Chapter 317 The end of the European War

In the early morning of May 9, when Major Parks appeared in the regimental headquarters, Major Winters had already arrived there. He got up early and looked very excited. Parks was the first person he saw in the regimental headquarters. So when Parks came in, he stepped forward, hugged Parks hard, then let go, and said with a smile on his face, "Reth, the best news. The Germans announced their unconditional surrender last night. All troops are stationed in place. God, I can't believe it's really over!"

Les was stunned, and then soon understood. Yesterday was May 8th, and it was the day when Germany announced its surrender. After staying here for a long time, I actually forgot this important victory memorial. He suddenly realized that everything was true and had already happened. Without any change, the Germans announced an unconditional surrender.

"This is really good news!" Winters smiled, then looked around and shook his head and said, "I think those guys must not know about it yet. All right, Les, call them back and let's celebrate together. By the way, we have to inform all the brothers of this news. The war is over!"

They already knew the news when Nixon, Wales and Compton came back. Parks first forwarded the news of the German surrender to each company, and then the company immediately conveyed it to all the officers and soldiers of the 2nd Battalion.

"Ban Bang Bang", there were dense gunfire outside, and the sounds of pistols, rifles, submachine guns, even light machine guns and some German weapons were remembered. The brothers got excited and fired bullets into the sky to vent their emotions. Yes, now that the war is over, but they are still alive. What is more exciting than this?

Winters did not stop these behaviors. He knew that his brothers had been holding back for too long and needed an opportunity to vent. And they also held a celebration in the camp. Nixon opened a good bottle of champagne. For wine, he is an holist. Even Winters, who doesn't drink, can't resist the wine and the joy after surrender. They raised their glasses together.

With a "ding", the glass touched together and made a crisp sound, and then everyone drank it all at once. At such a moment, no one would be pretentious. Even if Winters took a sip, he frowned, but there was no hesitation.

The brothers' celebration is even more crazy. This is also due to the wine cellar found in Parks and Wales. There were tens of thousands of bottles of good wine hidden there, and all the soldiers of the 2nd battalion were divided up. Of course, the best has been jumped out by Nixon, and there are enough trucks. But anyway, the wine here is the best among the wines they have ever drunk. What's more, some brothers are not picky at all. As long as it's wine, they will pour it into their mouths.

The celebration of this day lasts until the evening. Webster, they have drunk enough, and they are all drunk. Webster fell asleep drunk, but the others couldn't sleep. They were noisy and went crazy with the wine. Matthews staggered out of the barracks alone, but in the United States, ten seconds, he heard the sound of heavy objects falling from the air outside. He stepped on the steps and broke his head and bled, but he didn't know the pain and lay on the ground talking nonsense. But no one came out to see him. He was too drunk to move. Fortunately, his injury was very minor.

"What did you hear?" Jericho narrowed his drunken eyes and asked Pep, who was still pouring wine into his mouth. But Pep was also drunk, and he didn't know that someone had fallen outside. He burped and laughed and said, "What else can you hear now? The Germans won't attack us. We have won, God--"

Obviously, they have reached the point of answering the wrong question. Gilmer was ironing his clothes. He took out the clothes of everyone in the class and kept ironing them. He looked at Jericho and said, "Are you drunk? Jericho, why do you always get drunk? Look at your clothes. What do they look like? The collar is gone. Has it been torn by the German women? With that, he raised the hot clothes in his hand and laughed, but he didn't know that he was holding a pair of trousers in his hand.

Pep is still nagging. He is talking about his things in Baston. Those are all old things, but he has been nagging endlessly. But even when he is drunk, it makes several guys in the class who participated in Baston recall the same thing, but what they are talking about is not suffering, and It's how brave I was when I was in Baston.

"I killed seven Germans!" Pip raised a hand, counted, then raised his palm again and said, "Seven Germans, I let them go to God!" He always thought that one palm could raise seven fingers. But anyway, these guys are already drunk.

This day is just the beginning of the celebration. Then the next day, these guys were out of the way. They drink unrestrainedly, and then get drunk and make trouble. Or go to the local residents' homes to rob or run to the nearby refugee camp to find the girls there. So much so that Major Winters had to issue a martial law order. Of course, those guys are expected to carry out these orders to the end, but they also play a little role. At least the robbery and forced removal of the girls among the refugees did not happen again.

But the way to celebrate victory is nothing more than drinking and looking for girls. After drinking, brothers are more and more eager to get women, remembering women, girls, girls, young women, Miss Germany, Miss France, that's what the brothers want. Now after these guys have been robbed, they have a lot of money in their pockets, and the materials distributed by the army are all taken by them. In this regard, those chefs show their superior surnames. After they took a favor of the girls among the refugees, they took them directly to the kitchen, where there was an inexhaustible pile of food that these refugees urgently needed. Then use these materials to take care of those girls.

It's easy to have a girlfriend locally. Girls in Austria are more social than girls in Ruhr and other places. The soldiers even hugged their new girlfriends in groups and swaggered through the market. This is nothing new. Even those officials often visit refugee camps to look for girls. Because they have more capital, they have more money in their pockets, and they can even use orders to call out materials, and the girls and even their families can enjoy it. Now the materials of the 2nd battalion are inexhaustible and continuously transported, and the best way to consume is to help consume with these women and even women's families.

But there are also accidents. Sergeant McCreary is one of the unlucky. He raised a married mistress with his rhetoric, several rolls of German marks and military food. But one day when they were fooling around, something unexpected happened. The woman's husband went home, and then he showed great anger.

"Damn it!" The woman's husband picked up the rifle next to McCrie's clothes and yelled at him in German, "Damn it, put on your clothes, asshole."

McCreary was completely panicked at that moment. He hurriedly put on a pair of underwear, and the woman was still **, wrapping her body in a sheet. Her body trembled. Obviously, this scene was unexpected for two people.

"Put down the gun and let's talk well!" Although McCreary couldn't understand the reason for the man's roar, he knew that he had been captured and anniled today. This is definitely not a good thing. The most important thing is that this man still holds his own rifle at himself.

Suddenly, the woman wrapped in sheets shouted something emotionally at the man, and then annoyed the man. Her husband rushed forward and put the butt of the gun to the woman's shoulder. Suddenly, the woman hissed sharply, and then there was a call for help. Just as the man smashed the second time with the butt of the gun. McCreary had rushed over and grabbed the rifle. The two began to compete and wanted to take the rifle. For a moment, the sound of fighting and the crying of women in the room were mixed.

A "bang" shot was heard in the chaos. Suddenly, the air froze, and the woman opened her frightened eyes and looked at her husband staggering down. And McCreary raised the rifle and looked fierce.

It's very simple. Sergeant McCreary shot the husband of the woman who happened to be killed while having an affair. This is the first accident in the 2nd Battalion. This implicated McCreary's company, Company Chief Hai Lige, and ordered to write a self-criticism. Sergeant McCreary was transferred out of Company E by Colonel Sink as a soldier in the army.

In order to learn a lesson, Winters once again issued an order that everyone should not carry guns when having fun, and they should not bring guns into local homes, unless specifically approved. But the order is an order, and no one has thought of carrying out this order seriously. Some people still go their own way, go on dates with their lovers with guns, and rush into the local residents to forcibly take away some of the items they like.

The end of the war in Europe was accompanied by the surrender of a large number of German troops to the Allies. The 2nd Battalion accepted the surrender of about 25,000 German troops at a time. They were fully armed, and the soldiers of the 2nd Battalion who went to accept their surrender were full of messy beards, dirty clothes, and it seemed that they were depressed because they were drunk many times, like a group of disdisciplined soldiers. The heavily armed German soldiers who surrendered to them were neatly dressed and disciplined, just like an elite division.

"I really don't know how we defeated them!" Nixon looked at his own people, and then at the Germans, with an unbelievable expression, and then smiled bitterly at Major Winters.

"I can't answer you about this!" Major Winters smiled at him and said, "How to defeat them? This question is profound, but we still won, didn't we? The process is not important, but the result!"

Yes, anyway, they have agreed to the war in Europe. But now on the battlefield far away in the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Marines are still fighting in blood, and all of this seems to be far away from the 2nd Battalion and the E Company, but in the following days, the division organized the brothers to watch the documentary of the U.S. military fighting in the Pacific Ocean, and all this is conscious of What about it?

Parks is not sure, but one day it is certain that at the beginning of June, the Army Department had ordered the transfer of the 101st Airborne Division to the Pacific Theater and the Chinese Theater. But now it's only May, the War Department began to carry out such propaganda, which is nearly a month ahead of history. Does this month's advance mean that some historical processes have begun to change? Parks can't answer himself, because he has gone to an unpredictable future.

(to be continued)