Chapter 663 Match
Su Jin certainly didn't believe Ding Yuan's claim that it had been too long and he couldn't remember clearly. How could he possibly forget such a fierce battle!
"Instructor Ding, you were also the instructor of the 2nd Battalion in my father's regiment. In that battle, almost the entire 2nd Battalion was wiped out, and you led the remaining few dozen men to break through the encirclement. Can you really forget that?"
Ding Yuan's body trembled violently, and a wave of grief instantly welled up within him.
That was truly the battle he least wanted to remember, and even now, in the dead of night, he would still see the bloodied faces of his comrades.
Su Jin raised her voice again, "I was only 12 years old when my father sacrificed himself, and I didn't even get to see him one last time. I just want to know why that battle was so brutal, I just want to know what happened to my father!"
Ding Yuan's lips were pursed tightly, and even his spine was tense.
He sighed helplessly, not knowing how much time had passed.
"Knowing about the heroic sacrifice of the regimental commander would only add to your grief, so why bother?"
“Even if the instructor doesn’t tell me, I’ll go to other of my father’s subordinates. Someone will be willing to tell me!” Su Jin’s attitude remained unwavering.
After another few minutes of silence, Ding Yuan finally spoke again, but his speech was extremely slow.
"That year, we received orders from our regimental commander to go to the border battlefield. After arriving at our designated destination, we engaged in fierce fighting with the enemy. At the time, we didn't know that the intelligence was wrong, and we only thought that the enemy's forces were roughly equal. After two days and one night of fighting, we realized that the enemy's firepower was several times greater than ours."
"The regimental commander ordered us to hold Hill 216 to the death and wait for reinforcements."
At this point, Ding Yuan's words faltered slightly as he struggled to control his emotions.
"But for some reason, the support team that was supposed to arrive did not arrive within the specified time. Every one of us, including the commander, was prepared to die."
"People around me fell one after another, and we almost ran out of ammunition..."
Ding Yuan clenched his fists, and tears seemed to well up in his eyes.
Su Jin also felt an indescribable sense of suffocation.
"Finally, the regimental commander received the order to evacuate. Of the entire regiment, only a few hundred men remained." At this moment, Ding Yuan's voice was filled with sorrow and determination.
"The regimental commander was also injured, but he led us in a desperate breakout, and unexpectedly we succeeded."
What he said was almost identical to what Kong Daqing had told Su Jin before.
Su Jin listened even more carefully, not missing a single word he said.
"After breaking through, the regimental commander was going to lead us to rejoin the nearest unit, but on the way, we were pursued by enemy troops. In order to divert the enemy's attention and increase the chances of breaking through, the regimental commander ordered us to split into several small teams and break through from different directions."
"After that, I was in charge of leading one of the squads. I don't know if it was luck, but the enemy didn't pursue us. Two days later, we successfully rejoined the other squads and walked out of the battlefield alive."
As soon as Ding Yuan finished speaking, the atmosphere in the office became extremely tense.
Su Jin frowned even more deeply and immediately asked, "Then where is my father?"
Ding Yuan said with difficulty, "The squad led by the regimental commander attracted most of the enemy's forces, and they were all killed in the process of breaking through..."
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