Chapter 53: Fear

The group of six became five. They buried Berks with their own hands. Parks threw away the Germans' 98K and replaced it with Burks' M1 Garand rifle, and if he found the battalion headquarters or company headquarters himself, it would not be a problem to supply them in the future. And it's really a little better than 98k. A few minutes after they left, a loud explosion rang out at the farmhouse. It was the explosives planted by Guth that blew up the machine guns of the Germans.

Very few people spoke along the way. For the first time, a brother died in front of him, and everyone was in a bad mood.

"Gordon, you and Guth are in the lead!" Parks ordered, "Eubanks is on guard in the back. Parks knew they were going to see more of that along the way.

"How far do we have to go?" Eubanks muttered softly behind him.

Parks looked ahead, some places blazing, others farther away, anti-aircraft machine guns pulling up fiery snakes in the air with a dull sound. About a mile ahead, a building caught fire.

"In front of it is the Church of Our Lady, the building that burned up! I think our location was about 11 miles away from the rallying point, Santa Marie de Monte. "It's past 3 a.m., and I think we've got about three hours left, and if we wait until dawn, we'll have a harder time!" ”

"The Germans are awake, then!" Christenson interjected with a smile.

Obviously, this sentence diluted the solemn atmosphere, and they couldn't help but smile. Parks didn't know what else he would encounter on his way, or if Lieutenant Meehan's plane hadn't been hit, or if Winters should have been nearby. Anyway, a lot of thoughts have changed psychologically, but I am not sure how to develop myself at all, so I have to take one step at a time.

"I wish the Germans could have gone to bed early today!" Gordon said something in front of him, and then he grinned himself.

Suddenly, Guth stopped, then raised his hand, clenched it into a fist, and quickly crouched down. When everyone saw the gesture, they quickly spread out and then crouched down.

"Maybe it's the wind!" Christenson whispered.

Parks stepped forward quickly, listened intently, and then discerned the direction and approximate location, which was in a small bush in front of him, gesturing to the others, and then gathering around. Parks whispered: "Gordon and Eubanks are outflanked on the left, and Christenson and Guth follow me and act on my orders!" Let's go! Parks assigned the task neatly.

There was no questioning, no slowness, and everyone quickly went to find their place. That's what they've been training for more than two years, excellent responses.

There were two figures in front of them, they were groping around with Parks.

"Damn it, now I've lost everything but my gun!" One of them kept whispering and complaining.

"I think we're lost, do you know where the fire is up ahead?" The other straightened up and looked to the side, "I hope we can meet other brothers, or we will have to rely on the two of us to defend the whole of Normandy." ”

"Do you mean the two of us?" The other listened, and let out a laugh that could not be contained, "Or the two of us can carry out a landing operation, and tell General Eisenhower that there is no need to waste so much material and brothers, and the two of us can reach Berlin, Germany, and cut off Hitler's head with our own hands." ”

"I think the Germans will love Eisenhower now." A voice catered to it in a serious manner.

"Flash!" At this time, a deep voice came from behind the two.

"Thunder!" The two men turned around at the same time, and then raised their guns.

"It's us!" At this point Gordon and Eubanks stood up from the grass. At this time, they saw clearly who these two people were. One is Luz and the other is Kaber.

It was clear that Lutz and Caber were greatly relieved to see Gordon and Eubanks. Luz was about to step forward to make a joke, when he heard a voice behind him.

"You're talking too loudly, Lutz! And also in the wrong direction. ”

The two of them turned around almost reflexively, and then they saw Parks, and their tense hearts relaxed again.

"Looks like we're surrounded, Kaber!" Lutz smiled and glanced at Parks.

Parks felt the need to remind them, and said solemnly: "Rutz, Kaber, listen, now that we are in Normandy, don't let your guard down, now we are surrounded as you said!" ”

Lutz hurriedly said: "Okay! ”

"Got it, Parks, don't worry!" Kaber nodded, "We were just too nervous just now, so we wanted to use this way to lighten the mood." ”

Parks nodded in agreement. He knew that many brothers would be like them, and for the first time on this battlefield, they would tense every nerve in themselves, and everyone could become nervous, if they didn't have more and more experience, they would have the same heart. This is normal.

"Okay, now what are we going to do?" Lutz looked at Parks.

"Go to Sainte-Marie-de-Monte, during this period, if we can't find the regimental headquarters, even the company battalion headquarters and the company headquarters, we will fight separately, we are now a combat group, and if we encounter the intersection fire points set up by the Germans on the roadside or the German artillery positions along the way, we will destroy them according to the actual situation. That's what we're supposed to do! "Parks' point of view was very clear, they had to have a clear goal, and what the commanders asked them to do was to keep them destroying and harassing the Germans.

Along the way, they did not encounter German patrols, but they also did not encounter lone American paratroopers or paratrooper combat groups. Approaching the Church of Our Lady, at an intersection, they saw a blown up car still burning, along with several corpses. It was a couple of American paratroopers who died, and they were scattered on the ground.

"Oh my God!" Kaber suddenly felt his stomach twitch. He saw the corpse of a paratrooper at his feet, a man he knew as Frieze Leland of Company D. The two had also been to London together on vacation, and had a very intimate conversation, Leland was a very cheerful person and very warm to people, especially to London girls.

But now Leland's eyes were spitting out, his neck was pierced by bullets, and there were more than one, and his head was about to fall off, with only a layer of skin attached, and red-dyed muscle crumbs splattered on his own face.

"Uh-" Kaber suddenly ran to the side and retched. The sight was too shocking for him. A brother who is familiar in ordinary times, suddenly became like this.

Maybe one day he will be like this, the thought churned in his heart, he really couldn't imagine that if his head was beaten into such a, all his life would be in vain.

"Kaber, are you okay?" Luz looked at Kaber from the sidelines and shouted loudly.

Kaber stopped vomiting, as if his whole body had been drained of his spirits and looked listless, he nodded, and did not speak. I just cursed secretly in my heart: "This damn war! ”

"Guys, it's time for us to go!" Parks exclaimed.

The light of the fire covered the faces of each of them, and on the faces of some people, it seemed very indifferent, they were already people who had seen death, but their hearts were not at peace; Some people seemed nervous, and death had tightened their nerves even more. Some of them seemed desperate, as if they could not see the prospect of this dark night, and they had completely lost faith in this war.

Karber walked in the middle of the line, which was specially arranged by Parks, with Christenson and Gordon leading the way and Eubanks behind. The group continued to walk forward.

"Kaber, we'll be able to get out there when it's dawn!" Luz seemed to be reassuring his heart.

"I don't know!" Kaber shook his head, his face tense, "I don't know when this is going to end." I just want to stop now, do nothing, think about nothing. No dead people, no Germans, no anti-aircraft machine guns, no fireworks and explosions, I just want to stop, damn it, I just want to stop! ”

Kaber seemed to be talking to himself, and his body was trembling slightly. His steps were very mechanical, and his expression was a little trance-like! But his hands gripped the gun tightly, as if he would jump up at any moment and shoot at any possible target.

"Kaber, there's no point in saying this!" Parks frowned, he knew that everyone in this group was terrified, but some of them were able to restrain it, including himself. In this war, anyone's life and prospects are unknown, and their lives can be lost at any time. But if fear becomes a contagion, and when they can't restrain themselves, then the battle group is completely ineffective and can only be ravaged by the Germans.

"Parks, I know you're good, but it's possible that a German gun was given to any of us." "I don't want to be like Leland, I don't want to die like a dog." ”

"Shut up!" Parks said sternly, "Kaber, now is not the time to discuss this. ”

Kaber didn't speak anymore, he silently followed the team.

Now everyone was silent, they were pondering Caber's words. Once fear is deep in your heart, everything will be different.

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