One of the company commanders, Zhu Hongxi, said: "Report to the commander, what our engineer battalion is best at is laying mines, explosives, opening mountains and roads, and building bridges when encountering water. ”

"Okay, let me ask you two again, do you still have mines and explosives on this position in your engineer battalion, how many can you have?"

"Sir, as long as our engineer battalion participates in positional warfare, each squad must bring ten mines and five explosives packs, some of which were used in the front, and now there should be more than half of them useless."

Wang Feng heard that there were still most of them, and after a rough calculation, there should still be more than 100 mines and dozens of explosive bags on the position of the engineer battalion at this time.

He stood up excitedly, called the two company commanders to follow him, walked to the front of the position, lay down on the trench, and scanned the terrain three hundred meters away from the forward position of the Japanese army with a telescope.

After calculating, he drew a sign on the ground and said to one of the company commanders, Zhu Hongxi: "Company Commander Zhu, is there any problem with you leading a platoon of soldiers to carry out the mission with four grenades on their backs according to the front line of the position I just drawn?" ”

"No problem, please give the order to the chief."

"Okay." According to the diagram he drew on the ground, Wang Feng pointed out where and how to lay mines, and then asked: "Company Commander Zhu, do you think my minelaying method is scientific?" ”

"Sir, with all due respect, this kind of minelaying of yours is not only unscientific but can be easily discovered by Japanese soldiers, and once the enemy discovers it, then the minefield we have laid will be captured and destroyed by the cunning enemy, and it is very likely that it will be inflicted on us."

Wang Feng has experienced modern small-scale assault warfare, and he has no experience in mine laying at all, but he just expressed his opinion through the movie mine warfare he watched before the crossing, but he was denied by this Zhu Company Commander.

It seems that the regular engineer battalion minelaying is more clever than the Tufa Mine of the Jiaodong District Squad during the Anti-Japanese War, but I don't know where the cleverness is.

"Company Commander Zhu, you might as well tell me about the minelaying methods of your engineer battalion, and I will also study and study."

"Report to the chief, what our engineer battalion pays attention to is how to do it more secretively, even if the enemy discovers it, he can only take up one mine, and he does not dare to take out mines in other minefields without authorization, once he risks taking the land, he will definitely be hit by a large area of mine explosions."

As he spoke, Commander Zhu Lian wrote and painted on the ground and gave the most detailed explanation, and finally asked, "Sir, do you think this kind of laying is scientific?" ”

Wang Feng repeatedly pondered the minelaying area demonstrated by Company Commander Zhu and the chain detonation associated with the mines, and couldn't help but admire it and said: "This minelaying method is indeed very scientific, as long as a large number of Japanese troops enter the minefield, they will never be allowed to come out alive." I ordered Company Commander Zhu to lead a platoon and immediately lay mines between 30 meters in front of the position and 100 meters outward. ”

Company Commander Zhu stood up, took a platoon of mine-laying squads, and secretly walked out of the trenches; for the sake of safety, the entire forward position was in full standby, and once the Japanese army discovered the mine-laying squad, they launched a firepower attack, and they should cover the mine-laying squads with the most ferocious firepower and safely withdraw to the positions.

Wang Feng lay uncomfortably in the trench at the front of the position, scanning the enemy's position with a telescope, and the mine-laying team moved forward quickly, and had already begun the mine-laying operation.

About half an hour later, Company Commander Zhu returned to the position safely with the minelaying team, and when he found that Wang Feng had been paying attention to the front of the position, he not only said excitedly: "Thank you, sir, for us." ”

"Don't be polite to the enemy at present, in my eyes every soldier is an anti-Japanese hero, everyone must cherish life, only by living can we better and more effectively destroy the enemy."

At this time, the entire position was in a quiet state, there was no artillery bombardment, no Japanese fighters were circling in the air to drop bombs, and even the position opposite the Japanese army was quiet and there was no sign of action.

The Japanese army launched many attacks, but was heroically blocked by our troops who were holding their positions at the front of the position, and under the strong firepower, they had no time to drag away the dead corpses, and hastily withdrew to their own positions.

The distance between the enemy and us was 300 meters, and in several fierce battles of blood and fire, the corpses were scattered on the battlefield, and in the battlefield where the smoke and flames of gunfire had not been completely dispersed, this suffocating silence indicated that a larger-scale Japanese attack should soon come back again.

On the basis of the deployment of troops and weapons in the previous blockade campaigns, Wang Feng scientifically redeployed the position, tried his best to distinguish the main and secondary, superimpose the firepower levels, and attack the Japanese attack integrated into a group with the greatest firepower.

He looked up at the west sky and two more people with a blood-high sun, and if he held on for another hour and a half, the sun would fall to the ground, and the earth would fall into the darkness of the night.

If the Japanese did not attack again during this hour and a half, there should be no more fighting during the night.

Even if the Japanese army sneaks up at night and deploys dozens of mines at the front of the position, as long as one explosion is triggered, it will alarm the vigilant soldiers in the entire position, and they can immediately enter a wartime state.

Wang Feng did not dare to give an order to put the troops in a state of truce and relaxation, because he did not know if the enemy would suddenly launch a larger attack before dusk.

Suddenly, the roar of airplanes was heard in the air, which was the precursor of the Japanese army to launch another attack, and it seemed that this time the Japanese army was going to launch another round of attacks on the forward positions under the cover of heavy fire from aircraft and artillery.

Wang Feng believed that the Japanese fighters had repeatedly bombed the positions and had already locked on to fixed targets, and that if the troops continued to hold on to the front of the positions, they would inevitably be bombed by the Japanese fighters, and the bombed positions would be destroyed and a large number of casualties would be inflicted.

In particular, while the planes are bombing in the air, the Japanese artillery units and tank guns will certainly lose no time in opening fire on our positions, and the ground troops will launch a ferocious attack on the forward positions defended by the Chinese Army at the safest time and under the cover of the fire of the planes and artillery.

At present, dozens of mines are deployed within 30 to 100 meters of the front of the position, and even if a large Japanese army launches an attack, as long as it enters the minefield, it will be hit by a devastating mine explosion.

Wang Feng calculated that the mine explosion would kill and injure the enemy, even if the enemy did not know the difficulty and continued to attack, and advanced at the risk of death in the minefield, the closest to the front of the position was 30 meters, and the frightened Japanese troops who were hit by the mine explosion must be careful when attacking, so as to slow down the attack.

He decisively ordered the troops to withdraw 60 meters back and take all the weapons and ammunition that could be taken away from the forward positions.

The soldiers of the 3rd Regiment and the Engineer Battalion who received the order did not expect that their regiment commander was a fleeing regiment commander, and as soon as they heard the roar of the planes in the air, they were so frightened that they gave the order to flee, and the soldiers of the Engineer Battalion not only scolded angrily one by one: "Bastards, even if we die, we will not leave the position that our Engineer Battalion held with blood and life." ”