A month later, it was a midsummer afternoon.
A man who looked like a young commoner was hurriedly walking on a mountain road under the scorching sun, his whole body covered in sweat.
A ruin-like village appeared at the foot of the hillside ahead. The village was quiet and seemed lifeless.
There were patches of land on both sides of the road, but there were no crops in the fields. They were scattered high and low on the hillside. Except for locusts scurrying around in the fields with dry weeds and very few weeds, it was completely silent.
The Chronologist looked around suspiciously and walked towards the village.
Until he walked into the village, there was still silence around him, and no dogs barked. Until he unknowingly reached the tallest courtyard gate in the village, he finally stopped and looked around at the ruins. He was so devastated that he was at a loss.
A voice suddenly sounded from behind: "Xiaodou... why are you here?"
The young man was startled and turned around, seeing Tian Sanqi coming out of a corner of a ruined house with a shovel.
Xiaodou, the correspondent of the Independent Regiment, finally exhaled: "Are you a rat? There was no sound at all. It scared me!"
Then he pulled back the hand that reached his waist, stepped forward in two steps, pulled a kettle from Tian Sanqi's waist, leaned against the wall in the shade, raised the kettle and poured it into his mouth, and poured it into his mouth.
"Why are you here?" Tian Sanqi looked at Xiaodou who was soaked all over.
"Besides delivering letters, what else can I do here? Is Company Commander Hu here?"
"It's underground." Tian Sanqi poured water beside him unhurriedly.
"Are you kidding me? Why are you carrying a shovel?"
"Do you care? I'll dig the hole."
"Dig a hole? Uh... don't say you are digging a tunnel, right? Hahaha..." Xiaodou laughed: "The division has announced that we will learn from our brother troops and fight tunnel warfare, hehe, but you don't even look at this It’s a broken place, so close to a mountain, and there are rocks everywhere in the ground. What kind of tunnel are you going to dig?”
"None of your business, Captain Hu is in the well, go find it yourself!"
"In the well? Are you kidding?" Suddenly remembering that Tian Sanqi is not a joker, he quickly asked: "In which well?"
"Go and see for yourself. It's the largest well in the village's grain drying ground." After speaking, he pointed south, then turned around and quickly disappeared among the ruins.
Xiaodou saw that Tian Sanqi was no longer paying attention to him, so he had to take a look at the terrain, and walked south based on his feeling. He followed a narrow passage between two courtyards to the grain drying ground in the south of the village. The path was sandwiched between loess and rocks. Between the completed houses, after turning several turns in a row, the view suddenly became clear.
Next to the grain field, a hole emerged from the ground and was made of stone. The wellhead of a wooden wheel appeared in front of you. There were a lot of fresh-looking stones piled nearby. From time to time, faint sounds of tinkling could be heard in the well.
"Stop the hell, what are you doing!" A dirty face without a hat and upper body emerged from the dead woods nearby.
This voice... is familiar... Tang Dagou!
"Big dog, why are you staying in the woods on such a hot day? I'm Xiaodou."
"I know it's you kid!"
"Then you still shout?"
"Why the hell can't I call you? It's been ten days and I haven't even seen a stranger, hehehehe..."
"I heard from Tian Sanqi, are Company Commander Hu and the others in the well?" After ten days of not seeing each other, Tang Dagou became darker and felt a little nervous!
"What the hell, what do you want from Chief Hu?" Tang Dagou wiped the sweat from his head.
"In the regiment, there are orders to convey!" Xiaodou looked at Tang Dagou: "What are you doing?"
"Move rocks."
"ah?"
The two came to the mouth of the well, holding on to the water puller. Xiaodou poked his head out and finally saw that there seemed to be no water near the bottom of the well. Even under the noon sun, the well looked dark. , and after careful observation, there seemed to be a darker place on the side of the well wall.
"Sir Hu, there are people from the regiment." Tang Dagou shouted at the top of his voice into the well.
After a while, the rope on the windlass shook. Tang Dagou quickly shook the handle of the windlass. As the rope slowly wrapped around the windlass, a pigtail emerged from the dark well. He raised his head and exposed it to Xiaodou who had retracted his head. A dirty smiley face.
"Xiaodou, why are you here at this time? It's so hot. Come down with me to cool down first."
Xiaodou was a little dumbfounded. He didn't expect that this girl lived in the well with Captain Hu! Look at the pile of fresh stones next to it. Could it be that Jiulian Company is really digging a tunnel?
Thinking about coming here, I didn't even see anyone. After the Japanese raids, this place became almost a deserted place. Jiulian Company really knows how to choose a place.
After the girl went down, with the help of Tang Dagou, she sat at the mouth of the well, stepped on the barrel with her feet, and was put into the well by Tang Dagou shaking the pot.
When I got down there, I felt a burst of cold air, feeling comfortable all over my body. I quickly opened my squinted eyes and slowly adapted to the darkness.
A small hole was opened on the side of the well wall near the bottom of the well. It was half a person's height. There was a faint light coming from inside. There were constant knocking sounds from inside. It was really an tunnel. There were still people working. Xiaodou suddenly Interested!
The light in the cave was very dark, so I couldn't see how deep it was. I followed the girl and walked five or six meters before turning a corner. I felt that some parts were still supported by thick logs.
Xiaodou followed the girl and continued to drill inside with her head lowered. The terrain inside felt higher and higher. After turning the corner, she walked at least five or six meters, and then turned again. An oil lamp was lit every two turns. The light in the cave comes from here.
The tunnels are not all dug out of the stones, but are dug along the gaps between the stones. To put it bluntly, it is to clean out the soil between the stones. Occasionally, the hole opening is too small in some places, and then the stones are cleaned and enlarged. .
After walking along the winding tunnel and turning five turns, I finally saw the place where the sound came from.
This place is much bigger than outside.
The two soldiers were hammering away at a piece of stone in front of them, excavating straight from the middle of the flaky stone.
It seems that there is movement in other places. It seems that there are many people doing this work in the village!
Under an oil lamp, Hu Yi was carefully calculating on the paper with a pen and paper. Luo Fugui, lying next to him, lazily put the larger stones knocked down by the soldiers into the basket one by one.
Hu Yi looked up in surprise: "Xiaodou, why are you here? What's the matter?"
"Reporting to Captain Hu, the regiment... has a new mission." Xiaodou felt a little suffocated in the cave.
Hu Yi stood up directly: "Go out and tell me, the air here is not very good."
Indeed, after digging dozens of meters deep, how good could the air in this hole be?
"Captain Hu, the ground here is full of rocks. You have been digging for so long to dig so little. Is it useful?" Xiaodou lowered his head and asked Hu Yi behind him.
"Didn't you see everything?"
Excavation of the broken soil layer between natural rocks for work is actually a tunnel. It is customary to call the fortifications built on high hillsides as tunnels, and the fortifications built under the ground as tunnels.
But whether it is a tunnel or a tunnel, its purpose is to build a fortification to preserve the strength of combatants when the equipment is at a disadvantage. Hu Yi is clear about the tunnels built on the hillside, which are often called trenches, but for those on the surface The following tunnel looks similar to digging a trench. This is also the first time I have done this.
The little girl fell behind and naturally thought of Wu Shitou. If he was here, maybe it would be much easier.
