Anti-Japanese War: Li Yunlong dared to attack Taiyuan

Li Yunlong took out a cigarette and handed it over: "Just tell me, as long as it's not too much, I will satisfy you!"

"I know what these things you are studying are, but I won't tell you, please rest assured. I only have one request, I want you to let me go back, I want to go back to Mao Xiong."

Li Yunlong frowned slightly after hearing this and asked, "Why? Can you give me a reason? You are an outstanding scientist, but you suffered unfair treatment in the Russian bear and were even sent to labor camp. Shouldn't you hate it?"

After hearing this, Korolev sighed and said, "If I don't go back, once the bearded man knows that I have escaped, my family, my parents, my wife, and my children will all be implicated. I can't be so selfish!"

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Chapter 494 Korolev's Conditions

After hearing this, Li Yunlong raised his eyebrows slightly. Korolev was indeed not an ordinary person.

This sentence reveals a lot of information. It seems that he wants to leave, but in fact he is negotiating terms with Li Yunlong.

"Don't worry. Tell me your family's name and address, and I'll send someone to bring them over to reunite with you. You just need to focus on your work here."

From the way Korolev addressed the bearded man, Li Yunlong knew that Korolev was not a person who supported the bearded man, and Li Yunlong planned to win him over.

“Can you really do that?”

"Of course, I have a good relationship with Beria, and I know your abilities. If you can design something I need, I can get rid of Beria for you and avenge you. After all, it was he who ordered your arrest."

"you know me?"

"Of course, Project 212 is a secret to others, but not to me. Believe me, I know more than you think, and my abilities are greater than you imagine."

After hearing Li Yunlong's words, Korolev was silent for a while, then slowly said: "Is the situation of the Russian bear very bad now?"

"You care?"

“That’s my country.”

Korolev was silent for a long time before he spoke. "Although I encountered unfair treatment there, I still love it deeply, and I believe that it was just a temporary mistake, not forever."

Li Yunlong was stunned after hearing Korolev's words, then he smiled and said, "The situation is quite serious. We have lost millions of troops, but the Americans have already joined the war, and it will be over soon."

"I am your ally. Together we will help you attack the Japs and prevent them from attacking you from the east and west together with De San."

Li Yunlong spoke his ally's words without blushing or beating his heart.

"Those in Siberia..."

Korolev was not a fool. When he was released from Siberia, he knew that someone wanted to use those people in the labor camp to disrupt Siberia.

"At that time, you and I were not allies. You know, the relationship between countries always changes due to some reasons. Beria convinced me, so we are allies now."

Korolev stared at Li Yunlong, and finally said slowly: "I can work for you, but there is a time limit. After that time limit, you have to let me go back."

"Of course!"

"Five years!" Korolev named a time.

Li Yunlong shook his head and said, "No, at least twenty years!"

"Ten years, at most ten years!"

"I'll take your family here for fifteen years. If you work for me for fifteen years, I'll let you go back."

"..."

In the end, Li Yunlong and Korolev agreed on a time limit of twelve years.

Li Yunlong was not very satisfied with the result, but he saw the shadow of those Chinese scientists in the United States in Korolev, especially the sentence "That is my motherland", which almost made Li Yunlong's eyes red.

Li Yunlong decided to send him back to his homeland after twelve years. Well, Li Yunlong is a man who keeps his promises.

"Mr. Korolev, I think we need to discuss some terms. First, if you want to work for me, you must change your name. You can no longer use Sergei Pavlovich Korolev. You're very famous in Russia, so to avoid unnecessary trouble, you must use an alias."

Korolev nodded. He didn't think he was very famous in the Russian country, but Li Yunlong knew that in two years, when the bearded man wanted to develop missiles again, the first person he would think of would be Korolev, and he would directly pull him out of the labor camp.

This shows that Korolev is a figure who has a close relationship with the Russians. Li Yunlong finds it difficult to understand the Russians' actions. If they want to carry out a purge, then they can carry out a purge, but why do they have to target these scientists?

You know, when we were in internal instability, those scientists were always protected. If anyone wanted to take action against them, someone would immediately stand up to stop them.

If these tens of thousands of Russian scientists had not been liquidated and all been invested in scientific and technological production, Li Yunlong felt that the Russians' advanced technology during World War II would not be any less than that of Germany.

Thinking of De San, Li Yunlong couldn't help but think of the huge wealth left behind by De San after his defeat. Li Yunlong also wanted to get a piece of it, but it would be difficult. Li Yunlong planned to wait until 1944 to think of a way. If possible, he would find a way to send some people to accompany the Americans and take as much as he could.

"No problem, I hope you can bring my family over."

"No problem, you can see your family next spring!"

After Korolev and Li Yunlong finished discussing the issue of years of work experience, they began to discuss the issue of work direction.

"What you're researching here should be a weapon of immense power. If I'm not mistaken, it should be a weapon that utilizes atomic fission."

Korolev had by this time regained his confidence as a top scientist.

Li Yunlong nodded after listening to this: "Yes, as a scientist, you have a keen sense of smell. How did you know about this weapon?"

"I have a friend, Kurchatov, who talked to me about this topic and invited me to study it together, but I declined."

Li Yunlong's eyes lit up when he heard the name Kurchatov: "Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov?"

"Yes, you know him too?"

Korolev suddenly believed what Li Yunlong had said before. He knew the Russians very well, better than he imagined.

Of course Li Yunlong knew who Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov was. He was the father of the Russian bear's mushroom eggs.

"Of course, he's a great scientist like you. Was he also purged?"

Li Yunlong remembered that Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov was not purged. To be precise, he was almost purged, but then he escaped because someone vouched for him. It seemed that this happened in 1936.

"He's luckier than me. Someone vouched for him, but several of his assistants were purged. They're here."

Li Yunlong narrowed his eyes slightly after hearing what Korolev said: "What do you want?"

"I just want to fight for some rights for my compatriots. The conditions here are too bad and we need to improve them."

After Korolev finished speaking, he pointed to the cave here.

"This is the only condition for now, but I can try my best to meet your requirements."

"We need coffee, vodka, black bread, pickled cucumbers, and, oh, and..."

Li Yunlong silently wrote down all these things and decided to satisfy them first. The priority was to make the mushroom eggs.

Chapter 495 Heading to the Front Line

"Korolev, I can meet all your requirements. Now let's talk about your research direction. Your value and ability cannot be demonstrated here!"

Li Yunlong thought for a moment, then quickly sketched a missile on a piece of paper and handed it over. "I need you to continue researching this. Make a list of what you need, and I'll find a way. But I need you to develop some prototypes within two years."

After reading the sketch, Korolev looked at Li Yunlong in surprise: "You are also researching missiles? Isn't China always at war? Do you have talents in this field?"

"Furthermore, researching missiles is not a wise choice. It requires a huge amount of money, manpower and resources, and the resulting weapon may not even be as powerful as a heavy artillery piece."

Li Yunlong listened to his words and said with a smile: "Mr. Korolev, I am also a scientific researcher. I don't think I need to tell you about the future development prospects of missiles. I just need a result!"

"Also, several of my arsenals have made some progress in missiles. The Katyusha rocket has already been developed."

Hearing the words "Katyusha rocket," Korolev's face showed disdain. "That's just a flying artillery shell at best. The range is too short. The missile I envisioned could reach at least a thousand kilometers and accurately hit its target."

Li Yunlong nodded in agreement and said, "We have the same idea on this point, but my idea may be more radical. I think the missile should have a range of tens of thousands of kilometers. If launched from any corner of the earth, it can attack any other corner of the earth."

Korolev listened to Li Yunlong's words, looked at him seriously, and then asked in a trembling voice: "You think so too?"

"Of course!"

“How do we solve the fuel problem?”

"Solid fuel is one approach, and maybe we can use the Earth's rotation or something else."

Li Yunlong briefly threw out some knowledge, and Korolev was enlightened after hearing it: "Why didn't I think of this? Damn it, why didn't I think of this method? If we launch it in the direction of the earth's rotation, we can obtain an initial linear velocity, which can save some fuel and increase the range!"

"General Li Yunlong, you are truly a genius. No, you shouldn't be a general. You're more suited to being a scientist!"

When Li Yunlong saw Korolev's expression, he knew that this Russian scientist had entered a state of inspiration, so he handed him the pen and paper.

Then Li Yunlong stood up and left the room with Zhang Dabiao.

"Keep an eye on him, don't let him get away. This man is worth ten divisions!"

Li Yunlong stood at the door and glanced at Korolev who was busy calculating formulas in the room.

"Yes!"

"By the way, I will arrange for some students to come here soon and let them learn from these Russian scientists. Tell them that if they can train some outstanding students, there will be rewards. Find a way to get all the knowledge they have hidden in the bottom of their boxes."

"Yes!"

Immediately afterwards, Li Yunlong followed Zhang Dabiao into the uranium mine production area to check.

Almost all the people mining here are Japanese prisoners of war and people from Outer Mongolia.

In fact, Li Yunlong also had some Russian prisoners of war in his hands, but they were all Russian scientists. In order to prevent accidents, Li Yunlong sent the Russian prisoners of war to other places to dig gold mines.

There are gold mines in Outer Mongolia, and these gold mines are now one of Li Yunlong's main sources of income.

Whether it was doing business, cheating Russia and the United States, or living a comfortable life, Pinduoduo’s subsidies were really a drop in the bucket compared to scientific research.

The daily expenses of the two arsenals, the Arshan Arsenal and the Heiyunshan Arsenal, are like flowing water.

Fortunately, there are gold mines in Outer Mongolia, and Huang Zhiyong and his team brought back a lot of valuables from Siberia, otherwise Li Yunlong would have to tighten his belt.

"No one from our side, right?"

“Our own people are watching from outside and are not participating in mining.”

Zhang Dabiao and Li Yunlong walked around inside wearing protective clothing.

There were about two thousand Japanese prisoners of war and Outer Mongolians here. They were divided into three shifts and dug uranium for eight hours a day.

It’s not that Li Yunlong is so merciful, but mainly because uranium mines have radiation. If these people work twelve hours a day, they will die soon. At that time, new prisoners will have to be captured and sent in.

The location here is secret, and it will be easily exposed if prisoners of war are frequently sent in.

"Commander, I heard there are still quite a few prisoners. Would you like to send a few more in? That might speed up the excavation process?"