Chapter 66 Landmines

The sun is rising in the gray sky, and yesterday's light rain has stopped. Although the sun came out, the whole sky still looked relatively gray, and the rain and fog had not completely dissipated in the early morning.

Parks, acting platoon leader, has been publicly appointed by Winters. Second row by Harry? The second lieutenant of Wales served as the platoon leader, and the third platoon was temporarily held by the second lieutenant of Compton, which was also the most suitable officer that Winters could find suitable to serve in the platoon rank. But each platoon was severely short of manpower, and about seventy or eighty men of Company E were scattered in the Normandy area.

"Sir, are you looking for me?" Winters met with Lieutenant Colonel Stryer at the battalion headquarters.

"Winters," Striele nodded, "you fought all day yesterday, and I really don't want to do that now, but I want to have E-Beat Pioneer and head to Deauville." ”

Winters didn't say anything, it was the first time he would be performing this time as a company commander, and he knew he couldn't refuse, even though most of the soldiers were tired.

"I see!" Winters saluted, and walked out, he also understood Lieutenant Colonel Striele's suffering, and now in the entire second battalion, the only one who could fight and had a neater personnel was Company E.

"E-Company brothers, assembled." Parks shouted loudly, this was the first time he had issued an order as a platoon commander, although he had also been a higher lieutenant than this in his previous life, but now the meaning of this lieutenant was different, which made him a little excited, "A platoon of brothers assemble, we are going to go, form a tactical column, try to distance ourselves, we will go to Deauville, and occupy there." ”

"Where are we going?" Lutz said to Webster in front of him.

"Who knows?" Webster shrugged his shoulders, closed his notebook, patted his ass, stood up, and stood in the middle of the line.

Webster had a habit of writing down notes, and of course it wasn't about the daily chores, he liked to write in his notebook some of his feelings, about the war, about the officers and his brothers, and so on.

"Yesterday was the longest day of my life. From the early hours of the morning when I got on the C-47 and crossed the strait, I was still sighing at this great war and the warships on the magnificent sea......"

“…… I landed in Normandy with trepidation, and the excitement in my heart outweighed the fear, and I walked carefully every step of the way, hoping to meet the Germans and destroy them......"

“…… Throughout the day, even though I met the brothers of E-Company, there was still some trepidation in my heart, I didn't know why I landed here, I didn't know why I went to fight the Germans, the only feeling I had left was tired and hungry, and more ignorance of the future......"

“…… Now, I have finally made it to the second day of the D day, and there may be a more difficult third day, but it is nothing, there is no way for me to go back, the only thing to go is to follow in the footsteps of the brothers of E-Company, and keep moving forward......"

Webster recorded all his feelings since the first day in his diary, he was accustomed to thinking, always unconsciously wandering, even if his brother was joking with him, he seemed absent-minded.

"Nervous?" Parks marched next to the group, and he walked next to Webster, tilting his head sideways and asking, "Private Webster?" ”

"Sort of! No, nothing to be nervous about! Webster turned his head and smiled.

"That's good!" Parks nodded, "Then don't get distracted, remember, once you're on the battlefield, you have to pay your full attention, don't let your opponent take advantage of you, it will kill you!" ”

"Got it!" Webster smiled slightly, then hesitated for a moment and said, "Now...... Well...... Mind if I can call you a second lieutenant? ”

Parks smiled and said, "Of course I don't mind, but it's better to wait until the appointment is down!" ”

"Hey, Webster, you could call him a second lieutenant." Luz in the back laughed, "This is already a sure thing, there is nothing to hesitate about, maybe Parks is already happy in his heart now." Ensign Parks? Sounds good, but now the brothers have to get familiar with your new name. ”

"Shut up, Lutz!" Parks couldn't help but laugh.

"Oh, look, this is our hero Parks, in recognition of his merits, I decided to promote his ranks, let him be a platoon commander, do a good job, Parks, you are the hero of the 506th regiment, I am very proud of it." Luz suddenly picked up Colonel Zink's tone and screamed strangely.

There was a burst of laughter in the ranks.

Deauville wasn't far away, but the closer they got to Deauville, the more nervous they became, especially those who hadn't even participated in a single battle. Ahead was an open vegetable field, through which they were to pass and then follow the vegetable field into Deauville.

"A row of brothers, move forward in a straggler formation, watch your steps, be careful, don't win the lottery!" Parks was at the front of the line, constantly reminding loudly.

"Winning the lottery?" Paikanti held his gun and nervously explored the way forward step by step, and then when he heard Parks's voice, he couldn't help but say to the big bull Landauman, who was not far from him, "Did he think he was testing his luck?" ”

Landauman took a cigar in his mouth, looked at the road ahead, and walked very carefully: "Parks is reminding you not to step on the mines." Be careful, this is no joke. I heard that when the Germans retreated, they buried a lot of those things. ”

"Don't scare me!" Paikanti smiled, his head deliberately held high, and he took a big stride.

"You'd better listen to me!" Landauman continued to walk forward, "I heard that thing exploded, first of all, it will cut off your little brother, have you heard, last night there was an unlucky guy in the Fourth Infantry Division, he stepped on a mine, and then half of his testicles were cut off, although he saved his life, but the birds below completely stopped eating." ”

Then Landauman looked back, but didn't see Paikanti. He was about to turn around when he heard a trembling voice behind him.

"Landorman, I've won the lottery!"

Landowan turned his head and saw Paikanti with one foot in front and one foot behind him, shouting loudly with a grief-stricken expression: "I've won the lottery, I'm going to be cut down." ”

"Relax, relax!" Landauman paused, his palm raised toward Paikanti.

"Landowman, let me come!" At this time, Parks turned around from the front, walked over, and shouted loudly, "Lip, continue to move forward with a platoon of brothers, be careful with the soles of your feet, don't go too fast." ”

"Yes sir!" Lip replied, then waved his hand, "Brothers, go ahead and watch the soles of your feet." ”

"Sir, am I going to be finished?" Paikanti looked at Parks with tears in his face, he didn't dare to move at all, "I haven't been in a battle yet, I don't want to die like this, I'm done, am I?" ”

"Don't worry, as long as you listen to me, you'll be fine!" Parks crouched down, then fell to the ground, cleaning the dirt off Paikanti's foot.

"This is an **I-35 mine." Parks took a closer look, "He's got a pretty name, do you know what's it?" 'Ricochet Betty', able to bounce up, in your waist, 'boom' and then we're going to have a lot of casualties. ”

"Oh-God, lieutenant, please say this, why don't you say something light?" Paikanti wept and mourned.

"Of course." Parks drew his dagger, "The easy thing to say is that although this is a big killing weapon, in front of me, it has no use. I can totally rule it out. ”

"God, that's the best thing I've ever heard!" Paikanti's heart suddenly felt a little comforted, but he still couldn't believe it, "But is this true?" When we were training, we didn't have any clearance training for such mines! ”

"God, no, I'll have to look for it again!" Parks suddenly realized that this was a tricky problem, and the dagger could not solve it at all, so he could only use the dagger to dig out the surrounding dirt a little more, so that the mines would be exposed more.

"Paikanti, hand me your brooch!" Parks said suddenly.

"Brooches? Do you mean the brooch of the badge I wear on my chest? "Paikanti, take it, and he handed it to Parks.

Parks twisted the brooch with a dagger, then crouched down again: "Attention, Paikanti, listen to my orders, when I tell you to let go, you immediately release and lie down, you know?" ”

"I see!" Paikanti took a deep breath, "Ensign, I'll do what you say. ”

"Okay, now is it!" Parks inserted the array into the hole of the mine's pressure sensor and yelled, "Lie down!" ”

Paikanti let go of his foot, and then fell to the ground with agility. Parks then threw himself on top of Paikanti and crushed him under him.

The two lay on their stomachs together, and there was no imaginary explosion.

"Parks, it worked!" Lan Daoman, a big cow who was watching nervously in the distance, shouted loudly. The entire e-company couldn't help but cheer.

Parks wiped a cold sweat and said to Paikonti: "You really took shit luck, **I-35 mine was stepped on by you, and it didn't explode, anyway, it's the luck of E Company." "You know, if this mine explodes, the radius of destruction is 100 meters.

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