Zhu Tian: Beginning to Cross the Changjin Lake

38nd Army Military Headquarters.

"After the 50th Army retreated, all the pressure was concentrated on our 38th Army, and the enemy's offensive became more and more fierce."

"The casualties of the frontline troops are also gradually increasing. If this trend continues, I'm afraid we won't be able to hold on."

Liang Daya gritted his teeth and said, "We must hold our position no matter what. Even if our 38th Army is wiped out, we must stop the enemy and buy enough time for the main force on the eastern front."

At this moment, a staff officer came over quickly and said, "Report, I just received news that the Yanyueshan position has been lost."

"Iwanetsu Mountain was lost?"

"The enemy's offensive was too fierce. All the defenders of the position were killed. Iwatsuki Mountain was lost."

"After the fall of Iwatsuki Mountain, the position of Hill 350.3 has become even more prominent. The enemy will definitely concentrate a stronger force and fiercely attack Hill 350.3."

Liang Daya's expression became even more gloomy, and he asked, "Which unit is guarding Hill 350.3 now?"

"It's the 342st Battalion of the nd Regiment. However, they also suffered heavy casualties in the previous battle. At this rate, I'm afraid they won't be able to hold out for much longer."

Liang Daya gritted his teeth and said, "Send reinforcements immediately. You must defend Hill 350.3 at all costs."

"This one……"

"What's this?"

"I'm afraid we can't transfer troops to support Hill 350.3 for the time being."

Li Moyin couldn't help but said, "Let our task force go!"

"We haven't had any combat missions in the past two days. Although our combat group is small in number, it still has the strength of a company. If we support Hill 350.3, we should be able to hold out for a while longer."

Liang Daya glanced at Li Moyin, then asked, "Is there really no reserve team that can be deployed?"

The chief of staff shook his head and said, "For the time being, we really can't mobilize any more troops."

Li Moyin said again: "Let's go! If anything goes wrong at Hill 350.3, the consequences will be disastrous. We can't hesitate any longer."

Liang Daya gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! But you must pay attention to safety. If you really can't hold on, retreat."

Li Moyin promised solemnly: "Please rest assured, Commander, we will definitely defend Hill 350.3."

Li Moyin said this, saluted solemnly, turned around and left quickly.

Looking at Li Moyin's departing back, Liang Daya couldn't help but sigh.

The chief of staff frowned and said, "If Lao Li and his men are wiped out, how are we going to explain this to the headquarters?"

Liang Daya sighed helplessly and said, "If the Han River defense line is lost, we will have no explanation."

In fact, everyone knows that now that they are blocking the enemy on the Western Front, they are using their lives to buy time for the main forces on the Eastern Front.

Therefore, the 38th Army did not send the task force to the front line. Just like the 50th Army, it kept them in the rear for fear that they would be wiped out.

However, the 38th Army now has no extra troops to support Hill 350.3, and sending a task force there is a helpless move.

Li Moyin hurried to the task force's base. When Li Guotao heard that there was finally a combat mission, he immediately rushed over and asked, "Captain, where are we going now?"

Li Moyin said seriously: "Let's set off immediately to support Hill 350.3 and help the First Battalion of the nd Regiment to hold the position."

Li Guotao asked, "Is it Captain Cao's battalion?"

"Correct!"

"What are you waiting for? Let's go now!"

The soldiers have been going crazy these past two days. Seeing the fighting on the front line so intense, but they could only watch the show, the soldiers felt bad.

Now that they finally had the opportunity to go to the front line, the soldiers assembled without any delay, carrying all their weapons and ammunition, and hurried to Hill 350.3.

Li Guotao and his team hurriedly arrived at Hill 350.3 with the task force. At that moment, the enemy was concentrating its forces to attack the position of the first battalion, and the battle was extremely fierce.

The one who attacked Hill 350.3 was a regiment of the 350.3st Cavalry Division of the US Army. In order to capture Hill 50, the enemy dispatched dozens of planes and more than artillery pieces to bombard the positions of the st Battalion.

The entire 350.3 high ground had already been turned into a scorched earth by enemy artillery fire.

In addition to airplanes and artillery, the enemy also deployed 52 tanks to cover the infantry's repeated attacks on the defenders' positions.

The battlefield was littered with enemy corpses, but the enemy still kept rushing towards the position like a mad dog.

Battalion Commander Cao led the soldiers of the first battalion and fought desperately to hold their positions.

With the belief that they must die, they stubbornly resisted the enemy's fierce offensive. Before the war, the soldiers had sworn to live and die with their positions in order to defend the motherland.

Li Guotao observed the situation and saw that it was critical. He shouted loudly: "Comrades, follow me!"

The soldiers of the task force had no time to rest and immediately rushed to Hill 350.3 and threw themselves into the battle without hesitation.

Li Guotao rushed to a position first, lay down in the trench, looked at the dark sea of ​​helmets at the foot of the mountain, raised his gun, pointed at the enemy and pulled the trigger.

"Da da da~!"

The submachine gun roared, and a hail of blazing bullets swept towards the enemy, instantly knocking down a large number of them.

While firing, Li Guotao shouted loudly: "Grenade team, grenades~!"

Wu Qianli and other soldiers took out grenades and threw them towards the enemy troops with all their might.

"Boom~! Boom~!"

Violent explosions continued to sound, and the enemy was immediately blown to the ground, with many casualties.

However, as the battle reached this point, the enemies were charging forward desperately.

With the support of firepower from the rear, large numbers of enemies rushed up the mountain recklessly and could not be defeated.

The enemy's dense firepower continued to hit the trenches, splashing up clouds of dust.

Li Guotao quickly retreated into the trench, picked up an incendiary grenade, and shouted loudly: "Use the incendiary grenade to burn these beasts to death."

As he said that, he threw it out. The other soldiers also hid in the trenches and threw out incendiary grenades.

Pieces of flames rose into the air, instantly engulfing the surrounding enemies.

In an instant, all the enemies who rushed up were burned alive, and screams like pigs being slaughtered continued to be heard.

The burning enemies screamed madly and struggled on the ground, trying to put out the flames on their bodies, but the flames only burned more and more fiercely.

The enemies who were burned alive rolled down the hillside one by one. The enemies behind them were frightened and dodged in the process, and the scene was in chaos.

With the support of the task force, the attacking enemy suffered heavy losses and was finally driven back.

The soldiers simply cleaned up the battlefield and quickly hid in the tunnels to avoid being bombarded by the enemy.

Sure enough, not long after the enemy's attacking force retreated, rumbling sounds of artillery were heard from the artillery positions. Shells fell on the positions one after another with a sharp whistling sound, and soon the entire 350.3 high ground was engulfed in flames.

In a narrow and crowded tunnel, Captain Cao panted heavily and said with lingering fear: "Fortunately you arrived in time, otherwise we might not be able to hold on."

Li Moyin asked: "How are the casualties in the army?"

Captain Cao sighed helplessly and said, "Our battalion has been defending Hill 350.3 for five days and five nights. It was fine at the beginning, but now the nearby Yanyue Mountain position has been lost."

"The enemy is now concentrating all its efforts on attacking our 350.3 high ground. The situation is not good."

"But we have to hold our ground no matter what."

Li Moyin said: "Don't worry, we will hold the position with you."

Captain Cao suddenly remembered something and couldn't help but frowning. He said, "The division headquarters actually sent all of you here. This..."

Li Moyin said: "The military asked us to come here to provide support. The situation on the battlefields is quite critical now."

"The 50th Army has retreated to Jiangbei, and now the enemy's main force is pressing towards our 38th Army."

"The troops have suffered heavy losses and are short of manpower, but no matter what, we will definitely hold the Han River defense line to the death."

Captain Cao nodded.

The entire hilltop was shaking slightly under the enemy's heavy bombardment, as if there was an earthquake.

Li Guotao frowned and said, "The terrain here is pretty good. With our current manpower and ammunition reserves, we should have no problem holding out for a while."

Faced with such a situation, there is actually no better way but to grit our teeth and hold on to the end.

Captain Cao said: "Fortunately, we dug a lot of tunnels before, otherwise we would not have been able to hold on until now."

"But the enemy's First Cavalry Division is indeed not easy to deal with, and now they are attacking like crazy."

Li Guotao said: "It is obvious that the enemy has now issued a death order to break through the Han River defense line as soon as possible."

Li Moyin said: "Our biggest advantage now is the terrain. As long as we hold the main peak position firmly, the enemy will not be able to get through."

"We must try every possible means to delay it for as long as possible."

"I think our superiors will try every possible means to dispatch troops to support us."

Captain Cao nodded and said, "I feel relieved now that you are here. If I die, I will have to trouble you to command me. You must hold the position."

Li Moyin said: "Don't worry, we will definitely make it through."

"The motherland is still waiting for us to return and build it. We must all strive to survive."

Captain Cao nodded and said nothing more.

After a fierce artillery preparation, the enemy launched another fierce attack under the cover of tanks.

Captain Cao loudly ordered: "Recover the position and prepare for battle."

"Yes!"

The soldiers rushed out of the tunnel one after another and ran to the messy battlefield.

Li Guotao also commanded the soldiers of the task force to disperse to various positions and work in groups to assist the soldiers of the first battalion in guarding the various positions.

A large mass of enemies rushed towards the mountain with great momentum. It seemed that the enemies were determined to take Hill 350.3 at all costs. A group charge of this scale was rare.

Li Guotao put down his submachine gun, raised a rifle, aimed at an enemy officer in the distance, and decisively pulled the trigger.

As a crisp gunshot rang out, an enemy captain who was commanding his troops to attack in the distance was shot in the head and killed on the spot.

However, even though the commander was killed, the enemy did not stop their attack and continued to rush towards the mountain.

The fierce battle broke out again, and it was extremely brutal.

The enemy rushed towards the Volunteer Army’s positions wave after wave.

The soldiers were also blood-thirsty, holding their positions with all their might and killing the approaching enemies.

The soldiers performed very bravely.

Squad leader Shen De'en of the eighth squad was injured in his left eye and his right arm and left leg were broken, but he still insisted on not leaving the front line. He even refused to be bandaged by the medical staff and asked them to go treat other wounded soldiers. He lay on the position and threw grenades at the enemy with his left hand. After throwing several grenades, he finally exhausted his last bit of strength and died heroically, maintaining the grenade-throwing posture until his death.

Squad leader Tu Jin was seriously wounded in the head and his face was covered in blood, but he continued to shoot fiercely at the enemy.

A shell landed nearby and a violent explosion was heard. The squad leader's left arm was blown off and blood continued to flow out of the wound.

The squad leader turned a blind eye, endured the severe pain, changed the magazine with one hand, raised the submachine gun, put the butt of the gun against his chest, aimed at the enemy and continued shooting.

The submachine gun spewed out a stream of blazing flames, turning several approaching enemies into sieves.

The squad leader eventually died heroically due to his serious injuries. His finger was tightly gripping the trigger until his death, with the muzzle of the gun pointed at the enemies below the mountain. Unfortunately, the submachine gun had run out of bullets and could no longer fire a single bullet.

Medical worker Sun Dianjin was wounded three times and his right leg was blown off. He crawled under the artillery fire to bandage the wounded but refused to bandage himself until he died heroically.

Mortarman Fu Guoliang used a 60mm mortar to fire hundreds of shells and killed a large number of enemies.

Therefore, the enemy hated him very much and mobilized artillery fire to bombard his position.

A shell landed nearby and the mortar was blown away. Relying on his rich combat experience, Fu Guoliang hid in the crater nearby in time, and the dust raised by the explosion buried him directly.

He immediately struggled to get up, and the first thing he did after opening his eyes was to look for his cannon.

The mortar that was blown away was found quickly, but the gun base was destroyed and could not be supported, but the barrel was intact.

He held the barrel of the gun with his hand and continued to fire at the enemy.

The continuous bombardment made the barrel of the gun red, and a blood blister formed on his hand, but he continued to bombard the enemy until his death. At the last moment of his life, he was still shouting, "Fire!"

After instructor Fang Xin ran out of bullets, he saw the enemy rushing up to the position. He picked up a bag of explosives, rushed out of the position without hesitation, and threw himself into the enemy group.

Amid the enemy's screams and wails, a violent explosion was heard, and the instructor and the enemy who rushed up died together.

Li Guotao was also not idle. While he was desperately blocking the enemy's attack, he was also constantly exchanging some ammunition from the system mall and placing them in various corners of the position when no one was paying attention.

The soldiers were so blood-thirsty and the battle was so brutal that naturally no one noticed when some extra ammunition appeared on the battlefield.

It was precisely because of Li Guotao's presence that the soldiers were able to hold out for a longer period of time.

Since there was no shortage of ammunition, not only did we inflict greater damage to the enemy, but we also minimized the casualties of the defenders.

Relying on their tenacious perseverance, the soldiers held their positions desperately and repelled dozens of enemy attacks.

With the assistance of the task force, Captain Cao's 350.3st Battalion held the highland for a total of eight days and eight nights, successively eliminated more than a thousand enemies, and successfully completed the task of guarding the position. (End of this chapter)