Chapter 0412: Zheng Yingqi's obsession
Finally withdrawn.
The 506th Regiment was replaced again, and it was extremely rare to continue to stay dozens of kilometers behind the front line as a reserve team. This is extremely rare in the history of E Company's war.
This time the place where they were stationed was very close to a logistics warehouse. Company E also figured out one thing, why they lacked a lot of military supplies when they were on the front line.
On the front line, there are only two worst brands of cigarettes in their hands, and there are occasionally beer, but usually 2 bottles can be obtained in 2 or 10 days a week. Chewing gum can be obtained occasionally, but there is definitely not chewing gum every time it is replenished. In short, except for the damn K-class dry food and ammunition, many things can be replenished occasionally, and they will not be able to manage these military supplies as promised during the enrollment.
This time they lived near the military warehouse, and they finally understood why they lacked anything other than K-class dry food and ammunition!
They were all caused by the nearby stationed troops!
"After the items are shipped from the American cargo ship, the troops unloading at the port will take away some of them," Bowles is promoting Zheng Yingqi's terrible "loss" link: "In addition to their own use, they also use this way of harvest to comfort the lonely girls!"
Bowles gritted his teeth in hatred and said with sour water: "No wonder those troops have a high incidence of X-disease!"
He continued to get back to the topic: "After these military supplies are loaded onto the train, the cover troops will peel off another layer of skin during the railway transportation process. Then, during land transportation, the escort troops will peel off another layer of skin. Sir, do you think this is over? No, it's not over yet! After the things enter the military supplies warehouse, the surrounding troops will routinely take away some! And these things are all designated as 'damaged' in the record and are part of the loss."
"Do you think this is over? No! After the things arrive at the division level, the quarantine officers and quarantine officers will give priority to the officers in the division, and then the officers in the regiment and battalions. Only the remaining things will be distributed to the terrible frontline God. How many things will be in our hands? It is God's blessing to be able to divide C-level dry food and second-class cigarettes!"
Zheng Yingqi tilted his head and looked at Bowles who was dancing while talking. After he finished speaking, Zheng Yingqi reached out and lifted the raincoat under Bowers' feet, revealing a large basin filled with various military supplies, and said with a joke: "So, have you stole the military supplies warehouse?"
Bowles chuckled: "How can the things in our army be called stealing? This is taking, yes, taking, I took some from it."
Zheng Yingqi glanced at this guy in surprise. Unexpectedly, this guy knew the fallacy of scholars not being called stealing. Seeing this guy continue to smile foolishly, Zheng Yingqi simply squatted down and picked in the basin, took out some things he could use, and said, "These things will be delivered to my office later, isn't it a problem?"
"No problem, of course no problem!" Bowles was overjoyed.
"Also, don't make a fuss to everyone."
"Okay, okay, sir, don't worry." Bowles agreed.
Zheng Yingqi turned around and left. As he passed by Bowles, he whispered: "I will return to Momiang to garrison in three days, and I can finally leave this damn place."
Powers' eyes lit up, and he showed a wretched smile...
Three days later, the 2nd Battalion took the lead in bidding farewell to the reserve team and took the train to retreat to France. Shortly after they left, the junket officers in the military warehouse were furious and began to catch thieves all over the world.
"Forget it! This time, half of the warehouse was emptied? Which unit is so brave! I must find you! I want to send you to the military court!" The roar of the quarantine officer naturally could not be heard from Company E. The entire Company E entered the carnival on the train, and lived the life when Zheng Yingqi fooled them on the front line.
At the forefront of Bastogne, E Company had a period of shortage of supplies. Zheng Yingqi said to the people in a row: "Have you bear it, after we have survived these days of hardship, we drink one bottle and one bottle when we drink beer, one bottle when we light a cigarette, and one bottle when we drink beer..."
And Company E, which moved one quarter of a warehouse, is doing this now. The train is rushing towards Momion, and Company E has thrown garbage all the way, and even many French people chase and pick it up on both sides of the train.
"Ah, this is the youth I long for!"
A group of free paratroopers shouted shamelessly, like a group of young men with two horns.
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After returning to Momion again, E Company spent half a month to adapt to the peaceful life in their desires. However, after half a month, they still found it difficult to adapt to the slightest movement of the wind and fire. A company of the company crawled out of the barracks and looked for cover with bullet-free weapons. It was not until they realized their situation that they cursed and went back to sleep.
Of course, some other things happened during the period, such as a valuable quota for going home.
According to regulations, one person in each company can go home to rest for 30 days, and the candidate is determined by the company.
Spears set a standard for this: he had to fight in Normandy, the Netherlands and Bastogne, and there were no bad records on the service records (Wiseman directly excluded...), no X-diseases, no fake records of going out, etc.
However, there are only 19 people in the entire E Company to meet this requirement.
Although Spears tends to give this quota to Zheng Yingqi, Zheng Yingqi, who became the acting platoon leader of the second platoon, was assigned to the ranks of officers and could only be disqualified. In the end, only 18 people participated in the lottery, and the paper ball with the name written was thrown into the helmet. Zheng Yingqi was responsible for drawing lots Hubler shouted that Zheng Yingqi must draw him, but he did not want Zheng Yingqi to draw a guy named Gusi.
The key is that this guy is still in three rows...
"Although I don't want to lose you, an excellent soldier for the time being, I still wish you good luck! I'll wait for you to come back in a month." Spears said politely. The genius knew if he only knew that there was a soldier named Gusi who had a weak sense of existence today.
In Momion, the E Company was stationed for 36 days. During this rare 36-day cultivation period, from the entire 506th Regiment to the smallest Company, there have been great changes in personnel.
For example, E Company not only welcomed many newcomers, but some veterans also returned to the team due to injury. For example, the only Hale in the army who does not need a tie, like the platoon leader of the platoon, Wersh's return is a good thing for the platoon, but for Webster, it is not that good.
Just when Webster asked Spears to ask Wilsh to take charge of the first platoon again, he didn't expect Wilsh to be assigned to the second platoon leader, and Zheng Yingqi became the sergeant leader in the second platoon, who had not long been dealing online, and resigned again.
Compared with the personnel changes in Company E, the personnel changes in the 506th Regiment are very interesting:
Captain Nixon was promoted from the intelligence staff of the 2nd Battalion to the intelligence staff of the regiment, but during this period, he was taken down and became the training staff of the 2nd Battalion. Because this guy had to drink every night, he would be drunk as soon as he drank. Colonel Sink couldn't bear it anymore and kicked the 2nd Battalion again.
The most interesting thing is Major Sober. A few days ago, he was still the rank of captain in the military commander. When Winters met him, he deliberately warned Sober who pretended not to see him: "Captain Sober, salute depends on the rank, not on the human being." As a result, in a blink of an eye, Sober and Winters were at the same level.
Just now, the paratroopers who had eaten a big melon but didn't expect the capsized ship almost laughed crazy. Many veterans thought this pair of happy enemies was too interesting, but sadly, Sober not only became the major, but also the head of the training section. Therefore, the 506th Regiment entered the training nightmare dominated by Sober...
The veterans were all complaining, let alone the new recruits...
Of course, in these 36 days, not only training, but also many things worth mentioning. For example, in a military parade held in front of senior generals, Hale, who was not wearing a tie, cheated a servant of Eisenhower, for example, Spears married a British woman, for example, some big-name actors came to the heroes' troops to show their condolences. For example, because of military discipline, the Army had to use fines to empty the soldiers' wallets.
Yes, after the lockdown was invalid for the paratroopers who turned into old birds, the army adopted a fine to clean up the paratroopers.
The private of the paratroopers has a basic salary of $50 per month, a dangerous mission allowance and a $10 additional war zone allowance. The paratroopers are very rich in their pockets. For this reason, Taylor, who has become a general, set up a simple court in Momion and set up a variety of fines, and has paid a lot of money from the paratroopers' pockets.
Sure enough, this method is much more useful than confinement. At least during this period of crackdown, the US military's military discipline is unprecedentedly better.
Training entered the late stage as time passed, but at this time the paratroopers were preparing for the new airborne operation. This airborne was named "Main Team Operation". According to the notice, the paratroopers would airborne to Berlin and the surrounding areas to perform the final blow to the Germans.
This was the action that the paratroopers had been looking forward to for a long time. It was the battle on the other side of the Rhine as early as the Netherlands.
But after they were ready, the 101st Airborne Division and the 82nd Airborne Division were excluded from the airborne sequence, and the 17th Airborne Division and the 1st and 6th Airborne Divisions of the British Army were involved...
This was the first time the E-Company paratroopers watched others get on the plane and went to airborne. They thought this taste should be very pleasant, but when they really watched the plane covering the sky and the sun flew towards Germany, the E-Company paratroopers were all lost.
They were originally the protagonists of the past airborne times, but this time they changed from actors to audiences, watching others get on the plane and enter the stage, this feeling...
It's so bad!
"Men, don't worry, I think it's not far from the day we jump off the plane that will be our last battle against the damn Germans! We will press the Germans to the ground to rub, rub, and rub again, so that they will never have the courage and confidence to start a war in the future!" Wersh cheered his lost subordinates.
Reality, as Wilsh predicted, was at the end of March, Eisenhower's order came down.
He needed paratroopers from the 82nd Division and 101th Division to go to Ruhr to strengthen the encirclement there. In the industrial center of Germany, the US army surrounded and protected the German army there. He needed more troops to strengthen the encirclement, and then swallowed all the German army there in one bite, occupy Ruhr, and ruined the last breath of the Hitler Empire.
So the paratroopers got on trucks as if they were going to Bastogne and began to march towards their destination Ruhr.
...
Finally, I am about to set foot on the German mainland.
After crossing the Lüdendorf Bridge and entering Germany, the soldiers' emotions became very strange, including those veterans.
After they said goodbye to the civilians and entered the barracks, they knew that sooner or later, they would meet with spaghetti or Japanese dwarfs or Germans on the battlefield, and they all firmly believed that they would become the final winners, but when they really set foot on the land of Germany, they breed a very strange emotion.
【How should we treat Germans?】
This is a question that all the paratroopers were thinking about. They came from the United States to Britain, landed in France, and later fought in the Netherlands and in Belgium. But no matter where they were, they were liberators, and they would be welcomed by the local people, and they were all heroes in the eyes of those people who were bullied by the Germans.
But now they have set foot in Germany.
Here, they are no longer liberators, but occupiers!
Webster said a long time ago: We must let the Germans know what war is! All the sufferings that put the Germans on the people of all countries are staged in Germany!
But now he is also thinking about how to treat the Germans?
When they were in Alsace, they met Germans, and some even lived in German homes, but they were not recognized as German.
And now, they are setting foot on the land of the German people, they can see the Germans, maybe their sons, fathers, brothers, and younger brothers are German soldiers in military uniforms, the opponents who fight against them on the battlefield, and the perpetrators of countless German atrocities. So, how should they deal with them?
Wersh also had this kind of doubt. He asked Zheng Yingqi: "Do you believe in the atrocities of the German concentration camps advertised in the newspapers?"
In the past few years, the newspapers that soldiers could see were spared no effort to promote the atrocities of the Germans. Before those atrocities in concentration camps, Wersh believed it very much, but now, Wersh, like Webster, is full of doubts about such propaganda.
Chapter completed!