To be honest, military life is actually the most boring - if you can't get used to this boredom, or learn to find interesting fun in the boredom, then a closed barracks life will drive you crazy.

Fortunately, human adaptability is extremely strong, and the vast majority of people, in the closed barracks, have learned how to accept it - just like Zheng Yingqi, he enjoys this kind of closed management, as if he has returned to the original years, but the foreigners everywhere always remind him that this is not the old A......

Here, there will never be a taste of the old A base.

In order to give this taste of the old A, Zheng Yingqi has formulated a high-intensity training plan for himself - he is busy training when others are preparing for Christmas, and he is still training when others are busy preparing for Christmas games.

Only training can keep him from thinking about the base that haunts him - for many years in the Bright Sword world, although he misses those brothers who are rolling around with him in the training ground, he always has a sense of responsibility and honor at that time, because he is fighting with those legendary predecessors.

But here, although he knew that he was on the side of justice, the language that was completely different from his mother tongue and the skin color that was completely different from the race he needed to protect always made him unable to feel a sense of belonging.

The more this is the case, the more he misses the place that haunts his dreams.

Only with high-intensity training can I stop thinking about it for a while.

And to others, such a picture is out of place - they are on vacation!

"Jacob, I think you need to vent on the pitch – come to us, don't look out of place with you at the training ground." Gordon tempted Zheng Yingqi, if in society, a person like Zheng Yingqi who is incompatible with the people around him will be tacitly isolated, but in the army in war, Zheng Yingqi's strong combat effectiveness makes Zheng Yingqi can't help but become the target of other people's "licking", no matter how withdrawn his behavior is.

"No, I still have a training plan to complete today, I still need to consume 100 bullets, I still need to do 100 push-ups, well, there is still a five-kilometer ......" Zheng Yingqi reported his training plan that he had not yet solved, and Gordon on the side ran with a rugby ball, muttering in his heart:

Hell, doesn't this guy know how to take a good vacation?

After Gordon failed to tempt Zheng Yingqi, no one went to Zheng Yingqi to run into a wall, so he could only let Zheng Yingqi continue to be withdrawn - some new recruits to E Company did not understand such a situation, thinking that Zheng Yingqi was the object of isolation, and there was a kind young man Eric, who also found Zheng Yingqi when no one was around, trying to persuade Zheng Yingqi to integrate into the group instead of becoming an isolated object.

Of course, Zheng Yingqi will not be indifferent to such a well-wisher, he said with a smile: "In this collective, excellence is the only criterion. With that, he continued to run his own five kilometers, leaving Eric in a daze.

"Hey, what did you say to him?" Velsh saw Eric in a daze and walked over to ask.

"Sir," Eric saluted, "he's such a weirdo, and I suggested that he fit in with the collective, but he said something inexplicably. ”

"What?" Velsh asked with interest.

He said that in this collective, excellence is the only criterion.

Welsh laughed, patted the newcomer on the shoulder and said: "He is right - young man, you have been trying to integrate with the veterans through activities these days, but you have forgotten one thing, self-improvement is fundamental, if you are not good enough, they will never agree with you, and he ......" Welsh pointed to Zheng Yingqi, who was stubbornly running five kilometers in the barracks, and said:

"He was one of the souls of this collective, and no one went back to isolate him."

"One of the souls?" The private was puzzled, but Welsh did not relieve his doubts, but asked him to observe slowly, which is an observation that newcomers must learn - he left here immediately, as a platoon commander, in the case of re-staffing, it is very busy, especially when the above has specially overallocated officers for the grassroots troops-

The establishment of the entire E Company soldiers reached 96% before the Market Garden operation, but the establishment of the officers was as high as 116%, obviously, the above is a different plan, Welsh, as the oldest qualified and most successful officer of E Company, also did not dare to relax, in case any bastard caught his sore foot and then his brain pumped, and threw himself out of E Company, it would be troublesome.

"Gotta get these guys to take care of themselves, we can't let them always prepare for Christmas." Velsh muttered.

……

Although Welsh "insisted on going his own way" to strengthen the training volume of E Company, the paratroopers did not care about such a low standard of training intensity, but were still immersed in the laughter of the upcoming Christmas, although they could not spend an unforgettable Christmas in Berlin, but here, in fact, it was possible, after all, the French are so enthusiastic and unrestrained - Christmas or Christmas Eve, it seems that it is good to be able to spend a wonderful night with a French girl.

But......

Reality is always so unforgiving!

On December 17, in just one day, Eisenhower in Reims prepared more than 10,000 vehicles for his troops—and there is no doubt that the 101st Division must have been one of the first 60,000 men to be dispatched.

In fact, after breakfast, the paratroopers had an ominous premonition, when Lieutenant Decker shouted solemnly to his subordinates who were going to eat after breakfast: "Stay put!" ”

After hearing this, the paratroopers knew that they had to "work" again - Nima coins, which were said to be permanently stationed here, but it turned out to be only a few days? Don't even let people spend Christmas?

Compared with others with depressed faces, Zheng Yingqi's expression was much calmer, but in his indifferent expression, there were a lot of inexplicable emotions hidden - he knew a long time ago that there would be an outbreak of this incident.

Battle of the Ardennes!

At this time, one of the largest battles on the entire Western Front - although later studies have always believed that it was foolish to send all the armored forces to launch a military operation with no real strategic objectives, but the fact is that this sneak attack, the Germans succeeded, not only succeeded, but also caused heavy losses to the Allies.

20,000 Allied troops were killed, 20,000 were captured, and more than 40,000 were wounded - two infantry divisions were annihilated, of which 7,500 men of the 106th Infantry Division surrendered directly to the Germans, which was the largest surrender of American troops in the war against Germany, and at the same time, about 800 tanks and armored vehicles of the American army were destroyed.

But the war is about the background, the logistics, and the skin!

The battle was better than all Allied officers had anticipated from the beginning or even before it broke out, and the cloud of failure in Operation Market Garden did not make all Allied officers pessimistic, who had always been optimistic that the Germans were in their death throes and that Germany was doomed - they were thinking about how to deal with the Germans, not how the Germans would deal with them.

So this sneak attack, which is comparable to the Barbarossa raid or the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, was a smooth and proper success.

It was a great start for the Germans, but the focus was on ...... The Germans were so poor!

For the Allied forces led by the United States, there is not much problem in losing this battle, even if the battle is amazing, it still does not affect the strength of the Allied forces - the German army simply cannot accept the main oil depots of the American army against the sky and intact, and without gasoline, the huge armored forces put together by the German army will only become a group of iron lumps with the ability to counterattack in the end!

Zheng Yingqi shook his head gently, the German army in the early stage of the battle was very similar to the German army at the beginning of World War II, but that was the final return to the light - of course, these have nothing to do with him as a little sergeant, the only thing that matters is that the 101st Airborne Division, in this battle, seems to be ......

It seems to be surrounded by German troops!

……

At 20:30 on the 17th.

The order from the command was transmitted to the combat units at the company level: to be ready for battle, get into the trucks after the arrival of the morning and head north towards Bastogne.

"I'm not going! I'm going to get ready for a rugby game for Christmas! I'm going to let the grandsons of the 82nd Division know what a real man is! Gordon shouted after the order was delivered, but such a shouting only attracted the understanding eyes of the officers, after all, they had been preparing for a long time in order to teach the 82nd Division a lesson.

Officers have more to think about than non-commissioned officers and paratroopers, and they are in no mood to complain that their preparations for Christmas have been wasted.

"We don't have ammunition!"

"The newly replenished personnel are seriously under-equipped, we have a lot of rugby helmets, but no steel helmets!"

"We are short of two machine guns and machine gunners!"

"Sir, our winter coats have not been issued, our boots are not lined and are not waterproof, and we do not have long underwear and woolen socks for winter."

The officers reported on the current situation, and Lieutenant, pinching his aching head, thought that the news was bad enough, but Welsh added another one:

"Sir, we are in serious short supply of K-grade dry food!"

Yes, the K-level dry food that the GIs don't like the most, they are all in serious short supply - who would hate the annoying K-class dry food to the logistics department during the cantonment? But this thing is an indispensable material in war.

These problems simply cannot be overcome - Momion does not have an ammunition depot, and the ammunition of Company E is the one brought from the Netherlands, and these ammunition have been consumed a lot by Zheng Yingqi, which is really ...... Accidental.

"Anyway, tomorrow morning, we have to get in the car!" ended the meeting with this passage - can he solve these things as a small company commander?

Not only Dyck was confused, but even Captain Winter and Colonel Zinke were all confused, they only knew that they would get on the bus in the morning and march north in the direction of Bastogne, and they didn't know anything else, the regimental commanders could only keep asking General McAulleaf, but Brigadier General McAuliffe, who was in charge of the 101st Airborne Division, was also confused, and he didn't know where the troops were going!

The only thing that is known is that the Germans have poked a big hole in the defensive line, the army is retreating, and someone has to go and plug this gap - who is on it?

It can only be the Airborne Forces!

This was the situation before the 101st Division set out.

……

Early in the morning, the trucks arrived as scheduled - the weather was not suitable for airborne, and the command simply could not quickly concentrate a large number of C-47 transport planes, so it could only rely on the transport team to solve the transportation of troops.

After the tired truck drivers loaded the soldiers, they formed a group and set off all the way north, and the paratroopers complained in the freezing wind.

Gordon said incredulously, "We're going to have to go to war before we even have winter coats handed out!" ”

I thought that the bastards in the logistics department would replenish them with winter clothes and ammunition before they got into the car, but they were thrown into the truck without giving them anything?

"The mission was so urgent that there was no time to prepare - I was stopped by the gendarmes, who unloaded my equipment from the car and left me here." The driver said loudly: "Your situation is still good, at least it is a military truck, and some troops can't make up enough military trucks, so they can only use civilian trucks!" ”

"Man, you have a good drive! Don't sleep! After hearing the driver's loud complaint, Gordon hurriedly showed his head to the driver.

Not only Gordon was worried, but everyone else was also shocked, but fortunately the driver was sleepy, but there was no scene they least wanted to see, which probably had a lot to do with the packs of cigarettes that the paratroopers put together for the driver.

The entire 101st Airborne Division needed about 380 trucks to transport more than 11,000 people, but the first trucks to arrive were obviously not enough, and only the most elite 506th Regiment could only set off first - there was no doubt that the 2nd Battalion was the first to take the lead.

And E Company, naturally, is the arrow of the 2nd Battalion.