Zhu Tian: Beginning to Cross the Changjin Lake

Chapter 292 The first lottery!
In the front-line command center, Li Guotao pointed to the map and said, "According to the intelligence we have now, the enemy's main force, with a strength of almost a brigade, has arrived in the area near Quanxi."

"The Japanese attacked during the day but suffered losses, losing several hundred men."

"The devils will definitely change their strategy. A sneak attack at night is undoubtedly a good choice."

"We don't have enough troops, and the Leishui defense line is so long that there must be gaps in the defense."

"At night, the enemy would take advantage of the darkness to launch a surprise attack, and they would always find gaps in our defenses and break through the Leishui defense line."

"Based on my understanding of the Japanese, they will definitely not be limited to the area around Quanxi."

"They have a large number of troops. They can send troops to continue to detour southward and cross the Leishui River from the south."

Yang Jihe nodded and said, "You make sense. So not only do we need to strengthen our defenses to prevent the enemy from launching surprise attacks, we also need to notify the friendly forces in the south to prevent the Japanese from making detours and crossing the river from other places."

"I will call the division headquarters right now and ask the brothers in other regiments to strengthen their defenses."

Yang Jihe walked to the table, picked up the phone, and called the division headquarters directly.

Since the 568th Regiment is basically a skeleton regiment, its defense zone is mainly the area near Quanxi defended by the 568st Battalion. The defense of the river in the south is the responsibility of troops from other regiments, so this matter can only be coordinated through the division headquarters.

So many times, Yang Jihe would report the situation directly to the division headquarters bypassing the regiment headquarters.

Chen Jianghe stared at the map in front of him and said thoughtfully: "If the enemy attacks at night, it will be a big trouble. We still need to strengthen our vigilance."

Li Guotao said: "The Japanese suffered a great loss during the day, so they will definitely become more cautious at night. They will definitely not dare to send out their main force to launch a surprise attack right away."

"Most likely they will only send a small force, at most a squadron of troops. As long as we strengthen our vigilance and can detect the enemy's sneak attacks in time and block their attacks, there will be no problem at all."

With Li Guotao around, it wasn't difficult to detect the enemy's sneak attack in time.

However, Li Guotao was not in a position to say this openly. After all, even if he told these people about the system, these people might not believe it.

Chen Jianghe nodded and said, "At worst, we can take turns on guard duty. We all keep our eyes open and absolutely cannot give the Japanese any chance."

Afterwards, Li Guotao, Yang Jihe and others discussed and arranged the night shifts. All the soldiers entered the front-line positions and were ready to fight at any time.

In order to conserve their energy, most of the soldiers hid in the anti-artillery caves to sleep and took turns on duty to ensure that nothing went wrong.

Li Guotao hid in a cat ear cave. In order to conserve his energy, he took a nap from time to time, but he didn't dare to sleep too much.

Basically, after sleeping for a while, you will wake up and use the system map to observe the movements of the Japanese on the opposite side.

Time passed by minute by minute, and Li Guotao was in a daze when he suddenly heard a crisp system prompt sound.

[Ding Dong~! Congratulations on successfully winning your first chance to win the lottery. ]

Li Guotao suddenly opened his eyes. According to the system's previous explanation, he would get a chance to draw a lottery every day during these 47 days.

It wasn't until ten o'clock in the evening that the lottery opportunities for the first day were sent out.

Li Guotao was overjoyed and quickly instructed the system: "Draw the lottery immediately."

Li Guotao is also full of expectations for this lottery system.

After all, whether we can defeat the Japanese in 47 days depends entirely on a lottery.

【The lucky draw begins...】

[Congratulations on getting the Sun Desheng Cavalry Company, from the Sword of Legends world. The total force is 110 people, including all weapons and equipment, and a basic amount of ammunition.]

Bright sword?

Sun Desheng’s cavalry company?
Li Guotao couldn't help but hear Sun Desheng's roar in his mind, "Cavalry Company, attack!"

Although the role of cavalry is becoming increasingly weaker in modern warfare, these are more than a hundred elite soldiers after all!

In the first draw, a company of soldiers was obtained, and Li Guotao was quite satisfied with it.

If he could obtain one company of troops every time, then after 47 days, he would have at least 47 companies of troops.

Although it would be unlikely to wipe out these hundreds of thousands of Japanese devils at that time, it would be very likely that we could defend Hengyang, and it would be even easier to cover Commander Fang's breakout.

It seems that this mission is not too difficult.

Li Guotao was quite satisfied with this result.

Moreover, this is only the first draw, and there may be bigger rewards in the future. As long as enough troops can be mobilized, it is not impossible to kill the hundreds of thousands of Japanese invaders who are besieging Hengyang.

[Warm Tips: This is the first lottery. After the 47th lottery, the host can summon all the troops. From now on, the lottery opportunity will be updated at 47 o'clock every night. The 47th lottery opportunity will be updated at o'clock in the morning of the th day.]

Li Guotao's eyes flickered. The drawn reward could only be summoned after 47 days.

The previous 46 updates were all after 47 pm, and only the 47th update was at am on the th day.

In other words, he only needs to hold on until ten o'clock in the morning of the 47th day, and then he can summon these drawn troops to completely resolve the Battle of Hengyang.

Now it seems that the biggest difficulty for Li Guotao is to survive the next 47 days of hellish and brutal fighting.

Li Guotao was so excited that he checked the system warehouse and found an additional soldier storage compartment.

There was an extra card inside, with a photo of Sun Desheng and the words "Bright Sword Sun Desheng Cavalry Company" written on it.

However, the word "Summon" under the card is gray, which obviously means that this unit cannot be summoned now.

47 days!
It’s easy to endure!

Li Guotao, who had experienced the Battle of Changjin Lake and the Battle of Shangganling, did not think this matter was too difficult.

Although the combat effectiveness of Commander Fang's 10th Army cannot be compared with that of the Volunteer Army, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese devils is not at the same level as that of the US Army.

Li Guotao was so excited that he opened the system map to check the situation on the opposite side.

At this time, I happened to see a large group of Japanese soldiers gathering by the river on the opposite bank.

Are the Japanese planning a sneak attack?
Li Guotao suddenly became alert and no longer cared about sleeping. He picked up his gun, crawled out of the cat ear hole, and came to a forward observation post.

Chen Jianghe was dozing off beside him, and suddenly opened his eyes when he heard footsteps.

Li Guotao smiled and said, "Are you alert enough?"

Chen Jianghe rubbed his eyes and asked, "What's wrong? Is there anything wrong?"

Li Guotao said casually: "My intuition tells me that the Japanese are about to take action?"

"intuition?"

Chen Jianghe frowned and asked, "Is your intuition accurate?"

Li Guotao held up a telescope and observed the situation on the other side. He said casually: "It is usually very accurate."

Chen Jianghe couldn't help but roll his eyes, but he didn't dare to be careless. After all, if the Japanese really launched a sneak attack and let them get close to him by accident, that would be no joke.

Chen Jianghe also came over and observed carefully for a while, but it was pitch black outside and he couldn't see the situation on the other side at all.

Chen Jianghe turned his head and asked, "Can you see what's happening on the other side?"

Li Guotao shook his head and said, "I can't see clearly."

Then what are you looking at? Chen Jianghe couldn't help but roll his eyes.

Li Guotao suddenly put down the telescope and said, "Gather the brothers in the first row and go to position number five."

"Notify the battalion commander and prepare for battle."

Chen Jianghe was confused and asked, "Are the Japanese really going to launch a sneak attack?"

Li Guotao said seriously: "Trust me, it can't be wrong."

"All right!"

Chen Jianghe didn’t say much. After all, what if it was true?
This kind of thing cannot be taken lightly.

Afterwards, Chen Jianghe immediately gathered a row of brothers, and followed Li Guotao quietly along the trench to position No. 5.

Chen Jianghe also sent someone to inform Yang Jihe, who immediately ordered the entire camp to be on alert and prepare for battle.

The soldiers who were sleeping were all woken up, but they all hid in the trenches, waiting for orders, and did not make much noise.

At this moment, Jiro Matsuda, with about a squadron of his troops, quietly sailed towards the other side on a raft.

In order to avoid alerting the defenders on the other side, the Japanese were very cautious and tried not to make too much noise.

Jiro Matsuda was also anxiously observing the situation on the other side of the river, fearing that they would be discovered by the defenders if they were not careful, which would then be the end of them.

Jiro Matsuda placed his last hope on this sneak attack. If the sneak attack failed, even if he did not die, he would probably be ordered to commit suicide by seppuku.

Although the weather was not too hot at the moment, Jiro Matsuda was soon soaked in sweat.

Under the leadership of Jiro Matsuda, the Japanese soldiers quietly approached position No. 5.

Li Guotao and Chen Jianghe, along with a row of soldiers, quietly hid in the trenches.

Chen Jianghe secretly observed the situation on the river and asked, "Are there really Japanese sneak attacks?"

"Shh~!"

Li Guotao signaled him to speak more quietly.

Chen Jianghe was getting a little impatient because he really couldn't see anything. The river was pitch black and there was no sign of the enemy.

Li Guotao whispered, "Be patient, the Japs may be coming up soon."

Chen Jianghe could only wait patiently and continue to observe the situation outside quietly.

A few minutes later, Chen Jianghe suddenly widened his eyes, turned his head and whispered to Li Guotao, "It seems there is movement."

Li Guotao observed the situation on the river and said softly, "The Japanese are coming up. Let's put them on the shore and fight them."

"Prepare the soldiers for battle."

Chen Jianghe asked: "Did you see them?"

Li Guotao nodded and said, "Follow the order. Have the soldiers prepare the grenades and wait for my order as I said before."

Chen Jianghe did not dare to be careless, and did not have time to ask more questions. He immediately ordered his brothers to prepare for battle.

At this time, one bamboo raft after another carefully approached the shore, and Jiro Matsuda couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

As long as you log in successfully, you are halfway there.

As soon as Jiro Matsuda waved his hand, the Japanese soldiers immediately got off the bamboo raft carefully and moved towards the shore.

Li Guotao saw the right moment and suddenly shouted, "Grenade, throw it!"

A row of soldiers pulled the fuse of the grenades and threw them out with all their might.

Dozens of grenades hissed, emitting black smoke and fell to the shore.

"Boom~! Boom~!"

Violent explosions rang out one after another, and the Japanese soldiers who had just landed were immediately blown to pieces, with many killed and wounded.

With the help of the light from the grenade explosion, the soldiers could also see clearly the Japanese soldiers who were approaching them.

At this time, the three machine guns on the position opened fire at the same time, fiercely shooting at the Japanese soldiers on the river.

Under the command of Li Guotao, a row of soldiers continued to throw grenades. In just a few seconds, they threw more than a hundred grenades.

There were loud explosions one after another, and the Japanese suffered heavy casualties.

The machine guns formed a cross fire and fired fiercely at the Japanese soldiers. Those Japanese soldiers who were still on the bamboo raft and had no time to go ashore were shot dead one after another.

Jiro Matsuda's heart skipped a beat and instantly sank to the bottom. He shouted loudly, "Charge forward and kill these hateful enemies."

Before he could finish his words, a volley of bullets swept over, and Jiro Matsuda was shot to pieces and died on the spot.

At another position, Yang Jihe also ordered his men to fire flares after hearing the noise.

Several flares flew diagonally into the air, illuminating a nearby river surface as if it were daytime.

Yang Jihe observed carefully and found that there were no Japanese soldiers anywhere else. They were all concentrated near the No. 5 position. He immediately mobilized the third platoon as a reserve to quickly support the No. 5 position.

At this moment, all the Japanese soldiers who were attacking by surprise were rushing towards the shore desperately.

However, grenades kept flying over and exploded loudly when they landed on the river bank.

The machine guns poured bullets at the Japanese as if they were free.

These Japanese soldiers had no way to escape or hide, and one after another they were blown to the ground or shot into sieves by machine guns.

In just a few minutes, the battle was over, and more than a hundred Japanese soldiers who launched a sneak attack were all killed.

The Japanese on the other side of the river, seeing that their sneak attack had failed, immediately mobilized their artillery fire and bombarded the defenders' positions on the other side.

The Japanese machine guns also fired at the opposite bank, but it was too late.

All the Japanese soldiers who launched the sneak attack were killed. Li Guotao quickly ordered the soldiers to hide in the anti-artillery caves to avoid the artillery fire.

After the Japanese carried out retaliatory bombing for a while, the sound of artillery gradually stopped.

Li Guotao observed the situation and saw that there was no movement from the other side. Then he ordered: "First platoon, follow me out and bring back all the weapons and ammunition of the devils."

"Third row, stay here to keep watch."

"Yes!"

Under the leadership of Li Guotao, dozens of soldiers in a row carefully reached the riverside, where the corpses of Japanese soldiers were scattered all over the ground.

There were still a few Japanese soldiers who were not dead, and they were also killed by a row of soldiers.

These Japanese invaders who launched a surprise attack left behind a large number of weapons and ammunition. Li Guotao took the opportunity to exchange a batch of weapons and ammunition and piled them up by the river.

This battle not only killed more than one hundred Japanese soldiers, but also seized a large number of weapons and ammunition.

(End of this chapter)