Chapter 48: On the Way Back to Moscow
As soon as the transport plane arrived at Valencia Airport, Lin Jun saw that Andlupuf and his men were already on the runway to greet him. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ο½iqugeγ ο½ο½fo
"Brother!" Lin Jun, who got off the plane, received a "bear hug" from Andlupf, "If you weren't injured, Lao Tzu really wanted to beat you!" Andlupf said "viciously" to Lin Jun.
Of course, Lin Jun knew why this eldest brother said this, he must be blaming himself for participating in the white-knuckle battle.
"Hehe, didn't I come back alive?"
Before he had time to say too much, Andlupf and Lin Jun got into the car and rushed to the Valencia railway station in order to catch the train to Paris, France. This time, Stalin wanted to transfer Lin Jun back to Moscow as soon as possible, so the arrangement was by land, and taking the train was the fastest and safest mode of transportation now.
The driver of the car turned out to be the "old man" in the first brigade, so the two people in the back seat could talk with confidence.
Lin Jun handed Andrupf 5 Moroccan scimitars in the car, and in addition to the original ones, he also prepared one for Yakov, and now he is in Barcelona.
"Andre, the Lou Zi you stabbed this time is not small, I don't dare to keep you for a day." As he spoke, Andlupf handed Lin Jun a few documents, which were Lin Junxin's identification.
"Haha, military attache of the Soviet embassy in France." Lin Jun looked at the name on the document and smiled.
"It was sent directly from Paris by a special comrade from above, and it just arrived yesterday, and the documents are all genuine, and the case has been filed with the French Foreign Office, so that you have diplomatic immunity, especially when passing through Germany, and you can avoid some troubles." Andlupuf said.
This time, Lin Jun's route back to the Soviet Union was to Paris first, then to Berlin, then to Warsaw, and finally from Warsaw to take a direct train to Moscow, in the middle of which to enter Barcelona, Paris, Nancy, Stuttgart, Munich, Nuremberg, Leipzig, Berlin, Poznan, Warsaw and other famous European cities, the whole journey is more than 6,000 kilometers, and it takes at least more than 10 days to stop and go, but this is still much faster than the ship.
"One of our interpreters from the embassy in Paris will take you all the way back to Moscow, he speaks five languages, his name is Ibos, and he is the second secretary of the embassy in France. He will be your assistant and interpreter along the way, and now he is waiting for you at the train station. β
"Hehe, brother didn't expect it, on the way back to Moscow, you can still see the scenery and travel all over Europe." Lin Jun is in a good mood, he is like this with his brother.
"It's just you! God knows what will happen if you want to change to someone else! It can be seen that Comrade Stalin is very fond of you, did you not notice the reason for the transfer in the appointment? β
"Of course I did, it was for me to go back to Moscow for ear treatment. Comrade Stalin gave me a valid reason to leave the battlefield. β
"So you won't hurt your muscles and bones when you go back this time, at most you will be taught a good lesson, basically there is no danger, hehe." Andrupf is helping his brother analyze.
"Hehe, I know that. Brother, what do you want me to bring to Nova and Katya? β
"It's nothing, just a letter and a few photos, by the way, you still have to help me bring such a beautiful scimitar back, anyway, it will be put at home in the end."
Andlupf said as he pulled an envelope out of his pocket.
"Yes, I will definitely bring it." Lin Jun took it and put it in his breast pocket.
"Brother, give me your gun, mine is gone."
Lin Jun suddenly thought of a small problem, that is, it was a little troublesome to get a pistol when he returned to Moscow, and he couldn't always carry a "box gun" every day, and Spain was now at war, and it couldn't be simpler for Andlupf, the captain of the wing, to ask for a few pistols.
Andlupuf took the holster on his waist and gave it to Lin Jun, and asked the driver for a few spare magazines.
"You are so generous that you even gave away your own gun, but you came to me to rob it!"
"I gave Comrade Picasso a gift, and he gave me a really good gun, and I always have to reciprocate it." Lin Jun said as he leaned on his stomach and took out the suitcase containing the large wooden box from the passenger seat, opened it and took out the exquisite Mauser submachine pistol.
"What a gun! It's just a little big. "Andlupf had a twinkle in the eye, and although he had never seen a Mauser pistol of this model, he knew at a glance that it was definitely a good gun." How can there still be words? β
"Embedded on it is Pablo Ruiz Picasso, the full name of Comrade Picasso." Lin Jun told Andrupf about Picasso giving him paintings and guns.
While the two were still talking, the car had already arrived at the train station, and it was still an hour before it departed. There was a middle-aged man in his 40s waiting for them at the station.
"He's Ibos."
The group just sat in the cafΓ© of the train station for a while, and Andlupf sent Lin Jun on the train.
When saying goodbye, Lin Jun hugged his brother tightly: "You must give me back to Moscow alive!" β
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It's an old-fashioned train that will run along the edge of the Mediterranean Sea all the way to the southern French city of Marseille and north to Paris. Ibos is of medium height, with an honest face, like the most authentic translator or clerk.
The two of them sit in a private room with their own sanitary facilities, just like the kind that appeared in old movies, with bunk beds, usually the upper bunk is close to the partition, and they can be put down when they sleep at night.
Since he would not be disturbed by the outside world, Ibos revealed his true identity to Lin Jun, who was not only the second secretary and translator of the embassy, but also a member of the "Cheka", and this time Lin Jun's bodyguard.
"Hehe, Comrade Igbos, I know that you are not simple, the top will not send an ordinary person to send me to Moscow, you must know that in Europe I am blind, and if I am not careful, I will get lost, hehe."
Ibos was also amused by Lin Jun, he was an elite in the "Cheka", and this time he directly received an order from Comrade Yenov, NKVD of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, to escort this Comrade Andrei back to Moscow safely. For this Andrei, he knows better: the Kremlin's upstart, Hero of the Soviet Union, famous combat hero, plus "Superman" in the eyes of the leaders of the Red Army.
This mission is very important to Ibos, because if the mission is successfully completed, he will be promoted, but if something happens to this Andrei, then he does not need to go back to Moscow, and he can directly wipe his neck.
Ibos gave Lin Jun a few sets of clothes to change into, and the military uniform that Lin Jun was wearing now was too eye-catching. He also dragged out a large box from under the seat and put Lin Jun's luggage in it.
After dressing up, the two of them completely became diplomats on business, and even the Tokarev Model 33 pistol that he asked for from Andlupuv was placed in the holster on the inside of the suit that Lin Jun was wearing, and it was not visible from the outside at all after putting on the coat.
When the train arrived in Barcelona, Igbos unexpectedly asked Lin Jun to get off the train, and the two of them changed to a bus that had been waiting at the train station for Marseille.
"Comrade Ibos, you are cunning!" It takes more than 10 hours to drive for a car for 500 kilometers, and Lin Jun has back pain, but he has to admire Yibos's arrangement, because it is much safer.
But when they passed the border checkpoint just now, the sentinels of the Spanish Republic saluted themselves and said: "Salute to the defenders of Madrid!" β
"Comrade Andrey, it seems that our butts are turned in vain!."
"No way, who would have thought that someone would know me too."
Lin Jun is so famous in Spain, this is all "harmed" by those reporters in Madrid, and people on the side of the republic now basically know this Comrade Andrei, and many people have seen his photos in the newspapers.
In Marseille, they boarded a train to Paris, and the security staff at the station allowed the two diplomats all the way, and it would be good to have this identity as a cover.
Paris, this is a very attractive name, Lin Jun also wanted to see the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, and the Arc de Triomphe, but unfortunately he didn't even get out of the station and got on the train to Berlin.
"Ibos, do you know what I'm trying to do now?" Lin Jun looked at the Parisian scenery flashing outside the car window and said to Ibos, who was sitting on the opposite bunk.
"You want to kill me, blow up the train, and run to the Champs-ΓlysΓ©es for coffee." Ibos didn't even look at Lin Jun.
"Count you ruthless!"
"Hehe, to be honest, I also wanted to blow up the train, but in order to get back to Moscow early, we can only hold on." Ibos stood up and stretched, "My waist is sore, and there is still a long way to go." β
To be honest, Lin Jun admires this "old Cheka", who can arrange the entire itinerary so carefully, and he must not be so rigorous.
As soon as the train arrived at the checkpoint on the German border, a lot of people in German police uniforms came up to carry out security checks. This reminded Lin Jun of the indispensable scenes of train security checks in movies depicting World War II: the vicious German policeman and the Gestapo in a trench coat with a gloomy face.
But this inspection does not seem to be strict, and the box for diplomats with diplomatic immunity is simply a glance and left, even for ordinary passengers, and there is no such horror atmosphere in the movie at all.
"This is a train into Germany, and these cars are all boxes for people with status, so the inspection will be easier. Safety checks are much stricter on trains leaving Germany. Ibos saw Lin Jun's doubts.
Sometimes politics is really interesting, and in Spain everyone fights each other, while in Germany and the Soviet Union, both sides are still polite to people on the other side, at least on the surface.
"We're going to spend a day in Berlin, and then we can go out and see that we're absolutely safe in their capital." Ibos said.
"Okay, I'll visit Berlin then, I've never been to Germany before." Lin Jun also wants to see the center of the Third Reich, to see the somewhat fanatical Germans who were bewitched by Hitler, and to see if the swastika flags flying in the sky in those old documentaries are really so shocking!
"Maybe if you don't look at Berlin this time, the next time you see it will be when the Red Army sets foot on this land." Lin Jun thought.