Chapter 44 Forty-three, Japanese

At that moment, me, the deputy squad leader, and Ma Zaihai were all so frightened that our bodies froze, and the three of us froze in place. I was actually half-believing just now. Is it my own illusion that I saw the Japanese military uniform just now? I didn't expect that after a short time, I suddenly saw so many Japanese.This time, it was as if we had passed through a time tunnel, and the disgusting yellow coat made me feel like I had entered the era of the Anti-Japanese War. Immediately, I realized something was wrong. Why are these Japanese people so familiar? They seem to know each other.

Looking again, I suddenly saw one of the Japanese officers sticking out his head to look at me. It turned out to be an old cat! I was still amazed, Pei Qing and Wang Sichuan had already walked out, Wang Sichuan picked me up at once, he was surprised to see that I was covered in ice, and asked the deputy squad leader what happened to me? I was pulled over, and I was immediately stripped of my clothes and put on the edge of the bonfire. The bonfire was so big and so warm. My tears came down immediately, and I didn’t know why I was crying. Now that I think about it, it's great to have this sense of security when you meet a large army.

At that time, some of us were dressed in rags, but Lao Mao and them were all in neat Japanese military coats, especially Lao Mao, who was wearing a dark military uniform, coupled with his indifferent expression, very similar to those in the movie Japanese staff officer.After I was wrapped in a sleeping bag, I looked at him and laughed out loud.Then the few people around laughed. I asked what the hell is going on, what's going on with you old ghosts, when did you all turn your back on the Japanese devils? Pei Qing said don't wrong good people, we are made up by the enemy's armed forces team, and we laughed out loud.

After careful questioning, I realized that these clothes were found in another material warehouse. Pei Qing said that the road they took was too damn cold, and he didn't know why.Later they searched in a warehouse and dug out these clothes. No one dared to wear them at first, but they put them on when they couldn't stand the cold. This whole set was a Japanese Kwantung Army brigade.They all looked like Coke. When I remembered parting from them, I asked them how they got here and whether they had found the source of the telegram. As soon as I asked, the faces of several people all became dark. Pei Qing sighed, nodded and said that he found it, but he was already dead.

As he spoke, he gestured and briefly explained their process to us. Here I need to reorganize my thoughts, because Pei Qing and the others only briefly dictated their experience. After so many years, it is too difficult for me to remember the content completely, and I can't remember many details.Or, Pei Qing may not have said in detail at the time, but these are not important. They drifted along the cable all the way to the depths of that waterway (we call it "No. 6-Chuan" here, which is the name given by the Japanese, and I will talk about it later), and the waterway where the dam is located This "No. 0" is geographically the relationship between the mainstream and the tributaries.

After we parted from the sinkhole, they kept drifting inward. Just as the old Tang analyzed, they reached a section behind the sinkhole. The cables and underwater rails all meant that this was already a densely active area before the Japanese abandoned it. , the terrain here and the surrounding environment tended to be flat, and the progress became smoother and smoother, without any hindrance.And there are more and more traces of Japanese activities, and they are becoming more and more diverse. After drifting inward for about forty minutes, the bottom of the underground river showed an upward trend, and the river became shallower and shallower. Soon, a large number of shoals protruding from the water surface appeared in front of them. Going further in, the shoal There are more and more, and they are connected in one piece in front, and the dark river ends here, replaced by a large stretch of rocky river beaches.

There was also water on the rocky river beach at the beginning, but they couldn't use the rafts on it, so they had to wade into the water. Pei Qing and the others found that the "No. 6-Chuan" was hanging on the rocks at the top of the underground river, and it began to fork from here. The river beach is a slope. They walked up and soon came to a dry place and climbed to the top of the river beach. Behind the river beach is a large eroded cave. The inside is quite flat, but it is a mess. There are all kinds of cables hanging on it, and the underground is covered with piles of things covered by tarpaulins. They opened the canvas, and inside were writing desks and communication equipment full of documents. What impressed him most was A large number of cables, ranging from thick to thin, are everywhere on the ground and on the top.There are also temporary beds and many wooden boxes of supplies.Their Japanese military uniforms were found inside.

At the end of the cave, there are a lot of fork holes, some of which are full of things, some are bottomless, and I don’t know where they lead, but a large number of cables are still extended to these fork holes, obviously there are also some people who need electricity. device of. Pei Qing said that according to the analysis of the overall layout of the old Tang, the place at the end of "No. 6-Chuan" is the communication hub of the entire underground river cave project, that is, the wiring center of the old-fashioned telephone system. Hole small power generation warfare directly supplies power, and is quite concealed, which can guarantee a certain degree of secrecy during wartime.

Judging from the situation inside, the Japanese did not destroy the documents, but covered them completely with canvas. Obviously, the Japanese did not think that they would never come back when they evacuated. This is consistent with everything we have seen before. The situation is also contradictory. I really can't figure out what happened in the last time of this underground base and what order they received. After a cursory observation, they began to follow the cable and search for the source of the telegram that rang the sinkhole power station. The old cat thought that the survivors of the first exploration team that were probably earlier than ours were waiting for rescue in this place. The whistle was blown.

But the stern whistle didn't get any echo. In the end, it was Old Tang and the telephone soldier who checked the line and found the telephone cable among countless plugs. It turned out to be leading to a fork hole deep in the cave. Old Tang led his men in, and about 20 meters deep into the fork hole, he smelled a rancid smell, and then he saw a telegraph room with an automatic telegraph machine inside, and a pile of people lying next to it. The wall was covered with canvas, after Pei Qing lifted it, he found three dead people underneath. The three dead people were two men and one woman, and one of the men was an old man. They were all wearing Japanese khaki overcoats, but they were wearing the same PLA uniforms as ours. All three of them had already begun to rot. The entire dispatch room was filled with a slight rancid smell.

After turning the body over, Pei Qing found that these were three unfamiliar faces. Judging by their clothes, they should indeed be the survivors that Lao Mao judged, but unfortunately, they were not alive, and had been sacrificed for a while. The search team was very frustrated. They carried the corpses out of the telegraph room. Pei Qing stopped the telegraph that was still transmitting automatically. Later, he wanted to find out the cause of death of the three people. After examining the bodies, he found that the bodies were There were black lines on his gums, and he seemed to have been poisoned, just like the bodies we saw in the sinkhole. Old Tang thought that they might have been poisoned by a chronic poison and did not die immediately. After one of them wrote the telegram, they waited here all the time, but in the end they still didn't make it to the end.After hearing this, the old cat shook his head and said it was impossible. These three people were all covered under the canvas. If it was what Old Tang said, but all three bodies were covered, there must be one person who survived. At that time, the number of an exploration team was uncertain, but it was impossible to be many, especially when the exploration area was unknown. We could foresee that the number of the exploration team should be between five and ten people. Under the circumstances at that time, Unless it is a super-large exploration mission, there are only so many people. As for the number of people who died in the first expedition, the old cats did not have the information we have. At that time, they counted three people, plus Yuan Xile, who survived, and the survivors that the old cat said. The young soldiers we saw should still be A few people failed to find it, and the old cat was in quite a headache. While asking the others to continue searching the surrounding caves, he discussed countermeasures with Old Tang.However, they were mysterious when they spoke, and Pei Qing couldn't listen to them, and didn't know what their decision was at that time. The cave system in the depths of this cave is quite complicated. The search at that time was not smooth. Most of the engineers brought by the old cat were recruits. He didn't have the charisma to inspire others to fight with him, so the soldiers he led ran around and found that the holes were unfathomable, and some were still vertically downward, and they all retreated in the end. They got stuck there in the end, and couldn't do anything to scold them. The old cat himself was also a weird person, so there was nothing he could do at this time, so he had to fix it on the spot.At the same time, I have fallen into the giant underground river "No. 0-Chuan" under the leadership of the stubborn deputy squad leader and the desperate Wang Sichuan. I don't have any special experience in leading soldiers. After so many years of military career, I also know what kind of people can lead soldiers well. A real officer should be as stubborn as the deputy squad leader to execute orders, as brave as Wang Sichuan, and And as cunning as an old cat, there are very few such people. I don't know how long they have been repairing there. If Old Tang hadn't discovered the problem in the telegraph room, the old cat might have declared the mission failed and came back to meet us, then we wouldn't be hoisting in this dam. Meeting in the warehouse, the ridiculous scene just now appeared. In fact, when Pei Qing told me about the whole process, I already felt that there seemed to be "unreasonable" things in it, but you have to understand that Pei Qing was telling the whole process in Mandarin with a strong accent at that time, and Mandarin education was popularized at that time. For a few years, I couldn't figure it out, the effect hadn't appeared anyway, Pei Qing spoke so fast, I didn't have the energy to understand every detail when I was listening.However, this "unreasonable" place was discovered by Old Tang, the "nail spirit" when they collected the corpse. The problem was with the telegraph room. Although the telephone system during the Anti-Japanese War was crude, it could already realize the function of short-distance calls. At that time, wireless telegraphy was mainly used for ultra-long-distance communication. The scope of application of telegraphy was quite strict. Therefore, it is generally applicable to plains, and in valleys, because of the surrounding mountains, it will cause considerable difficulties in signal transmission. You think this is the case in valleys, let alone in more complex caves. So what's the use of setting up a transmitter in the cave at the end of this dark river?It's a little strange. Old Tang found that it was indeed a regular sending room, where the Japanese code books and a large amount of telegraph data were located. They speculated that the transmitting antenna of this automatic sending machine must not be here, and it might be in On the ground, it is used to communicate with other fortresses. The question immediately arose, if that was the case (and in fact they all agreed it must have been), was the telegram from the automatic transmitter, which transmitted the signal to the telephone line, merely an accident?Is it possible that the sender at that time also discovered this possibility. His purpose may be to transmit the signal to the ground, and we heard the telegram from the telephone line, which is completely a malfunction. If so, has the signal been intercepted?Did the 723 headquarters on the ground know that there was danger in this hole? Pei Qing raised this question to the old cat at that time, and asked if the old cat knew a lot of things they didn't know before they came down. He directly questioned the old cat. This way of handling things seems unlikely now , but it was quite normal under the interpersonal relationship at that time. The old cat ignored him. He said that no one knew about it. If the transmitting antenna was really connected to the ground all the time, after so many years of wind and rain, it was hard to guarantee that it would not have broken down long ago. It's a bit too extreme to say so. When they were arguing, Old Tang and the telephone soldier were fiddling with the automatic telegraph. Just when Pei Qing was about to continue to attack, Old Tang, who was wearing earphones, stopped them. And take the headphones off and let them listen. It turns out that the automatic transmitter also has the function of receiving reports in addition to sending reports. At this time, in order to verify whether the land antenna that Lao Mao said was damaged, Lao Tang turned on the receiving function of the machine. Rapid continuous codes came from the earphones. I was quite surprised to hear this.Although it is not difficult to intercept a telegram through a transmitter, especially in the era of cipher text codes, there was no frequency-hopping transmitter, and intercepting a telegram often required a long time to prepare for frequency modulation, and the telegram was received as soon as the receiver was turned on. , which means that this transmitter has the same frequency as the other party's transmitter, and the possibility of this is very small, unless the two machines have agreed in advance. Pei Qing didn't think of this. He thought that the telegram must have been intercepted by the antenna exposed on the ground, which meant that the antenna of the transmitter must be useful. Old Tang and the telephone soldier had already discovered the problem. The telephone soldier tried to listen to the code for more than ten minutes, but found that the coding method was completely wrong and could not be heard at all. Then they checked the Japanese listening code book and found that the code frequency in the headset was It turned out to be a Japanese code. You must know that this is a military code. Even if a telegram from Japan can be sent to Inner Mongolia, China, it will only be a civilian code, and it cannot be the same as the original encrypted Japanese telegram.This immediately became a bad thing: the automatic telegraph machine in the telegraph room of the Kwantung Army base 1,200 meters underground could receive military encrypted codes in Japanese, but they didn't know that the codes came from Where did it come from? This is really incredible and inexplicable. This telegraph must have an antenna. Where is this antenna? At that time, they speculated that there must be another secret Japanese base deep in the virgin forest of Inner Mongolia that we searched, and the telegram received by this transmitter must have come from there. This explanation was accepted by everyone at the time, because in fact there was no other explanation.First, they believe that the telegram cannot come from underground, because it does not conform to the laws of physics, so the telegram must come from the "antenna" on the ground.Second, in 1962, it was impossible for the antenna on the ground to receive the Japanese military code, and the code of the code book in 1942 was still used, so this code must come from another place that was abandoned in 1942, and this place should also be in Inner Mongolia. Because no one understands Japanese, even with all the reading codebooks, there is no way to know what the telegram is about. It is just that the telephone soldiers listened for a long time and found that the content of the telegram is a bit long, and it is also a cycle frequency, that is, The other party is another automatic transmitter. The old cat was relaxed at this time. Although he didn't save anyone, he found this telegram and so much information. For him, it should be possible to communicate, so they recorded all the code frequencies and removed them. Putting the transmitter on the back, and then taking all the codebooks and decoders, the old cat is going to return first, and let the professionals decipher this code.Find out what the code says. When they were sorting out those telegram materials, Lao Mao and the others had a surprise. A small soldier accidentally found an engineering cross-section drawing in stacks of data books. Only half of this key drawing could be seen clearly. On the half that can be seen clearly, the dam where we are, the aircraft take-off structure, and a lot of information about the tributaries of the underground river are clearly drawn. Relying on this blueprint, they entered the karst cave development system under the sinkhole through the fork hole of the karst cave where they were located, and followed the cable for more than ten hours before reaching the end of the dam and the place near the dark river. On the edge of a huge abyss.After that, a few more things happened and finally met us here. The matter is quite clear, and I have straightened out the context in my mind. Obviously, what Lao Mao and Pei Qing went through was quite easy, which made me a little annoyed, because it was a note that let us enter the sinkhole. If the note was slipped by one of them, then I feel as if I have been pushed into a very dangerous situation by an irresponsible person. I thought about it later, it was a complete accident that we fell into that huge dark river. If there hadn’t been such an accident, then we would have entered the karst cave development area under the sinkhole, and where we would end up would be really unpredictable. Wang Sichuan had already told them what we experienced, and even told him that there might be enemy agents in the team. At this time, Lao Mao's face was quite ugly, because of the victims they met.The known death list is very long. Telegraph Room - Three Dead Sinkhole generator - one fatality Hoisting Warehouse - One Death - Su Zhenhua Goes Crazy In addition to Yuan Xile who was crazy before, we have already found seven people in this first exploration team that we don't know about, and none of them is normal, either dead or crazy. I asked the old cat, it has come to this time, you should tell us something, you should at least tell me how many people are in this team. As soon as I said Pei Qing agreed, Wang Sichuan, Ma Zaihai and the deputy squad leader also followed me to ask questions.Pei Qing was very excited, he had quarreled with the old cat before, but this time we all stood up, he couldn't hold back anymore. Both Lao Mao and Lao Tang were silent. The soldiers below them definitely didn't know about it. If they wanted to know anything, they should know it. The two sides were in a stalemate for a while, no one said a word, and finally the old cat suddenly relaxed, sighed, and said to us: "Okay, but I can only tell you this, you can't ask any more, you know too much, yes Neither you nor us are good." I said: "You tell me, I understand you. We won't mention this matter after we go out." The old cat smiled a little strangely, and said: "This team entered here half a month ago, a total of nine people, four experts, four engineers, and one special supervisor." "Nine people?" Ma Zaihai took a breath and said, "Then there are still two people we haven't found?" The old cat shook his head and said to him, "No, it's one." Ma Zaihai picked up his fingers and counted, the way is wrong, nine minus seven, isn't it two? The old cat said: "There is another person who came out alive." We were all taken aback, Ma Zaihai asked who it was? The old cat narrowed his eyes and pointed to himself: "It's me."