Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 552 Butcher Messinger I
The newly established First Front Army of the Kwantung Army has four armies under its jurisdiction, which are distributed on the border of Manchukuo from the north to the Rao River and the south to Hunchun.

Yamashita Fengwen had just returned to Tokyo from Malaya to accept his appointment and then rushed to the Northeast. He was not yet familiar with the situation. This time he came to the Intelligence Department of the Kwantung Army to listen to the situation report.

Yamashita first rushed directly to Mudanjiang, where the headquarters of the First Front Army is located, and then inspected the 10,000+ troops of the four subordinate armies and two. It was not until September that he arrived in Harbin to listen to the report of the Kwantung Army Intelligence Department.

Yanagida Motozo and most of the Intelligence Department officers accompanied Yamashita to leave the train station and return to the Intelligence Department.

On the other hand, Ono Dakuan kept Qian Xiaobao and a few other people in charge of security.

"Wait a little longer, the train from Xinjing is about to arrive, and there is an important guest coming." Ono Takuan explained.

Hearing Ono's words, Qian Xiaobao and the others immediately stood up straight again.

Half an hour later a train stopped on the platform.

Three people got off from the front carriage, and the first one to get off was actually a German wearing an SS uniform.

He wore rimless glasses on his proud face with his head raised slightly, two silver oak leaves were embroidered on his collar patch, and two stars were embellished on his shoulder patch.

The second to get off was a Japanese captain, apparently accompanying the German officer.

The third person to get off was a German soldier, with three stars on the left collar patch and the SS symbol on the right collar patch.

Qian Xiaobao didn't know who these two people were, but Ono Dakuan, who was waiting here to greet him, knew.

The two German officers were Banner Captain Messinger and his subordinate First Level Assault Squadron Captain Top.

Metzinger was a Gestapo liaison at the German embassy in Japan and the Reich Security Service's liaison with Japanese intelligence.

In fact, Messinger has a more resounding title - Warsaw Butcher.

Ono Tahiro once worked as a military attache at the embassy in Germany, and he is also very fluent in German.

He walked towards Messinger and shook hands with Messinger.

"Officer Liu Tian couldn't come in person due to some important business, so he specially sent me to welcome His Excellency Captain Banner. It's been a hard journey." Ono Tahiro said.

"Nothing, we inspected in Xinjing today, and it only took one or two hours from Xinjing to here, and we arrived here comfortably." Messinger said.

"If this is the case, then I will invite the two of you to dinner now. Some things can be discussed while eating." Ono Tahiro suggested.

When the group left the train station, Ono Takuan and Messinger got into the same car. Before getting on the car, he ordered Qian Xiaobao and others to follow behind in another car.

The two cars went straight to the riverside restaurant on the edge of the Songhua River.

This restaurant was opened by the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army, and the service staff inside are all members of the intelligence department. It is very safe to talk about things here.

Two cars parked at the entrance of the restaurant by the river, Ono Tahiro led Messinger into the restaurant.

As soon as he entered the restaurant, Messinger looked around, and he immediately recognized that the decoration of the entire restaurant was in Russian style.

"I forgot, you should have tasted the food in the big northern country. If you want to taste other food, we can arrange it right away." Ono Tahiro said.

"I haven't been to the big northern country. I went from Warsaw to Tokyo in April [-], before the war started. It's good to eat here." Metzinger replied.

So the two sat face to face in the innermost part of the restaurant, Qian Xiaobao and the others divided into two groups and sat at two tables a little outside, protecting Ono Dakuan and Messinger in the innermost part.

The beautiful waitress came over with the menu and asked Tahiro Ono and Messinger to order.

Qian Xiaobao, who was sitting a little outside, randomly ordered red cabbage soup and bread while eating while paying attention to the movement around them.

The conversation between Hiroshi Ono and Metzinger did not go directly to the topic but started with the Jews.

"I heard that there are many Jews in Harbin, is that true?" Metzinger asked.

The executioner was once sent to Warsaw, Poland, as commander of the political police, where his killing spree earned him the nickname the Butcher of Warsaw.

"It turns out that there are many people. Most of them have already gone to Shanghai. Now there are only a few thousand people left here." Ono Takanori replied.

"I went to Shanghai in July because of the Jewish issue. I proposed to your military in Shanghai to set up a concentration camp on Chongming Island to solve the Jewish issue once and for all, but your people hesitated. After I repeatedly It requires them to agree to set up a Jewish segregated area in Shanghai." Messinger said with some dissatisfaction.

"I've also heard about this. The situation in Japan is different from that in Germany. After all, the Jews have helped us since the Russo-Japanese War. Many Japanese regard the Jews as our friends." Tahiro Ono replied.

"Germany and Japan are allies now. We had a very good relationship with China, but we cut off our ties with China when you made a request, but you didn't do what we said!" Metzinger Said dissatisfied.

"It's not that we don't do it, but we have to slow down. Isn't the quarantine zone about to be established." Ono Tahiro smiled and tried to ease the atmosphere.

"Set up a quarantine area? Do you need to be so troublesome? Put all the Jews into a big boat, let the boat float on the sea, without food and water, and the problem will be completely solved in a few days. You have to treat the Jews with respect." Chinese methods come out!" Messinger couldn't help knocking on the plate with a fork and said.

This gesture is very rude and impolite in Western countries.

Qian Xiaobao could only understand a little bit of German, which he learned from the dead old man Savisch.

But when he heard the words "Jewish", "Shanghai" and "Solution", he could guess the general meaning.

"I guarantee that this problem will be resolved. Now let's talk about technical issues." Ono said.

Although Japan has risen rapidly, it is still far behind advanced Western countries in terms of science and technology.

Before the Soviet-German War, Japan often sent large-scale technical investigation missions to Germany, and also obtained a large amount of technology, especially military technology, from Germany.

The radio direction-finding vehicle that wanders around all day on the streets of Harbin is the technology obtained from Germany.

"We have newly developed a technology that can compress the sending code in a very short time, which is much safer." Messinger said.

"Really? But what we lack now is your cipher machine. Can you provide some to our Kwantung Army? The northern power is very strong in cipher deciphering, and we urgently need cipher machines!" Ono Tahiro asked.

"You still don't know? Your submarine set off from Lorient a month ago, and if all goes well, it will return to Japan in a month's time. There are fifty cipher machines we gave you on it! " Messinger replied.

(End of this chapter)