Parks led a platoon of 35 men capable of participating in the battle along the south side of the embankment. As he approached, Sergeant Yuman whispered to him, "This is it, Company Commander!" ”

Parks nodded, turned around, and gestured to the brothers to hide down the embankment. The machine gun positions of the Germans were still there, and they were firing to the south, and the sound of the MG42 machine guns tearing rags made the brothers in the platoon constantly adrenaline. It's really a great way to stimulate the nerves.

"What are they shooting?" Pikak crawled over and said to Parks, "What's there?" ”

"It's the regimental headquarters!" "But it's more than three miles from here, and they're blowing themselves up." It doesn't make any sense at all. ”

"I'll take a look, stay here and wait for my signal!" Parks said to Pikak, "I'll leave it to you." ”

As he spoke, Parks began to climb rapidly towards the top of the embankment, and on the north side of the embankment, he saw a 1-meter-deep trench parallel to the embankment. This ditch just provides some cover for their approach to the road.

Parks returned to the patrol, and he whispered orders from behind: "Hashiyi, Sergey, you two break the rear, protect the right flank." The rest of the people followed me, and we were going to cross the embankment. Then he and his brothers climbed over the embankment, went down to the ditch on the north side of the embankment, and carefully followed the ditch in the direction of the main road.

With 200 meters to go, Parks stopped the patrol again and moved forward alone to reconnoiter the situation. As he approached the main road, which was about a metre above the fields, he could hear voices coming from the other side. He looked to the right and saw the silhouettes of several German soldiers reflected in the night sky next to the machine guns at the top of the embankment. They were dressed in winter coats and wore conspicuous German steel helmets. Winters is located in the irrigation ditch below, about 25 meters from them.

This is the scene in the movie, and the truth of history once again emerges in front of his eyes. Parks couldn't help but smile slightly, it seems that Winters's fame battle is destined to be realized in his own hands.

Parks crawled back to patrol: "The Germans have machine-gun positions, they have guards there, but not much, we are completely able to destroy them!" We must crawl there, not making the slightest sound, keep our bodies down, move quickly, guys, now that we are not long, it will be dawn! ”

Parks led the team to a position about 40 meters from the machine guns on the embankment. Parks approached each of the team members and whispered that they had assigned targets to each rifleman and each machine gunner.

"The first on the left, the first on the right!" …… Parks put Boyle in charge of the machine gun, attacking the MG42 machine gun of the Germans. Pankala and Muk set up 60-mm mortars and, after the start of the attack, carried out fire support. He himself lay on the edge of the embankment, then raised his rifle. He carefully adjusted the crosshairs, and the Germans found nothing out of the ordinary, still shooting south, and speaking loudly.

"Aim, be accurate, guys!" Parks slowly lengthened his voice, he felt the cold light on the rifle, and then gave a decisive order: "Fire!" ”

"Bang bang bang", the rifle fired, mixed with the sound of the machine guns of the German MG42, which seemed a little abrupt. The Heavy was hit in the head under Parks' gun, and immediately drooped down. Before the remaining six Germans could react, they were hit and fell to the ground. At this time, the follow-up personnel of the German army immediately reacted. Their machine guns were firing in this direction.

They used tracer bullets, which "whizzed" over the heads of their brothers with flames. Their shots were too high, but the brothers still lay on the ground and did not dare to raise their heads.

"Boyle, suppress the fire!" Parks shouted loudly, "Pankala, Mook." Mortar bursts! The rest of the brothers stand back, hurry, hurry! He shouted loudly.

"Boom-" A mortar explosion exploded in the middle of the German troops. Pankala and Mook's first mortar hit a German machine-gun position, dumbing Huan's MG42 machine gun, which had just been yelling.

"Well done!" Boyle couldn't help but praise loudly, "Baby, it's really beautiful, you hit the German's MG42 in one shot, shit luck!" ”

But the Germans soon came to their senses, and Pax and they began to come under light rifle fire from across the road leading to the ferry. Their fire was heavy and intense, and it was clear that this was not something that a patrol could do. Parks quickly remembered what had happened to Winters in his previous life, and there must have been two companies of Germans here.

Although he did not know their exact location now, Parks could not take any chances, and he loudly ordered his brothers in the second platoon to retreat about two hundred meters along the route they had come, where they were out of sight of the Germans. This place is connected to another perpendicular ditch, which leads from the embankment to the river.

"Lutz, contact the battalion headquarters, we are now encountering a large force of the German army, about two companies are infiltrating us, and it is estimated that the target is the regimental headquarters. The German offensive could be launched at dawn today. Let this information be known to Captain Winters as soon as possible. The regimental headquarters still has a choice, take the initiative or be beaten passively! Parks beckoned to Lutz, and said.

"Got it!" Lutz quickly got in touch with the battalion headquarters. Winters was taken aback when he learned the news, and he asked to speak to Parks in person, he wanted to know more.

"Lacey, are you sure?" Winters asked.

"Yes, yes, we just exchanged fire with them, and judging by their firepower, there was at least one company with whom we were fighting. This is the company we found was infiltrating. There must have been Germans infiltrating before that. Dick, think about it, what are they doing this for? The regimental command, they definitely want to attack today! Parks spoke quickly, but he had to, and the situation was urgent.

"Alright, I'll contact Colonel Zink right away!" Winters showed his composure and decisiveness at this point, and the information revealed by this incident clearly showed the same as Parks' speculation. The Germans could well attack. Commander Zinke could also make a favorable decision to carry out a sudden and heavy artillery attack on the German positions before they could attack, completely disrupting their offensive plans and forcing them to rush into the attack.

Because the Germans were now ready to shoot and had to fire.

"Lutz, contact Welsh Lieutenant. Let him call a platoon of three brothers to hold the trench positions, and the Germans could launch a massive attack. Cheer up the brothers. Parks yelled at Lutz again! It was clear that the brothers in the first and third platoons could not spare their men to help themselves, the line they themselves had to hold on to was too long, and the German attack was likely to be tonight.

Parks stepped out of the ditch, then quietly watched between the two lines, his mind darting to think. The Germans were now hiding behind a strong berm of the road, while themselves and the second platoon were in a shallow ditch with no safe way out. It is clear that the Germans occupied favorable terrain.

The sky is already starting to lighten. Suddenly, there was a faint sound of artillery shelling between the southern lines of the 506th Regiment, and it was very dense, and the target of their bombardment was the southern part of the German army, which was preparing to attack. It is clear that Colonel Zinke has finally made a decision, and he began to strike preemptively, starting the operation before the Germans attacked.

Although it was still ten minutes of dawn and the observation of the point of impact of the shells was not very clear, the British did not spare the shells, and their bombardment was almost indiscriminate and intensive, and the shells were like raindrops, and such an intensive shelling, even during the operation in the market garden, was somewhat uncatchable.

The Germans behind the berm were obviously a little agitated by this situation, but they still did not move, but stayed more cautiously behind. The Germans hesitated, they knew that the artillery fire was not their own, it was the American army firing, which was completely different from the original design, and they did not dare to act rashly.

"Here they go!" Lieutenant Pikak climbed up to Parkes and said to him, "What do we do now?"

Parks took out his map, looked at it, and said to Pikak, "The Germans now have a favorable position, and they can use the causeway to flank us from both sides and destroy us. If they figure it out. Moreover, there was nothing to cover them on the south side of the riverbank, and the Germans could easily go down the road and go straight to the headquarters of the 2nd Battalion at Haimen. ”

"How many German troops are we going to face?" Pikak said with a frown.

"There may be two companies, and they go by boat through the crossing! It was intended to infiltrate this side, and then cooperate with the attack of the German 363rd Division to the regimental headquarters. It seems that they did, they infiltrated! Parks said.

Picard took a hard breath, it was clear that the last thing he wanted to hear was this, now he had only more than thirty men on his side, but he had to face two companies of German troops.

"So, tell me what you decide, Company Commander Parks!" Pikak sighed.

Parks took the map in his arms and whispered to Pikak, "We don't have a choice!" By this time, the sky had already brightened, and the situation on the embankment was clearly revealed. Parks motioned to Pikak, and the two slowly climbed back down the embankment.

Parks counted the number of people he had, 35 people. He beckoned to Lieutenant Pikak and Sergeant Tybert, "Come here, let's discuss, we're going to have to exchange fire with the Germans." ”

"it, boss!" Tybert used such a word at this time. Although Picard knew that many of the brothers in the row had called Parks that, he was still a little surprised when Tybert said it. He glanced at Tybert and didn't speak.

Parks didn't pay any attention to their expressions just now, and he arranged the task this time on the side, saying, "Taber, you lead the third squad to attack from the right flank. Picak led a squad attacking from the left flank. I led the second squad to attack from the middle. Boyle was told to fire machine guns between the columns. As a cover for our fire. "Got it, sir!" Tybert replied again, his lips pursed, his eyes began to twinkle, and it was clear that he was cheering himself up by calling out this sentence. It was as if the word "chief" was a guarantee of leading them to victory.

(To be continued)