Although there are still about ten minutes before the end of the rest on the spot, the volunteer soldiers of the three companies of sharp knives have begun to move, and they have put on a look of eagerness.

Not only that, but after eating the fried noodles that they had left, many volunteer soldiers were anxious to express their attitudes in front of the cadres in the third company of the sharp knife company.

No, just among the volunteer soldiers in the third company and one platoon of the sharp knife company, many people ran in front of the platoon commander Sun Lei, holding the excavation tools distributed before the march, such as sapper shovels and other things, and rushed to speak with an impatient mood.

"Platoon commander, we have all rested for such a long time just now, and everyone has eaten almost all the fried noodles they carry, now is the time when the physical strength is very abundant, should our platoon be ahead of the comrades of the other platoons in the company, and take the lead in digging a temporary improvised trench on the hillside at the foot of our platoon?" Wang Erkui, a volunteer soldier in the third company and one platoon of the sharp knife company, stood in front of the platoon commander Sun Lei, probably choked when he was eating fried noodles just now, and he hiccuped several times while asking confidently.

Without waiting for Sun Lei, who was the platoon commander, to reply, suddenly, another soldier named Ma Sanxing stood in front of him, just waiting for Wang Erkui's voice to fall, and with an impatient tone, he took Wang Erkui's words and said: "Platoon commander, no matter what you think, anyway, my Ma Sanxing and many comrades in our platoon can't wait, and they are all very active and enthusiastic in responding to the call of the company commander, and want to start digging temporary simple trenches immediately now, so as to make full preparations for the battle that will take place in more than three hours." ”

Ma Sanxing just finished speaking, and then, Sun Shulin, a soldier in the first platoon of the three companies of the sharp knife company, also stood up at this time, walked in front of the platoon commander Sun Lei, patted his chest, and swore an oath: "Platoon commander, I, Sun Shulin, can assure you here that as long as you promise us to start digging this temporary and simple trench now, our platoon will definitely dig the simple trench quickly and well, and be the first to complete the task of digging the trench explained by the company." Platoon commander, don't be stunned, hurry up and let us get started. ”

As soon as Sun Shulin's extremely inflammatory words fell, the soldiers who surrounded the sharp knives and even three rows of soldiers began to second, as far as he could see, there were a total of fifty-six people in their row, including himself, and at least forty people had made a statement in front of him just now, and his head was big when he heard it, but there was still a forced smile on his cheeks.

"Okay, okay, comrades, don't be too anxious, according to the instructions of the company commander, we must rest in place for half an hour before we can carry out the work of digging temporary improvised trenches." As a platoon commander, Sun Lei, after listening to the enthusiastic speeches of at least 40 volunteer soldiers in their platoon, he did not want to discourage the enthusiasm of these people, so he began to appease them in a tactful tone: "I have to tell the comrades in advance that this trench digging can't be done rashly, let alone under such harsh conditions.

"If we can rest for five more minutes, we'll have a little more rest. We can only have a sustained spirit and maintain abundant physical strength, and it is not enough to rely on a cavity of enthusiasm, I hope you can use the only five minutes or so left to calm down your emotions first, and we are all going to do it at a unified time. ”

It is not difficult to see from Sun Lei's words that he still poured a basin of cold water on these passionate soldiers in the row, so that they could calm down one by one and calm their emotions.

When Sun Lei finished speaking, the soldiers standing in front of him did not disperse because of this, but continued to stand in front of him, but they did not continue to speak, but waited for the arrival of the end time of about five minutes.

Not only did the volunteer soldiers of the third company and the first platoon of the sharp knife company begin to express to the platoon commander Sun Lei that they want to immediately devote themselves to the action of digging improvised trenches after eating fried noodles, and the volunteer soldiers of the third company and the third platoon of the sharp knife company are in high spirits, and the second platoon commander Liu Yiming and the third platoon commander Feng Pengju are also not good.

If it weren't for the company commander Zhao Yifa's instructions in advance, no matter what, they would have to wait until the time to rest in place was over before starting to act, and no one would have been able to start digging improvised trenches in advance, otherwise, Liu Yiming and Feng Pengju would have followed these soldiers into the action of digging temporary improvised trenches after the soldiers in their platoon were encouraged one by one.

After anxiously waiting for about five minutes, Sun Lei, who was sitting on the snow on the hillside, looked down a few times from time to time, and the watch on his left wrist finally waited for the rest time to end.

So, Sun Lei, who was still sitting in the center of the place just now, immediately stood up and shouted at the fifty-five volunteer soldiers standing in front of him, with a loud voice: "The time to rest in place is over, comrades, now immediately dig a simple trench." ”

According to the previous assignment of company commander Zhao Yifa, the improvised trench they dug tonight was in the eastward direction in order to block the US-South Korean coalition troops fleeing south from the military fortress of Xiajiayuli, five kilometers to the north.

Moreover, the third company of their sharp knife company was divided into three combat platoons, as well as a cooking squad, and when they were resting in place, they were also the three platoons of one, two, and three, as well as the soldiers of the cooking squad gathered together.

Therefore, the same is true for the excavation of improvised trenches this time, so that the three combat platoons and a cooking squad are carried out in the place where they are resting, while the company commander Zhao Yifa and instructor Wang Wenju, as well as the commander and the herald, all went to assist the soldiers of the cooking squad in digging improvised trenches.

You must know that it is more than nine o'clock in the night, the temperature has reached more than minus 30 degrees, and there is a heavy snow on the slope of Shanghai a few days ago, and the height of the snow layer is about ten centimeters.

Moreover, once it was night, some of the snow that had melted on the year of Bio began to freeze again, forming a thick layer of ice, not to mention that they were in the mountains, which was not easy for the volunteer soldiers of the three companies of the sharp knife company, to dig out a movement direction of about 100 meters in more than three minutes, and maintain the height at a height of one meter, it should be said that it was not easy.

Sun Lei had already thought of these unfavorable factors before the excavation, but he didn't tell anyone, because in his opinion, maybe high morale can overcome these natural objective conditions.