Chapter 648 Heavy Thunderstorm Thirty-Six

Although France and Germany are one family on the surface, it is impossible to let the proud French take out their treasures to help Germany conquer the world without sufficient benefits and the prospect of victory.

The benefits of supporting France to localize French North Africa are great enough, but the prospect of Germany's victory seems to have become uncertain after the Soviet Union entered the war.

So Hessmann came up with the idea of ​​holding a prisoner parade to show Germany's great victory in Poland.

But as Weygand said, Stalin will soon hold the same prisoner parade in Moscow, and Stalin has more Polish prisoners of war!

It seems that relying on more than 10,000 Russian prisoners of war is still not enough to completely dispel Weygand's doubts. Fortunately, Hessmann has some other black technology secret weapons that can be used to show off.

"General, the Red Army did capture many Poles, but that still can't save the Soviet Union from the fate of failure." Hessmann seemed confident. He said to General Weygand, "Because we have some powerful secret weapons that will soon succeed. It is of decisive significance to the war. With it, we will definitely win."

Decisive secret weapons? Maxim Weygand had heard a lot of such rumors. He also knew that many French physicists and chemists were controlled by Germany after the Western Front in 1940, and they were probably working on some secret weapons.

"What secret weapons?" Weygand asked.

"Some weapons that can kill all the residents in the city," Hessman said in a cold tone, "and there is no defense!"

"Can kill all the residents in the city? And there is no defense?" Weygand sneered, "Since you have such weapons, you don't need our cannons?"

"Admiral," Hessman looked at Weygand seriously, "We really have such weapons... but these weapons are too cruel and should not be used for human killing. We are unwilling to use them unless it is absolutely necessary."

"Oh?" Weygand looked at the German Imperial Marshal in front of him, who was only ordinary in appearance and did not have much murderous temperament. "Then can you tell me what weapon it is?"

"It is a weapon system," Hersman said, "including a highly lethal poison gas and a ballistic missile driven by a rocket engine that can fly at a speed of 4.8 times the speed of sound. This is an undefended weapon that can be used to destroy Moscow!"

Hersman was talking about sarin gas and A series rockets, which are the V2 ballistic missiles in history.

"A ballistic missile at 4.8 times the speed of sound?" Wei Gang didn't react much when he heard about the poison gas. The Germans' poison gas has always been very powerful, so there is nothing strange about it. But the ballistic missile at 4.8 times the speed of sound scared him.

He knew that the speed of sound is 1224 kilometers per hour, and 4.8 times the speed of sound is more than 5800 kilometers per hour! If it can really fly that fast, anti-aircraft guns and airplanes will definitely not be able to stop it. At least no anti-aircraft guns or airplanes can shoot it down now.

The A series rocket project began in 1932. Captain Wald Dornberg (now a lieutenant general) who knew some rocket knowledge in the army served as the general manager of the project, and the technical director was Dr. Werner von Braun.

After 10 years of research and experiments, the A series rocket has advanced from the A-1 project to the A-5 phase. The weight of the rocket has also increased from 150 kilograms at the beginning to more than ten tons now. It can launch a warhead weighing 1 ton to 320 kilometers away, and the missile can reach a maximum flight speed of Mach 4.8. But the A-5 rocket still can't reach Moscow, and can only attack Leningrad or London at most.

However, Hessman doesn't have to let the French know all his trump cards, and what the A-5 can't do, the A-6 and A-7 can do sooner or later. If it doesn't work, you can also develop air-launched V1 missiles and use Ju288 to bring the V1 missiles to the vicinity of Moscow.

In addition, the A-5 rocket weighs 13 tons, is 14 meters long, and has a diameter of 1.65 meters. It is a big guy, so the production cost will 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 unprofitable to drop a 1-ton conventional bomb at such a high cost.

Moreover, the current rocket guidance technology is very problematic. In the previous A-4 rocket experiment, the error may exceed 10 kilometers! Such accuracy makes it impossible for ballistic missiles to be used as a tactical weapon. And the 1-ton payload and high cost make it impossible to become a cheap and good strategic weapon.

The only solution, of course, is to let the A-5 rocket carry unconventional warheads. At present, Germany's "No. 94 bomb" has not been successfully developed, and the weight of the initial "No. 94 bomb" is unlikely to be less than 1 ton.

Therefore, the sarin poison invented by Farben in 1938 has become a more ideal ballistic missile charge. Hersman didn't know why Hitler in history didn't use sarin poison against Britain, the United States or the Soviet Union until his demise? Is he worried that the enemy will retaliate against Germany in the same way? It seems that the head of the Third Reich is not really crazy.

However, Hersmann is not as kind as Hitler. He is ready to use sarin at any time! As long as the enemy may threaten the survival of the German Empire, there is no weapon that cannot be used.

Before the successful development of the "94 bomb", sarin was the most deterrent weapon of mass destruction in the German arsenal. The combination of sarin and ballistic missiles is a weapon of mass destruction that is impossible to defend against!

"It is indeed 4.8 times the speed of sound. This missile has now entered the final stage of development."

Hersmann put his hands behind his back, raised his head and looked eastward. His eyes seemed to penetrate the thick stone wall and reach the distant Moscow. He said: "The straight-line distance from the eastern Baltic to Moscow is only more than 700 kilometers, which is completely within the range of this ballistic missile. Maybe only 100 such ballistic missiles can drop about 100 tons of sarin into Moscow, and the capital of the Bolsheviks can be turned into a city of death!"

100 tons of sarin can turn Moscow into a city of death? Admiral Weygand looked at Hersmann doubtfully.

Hersman glanced at the French Army General with a murderous look, and then said: "Not only Moscow, but perhaps London will also become a battlefield where sarin is rampant! If the British do not give up the delusion of destroying us, then we will not hesitate to use powerful weapons of mass destruction to destroy them!

And the sample of sarin is ready... There are 100 grams, which can theoretically kill 100,000 people, and it does not need to be inhaled, it can also penetrate the human body through the skin. Admiral, you can take these poisons back to France and let French scientists study them."

100 grams can kill 100,000 people? Is this poison really that powerful? Admiral Weygand stared at Hersman blankly, and felt that he had the potential to become a perverted murderer.

Hersman smiled indifferently, "Of course, it's not that powerful in actual combat. But we have stockpiled a lot of sarin, 1,000 tons! 100 tons of it are for Moscow, and another 100 tons are for London! They will be launched with ballistic missiles that are completely defenseless, killing hundreds of thousands or millions of people!"

Who are the other 800 tons of sarin for? Admiral Weygand looked at Hersman, wondering if 100 tons are a gift for the people of Paris?

"Admiral, we will test-fire a ballistic missile in early July at the rocket test site in Peenemünde." Hersman paused, and then said, "I hope that Admiral, you can represent France to watch the rocket launch at the Peenemünde test site... This is a very important moment for all mankind!"

"Of course, I must come and see." Admiral Weygand smiled unnaturally.

"Oh, by the way." Hessman suddenly said, "Admiral, do you know the Joliot-Curie couple?"

Joliot-Curie is a "joint surname", just like Heinsberg-Hessman, which Hessman is using now.

This joint surname is very common among high-ranking nobles in Europe, usually appearing when a lower-ranking noble marries a female noble heir with a higher status. The Joliot-Curie joint surname appeared because of the combination of Irène Curie, the "Princess" of the French scientific community, and the young scientist Joliot.

This scientist couple won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for discovering artificial radioactive isotopes. And their theories and practices in artificial radioactive isotopes are also of great significance to the research of atomic bombs.

After 1937, the Joliot-Curies began to engage in research on transuranium elements - this is a very easy research to discover nuclear fission!

However, before the Joliot-Curies discovered the phenomenon of nuclear fission, France lost the war, and the two of them were kidnapped by German spies and disappeared from France.

"Are the Joliot-Curie couple in Germany?" Weygand actually knew that the two had fallen into the hands of the Germans, and he was asking even though he knew the answer.

"Yes, they are now conducting important scientific research for Germany, research on secret weapons."

Hersmann nodded and said solemnly: "You can meet them in Peenemünde, or you can ask Professor Langevin, a member of the French Academy of Sciences (also a master physicist), to meet them... I think when you return to Paris from Peenemünde, you will propose to President Pétain to declare war on the Soviet Union immediately!"