The heavens start from Changjin Lake

Chapter 176 Because we are 'the cutest people'!

The information Xia Yuan brought gave the soldiers in the tunnel a deeper understanding of the meaning of fighting, and their fighting spirit became even higher, scrambling to say: "Ninth Company Commander, please ask your superiors to fight, the surface positions occupied by the enemy, Let us take it all back!"

Seeing the rising emotions of the soldiers, Xia Yuan comforted: "Comrades, our task is to stick to the tunnel. The longer we stick to it, the more time we can buy for the rear troops. If we stick to the tunnel, victory is within our reach. Getting closer."

Although the condition of the NO.11 tunnel is difficult, the will of the soldiers is very firm. No matter how difficult and harsh the environment is, it is difficult to resist the determination of the soldiers to win.

The will of the soldiers at this time can hardly be described in words or words. We were not born in their era, we don’t know the suffering they experienced, we don’t know their yearning for a peaceful life, we only know that will, which can surpass the limit of the human body, Beyond life and death.

The transporter risked his life to bring a basket of food. This was the first time that the soldiers in the NO.11 tunnel had a slight sense of fullness in their stomachs. While eating the steamed buns and radishes brought by the transporter, they talk:
"We can no longer ask the transporter comrades to deliver things, because we don't know how many comrades shed blood and sacrificed. Where we eat steamed buns and radishes, it is the transporter's blood."

"Yeah, it's better to drink some urine when you're thirsty and lick the stone wall."

They looked at the only hygienist in the tunnel and said, "Hygienist, don't you criticize drinking urine to quench your thirst?"

The hygienist asked: "Why criticize?"

"Hey! Just stop drinking some cold water, 'You can't drink it, you're going to have a stomachache!'"

The soldier imitated the tone of the hygienist, causing everyone to laugh, Xia Yuan also laughed, and then fell silent again, drinking urine to quench his thirst, and licking the stone wall, his heart ached.

Xia Yuan asked: "Comrades, don't you feel bitter?"

Immediately there were many voices answering:
"It's bitter, a little bit."

"Bitter! Who can say it's not bitter, but we are willing to suffer today!"

Xia Yuan asked curiously, "Why?"

A soldier said with a smile: "Because we are the 'cutest people'!"

Another soldier's voice sounded: "It's not hard, it's much better than the Red Army's [-]-mile long march! We haven't eaten grass roots yet, belts!"

Another soldier continued: "That's right, there's bark, so it's hard for us to drink some urine, and aren't we eating radishes and steamed buns now?"

Xia Yuan pursed his lips and smiled, suddenly wanting to travel back to the special period of the Red Army.

Under the enemy's strict blockade, sticking to the tunnel is the only task of the volunteer soldiers. Xia Yuan's arrival has increased the fighting enthusiasm of the soldiers in the tunnel. After all, he is a living fighting hero, and he has been rewarded by the military department. Xia Yuan can clearly feel that the fighters in the No. 11 tunnel like him very much.

But yes, I often fought in the No. 11 position, the No. 11 position, and the No. [-] position. My deeds have long been brought back to the tunnel by the soldiers who participated in the battle, and passed on word of mouth, even in the NO.[-] tunnel. No. .[-] The first batch of soldiers in the tunnel were from the Ninth Company.

During the daytime on the 26th, the tunnel battle fell into a state of anxiety again. The stick soldiers once again occupied the surface position of Shangganling, destroyed the tunnel, and attacked the volunteer soldiers in the tunnel. The enemy's artillery and machine guns hit the mouth again.

The soldiers fell behind the fortifications at the entrance of the tunnel, their teeth itching with hatred, several of them shouted at the same time: "Commander Xia, when are we going out!"

Since Xia Yuan arrived last night, he has taken over the command of No. 11 tunnel.

Then came the scrambling pleas, "Commander Xia, send me out first, and I will definitely destroy the enemy's firepower!"

"Commander Xia, let me go, I haven't been there yet!"

Xia Yuan said: "Comrades, hold your breath, let's rush out now, it's almost the same as sending us to death, guard the tunnel, as long as the enemy dares to come in, we will drive them back!"

The tunnel entrance, which was originally only the size of an oil barrel, became bigger and bigger after a round of shelling by the enemy. The guns kept falling in front of the tunnel entrance, and the violent explosion shook the entire mountain, causing a wave of air in the tunnel. , The smoke filled the tunnel and made the environment in the tunnel even worse. The bullets jingled and hit, and the bounced bullets flew around the entrance of the tunnel.

After the enemy successively used grenades, explosives and other means to destroy the tunnels of the volunteers to no avail, they built bunkers on the left and right sides of the tunnel entrance, and cooperated with artillery fire to block and destroy the tunnels.This kind of frequent destruction made the virtual soil and gravel pile up higher and higher at the entrance of the big cave, almost blocking the entrance of the cave.But the soldiers in the tunnel are more tenacious. You blow it up, and I repair it. The clods and gravel are cleaned up as they fall. However, due to the intensified firepower of the enemy, the casualties of the soldiers are also increasing.
This is not a good way, Xia Yuan has to consider that the enemy will use more vicious and vicious methods, once flamethrowers and poisonous gas are used, the casualties are estimated to be even greater.At the same time, he also found that his decision-making mistakes in this area were far worse than that of Company Commander Dai Wannian.

"We must not let the enemy suffocate us in the tunnel. We should buy time, actively fight, and strike the enemy's vital forces at a small price!"

Thinking in his heart, Xia Yuan gathered the soldiers in the tunnel to brainstorm and discuss countermeasures.

In the end they decided that an active struggle must be launched, and that small units should be strengthened to attack the enemy frequently and blow up its bunkers.Even throwing a grenade and firing a machine gun is better than passively suffocating in the tunnel.Only by fighting in this way and constantly dropping your fists on the enemy's head can we combat the enemy's destruction and ensure the safety in the tunnel.

Xia Yuan looked at the soldiers in the tunnel and said, "Let's form six combat teams and take turns to blow up the enemy's bunker in front of the tunnel entrance!"

He took the lead, and the soldiers stopped him. He persuaded: "As the company commander, I should lead by example. The enemy is very fierce this time. We must not let them succeed! Victory must belong to us!"

Xia Yuan fired a grenade, and in a burst of gunpowder smoke, he rushed out of the tunnel with two soldiers. With a strong reaction, he held a machine gun and hid in front of the tunnel to shoot at the enemy quickly. Before he could react, a series of bullets shot towards him, and he let out a scream before being pierced through his body by the bullets.

In the smoke, Xia Yuan shouted: "Go!"

Two soldiers rushed out of the tunnel with blasting tubes in their hands, one left and one right stuffed the blasting tubes into the enemy's bunker, the soldiers quickly retreated, and with a huge roar, gunpowder smoke filled the front of the tunnel entrance, Xia Yuan immediately ordered : "Get ready! Make a beautiful counterattack!"

He stepped forward again, holding a machine gun and plunged into the mouth of the tunnel filled with gunpowder smoke. The soldiers in the tunnel were shocked by Xia Yuan's heroic figure, and each of them burst out with unprecedented fighting spirit. The first combat team quickly attacked, Under the cover of Xia Yuan, they shot at the stick soldiers stationed on both sides, threw grenades one after another, and exploded outside the tunnel one after another.

The pothole left by the enemy's bunker became Xia Yuan's cover. He took a machine gun and built a firepower point in the pit. The heavy machine gun in the enemy's fire bunker could not suppress Xia Yuan's light machine gun at all. Yuan’s light machine gun not only has a ridiculously high rate of fire, but also has a very high accuracy. The bullets hit the ground in front of the opponent’s bunker gun with a jingle, which shocked the stick soldiers inside to break out in cold sweat. He raised his head and pointed the gun at Xia Yuan.

The soldiers of a combat team successfully got out of the tunnel and shot at the enemy continuously. The blasting team got out of the tunnel, carrying the blasting tube, and under the cover of the soldiers, they kept crawling close to the enemy's bunker and stood up abruptly. , Insert the sounding blasting tube into the enemy's gun hole, and with a roar, the enemy's bunker was wiped out in a burst of gunpowder.

At the beginning of the attack, wherever the enemy built the bunker, the soldiers will tear it down.Destroy as many as you build, and beat the enemy farther and farther away from the entrance of the tunnel.

When the soldiers withdrew into the tunnel, the enemy swarmed again and quickly built a bunker, and the soldiers in the tunnel rushed out again. This kind of tug-of-war not only appeared in the NO.11 tunnel, but was also staged in other tunnels.

Under the strict blockade of the enemy, drinking water has become the primary problem. Everything that contains moisture and can moisturize lips, such as toothpaste, has long been sucked by the volunteer soldiers. The little water that Xia Yuan carried has become the No. 11 tunnel. The most precious thing, these waters are stored by Xia Yuan. He knows the importance of water sources, and he knows that only with water can there be hope.

The water source problem in Tunnel No. 11 was basically solved, and Tunnel No. 11 and Tunnel No. [-] also enjoyed the care of the well in Tunnel No. [-]. However, the entrance of Tunnel No. [-] almost disappeared, and the enemy’s garrison was tight. , and there is a shortage of manpower in the tunnel. It is already more difficult than reaching the sky to send the water source from the No. [-] tunnel to the No. [-] tunnel. How to pass through the enemy's blockade and find the NO. It is undoubtedly a huge problem.

At night, the thirsty soldier squatted in front of the wall, licked the wet wall with the tip of his tongue, and smacked his mouth again, trying to relieve his thirst. Xia Yuan sat on the ground holding the gun and looked at the young soldier : "Are you thirsty?"

The soldier shook his head: "Commander, I'm not thirsty."

His mouth was chapped, and a layer of dry skin had already formed, but he still said that he was not thirsty.

Xia Yuan took the marching water bottle captured from the enemy, carefully poured some out of the bottle lid, and said, "Come and drink."

The soldier's eyes were full of longing, but his firm will told him not to drink.

He said: "Company commander, drink it, I'm not thirsty."

Xia Yuan was moved and distressed. He said, "Of course I want to drink, but not now. Wake up the soldiers and drink some."

He only brought four water bottles, and he had to carry weapons and ammunition, so he couldn't bring so many.Moreover, he has not had enough food for a long time, even if his physical fitness is different from ordinary people, but he has not had enough food for a long time, and he has no energy to display his true strength at all.

It is already very difficult to bring enough ammunition, and I can only carry four water bottles.

The resting soldiers were woken up, Xia Yuan asked everyone to gather around, turned on the kettle, and said, "We don't have much water in the tunnels, if we want to win the battle, we need to save some water, and if no one is around, just cover it a little, and put it in a little water." Drink as much as you can."

After finishing speaking, he asked the first person to drink first, and the soldier said: "Company commander, you drink first."

Xia Yuan scolded: "I told you to drink, you just drink, why are there so many ink stains, hurry up."

The soldier took a sip cautiously, wet his lips, and stopped drinking. Xia Yuan felt distressed, and said in an orderly tone, "Drink it up! This is an order!"

Under Xia Yuan's severe persuasion, the soldier drank the water from the lid and licked his mouth with unsatisfied desire.

More than a dozen soldiers, each of them drank some water, and there was only half of the water left in the kettle. The water shortage problem still lingered on the soldiers in the tunnel, and the No. 11 tunnel could not be heated to boil the water because of the passage.Fortunately, the water is groundwater, and it is very clean with only a little sediment.

Water shortage is still a huge problem. While the soldiers were resting, Xia Yuan wondered how to get the soldiers in the NO.11 tunnel out of the plight of water shortage. Asked: "Company commander, what are you thinking?"

Xia Yuan asked him, "Do you know where the nearest water point is?"

The hygienist thought for a while and said: "On the way to the 537.7 highland, there is a ravine with a small river ditch, but it is blocked by the enemy on the 537.7 North Mountain and the enemy on the No.11 position. It is not easy to get water. .”

The hygienist seemed to know what Xia Yuan was thinking. There was a severe water shortage in the tunnel. Even if Commander Xia brought four pots of water, it was far from being able to solve the current water shortage problem.

"How far is it from here?" Xia Yuan asked.

"About 400 meters."

Xia Yuan pondered.

The distance between three and 400 meters is actually more than 11 meters from the No. 500 tunnel to the NO.[-] tunnel, but it is very difficult and dangerous to consider the enemies on the three positions and the enemy on the zero position. .

On the contrary, if we went to fetch water from the valley between the 597.9 and 537.7 hills, there might be a ray of hope. Xia Yuan thought about it carefully, and almost made a final decision to organize soldiers to fetch water tonight!

If you want to get rid of the current predicament, you must fight for it!

"I have night vision, eagle eyes, and it's not a bad idea to pass through the enemy's line of sight."

He looked at the flares that were gradually extinguishing outside the tunnel. The enemy's flares didn't mean to last forever. A flare can last for more than 30 seconds, and there is a dark time of more than ten seconds in the middle. Sometimes this dark time will be longer. long.

"Only by letting the soldiers get rid of their thirst can they exert greater combat effectiveness!"

Xia Yuan knows that the third stage of Shangganling will start at the beginning of next month, and the second stage of Shangganling will end at the end of October. Shangganling will enter the stage of big counterattack from No.11.

The ace masters have basically completed the adjustment, and they have all been pulled to Shangganling!
Our army will be able to blow the horn of counterattack immediately!
(End of this chapter)