During the time that Halig was the commander of E Company, E Company was as brave under his leadership as it was under Winters—during which time an incident occurred, let's just say:

Save the British GIs.

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On 19 October, Colonel O. Dobby of the 1st British Airborne Division escaped from the German hospital, evaded German search, swam across the Rhine in the dark, and was captured alive by the men of the 1st Battalion - he was then taken to Colonel Zinke's headquarters.

Colonel Dobby brought back a message:

There were nearly 130 British troops and 5 American pilots hiding somewhere on the other side of the river, protected by more than a dozen members of the Dutch underground resistance, but the situation now is that the Germans have stepped up their investigations, and the Dutch are now under great pressure, and they desperately hope that the Allies will take these people away instead of remaining in the area and become a bomb, a bomb enough to send them all to hell.

Without hesitation, Colonel Zinke gave this task to E Company—the biggest test task since Heilig took office.

"I'm going to take charge of this operation myself," Heilig didn't choose to let his men "die", but swore that he would take them with him to make history, but before he could make history, he had to complete a lot of preparations, for example, "But I need to send someone to contact the Dutch at a place that Colonel Dobby knows, and agree on an evacuation location - we will go to the evacuation site on the day of the operation to pick them up." ”

He looked around at the non-commissioned officers and asked, "Who can communicate with the Dutch for me?" ”

Silent......

Company E often carried out various tasks to cross the Rhine to the other side, and at its peak, each platoon even organized two infiltration detachments to go to the other side of the river to "chat" with the Germans, although at the end of the day they would always call on the British artillery to greet the Germans.

However, it was only on the edge of the Rhine, a few miles deep at most, and they had enough confidence and cover to complete the evacuation.

But what about the task that Heilig is proposing now?

It had to pass through the German positions, go deep into the rear of the German army for at least 30 kilometers, and then go to an unknown location - after crossing the Rhine, the whole time was in the enemy's hinterland, as long as it was exposed, it would attract an overwhelming blow, and the chance of survival was only zero.

It's too dangerous!

Heilig looked at all the officers and non-commissioned officers present in disappointment, but he didn't expect that none of the people in Company E dared to take the initiative to take this task?

"Am I the only one who names me?" Heilig asked, disappointed.

"Sir, we don't have the confidence to accomplish this task - it will require at least thirty kilometers along the German position, and any negligence in the process will lead to unpredictable consequences." Lieutenant Peacock stood up and came back, looked at Velsh one last time, bowed his head and said, "If anyone can finish it, I want to ...... I think it's just Sergeant Jacob. ”

Velsh was so angry that he wanted to smash the notebook in front of him on Peacock's head.

Did Jacob eat your rice or drink your milk? He saved your deputy platoon commander, and at a critical time, he made up the big basket that you three platoons poked out, you fucking shitty Jacob?

"Jacob?" Of course, Heilig had an impression of the top sergeant in the company, he searched the crowd, but he didn't see Zheng Yingqi's figure, and he immediately got angry, he thought that Zheng Yingqi deliberately didn't come, and asked, "What about others?" Didn't I say that? All sergeants and officers need to be involved in this meeting? ”

"Sir, he was transferred by the battalion headquarters to participate in the mission - Nixon staff officer personally transferred the person, saying that he would send people back tonight, and I have already reported to the deputy company commander." Welsh replied.

Helig then lost his anger, knocked on the table, and asked, "Do you think that only Jacob can accomplish such a task?" ”

"Yes!" This time, the answers were very unanimous, and some people even said, "If Jacob leads the team, I am willing to sign up for the action." ”

"Yes, I do."

After several non-commissioned officers expressed their positions, Heilig breathed a sigh of relief, E Company was still the E Company he knew, not cowardly, but sensible.

"Well, then, when Jacob comes back tonight, I'll go to him and say—in that case, then break up."

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The reason why Zheng Yingqi was captured by Captain Nixon was that Nixon needed to sort out the intelligence of the German army opposite, and Zheng Yingqi was the non-commissioned officer with the largest number of infiltrations into the German positions and the widest search range in the whole battalion.

In other words, Zheng Yingqi must have figured out the layout of the German army opposite, so Nixon arrested Zheng Yingqi as a strong man.

The two were busy from morning to afternoon, and only after finishing all the information that needed to be sorted out, Nixon looked up at the time, and found that it was only three o'clock in the afternoon, and said in shock:

"Jacob, you are too suitable to be an intelligence staff officer - your mastery of intelligence, memory, and thinking ability are all the only things I have seen, I originally thought that I could get these things done before nine o'clock in the evening, but I didn't expect that with your help, it was actually six hours ahead of schedule!" Number Seven

Nixon, who discovered Zheng Yingqi's advantage, couldn't help but have the idea of digging into the wall, he said: "Jacob, it's a waste for you to stay in E Company!" Your talents are buried on the front line, and you should come here to give me a hand - I dare say, as long as you get acquainted with it for a while, you will definitely be the best intelligence staff officer! ”

Zheng Yingqi said with a smile: "Compared with this boring copywriting work, I prefer to squat in the cat ear hole with my comrades." ”

Cat ear piercing has now become a must-have for the 506 regiment's anti-artillery - Zheng Yingqi is very melancholy when he mentions this, what if the Americans claim that the cat ear piercing is their injury a day later?

"Aren't you thinking about it?" Nixon reluctantly said, "I'm sure Treyers would be happy to give you a place as an officer—you see, the British give you a limited supply of rum, and I have almost unlimited supplies here." ”

This method of temptation made Zheng Yingqi sneer - don't you know that buddies don't smoke and drink? Besides, even if we drink, we can't get used to it.

"Sorry, I don't drink alcohol and I don't smoke." Zheng Yingqi stretched his muscles, Nixon was worried, how could such an efficient person be so ...... What about the food of the ancients?

At this time, Winters pushed the door in, he came in to deliver "supplies", watched the two of them clean up the table, and said with a smile: "I guess you two must not have eaten - come on, enjoy my little stove." ”

"Dick, I find that Jacob is better suited to be an intelligence staff officer than me," Nixon saw Winters come in and decided to let Winters figure him out: "You have to keep him!" ”

"Did you just find out?" Winters said disapprerovingly: "I knew very early on that he was more suitable than you to be an intelligence staff officer, but he preferred to stay on the front line. ”

"It's more useful for him to be an intelligence staff officer than to stay on the front line!" Nixon was unconvinced.

"Heh," Winters laughed, patted Nixon on the shoulder, and said, "If he's useless on the front lines, why are you asking him to come and help you?" ”

Nixon was speechless.

Zheng Yingqi looked at the pair of good friends in the 2nd Battalion, and muttered in his heart, these two people don't look like they have a relationship - in other words, in the gossip of the entire 2nd Battalion, Winters and Nixon's relationship is the most mentioned, Nixon is a good drinker, Winters is idle after working in the battalion, and he also likes to drink with Nixon, and the two often sleep in the same room, so there is such a gossip.

However, there is one funniest thing:

One night, the two got drunk again, and Winters, who woke up in the morning, called Nixon, who didn't want to wake up, while picking up a kettle and preparing to take a beautiful drink......

As a result, the accident happened, and the kettle was filled with Nixon's vomit, and Winters sprayed Nixon directly in the face.

Ahem, ahem, of course Zheng Yingqi wouldn't guess if these two guys fought because of this like those boring paratroopers, he was more concerned about: how did Nixon spit vomit into the kettle?

Winters didn't know what Zheng Yingqi was thinking, he said, "Jacob, Heilig has already called me, he asked you to go to him directly when you go back, there is an important task for you." ”

"Mission?"

"I think it should be to save those trapped British soldiers." Winters can know with his eyes closed what task Heilig gave Zheng Yingqi, if it were him, he would not hesitate to hand over the task to Zheng Yingqi, who is called Zheng Yingqi will always not disappoint? He continued: "If it is this mission, you will come to the battalion headquarters to find me after receiving the mission, and I will take you to the regiment headquarters, where there is more aggregated German intelligence. ”

"Yes."

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Many people can't stand Zheng Yingqi's often being called like an old scalper, and even Winters has told Zheng Yingqi more than once, if you don't want to go, you don't have to go, but every time he says this, it doesn't take long for him to think of Zheng Yingqi when there is a difficult task - and Zheng Yingqi never refuses any task, although none of these tasks are easy, he always accepts them without complaints, and then completes them perfectly.

This attitude made Winterst embarrassed and useful at the same time.

"I've thought about it, when the war is over, I'll find someone to interview you and write you a biography - think about Hitler, it's called "My War", I think, this must be more exciting than the story of that madman!"

While Zheng Yingqi rushed back to the company, he was still thinking about Winters's words in his mind - to be honest, he really had some little expectations, when he fell in Black Hawk, he was finally made into a movie by the Americans, and he was red-faced when he watched it, and if the experience in E Company was also made into a story by the Americans, tsk......

Wrong...... They've got to give me the royalties!

Zheng Yingqi walked into Heilig's room in a reverie - just like when Winters, Heilig's office was very simple and clean, and when he entered, Heilig was busy writing, and motioned for Zheng Yingqi to sit down first, make coffee by himself, and keep himself busy.

Well, this is also the reason why Zheng Yingqi doesn't like to be an officer, there are too many chores that need to be dealt with, and it is not as comfortable as physical action.

After Heilig was busy, he said sorry to Zheng Yingqi, and directly introduced: "There is a group of British people trapped in the rear of the German army, I need to send someone to contact those British, and then bring them back - do you want to accept the British medal once, if you are lucky, maybe you can get a glamorous identity from the British royal family." ”

"No problem."

Zheng Yingqi unexpectedly simply made Heilig happy, he said: "I will take you to meet Colonel Dobby in England - he has always been reluctant to reveal where the British are hiding for the sake of secrecy, saying that he will only be willing to say it when he meets the mission performer." ”