Since, for the three companies of the sharp knife company, about 200 volunteer soldiers, temporarily solved the problem of temporary shortage of rations, but, after all, each volunteer soldier only got 300 pine nuts on hand.

According to the instructions given by company commander Zhao Yifa and instructor Wang Wenju, every volunteer soldier of the Third Company of the Sharp Knife Company was required to use the 300 pine nuts to last at least a week.

During this period, if anyone eats their pine nuts, they will not continue to provide them inside, and they can only hold on to it hungry.

Therefore, every volunteer soldier of the three companies of the sharp knife company treated the three hundred pine nuts he had on hand as if he were gold, even if he was hungry, he did not dare to eat too fast, for fear that he would accidentally eat his few pine nuts, and then he would only sit on the mountain and eat the empty stomach and die.

No, half a day has passed, and the soldiers of the three companies of the Sharp Knife Company have only eaten less than three pine nuts per person on average, and they are so hungry that they are growling, and no one dares to eat pine nuts in a big gulp.

Company Commander Zhao had nothing to do, so he inspected the trenches and air-raid shelters that had just been dug yesterday, and he found a relatively serious problem, that is, once the war really broke out, if it didn't take long, for example, a day or two, the trenches and air-raid shelters they were digging now could still last for a while.

However, if this blocking battle is fought for too long, for example, for more than three days, in the face of heavy artillery fire from the US troops and repeated bombardment by planes in the air, I am afraid that after a few hours, this improvised air-raid shelter will have to be blown up and collapsed.

You must know that when the enemy bombarded the place where they were, in order to avoid the enemy's fierce artillery fire, the soldiers of their three companies of sharp knives only had a rifle in their hands, and a machine gun squad, not even a heavy artillery.

In other words, they can only choose to take refuge in the bomb shelter for the time being, and wait until the enemy's artillery fire is no longer so fierce, and they can only come out and continue to fight the enemy, and they can only shoot and shoot, at most plus throw grenades, and there is no other way to fight.

In case the bomb shelter is blown up and collapsed, won't all the people hiding inside have to be buried inside, then they haven't fought much yet, and it is estimated that they will suffer heavy losses.

After thinking of this, the company commander Zhao Yifa immediately decided that before the large army of the volunteers arrived, they must strengthen the air-raid shelter and dig the trenches longer and deeper.

When the company commander Zhao Yifa told his old partner instructor Wang Wenju about the decision he secretly made in his heart, he also got the consent of instructor Wang Wenju.

After all, compared to starvation, it is more important to save their own lives, not to mention, if they want to maintain their combat effectiveness, the most important thing is to do everything possible to reduce casualties.

What's more, now the soldiers of their three companies of sharp knives, each of whom has been given three hundred pine nuts in their hands, temporarily solved the problem of hunger, although it cannot alleviate hunger to a large extent, at least they will not starve to death here.

After the two of them finished discussing, they immediately called Sun Lei, the leader of the first platoon, Liu Yiming, the leader of the second platoon, and Feng Pengju, the commander of the third platoon, to the front and conveyed the decision to continue digging trenches and reinforcing the air-raid shelter.

After conveying this decision, it was immediately opposed by Liu Yiming, the commander of the second platoon, and Feng Pengju, the commander of the third platoon, and immediately raised objections, and they immediately raised objections, believing that the problem of rations for the soldiers has been solved for the time being, but after all, the number of pine nuts is also limited, and the 300 pine nuts have to last for a week.

If, in the case of expending a lot of physical strength, in order to replenish physical strength, five to six pine nuts a day is simply a drop in the bucket, which will drag down the body of the soldiers.

Zhao Yifa, as a company commander, and Wang Wenju, as an instructor, still have some deficiencies in their understanding, and they do not realize that this is a very serious problem.

For this reason, company commander Zhao Yifa and instructor Wang Wenju also specially recruited a few soldiers and asked them whether they could reduce their hunger by eating five to six pine nuts a day.

In front of the company commander and instructor, these soldiers had no choice but to answer truthfully that only being allowed to eat five or six pine nuts a day would play a very little role in alleviating their hunger, and if they were to do heavy work, they all shook their heads and said that they could not do it.

Company commander Zhao Yifa and instructor Wang Wenju had no choice but to throw this problem to Sun Lei, who was the platoon leader, to solve it, and asked him to come up with a solution within an hour.

In less than ten minutes, Sun Lei came up with a solution, that is, let their three platoons of volunteer soldiers take turns digging trenches and reinforcing air-raid shelters, and each platoon is limited to half an hour, dividing the 24 hours of the day into three time periods equally.

For Sun Lei came up with this method, the company commander Zhao Yifa and the instructor Wang Wenju felt very good, although Liu Yiming and Feng Pengju still had a lot of complaints, but they knew that this matter was imperative, so they had to reluctantly agree.

Since the platoon led by Sun Lei had as many as fifty-six soldiers, less than twenty people in the second platoon and the third platoon combined, they not only had to take the lead, but also received more tasks than the second and third platoons.

There are more people to do more work naturally, Sun Lei feels that this is understandable, after all, more people are powerful.

No, from two o'clock in the afternoon, Sun Lei led a platoon of a total of 56 volunteer soldiers to dig trenches and strengthen air-raid shelters.

The three companies and one platoon of the sharp knife company were divided into five squads and a machine gun group, and Sun Lei continued to dig trenches with the first and second platoons, and let other people strengthen the air-raid shelters.

In view of the fact that the rations can only be filled with pine nuts, the soldiers are naturally relatively slow to do their work, and their enthusiasm is not very high, and the progress is much slower than the original plan, which makes Sun Lei anxious in his eyes.

Before he knew it, six hours had passed, and soon, night was about to fall, and Sun Lei, who was worried about the difficulty of completing the original planned task, was worried about it, and suddenly, his keen ears heard a slight roar of planes in the distance on the south side of the hillside.