Chapter 220 Targeted Training

Parachuting in rainy and foggy weather undoubtedly greatly increased the difficulty of skydiving. However, in order to ensure that it was foolproof, Parks made a lot of exploration of the skydiving area before skydiving and determined to minimize the dangerous surname before the order.

The next day, the officers and soldiers of Company E took a truck to the only nearby airport nearby that could take off and land the C-47 transport aircraft. Watching the soldiers of Company E board the truck fully armed, someone shouted at them, "Hey, guys, are you going to parachute to Berlin? Oh, I hope you can catch Hitler, so we don't have to go to Germany anymore!"

Sdenson looked at the soldiers of the other companies smiling proudly at them behind the truck. He couldn't help looking at Pooh doubtfully and said, "Is this decision really correct? I have never tried skydiving in rainy and foggy weather. The only time I trained in fog, I was hung on the branch of a big tree.

"Don't talk nonsense. If you have doubts about this action, then you can quit E Company!" The speaker was Gernelly. He sat diagonally opposite Stensen, staring at Stensen coldly and curled his lips. "As a rookie paratrooper, all you have to do is learn and shut up, and unconditional obedience. Complaining is not what you should do!"

"Yes, sir!" Sidensen shrugged his shoulders. Since that incident, he has known that the veterans are actually talented and learned. They are qualified to order themselves to do this and that. This is the capital they have obtained through countless bloody battles. Therefore, he showed obedience to Gernelly's words, and his eyes were dodging, and he was always unwilling to look at Gernelly, which was actually a compromise.

As Gernelly said, although many people in Company E were full of doubts about this training, out of trust in Parks, they had no other grievances except one or two of complaints. They showed good obedience to Parks's orders. Especially the soldiers who followed Parks.

"I think the boss is preparing for our airborne landing in Berlin. Maybe we can occupy Berlin in front of everyone!" White looked at Maratch beside him and couldn't help saying, "If that's the case, I can say to my grandson when I'm old, 'Hey, boy, you have to remember that your grandfather caught Hitler in Berlin."

"I have great expectations for this!" Malaqi nodded, "Actually, I don't care much about this. What I care about is when the war will end, which is the most important thing. I want to go back. I haven't even been formally in a relationship, and I don't have a formal girlfriend. Of course, if there is, I will marry her as soon as I can after I get home and have a large group of children. Life is the most wonderful moment. White, I think I especially need women now. When these women cover your face with their big breasts in Paris, you feel that your life exists.

White was stunned. He didn't expect Maraki to have such a strange statement at all. He couldn't help looking at him, and then turned his head to Luz, who was sitting on the other side, and said, "What's wrong with this guy?"

Luz laughed and said, "This guy is suffocated. If he can't get a pass to Paris anymore, I guess when he hands Yin, he will shout, 'God, give me a big breast woman. I need her big tits!'"

Huai nodded and said, "That's true!" Then the two laughed together.

Obviously, after many battles, the brothers of Company E, especially those veterans from Tacosia, participated in almost all the battles of Company E in Europe. After each battle, their mood became different. From the beginning, they gradually became timid, cowardly or fanatical and fearless. With other ideas, they are more keen on planning what life will be like after the war, rather than how to kill Germans in battle or seize various German belongings as trophy.

The plane passed through the clouds. Parks sat behind the pilot and quietly looked at the sky outside the window. Out of the clouds, he couldn't see anything, but because of this, he could stick to everything he did. In the future E company, it would be possible to carry out such an umbrella landing, and such an umbrella landing, if the team could be guaranteed If it is not scattered, then the battle will be half successful.

"Lieutenant, are you sure you will fall like this?" The pilot shouted loudly to Parks with his head sideways, "I have to remind you that even the plane is unwilling to fly out in such weather, because it means that we will fly lower and it is easier to find the bombardment of artillery fire, and even hold a machine gun to shoot us down."

"What do you think?" Parks smiled at the pilot and said, "We didn't fly to such a high altitude to chat. As a paratrooper, we will encounter such a situation sooner or later. Jumping down from the air, who else is willing to do such a thing besides fools and paratroopers? We have to plan every possible situation! In this way, we will have fewer opportunities to be fools.

The combator shrugged his shoulders, indicating that he had nothing to say. Obviously, he was not optimistic about this parachute, and he thought that it was completely unnecessary. It was impossible for the Allies to make a parachute in such bad weather. But Parks knew that after the start of the Battle of Ardenn, their paratroopers would parachute in worse weather than this. If the wings of the butterfly changed some links, the threat to the U.S. military would be enormous after the successful parachute.

The wind at the door of the cabin was mixed with drizzle and poured into the cabin. Sdensen couldn't help shivering. He took a look at Pooh beside him. Pooh was shrinking. Obviously, he felt colder than Sdenson. At this time, I saw Lieutenant Shams standing up at the door of the cabin, and the green light beside him was on.

"stand up!" Lieutenant Shams shouted loudly and gestured to the brothers in the cabin, "Get hooked, check the equipment!" For the basic work, Lieutenant Shams is undoubtedly a qualified officer, although his incompetence comes from his irritable temper and sense of direction, as well as a little cowardice.

Lieutenant Shams was the first to step out of the cabin and jumped down. There was a vast cloud in front of him. Although he knew that there was no thunderstorm at this time, he was still a little panicked. If he was in the usual training, he would turn this panic into an angry roar at the soldiers, but now he is floating alone. Looking down in the air, he could hardly find any reference except the fog.

"God bless!" Winnie drew a cross on his chest. He felt that someone behind him patted him on the shoulder, and behind him was Sdensen.

"Don't worry, this is just a regular skydiving, although the difficulty is a little higher, believe yourself!" Stenson comforted his companion like this, and at the same time said to Cabast behind him.

And when Gnery behind Cabast heard Stenson's words, he couldn't help smiling at the corners of his mouth. Obviously, he still appreciates this guy. Except for being a little grumpy, everything else is quite to his own appetite.

"Wow!" With a sound, the parachute opened in the air, and Sidensen felt what it was like to skydiving in the rainy and foggy weather. There is no sense of direction at all. Everything just relies on your intuition to try to control the parachute so as not to float to a completely strange place or far away from the landing point.

"God!" When Stensen finally saw the place where he was going to land, he couldn't help but take a breath. At that time, a forest, if he could not handle it well, he might be hung on the tree and fall into a dilemma. Of course, there was the worst situation, that he was hurt by the branches and trunks and even lost his life. But he has no time to adjust!

As a result of fate, Sidensen finally hung on the tree. He was twelve or three meters away from the ground. This was a big tree, big enough for him to fall directly on the ground and fall to death. He looked around, hoping to find a companion of his own, but he was disappointed. The umbrella fell in the fog and separated his brothers, and he didn't know where it was.

"Is there anyone?" He shouted loudly at the woods, but there was no movement around. He has been hanging on it for an hour. He didn't know what to do and occasionally shouted a few times. If no one finds himself, will he hang here like this until he dies? Such an idea suddenly came to his mind. Two hours later, he finally couldn't stand his surname. Instead of hanging here like that, it was better to cut the rope and fall down. Maybe he could pick up a surname.

"Damn it!" He cursed himself, and then tried to take out a knife and cut the umbrella belt on his body.

"You'd better not do that!" At this time, a voice appeared below him. Listening to the voice, Sdensen is very familiar with it, and he is also the last person he wants to see under such circumstances - Sergeant Gernelly.

Sdenson stopped, then looked down helplessly, spread out his hands and said, "I'm hung up. This damn rain and fog made me lose my direction. I'm not very lucky!"

"I saw it!" Gernari grinned.

"I knew it was like this!" Stensen couldn't help but feel a little depressed, especially when he heard Gernelly's laughter, he muttered in his heart, "It seems that I have become his laughingstock again, damn it!"

"Do you need my help? "Rookie!" Gernelly's words were full of ridicule, and he looked at Sidenson who fell on it with joy. If it is a veteran, it will definitely not happen. At least when judging the direction, you will make the right choice, instead of hanging on this high branch, as helpless as a bag of potatoes for sale.

"What do you think, sir!" Sdensen is a little aggrieved.

In fact, you don't have to care about the process. In short, when Sdenson's feet fell on the ground, he still fell to the ground, but this is already the best result, and he didn't break his leg or hand or something.

"This is my most impressive skydiving." While rubbing his legs, Stenson complained. He even wanted to complain about Lieutenant Parks, who organized the skydiving, but he still closed his mouth, because he had learned a lesson from Gernelly before. Parks is almost an absolute authority in the hearts of these people.

"This will not be the most impressive time for you. There is no most profound, only more profound! Wait and see, rookie!" Gerry shook his head and said with a smile, "Our people are now scattered nearby. We must find a meeting point. I hope there will be no more fools hanging on the top of the tree like you this time! You need more such training, Sdenson, there is no doubt about it. Otherwise, just wait and be killed by the Germans on the battlefield!"

Although Granary didn't listen to what he said, Stenson did not have a sense of resistance. Indeed, he didn't do well enough. So he could only follow him silently to the meeting point.

Along the way, they met the rest of Company E one after another, most of whom were veterans, and the recruits were still scattered somewhere. They may not be able to feel the assembly point in time.

Gerry is right. The rookies really need more skydiving training in such a complicated situation. Because they met several rookie recruits along the way, they suffered some injuries to varying degrees. Winnie's foot was broken, and Cabast was also hung on the trunk of the tree like Stensen, knowing that Gnery and others had found him before rescuing him.

This time, the recruits have learned a lesson and pay more and more attention to such training, and the veterans also integrate the recruits into the company through training. Although even Captain Winters didn't know why Parks trained like this, he did not interfere. He knew that Parks might have his reasons, as long as there was no big mess during training.

Just when everyone was puzzled about Parks, he was preparing a new training task - digging positions.

"This is a completely new form of a single soldier bunker!" Winters took the sketch of the position designed by Parks and handed it to Captain Nixon. He really surprised me. Obviously, such a position is very suitable for consolidating the long line of defense with very little strength. Unfortunately, we have now evacuated from the front line, and we may have a chance to have a try.

Captain Nixon also nodded and smiled, "Rece can always give us some surprises!" But if it can really be used in the future, he will be of great help. However, since we are paratroopers, there are really few opportunities to practice the position of fighting in the trenches for two months like in the Netherlands!"

But Parks didn't care what others said. Even Captain Winters, who supported him the most, only expressed verbal support for some of his measures, and did not want to imitate other companies in the camp in practice. Parks was still making his preparations. In the Battle of Arden, he could not allow his brothers to endure both physical and mental torture in the German artillery fire.

Parks's individual defense bunker was actually invented by the soldiers on the Laoshan front during the Sino-Vietian War. The whole bunker is in a triangle, and the front of the triangle is facing the enemy. Two people are stationed in such a sentry, and five to six such sentries can cover about 3 kilometers of front. The top is lined with two layers of thick trunks, which can be used as the top cover of the hidden part. One layer of soil and one layer of tree trunk, not 105 mm without any threat. The distance of the sentry post is 80-150 meters, and the maximum distance does not exceed the single cover of the flare.

If the three adjacent bunkers are distributed in a triangle, two in the front and in the middle in the back, these three sentries can monitor the line of sight up to 90 degrees without turning around with the least people. The observation hole of the sentry post is about 20 centimeters higher than the ground. And if one of them falls asleep, there is no danger, because there is still a person opposite watching.

Of course, Captain Winters and Captain Nixon are both professional officers. Obviously, they have also found the wonderful use of this individual bunker. If used as defense, it will have an unexpected effect on the U.S. military in the future. They submitted the sketch drawn by Parks to the regimental headquarters with detailed instructions, and Colonel Sink was also very surprised to get this sample. The simple and effective defense of the individual bunker is absolutely of great value in future battles.

The final result is General Taylor's decision to promote this new individual bunker in the 101st Airborne Division. Of course, if it is in attack, the effect will be much smaller. Although it was decided to promote it, General Taylor would not do it immediately. He believes that the Allies are now attacking the German army, and the side that needs to be defended is the German army. But he still decided that the officers could distribute the new individual bunker to every soldier as a field manual under appropriate circumstances.

"I can guarantee that if it is sent to the soldiers as a field manual, no more than 10% of people will read the things in that manual carefully." When Winters told Parks the news, Parks couldn't help complaining to Winters again. He is now in the stage of relegation. If not, he would even want to argue with Colonel Sink.

"This is the best result! Les, we need to be content!" Winters can only comfort Parks in this way. He doesn't know what Parks is doing such a seemingly meaningless training during this period of time. Or is it the sequelae of being demoted? Of course, this is just the idea of individual officers, such as Lieutenant Picak, who complained to Lieutenant Welfare when he was tortured by this seemingly meaningless training.

While the soldiers of the E Company were working hard to carry out unusual training, the officers and soldiers of the other companies enjoyed a leisurely life, and the fighting became worse as they became more and more idle, so that the division had to cancel many passes to Paris. But those guys who make trouble are not worried at all, and there is no need to rush to go to Paris. This is their opinion, because the general feeling is that these paratroopers will stay in the barracks until the spring. At that time, they are expected to land in Germany on the other side of the Rhine. This idea was further confirmed because General Taylor flew back to the United States to attend a meeting to discuss the proposed changes in the organization and equipment of the American Airborne Division. On December 10th, it was confirmed that Taylor's deputy Gerald? Brigadier Higgins and five senior officers of the 101st Division flew to the United Kingdom to give a series of lectures on the "Market Garden". The 101st Division was handed over to Anthony, the artillery commander of the 101st Division. Commanded by Brigadier General McCauley. This allowed Parks to see the crisis again. But his opinion was not taken seriously.

On the night of December 16, Martin, Goneri and some others bought a box of champagne and took it back to the barracks. Although they are not used to sparkling wine, only champagne can make them taste it now. Later, it was Chrisden who came up with an idea. He mixed rum with champagne and drank it wildly.

"It tastes really good!" Chris denson slamped his mouth and then laughed. The non-commissioned officers used their power to collect a lot of rum, which was mixed with champagne, which obviously tasted better, and it was easier to pour them into their stomachs one after another.

"You are such a genius!" Gernari also had a drink, and then couldn't help praising Chris Densheng. In this way, everyone was summoned to imitate. They poured one cup after another into their stomachs, because the feeling in the mouth was so good that they didn't feel uncomfortable at all. Even if they were drunk, they drank one after another.

People who are drunk always make some mess. The non-commissioned officers made a lot of noise in the barracks and almost removed all the beds in the barracks. When Sergeant Li Pu walked into the barracks, he was already full of drunks and messy barracks.

Li Pu felt very annoyed. He took a look and began to roar, "You bastards are going to be the boss. A group of non-commissioned officers made such a mess here. He asked people to pour cold water on the faces of these guys one by one. "Damn it, remember, if it's not cleaned up here, you won't sleep!" Then he walked out of the barracks angrily.

That night, Winters and Nixon were the only two battalion-level officers left in the battalion headquarters. All the other officers asked for leave to go to Paris. At this time, the phone of the battalion rang. Nixon answered the phone and kept writing down something. Then when he put down the phone, he said with a strange expression to Winters, "Dick, we want to cancel all the outing passes. The German army broke through our defense line in the Ardenes region, and I think we will face the powerful German army! It seems that Parks is right this time!"

Winters was stunned, then frowned, looked at Nixon, and said in a low voice, "How are we doing now? Our second battalion has sufficient supplies, but what about the other battalions? God, we will have to fight the Germans in the ice and snow!" He walked to the map, looked at the place of Arden on the map, and couldn't help sighing!

(to be continued)