[I'm a platoon leader again? 】

Listening to's resignation, Zheng Yingqi smiled bitterly, from the beginning of the plot of entering the Band of Brothers, he avoided becoming an officer - of course the officer is good, much safer than the soldier, but to become an officer, if you want to get a high score in the final system evaluation, you have to fight with the lives of your subordinates and challenge impossible tasks again and again, so what is the result?

Moreover, to become an officer, you have to be responsible for the people under him, Zheng Yingqi must pass on a lot of knowledge in his head, and strengthen the people under him, but what qualifications does he have to pass on to others all the things that countless predecessors of the Iron Army, the Seventh Company of Steel and Lao A, have obtained with their blood and lives?

So Zheng Yingqi has never wanted to be an officer, but sometimes, excellent people, the light can't be hidden, no, people are squatting in foxholes, and officers come from the sky - he became the acting platoon commander of the 1st platoon.

Lead a platoon with the rank of sergeant.

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Jacob took over the first platoon and became the acting platoon commander, and did not stir up a little wave in the whole company, if he had to say that there was, he could only say that some of the guys in the second and third platoons were a little red-eyed, and complained about why he was not in the first platoon......

If this is in a platoon, how nice it would be, with Jacob's guy as the platoon leader, the chances of survival will be doubled, how good!

……

"In China, they have a festival, which is roughly equivalent to our Christmas and New Year's Day — it's a festival called the New Year," Zheng Yingqi was on the battlefield, surrounded by a platoon of 23 people, and the soldiers stayed in the trenches and foxholes, listening to the first general after their new platoon commander took office, but he did not expect Zheng Yingqi to speak directly to distant China.

"The Chinese New Year is the biggest day of the year for Chinese, and from Chinese New Year's Eve, they will not constantly set off firecrackers and fireworks, and they can always be put on the fifteenth day of the first month, which is really a wonderful day." When Zheng Yingqi said this, he couldn't help but bring a nostalgic tone, he remembered that when he was a child, the sky during the Chinese New Year was so gorgeous.

"Today is also the Christmas we are looking forward to - although we did not fulfill our wish to spend Christmas in Berlin, but just now, we also experienced the atmosphere of the New Year only Chinese, the sound of guns and cannons, like the Chinese New Year's firecrackers and fireworks. And we are much luckier than the Chinese, because no matter how valuable their firecrackers and fireworks are, they are not as good as the 'fireworks' and 'firecrackers' we experienced just now, right? ”

The soldiers burst into laughter, and some of them burst into tears with laughter and laughter.

Zheng Yingqi looked around at everyone and continued: "Wersh told Gordon that this Christmas must be a very meaningful time in our experience - although these two unlucky people can only go to the hospital for their Christmas, but I think this is just as valid for us, and many years later, after you have so many little ones around your knees, you can say this to them:

Your grandfather and I, I have spent many, many Christmases, but if you want to say that the most memorable one, it must be Christmas 1944, that Christmas, we spent one of the most interesting Christmases in our lives in the land of Bastogne, God gave us a period of snow, the mustache sent us a New Year's party, and also put off many, many fireworks and firecrackers, and we also spent this holiday with many, many brave and brave people, and most importantly, Afraid that we would be lonely, the mustache specially left nine divisions of troops around us to accompany us through Christmas 1944! ”

"I bet no one will ever have as many German troops as we do for Christmas!" Zheng Yingqi asked everyone with a smile: "Do you know the reason?" ”

"Because Germany will lose?" Eric couldn't help but say.

"Yes, this is the last Christmas that the Third Reich can spend, and before the next Christmas comes, we will definitely send the culprits who started this war to where they should go - the pain and suffering inflicted by the Germans on the people of the world, we will double down on them to make them feel that as Webster said, we will make generations of Germans dare not have the idea of starting a war!"

Zheng Yingqi's ability to draw flatbread is unusually prominent, or his words have reached all the hearts of the 1st platoon, in Bastogne, which is surrounded by nine divisions, in this environment where it is difficult for ordinary soldiers to see hope, his words, his description of the future, make the soldiers boil.

They can win, and they can tell their story to the cuties around them years later!

Hope is the most tempting.

……

Dick exhaled a long breath, he was still a little worried, afraid that Jacob would not be able to control the field, but he didn't expect Jacob to be so powerful, just a few words made everyone in the 1st row feel like chicken blood.

"You should be able to have a good Christmas...... thought, but he didn't expect the good news to come one after another - Patton's Third Army broke through the German defenses, and the 37th Tank Battalion was the first to arrive in Bastogne, which means that a huge amount of military supplies will pour into this small city like a tide, making this Christmas even more glorious.

Of course, the good news is not only that the encirclement was broken, but General Taylor, who broke into a great reputation with the 101st Airborne Division, also appeared in Bastogne with the troops who broke the siege, and before nightfall, Taylor even inspected the 506th Regiment that was fighting at the forefront of the struggle, and stayed in the 2nd Battalion E Company for a short time, and highly praised the entire E Company for its efforts during this time.

"You are the heroes of Bastogne! In one of the worst routs of the American army, you were retrogrades, and withstood the attack of the Germans like a tidal wave - in the extremely bad weather, you lacked ammunition and supplies, but you were indifferent in the face of the German army's letters of surrender, and the Germans did not defeat you! And you, with your tenacious spirit, are destined to be an army that cannot be defeated! ”

Taylor gave an impromptu speech at E Company, injecting another wave of chicken blood into E Company, which was already fighting chicken blood.

Zheng Yingqi echoed in the crowd, but he chuckled in his heart, if this is what you think is a lack of supplies, it can only mean that you have no knowledge—a few years later, an army that is in tatters in your eyes, in a state of scarcity of supplies, will let you know...... What does it mean to be tenacious!

Okay, Zheng Yingqi is on the scene - but as a soldier of the republic, the miracles created by his ancestors in extreme circumstances are the pride that cannot be erased and suppressed in his bones, and it is also an immortal spirit that has been passed down and will never be erased.

……

Christmas was gone in a flash.

"Isn't it time for us to go back to Momion? Where to go and enjoy the hero's treatment and have an unforgettable New Year's Day? ”

This is what everyone in E Company thinks, but the facts make them suffocated, not only can they not go back, they can't even withdraw to Bastogne, they must still be on the front line, although the conditions are much better than some time before.

[In terms of the will to fight in a difficult environment, no army can compare with our martyrs! 】

The longer she stays in the U.S. military, the more proud and proud Zheng Yingqi becomes, the country that has stood in the East for thousands of years, she has the most industrious and simple people in the world, and also has many, many don't ask for anything in return - from the Nanchang Uprising to the "founded" on Tiananmen Square in 1949, it is precisely because there are many, many martyrs who are more hard-working and willing to sacrifice than these U.S. soldiers, so that there is the responsible power that rose in the East in later generations!

Of course, Zheng Yingqi is proud on the one hand, and on the other hand, he has to take the trouble to appease the restless mood of his subordinates, in order to relieve the emotions of his subordinates, he has to take turns to go to the company headquarters, battalion headquarters or Bastogne faction, so that they can leave the battlefield for a short time and enjoy a short period of relief - after staying in the US army for so long, he understands the US army more and more, the US army is not like people imagine that they will not fight without the air force and navy, they can fight tough battles, but their staying power to resist pressure is really not good, forced Zheng Yingqi to use all means to alleviate the state of the troops.

So much so that the company headquarters and the battalion headquarters were confused, and they didn't know why the 1st platoon was so - they could only think that this was Jacob's discomfort when he first took charge of the 1st platoon.

It is too difficult to be a responsible officer, and Zheng Yingqi not only has to satisfy the thoughts of the whole platoon of soldiers to "let off steam", but also has to spend more attention on the battlefield.

Just like now, after watching the movement of the German army in the telescope, he asked Powers on duty strangely: "Have you noticed anything abnormal?" ”

"No, the Germans are normal." Bowers looked at Zheng Yingqi with a puzzled expression: "Is there something wrong?" ”

"No, I remember that in that direction, there wasn't that tree before." Zheng Yingqi handed the telescope to Powers and pointed out the area, Powers took the telescope and looked at it for a long time, and said, "Those trees over there, it's normal." ”

Bowers was still holding on to his opinion, he always believed that he had been a sentry here for the longest time, and that he could never go wrong with every tree in his observation range, and that his own commander must have been nervous and mistaken.

Zheng Yingqi glanced at Powers, took the telescope from his hand again, and looked at it slowly and carefully, so that he would not suspect that he had misremembered - this is one of the basic subjects of Lao A, can he be wrong?

"I saw some cannon barrels - that tree must have been disguised by German artillery, and the Germans must have placed artillery there, I'll take a look......," Zheng Yingqi estimated the size of the area and said, "I think it must be an artillery battery quietly arranged by the Germans." ”

Powers felt that Zheng Yingqi was talking nonsense, and just wanted to have a good debate with Zheng Yingqi, he saw Zheng Yingqi take out the platoon commander's style and said: "Powers, go find an artillery observer, this is a good opportunity to make the Germans suffer losses." ”

"I always felt like you were trying to waste the taxpayers' dollars." Powers muttered, and after being kicked by Zheng Yingqi, he rushed to find a cannon observer.

The artillery observer watched for a while, and then said uncertainly: "I'm not sure if it's a German artillery position, but we can try." After the artillery observers communicated with the 105 guns in the rear, the artillery fired the first cannon, but the landing point was 300 meters away from the target area.

After the correction, the second shell was directly aimed at the target, and although it did not knock down the tree that Zheng Yingqi was sure to be camouflaged by the barrel, it blew up the barrels and groups of enemies.

The artillery observers excitedly shouted more artillery fire.

Powers looked at Zheng Yingqi dumbfounded, and only after a while did he say, "You are really a monster." ”

Amid the explosion of many shells, Zheng Yingqi smiled and said, "Thank you for the compliment." ”

After about an hour, the artillery stopped firing, leaving only a ploughed piece of land, many parts, and a large number of dead and wounded.

The first platoon was again meritorious for this - only this was only an invisible one of the many meritorious deeds in the row, because on New Year's Day, the entire 2nd battalion had a new goal.

"Our mission is to attack Fova." Dyck announced the mission to the three platoon commanders, including Zheng Yingqi, - Fova was lost from the 1st Battalion, but it was not the pot of the 1st Battalion, after all, before losing Fova, they cooperated with friendly forces to withstand the attack of a German armored division, and finally had to give up because of heavy casualties.

"We have to let the guys in the first battalion know that we are our own people, and we have the obligation and ability to get back what they lost."

As long as the officers of the 2nd Battalion take up their new duties, they will learn to use the 1st Battalion as a target soon after entering the 2nd Battalion, and this passage of translates:

We want the first battalion to know that your uncle will always be your uncle.

Well, that's probably what it means, another interesting way to mobilize.

The officers attending the meeting laughed heartily, and a large part of the reason why all kinds of gossip (gossip) in the army seemed to have grown wings was that under the blockade of the war, there were too few things that everyone who knew each other could talk about, and as soon as there was news, it could spread quickly - the pride of the 1st battalion commander when he was at the division headquarters naturally spread because the soldiers liked gossip.

It was an unsuccessful rebellion against the stinky brother - and now, it's time to teach the stinky brother how to face the wind.

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Before the attack, the first battalion of recuperation came out of the city to change its guard, and the 2nd battalion of the 2nd battalion "cordially" and "enthusiastically" told the comrades of the first battalion the goal of the trip.

"Don't worry, we are a unit, the positions lost by your 1st Battalion, our 2nd Battalion is responsible for getting them back!"

"Don't thank us, we are comrades-in-arms after all, and we have the obligation and responsibility to get back what you lost!"

"You're welcome, don't send it, let's go get back the position you lost!"

"Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, don't care too much, look at how we fight, learn more, and you will be able to suffer less losses after learning."

The paratroopers of the 2nd Battalion kept saying "warm words" to the comrades of the 1st Battalion who were "sending off", and repeatedly asked them to go back, no need to send them, just wait for their good news, but the paratroopers of the 1st Battalion insisted on sending each other off, and reluctantly said goodbye to a long distance - some of the guys were still holding sticks and other things to say goodbye, and they didn't know where the custom was.

"They were so enthusiastic, they almost stripped me of my clothes, and if I hadn't been fast, they would have left me to fight in my place," Christensen said. ”

"Okay, just shut up, you're the only non-commissioned officer who said cool things to the commander of the first battalion, and you're lucky that they didn't kill you!" Zheng Yingqi despised this kid and kicked him by the way-eh, whether this was learned from the reconnaissance company or the old A or the independent regiment, he forgot, but as soon as he became an official, such a reaction seemed to become a subconscious behavior.

Fortunately, the 1st row was used to Zheng Yingqi's kicking, just like Christensen, who ran away with a smile after eating a kick, and didn't care at all.