Chapter 74 Night March

Chapter 74 Night March

On June 10, in Ungerville Oplein, Parks received a letter. The envelope was pink. Even after thousands of mountains and rivers, the lettering inside still smelled a fresh fragrance.

West, who was in charge of sending and receiving letters, looked at the envelope for a long time and said anticly, "You are so lucky, sir!"

"What?" Parks was opening the envelope and smelling the smell of the stationery. Hearing West's words, he couldn't help raising his head doubtfully, "Is there something wrong with this? Private West. "

West quickly explained, "No, no, I just want to say that at least you haven't been abandoned by the girl, unlike me!"

"Are you trying to say that there are still girls who remember me?" Parks smiled and said, "I still want to show that you have been abandoned by the girl!"

West shook his head: "I received a break-up letter before D."

"Oh, this is really unfortunate!" Parks couldn't help laughing and said, "But it's absolutely impossible for me to share it with you." Then he raised the letter in Yang's hand and left proudly.

is a letter from Virginia.

She confided her miss for Parks in the letter, hoping that he could come back early. If possible, she could contact General Li and maybe transfer him back to work. She didn't mention anything about the previous automatic rifle. It seems to be very optimistic. However, she still mentioned one thing, that is, in the recent visit to her home again, Brigadier General Lee mentioned Parks, and said that he also mentioned Parks in his recent letter to General Taylor. In the letter, General Li said that Parks was the best U.S. paratrooper he had ever seen.

All this makes Parker feel a little proud. After all, the appreciation of the father of the U.S. paratroopers is not easy to get. This letter is basically good news. Women have not changed their hearts, and they can be valued by their superiors. What could be better than this?

E Company's good day at Oplein in Angville is over.

The 29th Division and the 101st Division from Omaha Beach met in the northeast of Carrington. This has consolidated the beachhead position. However, if the Americans do not drive the Germans out of Carrington, it is impossible for this beachhead position to expand or extend inland. The task of capturing Carrington fell on the shoulders of the 101st Division.

General Taylor decided to attack from three directions at the same time. The 327th Gliding Infantry Regiment attacked from the north and the 501st Regiment from the northeast, and the 506th Regiment attacked the night march to the southwest of the besieged Carrington. The time of the coordinated attack is set at 5 o'clock at dawn on June 12.

"I want F Company to be the vanguard, E Company will follow, and D Company will be the queen!" Colonel Sink's order is very clear.

This time, the E Company did not take the lead. After Winters carried out this order, many people in the E Company were very happy. In short, it is not the forefront of the position at any time. It is the greatest happiness to meet German snipers from time to time.

"Coloe Sink is really a good man!" Webster wrote in his words, "In my memory, Company E was always at the front, including the battle of the manor on the day of D and the attack of Ungerville Oplein. But it's all over. I now realize what war is, looking for honor in excitement, and feeling the friendship between brothers in danger. If one day the war is over, I don't know how to say goodbye to my brothers around me..."

Webster's idea represents a large group of E- Company brothers. They look for each other's warmth in tension, stimulation and pain, and honor in this warmth.

On June 11, the 506th Regiment began to march at night, and their companies and companies kept a distance from each other. The brothers of Company E carried out several months of night training because of when Sober was the company commander, including cross-country at night, forced marching through the woods, the use of compasses at night, problems that the troops may encounter at night, and the control of the troops' night operations. The people of Company E are familiar with night homework.

But other companies keep having problems, which annoys the brothers of E company.

"Well, we have lost the contact of D Company again!" Gerry cursed in a low voice, "These damn idiots!"

"Not only D Company, but we have also lost the contact with F Company." Parks walked past him and said blankly, "Sergeant Gernelly, you and Luz go to contact Company F."

Then Parks shouted to the front: "Sergeant Tebert, you take someone to contact Company D!"

This is not the first time that they have lost contact. On the way to the march, such situations often appeared between several companies of the second battalion, so that they walked and stopped, which made Parks very angry.

"Let's see, we are often in a state of fighting alone!" Although Parks knew that this would happen, he couldn't help complaining to Company Leader Winters.

"This is all the reason why the soldiers didn't teach well when the officers were training." Winters also looked a little angry. Although he complained, he could still bear it.

"Look, our Sobo still left us with an elite soldier!" Nixon, who was beside Winters, couldn't help whistling and laughing, "This should be Thorber's greatest contribution to E Company."

"We have arrived at the scheduled place. Do we have to wait all the time?" Parks shook his head, and his words were a little angry. "Can't the staff of the regiment be more accurate? At least now I know that our scheduled location is also a wrong place.

"Although it is wrong, we still have to execute the order." Winters said helplessly, "Parks, don't complain. Tell your brothers to build fortifications, set up machine guns, and we will enter the defensive position."

"Okay!" Knowing that it was useless to say to Winters, Parks calmed down and began to arrange his brothers to build fortifications.

The sound of the MG42 machine gun is particularly abrupt in the night sky. Shooting in the direction of Company E. It's just a point shot. They shoot at a short distance.

"Cre down." Parks greeted his brothers carefully, "Keep silent. Looking at the direction of the Germans, we are ready to go over and hit them unprepared!"

"Chris Denson, come here, set up the machine gun, aim at the enemy's fire point, listen to our gunfire when we attack, and then fire fiercely to cover us!"

"Okay!" Chris Denson climbed over and set up the machine gun.

"The rest of the brothers in the row, follow me! Keep a low profile, let's kill them!" Parks took the remaining brothers in the platoon and quietly touched the German fire.

Germans are looking for the U.S. military with fire. But what they did was undoubtedly exposing themselves. By the time Parks could see their position, it was only more than 40 meters away, which was already the visible distance of the E Company brothers who were familiar with night work. Parks can even hear the Germans talking in a low voice. There are a total of 15 Germans, and there are more in one class.

"White, tell everyone your goal, and then listen to my gunshots. After killing them, immediately retreat to the fortifications and prepare for defense. Parks carefully arranged a commando mission against the Germans. He wants to destroy them in one fell swoop and then retreat neatly.

"Three" Parks counted silently in his heart. He raised the M1 rifle, and then carefully adjusted his accuracy to kill him with one shot.

"Two!"

As soon as "one" Parks counted one, he pulled the trigger. A "bang" gunshot was very crisp at night and spread far away. The German machine gunner's head drooped down, and he was hit in the head, which was fatal.

The Germans were suddenly shocked. When they realized that they were about to fight back, a burst of gunfire shot them one by one. But the firepower of the Germans sounded, and the machine gun was firing fiercely on this side!

At this time, Chris Denson's machine gun also sounded, and he attracted most of the enemy's firepower.

"Retreat, retreat!" Parks shouted and then instructed the brothers to retreat along the same road. He followed the end of the team, and the group quickly retreated to the original fortifications.

"Enough, Chris Denson." Parks stopped the machine gun. "We are safe now. There is no need to waste bullets."

The machine guns here stopped, and the German counterattack also stopped. Both sides did not know the details of the other party, and they did not dare to attack rashly, which had caused unnecessary losses.

"We killed 15 of them at a time." Kaber talked about the excitement just now in a ostentatious whisper.

His words received a response from many people. A row of active attacks knocked down the German fire reconnaissance point and was praised by Winters, which avoided unnecessary losses of the brothers and took the initiative. Moreover, Parks's strategy of war-and-go is undoubtedly very successful, so that the Germans are not sure of the situation here and dare not act rashly.

Soon, Grenari and Tybert came back, and they contacted Company D and Company F. At the same time, it also brought orders from the regimental headquarters, and Colonel Sink ordered the E Company to continue to move forward.

"Didn't they know that we had met the periphery of the German army in Carrington? Why don't you set up a position here and capture them? Parks had some doubts about this order.

"Execute the order, Parks, when did you start complaining like this?" Winters couldn't help frowning.

"Yes, sir!" Parks could only make a salute and then turn around.

"Parks!" Winters stopped him.

"What?" Parks turned around and looked at Winters.

"I want your platoon to be a striker," Winters said. "Be careful!" Then he patted Parker's arm.

"I know!" Parks nodded and sighed in his heart. He knew that this could not change anything. He had to be more careful. But Company E is very lucky. Because Parks killed 15 Germans neatly, the rest of the Germans thought they had met the main force of the U.S. military and retreated overnight, so that although Parks was cautious, he never met a German again.

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