The man holding the sledgehammer was in a trance, and the hammer slammed into the stump and slipped a little, unfortunately hitting the person holding the stump.

The unlucky guy immediately covered his hand, and the hammer directly smashed his hand out of blood. This kind of safety accident in production and labor is very common, and building warehouses and digging holes are heavy physical work. Many more still have blisters on their hands or abrasions on their limbs.

The construction site is equipped with medical personnel to deal with it at any time, but I didn't expect this unlucky guy to encounter extremely high treatment.

"I'll take care of the rest, I'm Besica from the army hospital." Star fruit beckoned a few onlookers away.

These people were all soldiers on active duty, and they immediately recognized that it was actually the chief and deputy division commanders who had personally visited, and they could not help but be in awe.

All star fruit can do is early treatment, the person's hand in the dripping blood must be quickly stitched up. There are no specific hemostatic drugs in the army, and he can only be expected to stop bleeding spontaneously.

After a while, the doctors and nurses stationed on the station arrived, and they were also surprised to see the senior official.

"You don't have to be nervous at all, just help the injured person away, we just came to see your construction work." Yang Mingzhi said.

The onlookers dispersed, and their construction plans were to be continued. The work of erecting the stakes continued, but the workers were more cautious. The hammer bearer who made the mistake was not punished in any way, but was asked to continue to be cautious.

It was a busy scene on the construction site, and they set up a series of construction sites along the newly opened dirt road, each of which was first staked. I saw that several buildings had already begun to be built, and they erected several tree trunks, laid the made planks on the wooden stakes, and fixed them with iron nails.

Compared with digging holes, Yang Mingzhi couldn't help but be fascinated when he watched them build houses. After a while, the person in charge here came over.

He was a junior officer who was very good at civil engineering, and when he saw the two commanders, he immediately experienced: "Report to the chief, I am Sergeant Holguin, and I am in charge of the construction of Montenegro." ”

The two returned the salute, Yevlov smiled, and Yang Mingzhi noticed the word he said. "Montenegro? The little mound here is its name, you give it the name of the mountain. “

"Yes sir!" Holguin immediately put down his seriousness and said: "There are not many such highlands in our area, and this highland with an altitude of one hundred is all a commanding height of the region, so it can be called a mountain." ”

Yang Mingzhi nodded, "It's okay, there will be more room for development in this Black Mountain region in the future." Now that you've arrived, take us on a tour. ”

Guided by Holguin, everyone strolls through the construction area. A large number of horse-drawn wagons are transporting excavated earth and rock, or transporting freshly cut down trees. The earth and rocks were piled up like a hill, and the felled trees had another place.

It was a couple of woodworking lathes, driven by animal power. Several horses were driven by whips to turn the winch, and workers processed the trunks into straight timber for use as building materials. These ancient machines are not surprising, and the wood they process is of excellent quality and yields a lot. Belarus is unusually rich in timber resources, and century-old trees abound, and Yang Mingzhi has no doubt that these people will be able to build new warehouses soon.

Of course, the most critical warehouse is the cave, and Holguin leads everyone to a cave excavation site.

Here, Yang Mingzhi was surprised to notice that there were workers mixing cement.

"It's incredible, I never knew we had concrete?" Yang Mingzhi was pleasantly surprised, he had never heard Rygushkov say this, he only knew that the blacksmith village was very capable of making weapons.

Holguin smiled, and it just so happened that a wagon had brought in some sacks, and these heavy things were cement. He ordered a dozen workers to rush up, unload the sacks, and open them. Yang Mingzhi stepped forward and saw that the bag was full of lime.

The so-called concrete is the chemical reaction of silica and quicklime, and finally the two are perfectly combined under the catalysis of water to become a hard solid. If you add rebar, the sturdiness is even better.

Yang Mingzhi never thought that the blacksmith village would have this reserved program, which is contemplative. "Since we still have cement, isn't there a lot of fine sand?"

"That's right, in fact, even though we're a forest plain here, we still have some bare rocks." Holguin pointed to the hole being dug in front of everyone. "The plan was to build an entrance with stones and renovate it with cement. As for the interior, stones must also be piled up for safety. ”

Yang Mingzhi nodded with satisfaction and asked, "In that case, I think we can also make some permanent fortifications." After all, we are deep in the occupied zone, and the enemy has a great possibility of attacking us. We make machine guns and even artillery bunkers out of reinforced concrete, and unless the enemy bombs them with heavy artillery or sends out dive bombers, our bunkers will inevitably be impregnable. “

Yang Mingzhi said this because he knew that sooner or later the Germans would try to physically exterminate the entire Belarusian partisans, and in order to be quick and fast, they often slaughtered villages indiscriminately, even infants. If they had known that there was a huge camp of guerrillas in the swamps, they would have tried to encircle and suppress it with a large number of troops.

In the event of an anti-encirclement war, building a suitable defensive position is also the key to victory.

Just as Yang Mingzhi couldn't help but imagine, Holguin helplessly poured a basin of cold water. "The deputy division commander's idea is very good, but we are very difficult now. This cement is stored in the village, and now it is used to build warehouses, or there are also caves in the nature of bomb shelters, which inevitably consume all the cement. We have a lot of rocks here, but we don't produce lime. ”

Yang Mingzhi listened to his explanation, was he afraid that he wouldn't understand? The man made a gesture and realized that the rocks he was talking about were mostly granite.

"Well, it's that I'm thinking too much. Since cement is very valuable, you must use it sparingly, but you must not cut corners. After all, the cement is waterproof, we move the supplies into the cave, and if it rains heavily outside, the inside of the cave must also be kept dry! ”

"Obey the order, sir!" Holguin immediately gave a military salute.

Yevlov listened to the two for a long time, and what they said was more like a conversation between construction engineers. Needless to say, Holguin was a good sapper, he was a student of architecture before joining the army, and he also had some attainments in mechanics. And Berekov, today he is also an architect.

He's a strange man! Yevlov said: "Berekov, are you quite satisfied with the construction of Holguin and his people? ”

"Not bad." Yang Mingzhi scratched his head, "But we are all outside, whether they are doing well or not, we still have to go in and see." So I had to go in. ”

Yang Mingzhi was very curious, the cave was still being excavated, and from time to time there were soldiers coming out of the cave with baskets full of dirt.

The cave is currently three meters wide and two meters high, and the space is still very tight, so the warriors in charge of digging it have been expanding. They are like the coal workers of Donbass, and they dig like a flock of moles, or dwarves and draenei in fantasy literature.

In fact, star fruit did not want her husband to visit the cave for herself, and when she was in the northeast, she was buried in the nearby mountains, such as coal. After the devils occupied the three eastern provinces, they first had to use coal resources. Carambola is just an ordinary peasant girl who knows some of the mysteries of caves because of her experience as a hunter.

She could always hear what her parents had to say, and the Japanese recruited miners to dig coal and get a bowl of rice to eat. Many people naturally have no national integrity, and they go to dig coal for the devils, and there are always accidents. The mine collapsed, the miners were buried alive, no one could come back, and pensions were impossible.

This cave is like a bloody mouth, and it is difficult to get out if you enter. There seem to be a lot of crises in this, and I can't help but think of a lot of them. She subconsciously pulled her husband's shirt and asked timidly, "Brother, do you really want to go in?" It's very dangerous. I'm afraid the cave will collapse suddenly. ”

"That's impossible!" A worker carrying a basket of soil heard the girl's words and said impatiently.

Holguin immediately explained, for fear that his work would make the two division commanders suspicious. It turns out that this cave is also according to the design of the mine. For the time being, the cave was supported by wooden poles, and after digging deeper, the walls were built with stones, and the ceiling was made of prefabricated slabs made of reinforced concrete. To be able to withstand pressure, it is also necessary to be waterproof.

Yang Mingzhi was very satisfied, he didn't know what danger his wife was worried about, anyway, he was worried about his own safety.

"Don't be afraid, my dear. Or, you and I will go in and take a look. ”

Star fruit stared at her husband's smile and nodded weakly.

In this way, Yevlov raised a kerosene lamp even more boldly and entered the cave, and Yang Mingzhi followed closely behind.

At this time, the climate outside is very cool, but inside the cave is cold. Yang Mingzhi held his wife's hand, clearly feeling her nervousness. Perhaps this Nizi has experienced a series of bloody wars, but in the darkness, her instinctive fear is aroused again.

The light of the oil lamp was dim, and Yang Mingzhi knew that his pupils had reached the limit, catching the faintest light in the dark. On both sides of him is soil, which is neither wet nor dry.

A few people walked a dozen steps inside, and another soldier walked out with a basket in his arms, and he himself carried an oil lamp, and urged the new people to come in.

"Hehe, treat us as workers." Yevlov laughed.

"Yes, it's hard to distinguish our identities in the dark, and besides, aren't we all workers who enter the cave?" Yang Mingzhi said.

Soon, they arrived at the end of the cave, where several lights hung there. There is also a small vent above the roof of the cave, so that digging in the cave is not in danger of running out of oxygen.

I saw a few workers shoveling soil with shovels, and they worked very hard to dig a cave with a depth of 30 meters in a short time, and they were still digging deeper.

After a while, everyone walked out of the cave, and Holguin introduced that there were three such caves, and the reason for this was to take into account the stock of cement.

He led the crowd to his office, a wooden cabin.

This office is actually his bedroom, and he lives in better conditions than the others. Because of his position, Holguin had to live at the construction site, which made him feel like a boss.

He took out a simple construction diagram and spread it out on the table.

"Three warehouses are going to be set up in Montenegro, each with several branches, so that we can store more supplies. The constant temperature and humidity in the cave can preserve the grain well. Around Montenegro, at least twenty small granaries were to be built, all built on tree stumps, well protected from the wet ground......"

Yang Mingzhi and Yevlov listened to his intuitive introduction, and the village chief Kavitzky said: "At present, it is our limit to do this. ”

"Really? You're doing a great job. Yevlov said with relief, "In the future, when the division headquarters is relocated, you still have a lot to do." ”

Kavitzky smiled and nodded.

However, Yang Mingzhi frowned again, which attracted Yevlov's attention. "What? Does my chief of staff and deputy division commander still feel that there is anything wrong? ”

Yang Mingzhi was silent for a moment, and said slowly: "I still have an idea. We may not only be able to store food, but even produce it! It's in the cave! (To be continued.) )