Section 1: New Soldiers

The failure of the Market Garden Operation means that the war in the Netherlands has become a tense and bad battle. In the eyes of the soldiers, bad battle is a little bit of advancement, bit by bit of enemy troops and positions.

And the war in the Netherlands has become like this now.

"The paratroopers should be on a plane and suddenly appeared in the area controlled by the enemy. Then they used this thing in their hands to stab the Germans in the ass, and finally cooperated with the frontline troops to encircle the enemy!" Ali said to the new people around him in the trench with a dance, "But look at us? We are now thrown here by the stupid commander, and use them as ordinary infantry. Oh my God, those idiots now treat us as conventional infantry fighting trench wars! Just like the war more than 20 years ago, they are fighting trench wars!"

The few recruits sitting in front of Ali agreed with each other. The training they received was parachuting and fighting. They had fantasized about falling down bravely on the battlefield and hitting the damn Germans bravely on the battlefield, but they had never fantasized about the current situation:

Like the war experienced by his father, he squatted in the trenches, sighed at the fierce artillery fire every day, and let the artillery fire plow every inch of land helplessly - at most it would repel the attack of German infantry, and the elite teams often attacked at night to investigate the situation, and provided accurate artillery instructions for invisible artillery.

But the following things have nothing to do with them, the newcomers, because when the elite team attacks, they never bring a newcomer. Even if the newcomers beg to join them, the veterans who have known each other for several days always ignore them. By the way, the veterans seem to be unwilling to know the newcomer's name. When they need their help, they always shout: "Hi, that private..."

Even if the new people repeatedly say their names, the veterans can never remember it, as if their brains were blown into paste by shells. However, the commander assigned them a task, but these veterans could always easily repeat it.

Only Ali is different from those veterans. He likes to chat with these recruits and despise the officials in the command center in front of the recruits. Because of this reason, the recruits always like to stay with Ali. However, the recruits are puzzled. Why is a person as good as Ali so respectful to the veteran in the mouse cave?

Just like now, Ali Ben said that he was so handsome, but the dirty sergeant came out of the mouse hole. With a gesture, Ali ended the personal complaint meeting happily and followed.

"Jacob, those newcomers don't seem to like you." Ali said to Zheng Yingqi with a smile.

Zheng Yingqi replied indifferently: "It's best this - you know, we all hate constant loss."

The continuous loss of comrades is the main body of the war, and the quality of the recruits who came in later is far inferior to the old birds who have been ravaged by Sober since the Tokoa training camp.

When establishing friendships with new people, the only thing they gain is the longing of crazy about some relics after they die - no one is willing to constantly experience this feeling.

But Ali sighed and said, "They are too young. Look at the newcomers who are supplementing this time - most of them are only 18 years old, and they are also the best among the many recruits, so they can enter the paratroopers. They join the army with beautiful ideas and enter the paratroopers. We are too indifferent to them."

"Youngness means being energetic. Only after they have experienced many bloody battles will they become cold old birds like us."

"Many people will die - for them who are only eighteen years old, this is too miserable." Ali had some Virgin sentiment.

"This, you have to ask the men sitting in the government office, you have to find the big men who sent them to the battlefield." Zheng Yingqi's answer pointed to the core of the question.

The veterans of the entire E Company were actually lucky. Although they had not experienced a single battle before June 6, their only combat experience was probably the small physical work of everyone, group fights, they had nearly two years of training and met a harsh company commander who had trained them into qualified soldiers in two years - and now they have experienced two battles, two combat parachuting, and dozens of battles of all sizes.

But these recruits...

They only completed basic training and became qualified soldiers in the eyes of the instructors in the training camp, so they were thrown into the battlefield - those idiots pretended not to know that these newcomers were still at least one year away from becoming qualified soldiers!

Ali continued to sigh. In the overwhelming publicity and worship in the newspaper, a terrible and terrifying fact could not be changed. They were essentially a group of ants...

Section 2: Veterans

Zheng Yingqi called Ali to leave the trenches because the patrol time was up. The defense zone of the 2nd Battalion was large, and one battalion controlled a 5-kilometer-wide island. The island was a flat agricultural area, below sea level, with a dam of seven meters high. In addition to enduring artillery bombardment, the E Company in the trench had to monitor a large number of wars at all times to prevent the Germans from secretly crossing the river.

The paratroopers who often crossed the river secretly were also worried that the Germans would cross the river quietly. How the other platoons did Arley was not sure, but Wersh entrusted this section of the position to Jacob, who never took it lightly.

The two patrolted nearly 800 meters of positions back and forth. When they turned back, they saw a few people from the first platoon coming out of a small bag from the village not far away. This village originally had hundreds of Dutch farmers living a stable life, but after the war broke out, they were urgently evacuated. Although the above repeatedly refused to "destroy the relationship between the military and civilians", the idle old birds always liked to go to the village to "exploration".

Well, to be precise, it should be a "treasure hunt".

There was a British army stationed here before. They had already searched the village, but later, the E Company still teamed up in groups of three or five to search for treasures. Although the Dutch people hurriedly hid many things in a hidden way, the hidden things were finally discovered bit by bit under the continuous search of these paratroopers.

When Gordon saw Zheng Yingqi, he waved the things in his hand excitedly: "Hey, Jacob, see what I found!"

This time, what Gordon found was not the property, but coffee. Others did not find the property this time, or they found the property, but between the property and vegetables, they chose vegetables uniformly.

"It's time for us to improve our food - we finally don't have to endure the British's 14 in one!" Gordon was full of resentment towards the British's military rations - in fact, the new recruits in the E Company hated the supplies currently responsible for the British as well as veterans. The so-called 14 in one means that the British standard military rations for the army every day, with a total of 14 varieties, so it is called 14 in one.

But the paratroopers would only throw ten things into the pot, then add various vegetables to eat a pot of unpalatable hodgepodge - the recruits and veterans have the same choice. The only difference is that veterans have greater freedom than recruits, and can go to the village to explore, try to improve their food, and make some unexpected gains. The recruits, apart from trenches and underground fortifications, basically do not have much freedom.

Zheng Yingqi never understood the disgust of these comrades towards British supplies, nor their anger towards K-level dry food. He had suffered in the plot of "Black Sword" and was very envious of the food rations of these foreign troops at the same time, but these foreigners hated these things so much - he can guarantee that if these British military rations are put on the Chinese battlefield, the Chinese and Japanese troops will definitely be excited to die, but in the eyes of these paratroopers, the British military rations are simply shit!

Except for the good rum, everything else? It's all shit!

The beef is too greasy, the oxtail soup has bones and is just as greasy, and even the guys like black tea are not as good as coffee.

In addition, they also dislike British cigarettes and unanimously believe that British cigarettes are a small pinch of inferior tobacco leaves and a pile of unsmelling grass.

Zheng Yingqi was not interested in what Gordon and the others thought could improve the food. It would be good for him to fill his stomach. What's more, the British also guaranteed that they had meat every day, and even gave tea every day to supplement vitamins. However, he was dissatisfied with the robbery behavior of these guys and said with a sarcasm:

"I always thought that only Germans, Soviets and British people like to pry doors and enter the house, rummaged through boxes and cabinets, and steal. Now it seems that Americans are not willing to fall behind."

"Hey Jacob, I know you have an opinion on our behavior, but you know, we don't have enough confidence in whether we can survive, so we have to do something exciting to make our lives more exciting."

"But this is not the reason you are robbers!"

"Okay, but you, you really should work in the gendarmerie - I believe that if you go there, you must be an excellent gendarmerie." Gordon mocked, but it was only limited to mocking. He knew that it would be okay for him to mock Zheng Yingqi like this, just like he knew that no matter how dissatisfied Zheng Yingqi, he would never abandon him after he went to the battlefield.

Stro, who was standing aside, saw Zheng Yingqi disgusted with their behavior, immediately pushed the stubborn Gordon aside and said with a smile: "Jacob, I promise this is the last time - don't worry, we won't go back to patronize that village again."

A group of veterans laughed, of course they would not go back to visit, after all, there was really nothing there now.

"Okay, let's talk less nonsense - go and prepare lunch. By the way," Zheng Yingqi added: "Better for those novices."

"I know, great charity."

A group of veterans agreed with a smile, but if they want them to really accept those rookies, unless those rookies become qualified old birds through repeated deaths and eliminations, and can still be trusted by them.

Just as Stroke ran out of the hospital quietly with a three-month period - he knew that in the familiar group of E Company, he was the safest on the battlefield. Even if he was seriously injured, he believed that someone would save him. If he went to another army, if he could not integrate into the group before the battle, if he was injured at the gun of the Germans, those "strangers" might not be willing to risk being beaten to save themselves.

So Stroro returned to E Company with his injuries. When he was operating in the Market Garden, he repeatedly emphasized that his injuries would not drag everyone down.

Section 3: Germans who were raised as pigs by British people

Company E boarded the island on October 2. Before the 2nd Battalion was replaced, the island was stationed by a regiment of British troops, but when it came to the hands of paratroopers, it became a battalion's defense area.

"Thank God, you are finally here!" After seeing the successor E Company, the British soldier began to dance excitedly. Zheng Yingqi remembered it very clearly. At that time, he was excitedly hugged by a British soldier in front of a huge crater. The other party choked and said:

"God, you are finally here! We can finally leave this bloody land!"

"Is it a tragic battle here?" Zheng Yingqi looked around. There were many craters around him, which were masterpieces left by 105-caliber and 88-caliber cannons. However, these positions controlled by the British did not suffer much damage, and there was no trace of fierce infantry fighting.

"They often bombard us with big cannons, and wish they could blow us 25 hours a day! When patrolling the embankment every day, we always reminded us that we were nervous, for fear that the Germans who were digging trenches eastward along the railway would beat us!" The British infantry said with palpitations.

Zheng Yingqi looked black and asked for a long time: "Can you see Germans on the embankment?"

"Yes."

"Don't you hit them?"

"Once we hit them, they will fight back!"

Zheng Yingqi was messy. He could not believe that this statement could have been heard by a soldier in the war, and even always thought that this British soldier was talking nonsense to him.

But soon Zheng Yingqi realized that this British soldier had absolutely no nonsense!

They...spoiled the Germans!

That was the first time I was patrolling the embankment. The seven-meter-high flood control embankment was completely a two-lane configuration. Ali said at the time: "This embankment is an excellent runway - if I were the commander, I would arrange hundreds of planes here in the future, and then take off from the embankment to blow up the Germans!"

"So you're not the commander."

"If I were the commander, I would first send each of our company a beautiful girl, Jacob. I will send you two beautiful French girls! When the war is over, you can take two or more children to the president to ask for your medal of honor!" Alli continued to talk nonsense. These words made everyone laugh wildly, but Henry, who was leading the way, made a hidden gesture at this time. Although these guys were very unrestrained, they were all paying attention to the gesture of the vanguard. After seeing the gesture made by Henry, seven or eight people immediately hid on the slope of the embankment.

"Guys, do you know what I saw? Come and see!" Henry shouted in shock. The people hiding on the slope of the embankment showed their heads and looked in the direction Henry pointed at and vaguely saw the figure of the Germans. After moving more than two hundred meters below the embankment, they climbed behind the slope of the embankment and watched carefully, but were stunned.

Across the river, about a hundred Germans were working vigorously on a large area, and it seemed that they were digging trenches - they were only a straight line distance of less than a hundred meters from the Germans.

"These Germans are so bold!" Ali couldn't help but wonder. Are these Germans stupid? They dared to dig trenches so swayingly? Judging from the Germans, they had no defense at all.

Not to mention machine guns, just the carbine and submachine gun in their hands can cause at least a dozen Germans to fall down with just one shot!

"I suspect it was the German conspiracy! Be careful of fraud!" Henry thought that something abnormal would happen, so he focused on searching with his sniper rifle, but soon he was frustrated to find that he could not find the auxiliary evidence of fraud in the German, so he could only say to Zheng Yingqi:

"Jacob, look for it and see what the Germans are conspiring!"

Zheng Yingqi shook his head and said, "I remembered something I heard some time ago." Everyone looked at Zheng Yingqi curiously, not knowing what Zheng Yingqi kept from doing.

"When Britain and Germany confronted each other across the strait, a German navy was responsible for laying out mines. After they arranged mines that day, the next day, the British mine demining team cleared the mines arranged by the Germans in this sea area. After a period of time, the two sides reached a tacit understanding. On Mondays and Fridays every week, the Germans were responsible for laying out water and land, and on Tuesdays and Fridays, the British were responsible for clearing out mines. As for the Zhoutian, it was their rest day."

"Well, when I was in England, I seemed to have heard of it - Jacob, what did you say about this?"

"Later," Zheng Yingqi continued: "The British mine demining team was delayed for a day because of the mission, but forgot to notify the Germans. When the Germans went to mine as usual on the third day, they were blown up by the mines they left behind, killing many people. So the Germans questioned the British, and the British apologized and agreed that if there was anything in the future, they would notify the Germans in advance."

Arley finally reacted and said, "Jacob, are you saying... the Germans reached a tacit understanding with the British who had previously stationed here?"

Henry said: "When the British left, they must have forgotten to notify the Germans - these Germans thought they were still British people garrisoning here?"

The other paratroopers were excited. Zhen Te Niang thanked the soldiers of the Sun-Battle Empire, who left them such "valuable" wealth!

"What do you think we should do? Continue to carry forward the 'kind' style of the English? Or..." Zheng Yingqi asked with a smile. Before he finished speaking, everyone said firmly: "Of course it's to beat them!"

It must be hitting them!

They are E Company, paratroopers! They are the trumpets in Xiaoying. Since they are hostile to the Germans, why do you have any other tacit understanding except to reach a tacit understanding?

So, a fierce gunfire sounded. The Germans who were digging the trenches really didn't expect that the tacit understanding would be broken. After a violent rain of bullets, more than a dozen German corpses appeared on the battlefield. When the Germans started to fight back, Zheng Yingqi and the others had already run away without a trace.

This is the most exciting battle E has fought since Day D. It has killed at least a dozen Germans with zero casualties - more casualties may be!

"Guys, I just knocked down at least three Germans!"

"I've knocked down at least two too!"

The paratroopers knew that defeating the enemy on the battlefield may not necessarily mean killing. In fact, in every battle, the injury is always greater than the death. So when they boast, they use "destroy" in a realistic manner instead of killing.

"I'm sure I killed three." Henry, the sniper, interrupted the others and bragged. How do you compare riflemen and snipers?

Zheng Yingqi was not as excited as the others, but said with a weird smile: "Guys, I have a bold idea!"

"What's the idea?"
To be continued...