"Oh?" Masasuke Shimomura said happily, "What can I do? I can still wait a week."
"Blast!" Ritsu Maeda said in a deep voice, "Dig a tunnel directly to the root of the four-row warehouse wall, and then use explosives to blast it. The outer wall of the four-row warehouse can be blown down in an instant."
"Explosion? Is this the method you mentioned?" Masasuke Shimomura was disappointed.
"This won't work. The altitude of Songhu is too low, and the Sihang Warehouse is close to the Suzhou River. If you dig two meters down, groundwater will gush out, and the entire tunnel will soon be submerged by groundwater."
"The 10th Brigade has already tried it before."
"It was too late to use several drainage pumps to drain the water."
Ritsu Maeda waved his hand and said, "Your Excellency, Commander, tunnels and tunnels are not the same."
"Tunnels and tunnels are not the same?" Shimomura Massuke's face turned a little ugly, "Maeda-kun, I hate it when people show off their words in front of me. You'd better explain it clearly to me."
This accidentally hit Shimomura Masasuke's pain point.
This old devil has never been to a military academy and has a low level of education.
It is entirely thanks to the support of his father-in-law that he has reached his current position.
"Your Majesty Commander, I didn't mean to mock you."
Ritsu Maeda coughed lightly and said quickly: "Have you ever seen a field mouse dig a hole?"
"Vole?" Shimomura Masuke asked, "What does this have to do with vole digging?"
Ritsu Maeda said: "When voles dig holes, they usually don't dig very deep. Most of them stick to the surface, so even in low-lying areas near rivers or lakes, the holes will not be flooded by the influx of groundwater."
"Maeda-kun, do you mean to dig tunnels close to the surface?"
"Yes, dig close to the surface." Maeda said. "This way the aquifer will not be touched, and groundwater will not flow out to flood the tunnel. The tunnel can extend all the way to the bottom of the Sihang Warehouse."
"But if it's too close to the surface, won't the tunnel collapse?" Masasuke Shimomura questioned.
"So the tunnel needs to be reinforced at any time." Ryu Maeda said, "We can use gasoline barrels cut in half for reinforcement, and weld one gasoline barrel every few meters of digging forward, and then continue digging, and then weld the gasoline barrels again. , once the west wall or north wall foundation of the Sihang Warehouse is dug, it can be easily blown down with just a few dozen kilograms of explosives.”
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"blasting?"
"Dig a tunnel?"
"This is impossible."
"Old Yan, this really doesn't work."
Xie Jinyuan, Shangguan Zhibiao and others shook their heads.
Yang Deyu also shook his head: "Old Yan, the terrain in Songhu is so low that we really can't dig a tunnel."
Wu Jie also continued: "If the excavation is shallow, it will easily collapse. If the excavation is deep, it will be filled with water. If you just take a few steps, it will become a muddy soup. People can't walk around inside, let alone transport soil outside."
Xie Jinyuan also said: "At the beginning of the Songhu Battle, we also thought about digging tunnels and blasting the Japanese strongholds, but we gave up because of water seepage."
"You all think it's impossible to dig a tunnel?" Yan Yan asked with a smile.
"It can't be dug. It really can't be dug." Zhu Shengzhong also shook his head repeatedly.
Yan Yan smiled and said, "You don't believe it, do you? I'll find someone to tell you."
Yan Yan immediately asked Xiao Huangpao to go downstairs and call Chen Mingde to the regiment headquarters on the second floor of the east building.
Chen Mingde stood at attention, then raised his hand to salute: "Siring officers, are you looking for me?"
Yan Yan hummed and said, "Chen Mingde, you are an expert. Come and tell them whether it is possible to dig a tunnel in Songhu?"
"Of course we can dig tunnels." Chen Mingde said without thinking, "As long as we do a good job of preventing water seepage and strengthening it, we can dig tunnels even under the sea, not to mention Songhu."
"What do you mean? Can you really dig a tunnel?" Wu Jie and others looked at each other.
Zhu Shengzhong didn't believe it: "How to dig it? Just tell me how to dig this tunnel?"
"It depends on your requirements." Chen Mingde said, "Should we dig deeper or shallower?"
"What difference does this make?" Zhu Shengzhong asked, "What if we dig deeper, but what if we dig shallower?"
Chen Mingde said: "If you dig deeper, you must do a good job in preventing water seepage and landslides, which requires a lot of reinforced concrete and wooden piles. If you dig shallower, it is easy, as long as you have gasoline barrels."
"Gasoline barrels?" A famous scene from a classic anti-war drama immediately appeared in Yan Yan's mind, in which men and horses from an intensified battalion were struggling to squirm in a narrow tunnel made of gasoline barrels.
Chen Mingde said: "Yes, as long as there are gasoline barrels, chief of staff, you want to dig a tunnel to blast the Japanese stronghold?"
"Oh no, it's not that we want to dig tunnels." Yan Yan said, "It's that we want to prevent the Japanese from digging tunnels."
"It's simple." Chen Mingde exclaimed, "Just dig a trench around the Sihang Warehouse. You don't have to dig too deep. Two or three meters deep is enough, because digging a trench with a depth of more than three meters in terrain like Songhu is enough." The tunnel is very time-consuming and labor-intensive, even just digging a 100-meter-long tunnel will take several months."
"Can you dig a hundred meters in a few months?" Yan Yan's heart moved when he heard this.
Suddenly, Yan Yan had a bold idea in his mind, tunnel battle?
Chen Mingde said: "If the power supply is sufficient and all kinds of equipment and materials are complete, there will be no problem."
After hearing this, the idea that had just emerged in Yan Yan's heart immediately died, and I pretended that I didn't think about anything.
Xie Jinyuan said: "It takes time and effort to dig deep, but won't it collapse if we dig shallow? We originally wanted to dig a tunnel to blow up the Japanese naval headquarters building, but the tunnel we dug collapsed because it was too shallow."
"That's because you didn't reinforce the tunnel." Chen Mingde said, "Just reinforce it with gasoline barrels."
"How to reinforce the gasoline barrels?" Shangguan Zhibiao was a little confused, "We are digging tunnels, not digging trenches to bury the gasoline barrels and splicing a tunnel together. I would like to ask you how to splice the gasoline barrels together?"
"What's so difficult about this?" Chen Mingde said in astonishment, "First saw the gasoline barrel in half, transport it from the tunnel to the front end, and then weld it together."
"Ah?" Shangguan Zhibiao was stunned.
Serious and speechless, how unthinking is this?
It seems that it is still a matter of habit. The Chinese army does not have the habit of thinking. This bad habit needs to be changed. From now on, if anything happens, all officers will have to be summoned to discuss strategies and tactics.
Just do it if you think of it, and implement the serious decisions from now on.
At this moment, Yan Yan high-fived everyone's attention, and then said: "Now let me test everyone. If you are the staff of the Songhu Independent Regiment, how can you ensure the survival of the Songhu Independent Regiment?"
Under conscious guidance, Shangguan Zhibiao and others finally began to think.
"I can see that Sihang Warehouse is not enough to guarantee our safety."
"Yes, the main reason why the Japanese did not dare to attack was because they were afraid of the tap fire factory."
"So, if you want to ensure safety, you first have to control the fireworks."
"Controlling the tap fire factory? Doesn't that mean taking food from the foreigners? Are the foreigners willing to agree?"
"Foreigners are nothing, haven't you noticed? Foreigners are really fucking paper tigers. If you're soft, they'll be hard. But when you're hard, they'll be soft. You can pinch them however you want, and they won't even resist. .”
As a result, a conclusion that made Yan Yan laugh or cry was concluded.
Zhu Shengzhong said proudly: "Old Yan, is this a good idea?"
Too lazy to complain, do you control the tap water factory? Completely break up with the public concession?
In the future, this may be an option, but it is definitely not possible now. Now we still have to use the tiger skin in the concession to pull the banner of the Songhu Independent Group. To break up at this time is to seek death.
At this time, Chen Mingde suddenly said: "Chief of Staff, can I say something?"
"Of course." Yan Yan nodded happily, "If you have any ideas, just tell me."
Chen Mingde then said: "Chief of Staff, I think if our Songhu Independent Regiment wants to gain a foothold in an urban area like Zhabei, we must build one or even multiple fortresses according to local conditions!"
"Fortress?" Shangguan Zhibiao, Tang Di and others felt a little strange.
I have only heard of fortresses being built at dangerous passes, but never heard of fortresses being built in big cities. What the hell?
"Wait a minute, do you mean a bunker when you say fortress?"
"This method is not bad, at least worth trying."
"Because the bunker is hidden underground and protected by surface buildings, even if the Japanese use large-caliber naval guns to bombard us or bombard us with heavy aerial bombs, it will be difficult to hurt us."
Yan Yan silently added, unless ground-penetrating bombs are used.
