Sure enough, even in the extremely low temperature of minus 30 degrees Celsius at night, and under the harsh environment of ice and snow, the soldiers of the three companies of sharp knives with high emotions had dug a trench with a length of 150 meters and a height of about one meter in about three hours.

Although, before the excavation, the company commander Zhao Yifa set the goal of asking them to dig a trench with a length of 200 meters and a height of one meter deep on the slope of the hill occupied by their Sharp Knife Company and the Third Company before 12 o'clock tonight.

In fact, at the time of this goal, the company commander Zhao Yifa already thought in his heart that it was unattainable, but he still issued this goal to the volunteer soldiers of the whole company that he thought could not be achieved at all.

This is mainly because in the view of company commander Zhao Yifa, the time is tight and the task is heavy, so first set a very difficult goal and let the soldiers carry it out, although it cannot be completed 100% in the end, but as long as 50% of the original goal can be completed, he feels that the final goal has been achieved.

After about three hours of hard work, 75/8 of the original planned goal has been completed, and in the eyes of Zhao Yifa, the company commander at this time, this has greatly exceeded his expectations.

After the company commander Zhao Yifa stopped what he was doing, he was sweating profusely and took out the old pocket watch that he put in his jacket pocket at this time, and now the time displayed was half past eleven o'clock in the night.

This also means that according to the combat mission issued by the superiors, there is still about half an hour to go, and the battle in the besieged corner is about to start, and if the exhausted soldiers continue to dig trenches, it is estimated that after the battle starts, the body and hands will be weak.

If this is the case, if there are US-ROK coalition troops fleeing south from the military fortress of Xiajiayuri, then even if they hide in this freshly dug trench to block the attack, it is estimated that the soldiers will be more than capable at that time.

After thinking of this, the company commander Zhao Yifa immediately summoned the herald and asked him to give orders to go down, and now stop digging trenches, and all the personnel hide in the trenches to rest in place, ready to face the battle in half an hour.

Of course, the company commander Zhao Yifa asked the herald to convey this order to the three platoon commanders Sun Lei, Liu Yiming and Feng Pengju, and then let the three platoon commanders convey this order to the soldiers in their respective platoons to stop digging trenches and prepare for battle.

After receiving the notice from the herald, Sun Lei, who was already tired and out of breath, immediately gave the sapper shovel in his hand a "bang", threw it aside, rolled up the sleeves of his two arms, and shouted at the volunteer soldiers who were still desperately digging trenches: "Comrades, the latest order just given by the company commander is to let us quickly stop opening the outer trenches, and all of them hide in the freshly dug trenches to continue to rest and prepare for battle."

"I'm going to tell you now, there is still about half an hour to go, and our large army of volunteers is about to begin to besiege the US-South Korean coalition troops stationed in this military fortress in Xiajieyuli, and we can stay in the trenches to meet and block the enemy fleeing south."

For the volunteer soldiers who are already exhausted, they should be grateful to the company commander Zhao Yifa for giving this order in time, but the problem is that the volunteer soldiers of the three companies and one platoon of the Sharp Knife Company have been assigned the task of digging a trench with a length of 60 meters, and now they have only completed 50 meters, and the trench with a length of 10 meters is less than the original assigned task and has not yet been excavated.

It was not only the first platoon of volunteer soldiers who did not complete the task of digging the length of the trenches, including the second and third platoons, as well as the cooking squad, but also the length of the trenches that they did not complete was several meters longer than the first row.

"Platoon commander, the task assigned by our platoon is still ten meters away from the trench that has not been excavated, should we just continue to dig?" Wang Erkui, a volunteer soldier in the first platoon of the three companies of the sharp knife company, walked up to the platoon commander Sun Lei, and asked a little unwillingly.

As soon as Wang Erkui's words fell, many volunteer soldiers next to him responded: "Yes, yes, platoon commander, we are only ten meters long away, if we are given another half an hour, we will definitely be able to complete the task, why don't you suddenly let you dig it."

"When we've dug the ten-meter-long trench, it's not too late to rest and meet the enemy fleeing from the north. If our platoon does not complete its mission, will it be much less if we distribute food dropped by US planes in the future? ”

At first, Sun Lei was still a little confused, why the soldiers in the platoon said that they would continue to dig a ten-meter-long trench, but now after hearing the soldiers say this, he suddenly realized that they were still thinking about the matter of the US military plane throwing food.

If he follows his previous straightforward style, it is estimated that at this time, Sun Lei will no longer hide anything from the volunteer soldiers in a platoon, but will tell them the truth of the matter at this time.

However, when Sun Lei saw the eager eyes of the volunteer soldiers surrounding him, he felt that if he really did this, it would be a little too cruel, and it was estimated that it would lead to low morale, which was extremely unfavorable to the upcoming resistance war.

After thinking of this, Sun Lei hurriedly reassured: "Comrades, don't worry, even if we still have a trench ten meters long and have not been excavated, but when distributing food thrown by US military planes, it will not be divided into our platoon, our whole platoon, and even the comrades of our whole company are evenly distributed." I'm here to assure you that you don't have to worry about anything about it. ”

After listening to Sun Lei's assurance, the soldiers in the first row dispelled the doubts in their hearts. Of course, the soldiers of the second and third platoons of the third company of the sharp knife company, as well as the soldiers of the cooking squad, also received similar assurances, and the big guy stopped what he was doing and hid in the trench to rest in place.

I saw that the volunteer soldiers of the three companies of the sharp knife company jumped into the freshly dug trench one after another, and they were all so tired that they were lying on the two walls of the trench and on the aisle, and almost everyone was panting heavily.

It can be seen from this that in the past three hours, the volunteer soldiers of the three companies of the sharp knife company really relied on their super perseverance, ability and hard-working spirit to drag their tired bodies to dig a trench with a length of about 150 meters in the cold and freezing bad weather, and on this snow-covered hillside.

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