The Rise of the Third Reich

Although France and Germany are one family on the surface, it is impossible for the arrogant French to use their housekeeping treasures to help Germany conquer the world without sufficient benefits and the prospect of victory.

The benefits of supporting France's localization of French North Africa were large enough, but the prospect of Germany's inevitable victory after the Soviet Union entered the war seemed uncertain.

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

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

It seems that with more than 10,000 Russian prisoners of war, there is still no way to completely dispel Weigang's doubts. 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 couldn't save the Soviet Union from defeat." Hessmann seemed confident. He said to General Weygand, "Because we have some extremely powerful secret weapons. Success will soon be achieved, and it will be decisive for the war. With it, we will definitely win."

The decisive secret weapon? Maxime Weygand had heard many such rumors. He also knew that many French physicists and chemists were controlled by Germany after the Battle of the Western Front in 1940. They were probably engaged in some secret weapons research. .

"What is the secret weapon?" Wei Gang asked.

"Something that could kill all the residents of the entire city," Hessmann's tone was cold, "and there's no way to defend against it!"

"Can you kill all the residents in the entire city? Still unable to defend yourself?" Wei Gang sneered, "Since you have such a weapon, you don't need our cannons?"

"Admiral," Hessman looked at Wei Gang seriously, "we do have such weapons... but these weapons are too cruel and should not be used for human beings to kill each other. Unless it is a last resort, we are Not willing to use it.”

"Oh?" Wei Gang looked at the German Imperial Marshal in front of him, who had an ordinary appearance and did not have much of the temperament of a murderous devil. "So can you tell me what weapon that is?"

"That 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 4.8 times the speed of sound. This is an indefensible weapon that can be used Come and destroy Moscow!”

Hersman was talking about sarin gas and the A-series rockets. The A-series rockets are also the V2 ballistic missiles in history.

"A ballistic missile with a speed of 4.8 times the speed of sound?" Wei Gang didn't react at all when he heard the poison gas. The Germans' poison gas has always been very powerful, so there's nothing surprising about it. But the ballistic missile with a speed of 4.8 times the speed of sound shocked 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 that fast, anti-aircraft guns and aircraft will definitely not be able to stop it. At least any current anti-aircraft guns and aircraft cannot shoot it down.

The A-series rocket project began in 1932. Captain Wald Dornberger (now a lieutenant general) in the army, who knew some rocket knowledge, served as the overall person in charge of the project, and the technical person in charge was Werner Feng. .Dr. Braun.

After 10 years of research and experimentation, the A-series rockets have advanced from the A-1 project to the A-5 project. The weight of the rocket has also grown from 150 kilograms at the beginning to more than a dozen tons now. It can launch a warhead weighing 1 ton 320 kilometers away. The fastest flight speed of the missile can reach Mach 4.8. But the A-5 rocket still cannot reach Moscow. It can attack Leningrad or London at most.

However, Hessmann does not have to let the French know all his cards, and what A-5 cannot do, A-6 and A-7 will be able to do it sooner or later. If that doesn't work, we can also develop air-launched V1 missiles and use Ju288 to bring the V1 missiles near Moscow.

In addition, the A-5 rocket weighs 13 tons, has a total length of 14 meters, and a diameter of 1.65 meters. It is a big rocket, 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 outweighing the gain 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 a ballistic missile to be used as a tactical weapon. The 1-ton bomb load and high cost prevent it from becoming a cheap and high-quality strategic weapon.

The only solution, of course, is to allow the A-5 rocket to carry unconventional warheads. Currently, Germany's "Bomb No. 94" has not yet been successfully developed, and the initial "Bomb No. 94" is unlikely to weigh less than 1 ton.

Therefore, the sarin poison invented by Farben in 1938 has become an ideal ballistic missile charge. Hersman wonders why Hitler in history did not use sarin to deal with Britain, the United States or the Soviet Union until his death? Is he worried that the enemy will use the same method to retaliate against Germany? It seems that the head of the German Third Reich is not really a madman.

But Hessmann is not as kind as Hitler. He is always ready to use sarin poison! As long as the enemy threatened the existence of the German Empire, no weapon was off limits.

Before the successful research of "Bomb 94", sarin poison 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 cannot be defended at all!

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

Hessman put his hands behind his back and raised his head to look eastward. His eyes seemed to penetrate the thick stone wall and reach far away in Moscow. He said: "The straight-line distance from the eastern Baltic states to Moscow is only more than 700 kilometers, which is completely within the range of this ballistic missile. Perhaps only 100 such ballistic missiles can drop about 100 tons of sarin poison into Moscow , can turn the Bolshevik capital into a city of death!”

Can 100 tons of sarin turn Moscow into a city of death? Admiral Weigang looked at Hessmann suspiciously.

Hersman glanced at the French army general with a look that was unique to a murderer, and then said: "Not only Moscow, but perhaps London will also become a battlefield where sarin poisons are raging! If the British don't give up their delusion of destroying us, , then we will not hesitate to use powerful destructive weapons to destroy them!

The sarin poison sample has been prepared... It contains 100 grams, which can theoretically poison 100,000 people. It does not need to be inhaled and can invade the human body through the skin. Admiral, you can take these poisons back to France and give them to French scientists for research. "

100 grams can poison 100,000 people? Is this poison really that powerful? Admiral Wei Gang looked at Hessmann blankly, no matter how he looked at him, he felt that he had the potential to become a perverted murderer.

Hessmann smiled indifferently, "Of course, it's not that powerful in actual combat. But we have stockpiled a lot of sarin poison, 1,000 tons! Among them, 100 tons are prepared for Moscow, and 100 tons are prepared for London. Yes! They will launch insurmountable ballistic missiles and kill hundreds of thousands of people!"

Then who are the 800 tons of sarin poison prepared for? Admiral Weygand looked at Hessmann and murmured in his heart, could the 100 tons be a gift for the people of Paris?

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

"Definitely, I must come and take a look." Admiral Wei Gang smiled unnaturally.

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

Joliot-Curie was a joint surname, just like Heinsberg-Hersmann, who is now used by Heissmann.

This kind of joint surname is very common among high-level nobles in Europe. It usually occurs after a lower-status minor nobleman marries a higher-status female noble heir. The joint surname Joliot-Curie appeared because of the combination of the "Princess" Irène Curie in the French scientific community and the young scientist Joliot.

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

After 1937, Joliot Curie and his wife began to engage in research on transuranic elements - this is research that is very easy to discover nuclear fission!

However, before Joliot Curie and his wife discovered the phenomenon of nuclear fission, France lost the war. The two of them were kidnapped by German agents and disappeared from France.

"Joliot and Mrs. Curie are in Germany?" Wei Gang actually knew that these two people had fallen into the hands of the Germans, and now he was asking questions knowingly.

"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 have Professor Langevin, an academician of the French Academy of Sciences (also a master physicist), meet them... I think, When you return to Paris from Peenemünde, you will make a proposal to President Pétain to declare war on the Soviet Union immediately!”