African Nationhood

The city of Levale was quickly captured by the Southern Front Expeditionary Force. In this battle, 33 Germans and 331 Askari indigenous soldiers were killed.

Two regiment commanders, Xu Chuan and Ding Yibo, who were walking in the city of Levale, found Wang Quan and others gathering around a ruined building to move broken bricks and concrete blocks.

They stopped and said, "What are you doing?"

When Wang Quan heard the question, he turned around and saw that it was the commander-in-chief of the southern line. He immediately put down the stone in his hand and walked quickly to the commander-in-chief.

"Report to the commander-in-chief that our comrades were trapped in this building. We plan to pick out their bodies and take them home."

At this point, his nose felt sour and tears suddenly flowed down.

After hearing what the soldiers said, Xu Chuan took off his military cap first, and then the other officers who followed him also took off their military caps.

After a brief moment of silence, Xu Chuan spoke: "They are all heroes. We should remember them and we should not let them live in a foreign land. Young man, you did the right thing!"

After speaking, he looked at Ding Yibo and said, "Arrange more soldiers to come over and help."

Ding Yibo nodded and quickly called in a company from the National Guard to help.

While removing the rubble of the collapsed floor, Wang Quan saw his good brother who was covered in dust and had lost his life.

When he was dying, his body was pressed against the people behind him, trying to use his body to cover the soldiers behind him.

He couldn't help crying, "Ashuai, you are so good!
I'm not as good as you in leading troops, wuwu~~"

Most of the soldiers around him had red eyes, and a few who were familiar with Li Shuai also started crying.

Moving Li Shuai's body away, he found that the chest of the soldier under him was rising and falling slightly.

Wang Quan became excited, "Quick, come and help, he is still angry!"

Everyone immediately got busy and quickly moved the soldier who was still alive to the infirmary, while the rest were moved aside and covered with white cloth.

Everyone was in a heavy mood. Since entering East Africa, there were not many times when so many soldiers were lost at one time.

As the removal progressed, there were almost no complete human bodies in the ruins, and most of them became stumps. Everyone could only collect them one by one.

After that, you need to rinse it with clean water to identify whether it is the stump of a Nanhua soldier.

If you make a mistake and mix in the remains of white or black people, it will be a desecration of the dead comrades.

……

After the entire ruins were removed, the cave underneath was revealed.

Wang Quan threw a piece of gravel down, and after a while he heard some noise. The entrance to the cave was very deep, and it didn't look like a simple cellar.

Wang Quan thought for a while, raised his head and said, "Bring me a lighting tool."

Soon, soldiers made two simple torches, lit them and handed them to Wang Quan. Wang Quan held one torch in his hand and threw the other directly into the hole.

As the torch landed, Wang Quan discovered that there were still remaining iron escalators in the cave.

After observing for a while, the fallen torch was still not extinguished. Wang Quan then confessed: "Tie a rope around my waist and drop me."

The soldiers quickly found a rope and tied it around Wang Quan's waist. He held a torch in one hand and carefully fell down. When his feet reached the iron escalator below, he shouted to it. : "Okay, I can reach the ladder."

When he was completely pedaling down the escalator, the smell of blood came from his nose, and he felt sticky and fishy blood with one hand.

He estimated that it was German blood, and soon he dropped to the bottom of the escalator. When he shined a light with a torch, he discovered that there were two human legs under the escalator.

This must be the German soldier who detonated the bomb, so Wang Quan kicked his remaining two legs into the corner.

He inserted the torch in his hand into the ground, untied the rope around his waist, and shouted, "I'm coming down."

He picked up the burning torch that fell to the ground, then pulled out the pistol from his waist and guarded the bottom of the cave.

Soon several more soldiers followed, some carrying submachine guns, and some holding grenades and flash bombs.

"Wait a minute, I'll walk in front and you guys will follow behind."

Everyone nodded, "Yes."

……

This underground tunnel is long and wet, and the walls are treated with cement.

Wang Quan and others slowly explored forward step by step. After walking for almost 3 or 4 kilometers, they finally felt something abnormal.

There seemed to be an exit in front. Wang Quan carefully poked his head out and found that the exit here was connected to a small river.

Everyone felt very disappointed, having traveled so far and gained nothing.

Wang Quan thought for a while and felt that he could use this tunnel to wait for the rabbit, or make a trap. So they retraced their steps, and when they returned to the city of Livale, he went to find his company commander.

Although the company commander felt that there was little hope after hearing his plan, it was still a solution.

"Then the plan you come up with will be left to your team to complete. The National Guard stationed here will also cooperate with you."

Wang Quan nodded, "Okay, company commander."

……

The Southern Expeditionary Force rested for three days in Livalai and then continued to move forward.

Wang Quan's team lurked in a two-story building near the tunnel. Food and drinking water were provided by the guards.

All their energy was focused on the exit of this underground tunnel. In the first few days, no one here dared to come and check the tunnel.

A week later, the fighting on the front continued to change, and the indigenous people in the city of Livale began to become active.

From time to time, people came to the cave entrance to observe. Wang Quan and others observed these indigenous people through telescopes and found that they were just watching out of curiosity and did not make any unnecessary movements.

Seeing that nothing was found, everyone felt a little disappointed.

Wang Quan also saw the relaxation and sleepiness on the faces of his soldiers. He was also a little shaken. Maybe he really thought too much.

But he was unwilling to give in and wanted to wait a few more days.

On the tenth night, they finally discovered something unusual.

In the dark night, someone threw something into the tunnel. Through observation, I guessed that the other person might be throwing a rope down.

Wang Quan and others immediately became energetic and took action immediately.

The soldiers were divided into two groups, one was to explore the tunnel entrance, and the other was to follow the people in the darkness.

The observation post continued to keep people under observation, while others acted quickly.

Wang Quan took two of his men to arrest the man in the dark, while other soldiers went to explore the entrance of the cave.

The figure in the darkness was very familiar to Levale, and Wang Quan had a hard time following him, but there were few people out at night, and the city was under the control of the Nanhua Guard.

So after they followed the shadow for two blocks, they happened to encounter a patrol of the Guard. The shadow wanted to hide in the shadows to avoid the patrol.

Unexpectedly, Wang Quan shouted from behind him: "Catch the spy."

As soon as Hua Yu shouted, the guards immediately took action.

"Crash"

There were seven or eight people in the team, plus three people from Wang Quan, and this dark figure was easily captured.

"Pull it under the light and take a look. It's indeed an Askari."

"Let him explain how he contacted people outside, otherwise he will suffer."

Wang Quan said to the translator, who was also a black man. After some communication, Askari was quite tough.

Then let's take a beating. Let's take a beating first to relieve our hatred.

After dozens of lashes, Askari could no longer bear it and began to confess.

"He said they communicated through homing pigeons."

"Ask him, what did he do at the tunnel entrance just now?"

After the translator asked, he replied: "He said that the other party asked him to put a thick rope at the entrance of the cave and that would be enough."

Hearing this, Wang Quan immediately became excited. The other party probably wanted to take advantage of this to launch a surprise attack.

……

He returned to the surveillance post, and the soldier who had gone to the cave entrance to confirm reported to him that it had been confirmed that the man placed the rope.

Comparing the two phases, it can be determined.

The next step was to instruct his soldiers to notify the city guards to prepare at the tunnel entrance.

After the guard learned the news, Tian Yulong, the commander of the city guard battalion, jumped up and down excitedly and shouted, great!
The next step is to mobilize manpower, distribute weapons and equipment, and wait for the enemy to arrive.

At 4 o'clock in the morning, Wang Quan and others, together with more than 300 National Guard members, stood guard around the tunnel entrance in full gear, waiting for the "rabbit" to show up. (End of chapter)