Chapter 21 Chapter 20 Letter

This time the sound was much clearer than ever before, and I felt like I was in it. My first reaction was that the hole might be near us. Sure enough, when I was looking around, Hong Ge quickly ran to the front of the crowd, picked up a thick vine in front with the branch in his hand, pushed it aside and looked in, we followed up immediately, and saw the grass on the vine The leaves are densely covered, and there seems to be a huge black hole looming. "It's here!" Hong Ge turned his head and said to the crowd. Er Xia quickly stepped forward and yelled at the entrance of the cave, and the familiar echo of "Long live" came from inside immediately, Mao Jindao said: "It should be this one." Several people drew out their daggers, machetes started Cutting the vines above, these vines are hard and dense, we can't cut them with a knife at all, and it took a long time to break a few thin ones, but our hands are already worn out.

Heizi said: "This thing is very hard and cannot be cut, but it is afraid of fire, and it will fall apart when it is roasted!" As soon as we heard that, we quickly lit the torches and held them up one by one to roast them. As expected, the vines loosened as soon as they saw the fire, and swished around like long and thin snakes. , suddenly sparse and abnormal, what appeared before our eyes was a big black hole. Hong Ge said: "These vines grow densely during the day, if not for the shrinking of their branches and leaves at night, we would not have found this hole so easily!"

I nodded, secretly thankful, because I believe that everyone is unwilling to spend too much time looking for the entrance of this cave, and there is indeed no place suitable for rest in this wilderness dense forest. If this is really a long live cave, the emperor will If we can stay, then the few of us will definitely not feel wronged if we stay.But I still have a hard time imagining what it would be like if one of them was snoring loudly at night while we listened to the endless echoes of "Hooray!" Just as I was thinking, Er Xia patted me and pointed to the people in front. Hong Ge and the others had already taken the lead to go into the cave. I regained my senses and quickened my pace to keep up.This cave gives people a feeling of spaciousness. After entering the cave and walking straight forward, it becomes more and more spacious. After a short walk, you reach a wide area inside. A few torches and flashlights cannot fully fill the entire space. illuminate.

Several people stopped on the spot, and Liu Shisan said: "This place is okay! It's much better than the outside, and I didn't expect to find such a place to rest! Well, tonight we will go to this place on the emperor's court. One night!" Er Xia became excited when he heard this: "Why did the emperor come to court here back then? Why didn't he even have a dragon chair? Hey! Could it be that he was standing? I'm afraid that would be a roll call for military training instead of meeting the officials." Liu Shisan smiled, and we began to look for some dry firewood and hay on the spot, planning to have a rest after making a fire. Although this is in a cave, it is still very cold at night, and a fire can scare some people who might The appearance of beasts and the like is also for safety reasons.

We searched around the cave, and sure enough, we found traces of some people's life, and even found it.Some clothes and a burnt fire, and bundles of dry wood.I suspected that some brave mountain people or hunters stayed here to leave traces, but as I went further into the cave, I found more and more traces, and there were even traces of a huge fire And a large number of bundles of dry firewood, which seems to be used for storage, it seems that there are probably people who have lived here for a long time. I was puzzled, but it was so dark inside that I didn't dare to go any further. Er Xia yelled at me, and I just picked up two bundles of dry firewood, turned around and walked back quickly, and suddenly stepped on my right foot in a panic. Caught on a round object, I staggered and almost fell.

I controlled my balance well, and finally there was no dog gnawing on the mud. I was grateful and suddenly felt a little panic: the thing I stepped on just now was round and the size of a human head. How did it feel like... Could it be that there are dead people here?I'm very puzzled, I'm not very taboo against dead people's skeletons at the moment, but when I think about dead people really appearing in such a weird cave, it's hard to guarantee whether there are any weird things inside.Thinking about it, I stretched out the torch and shone it under my feet: I saw a round thing that had been stepped aside by me, with the bottom facing up, it was not the dead skeleton I imagined, but upon closer inspection it turned out to be a steel helmet, and it was The kind of modern helmet, like the kind used in World War II.

Seeing me standing there in a daze, Er Xia and Mao Jindao leaned over to ask, but when they saw the helmet, they also froze for a moment. Mao Jindao gently turned it over, picked it up lightly, and It was found that a five-pointed star on the front and a layer of mesh covering the helmet were already in tatters, and there were still two ear-like cloths dragging behind the helmet. I also pay attention to some military weapons and the like on weekdays. When I saw this helmet, I thought of something. It seems that I also learned that the helmet of the Japanese army in World War II has a characteristic of the cloth that drags ears behind the head. This Kanto It is more common in the army. It may be cold in the northeast. They are used to protect their ears from freezing. In the army in the tropical regions of the south, these two pieces of cloth can effectively block the direct sunlight from shining on the back of the neck, and these mesh-like things on the head It is to fix the branches and leaves for camouflage in the jungle.

"This seems to be a helmet commonly used by the Japanese army!" Mao Jindao said, "Look, this kind of thing looks like something used in World War II. At that time, the troops fighting here were our army and the Japanese army!" To prove his statement , Er Xia called Hong Ge loudly, asking him to identify. I also seemed to think of something, and immediately searched around, and after a while, I found several identical helmets, and what was even more surprising was that when I lifted the dry grass and gravel on the ground, I pulled out a large gun with a bayonet , the climate here is humid, but this cave is relatively dry. This gun doesn't look very old, so I don't know if it can still be used.

I carefully took out the big gun and gestured. Hong Ge had already moved over, pointed at the gun and said to me: "This is the 38th Dagai Chirp! A rifle commonly used by the Japanese army in World War II!" Helmet, "This is also the helmet used by the Japanese army!" I was puzzled, and thoughtfully greeted a few people to continue walking in, passed piles of residual fires, the torch in my hand illuminated my eyes, and there was a pass-shaped hole in front of me, and the flames shone through. After crossing the pass, you can only see something like a square stone platform inside.

Er Xia couldn't help turning on the flashlight, and the light beam shot in through the hole. We followed into the hole and found a rope made of vines hanging above the stone platform with a flag hanging on it. The flag that most people are all too familiar with: the white surface of the flag is covered with dust, and it is already looking gray. A circular sun pattern is particularly eye-catching on the white background. "Damn it! Isn't this the flag of the Japanese devils? It seems that you really guessed right just now!" Er Xia cried out in shock, hurriedly scanned the surroundings with a flashlight, and suddenly said in surprise, "Look quickly! What a lot of dead people!"

Following the direction of his finger, we gathered the fire light up. Under the light of the fire, there was a skeleton on the stone platform, but below the stone platform, there were more than a dozen neat rows of skeletons, the number of which was as many as several hundred. It's like being massacred.On the other side, there are many guns neatly stacked, as well as ammunition such as mortars and grenades, and an old transmitter. But when I saw the costumes on each skeleton, I realized it wasn't a massacre.Hong Ge leaned down slightly to have a look, and soon expressed the same opinion as me. He pointed to the skeleton on the stage and said to us: "This is a Japanese officer! There are Japanese soldiers underneath, and they should all commit suicide! You can see that they all have a hole in their foreheads and skulls in the same position, it must be collective suicide!" Hong Ge doesn’t talk much on weekdays, but what he says makes a lot of sense. I looked at the Japanese flag flying earlier, and I knew where these people were sitting. Now what Hong Ge said I agree more. "This is the so-called samurai spirit again!" Mao Jindao said, "It must be a Japanese army that is stubborn and refuses to surrender, here to show their loyalty to their emperor!" Er Xia then said, "What a bunch of hateful and pathetic fellows! This kind of fate is really cheap for them!" Listening to their words, a scene immediately appeared in my mind: a group of Japanese soldiers washed their bodies, shaved their beards and dressed neatly, and sat in line. Their leaders sat on the stone platform, waved their hands, and gave a speech speech.Afterwards, everyone sang the Japanese national anthem together. After everything was over, the leader pulled out his saber and shouted "Long Live the Emperor", and committed suicide by cutting open his stomach. Then gunshots broke out, and the soldiers pointed guns at their foreheads one after another... This is a common scene in movies. Although all of this happened decades ago, I can still clearly feel the atmosphere when I look at the bones all over the floor. It is exactly what Er Xia said: Damn it Hateful and pathetic! Mao Jindao said: "It seems! Some Japanese soldiers hid here for a while, and then committed suicide for some reason!" I said to him: "In some places in our country, there are also such situations. Many small groups of Japanese soldiers were chased into the barren mountains and mountains, isolated from the world, and some of them got the news of Japan's defeat and surrender. Another thing is to stay in the deep mountains and old forests for more than ten years or even decades, and when some people are discovered, they still don’t believe that the war is over, and their minds are completely out of touch.” "Alas! The evil of war!" Er Xia suddenly sighed, and Hong Ge who was at the side shook his head lightly when he heard it. Liu Shisan made a brief report. Faced with so many skeletons, Ah Yan had no fear at all. Liu Shisan carefully went forward to check those skeletons again, with a suspicious expression on her face.Before, I only thought it was a fleeing Japanese army, but when I saw Liu Shisan's expression, I suddenly felt that something was wrong. Sure enough, Liu Shisan picked up a big gun and picked up a skeleton. Under him was a yellow cloth bag. Liu Shisan picked it up lightly, and Hong Ge took it and opened it. It was letters one after another, there were dozens of them, and it seemed that none of them had time to send out, or they had no chance to send out at all. Without saying a word, Hong Ge opened two envelopes, and I leaned forward to see that they were indeed in Japanese.Neither Hong Ge nor I could understand. Hong Ge picked up the two letters and put them together and said to me: "The contents of the two letters are the same. Look at the words on them are exactly the same!" I saw that this was indeed the case. Although I couldn't understand the meaning, the content of the letter was not long. I compared the outline of the font in the most stupid way, and the content of the two letters was indeed exactly the same.I scratched my head, took out two more envelopes and opened them, and they still had the same content.