Chapter 0385: It's Over!
"Sergeant, are your command sure you can take us through the German positions?" The brigadier general looked at Zheng Yingqi, who was called back, and said as kindly as possible: "Can you tell me what you think?" ”
Zheng Yingqi will not be fooled by the kind appearance of the old fox in front of him now-the British in World War II are all virtuous, and they call you brothers and sisters when they can use you, but once they turn their faces, they think about how to pit you, the expeditionary force was killed by the British who promised to cooperate, and he can't be fooled.
"Sir, I used to use the channels of the resistance group to collect intelligence on the surrounding German forces and find a way to break the situation, but now I ......" Zheng Yingqi shrugged his shoulders and said, "I can't do anything. ”
The brigadier general understood what Zheng Yingqi meant by "I can't do anything", and he helplessly explained: "There are traitors among the leaders of the Dutch resistance, and we can't trust them. ”
Zheng Yingqi was silent.
The brigadier general said bitterly: "Sgt. sergeant, our situation is very dangerous now, the Germans have already noticed our presence, and they have been strictly checking around during this time - we don't have much food, the Germans often check the food reserves of the villagers, if they find that their food reduction exceeds the standard, it is easy to determine our location, we now have one meal a day, but even so, at most it can last five days!"
In five days, we're done! ”
This is true, Zheng Yingqi confirmed from the mouth of the American pilots that the food was prepared by the Germans with the help of the British before the strict investigation, but as the German army strengthened the management of food, the resistance organization could no longer provide food to the paratroopers, if they had not been saving food, as early as three days ago, their food would have been gone.
Zheng Yingqi can't help it?
Of course, his solution is to re-establish contact with the surrounding resistance groups now, obtain more information through them, and then look for opportunities to attack the German logistics convoy or material reserve center - in any case, these hidden paratroopers must disguise themselves as German soldiers to find a way to get out of here, if they are still dressed as British soldiers, they can travel here for more than ten kilometers without being detected, it is their God forbid.
If you can't put on the military uniform of the Germans, even if you are dressed as a civilian, you will be noticed by the German army, after all, it is the front line here, and there are more than 100 young and strong men, which are too eye-catching.
But he has a way, and he can't say it directly - disguised as a German army and leading so many people to touch the forefront of the confrontation from dozens of kilometers away from the front line, how difficult it is can be imagined, so what Zheng Yingqi needs is absolute obedience. He had thought that these Englishmen should follow his orders in order to survive, but now, he had no bottom in his heart.
The style of these British wives marrying into the door and the matchmaker throwing over the wall is too unauthentic, in case of any self-righteous cleverness on the way, the whole moth will kill people!
It is necessary to let them beg for themselves, let them understand their position, so that it is convenient for the next command - the key is that there is a brigadier general of the British army, if a brigadier general disagrees with his own opinion at a critical time, he knows how other Britons will choose with his eyes closed!
And Zheng Yingqi is confident, in terms of camouflage and infiltration, the world can surpass his own ...... Probably not.
Well, in case there are other people sent by the system uncle, it will be treated as if he didn't say it.
"I really can't help it?" The brigadier general saw that Zheng Yingqi was silent, and said disappointedly: "I thought you had a way......"
"Sir, there is a way, but it must be with the help of the Dutch."
"There are German moles in the Dutch! We went to them for help, and they would give us to the Germans! ”
Zheng Yingqi was speechless, stunned and didn't speak, and after a while, the brigadier general said with a wry smile: "Do we have no other way than to use the Dutch?" ”
Hell, the pride of the British Empire!
In the end, the brigadier general still succumbed in the face of reality - he was a brigadier general, a nobleman of the British Empire, and the surrender of the Germans had too much impact on his reputation, how could he be willing to surrender unless he had to? Therefore, after a long silence in disappointment, the brigadier general said to Zheng Yingqi: "Can you tell me what you think?" ”
"I still think that the only way for us to get to the front is to pretend to be German, but before that we can do that, we need to get enough uniforms from the Germans, and we need the help of the Resistance." Zheng Yingqi looked at the brigadier general and said, "At the same time, I need you to give me enough and full trust to facilitate me to take everyone away." ”
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The drowning person will not let go of even a straw, let alone Zheng Yingqi's wood? Therefore, the brigadier general agreed to Zheng Yingqi's conditions - promised to obey Zheng Yingqi's orders, but emphasized that orders could only be given through him, not Zheng Yingqi expected that he could get command.
In the end, Zheng Yingqi did not insist on this, after all, even if the brigadier general handed over the command to him, he could take it away in a word.
After getting the brigadier general's consent, Zheng Yingqi began his own plan, first he contacted the surrounding resistance groups through Hemmer and Storm, not every village has resistance groups, and the contact between resistance groups is extremely slow, until two days later, Zheng Yingqi met a leader of the resistance group with a high status.
After knowing Zheng Yingqi's identity, the other party did not hesitate to tell Zheng Yingqi all kinds of information he had, and Zheng Yingqi also obtained an ideal intelligence in the messy intelligence:
11 kilometers away, in Gallon, where the Germans had a uniform factory.
It was a Dutch garment factory, and after the German occupation of the Netherlands, it became a German uniform factory - because it was only a military uniform factory, there was basically no guard there.
Zheng Yingqi didn't even take the paratroopers from Bul Village, but only took more than 20 members of the resistance organization, and rushed to attack the garment factory in Gallon overnight, and unknowingly stole more than 200 sets of brand-new German military uniforms.
As for the weapons, they could only ask the Dutch for help, and unlike the persecuted brigadier general's imagination, the Dutch were actually very happy to give these heroic liberators some help, so in just one day, they got together more than 100 German-made weapons, from rifles to submachine guns, Zheng Yingqi replaced the Dutch guns with British and American weapons in the hands of the paratroopers.
After solving the problem of military uniforms and weapons, the Dutch Resistance also provided a lot of information that Zheng Yingqi was interested in, the most useful was the situation of the surrounding garrisons, and combined with the information obtained from the regiment headquarters, Zheng Yingqi was completely aware of the surrounding military formation.
After the preparations, Zheng Yingqi contacted the headquarters of the 506th Regiment and agreed with it on three receiving locations - Zheng Yingqi did not dare to guarantee what would happen when he infiltrated back, so he prepared three receiving locations to be prepared, and the 506th Regiment also agreed, and when responding, they would dispatch at least 6 companies of troops and arrive at three receiving points at the same time.
"Sir, we will be able to act tomorrow," Zheng Yingqi said to Brigadier General Max, "Your order is to let the paratroopers have a good meal, take a shower, pack up their clothes, change into German uniforms, and tomorrow we will swagger to the front - our identity is the reinforcement of the 2nd Regiment of the 363rd Division, if it goes well, tomorrow night, we will be able to drink black tea on the other side of the river." ”
"Yes, yes, wash up," said Brigadier General Max, self-deprecatingly, "otherwise the Germans would have smelled us even if we had put on our new uniforms—dear Jacob, to-morrow evening we would have a good drink of black tea and rum." ”
Knowing that they would be able to drink the long-awaited black tea and rum tomorrow night, the trapped paratroopers were so excited that if it weren't for the pressure of the officers, they would have even summoned the Germans this evening - even so, the paratroopers who had taken turns leaving the basement to go to the river to wash themselves still made quite a stir.
The paratroopers had always thought that they were hiding here, and no one knew about it except for a few people in the village of Bul, but how could this be? It's just that the Dutch in the village of Boer pretended not to know, just as the British made a lot of noise tonight because they were too excited, but the Dutch in the whole village were still silent, as if they hadn't heard.
Compared to the excitement of the British, Bane and Henry were much more nervous.
"Jacob, can we take them through German-controlled territory tomorrow?" Bane asked unconfidently.
"As long as there are no moths, it will be very smooth, you believe me!" Zheng Yingqi patted Bane's shoulder to comfort him, but Bane still couldn't let go, especially after Zheng Yingqi left, he whispered to Henry:
"I have a feeling that tomorrow these Englishmen will make a fuss."
"Don't worry, these Brits are a bunch of quails right now, and they'll listen to Jacob very much - Bane, I can't wait for the British to give me a medal now, tsk, I think I'm one of the very few people who can get a medal from the British."
"I've got to have a share." Bane laughed, honestly, it must have felt good to be able to get a few medals back from the British.
Is the British medal easy to take?
Sure...... It's hard to take!
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As soon as the morning dawned, the party set out, and when they left the village of Boer, many of the villagers hid behind the windows and watched the group of uninvited guests leave—the paratroopers took the dry rations provided for them by the Dutch and left the village like a regular German squad.
"I will definitely be back! I swear! The next time I come back here, it will be as a liberator! Brigadier General Max, who wore a German uniform and hung the rank of captain, swore and swore that Zheng Yingqi wanted to stuff the mouth of this thing, but after thinking about it for a while, he still gave up this crazy idea, but he cursed in his heart:
Idiot! Can this flag be erected casually?
The road went well, and they encountered at least more than fifteen Germans, including patrols, convoys, and Germans who rotated on the front line, but none of the Germans had any objections to this "friendly army" in brand-new uniforms, but instead pointed fingers, although such guidance made the paratroopers frightened, but the reason for those Germans' guidance was nothing more than to bet that this group of newly dressed reinforcements would be clean for a few days......
As is customary, there has to be trouble, things can't go this way.
The trouble came, after dark the team arrived less than 363 km from the 2nd Regiment of the 4nd Division, and according to the plan, they were going to the right in this position to the 1st pick-up point, but they were in trouble.
A German patrol spotted them, and the paratroopers were ready for battle, but at this time Zheng Yingqi stopped them, and he preemptively identified himself to the patrol:
"We are reinforcements to the 363rd Regiment of the 2nd Division."
"Man, you're in the wrong place, this direction is the defense area of the 1st regiment, and you have to go left for the defense area of the 2nd regiment," the non-commissioned officer of the patrol team didn't think much about it, but said enthusiastically: "That's it, it just so happens that our patrol mission overlaps with your destination, so you can go with us." ”
In this way, this "replenishment" team was taken away by the enthusiastic patrol of the 1st Regiment, fortunately, the No. 2 receiving point was in the defense area of the 2nd Regiment of the 363rd Division of the German Army.
Along the way, the enthusiastic patrol non-commissioned officer told Zheng Yingqi about the exquisiteness on the battlefield, and constantly complained about the American paratroopers on the opposite side: "The group of American paratroopers on the opposite side is very unsophisticated, and in the past, we had a tacit understanding with the British, but since the opposite side was changed by the Americans, our life has been restless, and the reconnaissance detachment has touched the front line from time to time and throws shells at every turn - compared to the cute British, this group of Americans is not likable at all." ”
"The group you are about to replenish is better, the Americans who are confronting you are not too bad, how can they be like our side, those Yankees who are confronting us are very bad, they often place mines and traps in the woods, and often send snipers to sneak attack, and the patrols often suffer from losses."
Zheng Yingqi echoed the curse while secretly thinking to himself: This guy ...... Feeling like you're talking about me?
Brigadier General Max could understand German, and the words "cute Englishman" in the other party's mouth made the brigadier almost take out the gun in his left pocket......
Bane and Henry forced a smile and smugness - they wanted these British to announce: Hear me, the difficult Americans this guy is talking about, it's us!
"There's the defense zone of the 2nd Regiment ahead - man, I'll have to send you here, and if you go in this direction, you'll come across the patrol, and they'll take you ......there," the German sergeant muttered, and at that moment he saw the flashlight flash, and immediately shouted:
"Hey! Guys of the 2nd regiment, here are your reinforcements, come and pick them up! ”
Zheng Yingqi is helpless, can't you stop here? Do you have to shout a few more times......
He hardened his head, thinking about how to fool the patrol that came over next, thinking that he must not be led into the German barracks by these people—if this was in the German barracks, it would be lively......
"Reinforcements? Why didn't we get the message? The non-commissioned officer of this patrol came over suspiciously, and the flashlight shone on the faces of everyone in the patrol of the 1st regiment, and after a curse, he said, "Sorry, I'm too nervous, man, who is the head of the replenishment?" Tell me what's going on? How did the friendly forces send us here? ”
"Well, we went in the wrong direction and entered the defense area of the 1st Regiment," Zheng Yingqi said, pretending to be innocent, "We were transferred by the SS halfway through, and they told me that we should walk the remaining 7 kilometers by ourselves." ”
"SS?" The non-commissioned officer was speechless and didn't bother to ask, and said, "Okay, you guys come with me, man, thank you, next time I'll have some good things for the Yankees." ”
The two patrols said goodbye, but something that left people speechless happened - a German soldier recognized Zheng Yingqi and said in surprise: "Hey, aren't you Erich from the sniper platoon?" Hi, I'm a 2 battalion ......"
2 battalion? That battalion of Frank?
Zheng Yingqi was stunned, his mind turned sharply, and he had just found a good excuse, but the gunshots suddenly rang out.
It was the British who fired the gun - it could have been that the German finger Zheng Yingqi's movements were full of misunderstandings, or it could have been that the British paratroopers were too nervous and they fired.
"It's over!" Zheng Yingqi knew it was over the moment the gun rang out!