Chapter 1247: Victory Day in Europe

Both sides of the newly completed 50-kilometer-long east-west axis of Berlin were already filled with citizens wearing festive costumes and various old military uniforms. This east-west axis is one of the twin axes in Berlin's four-ring twin-axle transport network planned in Germania. It starts from Worcestermark in the western suburbs of Berlin and runs through Armystrasse, Adolf Hitlerplatz, Kaiserallee, Bismarckstrasse, Königsplatz, Berlin Technical College, Charlottenburgstrasse, Herschmannplatz, Brandenburg Gate, and Bodhi. Unterstrasse, Frankfurter Tor and Frankfurter Strasse.

All of these roads have been widened and renovated, work that began in 1935 and was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second Time War. By 1944, before the armistice on the Eastern Front, construction began again, and a large number of "Russian migrant workers" were recruited to participate in the construction. With sufficient labor and mechanical equipment, the project progressed rapidly and was basically completed by May 1945. The widened road is spacious and smooth, with the width of the road exceeding 100 meters. On both sides of the road, evergreen trees with good growth have been transplanted, which looks extraordinary from a high position.

At the same time, the construction of Berlin's north-south axis project with a width of 120 meters is also intensifying. The two ends of this axis are the newly built Berlin North and South Railway Stations. In front of the South Station, a grand Triumphal Arch is planned to be built. This Arc de Triomphe was originally built to commemorate the First World War (it defeated the construction of the Arc de Triomphe, It’s really a bit thick-skinned), but now it is changed to commemorate the victory of World War II! According to the design blueprint, the Arc de Triomphe is 117 meters high and 170 meters wide. It will be engraved with the names of all European soldiers who died in World War I and World War II (as many as millions), and will be decorated with works by the famous sculptor Arnold Blake. of statue. After the outbreak of World War II, the Arc de Triomphe project was temporarily suspended and was not restarted until the armistice on the Eastern Front in 1944. Now the main body of the Arc de Triomphe has been completed, but the project of engraving names has not yet ended.

Where the east-west axis intersects, there is Berlin’s new urban center. According to the Germania Plan, Berlin’s urban area will be greatly expanded. The west of Berlin’s north-south axis is basically a new district. Here, the new Berlin will appear. The landmark building, the Great Hall of the People, will be more than 200 meters high and 250 meters in diameter, 16 times larger than St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. When completed, the Great Hall can accommodate 150,000 to 180,000 people, and will also become one of the world's largest The largest enclosed space.

Now that the construction of the Great Hall of the People has begun, thousands of workers from distant Russia are busy all day long, under the command of German engineers, adding bricks and tiles to the great miracle of National Socialism.

But today, on this day of victory in the world war, on this day of triumph for the people of all Europe, builders from Russia, together with Berlin citizens and people from various European countries working and studying in Berlin, gathered on the east-west axis of Berlin On both sides of the roads and in each square, with various moods, waiting for the victor's team and the arrival of a new thousand-year empire.

Zoya Kasmodemyanskaya, an exchange student from St. Petersburg State University, was also standing in front of the Great Hall of the People construction site with extremely complicated emotions. As an exchange student sent by St. Petersburg State University to Humboldt University Law School, she undoubtedly belongs to the future elite of Russia - everyone knows that Her Majesty the Queen does not trust officials of the former Soviet Union, and she also knows that the "old white men" who follow her "It has no great use except loyalty, and they don't understand the situation in the Soviet Union. Many people's thinking is still stuck in the old imperial era. Those who can truly serve her empire are the new generation of people like Zoya who understand the old Soviet Union and are educated in the new ideas of national socialism.

However, the split of the Russian motherland (the Soviet motherland) into two made her feel very painful. During the summer vacation of 1944, she went back to Moscow, which had just been "liberated", and found that it was almost an empty city. The area around the house where she used to live and the school where she used to attend were all empty and empty. It turns out that when the Bolsheviks evacuated Moscow, they took all the residents and soldiers in the city to Siberia and Central Asia, including Zoya's mother and brother... Of course, it is not ruled out that they were killed in the cruel war. !

On the one hand, he has a bright future, on the other hand, his relatives are separated and the country is divided. Naturally, Zoya and the "new Russians" like her have mixed feelings about the upcoming United States of Europe, with both expectations and helplessness.

The Brandenburg Gate east of the Great Hall of the People construction site is the center of the Victory Day celebrations. Five or six kilometers of viewing platforms have been erected in front of and on both sides of the Brandenburg Gate. In the middle are the European Community countries and the Roman Empire. , New Asbania, and the place where big figures from Japan, a friendly country, appeared. Most of them have already arrived. The representative of Japan is King Higashino Higashino. He is a royal army general, graduated from the French Army University, and can speak fluent French. Now he is standing next to French Prime Minister Darlan, Marshal Darlan, talking to Darlan in French about Japan's nuclear weapons development...

He is a core figure in the Japanese Army, and of course he knows how slow the development of Japan's nuclear weapons is. Although the electromagnetic separation device provided by Germany is effective and can indeed extract high-enriched uranium-235. But the efficiency of extraction is a bit low, measured in grams! Although in the past few months, Japan's "Ren Plan" agency has spared no effort to build several sets of electromagnetic separation devices and consumed a lot of precious electricity, but only 10 grams of weapons-grade uranium-235 have been extracted. Now it needs about 49,990 grams of high-enriched uranium-235 for the Japanese Empire to build an atomic bomb. According to the current progress, it will take about 2000 years-the electromagnetic separation device that Hirschman gave to the Japanese was originally a tool for separating isotopes in the laboratory, and the output was calculated in grams. In later generations, it was not considered a tool for making atomic bombs.

Oh, the Japanese have to add another condition to successfully use electromagnetic separation to collect enough uranium-235 to make an atomic bomb, that is, the Chinese Red Army is willing to return the only uranium mine in Japan, located in Hwanghae Province on the Korean Peninsula, to them... Otherwise, without uranium mines, even if Yoshio Nishina has 10,000 years, he will not be able to make an atomic bomb.

However, the Japanese government has decided to take on the big hat of "nuclear possession" first. The day after Germany used atomic bombs on the battlefield, Yamamoto Isoroku's government publicly announced that Japan has found the correct way to make atomic bombs and has begun to make them!

Yamamoto Isoroku hopes to use the atomic bomb that will only be available in about 2,000 years to bluff the three opponents of the United States, China and the Soviet Union, and win a precious breathing time for Japan. In this way, the Japanese Empire can calmly digest the huge results achieved in the war.

However, it is not easy for Japan to digest their results. Because this world war not only destroyed the world hegemony of the British Empire and defeated American imperialism. At the same time, it also destroyed a relatively free trade environment. A barter trade that was established by Germany before the war and was not aimed at accumulating a surplus would become the main rule of international trade.

It was not a real barter, but meant that the trade of various countries (or economic communities) was generally balanced, and international settlement was carried out with the goal of balance. In principle, deficits and surpluses were not allowed.

At the same time, the flow of capital between countries (or economic communities) was also strictly controlled.

And this system was extremely unfavorable for Japan!

A high-level trade delegation also arrived in Berlin with Prince Toshihiko Higashikuni. The purpose of Prime Minister Isoroku Yamamoto sending this delegation was to promote a trade agreement that was beneficial to both the United States of Europe and Japan. Yamamoto hoped that in the next 10 years, he could borrow at least 5 billion European marks from the European Community in the name of "rubber loans" and "silk loans" (that is, borrowing money first and then repaying it with rubber and silk) to introduce advanced technology and equipment.

However, such a very reasonable request was rejected by the European Community Commission because the European Community was preparing to support the rubber and silk production in India, Pakistan, and Ceylon, so it could not digest up to 5 billion European marks of rubber and silk.

Although the two British empires of India and Pakistan have not yet restored peace, the British Indian authorities have already formulated a long-term economic development plan, which will be the raw material supply base and commodity dumping market for Europe.

In order to allow the people of India and Pakistan to have sufficient financial resources, it is necessary to support the industries there! Therefore, Japanese silk and Southeast Asian rubber are unlikely to have a fair chance to compete.

Under the guidance of national socialism and fascist economic theories, there is no such thing as free trade and fair competition between countries.

As for the export of technology and capital, there are also many controls. What Japan can get from the European Community is really very little.

It can be said that Japan is now facing a worse international trade environment than before the war!

"Long live victory!"

"Long live the Emperor!"

"Long live the United States of Europe!"

"Hi! Hitler!"

When the figures of German Emperor Wilhelm III, Prime Minister Adolf Hitler, Imperial Marshal Hersmann, Roman Caesar Mussolini, Russian Empress Olga, British Queen Elizabeth II, French President Petain and others appeared in people's eyes, the loudest cheers suddenly broke out around the Brandenburg Gate. Then, on both sides of the entire Berlin East-West Axis, everyone suddenly fell into madness.

Amid the cheers of the people, the parade formations of the Wehrmacht, SS and other European Community countries that had assembled on the wide road of Wustermark (the western starting point of the Berlin East-West Axis) in the western suburbs of Berlin to participate in the victory parade began to rumble forward to the sound of the majestic German military song "Long Live Victory".

Walking in the front is the German Wehrmacht paratroopers. Since the beginning of the World War, these elite soldiers, known as the "Green Ghosts", have been the vanguard of the German Empire's conquests. Even in the Battle of Newfoundland, which was known as the last battle of the World War, a large number of German paratroopers could still be seen.

Lieutenant Brandt, who had just returned from the front and was still full of the smell of gunpowder, was now among these German paratroopers. Because of his outstanding performance on the island of Newfoundland, he received another shining blue Max Medal and was recommended to the Wehrmacht Air Force Officer School. This time he did not shirk his responsibility, because the world war had such an outcome, and even he, a socialist who loved peace, freedom and democracy, had lost confidence in the prospect of the failure of National Socialism.

Maybe this empire will really exist for 1,000 years? Riding on a half-track armored personnel carrier, Brandt looked at the people holding swastika flags and cheering like crazy on both sides of the wide street, and suddenly a feeling of pride rose in his heart-he was also a contributor to this thousand-year empire!

On the third floor of the Berlin Royal Library on Unter den Linden, in a reading room close to the street, a group of special audiences were watching the German Victory Day parade.

They all wore slightly old military uniforms, not the uniforms of the German army or any of Germany's friendly countries, but American military uniforms. They are all American prisoners of war, but not ordinary prisoners of war, but senior prisoners of war living in the Belvedere concentration camp in Vienna.

Admiral Halsey, Lieutenant General Stilwell and Colonel LeMay are now in this room, standing by the window, staring blankly at the various German armored vehicles passing by, the heroic and proud Nazi soldiers standing on the half-track armored personnel carriers, and the various German war eagles whizzing through the sky. All people came to the same conclusion in their minds.

This is the victory of National Socialism and Fascism! This is probably the truth that the United States needs after the defeat!

At the same time, on the other side of the earth in Japan, it is already late at night on May 28, 1945.

However, Japanese Prime Minister Isoroku Yamamoto did not go to bed now, nor did he care about the German Victory Day Parade - the current Japanese Empire has not won yet!

He is now in the underground meeting room of the Japanese Prime Minister's official residence, waiting for the victory report from the Japanese Defense General Headquarters and the Navy. Because they knew in advance that the bombers from the United States, the Soviet Union and China would attack, all the Defense General Headquarters and the Navy have mobilized a large number of "Moonlight" night fighters, deployed at the airports of the Noto Peninsula and Niigata Prefecture, ready to intercept the invading bombers from the United States, the Soviet Union and China at any time.

The "Moonlight" fighter is a twin-engine, two-seat night fighter, which is improved from the Japanese Navy's Type 2 Land Reconnaissance. It has two 20mm cannons that can fire diagonally upwards. This is a special cannon layout invented by Lieutenant Colonel Kozono of the 251st Air Force of the Japanese Navy, which allows the aircraft to fire upwards in level flight. In normal air combat, this function is useless. However, it can help fighters with poor high-altitude performance attack long-range bombers that fly higher than themselves (if you want to die faster, you can also attack high-altitude fighters such as P47). It is the only weapon used by the Japanese Navy to deal with long-range bombers that can fly high, such as B-17.