A sneak attack can achieve a small tactical victory, but it is far from solving the problem. Company E took advantage of the fog to achieve an astonishing victory, and a battalion of the opposite German position was defeated. However, just a few hours later, the German army filled the vacant after the fog dissipated, and began to threaten Company E's position with its troops again.

The only difference is that Company E's mentality has undergone a fundamental change due to the exaggerated victory of the sneak attack. Even though it is surrounded by the German army, Company E also regards the enemy as if it is a mustard of grass at this time.

Winters patrolled the entire battalion on behalf of Strayer. The performance of the three companies relieved Winters a lot. When he was in the E Company, he specially called Zheng Yingqi aside and said, "What I worry most is that morale is low, but our morale is obviously good - all of these are thanks for your decisive attack that day."

"Sir, if you can turn your verbal thanks into a physical reward, I think this will be better." Zheng Yingqi said indifferently.

Winters smiled bitterly, reward in kind?

"Wait, when the snow stops and the weather is getting better, I will apply for a batch of supplies for Company E."

Zheng Yingqi looked up at the sky with helpless expressions - at this time the US military was still powerful enough to make the Germans envious and jealous, but God was not powerful but could be reversed by human power. Since entering Bastogne, clouds have been covering the sky here, and even snowed several times, and they did not have the conditions for airdrop supplies.

However, when American soldiers fought, they always had "big moves" and had no habit of saving bullets or artillery shells. In the past few days, the position on the E Company was not the direction of the German main attack, and there was no fierce battle. But even so, the entire E Company was now in a dilemma:

There is a serious shortage of K-class rations. There are only six shells left in each mortar in the company, each rifleman has only one bag of bullets, and even the machine guns suppressed by firepower now have only one box of ammunition.

If it were the Eighth Route Army, such an ammunition reserve would have jumped up happily, but for the US military...

Damn, I'm almost dying of poverty!

The worst thing is the artillery. At first, the artillery and the German artillery fought back and forth. In Zheng Yingqi's words, both sides were very upset at that time. Howitzers with caliber 105 and 155 caliber could bring several rounds of strikes with just one call, but two days later, they began to live a careful life. Such a life lasted only a few days, and the artillery could not live--

A 155-caliber cannon was responsible for blocking the 155-caliber cannon between the village of Fova and the Bastogne Highway, and only three shells were left, and the artillery did not dare to fire.

If it weren't for the previous record, the entire 2nd battalion would probably have to shrink its defense line now.

Winters finally took Zheng Yingqi to Dyke's command center, "Dyke, we must change the current situation."

Dyke, whose hairline was obviously moved back due to ammunition and later problems, heard Winters' words and said weakly: "How to change? What to change? Sir, give me three base ammunition, E even tried his best to find a way, but now..."

He said with a look of dismay: "I think it's good to be able to maintain the current front with strong external strength."

There was no one in the command center, so Dyke spoke so disdainfully. Generally speaking, the soldiers always looked like everything was in control. This was the basic operation of commanders and fighters, but commanders and fighters were also human beings. They knew the form better than the soldiers at the bottom, so they were often more pessimistic than the soldiers at the bottom.

"I think we are organizing a combat patrol team, constantly patrolling the front line, telling the Germans on the other side that we still have combat effectiveness and we can still fight." Winters explained his purpose.

"Here Jacob?"

Winters nodded.

Zheng Yingqi, who was standing aside, had a expressionless face, as expected, otherwise how could Winters pull himself into the command center?

"Parking on needlework is very dangerous - unnecessary casualties will occur." Dyke was still hesitant. He naturally had no doubts about Jacob's ability, and even believed it abnormally. Even if someone said that Jacob killed a company alone, he believed it.

But what about the others?

There is only one Jacob in the entire E Company!

"If the Germans notice the reality and reality here, I'm afraid we won't be able to wait for the weather to improve." Winters put the cruel facts in front of him, and Dyke sighed, yes, if the Germans notice their embarrassment, the result would be worse.

"Okay."

...

So, Company E drew personnel from each platoon and formed a 15-man battle patrol team, and began to patrol continuously on the front. After the Germans noticed the dynamics of the US military opposite, they also formed a combat patrol team without showing any weakness. The original confrontation instantly turned into a firefight between two patrol teams, and the fierce battle was staged four or five times a day. Although the Germans suffered losses each time, in just two days, four dead and three injured in the battle patrol team led by Zheng Yingqi.

The combat effectiveness of the E Company's patrol team is much stronger than that of the Germans, but the E Company cannot get the support of the artillery, and the German artillery can run here unscrupulously. This is the biggest reason for the serious damage to the patrol team. But even so, the E Company still gritted its teeth and replenished the patrol team and did not stop because of the fierce battle with the Germans.

He even used mortar shells to respond from time to time, showing the illusion that there was still a large amount of ammunition and arms here.

After all, fake is fake - the German army may have been fooled by Company E, but Company E's own people could not deceive themselves. The US soldiers who have always been disgusted with K-class dry food. On the 22nd, they actually envied the Germans on the opposite side!

During the break of the battle patrol resting, Gordon said in a silence: "They have cotton coats, they have enough military rations, and they have plenty of ammunition..."

Gudong

In the sound of silences, Zheng Yingqi heard the sound of several people around him swallowing.

Daniu looked at the field rations prepared by the logistics department for them and said sadly: "I secretly threw away a lot of K-level dry food before. Now when I think about it, I regret it. How great would it be if those K-level dry foods were there..."

Zheng Yingqi shook his head gently and continued to swallow the military rations that the US military had never looked at before. It seemed like a great delicacy, which made others feel appetite.

Fortunately, such a hard day has finally ended.

At noon on the 23rd, God finally saw that the US military was at the liberator's side and removed the dark clouds covered in Bastogne. The US military's C-47 transport plane quickly took action and drowned countless equipment, medicines, ammunition and food under the German air defense artillery fire.

However, compared with land transportation with large amounts of traffic, airdrop materials can only relieve the temporary hunger. The food dropped this time cannot completely alleviate the dilemma of food scarcity of the entire 101 Airborne Division. The blankets dropped by air are not enough for each person, and many people can only use a blanket for two people.

Fortunately, Winters fulfilled his promise and after the distribution of materials, he gave priority to the supply of Company E, and at least the blanket allowed Company E to get one.

...

After receiving ammunition supplies, the workload of the combat patrol team suddenly dropped. On Christmas Day, Dyke simply ordered the patrol team to stop patroling, but he also asked a platoon of non-commissioned officers to take the lead in keeping alert and beware of possible sneak attacks by the Germans.

As a corporal, Gordon naturally could not curl up in a paratrooper pit or a cat's ear pierce like a soldier. He could only follow Zheng Yingqi to patrol the entire platoon's positions to ensure that once the German army was discovered, he could resist as soon as he found out. However, the weather was too cold. When he froze the helmet, he had the illusion of being fatal when he touched the meat. After finishing the first round of patrol, this guy came up with an idea:

He wrapped the towel around his head and put on a steel helmet. After he felt it worked, under Zheng Yingqi's "proposal", he simply wrapped a odor-filled underwear around his neck, and protected half of his face.

Very shamatte's look.

"Guys, it's quite useful, it feels good. Does anyone want to try it?" After feeling it worked, Gordon began to promote his own dress. When Wilsh was patrolling the position, his goal was to be a group of strange creatures with extremely touching dresses.

Wersh almost laughed crazy, but he did not stop his subordinates from dressing up like this. As long as he could fight against the cold, it would be uglier, and it would be okay to blame him!

As long as it is practical.

Zheng Yingqi is the only weird person who doesn't dress like this. Wersh asked curiously: "Why don't you dress like this?"

Do you think I want to be handsome?

Zheng Yingqi said helplessly: "Impacting vision."

"Okay, you're right." Weirsh laughed heartlessly, but threw a sweater to Zheng Yingqi: "I think you need more than an officer in the airdrop."

"Thanks."

"Just regard it as my revenge for you to share your credit?"

"Some are too cheap, at least you score a few hundred or thousands of dollars, right?"

Wersh laughed, laughing happily.

Gordon, who was holding the small gas stove, said: "Sir, stop laughing, be careful to attract the German guy's black gun - think about it, wait until I cook this cup of coffee."

Wersh looked at Gordon using the method of melting snow to get the water for brewing coffee, and smiled and said, "This is the rootless water brewing coffee in Jacob's mouth, right? Remember to give me a small cup."

"You are like a greedy capitalist." Gordon despised Wilsh, but carefully took out another cup. It seemed that he was planning to distribute Wilsh one. But his wish to drink coffee was not fulfilled. Just as Wilsh and him were huddled together to wait for the coffee to be cooked, Zheng Yingqi warned:

"The Germans are here!"

In Zheng Yingqi's sight, the Germans who were pulling the scattered soldiers were carefully approaching the position in the forest. While showing warning, he shot down the German soldiers in the front with one shot. The gunshots were more useful than warnings. The paratroopers who were avoiding the cold rushed out from various positions and entered the cold position. Then the roar of various guns began to take place at the same time.

Gordon was busy cleaning up his treasures, but in the end he kicked all his treasures aside as if he was in the way of things, and started shooting with a machine gun.

When changing the project, Gordon cursed and said, "Are these damn Germans going to be Christmas?"

"After we kill them, we have a more meaningful Christmas." Wersh said to Gordon, then rushed out of the foxglove. He could not be blocked here. He had to command the troops to confront the Germans.

Looking at the unknown number of Germans in the woods, Gordon whispered: "I hope..."

Zheng Yingqi shared most of the pressure on this side of the defense line. After all, his shooting skills were too accurate. The precise point shooting forced the attacking Germans to concentrate their firepower to suppress them. Zheng Yingqi was also familiar with the dangers of fighting and never stayed in a bunker for too long. He could always move out before the revenge of the mortar came, and then continued to put pressure on the attacking Germans to attract more firepower.

This is also the reason why many paratroopers are happy to fight side by side with Zheng Yingqi. The enemy is always willing to concentrate fire to deal with more threatening units.

With Zheng Yingqi on the front line, he was even more attractive to bullets than machine gunners - but machine gunners are always the target of the enemy's focus. Gordon, who was angry that he had not drunk his Christmas coffee, vented his anger with the machine gun. Although he repeatedly warned his assistant Grotz to observe more for him, when Grotz ran out to get ammunition for him, he was hit by a German soldier because he was negligent in observing.

The bullet went in from his left shoulder and penetrated from his right shoulder, and during this time it also passed through his spine - he was paralyzed from below his neck.

As soon as the machine gun stopped, the soldiers fighting were most likely to feel it because the pressure would increase sharply. After Zheng Yingqi was beaten so hard that he couldn't raise his head, he realized that something was wrong with Gordon. He shouted and got Gordon's answer after a while:

"I'm shot! I can't move!"

"Grass!" Zheng Yingqi cursed lowly, found the right time to pull out the fox pit, and rolled directly into Gordon's fox pit not far away. At this time, Gordon was lying in an extremely strange position, and his clothes were dyed red with blood.

"I'm going to die... Jacob, am I almost finished... I... I don't want to die..." Gordon said with difficulty. Zheng Yingqi comforted and checked. After checking his injuries, he said: "It's not a big problem. I can't die, be prepared."

Just as Gordon was about to ask what preparations were, he was dragged out of the fox pit by Zheng Yingqi and retreated quickly under the German bullets.

【I just want a defeated gladiator and then dragged out of the arena…】

After spending an unforgettable Christmas, Gordon kept talking about his condition at that time after returning to the team.

Zheng Yingqi dragged Gordon into Rogers's position and rushed back into Gordon's machine gun position. He ran out to get the bullets, but when he came back, he found Gordon was not there, he yelled up from the paratrooper pit more than 20 meters later. Then he operated the machine gun and began to roar.

This was the most intense positional battle since Company E entered Bastogne. The German army took advantage of Christmas to take over this position marked as "hard to crack bones" and dispatched two companies of troops and had the cover of artillery. However, they miscalculated. Even on Christmas, the paratroopers stationed here did not relax their vigilance. Even though the German army increased the attack afterwards, Company E also received support from artillery. After four hours of fierce fighting, the German army finally failed to capture Company E's position.

The Germans took away a lot of corpses when they were in a desperate attack. Even so, when the post-war counting, a total of 38 German corpses were still left in front of the E Company's position.

However, E even suffered a lot of losses here.

Even platoon leader Wersh was injured in the fierce battle. Gordon, who reunited with Wersh in the hospital in Bastogne, said in a humorous manner: "We are indeed going to have a very meaningful Christmas."

"It's quite meaningful..." Weirsh smiled bitterly. Fortunately, he didn't have to worry about the first platoon. Although he, the platoon leader, entered the hospital, Zheng Yingqi took over. He believed that with Zheng Yingqi temporarily as the platoon leader of the platoon, all difficulties were not a problem.
Chapter completed!