At the beginning, the mountain warrior and the six cavalry under his command still had a great resistance, lest they encounter rotting corpses or white bones in the tomb, but after entering the tomb, they found that this worry was superfluous.

Walking to the end of the tomb, the warrior man on the mountain pushed the torch in his hand forward, and found that there was no way ahead, but on the left side of the tomb, there was a staircase that went down obliquely, down the stairs, and then there was a road to the left, which was much wider than the tomb just now, full of one person high, and wide enough for two people to pass by.

The torch's glow could only illuminate less than ten meters ahead, and beyond that, it was pitch black.

Looking at the endless darkness ahead, Takeo Yamagami instinctively felt the danger, and immediately motioned to a cavalryman behind him to step forward, holding a torch to open the way in front, although the cavalryman was unwilling, but he could only obey the order.

As the tunnel gradually deepened, the uneasy feeling in Takeo Yamagami's heart became stronger and stronger.

I don't know how far I went, a mud brick suddenly fell from the cave wall on the left side of the road without warning, after the mud brick fell, a small black window was immediately revealed behind, due to the haste of change, the martial man who walked on the second mountain did not have time to warn, but just with the instinct of a short body collapsed.

In the moment of collapse, the mountain warrior was horrified to find that there was not only one, but more than a dozen small windows on the walls on both sides of the road, and the next moment, more than a dozen bright bayonets stabbed out from the small windows on the left and right sides of the road, and they were pierced into the body of the devil cavalry who was marching in the road.

The six devil cavalry were all stabbed, and only the mountain warrior escaped because he saw the opportunity early.

The bayonet was stabbed and retracted, and soon retracted back into the small window, but the devil cavalry who had been stabbed collapsed to the ground and wailed, and the torches in his hands fell to the ground, and the light in the corridor dimmed.

The martial man on the mountain was lucky to pick up his life, and he didn't dare to stay in the tunnel anymore, so he hurriedly ran back with a roll.

While running, Takeo Yamagami faintly heard footsteps behind him, it seemed that Chinese caught up, Takeo Yamagami suddenly accelerated more and more, almost at a flying speed through the Yongdao, over the stairs, and then climbed out of the tomb, until he breathed the air outside the tomb, Takeo Yamagami sat down on the ground.

Muto Akira stepped forward, grabbed Takeo Yamagami from the ground, and asked in a deep voice, "What about the others?" ”

"Dead, all dead." The martial man on the mountain was frightened, gasped and said, "The tunnel is full of Shina ambush soldiers. ”

"Yaga." Muto Zhang threw Takeo on the mountain to the ground, turned back to Okahara Toshisi and said, "Okahara-san, it seems that the people of Shina have been premeditated for a long time, and they have already dug a tunnel and waited for us to come." ”

Kokahara Junsi said: "Muto-san, the enemy situation is unknown at the moment, and it is too dangerous to continue to go down the tunnel, it is better to report the situation here to His Excellency the Commander first, and then His Excellency the Commander will make a decision." ”

"Yo Si." Muto Akira nodded, deeply convinced.

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As the commander of the Kawaguchi detachment, Kawaguchi Heiji was naturally treated better than his officers and soldiers, not only was he assigned a side hall from the many halls of the Mei family ancestral hall to serve as a rest room, but Yongjin Tatsu also asked people to move a large bed from a large courtyard in the town to serve as a tatami mat for Kawaguchi Heiji.

It's just that this tatami mat is a little too high, so Kawaguchi Heiji is not used to it.

So, at about two o'clock in the second half of the night, Heiji Kawaguchi woke up from his sleep.

After waking up, Kawaguchi Heiji didn't feel sleepy anymore, and immediately put on a tweed military uniform and walked out of the bedroom, and came to the backyard of the Mei family ancestral hall, where two mandala trees were planted.

Looking at the verdant mandala flower trees under the lights, Kawaguchi Heiji's pair of thick eyebrows suddenly frowned.

I don't know why, Kawaguchi Heiji suddenly had a very bad feeling in his heart, that feeling, similar to the feeling he felt when he was a child when he went fishing with his father at sea and was hit by a storm, could it be that something bad is about to happen? However, Heiji Kawaguchi quickly shook his head and forcibly expelled the feeling from his brain.

However, bad news soon came from the front, and the 8th Search Squadron stationed in Xiaolizhuang was attacked by Chinese troops, most of them were killed, and only six cavalry escaped.

After receiving the news, Heiji Kawaguchi immediately ordered Muto Akira to lead the independent brigade to rush to the aid of Xiao Lizhuang.

Now that nearly an hour has passed, there is still no news from the Muto Brigade, and Kawaguchi Heiji's pair of thick eyebrows have inadvertently frowned again, and the Muto Brigade will not have any accidents, right?

Yongjin Tatsu also guessed Kawaguchi Heiji's thoughts, and persuaded: "Your Excellency Commander, don't worry, Xiaolizhuang is located in the hinterland of the Dameishan Basin, with flat terrain and a wide field of vision, and it is wishful thinking for the Shina Army to ambush the Imperial Army in such a plain terrain, so the Muto Brigade will definitely not repeat the mistakes of the Katamura Brigade." ”

Kawaguchi Heiji bowed his head silently, because Nagajin Tatsuya was completely right, in the plain terrain, it was indeed difficult for the Chinese army to ambush the Japanese army, and if it was a frontal battle, let's admit that the Dameishan Independent Regiment had the ability to defeat the Muto Brigade, and it would never be possible to do it in a short time, and the Muto Brigade would not even be able to send a telegram for help.

Kawaguchi Heiji then walked back to the chair and sat down, and began to wait patiently.

After waiting for a few minutes, the Muto Brigade finally sent a telegram back reporting their findings.

"Authentic?!" After reading the telegram, Kawaguchi Heiji showed a look of astonishment on his face, he thought that the Chinese army would not fight the Japanese army head-on, and it was likely to use the terrain to fight guerrilla warfare with the Japanese army.

At this time, Kawaguchi Heiji had some lions biting hedgehogs, and he couldn't put his mouth down.

Because the battle plan drawn up by the Kawaguchi detachment was aimed at mountain guerrilla warfare, but now, the Kawaguchi detachment needs to face unheard of tunnel warfare.

Yongjin Tatsuya also frowned and said: "The person is really cunning enough, he actually hid underground!" ”

If you don't investigate, you don't have the right to speak, and if you want to crack the tunnel war of the independent regiment, you must get first-hand information about the tunnel, and then Kawaguchi Heiji got up and said: "Yongjin-san, immediately order the 1st Infantry Brigade of the 101st Infantry Wing to assemble, and follow me to Xiaolizhuang in five minutes." ”

Yongjin Da also persuaded: "Your Excellency Commander, you still want to stay here and go from your humble position, right?" ”

"Nope." Heiji Kawaguchi said resolutely, "I have to see the tunnels of the Shina people with my own eyes!" ”

Seeing that Kawaguchi Heiji had made up his mind, Nagajin Tatsuya didn't have much to say, so he could only obey orders.

Five minutes later, Heiji Kawaguchi entrusted his headquarters to Captain Akio Yoshino of the 101st Infantry Wing, and he himself boarded his armored command car, and then, under the protection of a large group of devil infantry, went straight to Korisho.

Half an hour later, Kawaguchi Heiji's armored command vehicle arrived at Xiaolizhuang, Muto Akira and Okahara Toshisi were already waiting on the side of the road early, and Kokahara Toshisi even carried out a carpet screening of the surrounding area of a thousand meters to ensure that there would not be any shadows and dead ends, so as not to be sniped by Chinese snipers.

After getting off the chariot, Kawaguchi Heiji asked Muto Akira, "Muto-san, where is the tunnel?" ”

Muto Zhang immediately took Kawaguchi Heiji to the fake grave, and asked Yamagami Takeo, the only one who had ever gone down the tunnel, to tell him what happened to him in the tunnel, and Kawaguchi Heiji immediately frowned after hearing it.

Kokahara Toshisi also entered the tomb just now, but he didn't go down to the depths of the tunnel, but even if he only entered the tomb, it was enough for him to find some clues, and then Kokahara Toshisi told Kawaguchi Heiji about his discovery.

"Your Excellency Commander, judging from the dryness of the soil on both sides of the cemetery, this tunnel entrance should belong to the one that has just been built, which means that this tunnel is not the original one, but the Zhina Army, to be exact, it was built by the Dameishan Independent Regiment in order to cope with the possible arrival of the imperial army."

Kawaguchi Heiji said awe-inspiringly: "In other words, since the Dameishan Independent Regiment occupied Dameishan, it has begun to dig tunnels and prepare for the sweep of the imperial army?" ”

"Hello." Oshihara Junsi said suddenly, "It should be like this." ”

Heiji Kawaguchi's facial muscles twitched twice, and he said: "It seems that it is necessary for the imperial army to strengthen the penetration of the Dameishan area, if the imperial army could know about this situation a few days earlier, it would be able to think of a countermeasure in advance, and it is not necessary to think of a solution to it when things are approaching like now." ”

Oshihara Junsi said: "The Shina army is hiding in the tunnel, they are in the shadows, if the imperial army enters the tunnel to fight them, but they fall into their calculations, so I think that the best way to solve it is to blow up the entrance with bombs, pour it with water, or simply attack with poison gas." ”

Kawaguchi Heiji frowned and said: "Since the Shina army has been premeditated, it is impossible to leave only one entrance, unless all the tunnel entrances can be found and all of them are blown up, otherwise it is useless to only blow up this entrance, as for the poison gas bomb, the empire is currently under siege by public opinion in the Western world, if you can not use it, try not to use it, let's divert water first." ”

The engineer wing of the Kawaguchi detachment carried high-power water pumps, and Kawaguchi Heiji transferred two high-power water pumps from the engineer wing with a telegram, and at dawn, the two high-power water pumps were already in place, and the generator set was also in place at the same time.