Finally withdrawn.

The 506th Regiment was once again withdrawn, and it was extremely rare to continue to stay in the rear dozens of kilometers from the front line as a reserve - this was really rare in the history of E Company's war.

This time, the place where they were stationed was very close to a logistics warehouse, and Company E also figured out one thing, why they were short of many, many munitions when they were on the front line.

When they were on the front line, they only had the worst two brands of cigarettes, and occasionally there would be beer, but it was usually 2 or 10 days a week to get 2 bottles, and chewing gum was also occasionally available, but definitely not every supply had chewing gum. In short, with the exception of damned, thunder-struck K-class dry food and ammunition, a lot of things are only occasionally supplied, and they won't be as good as they were promised when they were drafted.

And this time, they stayed near the munitions warehouse, and they finally understood why they lacked anything other than K-class dry food and ammunition in their eyes!

They were all plagued by the nearby garrison!

"After the goods are brought from the American cargo ship, the troops unloading the goods at the port will take some of them," Bowers is doing for Zheng Yingqi's terrible "attrition" link: "In addition to their own use, they also comfort the lonely girl through this harvest!" ”

Bowers gritted his teeth with hatred, and said with sour water: "No wonder those troops have a high incidence of X disease!" ”

He continued: "After these munitions are loaded onto the train, in the process of railway transportation, those covering troops will peel off another layer of skin, and then, when they are transported by land, the escort troops will peel off another layer of skin, sir, do you think this is the end? No, it's not over yet! After the things enter the munitions warehouse, the surrounding troops will routinely take some of them! And these things, all of which are classified as 'broken' in the records, are part of the loss. ”

"Do you think that's the end of it? No! After the things arrive at the division level, the quartermaster and quartermaster staff will give priority to the officers in the division, then the officers in the regiment and battalion, and the rest will be distributed to the front line in a terrible number - God, Oh, tell me how many things will be in our hands? God willing! ”

Zheng Yingqi tilted his head to look at Bowers who was dancing while talking, and after he finished speaking, Zheng Yingqi reached out and lifted the raincoat at Bowles's feet, revealing a large basin full of various military supplies, and said with a joke: "So, you stole the military warehouse?" ”

Bowers laughed: "How can the things in our army be called stealing? It's taking, yes, it's taking, and I took some from it. ”

Zheng Yingqi glanced at this goods in surprise, but he didn't expect this goods to know the crooked reasoning that readers don't call stealing, looking at this goods and continuing to laugh, Zheng Yingqi simply squatted down and picked and picked in the basin, turned out some things that he could use, and said, "These things will be delivered to my office later, no problem, right?" ”

"No problem, of course!" Bowers was overjoyed.

"Also, don't make a fuss about it."

"Okay, sir, don't worry." Bowers agreed.

Zheng Yingqi turned around and left, and when he passed by Powers, he muttered in a low voice: "There are three days left before I go back to Momiang to garrison, and I can finally leave this damn place." ”

Powers' eyes lit up and he smiled lewdly......

Three days later, the 2nd Battalion took the lead in bidding farewell to the reserve and withdrew to France by train, and shortly after they left, the quartermaster of the quartermaster depot began to hunt for thieves all over the world, in a fit of rage.

"Forget about the little fight! This time you actually emptied half of the warehouse? Which troop is so bold! I'm going to find you! I'm going to take you to court-martial! Naturally, the quartermaster's roar could not reach E Company, and the entire E Company entered the carnival on the train, living the days when Zheng Yingqi fooled them on the front line.

When he was at the forefront of Bastogne, there was a period of scarcity of materials in E Company, when Zheng Yingqi said to the people in the platoon: "Bear with me, after we have survived the hardships of these few days, we will drink one bottle when we drink beer, lose one bottle when we smoke a cigarette, and lose one bottle when we drink beer......"

And E Company, which moved a quarter of a certain warehouse, is now doing just that, the train is rushing all the way to Momion, E Company has lost garbage all the way, and there are even many French people on both sides of the train chasing all the way to pick it up.

"Ah, this is the youth I longed for!"

A group of relieved paratroopers shouted unashamedly, like a group of young people.

……

After returning to Momion again, it took half a month for E Company to adapt to the peaceful life they longed for, but after half a month, they still had difficulty adapting - sometimes at the slightest disturbance, a company of men would hula out of the barracks, looking for cover with weapons without bullets, until they realized their situation, and then went back to sleep with a curse.

Of course, there were other things that happened during the process, such as the precious place to go home.

According to the regulations, one person from each company can go home and rest for 30 days, and the selection of personnel is decided by the company.

Spears set the standard for this: he had to have fought in Normandy, Holland and Bastogne, and had no bad service record (Wiseman directly excluded...... ), no X disease, no false travel records, etc.

In the entire E Company, only 19 people met this requirement.

Although Spears preferred to give this place to Zheng Yingqi, Zheng Yingqi, who became the acting platoon commander of the 2nd platoon, could be classified as an officer and could only be disqualified, and in the end, only 18 people participated in the lottery, and the paper ball with the name written was thrown into the helmet, and Zheng Yingqi was responsible for the lottery - Hubler shouted that Zheng Yingqi must draw himself, but he didn't want to be drawn by Zheng Yingqi was a guy named Gusi.

The point is that this guy is still in the third row......

"Although I don't want to lose you as a good soldier for a while, I still wish you good luck! I'll wait for you to come back in a month. Spears said politely, God knows if he only learned today that there is a soldier named Guth who does not have a strong sense of existence.

In Momian, Company E was stationed for a total of 36 days, and during this rare 36-day recuperation time, the entire 506th Regiment and the smallest Company E Company underwent great changes in personnel.

For example, E Company, not only ushered in a lot of newcomers, but some veterans also returned from injury, such as Hale, the only one in the whole army who did not need to wear a tie, such as a platoon leader Welsh, Welsh's return was a good thing for a platoon, but for Webster, it was not so good.

Just when Webster asked Spears to let Willsh take charge of the first platoon again, he didn't expect that Welsh was directly assigned to the 2nd platoon as the platoon commander, and Zheng Yingqi became a sergeant major in the 2nd platoon - Zheng platoon commander, who had not been dealing cards online for a long time, resigned again.

Compared with the personnel changes of E Company, the personnel changes of the 506th Regiment are very interesting:

Captain Nixon, who had previously been promoted from the 2nd Battalion Intelligence Staff Officer to the regimental Intelligence Staff Officer, but during this time, he was pushed down again and became the training staff officer of the 2nd Battalion, because this guy had to drink every night, and when he drank, he would get drunk, and Colonel Zink couldn't bear it anymore and kicked the 2nd Battalion again.

And the most interesting thing is Major Sobel - a few days ago, he was still the rank of captain of the quartermaster's unit, and when Winters met him, he specially warned Sobel, who pretended not to see him: "Captain Sobel, salute according to the rank, not the person." In the blink of an eye, Sobel and Winters were on par.

I just looked at the paratroopers who didn't expect to capsize the boat after eating a big melon, and I almost laughed crazy, many veterans thought that this pair of happy enemies was too interesting, but the sad thing is that Sobel not only became a major, but also the head of the training unit, so the 506th regiment entered the training nightmare dominated by Sobel......

The veterans, let alone the recruits, were crying bitterly......

Of course, during these 36 days, not only training, but also many things worth mentioning, such as a military parade held in front of senior generals, Hale without a tie pit a certain attendant of Eisenhower, for example, Spears married a British woman, for example, some big-name actors came to the heroic unit to give a condolence performance, and for example, because of military discipline, the army had to use fines to empty the soldiers' wallets.

Yes, after the confinement was ineffective against the paratroopers who had turned into old birds, the Army resorted to fines to clean up the paratroopers.

The paratroopers have a basic salary of $50 per month, as well as a dangerous mission allowance of $50 and a war zone bonus of $10, and the paratroopers have a lot of money in their pockets - for this reason, Taylor, who has become a general, has set up a summary court in Momion, set up a variety of fine schemes, and has taken money out of the pockets of the paratroopers.

Sure enough, this method is much more useful than confinement, at least during this period of hard strike, the military discipline of the US military has never been better.

As the training progressed to an advanced stage, the paratroopers were preparing for a new airborne operation, which was named Operation Main Force, and the paratroopers were told to parachute into Berlin and the surrounding area to deliver the final blow to the Germans.

This was the long-awaited operation of the paratroopers, the battle on the other side of the Rhine that they had been looking forward to since they were in the Netherlands.

However, after they were ready, the 101st Airborne Division and the 82nd Airborne Division were excluded from the airborne sequence, and the 17th Airborne Division and the 1st and 6th Airborne Divisions of the British Army participated......

This was the first time that the paratroopers of E Company watched others get on the plane and go to the airborne, and they thought that this kind of taste should be very refreshing, but when they really watched the plane flying towards Germany, the paratroopers of E Company were all lost.

They were originally the protagonists of previous airborne landings, but this time they changed from actors to audiences, and watching others get on the plane and enter the stage, this kind of feeling......

It's so uncomfortable!

"Guys, don't worry, I think the day when we jump off the plane, it's not far off - that's going to be the last battle for our damned Germans! We will press the Germans to the ground and rub, rub, rub and rub again, so that they will never have the courage and confidence to start a war in the future! Velsh cheered up his lost men.

The reality was just as Welsh had predicted, and at the end of March, Eisenhower's order came down.

He needed paratroopers from the 82nd and 101st Divisions to go to the Ruhr to reinforce the encirclement there - in the Ruhr, the industrial center of Germany, the American army surrounded the German troops protecting there, he needed more troops to strengthen the encirclement, and then swallow all the German troops there in one gulp, and occupy the Ruhr, cutting off the last breath of Hitler's Reich.

So, as if they were going to Bastogne, the paratroopers got into trucks and began to march towards their destination, the Ruhr.

……

It's finally time to set foot on German soil.

After crossing the Lüdendorf Bridge into German territory, the mood of the soldiers, including the veterans, became strange.

When they entered the barracks as civilians to say goodbye, they knew that sooner or later they would meet each other on the battlefield with spaghetti or Japanese dwarfs or Germans, and they all believed that they would be the final victors, but when they did set foot on German soil, they developed a very strange feeling.

What should we do with the Germans? 】

This is the question that all paratroopers are thinking about - they came from the United States to England, landed in France, fought in the Netherlands, fought in Belgium, but everywhere they were, they were liberators, they were welcomed by the local people, they were all heroes in the eyes of the people who were oppressed by the Germans.

Now, however, they have set foot in Germany.

Here they are no longer liberators, but occupiers!

Webster said a long time ago: we want to let the Germans know what war is! All the suffering that the Germans inflicted on the peoples was played out in Germany!

But now he is also thinking about how to treat the Germans?

While in Alsace, they met Germans, and some even lived in German homes, but they were not considered German themselves.

And now, they are setting foot on the land of the Germanic peoples - the Germans they can see as far as the eye can see, maybe their sons, fathers, brothers, and younger brothers are German soldiers in military uniforms, they are the opponents who fight them to the death on the battlefield, they are the perpetrators of countless German atrocities, so how to deal with them?

Welsh also had this doubt, and he asked Zheng Yingqi: "Do you believe the atrocities in the German concentration camps as advertised in the newspapers?" ”

For the past few years, the newspapers that soldiers could see had gone to great lengths to publicize the atrocities of the Germans, the horrific atrocities committed in the concentration camps—something that Welsh had believed before, but now, like Webster, was full of skepticism.

Webster was the officer of E Company who was most disgusted with the Germans, and he always insisted on his point of view that the Germans could not be beaten up, but he had also admitted before that many of the reports of atrocities committed by the Germans in the newspapers should be false, untrue, and lies fabricated for the sake of vilification.

"We don't have a feud with the Germans, so the authorities need to use other means to stir up our hatred of the Germans – isn't it?" Velsh continued to ask about his doubts.

Zheng Yingqi looked at Velsh with some surprise, he didn't expect that the facts he thought everyone recognized and understood, Welsh thought it was false!

The atrocities of the Germans are nothing more than a number in the annals of history without emotion or even to be brought in.

But when a small piece of atrocities is compiled into films such as "Schindler's List" and "The Pianist" and put on the screen, it is only after the bloody cruelty of that set of simple numbers can be seen.

The truth is more brutal than what is captured and brought to the screen!

"Those things don't match the truth." Zheng Yingqi said after a long time that Welsh showed such a look, but Zheng Yingqi immediately said: "Because the truth is more cruel, bloody, and even ...... than the things that our newspaper promotes." More challenging people's cognition. ”

"No...... "We have fought many battles with the Germans, and we have lost many siblings and many brothers to be crippled for life, but as an adversary, objectively speaking, I have not seen in those Germans the tragic and inhumane things." ”

"What you will see......" Zheng Yingqi remembered the pictures on the screen in his memory, remembered the pictures of those people who were deceived and stripped of their dignity and finally even their lives dissipated like child's play, he said softly: "You will understand when the time comes, what kind of cruelty is hidden under this war started by the Germans." ”

Welsh still doesn't believe it, just as many people don't believe in the brutal massacres that have taken place and been documented.

"People's bottom line will be broken again and again, again and again, until there is no bottom line...... We will soon witness how those Germans have become bottomless in the end. ”

Zheng Yingqi looked indifferently at the seemingly peaceful German land, weak countries have no diplomacy, and they can't strike iron if they are not hard - those countries trembling under the iron hooves of the German army cannot set foot on German soil like a victor, otherwise, they will definitely not imagine the Germans as well as the occupier American army.

He thought again: In that suffering country, countless people dream of setting foot in that island country as an avenger after going through the arduous and outstanding war of resistance, but ......

What can I do until the country is weak!

[After the end of the war against Germany, no matter what, I must think of a way to step on the land of that island country as a soldier when the war is not over! 】