The channel is diagonally upward. The advantage of this is that it is convenient for the fighters to move up and down. Imagine if the passage is made vertical, then whether the warriors move up or down, they have to climb the ladder in the passage. This will not only increase the amount of work required for the passage (to make ladders), but will also slow down the speed of the warriors, and even increase a lot of danger. Because a vertical passage from top to bottom is equivalent to an abyss of four or five hundred meters, and the soldiers who climb up and down in it will fall to pieces as long as one of them carelessly fails to grasp it steadily.

However, if the passage is built diagonally upward, there will be no such problem, and the soldiers only need to drill into it when moving down, and the swish sound is like riding a slide to reach the destination in a short time, and the upward movement will be more difficult, and they must climb up with both hands and feet.

Just like us now, the three of them struggled to move up in the dark passage. The passage was very narrow, which forced us to unload our luggage and rifles and climb up as we moved them forward. Otherwise, we risk getting stuck in the passage and not being able to move.

"Cui, Counselor Cui......" There was a trembling sound from behind the knife.

"Up ahead!" I answered, and soon realized that the little fellow was starting to get scared, so I turned back to him and shouted, "Little knife, don't think anything in your head, climb up a little more, and soon you will be there!" ”

"Huh!" The knife answered, and his mind seemed to settle down a little.

One might think. Isn't it just a hole in the ground? What is there to be afraid of. But only those who drill into this hole can realize that the breathless air, the narrow space that you can't turn around, and the darkness that you can't see your fingers can cause strong psychological pressure. Coupled with the fact that the Yankees also fired a few shells at this side from time to time, the earth and rocks that shook off the top of the head were enough to make a person have a nervous breakdown.

I've heard of a recruit who got into this narrow passage and was so frightened that he didn't dare to move in the middle. In the end, the soldiers had to think of a way to tie the recruit with a rope and drag him back......

After crawling for a while, I noticed that the knife behind me was crawling more and more slowly, so I stopped, took out the marching belt in my pocket and threw it behind me: "Little ghost! Grab the marching belt and I'll take you out! ”

"Yes!" The knife answered, and soon fumbled for a rope on the ground.

I only felt the tightening of the marching belt, and I knew that the knife was already grasping the end of the rope, so I took the marching belt and climbed up.

I did this, but it didn't really help the knife. Even though Knife is still young and weighs less, I still can't afford to drag him out in this situation. I did this to give the knife a little confidence. In such a dark environment, people with poor psychological quality often feel lonely and helpless. The little bit of strength on the march made him feel that he was not alone in the face of this.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the knife to be much faster.

I designed these tunnels, so I know that these tunnels are divided into three parts: upper, middle and lower, and most of the soldiers are concentrated in the middle. One is because the central part of the tunnel is the strongest, and the other is because the central part is also the best for counterattacking the enemy.

Ten minutes later, we climbed to the middle of the plateau under the leadership of Wu Qiming. I patted the dust off my body and stood up from the ground and looked at both sides of the tunnel. But I don't know where to go. I can't help but feel a little funny, I can't find the north of the tunnel I built now, and if I want to say this, it will make people laugh off their big teeth. But fortunately, the light in the tunnel was dim, and Wu Qiming didn't notice anything unusual, and took the lead again, which also made me less embarrassed.

The cat walked in for a while, and after a while, he came to a slightly larger garrison tunnel. In the dim light of the kerosene lamp, more than a dozen soldiers were loading bullets in the tunnel!

"Salute!" Our arrival attracted the attention of the soldiers, and when they saw that it was Wu Qiming at the head, they immediately stopped their movements and stood up.

"Where's your company commander?" Wu Qiming asked.

"Report to the Chief of Staff!" One of the soldiers replied: "Our company commander went to the position to shoot cold!" It's almost time to come back! Or...... I'll go up and call him down!" ”

"This Miao Huaizhi just can't be idle!" Hearing this, Wu Qiming couldn't help laughing and said: "No need to call, go to him at this time to come back, maybe there will be danger!" ”

Then Wu Qiming turned to me and said, "Chief of Staff Cui, let's wait here for a while!" ”

"Hmm!" I nodded, and randomly found a spot to sit next to me. The knife was also diligent, and I put my luggage and rifle aside as soon as I got it.

"Xiao Chen!" Wu Qiming beckoned to one of the volunteer soldiers: "You go and call the company commanders and instructors of the two highlands, let's have a short meeting!" ”

"Yes!" Xiao Chen answered, turned around and went to deliver the order.

"How? Comrades! Taking advantage of this time, Wu Qiming casually handed a few cigarettes to the soldiers, and asked as if talking: "This period of time the cold gun is quite smooth!" ”

"Smooth!" Soon, a soldier answered: "The Yankees have let us fight so hard that we don't dare to take the lead!" ”

"Yes! Chief of staff! Another soldier excitedly raised his gun: "You don't know, the American devils were arrogant when we first came up." They bully us with less firepower than theirs, bully us with no experience in cold shooting, and still sing and dance on the battlefield! Now, they even and pee in cans and throw them out! ”

There was a coax, and the soldiers in the tunnel all laughed.

"But the Chief of Staff!" Some fighters reflected: "If the Yankees are so afraid, we will have fewer targets!" Recently, the results have been getting smaller and smaller! ”

"Take your time!" Wu Qiming nodded: "The purpose of our cold gun and cold cannon movement is to accumulate small victories into big victories!" Therefore, we must guard against arrogance and rashness, and our strategic goal is to force the enemy to dare not raise his head, not to kill a few more Yankees......"

As he was talking, there was a sudden burst of cannon sound overhead, which only shook the rubble above his head and fell down.

"Hey! The enemy's artillery is starting to get angry again! Listening to these cannon sounds, the soldiers became happy.

I also came here with a cold shot, and of course I know why the fighters are happy. The reason why the enemy is attacking our positions like this* is mostly because some of them have died at the guns of our soldiers, so they will retaliate with artillery fire.

Sure enough, just a moment later, a warrior dressed in branches and hay camouflage ran in with a dusty coat all over his body.

"Company commander!"

"Company commander!"

……

The soldiers in the tunnel shouted in unison, and only then did I realize that this was Miao Huaizhi, the commander of the Ninth Company stationed on the 597.9 heights.

"Yo! Chief of Staff Wu! After Miao Huaizhi put down the gun, he saw Wu Qiming sitting on the side, and hurriedly stepped forward and saluted.

"Sit and sit ......" Wu Qiming laughed and said, "What? Knocked out a target? ”

"Knocked out!" Miao Huaizhi nodded excitedly: "It's a Yankee machine gunner, their searchlight is shining right on his position, I found the machine gun muzzle erected, and I solved him with one shot!" ”

"It turns out that their own family is still following their own family!" Listening to the soldiers, they all burst out laughing.

"Huh! This, what a gun! ...... with a scope, Miao Huaizhi's eyes were sharp, and at a glance he saw the sniper rifle being wiped in the hand of the knife, and he couldn't help but stare at the gun as if he had been hooked.

Wu Qiming said to me with a smile: "This is Miao Huaizhi, the commander of the Ninth Company, and he is also a person who loves guns, and his marksmanship can be said to be one of the best in our regiment. ”

"This is ......" Hearing Wu Qiming say this, Miao Huaizhi couldn't help but cast a puzzled look at me.

"We'll talk about it later!" Wu Qiming saw that the company commanders and instructors had arrived one after another, so he sold a pass, stood up and said, "Comrades. Be quiet! Because considering that the 597.9 heights and the 537.7 heights were likely to lose contact with the regimental headquarters, we arranged for a comrade to come and take charge of the command of the two heights. Let me introduce to the comrades, this is Comrade Cui Wei, the operational staff officer of our regiment! ”

"Hello comrades!" I stood up and saluted the soldiers, and the tunnel soon erupted in crackling applause. But I knew that the applause of the fighters was only polite.

"Comrades, our Staff Officer Cui is not an ordinary person!" Wu Qiming continued: "The rest is not to say, let's just talk about our tunnel!" It was built by Staff Officer Cui single-handedly, and there is also a cold gun tactic, which is also ......"

"Wow!" Before Wu Qiming finished speaking, a big storm blew in the tunnel, and all the soldiers in the tunnel threw strange eyes at me. Some people asked suspiciously: "You are Cui Wei, the head of the 538 regiment?" Aren't you the head of the regiment? How can you be a staff officer in our regiment......"

"Comrades!" Wu Qiming raised his hand, waited for everyone to calm down, and then explained: "You guessed right, in front of you is Cui Wei, the commander of the 538 Regiment, the reason why he became the staff officer of our regiment is that he came to assist our army in the battle at the invitation of me and the regiment commander!" ”

It was only then that the warriors truly identified me, and when they looked at me again, their eyes were filled with admiration that they had not seen before.

The so-called name of a person, the shadow of a tree. I really didn't expect my reputation to resonate so much among the warriors. No, even the knife standing next to him now seemed to be stained with light, and he couldn't close his mouth with joy.

"Staff Officer Cui!" Wu Qiming reminded on the side: "In the future, they will be your soldiers, say a few words to your comrades!" ”

"Hmm. This ...... "Listening to this, I couldn't help glaring at Wu Qiming, and I couldn't help but curse in my heart, if you want to speak, just say it early, so that I can be a little prepared, right?"

"Uh-huh!" After clearing my throat, I rushed the ducks to the shelves and said: "Comrades, we have a saying in China, which is called 'the road is one foot high and the devil is one foot high', what does this mean!" It's just that no matter what it is, no matter how powerful it is, there is another thing that can resist it! It's much the same with our war with the enemy, and there are many comrades who think that our weapons are not advanced enough for the Yankees. Then there will be negativity. But...... We know today that no matter how powerful their weapons are, we can find a way to restrain them, and we can find a way to defeat them! You say don't you? ”

"Yes!" The warriors replied in unison.

"What's the way to restrain them?" I asked again.

"The Tunnel!"

"That's right! It's the pit! I continued: "We don't care what planes and artillery the enemy is, what warships and tanks they are, as long as we drill into the tunnel, they will have nothing to do with us." The American devils want to occupy an inch of our land, but in the final analysis, they still have to take people to stand on this land, and in the end, they still have to use people to fight with us. To say that this spells people...... Let's just say to the Yankees in a rough tone: Who is afraid of whom! ”

"Coax!" The warriors all laughed heartily.

"That's why I said......" I continued: "As long as we carry forward the fighting spirit of the best soldiers and fight to the end against the seemingly powerful US imperialism with the help of tunnel fortifications, then the final victory will definitely be in our hands!" ”

"Down with US imperialism!"

"Long live New China!"

I don't know who took the lead, but as soon as my words fell, the fighters shouted slogans over and over again. Looking at the passionate appearance of the soldiers, I couldn't help but secretly scream a fluke: I have passed another level.

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After introducing me to the soldiers, Wu Qiming returned to the regiment headquarters alone.

Miao Huaizhi, the commander of the Ninth Company, quickly arranged a tunnel for me as a headquarters. It is said that it is a command headquarters, but in fact, it is just to put out a detailed defense map, let the telephone soldiers take the telephone of the commanders of each company, and then add a few telephone soldiers and communicators. But it seems good to be able to do this, at least I don't need to have to have a correspondent convey every order like I used to when I was in Shangganling.

Looking at the 597.9 and 537.7 highland deployment maps that Miao Huaizhi had just handed over to me on the table, I couldn't help but have a new understanding of Commander Zhang's command.

I've spent some time in these two Kamikochi, so I'm well aware of the topography and know that they're more than just a mountain and a peak as we imagined. The topography of both highlands is more complex, with several peaks rolling on the summits, although there are some unremarkable hills.

When I was stationed here, I didn't care about these peaks at all, because my main defense was tunnels, anticlines. But now Regiment Commander Zhang not only arranged the tunnel fortifications in great detail, but also did not miss any surface positions. This is not? The two positions in Shangganling were assigned dozens of positions by him, and each position was numbered.

I took a closer look, and there were a total of twelve highlands in the 597.9 highlands, from the first to the twelfth, and every mountain peak on the 597.9 highlands, even a small hill bag, had a number. The 537.7 highlands are relatively small because our army only occupies the North Mountain. So only nine positions were formed.

Each of the twenty-one positions indicated which unit was responsible for the defense. More were assigned a platoon, and fewer were arranged in a squad.

Such an arrangement certainly makes sense. The most direct advantage is that it is convenient for command, once a position is lost, when the front-line troops report to their superiors, they only need to report the number of the position. Some people think that this little convenience is nothing, but the so-called fighter plane is fleeting, and sometimes it is just a little bit of time on the battlefield, which may affect the entire battle situation. What's more, if it is not numbered, it is difficult for the communicator or the telephone soldier to quickly and accurately describe which position and which direction the position is lost on the battlefield where the artillery is rumbling. And using numbers can solve this problem very well.

Another advantage is that a squad and platoon level responsibility system has been formed on the battlefield. Each squad and platoon has its own defensive position, which ensures that each position is defended by people, so as not to create a chaotic situation in which all the enemy will be surrounded and attacked.

But...... Does it really make sense to defend on surface positions?

Looking at the numbering of these positions, I couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

The habit of the volunteers fighting against the enemy has always been to fight for every inch of land. The tenacious fighting spirit allowed the fighters to maintain the fighting style of people in position. Therefore, fighting for every inch of the enemy's territory on the surface position is bound to pay huge casualties.

In fact, the first stage of the Shangganling Battle in history was to not give in to the enemy on the surface position, but after holding out for six days, he reluctantly gave up this hard-fought tactic and let the soldiers retreat to the tunnel.

Just now, the commander of a company stationed on the 537.7 Heights reported to me the difficulties: the North Hill of the 537.7 Heights is lower than the South Hills, and the distance between them and the enemy is very close, so it is very difficult to defend. The fortifications that our army built overnight were beaten to pieces by the US army with only one artillery fire at dawn the next day, and our army has been doing such useless work repeatedly.

The American army was not short of ammunition, so it became impossible to build surface fortifications on high ground. Without fortifications, what did the soldiers use to resist the attack of the American army? I can't even imagine how the volunteer soldiers in history held on to the surface position for six days......

"Chief of Staff!" At this time, a telephone soldier reported to me: "Commander Zhang's call! ”

I took the phone, and the voice of Regiment Commander Zhang came from the microphone: "Staff Officer Cui, we have just received an order that our army will launch an attack on the enemy's position on the 18th......"

"No. 18 ......" I couldn't help but be stunned when I heard this, it's only two days away.! ~！

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