The decisive battle against the Third Reich

Strictly speaking, this should be a "tunnel battle" rather than a "tunnel battle."

The two are very similar in form, both digging pits underground, but in fact there are differences.

The biggest difference is that the tunnels in "Tunnel War" are built on high ground. There is only one tunnel entrance exposed. The main body of the tunnel is inside the high ground. Due to the nature of the high ground, it is difficult to dig the tunnel from the outside.

"Tunnel warfare" is generally built on flat land or low ground. If you know the direction of the tunnel and dig down from the outside, it will be easier to find the tunnel.

Therefore, their combat methods are very different. For example, "tunnel warfare" uses the entrance of tunnels to cover each other, uses high ground to "hide troops" and "maneuver", and combines with anti-slope positions for combat.

"Tunnel warfare" is the use of surface buildings to hide tunnel entrances for mobile warfare.

Of course, Qinchuan's use of "tunnel warfare" tactics here was not to rely on this tactic to fight the Soviet army, but was forced to have no choice but to be forced by the Soviet army and the cold.

After the chimney was completed and proved effective, the morale of the troops quickly received a qualitative improvement.

Originally, everyone, including the soldiers of the 1st Infantry Regiment, had a negative attitude towards this war... This cannot be blamed on them. Thousands of people occupied a small high ground and were surrounded by Soviet troops outside. Moreover, the Soviet troops There were tanks and artillery, but the Germans had nothing.

The huge disparity between the enemy and ourselves is obvious, especially at night when you can't light a fire, the food you eat is cold, and you can't sleep... Let alone fighting, it doesn't take a few days to be cold or tired before the game is over quickly.

But now, the fire can be heated as soon as the chimney is built. The cellar is as warm as a greenhouse and has become a good place to rest and sleep. Of course, with a pot, you can eat hot food.

The soldiers' requirements are actually very simple...if the problem of food and clothing is solved, and the problem of sleep is solved, then even if they die on the battlefield, they will die comfortably.

On this basis, it is of course not a problem to let the soldiers carry out tunnel transformation.

On the surface, it seems that it is not difficult to transform the tunnels. The houses in the town are not far from each other, with a spacing of more than ten meters. In other words, they only need to dig tunnels with a depth of more than ten meters from the sides in the right directions to connect to each other.

But it’s not that simple to actually dig it out.

First of all, there is the worry about collapse... The cellar is very close to the ground, and most of it is made of cement concrete, so there is no worry about collapse. However, if the tunnel is dug directly from the side wall, the thickness of the soil layer in the tunnel is not even one meter. If a few shells vibrate or hit, the tunnel will collapse in pieces.

To avoid this problem, instead of digging the tunnel directly from the side wall, dig it down first and then extend it in the direction of the other cellar.

"Be careful not to extend in a straight line!" This is Qinchuan's request for the tunnel.

Colonel Slain asked doubtfully: "Why can't it be a straight line? Our tunnels seem to be straight lines, but there are a few corners!"

"Tunnels are different from tunnels!" Qin Chuan replied: "Tunnels are easier to defend, and there is basically no chance that the tunnel will be occupied by the enemy! But the tunnel...if it is made in a straight line, once the enemy occupies one of the cellars, it only needs Setting up a machine gun can threaten everyone in the other cellar!"

Colonel Slain couldn't help but said "Oh" and nodded in agreement.

Therefore, the tunnels were built in an arc, like an arch bridge, connecting from one cellar to another cellar, and then from another cellar to more cellars. Some of the tunnels led to trenches, hospitals or hospitals. It's another location that you can go to during the war. It's like an underground city.

On the other hand, the supplies promised by the Army Group Headquarters also arrived as scheduled that afternoon... First, two fighter jets and four fighter jets bombarded the Soviet artillery and anti-aircraft firepower indiscriminately, and then six transport planes "rumbled" "Flying over Holm.

The Soviet army immediately realized that these transport planes wanted to airdrop supplies, so light and heavy machine guns and anti-aircraft fire fired at these transport planes.

The engine of a transport plane was hit and black smoke was emitted... But as mentioned before, the "Junkers 52" was nicknamed "Steel Annie" in the German army. As long as the engine did not catch fire and spread to other places, it had three engines. Having one of them broken is a piece of cake.

So 6 transport planes successfully dropped 18 boxes of supplies over Holm... except that 6 boxes were airdropped to Hexi controlled by the enemy, 2 boxes were airdropped to the open space between the enemy and ourselves and could not be retrieved, and the rest were dropped to Three of the 10 boxes in Hedong were smashed to pieces because the parachutes did not open. Fortunately, they contained bags of flour, so it did not affect their use.

A box of supplies happened to fall near the Second Company's station. Qinchuan and Kuhn, who were stationed in the trench, looked around and saw that no one else was paying attention. Without saying a word, they rushed forward and each picked up a bag of flour and ran to the cellar. , Yacop followed behind and carried a few cans, and also ran very fast...

These supplies should be handed over to the logistics department for distribution after statistics, but the soldiers who were already starving due to insufficient supplies would not care about this.

When several people ran into the cellar with flour and cans, they found that Werner had moved a bathtub into the cellar at some point. At this time, he had stripped naked and was singing and taking a hot bath inside...

"Sergeant!" Qin Chuan put the bread down on the shell box and said to Werner: "Aren't you worried about the Soviet attack?"

"Then let them wait!" Werner replied: "What a treat, Captain, to take a hot bath after almost being frozen into an ice sculpture..."

As he spoke, Werner stretched out his long furry legs from the bathtub and struck an ecstatic pose, which made the soldiers laugh.

"You'd better get this thing out!" Qin Chuan said: "It makes the cellar full of water vapor, and if the Soviets really attack... you will know that you will be naked and running with water all over your body. What will happen if you go out!"

"Then the sergeant will really turn into an ice sculpture!" Dominic said: "I just want to know if the sergeant's bird will be frozen and fly away!"

There was another burst of laughter in the cellar.

"Captain!" After laughing for a while, the baker looked blankly at the two bags of flour carried by Qin Chuan and Kuen, and asked, "Why are you carrying these things?"

"Can't we get something to eat?"

"But we don't have yeast!" said the baker, "and we don't have an oven!"

"God!" Qin Chuan rolled his eyes. Foreigners seemed to only have bread in their eyes.