I turned the lamphead and swept the light over and around my head, and the roof and walls of the cellar were covered with a thick canvas that had not rotted after all these years, because the temperature was low and the air was very dry.

We can be regarded as people who have read Lu Ban's book, and we can still see through the architectural structure of this kind of cellar at a glance.

Near the cellar, there should be a vein that runs through the mountains, and the sound of running water just heard comes from that vein, and when the river flows, it can take away the heat and keep the temperature of the cellar below fifteen degrees all year round.

The back of the canvas should have been pressed with dried sawdust and sand to act as a moisture barrier to prevent mountain moisture from seeping into the cellar.

Such an environment is especially suitable for storing weapons and ammunition.

I said to Lao Wen, "There must be ammunition in this place." ”

I didn't see it before, but Lao Wen was also a person who liked guns, and when he heard me say this, he immediately took out a sapper shovel and pried open the boxes in the cellar one by one.

This place is not only three or eight big gays, but also half a box of crooked handles, a box of grenadiers, and a box of engineering explosives, Lao Wen tossed for a long time, and finally found the bullet in a box near the corner.

He took out a box of ammunition, opened it and looked at it, and said to me excitedly, "It's still a sharp-beaked bullet with a white mouth and a yellow bottom." ”

I have practiced guns with Xing Wei, and I know a little bit about ammunition, the so-called white-mouthed yellow bottom sharp-mouth bullet, that is, the bullet cap of the bullet is silver-gray, and the lower half of the bullet body is yellow, the warhead of this bullet is basically made of lead-antimony alloy, once it hits the target, the bullet will lose stability, flip in the target's body, and tear the flesh and blood.

After that, Lao Wen took out a crooked handle, the 38 big cover is a manual rifle, and every time you shoot a shot, you have to manually exit the cartridge case, the magazine capacity is only five rounds, the crooked handle is a light machine gun, the magazine capacity is 20 rounds, and the range is also long, if I want to pick one from here to use, I will not choose a rifle.

But Qing Yazi spoke at this time: "If you really want to use that gun, it's best not to touch those crooked handles." ”

Lao Wen raised his head and looked at him: "Why?" ”

"The crooked handle is notoriously difficult to use," Qing Yazi walked over with a cowhide book, and said, "It's too troublesome to load, and it's easy to get stuck." Moreover, the environmental adaptability of this gun is very poor, and the environment that is too cold, too hot, and too humid can affect its accuracy. It's still more reliable. ”

Lao Wen couldn't help frowning: "The power of Sanba Gai'er is too small, even if it hits a person, it is a small puncture injury." ”

I can see that Lao Wen likes guns, but he doesn't know much about guns, the shape of the gunshot wound is certainly affected by the structure of the gun, but it also depends on the structure of the bullet, being hit by that kind of sharp mouth bullet will definitely not be a "small" pair of piercing wounds, unless the target is too far away from the muzzle.

Qingyazi snatched the ammunition box from Lao Wen's hand and looked at it, and said to Lao Wen: "30 years ago, the power of the 38 big gaier was really not very good, but after 30 years, the Japanese changed the bullets, and the power of the 38 gaier is not weak at all." ”

When he was finished, he turned his head and said to me: "It's just that after 43 years, the logistics of the little devils can't keep up at all, and they can only mix old bullets with new bullets. ”

I raised my chin at the cowhide notebook in Qingyazi's hand: "What is written on it?" ”

Qingyazi pouted and said: "The little devils are also capable, they have been lurking here for 36 years, and it was not until the Battle of Xiangxi in 45 years that they were trapped and died in the valley." ”

I originally thought that Qingyazi would say that the devil would not withdraw until after the Battle of Xiangxi, but I didn't expect to die in the mountains.

Qingyazi said that the cowhide book in his hand was a diary written by a Japanese second lieutenant named Hideki Ishikawa from 1936 to 1945, but this person had no military rank, in fact, he had no real power, just a researcher who followed the army into the mountains to investigate.

This unit infiltrated here in the early spring of 1936, and judging from the diary, the reason why they came here was because they got a clue left by Xu Fu, and the diary only said that this clue was related to the secret of immortality, but it was not described in detail.

Xu Fu may have found Taoyuan Township before the Western Han Dynasty, and after the devil followed his clues to come here, he first built a small town in the place where Yinzhai is now located, and used it as a base for contacting the outside world and purchasing and transshipment building materials.

In the diary, the words "Taoyuan Township" clearly appeared, but the other information on it was still very general, and it did not say how the devil arrived in Yinzhai smoothly and where he did something.

However, I speculate that they were able to reach the Yin Village, and it should be Xu Fu who gave a way to crack the Feng Shui Bureau in the clues, and after these Japanese built the town, it is very likely that they pretended to be domestic merchants, often went out of the mountains to buy building materials and construction equipment, and temporarily hoarded those things in the Yin Village.

After all, it is difficult to find a village, and they hide a lot of materials there, which is very suitable.

When the devil arrived in Yangzhai, it was the end of the summer of 36, when the northeast region had fallen, but there was still nearly a year before the Japanese army fully invaded China. At that time, there were about 200 households living in Yangzhai, and the news in the mountains was blocked, and they didn't even know that the Northeast had fallen, or that the locals didn't know where the Northeast was, and they didn't know that there was such a small place as Japan in the world.

After the Japanese arrived in Yangzhai, they promised the locals grain and silver dollars, and asked the locals to work as coolies for them. Hideki Ishikawa said in his diary that most of the people of this generation are very strong, but they are also very simple, and as long as they are given enough food regularly, they will not be lazy while working.

At that time, they also found a good leader in the coolie, that person was the patriarch of Yangzhai, and the diary said that he was a "very obedient man", to put it bluntly, he was a traitor.

There is a very deep dry well in Yangzhai, as soon as the devil comes, he concludes that it is the entrance of Taoyuan Township, so he asks the locals to widen and dig the well deep, until it is dug to a depth of more than 100 meters underground, and sure enough, a natural tunnel is dug underground, and a few brave people go in to check and find that there is a valley behind the tunnel.

"It must be the ruins of Taoyuan Township!" Hideki Ishikawa wrote in his diary that Aoyako said that he was very excited when he wrote these contents.

When Xu Fu found Taoyuan Township, Taoyuan Township was still a carefree paradise, and these Japanese would definitely not know that there had been evil Gu here during the Western Han Dynasty.

They entered the valley with great excitement, only to find that this place was different from what Xu Fu had depicted, and everyone became a little lost, but they quickly became enthusiastic again when they thought that they would soon find the secret of immortality.

What puzzled me and Qingyazi was that the Japanese did not seem to be in a hurry to find the secret of immortality, but first strengthened the newly dug well, built a concrete layer on the wall of the well, and set up a small crane at the mouth of the well to transport building materials. Then they started digging another tunnel in the well and building the railroad tracks.

When we went down to the bottom of the well, we found that there were holes in the front and back walls, one connected to the tunnel leading to the valley, and the other had collapsed. It seems that the hole was dug by the Japanese.

The diary said that the last time Xu Fu came here, he found that there was a spiritual spring underground, and although people who drank the spiritual spring water could not prolong their lives, as long as they took it for 7749 days in a row, they did not need to eat or rest in their lives, and they could maintain their full energy.

The Japanese analyzed the clues left by Xu Fu and determined that the mouth of the Lingquan was on the other side of the tunnel at the bottom of the shaft, and they prepared a lot of vats and minecarts, intending to transport all the Lingquan water out to help the Japanese army build a super army that never sleeps.

In order to keep the locals from knowing about the existence of the spring, the tunnel at the bottom of the well was dug by the Japanese themselves, and the locals who were tricked into it were concentrated on the west side of the valley, where they dug a tunnel that went straight underground.

Hideki Ishikawa said in his diary, "If you dig along this location, you will find the secret of immortality." We must be patient and must take every step of the way, in addition to digging tunnels, some necessary fortifications should also be built underground. ”

This digging was three full years, and the spiritual spring was never found, but the coolie who was responsible for finding the secret of immortality felt a miracle in June 1939.

They felt full of strength, one person could use ten people, and the digging speed suddenly became extremely fast, and occasionally someone was tired, as long as they ate a little, and then sat down and rested for an hour or two, they could regain their vitality.

The Japanese speculated that the spiritual spring and the secret of immortality might be buried in the same place, so they abandoned the tunnel at the bottom of the well, and everyone concentrated on the west side of the valley, frantically "digging, digging, down, down", and the Japanese even felt that "a great force is calling us underground".

Half a month later, they dug up a hard rock formation, and had to use tools to break the rock formation, and then transport the gravel to the outside of the cave.

They obtained a large amount of stone underground, but only a small part of it was transported, and most of it was used as building materials.

But in the valley, we only saw such a small stone building, where did the other stones go?

This continued until the autumn of '42, when one day the miracle suddenly disappeared, and everyone fell into great exhaustion, and the Japanese had to decide to rest, but they also planned to divide the coolies into four teams to continue digging.

The strong dissatisfaction immediately spread rapidly among the coolies, and thus a large-scale riot broke out, the Japanese tried to suppress it, but they did not expect that the local people were very brave and not afraid of death at all, at that time it was also because in addition to these coolies, the Japanese could not bring in labor from other places, so they could only temporarily compromise, let the village chief come forward to reconcile, and the coolies were able to rest, but the rest time was only two days, and after two days, they continued to dig, and as a short time, the Japanese took out more food.

It is said that in 42 years, the Japanese army's food supply could not keep up, not to mention that these Japanese were no longer in the occupied areas, and I don't know where they got so much food.