With the farewell of the first battalion, the battlefield where the second battalion went - he~tui.

Although it is a very happy thing to see the collective black face of the first battalion, we have to face reality - for example, the German army is ready to fight.

After crossing the forest road across the woods, the entire company scattered and looked at Fuwa not far away. The officers began to arrange personnel to investigate the surroundings and make the final preparations before the battle. Christensen complained: "What a 'good day', welcome the Germans on Christmas, and attack the Germans on New Year's Day..."

"The next Christmas and New Year's Day will not be so bad." Zheng Yingqi said without looking back, then threw a reconnaissance team out and began to explore the "dark fog" around him to prevent several bloody assassins from jumping out from behind when they were fighting.

The reconnaissance team had just dispersed from the team, and a picture that seemed impossible appeared just like this:

A German soldier was running towards this side on a white horse.

The horse ran very fast. When he saw the Americans, the paratroopers lying on here had already aimed at him. After a gunshot, the galloping horse fell directly to the ground. Four paratroopers, including Hubler, carefully touched them.

When they touched them, the cavalry who had lost the war horse tried to prove their bravery with the weapons in their hands, but the four paratroopers surrounding him lost the desire to resist. They wisely threw the submachine gun in their hands on the ground and raised their hands.

He was from the 12th SS Division and ran to Fuwa to deliver the letter - the 26th Armored Grenadier Regiment, which belongs to the Hitler Youth Division, is attacking the 501st Regiment's position. The other party hopes that Fuwa's defenders can provide cover for their flanks.

"It seems that we don't have to worry about the Germans next door coming to support us for the time being." Christensen commented on the information obtained with confidence. "This information is very important, tell Jacob quickly-I think Company Commander Dyke is very interested in such good news... Hehe, Hubler, what are you doing?"

Huble, who successfully seized a Rugel pistol from the left side of the captive, excitedly put the pistol into his pocket and said with a smile: "I finally got a Rugel pistol - God, before I landed from Normandy, I wanted to have a pleasure, but I didn't expect it to finally get what I wanted!"

This gun was launched in 2008 to 1908. It has been serving in the German army for more than 30 years and is also one of the many items that the US military competes on the battlefield. As a self-defense weapon, it is obviously unqualified, but its exquisite German craftsmanship and rigorous German-style manufacturing thinking made it a favorite of the Allied forces. Hubler braved the rain of bullets to try to get his wish from the corpse of a German officer, but he was not very lucky and never got the gun. He even begged Zheng Yingqi to do his wish.

Unexpectedly, he finally got what he wanted today.

He put his hand in his pocket and stroked the gun body of P08, which was even more ecstatic than Gordon's appearance from the red light area, causing everyone who escorted the prisoners to look at each other. He had seen those who were infatuated, and had never seen such a devoted person.

Several people came back to report to Zheng Yingqi, and reported the information they obtained.

"This information is very good - Christensen, please hand him over to the company headquarters, and then hand over this information to Company Commander Dyke."

Christensen looked at Zheng Yingqi in surprise. What a good thing to be like to wipe his face was actually thrown to him?

"Don't you go?"

"Go, of course." Christensen muttered in his heart that Jacob is such a weirdo, throwing such good things as face-scanning to himself - doesn't this guy know that he intends to have a gun officer quota?

Of course, Zheng Yingqi knew Christensen’s thoughts, but does this have anything to do with him?

...

The attack on Fuwa was launched half an hour later. Compared with the 1st Battalion who had been defending here before, the German army did not have the desire to fight to the death. Fighting the attack of the paratroopers surrounded by three or one, they gave up Fuwa after a little resistance. Winters felt that this was because Company E cut off the connection between the 26th Armored Grenadier Regiment and the Fuwa defenders. If Fuwa defenders knew that their abandonment would lead to a disintegration of an attack, they probably wouldn't dare to give up so easily, right?

Company E lost almost no losses in this offensive battle, and only a few unlucky people were shot and injured. It can be said that it was a very successful attack - Fuwa's loss also stabilized the position of the 501st Regiment. After the commendation above, it is said...

There was no laughter and joy in the first battalion for several days.

"Today is such a lucky day." Hubler put his hand in his pocket and whistled, and sighed whenever he met everyone. After opening the conversation, he would show off his seized Ruger P08 pistol. After enjoying the other party's envious look, he put the pistol into his pocket and replaced it with another target.

"Hey, platoon leader, today is a lucky day - this is the beautiful beginning of 1945. I think this year must be a very good day." This time Hubler changed the person he showed off and ran to Zheng Yingqi.

Two beautiful clouds appeared in Zheng Yingqi's mind, and then he echoed Hublel's words: "1945... is indeed a wonderful year."

"Yes, this year will definitely be a year that will be recorded in history - Dear Jacob, I have a better news to tell you." Hubler took out the pistol from his pocket like a show-off, stroking the gun body, which was very similar to the last time he touched the "unrestrained, beautiful, understanding" girl's arm in the tavern, and then showed off:

"Look, what did I get?"

"Yes, you finally got what you want-" Zheng Yingqi naturally knew this guy's obsession and said with a smile: "Next time you don't have to touch the body in the rain of bullets."

"Hehe, one is enough. If I can get one, I will give it to you. Of course this one is not possible," said Mr. Zheng Yingqi, afraid that he would rob him, so he put it in his pants pocket and put his hand in as if he was a baby. The action was like raising a gun again, "I'll go find a big cow, hehe."

Hubler smiled and wanted to find the next target to show off.

"etc."

Hearing Zheng Yingqi calling for herself and waiting, Huble instantly covered his pocket with his other hand, for fear that Zheng Yingqi would come to snatch it.

"The Ruger P08 pistol is a very ornamental and collectible weapon, but it is not a reliable self-defense pistol - it has many cases of fire, do you know why? Its safety device is on the grip. If you carry it like this, aren't you afraid that it will suddenly fire and have an intimate contact with your brother?"

"Brother?" Hubler was stunned and moved his eyes thoughtfully. Finally, he understood the meaning of "brother" in Zheng Yingqi's mouth. He couldn't help but shivered, unable to imagine the scene after he lost his dear "brother".

"You can find a holster - of course, the most reliable way is to store it." Zheng Yingqi shrugged and suggested: "Just treat it for your cute 'brother'."

Zheng Yingqi didn't know what he warned and saved the unlucky Hubler. In the plot, this guy put his pistol in his pocket and went fire, breaking his major artery with one shot. Although he was sent to the medical center in the rear, he did not escape the fate of death.

Because of Zheng Yingqi's reminder, Hublee did not dare to take this for his dear "brother", especially after hearing about a incident of accidental injury of Ruger P08 over half a month later, he was almost afraid of death.

...

After capturing Fuwa Village, the entire 2nd Battalion relied on the woods around Fuwa. Company E, who thought he could live in a house at night, still did not get rid of the bad luck of sleeping in the forest and being bombed. He had to go through several or dozens of rounds of shelling every day.

The worst time was when the Germans used tricks - the Germans' shellings were all separated, but that time the Germans used tricks and launched a second round of shelling in the thirteenth minute after the first shelling. At that time, everyone in E was working hard to clean up the positions after the shelling, and the god of death suddenly came.

This time, the German shelling lasted for an hour. Nine people in the E Company fell into the shelling, and more than a dozen others were injured. Although Zheng Yingqi was fine, the half-blasted tree trunk was directly inserted into the door of the cat's ear piercing, almost suffocating him to death. In the end, Hubler and his men dug frozen soil from the side before fishing him out.

"I'm very curious, how it was inserted--and so deep?" A group of people studied the murderer who almost lost the new platoon leader. The half of the trunk was simply amazing, and it penetrated straight to the ground about half a meter.

"There will always be many things that science cannot explain in war. Generally speaking, we can call this kind of thing metaphysics - I think it must be the beautiful girl of the goddess of luck who favored me."

Zheng Yingqi smiled and said a joke that was not very funny, but no matter how funny his joke was, it would not make the morale that had been blown up for four days.

Just like how hard he tried to boost morale, the morale of the entire 1st row and even the entire E Company was still approaching towards the brink of collapse.

Officers and non-commissioned officers have always been the spiritual pillars of soldiers.

If an officer collapses, then this force is only an inch away from collapse - and now Compton is obviously on the verge of collapse.

Compton was the platoon leader of the 2nd platoon. When he was with the Netherlands, he was shot in the butt. Zheng Yingqi carried him back. Compton, who already liked to communicate with others, has regarded Zheng Yingqi as a brother of life and death since then.

In the evening, Compton was beside Zheng Yingqi and said in despair: "Jacob, I can't hold on." When he said this, Compton threw his helmet to the ground, his eyes filled with blood:

"In Normandy, I was injured, in the Netherlands, I was injured. That time the god of death was right in front of me, but I was not afraid. At that time, I was really not afraid of death, and I was not afraid of death now, but I didn't want to be bombed by the Germans with shells every day - I would rather fall into the explosion. I was really not afraid of death, but I felt that I was going crazy now. Every time I was bombing, I was thinking, let me die, let me die, so that I could leave this damn place! Jacob, I was going crazy, do you know, every time the shell exploded, I wanted to rush in directly..."

Compton said incoherently, emphasizing that he was not afraid of death and that he wanted to die in the explosion. His hysterical appearance made Zheng Yingqi hurriedly cover his mouth - the officer is the core of a unit and the last flood control embankment on the verge of the soldiers' collapse. If the officer collapses, the soldiers will collapse.

Bang

After a dull blow, Compton fell softly in Zheng Yingqi's arms.

Zheng Yingqi let out a long sigh. It seems that the situation in row 2 is more serious than row 1. The second row is like this. What about row 2?

"It can't be like this, and the Germans can't be bombarded unscrupulously."

Zheng Yingqi said softly.

...

Company.

Dyke's pale face, dull eyes stared at the table, and suddenly knocked on the door, but Dyke acted like a frightened quail, subconsciously pounced under the table - until he rushed into the table, he realized that it was a knock on the door, and hurriedly took out the towel in the basin, and wiped the cold and cold water randomly on his face, and then said:

"Hold on."

Since December 17, the entire E Company has been in artillery fire. Before No. 25, they were even surrounded by 15 divisions at most. After No. 25, reinforcements opened up the encirclement, but their battle was still not over, but they became rich in materials. The situation of the battle was still grim for them - the victory of the battle did not allow them to see the dawn of victory in the battle!

Bombardment! Daily Bombardment!

Fear, fear, atmosphere, sorrow, helplessness, anger, all kinds of emotions torture everyone on the front line.

Not only the soldiers were on the verge of collapse, but even Dyke was not in much better shape.

But he needs to let others see that he is still strong.

Dyke, who had changed his state, opened the door, but he never expected that Jacob would stand at the door.

"Sir."

"Oh, it's you, come in - do you have something to ask me for?"

"Sir, I think we need to do something." Zheng Yingqi looked at Dyke, who was still wet on his face, and realized something-assuming that everyone was on the verge of collapse.

The officers suppressed a lot of things, such as some people who were self-mutilated because of collapse. The officers suppressed such things, but there were three cases.

"What to do?" Dyke murmured, looking at Zheng Yingqi: "What do you need to do?"

"We can't let the Germans shoot us unscrupulously. I want to take people to find the German artillery positions and kill them!"

Dyke looked at Zheng Yingqi in shock: "Do you know where the German artillery positions are? How do you find them? And who is willing to go with you?"

Some people can get used to fighting - a small number of people, while most people cannot get used to it at all. A Western research data states that most people lose their combat effectiveness after 140 to 180 days on the battlefield. In the first three months, soldiers' combat capabilities are the strongest, and then they begin to decline until they completely collapse.

At this time, the E Company spent 23 days in Normandy, 78 days in the Netherlands, and 18 days in Belgium, that is, it had been on the battlefield for 119 days, and it had reached the edge. Before, the 2nd Battalion used the method of teasing the first battalion to gain combat effectiveness, but now, the aura that has been lifted has been discharged.

It's like a deflated balloon.

This is Dyke's perception - he felt that Company E had lost its combat power.

Dyke's rhetoric and shock made Zheng Yingqi even more shocked.

Since occupying Fuwa and receiving German shelling, everyone in the E Company had not seen their company commander in the past few days. Zheng Yingqi knew that the US officers had always been Jingui and did not think too much - just like he never thought about why the company had to be 300 meters away from the front line, he never thought too much.

but……

When an officer asked for a request from a subordinate, he couldn't help but think too much when he asked in a shocked tone, "Who would like to go with you."

"Sir, I will find a way to find them, but I need it..." Before he finished speaking, the door was pushed open again, and Winters' familiar face appeared at the door with the cold wind.

"Dyke, I have something to look for..." After seeing Zheng Yingqi, Winters was surprised and said, "Jacob, why are you here?"

Zheng Yingqi was quite particular and said, "The Lieutenant wanted me to take people to remove the German artillery."

"This is a good idea," Winters looked at Dyke and Zheng Yingqi in confusion. The distrust in his eyes was obvious, but he did not continue to question it. Instead, he said: "I can contact you artillery and ask them to send an observer over. Dyke and Strayer let me temporarily sit in the E Company. In the next few days, I will have to stay in the E Company with you."

Dykeqiang smiled and said, "It's great."

So the next day, Dyke had to appear on the front line, instead of hiding in the wooded house behind a few hundred meters away from the position - and on that night, Zheng Yingqi and four people formed a small infiltrating team and touched the Germans in the night.

"I think the German artillery has been silent for a few days."

Watching the infiltrating squad disappear into the night, many paratroopers suddenly became excited.

Winters, who had a deep conversation with Dyke, walked out of the wooden house and seemed to see the disappearing figure of the infiltrating team. He remembered the data listed by Dyke before, and a sentence came to his mind: People actually have no limits. If there is, it is because you have not broken through it.

This is Company E, not an ordinary army unit. The reason why he is on the verge of collapse is because... the commander of this unit has not appeared in front of the soldiers for several days.
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