Three hundred and eight captives
When Major General Jaylon Richardson's head was beheaded, the morale of the officers and men of the 702nd Infantry Division completely collapsed, most of the soldiers knelt on the ground, raised their guns with both hands above their heads and surrendered, and the remaining small number of stubborn resistance were quickly wiped out by the Allies.
Major General Wilhelm C. Leigh, who had been fighting the dead soldiers of the German army in this battle, felt that this was definitely a deliberate conspiracy of the Germans, and he had to report the matter to the Allied High Command as soon as possible.
Brigadier General Mariano Rivera La Paz echoed the concerns expressed by Major General William C. Leigh, and agreed that the presence of dead soldiers would pose a great threat to the Allied forces on the battlefield.
Major General William C. Leigh ordered the bodies of more than a dozen dead soldiers to be collected and quickly sent to the Allied headquarters in military vehicles, where forensic experts were asked to dissect and study, and then ordered the soldiers to gather all the remaining dead soldiers together, pour gasoline, and burn them all, leaving no one behind.
The battlefield was littered with stumps and severed arms, and the heads of dead soldiers were everywhere, and many of the Allied soldiers who had been smashed into minced pieces by Major General Jaylon Richardson's big axe could not be recognized, so they could only temporarily gather them and slowly identify them later.
After the ceasefire between the two sides, the battlefield was filled with the painful groans of soldiers on both sides, the screams that pierced the ears and bones, and the heart-rending cries for help.
The Allied medics were not enough, so the German medics were stripped of all their weapons and put them into the rescue of wounded soldiers.
Although this victory ended in an Allied victory, the Allied price was quite heavy, with nearly 2,000 casualties in the 101st Airborne Division and more than 600 casualties in Brigadier General Mariano Rivera La Paz's 3rd Airborne Brigade.
Faced with a large number of casualties among their own soldiers, the Allied soldiers, who were tortured by this battle to the point of collapse, vented all their anger and anger on the German prisoners who had been disarmed.
In the face of the angry and almost emotionally uncontrollable Allied soldiers, the surrendered German soldiers were terrified, their faces were as gray as ashes, and they did not dare to breathe when they knelt on the ground, and they did not know what fate would greet them.
After killing Major General Jaylon Richardson, Yan Zhi's face did not show a smile of victory, and a trace of fear appeared in his determined eyes that only he could perceive, and he silently examined all the soldiers of the independent company who had been wounded in this battle.
Facing the pain that the soldiers forcibly endured, Yan Zhi's face became more and more solemn.
This time, 44 people from the independent company went into battle, plus Zhao Fugui, Shao Daodao, Liao Baotian, and Qian was enough to make a total of 48 people, all of whom were wounded, and 5 of them were seriously injured.
Mike Winters enters the battlefield with the unwoundt soldiers of Company E and is responsible for cleaning the battlefield, searching for fish that have slipped through the net, and escorting prisoners.
Seeing Yan Zhi and the soldiers of the Independent Company, the soldiers of Company E all gave a thumbs up.
In this war, the role played by the independent company is obvious to all, especially Yan Zhi, who almost single-handedly changed the balance of victory and defeat between the enemy and us, which is a miracle in the history of modern warfare.
Guarnaro with Private Bliss, Joseph. Lesnievsky searched the edge of the nearby thorn bush to see if there were any German soldiers hiding in it.
Suddenly, Guarnaro let out a scream.
It turned out to be a bullet fired by a German sniper hiding in the thorn bush and hit Guarnaro in the neck, but fortunately, the bullet flew over the skin of his neck, only to rub off a layer of skin.
But when Guara reached out to cover his neck, he felt the blood in his palm, and he screamed.
The soldiers of E Company shot and threw grenades into the thorny bushes, and after a few screams, the sound of German soldiers begging for mercy and surrendering could be heard in the grass.
Mike Winters ordered the soldiers to stop shooting.
After a while, 22 German soldiers came out of the thorn bush with their hands raised in surrender.
The German soldiers hid in bunkers under the thorn bushes, hoping to escape the Allied search, but were revealed by a nearby sniper who panicked when they were spotted by the Allies and fired in a hurry.
The nearby medics heard Guarneruo's screams and hurriedly ran over.
The German sniper who had fired at Guarnero trembled and raised his hands, and was the last to emerge from the thorn bushes, shielding his panicked eyes with his steel helmet, hoping not to be spotted by the Allied soldiers he had shot in the neck with a sniper rifle.
After being examined by the medics, Guarnaro breathed a sigh of relief, but his anger grew, and the medic said that if the bullet deflected two more centimeters inward, it would blow a large hole in his major artery, and he would definitely die without hemostats.
Guarnaro had a layer of white gauze wrapped around his neck, and after a few moments, the white gauze was stained red with blood, and his eyes were bloodshot, and he looked at the trembling German sniper with a fierce look, strode over, reached out and pulled the pistol, and pulled the trigger on the back of the German sniper's head.
"Phew! Kiss! ”
At the sound of a gunshot and a watermelon cracking, the German sniper's head was blasted open by a bullet, and white, red, reddish-white, thin, thick, viscous liquid splashed all over the faces of the other two German soldiers next to him.
In a burst of exclamations, the two blood-spattered German soldiers, fell to their knees with weak legs and begged for mercy in German.
Guarnejo grinned, raised his pistol, aimed it at the head of a German soldier kneeling on the ground, and before he could shoot, he was snatched from the pistol by Mike Winters.
But the gunshots still rang out, but the shots did not come from Guarneruo's pistol, but from Fan Xiaosi of the Chinese Independent Company.
Fan Xiaosi's pistol hit the temple of one of the German prisoners, flipped the steel helmet on his head to the ground, and directly blasted the other temple out of a bowl-sized blood hole, and his ears flew around with the shattered bones, and the red and white liquid sprayed on several other German soldiers, frightening all the German soldiers to kneel on the ground together, some in German, some in English and shouting for mercy.
The soldiers of E Company, who never took prisoners, held their guns together and pointed them at the heads of the remaining twenty German soldiers to prevent them from taking the opportunity to resist.
Yan Zhi knew that on the battlefield, Company E had always had the bad habit of shooting prisoners.
Seeing that Fan Xiaosi and Gua Nairo killed two German prisoners with one face, the wounded soldiers of the Independent Company also poured their anger on these German prisoners, some of them raised their rifles, some raised their pistols, some raised their bayonets, and some drew their Nepalese scimitars and surrounded the twenty German prisoners.
"Stop,."
Yan Zhi held half a cigarette butt in his hand and shouted loudly.
When the soldiers of the independent company heard this, they all stood still like sculptures.
"Stop!"
Mike Winters also shouted orders to the soldiers, "Now, Major General William C. Leigh and Brigadier General Mariano Rivera La Paz will have to watch the soldiers clean up the battlefield in the temporary headquarters, and if anyone dares to shoot the prisoners again, they will be seen by the two generals and sent to a court-martial, and then don't blame me for not warning you." ”
As a result, all the soldiers of Company E just shouted loudly for the captives to kneel on the ground and not move, but no one dared to shoot again.
Although Company E never took prisoners, there were so many prisoners this time, and Major General William C. Leigh was not far from here, so the soldiers of Company E, known for their indiscriminate killing of prisoners, did not continue to pull the trigger.
But these prisoners could not stay here, because the troops had to move forward after clearing the battlefield.
Therefore, Winters decided to let Fan Xiaosi and Gua Naruo, who had just shot and kill the prisoners, make meritorious contributions to the crime, and escort the remaining twenty prisoners to the division headquarters.
Regarding Mike Winters' decision, Yan Zhi, like all the soldiers, was confused.
Doesn't Winters obviously want to give Gua Nairo and Fan Xiaosi a chance to execute these captives one by one?
Mike Winters reached out and took Guarneruo and Fan Xiaosi's rifles, unloading the extra bullets, and each of them had only one bullet left in their guns.
"If you dare to shoot the prisoners, the remaining eighteen captives will definitely besiege you in groups, and you will surely die."
Winters said, tossing the two M1 rifles back to the two of them.
It's high, it's really high!!
Yan Zhi couldn't help but grin when he heard this, Winters's trick was enough, as long as Fan Xiaosi and Gua Nairuo didn't shoot, they could escort twenty German prisoners back to the division headquarters, as long as the two of them fired, at most two prisoners would be shot, and the remaining eighteen prisoners could dismantle the two of them.
After a moment of laughter, Yan Zhi's eyes were replaced by sorrow, and he looked at the wounded soldiers of the independent company, and his heart was gradually occupied by uneasiness.