Chapter 32 Not cruel enough

Lying on the bed, I couldn't sleep, and suddenly wanted to see how the tunnel was built, so I took Zhang Mingxue along the passage next to it to climb towards other tunnels.

When passing the big tunnel that Wang Yuehan took me to see last time, Eran found that the soldiers had nailed a wooden sign on the door, and several traditional Chinese characters were clearly engraved from right to left on the sign - "Invincible Trail". Seeing this, I couldn't help but feel funny. By the way, we Chinese like to add the two words "Invincible" in front of the super-large and powerful things. For example, the Divine Power Invincible Cannon, Invincible General Cannon, and Invincible Warship. I didn't expect that even the tunnel can be called invincible now.

"Whose name is this?" I asked casually.

"It's Staff Officer Wang!" Zhang Mingxue said: "I originally wanted to wait for the regiment commander to come back to give him a name. Later, everyone thought you were honored, so Staff Officer Wang gave him this name. He said that Commander Cui never encountered an enemy on the battlefield, so he named this tunnel built according to your wishes, "Invincible Tunnel", just treat it as a commemoration of you!"

"Well! This relationship is good!" I couldn't help but joke: "I'm not dead yet, and this memorial hall has been built!"

Zhang Mingxue couldn't help laughing out loud as he listened.

"Captain Cui! It's Captain Cui..." A soldier inside heard the movement outside and poked out his dark head. He saw that it was me. He couldn't help but shouted in excitement: "Comrades, it's Captain Cui. Captain Cui is back..."

With a "huh...", I clearly felt a gust of wind coming out of the tunnel, and more than a dozen soldiers followed the wind and surrounded us.

"It's really Captain Cui. We thought you... that's it!"

"That's it! When we first heard the news, we didn't work all day and we were bored!"

...

As soon as the soldiers rushed out, they rushed to speak, and some even asked about this and that, but I didn't know what to answer.

"By the way, where is Staff Wang?" I asked, "I have been here for a while, and why haven't I seen Staff Wang!"

"He is busy in another tunnel!" Zhang Xiaoyu replied: "Last night he heard that you were here and wanted to see you immediately, but he didn't dare to leave the position without authorization, so he endured it. But he knew that you were back alive, so he was so happy. He was busy in the tunnel all night, and he was full of energy!"

"Isn't Company Commander Zhang the same?" The other soldiers quickly started to cheer.

"Everything is the same!" Zhang Xiaoyu smiled, then pulled me into the tunnel: "Captain, come and see our invincible tunnel, this time! It's not even a problem for us to hide here for the first month!"

"Oh! Did you store water?" I asked.

"That's right!" Zhang Xiaoyu, who was walking in front, nodded.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but feel a little confused. As long as I want to store water, although it doesn't take much time to lift dozens of gasoline barrels up by my method, if dozens of gasoline barrels are placed in the tunnel, the tunnel will soon appear crowded. So several other tunnels for water storage should be built. But I have only been out for a few days, have the soldiers built the tunnel?

With doubts, he hugged his waist with the soldiers and got into the horseshoe shape.

A section of the "Invincible Pit" in front of the "Invincible Pit" is a relatively narrow horseshoe-shaped tunnel. The advantage of this kind of corridor-shaped tunnel is that the project volume is not large and does not require log support. Moreover, because it is arched on the top, it is relatively sturdy and widened below, so it is easy for soldiers to carry weapons and equipment to enter and exit quickly, so it is widely used in the corridor.

After walking in for a while, I found that the soldiers had also done new work in this horseshoe-shaped tunnel, because every few meters I walked, I found a small hole dug next to the tunnel, with many sandbags and shovels piled up inside.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but ask in confusion: "These are..."

"Captain, these are fire-proof and anti-virus!" Zhang Xiaoyu explained: "If the enemy's flamethrower and poison gas are sprayed inside, we can't get in as long as we put these sandbags into the fire. Make a few more layers, and then spread a thin layer of soil to keep the poison gas, and we didn't remove it."

"Well! This is a good idea!" I couldn't help but praise in my heart when I heard this. This is a practical and fast method of fire prevention and toxicity prevention, which once again shows that the power of the masses is infinite.

"And!" Zhang Xiaoyu paused for a while and continued: "We have all the sand in this sandbag. The sand is not easy to cake and pour out easily. If we want to extinguish the fire in the tunnel, we just need to pierce a few holes in the sandbag and sprinkle it all the way..."

"Hey! I even thought of this!" Hearing this, I couldn't help but admire the soldiers' careful preparations again.

As I was talking, my eyes lit up. The soldiers and I had already walked into the "Invincible Pit" garrison tunnel. After looking at it for a while, I couldn't help but be stunned. I originally thought that the tunnel should be filled with gasoline barrels, but when I walked in, I found that there was no empty gasoline barrel. I searched the wall of the tunnel for a while, but I couldn't see any tunnel specifically for water storage. I couldn't help but look at Zhang Xiaoyu in confusion.

Zhang Xiaoyu and the soldiers laughed and said proudly: "Captain, let's stump you for a while! This gasoline barrel filled with water is in this tunnel, and it's up to you to find it!"

"I'm asking me a difficult problem!" I couldn't help but feel a little funny, and at the same time I was a little unwilling to accept it. Such a large gasoline barrel was hidden in this tunnel, and I couldn't even find it!

So he continued to search in the tunnel with dissatisfaction, but after searching, he could not see the shadow of a gasoline barrel. Zheng Fan was unable to see that he suddenly found dozens of floors made of logs under his feet. He was stunned and looked at Zhang Xiaoyu in shock...

Zhang Xiaoyu nodded with a smile, walked up and lifted the log cover, and a wooden plug was stuffed into one of his mouth. The gasoline barrel buried in the soil appeared in front of me.

"Captain, look at the idea of ​​burying the gasoline barrel here!" Zhang Xiaoyu grinned and said, "This is the way that guy Wang Yiming thought. It is convenient to bury the water here to get water, and it does not waste space. Don't increase the project volume and open more tunnels. It's really a killing of multiple kills!"

"I can't tell that Wang Yiming has a little brain!" I couldn't help but nod my head frequently after listening to Zhang Xiaoyu's words. The problem of water shortage on Shangganling was finally solved.

"Captain, try this water!" Zhang Xiaoyu said, pulling out the plug on the gasoline barrel, then quickly put a straight spoon made of bamboo joints beside him into the mouth, scooped a spoon and handed it to me.

I took it and couldn't help but praise it: "I taste this water, which is sweeter than other places!"

With a coaxing sound, the soldiers all laughed out loud.

"Captain Cui, Captain Cui..." Before he could hear the voice, Wang Yuehan and Wang Yiming ran in excitedly, and later followed Yang Zhenshan, Hu Zudi and other soldiers. When they saw me, they rushed up without saying a word and hugged me tightly. More than a dozen people hugged each other, cheering, jumping, and slapped, not to mention how excited they were.

"It's great to come back! It's great to come back!" After a long time, Wang Yuehan patted my shoulder and said, "I thought I would never see you again! I didn't expect that your life is really harder than that stone!"

"It's just the third squad leader..." Yang Zhenshan's words silenced all the soldiers in the tunnel.

"Oh, Liu Yawen and the others are back!" Wang Yuehan explained: "You are really good. When you come back, you don't send anyone to notify us. You ran into the tunnel by yourself. We only realized that you came back one step earlier than them when we heard Liu Yawen and the others talk about it."

"Yeah!" I nodded and said, "Squad Leader Huang is a good person. He sacrificed himself to cover us and not to expose us. There are two other soldiers, Wu Weimin and Chen Hai! Come on, let us all use water instead of wine to see them off!"

The soldiers responded, and took the bowls and the spoons. After a while, they were filled with water and raised them high. Then they shouted dry, and they each drank the water in their hands.

"The construction of the tunnel is not a problem!" After drinking, I asked Wang Yuehan.

"Fortunately..." Wang Yuehan nodded and responded: "It's just that the logs are difficult to cut down again!"

"What?" I asked in confusion after hearing this.

"The main reason is that there is no wood nearby to cut down!" Wang Yuehan smiled bitterly: "As soon as the Americans started the war, the incendiary bombs, shells, and aviation bombs kept throwing them into places with trees and grass. Isn't it? In just a few days, the nearby area was burned into scorched earth! Now we want to cut down the logs, at least four or five miles away!"

"So that's how it is!" I felt helpless. The Americans didn't realize that we were hiding in the tunnel at this time, and they thought we were hiding in the forest like when we first entered the court. No wonder they would just start fighting and burn the forest first and then blow it up.

However, although they bombed the wrong place, they made a mistake, making it more difficult for us to build a tunnel.

"Report!" At this time, a communication soldier's cry came from the entrance of the tunnel: "Report to Commander Cui! Commander Wang asked you to go to the division headquarters!"

"Go to the division headquarters?" I wondered in my heart. Didn't I come from the division headquarters just now? Now I'm asking me to go to the division headquarters again. Could it be that Commander Wang, because I just got angry at the division headquarters, I'm going to ask me to give me a scolding now!

"You are all doing your own things, I'll come later!" I said to the warrior, and I followed the correspondent to the division headquarters with doubts.

When I walked out of the tunnel, I realized that the sky had become dark. There were stars in the sky, and in the dark and bright sky, a crescent moon lit up our way forward. The correspondent and I walked down the 597.9 high ground, and then trotted along the snow-filled mountain road. After more than ten minutes, we arrived at the division headquarters. Before we even entered the tunnel, we heard a familiar laugh from inside.

"Haha... This kid has a pretty temper! He dares to act wildly in front of you, Commander Wang!"

"Hey! It's my fault, my fault!" Commander Wang smiled aside.

"Teacher Pang!" I was stunned when I heard this familiar voice, and hurriedly shouted a report outside, and rushed in before I got permission.

"Teacher Pang, it's really you!" After entering the tunnel, he saw Commander Pang sitting at the table, talking and laughing with Commander Wang and Political Commissar Xie while drinking tea.

"You boy!" As soon as I saw me, Commander Pang, he smiled bitterly, and his fingers lit up in the air and cursed: "Do you know who Commander Wang is? He is my old commander! I remember that I was the deputy of Commander Wang back then and worked under him for five years! He promoted me with one hand. Commander Wang has also put in a lot of efforts in the formation of your 538th Regiment. Do you know? You guy dare to lose your temper at him... Why? Do you want to fight against us two old guys?"

"Ah? This... Commander Pang, I..." I, who was usually sharp-tongued, was so stupid that I said something. After a long time, I put it in a sentence: "Master Pang, I don't know. You can tell me before you set off!"

"Hey! I'll say Cui Wei!" After hearing what I said, Commander Pang became even more excited. He stood up and said, "What do you mean by Commander Wang, if he was not my old commander, you could lose your temper at him and take off his wildness in front of him?"

"No, no...no, I didn't mean that!" I scratched my head, not knowing how to answer for a while. It only made Commander Wang and Commander Pang laugh.

"Come on, Xiao Cui, sit down!" Commander Wang warmly pulled me to him: "Don't listen to your Commander Pang's nonsense. I can't help but feel guilty about this. I should have explained the situation to you, but I was just worried about your identity and the reactions of the 538th Regiment Commander and the soldiers, so I didn't tell you clearly..."

"Secretary Wang, I understand!" I quickly stood up and saluted Commander Wang: "Soldiers should obey the orders of their superiors. It is the same as understanding the situation and not understanding the situation. So Commander Wang is not wrong, but I am wrong!"

"Okay, OK!" Commander Pang pressed me back to the chair and said, "Don't fight anymore. We are all comrades, why do you say so many polite words? But boy! Your influence is quite great! The 538th Regiment almost rebelled because of you!"

"This..." I don't know how to answer. Because I don't know if I have made great contributions in the volunteer army. If so, I'm afraid I will be dismissed soon and investigated!

"It's good to have influence!" Commander Wang's words quickly calmed down: "If you have influence, it means that this army is cohesive! Only when you fight in this way can you be united and use your life and death! Only if you have combat effectiveness can you have combat effectiveness. What we need most in our volunteer army is such a unit!"

"It just made me go for nothing!" Commander Pang patted the dust on his body and said with a wry smile: "Team Wang sent a telegram saying that you were trapped in the enemy formation. The soldiers of the 538th Regiment were all rushing to save people. They were about to be unable to suppress them, so I came here overnight. Unexpectedly, when I came here, I saw that you are still very good and nothing!"

With a coaxing sound, the few people in the tunnel laughed into a ball again.

"But Commander Pang!" After laughing for a while, Political Commissar Xie continued to praise me and said, "The regiment commander under your command is really a figure. It has been less than two months since he came to our 26th Army. What do you think? Not only did he teach us a lot of experience in tunnel combat, but he also pulled up a cold gun unit with his own hands! This made our 26th Army the first army to start shooting cold guns, and all the troops rushed to learn from us! Our 26th Army became famous instantly!"

"This kid's shooting skills are good!" Commander Pang picked up the teacup and took a sip, and said disrespectfully: "It's just his intention to let him shoot a cold gun. What can this be considered?"

"Hey! You can't say that!" Commander Wang disagreed: "I think Comrade Xiao Cui is not just a simple marksman. There are also some sharpshooters in our 77th Division. Not only is there anyone who can compare with him? Isn't this? All sharpshooters in the division are his subordinates! If I ask me, Comrade Xiao Cui is relying on his head! Just like what I told you just now, I didn't expect that he would come back alive from this reconnaissance mission. He was sitting here for good? How could this be done with good marksmanship!"

"Well!" Commander Pang looked at Commander Wang and Political Commissar Xie praising me like this, and seemed to feel very proud. He handed me a cup of tea in front of me and said to me: "It is indeed not easy to successfully pass through the enemy's defense line, avoid the US military's search, and then successfully pass through the US military's defense line and bring back a large army of soldiers. Especially, it is a prerequisite for a good cadre and a good leader to do so. But I think you have not done well enough!"

"Well!" Commander Pang's words not only aroused my curiosity, but even Commander Wang and Political Commissar Xie turned their heads in confusion and looked at Commander Pang, waiting for his next sentence.

"You are not cruel enough!" After taking a sip of tea, Commander Pang stared at me tightly and said, "This 'ruthless' is not only cruel to the enemy, but also to your own people. Do you understand?"

"You should be cruel to your own people?" Although I understood what Commander Pang meant, I was a little reluctant and dared not admit it.

"That's right!" Commander Pang nodded heavily: "Listen to the soldiers, when you hide in the cement pipe, Huang Sihu asked to take two soldiers to divert the enemy and confuse the enemy's sight. You will actually order them to enter the cement pipe! Do you know where you are wrong?"

After a pause, Commander Pang continued: "If Huang Sihu really executed your order at that time, what would be the result? Have you ever thought about it? It was your entire army that was wiped out! It was all of you who died at the gun of the enemy! Which kind of ending do you think is better?"

I was speechless.

"So... I said you are not cruel enough!" Commander Pang almost gritted his teeth and said to me: "You have to remember that those who serve in the army can only be cruel to the enemy, and you can only focus on fighting the enemy. But being a cadre and a leader cannot do it. You must also learn to be cruel to your own people, otherwise you will not have such good luck next time!"
Chapter completed!