On the night of June 4th, the weather was bad, but the feast came!

There were no limited meals, not even ice cream - by this time, everyone knew that it was that night.

[If you can have a plate of dumplings...... How nice that would be. 】

Looking at this unlimited meal, Zheng Yingqi muttered in his heart, but this wish is destined to be difficult to achieve - two years after entering this plot, he is now crazy about eating a bite of Chinese food, but this can only be a luxury.

Mixed in the crowd, Zheng Yingqi had a good time - very enjoyable, anyway, today is definitely not a D-day in Normandy, what can I do if I eat it?

Sure enough, as he thought, when the exhausted troops packed up and were about to board the plane, they received a notice: the operation was postponed.

"It seems that the officials and gentlemen think that the weather tonight is not suitable for us to go out." Gordon said with a smile, but he looked very lost, he was ready to teach the Germans a hard lesson, but he didn't expect that at the critical time - his pants could not be taken off.

"Let's continue the party tonight," Lieutenant Meehan said with a smile, "the logistics have prepared a movie for us, and we will go to the movie." ”

Everyone in Company E cheered, not going to the battlefield, eating and drinking enough to watch a movie, in fact, it is also a good thing - the only pity is that watching a movie is such a wonderful thing, but without the company of a girl, it is really a bad scenery!

Not all of them chose to go to the movies, and Maury and Lipton, who were the company's officers, did not, and the two spent the night in their tents to discuss what might happen in battle and what to do.

Although the operation on June 4 was yellow, the next afternoon the wind gradually stopped—and although there was no order to prepare, everyone began to prepare, and some of the people of Company E, who had even learned from the Indians, smeared them on their faces.

"This way you can hide your face! Everyone try? ”

In the face of this recommendation, the people of E Company enthusiastically tried, Zheng Yingqi thought about it for a while, and then said the skills of painting camouflage, and all the people of E Company under the guidance of Zheng Yingqi unified into camouflage faces, and even the company commander Mi Han They chose to paint their faces - in this way, they are easier to identify.

I don't know who heard a method from the British paratroopers at this time, and just after receiving Zheng Yingqi's new attention to painting his face, this method began to become popular in E Company - this method is the leg bag.

The so-called leg bag is to prepare a bag, which contains ammunition, radio, triangular brackets for machine guns, medical equipment, and some people even disassemble the submachine gun into parts and put it into the leg bag, and the leg bag is tied to the parachute with a rope of six or seven meters, and the leg bag is thrown out before parachuting, and after the parachute is opened, the paratrooper will be responsible for the weight of these leg bags - the rope of six or seven meters will land before the paratroopers, and it will be in front of them!

What a genius is a golden idea!

Then, everyone in Company E used the leg bags - the logistics were very well prepared, and there were enough leg bags for everyone.

Zheng Yingqi was dumbfounded.

He remembered what had been told in the past by the troops - the tragic incident of American paratroopers being pit in their legs during the Normandy landings.

"Jacob, you don't have a leg bag, do you?" Gordon excitedly handed Zheng Yingqi a huge leg bag, and said in a tone of showing off and inviting merit: "I'll take an extra one for you in logistics, give it, stuff your extra equipment inside!" ”

Zheng Yingqi shook his head, and instead of accepting Gordon's kindness, he decided to go to Winters to report the situation.

"Gordon, what's going on with Jacob?"

"God knows." Gordon shrugged, he didn't know what the hell Jacob was up to.

When Zheng Yingqi found Winters, Winters had just finished preparing his leg bag and was having a final communication with the company commander Lieutenant Mihan before boarding, Zheng Yingqi ran over, interrupted the communication between the two, and said, "Sir, I want to know if the leg bag method is a mandatory requirement above?" ”

"No, it was the British paratroopers who came up with the idea, Jacob, it's a good idea, it will lighten our load, we can carry more ammunition and explosives, you can try it." Winters said with some excitement - the paratroopers always feel that their ammunition is not enough, and the appearance of the leg bag is really urgent!

"However, we haven't used the leg bags, so what if something goes wrong in the airborne? I suggest we don't use this stuff, after all, we don't try it very often, and if something goes wrong, it's a big problem! ”

The company commander Mihan said humorously at this time: "No, the British paratroopers have already tried it for us." It's a good idea, a good idea, Jacob, and I think you should accept it—just as we accepted that you taught us to paint faces. ”

"But ......"

"Alright, Jacob, go get ready." Winters motioned for Zheng Yingqi to leave, and Zheng Yingqi had no choice but to find a way to influence the other people on the plane he was on.

But everyone thinks that Zheng Yingqi is making a big fuss, and no one wants to abandon such a convenient way - no one wants to be that fool!

At 10 p.m., we started preparing for boarding.

Before E Company began boarding, Lieutenant Meehan emphatically said in the queue of E Company: "Boys, please remember our request after landing!" Don't take prisoners! Don't take prisoners! Don't take prisoners! Only after we have established a containment point will we be allowed to take in prisoners! Do you understand? ”

This is an order that senior officials will never give in black and white, but this is obviously, it is definitely the meaning of the top.

"Understood, sir!" Everyone in E Company replied loudly.

"After landing, remember to use the weapon in your hand and tell Hitler - be careful! Here we go! Mihan said humorously, everyone was amused, and when the laughter subsided, Mihan shouted the slogan of the 506th regiment:

"Kolahi!"

In the Indian language, the phrase is "Do it yourself!" Didn't help! And this is exactly the real situation of the paratroopers themselves.

"Kolahi!"

Everyone in Company E chanted, followed by the entire 2nd Battalion chanting this slogan, and then the entire 506th Regiment - the voices rose and fell on the airfield, like a heroic battle song before the battle.

In the end, Meehan gave an order, and the entire E Company began to board - every 18 of them got on a C-47 transport plane, and the planes all over the airport kept swallowing one paratrooper after another, and soon, all the heavily armed paratroopers disappeared into the airport, and the entire airport, leaving only a huge logistics and farewell personnel.

"Hey, guess who I saw? Captain Sobel! I saw Captain Sobel! He's in the crowd! Lieutenant Officer Wersh said loudly in the cabin: "He must have come to see us off!" ”

Welsh was an officer who later joined Company E, and he didn't have experienced the Sobel era for too long, so he didn't know the image and weight of Sobel in the hearts of the soldiers - when they abandoned Sobel, Sobel took the initiative to leave the act and became a thorn in the hearts of many people, so after hearing Welsh's words, the atmosphere in the plane froze, and everyone was silent.

If they hadn't forced Sobel away, would it have been since Sobel had taken them out on the expedition at this time?

At 23:10, the plane slowly began to accelerate on the runway, and finally after reaching a critical point, it began to climb.

This airborne landing is still the same as the previous rehearsal, with three planes forming an inverted V group, and more teams forming a larger inverted V.

The planes were formed in the air, and then they set off towards their destination—13,400 American airborne troops rushed to Europe, which was trembling under Hitler's control, and they would be the vanguard of breaking Hitler's control of Europe.

On the plane where Zheng Yingqi was, everyone put aside their grievances with Sobel and began to observe their surroundings. Zheng Yingqi observed these "comrades-in-arms" who finally went to the battlefield after two years of training.

In the face of the battlefield and war, there is a difference between a recruit and a veteran.

Recruit: I'm so handsome/so funny/so lively/so lucky, etc./Someone, those nightmares, can't happen to me.

And the veteran: those nightmares are bound to happen to me, so I have to be as prepared as possible and do my best!

Obviously, this is the mentality of these recruits, and they are about to be airborne, and they are still watching the air with great interest, looking below—this is the largest formation of air and naval ships ever formed, and they are proud to be in such a sequence.

Of course, it was impossible for them to see the light-controlled fleet, but they knew that below them, there was a huge fleet of more than 6,000 ships, which was moving with them, and they would be the first to parachute down and fight the Germans.

The plane flew over the coastline, then over the strait, approaching French land.

And at this time, the German counterattack also began - after the appearance of the first string of tracer bullets from anti-aircraft machine guns, the whole world seemed to appear as if countless such lines of fire appeared, from the ground to the sky.

The fate of paratroopers can only be grasped a little bit when they step on the earth, and when they are on the plane and in the air, everything is based on the face - the C-47 without armor guards to protect the mailbox is definitely a qualified iron coffin, under this cognition, everyone is constantly praying to God, hoping that their planes will not be hit, not exploded, and not shot......

But with such a huge fleet, there will always be hits!

There are constantly red explosions, there are constantly planes dragging black smoke out of the formation and falling, although the pilot continues to control the plane, but still can't save the doom of the crash - if you are lucky enough to glide on the road, if you are lucky enough to land on flat ground in the dark at a glance, then there may still be a possibility of survival, but the probability of such three consecutive encounters is too small after all!

The parachutists of the planes had already opened the cabin and shouted: "Listen, as soon as the plane is hit, jump immediately!" ”

Zheng Yingqi gave up the position of the warehouse gate and motioned for others to step forward - he was not dragged down by his leg bag, and he was faster than others when he parachuted.

Compared with the paratroopers in the cabin, the pilots at this time are actually under more pressure - they can often see the plane crashing, their eyes are full of tracer bullets coming out of the line of fire, their eyes are full of the fire of anti-aircraft gun explosions, and the vast majority of pilots have no experience in combat in the theater of war.

Before parachuting, the plane should slow down, and the altitude should also be at a safe altitude, this airborne landing said that it was 300 meters high, but because of various evasive actions, the height of the plane did not meet this requirement, just like the plane where Zheng Yingqi was, the altitude at this time was only 200 meters!

Moreover, the pilots were all thinking about throwing all their burdens behind as soon as possible so that they could get out of this damn place as soon as possible - so, before they were sure whether they had reached their destination, the pilot pressed the button, indicating that the green light for the parachute jump was on!

By the way, the pilot at this time still forgot to adjust the altitude!

"Jump!"

Seeing that the green light was on, the parachutist immediately shouted, the paratroopers dragged their leg bags forward, and then threw the leg bags off the plane and jumped out one after another, one after another the paratroopers picked out the plane, Zheng Yingqi followed the team to move his body, at this time the cabin sounded like a stone shaking in a tin can, and where he was standing just now, there was a hole of more than 20 millimeters.

[Thank you to the god of the system for blessing!] 】

Zheng Yingqi thanked the system for the first time, and then put this mood away, at this time it was Zheng Yingqi's turn to jump a soldier named Ali, he threw the leg bag out according to the requirements and then planned to jump, but because of a sudden evasive action of the plane, his body shook and fell out, half of his body hung outside the cabin, half of his body was left inside, and the leg bag pulled him as if he was going to tear him in half.

Zheng Yingqi hurriedly stepped forward and pushed Ali, the unlucky ghost, out, and jumped out of the plane after him.

Jumping at a height of less than 200 meters, from Zhang Parachute to landing, in just a few seconds, the vibration of Zhang Parachute was much more serious than before, and there was not enough delay, causing them to fall heavily to the ground - Zheng Yingqi was in the same situation, after landing, he felt like he had fallen from a place of seventy, eighty or ninety meters, and almost broke him down.

Zheng Yingqi and the others were at least lucky, because they landed safely - there were many, many paratroopers, and their lives had come to an end before they even had time to parachute.

Just like the company commander of E Company, Lieutenant Meehan.

Mihan's plane is the lead aircraft of the 66th group, and in addition to the company headquarters of E Company, there are 2 platoon commanders on this plane - but this plane was hit and lost power before parachuting, and the paratroopers were not given time to parachute at all, the pilot was controlling the plane to perform a sideways flight and make a forced landing, just when the pilot turned on the landing lights and planned to land hard, the plane hit the bushes, and a fireball instantly engulfed everything.

Including Lieutenant Meehan, the company commander of E Company, Lieutenant Schmitz, the commander of the 2nd platoon, and the sergeant major Evans, who worked with Sobel to make the whole E Company miserable......

There were also many paratroopers who jumped off the plane, but they did not land and fight safely.

Some people because of various problems, in just a few seconds did not open the parachute, fell rapidly and fell to their deaths, and some people crashed into a tree when landing, and the lucky ones were just hung on it, but there were also those who were unlucky and were directly penetrated by the branches of the tree, and were unwilling to die, and there were also unlucky ghosts who landed in the German army group, and were shot and killed by the Germans before they could get out of the shackles of the parachute - the lucky ones were only captured, and then rescued by their own people......

But no matter what, more paratroopers finally landed on the ground in a hard impact, but the vast majority of paratroopers with legged bags regretted it - because in a few seconds in the air, their legbags fell off their bodies, which meant that they lost most of the ammunition and explosives they carried, and some even lost their guns because of this.

Zheng Yingqi, who didn't lose anything except for falling heavily on the ground, quickly untied his parachute backpack, escaped into the bushes at the first time, and then whispered to this world of cannon fire:

"I'm coming!"

Yes, he came, this time he really came to the end of World War II when steel and flesh collided!