Feng Ying, the officer of the third platoon of the second company of the mountain infantry battalion, suddenly received a temporary order, in which he immediately handed over the command of the second team to the deputy Li Min, and went to the headquarters of the mountain infantry battalion in Mopan City to report.

Feng Ying didn't know what was going on, and ran to the battalion headquarters after hurriedly explaining, the battalion headquarters of the mountain infantry battalion is located in a small courtyard on the north street of Mopan City, the Tatars have besieged the city for more than two months, and the battle situation has been stalemate, the battalion headquarters still failed to put the door panel up, and even the windows are blocked with thick cotton cloth, but at least it is warmer than using cow hair paper paste, especially in December, when the cold wind is biting.

A battalion officer lifted a thick curtain, Feng Ying followed behind this officer and got in, the battalion officer work is the most leisurely, a bit similar to the work of the staff, but now they are collectively referred to as clerks or officers, Feng Ying envy them have two taels of silver per month, and they don't have to go to the battlefield, but when the clerical requirements are also high, they must have completely received three years of education in a private school, because they have no command experience, their future promotion is also limited. The cold wind blew the oil lamps inside flickering, many people looked up at them and continued to bow their heads to do things, Feng Ying saw the battalion commander Nie Cailin standing in the sand table area and talking to a group of staff officers, and the company commander of the second company They were pointing around a map, and there were many low-level clerks running in and out with documents one by one, and the curtain at the entrance of the battalion department was lifted and lowered from time to time.

The clerk asked Feng Ying to wait at the door for a while, and ran to report by himself, a bench was placed outside the door, on which sat a few people from other companies waiting for errands, Feng Ying nodded at them and sat down in order.

Unexpectedly, soon the clerk shouted: "Feng Ying, come in!" ”

Feng Ying tidied up her dress. Lifting the curtain and walking in, there was a large table in front of the room, and Wu Huawen, an instructor of the mountain infantry battalion, was holding a cigarette produced in Lushun in his mouth. Due to the lack of ventilation, the whole room was filled with smoke, and Feng Ying couldn't help but cough a few times.

"Your father mined?" After Wu Huawen and the other documents left, he asked straight to the point.

"Yes! Commander" Feng Ying straightened up, and replied in a loud voice, the army demanded that the questions of the commander should be simple and clear, and there were only two sentences: "yes" or "no"

When you receive an order. The brothers in Team B were congratulating him, and let him go to the instructor to report that he was obviously promoted, and the promotion in the battalion had to be reviewed and interviewed by the instructor. If you have a demerit or are demoted, then you will see the military discipline officer Xing Tianbiao.

"Have you ever mined?" The burning cigarette butt that Wu Huawen was holding in his hand suddenly fell and fell on a pile of documents, but Wu Huawen hurriedly extinguished the cigarette butt. Scolded. Then he asked, "Do you smoke?" Got one? ”

"Nope! , thank you, sir, villains don't smoke" Feng Ying continued to reply loudly.

Wu Huawen nodded, pointed to the stool and said, "You sit down, have you ever seen your father mining?" ”

Feng Ying shook his head: "Report to the chief, when the villain was three years old, his father died of exhaustion from mining in the mine, and the villain has not seen it." ”

"Oh, that's right," Wu Huawen nodded. Some of them frowned in embarrassment and did not speak.

Half an hour later. With glory and dreams, Feng Ying clenched the order issued by Wu Huawen in his hand, and came to the station of the Tun Affairs Department near the North Gate, preparing to serve as the chief officer of a special task team. Wu Huawen did not tell him what the mission was, only that their efforts could change the course of the war.

"Do a good job, don't disgrace our mountain infantry battalion, you will be under the direct command of a five-person team composed of the General Staff, the Cantonment Department and the Intelligence Department, and your lordship will also pay attention to your actions." Wu Huawen finally said.

A sense of pride and mission immediately enveloped Feng Ying's body, although he served as the officer of Team B and commanded more than fifty brothers of the Second Company, and the action team only had ten people, but the meaning represented was completely different, Feng Ying couldn't wait to know the task of the team and the members of the team.

Outside the barracks of the North Gate Tun Division, Feng Ying showed the appointment order and contact letter to the guards with a vigilant face, and one of the guards asked him to wait, and ran in to ask for instructions.

Feng Ying looked curiously at this team of guards shrouded in iron armor, they wore cotton jackets inside, and they looked very bloated, but the standard configuration of short guns, strong crossbows and waist knives still made people feel that they were majestic.

"Brother, where?" A guard with a Liaodong accent asked

"Mountain battalion" Feng Ying nodded, and added a Liaodong accent to his voice.

"It's a fellow countryman, what's the pimple in Liaodong? Which one to look for in the Tun Division? The guard pushed the movable helmet leaf covering his face upward, revealing his true face, it was a young man in his twenties, but Feng Ying had never seen it.

"Looking for you Director Zhang Fengjin, my hometown is in the Liangfangkou area, and later fled to the Dongjiang River, so I don't know how to speak Liaodong dialect," Feng Ying said.

"Oh, that's still a fellow countryman, but you didn't come by accident, Master Zhang just went out, I heard that I was participating in a report or something, maybe I can see you today" The guard looked up at the sky and said.

Sure enough, the liaison soldier hurriedly ran back with a white breath, and ordered the Tun Affairs Department to collect it, and ordered Feng Ying to go to the 107 pit first to hand over the work and familiarize himself with his team members.

"Tunnel 107?" Feng Ying suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart, as if the fellow looked at him with regret in his eyes.

After another half an hour, Feng Ying finally found the location of the 107 tunnel, about five hundred steps to the left of the Tun Division, here is a huge fortress, covered by countless wooden planks, there are two teams of heavily guarded soldiers patrolling outside, after handing over the formalities, the soldier knocked twice on the wooden plank, and a small door slammed open.

"Get in!"

The soldier pushed Feng Ying in, the wooden door slammed shut again, Feng Ying didn't have time to get angry, he was already shocked by the scene in front of him!

Directly in front of him was a huge hole made of earthen bags and wooden beams, and many of the drenched people, wrapped in tarpaulins, carrying hoes and shovels, went in and out with exhaustion and shivering in the cold wind.

Feng Ying's head buzzed, he was completely stunned, and the document in his hand fell silently to the muddy ground, and the hole was about a zhang high. It is two zhang wide, and it is in the shape of a slope with the ground, and it is dark and bottomless. The slope was paved with wooden planks, and many rooster carts advanced from the left, and on the right were rooster carts full of dirt, hoisting out of the hole under the action of winches and other tools, and the miners wrapped in oilcloth were entering and exiting from the middle, Feng Ying stood in front of the door of the cave and looked blankly, this big hole was like a giant beast. Constantly swallowing people or cars and spitting them out.

Feng Ying finally remembered the rumors that had been circulating privately among the soldiers, and that the Tun Affairs Division had commanded thousands of people to dig tunnels. Preparing to deal a fatal blow to the besieging Tarslavs from behind, he also worked as a soldier with the company instructors, asking them to focus on defense and not believe rumors. Don't spread rumors. Violators of military discipline were dealt with, but I didn't expect him to be standing in front of this authentic door alive now.

"What about the moat? How did they dig the tunnels through the moat? Feng Ying suddenly remembered that the moat of Mopan City was eight feet deep and two feet wide, could it be that the tunnel was dug through the moat to the outside?

"Maybe the Tun Affairs Division has a way, after all, even the Mopan City was built by them" Feng Ying shook his head, tried to calm down, and walked towards the entrance of the cave.

"Brother. Where does the 107 pit go? Feng Ying hurried two steps and walked side by side with an old man pushing a rooster cart.

The old man turned his muddy face with only two eyes. He looked at Feng Ying with some surprise and shook his head: "I don't know, turn left after reaching the flat ground, there is a guard room there, where do you go and ask?" ”

Feng Ying nodded, not knowing what to say, just silently moving forward with the flow of people, the power light was dim, there was an oil lamp hanging above his head every ten or so steps, the light swayed and made people's vision blurred, and it took a while for Feng Ying to get used to the light, he felt that it had been going downhill, and every other section there were bags of dirt or wood supporting the plank above his head, and many water droplets dripped down from the gaps in the plank, soaking the mud under the plank into mud.

Feng Ying subconsciously wrapped his coat tightly, and at this moment, the voice suddenly sounded in front of him: "Get out of the way, get out of the way".

Feng Ying hurriedly supported the supporting wooden beams, and a team of rooster carts shouting slogans under the tunnel turned out, a person lowered his head, his body was almost parallel to the ground, desperately pushing the rooster cart full of dirt, there was a candle in front of the rooster cart, dancing with a faint light, there were two people on both sides who helped push the cart, due to the slippery underground, people kept falling in the mud along the way, although the slope was not sloping, but these people still looked very difficult, Feng Ying couldn't see their faces clearly at all, except for two bright eyes.

Feng Ying, who had been orphaned since childhood, was completely shocked, his mother had told him that his father had died of exhaustion in an iron mine in the Dongjiang River, and now he had truly seen the inhuman life of miners, which was still under the rule of adults.

The tunnel has been extending down, Feng Ying has no lighting, so he has to follow behind a rooster cart, the lighting interval on the top of the cave is getting bigger and bigger, if he loses the lighting, Feng Ying is very suspicious that he will get lost in the dark, he can't see his fingers in the tunnel, the more he walks, the more Feng Ying feels tightness in his chest, as if there is an invisible hand desperately choking his neck, so that he can't breathe smoothly.

Feng Ying stumbled with the rooster cart and didn't know how long, the coat on his body had been wrapped in several layers of mud, it was caused by falling on the road, it was his latest set of military uniforms, if he didn't go to see the battalion instructor, he wouldn't be willing to wear it, and now Feng Ying didn't care about this, the dark and damp, and the air was already making him crazy.

At this moment, a large area of light suddenly appeared in front of him, Feng Ying was overjoyed, and the terrain began to calm down when he walked here, here is a huge and wide hole, I don't know how much better than the previous crampedness, but when Feng Ying walked here, he was stunned, with the help of the light of the blazing fire overhead, he suddenly found that this was just a relay station of the tunnel, there was no road ahead, and there were five or six narrower, dark tunnels waiting for him, and there was a creepy dull sound from the dark hole, I didn't know where these holes led, and the people who pushed the carts didn't know where to go, Feng Ying stood in place, he found that he was lost.

"Hello? Where did you go? A voice suddenly came out from behind Feng Ying, scaring him half to death.

Under the flickering lighting, two tall black shadows stood behind Feng Ying, because they blocked the firelight, making Feng Ying feel like they were bulls and horses crawling out of hell.

More black shadows came out, and Feng Ying breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the standard equipment on them, he remembered his previous words, there was a personal guard guarding the tunnel relay station, and he thought that this was the place.

"I'm from the Mountain Infantry Battalion, and I'm going to Tunnel 107." Feng Ying greeted these people, it turned out that their barracks were on the left, and they really couldn't find it if they didn't turn around.

"Take the warrant and take a look?" A responsible guy walked up to Feng Ying and stretched out his hand, his whole body was also wrapped in an oilcloth, but the weapon was hanging outside.

Feng Ying touched his whole body, his face began to turn pale, he didn't know when he lost the warrant, he clearly remembered that he still held it in his hand when he entered the hole......

"Brother, I'm afraid the warrant has fallen on the road, why don't I go back and look for it?" Feng Ying stammered.

"How many falls on the road? It's a pity that your coat" The guard in charge showed pity on his face, and said, "Forget it, who the fuck didn't send to come here to suffer?" ”

Several people around him laughed, and the guard in charge said: "You go with us, the barracks are roasted, and there are still some things to hold before you can go down to the 107 tunnel, this is all a routine procedure." ”

Feng Ying nodded hurriedly, he didn't have any confidence about going back to find the warrant.

The barracks is a shack made of wooden planks, dozens of bags full of dirt are neatly stacked together, supporting the wooden planks above, the barracks just surround this support, there are constantly water droplets falling, here is a honeycomb coal stove, a huge iron pipe passes through the overhead, and the other end is connected to the tuyere below the stove, the water is hissing on it, the wooden plank above the head has been soaked in water and has turned black, and it is covered with slimy things, the guard picked up the kettle and handed it to Feng Ying, Feng Ying thanked him and opened it coldlyHands covered with mud approached the stove to keep warm, and several guards also sat down by the stove and talked softly.

"What did my brother do wrong to be transferred here?" The guard in charge tossed a black object over and asked casually.

Feng Ying hurriedly fished it out, and it turned out to be an oilcloth.

"I don't know, they asked me to go to the 107 pit to take over the command, I was originally a team officer, but now I am a first-class commander of the company, and I have been promoted, and I haven't made a mistake?" Feng Ying was a little puzzled.

"Oh?" The guard obviously didn't encounter this situation, and thought about it: "The oilcloth must be worn, or you will be cold to death below, and you must bring three candles before going down the tunnel, and then send flint and steel, don't forget, the candle and the flint and flint and velvet must be kept close to the body, if you soak in water, it will be over, last time there was a person who ran blindly without candles, and ended up suffocating in the approach road, and now the corpse is still there, you will pass by under the 107 pit, and you will bring a bird, but wait a little, I will help you feed and feed first, Our barracks are very warm, and you will miss this place in the future. ”

Feng Ying was confused: "Do you want to bring a bird?" ”

Feng Ying's words surprised everyone, and another guard interjected and asked, "Brother, haven't you ever mined before?" Why did the above transfer you over as a conductor? ”

The guard in charge was immediately displeased when he heard this, and shouted: "There is a plan above, what are you talking about?" ”

"I don't know, huh?" Feng Ying felt like she was about to cry...... (To be continued......)