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Chapter 5 Self-sufficiency

Wang Yiming and Zhang Xiaoyu said they would do it immediately. They were originally stationed on the 597.9 high ground, and had built tunnels before, so they also prepared some tools to dig tunnels. After a while, they found two iron hammers and iron drills, and knocked them "kick" against the rock.

At this time, the difference between the two was quickly reflected. Wang Yiming, who was a college student, seemed a little erect. From time to time, the iron rod was not in the right way and could not be used. Sometimes he almost hit his hand because of swinging the hammer in the dark. After a long time, he was still a small hole on the rock. Zhang Xiaoyu was different. He quickly picked up the hammer and hit the iron rod, and smashed it randomly. A small hole as big as a cup was added on the rock. Later, he seemed to think that Wang Yiming was in the way, so he directly found an excuse for him to rest. Wang Yiming stood aside and didn't know what to say. He only saw Wang Yuehan and I also felt a little funny.

After smashing a few small holes, Zhang Xiaoyu untied the explosive pack he brought with him, carefully poured the powdered explosive inside into the small hole, and then quickly inserted the detonator to connect the lead, and the group followed the lead out of the tunnel.

"Bombing off! Bing off!" As soon as he walked out of the tunnel, Zhang Xiaoyu shouted loudly to the soldiers in other tunnels: "Comrades, please be careful! We are going to fire and blow up the stones!"

I couldn't help but praise it in my heart. Although this picture is so careless that she looks like a stupid person, she didn't expect to be quite careful. He shouted that the soldiers around him were mentally prepared. He would not think that the enemy was coming to attack because of an explosion in the tunnel later.

Then, without saying a word, Zhang Xiaoyu lit the match and lit the lead. With a slight "washing" sound, a dazzling spark jumped excitedly in the dark...

"Captain Cui!" After that, Zhang Xiaoyu reminded us: "It will explode in a while. Maybe some stone will collapse. Let's go to the tunnel to avoid it!"

"Yeah, that's fine!" I nodded.

Originally, soldiers who were used to fighting wars like us and who had seen many explosions would not take such a project blast at all, but what Zhang Xiaoyu considered was reasonable. Especially for me, I can be said to have experienced many life and death on the battlefield! After six battles on the Korean battlefield, I was still safe and sound. If someone was carried off the front line because of a stone blowing up, I don’t know how many comrades would be killed by laughing to death.

Thinking of it, I didn't object, and followed a few people into a nearby tunnel and waited. But I never expected that it was because of this thought that it saved the lives of several of us!

With a series of dull sounds of "Boom...", the explosives in the tunnel finally exploded, which only shocked the earth and rocks above our heads to fall down.

Then after a while, just as we were about to walk out of the tunnel to observe, there was a loud noise suddenly, and the sound was much louder than before...

Everyone in the tunnel looked at each other in surprise. Wang Yuehan couldn't help but shouted at Zhang Xiaoyu: "What are you doing? The explosion time interval is so different. If the explosives exploded when we walked into the tunnel to observe the situation, it would be strange if we were not killed in it!"

"I..." Zhang Xiaoyu was also a little confused. He always felt that he would not make such a low-level mistake, but he didn't know where the problem was! But soon everyone understood, because there was a burst of cannons coming from outside the tunnel - it turned out that the US military was shooting guns at our position when they heard the movements on our side!

Everyone in the tunnel couldn't help laughing, only Wang Yuehan looked at him with embarrassment because he had blamed Zhang Xiaoyu by mistake. However, Zhang Xiaoyu still grinned so happily, and did not take Wang Yuehan's mistake in his heart.

It took more than ten minutes before the sound of cannons outside stopped. I couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Good guy! These American shells are really worthless. We just exploded stones here, and they thought we were shooting fireworks. Isn't it? We just exploded that way, and they gave us more than ten minutes...

The US troops stationed on the front line now are like a tight string. As long as there is a little movement on our side, they will pour large pieces of shells into our positions.

Isn't this? When we walked out of the tunnel, we found that there were many large and small craters in the place we were standing just now. If we didn't go into the tunnel just now, we would be afraid that there would be a lot of luck.

Zhang Xiaoyu's explosion level was indeed good. When everyone walked into the tunnel again, they found that the rock had been divided into several pieces and exploded. However, because the tunnel was not urgently reinforced, it also collapsed a little half. For this reason, Zhang Xiaoyu said a little embarrassedly: "I used to use black gunpowder, but now I can't control the amount of explosives from the Soviet elder brother..."

"That's right, just do it!" I nodded with satisfaction: "I will solve the explosives, so you can use this method to deal with the rock formation!"

"Yes!" Zhang and Wang stood up and responded.

"Captain Cui!" At this time, two people ran in with dirt outside the tunnel. The leader was Zhang Mingxue. He ran closer and stood up at me: "Report! Wang Xianru is here!"

"It's time to come!" I smiled and pulled Wang Xianru behind Zhang Mingxue and introduced to everyone: "This is the company commander Wang Xianru, the 'Mine Moving King' of our regiment. The American mines are like his ammunition inventory!"

"Hello comrade!"

"Hello, Company Commander Wang!"

Several people enthusiastically shook hands with Wang Xianru.

"That's right!" Looking at Wang Xianru's confused look, I gave a brief explanation: "We need a large amount of explosives to destroy rocks here to build tunnel fortifications, but the comrades in the 26th Army lacked explosives reserves. Can Company Commander Wang get some explosives from the enemy?"

"No problem!" Wang Xianru patted his chest and agreed: "Captain, I don't have other abilities, but I am still good at moving enemy mines! I can guarantee that as long as the enemy will still bury mines in front of the position, our explosives will be indispensable!"

"Okay!" The soldiers all laughed happily. I couldn't help but feel relieved. The current problem should be solved by half. Although it may not be fast to use explosives to slowly blow it in, a year should be enough for me to prepare!

But what I didn't expect was that the construction of this tunnel fortification was not as simple as I thought...

The next day, under the joint command of Wang Yiming and Zhang Xiaoyu, the soldiers started working hard. The excavation procedure was not complicated. Zhang Xiaoyu and a few people who knew how to blasted the rocks were smashed with explosives, and then the soldiers transported the stones out of the tunnel one by one.

Speaking of which, there are many people in the volunteer army that can blow up tanks, but not many people who know how to blast the bunkers when building tunnels. The main reason is that blasting this tunnel is a little more difficult. If there is less explosives, there will be no effect. If there is too much, it may collapse the tunnel and bring new difficulties to construction. This has caused trouble for the expert Zhang Xiaoyu, who kept drilling into and out of various tunnels to install explosives, but this guy is so stupid that he is very energetic. After most of the day, he still looks happy. Later, he simply brought a few apprentices, including my guard Xu Yongwei... I looked at Zhang Mingxue and looked very moved, and knew that if it weren't for worrying that I had no one to protect me, he would have been Zhang Xiaoyu's apprentice...

Because the previous preparations were not sufficient, most of the tools in the hands of the soldiers were engineer shovels. So when they first started to deal with fortifications of rock tunnels, the soldiers lacked advanced tools and technology, and everything depends on their own minds and hands. There was no lamp in the hole, so the soldiers lit pine oil. Some soldiers even invented a "charcoal lamp". This "charcoal lamp" was to drill some holes with an iron tube and put it in charcoal for lighting. It was as bright as oil, and it saved, and it would not be as frightening as tinted with pine oil...

There was no car to transport stones, so a few wheels were installed on the shell box. Without picks, hammers, iron chisels and other tools, some soldiers thought of ways to build blacksmith furnaces themselves. Speaking of which, most of the soldiers in the Volunteer Army were proletariat, and before joining the army, they were basically either farmers or workers, so many had worked as blacksmiths before, but seven or eight blacksmith furnaces were built in a day. If they weren't for the worry that these blacksmith furnaces would be blown up by the US military's cold cannons and they would have built these furnaces in the tunnel, they would have long known how many of them would have been built.

Is it iron for making tools! It's everywhere. Just carry a bamboo basket to the battlefield and you can pick up a lot of shrapnel, shells, etc.! Then these messy things were thrown into the stove, pulling the bellows for a while, then plied out a few times, and then a few times of "bang bang...", an iron rod came out, followed by another hammer, and a pickaxe... Everyone was very stylish, and they all looked a little skillful...

Looking at these masterpieces of the warriors, I couldn't help but be amazed!

This is also a feature of China today, which is almost a self-sufficiency economy! In this era, most of the daily necessities of the people are made by themselves, which makes the volunteers from the people able to make any tools themselves. If this is to let the US military or me from the future society, haha...

But the real difficulty is not this, but the enemy on the other side.

The 597.9 highland and the 537.7 highland are intertwined with the enemy's highlands on the opposite side. The nearest one is only one highway, even if the distance from the mountain is calculated, it is only about 200 meters. In addition, the US military's firepower is strong, and anti-aircraft machine guns, machine guns, etc. are added to the top of the mountain, so the operations of the front-line volunteers are greatly restricted. As long as there is a little noise or a few figures on our side, the opposite side will always shoot bullets like raindrops, or even shells. Sometimes, soldiers have to be careful if they want to get out of the tunnel for breathing, let alone other actions!

But if the soldiers want to build fortifications, they always have to go out of the tunnel to log and transport them to the tunnel. So this has a big problem...

"Dadada..." Another series of heavy machine guns sounded, which made me, who was carrying stones with the soldiers in the tunnel, was stunned, and the soldiers stopped their actions one after another.

"Captain Cui, Company Commander Wang! Someone was injured!" After a while, two volunteer soldiers ran back with a man covered in blood.

"Sun Junshu! Sun Junshu!"

The soldiers hurriedly went up to him, and the ones who took the water and the ones who called the sanitary officer. They were busy in an instant, but everyone fell silent after nowhere. I walked up and saw that the bullet had broken the soldier's chest. He had already died on the way back!

This is the fifth soldier to die today! I couldn't help but sigh in my heart: If this continues, it is not a question whether we can build the tunnel well, but in another ten days and half a month, our team of more than 300 people will be destroyed and beaten away...

"Damn it!" Zhang Xiaoyu picked up the rifle and cursed fiercely: "I went up and killed him! Look at them being arrogant!"

"Come back!" Before he could take a few steps, Wang Yuehan called him seriously: "Is there any organization or discipline? All the orders given by his superiors just took it as a warning?"

"The order from the superior?" I couldn't help but ask in confusion after hearing this: "What order did the superior give? Don't let the soldiers go out to fight the Americans?"

"Captain Cui! You have just arrived not long ago and don't understand some situations!" Wang Yuehan said helplessly: "Yes, the superiors have given the order not to start the war easily, so that the soldiers can pay attention to preserving their strength..."

"Don't start the war easily?" I couldn't help but feel angry when I heard this: "Let's not start the war easily, just let the Americans fight like this?"

"That's it!" The other soldiers said unconvincedly when they heard me say this: "They are all shitting and peeing on our heads, and we still can't even put a single fart!"

"How many comrades in the Americans have killed us, so we won't let us fight!"

"Chief Staff Wang! Let's go! Kill those dog gods!"

...

In an instant, the crowd of emotions in the tunnel were infuriating, and the soldiers all grabbed guns and kept asking to go to the battlefield to teach the Americans a lesson.

Seeing that Wang Yuehan couldn't answer for a moment, I signaled the soldiers to quiet down, and then turned around and asked, "Is it because of negotiations?"

"Not all!" Wang Yuehan sighed, and then replied excitedly: "Captain Cui, our 26th Army is not cowards. Our comrades are bullied like this. We feel uncomfortable! We have also sent people to the position to fight the Americans, but..."

Wang Yuehan shook his head with anger and said, "Captain Cui, you have fought with the Americans. Knowing their equipment, we can only suffer the loss when shooting against them on the position. If we fire a bullet at them, they will give us a huge shot. If we kill one of them, they will kill ten of us! If this was the past, we could still touch them in the dark at night, but now we are negotiating... This order from the superiors is also for the sake of the soldiers and to reduce casualties in the army!"

"Um!" Only then did I understand that there was this truth in it.

Thinking about it, the current situation is that the two sides have just returned to the negotiating table and agreed not to attack the other side's positions. In addition, our weapons and equipment and ammunition supply are too different from those of the US military, which makes the volunteers completely passively beaten during this period of characteristic.

Now, it is impossible to fight against the Americans on the position, and it is not possible to attack them. You have to stay in the tunnel and get bullets and shells from the Americans...

"I'll go up and see the situation!" I still grabbed the rifle and walked towards the position with some dissatisfaction.

"Captain Cui, this is not good!" Wang Yuehan hurriedly stopped me and said, "You must also abide by the orders of superiors! Moreover, you are also non-combat units. I have to be responsible for your safety. If you..."

"Um! That's right!" I nodded immediately: "What Staff Wang said is that I firmly obey the orders of my superiors!"

Wang Yuehan couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, as if he didn't believe that I would be so easy to talk to and was convinced so quickly.

"That's it!" Seeing that Wang Yuehan was still a little worried, I said to the soldiers again: "Comrades, let's bury this sacrificed soldier first! Don't rush to the battlefield. There will always be times when we vent our anger and take revenge! Everyone keep this hatred in their hearts. When we can let go of our hands and feet in the future, we will calculate the new and old accounts with those Americans!"

"Yes!" Although the soldiers were still a little indignant, they had nothing to say when they saw me like this. Wang Yuehan nodded with satisfaction and immediately ordered several soldiers to bury the bodies.

Seeing some, I couldn't help but laugh. I was not a lord who firmly obeyed the orders since the day I walked onto the battlefield. If Wang Yuehan knew me as well as Captain Chu, he wouldn't have believed me so easily.

After thinking about it, I explained to the soldiers: "Everyone will continue to dig the tunnel! As for the logs out of the tunnel, let's slow down for the time being, and dig as much as you can!"

"Yes!" the soldiers responded and rushed again.

But it is obvious that the soldiers seemed a little angry.

Moreover, when building fortifications, logs can be said to play an important supporting role in this. If the logs are not transported, there is basically no need to dig the tunnel.
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