The next day, I asked Instructor Qin to wake me up, and after fighting in Shangganling for so many days, it was the first time that I was woken up, and I couldn't help but turn over and sit up from the 'bed', and asked nervously, "What's the situation?" What's wrong? ”

"No, it's okay" Instructor Qin replied a little embarrassed: "It's just, it's almost dawn"

"What? Not yet dawn? "Hearing this, I couldn't help but look at Qin Commander in doubt.

"This" is like this! Instructor Xiao Qin explained: "Company Commander Li hasn't slept all night, he has been studying the plan to use mortars to prevent the enemy from destroying our tunnels, he has some new ideas, and he wants to discuss with the chief of staff!" ”

"Hmm". Listening to Director Qin's words, I couldn't help but blush, others are busy for this battle, but as the commander-in-chief, I am at ease to sleep here, and I am not very happy to be woken up just now.

So I hurriedly nodded and asked, "Where is Company Commander Li?" Headquarters? ”

"Yes!" Director Qin responded: "He is discussing tactics with the mortarists."

"Hmm!" I answered, grabbed my rifle and walked towards the headquarters, and Director Qin was busy behind me with a flashlight.

After walking a few steps in the passage, I came to the headquarters after a while, and I saw a crowd of people under the oil lamp, and there were four or five volunteer soldiers discussing something around the map.

As soon as they saw me walk into the headquarters, they hurriedly 'straightened' up and saluted me.

"Keep going!" I raised my hand and signaled: "Don't interrupt you just because I'm here, comrades continue!" ”

As he spoke, he turned to Li Baocheng and quipped: "Okay, you Li Baocheng, you didn't call me in the battle last night."

"War?" Hearing this, Li Baocheng couldn't help but look at the people around him suspiciously: "Chief of Staff, I" We didn't fight last night! "And said there was no war!" My fingers clicked a few times in the air and said, "Instructor Qin told me, saying that you have been fighting all night here, don't believe you ask Instructor Qin!" ”

The soldiers couldn't help but be stunned for a moment when they heard this, and when they understood the meaning of my words, they burst out laughing, and even Instructor Qin was 'made' to cry and laugh a little.

"Chief of Staff!" Li Baocheng also grinned his originally serious face and replied: "Big ideas are in charge, like these small things, just 'hand' them over to my company commander!" You've been busy all day yesterday, how can I be embarrassed to invite you to join us again, ah! ”

There was a coax, and there was laughter in the tunnel again.

"How?" After laughing for a while, I turned the subject to the topic and asked, "After researching all night, do you think yesterday's plan is feasible?"

"Of course it works!" Li Baocheng nodded and replied: "Chief of Staff, let me first introduce you to these comrades, this is Comrade Sun Changlu, who is known as Sun Cannon, he is a well-known mortar in our company, and everyone says that if this Sun Cannon wants to hit the enemy's feet, the shells will not hit the enemy's heels."

"Hello!" I warmly shook the wrinkled old soldier's hand, felt the thick calluses on his hands, and couldn't help but feel respect. I know that these calluses are not planted by crops, but by 'touching' weapons on the battlefield, and by killing enemies!

"This is Comrade Yang Feiluo! Li Baocheng continued: "He was originally an artillery unit, but later he thought that fighting the enemy in the rear was not enjoyable, so he took the initiative to ask to be transferred to the infantry unit as a mortar operator, and he was very good at measuring coordinates."

"Hello!" I held out my hand again.

"This is Comrade Wang Changsheng! When this soldier was introduced, Li Baocheng couldn't help but smile and said: "I don't know if I don't ask this, but I only know when I ask that it turns out that Comrade Wang Changsheng used a hand mortar to beat devils as early as when he was fighting guerrilla warfare with Little Japan!" ”

"Oh! Aren't you very experienced? I couldn't help but ask.

"Experience can't be talked about!" The middle-aged soldier smiled and said: "At that time, when I was fighting guerrillas, sometimes I was chased closely by the devils, and I didn't rush to set up the cannon at all, and I often used my hand to hold the cannon and put the shell inside, and just hit like that!" I can't be sure at the beginning, but practice makes perfect, and then I play a lot, and I will be accurate slowly!

"That's good!" When this warrior said this, I felt more confident in my heart.

"Chief of Staff!" After the introduction, Li Baocheng pointed to the map and said: "I counted last night, there are a total of fifteen mortars and five hundred and twenty-three shells in the tunnel!" That's more than enough to hold on to our remaining thirteen pit openings! ”

"Hmm!" I nodded.

Although there are not many shells, the base number of shells for the mortars of the Volunteer Army is 50, and the average of these more than 500 shells is not enough for one base. However, we only have thirteen pit openings left, which will not be too demanding.

"But the comrades have other ideas!" After a pause, Li Baocheng continued: "Comrades think that we can't limit the battle to the remaining thirteen tunnel mouths, otherwise this battle will be too dead and too regular!" If we are still limited to these thirteen tunnels, then the area that can be controlled will be very large, and the enemy can also use mortars, recoilless guns, grenades and other weapons to prepare to confront us in front of the mouth of the tunnel, which will bring us great difficulties! ”

"Not bad". I nodded and agreed with Li Baocheng's statement.

This reason is actually very simple, for example, if Xiao Hanpin's shark artillery only operates at the mouth of the twelve tunnels in the year, the puppet army will allocate a few people at the mouth of the tunnel in Dazhou, and prepare for our mortars to come out with grenades, explosive 'medicine' bags or recoilless guns.

"All we think!" Li Baocheng pointed to the map and continued: "We should expand the battle to all the tunnel openings, and we can dig them out if they are blocked by the enemy." After the mortar man has fired a few shots at the mouth of this tunnel, he will move on to another mouth of the tunnel to fire a few more shots, so that the battle can be lived, and each tunnel may become a place to attack the enemy, so that the enemy is unable to defend against it! ”

"That's right! In this way, you can turn reactive into proactive! I nodded, frowning, and said, "But how easy it is to dig the mouth of the tunnel under the control of enemy fire!" This is a big toll to pay! There is no doubt about this, and the puppet army is not stupid, they have blown up our tunnel mouth, and they will not let it go, they will definitely send someone to patrol and monitor me, in case we dig through the mouth of the tunnel again. In this case, digging up the earth and rocks at the mouth of the tunnel means that we have to work against the enemy's bullets

"The warriors of the mother's division shed blood without tears". Li Baocheng gritted his teeth and replied: "There will always be casualties in a war, not to mention, if we don't dig up the mouth of the tunnel, the danger will be transferred to the mortar gunners, and maybe the casualties will be even greater."

I looked at the map and was silent for a while, and after a long while, I nodded and agreed to Li Baocheng's battle plan. However, the reason why I agree is because I have taken into account one point: the destruction of our tunnel mouth by the puppet army is targeted, and they first attack the tunnel mouth in the direction of Wusheng Mountain. And since we didn't think of countermeasures in time yesterday, they did it so successfully that almost all the mouth of the pit in the direction of Wusheng Mountain was blown up.

The enemy's purpose in doing this was obvious, and that was to prepare them for an attack on the Five Holy Mountains. Once they have consolidated these blown up tunnel mouths, then even if we survive to the end, we will not be able to provide much support to the Five Holy Mountains.

From this point of view, it is also necessary to dig through the mouth of the blown up tunnel.

So I immediately ordered Li Baocheng: "Before dawn, immediately order the soldiers to start digging through the mouth of the pit that was blown up by the enemy, especially in the direction of Wusheng Mountain, try not to alarm the enemy, and work in concealment!" ”

"Yes". Li Baocheng answered, and immediately went down to organize the personnel to do it.

"All mortarmen get ready!" I ordered again: "Keep a close eye on the enemy's movements. If the enemy makes any moves, try to attract the enemy's attention and cover the other fighters to dig through the mouth of the tunnel! ”

"Yes!" Several mortarmen answered, turned and retreated.

"Instructor Qin!" Wait for the fighters to be *** after. I patted Instructor Qin on the shoulder and said, "The work in the rear will be 'handed over' to you!" ”

"Put it down, Chief of Staff!" Instructor Qin nodded with a tired face: "You just command the battle on the front line, and I will support the rear!" ”

"Hmm!" I shook Instructor Qin's hand again. Turning around, he grabbed his rifle and walked in the direction of the mouth of the pit.

Although Instructor Qin didn't say anything during this time, I knew that it was not easy for him. Since the start of the war in Shangganling, Qin Commander has consciously taken charge of the storage and distribution of materials in the tunnel, but these are nothing, and the biggest problem is the huge number of wounded in the tunnel."

It has been more than half a month since the battle began in Shangganling, and in this more than half a month of fighting, the tunnel has undoubtedly become the best shelter for the wounded. And because the U.S. military has been blocking our army's supply lines with non-stop artillery bombardment, the wounded have not been able to be delivered. As a result, the wounded accumulated more and more in the tunnel, reaching more than 300 at the most. Now there are only more than 200 people left, and it is entirely because these wounded do not have enough 'medicine' to treat them, and they are dying one after another.

Last night I took a 'pump' to the wounded's tunnel, and the scene there is still fresh in my memory. There wasn't even a drop of wine 'essence' or a roll of bandages in the tunnel. The wounded had to let the wound become inflamed and erosive, and it was all supported by a strong will and their own physique. The smell of blood, rancidity, sweat and feces was so mixed that I could barely stay in that pit for another minute.

But I still endured, because I knew that all of them were my comrades-in-arms, brothers who had lived and died with me.

And now I can only watch them die here slowly, but I can't help them in any way.

Later, I found out that in order not to affect the emotions of their comrades-in-arms, these wounded soldiers consciously endured the pain and did not say a word, and many of the wounded clenched the 'bed' sheet with their mouths, and some of them could not take off the 'bed' sheet in their mouths until they died."

In order to take care of these wounded, Instructor Qin spent all his time on this. He led more than a dozen tunnel health workers to do their best to rescue them day and night, and some even secretly climbed out of the tunnel at night, picking up parachutes on flares, waving 'flowers' in the corpse's cotton clothes, and broken gun barrels, and came back to make bandages and splints, and changed bandages and fixed severed limbs for the wounded.

Their toil was no less than that of the soldiers who fought against the enemy on the battlefield, as could be seen from the tired and deformed faces of the hygienists.

"Chief of Staff!"

"Chief of Staff!"

The cries of the soldiers pulled me back from my thoughts, and when I looked up, I saw that it had already been obituary: Shen Daokou Mingzhan Ten was under the dim rice line of the kerosene lamp, waving his eyebrows and knocking to move stones and soil.

Li Baocheng was directing from the sidelines. When he saw me coming, he immediately greeted me and said: "Chief of Staff, the No. 1 tunnel entrance was bombed very late, and it was already dark before the puppet army had time to expand its results. That's why the area that was blown up here is also very short, and I want to dig it up before dawn so that it can be used by us early tomorrow morning."

"Hmm!" I nodded, thought for a while, and said, "Company Commander Li, I think we should not only emphasize digging the tunnel as soon as possible, but also emphasize the same time."

"Feng Shi?" Li Baocheng couldn't help but feel a little strange when he heard it.

"That's right". I pointed in a few directions and said: "This tunnel mouth is to support and cover each other with the other two tunnels, if we only dig this one tunnel mouth, even if we dig through, the result will be that we will not be able to cover the other tunnel mouths, and we will soon be blown up by the enemy, and our hard work and the price of our lives in exchange for the tunnel mouth will be in vain again." But if we can dig through these three tunnels at the same time, so that the tunnels can support each other, then it makes sense! ”

"Oh, I see!" Li Baocheng scratched his head and said a little embarrassedly, "Look at me, I didn't expect such a simple truth, and I almost broke a big deal!" ”

"It's called learning from each other's strengths! "In order to achieve the same 'sex' of digging time, we can leave a layer of soil when we are about to dig through, and wait until the three pit openings are ready, and then make an appointment with each other to dig through at the same time, so that we can also catch the enemy outside by surprise."

"Yes! I'll organize it right away! Li Baocheng 'straightened' up, turned around and went to arrange.

In order not to be noticed by the enemy, the soldiers who dug the mouth of the tunnel all worked very carefully In order not to make a sound, some soldiers even simply threw aside the sapper shovels and dug and scooped in the earth and stones with their bare hands. The dirt that had collapsed from the top of the tunnel was not very hard, but it was mixed with a lot of shrapnel, so it didn't take long for the soldiers to dig their hands covered in blood, but they didn't care as if they were fine.

The excavated soil was transported by the soldiers to other tunnels with shell boxes one by one, or evenly sprinkled on the ground.

As time went on, the fighters became more and more careful, and finally stopped digging.

One of the soldiers crept up to me and whispered, "Chief of Staff, we hear the sound of the enemy outside, and we must be almost digging through!" ”

"A thousand is good". I nodded and ordered, "Wait for news from other tunnels, get ready for battle!" "Yes!" The warrior answered softly, beckoned to the other warriors, wiped his hands on his uniform, which were mixed with blood and dirt, and went to 'touch' the gun he was leaning against next to him.

At this time, several telephone soldiers ran over while pulling the line, and I was looking strange, and one of them 'stood up' in front of me and reported: "This is the idea of Company Commander Li, he ordered us to connect the telephone at the three tunnel crossings, and the chief of staff will command them in a unified manner, so as to achieve the coordination of the three tunnel crossings." ”

"Good guys!" Seeing that the telephone soldiers were busy answering the telephone, I couldn't help but secretly praise, this Li Baoguo is worthy of being the company commander of the ace army, and he really has two brushes to do things!

The telephone soldiers moved very quickly, and the telephones were installed in a few minutes, which was also the requirement of the battlefield for telephone soldiers. Since the military telephone at this time was a single-line telephone, two telephones were used to contact the other two tunnel crossings. In order to prevent the enemy outside the tunnel from hearing the ringtone, the telephone soldiers also carefully 'covered' them with two layers of thick cotton clothing.

As soon as the "Hey" phone soldier installed the phone, I couldn't wait to call the other two. Mouth of the pit. From the voice coming from the phone, I could tell that the one who answered the phone was Li Baocheng. The other is Gao Yongxiang.

"Are you all ready? , I asked on the phone: "Dig it out?" ”

"I'm ready!" Li Baocheng replied: "Just wait for the order of the chief of staff!" ”

"Give me a few more minutes! , Gao Yongxiang's anxious voice came from another phone call: "I should be fast here, but I can't be sure yet!" ”

"Don't rush!" I 'confessed': "Be patient, the most important thing is not to let the enemy find out, we still have time".

"Yes!" Gao Yongxiang responded.

"Company Commander Li!" I then ordered: "Bring in three 'door' mortars, these tunnels in the No. 1 tunnel are a great threat to the enemy.

Once we have dug them out, the enemy may soon be able to repeat their old tricks, and we must not allow them to succeed again. Otherwise, it will be very difficult for us to dig through again! ”

"Yes". Li Baocheng on the other end of the phone immediately answered.

After a while, two fighters ran up lightly from the other end of the tunnel with a 'door' mortar and a box of *** respectively. I looked closely, but it was Sun Changlu, who was called Sun Cannon, and I couldn't help but hurriedly greeted him and shook his hand.

"Chief of Staff!" The veteran, who didn't like to talk much, confidently 'stood up' in front of me and said, "Just look at my performance!" I promise not to let the enemy destroy our tunnels! ”

"Good! It's up to you! I replied.

"It's done, it's done!" At this time, Gao Yongxiang's excited voice came from the other end of the phone: "Chief of Staff, we are also connected here, we are all ready, give orders!" ”