After entering the pit stop, the Blue Steel Express drove over. This car is a blue steel carriage imported from the United States, painted with blue paint, also known as the blue steel express. The carriage is divided into first class, second class and third class, the better the carriage, the further back, because the locomotive smoke billows, the third class carriage at the front of the car will inevitably eat ash and smell smoke, and the passengers of the third class carriage need to shake the soot on their bodies when they get off the train.

Huang Zhengzhong naturally didn't have this worry, he took the ticket and walked through the special passage entrance, and the rattan box in his hand was also specially carried on the train by the staff at the station. With one hand in his pocket, he strolled into the carriage and found his comfortable seat.

After sitting down, Huang Zhengzhong noticed that the carriage was not yet full, and a seat opposite him was still empty. At this time, the train is about to depart. Huang Zhengzhong thought to himself, maybe this seat was not sold, so he simply put his box under the seat opposite.

The first-class seats are one person per person, with two seats in a row, both against the window, carpeted first-class carriages, and special powder rooms and toilets with running water, boiling water and flush toilets. The seat is also extremely elegant, very far from the seat in front of you, and with this goose-down cushioned seat, you sit on your butt and hold you up.

The car slowly drove out of the station, and it took only a few hours to get there without stopping in the middle of Suzhou. However, along the way, the army trains kept avoiding, and no matter how slow the speed was, it could only be reached until it was dark.

The time is not long, nor short, and I am afraid that I will be hungry on the way. Huang Zhengzhong was not polite, and he ordered a simple meal of ten yuan of fiat currency, ready to settle lunch on the train.

As he was eating, he saw a man hurrying over, and when he looked up, it was a white man wearing a black leather jacket and sunglasses, although he was not wearing a military uniform, but he could see that this was an American soldier.

The man walked to the opposite position from Huang Zhengzhong, and seeing that he wanted to sit down in that seat, Huang Zhengzhong quickly stood up and moved his suitcase.

"I'm sorry, I thought there was no one here." Huang Zhengzhong replied in English.

Unexpectedly, the man smiled, he opened his mouth, and said in stiff Chinese, "It's okay. ”

Huang Zhengzhong smiled slightly and continued to bury his head in eating.

"Are you going to Suzhou too?" The American on the other side found fault with himself, but he was not fluent in Chinese, so he simply used English.

Huang Zhengzhong nodded, and after chatting with him, he learned that his name was Doolittle, he was an American, and this time he was going to Suzhou to play.

Huang Zhengzhong was surprised, since he was an American pilot, he must have gone to Suzhou for the sake of the joint bomber formation, so why was there only one person on this business trip? At the very least, there is not even a translator to belong to?

Could it be that he really went to Suzhou to play, as he said?

However, he didn't say it, first, this is a confidential matter, and the other party is unwilling to say it, so he naturally can't mention it; Second, Huang Zhengzhong didn't know the true identity of the other party, so it was a bit inappropriate to say these words rashly.

Huang Zhengzhong remembered the saying that "when you meet people, you can only say three points, you can't throw away all your hearts", so he simply talked to the other party about the United States and China, all of which were topics such as humanities, nature, and geographical environment between the two countries.

When mentioning China, Doolittle kept giving a thumbs up, and he did not shy away from saying: "God, if it weren't for the Chinese people, I'm afraid I would have fallen into the hands of the Japanese monkeys." ”

Then, he talked to Huang Zhengzhong about an experience not long ago, and Doolittle said that not long ago, he led a team to bomb Tokyo, Japan, because the plane did not have enough fuel, so he did not return to the plane, but flew directly to a Chinese airport for a forced landing.

"You know, there's a lot of uncertainty in flying, and one of the slightest nuances can cause you to get lost. I landed in China, but not far from the area occupied by the Japanese, and it was the local peasants who rescued me. ”

Doolittle said that after the simple Chinese were rescued, he reported to his superiors, and then the peasants entertained him with the best dishes and sent him to the county seat by palanquin, mule and horse.

"I can't believe I've taken more than a dozen vehicles in less than a week. The most primitive ones are sedan chairs and mules, as well as cars, trains, and airplanes. God, I really thank the Chinese. ”

Doolittle said that without the help of the Chinese, he was afraid that he would have starved to death in a desolate mountainous area, if not caught by the Japanese search party.

When he said this, he danced with his hands, although his voice was not loud, but he could feel the change in his feelings, and it could be seen that he really wanted to thank these people from the bottom of his heart.

The news of the US pilot's forced landing in China has long been published in the newspapers, and it is already known to everyone. It's just that he didn't expect such a pilot to sit in front of him, Huang Zhengzhong couldn't help but be in awe.

Thinking about it, Huang Zhengzhong has already strengthened his opinion, the person in front of him must have been rescued by the Chinese people during the bombing and left a good impression on China, and after China and the United States wanted to form a joint bomber formation, he either took the initiative to sign up and went there happily, or the superiors sent him over for a variety of factors.

But in this way, the doubts in Huang Zhengzhong's heart are even more puzzling, since he is already on a business trip, why would he go by himself?

Huang Zhengzhong felt that this foreigner's words were a little unreliable, and he suddenly became a little vigilant in his heart. After chatting with the other party for a while, he pretended to be tired and pretended to sleep.

Seeing that Huang Zhengzhong was asleep, Doolittle had no choice but to close his mouth and twist his head out of the window.

The train is still running in the water town south of the Yangtze River, and the traces left by the war here are still vivid, and you can see the broken fortifications, pillboxes and the like everywhere not far away.

"Is this China's Maginot Line?" Doolittle seemed to be talking to himself, and he seemed to ask Huang Zhengzhong.

Huang Zhengzhong said lazily: "Sir, this is not Maginot No. Maginot allowed the Germans to bypass without firing a shot, and these Chinese lines were able to strengthen their resistance to the Japanese. ”

Doolittle smiled again and asked, "Aren't you asleep?" ”

Huang Zhengzhong secretly screamed that it was not good, he seemed to have been fooled by him, so he simply complained: "I slept a little dazed, but as soon as you asked me, I woke up." ”

"I'm sorry about that." Doolittle replied politely, and then he seemed to say to himself: "The defensive role of these fixed fortifications has long been greatly reduced with the advent of the era of air warfare, and their most glorious time should be the European war, but that is already history. ”

Doolittle talked a few words about the Air Force, but Huang Zhengzhong didn't understand much about them, and he could only respond to them in a fog.

The train drove on and stopped for more than an hour. At this time, the line was very busy, civilian trains had to make way for military trains, and Suzhou was building bombing airports during this time, and it was out of strategic towns, and the military trains coming and going from Nanjing were countless every day.

When the Langang Express stopped here, at Suzhou Station, Huang Zhengzhong had been waiting for several hours, and the pack of camel cigarettes in his pocket was gone, so he had no choice but to let the guard Xiao Wu go to the commissary next to him to buy a pack of three forts.

In advance, Huang Zhengzhong had already told his brother that Huang Zheng was going, and told him the number of trains and the time of arrival. Huang Zheng was very happy when he heard that his younger brother was coming to see him, so he drove the jeep in advance and came to the station to greet him.

However, he waited for several hours and didn't see the train coming, and he also knew that the train was often delayed during the war, which would not be on time, but he didn't expect to be delayed for such a long time, and waiting for the train made people lose their temper.

Just when he was a little irritable, two more Huanghe jeeps drove not far away, and the head of Ji Xingwen jumped out of the car.

"Lao Ji, why did you get here?" Huang Zheng stepped forward and handed over a cigarette.

Ji Xingwen took the cigarette and lit it with a smile: "Like you, I'm also here to pick up people." ”

Ji Xingwen Tuan has recently been in charge of the ground security work for the construction of the airport, and the person he personally came to pick up at this time must have something to do with the airport.

"What? Got a business trip? It's from Nanjing. Huang Zheng chatted with him.

Ji Xingwen raised his hand and looked at his watch, and said casually: "An American pilot said that he wanted to come and see the construction of the airport. A call from the military commander himself, do you think it's drudgery? ”

Huang Zheng punched him in the chest, "Okay, dare the military commander's phone call be so careless?" ”

"Why didn't I take the words of the commander to heart? You kid can't give me a crime. Ji Xingwen also replied half-jokingly.

Huang Zheng pretended to be serious and said: "There is only a car coming to Suzhou today, this bus should have arrived an hour and a half ago, you only came at this time, don't you ignore the words of the military commander?" Luckily, the car was late, and if you said it would be on time, who would you pick up here? ”

These words made Ji Xingwen cry and laugh, he patted Huang Zheng on the shoulder and said, "Brother, you don't know anything about this." I had just received a call from the military commander, and I rushed over without stopping. The military commander said that they had just received a call from the US side. said that this master ran from Nanjing alone after asking for leave from their US military. ”

Ji Xingwen couldn't cry or laugh when he said this, as if he had a stomach full of complaints, but he thought this person was funny.

Huang Zheng grabbed his hat and scratched his head, "Is there such a thing?" In this way, the American pilot is not easy to serve. ”

"It's not good to serve and pull down, whoever is willing to serve who will serve." As soon as Ji Xingwen's words fell, the whistle of the train entering the station was heard in the distance.