It is not a very difficult task for the German Foreign Office to concoct a testimony that conforms to the thinking logic and language habits of the Japanese, and Germany, which has cooperated with Japan for many years, has many Japanese experts.

What's more, the confessors cooperated vigorously with a flattering attitude under the threat of the Hydra and Luger's pistol, not only pointing out the small loopholes in the forged confessions, but also adding a lot of material themselves, increasing the credibility of the report, making the confession to the highest level of seamlessness.

These Japanese also knew that it would be impossible for them to set foot on Japanese soil again, and even if the Germans were kind enough to release them, what awaited them after returning to Japan would definitely not be the welcome bouquets and cheers, but more likely would be the cold muzzles of the gendarmes and the roars of their former comrades in their own organization.

Now that they have betrayed, they simply do it more thoroughly, and these people not only think this way, but also do it.

These Japanese ruffians have long been completely defeated by German torture experts, and the honor of the Yamato nation is more unforgettable than that of the soldering iron.

Speaking of which, they are not to blame, except for the two or three leaders, none of the remaining minions are from regular military backgrounds, and of course they have not received that kind of strict brainwashing education.

The fiercest guy among them is a ronin to death, and bushido and anything like that has nothing to do with them.

Before joining their respective organizations, they were either idle idlers on the streets, fierce ruffians and hooligans, and even hawkers in Kabuchicho.

There are also many reasons for joining those organizations, some are inexplicably brought into the industry by the eldest brother, some think it seems to be imposing and join, and some are purely to support their families.

But there is one thing in common, these people are a little clever, and they all have a little bit of language talent, otherwise they would not have been sent to France to set up an intelligence station.

They all had some professional training, and they used to hold a lot of blood, but under the flexible nine-tailed cat, all the training and blood were all wiped out in the flying shadows of the whip.

Having fully mastered the experience of social survival, they don't have the roots of samurai, let alone the consciousness of sacrificing their lives for the emperor. Between survival and loyalty, all of them chose the former in the first place.

No one wanted to be sent to the small crematorium in the basement of the prison hospital by the Germans, much to the disappointment of the German executioners.

The defections of these Japanese minions were expected by German intelligence experts, but the fact that Shigeru Fujimoto, as the leader and a military officer, also chose to defect, which surprised the German experts a little.

This man was not a ruffian peddler, but he was a regular officer who graduated from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, a dignified second lieutenant who served as the head of the lower-level secret service organs under the Kwantung Army and the North China Dispatch Army, and was the most fanatical Japanese samurai.

Judging by his resume, he should have been the least likely of the captives to betray Japan.

But this Fujimoto Shigeru was the first Japanese prisoner to open his mouth to confess after the execution began.

The German executioner here had just moved his muscles, and the guy had already confessed like a bamboo tube pouring beans.

However, since this guy was the main culprit in the assassination of the Führer, there were no intelligence officers present at the time, and the Germans were all on fire, so no one noticed this detail.

The Germans didn't care whether he pleaded guilty or not, and cleaned him up in a real way until he was beaten to the death a few times before dragging the matter away.

So, as soon as the German asked him to retract his confession this time, before the executioner could whip and threaten him, the guy began to cry and agree to cooperate with Germany.

Not only that, but he also categorically stated that he could even serve Germany if it was in need, and without any conditions.

This time, the eyes of the German intelligence officer in charge of the matter began to light up.

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Yamashita Fumi, who was transferred to the German Army Hospital, was beaten badly, not because he was a Japanese general, but because this "famous general" was too hard-mouthed.

Yamashita Fengwen was not as famous as Xu Jun in the original world at this time, and he was scavenging for precious metals everywhere with the title of "Malay Tiger".

Yamashita Fengwen is also considered to be from a professional class, graduated from the second place in the twenty-eighth phase of Lu University, and belongs to the promising saber group. As long as you stand on the right team and are not too stupid, you can definitely make a name for yourself in the army.

After graduating, he was sent to study in Germany, and also worked as a military researcher in Switzerland, where he studied the European military system. After returning to Japan, he spent a while in the General Staff Headquarters, and then returned to the Army University as an instructor, and then was sent to the Japanese Embassy in Austria as a military attaché.

After returning from Austria, he served as a wing commander of the Army's 3rd Wing, which was nicknamed "infantry artillery".

This guy is 1.74 meters tall, which is considered tall among the Japanese, but he is as heavy as an 11-year-old 37-mm flat-fire infantry gun, a full 180 pounds, and he may be the fattest wing commander in the entire Japanese Army at that time.

Although he is only a small wing commander, the third wing can be regarded as the main force, and Yamashita Fengfumi officially became a member of the real power officers.

Yamashita Fengwen's background is not noble, he belongs to an ordinary family, and he has no samurai background, so he will inevitably suffer a little in his career.

However, his wife was born in a famous family, and she was the eldest daughter of Major General Yongyu Motohiko, and by taking the wife's route, he finally caught the line of the upper echelons of the army and met a group of high-ranking dignitaries.

Under the guidance of high-level friends introduced by his father-in-law, Yamashita Fengwen climbed into the ranks of generals at the age of 49, and even became the head of the important army investigation department.

What he didn't expect was that because of this group of friends, he unfortunately made a mistake that could make him unrecoverable, and he was on the wrong team.

At that time, the Japanese Army was divided into two factions: one was the "Imperial Road faction" that believed in nationalism and followed the principle of reforming the national government with violence against the emperor, eliminating the "courtiers" around the emperor, and returning all power to the emperor, and the other was the "control faction" that was determined to treat the emperor as a mascot and put the military department first, and emphasized steady reform from the top down.

The Imperial faction was mostly composed of junior and strong officers in the lower-level field troops who were full of bushido spirit and loyalty to the monarch, while the Command faction was mostly high-ranking generals. Apart from the creation of a militaristic state, the two have no common language at all.

The contradictions between the two sides accumulated more and more until they could not be reconciled, and the result was the famous "226" coup d'état in Japanese history.

On February 26, 1936, the young officers of the "Imperial Road Faction" staged a mutiny with 1,500 soldiers of the First Division.

They attacked the homes of all cabinet members and took out a number of high-ranking officials, including the Army's director of education.

The mutineers seized the residences of the prime minister and the minister of war, demanded the removal of members of the "control faction" in the cabinet and the military ministry, and even proposed a list of successors, including the name of Major General Yamashita Fumi.

Because most of the friends who brought Yamashita Fengwen were the backbone of the "Imperial Road School", and Yamashita himself was more inclined to the idea of the "Imperial Road School", so he was classified as a member of the "Imperial Road School".

The regular army troops staged a mutiny, which alarmed Hirohito at the time. After a few days of watching from the sidelines, Hirohito finally couldn't bear to express his opinion, he characterized the mutinous troops as "rebels", and said that if the military headquarters continued to fight there and did not solve the problem, he would personally lead the guards to "quell the rebellion". The government and the opposition were in an uproar, and Hirohito's small body went to "quell the chaos", and if he didn't add to the chaos, Amaterasu would open his eyes.

However, as soon as the emperor spoke out, the military department finally had a backbone. With the support of the emperor, the solution to the problem was simple, and the "ruling faction" immediately straightened their backs and quelled the mutiny with a devastating force. Not only that, but they also took this opportunity to carry out a large-scale purge of the officers of the "Imperial Dao faction" within the army, and Yamashita Bongbun was also pulled off his horse, driven out of the center of power, and sent to Korea to serve as the commander of the 44th Brigade of the Korean Residence Army.

This is still because of the help of Shouichi Terauchi, who was the land minister at the time, otherwise it would be possible to be kicked directly to the reserves. Interestingly, Shouichi Terauchi was also introduced to him by the father-in-law at Yamashita, and it can really be said that he is a success and a failure.

In North Korea, Yamashita has developed a hobby of collecting precious metals, and he does a lot of work to kill people and seize treasures, which is not much different from a bandit. In this way, he rushed to the "77 Incident", and Yamashita, who was loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, immediately pulled a team to China to rob it.

Yamashita participated in many battles in North China, rising from brigade commander to chief of staff of the North China Front.

On the Chinese battlefield, Yamashita committed a series of war crimes and owed countless blood debts to the Chinese.

In 1939, the "Nomenkan Incident" broke out, the Japanese army was tragically ravaged, in order to appease the Russian side, but also for the sake of face, a number of high-ranking officers of the Kwantung Army were successively dismissed for this matter.

Yamashita was transferred to the Kwantung Army to serve as the commander of the Fourth Division, which was subordinate to the Kwantung Army at the time, and finally got the opportunity to start again.

(The Osaka 4th Division is an interesting division, but the real 4th Army is not as ridiculous as it is rumored on the Internet, and we'll see this unit later in this book.) ）

After serving as the commander of a permanent division for a period of time, Yamashita was finally transferred back to Japan and returned to the center of power, serving as the director of Japan Airlines and the head of the aviation headquarters. Because he had studied in Germany, he was familiar with Germany, his qualifications were long enough, his official rank was good enough, and his position was matched, so he was appointed by the military department as the deputy head of the military observation mission to Germany, and led the army observation team to the European theater to observe and study, especially the investigation of the tactics and techniques of the Luftwaffe and armored units.

Yamashita was full of ambition after receiving this mission, and he was ready to show his skills in this expedition, and he might be able to make persistent efforts to reach a higher level in his current position.

Therefore, as soon as the observation group arrived in Paris, he immediately got in touch with the secret intelligence station of the Army General Staff Headquarters in Paris, hoping to get first-hand information about the German army in the French battlefield.

Not to mention, Fujimoto Shigeru did have two brushes in intelligence gathering, and he got some combat records of the French army and some battlefield manuals of the German army, which contained a lot of information that was helpful for analyzing the tactics of the German army.

Yamashita praised Fujimoto Shigeru for this, and promised a bunch of empty promises for promotion and fortune.

With the mentality of repaying the favor, the flattered Fujimoto Shigeru, after trying to praise Yamashita Fumi, said that he would hold a Japanese-style lavish banquet at the intelligence station to wash the dust for Lieutenant General Yamashita.

In order to arouse the general's interest, Fujimoto Shigeru also boasted about how fresh, varied, high-class, and delicious the French seafood he had obtained, how superb his chef skills were, and how sweet and delicious the sashimi and sushi he made.

It's better to be happy alone than to be happy with everyone, and Yamashita Fumi is not the master of eating alone, so he doesn't dare to forget the benefactor and old chief Terauchi Shouichi who saved his military career. After Yamashita Fengwen's enthusiastic introduction, the latter, of course, was also very decisive and gladly agreed.

So the next day, the two leaders of the Japanese invasion of China, the future "military gods" and "famous generals", happily walked into the strange style of the Japanese restaurant.

It should be that these two butchers with their hands stained with the blood of the Chinese ** people are unlucky, originally just to taste a little fresh Japanese sashimi, but now they are beaten by German strong men like two oysters, whether they can live to see Mount Fuji is between the two.