The deafening rumbling sound that came into the tunnel outside the tunnel was entirely due to the credit of Captain Ikeda, who was about to dig through the key part of the tunnel inside for the third time, and was once again blown up by the tunnel, killing several little devils, and those who did not come and evacuate were buried in the collapsed tunnel, and even Captain Ikeda in the tunnel, if he had not been far away from the precautions, he would have almost been able to get out of danger and was buried in the tunnel.

Captain Ikeda continued to be deflated and furious, but he had nowhere to kill the Eighth Route Army hiding in the tunnel.

Digging tunnels to eliminate the Eighth Route Army inside was the most effective task taken by the Fourth Independent Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army to attack the Eighth Route Army after occupying the county seat, and the commander of the Katayama Brigade was able to discover the secret tunnels of the Eighth Route Army in Fuping County so quickly.

General Okamura Ninji, commander of the Japanese Front in North China, learned that the Katayama Brigade had blocked the head of the Eighth Route Army's Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region in the tunnel in Fuping City, and nodded and praised: "In this autumn sweep, Katayama-kun commanded decisively and marched quickly, and captured the head of the Eighth Route Army about Fuping City, and was blocked in the tunnel at this time, which is really a great achievement.

As long as the head of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region of the Eighth Route Army in the tunnel is captured alive or eliminated, this will be the heaviest blow to the military and political organs in the border areas of the Eighth Route Army base area in Taihang Mountain, and it will also have a bearing on the entire war situation in North China; if a few beautiful battles of annihilation are fought on the frontal battlefield, the government of China will be forced to sit down and negotiate with the Japanese Empire, and the anti-Japanese situation in China will be greatly beneficial to the Imperial Japanese Army. ”

Chief of Staff Moritake Tanabe nodded and agreed: "Okamura-kun's analysis and judgment are completely correct, I hope that the Fourth Brigade of Katayama can capture alive or eliminate the Jinchaji leaders of the Eighth Route Army who were blocked in the tunnel in a very short period of time, and inspire the decadent morale of our Imperial Japanese Army in the previous period, we really hope to hear good news as soon as possible." ”

General Okamura Ninji was momentarily excited, and ordered the headquarters to immediately send the 'Hoho battle exploits' achieved by the Katayama Brigade in Fuping to the generals of the main battlefields in writing, in order to inspire the soldiers to fight bravely in the sweep of the Eighth Route Army, sacrifice their lives to achieve the cause of the imperial government in East Asia, and realize the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Circle at an early date.

The divisions and brigades of the Japanese army fighting on the front line were given the Katayama Brigade in Fuping to block the head organ of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region of the Eighth Route Army in the tunnel, and they would soon be completely annihilated.

When the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army learned of this information, it immediately asked the deputy commander-in-chief of the former commander-in-chief, who slapped the telegram and said with a smile to the chief of staff beside him: "The Japanese invaders were heavily wounded in the early stage, and they concentrated their superior elite troops to carry out an autumn sweep of our Eighth Route Army's base areas. ”

The chief of staff shook his head and said: "Deputy commander-in-chief, don't worry, if Commander Nie sees this information, he will feel that a small army left in Fuping City will definitely not be able to sleep with laughter if he takes so much attention from the enemy's high-level management, hahaha." ”

"A small army? What small troops? The deputy commander-in-chief looked at the chief of staff and asked, as if he was interested in this small force.

The chief of staff didn't expect the deputy commander-in-chief to be so tempted by this small unit, he said with a smile: "I met with Commander Nie two days ago, and I heard him talk about the commander of the only regiment of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, it seems to be called Lei, Lei, yes, called Lei Jian.

At that time, the injury was very serious, Commander Nie ordered the commander of the Lei Jian regiment to be escorted to the field hospital of the Fuping Jinchaji Military Region for rescue, but due to excessive bleeding due to long-distance bumps, various body functions have tended to fail, and he was twice declared dead by experts in aiding China.

Even if he woke up, it was only a recovery of his physical functions, but due to the loss of consciousness caused by excessive blood loss and lack of oxygen in the brain, foreign aid experts concluded that even if this thunder sword could be brought back to life, it would be a living dead without consciousness.

But it's so unbelievable, even experts think that this thunder sword can't live, but just yesterday, Commander Nie somehow talked about this kid again, saying that he had already talked to him, and was leading a special task force left behind in Fucheng to fight wits and courage with the enemy in the tunnel, haha, the devil can release this rumor, and it has a certain relationship with this thunder sword. ”

After listening to the chief of staff, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army seemed to be unsatisfied, and couldn't help asking: "Chief of Staff, the thunder sword you are talking about is the regiment that led a regiment to capture the Jingcheng Coal Mine with the cooperation of other regiments in the first and second stages of the Hundred Regiments War, and then this unique regiment fought and killed all the way, destroying the Tiger Leaping Gorge Bridge, the Lao Ye Mountain Resistance Battle, and the source offensive battle, and the regiment commander is this Thunder Sword?" ”

"Opponent, deputy commander-in-chief, is this regimental commander Lei Jian, who was called the 'devil who killed the imperial army' by the devils, the 'thunder general' by the soldiers, and later was commended by the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region as the only regiment as the 'Thunder Hero Regiment'."

The two supreme leaders of the Eighth Route Army were talking about Lei Jian with interest, but Lei Jian was unaware, he was lying on a stretcher and hiding at the bend of the tunnel, listening carefully to the rumbling sound of entering the tunnel, wondering what the devil was doing outside, not only frowning, but also listening carefully without distraction.

In addition to the terrifying 'rumbling' sound coming from the outside, the tunnel was also accompanied by the sound of heavy heavy objects ramming the earth, and from this complex sound, Lei Jian could hear that this was a large machine making trouble on the ground.

The sound that Lei Jian heard was not much different from what he had guessed, and at this time there was such a big movement on the ground was a strange machine that no one in the city had ever seen, not only could it have four wheels like a car, but there was also a big guy in front of it, sometimes it was raised and sometimes it fell, but who couldn't tell what it was, it was really scary to look at that strength.

In order to take credit, the commander of the Katayama Brigade reported to the North China Front Army Headquarters that the commander of the Eighth Route Army, who had not yet figured out what level the Eighth Route Army was hiding in the tunnel, said, "The Fourth Independent Mixed Brigade has blocked the head of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region in the tunnel and is going deep into the tunnel to capture and eliminate it."

This is a good thing, the commander of the Japanese front army in North China, thinking that he really blocked the head of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region in the tunnel, ordered to capture or destroy it as soon as possible at all costs.

The commander of the Katayama Brigade personally came to the mouth of the tunnel and asked Squadron Leader Ikeda why he was so slow to act, and ordered that the passage connecting with the inside must be opened within half an hour, and if the military justice was delayed.

Later, when he heard that the tunnel was about to be opened three times, it was destroyed by the blasting carried out by the Eighth Route Army hiding inside, and the angry Katayama Brigade grew up in flames, and Commander Okamura, who was anxiously waiting for good news, kept urging him, and when he knew that the excavation of the tunnel had been repeatedly frustrated, Commander Okamura ordered the nearest Japanese Army Mechanical Brigade in Tang County to immediately send an excavator to support.

After receiving an order from the North China Command, the commander of the Japanese army stationed in Tang County immediately dispatched a large excavator to Fuping at a lightning speed, and directly plunged into the excavation of underground tunnels.

The devil excavator kept digging underground along the route pointed out by Ikeda, and as long as there were traces of the tunnel, it was immediately expanded, so savagely forced demolition and forced excavation, although the tunnel where they were hiding was not dug out, and several families dug the tunnel by themselves, which was destroyed by the excavator, and the people hiding inside were arrested, and the main tunnel entrance and exit of the Eighth Route Army was tortured and forced to ask where the entrance and exit of the main tunnel where the head of the Eighth Route Army was hidden.

Ordinary people don't say that they don't know the entrance and exit of the tunnel where the Eighth Route Army is hidden, even if they do, they won't tell the cruel little devils.

The commander of the Katayama Brigade saw that there were some breakthroughs in the tunnels dug out, but there were no results, and there was no way to "the head of the Eighth Route Army hidden in the main tunnel", which made Katayama even more angry, and he faced Commander Okamura's questioning again and again, and the commander of the Katayama Brigade came to the scene in person, determined to find the main tunnel and eliminate the head of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, as long as he could catch or eliminate the head of the Eighth Route Army hidden in the tunnel, he would soar in the Japanese army in North China.

Lei Jian, who was hiding in the tunnel, heard the 'rumbling' sound on the ground getting closer and closer to the top of his head, and he said to a few people around him: "The enemy at the mouth of the tunnel has given up manual excavation, and is now using a large excavator to dig deep from the ground according to the analysis of the direction of the underground tunnel, and once a new tunnel is discovered, it will block the counterattack we carry out from the inside with the most powerful firepower." ”

Wang Xiaoliang asked nervously: "What the hell is the excavator, is this guy very powerful?" ”

(End of chapter)