Brumberg today wore a field marshal's uniform, a full set of medals on his chest, a marshal's cane in his hand, and his riding boots polished to a shiny finish. The main members of the special mission were on the motorized transport boat on the Prinz Eugen, and the attaché was on the transport boat provided by the Public Concession, and the group was about to disembark at the barge wharf opposite the Central Bank building amid the noisy performance of the military band of the International Chamber of Commerce.

The public concession is next to the wharf, and a wooden viewing platform has been erected directly opposite Nanjing Road. A large number of flowers and trees are also placed on both sides of the aisle as decoration, and the concession flag, British, French and German flags are hung in the middle of the platform, and the national flags of other overseas Chinese countries in the concession are listed on both sides.

The British, French, and American consul generals in Shanghai, as well as all the members of the board of directors of the Ministry of Industry and the Board of Directors, as well as a group of diplomatic envoys and wealthy gentry in the concession, were all figures of status and status in Shanghai anyway, and all of them gathered in front of the stage and waited for the arrival of the German envoy.

Around the stage, there was a circle of Chinese and foreign media reporters stationed in Shanghai, and the reporters at that time did not have the photographic equipment such as long guns and short cannons in their hands, and a Zeiss news machine was already considered a professional, especially the local newspaper offices in Shanghai, which directly set up large cameras using glass negatives and held high flashes loaded with magnesium powder.

The German press team, which had arrived in Shanghai by special plane from Hong Kong, stood out from the crowd not only because of their size, but also because they used far more equipment than their counterparts around them, carrying three cinema cameras, a live recording system using a state-of-the-art wire recorder, and the armband of the Black Hawk on the Red Ground of the High Command on their sleeves.

Speaking of wire tape recorders, Germany actually invented audio tapes four years ago, but due to material problems, it will not be able to enter commercial production until new plastics are developed.

Japan's journalism industry was actually close to the advanced level of the West at that time, and although the internal organizational structure was somewhat primitive and the means of interviewing were relatively simple, it was not weaker than any Western media newspaper in terms of investment in equipment and technology.

In addition to the paper media such as Mainichi, Asahi, and Yomiuri, there was also a newsreel crew from Toho, who brought two film cameras to record the activities of the special mission during its visit to Japan.

For today's Japanese people, every move of the German envoy is an attractive one. In particular, at a time when the war on land is gradually entering a stalemate and the domestic economy is beginning to fall into recession, the entire Japanese Empire needs to inject a dose of strength to win the favor and friendship of Germany, the world's number one power, and will certainly be able to greatly boost the morale of the Yamato nation.

However, what embarrassed the Japanese was that this time the German visit to Shanghai was too hasty, did not leave Japan enough time to prepare, and Japan failed to gain control of the Chinese concessions, so most of the limelight was stolen by the management departments of the two concessions, and now the whole theme of the visit has changed its taste. No matter how you look at it, all walks of life in the Shanghai Concession are warmly welcoming the visiting German mission.

Matsuoka's nose was almost crooked, but even if he was the foreign minister of a country, he was only a Japanese official in the concession, and he was a guest like a special envoy, not the master of the land.

As a result, the Japanese foreign minister, a bunch of diplomats, consular secretaries, and Japanese overseas Chinese, businessmen, and military circles, as well as Wang puppet traitors, could only stand in the area specially circled for the Japanese and wait. Because the Japanese army could not enter the concession, for the safety of these Japanese, the public concession also dispatched nearly 200 Indian patrols to stand in a circle around the Japanese.

The Sikh patrol with an average height of 1.8 meters, which is commonly known as the red-headed Ah San by Shanghainese, stands next to the Japanese with an average height of only 1.6 meters, no matter how you look at it, it is a naked irony, whitening the faces of a group of Japanese nobles.

The Japanese did not expect that the Ministry of Industry would dare to play this game with themselves in person, when did the British waist pole become so hard, although Britain and the Germans signed a treaty of friendship, but the Germans will really stand out for this old enemy who has been against them for half a century?

Matsuoka was very skeptical about this, and he decided that after meeting with the German mission, he must find time to discuss the issue of the Shanghai Concession, because the Ministry of Industry was no longer suitable for the management of this land, and Germany and Japan should take over the position of these bastards, and if Germany felt that the distance was too far and inconvenient, Japan could fully assume this responsibility, and Germany only needed to sit back and enjoy the interests in China.

After cheering himself up again and again, Matsuoka finally suppressed the sullenness in his heart.

But apparently the British were not prepared to let the Japanese foreign minister go like this, and in a sound of neat footsteps, a phalanx of heavily armed British infantry came along the Bund road, swinging their arms.

Although these Malay garrisons are very combative, but when they walk in the queue, they are first-class or above, and the British Army's best thing in Malaysia is the military parade, and the neat queue and military appearance can always remind those locals who are not doing their duty, don't forget the prestige of the lobster soldiers.

This batch of British troops received new equipment from China before departure, in fact, the original rifles were also very useful, anyway, they couldn't shoot a few rounds a year, but after the outbreak of the war in Europe, the troops carried out several months of intensive training, which only slightly sharpened the rifling. However, the replacement of equipment meant a large amount of oil and water, and of course the officers would not refuse, and the replaced weapons were sold to German arms dealers as scrapped guns, and the profits were increased by 20%. As for who will end up in the hands of 20,000 rifles, the British Empire has no time to care.

A group of British Imperial soldiers carried rifles and walked majestically on the streets of the Bund in Shanghai, waving rice flags and fluttering bagpipes, so that the sun never sets on the imperial atmosphere.

The fact that the British had re-stationed troops in Shanghai was obviously a new change in London's attitude toward China and Japan, and this was a matter that must be paid attention to, and it should be reported to Tokyo immediately.

Of course, the British will not hula a cavalry regiment all on the field, so it will take too long to walk down, it doesn't matter if you steal the limelight from the Japanese, it is self-defeating to steal the limelight from the Germans, so the British regiment commander only sent three companies of the phalanx to go through the motions, and then assemble the whole team on the right side of the stage to cheer for the British General Director of the Ministry of Works and Mr. George, Consul General of the British Empire.

While the Japanese were still figuring out how to write a report, the next wave of infantry phalanx arrived, and this time it was the turn of the French Foreign Legion to make an appearance.

These people are different from those British parallel traders, all of them are real outlaws, fighting for France for money/honor and green cards. These infantry have fought hand-to-hand battles against Moroccan horse thieves in the desert and surrounded local smugglers in the jungles of Laos. It can be said that among these people, even the cooks have a few lives in their hands, and they are the most tenacious armed force in the French army in terms of combat effectiveness and willpower.

The French sent a foreign infantry regiment to Shanghai with the intention of fighting with the people, and the wanton behavior of Wang Puppet and the government and Japanese agents in the French Concession made the French Consul General Ao Qi a little crazy, but he suffered from the lack of sufficient deterrent forces in his hands.

The so-called "Chinese Dispatch Army" with two battalions of French stationed in Shanghai was loose and loose in normal training, and it had long been corroded by the bright lights of Shanghai from top to bottom, and there was also a so-called mixed second battalion of colonies, most of which were Annam soldiers hired from French Indochina, and they were quite loyal to their duties in peacetime, which could be called a model of excellent lackeys, but let them really go to war with others, think about it, don't be too reluctant.

Looking at the murderous foreign troops and the four S-35 tanks painted in camouflage, Consul Aoqi had already begun to plan whether he should find a reason to directly take out a certain secret service that had been annoying him. And Li Shiqun and Ding Mocun, who were standing in Wang's puppet team, both felt a sudden chill down their backs.

Trailing behind the Frenchmen were the German Waffen-SS, the protagonists of the finale, but before they could take the stage, Field Marshal Brumberg took a step ahead of him, and strode to the viewing platform surrounded by a group of guards and patrols.

PS: Caught up, I may have caught a cold when I went home at night, and now I have a fever, and I took medicine and rested after the code.

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