Chapter 57: The Battle of Brecoup Manor (Part I)

The brothers of Company E, led by Winters, were walking towards the entrance of the village, when the sound of running was heard behind them, and someone shouted there: "Lieutenant Winters! ”

Winters stopped, turned around, and saw a GI running over with a gun on his back, and he stopped beside Winters: "Lieutenant, I hope to be able to be with you!" ”

"Hull?" Winters looked at him, then turned to Nunu in the village, "You should be with the brothers of Company A." Winters nodded at him, Parks.

"Goodbye, Hull!" A group of people walked past Hull and greeted him.

Parks couldn't help but stop, patted Hull on the shoulder and said, "You should stay, we have enough men, wait for your brothers, listen to my advice, it's good for you." Then he walked a few quick steps to catch up with the group. Parks knew that Hull would die in this battle, so he gave Hull his own advice.

Just a few steps, he turned around and came back, looked at Hull's surprised eyes, and couldn't help laughing: "Do you have a **?" Can you give me all yours, I think it will be useful when we blow up the Germans' cannons. ”

"Okay!" Hull took the ** out of his pocket, as well as from his back pocket, "It's all here." Take whatever you want! ”

"I want them all!" Parks took all the ** away and put them in his back pocket, and then said to him uneasily, "Hull, you'd better follow my advice, you know, any company commander doesn't want his subordinates to act together with other companies at will, don't make trouble!" Ignoring him as he spoke, he walked forward quickly.

The artillery position was in front, separated by a shrub fence, and the artillery position was very irregular, with sharp angles in many places, which was of great benefit to the attack and provided natural cover.

"Compton, you lead Goneri, Malaki, and Guth to the left, and in that open field, crawl forward as far as you can, without being noticed by the Germans, get as close as you can to the first cannon of the artillery company, and then use grenades to finish the Germans in the trenches." Winters lay down in the gap in the fence, carefully observed the artillery position, and then began to issue orders and tasks.

"Parks, you take Lip and Lenny and White along the fence to the right, and you go along the fence to attack the first cannon from the side. The rest of the men followed me, attacking quickly along the fence. Leegot, Toy, Christenson, and Kaber set up machine guns to cover us in front, and when we captured the first cannon, they moved the machine guns to cover us in the trench of the first gun. Winters looked at the brothers gathered around, "Do you understand?" ”

"Got it, Lieutenant!"

"Let's act!" Winters nodded.

Parks, Lenny, Lip, and White moved rapidly along the fence, but when they reached their target, they found that they could not see the German position due to the low bushes and the obscuration of the ground.

"Damn it!" Lip scolded in a low voice, "Parks, I think I can only see the Germans on the other side if I climb up!" Then he looked at a large tree in the bushes, put his carbine on his back, and was about to climb up.

"Wait, Lip!" Parks hurriedly pulled him down, and several people squatted down, "I'd better go up, I use the M1 Garand rifle, which is more accurate than your gun." "He knew that it was Lipp who had climbed the tree, but he wouldn't take cover, he wasn't hit by the Germans, he was just shit luck. He decided not to let him take the risk, his own experience in finding cover was more than he could.

Lip didn't argue, just nodded.

"If I shoot, you're going to have to cross the fence and move towards the Germans, and you have to be quick, and you'll have to be as good as Winters to attack the first cannon." Parks assigns the task to them, and then nimbly climbs the tree, carefully sitting on its front branches, spreading his weight among several branches. Then he tried to hide his body behind a very thick branch in front of his body, so as to cover himself, even if the Germans found him, they would not be able to easily hit him.

About 75 meters away, Parks saw about 15 Germans, some in the trenches and some lying on their stomachs without any cover. They were all firing at Company E, and they didn't have time to pay attention to it, so they didn't see Parks.

Parks gestured to Lip and told them to prepare for a surprise attack, then raised his M1 Garand rifle and aimed it at the Germans in front of him, carefully adjusting the rifle's crosshairs. At this time, his heart gradually calmed down, and some excellent qualities in his previous life were concentrated.

"Baby, that's you! See God and go! Parks' crosshair was aimed at the head of a German soldier lying in the clear, and he pulled the trigger.

"Bang!" The M1 Garand rifle flickered back, and the bullets had already flown out.

Suddenly a stream of blood poured from the German steel helmet lying on the ground, and then his raised head drooped, and he died. But the rest of the Germans had no idea that it was Parkes' side that fired the shot.

"Let's go!" Lip gave a command, and with White and Lenny, he stepped out of the fence.

The Germans in front reacted quickly, and immediately several people turned around and fired at Lip and them.

"Bang!" Parks struck again, and a German soldier lying in the trench slumped, rolled over and fell into the pit, and there was no movement. And Lip and they were moving fast while trying to shoot the Germans.

"Bang!" Parks fired another shot, killing a German soldier in the clearing, and the Germans saw Parks, and immediately several guns opened fire on Parks. Suddenly, the branches around him flew wildly. Luckily, there was a large tree branch in front of it. Parks was spared the shot, but it was clear that he couldn't stay any longer.

He fired another shot, and under the cover of this shot he jumped quickly from the tree, followed Lipp over the fence, and then rushed into the trench. At this time, Winters on the front had already rushed over quickly, and the Compton people on the right each threw a grenade into the trench, and several of them were blown up in an instant. Then they broke out of the fence.

The German gunners of the first cannon abandoned the guns and fled because they were flanked from three sides. The German infantry retreated from the trenches with them as fast as they could, and they wanted Compton them.

When Compton saw that the Germans were about to flee, he couldn't help but shout: "Hey, Germans, taste the guns!" "I was about to give the Germans a shuttle with a Thomson submachine gun, but no bullets were fired. His gun jammed.

"Damn it!" He cursed, and he quickly lay down, and the German bullets flew over his head.

Suddenly, there was a burst of gunfire around them, and when they looked up, it was Guerneri, Malachi, and Guth who rushed over, and they were also shot with the Winters couple and the Parks team, and the Germans were beaten into a honeycomb. Planted in the trenches and unable to move again. They captured the first cannon.

The attack went a lot smoother than it was. The men and horses of the three-way attack met when the first cannon was captured. At this time, the four men in charge of the machine gun cover also came with machine guns, they set up the machine guns, one machine gun blocked the passage on the side of the trench, and the other machine gun covered.

"I'm going to blow it up!" Parks stepped forward, "It's a 105mm cannon." He put the ** he had brought with him into the barrel of the gun, and then stuffed a German wooden-handled grenade into it and used it to detonate the explosives.

"Boom!" The barrel was blown into the shape of a spinach. Winters gave him a thumbs up.

"Parks led the men along the right trench to capture the second artillery, and I led the men to attack along the front fence, covering from both sides with machine guns." Winters gave the order succinctly and clearly, "Action! ”

He took the lead and rushed to the front of the trench and climbed up, splashing dirt around the trench. But it couldn't stop Winters and Parks from advancing quickly.

"Poof!" With a thud, Pupai, who followed Winters forward, fell headlong to the ground and rolled into the trench.

"They hit me in the ass! God, it hurts me. Pupai cried out desperately, his voice trembling, "I'm so unlucky, Lieutenant, I'm finished." I'm, I'm so unlucky! ”

"Toy, go take care of him!" Winters simply could not stop, and if he did, he would become a target for the Germans.

No sooner had Toy jumped into the trench than a German wooden-handled grenade was thrown into the trench and landed next to Toy.

"Grenades!" Winters shouted. Then he quickly fell to his stomach and shouted at Toy, "Joe, get down." ”

Toy lunged forward, his body pressing down on Pushpai's body.

"Boom-" The grenade blasted the dirt very high.

"Joe, are you alright?" Lipp shouted from the sidelines.

"It's fine!" Toy quickly got up and looked around his body, he was not hurt in the slightest, so close to the explosion distance.

"You're shit lucky! Joe! Goneri shouted loudly, and then followed Winters towards the second cannon. In the trench ahead, Parks was already moving in front of the Germans, and he saw that the two Germans in front of him were setting up MG42 machine guns, ready to shoot at their moving trenches.

"Shoot, White!" Parks screamed, knocking one out with one shot, and just as he was about to knock out the other, his gun made a "ding" sound, and the magazine bounced out.

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