Chapter 249 Life and Death

"Damn it!" Medical Officer Luo shook his dizzy head and felt a heavy pressure on his body. Then he turned over him and shouted at him, "Doctor, you have to take good care of yourself. Don't rush forward blindly. Beware of bombs!"

It was Li Pu's voice, and then he was pulled up by someone. He pounced on the snow on his body and said gratefully, "Thank you, Li Pu!" With that, he continued to rush towards Carson.

"I don't want to die here, I don't want to die here!" Kabast sat in the bunker tremblingly. He hugged his shoulders tightly with his hands, and the rifle was thrown aside by her. His face was pale and he was shrinking all over. Obviously, a recruit like him is almost scared to death in the face of such a fierce bombing. He kept saying this sentence, which was the only comfort he could give himself.

"You'd better pray to God!" Donnet, who was hiding in a bunker with him, roared at him. He didn't like the timid look of this guy. Although he was a recruit, when he first participated in the Battle of Carrington, although he was afraid, he was not the same as charging forward. When his friend Brown was killed, he vowed to train himself to become a hard-hearted person. He should not be soft on Germans, and should not be afraid of Germans.

"Boom!" A loud noise overturned the wood covered by their bunker a lot. Some of the wood fell directly and hit the bunker. Donut pulled over Cabast, who didn't know how to move. A thick piece of wood hit the place that Kabast had just brought. Their bunkers have become open air.

"Damn it, are you going to kill me?" Donat grabbed Cabast's collar, pushed him hard to the dirt wall of the bunker, and then spat at him to the ground.

"No, no, we're done, our bunker is over. Sergeant, let's run away!" Carbast panicked. He didn't know what to do now. He just wanted to escape from this place. The loss of the bunker made him feel very unsafe. He wanted to run to Stensen's bunker next to him, which was still intact.

Kabast did not hesitate. He wanted to leave here immediately. He got up desperately, climbed out of the bunker, and was about to run to the bunker next to him. But his behavior surprised Donald Tett. If he ran out of the bunker at this time, it was obvious that what the consequences would be expected. He couldn't help cursing: "Idiots from the countryside!" Then he chased after him and tried to catch him back.

"Stand, damn it, come back!" Donat shouted at him and grabbed him from behind. Just as he was about to pull him back to the bunker, a bomb suddenly fell from the sky.

"God, I was killed by this guy!" Donat finally shouted. He saw that the bomb fell three meters away like a huge meteorite beside him, and almost all of its body was buried in the snow. He had almost no time to think and was about to throw down Cabast, but the bomb fell to the ground and only stayed for two seconds. With a "boom", the huge air wave lifted the two people up and ran into the air. With the split of their limbs, the two fell heavily on the ground.

"Doctor... student." After Donat fell heavily on the ground, he looked at Cabast like a bag of potatoes thrown from his shoulder, making a dull sound, and then motionless. He tried to call the doctor, but his throat could only make a phlegm-like sound, and then blood gushed out of his mouth.

His eyes began to dissipate, and he gradually felt the coldness of the snow all over his body. He felt that he was very cold and became very light, which made him want to hold his body tightly, but he could not move. His consciousness gradually blurred, and his eyes slowly became dark. He heard someone calling his name. In the vague image, it seems to be the appearance of Medical Officer Luo, and his loud shouting.

"Brown--" Donat wanted to summon his friends, and scenes quickly flashed through his mind: the life of Tacoya's barracks, falling in the sky in the flames of Normandy, charging behind Brown towards Carlington, Brown's desperate eyes and the letter fluttering in the wind in his hand... Then With a bang, everything was silent in the dark.

"Damn it, how's he?" Someone shouted loudly, it was Li Pu's voice.

"He was injured everywhere, and the artery of his thigh was cut. Damn, I can't find him. He's wearing too thick!" It was the voice of Medical Officer Luo, who was anxious and unwilling.

"Look at me, look at me, Donut, you'll be fine. Hold on, damn it, you have to hold on!" Another voice was shouting anxiously and wildly. It was Hubler's voice.

Medical Officer Luo tore open his clothes, then examined the wound on his body, and kept erasing the blood donation gushing from the ferocious wound on his body: "Hu Bole, help me press it, hurry up, press the wound on the chest!"

"Doctor!" Li Pu pressed the artery on Donat's neck and suddenly shouted at Medical Officer Luo.

"Hurry up, I want to find the wound on his thigh!" Medical Officer Luo roared.

"Doctor, he's dead!" Li Pu yelled at Dr. Luo, and then sat on the ground. They dragged Donat into his own bunker to give first aid, but all this was in vain.

"Fuck, grass, grass!" Doctor Luo suddenly left the blood-stained gauze on the ground, and then sat on the ground in the bunker like a wood carving, with a pale and terrible face.

A cannonball killed two people. Kabast's head was directly cut off by the shrapnel. When it was lifted in the air, he was already dead. He fell down just a corpse. Donat's body was full of shrapnel, and several back shrapnel directly cut off the artery. This is Donat's second injury, but he never gets hurt again.

"God!" Hooborough covered his face with both hands and sat in the bunker with a depressed look. His eyes were stunned.

Sergeant Donut is a veteran from Tacoya's barracks. He has been with his brothers since he stepped into the barracks for training. Although he sometimes violated his brothers' taboos, he was indeed a brave man later. He proved with his actions that he was the brother of everyone with E-faced. He has experienced countless battles, big and small, but in this ice and snow, he died helplessly in the eyes of his comrades-in-arms. There were only bursts of sadness left for his brothers.

I don't know when the bombing ended. The person staying in this bunker was the first to see the first ray of sunshine after dawn. The top cover of the bunker was overturned by the bomb, and the sunlight easily shone on everyone's face. German planes did not dare to appear during the day. The sky during the day was Allied, and the night was the time for them to haunt them.

Captain Parks walked on the snow with some difficulty. He walked slowly, but he still had to report yesterday's situation to Captain Winters. Yesterday's bombing blinded all the brothers. The happy atmosphere established over the past few days was bombed overnight without a trace. They all stayed quietly in their bunkers. Only Sergeant Tebert and Sergeant Lipp patrolled the defense line and constantly urged the non-commissioned officers of each platoon to take good care of their brothers.

"Donat and Cabast died. Carson, Muck, Pankara and Webster were injured, but their injuries were not serious. They will get better after staying at the emergency station for a day or two." Captain Parks felt a little cold. He stood up and reported to Winters and Nixon, who were sitting in the ventilated sheds around the battalion headquarters.

"Kabaster was killed directly, and Donat was cut off the aorta by shrapnel! When Li Pu and the others found him, he was still alive. He wore too much. He couldn't find the artery to stop the wound, so he didn't hold on. Parks looked gloomy.

"Rees, even if you know it, it won't help." Nixon looked at Parks and comforted, "The aorta is cut off, and it's all over."

"Cit down!" Captain Winters motioned Parks to sit down, then brought over the coffee made in a jar and handed it to Parks, "A little. It's just cooked. It's useful for you!"

Parks nodded, then took it, and sighed gently, "Donnet is a veteran of Tacoya's barracks."

"I know!" Captain Winters nodded.

"Now every veteran is the valuable asset of Company E, and the brotherhood between the veterans is also very deep." Parks continued, "They love each other, trust each other, and even sacrifice their lives for each other. But there are indeed fewer and fewer such veterans now. The veterans who came out of Tacoya, who were injured, killed, and transferred, now there are not many people in the company. Dick, I used to think I could survive such a situation, but now, I can't bear to see the veterans leave one after another. It's too difficult!"

"I know!" Winters nodded, and he felt the same way. Although he is the battalion commander now, he has never given up his concern for the E Company. He especially cares about those veterans, those who have been with him since training, are the real spiritual pillar of the E Company and the support of all the brothers who joined later. If one day the veterans can't stand the collapse, the blow to morale will be devastating and unbearable.

"Have a good talk with your brothers!" Winters couldn't think of anything to comfort Parks, because he was in the same mood as Parks and was full of helplessness.

"I know. Now I have to see how serious the damage we have suffered, and I have to urge them to repair the bunker. I have to make sure now!" Parks stood up, nodded to Winters and Nixon, and walked out.

"Reth!" Winters stopped him.

"What?" Parks stood at the door and turned to look at Captain Winters.

"The non-commissioned officers are indispensable to Company E. It is they who maintain the veterans and recruits together to become a company. I suggest you talk to the non-commissioned officers first, and then they will do the rest of the work. I believe that in E Company, emotions are not the worst. After all, it is enough for them to know that you are still a company commander.

Captain Parks nodded and then walked out. He knew that Captain Winters was right.

(to be continued)