In the middle of the way, the place where the 101st Division was going to fill the pit was finally determined:

Go to Bastogne to plug the gap!

But at this time, everyone didn't realize what they would encounter when they went to Bastogne's unlucky place, and Zheng Yingqi, who was in the know, subconsciously touched the ammunition on his body and thought:

Lao Mei has a lot of money, so he shouldn't let soldiers fight with burning sticks, right?

As for the others, they didn't think about what would happen in Bastogne, starting with the airborne landing on D-Day in Normandy, and the victories had given them the bearing that a soldier should have, and the veterans had only one idea:

Go there, beat the Germans, and win.

"The Germans are nothing remarkable, they all carry a head on their shoulders - just like Jacob said, the Germans are now fighting with us, several cuts behind, in terms of supply capacity, in terms of support ability, in terms of firepower, they are now incomparable with us, every time their tanks are dispatched, they have to carefully calculate their fuel volume, what about us?" Gordon smiled and said to the newcomer:

"Have we ever had a stupid shortage? The Germans can be killed with a pile of steel! ”

"But we're ...... now," one recruit pointed to the weapon in his hand, "and even bullets are scarce." ”

"Cut, will the officials let us fight with burning sticks?" Gordon said indifferently - he didn't see the officers worried, he thought that in Bastogne, the logistics department would prepare enough ammunition for them, but it was undeniable that Gordon's remarks made the newcomers a little more confident.

Seeing Gordon's affirmation, Zheng Yingqi muttered in his heart: "Well, there should be." ”

But more than ten kilometers closer to Bastogne, Gordon's rhetoric was shattered by the relentless facts.

At first they only saw scattered routs, and they didn't pay attention to the frightened routs - these routs were full of panic, and they only knew that they ran south along the road, even blocking the road, and under the constant honking of the trucks that hit the head, the routs flashed to both sides and continued their journey to death.

The presence of the rout slowed down the speed of the convoy, but it was not the most terrible, after slowing down for a kilometer, the size of the rout increased in vain, and the rout, who threw their weapons and backpacks, kept shouting:

"Run!"

"They're too strong! We can't beat them! ”

"Run, the Germans are coming!"

I don't know where this sentence came from, but the routed soldiers on both sides of the road under the shouts of E Company suddenly coaxed and turned into a swarm of mustless beasts, and they rushed wildly, turning the soldiers of E Company who maintained order into desperate drowning people in the flood, and also made the difficult and slow convoy have to stop.

"Grass! Where are the Germans! Gordon stood on the roof of the cab of the truck in a rage and roared at the soldiers: "Tell me, where are the Germans, I'll kill them!" ”

But the rout didn't heed Gordon's roar, they just ran south with their heads covered.

"It can't be like this!" Lieutenant jumped from the top of the cab of the car and frowned: "There are too many routs, we can't wait for them all to pass before advancing." ”

There are so many routs, he just stood on the top of the cab and watched, and the end of the telescope was also filled with routs, a rout of this scale made people can't help but despair - so many troops have lost, lost, and defeated all the way, can they turn things around?

"We can only walk," ordered Welsh, "Welsh platoon commander, a platoon of vanguards, march immediately to Bastogne, and when you enter the city, look for the logistics department, and ask them for ammunition." ”

"Yes." After Welsh received the order, he turned around and gave an order to the assembled subordinates - there is no doubt that Zheng Yingqi's squad has become the striker of the forwards again.

The first group marched along the sides of the kilometer towards Bastogne, and about two or three kilometers closer to Bastogne, the faint sound of gunfire was already much more distinct.

"In the northeast, listening to the sound should look like eight or nine kilometers." Zheng Yingqi made a judgment and ordered someone to pass on this judgment to the troops behind, and he led people to storm into Bastogne City - in the past, American GIs entered a settlement, and they would be warmly welcomed by the local people as liberators, just like when they were in the Netherlands, they delayed the fighters because of the extreme enthusiasm of the locals, but in Bastogne City, there was no welcome at all, and the locals closed the door, even if they kept knocking on the door, no one opened the door.

The city was very chaotic, full of defeated soldiers on the front line, Zheng Yingqi and a group of paratroopers kept stopping one by one the defeated soldiers and asked them about the location of logistics, but all the defeated soldiers shook their heads, indicating that they didn't know anything, and then, like an eight-legged dog, broke away from the entanglement of the paratroopers, rushed out of the city, and then became one of the culprits who blocked the reinforcements.

Gordon panicked at this time, imagining that the scene of logistics officers leaving boxes and boxes of ammunition on the side of the road waiting for them to receive them did not exist, and they relied on this little ammunition on their bodies to carry the Germans?

That's not how you give away heads!

He said to Zheng Yingqi in a panic: "What should I do? Shall we just go up with burning sticks? This thing should be dismantled and burned, and it will be in the way. ”

Zheng Yingqi is experienced, well, he has had such an experience, so he naturally knows how to start, he immediately ordered the paratroopers to stop the rout and ask for ammunition from the rout.

"Or do you have a way!" Gordon was overjoyed, and hurriedly led the barricades set up by others to stop the routs - the routs who were defeated by the Germans, after seeing the barricades set up by their own people, thought that they were going to stop them and bring them into the battlefield, and immediately became anxious, and even did not hesitate to point their guns at this group of paratroopers.

They don't have the courage to point their guns at the enemy, but when they turn them on their own people, they are particularly ferocious.

Zheng Yingqi roared and roared: "Listen, we don't want to push you into the battlefield!" We are reinforcements! Not a gendarmerie! We need ammunition! You can leave, but you must leave us with your ammunition! We need to take bullets and hit the Germans! ”

After hearing that they were asking for bullets, the routs immediately put away their guns, threw all the bullets on their bodies to the side of the road, and even the weapons that got in the way were thrown away.

Gordon became more and more angry the more he looked at it, and he asked if there were any more bullets left in France, and he replied:

"Here's what I've got left, and some that I lost on the road, they're too heavy."

Gordon was like a rifle butt in this guy's face at that time, but considering that there were too many routs here, he didn't dare to do anything that intensified the contradictions, so he could only say mockingly:

"To be a deserter is, of course, to travel light."

But the rout did not care about such a taunt, but blended into the crowd and left with an impatient heart.

came from behind, although he was very satisfied with Zheng Yingqi's ingenious way of obtaining ammunition, but looking at the ammunition in front of him, he said worriedly: "Not enough!" Far from enough! ”

The Garand carbines that the paratroopers are equipped with are semi-automatic rifles, and when they go crazy, they can consume dozens of bullets in a minute, which seems like a lot of bullets here, but for the entire E Company, it is just a drop in the bucket - and the entire 101st Division is seriously short of bullets!

"Welsh has already led people to look for the logistics department in the city, but our people are not familiar with the situation in the city, and the army in the city has long been withdrawn, so we can only try our luck." Zheng Yingqi said with a solemn face: "Sir, but before that, we must continue to do this, and we must gather a certain amount of ammunition." ”

In the plot of Bright Sword, even Li Yunlong, who is constantly making a fortune, never dares to say to the whole group: "Damn, Lao Tzu has enough bullets, you give Lao Tzu a hard beating." "Normally, a battle is a limited number of double-digit or even single-digit bullets per person, and when the bullets are gone, you have to take your life to find a way - but any officer in the U.S. Army dares to treat his subordinates like this, and he will be killed by mutinous soldiers if he can't wait for a black gun to be fired during the battle.

Of course, Company E would not do this, but the American GIs, with these bullets, are estimated to be lost in a few minutes, and then they will fight with the Germans with bayonets with burning sticks?

Heh, the Germans must have been happy to do it with bullets.

Dekker agreed to Zheng's suggestion and ordered his men to deploy in Bastogne to collect ammunition, of course, he still hoped to find the arsenal.

Just as Company E was collecting bullets from the rout, a jeep with its horn blaring all the time rushed through the rout that was stopped by a barricade and squirmed, and a second lieutenant jumped out of the jeep and reported to himself:

"I'm the logistics officer of the Soboli detachment of the 10th Armored Division B Combat Command, George W. C. Rice, are you a support force? Are you short of bullets? ”

Logistics officer?

Zheng Yingqi was overjoyed and hurriedly said: "Sergeant Jacob, 101st Regiment of the 506th Airborne Division, sir, we came up from Momion to support, but Momion does not have an arsenal, and our ammunition is carried by the Dutch when they retreat, which is seriously insufficient!" ”

"I know an arsenal! Let's find a truck and go there! Ensign Rice said hurriedly.

Zheng Yingqi immediately led people to follow, blocking a truck that was in a hurry to run away - the truck was full of routs, these routs saw that someone was going to requisition their reliance on the run, they stopped doing it, and shouted for the paratroopers to get out, but Zheng Yingqi was decisively "suppressed", and after knocking down five routs with the butts of their guns one after another, the routs whose fists were no bigger than Zheng Yingqi finally coaxed and left the truck cursing.

But what makes people speechless is that the truck driver also ran away.

"Grass, it's so fast!" Gordon cursed.

Fortunately, there are many soldiers in the U.S. Army who can drive skills, and they did not make a mistake because of the truck driver's escape, Gordon personally drove and found the arsenal that had long since disappeared from the guards under the leadership of Second Lieutenant Rice.

Zheng Yingqi can only sigh that the US military is rich and rich, if this is on the battlefield in China, even if it is a nest of national troops who are pitted at every turn, there will be no such thing as directly leaving the arsenal and running away.

After the truck returned to the area where E Company was "plucking", the paratroopers of E Company rushed over like crazy, desperately stuffing ammunition on their bodies, which was the first time Zheng Yingqi had seen such a picture of crazy bullets in the US army - who called the rout so many soldiers and the sound of the exchange of fire so fierce? Everyone believes that every bullet they stuff will be used at a critical time.

Loaded with bullets, Company E said goodbye to Second Lieutenant Rice and continued to move forward, rushing in the direction of Fova, where the exchange of fire was fiercest, and Second Lieutenant Rice did not retreat, he also needed to provide ammunition for the follow-up troops, and the follow-up troops were all "hungry and thirsty men" who were seriously short of bullets - when the post-war recounting, many people said that the second lieutenant named Rice should get the first credit, if it weren't for him, the support troops would definitely be pitted alive and then become part of the rout.

Company E arrived at the front, but instead of throwing itself into the fiercest front, it built a defensive line a few hundred meters from the front line - did not know the situation at the front line at all, and rashly filled the troops into it, which may not be useful, but the fiercely fought troops most likely took this opportunity to abandon their positions, and called it a beautiful name: move the defense!

Units of the entire 506th Regiment were arriving, with Colonel Zinke ordering the 3rd Battalion to advance to Fowa, the 2nd Battalion to protect the right flank, and Company E to establish a defensive position at the junction of an open field and a wooded field.

After establishing his position, Gordon sat down to rest and said, "It's good that we chose the Airborne Forces instead of ordinary infantry - those infantry are a bunch of bastards!" What's more, when I was ten kilometers away from Bastogne, those bastards were already running, and they kept saying that the whole Bastogne was full of Germans, and I was afraid that as soon as I entered Bastogne, I would have to fight hard with the Germans, but what about the Germans? ”

Gordon said angrily: "We haven't seen the Germans until now!" They must have heard the gunfire of the Germans and started running! ”

Zheng Yingqi shrugged his shoulders and said: "Christmas is coming, no one would expect the Germans to fight back at this time - believe me, when the Germans come, they must be just like us, preparing for a rugby game." ”

"But we can go into battle as retrograde at the first moment, and they'll just drop all the bullets and weapons and run away at the first time — yes, and they'll say it's too slow to run with bullets and weapons." Gordon retorted.

"So we're paratroopers, and they're infantry."

Well, you have a point, I can't talk about you. Gordon spread his hands and looked at the three newcomers in the class - he said this on purpose just now, Wade was just cheering up the newcomers, but the newcomers were not affected by this fearless thought, but looked around in a panic.

"Don't look at it, our left and right are our partners, and the enemy we need to face is the enemy we have defeated in both battles and will continue to defeat, but not the invincible enemy that the rout soldiers call almost invincible! And you have to understand that you are with one of the strongest fighters in the entire 101st Division - so you can take advantage of the moment to rest for a while, because when the battle starts, the Germans who give away their heads one by one will not let you rest, but can't wait to ask us to take their heads. Gordon said with a dance in his hands.

Zheng Yingqi felt that Gordon was very promising for the first time, well, not because he praised himself.