Chapter 672: Heavy Thunderstorm Thirty-six
Although France and Germany are ostensibly one family, it is probably not possible to let the arrogant French take out their housekeeping treasures to help Germany fight the world, without sufficient benefits and the prospect of victory. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The benefits of supporting France in indigenizing French North Africa were large enough, but the prospect of German victory after the Soviet Union entered the war seemed uncertain.
That's why Hersmann came up with the idea of holding a prisoner of war parade to show the great German victory in Poland.
But as Weygand said, Stalin would soon hold the same POW parade in Moscow, and Stalin had more Polish POWs in his hands!
It seems that with more than 10,000 Russian prisoners of war, there is still no way to completely dispel Wei Gang's doubts, but fortunately, Hersman has some other secret weapons of black technology that can be used to show off.
"General, the Red Army did capture many Poles, but that still could not save the Soviet Union from its inevitable defeat." Hersmann appeared confident and said to Admiral Weygand, "Because we have some secret weapons of great power that will soon succeed, and which are decisive for the war." With it, we can definitely win. ”
The secret weapon of decisive significance? Maxim. Weygand had heard a lot of such rumors, and he also knew that many French physicists and chemists were under German control after the 1940 Western Front campaign, and it was likely that they were engaged in some kind of secret weapons research.
"What is the secret weapon?" Wei Gang asked.
"Some terrifying weapon that can kill all the inhabitants of the entire city," Hersman's tone was cold, "and defenseless!" ”
"Can kill all the inhabitants of the entire city? Still defenseless? Wei Gang sneered, "Since you have such a weapon, you must not need our cannons?" ”
"Admiral," Hersman looked at Wei Gang seriously, "we really have such weapons...... But these weapons are too cruel to be used in human cannibalism. We are not willing to use it as a last resort. ”
"Oh?" Wei Gang looked at the German Imperial Marshal in front of him, who could only be regarded as ordinary in appearance and did not have much of the temperament of a murderer. "Can you tell me what weapon it is, then?"
"It was a weapons system," Hersman said, "including a lethal poison gas and a ballistic missile powered by a rocket engine that could travel up to 4.8 times the speed of sound, an indefensible weapon that could be used to destroy Moscow!" ”
Hessman was talking about sarin gas and the A-series rockets, which were the historical V2 ballistic missiles.
"Ballistics at 4.8 times the speed of sound...... Missile? "Wei Gang didn't react much when he heard the poison gas, and the Germans have always been very poisonous, which is not surprising. But a ballistic missile with a speed of 4.8 times the speed of sound scared him.
He knows that the speed of sound is 1,224 kilometers per hour, and 4.8 times the speed of sound is more than 5,800 kilometers per hour! If it can really fly so fast, anti-aircraft guns and planes will definitely not be able to stop it, at least at least any kind of anti-aircraft artillery and aircraft will not be able to shoot it down now.
The A-series rocket project began in 1932 by Wald. Captain Dornberg (now a lieutenant general) was the overall leader of the project, while the technical head was Werner. Feng. Dr. Braun.
After 10 years of research and experimentation, the A-series rocket has advanced from the A-1 project to the A-5 phase. The weight of the rocket has also developed from 150 kilograms at the beginning to more than a dozen tons now, and a warhead weighing 1 ton can be launched to a distance of 320 kilometers, and the fastest flight speed of the missile can reach Mach 4.8. But the A-5 rocket still can't reach Moscow, and at most it can hit Leningrad or London.
However, Hersmann did not have to hand over all his hole cards to the French, and what A-5 could not do, A-6 and A-7 could do sooner or later. It's really not possible, you can also develop air-launched V1 missiles, just bring V1 missiles to the vicinity of Moscow with JU288.
In addition, the A-5 rocket, which weighs 13 tons, has a total length of 14 meters and a diameter of 1.65 meters, is a big guy, and the production cost will naturally not be low. Although the speed of up to Mach 4.8 can break through all existing air defense means, it is still a bit more than worth the cost to drop a 1-ton conventional bomb at such a high cost.
Moreover, the current technology of rocket guidance is very problematic, and in previous experiments with the A-4 rocket, the error could exceed 10 km! Such accuracy makes it simply impossible for a ballistic missile to be used as a tactical weapon. And the 1-ton bomb load and high cost make it unable to become a cheap and high-quality strategic weapon.
The only solution, of course, is to let the A-5 rocket carry an unconventional warhead, and the German "Bomb No. 94" has not yet been developed, and it is unlikely that the weight of the initial "Bomb No. 94" will be less than 1 ton.
Therefore, the sarin poison invented by Farben in 1938 became a relatively ideal ballistic missile charge. Hersmann wondered why the historical Hitler did not use sarin against Britain, the United States or the Soviet Union until his demise. Was he afraid that the enemy would retaliate against Germany in the same way? It seems that the Führer of the Third German Reich was not really a madman yet.
But Hersmann was not as kind as Hitler, he was ready to use sarin poison at any time! As long as the enemy could threaten the survival of the German Empire, there was no weapon that could not be used.
Before the successful development of the "94 bomb", sarin was the most deterrent weapon of mass destruction in Germany's arsenal. And the combination of sarin and ballistic missiles is a weapon of mass destruction that is simply impossible to defend against!
"It is indeed 4.8 times the speed of sound, and this missile has now entered the final stage of development."
With his hands behind his back, Hersman raised his head and looked east, his gaze as if he had penetrated the thick stone wall and cast it all the way to distant Moscow. "The straight-line distance from eastern Baltic to Moscow is just over 700 kilometers, which is well within the range of such ballistic missiles," he said. Maybe just 100 such ballistic missiles, dropping about 100 tons of sarin on Moscow, would turn the capital of the Bolsheviks into a city of death! ”
100 tons of sarin can turn Moscow into a city of death? Admiral Weygand looked at Hersman suspiciously.
Hersmann glanced at the French army general with a homicidal gaze, and then added: "Not only Moscow, but perhaps London will also become a battlefield where sarin poison is raging!" If the British do not give up their delusions of destroying us, then we will not hesitate to use powerful weapons of destruction to destroy them!
And samples of sarin poison are ready...... There are 100 grams, which can theoretically poison 100,000 people, and it does not need to be inhaled, and it can also invade the human body through the skin. Admiral, you can bring these poisons back to France and give them to French scientists for study. ”
100 grams can poison 100,000 people? Is this poison really that powerful? Admiral Wei Gang looked at Hersman in a daze, no matter how he looked at it, he felt that the other party had the potential to become a perverted murderer.
Hersman smiled indifferently, "Of course, it's not that powerful in actual combat. But we already have a lot of sarin poison in stock, 1,000 tons! 100 tons of them are for Moscow, and another 100 for London! They will be launched with ballistic missiles that are simply defenseless, killing hundreds of thousands of people! ”
And to whom is there another 800 tons of sarin poison? Admiral Weygand looked at Hersmann and muttered in his heart, could there be 100 tons as a gift for the people of Paris?
"Admiral, in early July we will test-launch a ballistic missile, at the rocket test site in Penemünde." Hersmann paused, and then said, "I hope that the Admiral will be able to represent France at the Penemünde Experimental Site to observe the rocket launch...... This is a very important moment for all of humanity! ”
"Definitely, I'm going to have to come and see it." Admiral Wei Gang smiled unnaturedly.
"Oh, yes." Suddenly, Hersmann said, "Admiral, do you know the Joliot-Curie couple?" ”
Joliot-Curie is a "joint surname", the same Heinsberg-Hersmann that Hersmann now uses.
This type of joint surname was very common among the high-ranking nobles of Europe, and generally appeared after a junior nobleman of lower status married a female aristocratic heir of a higher status. And the joint surname of Joliot-Curie is because of the "princess" of the French scientific community, Irene. Curie and the young scientist Joriot emerged.
The couple of scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for the discovery of artificial radioisotopes. Their theories and practices in artificial radioisotopes are also of great significance to the study of the atomic bomb.
And after 1937, Jorio. The Curies began to work on transuranic elements - the study of nuclear fission that was very easy to discover!
Didn't wait for Yorio though. France lost the war when the Curies discovered the nuclear fission phenomenon, and both of them were kidnapped by German agents and disappeared from France.
"Jorio. The Curies in Germany? Weygand actually knew that the two men had fallen into the hands of the Germans, and now he was knowingly asking.
"Yes, they are now conducting important scientific research for Germany, research in secret weapons."
Hersmann nodded and said solemnly: "You can meet them in Penemünde, or you can have Professor Langevin, a member of the French Academy of Sciences (also a master physicist), meet them...... I suppose that when you return to Paris from Penemünde, you will make a proposal to President Petain to immediately declare war on the Soviet Union! (To be continued.) )