When they came out of the command center and returned to the tunnel, they found that the soldiers had spontaneously started digging the tunnel. The US military shells on their heads were still blowing one after another, and the tunnel was full of jingling sounds of stones, and the air was filled with an unpleasant smell of pine oil, smell of sweat, and smell of feet.

"Let's take a look!" I said to Wang Yuehan and Wang Yiming on a whim.

"Welcome!" Wang Yiming agreed: "Captain Cui, you have been busy firing cold guns for a while and have no time to guide our tunnel operations. Now that you have time, come and check our work!"

Upon hearing this, Wang Yuehan couldn't help but smile and said, "A capable person like Captain Cui! It's best to have the clone technique, and one person will be divided into half!"

Everyone laughed and said, then walked into the tunnel.

This is a horseshoe-shaped tunnel, and its cross-section looks like a bow. The difference between a horseshoe-shaped tunnel and a straight wall vault-shaped tunnel is that the horseshoe-shaped tunnel is relatively short. It is similar to the passage and is also an aisle-style tunnel, but because it is connected to the garrison tunnel, in order to facilitate the soldiers to quickly withdraw from the tunnel or attack from the tunnel, the bottom is leveled and widened so that the soldiers can run quickly with their weapons.

The deeper the air, the worse it was, and it became hotter and hotter. Soon, I reached the end of the tunnel. The pine oil lamp and charcoal lamp shone the entire tunnel red. Five soldiers were squatting, or kneeling, busy hitting the rocks with iron hammers and iron drills.

"Captain Cui!"

"Chief of Staff Wang!"

"Company Commander Wang!"

...

When the soldiers saw us walking in, they stopped their work and raised their hands to salute us, but because the tunnel was too short, they could not stand up.

"Continue!" Seeing this, I hurriedly said to them: "Thank you for your hard work, comrades, this life is quite tiring!"

"Not tired!" A soldier with bare shirtless sweat all over his body was busy bringing stones to the three of us as stools, and laughing: "No matter how hard or tired we are, we can't shout in front of you Captain Cui! We are sweating, and you are bleeding!"

"Yes, Captain Cui!" Another small soldier sat on the ground and said, "Is it tired or not, I'm just a little panicked. We have been holding guns for nearly ten years, but now we're using hammers to smash iron rods here all over Tmall. Let's see you knock down a large number of American devils, so we're also thinking about when we can touch and hit his mother's shots!"

"Ma Xiaohu!" Hearing the soldier's words, Wang Yiming's voice changed and he cursed at the small soldier: "I said you belong to the stone or what? I have done your ideological work several times, why are you still holding on to this kind of thinking!"

"Company Commander!" The soldier named Ma Xiaohu hesitated and said: "It's not that I'm not enlightened and holding on to this thought. The soldiers all have this thought, but they don't say it..."

"Captain Cui!" Ma Xiaohu paused and continued, "We don't have any opinions on you! We were held in the tunnel by those American devils, and we couldn't even go out to dry the quilt. Fortunately, we were taught a lesson by them and helped us speak disgusting. Thank you, you are still anxious! We just got itchy hands and wanted to go out and shoot a few shots!"

"You..." Wang Yiming was so angry that he couldn't speak when Ma Xiaohu said this.

"Company Commander Wang!" I patted Wang Yiming on the shoulder and said, "It's normal for the soldiers to have this kind of thought! If I had hit the stone with a hammer all day long, maybe I would have such thoughts!"

"Captain! But this..." Wang Yiming wanted to say something, but I raised my hand to stop him.

"Comrades!" I said to Ma Xiaohu and others: "I won't say much about organizational and discipline. Comrades have been in the army for many years and know that they must obey discipline. What I want to say is, don't underestimate the life of digging tunnels! We are fighting cold guns outside, so that you can better build tunnels here?"

"What?" The soldiers were stunned for a moment when they heard this.

"Do you really think we went out to fight cold guns to vent our anger?" I said to the soldiers with a smile: "Comrades! We have never fought for venting our anger. We are bandits and robbers to do it. We are soldiers, and soldiers must have strategic goals in wars."

After a pause, I continued, "We have sacrificed our lives when we shoot cold guns. Every time we kill an American, we have to fight for our lives. The life of the Americans is life, and the life of our volunteers is also life. Moreover, the position of cold guns cannot be captured. This cannot kill more enemies or grab more positions. So what are we doing to risk our lives to fire cold guns? The reason is that you can have more space outside the tunnel, so that you can get out of the tunnel to get logs, and so that you can build the tunnel better!"

"Yes! Comrades!" Wang Yuehan took advantage of the situation and said, "What Commander Cui said makes sense. Comrades also know how Commander Cui trains the troops who fired cold guns. They often lurk on the formation for a day and a night, day and a night! Have you tried lying in a place and motionless? Is it as easy as you think to shoot cold guns? Just like what you said, touching the position and getting a few shots? I remember a soldier who fired cold guns, Liu Liangjin from the second squad, was caught in a human form after lurking back. What are their sufferings and tiring like this? The purpose is to make you safer and more convenient to build tunnels! And you are still in a state of trouble!"

"Chief Staff Wang, Commander Cui!" Ma Xiaohu said with guilt: "I, I know I'm wrong!"

"Comrades!" I added: "Actually, our work is the same. The purpose of our cold guns is to reduce casualties in our troops. The same is true for you to build a tunnel! We lurk on the position for a day, maybe we can only destroy one enemy. If you wave a hammer for a day, you may be able to ensure the safety of ten soldiers!"

"Okay!" Ma Xiaohu rolled up his sleeves without saying a word and said, "Listen to Captain Cui, let's regard swinging the hammer as a way to save the life of his comrades!"

With a coaxing sound, the soldiers all laughed happily.

"Captain Cui!" After carefully returning to my command center along the enemy's shooting dead corner, Wang Yuehan patted the dust on his body, took out a terrain map from his pocket and said, "You have been busy training the soldiers to shoot cold guns during this period, and I didn't dare to ask you. Look, this is the tunnel we built during this period, and I have marked it on this map!"

"Um!" I nodded, took the map and spread it on the map.

"This, this, and this..." Wang Yuehan introduced next to him: "Because we can only secretly go down the mountain to transport some logs in the dark, some tunnels cannot be deep because they cannot be reinforced, and they may collapse as soon as they explode! However, Wang Yiming made an idea and divided the soldiers into three shifts, and kept digging tunnels day and night. Isn't this? Now there are seven or eight tunnels more than 20 meters deep in each of the two high grounds, and they have also dug passages according to the requirements of Captain Cui. It should be almost the same now!"

"It's almost done?" I couldn't help but ask in confusion: "What's almost done?"

"It's almost enough!" Wang Yuehan explained: "There are only more than one hundred people in our two companies! There are only seventy or eighty people in one high ground, and ten people live in a tunnel, and the soldiers all feel it is spacious!"

"Is that all?" I smiled and shook my head, without saying much, picked up the pencil and drew it on the topographic map, saying: "The 537.7 highland and 597.9 highland are separated by a mountain. The terrain is even lower than the enemy's position. Once the war begins, the mountain in the middle is the best place for the enemy to cut off the connection between our two highlands. Therefore, it is very necessary to build a passage from 537.7 highland to 597.9 highland..."

"Captain Cui!" Seeing me drew a long line between the two high grounds, Wang Yuehan couldn't help but be shocked: "The distance between these two high grounds is five or six hundred meters, and such a long passage is to be dug..."

"Most of our tunnels are in the middle and upper part of the highland!" I ignored Wang Yuehan's surprise and continued to say on the map with a pencil: "Such tunnel fortifications have no defense depth and are too rigid. After the enemy attacks, it is easy to block us with artillery fire. Therefore, we also have to build four to five tunnels in the lower part of the highland and seven or eight semi-open tunnels on the top. In this way, the firepower at the top, the mountainside, and the foot of the mountain can be combined to cover each other."

"Captain Cui!" Wang Yuehan's face changed a little: "This can't be built in a short while. Do we have so much time..."

"In order to enhance the connection between the top of the mountain, the mountainside and the foot of the mountain!" I said to myself as if I had not heard Wang Yuehan's words: "We also need to dig a passage from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain. This will greatly enhance the mobility of our army, so that our army's troops can move freely on the top of the mountain, the mountainside and the foot of the mountain, and can attack the enemy unexpectedly from any point."

Looking at Wang Yuehan again, he was so surprised that he couldn't even speak.

I easily threw my pen on the map that was painted like a honeycomb and said with a smile: "This is just a tunnel fortification below the ground! There must be some necessary field fortifications on the surface, such as digging trenches on both sides of the tunnel entrance to facilitate the deployment of troops, and traffic trenches to lead to the top of the mountain so that the soldiers can enter the position or withdraw the tunnel in the enemy's artillery fire!"

"Release, is there any more?" Wang Yuehan asked with difficulty, as if there were some sweat on his forehead.

"Isn't it enough, right? Then let me think about it again..."

"No, no..." Seeing me reaching out to get the pen again, Wang Yuehan hurriedly grabbed the map and said, "Captain Cui, aren't you trying to make it difficult for me? You know that most of these two highlands are hard rock formations, and you still have to make it look like a hornet's nest. This is not a tunnel, it's simply an underground Great Wall!"

"You are right, what I want to do is the underground Great Wall!" I responded.

"Captain Cui!" Wang Yuehan looked at the map again and said hesitantly: "You know that our two high grounds are not the focus of my defense. Is it necessary to make the fortifications like this? Besides, we are just a few people. If we really want to make this, we will not be able to get down for more than half a year..."

"Anyway, the soldiers are idle, aren't they?" I said without comment: "No one can tell what's happening on the battlefield, and the US military will take our two high grounds as the focus of attacks! Isn't there a saying? Sweat more before the war and less bleeding during the war. We will never make mistakes when we prepare more before the war! What's more, now the enemy and us are negotiating, and both sides will not make big moves in the short term. The soldiers cannot go to the battlefield, nor can they fire cold guns, so why do you let them stay in the tunnel? Eat and sleep all day long? After a few months like this, can they still go to the battlefield?"

"That's right!" Hearing Wang Yuehan, he couldn't help but nodded gently.

"So! Chief of Staff Wang!" I said lightly: "You are just to train your body for the soldiers. You are responsible for commanding Company Commander Wang, and Company Commander Zhang builds fortifications on these two high grounds. I am responsible for firing cold guns. How about it?"

"Yes!" Wang Yuehan stepped forward, but when he saw the black lines on the map in his hand, he couldn't help but shivered.

After seeing Wang Yuehan off, I dragged my tired feet to the edge of the bed, turned over and lay down. I thought to myself that being a bigger official is really tiring. Now I am actually the largest leader in the 537.7 and 597.9 highlands, and I have to deal with all the big and small matters. I have to take the soldiers to fire cold guns, but I also have to worry about the fortifications of the two tunnels on the highlands. But then again, if the tunnels are constructed in this way according to the requirements of the superiors, I can deal with it. I am asking for trouble to force the soldiers to make trouble.

The tunnel fortifications in Shangganling in history should be almost the same as we are now! Now, because of my existence, the tunnel fortifications in Shangganling will be built into a well-connected and interconnected defense system. What impact will this have on this battle?

I just hope that the volunteer soldiers will suffer fewer casualties...

As I thought about it, my eyelids became heavier and he fell asleep unknowingly.

"Dadongda, dadongda!"

I was woken up by a rhythmic sound of slap. Before I opened my eyes, I heard a few cheers from the passage. Then I heard a bright male voice saying with a sound of slap:

The position is our live shooting range, and it is recommended to kill the enemy with cold guns!

Dadongda, dadongda!

Let’s see who is skilled, aim at each shot, and send him to the King of Hell!

Dadongda, dadongda!

Accumulating few results and winning many will make you great success, and the heroes will be well-known on the list! Famous!

"Okay! Another one!"

"One more!"

...

I got up from the bed in confusion and looked in the direction where the sound came, but saw Zhang Mingxue and Xu Yongwei stretching their necks in the passage and looking at something next door.

"What's going on?" Seeing this, I couldn't help but ask in confusion.

"Captain, you are awake!" Zhang Mingxue cheered and said, "Teacher Wang sent us an art troupe! We said we won the battle and came to reward us!"

"Yes, the leader!" Xu Yongwei also said, "We didn't dare to wake you up when you fell asleep. There were also buns! Commander Wang specially asked the kitchen team to improve our food!"

"Well!" Looking at Zhang Mingxue's gesture, I saw two buns in a small bowl on my desk.

At this time, I was really hungry. I grabbed one and bit it without saying a word. Hey! It’s still pork stuffing. This thing is a treasure on the battlefield. Commander Wang is really interesting!

"Have you all eaten?" I couldn't help but ask as Zhang Mingxue and Xu Yongwei drooled.

"Yes, I haven't eaten yet!" Zhang Mingxue smiled embarrassedly, took out a bun from his arms and said, "I haven't been willing to eat it yet! Everyone has it, one for each!"

"What?" As soon as I reached out to the second bun, I couldn't help but shrink back when I heard this: "Why do I have two?"

"That's Staff Officer Wang..." Xu Yongwei explained: "He said that this credit was obtained by you, and he would not receive any reward without merit!"

"Talking about it!" I stopped asking, grabbed the remaining bun and entered the passage and walked towards the tunnel next to me.

I was stunned when I got out of the passage. The crowds of people were crowded. Dozens of soldiers squeezed this tunnel that was only 20 meters deep, so I couldn't find Wang Yuehan's shadow!

"Captain Cui!"

"Captain Cui!"

...

Just as I was stunned, the soldiers noticed me and stood up to make way for me. Only then did I see a slightly larger place in the center of the tunnel. Under two pine oil lamps, two men and three women were holding various musical instruments in their hands and pulling the stage.

When one of the female warriors holding an accordion saw this scene, he quickly put down the accordion in his arms and greeted him, stretched out his hand enthusiastically and said, "You are the Commander Cui! I am Li Yuying, the commander of the Art Troupe of the 77th Division! When we came, the guards said that you were asleep and didn't bother you!"

"Um!" I heard that she was the leader of the art troupe, so I looked at her more. She was wearing a tender green military uniform, a brown belt around her slender waist, a little Liuhai was pressed under the military cap, and small braids were tied on both sides. Her big black eyes made people feel a little smile. I couldn't help but feel a little strange when I looked at me. She was only twenty years old, and she was already the leader of the art troupe...

"Captain Cui?" Seeing me in a daze, Li Yuying couldn't help but scream in confusion.

"Oh, hello! Hello!" I quickly reached out my hand, but suddenly I found that I was still holding a bun in my hand, so I quickly shrank my hand back, which made the soldiers laugh.
Chapter completed!