Chapter 16: Mission Accomplished
"General, we've arrived." Hans's voice pulled Xu Jun back from his contemplation to the real world.
"Oh? Has it arrived? So fast. Xu Jun raised his head and looked out the window.
"You got distracted, General, I called you several times before you could react."
"Huh, huh? I'm thinking about what we've been through in the past few days and what we need to do next. ”
"General, you're too tired these days, you have to pay attention to your health, I don't want to see you exhaust yourself." Hans said with concern.
"yes, when this is over, I think I'm really going to have to get some rest." Xu Jun looked at the team of guards who were saluting him outside the car window and sighed secretly, "If this matter can end safely." ”
After passing through the checkpoints, which had been strengthened more than a dozen times, Xu Jun's motorvoy slowly drove into the Warsaw Jewish Compulsory Residence Area.
Xu Jun's luxury Mercedes drove slowly down the old streets, two military trucks full of Waffen-SS soldiers following closely behind him, and two Gestapo cars driving at the front of the convoy.
The momentum exuded by the convoy made everyone who saw it feel a heavy sense of oppression, especially the serious expressions and cold piercing eyes of the Waffen-SS soldiers on the truck.
This familiar street made Xu Jun's heart feel a tingle, five days ago that evening, he and his subordinates walked from this road to the terrifying slaughterhouse, and the faces of those who were slaughtered began to appear clearly in his mind again, Xu Jun seemed to hear the desperate cries and screams of those victims before they died.
Xu Jun looked at the scene on both sides of the street with a heavy expression, and now it was inhabited by Jews who had moved in from other areas. For these apartments could not be left empty all the time, while the Jews in other areas were crammed into small dwellings, and moving in a little could ease their tense living conditions. There was no sign of the catastrophe now, and the Jewish residents had rearranged the apartments, carefully cleaned the streets, and even polished the brass signs embedded in the doorways of the apartments, and the neighborhood was back to life, at least on the surface.
When Xu Jun's motorcade appeared on the street, a deep atmosphere of terror began to envelop the neighborhood. The Jews watched with horror and confusion as the majestic motorcade slowly passed in front of them, and they all knew what had happened here that afternoon five days earlier, for the bloodstains that could not be washed off in the square and the luggage that had been discarded in and around the apartment allowed them to clearly guess the terrible answer. So when another group of Nazi troops entered the community, it was impossible for anyone to ignore it. The question of what these Germans were doing and what their purpose was filled with the minds of every Jewish resident there.
Judging from the beautiful and luxurious huge Mercedes Benz and the noble emblem on it, it must have been a great man sitting in this car, and the heavily armed guards made people confirm their suspicions, because even the Polish governor Frank did not have such strict protection and such magnificent pomp when he inspected the place. Pedestrians who were hurrying on the street saw the convoy slowly approaching in the distance, and hurriedly stood against the fence on the side of the street, and they all took off their hats and bowed their heads to salute the convoy. They are not like those Poles, who can turn around when they see that convoy, they can dodge, they can't. If any of them dared to do so, it would be seen as contempt for these German rulers. The result would be catastrophic, ranging from a beating to a loss of life, and judging from the current level of the team, if you run recklessly and panicked, then the end will definitely be the latter.
Xu Jun looked at the Jews standing on the street from the car window, and felt a kind of sadness from the bottom of his heart. The German rulers must have had some pleasure in the reaction of these Jews, and they must have felt immensely proud of what they saw. There is no ugliest act in the history of mankind in which one people bases its pleasure on the suffering of another.
Xu Jun was also saddened by the reaction of the Jews, a nation that seemed to be oppressed, and whose great adaptability had allowed them to understand in such a short period of time how to please the perverted mentality of the Nazi thugs, who had learned what to do in such a dangerous environment so as not to be harmed. This is a people of extreme vitality, whose shrewdness has kept them from crisis after crisis, but in the end it is their excessive shrewdness that has brought disaster to themselves.
The shrewdness and ruthless financial practices of the wealthy Jewish businessmen made them synonymous with vampires in the minds of all Europeans. Especially during the Great Depression after the First World War, the Jewish businessmen were in a very despicable way in that period, and their exploitation of the unemployed German civilians and their employees was truly outrageous. They were partly to blame for the economic turmoil across Europe during the Great Depression, and their high-interest credit practices made life even worse for ordinary German civilians who were already struggling with poverty.
At that time, the common people in Germany were full of hatred and disgust for the Jewish merchants and industrial and commercial magnates who were still exploiting them. Coupled with the ulterior motives of the Nazi Party, they blamed the Jews for the defeat that should have been placed on the generals of the Army, claiming that it was the cold arrows of the Jewish capitalists that caused Germany to lose the war. Hitler even thought that the German ** idea was also spread by the Jews from Russia, I really don't know what Hitler's brain thought at that time, maybe because he believed that the founder of ** was a Jew. But didn't he know that the anti-Semitic tendencies in Russia at that time had far exceeded those in Germany at that time, and how it was possible for Jews to spread in Germany** was simply nonsense.
As a result, when these contradictions were linked, the Germans' feelings towards the Jews changed from disgust to hatred. Fueled by the propaganda offensive of the Nazi Party, the whole of Germany fell into an anti-Jewish frenzy. People vented all their suffering and oppression on the Jewish people for decades, and they didn't know that the real Jewish tycoons had already fled abroad with their fortunes when they saw that the situation was not good. Those who remain in Germany today are the ordinary Jews who have lived here for generations and have long since integrated into German society, and they are innocent victims, most of whom are elites of various industries. The crazy behavior of ordinary people in Germany not only hurts others, but also hurts themselves and hurts their beloved country.
Xu Jun knew clearly in his heart that he would never be able to do anything to help them now, and in this critical period, any mistake he made would send him and his subordinates loyal to him into a bottomless abyss. In the present period when the anti-Jewish tendencies are at their worst, the slightest mistake in one's actions may be used as a weapon against oneself by one's enemies.
Judging from the current situation, if he expresses a slight dislike for Jewish policy, it will affect his image in the eyes of ordinary German people and those German people.
Thankfully, at least so far, I haven't revealed to anyone that I think that way. Although he had expressed his disgust with the Holocaust to his officers, he had also taken the preservation of Germany's national honor as his starting point and reason, so his subordinates had not resisted it until now. From this point of view, he had made the right move, and now he had to use the deep-seated sense of honor of the officers and soldiers as a starting point to stop the systematic massacre of the Jews. And that's the only thing I can do for these poor Jews right now, and there's no other way to help them than that.
Ideologically changing the dislike of Jews among the Germans and Europe as a whole will be a difficult task, and it will take a lot of time plus enough power, neither of which is present on its own. So Xu Jun wanted to put this problem aside for a while, and wait until he got through this critical difficulty before finding a way, and then he could find a chance to completely solve this headache that caused him. He believed that he should be able to find a more suitable way to deal with this matter with his own ability, but he still needed to be patient now, because there were more important problems to be solved than this, and he could not affect his next plan for this reason.
The convoy passed through two similar neighborhoods, turning a few intersections and finally coming to a stop in front of a tall apartment building. The Waffen-SS jumped out of the truck at a rapid pace, half of them stormed into the apartment, and the rest of the men barricaded the streets in standard defensive formation, the commandos watching the surroundings with their submachine guns. Then the Gestapo officers sitting in the two cars on the road also got out of the car, they held their holsters and carefully looked at every open window and possible sniper corner of the tall buildings around them, and when they felt that the situation around them was indeed safe, two of the officers walked to Xu Jun's car and opened the door.
"Your Excellency, this is the building you are looking for." A Gestapo officer respectfully reported to Xu Jun, who had gotten out of the car.
"Yes, this is the building." Xu Jun recognized the appearance of this building from Jack's memory, and he raised his head to look upstairs. The building is in the standard Renaissance style, but the designers of the time may have designed it with a bit of pragmatism, so the lines of the entire building are clean and crisp beyond the elaborate decorations. The building was built so old that the cracked carved door hangings and the peeling exterior paint on the brick walls showed that the building was not well maintained, and now the whole building has a dilapidated melancholy feel.
"You guys just stay downstairs, and Hans and I can go up." Xu Jun turned his head to the Gestapo officers and ordered.
"But Your Excellency, it is our most important duty to protect your safety, not to mention that this house is inhabited by filthy and despicable Jews, in case ......"
"Don't you think that Colonel Hans and I are capable of self-defense? Besides, there are already two squads of Waffen-SS inside, how can anything happen. Xu Jun replied with a smile, but there was a meaning in his eyes, "You stop it and show it to me again".
"That, as ordered, Your Excellency the Deputy Führer."
Seeing Xu Jun's appearance, the Gestapo had no choice but to obediently obey the order and stay where they were. Xu Jun and Hans swaggered into the building.
"What does it smell like?" As soon as he walked into the building, Hans couldn't help but cover his nose.
"There are four or five Jewish families living in every room of this building, and it is not surprising that there is such a strange smell." Xu Jun replied.
Then the two of them climbed up the creaky stairs to the upper floor. Each floor was now guarded by four Waffen-SS men, who stood atop the debris-laden corridors, staring at the doors of every room in the corridors, and their task was to cordon off the entire building and drive any Jews out of the door back to their rooms. Xu Jun took Hans to the fourth floor and came to the door of a suite.
The inhabitants of the suite had all been driven out of their rooms by the Waffen-SS, and there were more than twenty people, young and old, living in such a small place, and now the Jews were standing in a row with their heads against the wall of the corridor, and from their trembling bodies, the SS had terrified them, and several of the old men had begun to pray softly to God in Hebrew. The commandos looked at these people with submachine guns in disgust, and it seemed that if Xu Jun hadn't ordered them not to use violence at will during the operation, they would have hit them with the butts of their guns. If it had been a few days earlier, they would have shot the old men who were muttering on the spot.
"This is it." Xu Jun walked into the room.
"You two come in, and the others stay outside." Hans, who was following Xu Jun, gave orders to the two highest-ranking non-commissioned officers.
"Yes, Colonel." The two non-commissioned officers put their submachine guns behind their backs and followed Hans into the room.
There was no furniture in the room, just some simple cupboards and some ordinary tables and chairs. All that's left is a large pile of assorted suitcases stacked against the wall, as well as some other daily miscellaneous items. But it was okay, the things were neatly stacked, and the room was clean, and there were even a few small flowers with unknown names in the vase on the table. The neatness of the whole room makes it hard to believe that there are more than twenty people living in such a place.
Xu Jun walked around the room, and the two non-commissioned officers stood in the foyer and looked at the deputy Führer, curious to know what the German deputy Führer wanted to do in an apartment where Jews lived.
"You two, come here." Xu Jun stood in front of the fireplace in the room and beckoned to the two non-commissioned officers.
"Yes, Your Excellency the Deputy Führer." The two non-commissioned officers hurriedly ran over.
"Pry this open for me." Xu Jun pointed to a decorative wooden board on the side of the fireplace.
"Pry it open?" The two soldiers looked at their Supreme Leader suspiciously.
"Pry it open, of course." Xu Jun nodded.
"Yes, Your Excellency, Deputy Führer." The two non-commissioned officers hurriedly saluted, then drew their bayonets from their belts and began to pry up the plank with great effort.
"General, what's in there? Is it the same thing you told me on the road that you wanted to destroy? Hans asked Xu Jun in a whisper.
"Yes, that's it, that's what I came to Warsaw to destroy it, but I didn't expect so many things to happen later, and as a result, this matter was delayed."
"What's in there?"
"One electronic device, don't ask about the rest, if you don't destroy it, the security of Germany and the whole world will be threatened." Xu Jun said to Hans seriously.
"I see, General. I shouldn't have asked you these questions. Hans bowed his head and begged for Xu Jun's forgiveness.
"Your Excellency, we pried it open, and there was a small box in there." A non-commissioned officer suddenly shouted.
"Okay, get it out." Xu Jun heard the soldier's report and happily ordered.
The box taken out of the fireplace mezzanine was very small, only a dozen centimeters square, wrapped in fine cowhide on the outside, and inside was a delicate aluminum alloy box with a flat hole in the lid. Xu Jun took out the necklace hanging around his neck from the collar, and then gently inserted the memory chip hanging on the necklace into the flat hole on the lid of the box. The lid of the box popped open automatically, and what appeared in front of Xu Jun was the culprit who had brought him to this point, the space-time beacon.
Xu Jun had seen this thing countless times from Jack's memory, but when he really saw it now, he couldn't help but be amazed by the development of technology and craftsmanship in the future world. It was like an ultra-small home calculator, with a transparent casing that allowed every element inside to be seen clearly, and every tiny part was made with extraordinary precision, and the whole machine could be called a work of art.
Xu Jun held the beacon, looking at those sophisticated circuits and beautiful designs, he really wanted to study how this thing worked, he wondered what kind of energy this thing relied on to operate, because he didn't find any batteries or anything like that in this machine. But Xu Jun clearly knows that he doesn't have this time now, and the future world will be under the threat of space-time resonance caused by this thing at any time, no matter what, he still has to destroy it, and the kind of high technology contained in this thing cannot be imitated under the technical level of this world, maybe this kind of overly advanced technology will have a bad impact on this era.
Thinking of this, Xu Jun gritted his teeth, and the beacon went to the fireplace, he put the small electronic instrument into the fireplace, and then took out a small glass bottle from his pocket, which was a small bottle of gasoline that he had prepared a long time ago.
Xu Jun carefully sprinkled gasoline onto the machine's casing, and then lit the fire. When the machine that did not belong to this era slowly turned to ashes in front of Xu Jun, Xu Jun felt an indescribable relief.
His most important task in this time and space has finally been completed, and the rest is to fight for himself.
As the flame in front of Xu Jun's eyes slowly extinguished, the flame in his heart burned even more violently.
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