This U-shaped tunnel took three days for the entire company.
Most of the time is spent on strengthening the soil layer. First of all, this pile driving is a kind of strength and technical work. It is said that it is a strength work because a sledgehammer is used to push wooden piles more than one meter long into the soil layer.
It is said to be technical because this thing is even the material selection. The log that is too crisp and tender is definitely not good, because it cracks before it hits the soil layer after it breaks, so you have to choose which one.
There are both tough and hard mulberry trees.
Secondly, for those particularly soft places, especially at the edges of the tunnel, additional strengthening is required to increase their pressure resistance. This adds so many logs that the entire fortification seems to be supported by logs.
of.
Fortunately, we can use local materials here. In addition, many of the soldiers were doing construction before they went to the battlefield and were very good at building fortifications, so in the end, they took this "u"-shaped tunnel.
Go down.
After the work, Company Commander Luo and I climbed in and tried it. It was really spacious... Because we used mud and sand outside to spread a layer of disguise on the entire fortification, we looked at the high ground from outside.
There is nothing different in other places, but when you climb inside, you will climb layer by layer like terraces. If you climb a few meters, you will be a slope. If you climb a few meters, you will be another slope. After turning a corner inside, you will come out from another exit.
.
"Hey! That's really good..." Captain Luo patted the mud and water on his body after he put it out, and said, "It's not in vain that we have spent so much time. I'm afraid that this tunnel can hold more than twenty people.
!”
"Yes, yes, but I think it's better to put less!" I said.
"Why?" Liang Lianbing asked with a puzzled look: "We are bored and we can hide from that small tunnel, and there are more people and more lively!"
Company Commander Luo thought about it and nodded and said, "If there are too many people, once the Vietnamese Japanese discovered it, as long as we use firepower to block the two exits, we will be done. Moreover, the troops are too concentrated and there are only two entrances at the tunnel.
It is not conducive to the development of troops!"
Corps Luo said exactly what I thought, which is why it is not suitable for building large tunnels on this high ground. Otherwise, it is just like the tunnel of the Vietnamese army we found on "Oriental Invincible" before.
Hundreds of Vietnamese soldiers were unable to get out because the entrance of the tunnel was blocked, and they were finally burned to death in the tunnel by us.
"So..." Finally, Corps Luo said: "We don't need to build too many U-shaped tunnels. Two or three is enough, preferably three, one in each row. Comrades can take turns to garrison and take turns to
Rest... Use a combination of large tunnels and small tunnels to fight against the enemy, and you must carry out the battle to the end!"
"Yes!" The soldiers responded in unison, looking at the newly built U-shaped tunnel, feeling relaxed. At least, we still have a place to rest and relax now, otherwise we would hide in the small tunnel every day.
It is strange that you don’t get sick if you don’t hold it in.
"Company Commander..." At this time, the soldier who was in charge of guarding on the top of the mountain shouted quietly while raising a signal flag at us.
Our group of people hurriedly grabbed the gun and ran up in the wind and rain.
"What's the situation?" Company Commander Luo asked.
"There are ghosts!" said the sentry: "But I can't see it, only some sounds can be heard!"
Everyone calmed down and listened carefully, and they heard some inaccurate sounds of fortifications.
"What are the Japanese in Yue doing?" Liang Lianbing asked: "Build fortifications under our noses? Are you trying to fight a protracted war with us?"
"Maybe it's not just a protracted war!" I listened carefully and said helplessly: "They are not building fortifications, but digging tunnels like us!"
"Oh!" Everyone quickly understood after I said this.
Just as the old man said, the most effective way to deal with tunnel wars is tunnels... Just like what the Yue Japanese do now, taking advantage of the rain and the dark sky, digging a hole outside our sight to hide, and then coming out to do it at night...
...If they have enough staff, they can even build more complete tunnels while organizing personnel to go to our position to touch the holes.
The advantage of the Vietnamese army is that they are familiar with the terrain and tunnels, and they are more able to endure hardships than us, while our advantage is that they have the initiative and build this tunnel in front of the Vietnamese Japanese.
"Company Commander!" Liang Lianbing grabbed the gun and said, "Let's go up and drive them away..."
"No!" Commander Luo looked at Tiansai and shook his head: "The visibility is too low now. Even if we are condescending against the Japanese devils, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Moreover, the Japanese devils are likely to be ready to wait for us to go.
!”
"What should I do? Just let them dig holes under our noses?" Liang Lianbing was still a little unwilling.
"There is nothing to do!" I said: "Just just like we are guarding this place, we can't attack it, but we can't attack it when the place is guarding this place. The rain is full of mud everywhere.
, We can't see anyone wherever the Japanese lie down... It's obvious that whoever attacks will suffer!"
"The second platoon leader is right!" Company Commander Luo ordered: "Don't act rashly and continue to monitor the movements of the Japanese devils. You can shoot when you see the enemy, but don't take the initiative to attack!"
"Yes!" The soldiers responded and dispersed.
"Comrades!" Just as the soldiers were just withdrawing from the top of the mountain, they saw correspondent Xiao Liu hiding in the small tulip blocked by the rain cloth, holding a large bag of things and raising them towards us: "Just just now, the regiment
The ministry sent someone to deliver the letter!”
"Letter!"
"I believe!"
...
The soldiers coaxed them and surrounded them. After watching Xiao Liu open a large letter wrapped in rain cloth, he rushed forward and rushed forward...
"Don't rob, don't rob!" Xiao Liu was a little anxious and hurriedly protected the letter and shouted, "I'll pick up the names one by one!"
"Chen Xiaoming!"
"arrive!"
"Wu Jun!"
"arrive!"
...
"Xu Qiwei!"
Seeing that after a long time, no one responded, Xiao Liu shouted again: "Xu Qiwei..."
After a while, Xiao Shitou asked hesitantly: "Is it from Shanxi?"
"Yes!" Xiao Liu looked at the envelope and replied, "It's from Taiyuan, Shanxi!"
"He died!" Xiao Shitou's face soon became serious: "It was in the old street, and I just came and chatted with him for a few words..."
The soldiers were silent soon... It's not hard to imagine what happened. Xu Qiwei should be a supplementary soldier. He died not long after he entered our army, so the soldiers didn't have any impression of him, and his family might
I still don’t know the news of his sacrifice, or when I received the news of his sacrifice... the letter was already sent to the front line.
So we received this letter, this belated letter.
"What's the point!" Company Commander Luo squadroned and ordered everyone at Xiao Liu: "Go and ask the instructor for a list, and I'll send it if I'm right!"
"Yes!" Xiao Liu responded and panickedly wrapped the letter back and carried it away.
I know why Captain Luo issued such an order. He was worried that such a matter would affect the morale of the soldiers... But this order seemed too late. It was obvious that the soldiers had been affected, including me.
...At this moment, we once again remembered the battlefield before, the soldiers who died, and at the same time, we also remembered the home...
After a while, the letters were sent to the soldiers one by one. In fact, I hoped that I could have a letter, but I knew it was impossible, because the only person in this world who could write to me was Zhang Fan.
, and she may still be on the way home now!
Some people may say, how far is Vietnam from Yanjing? It takes a few hours to get there... But that's in modern times. When Captain Luo went to the battlefield, he came from Yanjing. This was the flight and train.
It took more than half a month for the car.
The soldiers hid on the side and watched silently when they got the letter. However, the Corps Commander Liang looked at him and looked at him with a strange expression. After a while, he secretly pulled Xiao Liu aside and said something. Finally,
It actually made Xiao Liu blush and unhappy.
"What's the situation?" I leaned over and asked curiously.
"The second platoon leader, please judge me!" Xiao Liu said with a straight face: "The third platoon leader said that his family brought him something, but I didn't get anything..."
"Well! Maybe it was lost on the road." The other soldiers also came up and said angrily: "It may not be that someone else took it away!"
"I didn't take it anyway!" Xiao Liu replied blushingly: "Or we'll go to the regiment headquarters to find the sender, and I can confront him in person!"
"Look at what you said..." Liang Lianbing replied with some grudges: "I don't mean that, I just asked if there is anything..."
"The third row leader!" I said, "You can tell me what you are bringing in this house first, so we can find it even more..."
"I don't know what it is!" Liang Lianbing brought the letter to me and said, "Look... it was written by my mouth. The last sentence, what is it... I will give you a kiss..."
I almost couldn't help but cough on the spot, and then I laughed so hard that tears came out. Some of the soldiers knew about it, and they laughed loudly, just so that Liang Lianbing didn't know what we were laughing at for no reason.
Some soldiers shouted at Xiao Liu, "Xiao Liu, just give that kiss to the third row leader!"
Then the soldiers soon knew what was going on. They all laughed so hard that their stomachs hurt.
Later I learned that in this era, there are not many people who use the written word "kiss" in this era. Not only Liang Lianbing, but there are many soldiers who don't know what this means. It's no wonder Liang Lianbing will do it.