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The farther you go to the north of the United States, the colder it gets.
At ten o'clock in the morning, Company E, Separate Company, and 116th Infantry Company set off on time, each of them about a mile apart.
Each soldier set off with all his suits and weapons on his back. There are no bullets.
Because when the Japanese army created a military miracle, they carried their own weapons and baggage along the way, so, for the sake of fairness, these three companies also brought all their own family assets with them.
The march of soldiers with rifles on their backs was acceptable, but the task of mortar squads and soldiers with machine guns was even more difficult.
So Yan Zhi ordered, mortars and machine guns, and the soldiers of the whole company took turns to carry the load.
This time, Colonel Sinck chose a route for the three companies with a total length of 118 miles, many of which were country dirt roads, and the march was difficult.
Considering that the team was too much to use, Lieutenant General Dilan Poehler only sent 116 Infantry Company, Independent Company, and E Company, which were the best in the McCall Military Training Base.
Soon after departure, a light snow fell in the sky, and half an hour later, the whole world in the eyes of the soldiers was covered in silver light, and the soldiers vomited hare, and no one spoke, trying to save their physical strength.
Fortunately, the supply strength of the United States is strong, and before departure, the quartermaster department has everything ready for the soldiers.
In the United States, marching with American troops, the feeling is mixed, everything is peaceful and peaceful, while the Independence Company's homeland is struggling to survive under the rumbling artillery fire, and the motherland has their relatives and friends, and it is not known whether everything is okay or not.
After another half an hour of walking, a light rain began to fall in the sky, and in a few moments, the white world became misty and rainy, and the roads became smooth and muddy, which caused great trouble for the soldiers on the march, and the soldiers constantly wrestled on the oily pavement.
I wonder if the Japanese did it in such a bad climate when they set such an excellent marching record.
There was a light sleet and snow in the sky, and the Independent Company could faintly see Company E marching to their left.
The 116th Infantry Company marched to the left of Company E, and they and the Chinese Independence Company could not see each other.
The soldiers walked on the clay roads, stumbling on the slippery pavement, their shoes, pants, and even their clothes were covered with mud, and everyone was cursing the damn weather in their mouths and the damn war in their hearts.
In this march, the first to lead in front is still Fang You, who will take turns with Ma Ben, Xu Zheyou, Wu Zhonghua, and Fan Xiaosi to rush forward.
Because Zhao Fugui, the leader of the first platoon, was injured, there was Fan Xiaosi in the first platoon for the time being.
Fan Xiaosi's ruthlessness is ranked first in the independent company, just like Yan Zhi often tells the soldiers, training, marching, and going to the battlefield to fight, it is not enough to be brave, not only do you have to be brave and have brains, but you also have to be durable!
Fan Xiaosi is the kind of soldier who is durable, with a temperament that does not admit defeat and cannot be killed.
There seems to be a latent tacit understanding between E Company and the Independent Company, that is, the Independent Company has always been a forward company, and E Company has been silently following to save physical strength.
Before leaving, Yan Zhi made a mobilization meeting for the whole company, if we can help E Company successfully break the march record set by the Japanese this time, then President Roosevelt will donate another 10 million US dollars of materials to our country to help us resist the war, which is undoubtedly a relief for our domestic compatriots who are in dire straits.
So this time, our independent company had to go all out to assist E Company and break the Japanese march record.
The soldiers walked for most of the day, although the wind and rain were blowing, but this hardship was nothing to them at all, compared to the soldiers who were now fighting bloodily under artillery fire in the country, they were as lucky as heaven at this time.
The difficulty of this kind of march is far worse than the long-distance rush to the Winged Valley.
When it was completely dark, the light rain and snow stopped, and the wind began to blow in the sky, and it was not long before the light rain and snow came again.
The bitter cold wind cut the soldiers' faces like knives, but fortunately they had warm military uniforms and trousers, and leather boots that did not enter the water.
By eleven o'clock in the middle of the night, the Independence Company had marched forty-five miles, leaving Company E two kilometers away.
Although the soldiers of E Company were outstanding, they rarely suffered in such weather, so they were left behind by the independent company, which regarded bad weather as a daily routine.
However, the momentum of the independent company still greatly stimulated the fighting spirit of all the people in the E company, and they clung to the independent company.
Winters knew that if it weren't for Independiente leading the way, Company E wouldn't have had the results it has at the moment, and on this view, Sobel and him were surprisingly in agreement.
Wu Zhonghua and Xu Zheyou chose the back of a hill as a campsite, and everyone was going to spend the night here tonight to recover their strength.
There are no trees, there is no shelter from the wind and rain, the temperature drops to twenty-one degrees Fahrenheit, because there is no combustible, it is impossible to use the marching pot to boil a bowl of hot water for everyone to keep warm, everyone can only eat bread coated with butter and jam, but this is already very rich for the soldiers of the independent company, in the country, when they march and fight in winter, their clothes are soaked and frozen, and they can only gnaw on the steamed buns that can lose their teeth and are frozen into hard lumps, and several people huddle together to keep warm, Where are there marching tents that can shelter from the wind and rain.
Company E arrived twenty minutes later than the Independence Company, and set up camp about 500 meters from the Independence Company.
Although the officers and men of Company E were strong-willed and able to endure hardships, it was the first time they had marched in such bad ghost weather.
The 116th Infantry Company arrived half an hour later than Company E, and since the last time they fought with the Independent Company at Kolahi Hill, they were too advanced to lose a single defeat, so this time they deliberately ran to the end to save their strength.
At four o'clock in the morning, the assembly call of the independent company sounded.
The assembly horn of the independent company had just been blown, and the E company was also forced to blow the assembly number.
The soldiers of Company E cursed one after another, why didn't this damn assembly number be thrown away on the road.
And the soldiers of the 116th Infantry Company felt that they had just been called again as soon as they lay down, so they complained one by one!
When the soldiers woke up, they climbed out of their tents and found that the light rain and snow had stopped, but everything in front of them was covered with a thick layer of frost, rifles, mortars, machine guns, all frozen on the ground, and it took a lot of effort to pick them up.
The soldiers of Company E dragged a little, probably for the first time to suffer so much, and the soldiers complained non-stop, until Sobel himself blew the whistle and took the instructor's stick and symbolically knocked a few soldiers on the buttocks of several soldiers, and everyone set off.
The soldiers of Company E are surprised, when did Sobel become kind? If he had been in the past, he would have found a few of the loudest complaints and dug the damn six-foot pit.
The soldiers secretly wondered if they would still have to fight Sobel's hidden gun when they got to the battlefield.