under fire

Chapter 237 Yi Hulu Can't Draw a Ladle
A month later, on a midsummer afternoon.

A man with the appearance of a young commoner hurriedly walked on the mountain road under the scorching sun, sweating all over his body.

A ruined village appeared at the foot of the hill ahead, and the village was quiet and seemed lifeless.

On both sides of the road are pieces of land, but there are no crops in the fields, scattered high and low, scattered on the hillside, except for locusts jumping around in the dry and weedless fields, there is dead silence everywhere.

The Chronologist looked suspiciously around and walked towards the village.

When he walked into the village, there was still a dead silence around him, and there was no dog barking, until he reached the gate of the tallest courtyard in the village without knowing it, and finally stopped, looking around at the ruins, devastated, and at a loss.

A voice suddenly sounded behind him: "Xiaodou, why are you here?"

The young man shook his head and saw Tian Sanqi turning out of a ruined house with a shovel in his hand.

Xiaodou, the correspondent of the independent group, finally exhaled: "Are you a mouse? There was no sound at all, I was shocked!"

Then he withdrew the hand stretched into his waist, stepped forward in two steps, pulled off a water bottle from Tian Sanqi's waist, leaned against the wall in the shade, raised the water bottle and poured it into his mouth.

"Why are you here?" Tian Sanqi looked at the drenched Xiaodou.

"Aside from delivering letters, what else can you do here? Is Company Commander Hu here?"

"Underground." Tian Sanqi unhurriedly poured water beside him.

"What are you kidding? Hey, what are you doing with a shovel?"

"Can you control it? I'll dig a hole."

"Digging pits? Uh, don't tell me you are digging tunnels, right? Hahaha" Xiaodou laughed: "The division actually announced that it would learn from the brother troops and fight tunnel warfare, hehe, but you don't even look at your broken place. The mountain is so close, and there are rocks all around the ground, what kind of tunnels are you digging?"

"Never mind your business, Company Commander Hu is in the well, go find it yourself!"

"In the well? Are you kidding me?" Suddenly remembering that Tian Sanqi is not a joker, he hurriedly asked, "Which well is it?"

"Go and see for yourself, the largest well in the grain drying field in the village." After speaking, he pointed to the south, then turned around, and quickly disappeared among the ruins.

Xiaodou saw that Tian Sanqi didn't pay attention to him anymore, so he had to look at the terrain, and walked south based on his feeling, along a narrow passage between two yards, to the grain drying field in the south of the village. Between the completed houses, after turning several turns in a row, the line of sight suddenly opened up.

Next to the grain threshing ground, a hole protrudes from the ground, and the well is full of stones. A wellhead with a wooden wheel appears in front of you. There are a lot of fresh-looking stones piled up nearby. From time to time, there are faint sounds of tinkling in the well.

"Stop what the hell, what are you doing!" A dirty face with no hat and bare upper body emerged from the dry forest nearby.

This voice...familiar... Tang Dagou!

"Big Dog, what are you doing in the woods on such a hot day? I'm Xiaodou."

"I know it's you kid!"

"Then you still shout?"

"Why can't I call you? It's been ten days and I haven't even seen a stranger, hehehe..."

"I heard from Tian Sanqi, are Company Commander Hu and the others in the well?" After ten days of absence, Tang Dagou became darker, feeling a little neurotic!

"What the hell, what are you looking for, Mr. Hu?" Tang Dagou wiped the sweat off his brow.

"In the regiment, there are orders to convey!" Xiaodou looked at Tang Dagou: "What are you doing?"

"Moving stones."

"what?"

The two came to the mouth of the well, holding the water pulley with their hands, Xiaodou poked his head out, and finally saw that there was no water near the bottom of the well, even under the midday sun, the well looked dark , Observed carefully, there seemed to be a darker spot on the side of the well wall.

"Mr. Hu, there are people coming from the regiment." Tang Dagou yelled into the well.

After a long while, the rope on the wheel shook for a while, Tang Dagou quickly shook the handle of the wheel, and as the rope slowly wound around the wheel, a small braid emerged from the dark well, raised his head, and pointed at Xiaodou who had retracted his head, revealing A dirty smiley face.

"Xiaodou, why are you here at this time? It's so hot, come down with me to cool off first."

Xiaodou was a little dumbfounded, unexpectedly, this girl lived in the well with Company Chief Hu!Look at the pile of fresh stones next to it. Could it be that Jiulian is really digging a tunnel?

Thinking of coming here by myself, I didn't even see a single person. After the devils swept away, this place has almost become a deserted place. Jiulian really knows how to choose a place.

After the girl went down, with the help of Tang Dagou, she sat at the mouth of the well, stepped on the wooden barrel with both feet, and was shaken by Tang Dagou into the well.

When I got to the bottom, there was a burst of cool air, and I felt comfortable all over. My squinted eyes quickly opened wide, and slowly adapted to the darkness.

On the side of the well wall close to the bottom of the well, there was a small hole, half the height of a person, there was a faint light coming from inside, and there was a constant knocking sound inside, it was really a tunnel, there were still people working, Xiaodou suddenly Here comes the interest!
The light in the cave was very dim, so I couldn't tell how deep it was. I followed the girl and turned a corner after walking five or six meters away. I felt that some places were still supported by rough logs.

Xiaodou followed the girl, and continued to drill in with her head down. The terrain inside felt higher and higher. After turning the corner, she walked at least another five or six meters, and then turned again, and an oil lamp was lit at two turns. This is where the light from the hole comes from.

The tunnels are not all dug out of the stones, but are dug along the gaps between the stones. To put it bluntly, the soil between the stones is cleaned out. Occasionally, the openings in some places are too small, and then the stones are cleaned and enlarged. .

After turning five turns along the winding tunnel, I finally saw the place where the sound came from.

The place is much bigger than it looks.

Two soldiers were hammering and hammering on a piece of rock in front of them, digging straight from the middle of the flake stone.

It seems that there are movements in other places. It seems that there are not many people doing this work in the village!
Under an oil lamp, Hu Yi was carefully calculating on the paper with a pen and paper. Luo Fugui, who was lying beside him, lazily put the larger stones knocked down by the soldiers into the basket one by one.

Hu Yi looked up, surprised: "Xiaodou, why are you here, what's the matter?"

"Report to Company Commander Hu, there is a new mission in the regiment." Xiaodou felt a little suffocated in the cave.

Hu Yi got up directly: "Go out and say, the air here is not very good."

Indeed, after digging tens of meters deep, the air in this hole can be much better.

"Commander Hu, the ground is full of rocks. You have been digging for so long to dig such a small area. Is it useful?" Xiaodou lowered his head and asked Hu Yi behind him.

"Didn't you see it all?"

Digging out the crushed soil between natural rocks for fortifications is actually a tunnel. It is customary to call the fortifications built on the hillside and high ground as tunnels, and to call such fortifications built under the ground as tunnels.

But whether it is a tunnel or a tunnel, its purpose is to build a fortification to preserve the strength of the combatants when the equipment is at a disadvantage. Hu Yi is clear about the tunnels built on the hillside, which are often called trenches, but he is not familiar with the trenches on the surface. The following tunnel, which looks similar to digging a trench, is also the first time to do this.

The little girl fell behind, and naturally thought of Wu Shitou. If he was here, maybe it would be much easier.

(End of this chapter)