The second German offensive was separated by a long time. This also gave the brothers of E-Company a long time to prepare. They included a lot of sticky explosives, which, to be honest, were a very good addition to anti-tank weapons when they were in short supply.

"Martin was like a wooden stake that had been overturned, his butt fell to the ground, and he said to me, 'It's okay.' I didn't believe him, his ass was already swollen like a woman's plump boobs. Sergeant Lenny witnessed the whole process of the bull Landaumann blowing up the German tank, and he proudly spread the message among the brothers, "Like the captain said, that thing really works." Big bull, if you do it again, will you miss? Ranny said as he yelled at the bull who was lying in front of him.

"Watch your defense!" The bull Landauman bit his cigar and looked at him angrily. At that time, the situation was indeed very dangerous, almost at the last moment, he blew up the tank, if it was any longer, Martin or himself would have been killed by the Germans, and it would definitely not be as easy and pleasant as Lenny said.

"You'd better check the field manual, I've always thought it was made up by the captain himself. Do you have one? Lenny looked at Meliot and said, "Have you seen that?" ”

Meliot shook her head. Lenny looked at Da Niu and Martin again, they both shook their heads, it was clear that even if the field manual was handed out, few people would actually want to read it. That's purely self-promising. These GIs, even if they are idle, are much better at reading pornographic pictorials or hero cartoons than reading field manuals.

"Looks like I'll have to find a copy of that stuff in the future, maybe I'll be able to use it!" Lenny muttered, but it seemed to him that Captain Parks had undoubtedly surprised them again.

"I don't want to be able to enter Berlin after this fight, Hitler is going to be captured by us, what else do we want to do with that?" Martin shook his head and made a joke, "If you really want to, maybe it would be a good idea to find Webster, that guy likes to collect books, but he's at the ambulance station right now." ”

Positional manuals, this may just be a reason created by Captain Parkes, no one can find a field manual on them, and no one remembers what is written in the field manual? In their minds, they are nothing more than books full of nonsense. What's more, most of them are from different classes, and many of them are low-level laborers, and there are not many people who can read, and they are not interested in spending time on a manual. But everyone wanted to believe that this thing was not originally in the field manual, but something that Captain Parks had created himself, which came from a kind of confidence in Parks, and they became a little blind.

Captain Winters came to the line of E Company in the middle of the German attack, talked with Captain Parks about his views on the German attack, and then left, and he took the back company to assist in the defense of F Company, where the defense line was almost broken by the Germans in the morning. Despite their advantage in the Parkes bunkers, German tanks roamed their lines.

"Okay, that's how you said it was?" Captain Winter watched Parks unscrew a sock full of explosives with lube, and couldn't help but laugh, "Looks like I'm going to have to read the field manual, too!" ”

Winters deliberately borrowed this method of blowing up tanks. Company E held the line and blew up the German tanks, which turned out to be their "secret" weapon.

F Company was destroyed several bunkers by German tanks and artillery, and four people were killed, more than a dozen were wounded, if it were not for the role of bunkers, I am afraid that the casualties would be far more than that, the Germans this time put two companies of offensive forces on the E Company defense line, and three companies of offensive forces on the F Company defense line. They made F Company the focal point for opening the gap, and all the artillery was fired at F Company, rather than on the opposite side of E Company's defensive line. After all, in the defense line of Company E, they suffered a big loss and had to show a cautious attitude again and again.

The Germans finally attacked at 3:45 p.m. They didn't take as long as the brothers of Company E to prepare, but Major Trischel was a little undecided. He knew that the focus of the German offensive had shifted, that is, as long as he dragged Company E here, he had basically completed the task, but for him, it basically meant defeat. The change in the defensive line of the main attack indicates that the upper commanders have lost trust in him.

Anyway, the offense still has to be done, even if it's for show, and it's nice to go a little deeper. So it was in such a state of mind that the Germans began to attack Company E. As a result, this attack has been delayed for a long time from the time of the previous attack.

Major Treschel knew about the inadequacy of E Company's anti-tank weapons this time, and he could not let the tank go to E Company to die. The tank, which was not far from the line of E-Company, providing fire support for the German offensive, did not dare to move any further. But such fire support is obviously much thinner, and can only cause trouble.

The battle was not very fierce, and the Germans often rushed to the edge of the woods, and then used the cover of the trees to shoot at the Americans, who did not want to advance and did not dare to advance. After all, if you enter the range of crossfire from the bunker, then there is little hope of survival, in the absence of tank cover. On the contrary, this kind of shooting at the US troops using a big tree as a cover was able to save his life and he was indeed attacking, and he did not violate the orders of the officers.

And the officers no longer urged the soldiers to charge forward without their lives, they knew that it was futile to do so, and on the battlefield of the entire E Company, there was a strange situation, saying that it was an offensive battle, but both armies were firing at each other under cover, and the Germans refused to move forward. It is said that it was trench warfare, the Germans did not have trenches, they were only at a disadvantage with the help of the cover of big trees.

"What the hell are the Germans doing?" The Welsh lieutenant watched the German attack and couldn't help but say to Parks in a bit of a daze, "This is a strange phenomenon, the first time I've seen such a battle!" ”

"Me too!" Parks nodded with a smile and said, "The Germans may be just carrying out the order now, not thinking about the results of the order, I believe they will push it down soon." We all stay in bunkers, don't attack, it's no longer necessary. This time Parks decisively did not attack, first, the Germans were outnumbered, and second, there was not much favorable situation to take advantage of. They just have to withstand the defensive line.

While Parks and Wales were discussing, they suddenly saw the German tank "boom", the flames soared, and it was destroyed there, and then the German troops hiding behind the trees and shooting at the brothers of E Company retreated like a tide, and from the woods on the side came a heavy roar and the sound of shells being fired.

"God, it's the Sherman Chariot, it's our Sherman Chariot!" Malachi was the first to shout. Then there was the cheers of the entire E Company. After holding out here for so many days, they finally saw another American army, an American armored unit, arrive, which meant that they would no longer be isolated.

"Thank God!" Parks yelled, then patted Wales on the arm and said, "Harry, it's our turn!" With that, he ran out of cover and shouted through the entire line of E-Company, "Guys, hit hard, don't relax, this is our chance." Hurry up, Christenson, and don't let your machine guns stop and shoot at those sons of bitches! ”

The armored divisions of the American army have finally appeared. But they even almost missed Bastone. On the afternoon of December 25, the Allied 4th Panzer Division crossed the German lines after a four-day long march and reached the vicinity of Bastogne. Its vanguard was the 37th Tank Battalion and the 53rd Armored Infantry Battalion. At about 3 p.m. on December 26, they met at an intersection on their way to Seabright. Creighton, the commander of the two armies? Lieutenant Colonel Abrams and George? Lieutenant Colonel Jacques ordered the troops to halt their advance, and here they discussed the next plan of action.

Both men were skeptical about the prospects after crossing Seabright. They feared that an excessive advance would lead to their troops being surrounded by the Germans, and that they would also lose contact with the follow-up forces.

"Maybe we should stop!" Lieutenant Colonel Jacques said to Lieutenant Colonel Abrams.

"That's hard to say!" Lieutenant Colonel Abrams was a little hesitant, he wanted to rush forward, but he was also worried about being besieged by the Germans, after all, there were still the main German defenders in Seabright.

While the two were deliberating, a C-47 was flying low-altitude to Bastogne, and the two immediately realized that rescuing Bastoni was more important than crossing Seabright. Abrams' troops led the way in front, and at dusk at sunset, 6 Sherman tanks were in Charles? Under the command of Lieutenant Boggs, he headed towards Ascens and quickly crossed Asenos, beginning the road through a forest on the outskirts of the town.

When Lieutenant Boggs's 2nd batch of tanks was passing through the forest, Lieutenant Colonel Abrams, who was sitting on the tanks, was the chief of operations - William? Captain Dwight ordered the tanks to drive down the road and machine-gun the Germans in the forest. The U.S. infantry jumped out of their vehicles, quickly cleared the roads of mines, and then jumped into their vehicles to catch up with the vanguard.

The first to meet Lieutenant Boggs's tank formation was the 326th Airborne Engineer Battalion, which was attacking a German pillbox, but when their attack was thwarted, suddenly the German pillbox was destroyed with a loud bang. A hundred yards from their edge of the forest, a tank formation of Sherman tanks roared towards them. The turret door of one of the leading tanks had been opened, and an American soldier was waving at them.

"Sheman Tank, oh, so beautiful!" This was the first reaction of the attacking Americans, and then they let out a loud cheer, and after many days of hard fighting, they finally saw an American armored unit appear in front of them.

At 4:30 p.m., Lieutenant Boggs's tank formation set out again, and they had follow-up troops to carry out a sweep of the enemy on part of the Bastone line of the 101st Airborne Division, and they coincidentally appeared on the battlefield where the Germans attacked the lines of E Company and F Company.

The Germans retreated quickly, not only did their attack on Company E quickly collapse, but also on the rear flank, the attack on Company F was also joined by the American armored formation, which made them no longer have any hope, and their attack was repulsed again, thus hastily ending the attack, and what awaits them is how to think about holding their own defensive line.

At 4:50 p.m. on December 16, 1944, the German encirclement of Bastoni was completely broken. The 37th Tank Battalion, led by Lieutenant Colonel Abrams, was in the vanguard and broke through the enemy lines. The 101st Division was finally relieved.

(To be continued)