The German attack on Wigherr lasted until the morning of the next day - during which the German tank sea and aircraft group made Wigherr's British army and the 506th Regiment suffer, but by the next morning, the Allies who could pull out their hands finally went crazy!

The long-awaited planes arrived in droves, and the German air force was cleanly defeated.

On the ground, the British army and the American army also launched a counterattack, and the British army's massive armored forces launched a counteroffensive against the German army under the cover of the air force, and the paratroopers of the 506th Regiment followed the British tank troops, and after pursuing the German army, they drove into the ruined Yuden.

The 2nd and 3rd platoons of Company E arrived at Uden with a heavy heart, and they wanted to pay tribute to the brothers who died in the next row, and to pay tribute to their honorable company commander—it is said that they had all thought of the words to give to the deceased brothers.

……

As soon as the first Allied fleet appeared over Wigherr, Yuden's paratroopers cheered, they knew - reinforcements were coming!

Then, there was the overwhelming swarm, and then there was an endless stream of tanks pouring out of the left and right and Wigherr, and the paratroopers who had been tortured by shelling for 30 hours hugged each other excitedly.

They...... Survived!

Damn the shelling of the Germans, constant shelling, they survived!

Seeing the German army fleeing in a hurry under the attack of air and land, the paratroopers calmed down from the ecstasy, and Ali looked at Wigherr, which was also full of ruins like Huden, and said sadly: "The casualties there must be very large......

The paratroopers fell silent.

Zheng Yingqi sat on the ground melancholy, sighing in his heart, not knowing what kind of casualty figures would pour into his ears later.

A troop headed in the direction of Yudeng, their Howling Eagle armbands could be seen in the telescope, but no one thought that it was the 506th Regiment.

"Cheer up, the Germans have only been fighting for one day, and the casualties of our 506th regiment will not be very high." Winters cheered up the platoon: "Even if our brothers suffer heavy losses, our E Company must not be defeated!" ”

"When the friendly troops are stationed, I'll take you to Wigherle to see where our brothers fought—we have to tell them that our E Company can't be defeated!"

Everyone in Yuden believed that the 506th Regiment stationed in Wigherr had suffered heavy losses in the fierce fighting from yesterday to today, after all, it was so many German attacks.

But when the army bound for Yuden entered Yudeng, the people of the 1st platoon were dumbfounded.

It's actually ......

506 regiment!

The rest of the 506th Regiment were also dumbfounded, they thought that Yuden was drowned in the sea of tanks, and they thought that Yuden's more than 100 people had long been ravaged by the Germans into bones that could only be remembered, but they didn't expect it......

They're all here!

The men of the 2nd and 3rd platoons were excited, and the paratroopers of the first platoon, looking at the 2nd and 3rd platoons with little losses, were also excited to the point of madness, and all kinds of excited curses wrapped the temporary station of E Company in the next moment.

Wigherr was originally supported by the British army, and not long after entering Wigherr, more than 4,000 British troops arrived, and the two sides worked together to resist the German attack before the follow-up reinforcements arrived.

The reason why Yuden was let go by the Germans, that is, Winters's empty city plan, was unanimously praised by everyone.

In the Battle of Wigherr, the 2nd and 3rd Platoons of E Company suffered almost no losses because they were left behind by the 2nd Battalion - and Strayer, the commander of the 2nd Battalion, did this because he thought that Winters and the 1st Platoon were finished, and as an apology to the deceased, the 2nd and 3rd Platoons were put behind.

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Section N: The road is narrow

The Germans' plan to attack Huden and Wigherr failed, but they did not abandon the cutting off of the road - the Germans intended to destroy the Allied forces north of Wigherr!

The Germans succeeded, attacking the Allied-controlled Hell Highway to the south and west of Wigherr, and successfully advanced to a salient, cutting the road once again.

To the north of Wigherre, there were two airborne divisions of the US army, the 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions of the United States, as well as the 1st Airborne Division of the British Army, the 1st Parachute Brigade of Poland, the British Guards Panzer Division, the 43rd Wessex Division of the United Kingdom, and two British Cavalry Regiments.

The situation at that time was the key to the strategy, the bridge in Arnhem had been lost from the hands of the British paratroopers, and the entire market garden operation had been declared a failure - but the Allies could not let the Germans cut the road at will, once the road was cut off, the Allies north of Wigherr could not be resupplied and exhausted their oil and supplies, it would be a devastating end!

With so many troops lost, the entire victory laid down in Normandy would be upended.

The 101st Division must reopen the road and keep the salient in its hands, if not......

See you in the German prisoner-of-war camps.

The 506th Regiment was once again ordered to be in danger, and in the early morning of September 25, Zink ordered the whole regiment to prepare for the march, and at 2:38 a.m., the pouring rain began to pour, but the heavy rain could not stop the 506th Regiment from marching, and at 4:45, the 506th Regiment left Yuden and marched south.

The raincoat was not able to provide effective protection in the heavy rain, and after passing through the ruined Wigherr, the entire 506th Regiment became the legendary soup chicken, even if two eggs were soaked in the cold environment, the paratroopers still had to move on.

At 8:13 a.m., the troops reached the German-controlled salient, and 17 minutes later, the 506th Regiment launched an attack on the salient.

The attack did not go well, all 3 battalions were blocked, 2nd Battalion Commander Strayer pinned his hopes on E Company, and Winters pinned his hopes on a platoon.

"The passage must be opened! Gotta get in! Welsh, this is at stake for the lives of nearly 100,000 people! Winters emphasized that when he gave the order, it was given in front of the whole platoon, and many people in the 1st platoon were thinking:

If I go to Nima, will the lives of 100,000 people fall on the shoulders of more than thirty of us?

The 1st platoon launched an attack again, this time the first platoon fought hard, and the whole platoon took Zheng Yingqi as the arrow, and soon made a lot of progress, and the first squad followed Zheng Yingqi's pace closely in Zheng Yingqi and occupied a forward position in the salient.

"The 6th Parachute Regiment! These bunches of biao raised! ”

Henry scolded his mother when he saw the German corpse on the ground wearing an edelweiss flower, which grows in the Alps at an altitude of more than 1,700 meters, and only the elite who have conquered that height will wear it, and most of the members of the Sixth Parachute Regiment are the elites who have conquered the cliffs of that height.

"We can beat them to Grey in St. Marymond and Carentham, here, just as ......" Welsh, who came in later, began to boost his morale when he heard Henry's curses, but before he could finish his sentence, the cannonballs began to scream.

The paratroopers in the first platoon, who are still in the state of palpitations at the screaming of the shells, and it is estimated that those who have spent 30 hours trembling in the shelling have such a physiological reaction, and when the shelling makes the paratroopers in the first platoon subconsciously dodge, the rumbling sound sounds.

"Grass. Tiger Pose! ”

Zheng Yingqi scolded in a low voice, he was very sensitive to the sound of the tiger-style rumbling forward, this kind of feeling of earth shaking can only be caused by the tiger style - although he has a record of destroying the tiger style, but in the face of the tiger style, even if he has destroyed the tiger style, he will not have the mentality of "I can do it".

A steel monster like a desolate monster appeared, different from the familiar tiger style, this steel monster, with a diamond-shaped hull, and even a certain tilt of the armor of each unit.

"It's the Tiger King! It's the Tiger King! ”

Ali screamed, the Tiger 56 tons, the Tiger King 68 tons - this is not just an extra 12 tons of weight, but an increase in the geometric number of combat effectiveness, at least for the infantry.

In the face of the rumbling Tiger King, Welsh's domineering words could no longer be said, and he decisively ordered a retreat, only two Bazooka's them, in the face of this thing, they were either blown up, killed, or crushed to death, or there was one more option to scare to death, but there was absolutely no possibility of counter-killing!

This is a killer plan prepared by the defenders of the salient, and they originally planned to make a pot of fat, but because of the bravery of the platoon, they had to send out the hidden artillery and the Tiger King in advance.

As soon as the Tiger King appeared, the Sherman and Cromwell tanks who followed the 506th Regiment would have become gray grandsons, if it weren't for the Tiger King fighting steadily along the road, it is estimated that the British tanks would have fled thousands of miles long ago - in terms of quickly leaving the battlefield, who else would the Cromwell tank have?

Zheng Yingqi, who had returned, took a sip and cursed: "What a fucking retribution!" ”

When they were in Normandy, the 101st Airborne Division bullied the German Sixth Parachute Regiment for not having heavy weapons and lack of ammunition supplies, but I didn't expect to turn their heads, and now it is the turn of the Sixth Parachute Regiment to bully them for insufficient heavy equipment!

As an aside, although the first battle of the 101st Division of the "Howling Eagle" took advantage of the 6th Parachute Regiment, the 6th Parachute Regiment, which was commensurate with the 101st Airborne Division as a lion, generally did not have a high evaluation of the 101st Division except for the good evaluation of E Company, even if the 6th Parachute Regiment lost a battalion because of the 101st.

But this time, after the attack of the 506th Regiment forced the 6th Parachute Regiment to use its rear hand, Colonel Haidt sensed that the opponent was not what it used to be.

"The enemy in front of us is better at war than in Normandy!" Colonel Haight sighed and said, what made him sigh the most was that the enemy was more capable of fighting, but his people, because of the supplement, were more than a step lower in combat than before, if it was replaced by the previous subordinate, he would ...... How can it be so easy to use the back hand?

The appearance of the Tiger King forced Colonel Sink to order to stop the futile attack, and after withdrawing, he was building a position while thinking about a way to break the situation.

All the officers were thinking about a way to break the game, and at a meeting within the 2nd Battalion, Strayer asked Nixon, an intelligence officer, to go to E Company and follow Winters to see if he could find a way to break the game.

"It's best to bring a few guards." Before leaving, Nixon advised.

"Let Jacob come alone, it's easy to find out if there are too many people." Winters subconsciously thought of Zheng Yingqi at this time, Nixon nodded, but it was safe to bring a few more people, and he really didn't bring a Zheng Yingqi to safety - Nixon was an officer who went out of E Company, in fact, when there was a shortage of officers in the battalion, Strayer thought of the officers of E Company just like Winters subconsciously thought of Zheng Yingqi just now, and I have to say that the officers who came out of E Company are always trustworthy, and they never live up to their trust.

Zheng Yingqi, who was hiding in a dug cat ear hole to make up for sleep, was called out like this, and took on the duty of a guard with a worried face.

Seeing Zheng Yingqi being called away as a guard with a tired face, Henry couldn't help but wonder: This person, doesn't he need to be too good? If it's too good, all kinds of "beauty differences" will emerge one after another......

In the middle of a wood, Winters found a dry and sturdy path.

"It's a good road, it gives the tank enough friction."

Nixon, however, said: "The end of the woods is about 350 meters away from the road, and there is no barrier in such a long expanse of land, and our men have to brave the German fire." ”

"Let the machine guns and mortars provide cover at the end of the woods, and the assault here can be a fatal blow at a critical time - before that, we need to convince the Germans that we are going head-to-head with them."

"Sounds like a good idea, if there is no other option, we may have to do this, I'll go back ......" Before Nixon could finish his words, he fell to the ground with a crisp sound, and Zheng Yingqi on the side subconsciously kicked Winters to the side, and then searched for the enemy who shot in the rain curtain, and the rain curtain limited the place he could see, so this situation happened.

Another gunshot rang out, and this time Zheng Yingqi finally saw the figure, and the other party was hiding on a reverse slope on the left, monitoring the place through the gap between the two stones.

Now that you've found your target, the rest is something that a bullet can solve—and if not, another shot.

bang

In the continuous sound of the M1 carbine, a ball of blood exploded in the rain curtain, Zheng Yingqi put away the gun, and then tried to evacuate with Nixon's body on his back, but to his surprise, Nixon did not die, but looked at his helmet on the ground in a daze.

The bullet grazed the right side of the helmet and flew away, leaving only a near-piercing mark.

"I also have a helmet like this – I think it's a lucky enough thing to be passed down from generation to generation." Winters said to Nixon.

"Yes, it's time to put it away, it's my lucky baby." Nixon replied with palpitations.

Only Zheng Yingqi always felt very strange - the officers of Company E were easy to be shot in a steel helmet, but the soldiers of Company E were easy to be shot in the ass, and there were two in front of him who were shot in a steel helmet, and there were already four people who were shot in the buttocks, and there was also a Mr. Magic with one bullet and four holes......

After returning to the position, Nixon and Winter went to the battalion headquarters, while Zheng Yingqi retracted his cat ear piercing, and he had a not-so-good premonition that the squad that needed to do the "fatal blow" might have a place of its own.

This is almost certain, after more than half an hour, the battle plan for the attack from the woods was determined, and in order to cover the battle plan on the flank, the whole regiment will continue to attack in the rain from four o'clock in the afternoon, and in the evening, the attack squad will take action, starting from that grove and stabbing the Germans in the chest from the side like a sharp knife.

This squad naturally fell to the head of E Company, and E Company unsurprisingly handed over the task to the 1st platoon, and assigned the first platoon three mortars.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the offensive began, and some 81mm mortars and Wigherr's artillery at the regimental headquarters joined the covering sequence, and after the evening, the battle became more intense, and Wigherr's artillery seemed to be unstoppable, but it became more careful, because a small detachment was moving from the woods towards the German flank.

A platoon of 25 people, three 60mm mortar groups, and two British Cromwell tanks are all the strength of this squad - the tank company that was originally assigned to E Company, after continuous fighting, now there are only these two left, in this period of fighting, these British tanks, successfully destroyed German armored vehicles, destroyed German artillery, but never killed a German tank.

"Guys, believe me, you're going to be able to take out the German tanks tonight, maybe you'll be a Tiger King - you'll be respectable Tiger Tamers!" Welsh cheered up the British troops in the two car groups, and Zheng Yingqi smiled and didn't speak, hoping that they could become tiger tamers.

The assault detachment passed through the woods and appeared 350 meters from the road, which they were going to cross for 350 meters before striking a fatal blow at the Germans.

Everything was going on in an orderly manner, and it was going smoothly, and when he was halfway through, Zheng Yingqi suddenly felt a shudder of suffocation, and he climbed down without thinking about it.

Bang bang bang

Gunshots rang out one after another, and almost all of the groups at the head of the 1st platoon followed Zheng Yingqi down, and this round of attacks did not cause losses, but a rumbling sound sounded, and with the flares rising into the air, the terrifying sound of the Tiger King appeared from behind the reverse slope.

"The Germans are prepared! Remove! Evacuate! Welsh shouted loudly, and the two Cromwell tanks stopped and retreated directly, and Welsh looked at it, cursed in a low voice, and then had a plan, quickly pounced on the retreating tanks, and said to the commander almost face to face: "Hurry up to the slope of the woods!" There you can hide yourself from the shot of the Tiger King! And you can aim at it and him! ”

The tank commander thought that Welsh's plan was good, and the two tanks savagely smashed through the pine trees blocking the road, entered the other side of the woods, turned around, and rushed to the slope.

At this time, the German infantry had already attacked, and the 1st platoon retreated to the edge of the forest in disarray, and after the machine guns on the tank knocked down several German infantry, the German infantry was forced to retreat.

rumble

The Cromwell tank aimed at the Tiger King, and a shell hit the Tiger King, but the Tiger King's turret turned, and from a distance of several tens of meters, Zheng Yingqi seemed to be able to hear the commander's hurried shout of "retreat, retreat".

The barrel of the Tiger King retracted, and a shell broke away from the muzzle of the gun, accurately hitting the retreating Cromwell's tank, and the tank burst into sparks, and in just a few seconds, the internal shell exploded, making a louder explosion.

Another Cromwell tank wanted to run, but it was too late, and the Tiger King rumbled after it and hit the soul with a shot......

However, due to the attraction of two tanks, the soldiers of the 1st platoon withdrew to the woods with only three battle losses, and the attack ended in a hurry.

"It's okay, there will always be a time of defeat in the war, our losses are not big, rest well, tomorrow we will take revenge!" Winters comforted the 1st platoon who had failed, Welsh was very disappointed, he did the last thing he wanted to do today, and coupled with the failed action, he was extremely self-blaming.

Zheng Yingqi gently patted Welsh's shoulder and said, "People are close to each other, you have chosen your own siblings between your siblings and others, and you can't say that you are wrong - if it weren't for them, we might only be able to come back a dozen or a few people." ”

Welsh was bitterly speechless, he knew it, but after all......

……

This time, the 101st Division did not succeed in replicating the victory in Normandy, and the 6th Parachute Regiment did not succeed in disgrace, because in the early hours of the morning, the 6th Parachute Regiment hastily abandoned the salient - they withdrew.

In the morning, the 506th Regiment set foot on the positions that had not been captured after fierce battles, and in the afternoon, they left the positions again and braved the rain to return to Yuden, which was full of ruins.

A day later, the whole of the 506th Regiment received a letter that had not been received for ten days after leaving England - watching the vehicle carrying the letter leave, everyone in Company E breathed a sigh of relief:

They know that the battle is over at the moment, so to speak.

A few days later, everyone in the 101st Division also knew the news: the British Airborne First Division in Arnhem, only more than 2,000 people left the battlefield.

Compared with the cruelty of the British 1st Airborne Division, which lost 8,000 men in battle, the 506th Regiment, which lost the bridge at Thorne, was forced to retreat for the first time after suffering defeat in Nunan, and failed again in the salient, belonged to the lucky side in this failed operation.

At least, their battle losses are much happier than the evacuation and crippled British 1st Airborne Division......

(It's late again...... Changed the plot and took a little more time. Well, I was going to send it together, but for the sake of full attendance, I could only send a paragraph first, which is a smaller 10,000, right? Ask for votes! ）