A short while later, Xu Feng returned, two landmines dangling from his shoulders like two iron discs. As soon as he returned to the forest, he whispered, "Commander, the enemy has laid landmines a hundred meters from the riverbank, very densely!"
"Can you defuse them?" Commander Chu asked.
"Defusing them is no problem," Xu Feng nodded in reply, "but those landmines are covered by snow; we can't guarantee none won't explode!"
Hearing this, everyone fell silent. They all knew that if even one landmine exploded, the puppet troops on the other side of the river would become wary, making digging tunnels under their noses even more difficult.
Thus, everyone was once again in a predicament. Just as Political Commissar Chen Ye had said, not only could the original plan not be implemented, but
