Chapter 198: The Great War is Imminent
As soon as the sky was bright, the sky in the east was still white, Sun Lei inspected the soldiers of the five squads in charge of the guard duty in the trenches, and he found that the whole night time had passed, but now, many of them began to yawn again.
According to the instructions and requirements of the previous company commander Zhao Yifa and instructor Wang Wenju, the coffee was reserved for the soldiers who were on duty at night on the guard duty, which was about to dawn, and if they drank coffee again, it would inevitably break the rules that had been set before.
Sun Lei, who was originally thinking of boiling another pot of coffee to drink, thought of this, he dispelled this idea, and felt that it was better to think of some other ways to overcome the sleepiness of the five squad soldiers in the three platoons he led.
You must know that according to the time allocation assigned by the previous three combat platoons to carry out the guard task in the four directions of the hillside, the first, second, and third platoons of the three companies of the Sharp Knife Company had to complete the guard task in the trench in the four directions of the hillside for eight hours.
And the soldiers in a row of five squads led by Sun Lei started to carry out the vigilance mission at about one o'clock in the middle of the night last year, and Sun Lei now looked at the time displayed on the watch on his left wrist, which was already six o'clock and five in the morning.
That is to say, there are still three hours before they end this alert mission, and they must get through it without drinking coffee to refresh themselves, which has become a headache for Sun Lei at this time.
After thinking about it for a long time, Sun Lei finally came up with a good way, that is, to let the cooking class make today's breakfast in advance, as long as the soldiers of the three platoons and five squads led by himself fill their stomachs, it is estimated that they will not think about sleeping for a while, at least the remaining three hours can still be easily survived.
After thinking of this, Sun Lei hurriedly found the instructor Wang Wenju and reported to him that he would let the cooking class make breakfast in advance today, so as not to wait until the sky was bright, and there would be no way to make a fire to cook.
Regarding the true intention of letting the soldiers of the five squads in the third platoon led by him eat breakfast in advance, Sun Lei did not reveal half a word to the instructor Wang Wenju, he felt that what he said seemed a little selfish, and it was better to say it in a selfless way.
Anyway, in Sun Lei's opinion, it is feasible to let the comrades in the cooking class finish today's breakfast before the sky is completely bright, and no one can find any fault.
After listening to Sun Lei's report, Wang Wenju, the instructor with two eyes, felt that his proposal was very timely, and immediately agreed without hesitation, and hurriedly called over the herald to convey the order to make breakfast immediately to the cooking class.
In the air-raid shelter, every soldier in the cooking squad was covered with a thick cashmere blanket and slept for about five hours from about half past one o'clock this morning until now.
Although there are still three hours away from the normal sleep time of eight hours, compared to the soldiers in charge of the three platoons and five squads led by Sun Lei, they are already very happy.
No, after the herald woke up the soldiers of the cooking squad who were still asleep, he heard that the instructor had told them to prepare breakfast for the comrades of the whole company before the sky was completely bright.
The soldiers of the cooking squad where they were responsible immediately did not hesitate for half a minute, followed the herald out of the air-raid shelter, and found Sun Lei to receive dehydrated vegetables and flour, as well as various spices, plus their sharp knife company itself has a big iron pot and a big iron scoop in the team.
Subsequently, all the timekeepers of the cooking class, under the leadership of the squad leader Sun Dazhuang, rushed out of the trench with all the prepared things, and rushed all the way to the edge of the large pine forest more than 200 meters away on the south side of the trench.
Because last night, Sun Lei boiled a big pot of coffee and used up all the clean snow within a radius of 50 meters, Sun Dazhuang, the leader of the cooking squad, put the big iron pot farther away.
To say that this Sun Dazhuang really deserves to be the leader of the cooking squad, last night, Sun Lei spent a lot of effort, and spent almost half an hour to hold the clean snow with both hands and then put it into the big iron pot.
At this time, Sun Dazhuang put the big iron pot on the snow, and led the soldiers of the cooking squad under his command to slide directly with the big iron pot to dig up the clean snow that covered the surface of the land.
In a few minutes, the big iron pot was full of clean snow, but this was not over, after Sun Dazhuang pressed down the soft snow with his hands, the original sharp snow was now less than a tenth left.
Immediately afterwards, Sun Dazhuang and the soldiers of the cooking squad continued to pull the big iron pot in the snow while sliding, while digging the snow with a sharp pot, and so on, and it took about ten minutes to make a large iron pot with solid, clean and hard snow blocks.
It was not until this time that Sun Dazhuang stopped, and put up the big iron pot on the spot, and the soldiers of the cooking squad who were sent out to collect dry pine branches also rushed over.
If you follow the progress of Sun Lei's coffee brewing, I am afraid that it will not work without an hour, and after changing the knife to Sun Dazhuang, the leader of the cooking squad, it took about twenty minutes to cook a large iron pot of delicious vegetable soup.
Not only that, but after the proposal of company commander Zhao Yifa and instructor Wang Wenju, two boxes of canned beef were specially placed in the vegetable soup in the big iron pot this morning, and it immediately became beef soup.
Although these two boxes of canned beef are a little less, if they are distributed according to the person, they can only get a small piece of canned beef at most if they are spread into the bowl of each person in the sharp knife company, but in their opinion, this is already a delicacy in the world, and there is nothing else to ask for.
After drinking the steaming and delicious beef soup, all the volunteer soldiers of the Third Company of the Sharp Knife Company suddenly warmed up, and the sky was completely bright, and the time came to more than seven o'clock in the morning.
After eating and drinking, and the body was warm, the volunteer soldiers in the five squads of the three platoons led by Sun Lei who were responsible for the vigilance task were naturally no longer as sleepy as they were just now, and they all regained their vitality one by one.
At the same time, before the early departure of the military fortress in Jieyuli, the soldiers of the South Korean army in that battalion had also finished breakfast, and compared with the food, their treatment was not as good as that of the volunteer soldiers of the three companies of sharp knives.
Because of this morning's breakfast, the soldiers of the South Korean army in this battalion only had a sandwich bread for each person, a bag of compressed biscuits, and a bowl of boiled water, and they didn't even touch the meat.
In this regard, although Li Dooxuan, as the battalion commander, was very resentful, in the face of the domineering US regiment commander Colonel Madip, he could only choose to forbear, and secretly made up his mind that this time he would annihilate all the small units of the Chinese Volunteers who were less than 200 troops pretending to be their ROK soldiers on the hillside five kilometers away on the south side.
He wanted to use this as a battle merit, so that Colonel Madip, who looked down on him, would look at him differently, and give better treatment to the Korean soldiers of the battalion he led.