the northwest, while constantly fighting with the surrounding hostile forces, it also had to establish a modern industrial foundation from scratch and do everything possible to provide the necessary conditions for the formulation and implementation of the "Sunset Gold" plan, the development progress of Zhao Zhenzhong and others' nuclear plan was undoubtedly quite fast.

Moreover, compared with the Americans who had to constantly explore and determine the development path of nuclear weapons through various possible methods, Zhao Zhenzhong decided to use the gas diffusion method of high-speed centrifuges to separate and purify uranium-235 from the beginning, which also took a shortcut, avoiding ineffective consumption in other methods.

In fact, in terms of atomic bomb manufacturing, the biggest technical problem is the acquisition of weapon-grade nuclear materials. Plutonium-239 can be obtained from reactor products through chemical methods. The technical difficulty is not too great. It can maintain the continuous chain reaction of the reactor, but it cannot be separated from uranium-235. In addition, uranium-235 itself is also the main charge of atomic bombs, and its purification and enrichment technology has become extremely critical in the development of nuclear weapons.

In later generations, atomic bomb manufacturing has been theoretically known to the public, but just one uranium enrichment and purification link has forced most countries in the world to be out of the nuclear club. Although there are certainly factors such as the technological monopoly and sanctions threats of nuclear powers led by the United States, the high technical requirements of gas diffusion law can be seen from this.

Fortunately, Zhao Zhenzhong made a long preparation for sowing mushroom clouds, and had the correct development direction and feasible technical solutions to support it. After six years of implementation of the People's Party's "Sunset Gold" plan, it has now reached the harvest season.

As long as the nuclear explosion device lifted on the tower that is dozens of meters high is successful, the subsequent weaponization process will not take long. If everything goes well, it is estimated that live-fire airdrop tests can be conducted before the end of the year, and next year, the People's Party's first strategic force equipped with nuclear bombs can be formed!

At half past 11:30, due to the time difference, it was not noon in Xinjiang. The sun was still hanging in the east half of the sky. However, with the end of the ten-second countdown, Yuan Ziqing issued a "detonation" order, another sun rose above the Lop Nur nuclear test site in an instant, and it was more dazzling than the original cargo that was spinning in the east sky!

Immediately afterwards, the rumbling explosion spread to the four outside. The iron tower, which was originally dozens of meters high, disappeared completely in the mushroom cloud that rolled out in the flames soaring into the sky and the continuous upward formed by the continuous upward movement! The houses built with reinforced concrete on the outside of the explosion point, suddenly collapsed under the impact of a hurricane-like shock wave. Objects such as tanks, armored vehicles, cars, etc. for destructive verification rolled out like paper! With the explosion point as the center, it was a mess within a radius of more than ten kilometers!

Zhou Mingyuan, who was watching with sunglasses outside the safe distance, saw the gradually expanding mushroom cloud and couldn't help but scream excitedly: "Old Zhao, it's done! It must be a nuclear explosion!"

Zhao Zhenzhong clenched his fists, took a deep breath, suppressed his excitement in his heart, and said in a slightly excited voice: "From the strong light just now and the current movement, it should be inseparable from ten. However, it is necessary to make the final determination through air sampling analysis."

"The movement of this mushroom cloud is much more than when Dihua was dealing with the Russians!" Zhang Mingrui exclaimed after being stunned, "If the strong light just now is not prepared, then how many people will become blind!"

"Can you create such a powerful guy, those tanks, armored vehicles and other things used for testing are not in vain, it's worth it!" Yang Tianming clenched his fists excitedly and said, "If those big noses and small noses dare to invade again in the future, as long as we throw down one, it will be solved!"

Chen Hailan laughed and said, "With such a guy, we will be more confident in the public trial of the Emperor!"

"With such a killer move, we will be more confident! In the future, this back will be able to stand up even more straight! Only when the nation is liberated and the country's victory can be truly implemented!" Tian Yunyi also said excitedly, "Celebrating the merits! We must celebrate the merits!"

Not to mention the tanks, armored vehicles and other self-heavy firepower that you have seen in the Anxi exercise ground before, as well as the increasingly stronger air force that is being updated and increasingly strong, the cloud bombs, long-range rockets, and the nuclear device that have just exploded in the past two days can ensure that the People's Party will not be afraid of any powerful enemy in the world in the future!

Zhao Zhenzhong pressed his hands against everyone, and after everyone was quiet, he smiled and said, "Celebration is definitely something to be celebrated. However, for confidentiality reasons, the celebration meeting can only be held in a few bases now, and the scope of the project is limited to units and personnel related to each project. When we have founded the country in the future, there is no need to keep it confidential, so I will commend it again!

What we have seen and heard these days is top secret! And now, in addition to the cloud explosion bombs that have been mass-produced and can be used for actual combat, rockets and atomic bombs have not yet had practical combat capabilities, and they still need to be further improved, and the relevant troops also need to be formed separately. Therefore, before the central government makes the relevant information public, everyone must do a good job of confidentiality!

As for the upcoming battle against the Soviet Union, the ground armor and air strike forces we can invest are enough to ensure that we achieve phased victory and lay a solid foundation for the complete recovery of lost ground in the future! Of course, we will further clarify the specific issues regarding the battle against the Soviet Union in the subsequent combat meeting."

Although some people wonder why Zhao Zhenzhong said that he had achieved a "phase victory" in the Soviet war, rather than the "complete victory" that everyone expected, Zhang Mingrui, Yang Tianming, Chen Hailan and others knew that there must be another reason, but it is not suitable for Zhao Zhenzhong to carry out the battle, so they can only be left to the combat meeting.

Just when everyone was still unable to suppress their excitement, Yuan Ziqing, who completed the test explosion task, walked in with brisk steps and said: "Sir, based on all aspects of the situation, it can basically be determined to be a nuclear explosion! The air sampling and analysis work has been carried out, and the final determination can be made in just a few hours at the earliest!"

Yuan Ziqing didn't expect Zhao Zhenzhong to think so carefully. After a moment of thinking, he understood the benefits and nodded and said, "Sir, what he considered is very important! Small-equivalent tests are highly controllable, and the earthquake range caused is very limited. It is underground, so it will not attract too much attention. Moreover, we can also conduct miniaturization research in advance, which can be considered as killing two birds with one stone!"

In northwest China, Xinjiang, Gansu, Qinghai, ** and other provinces are located in the northern part of the intersection of the Indian plate and the Asia-European plate. Geological activities are already very active. Especially since the "Global Earthquake" that occurred in Haiyuan, Gansu in 1920, the Gansu provinces have frequent earthquakes. Among them, the Gulang 8-magnitude earthquake in 27 years, the Yumen Changma 7.6-magnitude earthquake at the end of 32 years, and the Sichuan Diexi Town 7-magnitude earthquake in 33 years, while other low-magnitude earthquakes occur almost every year. As for Xinjiang alone, four earthquakes recorded in 41 years occurred, namely in Yumin, Manas, Ucha, Shanshan and other places.

In this case, conducting small-equivalent underground nuclear tests can not only prevent the spread of radioactive dust from exposing the development of nuclear weapons by the People's Party, but also use earthquakes as cover. Of course, if small-scale earthquakes occur continuously at the same location, it will inevitably cause doubts, and this requires controlling the number of tests.

Regarding the earthquake that occurred near Lop Nur, Xinjiang at 11:30 am on April 23, Northwest Radio only claimed to the public that the earthquake was about magnitude 5.7 later that day, and because it was located in a remote location, no casualties or property losses were caused.

After the words "Qingpiao Piao" were mentioned, the Northwest has never reported any related reports on this earthquake. It is not surprising that the outside world has been accustomed to frequent earthquakes in the northwest over the years, and no one paid much attention to it.

As for the problem that the spread of radioactive dust that had made Zhao Zhenzhong and Zhou Mingyuan worry about would arouse doubts from the outside world, it was also easily avoided because the Soviets and British people near Xinjiang lacked effective detection methods in this era.

Zhao Zhenzhong and his party celebrated four or five hours later at the Lop Nur base and Yuan Ziqing and others. At around 5 pm, they took a helicopter to Anxi when the sun was still shining in Xinjiang.

The next morning, Tian Yunyi and Li Yunshan rushed back to Lanzhou by transport plane, while Zhao Zhenzhong, Zhou Mingyuan and others stayed in Anxi, preparing to convene a military meeting to study the specific deployment of the Soviet war.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, all the chief officers of the five armies in the two major war zones in Dihua and the pass were present. In addition, Chen Hailan, commander of the Yulin War Zone, Zou Degui, director of the General Logistics Department of the People's Army who came from Lanzhou, Jiang Yishan, director of the Political Department, and Hong Fei, commander of the Air Force, were gathered together.

"It has been ten days since the declaration of war on the Soviet Union! During these ten days, all walks of life are watching our army's next actions, and you may be a little anxious. However, we don't need to care about the outside world's waiting and comments, let them talk. If you are anxious, you must also wait for a while." Facing the concerned eyes of everyone present, Zhao Zhenzhong said calmly, "In the next more than a month, to be precise, before June 18, our army is still not ready to send troops to Su and Meng, and only makes necessary adjustments and deployments and pre-war preparations!"

Although I have to wait for nearly two months, I finally have a clear day, which makes the generals of the army sure.

In fact, whether it was a declaration of war on the Soviet Union and Japan in mid-April on the grounds that the Soviet Union and Japan concluded a neutral treaty that violated China's territorial integrity, or the determination to send troops to the Soviet Union and Mongolia on June 18 were all choices made by Zhao Zhenzhong and Zhou Mingyuan after careful analysis.

In China, declaring war on the Soviet Union in the name of maintaining territorial integrity and regaining lost territories has put the People's Party at the moral commanding heights. Even ** and Chiang Kai-shek will only criticize the People's Party for not knowing the importance of the severity and overestimating their abilities, and will not think that this behavior itself is wrong. Most Chinese people will stand on the side of the People's Party because of the abolition of unequal treaties and resisting foreign aggression. This will be extremely beneficial to the People's Party's further development and growth in the future and even the founding of the country in the future.

Moreover, declaring war on the Soviet Union can not only take advantage of Japan's mentality of watching the tiger fight and reaping benefits, but also keeping the situation in North China basically stable, but also gives the People's Party armed forces a good excuse to temporarily suspend the offensive against Japan, avoiding the possibility of some people attacking the People's Party armed forces passively resisting Japan.

After all, the Soviet Union and Japan were invading China. One had long occupied a large tract of territory and the other was occupying a large tract of territory. The Russians and the Japanese now signed a treaty and colluded with each other, and there was a tendency to jointly divide China. The People's Party's armed attack was fighting for the country and should not be criticized.

As for foreign countries, especially for the Soviet Union, although the People's Party has declared war on the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union and Outer Mongolia have also strengthened their vigilance, the main force of the Soviet army is still on the Western Front. As of mid-April, the Soviet Union, together with the recruited supplementary troops, had more than 5 million troops, but nearly 3 million of them were concentrated on the Western Front to defend the German army; deployed in the Far East and eastern Outer Mongolia, and used nearly one million troops to defend the Japanese army; and deployed in the Outer Mongolia, the Central Asia Military Region, and the Siberian Military Region and targeted the People's Army, there were about 400,000 troops.

In Stalin's view, although the People's Party armed forces repeatedly defeated the Japanese army during the War of Resistance in China, in addition to the fact that air power is indeed desirable, they lack assault forces such as tanks on the ground. When fighting in Central Asia, Outer Mongolia and other places, they are definitely not opponents of the Soviet-Mongolian army with armored troops!

However, if Stalin knew the true hidden strength of the People's Army, he would probably not be able to sleep. At least he would never be so relieved in Central Asia, Outer Mongolia and other places! The Soviet Union's carelessness in underestimating the enemy also provided the People's Army with a good opportunity to win in one battle.

As for why he did not choose to send troops after the Germans launched an attack on the Soviet Union, it was because Zhao Zhenzhong and Zhou Mingyuan were unwilling to cause the outside world to have negative associations with the People's Party and the infamous Hitler.

If Hitler takes action first and the People's Army takes advantage of the situation, not only will the Soviet Union and domestic countries criticize this, but also the United Kingdom, the United States and other Western countries will also point fingers at it. This is quite unfavorable to the People's Party's subsequent establishment of its international status and is not conducive to the establishment of China's status as a great power in the later period of the war in the future.

On the contrary, if the People's Army took the lead in sending troops to Su, Meng, and Hitler later, the outside world would only think that Xiaowang was taking advantage of the situation and was not harmful to the People's Party.

Although the People's Army took the lead in sending troops, Hitler had the possibility of postponing the dispatch and waiting for Stalin to draw troops from the Western Front to launch an attack. But unless Hitler is willing to launch an offensive in the cold winter, he will definitely not miss this opportunity to take advantage of the situation! The "Barbarossa" plan is still very likely to be launched as scheduled!

Moreover, even if the Central Asian Military Region and the Soviet Army stationed in Mongolia were frustrated, Stalin might not have drawn troops from the Western Front, but was likely to have drawn troops from the Siberian Military Region, the Outer Baikal Military Region, and the Far East. After all, the Japanese army in the Far East were afraid of being beaten by the Soviet Union in Nomenhan, and the Japanese threat to the east was much smaller than that of the German army on the Western Front!

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