Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 513 Discovery in the Consulate III
When Qian Xiaobao followed Ogasawara and other operatives to the outside of the British Consulate on Sangong Street, he saw thick smoke billowing from the chimney of the British Consulate, and clearly saw black granular things flying out of the chimney.

The members of the Kwantung Army's intelligence department are all experienced, and everyone immediately knew that the British consulate was looking at burning things.Someone in the consulate must be racing against time to destroy the information.

Ogasawara looked at his watch and it was more than nine o'clock in the morning. He had no idea that His Majesty the Emperor was going to issue a declaration of war to the United States and the United Kingdom today, let alone that the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor had already started for more than two hours.

They were ordered to wait outside the consulate when they set off.

Waiting for the order means that the British Consulate is about to be attacked, and everyone involved in the event understands this.

The British Empire has hundreds of consulates all over the world. According to international law, the consulate in Harbin, Manchuria is the territory of the British Empire.Attacking the consulate would be a direct violation of the British Empire and a serious international conflict.

If Japan decides to attack the British consulate, it means that the conflict between the two countries has developed to a very serious level, such as war.

This is what Ogasawara is thinking in his heart now: It seems that the base camp has decided to go south immediately.

Ogasawara looked anxiously at the chimney that kept emitting thick smoke, and if he waited like this until the order was issued to rush in, all valuables in the British consulate might be burned up.

It seems that the British Consulate has already obtained important information, so it made up its mind to burn the written materials.

What he didn't know was that the British Consulate had already received an urgent telegram from the British side and knew about the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Now not only the British Consulate in Harbin, but also the British Embassy in Japan is probably also urgently destroying materials.

But now that they haven't received the order, all the people sent by the Kwantung Army Intelligence Department can only stare blankly.

Ogasawara looked at Qian Xiaobao with a questioning look.Apart from him as a lieutenant, there were several second lieutenants among these people, but Ogasawara still wanted to ask Qian Xiaobao's opinion.

"Such a big smoke can't be because it's on fire?" Qian Xiaobao said.

Ogasawara immediately understood what Qian Xiaobao meant, which was to lead people in in the name of fighting the fire.

Ogasawara understood, and so did the others.A second lieutenant said: "Isn't it wrong to rush into the British consulate without an order from the Ministry of Intelligence? The slightest thing will also provoke serious protests from the UK!"

Japanese soldiers have a tradition of going above and below, but strict or rigid obedience to orders is a habit that is deeply rooted in their bones.

Ogasawara glanced at his watch again, it was already 09:30, he couldn't make up his mind when he saw the paper ashes wafting from the chimney of the consulate.

A few minutes later, Ogasawara finally made up his mind and said, "I will bear all the responsibilities, rush in, and Qian Xiaobao is in charge of the boiler room!"

It is winter now, and the place where the materials were burned must be in the boiler room for heating.

Ogasawara entrusted the most important task to Qian Xiaobao.

All the soldiers rushed towards the main entrance and two side entrances of the British Consulate in three directions.

Qian Xiaobao led the three people towards the north side door, looking at the position of the chimney, the boiler room should be near the north side door.

Qian Xiaobao bumped him with his shoulder and was bounced back.The three people behind also bumped their shoulders and kicked at the small side door.

After a while, a hole was kicked in the wooden door.

Qian Xiaobao stretched his hand in and twisted the handle a few times without turning it off.

"Go on kicking, get in from this hole!" Qian Xiaobao said.

There was a banging sound from the hole, and one was the sound of doors being smashed in two other places through the corridor.

An action member kicked down another piece of wood, and Qian Xiaobao pulled out his pistol and put his arms and head in first.

Climbing into the corridor, there was no one there, and according to reliable information, none of the dozen or so people in the British consulate was seen.

When Qian Xiaobao stood up and ran to the middle of the corridor with a pistol, the door in the middle of the consulate was also knocked open, and four or five people from Ogasawara and the day before yesterday rushed in.

Qian Xiaobao didn't care about this, he went down the stairs to the basement.

The boiler room has coal and the cisterns are dirty so are located in the basement.

Just as Qian Xiaobao ran to the basement corridor, a head poked out from the door of a room, took a look and then quickly retracted.

"Peeke! Peek!"

Qian Xiaobao ran to the place where he shouted.The other three action team members followed closely behind him.

But when Qian Xiaobao ran there, the door of the boiler room was already closed.

"Oupen! Shute!" Qian Xiaobao shouted.

But under threat, the people inside refused to open the door.

Qian Xiaobao and the other three kicked violently in turn, and the door panel slammed and they were kicked away.

In the boiler room, two blond young men were stuffing paper into the boiler mouth, and a middle-aged man in his 50s and [-]s was standing beside them.

"Get them out!" Qian Xiaobao ordered.

The three action members immediately pinned their pistols on the three of them.

"Despicable and shameless! I want to express my strongest protest to the Japanese government!" the middle-aged man roared.

But no one paid any attention to his words.

Now Qian Xiaobao was left alone in the boiler room, and he picked up the nearly two-meter-long furnace hook to pull out the written materials that had been stuffed into the furnace mouth.

A pile of half-burned papers was pulled out by Qian Xiaobao from the boiler mouth and fell into the stove pit below the boiler mouth.The water in the stove pit squeaked when it met the half-burned paper.

Qian Xiaobao lay down on the ground and reached out to fish out the half-meter-deep pit.

A stack of more than a dozen thick papers had a photo attached to each of them, and Qian Xiaobao's attention was suddenly attracted by the top photo.

It was clearly the face of a young Asian man wearing a British navy cap.Qian Xiaobao recognized at a glance that the person above was Guan Xiaoye, Guan Bicheng!

Qian Xiaobao subconsciously looked back at the door, but there was no one at the door, and no footsteps were heard.

Qian Xiaobao quickly folded Xiaoye Guan's piece of paper to the smallest size and stuffed it into his shoe. The other pieces appeared and were thrown into the boiler and quickly burned to ashes.

People from the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army stormed into the British consulate and took control of the entire consulate in less than 5 minutes.People in more than a dozen consulates were gathered in one room.

However, most of the written materials in the consulate have been burned, the telegrams have been destroyed, and things such as code books have not been found.

The three action team members escorted out and then returned.

Only then did Qian Xiaobao know that the middle-aged man in his 50s and [-]s was Archer, the consul of the British Consulate.

The four returned upstairs with the materials that hadn't been burned yet.

And it wasn't until this time that Yanagida Genzo ordered the search of the British consulate to arrive slowly.

(End of this chapter)