The German army could not have imagined that after a failure of their offensive during the day, it would be the end of their attack. They thought they still had the initiative, but they never expected that the US military was ready to counterattack!

The world before the counterattack was always quiet, just like the sea before the storm, always at the quietest time, and the quietness always makes people feel illusion, the sea, you are so gentle.

but……

In this tranquility, a deadly storm is brewing!

However, people are accustomed to tranquility and will not see the magnificent storm that devours the sky and the earth because of the quiet sea. Just like the Germans, they thought that this tranquility was the US military licking their wounds. They never expected that at this time, the US military was sharpening their swords and preparing to counterattack. They did not expect that a small army would leave the Fuwa Front, which was almost at Shura Field in the dark in the sun.

The small team moved in the darkness in the night. After nearly three hours, they arrived around the village of Leikaone. After distinguishing the direction, Zheng Yingqi led the team toward Kaublu, reaching a two-kilometer-long wide area covered with snow.

Zheng Yingqi divided the team into four groups and arranged it on both sides of this broad land. During the day, Company E would occupy the village of Leikaone, and then advance along this broad land towards the village of Kaublu, attacking the German army there, and laying positions here in advance, which can effectively prevent the German army from arranging several firepower points to delay the attack of Company E at critical moments.

A glorious mission, but...

The paratroopers, trembling with cold, swore that after taking Norville, they would have to bake the stove inside and rest for a few days and nights. At that time, General Eisenhower would come in person, and he would not be able to lead them away from the warm stove.

...

Soldiers can obey orders and act according to orders, but officers must have sufficient subjective initiative to do so. This is the basic quality of being an officer. If an officer commands and executes orders, well, this is also the norm for most officers, so there is a difference between mediocre talents and talents.

Zheng Yingqi is now working as a talent. The team has quietly unfolded on both sides of the wide area according to his arrangement, dug out foxholes and made some disguises. After checking these, he began to use his free time to check tomorrow's battlefield.

During the inspection, Zheng Yingqi discovered a situation that was very unfavorable to E Company:

When E Company detours to attack the village of Lekonie during the day, it needs to pass through a deep mountain shoulder area that can extend to the vicinity of Lekonie. Norwire is in the northeast of this area. In other words, Company E must brave the firepower of the Norwier German army to penetrate here. During the day, the soldiers walking in the snow are simply living targets for the German army.

"A machine gun must be arranged here," Zheng Yingqi looked at the terrain and found a very good machine gun position. The position was condescending, which happened to be able to block the German army from the front and back of the march towards Novel. This was not in his mission, but when he thought of this step, it showed the gap between talents and mediocre talents...

The staff was limited, and it was very stressful for the first platoon to draw a machine gun team, but Zheng Yingqi still stubbornly pulled out four people from the four groups, a two-man machine gun team and two riflemen. They would suppress the German firepower in the forcing in Norville town while E Company was marching in the daytime and cover the E Company's detour.

...

As soon as the sky was dawn, the units of the 506th Regiment gathered together and began their first counterattack in Bastogne according to the orders they received. The 2nd Battalion began to detour according to the scheduled route. Soon, Winters realized the fatal mistake made by the regiment headquarters when dividing the route!

Even though he was always gentle, he couldn't help but curse: "Damn it! These bastards! Why don't you plan your way for us after a few more investigations?"

"Will we despise the change of detour routes to the regiment headquarters?" Nixon asked him that he was the intelligence counselor of the battalion headquarters. When Winters was angry, he seemed "humble" and that was his fault. Although he could be given the regiment headquarters, as an intelligence counselor, he did not have a more detailed understanding of the entire battalion's route. It was really...

"We have no time! The first battalion has already started to detour from there. We must cooperate with them to capture Norvell. We cannot delay. Pass the orders. Each company will keep the column and quickly rush over here to approach the village of Reconne, so that Company D will take the lead! There is only one German who cannot line up in Reconne, so that Company D will solve them as soon as possible and then attack Coblu."

This is what the commander sometimes has the most helpless. He knows that he can have a better choice, but for the sake of the overall situation, he has to rack his brains to fight the worst choice.

After receiving the order, the company commander of the D company was too big. Aren’t such “beautiful and missed” from Company E? Why did they change to Company D today?

But in the face of Winters' unquestionable order, he could only grit his teeth and line up his troops into a column. After the preparation was over, the shorter it was exposed to the enemy's gun, the smaller the loss. This is the experience that everyone gained after struggling and rolling in the war for a long time.

The Germans in Norwire Town soon discovered the US military's "borrowing roads" from here. They naturally needed to hand over the toll. About a platoon of German troops rushed out of the town, broke out more than 300 meters, and then began to pour ammunition into the US military passing by quickly.

Winters clenched his teeth, and Nixon, who was standing beside him, retreated humbly, and blamed himself secretly. He kept praying, hoping that each company could quickly pass this section of road that is now "tolled" by the Germans, and hope that each company could pass without any harm...

Just as they were ready to bear certain losses, suddenly the extremely familiar gunfire sounded.

"There's there!" Nixon, full of guilt, saw the place where the fire was opened as fast as possible, and then shouted excitedly and had been fighting for so long. How could he not tell the difference between his weapons and enemy weapons?

Winters determined the location of the fire at the first time without Nixon's finger. After watching through the telescope, he couldn't help but be overjoyed!

One of our troops actually occupied a small high ground and condescendingly suppressed the German army that "collected tolls". The Germans wanted to collect a toll happily, but they didn't expect that Cheng Yaojin would kill halfway through the road, but they even fired at them condescendingly!

The side was high and low, and it was like pressing on the ground to rub. The German infantry platoon that collected tolls fell down four or five people in one encounter. How could they continue to "charge" at this time? It would be great if they could take care of themselves!

After seeing the Germans avoiding in the telescope, Winters couldn't help but praise him happily: "That's great! They are too timely! Captain Nixon, you will check later. Where are the friendly forces? They have given us such great help at the critical moment! I want to ask the regiment commander for their merits!"

After Nixon quickly passed the mission of the surrounding friendly forces in his mind, he became confused. There were only 2 battalions in this direction, so where did the friendly forces come from?

Well, it's not right...

The 1st row of E Company?

Last night, the first platoon was sent by Spears to the direction of Rekone and Kaublu. Looking at the location of this friendly army, it was not far from the wide area between the two villages.

【It could not be that guy Jacob, is it?

Nixon suspected that if it were Jacob, he would really have to thank him!

"You said it was very likely Jacob?" After hearing Nixon say his suspicion, Winters felt that there was no need to doubt it, it must be Jacob!

Not only Winters is so sure, but Spears is also the friendly forces that stand out in front. Only Jacob's row. Except Jacob, who would set up a machine gun position there to cover them?

"Beautiful job!" Spears praised in his heart and urged the troops to act quickly. After all, Jacob had few soldiers in his hands, how long could he last?

...

On the small high ground, Zheng Yingqi smiled as he watched the friendly forces who quickly broke through the toll section and didn't even give them a life to the Germans. He thought, the friendly forces at this time must have loved them to death, right?

On the battlefield, the German army in Norville saw the tolling troops sent by the sudden appearance of the enemy, hurriedly sent a tank to assist, and at the same time divided two tanks and a group of infantry to rush towards the high ground. However, it took time to mobilize the troops. When the tanks began to approach the high ground, the 2nd Battalion had already killed from the toll section.

"By goodbye!" Zheng Yingqi looked at the tank that was rushing towards him, laughed and took his subordinates to evacuate here, leaving only a flash of shadows for the German troops who were rushing towards him. If the German tanks want to chase him down, they have to kill off a slope. There are only two tanks and a group of infantry. Do you dare to come down?

Of course, Germany did not dare, so they could only watch the enemy who had let their charging plan fail to disappear from the slope and then turned back to the town, because in the north, they still needed to "charge" a US military.

This US army is naturally the first battalion. Like the second battalion, it has to pass under the noses of the Germans when detouring. What’s even more unlucky is that the toll sections they need to pass are much longer than the second battalion. At such a long distance, the 88 guns in the town of Norwire have enough time to harvest them!

So Zheng Yingqi saw a scene that made him remember deeply.

The Germans' 88 guns, submachine guns, MG42 and other firepower burst out and collected tolls. The soldiers who were hit by the 88 guns rolled in the sky like fallen leaves blown by the autumn wind. The infantry cannons weighing hundreds of pounds were thrown up like toys, and screamed everywhere.

In just less than ten minutes, the 1st Battalion set the fastest record of combat damage since the D-Day. After they rushed out of the German firepower coverage area, there were as many as 32 wounded people in the battalion!

The first battalion commander almost got mad!

...

Compared with the First Battalion, the 2nd Battalion was naturally extremely lucky. Due to Zheng Yingqi's intervention, the 2nd Battalion passed through there with zero battle damage. As the D Company, as the front arrow, took down the village of Leikaone, which had only more than a dozen people with one charge. The information on the battlefield was too easy to get out of date, and the short shelf life was shorter than the goods of the Black Heart Factory.

The entire 506th Regiment was moving. After the Germans integrated the intelligence, they immediately realized that the US military was preparing to attack Norville. The two German infantry battalions in the town would certainly not be left alone and immediately took countermeasures.

The vast land between the villages of Lekonne and Kaublu is the best blocking area in the eyes of the Germans. As long as the US military is stuck here, the American plan to siege Norville will have to be discounted.

"Sir, there may be a group of US military activities there. It was this US military that destroyed us in the southwest just now in the southwest direction!"

"You can't take down a US military squad in one company?"

As the German commander roared, a German infantry company rushed towards the open area guarded by two tanks, under the cover of two tanks.
Chapter completed!