Li Er's family was a tenant farmer, and an old and ruthless landowner had a fortune. In the year of severe drought, the grain was released at high interest rates. When collecting the account, the interest was doubled dozens of times, and his parents were forced to death.
Li Er, who was just over ten years old, was forced to work as a long-term laborer, but he soon found an opportunity to escape and wandered around Heze.
It happened that one day he found the money bag of the theater troupe leader Liu, but he did not confiscate it and waited for its owner. Leader Liu lamented that he was in such a poor state but still had good character, so he took him in to work as an oddball in the theater troupe, and he has found a way out since then.
Two years later, Li Er's voice changed and his voice was not very good, but his hands and feet were flexible and he became an apprentice. Moreover, he has learned very cleverly in the troupe in the past two years, and the people in the troupe take good care of him. Although he had no apprenticeship, everyone was willing to teach him how to use martial arts, and he learned a variety of martial arts.
Later, the war broke out and the troupe dispersed. He followed the class leader to his hometown of Baitian Town, Hunan, where he bought a piece of land and later married a wife and had children.
When he was in his thirties, he joined the farmers' association and when he was forty-two, he joined the army. He was injured while crossing the Xiangjiang River and has lost contact with the team since then.
He was seriously injured and hid in the mountains to avoid being searched. Therefore, he met Tan Wu, the later captain of the martial arts team, and other team members.
Before the Japanese came, they were great heroes who robbed the rich and gave to the poor. After the Japanese occupied Shandong, they became anti-Japanese heroes.
Li Er also gave himself a nickname, Xiangjiang Cardinal. But people thought it was too long, so they called him Li Er Ye or Er Ye. His name can only be heard when people spread the deeds of the armed workers by word of mouth.
Mr. Li Erye, a Red Bird in Xiangjiang River, has a long knife and the ghost has no head, and the sound is very loud.
However, in Li Er's memory, he only remembered the names of seven team members. They are Tan Wu from Journey of a Thousand Miles, Ma Kaishan from Little Guozi, Huang Dani from Yellow Monkey, Zhao Sanmei from Swallow, Zhu Youde from Old Fox, Jin Yuesheng from Iron Abacus, and Zhang Lei from Lei Mazi.
The voices and looks of the other team members were stored in his memory like short clips of greetings to him, but he couldn't remember their names.
And when they performed the last mission in memory, there were only eight of them.
Li Er couldn't remember whether the others died or had other missions. But he remembered that the mission was very dangerous.
They received information that the Japanese had built a secret stronghold in the cave and captured many young and middle-aged people who did not know what they were doing.
The mission of the armed workers team is to rescue the villagers and explore what secrets are hidden in the cave.
The cave is not difficult to find, but the atmosphere there is very strange.
There is only one road to and from the cave, and the Japanese only set up a sentry post at the mountain col, guarded by two sentries. There was not a single soldier guarding the 100-meter-long mountain road, nor was there a sentry, not even a sentry at the entrance of the cave. There are no roadblocks or defensive positions at the entrance, as if this cave has never been visited before.
But in the mountains and forests around the cave, there are mines buried everywhere and many traps set up. It took the experienced Tan Wu and Lei Mazi, who was good at playing with mines, two days to open up a path.
What's even more bizarre is that there is a small patch of dead plants every ten steps in this area. Snakes, insects, rats, and ants dare not approach, and even spiders do not build webs nearby.
Iron Abacus dug out a lump under the plant that had an extremely pungent smell. Even though he had worked as a pawnshop clerk and was well-informed, he didn't recognize it. It can only be judged from the scaly texture on the surface and the slightly elastic texture that it is a piece of animal meat that has been soaked in sulfuric acid.
They observed the surroundings for five days and found that every two days, at noon, a tightly packed truck would depart from the gendarmerie and drive straight into the cave. Go back in the evening. It's the same car every time, but the driver changes every time.
From this point of view, the only option was to find a way to sneak into the truck and blend into the cave without alerting the driver.
But regardless of whether there was someone guarding the truck, going in without knowing the inside of the cave would undoubtedly lead to death.
The eight people discussed it and finally decided that instead of rushing in without knowing anything, it would be better to grab the tongue and come back first.
The driver must know something about the internal situation, and they are eyeing the Japanese who drove the car a few days ago.
It's a pity that the Japanese don't know much.
Every time the Japs came with two people, the truck could not move forward until it was about twenty meters into the cave. There they unloaded the goods, and at one o'clock six men would come to collect them, and they would follow them to the inner door.
The inner door is an iron wall, completely embedded in the mountain. Even a bat cannot squeeze in. There is only an iron door two meters wide and high at the bottom.
The driver had no idea what was behind the door or how many people there were. He could only wait outside the door until evening and get the list of items he needed before leaving.
There is not much intelligence, but it cannot hinder the actions of the armed workers team.
At noon that day, Tan Wu and Li Er were lying in ambush on both sides of the mountain road and successfully sneaked into the truck.
As the intelligence showed, the car contained rice, vegetables, pork, water and other daily necessities, as well as a box of unknown medicines. According to the plan, the two put the drowsy powder into the water and left quietly.
While waiting, the iron abacus calculated that if this cart had enough food for two days, it would be conservatively estimated that there would be at least fifty people in the cave.
This result puzzled everyone. According to known intelligence, at least hundreds of Chinese were imprisoned in the cave. Could it be that the little devils did not give them food and drink? ?
In the evening, the truck returned as usual. Li Er and Huang Hou went to deal with the two people at the outpost to prevent interference with the retreat.
When the moon climbed over the mountain, there was still nothing unusual in the cave.
The action begins.
Tan Wu, Huang Hou, Li Er, and Yan Zi relied on their skills to fight in the front line. They quickly entered the cave and found the guard guarding the door.
At this time, four people were sleeping in the tent, and two people were sitting by the fire to keep watch.
With one move going east and west, one of them just let out a muffled groan and died under Yanzi's flying knife, while the other one actually dodged! The flying knife passed by his ear. He turned his head and hooked his hand, actually caught the flying knife and threw it back!
Then he shouted "Naliga", drew a long knife from his back and pointed it at the swallow.
Seeing that this man was very good at martial arts, several people knew that they had to kill the other four people by surprise, otherwise they would be in big trouble.
Yan Zi fought with the man, and Tan Wu, Huang Hou, and Li Er went straight to the tent. Whenever they saw a figure at the entrance of the tent, they would fly all the throwing knives, daggers and swords on them.
Although the two men in front were alert, they could not resist the many knives flying towards them, and they both died from multiple knives in their bodies. The two men behind them came out with long knives and fought against the three of them.
The Japs' moves were not subtle to a few people, but they were fast and powerful, and they cooperated with each other tacitly. The three against two were evenly matched for a moment. But Yan Zi couldn't resist it and was surrounded by dangers. It wasn't until the next four people arrived that they learned about the three Japanese.
Several people gasped and looked at the six corpses, feeling uneasy.
The six gatekeepers were top-notch Kung Fu masters. If they hadn't caught him off guard, it would have taken ten more people to join forces to defeat them.
Moreover, after fighting for so long, there was no movement behind the door. Could it be that there were experts stationed inside so that there would be no need to come out to check?
The other side of the iron gate is not only dangerous, it may be a dragon's pond and a tiger's den, where intruders will escape death.
It was impossible not to be prepared. Tie Baanpan and Lei Mazi stayed at the door to lay mines, set up traps, and were responsible for rearguard and support. The others entered the door in groups of three.
The space behind the iron gate is large, as big as a basketball court, but contains only a roaring generator and a dozen barrels of oil.
An electric lamp is installed every ten meters on the cave wall on the right hand side, emitting dim light.
Walking about fifty steps inside, the cave begins to shrink. Walking forward about a hundred steps, the top of the cave is about three meters high from the ground and less than four meters wide.
At this time, we had reached the end of the cave, and a man-made tunnel appeared. The tunnel has railroad tracks and looks like a mine.
"Look!"
Li Er picked up a piece of cloth on the railway track. It was a common coarse cloth on people's clothes. However, the cloth was covered with blood stains and the color had turned black.
Yanzi exclaimed, “There’s one here too!”
The corner where she was was covered with pieces of cloth, all stained with blood and turned black. And there were many traces of blood spatter on the nearby cave wall.
Seeing this scene, Huang Hou clenched his fists and said in a deep voice, "Many villagers must have been killed here, these beasts."
Tan Wu pointed at the tunnel with his knife and looked firmly into the depths of darkness. "Old fox, you have to lay down the mines first. No matter whether we can get out or not, we must blow up this place. The three of us will go explore the way first."
Everyone responded, and Tan Wu, Li Er and Yan Zi entered the tunnel.
But after walking a few steps, I saw a shocking scene. There were dense finger marks on the two walls of the tunnel, many of which were mixed with blood and even minced meat. They were left behind by people digging into the wall with their hands when they were forcibly dragged away. The longest one was five meters long!
Not long after walking further in, a three-way fork appeared. Three tunnels, with tracks leading to the tunnel on the right. However, Li Er noticed that there was wind flowing in the tunnel on the left, and after a brief exchange, he decided to explore the tunnel on the left first.
After walking forward for more than twenty steps, the tunnel turned an oblique angle to the right. And the tunnel becomes spacious and bright, allowing four people to walk parallelly. The engineering level is obviously better than outside, even the floor is paved with cement. After walking about thirty meters, the end of the tunnel was reached, and an iron gate appeared.
The door was unlocked, but through the crack in the door I could see the bolt on the other side.
It would be dangerous if they were forced to open it, so the three decided to explore other tunnels first.
But at the moment when he turned around, a pitiful scream suddenly came from behind the iron door. It sounded like the man was suffering unbearable human pain, and the scream became weaker and weaker, and disappeared within half a minute.
The three of them were anxious, but they couldn't do anything because they couldn't open the iron door. Perhaps there were other tunnels that could be entered, so the three of them quickened their pace.
Old Fox and others caught up. After knowing the situation, they went to the tunnel on the right, while Tan Wu and others took the tunnel in the middle.
There are no lights in the middle tunnel before you go very far, but you can see the light at the end. The three of them carefully touched the wall and walked about three hundred steps to the entrance of the tunnel.
The scene in front of them shocked the three of them.
This is a space like a solid well, only larger and deeper.
There are many coffins hanging on the rock wall, three or four on each level, arranged neatly and staggered, with a total of eleven levels and thirty-nine coffins in total.
At the bottom of the deep cave, there is a sarcophagus parked in the center.
This is a grave!
