But such a poor man's version of the original bomb that can play a miraculous effect on the battlefield, Cheng Nuo was still opposed by many people when he held an internal meeting of the School of Chemistry to discuss its possibility.

This is true even against the humiliating backdrop of the signing of the Sino-Japanese Military Agreement on Mutual Defense against the Enemy.

"No, I must not agree to transfer the chemical results we have worked so hard to research from civilian to military, and it is still in the form of chemical weapons, which is really contrary to social ethics, and at worst, it is contempt for human life!"

"Yes, I support Lao Li's point of view, although the purpose of the development and use of weapons is to destroy the enemy to the greatest extent and protect themselves to the greatest extent, but the main mode of chemical weapons is to incapacitate or permanently disable, or even kill in extreme cases, which is in fact a contempt for the dignity of human life!"

"What the two brothers said is very reasonable, I won't say anything if I repeat it, but there is also one point, you should also carefully consider that from the perspective of chemical weapons research and development, repeated chemical experiments will inevitably cause pollution of the surrounding environment and the death of species, thereby affecting the ecological development of the local environment......"

Of course, there are those who oppose it, and naturally there are those who agree with it.

A hot-tempered comrade stood up and scolded these opponents, spitting stars: "What a woman's opinion! Abide by the system that has been practiced, but it will not be changed and will not be followed, and the husband will be like this. Do you want to be a good Song Xianggong in name!? ”

"What if you really want to be Song Xianggong, you are also one of the five tyrants of the Spring and Autumn Period, and it is not an exaggeration to call him a hero." The other party was naturally not easily persuaded, and ridiculed each other: "In terms of achievements, who here dares to pat his chest and say that he is better than Song Xianggong?" ”

However, as soon as he finished saying this, this person glanced at Cheng Nuo on the main seat with a little humility: "Of course, the dean must be excepted." ”

"Hmph, just because you can't do it doesn't mean I can't!" Not to be outdone, the hot-tempered person raised his voice and said: "The so-called war is more about how to minimize the damage to one's own interests and destroy everything that is beneficial to the enemy to the greatest extent. ”

After a pause, the hot-tempered person also set his eyes on Cheng Nuo, and said seriously: "I think that in the face of the general trend of the country's ruin, blindly 'benevolence' has no meaning, it will only put us in a passive position, and then lose both people and land!" ”

Seeing that both factions put the final decision on Cheng Nuo.

It was impossible for Cheng Nuo to continue to be silent, he took a sip of tea, tasted it in his mouth for a while, then swallowed it, looked left and right and said slowly: "Do you have anything to add?" ”

Everyone in the audience looked at me, I looked at you, but they didn't stand up and continue to speak.

"Okay, let's hear me a few words first." Cheng Nuo smiled, stood up with his hands behind his back, and paced around the venue to speak: "

In fact, the history of war of our human beings has developed almost simultaneously with the history of civilization, and for a long period of time in the long history of war, human beings have been using various biological and chemical means to assist and participate in wars. In terms of chemical means alone, our ancestors have learned to use it as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Kill and injure besiegers through poisonous smoke and flames produced by the combustion of ignitions such as sulfur expansion; During the Peloponnesian War, the Sjidas captured the city of Plataya with firewood fueled by sulfur and pine resin.

The defenders of the Eastern Roman Empire used an incendiary weapon called 'Greek fire' to resist the Arabs, Crusaders, and Rus' for a thousand years.

There are many examples of the active use of 'chemical weapons' in warfare to kill the enemy, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, and we do not need to fall into the vicious circle of self-condemnation. ”

If possible, Cheng Nuo not only wants to study chemical weapons, but also biological weapons in advance.

Judging from the record of warfare possessed by mankind, the use of biological methods to aid warfare has an even longer history.

According to modern research, the Hittite kingdom located in the Anatolian Peninsula more than 3,000 years ago used sheep that had been infected with pox in many large-scale wars, so that the opponent was plagued and defeated without a fight.

The armies of the Mongol Empire are generally considered to be the culmination of the use of biological and chemical means in ancient warfare.

The Mongol army, which conquered most of the known world, not only had the best light and heavy cavalry and engineering troops of the time, but also had the most systematic and comprehensive biochemical knowledge used in warfare.

When the Mongol army was besieging the fortified city, they used petrification to throw the carcasses of animals infected with pox into the city, causing a plague epidemic in the city and breaking their will.

For example, when the Mongol army besieged the Caspian harbor of Kaffa, they threw the bodies of the dead from the plague into the city of Kaffa, forcing the defenders to abandon the city and flee.

During the battle, the Mongols would also fire a large number of rockets mixed with croton, sulfur, and gunpowder into the enemy's army, and with the help of various chemical effects such as explosion, combustion, and poisonous smoke of these chemicals, the enemy camp would be shaken and collapsed.

The original opposition was immediately shaken by these examples, but there were still some die-hards who insisted on their own views: "Dean, I admit that you are right, and these established facts cannot be refuted, but I want to say that these examples you give are outdated. ”

"Oh? Let's talk about it. Cheng Nuo stopped, crossed his arms in front of his chest, and smiled.

"Far afield is the Brussels Declaration, which contains provisions prohibiting the use of poison or poison-contaminated weapons; Recently, the Hague Peace Conference issued a declaration prohibiting the use of projectiles for the sole purpose of dispersing asphyxiating or toxic gases, and we are going against the international order by researching chemical weapons at this time," the die-hards responded.

Cheng Nuo shook his head, a little crying and laughing: "Let me ask you, the treaties have been signed, but in the current European war, which of the major Western countries participating in the war has not been used?" ”

"This ...... This ...... "The die-hard squeaked and whined, and he didn't reply for a long time."

"Let me ask you again, if Japan suddenly invades our country and uses chemical weapons against our brothers and sisters, will these so-called paper treaties be valid, or will our 'benevolence and righteousness' be effective?" Cheng Nuo continued to ask, speaking faster and faster.

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"I don't know......" The diehards have softened.

"Finally, I would like to ask you, do you think that with our current national strength, if the northern Maozi or the Oriental devils invade, we have neither spears nor cannons, may I ask what we can do to resist, just with our poor military quality, how many lives will we have to fill in to get a little respite?"

"I ...... It's that I'm thinking it's too simple. "The diehards looked disgraced and surrendered.

Cheng Nuo waved his hand and signaled that the other party should not be so polite: "Everyone is their own comrades, internal discussions, disputes are a very normal thing, just propose to solve it, I am afraid that everything will be held in my heart, and finally affect the progress of our work." ”

At this time, someone in the crowd suddenly whispered: "But chemical weapons are a new field, can we do it?" ”

Cheng Nuo's ears were more sensitive, and he quickly heard this sentence, and immediately turned his head to find the source of the sound, but unfortunately this person shrank his head quite quickly, and he didn't find out who said it after a few weeks of inspection.

Cheng Nuo smiled helplessly: "This question is very well raised, how to successfully produce chemical weapons, before we came to Sichuan, it is estimated that it is a big technical problem, but now that we have made the technical public relations of synthetic ammonia, the problem is no longer a problem." ”

The nimble-brained person instantly understood the twists and turns: "Dean, do you mean Haber?" ”

Cheng Nuo smiled and nodded: "Yes, it's this German chemist." Although he worked hard to find a feasible path for the development of synthetic ammonia, before the technology could mature, Haber became involved in the war and created a large number of chemical weapons.

As the scientific leader of Germany's poison gas warfare, he went to the front line and commanded the German army to secretly plant thousands of chlorine gas tanks. As a result, tens of thousands of British and French troops were poisoned and nearly 1,000 people died, and the results of the war were fruitful. This is a lot of use of the technology he has accumulated during the period of ammonia synthesis, and he can do it, and we have reason and possibility to do it. ”

As the man who built the world's first synthetic ammonia plant, Haber was also successful in chemical warfare. Later, Germany relied on the mustard gas developed by him, which hit the British and French forces hard.

Later the guy got scared, quickly resigned from all his positions in the army and fled to the countryside and hid for half a year.

Unfortunately, during World War II, because of his Jewish identity, he was beaten up by a mustache, and finally had to run away and die in Switzerland.

Thinking of the accumulation of the School of Chemistry in recent days, coupled with the continuous addition of fresh blood, the possibility of developing chemical weapons is getting bigger and bigger, and everyone's eyes are getting brighter and brighter.

"I think it's okay, we can try to study it, even if we don't get results, it can be regarded as finding a way out for the chemical technology we have accumulated."

"You can't have the heart to hurt people, you can't have the heart to prevent people, even if we don't use it, we can feel at ease in our hands."

"Yes, we can also explore and see how to protect these chemical weapons from the enemy in the future."

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After everyone finished discussing it, Cheng Nuo added: "There are some things that we can not use, but we must have them, and we can call them 'strategic deterrence'." ”

"Strategic deterrence?" Somewhat puzzled.

"Show your muscles when necessary, you can make the enemy cautious. For example, in "Xijing Fu", "deter Qiaohu, dare not be", and in Cao Zhi's "Seven Revelations", "Qiaocheng deters ten thousand times, and China dominates", so as to achieve the effect of "surrendering soldiers without fighting". Cheng Nuo explained.

Here, Cheng Nuo did not specifically explain the meaning of "deterrence", but simply explained the concept, and the purpose was to develop chemical weapons.

After all, the paradox in the logic of deterrence lies in the fact that the deterrence may become the root cause of the deterrence to change the status quo and launch an attack.

The current First World War is an important reason for the outbreak of the First World War, because the deterrent side did not guarantee the status quo of the deterred side.

After the assassination of Eucalyptus in Sarajevo, Tsarist Russia issued a general mobilization order to fulfill its obligation to protect Serbia in an attempt to deter Germany.

But it turned out that Russia's general mobilization order had the opposite effect: if Kaiser Wilhelm had been hesitant to issue a general mobilization order, Russia's move made him hesitate.

Because the German General Staff clearly informed Kaiser Wilhelm that since Russia had already mobilized the whole country, if Germany did not mobilize immediately, it would face an offensive and be at a strategic disadvantage.

In the case of Cheng Nuo, it may turn into a devil who is worried about the development of our country's industry and military technology, and it is not impossible to directly launch a war of aggression against China without even looking for an excuse for "missing soldiers".

No matter how good the poor man's version of the original bomb is, it is still not as good as the real original bomb.

After much thought, Cheng Nuo decided to continue the development of chemical weapons, but divided the team into three groups.

The first group studied acid production technology on the basis of synthetic ammonia in accordance with the established chemical route, so as to solve the problem of localization of sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid in the future.

The second group began to experiment with sexual contact along the lines of chemical weapons.

The last group began to explore other aspects of the role of chemistry in warfare.

Whether it is a conventional war or a modern war, its weapons and equipment are inseparable from chemistry. Such as guns, flares, flares, signal flares, incendiary bombs, bombs, etc. The effective drugs of these conventional weapons are composed of chemical substances.

Such as ordinary explosives: potassium nitrate, sulfur, wood charcoal.

Powerful explosives: trinitrobenzene, trinitrotoluene, ammonium picrate.

Explosives: picric acid (trinitrophenol), aluminum azide, mercury rayate, pentaerythritol, tetranitrate, etc.

All of the above are within the territory of Cheng Nuo's future planning.

Considering that chemical weapons are considered to be a weapon that people despise and have always been condemned by public opinion, Cheng Nuo did not dare to make a big show during the development period.

During World War II, there was no public record of chemical weapons being used on battlefields in China, except for Japan's repeated use of chemical weapons on the battlefields of China.

Even Hitler, at the threshold of a certain defeat, did not put chemical weapons into the battlefield.

Of course, this does not mean that Hitler did not want to use it, but considering that the other country is also an industrial power, and its ability to produce chemical weapons is not inferior to that of Germany.

Under the mutual deterrence of the two sides, no one dared to open this opening on a large scale on the frontal battlefield.

Of course, these things cannot be wasted, and basically all of them are used on the Jews in the interior.

But under such a foil, it still seems that the little devil is not a thing.

If we had a certain reserve of chemical weapons in our country at that time, it is estimated that the little devils would not dare to be unscrupulous on our land.

Thinking of this, Cheng Nuo was full of enthusiasm and decided to lead the team to study chemical weapons again.

For the time being, we don't want to be so advanced, we just need to study it, and the little devil will be ruthless, and we can have something to fight back.

If you have the chance, you can throw these good things into the sky over Tokyo, and I think it will be a good view.