Everyone has their own bottom line - at the beginning of the war, there will always be many people who stick to their bottom line and retain their own truth, goodness and beauty, but ......

[I hope that until the end of the war, you will still be able to retain your kindness and principles.] 】

Zheng Yingqi looked at Ryan's back and whispered in his heart.

Ryan's angry scolding and questioning behavior just now did not make Zheng Yingqi angry, but Zheng Yingqi especially hoped that this talkative, idealistic and vengeful young man could be so kind after the war.

But......

This is almost impossible, the more people are killed, the more comrades are killed, the more people who experience death, the hearts and persistence of people will always change......

After hastily burying the corpses, the team with zero battle damage continued to set off, continuing to advance in the direction of Rumler.

Because of the delay at the radar station for nearly an hour, in order to ensure that the team could arrive before dark, under Welsh's orders, the group hastened their advance—during which Jon approached Zheng Yingqi and whispered:

"Jacob, don't bother with Ryan, he just hasn't put his mind into the war yet."

It may have been because of the same illness that prompted Jon to say this - he now thinks of the events of D-Day, and if it weren't for Jacob in front of him, those people in C Company would probably uphold the idea of reducing trouble and solve their own instability!

"Do you think I'm a better accountant?"

Jon smiled brightly, yes, Jacob definitely didn't care, how could he do it?

At this time, Ryan just turned around, and when Jon saw it, he smiled at him, and Ryan squeezed out a smile, but did not say anything more.

The team approached Rumler in a slow and dreary atmosphere, by this time the team had already formed a battle formation, ready for a battle that could occur at any time, the feared attack did not happen, and the team approached the outskirts of the town unharmed, and everyone watched through the river.

"There shouldn't be anyone, this is not a strategic location for the time being, and in the eyes of the Germans, our forward is still at least sixty kilometers away from here......" Jon muttered quietly from the side, but as soon as he finished speaking, his mouth closed - because in his field of vision, several Germans appeared.

Zheng Yingqi's brows furrowed, could it be that the German army had already arranged a guard force here?

Welsh didn't dare to be careless, and whispered to Zheng Yingqi: "Look at the enemy's situation, it doesn't look like he just arrived, there are only a few things that can be seen here, Jacob, let's go and take a look at other places along the river." ”

Zheng Yingqi nodded, and after leaving the others behind, the two cautiously sneaked into a small high ground near the bridge, and began to reconnoiter the situation in the town.

The town of Rumler was on the west side of the bridge, but the Germans had already laid out improvised fortifications east of the bridge - from this arrangement, the Germans were aware of the importance of Rumler, but did not pay much attention to it.

The Allies valued Ramler because of Cherbourg.

The port of Cherbourg is of great significance to the Allied forces, and personnel can use landing ships to land everywhere, but a large amount of equipment, including trucks, tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, etc., needs to be loaded and unloaded in ports, and even a large amount of ammunition supplies also need to be unloaded through the port.

Therefore, in the plan of the Allies, Cherbourg must be captured as soon as possible and as completely as possible.

And once the German army reacts, it will inevitably cooperate with the defenders of Cherbourg to flank the attacking Allied forces, and if they want to flank the Allied forces, the Medellett River will lie in front of the German army, and a few bridges over this river will naturally become the key - but now the German army does not realize the importance of Cherbourg to the Allied forces, or the German army is still full of confidence in its own strength, believing that they can drive the Allied forces off the sea, so there is no such foresight as the Allies.

Because of this, the German garrison at Rumler was not strong, Zheng Yingqi and Welsh reconnoitred for a long time, and determined that the German troops here were about a company or so, and the other side did not pay much attention to the bridge, but arranged an improvised position on the east side of the bridge, which was guarded by two machine guns and a squad of infantry, while the rest of the German army was in the town - but once the battle started, the Germans could support it in just a few minutes.

"Therefore, if we want to take this bridge, we need to use the fastest speed, and before the Germans can react, we must occupy the east side of the bridge, otherwise we will be in trouble." Welsh judged.

"Let the people above decide," Zheng Yingqi whispered, "We just need to report what we have detected." ”

"Well, let's withdraw first, go back and contact the colonel, and tell him the information."

……

The colonel came quickly, and when the follow-up troops were still half an hour away from this side, the colonel had already rushed to the place where Zheng Yingqi and them were hiding with a squad of paratroopers.

"Boys, you have done a good job, but unfortunately the war situation is urgent, and I can't give you a good vacation, otherwise, I should really arrange a five-day long vacation for each of you." The colonel praised it humorously, and then asked Welsh to take him to investigate the situation in the town, Welsh was not at ease, and pulled Zheng Yingqi up, and the three of them returned to the hill where they had previously investigated.

Like Zheng Yingqi's judgment, the colonel noticed that the Germans did not pay attention to the bridge, and while breathing a sigh of relief, he whispered in a mocking tone: "God bless America!" The Germans haven't paid attention to this place yet, and we don't need to find a way to blow up the bridge just now - we just need to kill the defenders here. ”

"Thank God." Velsh said with a smile.

The colonel thought about the layout of the German army, and thought about the way to attack, and finally he decided to attack at night - taking advantage of the fact that the Germans were not interested in the east side of the bridge, he used the cover of night to occupy the east side of the bridge, and then fought along the bridge to liberate the whole town.

But a frontal attack was obviously not the best way, and the colonel whispered: "Welsh, Jacob, give you a task, how about you cross the river from the lower reaches at night and cooperate with our attack on the defenders of the town?" ”

"No problem, sir."

Zheng Yingqi was in a daze - what's the matter, why has all his battles been attacking from behind since he was airborne on D-Day to now? Even to solve the defenders of the radar station, in this way.

It seems that he has become a person who specializes in stabbing the German army in the back.

It's a bit obscene!

Though...... I like it very much.

The tactics of attacking Rumler Colonel have been formulated, that is, to raid the east of the bridge at night, and after occupying the east of the bridge, attack the town by crossing the bridge and swimming crossing, and at the same time send two squads to swim across the river in advance, lurking on the west and north sides of the town, after the battle broke out, the two swimming and lurking squads attacked the German army at the same time, creating a false impression that the German army was surrounded on three sides, forcing the German army to abandon this town that did not have much "meaning".

And Welsh's temporary miscellaneous squad, which was responsible for attacking the Germans from the west after swimming across - Lieutenant Azov added four more men to Welsh this time, so that Welsh's squad reached the formation of a squad.

But the composition is complicated: there are 3 people from two regiments of the 82nd Division, three people from Company E of the 506th Regiment, 2 companies from Company C, and five people from the 502nd Regiment, which is a hodgepodge.

To use Jon's self-deprecating tone: We are the most motley squad on the entire battlefield.

But miraculously, under the leadership of Welsh, this complex squad became the most elite squad in the eyes of Azov and the colonel - but only the people in this squad knew that their ability to gradually twist into a rope was because there was a sergeant named Jacob in the team, and it was this brave, combative, and resolute sergeant that made the team with discordant combat effectiveness.

And now, they will follow this sergeant and create another glory.

At nine o'clock in the evening, three kilometers from Rumler, two squads had completed their preparations for crossing the river and were preparing to cross it.

Jon whispered at this time, "Guys, after we take Rumler, we may have to wait for days to wait for reinforcements to advance in from behind, so...... We don't need captives, do we? ”

No one was talking, but everyone was nodding.

After a while, Ryan cursed quietly, "Damn war." ”

yes, this damn war!

In just three days, many people's expectations of the war turned into hatred, but they understood that they still had a long, long way to go before the war ended.

The river surface of this swimming crossing point is only less than ten meters wide, which is not an insurmountable problem for this group of paratroopers who have been specially trained to swim crossing, and with the assistance of Zheng Yingqi, they completed the swimming crossing in a blink of an eye, appeared wet on the other side of the river, and then collectively entered a state of silence, quietly touching the west side of the town, that is, the position opposite the bridge.

And by this time, the colonel had already lurked with his men less than a mile from the bridge.

"Azov, take your platoon to occupy the east side of the bridge, and then cross the bridge to establish a firing fulcrum, and we will come over later, understand? Be sure to be fast! Do you want to understand quickly to move on another bridge and then cross the bridge? The colonel called Azov over and repeated the previous order for Azov.

This is the colonel's unit convened in half a day, and such a unit was summoned at multiple parachute assembly points, a "battalion" with the same complex composition as the squad led by Welsh, among the more than 300 people, more than 100 people are from the 82nd Division, and the rest are from the 502nd parachute regiment and the 506th parachute regiment, except for the C company of the 506th regiment, all of them do not have a complete squad structure, they are all temporary combat units organized by officers on the battlefield, so the colonel is most interested in C Company, which has a certain establishment, In addition, the 506th Regiment itself was extremely famous in the division, so the colonel gave the most critical task to Azov of Company C.

"Understood, sir! Fast! At the fastest speed! Azov repeated.

"Go on, boy, I know your 506th regiment is the best!" The colonel patted Azov on the shoulder and watched as Azov left with the fourteen men of his platoon.

Like most of the junior officers of the 506th Regiment and even the 101st Division, Azov graduated from the Reserve Officer School, completed the promotion from second lieutenant to lieutenant in the training camp, and learned to fight in the training and exercises of the training camp - but the real ability to fight, after all, is learned on the battlefield, compared with other officers, Azov has experienced three difficult battles from the airborne to the present, especially in the third war, Azov once thought that he was going to be finished, and even made the final preparations.

In this way, he was tempered into a qualified officer who could fight in a simple and rough battle, and he was even more trusted by the soldiers in his platoon.

"Later, I'll take a group and just pounce over, you will divide into two groups and prepare for cover, Potter, Evan, Tabor, you three come with me, get ready, when I say throw, throw them all to the German positions east of the bridge, and then rush forward, break through the German positions, rush to the other side of the bridge to establish a defensive line, understand? We need to withstand three to five minutes, and then the colonel will take people and flatten the Germans inside! Do you understand? ”

"Understood."

"Okay, let's approach the German positions on our stomachs, remember, the process of infiltrating is better to be slower than in a hurry, but the battle has begun, and there is only one word: fast! Faster! ”

After arranging everything, Azov led three soldiers to the proposed position of the German army, which was three circular positions made of sandbags, obviously, the bridge was only a checkpoint in the eyes of the German army at this time, and it did not rise to a critical point related to the success or failure of the battle.

The boring night made several German troops in the east of the bridge involuntarily enter a fugue state, and did not notice the figure sneaking in in the dark, Azov suppressed his ecstasy, and lurked with three soldiers less than thirty meters away from the position on the east of the bridge.

"Thank you Hitler for not letting you build a position on the small high ground." Azov thanked himself, and then motioned to three of his subordinates to pull out their grenades, fire them together, and throw them at the German improvised positions.

Boom

The explosion sounded, at the moment of the explosion, Azov jumped up, desperately began to sprint, three subordinates behind him followed closely and rushed, the enemy troops in the position east of the bridge did not die in the explosion, after reacting from the stupor of the sudden explosion, the two Germans opened fire, but the gunfire exposed their position, and then the bullets poured down like a torrential rain, and the two Germans could not raise their heads.

Azov rushed closer, and the submachine gun swept at the recalcitrant Germans, and the remaining two Germans were also knocked down by Aven with submachine guns, and then the four rushed across the bridge like a whirlwind, and established a defensive line on the other side of the bridge.

"Follow up!"

The remaining two groups immediately crossed over from the place where the fire was fired, and the colonel, who had been waiting patiently, saw this scene again and immediately ordered: "Rush!" ”

More than 100 paratroopers began to swim across in arms, and the rest followed the colonel and rushed to the bridge in the distance.

The sound of explosions and gunfire alarmed the German troops in the town, and countless German troops quickly came out of the houses, gathered, and attacked in the direction of the bridge. And on the west side of the town, Willsh, who had finally waited for the gunshots, was about to give the order to attack, but was stopped by Zheng Yingqi reaching out.

Facing Welsh's puzzled gaze, Zheng Yingqi shook his head and said, "Wait, give the Germans time to assemble." ”

"What?"

"Let the Germans assemble and fight with the colonel on the west bank of the bridge, and then we will do it."

Welsh nodded, thinking: yes, only then can our surprise attack be more rewarding.

At this time, another infiltrating team began to attack the north side of the town, but at this time, the German army was assembling and divided a team of people to easily block the attacking team.

Zheng Yingqi had been pressed for nearly a quarter of an hour, when both the east and north sides of the town by the river were fighting extremely fiercely, and the paratroopers were also unable to move forward because of the fierce resistance of the German army, Zheng Yingqi said to Welsh: "It's almost! ”

"Let's go and clean up the ass of the Germans!" Velsh laughed and ordered.