Chapter 798 798 This is the first shift of the sixth
"Damn, what the hell is this ******?" Winston Churchill threw the picture on the table and stared at the MI6 officer in front of him, "Sir Mansfield, your task is to figure out what something like this is." ”
MI6 people generally refer to their head by C, but Churchill, as a member of an old aristocratic family, habitually referred to him as Sir Mansfield.
"Unfortunately, we don't know. We rechecked all the information related to Potsdam's secret research program, and found no clues, which are supposed to be the result of research projects that we only know by code name but not by what they are. In addition, from the analysis of the German maneuver, it is possible that the airship carrying this system came from the German Navy's sea surveillance program. ”
Churchill pursed his lips and was silent for a while before he said: "Sir, you have never let me down since I ordered that all the powers of the presumably infiltrated Royal Intelligence Service be given to MI5 and 6, but now, I think you are undermining the good record that has always been done. ”
"But we really don't know what it is, it almost makes people suspect that it was born in the last two months because of a genius who had a flash of inspiration."
Sir Mansfield probably didn't know that his judgment was surprisingly accurate, that it was something that had only been born in the last two months because of someone's brain, and that it was of little practical value, and that it would have no effect as long as it was left alone.
It's a pity that everyone present will not believe this, not even Mansfield himself.
Churchill sighed and turned his head to look at the chairman of the Royal Military Science Committee, which was urgently established after the start of the war due to the large number of advantages gained by the German army in relying on science and technology.
"What do you think it is, Sir Galahat?"
"This part looks like a coil," Garahat said, pointing to the part of the photo hanging underneath the airship, "and the orbit in the coil should be the launch rail of the projectile, and the coil can be launched after the coil is energized to produce a magnetic field...... Yes, I think this is a device for delivering ammunition using the theories of Maxwell and Lorenz. ”
"You mean, don't know gunpowder?" Winston Churchill asked with a frown.
"Yes, without gunpowder, electromagnetism will complete the entire acceleration of the projectile. Such a device is theoretically possible, and in fact the device we use today to accelerate atoms to bombard molecules uses a similar principle. ”
"Can we make this too?"
"No, sir." Galahat shook his head, "This thing requires extremely strong electricity to emit, and even if the coil is made from the material with the lowest known resistance, the resistive heat generated by passing that large amount of electricity into the coil will instantly melt the coil." There are a lot of other technical thresholds, and I don't think we can make the same weapons now. Actually, this picture is very strange, I don't see any wires that are enough to carry such a large amount of electricity from the ground to the airship, these wires all look too thin, so large that the amount of electricity will burn the wires in the first place. ”
"Wait a minute," said Sir Mansfield, who had been left to the side by Churchill, "that you can't make such a coil with all the materials available, can you?" ”
"As far as I know, yes."
Sir Galahat nodded, and Mansfield looked abruptly realised.
"What did you find?" Winston Churchill asked.
"If the existing materials can't do that, then it may have been produced by alchemy," Sir Mansfield said, and Sir Galahat nodded his head and muttered softly, "Reasonable speculation," while the intelligence officer ignored the scientists, continued, "and we have been trying to infiltrate the alchemical factories of the Germans in order to understand the content of their great progress in alchemy, and although our infiltration has not been successful, it is still possible to gather information on the periphery of the factory, such as the import of raw materials." , the movement of transportation equipment, etc., to determine the production status of the factory. We are pretty sure that a few weeks ago the alchemy factory in Germany underwent a large-scale production reshuffle that probably involved all the production departments. ”
"Fantastic," Churchill looked pleased, "and I knew you weren't going to let me down." However, does this mean that this weapon was really someone who came up with it on the spur of the moment? If it had been planned for a long time, it would not have been possible to suddenly adjust factory production on a large scale, right? ”
"No, Mr. Prime Minister," said Sir Galahat, "it is very likely that there has been a sudden breakthrough in scientific research because of a change in some factor, and perhaps the Germans have been stuck in a bottleneck before, but suddenly something ...... For example, their scientific expedition in Cyprus allowed them to make a breakthrough. It's entirely possible, sir. ”
Churchill was silent for a long time.
"They went to the island to investigate last year," said Minister Greenwood, "maybe they were ready to produce this thing at that time, but at that time they were still busy supplying the magic guide elements that were in short supply to the Zhan Ji troops on the Eastern Front - you know, although the Russians adopted a policy of clearing the field and retreating last year, the intensity of the fighting on the Eastern Front was not low, and the magic guide elements in the reserve of the German Zhan Ji troops were probably exhausted." They only adjusted the production line to produce this thing after they had completed the supply task. ”
"Possibly." Churchill nodded, then he stood up and turned to look out the window, "I just think it's strange, how could Lin Youde, who likes to hide behind the scenes, suddenly decide to go to the army in person, it turns out that he has this trump card in hand." Immediately upon his arrival, he could use this trump card and claim that 'the German army had repelled the mighty British navy under the wise leadership of Lin Youde', and if the Allied forces profited from the subsequent battles in the Eastern Mediterranean, it would also be credited to him. ”
"That's a good calculation." Attlee, the Lord of the Seals, nodded.
"Not bad," Churchill sneered, looking back at the room, "gentlemen, glad we have made some progress before Miss Roosevelt in heaven returns, so that when she returns, we will not lose face in the British Empire because we know nothing." As for how to deal with this thing, I think we should wait for Miss Roosevelt to land before discussing and deciding. ”
Originally, Charlotte Roosevelt planned to go to North Africa to fight with Orange Chenli, but Churchill tried his best to persuade her to stay in Britain and suppress the French goddess together with the British goddess, so that on the one hand, it could show that Britain and the United States were fighting side by side, and on the other hand, it also made it possible for some matters that needed to be discussed and decided by the high-level of the two countries to be dealt with immediately and more quickly. Moreover, the conditions for fighting on British soil would be much better than in North Africa, after all, the North French had already shrunk to Lunis, and the French Goddess was staying in Zunis, and the Allied Goddess would either go there by boat to fight them, or they would have to eat sand on land - either of which was uncomfortable.
Moreover, the contrast of power between England and France also made Charlotte's battle in England relatively easy, so that Charlotte had more energy to deal with official duties. In fact, Churchill was very worried that after Charlotte threw herself into the battlefield, someone in the United States would take advantage of Charlotte's mental burden to do something.
Churchill had urged Charlotte to ban Vale and "clean up the Chinese," but Charlotte refused.
Churchill knew very well that Vale was Lin Youde's company, and no matter what position this company was taking now, even if he was now being scolded as a traitor by all of China for forcefully suppressing the protests of the Chinese in Western Australia, Churchill believed that Vale was still Lin Youde's company, that is, Lin Youde's hidden stake.
In the previous years, when there was almost nothing to do, Churchill had been learning about Chinese culture, because it was impossible to deal with a Chinese without understanding Chinese culture. Churchill knew that China had an ancient tactic called bitter meat tricks, and that the Chinese were particularly adept at using cunning tactics such as counter-plots. The "Ancient War History" called "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" opened Churchill's eyes, and all kinds of wonderful strategies emerged one after another, making Churchill feel that the Trojan horse plan was simply too primitive.
Later, Churchill invited the Chinese notice that the Romance of the Three Kingdoms was a novel, but Churchill still felt that reading this book inspired him a lot.
In short, Charlotte can't be distracted too much, she must have room to deal with domestic affairs in the United States at all times, and she can't let Lin Youdeb's chess pieces play a role.
At this moment, Churchill felt that it was great that Charlotte was still in England, so that he could have the immediate support of the United States to take out the new weapon that had driven Cunningham away.
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In the evening, Charlotte returned from the battle and rested for a while? Roosevelt saw the stack of photographs in Churchill's office on Downing Street.
"Oh my God, what the hell is this?" Charlotte immediately asked the exact same question as Churchill during the day, but she immediately said, "Wait a minute, the coastline on the background of this photo, this is the coast of Cyprus?" So this is the new weapon that made Cunningham retreat? ”
"Yes." Churchill was shocked that Roosevelt recognized the coastline so quickly, but he did not expect that Charlotte's words would shock him even more.
"It looks like a big acceleration coil." Charlotte said, picking up one of the photos as she spoke, and observed carefully, "Well, it's an acceleration coil, and there is no cooling system, so it must be a low-resistance material made of alchemy." Strangely, according to Cunningham's report, the caliber of the artillery that attacked them was at least three hundred millimeters. And then if it was launched off the coast of Cyprus, I estimated...... Well, it takes a lot of electricity, I don't see the power plant, do you have more pictures? There should be a power plant on the ground. ”
Churchill's jaw was on the verge of falling to the ground.
"Could it be that the United States is also working on similar weapons?"
"Because we've been looking for a way to break through Kamiki's force field shield with a weapon operated by an ordinary person for a hundred years. And then Thomas? Edison and Nikolai? Tesla both believed that a normal gunpowder weapon might not be able to do this, but an electric weapon could, and Faraday supported them. By the way, the first to come up with this idea was James after emigrating to the United States from England? Clarke? Sir Maxwell. It was eighty years ago, no, eighty-one years. The Germans realized this idea...... That's great, but where is the power plant? Cyprus doesn't have such a large power plant...... Ah......h
Charlotte's expression suddenly became stern: "Eighty percent of them have made a breakthrough in that area of Cyprus. ”
Churchill suddenly felt a lot of pressure, and when he thought of the United States fighting quietly for a hundred years, he felt that this country was even more terrible than he imagined.
"Yes," said Churchill cautiously, "we ...... That's the perception too, huh. They made a breakthrough, well. ”
(Take advantage of the extra free part to arrange a flower, it's already 3500 in front, and you're going to have to spend an extra 500 words to subscribe anyway.) In the past few days, because of Sister Pao's matter, a bunch of scumbags have been exposed in the book review area. But today I met one of the most speechless ones. This threw out an earth-shattering theology: "In reality, the magnetic induction coil is fixed to the object, otherwise it will be squeezed away by the magnetic field as soon as the electricity is applied." ”
I don't know where to complain about this theology, so the four-wheel drive cars we played with when we were kids didn't need a motor, as long as we wrapped a coil around the butt of the car and connected it to the battery, the coil would be constantly "squeezed out" by the magnetic field generated by itself, so as to push the car away, right...... Nima was from all the electromagnetism masters he had started with Maxwell, and was on her way to beat up the one who said it.
I think this guy probably thinks that as long as it's metal, it's a magnet, oh no, he also said before that the magnetic field can "tear the human body" with "gravity and repulsion", so he probably thinks that every qiē in the world is a magnet hahahahaha. I can't think of any way to refute him, and Lorenz can't refute him even when he comes to debate with him, so helpless hahahahaha)