Pre-war meetings are the basics of the army. Generally speaking, the company commanders participating in the war will gather the non-commissioned officers and officers in the company to convey the combat plan, and then the non-commissioned officers and officers present will convey it to the soldiers. During the war, the soldiers will have a clear mind and will fight more closely around the non-commissioned officers.

Tomorrow is the battle to attack Norville, and Company E will naturally have to hold a meeting to convey the specific combat plan.

"The attack location of our company tomorrow is here," Spears circled the area where Company E needs to be responsible for the attack on the map: "It is 800 meters away from Kaublu Village to here. Fortunately, these 800 meters are not damn broad land. We can follow the road and approach the two sides of the road. Along the way, we need to use as much as possible everything we can cover, houses, slopes, trees, rocks, etc., which are the cover we need."

This is the first strong offensive operation since Spears took over the E Company. Considering the negligence during the daytime operation, Spears involuntarily re-played the 2nd and 3rd rows:

If you encounter a house occupied by the Germans, grenades and rifles need to be coordinated well. The machine gun support firepower must be in place. The mortar team should always pay attention to the situation ahead and the attack team in the front at any time. The German tactical stronghold cannot be the bayonet on our throat...

He said a lot in a long and long way, and he felt like his son was busy making arrangements and warnings for the first time he went out. Although it was very long-winded, it was actually a very warm feeling for these paratroopers.

Finally, he mentioned the allocation of troops: "In tomorrow's attack, the first platoon will not participate in the operation and assist the medical staff in the rescue of the wounded, the second platoon is on the left and the third platoon is on the right, approaching Norville along both sides of the Forva to Norville Highway."

No one was surprised that the first row did not participate in the battle. In fact, the first row can now take out two or three kittens, which is not as powerful as the company's forces.

Spears said a lot, and in the end he felt embarrassed. After all, this was Company E, an extremely outstanding company in the 101st Division. These old-fashioned words are becoming more and more ridiculous now. So he pretended to close his notebook and said, "That's it. Go back and tell the soldiers what you should say, if nothing else..."

"Sir, I have a request!" Compton interrupted Spears. Spears looked at him with surprise. Compton was afraid of being taken first by Lieutenant Picock beside him, so he hurriedly said:

"Since the first row is responsible for assisting the medical staff to treat the wounded, I think they definitely don't need Jacob to command. Can Jacob follow the second row tomorrow?"

Picock, who was standing by, regretted it. Why didn't he expect this?

Spears frowned and then looked at Zheng Yingqi in embarrassment, but unexpectedly, Zheng Yingqi nodded happily and simply said: "Yes."

Compton was overjoyed, while Spears was silent and said in an inexplicable tone: "You are like a treasure."

Treasure?

Zheng Yingqi was puzzled, but the others would laugh out loud. Only Picock was secretly annoyed that he was slow to react. Why didn't he expect to snatch Jacob over?

...

Compton has infinite praise for Zheng Yingqi. If it weren't for Zheng Yingqi's chance to be promoted to an officer in Normandy, he felt that the current company commander of Company E must be Zheng Yingqi. Of course, this is not about looking down on Spears, but Compton's confidence in Zheng Yingqi!

"I'm going to hit Norville tomorrow. Do you have anything to pay attention to? Our treasure boy." Compton asked, finally joking.

Zheng Yingqi didn't understand this joke, and didn't care. She lowered her head and thought for a while and said, "I have an idea..."

"What's your thoughts? Say it quickly! I'll know that the treasure boy won't let us down!" Compton was overjoyed.

Zheng Yingqi squatted on the ground, simply drew a map on the ground, and pointed to a position and said: "At this location, there are several destroyed Sherman tanks, which were destroyed by the Germans when the Sobery detachment was retreating. Because of the war, the Germans have not cleaned up there."

“The left side of the highway?”

"Yes, about three hundred meters away from the edge of Norville, it's less than 100 meters from the middle of our offensive line."

"You mean..." Compton's eyes lit up: "We control this place and can suppress the entire side firepower of the offensive line, which can more effectively support us to approach Norville!"

"Yes, but you have to touch it at night," said Zheng Yingqi. "You have to suck some unlucky guys who are frozen."

The biggest problem there is to be with many corpses. Lying with those who have been frozen in the cold for a month is a death challenge for ordinary people, but for paratroopers who have been baptized by half a year from D-D to now, this is not a problem.

Compton laughed, looked at Zheng Yingqi with "bad intentions" and said, "I think you are the most suitable target for these unlucky commanders, right?"

Zheng Yingqi shrugged, as expected, otherwise how could he use the phrase "Unfortunate to be frozen"?

"Thank you." After the joke, Compton sincerely thanked Zheng Yingqi, who accepted the thank you with a smile.

Compton immediately turned around to find Spears and told the boss of E Company that Zheng Yingqi's plan. Spears also felt a shiny look at this plan and approved without hesitation that commanders from various pits have emerged one after another from ancient times to the present, but the most pitfall is still at the top. Commanders who have not had the corresponding qualities when they come to power for various reasons will cheat a lot of subordinates, but at the grassroots level, there is no such thing.

After all, most grassroots officers are coming step by step. They all have corresponding qualities and can see the pros and cons. Some people may be jealous of their subordinates and have outstanding talents, but they will never waste a good plan because of jealousy.

Of course, because of jealousy, I won’t discuss the matter of deliberately killing my subordinates. At least Spears is not such a person.

After obtaining Spears' consent, Compton immediately drew two machine gun teams and four riflemen in the platoon and handed over to Zheng Yingqi to lead.

"I think we're going to be popular!"

After confirming that Jacob would lead them, the eight paratroopers were so happy that they felt like they had bought a life insurance policy, which was much better than the garbage insurance that the Army Department bought for them.

But after learning about the mission, the company of eight people collapsed. Oh my God, there will be a war tomorrow, so we want to sleep quietly in the house...

"Don't want to?" Looking at the eight unlucky guys with a broken face, the number one unlucky guy asked.

The eight paratroopers shook their heads in unison and said NO. At this time, even if they were unhappy, they had to be happy. It would be absolutely wrong to give Jacob some more favorable feelings!

"That's good, we can set out to bring our blankets and quilts, and in the next time, we have to live on them."

The blankets in Zheng Yingqi's mouth are the kind that the army is distributed. As for the quilts, they are all unparalleled objects from Kaublu. Anyway, the owner doesn't know where they are, so what can they do?

Under the night, a team of nine people got into the darkness in the cold and touched their battlefield under the leadership of the number one unlucky guy.

As soon as the team left, Winters' figure appeared from a distance, and he was actually there, but I was really embarrassed to face Zheng Yingqi, who was called by the old ox, so I could only send them to suffer silently.

"In fact, we can launch an attack at night." Compton naturally told Winters that in the entire 2nd Battalion, only the elderly in the E Company had privileges. After all, they were Winters' serious direct line and spent a very long time together.

"Although there are flares, the accidental injury rate is still too high."

"We have a lot of experience in night battles!"

"But friendly forces cannot do it." Winters spread his hands helplessly.

"Okay, who told us to get a pig teammate?" Compton said that after a month of various battles, the 506th Regiment and even the 101st Division were still sent to the battlefield because there were too many pig teammates.

"I think Jacob thinks so too." Winters retorted, and Compton shut up instantly. They thought the other troops were like a group of pig teammates. Will Jacob also think that they were a group of pig teammates? So he has to do more hardships?

【This is really a problem…】

...

If every minute and every second are regarded as a critical moment in war, then there will be many gaps that can be drilled in the war, but the reality is that no one's nerves can always be tense. The more the war is, the more the officers have to find ways to make the soldiers relax and not put too much pressure on them.

Therefore, Zheng Yingqi once again successfully took advantage of the loopholes and brought eight people to their mouths under the eyes of the Germans.

"I think if the Germans found us, they would be happy to open their mouths and eat us in one go." Hale, who had entered the destroyed tank, said like a crow's mouth.

"So we have to be very careful to avoid being discovered by the Germans and then swallowing us in one bite." Zheng Yingqi replied while moving a corpse carefully, and the lively Hel immediately shut up with a warning word.

What a fool I want to be swallowed by the Germans in one bite. We are here to fuck the Germans!

Hale muttered in his heart, and his eyes fell involuntarily on the corpse beside him. Out of respect for the bodies of friendly troops, they gently lifted the body to the side when they entered here, but the space in the Sherman tank was so large that the so-called side was still in front of them. Although he was used to seeing dead bodies, in this dark environment, he still couldn't help but look at the slightest corpse under the moonlight.

Although he had been dead for a month, in the cold, the face of the corpse could still see clearly in the night. The young face was as stiff as his, and the white frost was covered with vague distortion, which should be the severe pain before death. Hale thought to himself, it must be painful before he died.

die……

At that moment, Hale thought of death or he had thought of it for a long time, but the dead night and the stiff corpse made the distance between him and death narrow infinitely.

"Will I die?"

Hale slowly began to think deeply with this question.

The light blue slowly dispels the darkness, and the world slowly becomes gray. When visibility increases at a rate visible to the naked eye, the gunfire breaks the tranquility of the night, which also means...

The battle begins!

"Come out quickly! Arrange machine gun positions!" Zheng Yingqi's shout made the paratroopers hiding in Sherman feel like they had returned to the world, and their stiff bodies climbed out of the narrow entrance with difficulty. They quickly set up positions and began to cover them with the destroyed tanks as cover.

The German army kept paying attention to the movements of the paratroopers. When the paratroopers began to gather, the German army rushed into their respective positions. When the paratroopers entered their shooting circle, the German gunshots broke the tranquility of dawn. But in the blink of an eye, countless bullets rushed over from their side.

The German army was stunned.

"Where are bullets!"

"Bastard! Where did you shoot?"

"Why are there bullets shot from the side?"

German soldiers cursed and when shooting, they needed to focus on the front. Who would like to expose their side to the muzzle in this situation?

“There’s there!”

"Why are the remains of the bitch?"

While the German army cursed, they had to divide the firepower to suppress it, but the firepower from the side was too fierce. Two machine guns and four semi-automatic rifles, such firepower could not be suppressed easily. At this time, the attacking paratroopers burst out all their potential, pressing up at the fastest speed, then pressing up, and continuing to press up!

"This is the most enjoyable time I have ever fought since the war!"

A shuttle of machine guns and bullets forced a paratrooper to hide behind the rock, but he did not curse himself habitually, but instead shouted excitedly. The comrades not far away also loudly agreed with their comrades' words. After fighting for half a year, there was no charge as enjoyable as it was!

Although the paratroopers were so excited that they were unparalleled, Compton, as the platoon leader, could not relax. He kept roaring: "Distract! Pull out the team! Don't get together! Submachine guns! Suppress! Suppress!"

The second row advanced quickly and quickly left the third row behind. After rushing more than 200 meters, Compton gathered two machine gun teams and occupied a back slope, and began to support the attack of the third row. The third row, which was supported, also exploded and quickly broke up, surrounding the Germans from several strongholds. Then, after a grenade set, he replenished the guns, gathered the prisoners, and continued to rush forward.

If we watch this battle from the perspective of God, the German army surrounded the outer defense line of the entire town of Norwich, like an oval silkworm pupa, but the silkworm pupa is now directly poked a huge gap by a chopstick. This chopstick is E Company.

The Germans did not want their outer defense line to be easily broken through. Among the already-not-rich troops, two platoons were forced to be drawn out to try to block the U.S. troops, and the firepower point of the tank remains became the most important target of attack. They gathered about a platoon of infantry and attacked the tank remains under the cover of mortars.

"The machine gun continues to suppress the German army on the offensive line! Riflemen, change positions and block the German army!" At this time, Zheng Yingqi never transferred the machine gun firepower to defend this firepower support point, but instead blocked the Germans with riflemen.

The remains of these tanks provided them with the most barbaric and effective defense. The Germans did not take the attack here. Just as the Germans gritted their teeth and transferred the tanks to the table, the long-awaited armored troops of the US military finally appeared. After seeing as many as seven US Shermans, the German tanks that had planned to level the remains of the tanks immediately retreated into the town.

With tank support, the E Company's attack speed was faster. The 800 meters that had been agreed to be actually a one-kilometer offensive line, which was easily broken through by them.

"Call to the town center! We meet with the 3rd Battalion in the town center! I want to invite the whole company to lunch in the tavern in the town center!" Spears' order conveyed to the whole company. Although no one knew whether there was a tavern in the town center of Norville, at the invitation of Spears, the paratroopers of the E Company screamed and began to attack the town.

Street battle breaks out!

Street fighting is the most difficult battle in modern warfare. Sometimes after advancing for hundreds of meters, I was shocked to find that the front, left and right sides are all enemies. Then I turned around and saw that the friendly troops behind were separated from you. Damn, the friendly troops behind were separated from you, and the few enemy tanks that were so dying were crossing the middle between you and your comrades. First, pull the commander out and bounced a hundred times before talking about it.

Of course, Zheng Yingqi would not make such a mistake. He led the unlucky team to continuously seize German strongholds along the road. The entire E Company took the team led by Zheng Yingqi as the arrows and advanced rapidly. The armored troops supported also cooperated extremely. The E Company advanced rapidly in an unstoppable posture.

The Germans have always been reluctant to use the remaining tanks to fight the US military head-on, but reality forces them to fight head-on. The Germans gathered the only four tanks, pushed the house from one side and rushed out, intending to fight the US tanks to the death.
To be continued...