Chapter 262: Final Preparations

On the day of 945, Company E began a clean-up operation in the forest area in front of Foy. On the way, it was subjected to sporadic German machine gun fire and a few casualties. Sovosko killed, Kenwebb and Meliot wounded. At that time, Sovosko was cleaning up when he missed a well-hidden foxhole of the German army and was shot by the people inside. Karber then threw a grenade into it, eliminating the Germans in the foxhole, the only soldier to die in this sweep.

The success of the clean-up operation was ultimately due to the reconnaissance activities of the patrol led by Parks earlier. He constantly marked the places where the German machine gun fire and mortars were, so when the mortars of E Company focused on these places during the sweep, the Germans had no room to wield them at all.

As Captain Parks often said, fighting a prepared battle can reduce casualties and increase the success rate. In fact, the clean-up operation confirmed the correctness of his words. Along the way, you can see German machine gun positions and destroyed mortars bombed by German mortars. Then Company E occupied the woods of the defensive line on the outskirts of the German Foy, from the edge of which the German activities could be seen with binoculars, and although their artillery could not be seen, the artillery must have been hidden inside.

After the sweep operation, Company E began to remodel their bunkers on the old German lines. Captain Parkes also offered to dig a Parks bunker to prevent German shelling.

The Welsh Lieutenant was a little puzzled by Parks' decision, after all, it would be the day of the attack on Foy in one or two days, and it seemed unnecessary to dig up Parks' bunker, but Captain Parks insisted, and he told Wales: "Harry, we are prepared for the worst, only then can we save the lives of our brothers as much as possible"

In fact, it also proved that he was right. On the night of the occupation of the German defensive line, the Germans carried out a large-scale artillery bombardment of the entire position, and shells rained down, and the entire position was cratered by 88-mm artillery shells.

"I'm hurt," someone shouted.

"It's Heck, it's Heck's injured," Stenson suddenly shouted, "Damn, I've got to help him," and he was about to crawl out of the bunker, but was ripped off by Carber in the bunker.

"You idiot, what do you want to do? Who is Heck? Karber yelled at him, "If you go out, you're going to die, the Germans might be interested in saying hello to you and blowing you apart." ”

As he spoke, a cannonball exploded near their bunker, and the splattered dirt hit Stenson at the observation port, causing his face to be bloodied, and the wave of air pushed him back two steps before sitting on the ground.

"Oh, God," Stenson cried out suddenly, covering his face.

"God" Kaber shouted, throwing away his rifle and hugging Stenson in his hand, "Don't move, don't move, boy, let me see your face, oh, it's okay, it's okay, you're lucky with shit, it's just a bruise" said Kaber stood up and kicked Stenson and said, "Don't pretend, stay here honestly"

"Help" was faintly heard in the explosion and the shouts of people were faintly heard, but this time the voice was much lower. But for sure, it is still the same person who came out.

"Damn, where is the doctor? Didn't they hear it? Stenson didn't dare to run out easily, but he anxiously pounded the clod of dirt beside the bunker and cursed fiercely.

"Do you expect anyone to hear such a faint cry in the middle of such a huge explosion?" Karber pressed Stenson who was about to move, then glanced at him and said, "Stay there and keep your posture down"

"Damn, leave me alone, I'm going to save him," Stenson glared at Kaber suddenly, "he joined with me from Momion, and I trained with him in the United States, so I didn't leave him alone" said as he climbed out of cover and ran in that direction in the face of falling shells.

Kaber watched Stenson climb out of the bunker in a daze, and he wanted to follow out, but when he saw the fierce artillery fire, he just looked in the direction Stenson ran and muttered in a low voice: "Damn recruit stupid, joke with your life, I don't want to do such a stupid thing, I didn't do anything wrong, this damn artillery fire" He retracted his head stupidly, and then sat in the bunker with his rifle in his arms, full of fear, and no longer wanted to move.

"Hull, is that you?" Stenson hunched over and sped towards the shouting voice. Suddenly, a cannonball exploded not far from him, and he was immediately tossed to the ground by the air wave, and then rolled a few times on the snow.

"It's over, I'm done" Stenson suddenly felt that his eyes were dark, and secretly screamed that it was not good, a sharp pain came from his back, and his first feeling was that he had bounced. But he soon realized that he was only thrown to the ground and struck, and felt a strong pain.

He got up again and ran in that direction, and soon he saw Heck, who was lying on the ground, a calf not far from him, blood-red bones exposed on the surface of the bowl, and his mouth moaning incessantly, occasionally making loud cries for help.

"Damn, why don't you just blow me up and let me suffer here" Heck's muscles tensed in pain, and he shouted loudly again, "Doctor, damn it, where is the doctor?" ”

"Heck" He heard someone calling his name, and when he looked up, it was Stenson, and he smiled bitterly at Stenson, "Stenson, it looks like I'm going home before you"

"Alright, alright, I'll take you to the doctor first" said Stenson throwing away his rifle, picking up one of Heck's legs, slung him on his shoulder, and ran towards the back, shouting loudly as he ran, "Doctor Luo, doctor, hurry up, someone is hurt"

Doctor Law had already run towards them as fast as he could, but before he could get close to the two, a cannonball exploded next to Stenson and Heck, knocking them all to the ground.

"Oops" Dr. Luo was swept over by the wave of air and only fell, but he saw that Heck and Stenson were next to the bomb, and he quickly rolled towards the two of them, shouting, "Are you all right?" Heck, Stenson, God" He couldn't help but take a breath as he climbed up to them.

Heck's legs had been severed by a single piece, and he was coughing incessantly, foaming at the mouth with blood. Stenson had one leg blown up to the point that only a bit of flesh was connected to it, and he forced himself to prop up his upper body, sitting on the snow, looking at his broken leg, and laughing at it.

German artillery fire stopped. Dr. Luo bandaged the two of them, and then each of them was given a morphine injection. He called the jeep, and Kaber climbed out of cover, looking at the bloodied appearance of the two being carried into the jeep, and couldn't help but draw a cross on his chest: "God forbid, I knew this was the result, stupid, what an idiot" He muttered, turned and staggered back to his bunker. But when he returned to the bunker and sat down, he felt a cigarette, and when he wanted to light it, the hand holding the match trembled involuntarily.

"Damn" he tried twice and didn't light the cigarette, he took the cigarette from his mouth fiercely, crumpled it in his hand, and slammed it to the ground. He suddenly regretted it now. Maybe if he went with Stenson, it wouldn't be like this, he was more experienced than Stenson, and the chance of being bombed was much smaller.

But in any case, this shelling did strike some blow to the officers and enlisted men, who had previously had some optimistic estimates. It also made many brothers who originally only planned to dig a shallow pit make great efforts to dig the Parks bunker, and now these lazy guys who are lucky have also seen the power of German artillery fire, and they don't want to gamble with their lives.

Goneri saw Stenson being carried away. He felt a little uncomfortable. To be honest, when he was in Momion, he was a little unpleasant to look at this kid, but it turned out that Stenson was a good guy, he had a strong ability to adapt to the battlefield, and when he was in the Bastone Line, he was in a very good mental state, stronger than many veterans, and he had an exemplary effect on many recruits, which is why many recruits did not collapse.

"You're good, boy" Gunner stretched out his hand and slapped Stenson on the stretcher, causing him to scream in pain, causing Guneire to laugh.

"Well, Sergeant, I know you've been jealous of me, which means that I'm not losing to you as a recruit, but now that I'm going home before you, I'm not going to give you another chance," Stenson grinned at Guerneri, holding back the pain.

"Goodbye, boy, go home and stay fine," Goneri shook his hand tightly, and watched as Stenson was lifted into the jeep. The car honked, then rolled up a pile of snow and sped away.

"Damn it, how long are we going to endure such frantic shelling from the Germans?" Goneri watched the jeep leave, and couldn't help but complain to Toy beside him.

"It won't be long, Goneri," a voice came from behind him.

When the two men looked back, they saw Captain Parks standing behind them, staring in the direction the jeep had left, turning to the two of them and saying, "We're about to attack Foy's Germans." We're going to have a tough fight."

"We've been ready for a long time," Toy said with a grinning smile at Parks.

"Very good," Parks said, winking his eyes at them and smiling, "I've been ready too, damn the Germans, it's our turn to teach them a lesson."

Early the next morning, Captain Parks led a platoon of people to begin to survey the surrounding environment and prepare for the final attack, the Battle of Foy, Parks did not want to be the way it was, and the German frontal charge would suffer serious losses, even if Spierre took over later, E Company also lost more than a dozen people. Including some veterans, which Parks didn't want to see.

After everything was ready, the order to fight was given. They will attack at nine a.m. on the second day. The timing was a mistake, it was already dawn, which would only inflict more casualties on the attacking side. Captain Winters was also aware of the problem, and his request to the division headquarters to change the time of the attack was also denied.

Everyone in E-Company is waiting for tomorrow. And tomorrow, none of them know if they will survive