Nightmare loess

Chapter 11

The war preparation project was carried out at two ends. Liu Shusheng went to Dongshan to repair the fortifications; Su Yuanbing went to the warehouse to dig tunnels.

It turned out that in the early years, in order to avoid the disaster of war.Lengmiaogou has dug tunnels in Naopan Mountain.It is said that Jia's family did not dig tunnels at that time: "Soldiers come to block them, water comes to cover them with soil".Li and Duan's families opened up wasteland and accumulated some grain and property, which needed to be preserved.There is a natural dense cave in Hougou, but it can only hide people temporarily, and dare not hide food, because the terrain is low there, and it is afraid of flooding, and it is far away, so it is not easy to guard.So I thought of digging a hole in the side of my head.In the past many years, each family has blocked the entrance of the cave, for fear that the mountains and rivers will wash away their cave dwellings.Most people don't know where there are tunnels and tunnel crossings.How many years have passed, the world has changed, the tunnel has long been unused, collapsed and submerged in the loess and in the memory of most people.

The Li family always wanted to hide food in the past dynasties. Although the food became less and less, they still passed on the story of the burrow from generation to generation to prevent accidents.When Su Yuanbing proposed to Li Pidou the idea of ​​building tunnels in the Dongshan defense plan, Pidou remembered that the old man of the Li family had told him that there was a cave in Lengmiaogou.This time I came back and said to Yuan Bing: "Lengmiaogou has a tradition of tunneling in the early years, so go ask your aunt (Guangshengpo) where the tunnel entrance is."

"Great, if the reserve militiamen waiting to support Dongshan can start from the village tunnel and go out of Dongguxian, they can reduce exposure and casualties. They can also surprise the attacking enemy from the side and rear." Yuan Bing was happy explain.

When Guangshengpo heard Yuanbing's invitation, she tiptoed happily and led them to the warehouse kiln, which was another kiln in the courtyard of the former educated youth's old kitchen.Open the storeroom in the team, move away the grain storage and farm tools, Guangshengpo pointed to the back kiln palm and said, get through the wall.Two picks went down, and there was a hole behind the mud wall.It turns out that the warehouse cave has been public property since ancient times, and each family did not want to leave an exit, so they dug an exit on the kiln palm of the warehouse cave.

Not long after Zhang Deng went in, he turned left and right.Going forward, the cave collapsed into a disastrous shape and became narrower and narrower.Can't move forward.Yuan Bing estimated that the original direction of the tunnel was above the cave dwellings in Naopan Mountain, so that each family could hide.These authentic directions are not the direction he wants.On the contrary, the location of the tunnel entrance of the warehouse is very good, just in the center of the village, the courtyard is sunken down the hillside, and there is a jujube forest on it, which is very hidden, and the side is large, so you can garrison troops, it is a good place to attack.He wanted to dig a tunnel directly from the warehouse to Kuxian, Shandong, so that he could advance to the west side of the official road and form a posture of surprise attack and support for the main peak.

Yuan Bing stood by the head of the warehouse, holding a compass, pointed it at Donggu, recorded the azimuth, and measured the inclination angle of Donggu with a sling and a protractor (a plastic semicircular ruler used by middle school students). A tunnel was dug into the warehouse.

Need to find the right direction again, so that we can start digging.Yuan Bing and several militiamen climbed to the head of the warehouse, using the compass and telescope borrowed from the staff of the armed forces to measure the direction and angle.The place where they stood was the jujube forest platform.

Li Xinhua and a few people are also working on jujube trees.

After visiting relatives, Xinhua took advantage of the Spring Festival to replant all the destroyed fruit tree saplings on the southern slope, and then hurried to the jujube forest to expand the jujube saplings.Last year, the jujube tree had a good harvest and was praised by everyone, so she wanted to expand the jujube forest and transplant the jujube saplings that had blew out.The platform can no longer be cut, too dense is not good.There was a stretch of wasteland beside the east cliff next to the jujube forest. I asked Lao Shen and he said it was okay, so I transplanted the jujube saplings there.Planted horizontally and vertically, hit the ridge, very busy.It happened that Yuan Bing was also surveying the terrain there.

Xinhua is still very interested in Yuan Bing's combat readiness work. Seeing Yuan Bing earnestly and earnestly marking positions and directing measurements like an officer, so focused and as always, a feeling of admiration will always arise spontaneously.This is the inheritance of the common war baptism of the fathers.

Xinhua leaned over to look at their drawings.Yuan Bing made a slight cover-up.It's just a sketch of a civil defense fortification, which doesn't even meet the paramilitary standards. If there are any military secrets, it's not enough to guard against Xinhua.Xinhua stood aside in embarrassment.Yuan Bing ignored it and continued to discuss the direction of the tunnel with other militiamen.

Xinhua is an extremely intelligent and sensitive girl.She suddenly felt that there was something wrong with this matter, was it Yuan Bing's indifference to her?No, it's all busy.What's wrong with that project?In the past two days, everyone has been a little awkward about Dongshan, but it's not that bad. There has been a lot of awkward quarrels in the group kitchen for more than a year, and it's all over.

She walked to the edge of the old kitchen.

The jujube forest platform is above the original old kitchen, and next to the old kitchen is the warehouse cave.Standing on the side of the head, you can see the yard surrounded by cave dwellings such as the old kitchen and warehouses.

Li Xinhua stood on the head of the warehouse and turned around to look at the head of the mountain, looking for the location of Dong Yuxian.Because she had heard about the war preparations of the Yuan soldiers, the entrance was at the warehouse at the foot, and the exit of the tunnel would definitely be at Dongguxian, which was next to the official road to the north.

In the middle of the noon, the sun hurts the eyes, and a spot of light emerges from the gap in Xiaoxian. She squints her eyes and aims at the straight line formed by the spot, which just passes through her newly planted jujube saplings and reaches the center of the jujube forest platform. .That is to say, the tunnel must pass under the roots of jujube trees!

Blood rush.There are newly planted jujube saplings on the straight line, and the old jujube tree that has lived for decades is below.The scene of the old Duba seedlings appeared in front of my eyes again, and I thought of the scene where they were cut off from the roots and gradually withered.Xinhua's soft heart cannot control himself.

Xinhua ran up to the group of people who were observing, grabbed the blueprint, pointed to the red line on the blueprint, and shouted: "We must change the road, we cannot pass under the jujube forest!"

Everyone was stunned.Yuan Bing took the blueprint unhurriedly: "What trouble are you making, this is a military and national event!" His tone was like that of a man from northern Shaanxi to his mother-in-law at home.

This tone angered Xinhua even more: "That's a life!"

"When we fight, the lives of my soldiers are much more important than your broken jujube trees!" Like a general commanding thousands of troops.

"What is breaking the war? Before the war started, the mountains were shaved and the trees were cut down!" Xinhua went crazy.

"Believe it or not, if you continue to speak ill of war preparations, I'll tie you up and send you to the commune." Yuan Bing was also furious, and he didn't allow others to tarnish his respect for war.Bai Zengxi has been tied up, and Xing Fei is almost tied up. He will fight desperately with anyone who dares to stop his war.

Xinhua stared, trembling all over.Since she was a child, no one has ever said dirty words to her, let alone her closest person.Mu Mu could not move.Can't say a word.His legs went limp and he fell to the ground.Jiaohua quickly ran over to support her, Yanzi came to pinch her, and there was a gurgling in her throat, Yanzi Jiaohua hurriedly helped her up, coughing and spitting out phlegm all over the floor.

Spring plowing is very busy. Those who go up the mountain for spring planting; those who build dams and repair fields;

Digging tunnels is much more difficult than digging Dongshan fortifications.The first is that the distance is too long, the working surface is narrow, and the force cannot be used; the second is that the soil of the brainside mountain is complex, and there are often groups of soil ridges, which are the kind of round lime eggs that appear when the educated youth kilns are being drilled, which shocked the militiamen. The tiger's mouth burst.Another thing is that there are too many underground tree roots, which is a major feature of Naopan Mountain that is different from other hillsides.

When the ancestors first settled here, they took a fancy to the towering trees on this mountain, which is not only a secluded place to avoid wars, but also a good place to live in shade and wind.After gradually becoming a village, other hills were felled to open up wasteland, but the trees on Naopan were reluctant to cut down because most people lived in Naopan Mountain.Until modern times, wars and famines continued, the population increased, and the green plants on the brain were gradually cut down.After cooperativeization, the land in the brain was turned into private land because it was close to home, and the trees were gone.Perhaps it was because of the compassion of the ancestors, or some other natural or man-made reasons, that left a solitary big willow tree on the top of the mountain and a jujube forest on the platform.

The slope of Naopan Mountain has become arable land, and the branches on the ground have been cleared up naturally.But under the ground, there is a web of roots weaving all over the place, and the tunnels pass by, so I have to cut them with a band saw.Most of them are dry old roots, but there are also fresh young roots, which are the roots of the lush jujube tree, and it is difficult to go around...

The weather was getting hotter and hotter, and Xinhua got sick again, so he couldn't do heavy work, but he still insisted on sitting on the jujube tree platform and directing the women of the fruit tree team to work.

The morning sun shone down along the gap in Donggu, forming a dazzling light. The light went straight along the slope, passed through the jujube forest, and just hit Li Xinhua who was sitting on the head of the warehouse.On both sides of this light, the leaves of the old jujube trees turned yellow and fell one after another.The newly planted jujube saplings on the upper slope are obviously different from other places. There are no green spring buds at all, and the new branches are dry.These phenomena are all concentrated on one line, leading straight to Donggu.

Xinhua's eyes widened, and she felt uncomfortable. She wanted to cry like Bai Zengxi, but she couldn't cry, and it made her uncomfortable. She leaned forward, spit out a mouthful of bloody phlegm, and fainted on the mountain again.

Wen Li and Xing Fei caught up with the donkey cart and took Xinhua to the county hospital. They were transferred to several departments and underwent several tests, but none of them could diagnose any disease.Finally, I went to the neurology department and asked about symptoms, saying that I often fainted.The laboratory indicators are all normal, it doesn't seem to be a problem with blood pressure and blood sugar. How does it feel when I faint, and how is my consciousness?She said that she suddenly lost strength and was so soft that she couldn't move her hands, ankles and neck. She was in a panic, but her consciousness was very clear, and people around her could hear what they were saying.The doctor carefully looked at her eyes and mouth, moved her back, limbs, and neck, and said that it was not a serious illness, but it might be hysteria, which is common among young women. Rest more, don't get excited, and be at peace.Prescribe some medicine and come back.When the swallow saw it, wasn't it some starch?Everyone looked at each other with doubts in their hearts - did Xinhua suffer from mental illness?

Donkey Wa Niang was so distressed that she tiptoed to Xinhua Kiln every day to ask about the cold and warm, take care of food and drink, force her to take the useless pills, and accompany her to say some useless words. Taking care of her like a mother warmed Xinhua's heart again.

The tunnel was difficult to dig. After Xinhua fell ill, he rushed to salvage the roots of those old jujube trees on the platform, but it was of no avail. Yuan Bing was heartbroken, and the progress of the tunnel project was slow.