Chapter 376: Knight's Medal

As soon as you enter Zhejiang Province, even if you enter the Japanese-occupied area, you may encounter Japanese troops at any time, and there will be Japanese outposts on the main road. Originally, Wang Haitao was supposed to put away his car, avoid the main road, and then head towards Shanghai along the mountain road. But Wang Haitao calculated the time, if he walked like this, it would take at least ten days to reach Shanghai, and the soldiers would be very tired.

Wang Haitao was heartbroken, merged the reconnaissance company and the guard battalion together, changed into Japanese military uniforms, and disguised the cars as Japanese vehicles, and then swaggered along the highway in the direction of Shanghai in broad daylight. Wang Haitao wore a military uniform, carried a forged baggage wing of the 27th Division of the Japanese Army, lived in Shanghai to receive the documents of supplies, and sat in the command car to take the lead.

As soon as the convoy entered Zhejiang, it encountered the first Japanese outpost near Quzhou City. Seeing the Japanese flag fluttering on the convoy and the Japanese soldiers standing on the truck, the Japanese soldiers at the checkpoint were not nervous, and a second lieutenant officer at the checkpoint walked quickly to the side of Wang Haitao's command car, and gave a military salute to Wang Haitao, who was wearing a military uniform.

Wang Haitao returned the salute with an arrogant face, and then handed over the military ID card and forged documents. The second lieutenant officer looked at the document and the forged document with a big look, and did not suspect that it was fake at all, and after reading it, he bent down and handed the certificate and document back to Wang Haitao, and then said: "Your Excellency Zhongzuo, now there are often guerrillas of the Zhina people on the road, Your Excellency Zhongzuo is careful on the road, I wish Your Excellency Zhongzuo a smooth journey!"

Wang Haitao nodded, and replied in Japanese with a Sendai accent: "Thank you for the reminder, but if the guerrillas in China dare to come, let them taste the power of the warriors of our empire!" The second lieutenant didn't say anything more, and motioned for his subordinates to let him go. Wang Haitao and his entourage swaggered away. In this way, Wang Haitao and his entourage passed through Zhejiang Province and entered the suburbs of Shanghai in three days under the noses of the Japanese army.

In the suburbs of Shanghai, Wang Haitao and the others took off their disguises, because such an army entering the downtown area of Shanghai would definitely alarm the Japanese garrison headquarters in Shanghai, and if it was verified, it would be exposed. After Wang Haitao put the vehicle, Japanese uniforms, and weapons into the storage ring, he went into the city in batches as last time, and went to Wang Haitao's residence to concentrate.

Not long after Wang Haitao arrived at the residence, all the soldiers arrived. Wang Haitao saw that it was still early, so he took Wei Changxing and the two team members to live in front of the house and the foreign company. When Donald saw Wang Haitao, who had been waiting for a long time, he was also very excited, and said: "General Wang, I finally waited for you, but it was not only me who was waiting for you, but also the people who came with the freighter from Germany. ”

After saying that, Donald asked his men to hire someone. Wang Haitao asked Donald: "Manager Donald, can you tell me where my shipment is?" Donald replied with a smile: "General Wang, with so many weapons and equipment, do you think I can directly transport them to Shanghai? Even if Germany and Japan have good relations, the Japanese will probably not agree, right? Unless this batch of weapons and equipment is handed over to the Japanese." ”

As he spoke, several people walked in through the doorway, led by a German SS uniform with the rank of colonel. This man walked up to Wang Haitao, raised his hand and gave a Nazi military salute, shouting: "Hey! Hitler!" Wang Haitao replied with a Chinese-style military salute. This person said loudly to Wang Haitao: "Hello! Colonel Wang Haitao, I am Colonel von and Krall, the captains of the 1st Brigade of the German Empire SS, and I have come to China to award Colonel Wang Haitao on the order of the Führer, but your military uniform and medals are on board, and you need to go back to the ship with us for a formal ceremony." ”

Wang Haitao nodded, and said to Colonels Feng and Krall: "Okay, Colonel Krall, it's a pleasure to meet you, I hope you have a good time in China!" Then two more German officers stepped forward, they were officers of the logistics department of the German Ministry of Defense, and they were ordered to hand over all the weapons and equipment of an infantry division to Wang Haitao, and these weapons and equipment were naturally still on the freighter, and they were loaded and handed over after Wang Haitao got on the freighter.

Finally, two technicians from the Krupp headquarters stepped forward, and after Alfred Jr., the director of the Krupp headquarters, greeted Wang Haitao, he directly asked to see the drawings of the new tanks and new weapons that Wang Haitao said. When Wang Haitao told the two that what they brought this time was not a drawing, but a real thing, and that they would be handed over to the two when they went to the boat, their faces showed surprised expressions.

Wang Haitao made an appointment with everyone that he would take people to the boat at eight o'clock tomorrow morning, and then he would say goodbye to everyone and leave. Wang Haitao didn't want to expose the secret of the storage ring in front of the Germans, so he immediately rushed to the cargo ship dock, temporarily rented a small warehouse at a high price, and took out the Type 62 light tank and the Type 63 130mm self-propelled rocket launcher in the warehouse.

After Wang Haitao left two soldiers to guard the warehouse, he returned to the residence with Wei Changxing. When these people under his command heard that Wang Haitao would go to the freighter to receive weapons and equipment tomorrow, they all wanted to follow, and in the end, Wang Haitao chose 20 soldiers from the guard battalion and 10 soldiers from the reconnaissance company to go, and the rest of the people stayed at home except for some soldiers of the reconnaissance company who secretly went to the cargo ship dock to guard.

At eight o'clock in the morning of the next day, Wang Haitao appeared at the cargo ship dock on time with people, and Donald and Colonel Feng and Krall were also waiting here, and the two sides briefly greeted each other, and Donald and Colonel Feng and Krall asked Wang Haitao and others to board the freighter from Germany. Everything was ready in the large conference room on the freighter, and it was ready to start when Wang Haitao arrived.

At the beginning of the ceremony, Colonels von and Krall first read out the commendation decree and appointment documents signed by Hitler himself. The commendation order was nothing more than some official words, and the result was that Wang Haitao was awarded a knight's cross. The appointment document was issued by the German High Command, appointing Wang Haitao as the deputy commander of the German First Mechanized Army, the First Mechanized Army, and the Second Panzer Division, and conferring the rank of Major General of the German Wehrmacht.

With this appointment document, if Wang Haitao is in Germany, he can take office immediately, but now Wang Haitao will not consider leaving the motherland at all. The ceremony was not long, and there were not many flowers, and at the end of half an hour, after Wang Haitao received a set of major general uniforms and medals of the German Wehrmacht, he proposed to receive weapons and equipment.

Two officers from the logistics department of the German Ministry of Defense brought a thick stack of lists, and Wang Haitao knew that there would be no shortage of things just by looking at the lists. Wang Haitao took the list and was about to take a closer look, when a technician from the Krupp headquarters came over and said to Wang Haitao: "General Wang, congratulations on receiving the personal commendation from the Führer. There are too many weapons and equipment for this infantry division, and it will take a few days to hand them over, can General Wang first give us the weapons promised to us at the Krupp Company, and then carry out the handover of those weapons and equipment?"

Wang Haitao knew that they couldn't wait to see the new weapons they brought, and said: "Gentlemen, I have no problem with this, but this must be agreed by these two officers and gentlemen." Hearing what Wang Haitao said, the people at the Krupp headquarters were busy coordinating with the two officers of the logistics department. The relationship between the Krupp company and the German logistics department should be good, and the two technicians discussed it with the two officers a little, and the two officers of the logistics department agreed.

Wang Haitao saw that the two officers from the logistics department agreed, so he said: "Okay, I have transported the two weapons to the cargo ship dock last night, and they are being stored in a warehouse, so I will take the two of them there." After speaking, he took the lead and walked under the boat. Two Krupp technicians followed closely behind Wang Haitao, while the others also disembarked out of curiosity.

Wang Haitao led these people into the warehouse and motioned for his soldiers to pull open the canvas covering their weapons. The first thing that fell into everyone's eye was the Type 62 light tank. This streamlined tank, which is eight meters long, two meters seven high, and two meters eight meters wide, attracted the attention of all Germans. Wang Haitao explained to the two technicians: "This tank, equipped with an 85 mm cannon that can fire grenades and armor-piercing shells, is equipped with two 7.62 mm machine guns and one 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine gun. The thickness of the front armor was 35 mm, and the frontal thickness of the turret was 45 mm.

The total weight of the car is 21,000 kg, with a water-cooled diesel engine, the power is 316K, there are five forward gears and one reverse gear, the full crew of four, the maximum speed on the road is 60 kilometers per hour, and the maximum travel is 450 kilometers. It can prepare 47 shells, 2000 ordinary machine gun rounds, and 500 anti-aircraft machine gun rounds. The turret can be electrically rotated 360 degrees. ”

With Wang Haitao's explanation, the two technicians had small stars in their eyes, while the other Germans looked unbelievable. The shock to the Germans was not over, and when the fighters pulled back the canvas covering the self-propelled rocket launcher, all the Germans looked at the self-propelled rocket launcher in bewilderment. None of the Germans present understood what kind of weapon it was.

When Wang Haitao announced its name: Self-propelled rocket launcher, the others were a little better, and the two technicians exclaimed: "Impossible! The problem on the rocket has not been solved by our German scientists, so how can you have already built a real thing? Can you tell me how far it can hit?" Wang Haitao smiled and replied: "Gentlemen, don't underestimate the wisdom of others, I can tell you that this rocket launcher can fire 19 rockets in 10 seconds, and the range has reached more than 10 kilometers. ”

The two technicians were still shouting: "Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!" and the two officers of the logistics department had already stepped forward and asked: "General Wang, can you tell us how powerful this rocket launcher is?" Wang Haitao thought for a moment and replied: "One rocket may only destroy one tank, but in ten seconds, nineteen rockets will blow up the target area into a sea of fire." ”

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