Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Opposite Vehicle
After listening to Liu Wenxiu's explanation, everyone knew what was going on and was no longer in a hurry. Since it's still early, let's go to the side of the road and wait! It's definitely not appropriate for hundreds of people to sit on the railroad tracks, and this is not a collective suicide by lying on the rails, why do you do such a dangerous thing? It's better to go under the roadbed and rest and wait for the time to come.
In the wilderness by the railway, a cool breeze blows, and you can watch the train roar back and forth, and if you don't have anything in your mind in a hurry, it is a good place to go. Gao Quan is like this now, sitting back to back on the ground with Hong Yingying, listening to the whispered discussions of the soldiers in his ears, looking up at the bright moon and stars in the sky, and down is a train running into the distance with billowing smoke, such a picture of the perfect combination of movement and stillness makes people feel drunk.
The smell of his beloved woman came from the end of his nose, and in front of him was a perfect picture painted like thick ink, surrounded by loyal and brave comrades-in-arms and brothers, Gao Quan couldn't feel the passage of time at all, and this half-hour wait for nothing, as if with a flick of his fingers, was in the blink of an eye. Before he could enjoy the beautiful scenery in front of him, a voice came to his ear: "When the time comes, I'll go pull the turnout!" Gao Quan was stunned, and when his eyes turned, Liu Wenxiu had already run onto the roadbed.
I saw Stationmaster Liu running quickly to the railroad tracks, bending over as if he had done something, the time was very short, and he ran back before anyone even arrived for half a minute.
"How?" Gao Quan stood up and stared straight at Liu Wenxiu.
"That's it!" Liu Wenxiu's eyes flashed with fanatical light.
As if to prove that Liu Zhan's long-term concept was accurate, as soon as Liu Wenxiu's voice fell, there was a train whistle, "Woo-" A train rushed quickly!
"If you pull the turnout here, the dispatch room will know, can they move the switch back there?" Gao Quan's eyes were fixed on the approaching train, and he casually asked the question in his heart.
"Dispatch room? How do they pull the turnout there? They can only notify the patrol worker or the wrench to come and deal with it, the dispatch room is too far away from here for the dispatcher to pull the turnout. Liu Wenxiu looked at Gao Quan a little strangely, if the dispatcher wants to pull the switch from the dispatch room, unless he knows how to spell and be an immortal! Did the gods come to work as dispatchers? Liu Wenxiu only regarded Gao Quan's words as casual nonsense of a layman.
Wisps of white smoke came from the locomotive, and it drove over with the sound of the wind.
"This train was supposed to turn from this turnout, but now it has been changed to go straight, and in ten minutes it will collide with the arms train coming from Wuchang. To see the crash train, you have to walk at least an hour further. Seeing that Gao Quan's eyes were still chasing the train that had gone away, Liu Wenxiu thought that Commander Gao wanted to go to see the scene of the collision with his own eyes, so he quickly said the prerequisites for watching the excitement, if you want to go to see it, then you have to walk along the railway for more than an hour!
"Let's go, let's go back!" Of course, Gao Quan can't just watch the excitement of the scene, so that the soldiers are in danger, now everything that should be done has been done, and the rest, just like Zhuge Liang said, "planning things in people and making things happen in the sky", if the devils are really lucky, they can stop the train before the crash, that is God is helping him, no one can do anything, however, this is the land of China, just say that it is a god, and they are all Chinese gods, and the devils should not have much good luck.
"Ono-kun, you made a lot of money in Yueyang this time, right? I see you've shipped a lot of goods! "In the regular vibration, one devil lieutenant was asking another lieutenant, they were in a dining car, the tablecloth table was clean and tidy, there were only seven or eight devil officers in the whole dining car, not even a ghost soldier, this dining car has been used by devils as an officer's car.
"Kuroda-kun, you also brought a lot of things!" For his friend to say this, Ono immediately gave a sharp counterattack, "I only brought two bags of luggage, but you brought three!" Hey, by the way, Kuroda-kun, do you feel it, we should have turned when we got out of the station, why haven't we turned now, it seems that we are always walking straight? ”
"Haha, Ono-kun, you don't think the train driver went the wrong way, right? From Yueyang, we can only go to Wuchang, where else can the train take us? Will it drive all the way to Changsha? I didn't catch up with the last Changsha battle, and if I can really go to Changsha this time, I will definitely bring up the heads of a few Chinese army commanders and go back to Wuhan! ”
Hearing his partner bragging so much, the devil Ono immediately put down the problem of the train turning that he had just discovered, and the two began to chat ramblingly.
On the front of the train, since half of the carriages of this train were pulled by wounded soldiers, the driver and stoker who drove the train also used Japanese. Today's train is too important, and the devil is not very relieved to hand it over to the Chinese. Therefore, on this train, from the driver to the restaurant waiter, all are Japanese, not even a single Chinese. The Japanese driver also felt that something was wrong just now, and the driver discussed with the stoker, and it was estimated that the wrench worker had pulled the wrong fork and the train was on the wrong path, so he quickly reported to Yueyang Railway Station.
But the deputy stationmaster Liu Wenxiu didn't go to work today, and the stationmaster Yamada was in Linxiang, and the devil on duty who answered the phone had to notify the dispatch room, and then arrange for the triggerman to come over, and the train had to go back, how long did it take to come back and forth? Late is a certainty, how late can it be? The devil driver and the stoker were sweating on their heads at that time, and the fire in the boiler next to them was blazing, and the temperature in the cab was even higher.
The two devils who drove the train were old drivers, and they found out that they were driving the wrong way, and after reporting to the station, they decisively stopped the train. But the train wants to stop but it can't stop all at once, the brakes are pulled here, the boiler is extinguished, and the train is still sliding forward, and it doesn't take ten minutes or so to expect the train to stop.
Seeing that the train was getting slower and slower, the driver and stoker smoked a cigarette, and waited for the train to stop when they were ready to reverse. At this time, "Woo-! A loud whistle suddenly came from the distance on the opposite side, and then I felt the vibration on the railroad tracks, and a car was coming from the opposite side! The driver and stoker looked face to face, and the faces of the two were all white!
Whistle! "Woo-woo-!" The devil driver desperately sounded the whistle on the car, he wanted the train on the opposite side to know that there was another train on the railway here, and the train coming from the opposite side had to stop quickly!
"Woo! Woo-woo! The whistle was also being played on the other side, and the train was getting closer and closer, and the lights on the opposite side could already be seen!
"Yaga! What are they going to do? Want to hit a train? The driver panicked and pulled the reverse car hard, trying to get the train to start as soon as possible, but his train was still slowly sliding forward, how could it be so easy to reverse?
"What to do? Hatoyama, are we going to jump out of the car? The stoker looked panicked and discussed with the driver.
"No! We are the drivers of this train, the safety of the train is the responsibility of the two of us, the train is like my child, I will never leave my child and run away alone! ”