Chapter XVII Letter

This U-shaped tunnel took our entire company three days.

Most of the time is spent on reinforcing the soil layer, first of all, this piling is a kind of strength work is also jishu work, said to be strength work because it is necessary to use a sledgehammer to drive more than a meter long wooden stake into the soil layer, said to be jishu work is because this thing is even particular about the selection of materials, too brittle and too tender logs must not work, because it has cracked before knocking twice into the soil layer, so you must choose the kind of mulberry wood that has both toughness and hardness.

The second is to make additional reinforcements to those particularly soft areas, especially at the edge of the tunnel, to increase their resistance to pressure. There were so many logs that the whole fortification seemed to be held up with logs.

Fortunately, we can use local materials here, and many of the soldiers were engaged in construction before going to the battlefield, and they were very good at building fortifications, so in the end, this "U" shaped tunnel was taken down.

After the completion of the construction, Company Commander Luo and I climbed in and tried it, and it was really much more spacious...... Because we have camouflaged the whole fortification with mud and gravel on the outside, it looks like the rest of the high ground from the outside, but inside we climb in like terraces, one by one slope, a few meters to climb another slope, and after turning a corner inside, we come out through another exit.

"Hey! It's really good......" Company Commander Luo patted the muddy water on his body after wearing it, and said: "It's not in vain that we have spent so much time, I'm afraid that more than 20 people can be put in this tunnel!" ”

"Yes, but I think it's better to put less!" I say.

"Why?" Liang Lianbing asked with a puzzled look: "Let's hide in that little pit and it's boring." A little more lively! ”

Company Commander Luo thought about it and nodded and said, "If there are too many people." Once discovered by the Yue Devil. As long as the two exits are blocked with firepower, then we are finished. Moreover, the concentration of troops and the fact that there are only two at the mouth of the tunnel are not conducive to the deployment of troops!"

What Lian Commander Luo said is exactly what I think, which is also the reason why Weishenme is not suitable for building large tunnels on this high ground. Otherwise, just like the tunnel of the Vietnamese army headquarters that we found on the "Undefeated in the East" before, hundreds of Vietnamese soldiers could not get out because the tunnel entrance was blocked, and Zuihou was burned alive in the tunnel by us.

"So......" said Company Commander Zuihou Luo, "we don't need to build too many U-shaped tunnels, two or three are enough." Preferably three, one in each row. Comrades can take turns to be stationed and take turns to rest...... Adopt the method of combining large tunnels and small tunnels to fight the enemy, and we must carry out the battle to the end! ”

"Yes!" The soldiers responded in unison, looking at the U-shaped tunnel that had just been built, and their faces were relaxed for a while. At least, we still have a place to rest and relax, otherwise it would be strange to hide in that little pit every day and not get sick.

"Company Commander......" At this time, the soldier in charge of guarding the hilltop position shouted quietly and waved the signal flag at us.

Our team hurriedly grabbed our guns and ran up against the wind and rain.

"What's the situation?" Company Commander Luo asked.

"There are devils!" The sentry said, "But I can't see, only some voices are heard!" ”

Everyone quieted down and listened carefully. Sure enough, I heard some imperceptible sounds of building fortifications.

"What are you doing here?" Liang Lianbing asked, "Build fortifications under our noses?" Do you want to fight a protracted war with us? ”

"Maybe it's not just about fighting a long game!" I listened carefully, and then I said helplessly, "They are not building fortifications. It's digging tunnels just like us! ”

"Oh!" As soon as I said this, everyone quickly understood.

As the old man said, the most effective way to deal with tunnel warfare is to tunnel ...... Just like what the Yue devils are doing now, taking advantage of the rain and the gray sky to dig a hole and hide out of our sight, and then come out to do activities at night...... If they have enough manpower, they can even build a more complete tunnel and organize people to go to our position to feel the hole.

The advantage of the Vietnamese army is that they are familiar with the terrain and tunnels, and they are more able to endure hardships and hide more than us, while our advantage is that we have the opportunity to build this tunnel in front of the Vietnamese devils.

"Company commander!" Liang Lian grabbed his gun and said, "Let's go up and drive them away......

"No way!" Company Commander Luo looked at the sky and shook his head: "The visibility is too low now, even if we are condescending, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Yue devil is very likely to be ready and waiting for us to go!" ”

"What then? Just let them dig a hole under our noses? "Liang Lianbing is still a little unwilling.

"There's no way around that!" I said, "Just like the more devils we are guarding here, we can't attack the more devils are guarding that side, and we can't attack them either." This rain is full of mud everywhere, and the more devils lie down, we can't see anyone...... It's clear that whoever attacks suffers! ”

"The second platoon commander is right!" Company Commander Luo ordered: "All units should not act rashly, continue to monitor the movements of the Yue devils, and you can shoot when you see the enemy, but don't take the initiative to attack!" ”

"Yes!" The warriors answered and dispersed.

"Comrades!" Just when the soldiers had just withdrawn from the hilltop position, they saw the correspondent Xiao Liu hiding in a small tent blocked by a rain cloth, holding a large bag of things and raising it towards us: "Just now the regiment headquarters sent someone to deliver the letter!" ”

"Letters!"

"There is a letter!"

……

The soldiers surrounded him with a coax, and after watching Xiao Liu open a large letter wrapped in a rain cloth, they rushed forward to grab it......

"Don't rob, don't rob!" Xiao Liu was a little anxious, and hurriedly guarded the letter and shouted: "I read the names one by one to get them!" ”

"Chen Xiaoming!"

"Here!"

"Wu Jun!"

"Here!"

……

"Xu Qiwei!"

Seeing that no one responded for a long time, Xiao Liu called out again: "Xu Qiwei ......"

After a long while, Xiao Shi hesitated and asked, "Is it from Shanxi?" ”

"Yes!" Xiao Liu looked at the envelope and replied, "Taiyuan, Shanxi!" ”

"He died!" Xiao Shi's face quickly became serious: "When it was in Lao Cai, I only came to chat with him in a hurry......

The fighters soon fell silent...... It's not difficult to imagine what's going on, Xu Qiwei should be a supplementary soldier, and he died not long after he joined our army, so the soldiers didn't have an image of him, and his family may not know the news of his sacrifice until now, or when they received the news of the sacrifice...... The letter is already on its way to the front.

So, we received this letter, this belated letter.

"What a name!" Company Commander Luo lined up and ordered Xiao Liu: "Go to the instructor and ask for a list, and then send it out!" ”

"Yes!" Xiao Liu answered, and in a panic, he rewrapped the letter and hugged it and left.

I knew that Company Commander Luo Weishenme would give such an order, and he was worried that such a thing would affect the morale of the soldiers...... But it seems that this order is too late, and it is clear that the fighters have been affected, including me...... At this moment, we once again remembered the previous battlefield, the sacrificed soldiers, and the ......

After a while, the letters were sent to the soldiers one by one, and I actually hoped that I could have a letter, but I knew that it was impossible, because the only person in the world who could write to me was Zhang Fan, and she might still be on her way home!

Some people may say that Vietnam is only a few hours away from Beijing, just a few hours away by plane...... But that was in modern times, and it is said that Company Commander Luo came from Beijing when he went to the battlefield, and it took more than half a month to get this plane, train, and car.

When the soldiers got the letter, they hid aside and watched silently, but the expression on the face of the company commander was a little weird, and after a while, he secretly pulled Xiao Liu aside and said something, Zuihou actually made Xiao Liu a little red-faced and unhappy.

"What's the situation?" I leaned in with some curiosity and asked.

"Second platoon leader, you give me a review!" Xiao Liu said with a distracted face: "The third platoon leader said that the family brought him something, but I didn't get anything......"

"Hmm! Maybe you got lost on the road. The other warriors also came up and said, "Maybe someone else took it!" ”

"I didn't take it anyway!" Xiao Liu replied with a red face: "Otherwise, let's go to the regiment headquarters to find the messenger, and I can confront him face to face!" ”

"Look at what you said...... Liang Lianbing replied with some reluctance: "I didn't mean that, I just asked if there was anything ......"

"Three platoon commanders!" I said, "Tell me what is in this house first, and we can find ......."

"I don't know what it is!" Liang Lianbing brought the letter to me and said, "Look...... It's my mouth that wrote it.,zuihou a sentence.,What is it...... I'll give you a kiss......"

I almost couldn't hold back a cough on the spot, and then laughed so much that tears fell out, and some of the soldiers who knew also held their stomachs, only laughing so much that they didn't know what we were laughing at.

Some soldiers also shouted at Xiao Liu: "Xiao Liu, you just give that kiss to the third platoon leader!" ”

Then soon the soldiers knew what was going on, and they all laughed so hard that their stomachs hurt.

Later, I learned that in this era, there are really not many people who can use the written word "kiss", not only the Liang Lianbing, but also the soldiers, who don't know what this means, and it is no wonder that the Liang Lianbing will look everywhere...... (To be continued......)