The distance of less than ten meters was as long as a century, so long that Zheng Yingqi almost shouted out of his throat, so long that the paratroopers on the rubber boat, someone couldn't help but jump into the river, trying to row the last distance, but the turbulent river took him directly.

"Don't jump! Get down! It's coming soon! ”

Zheng Yingqi roared, at this time, it was like waiting to parachute in the roar of countless anti-aircraft guns, and the feeling of helplessness made the paratroopers almost desperate.

Finally, the docking.

The paratroopers jumped into the shallow water, rushed ashore despite the biting cold, and then threw themselves on the ground, pouring ammunition on the German firing point not far away, covering the paratroopers who had come ashore behind.

The paratroopers consciously began to cover the landing alternately, and the backward Zheng Yingqi not only did not rejoice, but scolded in a low voice: "Grass! Rubber boats! ”

Later, they will have to rely on the rubber boat to retreat, and they are desperate to "grab the beach and land" for a while, how will they run away? Swim past?

Aren't you afraid of being washed downstream and frozen into ice lumps?

Although cursing these bastards who don't care about the way back, Zheng Yingqi still had to take the risk of fixing the rope in front of the rubber boat on the shore, the easiest way is, of course, to insert the bayonet on the shore with the rope, he had to find someone else to ask for two bayonets to fix the three rubber boats, and the other one was washed away by the river before he could rescue it.

"Big bull! Ali! Take your people to cover! Hubul, Win, bring people closer! ”

After getting the rubber boat, Zheng Yingqi fell to the shore, and his command began to approach, at this time, most of the German troops had not yet come out of the sleeping place, and it was the critical time to rush up and gain a foothold - although this reconnaissance operation was exposed to an accidental attack for unexpected reasons, but this did not affect Zheng Yingqi's determination to continue to carry out.

The essence of this reconnaissance is to cover the detachment of Company D to solve the railway cannon, even if it is exposed, it cannot be easily retreated - the duty of Company D is very important, so important that other troops can make a feint at any cost for their success.

After breaking through to a German firing point, the Arley group set up a small fan-shaped security zone for the following paratroopers, and the other three groups took the opportunity to get closer, set up a ring of defensive positions, and confronted the growing number of Germans.

"Ali, take your group around there! Kill the Germans in that house, it would be better if you could capture a few prisoners! Zheng Yingqi roared and ordered-you see, the commander will hand over the most difficult tasks to the people he trusts the most at critical times, from the perspective of the entire 2nd Battalion, Winters always hands over the difficult tasks to E Company at critical times, and E Company is more willing to believe in the 1st platoon, and when it comes to Zheng Yingqi, he subconsciously chooses the partner he believes in the most.

Although hard tasks often mean greater losses!

Arlie shouted in response, and with his men out of the battle, he made a detour to a building on the slope, where three Germans were constantly firing with rifles and submachine guns at the "bubble eye" warm group.

There were a total of five people in Ali's group, including Ali, but one person was thrown into the water by the Germans when he was on a rubber boat, and the other three followed Ali's cat around at this time, and a newcomer named Jackson couldn't help but lie on the ground and gasp for breath -

Obviously, he had not experienced Strayer's special training, he had not experienced the sound of bullets whizzing overhead in a pile of bloody pig entrails, and he was extremely uncomfortable in such a fierce battle for the first time on the battlefield.

Arley has always been concerned about the movements of the three people under his command, and after seeing Jackson lying on the ground gasping for breath, he immediately rushed over, kicked Jackson away, and hissed: "Hurry up!" Don't stop! ”

Ali is usually a very good person, as a sergeant, but he never bullies others, and even likes to squat with newcomers to brag and fart, but after going to the battlefield, he has no patience, and like most veterans, the way to solve problems is simple, unpretentious, and extremely useful.

This is actually a common problem of all veterans, and on the battlefield where countless deaths appear every second, the price of patience is too high.

Just like now, he can pounce and quickly tell Jackson that you lie in one place and don't move, like a fish lying on a cutting board, and if you have time to say this, you might as well kick it and let it understand.

The newcomer's fear of the old man is actually engraved in his bones, such as the strangeness of a new environment to him, such as the veterans are all in the group for warmth, even if there are contradictions and losses are newcomers - there are many reasons, but in essence, it is the individual's fear of the collective, and it is precisely that the veteran sometimes represents a collective for no reason.

After being kicked by Arley, Jackson seemed to have become smarter, and followed the veteran in front of him as much as he could, making a detour to the goal of their trip.

Gunfire flickered in the window, and bullet casings kept falling, and in the sound of thunderbolts, the sound of bullet casings hitting the ground was soft, but it was like a knock on the heart, and Jackson hid behind the wall helplessly, not knowing what to do, just staring blankly at Arley and the other two.

"Grenade!"

At Arley's voice, one of the veterans pulled out a grenade, pulled out the latch, and then dodged out, throwing the grenade down the window into the room.

"Ready!" Ali immediately whispered, the two veterans knew what Ali meant, this is the meaning of attacking the building after the explosion, in other words, in normal times, Jackson, who is quite smart, can also understand the meaning, but now, in this battlefield full of gunfire explosions, he made an amazing move.

As Arley's words fell, he kicked the door open, his clean movements the result of countless training sessions - but ......

At this moment, the grenade thrown in has not exploded!

The delayed detonation of a grenade is five seconds, but generally speaking, after 3 seconds is a dangerous period, and no one can guarantee that the guy in their hand will not detonate in advance, so the most common and common practice for soldiers is to throw the grenade out immediately after removing the latch.

The downside was obvious, the grenade fell in front of and behind the enemy, and sometimes the enemy usually had one to three seconds to react as long as he could see it, and this time the Germans did the same, after the grenade clanged in, the quick-reacting veteran kicked the grenade into the stairs.

boom

At this time, Jackson also kicked open the door - maybe he wanted to use this action to prove that he was not a soft egg, and wanted to change the influence of his comrades.

rumble

The moment he kicked the door open, an explosion occurred at the same time.

The grenade exploded in the stairwell, the whole building trembled, and in the small space, the power of the grenade was restrained and exploded in both directions, and the fragments after the explosion pounced on anything that dared to stop it.

Jackson fell to the ground in an instant, and Arley, who tried to hold Jackson away from kicking the door, pounced, dragged Jackson aside, and examined it carefully.

What greeted him was a face covered in blood, and a fragment easily pierced his skull and embedded it in his brain.

After touching the artery and reacting, Arley put Jackson aside and made an offensive gesture at two gloomy men, who alternately covered the building, and with the roar of the submachine gun, a corporal shouted:

"Three! Kill them all! ”

Zheng Yingqi on the other side, after seeing that the firepower point that threatened Wen's group was removed, Zheng Yingqi immediately ordered Bubble Eye: "Wen, take your people to the left and extend 20 meters there!" ”

The limited manpower under Zheng Yingqi's overstretched mobilization formed a lot of pressure on the Germans, and even forced the Germans to give up several positions, but Zheng Yingqi understood that these were temporary, as long as the Germans realized that they were short of manpower, it was easy to disrupt their own drum offensive rhythm, and then seize the opportunity to start a counterattack, so he had to take advantage of the fact that the Germans were still scruples, and let the Germans react as late as possible.

This requires extremely high micro-manipulation methods and extremely high combat literacy of subordinates - although these paratroopers are not as good as those eliminated personnel in the old A, but for more than half a year, they have experienced rich battles, cooperated with each other very tacitly, and perfectly executed Zheng Yingqi's extreme command.

In the battle that lasted for more than an hour, with a force of only a dozen people, Zheng Yingqi was stunned to cause a serious miscalculation to the Germans, so that the Germans never dared to give up their strength, but the inferiority in numbers could not be erased, in more than an hour, the successive battle losses caused their firepower intensity plummeted, even with the fire support of E Company on the opposite bank, but the German officers were still aware of the situation of the enemy in front of them.

"I can't be pressed and rubbed by the enemy's small forces, can I?" But the German commander could not believe this fact - one of his own companies was actually pressed and beaten by a small force of the enemy?

Despite his reluctance to believe the facts, the German company commander gave the order to order a platoon's men to counterattack from the flank and test the intensity of the opposing fire.

For the commander, the battle is sometimes like a chessboard, the enemy's attack or defense or retreat, there are always traces, when Zheng Yingqi received a report from Ali on the flank that about 20 Germans were attacking his position, Zheng Yingqi realized what the German commander on the opposite side wanted to do.

"Hold on! I'll bring someone to support you! ”

Zheng Yingqi didn't want the other party to try to make a difference, so he immediately pulled out three people from the already stretched people and personally pounced on the flanks.

The tentative attack of the Germans ended in failure after leaving five corpses behind, and the rest of the men retreated in haste, and the paratroopers who had repelled the enemy cheered, but Zheng Yingqi's face became grim.

The enemy's retreat came too simply, in this kind of battle, the loss of five people is really nothing, but the enemy chose to retreat when he still had a chance, which undoubtedly proves one thing:

They are trying to attack, just to make a clear picture of the reality here.

The result?

Obvious.

Yes, there is no way around it, and manpower shortages are an inevitable problem.

"Prepare to retreat!" Zheng Yingqi made a decision, and now that more than an hour has passed, it has bought a lot of time for the friendly army, and they ...... You should be approaching the railroad guns, right?

The army that fights fire, when retreating, is a technical job, if it is not operated properly, it is easy to cause a chain reaction, resulting in a touch of collapse, such cases rummag through the vast history of war, it is simply like a cow's hair, Zheng Yingqi of course will not make this mistake, he left only two people left in the Ali group to cover, and ordered the remaining three groups to start evacuating.

"Hey, Jacob, I've got a captive!"

When Bubble Eye withdrew, he happily invited Zheng Yingqi to take credit - this is a German soldier who looks eighteen or nineteen years old, very delicate, but his legs were blown off and his body was injured, Zheng Yingqi looked at it, it should be a fragment into the lungs.

"He won't live long, so he doesn't have to take it back." Zheng Yingqi waved his hand, signaling Bubble Eye not to bring people back, Wen shrugged helplessly, and muttered: "Nixon's staff mission seems to be unfinishable." ”

We should have gone back when we were exposed.

Zheng Yingqi muttered in his heart but didn't say it, just signaled to Bubble Eye to take people back quickly - there are still three rubber boats, and they returned twice during the battle, taking away three wounded and two corpses, but adding a group, so in general it is still barely enough, Wen and the three teams huddled on the two rubber boats and began to turn back.

But just as they were turning back, the German counterattack began.

The Germans were really angry, because they thought they were being fooled.

So as the counterattack began, they pressed down on all those who could be used, and in the light of the flares, their almost endless ranks could be seen, like an ancient dense charge - although the distance between them was still wide, but in Ali's opinion, this was a crowd charge.

Feeling the subconsciously holding breath around him, Zheng Yingqi chuckled and said, "Call for mortar support!" This time I can fry it! ”

The mortars began to fall one by one, and the firepower of the cover on the opposite bank was even worse, and after the Germans suffered from the shells, they went around and occupied the positions on both sides, forcing Zheng Yingqi to order a retreat - on the battlefield, the numerical advantage has always been an inexplicable existence, because the numerical advantage is often the absolute firepower advantage, unless the enemy's advantage can be offset by various means, and now, Zheng Yingqi and the three of them, the only thing they can rely on is the fire cover behind.

At this time, the flare in the sky fell to the ground, and the illuminated area fell into darkness again.

"Withdraw!"

Zheng Yingqi seized the opportunity to shout, Ali and Wiseman ran to the shore more than ten meters away, and under the illumination of the burning flames not far away, Zheng Yingqi unconsciously saw the wounded German soldier gasping for breath, calculated it, dragged it to a place more than ten meters away from the retreat point, and then smashed the butt of a rifle on its wound.

"Ahh

The Germans howled.

Zheng Yingqi threw himself on the rubber boat that had been dragged back by his own people in a miserable howl.

The paratroopers in the trench on the shore dragged the rope desperately and dragged the last rubber boat back.

The brief darkness entered daylight with the Germans firing a flare, but the Germans' attention was first attracted by the howl, and they subconsciously pounced, and after finding that it was only one of their own wounded in the rain of bullets fired by the paratroopers on the opposite bank, they looked for the target again.

"They're there!"

The Germans spotted the dinghy, which was already approaching the shore, and began to gather fire to greet them.

Although the paratroopers tried their best to cover, there were still bullets coming in, and the three of them were lying on the rubber boat, and they could only gamble on their luck, Ali's luck was terrible, and he was the first to be shot, and a bullet hit his left leg into a weird twist, but Ali was also hard, and he endured the pain without snorting.

Just when they were about to land, the Germans hid behind the anti-slope and began to throw grenades, the long-handled grenades were easily thrown close to the rubber boat by them, with an explosion, the rubber boat was lifted up in the water, and the three people lying on it were thrown up and smashed down, Zheng Yingqi reacted the fastest, twisted in the air and threw himself on the bank of the river, but the injured Ali fell into the river.

Wiseman rose from the shallow water and reached for Arleigh, who had fallen not far away, but ......

rumble

Another grenade exploded, setting off a wave of air that washed both Ali and Wiseman to the shore, Wiseman subconsciously touched, but found that he was well-behaved without a trace of major problems, then he looked at Ali and found that Ali, who had only one leg, was lying on the ground less than one meter away from him covered in blood.

"Ali!"

Zheng Yingqi's voice was hoarse, and he pounced on the two, Wiseman signaled that he was okay, and Zheng Yingqi dragged Ali like a puddle of mud into the trench not far away.

"Medic! Medic! ”

That's when he roared heartbreakingly.