[Although there are not many entertainment facilities in the barracks of Momion, at least it is not destroyed by artillery fire, and you can spend a good and happy time......]

This was the thinking of the vast majority of paratroopers, but the sad reality was that not long after they left Bastogne, the convoy carrying them changed course - directly to Alsace.

The specific cases are:

In order to save the strength and equipment of the salient (suspected mainly equipment), the Germans launched a surprise attack on the weak part of the Alsace American line, which was originally in the area, but during the Ardennes campaign, the Third Army was transferred, and the Seventh Army took over the defense area of Patton's army, resulting in a serious shortage of troops.

The Germans raided the negligent area of the American army, and like all raids, they easily succeeded and threatened the entire Alsace region - the Germans had a clear purpose, they wanted to force the American army to abandon the German army surrounded by the salient, and the American army naturally did not want to let the meat out of their mouths, and Eisenhower could only mobilize all the troops at his disposal to support Alsace.

The 101st Division, which had completed its combat mission and was preparing to enter for repair, changed its route and galloped to the aid of Alsace.

The sudden rush to help made the paratroopers angry, and they did not know whether it was intentional or deliberately caused by German spies, and after passing Bellfontaine and Wilton, some rumors began to spread.

Part of the people in the 1st and 2nd rows were mixed and matched in a truck, and the truck was moving very slowly when the sky was snowing, and after three minutes of jumping down, he was still in time to get in the car, and after he got into the blanket, he said: "When I just went down to make it convenient, I heard someone say that the Alsace line was broken through by the Germans, and we went to the wrong side again!" ”

Wow

Everyone in the truck was red-eyed.

A month ago, there was a problem with Bastogne, they went up retrograde when all the troops were running for their lives, blocked Bastogne's opening, and fought for a whole month, and they had to plug it as soon as they withdrew?

It's really not a good person to take a paratrooper!

"Isn't there a working force?"

"Are the other armies bitched? They're just a bunch of women, so they should be of some use, right? ”

"Bastard! Is this trying to use us like scalpers to death? ”

The soldiers in the truck were noisy, cursing one by one, and some paratroopers were not good at spraying their own commanders, so they began to spray John Bull vigorously - and the British silently carried a cauldron.

The noise woke up Zheng Yingqi, who was sleeping with his head covered, and after understanding the reason, he said with a smile: "If the Germans can easily break through the Alsace defense, they will not be blocked in the salient." It must have been a feint by the Germans, the main purpose of which was to rescue the trapped troops in the salient, and we were transferred, at most as a reserve, just in case! Rest assured, it's not that bad! ”

The soldiers were skeptical, but considering that Jacob said this, they finally accepted Zheng Yingqi's explanation with suspicion, this truck had Zheng Yingqi behind it, and there was nothing to do, but there were a lot of things on other trucks because of rumors - after all, the paratroopers were really tired, and now they were thrown into the battlefield, and few people were confident that they would survive.

It was only 260 kilometers from Bastogne to Alsace, but because of the snowfall, the speed of the convoy was not fast, and the slow speed made the rumor fly like wings, and even the officers thought that the rumor was very plausible - on the way, Zheng Yingqi saw Winters sitting on the jeep, and even Winters looked worried, apparently he also believed this rumor.

The regimental headquarters reacted very slowly, and after six hours of rumors prevailed, they refuted the rumors that the defense line there had not been breached, but the paratroopers unanimously believed that it was a lie to them - rumors are always easier to believe than the truth, but fortunately, at this time, the US troops really did not deliberately bring people into the gutter, and they did not encounter a tide of routs along the way, and slowly the soldiers recognized the truth.

After a terrified trek, the convoy finally arrived in Alsace, and although the American troops were panicked, they did not have the mourning dog that they had lost their spirit like in Bastogne, which was a good phenomenon for the paratroopers, which proved that the situation was much better than expected.

The 2 battalion was stationed in a small town.

"We are not needed at the front for the time being, we will be temporarily stationed here as a reserve." Winters then announced the good news, which was really good news for the 2nd Battalion in the war zone, as usually, as long as they were in the war zone, the commanders would always make the best arrangements for them to the front, and they had never been in the reserves.

"Do you know what a reserve is? The reserve team is to watch others fight to the death, we can drink the liquor calmly, as long as the battle situation does not appear an avalanche-like rout, we are the master! Huebler said that he understood the reserves, and in order to prove that he was right, he specially "borrowed" a glass of liquor from the German house in the town and drank it slowly.

Then he was kicked aside by Zheng Yingqi: "You are on duty tonight!" There are a lot of Germans here, and you'd better cheer up, if ......" he looked at Hubler with malice, and said with bad intentions: "If I smell alcohol in your mouth, I don't mind handing you over to Captain Spears (promoted in the line of fire)." ”

Hubler shuddered at the thought of how Spears had been rumored to clean up the drunken non-commissioned officers, he didn't want to be shot in the head by his own people.

Of course, Zheng Yingqi's words to threaten Hubler are nonsense, because Spears has no experience of killing his own people - this is what Spears himself said, when Zheng Yingqi and Spears were on a night patrol that day, Zheng Yingqi asked about these two rumors, and Spears personally explained.

Spears was very aggrieved, he said, the so-called killing of the Germans, the truth is that he fired a shuttle of bullets in the air, threatening these Germans to be honest, not to think about escaping, and to honestly wait for the Allies to accept prisoners of war.

As for the killing of the drunken non-commissioned officer, it was purely a yellow mud falling from the crotch of his pants, and at that time, Spears was extremely angry in the face of the drunken non-commissioned officer who was talking back, and was about to teach the other party a lesson, but as a result, the German sniper fired, "That shot must have been aimed at my head, but he missed it and hit Sergeant Holliman." ”

(In Spears' words: I want to beat that guy up and make him remember.) Zheng Yingqi asked why you didn't hand him over to the military police to deal with, and Spears said: If you beat him, you won't be punished, and if you are punished, you won't be beaten. ）

This is the truth, but people are always more willing to believe rumors, maybe rumors are easier to satisfy people's dark psychology - from the time he heard this rumor, Zheng Yingqi tried to think about a question:

Does an officer who is new to the battlefield really have the courage to kill a bunch of prisoners?

Tsk, anyway, Zheng Yingqi has seen countless soldiers end up killing people without blinking, but no one can sweep away a bunch of people without blinking at the first time, especially without an order.

……

Alsace is a very sad place, it changes hands almost every war, it became German land in 1871, it was retaken by the French in 1919, and before it could be warmed up, it became German territory again in 40 years.

However, the Germans did not hold back the heat, and with the liberation of France, the region once again returned to the bosom of France.

But this place is different from other places, because it has been incorporated into the territory of the Germans, so a large number of Germans have settled here, in other words, this is already an enemy territory, Zheng Yingqi does not want to be killed by the Germans who are deeply affected by the "Na Urge" idea in his sleep, so he strengthens the vigilance force at night.

Fortunately, the Germans here looked very honest under the front of the American army, living in the house vacated by the Germans "on their own initiative", the entire 2nd battalion slept in the long-awaited bed, and several paratroopers who shouted to comfort the poor women had no idea of saving others after sleeping in the bed, and comforted each other one by one and said that they would save them again tomorrow.

But the sad thing is that the next day the 2nd Battalion was divided, and E Company was transferred to a village as a visitor to watch the battlefield more than ten kilometers away, and for the next period of time, they would change villages almost every day to stand by, so that many paratroopers' wishes to save women were successfully disappointed.

During the period of becoming a reserve, the treatment of E Company has also been greatly improved, and the mobile shower room that can bathe 215 people per hour has been sent, Zheng Yingqi looked sluggish when he saw this thing for the first time, this is also the front line, and it is really ......

Ostentatious.

High-top boots, winter socks, etc., which were almost out of demand, were also delivered during this time, and E Company was also completely new at this stage - and most importantly, many injured veterans returned to the team during this time.

……

Arley is coming, Henry is back, Webster is coming, Bain is coming.

Many veterans who were wounded in the Netherlands were sent back one after another, and with the addition of veterans, the platoon returned to its former crowd - it's just that, among them, many, many familiar faces, half-familiar faces, can no longer be found.

The first platoon meeting after the reorganization was carried out in such a depressing atmosphere, because it was a meeting of mutual acquaintance, Zheng Yingqi could only try to liven up the atmosphere, but after saying a bunch of battlefield witticisms, it only made the newcomers smile with the crowd, and did not improve the atmosphere, he could only say to Ali:

"Sergeant Ali, I remember that the hospital is a famous place for jokes, tell some interesting things in it for everyone to hear, lest anyone who enters the hospital in the future will not know what jokes to tell to the neighbors."

Of course, Ali understood what Zheng Yingqi meant, cleared his throat, and said, "If you want to tell jokes, I think Hale is the funniest." ”

"Hale?"

The newcomers were not familiar with this man, but everyone else knew, and Hubler looked at Ali in surprise, remembering that Zheng Yingqi said that Hale had been cut off by the Germans.

"That guy wanted to learn like one of Rumler's 'sons of luck' (taught by Zheng Yingqi) and took six prisoners on the battlefield," Ali said as easily as he could, "and he was going to bring them back, but a bomb exploded not far from him, and the prisoners took the opportunity to mess up, and a German officer pulled a dagger out of his boot and cut it off his neck." ”

Listening to Ali's story, the newcomers couldn't help but shudder, it sounded so terrifying.

"Well, our platoon commander killed all the restless captives at a critical time, saving the hapless boy's life - if Jacob hadn't arrived in time, his arteries would have been severed."

"After Hale was admitted to the hospital, even the doctor was very surprised, saying that this kid must be God's illegitimate child, and he was so lucky that he sewed up the wound for him by the way, but Hale's esophagus has been deformed, which means that he will never be able to wear a tie again, do you know what Hale said?"

Ali couldn't help but laugh when he thought of this, and Hubul urged Ali to stop selling it and speak quickly.

"That guy said it would be better not to wear a tie, and I could still 'bully' the officer!"

"Bullying?" Hubler muttered, "This guy must have a bad trick!" ”

Ali couldn't help laughing again, and in the urging eyes of everyone, he said with a smile: "He, before the stitches are removed, he pretended not to be sick, and wore a military uniform without a tie all day long, and was seen by a colonel again, the colonel severely reprimanded him, and asked Hale to tie the tie immediately, at this time Hale calmly took out the certificate issued by the doctor, and the soldier revealed his wounds, and he said: Sir, look, I am the only one in our army who has been specially approved not to wear a tie." ”

The whole row of laughter made a ball, Zheng Yingqi couldn't help laughing, Hale this guy was originally a bad taste slowly bad coward, and now he has "privileges", tsk, it's really getting better and better at playing - a few months later, Hale used this trick to pit the famous General Patton once, because he didn't wear a tie, Patton specially criticized him, this guy pretended to admit his mistake, and finally took out the certificate issued by the doctor, so that Barton couldn't help but laugh and kicked this kid.

After Ali's joke, the dull atmosphere was dispelled at once, and Zheng Yingqi also took the opportunity to preside over the meeting, asking everyone to reintroduce themselves to everyone and get to know each other, and finally he said to the newcomers:

"We haven't been fighting as a reserve team these days, but I guess there are not many days left like this, you take advantage of this time to ask veterans more life-saving skills that you can't learn in the training camp, I hope you can go to the hospital at most to rest for a while, instead of letting people take off the ID card around their necks."

Then he said to the veterans: "Don't hide it, take a lot of trouble these days, teach them more, understand?" ”

"Understood." New and old soldiers answered together.

……

The return of the veterans from the hospital also brought back some news.

Such as Gordon.

"When I first met Gordon, I was almost frightened, he was in a cast from his waist to the top of his head, and although the cast was removed for treatment, he was fixed with a kind of T-shaped clamp, which looked very funny," Ali said very funny, but his face was very heavy: "The doctor said that he was lucky, and if the bullet missed half an inch, it would be fatal." Although he doesn't have an intuition of his hands and feet now, the doctor said that the probability of recovery is very high, but it will take time. ”

Before he could say a word, when he found Gordon, Gordon begged him, "If I'm paralyzed, can you do me a favor?" I don't want to lie like this for the rest of my life......"

This is good news, but not all the news is good news, some people need amputation, some people are not rescued in the hospital, knowing that some people can't accept the reality of amputation and collapse and commit suicide......

The military hospital in the war is actually a hell shrouded in sadness, although some people will come out of it and re-enter the battlefield, but more people will say goodbye to the war and the life of normal people......

And many people who have experienced war will not be able to get out of the nightmare of war for the rest of their lives!

……

Zheng Yingqi said in the previous row of meetings, "We have a good life like this for a few days", this sentence is completely prophecy!

Because on the day of February 5th, that is, the day of Zheng Yingqi's "little year", the 506th Regiment changed the 313th Infantry Regiment of the 79th Division and entered the town of Agno - their "sightseeing tour" in Alsace was completely over and officially entered the front line.

Two weeks after leaving the war, Company E entered the war again.