The constant explosion of anti-aircraft shells in the sky and the occasional fireworks-like explosion of planes gave Zheng Yingqi the illusion that it was the New Year.

But this idea was quickly dispelled from his mind, and what he had to do now was to find a symbolic thing, judge his position, and then gather as many comrades as possible to attack the target - the task of E Company, or the task of the 506th Regiment, was to capture the No. 2 embankment passage, and E Company was responsible for capturing the village of Boubaiville, and the exit of the No. 2 embankment passage was just north of the village of Boubeville.

According to the predetermined airborne plan, the landing ground of E Company should be about 10 kilometers south of the Church of Our Lady of Mary, but Zheng Yingqi knew that his group would definitely not appear at the scheduled landing field - the most important thing he needed to know now was whether he had landed in a German position or a place surrounded by military camps.

Thinking of this, Zheng Yingqi couldn't help but think of the ostrich - the ostrich said that paratroopers are born to be surrounded, but he really hopes that he is not so "lucky", and the result of being surrounded now may not be very good.

After reorganizing his equipment, Zheng Yingqi discarded things such as umbrellas and even buried rations on the spot, leaving only one day's worth of food, and then began to march with about 30 kilograms of weight and an M1 rifle.

It was a bush, and there was a trail not far away, and even ruts could be seen, but Zheng Yingqi did not choose to walk from the road, but tried to slow down and walk through the bushes as much as possible, while listening to all directions, paying attention to the movements around him.

After groping his way forward for about ten minutes, Zheng Yingqi heard an unusual movement - it was the footsteps of someone walking through the bushes.

Two people, slowly searching for the formation......

The sound of paratrooper boots stomping on the ground - after judging this sound, Zheng Yingqi breathed a sigh of relief, it was his own person.

He took out the signalman and pressed it, the signaler made a very low sound, which was a signal for the contact between the paratroopers, but the other party did not answer, but made a vigilant action when he heard the sound, Zheng Yingqi was stunned for a moment, and then quietly left the position where the signal was sent just now, and quietly touched the other side.

Although the night was not bad at this time, the moon was hanging in the sky, and there was a little visibility, but from a distance of ten meters, Zheng Yingqi could still see the silhouettes of two humanoids, but the weapons held by the other party, he could vaguely identify the M1 carbine and Thomson submachine gun.

It should be his own people, but the other party did not respond to the signal, or even shouted the password, which made Zheng Yingqi a little confused - they were the first wave of paratroopers, even if the Germans captured the paratroopers alive, they might not change the weapons of the paratroopers, right?

Just in case, Zheng Yingqi quietly took down the field backpack, and then threw it to the other side more than ten meters away, making a great movement, and the two vigilant figures immediately stood guard towards the sound source position, while Zheng Yingqi pulled out the paratrooper knife, holding the knife in his left hand and the M1911 pistol in his right hand, and quietly touched it out like a raccoon.

Quietly touching the two of them, Zheng Yingqi shot like lightning, the pistol was aimed at one person's helmet, and the paratrooper knife was attached to the other person's neck, after controlling the other party, Zheng Yingqi shouted in a low voice:

"Lightning!"

Lightning is a password, and a reply is thunder - but the other party's answer almost made Zheng Yingqi laugh, and the other party actually replied:

"Lightning!"

Standard American English, coupled with the fact that Zheng Yingqi had seen what the two were wearing, did not cause a misunderstanding, and he whispered: "You should answer: Thunder." ”

After revealing his identity, Zheng Yingqi slowly moved the pistol and paratrooper knife away from the position where the two were killed, but he still prevented the two from making trouble, so he did not completely let down his guard.

The two who were captured by Zheng Yingqi were frightened - Zheng Yingqi's face suddenly appeared, it was like a demon from hell, and there was a paratrooper who raised his gun in fear, and was kicked to the ground by Zheng Yingqi as soon as he made a move.

"Grass! Own! ”

Zheng Yingqi let out a low roar, and after this sound, the two paratroopers finally became honest, looking at Zheng Yingqi with surprised and frightened eyes, and the one who was not kicked down asked, "Which company are you from?" ”

"Company E of the 506th Regiment, what about you?"

"506 regiment? Are you from the 101st Division? We are from the 82nd Division. ”

It's actually the 82nd Division?

Zheng Yingqi cried and laughed and withdrew his weapon, this is really funny, in the airborne area of the 101st Division, he met the people of the 82nd Division? Or was he thrown into the airborne area of the 82nd Division?

He asked the two of them where they were, and the two idiots looked confused.

Zheng Yingqi picked up the backpack that was thrown over to attract the two of them, and said while backing, "You two come with me, OK?" ”

These two people naturally have no opinion - Zheng Yingqi's behavior of touching them just now made these two people regard Zheng Yingqi as a god.

"Don't take the road, go into the bushes, pay attention to the movement around us, we need to figure out where we are."

Under the leadership of Zheng Yingqi, the two people followed him into the bushes and marched towards the north, at this time there were car lights shining from a distance, Zheng Yingqi immediately made a gesture, signaling the two people who followed him to hide, and after a while a car drove over at low speed, it seemed that it was the German reconnaissance or harvesting team, which was specially designed to deal with paratroopers.

Zheng Yingqi and the paratrooper with submachine guns changed weapons, signaled the two not to move, and then waited for the car not far away to pass by, just at the moment when the car passed, Zheng Yingqi suddenly jumped up and shot at the vehicle - the car was carrying four German soldiers, and before they could react, they were all killed by Zheng Yingqi in an instant, and the out-of-control car crashed into the tree and stopped, Zheng Yingqi whispered: "Be on guard for me!" ”

But the two paratroopers stupidly didn't move, and after Zheng Yingqi kicked it, the two of them came out in a panic and became vigilant - sure enough, not all companies are as elite as E Company!

After the two stupid soldiers guarded themselves, Zheng Yingqi carefully walked to the car that had stalled with a gun, and checked the fallen enemies one by one, two of them were still struggling, Zheng Yingqi unceremoniously replenished the gun, looked through their belongings, and found nothing useful, but found an M1 carbine and a Thomson submachine gun in this car, as well as two soldiers' identity tags.

It seems that this team has solved two unlucky paratroopers, with the help of the headlights, Zheng Yingqi looked at the subordinate unit on the identity card, but he scratched his head a little - one is a lieutenant of the 82nd Airborne Division, and the other is from the 101st Airborne Division of the 502nd Regiment.

[What the hell, I don't know how these pilots were airdropped and threw the people of the two divisions together. 】

Zheng Yingqi muttered in his heart, handed the identity card belonging to the 82nd Airborne Division to the two, and after seeing the identity card, the two looked sad:

"It's our company commander, Lieutenant Nixon."

Zheng Yingqi shook his head and said: "If you don't want others to look at your identity card to remember you, then it's best to leave here with me now - we need to determine our current position, gather more comrades-in-arms, and accept the dispatch of the officers by the way." ”

They took away the two of their own weapons on the car, and the German weapons were thrown away by Zheng Yingqi in the bushes, although there were not too many weapons at this time, but Zheng Yingqi did not want to use the equipment of the German army - in the chaotic battlefield of distinguishing the sound of gunfire and identifying friend and foe, holding the enemy's weapon was easy to be knocked down by his own people with a shot.

On the battlefield, although the number of dead who died at the muzzle of their own people's guns, although it was small, it was based on the huge number of deaths, and when it was listed, it was not a small number.

……

The three men continued to grope their way forward, and after more than twenty minutes, fierce gunfire was heard in the northwest direction—judging by the scale of the gunfire, at least 30 paratroopers were engaged with no less than 50 German troops.

Zheng Yingqi immediately said: "Our people! Come with me to support them! ”

The two paratroopers who had no opinion or had now become unassertive, naturally had no opinion, and followed Zheng Yingqi to rush in the direction where the gunfire came.

After groping for the battlefield, Zheng Yingqi showed joy, and the three of them actually appeared behind the German position, which was a surprise.

The most eye-catching thing on the German position was naturally the crossfire formed by the two machine guns, and the machine guns set up in the rear positions became the biggest murderers who hindered the attack of the paratroopers.

Seeing this scene, Zheng Yingqi immediately assigned tasks to the two followers: "You cover the two of us, remember, don't shoot in one place, keep moving, before we shoot, don't shoot first, after we exchange fire with the Germans, you cover again." Come with me, let's get rid of that machine gun!" ”

"The three of us?"

These two inferior soldiers of the 82nd Division couldn't help but swallow their saliva - they were rookies, and they felt that attacking so many enemies with the meager strength of three people was like a meat bun beating a dog.

Zheng Yingqi had to explain: "Our friendly forces are attacking in front, we only need to deal with two machine guns, and the friendly forces will easily break through these German blocking positions, understand?" ”

"Yes."

Immediately, the three of them unloaded all the loads on their bodies, one of them with a submachine gun was responsible for covering, and the other followed Zheng Yingqi, who was holding a submachine gun, and touched the German position.

The Germans who were fighting fiercely directly gave up the defense of the rear position - probably because the American paratroopers attacking in front of them put too much pressure on them, plus this was their home field, and they subconsciously felt safe behind the position, until Zheng Yingqi touched the machine gun team, the Germans still did not find that the enemy was coming.

The shooter and the deputy shooter were building a rain curtain composed of a rain of bullets, and at this moment the gunfire suddenly remembered from behind, and then their bodies leaned forward, and their strength was suddenly gone, and the deputy struggled to turn his head, but saw a "ghost" with a face full of oil paint, and then collapsed to the ground, silent, but his eyes couldn't close, and there was a kind of dead rush.

Zheng Yingqi has become accustomed to death, but his companion who had just shot and killed one person was in a state of excitement, and he was stupid as if he rushed out and stabbed other Germans fiercely, and just when he was about to rush out, Zheng Yingqi took it back - the bullet whizzed over his head, frightening the paratrooper named Jon.

"Try not to stand up straight."

Zheng Yingqi instructed, at this time they were on the position of the German army, standing up straight like a wooden target, it may not be the German army that will hit you, but it may be your own people!

The sound of chirping German sounded, as if asking what was going on here-Zheng Yingqi just wanted to use his not very proficient German to flicker, suddenly his scalp went numb, and he dragged Jon out of the machine gun position without thinking, and the moment he turned out, there was the sound of foreign objects falling.

Hand grenade!

These three words flashed in Zheng Yingqi's mind, and he dragged Jon forward for a few more meters before suddenly falling down, and the moment he lay down, an explosion sounded, and the shock wave swept over his body with dust, and more dust fell on the two of them like rain.

boom

Something fell and landed in front of Jon, who hurriedly wanted to run, but was pressed down by Zheng Yingqi. This time it was not a grenade that fell, but a shape-changed MG42 universal machine gun.

Only then did Jon see what had fallen, and was about to thank Zheng Yingqi when he heard Zheng Yingqi shouting: "Go and get rid of another machine gun!" ”

The two pounced on the position of another machine gun, and several German soldiers pounced at this time, apparently trying to solve Zheng Yingqi, who stabbed them, but as soon as they appeared, they were frightened back by a string of bullets - the paratroopers in charge of cover opened fire, and the submachine gun bullets poured down like rain, and one magazine was gone in the blink of an eye.

"Loser!"

Zheng Yingqi scolded in a low voice, these junior brothers who have just entered the battlefield, don't you know how to save some bullets? Are you eating poop while training?

The cover left behind was not popular, and Zheng Yingqi had no choice but to let Jon cover himself here, and he rushed to the machine gun position a hundred meters away, and he had to deal with the machine gun as soon as possible, and then attack the German position, and cooperate with the friendly forces attacking in front to flank the German army.

The battlefield is a place to play with life, and if you want the enemy's life to leave your own life, you have to devote yourself to the battle - but it is easy to fold yourself into the battle with all your heart, just like this supporting firepower point, they desperately shoot at the attacking paratroopers, and they don't notice what is happening in the position at all, until they are killed by Zheng Yingqi, they still think about hitting the Americans, fighting for Hitler, fighting for Germany.

Zheng Yingqi solved the two German soldiers very accurately, and even when these two people died, there was not much pain, the Germans wanted to regain control of the machine gun, but at this time the machine gun stopped suddenly, and the paratroopers began to attack fiercely, causing the German army to be unable to pull out people for a while, Zheng Yingqi rushed into the machine gun position, controlled the famous MG42 machine gun, and fired at the German position.

The paratroopers who were nervous by the "Hitler's chainsaw" subconsciously stopped the charge and hid on the spot, but soon they found that the tongue of fire sprayed by the machine gun was not aimed at them, but was unbelievably shooting at the German position, and a sergeant shouted directly:

"Rush! Our roundabout man controls the machine gun! ”

Circuitous?

Sorry, they didn't send a roundabout force at all, but that didn't stop the sergeant from fooling the others at a critical moment.

Fortunately, the attacking paratroopers were not lame, they successfully attacked the German position, and the remaining Germans saw that the general trend was gone, and they turned around and ran, but some of them crashed into Jon, this paratrooper who was left by Zheng Yingqi to cover, a paratrooper like a fart, and a paratrooper who couldn't even command and press the signal, actually jumped up and shouted out the most remembered German sentence:

"Don't move!"

Seven or eight defeated Germans were caught by the shit-lucky, Jon, and a dozen or so Germans ran away from the other side.

And Zheng Yingqi and the attacking paratroopers also cautiously converged with each other.

A lieutenant found Zheng Yingqi and reported to his home: "I am Azofu, the commander of the 2nd platoon of Company C of the 1st Battalion of the 506th Regiment, who are you?" ”

"Sergeant Jacob, Company E, 2nd Battalion, 506th Regiment, the two of them are from the 82nd Division, sir, where is this?" Zheng Yingqi asked after answering.

"We are about 5 kilometres south of the village of Gasekoni at the exit of Embankment No. 4."

Embankment No. 4 Passage?

Zheng Yingqi was sluggish, and according to the requirements, he would be landed near the No. 2 embankment passage, but ...... How did you come here? There is still a distance of more than 20 kilometers from the No. 2 embankment passage!

"Sergeant, you can't go to Company E. You're going to have to follow us. Azov said: "We have three of your E Company men in our ranks. ”

Three? Landing in this area, it is very likely that it is the person on the plane he is on, following the guidance of the people of C Company, Zheng Yingqi saw his comrades in E Company, the deputy platoon commander of a platoon, Second Lieutenant Welsh, and Private Ali, who was hanging on the hatch before parachuting, as for the other comrade-in-arms, at this time it has become an identity card in Welsh's hand.

In the battle just now, 14 paratroopers fell in the battle, and four people were seriously injured and were being desperately treated by the medical soldiers, in addition to the medical soldiers and the wounded soldiers, there were only 19 people in this converging paratroop team, which was still due to Zheng Yingqi and them.

"Listen, we have to attack the village of Gosekoni - the wounded must stay, and after taking Gosekoni we will come and meet you," Azov ordered, "Ben, can you take care of it?" ”

The medic named Ben nodded to indicate that there was no problem, and the wounded could be moved to a seemingly safe, hidden location, but the eight German soldiers captured by Jon became a problem - it was impossible to take the prisoners to the village of Gasekone, but on the wounded soldiers' side, there was only Ben as a medic and it would not be feasible to keep them!

"Sir, what are they going to do?"

A sergeant from Company C asked Azov for instructions.

Azov was embarrassed, but at this moment a sergeant shouted: "They are going to run!" ”

Then there was a crackling gunshot, and all eight captives fell in a pool of blood in a stupor, and Jon on the side just lit a cigarette, watching the captives who had just been close to himself turned into corpses, and the cigarette in his mouth fell to the ground involuntarily.

Zheng Yingqi indifferently glanced at the sergeants who were still emitting smoke from the muzzle of the gun, but he didn't say anything.

"I was thinking about what to do with them, but I didn't expect them to run, but it would be better to die." Azov muttered and gave a thumbs up to the sergeants who had just opened fire—they were doing a good job.

Jon was dumbfounded, "They...... They didn't run. ”

The gazes of the sergeants who had just fired at Jon became a little cold.

Zheng Yingqi stepped forward and kicked Jon to the ground, and said coldly: "If they hadn't shot, these captives would have taken your weapons by now!" You have to thank them! Go and thank them! ”

Jon was excited, understood what Zheng Yingqi meant, and hurriedly stepped forward to thank several sergeants, Zheng Yingqi patted a few people in the past, the meaning is self-evident, in the face of Zheng Yingqi's "friendliness", several sergeants accepted Jon's thanks.

"Private of the second class, don't treat your benefactor as an enemy in the future." Azov spoke meaningfully to Jon, then motioned for the men to carry the wounded away, put them down at a kilometer from the battlefield, and then headed for the village of Gosekony.

Jon walked in the middle of the group, facing the comfort of his comrades, he shook his head and did not speak—at this time, Jon understood what the sergeants emphasized during training:

It's war!

The dawn was far from coming, and the sky was still shrouded in darkness, and the flames were constantly blooming......

Like a demon's smile.

D-Day, that's D-Day. (D-Day, in military terms, refers to the day of action.) ）