After arranging the volunteer soldiers of the third company cooking squad of the sharp knife company to be located next to the large pine forest more than 200 meters south of the trench and air-raid shelter where they were located, Sun Lei returned to the trench and took three platoons and two squads of people to continue to carry out the task of guarding the slopes of the hill.

When there were no rations to eat before, within the three companies of the Sharp Knife Company, whether it was asking the soldiers of that platoon to come out of the air-raid shelter and follow the platoon commander to the trench to carry out the task of guarding the surrounding hillside, they all complained one by one.

Because of their hunger, the soldiers felt that they were crouching in the dugout, and at least they could sleep for a while or eat a pine nut or two when they were hungry.

But if you go to the trench outside, if you want to sleep, it's fine, although the temperature at night is more than 30 degrees below zero, but the temperature inside the bomb shelter is about five degrees higher than that in the trench outside.

In addition, there is a cold wind blowing in the trenches outside, and those who understand it should not want it, so it would be strange if no one complained.

Of course, it is true that the soldiers have complaints in their hearts, but in the end, they all carried out the task of guarding the trenches outside issued by their respective platoon commanders, after all, they still understand the truth that military orders cannot be violated on the battlefield.

Now compared with a few hours ago, the situation has changed greatly, all the people in the third company of the sharp knife company, from the company commander and instructor, down to the ordinary soldiers, everyone has been allocated rations according to the amount set by Sun Lei.

Moreover, in the ration of each person, there are canned beef, compressed biscuits and bread to eat, and even the soldiers of the South Korean army stationed in the battalion stationed in Xiajieyu will be envious of this level of food.

What's more, everyone in the Sharp Knife Chain, in addition to the guarantee of rations and the level of food has been greatly improved, moreover, they also have thick cashmere blankets, windproof scarves and brand new cotton socks.

Sun Lei walked to an air-raid shelter in the third row led by him, and just said that he had volunteered to go to the trench outside to perform the guard task with him, and immediately got the response of all the soldiers in the three rows of the air-raid shelter, and he didn't even frown.

Originally, two squads of people were enough, but in the end, the entire three platoons and five squads, except for the five people from the machine gun team who stayed in the air-raid shelter, followed Sun Lei, who was the platoon commander, to the trench outside to carry out the task of guarding the hillside.

Feng Pengju, the platoon commander of the third platoon who took over the shift with them, and the soldiers of the two third platoons, immediately dropped their jaws when they saw this situation.

According to Sun Lei's instructions, the volunteer soldiers of the five squads of the three platoons led by him, after they took their positions in the trenches outside, squatted in place and began to eat canned beef, compressed biscuits and bread.

In addition, after more than ten minutes, the soldiers of the cooking class boiled a large pot of delicious dehydrated vegetable soup, and the soldiers who had felt a little cold before immediately warmed up, and their hands and feet became hot.

But an hour later, at about three o'clock in the second half of the night, Sun Lei opened his sleepy eyes, and when he inspected the soldiers of his three platoons and five squads at the guard position in the trench, he found a very serious problem in his opinion.

That is, before, the soldiers of these five squads were still in good spirits, but after an hour of eating and drinking, at least half of the soldiers suddenly fell asleep leaning on the inner wall on the side of the trench.

After thinking about it for less than a minute, Sun Lei found the reason, he felt that these soldiers must not have slept well during the time they were starving.

And an hour ago, after they had filled their stomachs, wore gloves on their hands, put on cotton socks, and tied scarves around their necks, which greatly enhanced the effect of keeping them warm from the cold, it was strange that they did not sleep.

After thinking about it for a while, Sun Lei hurriedly asked Wang Wenju, the instructor who was on duty at night, for instructions, and the company commander Zhao Yifa had already fallen asleep, whether it was Sun Lei or instructor Wang Wenju, they couldn't bear to wake up the company commander Zhao Yifa.

After listening to Sun Lei's report alone, instructor Wang Wenju immediately made a decision and agreed to Sun Lei's request to drink a teapot of coffee for each of the soldiers in the three rows and five squads he led.

In the opinion of instructor Wang Wenju at this time, there is a lot of coffee powder anyway, and it is not impossible to let the soldiers who are in charge of the vigilance task at night use the method of drinking coffee to refresh themselves. If you don't drink it, you will keep the coffee powder for a long time, and you may not be able to drink it after it goes bad.

After receiving this instruction from instructor Wang Wenju, Sun Lei did not alarm the cooking class that had already fallen asleep, but ran to a place more than 200 meters away from the south side of the trench by himself, set up a cauldron, and lit a fire with a pile of dried pine branches he had collected.

Then into the cauldron, he kept putting the snow that had been made from all around, and it was estimated that it would take about an hour before there was half a pot of hot water, and the clean snow within a radius of fifty meters around him was boiled by him.

Immediately afterwards, Sun Lei took out a large bag of coffee powder, put it into the boiling half pot of boiling water, stirred for two minutes, and the brewed coffee was finished.

Sun Lei, who had been busy for most of the day, didn't dare to delay even a moment, and hurriedly ran back to the trench 200 meters away, woke up the soldiers who were in charge of the vigilance task but were still asleep, and asked each of them to take their own jars or bowls for eating, and go to the south 200 meters away to scoop the boiled coffee in the cauldron.

Let the soldiers who fell asleep just now go to scoop coffee to drink, and when they came back, Sun Lei asked the remaining half of the soldiers to scoop coffee, and in the end, there were no more or no less two bowls of coffee left, Sun Lei drank one bowl himself, and the other bowl was given to the instructor Wang Wenju.

Not to mention, this coffee was really refreshing and warm-up, and when all of them drank the hot and steaming coffee, their bodies were much warmer than just now, and no one slept or dozed off again, and they persevered until dawn.