"Put on the gloves!" Wei Jianjun shouted at the soldiers. The soldier beside him still had a bandage on his arm, but it was only a slight scratch from the bullet, so the soldier didn't want to leave the line of fire.
Seeing that the soldier only had one layer of gloves, Wei Jianjun took off the two layers of gloves and passed the outer one to the soldier. "Put this on too!"
"Company Commander … Deputy Commander. I don't think it's easy to work with such thick gloves. We just have to be careful … Ouch … Tsk … "The soldier didn't notice that the sharp barbs on the barbed wire had pierced through the gloves and cut his palm.
"Sigh … Be careful." Wei Jianjun gave the gloves to the soldier and went straight to the battalion commander.
Now that the battalion headquarters had a canvas shed, Wei Jianjun took five minutes to get here from the front line. After entering the place where the wind could pass through on all sides, Wei Jianjun asked the battalion commander, "Commander, do you have iron hooks?"
"Why do you need iron hooks?" The battalion commander didn't understand.
"It's convenient to use iron hooks to cast barbed wire," Wei Jianjun answered. Although he had this idea, the long iron hooks that were suitable for dragging barbed wire would probably need to be specially made, and the troops wouldn't bring these things with them. Therefore, Wei Jianjun was thinking about what to use as a replacement.
Unexpectedly, the battalion commander thought about it and said, "Let's go to the kitchen and get the rods to try."
Wei Jianjun immediately felt enlightened. The two of them rushed to the kitchen to take a look. The long rods were indeed suitable. They quickly bent the front end of the rods and rushed back to the front line. Under the setting sun, the barbed wire was either sparsely or densely stacked on the ground. After suffering a lot from the barbs, the soldiers seemed to be more concerned about their own well-being.
The new tools came into effect immediately. Those tools were also made of steel, so they weren't afraid of the iron barbs. Without the battalion commander's special instructions, the soldiers adjusted the barbed wire to make it more reasonable. Wei Jianjun walked along the barbed wire, and the barbed wire wrapped itself into a one-meter diameter ring over a distance of more than a kilometer and stood up with the help of some simple support. If there was more time, this defense would definitely be able to unleash more power. However, on the 26th, the 24th Division didn't have the time to make such preparations.
After surviving the crisis of the night, the troops immediately began to attack the Americans. Duluth was beautiful in the sun. The woods were thick, the slopes covered with grass and unknown flowers. Under such a bright and beautiful early summer sun, the Americans could be seen clearly. This kind of field of vision was very good for shooting. The first-class shooters and snipers of the Liberation Army displayed astonishing combat power. The smoke from the black powder bullets was undoubtedly the best indicator.
Of course, Wei Jianjun's battalion did not participate in the battle during the day. He didn't know if the Americans knew the combat power of this battalion from yesterday's battle, or if they were just unwilling to compete with the Liberation Army in terms of firepower on the flat shore of the lake. In short, the 3rd Battalion's main task in the morning was to transport the wounded and receive two platoons of new troops. In the afternoon, he would make some adjustments. In the afternoon, they began to set up the barbed wire in preparation for the battle at night.
The kitchen unit would rather have an excessive supply than lack. Each of them was more than a meter long, and there were trucks that were used to transport them, so everyone had one. These dozen or so rods were a great help. The barbs of the barbed wire poked into the iron rods, making a sound that made people's teeth ache. When the battalion commander saw that these iron rods had played a good role, his face was originally quite happy, but it soon became very ugly.
"Battalion commander, what's wrong?" Wei Jianjun asked in confusion.
The battalion commander replied with some displeasure, "I'm going to call the regimental headquarters."
"… Oh." Wei Jianjun could only respond. The officers of the 3rd Battalion's judgment of Regiment Commander Hu Xingzhi could probably be described as "not seeing the 3rd Battalion as one of their own". Hu Xingzhi first let the 3rd Battalion poke the hornet's nest on the shore. When the 3rd Battalion was in danger of being attacked from the front and back, the regimental headquarters did not immediately choose to rescue them. Instead, they first set up a new temporary line of defense behind the 3rd Battalion.
Of course, Hu Xingzhi would not watch the 3rd Battalion be destroyed. It was just that when the regimental headquarters was ready to send reinforcements, the 3rd Battalion relied on their own strength to solve the crisis they faced and won a great victory. For the 3rd Battalion that relied on themselves to survive the difficult situation, everything Hu Xingzhi did was to let the 3rd Battalion struggle for survival in the fierce battle.
"We … Should we directly contact the other battalion commanders?" Wei Jianjun could not help but put forward his opinion. Anyway, Hu Xingzhi would not personally participate in the operation of setting up the barbed wire. Even if Hu Xingzhi knew this technique, if he wanted to turn this suggestion into efficiency, he still had to pass it on to the other battalions. From this point of view, directly contacting the other battalions should be the most efficient choice.
What surprised Wei Jianjun was that Battalion Commander Xu Suhang shook his head in objection. "Let's just tell the other battalion commanders directly. It doesn't matter if they think our suggestion is good or not, they will think that we're meddling in other people's business. Humans are all like that. "
"Uh …" Wei Jianjun did not accept this, but he did not object. It was not easy to understand the thoughts of the commanders of the same rank. Everyone was not only a collaborator, but also a competitor. Even if it seemed to be an extremely kind gesture, it was uncertain whether the other party would really appreciate it or not. If the regiment commander asked the battalion commander to do something, regardless of whether the battalion commander agreed in the end, at least in terms of the system, it would be a logical thing to do. However, if the battalion commander asked another battalion commander to do something, even if this suggestion might be of great help to the battalion commander, it was still not a necessary action from the system. Moreover, the 24th Division was a division that was only formed before the war, and the commanders did not serve in the same division for a long time and had good personal relationships with each other.
"We have already lost so many people, I hope that the entire division will have fewer casualties." Xu Suhang patted Wei Jianjun's shoulder and walked straight to the battalion headquarters' phone.
Wei Jianjun looked at the red sun that had already sunk into the mountains, and he agreed with the battalion commander's words. Not long later, night would fall on the battlefield. The earlier they set up the barbed wire, the earlier they could shift the troops into a safer defensive state. Not to mention the casualties caused by the battle, the barbed wire during the day had already caused many soldiers to have their palms pierced by the barbed wire, and at night, the barbed wire would probably cause even more injuries.
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