Red Moscow.

Chapter 2602

For the next three days, Sokov stayed in his office and didn’t go anywhere.

In addition to calling Asiya every day to learn about her latest situation, I sit in the office and read various military machinery data to improve my theoretical level.

On the morning of the fourth day, Sokov still had not received any information about the new machine gun, and he couldn't help but feel a little anxious. It stands to reason that when testing a new weapon, no matter what the final result is, the relevant parties should always say hello to themselves as the designer and talk about all the problems that existed during the weapon test.

“Captain, comrade captain.” Sokov opened the door and shouted outside.

Soon, the captain ran over from the next room and asked Sokov respectfully: "Comrade General, what are your instructions?"

"It's been four days since I submitted my design drawings. Why haven't I received any response yet?" Sokov knew very well that the captain was nominally acting as his assistant, but his main role was to monitor him. If you want to leave this room, you must get the captain's permission: "I want to see Comrade Ustinov, I don't know if it's okay."

“You want to see Comrade Ustinov, there is no problem.” When the captain heard Sokov’s request, he showed a troubled expression on his face: “But Comrade People’s Commissar is not in Moscow now.”

“What, he’s not in Moscow?” Sokov couldn’t help being surprised, and then asked: “Then where did he go?”

“It is said that I went to the Far East. I don’t know when I can come back.”

When Sokov learned that Ustinov had gone to the Far East, he immediately thought of what Yakov said a few days ago and thought to himself: Could it be that there is really a research institute in Chelyabinsk? There is a strange stone from aliens, and this stone can also turn the design on the drawing directly into a real object through beam scanning?

 But when he thought about it again, he felt that this was too ridiculous. Not to mention whether the story about the strange stone is true or false, anyone who can see this strange stone must sign a confidentiality agreement and cannot leave the area easily. How could someone tell the story while drunk after leaving? This big secret. It seems that the military expert Yakov mentioned was drunk and talking nonsense, and everything he said was made up by his imagination. Yes, that's definitely the case.

“Comrade Captain, can I go out for a walk?”

"Of course, Comrade General, you are free and can go wherever you want." Just when the idea of ​​going home for a visit came to Sokov's mind, the captain added: "Except that you can't leave here. You can go wherever you want outside the building.”

“What’s the point of not being able to leave this building?” Sokov’s heart suddenly dropped when he heard what the captain said.

 He turned around and planned to go back to the bedroom to rest. As long as he closed his eyes and slept, time would pass quickly.

“Comrade General,” the captain walked over and said to him, “you can go to General Yakov. He has not been able to leave the building recently. He is probably bored like you.”

Sokov decisively accepted the captain's suggestion and stayed alone in the room, which can be described as doing nothing. Every time I sit down to read a book, I feel sleepy after not reading for long. I spend at least two-thirds of the time sleeping these days.

“Captain, I don’t know where General Yakov’s office is.” Sokov said to the captain, “Please take me there to find him.”

“Please follow me and I will take you there.”

 Under the leadership of the captain, Sokov arrived at Yakov's office smoothly.

“Misha, you’re here!” Yakov, who was sitting at the table doing nothing, saw Sokov walking in from the outside and quickly stood up to greet him.

“I have nothing to do in the office, so I came over to take a look.” After Sokov and Yakov hugged each other, he asked curiously: “What have you been busy with recently?”

"Nothing is busy." Yakov said with a wry smile: "I told you two days ago that we are studying the opening of new tanks here. This aspect is not what I am good at, so I was excluded from the core group. , I can only do some odd jobs every day.”

“Is it a T-44 tank?”

The T-44 tank is a medium-sized tank re-developed on the basis of the T-34/85 tank. It has a crew of four. The electromechanical crew of the original T-34/85 tank has been eliminated. The heading machine gun is fixed on the body and is driven by the driver. Control launch. The turret is improved on the T-34/85 tank, but there is no protruding neck ring at the bottom of the turret. It is an intermediate model between the T-34 tank and the T-54 tank. For the first time, it adopts a center-mounted turret, torsion bar suspension, transverse engine, rear-mounted transmission, and double-sided front tilt armor. It laid the foundation for the Soviet medium tank after World War II. Typical style of R&D.

"No," Yakov shook his head and said: "The T-44 tank began small batch production at the end of 1944. We are studying a more advanced tank. If we have to finalize it, it should be the T-54 medium tank. "

 Sokov also knows a thing or two about the T-54 medium tank. This tank was developed on the basis of the T-44 tank. The first prototype was made in 1946 and put into mass production at the Kharkov Tank Plant in 1947.

"T-54 medium tank." Sokov found a seat and sat down on his own, and then asked Yakov: "If you tell me this, it won't involve leaking secrets, right?"

"How is this possible? You are also a member of the design bureau and have the right to know these secrets." After Yakov said this, he began to briefly introduce this new type of tank to Sokov: "T-54 The initial design began in October 1944 and was carried out by the OKB-520 Design Bureau (183rd Stalin Ural Tank Factory). The prototype design was completed in December of that year. The prototype was also built in February 1945 and was launched in 1945. It was tested and passed in March and April, and was officially named T-54. The body structure and power unit of this prototype are the same as those of the T-44. The difference is that the armor is thicker, and the front armor is 100 mm on the upper part and 100 mm on the lower part. 90 mm, sides 90-150 mm, top 30 mm, turret base diameter increased to 1800 mm, and has a newly designed cockpit and observation window.”

"Since it was manufactured in February, why was it not put into use on the battlefield?" Sokov asked curiously: "You know, the battlefield is the best place to test the performance of weapons."    "I just said, three It only passed the test in April," Yakov said with a wry smile: "The Germans surrendered before our army could mass-produce it, and as a result, this tank was of no use."

"This tank has been finalized and can be put into mass production at any time." Sokov remembered Yakov's complaints to him two days ago and couldn't help but curiously asked: "Then why are you still talking about which tank to use?" Where’s the tank?”

"Someone suggested that this T-54 medium tank was designed for war. Now that the war is over, it has no use. A more advanced tank should be designed as a tank for the army in the next few decades. "Tanks." Yakov explained: "The agenda of the meeting in the past two days revolved around whether to mass-produce T-54 tanks or develop new tanks. As you know, although I have been in the tank division, I But he is an artilleryman and doesn’t know much about tanks.”

After chatting for a while, Sokov changed the topic to Ustinov: "I heard that Comrade Ustinov went to the Far East. Do you think he went to Chelia?" Binsk’s research institute?”

Although Sokov was full of doubts about what Yakov said that day, he couldn't help but think of a strange phenomenon in later generations: in the early morning of February 15, 2013, a planet with a diameter of about 20 meters and a weight of 12,000 tons The huge meteorite passed through the atmosphere and flew quickly towards Chelyabinsk. As a result, before it was about to hit the city, it exploded and turned into a huge fireball, injuring about 1,500 people and damaging 7,200 buildings.

 Later, the video of the meteorite from entering the atmosphere to exploding was played repeatedly, and an astonishing phenomenon was discovered. The meteorite was actually shattered by a mysterious object flying from behind. You know, at the flying speed of the meteorite at that time, even the fastest missile in the world could not catch up with it. Therefore, what object destroyed the meteorite has become an unsolved mystery.

Thinking of this matter at this moment, Sokov couldn't help but have doubts about his judgment: "Is what the military expert said to Yakov true? Otherwise, how can we explain the sudden appearance of later generations and the destruction of meteorites? What about the mysterious object? You know, if that meteorite fell in the city, the explosion would be powerful enough to wipe Chelyabinsk off the face of the earth.”

"Misha, what are you thinking about?" Yakov couldn't help but ask when he saw Sokov sitting in a daze again.

"Yasha, I'm thinking, is what you said that day true?" Sokov expressed his doubts: "If it's not true, then why did Comrade Ustinov suddenly run into the car? Going to Yabinsk?”

“Who told you that he went to Chelyabinsk?” But Yakov retorted: “There are so many cities in the Far East, who stipulates that you must go to Chelyabinsk when going to the Far East?”

“I thought about it carefully, and what you said that day might still be true.”

"What's true or false?" Yakov stood up and closed the door. He turned to Sokov and said, "Can you take what you said when you were drunk? Besides, when I told you about it that day, I also said this. The things were so fantastical that it was impossible to tell whether what the other party said was true or just nonsense made while drunk. "

  He poured a cup of hot tea, placed it in front of Sokov, and continued to ask: "By the way, have you signed the confidentiality agreement that Comrade Ustinov asked you to sign?"

“Since I handed the design drawings to Comrade Ustinov that day, I have never seen him again.” Sokov answered simply: “Of course I didn’t sign any confidentiality agreement.”

"It's right not to sign." Yakov continued: "As far as I know, the R&D team formed this time has about two hundred people, and there are more than a dozen generals alone. This shows that the higher-ups attach great importance to this matter. If you agree to join, I'm afraid you will have to live in isolation for a long time in the future. By then, not only will Asiya not be able to see you, but I'm afraid that when your children grow up, I haven’t had the chance to see you in one day.”

"Yasha, I have been mentally prepared for the situation you mentioned. However, the reason why I did not sign the confidentiality agreement is not because I am worried about how isolated I will be in the future, but because I am worried about my lack of ability. After joining the R&D team, , not only can’t help others, but it will hinder everyone.”

"What, you feel that your abilities are insufficient." Yakov laughed loudly after hearing what Sokov said: "When I was in the weapons and equipment department, the military experts around me, especially Bragonlavov General, I am full of praise for the weapons you designed. If you feel that your abilities are insufficient, I am afraid that those military industry experts will feel ashamed."

Hearing the name of Blagunlavov, Sokov suddenly thought of one person: Kalashnikov, the developer of the AK47 assault rifle, but it seemed that as he launched the assault rifle ahead of schedule, he overwhelmed Kalashnikov With his talent, the person who should have been famous all over the world has now become unknown.

Just when Sokov felt guilty for stealing Kalashnikov's work, Yakov suddenly asked him another embarrassing question: "Misha, do you know what the purpose of Agelina's going to Germany is?" ”

Sokov had asked Agelina the same question many times on different occasions. Unexpectedly, the other person either kept silent or talked about her, or did not tell him about her mission to Germany. Hearing Yakov's question at this moment, he slowly shook his head and said: "I'm sorry, I don't know. Agelina never told me what her mission to Germany was."

"As far as I know, in January of this year, Comrade Shcherbakov, then the intelligence chief, formulated a bold plan that will be of great help to our development in the next twenty years." Yakov said : "But regrettably, Shcherbakov died of a heart attack on May 10 this year, and the intelligence agency he led fell into chaos because it had no leader. Later, a new person took over and continued his original work. The plan failed because the timing was missed.”

“Yasha, can you tell me what the plan is?”

"I don't know." Yakov answered very simply: "I just know that there is such a plan, but I don't know the specific content. But according to my guess, Agelina should have planned it. One of the participants. She was ordered to sneak into the US-occupied area. Her mission should be to obtain information that is beneficial to us, or to cooperate with a hidden agent to obtain more important information. "

Sokov strongly agrees with Yakov's speculation. When he met General Patton at the Brandenburg Gate, Sokov could detect the change in Agelina's expression. If he hadn't chatted and laughed with Patton with his proficient English, she might have stayed by Patton's side. Make a lasting impression on the other person.

Thinking of this, Sokov realized that he might have made a mistake. He only used English to contact Barton directly, but this caused Agelina to reduce her chances of contacting Barton, causing a certain degree of damage to her upcoming mission. influence.

 “Where is Agelina now? Is she still in Berlin?”

"Yes." Sokov quickly replied: "She was assigned to the translation team under the Office of the Group Staff Office of the Occupation Forces in Germany, and she does some translation work every day."

 “When can I return to my country?”

"She has just been there a few days ago. Even if she wants to return to China, I'm afraid it will take a year or two."