Since the problem of ration shortage of rations has been temporarily solved for the approximately 200 volunteer soldiers in the third company of Sharp Knife, each volunteer soldier only has 300 pine nuts on hand.

According to the instructions given by company commander Zhao Yifa and instructor Wang Wenju, it is required that every volunteer soldier in the third company of the Sharp Knife Company use these 300 pine nuts and last for at least one week.

During this period, if anyone finishes his own pine nuts, he will not continue to provide them. He can only hold on with hunger.

Therefore, every volunteer soldier in the third company of the Sharp Knife treated the three hundred pine nuts he had on hand as if he was gold. Even if he was hungry, he would not dare to eat too quickly, for fear that he would accidentally eat one of his few pine nuts. Then he could only sit in the sky and eat it and fall into hunger.

Now, half a day has passed. On average, each of the soldiers of the Sharp Knife Company only ate less than three pine nuts. They were so hungry that they were roaring. No one dared to eat pine nuts in big mouthfuls.

Company Commander Zhao Yifa was idle and inspected the trenches and air raid shelters that they had just dug yesterday. He discovered a serious problem, that is, once the war really starts, it doesn't take long, such as one or two days, the trenches and air raid shelters they dug now can still hold on for a while.

However, once this blocking battle takes too long, such as more than three days, in the face of fierce artillery fire from the US military and the repeated bombing of airplanes, this simple air raid shelter may have to be bombed and collapsed after a few hours.

You should know that when the enemy bombed the place where they were, in order to avoid the enemy's fierce artillery fire, each of their soldiers in the third company of the Sharp Knife Company had only one rifle and a machine gun squad, and not even a heavy artillery.

In other words, they can only choose to temporarily hide in the air-raid shelter, and wait until the enemy's artillery fire is no longer so fierce that they come out to continue fighting with the enemy. They can only shoot by shooting, at most, throw grenades, and there is no other way of combat.

If the air raid shelter is blown up and collapsed, wouldn’t all the people hiding inside be buried? Then they have not fought much in the battle and will probably suffer heavy losses.

After thinking about this, the company commander Zhao Yifa immediately decided to strengthen the air raid shelter before the large forces of the volunteer army arrived, and to dig the trenches longer and deeper.

When company commander Zhao Yifa told his old partner and instructor Wang Wenju, his consent was also obtained from instructor Wang Wenju.

After all, compared to being hungry, it is more important to save your own lives. What's more, if they want to maintain combat effectiveness, they try every means to reduce casualties.

What's more, now the soldiers of the three companies of their sharp knife company have all assigned three hundred pine nuts in their hands, which temporarily solved the problem of hunger. Although it cannot relieve hunger to a large extent, at least they will not starve to death here.

After the two of them discussed, they immediately called Sun Lei, the leader of the first platoon, Liu Yiming, the leader of the second platoon, and Feng Pengju, the leader of the third platoon, to convey the decision to continue digging trenches and strengthening the air raid shelter.

After conveying this decision, it was immediately opposed by the second platoon leader Liu Yiming and the third platoon leader Feng Pengju and immediately raised objections. They believed that the soldiers' ration problem has been temporarily solved, but after all, the number of pine nuts is limited, and it will take a week for 300 pine nuts to be held in person.

If you spend a lot of physical energy, in order to replenish your physical strength, five to six pine nuts a day will be just a drop in the bucket, which will drag down the warriors' bodies.

The platoon leader, who is on the front line, naturally empathizes with the soldiers' sense of hunger. As the company commander, Zhao Yifa and Wang Wenju, as the instructor, still have some shortcomings in their understanding and do not realize that this is a very serious problem.

For this reason, the company commander Zhao Yifa and instructor Wang Wenju also specially found several soldiers and asked them whether eating five to six pine nuts a day could reduce their hunger.

In front of the company commander and instructor, these soldiers had to answer truthfully that eating only five or six pine nuts a day would have little effect on alleviating their hunger. If they were asked to do heavy work, they would shake their heads and say that they would not be able to do it.

The company commander Zhao Yifa and instructor Wang Wenju had no choice but to throw this problem to Sun Lei, who was the first row leader, to solve it, and asked him to come up with a solution within an hour.

In less than ten minutes, Sun Lei came up with a solution, which was to let the three platoons of volunteer soldiers dig trenches and strengthen air raid shelters in turn, each of which was drained for half an hour, and divided the twenty-four hours a day into three time periods evenly.

Company Commander Zhao Yifa and instructor Wang Wenju both thought that the solution Sun Lei had come up with was very good. Although Liu Yiming and Feng Pengju still complained, they knew that this matter was inevitable, so they had to reluctantly agree.

Since the number of soldiers in the first row led by Sun Lei is as many as fifty-six soldiers, less than twenty people are less than the second and third rows. Their first row not only has to take the lead, but also receive more tasks than those in the second and third rows.

There are many people and you will naturally do more work. Sun Lei thinks this is understandable. After all, there are many people and great power.

From two o'clock in the afternoon, Sun Lei took their row of 56 volunteer soldiers to dig trenches and strengthen air raid shelters.

The three-in-one row of the sharp knife line was divided into five squads and a machine gun team. Sun Lei led the first and second rows to continue digging the trenches and asked other people to strengthen the air-raid shelter. In this way, Sun Lei could also be responsible for the vigilance around the hillside in the trenches.

Given that only pine nuts can fill the stomach when rations are used, the soldiers are naturally slow to do their work, not very motivated, and progress is much slower than the original plan, which makes Sun Lei anxious in his eyes.

Before he knew it, six hours had passed, and soon night was about to fall. Sun Lei, who was afraid that it would be difficult to complete the originally planned mission, was worried about this. Suddenly, his keen ears heard a slight roar of planes from the distance on the south side of the hillside.
Chapter completed!