"Marson, weather notification." Major Albert Schnez, the new adjutant of Hessman, pushed open the door of Hessman's office in the General Staff Office, and there were two visitors in it. Major Schnez knew one of them, Carl von Househofer, who had served as the chairman of the Industrial Promotion Committee. The other was wearing casual clothes, about 40 years old, with a rectangular head and a high forehead. When he saw Schnez, he smiled and nodded at him.

Hessmann received the latest weather notice and looked at the two submarines lurking in the Denmark Strait and the Norwegian Sea. Both reported that the sea was very windy and waves were very strong, with 5 levels of Shanghai, and thick fog affected the sight.

This is not a weather suitable for navigation and combat. If it can be kept until night, the "Sedlitz" will break through the Denmark Strait without any danger. The fleet commanded by Admiral Bom will join it at the east exit of the strait, and then meet with the "Bremen" cruise ship that came from Murmansk in the Soviet Union (this fast cruise ship was in the United States when the World War broke out, and was later detained by the United States and handed over to a British cruiser, but was escaped by it with high speed and arrived at the port of Murmansk in the Soviet Union on September 6), and then returned to Germany together.

After reading the weather notice, Hessman smiled and waved at Schnez and asked him to leave his office. Today he met in the office. Dr. Werner Heisenberg, chief scientist of the Uranium Engineering Committee. Hessman's old friend, has also been recalled by the Army and has been appointed as the rank of lieutenant general. He is the chairman of the Uranium Engineering Committee. He is the administrative head of the German atomic bomb and nuclear reactor engineering.

"Dr. Heisenberg, do you think it is difficult to create uranium bombs. You should study uranium power generation projects first, right?" Hessman asked the scientist in front of him with a smile.

"Yes, Professor Hahn, Professor Meitner and Professor Fermi all think so." Heisenberg shrugged, "because although uranium can produce a reaction called nuclear fission, it can theoretically be used to make bombs. However, the conditions for such reactions are difficult to achieve. I mean a large-scale nuclear fission reaction. Through laboratory experiments and mathematical calculations, we know that if we want to cause nuclear fission reactions that trigger uranium, we need to put a huge amount... maybe hundreds of tons of metal uranium stacked together, what a bomb is that?"

"There's no other way?" Hessman asked expressionlessly.

"No discovery yet," Heisenberg shook his head, "After all, our research has just begun... We are currently planning to build a test reactor for 'controllable nuclear fission' research. If successful, we can build a nuclear fission power station."

Obviously, scientists from the Uranium Engineering Committee have not yet discovered that uranium 5 is the isotope that causes heavy nuclear fission. Therefore, there is no way to start manufacturing nuclear bombs, but Hessman is also very supportive of the use of heavy water reactors for peaceful use of nuclear energy.

The Economic Promotion Company, which he controlled, has been the only buyer of heavy water produced by the chemical plant of the Norwegh Hydropower Station in 1935. Every year, he buys several tons of heavy water of varying purity from there under the name of scientific research.

Heavy water is actually not the main product of the Vimok Chemical plant, but a by-product produced after electrolysis (the main business of the Vimok Chemical plant is to use cheap electricity to produce hydrogen and oxygen). Most of them do not reach the purity required for nuclear reactors. They require further processing by electrolysis or distillation (boil). However, both require a lot of electricity. The ideal method is to produce it in Norway, where water and electricity resources are abundant.

Therefore, Norway's Vimok Hydropower Station and its affiliated chemical plants must also be controlled and protected!

"Dr.," Hessman said in a peaceful tone, "Germany is a country that lacks resources, and it makes sense to use nuclear fission to generate electricity to save a lot of coal and oil. And we can also use the power generated by nuclear fission to drive battleships and submarines, which will give our navy a huge advantage in the future! Whether it is peace or military, it makes sense, so more scientists are needed to participate. I think physicists at the University of Copenhagen can participate in the study of peaceful use of nuclear fission in the near future."

What Hessman wants to get now is that scholars from the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the University of Copenhagen In the 1920s and 1930s, there was a Copenhagen school in the physics community. The University of Copenhagen was the temple of physics in this era, and cultivated many master scholars in the field of quantum physics. Hessenberg himself, who was also a founder of the University of Copenhagen and the founder of the Copenhagen School, was a scientist who proposed the hypothesis of uranium-5 causing nuclear fission, and also proposed the droplet model theory of nuclear fission) to engage in research together.

"University of Copenhagen? Are you talking about Professor Bohr?" Heisenberg said with a smile. "Actually, I have wanted to invite Professor Bohr to join the Uranium Engineering Committee for a long time, but I can't tell him about nuclear fission, so..."

Nuclear fission theory is still a secret now!

"You can tell Professor Bohr in person this great discovery soon!" Hessman said, "His Majesty the Emperor has convinced the King and Prime Minister of Denmark that the German team will enter peacefully within 24 hours and provide protection to Denmark.

Doctor, you will now travel to Copenhagen with Lieutenant General Haushofer and bring Bohr and his students to Germany for research on uranium power generation projects, at all costs!”

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"The Brest Fortress must be captured at all costs!"

In the Kremlin, Hessman's old friend Stalin looked a little ugly. Like Hessman, he encountered a small setback! Hessman lost a battleship, while Stalin lost more than 10,000 Bolshevik soldiers, more than 300 tanks and more than a dozen aircraft in Brest!

The battle to liberate Brest has been going on for 12 days. The Brest rapid cluster commanded by Pavlov made some progress, but it was far from meeting Stalin's requirements.

"The Germans defeated Poland in 12 days, and we couldn't even defeat a Brest Fortress in 12 days!" Stalin said with some annoyance, "not only did Brest not be defeated, but Kiev, Vinnica and Odessa were not completely liberated! Moreover, there were counter-revolutionaries everywhere in Ukraine's land!"

The Red Army made much more progress in Kiev, Vinnica and Odessa than in Brest. In Brest, the Red Army did not even see the gate of the fortress after paying the price of more than 30,000 people killed, seriously injured and missing. But it cannot be blamed for Pavlov's failure to work hard. Brest not only had the main Polish corps to garrison, but also built large areas of fortresses outside the fortress (these fortifications are part of the Pisusky line of defense), which was difficult to attack.

In Ukraine, the right bank, without the main force of the Polish army, the Red Army had already attacked the city areas of Kiev, Vinnica and Odessa, and was now conducting street fighting. Since they were all facing the most stubborn and reactionary Ukrainian counter-revolutionaries, the street fighting was very difficult. Especially in Kiev, the Red Army was fighting with counter-revolutionaries almost inch by inch for the city, and hundreds of Red Army soldiers sacrificed their precious lives for the liberation of the Ukrainian people every day.

"Comrade General Secretary," Voroshilov said carefully, "there is obvious evidence that German pseudo-socialists are secretly helping Polish and Ukrainian reactionaries. They released all the captives and returned all the seized weapons to the Polish reactionaries. So the Polish reactionaries can support the defenders of Brest. If we want to liberate Brest in the shortest time, it is best..."

"What kind of deal is better to reach with Germany?" Stalin looked at Voroshilov coldly, "Are they allowed to occupy more Ukrainian land?"

"No, no, no..." Voroshilov shook his head quickly, "You can put pressure on the Germans, their fleet had just suffered a crushing defeat in the Atlantic Ocean."

"Defeat?" Stalin took a sip of his cigarette, "Is it confirmed?"

"Yes," Voroshilov said with a smile, "just received the news that they sank the 'Sharenhorst'!"

This unlucky battleship finally died and sank in the hero port of the Azores. More than a thousand German naval officers and soldiers on the battleship will be transported back to the land by the Portuguese government by plane and then quietly released this is the provision of the secret agreement reached by the Portuguese dictator Salazar and Ribintrov.

However, the battleships were sunk, which was still a shame to the Germans around the world. This was a victory of the British Empire, and Churchill could brag for a while. Stalin could also take a breath. The war between Germany and Britain and France would continue, and he had time to slowly defeat the Poles and Ukrainians.

"Well," Stalin nodded, "It seems that we are not going to build a battleship of the same level is the right choice."

He paused and turned his attention to Molotov, chairman of the Council of Ministers and the People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, "You go to Poland and tell the Germans that if they do not intend to occupy Poland, then we must consider crossing the Bug River and liberating the whole of Poland!"

"Okay," said Molotov, "I will definitely pass on the opinions of Comrade General Secretary to the Germans." He thought about it and asked, "So should we consider cutting off Germany's oil supply?"
Chapter completed!