Now, the Brell estate, is divided by two belligerents.

A curved river more than ten meters wide across the entire manor has become the dividing line of the temporary truce between the two sides, the west of the river occupies 3/4 of the area of the entire manor, occupied by the Allies, the east of the river is still in the hands of the Germans, a bridge over the river has been blown up, only the piers on both sides are still broken in the water, and there are many corpses of soldiers on both sides of the river floating.

The Allies and the Germans each sent soldiers who did not carry guns and weapons to recover the corpses of their own soldiers in the river.

At this time, the spirit of contract in the West was revealed.

The soldiers on both sides hid in their rooms on both sides, but absolutely no one would shoot at the soldiers of the other side who were salvaging their bodies.

The soldiers of the two sides who salvaged the corpses of their own soldiers in the river also tacitly pushed the corpses of the enemy soldiers floating on the bank of their own river into the river, floated towards the bank of the other party's river, and then stretched out their long hooks to pull the corpses of the soldiers of the other side pushed over.

The so-called temporary truce, there is no agreement, anyway, the soldiers on both sides are exhausted and unable to attack, and the physical strength and spirit of the soldiers have reached the verge of collapse.

Now both sides are rushing to rest and replenish, and whoever comes first will attack first, which seems to have become a matter that both sides know on the battlefield.

The battlefield is not a blind attack, the soldiers have no physical strength, no fighting spirit, no supplies, even if they are forced to attack, it is just meat buns and dogs.

Especially in this huge manor, the fields are intertwined, there are too many places to hide soldiers, and it will take a lot of troops to launch a full-scale attack, and the casualties will be very large.

In the manor, there are many houses for human habitation, and the terrain is complicated, and neither of the warring sides has the ability and troops, so they can completely eat or drive each other out at once.

Seeing his own soldiers coming from a distance, the allied soldiers who had set up defenses at the entrance of the Hexi Manor answered the password, opened the wooden fence, and let the soldiers of the Independent Company and E Company enter the manor.

In the houses on both sides of the riverbank, rows of corpses of their own soldiers were lying down, most of the corpses were covered with white cloth, and the white cloth was not enough to use a parachute, and several soldiers were counting the identity of each corpse, and the corpse's military badge had its name, unit number, and home address, which needed to be corresponded, authenticated, and recorded.

The doors and windows of the house were sealed to prevent wild dogs and wild cats from entering and gnawing on the carcasses.

In some houses far from the riverbank, you can only faintly see the faint light of the fire coming through the windows, which is the soldiers lighting fires in their rooms to keep warm.

It was still raining outside the house, and the soldiers on both sides of the battle had been soaked in the rain for almost half a day, without a trace of warmth on their bodies, the weather was cold, the soldiers were hungry and cold, and they were all naked around the fire in the house, drinking wine, drinking hot tea, eating compressed food, and silently watching their closest comrades-in-arms who were missing.

A huge warehouse, which was vacated for Company E and Independence.

As long as there is anything that can be burned in the warehouse, the soldiers take it to burn the fire to keep warm.

A few piles of firewood were lit in the middle of the house, and the wet wood and fresh branches "sizzled" in the fire, and black and white smoke churned in the upper part of the house, and then poured out of the house through the cracks in the doors and windows.

The fire was boiling with boiling water, the soldiers sat around the fire, took off all their clothes, pulled a long rope in the house, hung the clothes on it and baked, everyone held the gun in their arms, held the tea jar in one hand, and stuffed the compressed biscuits into their mouths with one hand, no one cared if they had touched the corpse on their hands, anyway, there was no place to wash their hands, the water at this time was particularly expensive, and the ditch and river outside did not dare to wash their hands, the river was full of corpses, stumps and broken arms, and internal organs. Except for the soldiers on both sides who salvaged the bodies of the two sides, the other soldiers who entered the river would immediately be shot by the snipers of the opposing side.

Zhao Fugui squatted himself into a funny "big" word, let the temperature of the fire rush to his brothers, put his comfortable face full of demonism, raised his ass and farted, sat down steadily in the laughter and scolding of everyone, and continued to wave the big pants with holes in his hand, covering the hot flames, fanning away the smoke, and by the way, you can also dry the big pants, don't roll the hair.

Zhao Fugui was closest to the fire, and the wet firewood "sizzled", bubbling with a damp mist, roasting his face and sweating profusely, as if he was in a steaming bucket, and muttered, "If there is nothing in your hand to block it, it really can't be done, you can bake paste......"

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“……”

There was a ridicule from the soldiers of the Independent Company all around, and they said anything anyway......

The clothes of the soldiers were scorching under the scorching firelight, and the smell of sweat, feet, and even blood filled the room, and there was even the smell of rotting corpses.

Anyway, everyone didn't wash their hands when they ate and drank, mainly because they didn't have water to wash their hands, so they just wiped their hands on their clothes.

At this time, Du Tema said that he was not clean, and he was not sick after eating.

Self-soothing.

Just now, a few soldiers went to the well in the manor to fetch water and came back to say that they found a white, broken arm blistered in the well water, without clothes, and they did not know which soldier it belonged to.

The soldiers who fetched water ran back in a daze, but they didn't tell them about it, but they just left a message at the well saying that they had just broken their arms and fallen into the well, and that they should not take water later, otherwise the soldiers who drank the water before might vomit to death.

So, the soldiers each poured out the water of the half-teapot from their marching pots, put them together in the military pot and boiled them, and when the water boiled, they each took back the water from the half-teapot.

Winters and Yan Zhi each sat by the fire in their underwear, Yan Zhi took two cigarettes that had been dried and lit them, and gave one to Winters, and the other one was snatched away by Zhao Fugui before he had time to smoke a few puffs, so Yan Zhi roasted another cigarette and scolded him in advance, whoever snatched his cigarette again was the cuckold living king.

Sure enough, this trick is ruthless, and no soldier wants to be a cuckold living king.

Winters looked at the jokes made by the commanders and soldiers of the Chinese Independent Company, and he silently baked most of his shirt, put it on, and then sat down on the edge of the fire, squinting and saying, "We have to thank God for keeping us through this day, and I beg him to bless us every day thereafter." ”

The appearance did not speak, there are too many people to be blessed by God, and everyone on the battlefield hopes to be protected by God.

Yan Zhi asked Winters: "When the Germans surrender, what do you want to do?" ”

After a moment of silence, Winters looked at the fire in front of him and spat out a few puffs of cigarette: "If I can survive until the end of the war, I will find a remote farm and spend the rest of my life in peace and tranquility." I don't want to be rich and rich, nor do I want to be proud, I just want to have a warm home and live happily with my wife and children. ”

Everyone smoked cigarettes in silence, drank water from the fire, and ate compressed food.

No one spoke.

What Winters said was the desire of all present.

No

What Winters is talking about is the dream shared in the hearts of every soldier who participated in this war.