After learning to shoot, Xia Yuan and Niu Wa also threw themselves into the ranks of digging tunnels, Niu Wa did not drill the tip of the horns again, the plan of tunnel warfare is indeed feasible, he is also on the battlefield, the person who survived, knows how tragic it is to fight with devils on the plain.

The backward weaponry and equipment make it impossible for the guerrillas and the militia to fight long-distance battles, and in close combat, the guerrillas and militia are not at all opponents of the devils.

The only thing they can do is to use their brains tactically and try to kill more devils and reduce sacrifices.

All the villagers of Gaojiazhuang launched a vigorous action to dig tunnels, up to seventy-year-old people, down to seven or eight-year-old children, under the call of the party, young people, women to dig tunnels, the elderly and children are responsible for pouring soil, the big guys are busy in full swing.

The underground soil structure in the central Hebei area is better, there is a small amount of gravel, and there are no too big stones, Xia Yuan took a pickaxe, squatted in the dark tunnel, and chiseled the wall in front of him, without accurate measuring tools, they stood on the ground, and after determining the direction, they dug in the direction specified.

The people consulted and dug the cellars of each house first, and then considered the holes and hidden castles after they had dug through.

Gao Chuanbao took the militia and guerrillas to dig the tunnel, and the old village chief took another group of people to dig the ditch in the village, because there was already a ditch at the entrance of Gaojiazhuang Village, everyone discussed, on the basis of the ditch, and then dig a ditch to protect the village, but to ensure the dryness of the ditch, after all, the ditch is to connect the tunnel, if it is too wet, it is likely to lead to the collapse of the tunnel.

In order to avoid this situation, the old village chief held a plenary meeting of Gaojiazhuang in the morning, carefully discussed this problem, and later decided that the excavation of the village ditch will also envelop the river at the entrance of the village, and the village ditch can be connected with the traffic ditch between the villages and play the role of a link.

In order to catch up with the schedule, Xia Yuan proposed to divide the guerrillas and militia into two groups, alternating day and night work, so that the efficiency of digging tunnels could be improved.

Just when Gaojia Village was digging tunnels in full swing, the letter sent by the old village chief was also sent to the district, and the head of the sub-district saw that it was a letter from Gaojiazhuang, looked at the content, showed a smile on his face, and said to the people beside him: "Young Oh, look, Lao Gao They captured 23 Japanese army 38 rifles, or one person, said that they went to steal the weapons and equipment of a squad of the puppet army in the middle of the night, including 100 bullets, and now take the initiative to hand over a part, more than 20 guns, now Sanjianfang Village, Xinzhuang Village, Several villages, such as Mazhuang Village, lack weapons, and although more than 20 rifles are not many, they can solve many problems. ”

Humanitarian: "Heifengkou is only eight miles away from Gaojiazhuang, and they obviously need weapons and equipment more than other villages, and the pressure they face is not small." ”

The head of the sub-district folded the envelope, sighed, and said: "During this time, the devils have been carrying out a big sweep, and several villages in the central Hebei region have been viciously attacked by the devils, and the superiors are very angry about this, but now is not the time to retaliate, and the top priority is to solve the biggest problem, how to carry out guerrilla warfare with the Japanese devils." ”

The deputy district chief spoke: "It is a difficult thing to carry out guerrilla warfare against the Japanese devils in the plains, and every step along the way is a bloody lesson." ”

Someone was determined and said: "The wisdom of the masses is infinite, and we should mobilize the masses and pool their wisdom." Just a few of us think about it, even if we think about it for a lifetime, I don't think we can think of it. ”

The head of the sub-district pondered and said, "Have you notified the village party committees of the matter of the sub-district meeting?" ”

The deputy district chief nodded: "The notice has been put in place." ”

The district chief asked, "Is there a timetable?" ”

"Not yet, the Japanese ghost is sweeping at the moment, and the meeting is hastily ......"

The deputy district chief was a little hesitant.

The head of the sub-district said: "There is nothing to hesitate, the devils have slaughtered several villages, we will do nothing, sooner or later one day they will put a knife on our heads, two days later, a sub-district meeting will be held, and someone will send a letter to Gaojiazhuang, telling Gaojiazhuang's old Gao, that when he has a meeting, he will bring a gun and hand it over to the guerrillas in other villages." ”

He thought for a while, took out the letter paper and read it again, and said: "Let Lao Gao bring the captured weapons of the little soldiers, more than 20 guns, it is also a great achievement, now the guerrillas, district squads, and militia teams are too short of weapons and ammunition, and the seized weapons and ammunition should be praised. ”

The deputy district chief nodded, got up and said, "Yes, I'll arrange it." With that, he hurried away.

The head of the sub-district spoke again: "Lao Li, how is the productivity of the arsenal in the border area?" ”

Lao Li is the director of the arsenal and is responsible for the production of weapons and ammunition, he shook his head: "Too lacking in technology, I can only use black powder to make some grenades with little power, some guns are forged by blacksmiths, the range is short, the power is small, but bullets, can produce a hundred rounds a day." ”

It is said to be an arsenal, in fact, it is a blacksmith shop that does not look very big, there are a few masters who forge weapons according to the appearance of firearms every day, but unfortunately the precision of the forged weapons is not high, the grenades that can be produced independently are only loaded with black powder, the power is very small, almost no harm to people, the output of bullets is still considerable, the output of more than 100 rounds a day is already good, but look at the entire central Hebei region of the Eighth Route Army troops, military engineering teams, militia, guerrillas, district squads, detachments and so on, amortized, a hundred rounds of ammunition is completely insufficient.

Bullets and grenades will be given priority to the main forces of the front-line operation, and the other teams will basically not be divided.

As for guns, the arsenal can hardly produce guns, the imitation Mauser pistol can only be loaded with one shot at a time, the power is small, the range is short, both shots may not be able to kill people, and the production requires costs, mass production of Mauser pistols is really a waste, it is better to produce bullets.

It can also be seen how precious the more than 20 rifles captured by Xia Yuan are.

Gaojiazhuang, after adopting Xia Yuan's suggestion, the efficiency of digging tunnels has really improved a lot.

In the dark tunnel, Mao Ni played a kerosene lamp to help Xia Yuan, who was digging the tunnel in front of him, lighting Xia Yuan, who was only wearing a vest, bronzed skin with strong muscles, sticky to the dirt mixed with sweat, and waved the hoe in his hand with his powerful arms, chiseling the tunnel in front of him.

A large amount of dirt was pushed backwards by his hands.

Niu Wa shoveled the soil into the basket with a shovel and threw it to the people behind, and then they transported the soil dug out of the tunnel to the ground. ”

Xia Yuan shook his head and said with a snort: "I'm not tired, I can still insist on it." ”

Niu Wa said: "Xia Yuan, if you can't hold on, replace it, you rest and rest, and I'll dig it." ”

Xia Yuan said: "It's okay, you can still dig, I've been digging for two days, and the tunnel has been dug a few meters deep, if you want to achieve the expected tunnel that can deal with the devil, this tunnel is not enough." ”

Mao Ni said: "Brother Xia Yuan, what if the devil discovers the tunnel?" ”

Xia Yuan waved his head, chiseled the dirt with stones in front of him, and said: "The devil has discovered the tunnel, don't be afraid, first settle the villagers, and then use the tunnel to fight guerrilla warfare with the devil." ”

He pushed the soil on the ground back and said to the two: "You guys just look at it, this tunnel is dug by us, seven up and eight down, extending in all directions, just like a labyrinth, the devil comes in and he arrives at the ghost gate, and when he sees us, he sees the Lord of Yama, and if he wants to go out, then he has to ask if the gun in his hand agrees." ”

Mao Ni and Niu Wa have not yet realized the horror of tunnel warfare, in reality, more than 40 militiamen killed 2,000 Japanese puppet soldiers, only one was slightly injured, relying on the tunnels to carry out guerrilla warfare with devils, is the inevitable trend of the anti-Japanese guerrillas in the central Hebei region.

Mao Ni and Niu Wa had joy on their faces, and Mao Ni said: "Brother Xia Yuan, you are so smart, the devil is here, you will definitely avenge your father and fellow villagers!" ”

Xia Yuan dug the tunnel in front of him and said, "It will definitely be, sooner or later we will drive the devil out of China." ”

Suddenly, he stopped what he was doing, and his keen sense of hearing heard a slight sound coming from the other side of the tunnel, Mao Ni saw Xia Yuan stop and said, "Brother Xia Yuan, are you tired?" ”

Xia Yuan shook his head, spat on the palm of his hand, rubbed his hands, grabbed the end of the pickaxe, chiseled the soil in front of him hard, and said, "Don't be tired, it's almost chiseled, chisel through, the first section of the tunnel will be completed." ”

Wiping a handful of sweat from his head, Xia Yuan waved his arms more powerfully, dug away the stones, dug up the soil, listened quietly, judged the direction, changed the direction of the tunnel slightly, and continued to dig in the direction of the knocking sound.

The excavation of the tunnel is the most important thing at the moment, once the excavation of the tunnel is successful, they will have the capital to fight against the Japanese devils, and they will not be chased by the Japanese devils.

It was already evening, after two days of excavation, finally in the depths of the ground, they heard the knocking sound from the opposite side, Mao Ni and Niu Wa showed joy on their faces, and they impatiently picked up the soil that Xia Yuan kept digging down, and the sound was getting closer and closer.

Mao Ni shouted happily: "Brother Chuanbao! Brother Sixi! Brother Kang! ”

On the other side of the tunnel, Gao Chuanbao put down his pickaxe, turned his head to Gao Sixi and Dakang, and said, "Listen! ”

Through the thick layer of soil, I vaguely heard Mao Ni's voice from the other side, holding a basket of dirt Da Kang said: "It's Mao Ni!" It's Mauni's voice! ”

He shouted, "Mao Ni, I'm Dakang, I hear you." ”

After Mao Ni here heard the voice on the other side, she was overjoyed and said, "I heard the voice too, Brother Da Kang, Brother Da Kang!" ”

Dakang heard Mao Ni's voice and urged Gao Chuanbao to move quickly: "Chuanbao, move faster, move faster." ”

Dongdong, the sound of chiseling the wall came again, the soil in the tunnel continued to fall off, and was quickly shoveled up by the cow baby with a shovel and stuffed into the basket, and the two opposite tunnels slowly approached, getting closer and closer, getting closer and closer, and the clear knocking sound could already be heard.

Xia Yuan's movements in his hands were faster, and he kept throwing the dirt down, and when the last knock was on the tunnel, the soil in front of him was suddenly chiseled open, revealing a dark hollow, and Gao Chuanbao's face was revealed at the end of the hollow, with a very happy look on his face, and he heard several people shouting happily:

"Hey, that's it!"

"Brother Chuanbao!"

"Come here, come here."

"Dakang, Dakang, you go away and tell me to come and talk."

Niu Wa excitedly dug the soil, half of the body was about to drill through, Dakang and Chuanbao helped Niu Wa, the tunnel was only half dug up, Niu Wa's half of the body was stuck on it, he struggled to retreat, "Dig and dig again, dig it up." ”

Gao Chuanbao stopped Niu Wa's movements and said, "No! Keep it! In case the devil discovers the hole and pours water and poison into it, let's plug the hole, and if the devil gets in, we can still use it to resist for a while. ”

Several people listened to Gao Chuanbao's suggestion, and they all had happy smiles on their faces.

"Yes, keep it and use it to deal with the devils when the time comes!"

"That's a good idea!"

Gao Chuanbao asked, "Xia Yuan, what do you think?" ”

Xia Yuan put the pickaxe aside and said, "I have no opinion, but we can open a roundabout tunnel on the side, if the devil discovers this tunnel, we can enter the roundabout tunnel and sneak attack from behind the devil's buttocks." ”

"Hey, that's a good idea, so we have two tunnels, the devil is blocking this one, and we have another one to pass through."

"You can also dig another one in the ground to form two roundabout lines, so that the devils can't guard against it!"

"We can also make some traps here, and the devils will step on them and fall into them, and they will not die but also be crippled."

Several people listened to this, pondered one after another, put forward their opinions, and one by one they were very happy, they were happy that they had a way to deal with the Japanese devils, and they were happy that the sweep of the devils no longer posed a threat to them. Since the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression to the present, every sweep by the Japanese army has caused immeasurable damage to the base areas, whether it is to the people, the Eighth Route Army, the guerrillas, and the sweep of the Japanese puppet army has brought them huge losses.

People were killed, money was plundered, wives and daughters were defiled, villages were burned, houses were set on fire, and almost nothing was left where the devils passed.

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The implementation of the three-light policy has brought indelible damage to the Chinese people, and that kind of damage is deep in the bone marrow and imprinted on the soul.

The tunnel is open, from Lin Xia's sister-in-law's house to Uncle Lao Zhong's house, the tunnel connection allows the people of Gaojiazhuang to see the hope of fighting against the devil, Niu Wa also realized the importance of the tunnel, the gun is a weapon against the devil, the tunnel is the place to protect them, the two are combined with each other, can play a huge role.