Chapter XVII

When Xu Jun left the building with Hans and the two SS soldiers, there was a feeling of being alive and being born in the whole building and in the countless Jews who were watching from behind the thick curtains of several nearby buildings.

When they saw in front of them that it was a German general who got out of the luxury car, it almost scared their souls away. Since the massacre a few days ago, the whole Jewish quarter has been in a state of great panic, they don't know which neighborhood will be the next massacre, everyone has lost hope of getting out alive, they don't know what tomorrow will be like, they can only try to live today well, even if they die, these Jews want to die with dignity.

In the eyes of these Jews, a German captain had the power to kill the entire street, and a German general, if he wanted to, even if it was not difficult to raze the entire ghetto, there was no reason for the Germans to kill the Jews. But to everyone's surprise, this time there were no sharp gunshots, no screams or shouts were heard, no German soldiers were dragged out of the building by the hair and thrown into trucks, and nothing they expected happened.

The Germans rushed into the building with murderous vigour, but quietly withdrew, and they climbed into the cars as quickly as they came, swaggering away, and when the convoy disappeared from the corner of the street, everyone could not help but let out a long breath.

"Hans, don't you want to ask me what I burned in front of me?" Xu Jun comfortably leaned on the soft cushions in the back seat of the car and looked at Hans with a smile, destroying the beacon device made Xu Jun feel that the last stone that had been pressing on his heart fell to the ground, and his whole body felt indescribably relaxed.

"No, I suppose you would have told me long ago if you could have told me, General. If you don't tell me, that's not what I should know. I'm not going to ask about things I shouldn't know. Hans replied with a smile, and he found that the general was like a different person after the strange thing was burned, and the smile that he hadn't seen for days reappeared on his face, and the energetic and confident general who had been in the Belgian command was back in front of him. Although Hans really wanted to know what it was, seeing the way the general was now, it didn't matter to Hans what it was, and he was sincerely happy that his general was able to recover.

"Really? Hans, you are indeed my most reliable lieutenant, you are a good soldier. Xu Jun listened to Hans's answer and nodded with satisfaction.

"Thank you for the compliment, General, shall we go back to the headquarters now?" Hans asked, smiling.

"Yes, I still have a lot of documents that I haven't had time to deal with, and besides, the latest battle report from the headquarters should be delivered, and I really want to know what the front line is like now."

"Don't worry, the fact that the headquarters hasn't let us return to the team now means that the current operation should be very smooth. It seems that the day is not far off when we defeat France. ”

"That's why I want to know more about it, haha, I want to know when I'm going to be able to drink coffee on the streets of Paris." Xu Jun said with a smile.

"When you say that, I'm also curious about what's going on on the front line." Hans also laughed.

With a smile on his face, Xu Jun turned his gaze to the outside of the car.

"The high command has not summoned Muller and their front-line commanders back to the team until now, and they have no reason to let such a powerful elite unit as the "Cyprus" legion not be used, there must be something wrong with this matter. Xu Jun thought secretly in his heart.

After a while, a beautiful white building appeared in Xu Jun's field of vision. It is a beautiful French building, which was originally built for himself by a wealthy Polish nobleman in the 14th century by an architect from France in order to catch up with the fashion. Now this beautiful house has become its own new headquarters.

The original SS headquarters had been beaten like a piece of cheese during the purge a few days earlier, and Xu Jun felt that it was too unorthodox after two days there, so Xu Jun changed the building to the new headquarters on the recommendation of several Polish city officials.

Because it was French, the beautiful main building was surrounded by large lawns and gardens, which was very good for the security of the headquarters, no one could cross forty or fifty meters of empty grass without being detected by the vigilant sentry, and if any daring creature wanted to move on after being discovered by the sentry, the next creature would find that he would be facing more than ten machine guns with flames, and it would be lucky if he could keep a single intact corpse after such a dense strafing fire.

When the convoy drove into the beautiful gate of the headquarters, Xu Jun saw through the window that the open space and steps in front of the beautiful French-style building were now full of people.

"Hans, what's going on?" Xu Jun looked at Hans suspiciously.

"I don't know, General. But I saw the marching band, so I guess it's some kind of celebration. What is today's anniversary? Won't you? ”

"Celebrations, why didn't anyone tell me."

While the two men were guessing in the car, the Mercedes had slowly turned a corner and drove onto the road leading to the main entrance of the building, while the two trucks and the car that opened the road continued to drive along the original road towards the back of the headquarters.

"General...... Was it me dazzled or was it really like this, I saw Colonel Mueller dressing...... Oh my God, and Haron......" As the car approached the main building, Hans saw at a glance the two comrades standing in the crowd on the steps, not because he was particularly familiar with them, but because they were dressed too conspicuously in the crowd.

"Hans, I think you're right, it's Müller and Haron, but now I'm starting to wonder if I'm wrong. They ......"

The car slowly stopped in front of the steps. Two Waffen-SS men in full military uniforms rushed to the door of the sedan and respectfully opened it.

"All stand upright! Played. ”

With a loud command, the military musicians standing on the side immediately played the passionate military music, all the soldiers present puffed up their chests and stood upright, while the Nazi administrative officials all stood respectfully in place and bowed their heads in salute.

Xu Jun got out of the car, he looked at everything around him blankly, he was completely confused. Almost all the first and second levels of administration in Warsaw and all the senior officers of the army and the Waffen-SS stationed in Warsaw were gathered in front of their headquarters, each looking at him with a respectful look on his face.

Xu Jun didn't understand what was happening, he walked up the steps, turned around and nodded to the crowd around him, and then turned to his subordinates standing on the steps and raised their hands in a military salute. The officers hurriedly and respectfully returned the standard military salute.

"What the hell is going on here, is there any important activity? Muller, and what about you. After the salute, Xu Jun asked suspiciously to Mueller, who greeted him.

Muller walked down the stairs with a smile on his face, now wearing a brand new general's uniform with a brigadier general's epaulette woven with gold silk on his shoulders. And Haron also wore a brand new brigadier general's uniform, walking behind Mueller in high spirits.

Mueller came to Xu Jun, and after he stood still, he put away his smile and replaced it with a serious expression. Mueller said loudly to Xu Jun, "Welcome back, my marshal." ”

Muller's words took Xu Jun by surprise.

"Marshal? What a marshal ......" Xu Jun exclaimed.

"That's you, Reinhardt. Feng. Marshal Stadler. In recognition of your outstanding contribution to our great Third Reich, and in order to match your honour with your merits, yesterday afternoon you were promoted to the rank of Field Marshal by the Führer. This is your new uniform and the order of the Führer and the High Command, which was just delivered at noon when you went out, and the High Command has sent a special plane for this purpose. The High Command did not inform you in order to surprise you. We've been preparing for this ceremony for an afternoon. ”

Xu Jun saw a soldier standing on the side holding a tray with a brand-new marshal's uniform and a golden marshal's scepter in it.

Xu Jun was dumbfounded by this sudden happening, he didn't expect this to happen at all. Is this Hitler's first card? It was really unexpected. Xu Jun thought that his brain hurt and he didn't figure out why. However, he knew that in this situation, his every move would affect his image, so he immediately said to Muller with a smile on his face: "I see, I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it, it's like a dream." Haha, Muller, you arranged it well, hard work. It seems that both you and Haron have been promoted, congratulations. ”

"All this is not the result of your cultivation, Marshal, without you, we would still be just a small lieutenant colonel and a lieutenant. It is under your command that we have been able to achieve this achievement today, but I did not expect that following you, we became generals in a month, which is something we could not have imagined before, and we cannot express our gratitude to you in any words now. Mueller said excitedly.

"Don't be like this, everything you have now is obtained by your own efforts and blood and sweat, and I have not done anything for you. Haha, you're also a general, and you're going to look like a general in the future. Xu Jun said with a smile while patting Mueller's shoulder affectionately.

Then he turned to the group of officers and officers at the bottom of the steps and shouted, "I am really happy today, this will be a day I will never forget." I am so grateful to all of you for coming here to congratulate me on my promotion. I wasn't mentally prepared for this, I really didn't expect me to receive such a huge honor. Now I really can't put into words how grateful and reverent I am to the Führer. I now declare that I am going to have one of the biggest banquets in Warsaw here tonight, and everyone here will be here, and you can bring your family members with you. We're going to have a good party tonight. But I still have a little important business to attend to, so I can't entertain you right now, and when it comes to the evening banquet, I will express my heartfelt gratitude to all the guests who came to this ceremony. ”

Xu Jun's words disappointed the group of officials who were about to rush up to pat the newly released young marshal and German deputy head of state, but they all nodded and smiled in agreement after thinking that the evening banquet should be more suitable for them than the current occasion.

"Then, let's go back first, and the officers will stay." Xu Jun smiled and waved at the crowd, then turned around and walked towards the gate.

When he looked at Müller again, his face suddenly became as cold as an ice cube, and he whispered to Müller: "You gather everyone in the conference room, and I'll go over later, and you have to give me a detailed report, and I want to know what happened from beginning to end."

Xu Jun's sudden change in face startled Mueller and several officers who were relatively close, they didn't know why His Excellency the Marshal was angry, could it be that he encountered something unpleasant when he went out in the afternoon, but looking at the appearance of him when he got out of the car just now, it didn't look like there was something unhappy. However, Xu Jun's words were an absolute order for them, so Mueller hurriedly agreed, and then immediately ran to the side and whispered to his colleagues.

At this time, Hans was slowly entering the building with a puzzled expression, holding Xu Jun's marshal's staff and the order in his hand. Seeing Hans, Müller hurriedly cast an inquiring gaze, and then glanced at Xu Jun's back with his eyes, he meant to say "what happened, how could that person be so unhappy". Seeing Mueller's eyes, Hans shrugged his shoulders and shook his head with a wry smile, indicating that he didn't understand what was going on, and then Hans quickened his pace and chased after Xu Jun.

Mueller took off his military hat and scratched his head, puzzled by Xu Jun's unusual reaction. Suddenly, Mueller remembered something, and he hurriedly explained a few words to the officers next to him, and then ran in the direction of Xu Jun's office.

Xu Jun walked briskly to his office while thinking about his strange promotion. It was so unexpected that it was illogical. Now Xu Jun felt that his mind had been stirred into a pot of porridge by this sudden incident, and there was a very bad premonition around his heart, which made him feel a burst of stuffiness in his chest, and a very irritable feeling in his heart.

He slammed open the door of his office, then angrily walked to his desk and sat down, he found that now he had a kind of ** that wanted to destroy something. How could he feel this way, why should he be so irritable, Xu Jun calmed down and asked himself secretly. Something must have happened and I don't know it, and this feeling I am feeling now may be an instinctive reaction to the uncertain danger I am about to face, an instinctive reaction to want to defend myself before the danger comes.

What the hell is going on, what exactly Hitler wants to do, what tricks he is playing. Raising himself to the rank of marshal is not at all in line with Hitler's usual style, there must be someone helping him, there must be some huge conspiracy. What is it exactly?

Xu Jun stood up and circled around his office, and suddenly he found that he was not the only one in his office, and there was another person sitting quietly on the sofa on the side of the office looking at him. It seems that this person was already in this office before Xu Jun came in, and Xu Jun didn't notice him because he was thinking about what happened in front of him after he came in.

Xu Jun was startled when he found a person sitting on the sofa, but when he saw the person's appearance clearly, he couldn't help but scream.

"It's you, why are you here......"

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