However, the work of rescue and remedial work is extremely difficult. First, the depth of the tunnel is between 30 and 40 meters. Secondly, the route of the tunnel is relatively tortuous, and the tunnel was excavated in the urban area of ​​Shanghai, so the surface of the place where the tunnel passes is basically There are streets and houses all over the place. The last and most important point is that the level of technology at this time is not as good as that of later generations. The engineers and soldiers trapped in the tunnels are like the miners trapped in the collapsed mines of later generations. Searching, Rescue is very difficult.

"Brothers, we are destined to die, but we cannot die in vain!"

In the dark tunnel, a voice spread like a ray of sunlight.

The total length of the tunnel was eight kilometers. The exit of the starting point was completely collapsed, and there were many collapses inside, but the collapses were all concentrated near the starting point. The closer the tunnel to the target, the better the tunnel.

In the tunnel only tens of meters away from the target, more than a dozen flashlight beams were the only light source in the darkness, illuminating the muddy, frightened faces of more than 100 engineers and soldiers.

After the bombardment by the Japanese naval artillery, these engineers quickly knew what happened through the vibration of the underground soil layer and the telephone notification.

At first, the sappers were in great panic and confusion.

"Brothers! We are buried in tunnels!"

"Don't panic! Let's dig upwards, we only need to dig more than 30 meters to get to the ground!"

"But we still have a mission! We still have more than 20 meters to dig under the Japanese headquarters!"

"You're out of your mind? What mission? We're almost dead!"

"Oh! Look, the groundwater hasn't been drained!"

The engineers quickly discovered that the groundwater in the tunnel had not been discharged normally, because the starting point of the tunnel was completely collapsed, and the drainage pipe extending to the Huangpu River was blocked by mud, and the groundwater was no longer discharged into the Huangpu River through the original canal. Started to silt up in the tunnel.

The water level in the tunnel slowly rose at a speed visible to the naked eye. At first it submerged to the ankles of the engineers, and slowly it submerged to the calves.

"We're going to drown here!" some engineers shouted in panic.

"If you don't drown, you will be suffocated! The air will be consumed!"

"Even if we don't get suffocated, we will starve to death inside!"

"Brothers! Dig up! Dig a way out!"

"Don't dig upwards!" shouted an engineer, "If we dig to the ground, although we can survive, this tunnel will be exposed! We won't be able to complete the task!"

"You are crazy! What tasks are you going to complete? We are almost dead!" said a engineer with tears in his eyes.

Most of the engineers began to dig up the top of the tunnel desperately, trying to dig a tunnel to escape from the sky.

At this moment, "Boom..." There was a dull explosion sound in the soil layer, first one sound, and then continuous dense explosions.

"Shut up!" several experienced veteran engineers yelled, then put their ears on the soil layer and listened intently.

"Platoon leader, what's going on?" "Another explosion?" "Aren't we doomed?" The engineers and soldiers panicked.

"It was an explosion on the surface!" An old engineer was sure, "And it was a shell explosion!"

"It seems that the army has launched an attack on the Japanese army!" Another veteran engineer said, "The second son probably knew that our tunnel plan had failed, so he had to attack the little devil's headquarters head-on!"

"Why do you care so much! Hurry up!" A young engineer cried, "Let's dig up together! Otherwise, we will really die in this dark place! We will be drowned! You see , the groundwater has reached the knees!"

"Where's the explosives?" asked another young sapper.

"Ah? Explosives?" "Yes, where are the explosives?" The engineers were reminded and hurriedly searched for them with flashlights.

"Here!" Soon someone found it.

Before the starting point of the tunnel was covered by the Japanese naval guns, the 128th Regiment had already started to deliver explosives into the tunnel. A total of more than 40 tons of high-strength TNT explosives had been delivered, of which more than 30 tons had been transported into the tunnel, and seven or eight tons were still on the construction site. , The seven or eight tons of explosives were detonated under the cover of Japanese naval guns, which completely intensified the intensity of the big explosion at the starting point of the tunnel.

"What do you want explosives for?" said the crying young engineer. "Is it blowing up the tunnel? What a joke! We will all be blown to death here!"

"No! We should continue our mission!" said the young sapper who remembered the explosives. "We should dig forward! We should not dig upward! Our time is limited and we cannot waste it!"

"What nonsense are you talking about?" "Don't worry about the mission!" The engineers and soldiers objected, "Completing the mission is simply death! Don't forget! We are trapped in the tunnel, and once the explosives are detonated, we can't escape at all! They will all die here!"

"Brothers!" The young engineer couldn't help crying, he said very emotionally, "Don't you know the significance and importance of our mission? At this moment, on the ground above our heads, Countless brothers are rushing to the Japanese headquarters.

You have also seen the photos and materials of the Japanese Army Command. It is very strong, so the infantry brothers and armored soldiers can only attack head-to-head. At this time we are talking, many infantry brothers and armored brothers have already died!Don't we engineers only think about running for our lives?We are soldiers too!We still have hope and opportunity!We can keep digging, complete the tunnel, and detonate the explosives before the groundwater drowns us!In this way, we can win the battle! "

"Are you crazy?"

"Then you guys dig up!" The young engineer waved the engineer pick in his hand, stood knee-deep in the groundwater and began to dig forward at the end of the tunnel.

The rest of the engineers and soldiers stood motionless in the dim light beam of the flashlights. In the darkness, weeping sounded one after another. Soon, someone said: "Brothers, Squad Leader Bao is right! We are doomed! However, we cannot Die! After completing the task, we can drag thousands of little devils to die together! Earned money! Enough money! What are you afraid of?" He also picked up the engineering pickaxe and digged forward.

Amidst the rushing sound of groundwater flowing and crying, more and more engineers joined in the digging operation while crying and cursing.

"I didn't expect that this tunnel is our tomb!" Some engineers couldn't help but choked up.

This is a tragic scene: in the tomb-like underground tunnel, the groundwater is rushing, the beam of the flashlight is shining dimly like a will-o'-the-wisp, and a group of ashen-faced engineers are crying and weeping in the deeper and deeper water while struggling to move towards the city. Digging ahead, they wept and shed tears because they knew they were doomed.

The underground water will flood the tunnel after a certain period of time. If these engineers trapped underground dig up against the clock during this period, they can dig to the ground and escape to the sky, but they give up the time and opportunity to survive. , Spend the last time digging forward, digging forward will not dig out a way out, and even if they don't die from groundwater, they will die from the final explosion.

In fact, the most tragic part of this scene is that no one can see the tragedy of these engineers at the last moment of their lives.

Maybe it was God's pity for these engineers. When carrying the explosives, several engineers found several telephone wires extending from the tunnel to the outside. Kan Weiyong, who was in grief among the ruins and blood at the beginning of the tunnel, learned that his subordinates were still alive.

"Brothers in the tunnel, are you still alive?" Jiang Weiguo, who rushed over, picked up the phone with a heavy heart.

"You are the second son? Yes, we are still alive.

Many brothers died, and many brothers were trapped in other places, we cannot contact them!" The young engineer who first suggested to continue digging answered the phone.

"You have suffered!" Jiang Weiguo's heart and nose were sore, "You have to persevere, we will rescue you.

Which tunnel are you in now? "

"Second son, we are at the front end of the tunnel, and we are continuing to dig forward!"

"What?" Jiang Weiguo was stunned.

"We're going to do our job.

Groundwater is pouring into the tunnel, we are running out of time, but we should be able to complete the task, dig the tunnel to the underground of the Japanese headquarters, and most of the explosives have also been brought in, we can finish it!"

"You..." Jiang Weiguo's heart was shaken violently, he understood the intention and determination of these engineers who were trapped underground.

"Second son, we engineers are also soldiers! We are also dying for our country on the battlefield!"

Jiang Weiguo couldn't help but burst into tears: "...you...do you have any wishes?"

"I have no other wishes. I hope that our family members will be well cared for by the central government... Also, we don't want to die without anyone caring about us. We hope that the outside world will remember our names!"

"Okay! What's your name? How many of you are there? What's your name? I'll write it down!"

"My name is Bao Zhicai. There are 110 seven brothers with me. Let me read everyone's name!"

Jiang Weiguo wiped his tears fiercely, and told Sun Tao beside him: "Hurry up and bring a pen and paper!" He said to the phone, "You tell me! I'm listening! What are your names? Where is your home? Where is your home? Anyone? I'll write it all down.

Don't worry, your family will be treated well by the government, I promise!" At this moment, Jiang Weiguo thought of a sentence, "No one knows your name, and your achievements will last forever."

This sentence is extremely tragic, but also has a sense of sadness.

It is very painful to be an unsung hero, because after doing great things, the outside world doesn't even know your name.

The same is true for the engineers in the tunnel. If the telephone line hadn't been blown up, who would know their names?In the Anti-Japanese War in history, about 380 million Chinese soldiers died (combined by the KMT and the Communist Party), and 380 million good sons and daughters of China died defending this land. How many people’s names are remembered in the war against foreign invaders?It is heroic to die for the country, but after the death for the country, no one knows that this person died for the country, how sad it is.

After closing the paper full of people's names, Jiang Weiguo hung up the phone with his wrist as heavy as a thousand weights, and couldn't help but burst into tears.

"Order the troops to change the offensive tactics!" After learning about this, Zheng Dongguo made a decisive decision, "Stop storming the main position of the Japanese army headquarters, and fully sweep the Japanese auxiliary strongholds in the surrounding areas, and drive all the Japanese troops into the headquarters!"

At 8:13 am on August 3, Jiang Weiguo's tunnel blasting plan was officially implemented.

In the darkness more than ten meters below the Japanese Army Headquarters, 110 and eight Chinese engineers held hands with each other solemnly and decisively. There was no crying or cursing in the darkness, only the sound of calm breathing.

Holding the detonator in his hand, Bao Zhicai said loudly: "My dear brothers! We will be brothers in the next life!" After speaking, he slammed down the detonator.

The big bang was born in a shocking manner.

"Is there an earthquake?" This is the first thought of most residents in Shanghai at this moment.

In Shanghai tonight, due to the sudden outbreak of war, the streets and alleys were deserted, but after the explosion, the entire Shanghai was empty, because the residents ran to the streets in a panic and took refuge in the panic of thinking that there was a major earthquake.

Jiang Weiguo, who was one kilometer away from the Japanese Army Command, felt an unprecedented shock and panic-like throbbing at this moment. The former came from the ground, and the latter came from his psychology. This feeling was like a person riding an elevator. Suddenly, the feeling of weightlessness and panic brought about by the elevator falling out of control, because Jiang Weiguo really felt the solid ground shaking and undulating like liquid waves.

Jiang Weiguo first saw an extremely dazzling, extremely terrifying, and extremely huge fireball bursting out of the ground like an earth dragon ascending to the sky without warning, covering and engulfing the Japanese Army Headquarters building covering an area of ​​more than 6000 square meters in an instant. The night sky that has been flickered by the dawn light and the fierce war artillery fire is as bright as day at this moment, the sky is full of ferocious crimson, and the sky is covered by countless red lights like sunset glow or burning clouds. Like a mountain fire burning.

This is similar to lightning, first you see an extremely dazzling flash of lightning, followed by an earth-shattering thunderclap.

"Boom..." The sound of the big explosion, which was even more deafening than when a hundred cannons fired at the same time, rolled and roared in the hurricane-like air waves. The strong wind blowing towards Jiang Weiguo felt like being blown by a thousand electric fans at the same time. He almost blew his steel helmet away, "Clatter..." The sound of extremely dense glass breaking sounded like raindrops, and the window panes of all the buildings along the way from the explosion point to Jiang Weiguo's location were shaken by the shock wave The shattering gathered into a breathtaking scene: After the strong wind passed, the glass gradually shattered with the wind, producing wave after wave of glass shattering sound.

All kinds of exclamations, shouts, and exclamations rose in the strong wind. Jiang Weiguo stared blankly at the scene in the distance. He could see it very clearly. The scene after the explosion seemed to be in slow motion. It seems that every detail is clearly visible.

The Japanese army headquarters in the big fireball was torn apart like a sand sculpture building in the tsunami-like explosion waves and overwhelming shock waves. The trees around the headquarters were broken and fell down at radial angles. The ground first undulated and even trembled madly like the sea, then split apart like a tortoise shell, and finally engulfed the headquarters building itself like a volcanic eruption.

The ground shook and the mountains shook, and the headquarters building shattered like a cardboard building block toy. The wall first cracked, then shattered, and finally was blown away in a very short period of time. The foundation was completely overturned and disintegrated. After the fireball extinguished , a number of extremely high and extremely thick smoke and dust rose from the ground like a black dragon in the monstrous fire, forming a terrifying scene like hell. There was nothing left, and countless building fragments swept across the sky like a sandstorm among the red mist and black clouds.

A large number of building debris turned into smoke and dust covering the sky and the sun in the strong wind waves. For a time, a large urban area centered on the Japanese Army Command was dark and dark, the wind was surging, and the crackling sound was dense like drums. The tile fragments were smashed into pits, and many residential buildings around the headquarters were damaged in the explosion. They were completely destroyed by bricks and cement blocks falling from the sky, forming an artificial meteor shower.

Zheng Dongguo described afterwards: "...When the explosion officially happened, Jiang Weiguo was dragged by us and sent one kilometer away. Just kidding, if something happened to him, even if we won a big victory, the old man... the principal would not let us go, myself At that time, I was less than 500 meters away from the Japanese headquarters. Soon, I regretted it because the distance was too close.

More than 30 tons of explosives, the power is really amazing!At that moment, I really thought that there was a big earthquake, because I really felt that the ground under my feet trembled a few times like a monster being stung by a certain acupuncture point, and a violent shock wave poured out like mercury. When it entered my ears, I felt dizzy, my eardrums buzzed and my brain buzzed non-stop, my internal organs seemed to have fallen into a waterfall and were hit by the torrent, nausea flooded me throat.

The watch was shaken, and time stopped at this moment.

The brothers around all bared their teeth, all showing pained expressions.

First there was a big fireball, and the Japanese army headquarters was completely blown to pieces, and then there was a huge black smoke, which gathered into a black cloud with the wind, tumbling violently, rising higher and higher.

After 20 seconds... maybe more than that, my mind was dizzy at the time, and I couldn't estimate the time accurately... We were all dumbfounded, the headquarters building no longer existed, and it was completely reduced to a pile of rubble. At that time, my brothers and I felt that something was falling from our bodies, it was the powder and ashes of the building, like a solid black rain, and many brothers were injured, because some of the falling powder was indeed powder, Some were as big as hailstones, even as big as the mouth of a bowl. Some brothers were injured, and some human parts were even sandwiched among them. The bloody broken hands and feet, and the deformed and charred heads were all Japanese. It was blown out of the headquarters.

Needless to say, next we can easily capture the Japanese Marine Corps headquarters building, because firstly, that building no longer exists, and secondly, there are probably not many Japanese still alive in the ruins of that building !"

When the explosion happened, the waves on the Huangpu River not far away were turbulent, because the air waves propagated through the air, and the shock waves also propagated through the soil. I looked dumbfounded.

Lieutenant General Hasegawa stared blankly at this scene like a puppet, and when he came back to his senses, he lamented: "Okawa-kun and the others are finished!"

According to statistics afterwards, about 4000 Japanese soldiers, including Major General Okawachidenchi, the commander of the Japanese Special Marine Corps stationed in Shanghai, were killed and injured in the explosion, killed by the shock wave, burned to death and injured by the fire, and collapsed. The buildings were smashed to death and injured, and the Japanese special marines stationed in Shanghai were basically wiped out.

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