Chapter 13 Tunnel Fortifications (4)

"Boom ......" soon a few mortar shells were fired out, in order to achieve a more lethal effect, these few shots were incendiary bombs, with a burst of fire, and soon after the rain curtain sounded a few screams of the devils, so we knew what these guns at least hit.

"Yours!" Company Commander Luo slapped Marx on the shoulder and said, "Done!" With a few of you coming up, we've even found a treasure! ”

Marx and a few other artillery observers could only smile wryly when they heard this, and no one thought that the conditions of the infantry would be so difficult before they came. So for us, we have found a treasure, but for them we have fallen into a fire pit.

"Second Platoon Leader!" Then Company Commander Luo ran to my side and said in a low voice: "It seems that this Yue devil may touch it tonight, so I have to prepare......

Of course, I understand what Company Commander Luo meant, although there are more than a dozen tunnel fortifications that are barely enough, there are still big problems with each other, such as the inability to contact each other, which will undoubtedly make us unable to command each other. We can't just come out to fight during the day, and hide in the tunnels at night to defend passively, right?

"Don't worry! Captain! I didn't want to think about it, so I replied: "It's on me!" ”

"Hmm!" Company Commander Luo couldn't help but look at me in surprise and said, "It's good to have confidence!" ”

I know what Company Commander Luo was unexpected, you must know that no matter what task was assigned to me before, I always pushed this and that or was full of reluctance, but now I didn't want to do it. Of course, it will make him feel a little uncomfortable.

What Company Commander Luo didn't know was. I've been prepared for a long time as to how to communicate with each other...... Actually, it doesn't mean that I'm prepared. Instead, I remembered what the old man had told me: "How do you connect the tunnels?" That's not simple, open up the middle of the bamboo, the head and tail of one section are connected to the ground and buried in the ground to connect the tunnels, the bamboo is wearing a rope, one long and one short represents the enemy, one long and two short represents the more devils are under you, quickly fight grenades...... It's called a communication rope, you know? ”

All right. I do understand it, and I've put it into practice...... In order to "connect" with the students who lived on the other side of the highway, we used glass ropes to pull a communication rope of more than 200 meters on the road, which directly caused several cyclists to fall into a pile......

It was all a mess when I was a child, and now I am naturally not so stupid, knowing that the reason why this communication rope can communicate, the key is that it is in the hollow bamboo...... So the soldiers who beckoned the company to come immediately began to move.

I first made a simple division of labor among the troops: a platoon was responsible for cutting down the bamboo and opening the bamboo knots in the middle. A platoon is responsible for threading ropes in hollow bamboos and burying them end to end in the ground to connect the tunnels. The other platoon is to have them lay another kind of rope on the surface of the position...... This part of the rope is neither buried in the ground nor worn in a hollow bamboo joint, but is exposed to the ground.

Several artillery observers were also not idle, and I asked them to make a detailed map of the 581 anticline positions. On this map, not only the location of each pit is marked, but also the code of each pit is marked. And according to the area surrounded by the tunnel, it was divided into several areas, so that the artillery observers could contact the artillery in the rear and adjust these areas with mortars......

The reason for the use of mortars was that I was afraid that large-caliber long-range guns would affect the surrounding tunnels...... Our goal is to kill the Vietnamese devils on the surface of the position, not to destroy the fortifications, so small-caliber mortars are just right.

Of course, in order to shoot accurately at these areas, there must be a test shot...... It doesn't seem to be very difficult, we can just hide in the pit beforehand when we want to test the shot.

After that, it is time to plant mines around the area before entering the tunnel.

Of course, just like a blockade position, each mine must be recorded in detail before it is planted, including information such as the location and type of mine...... so that they might be taken out the next day.

"Zero calls one, zero calls one! Please answer when you receive it! ”

"Number one received! The signal is clear! ”

"Zero calls two, please answer if you receive it!"

"Received on the second, the signal is clear!"

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This is our Zuihou communication test in the tunnel, Tunnel Zero is the headquarters where the company commander is located, and then for the convenience of memory, Tunnel 1 is the first platoon of headquarters, Tunnel 2 is the second platoon, and then the 21st Tunnel is the second platoon and one shift...... And so on.

Someone may say, isn't this a communication rope? Why do you need to use walkie-talkies to communicate?

First of all, the communication rope is not as easy to use as the walkie-talkie anyway, since we have weishenme, why don't we use it? Secondly, the communication rope can only transmit some simple messages, and it is one-to-one, and many times it still cannot meet the needs of contact.

But this is not to say that the communication rope is useless, one is because walkie-talkies, walkie-talkies and other electronic equipment are easy to break down in this wet tunnel...... Although we have used a tarp to protect the walkie-talkie and walkie-talkie well in the past few days, half of the results are still unusable.

Originally, our walkie-talkies were popularized to the class, and now it's okay...... It's good enough to be able to command from company to platoon, and I can't tell when these things will go wrong again.

Go to the rear and transport a batch up? Come on, these things aren't of very good quality in the first place, and it's a bit difficult to ask them to work in a situation where there is water everywhere.

At this time, I remembered what the old man said: "In that tunnel, the telephone is useful, the telephone line can be used as soon as it is shaken, and the structure is very simple, and the telephone soldier can use it again after two tosses by himself!" ”

It seems that when will we have to transfer a batch of phones from the rear.

Another reason is that if the devil comes up to touch the hole, then if it still calls like this, it will undoubtedly expose the target, so at this time it is necessary to use a silent "communication rope".

So the tunnels after testing the walkie-talkie and then happily began to test the communication rope, of course, this is still a little difficult to use, because the soldiers are not very skilled in this area. But all this can be solved by the communication between walkie-talkies and walkie-talkies:

"Hostile?"

"No, two long and one short, you missed one!"

"Silence?"

"That's right!"

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So everyone who came and went quickly became proficient, and then Company Commander Luo couldn't help but say to me on the walkie-talkie: "I said second platoon leader, where did you learn this...... It's like it was made for us! ”

"That's it!" Scar also responded: "These are the most harmful methods...... It looks simple but very practical, has the second platoon commander fought a tunnel battle? ”

"How can you!" I replied with some embarrassment: "Yes...... When I was a child, I liked to listen to stories about tunnel warfare, and my neighbor lived a veteran of the Anti-Japanese War, who fought tunnel warfare at that time...... I thought it was about the same, so I used it! ”

"Oh!" As soon as I said this, Commander Luo and the others believed it, after all, this set is really a bit of the shadow of the previous tunnel war, and we did have a tunnel war at that time, isn't this movie still playing?

Then there was a long period of boredom...... The old man also said about this situation: "As soon as it gets dark, it is not suitable to go outside, and you can't even and pee, otherwise it is very likely that the location of the pit will be exposed and the whole pit will suffer!" So...... Let's stay up until dawn......"

I live in the same tunnel as me are a few soldiers of the second class, and I don't know if it's because I was a soldier in the second class or because of Chen Yiyi, I especially tend to stay with the soldiers of the second class, and what tasks are also intentionally or unintentionally called the second class, which makes the other two squad leaders a little dissatisfied.

So I quickly remembered Chen Yiyi, how nice it would be if she was still here...... Then I will arrange a pit of our own for the two of us no matter what, and those two people will not be bored hiding here, so I will envy the other soldiers of the company!

I just want to think about it, but the reality is cruel...... There are all big men hiding in this tunnel, and because the number of tunnels is not enough, there are only three people who can only accommodate them, and now they are squeezed into four.

So everyone can only sit here like an old monk, and when they are tired, they will lean on the mud behind them, if someone wants to be convenient...... Well, dig a hole under your ass with a sapphire shovel or your hands, bury it and sit on it......

The suffering of this is not something that can be explained in a few words, and we feel that we are not warriors at all, and we don't even feel like human beings...... We are beggars at best, or those madmen who pick up garbage on the street to eat, or those beasts who only have the instinct to survive......

However, I know that this is only the beginning, and that life will be much more difficult than it is now.

"Boom!" At this time, a bang caught our attention.

I don't know if it was because we were too bored or what we were doing, but when we heard this explosion, we perked up and whispered to each other, "The enemy is coming!" ”

There was even a hint of excitement in this voice...... Maybe it's because the soldiers want to break this boredom, or maybe they feel that it is better to die in battle if they continue to endure in such an environment!

Company Commander Luo's order soon came from the walkie-talkie: "Pass the order down, block the tunnel, don't talk and don't use flashlights!" ”

"Yes!" I answered, and a few of my men began to do so without waiting for my order.

The small stone passed the order down with a communication rope, and Wang Kechang rolled on the mud on the ground with the marching arm, and then plugged the mouth of the tunnel from the inside out...... (To be continued......)