The brothers of Company E were again reinforced, and their supplies came from the Germans. And they also gave a lot of medicine to the Bastone ambulance station. Captain Parks's combat report on the infiltration of the German army by night patrol had been forwarded to the regimental headquarters through Captain Winters, and this report surprised Colonel Zinke, although he believed in Parks' ability, how could he infiltrate the German line under such circumstances, and through the line of defense to attack the rear of the German army, obtain a large amount of material, and most importantly, also crush two German platoons. You know, Parks just led a platoon of patrols.

For this reason, Colonel Zinke specially called Captain Winters over and questioned him. But the answer he got was the same as in the report.

"It's incredible!" After listening to Captain Winters' report, Colonel Zinke couldn't help but smile on his face, after all, the large amount of material in front of him, as well as Captain Winters's testimony, all showed that this infiltration operation was really successful, and the success was incredible.

"I was worried about his medal a few days ago, but now it seems that I don't need to worry about that at all. What an amazing fellow, I think he'll get the highest honors! "Colonel Sink didn't mind in the slightest about awarding Parks another Medal of Honor, which was the honor of his regiment.

"I think he will feel very honored!" Captain Winters nodded, "We have solved a lot of problems, we are not short of material or even medical supplies now, and we have temporarily solved the problem of non-stop infiltration and shelling of us by the German army. It's just that we are short of ammunition now. ”

Colonel Sink nodded, "I know your difficulties, but we have to do our best to hold the line. Captain, many regiments and battalions were more difficult than yours, but they still insisted on staying on the line and did not compromise with the Germans in the slightest! ”

"I see!" Captain Winters nodded.

"Pray to God, if the weather improves, we will have air supplies and air support!" Colonel Sink finally said to Parks, "Please convey my greetings and respect to Captain Parkes, he is a very good soldier in the 101st Airborne Division. I'm looking forward to seeing him surprise me even more! ”

"I'm expecting him to surprise me even more!" When Nickerson was at the battalion headquarters, he couldn't help but tease when he heard Winters talk about his meeting with Colonel Zinck, "God, what kind of surprise did he want Lacey to bring him?" Lacey did everything a soldier could do! ”

"Colonel Zinke is a good intention!" Winters shook his head and smiled, and he made himself a cup of coffee.

"Of course, this can't be denied, maybe Lacey can really surprise people!" Captain Nickerson suddenly looked at Winters and smiled, "Maybe he can go further in his position and think of letting him come to the battalion headquarters?" ”

Captain Winters was stunned, he hadn't thought about this question for a while, but he had also worked as a staff officer at the battalion headquarters, but it was torture, and it would waste Parks' talent in commanding operations, which would only make him drown in a pile of papers and unable to do anything.

"No, no!" Winters was stunned, then shook his head and said, "I hope he can lead the troops, we don't have many people who can lead the troops now, think about it, if Lacey goes to the battalion headquarters, who will be his best replacement?" Peacock? No, this guy, I don't even want the platoon commander to let him do it. Hailig? He may be a good choice, but he doesn't have the creativity of Reis, and he may lead his brothers to victory, but the price will be much higher than Reis. Speirs? I didn't think about this, to be honest, he was a good candidate, brave in battle, charging forward, a good example for his brothers, but he could only increase the casualties of his brothers. Reis once said: The most important thing for us now is not to win, but to save the lives of our brothers. ”

"That's not easy!" Winters kept comparing himself, and then without mentioning a person, he couldn't help but shake his head, it was clear that he kept giving up on those candidates.

Captain Nickerson watched Captain Winters muttering to himself and then kept shaking his head to deny his proposed candidate, and couldn't help laughing, "Dick, I think you're in a strange circle!" ”

"What?" Winters was stunned for a moment, then looked at Nexon, who clearly didn't get it.

Nickerson looked at him seriously and said, "Do you know what your biggest problem is right now?" Lacey is indeed able to lead troops, and is much better than any officer, but you can't always compare Lacey's standards to others, and then you won't find a suitable replacement for Lacey. ”

When Winters heard this, he couldn't help but smile and said: "You're very right, there is only one company commander in the entire 101st Airborne Division, why do I have to ask others to be the same as him?" But—" He paused, then looked at Nickerson and smiled, "Why should we discuss the issue of him not being a company commander?" Isn't it good for him to continue to be a company commander? ”

Nickerson smirked, "Unless you think he'll be a company commander until the end of the war." Colonel Zinke would also apply for a Congressional Medal of Honor for him, and his eventual rank would be promoted, all of which would be a further condition for him to take up the position. Lacey will one day become a battalion commander, or even a higher position. ”

Winters nodded, and then he fell into deep thought. He didn't think about this problem, and sometimes he even wanted to recommend it directly to Colonel Zinke, so that he could replace him as the commander of the second battalion, and he could go to the regimental headquarters as a staff officer or transfer to other battalions as a battalion commander, but he didn't want to leave the second battalion, after all, there were his own brothers here. And Colonel Zink would certainly not have agreed, and Parks was even more reluctant to accept it.

"So what do we do?" Winters looked at Nexon.

Nickerson shook his head again and smiled: "You are wrong again, this kind of thing, I think Colonel Zinke or General Taylor will consider it." What we have to do is to facilitate and support each of Lacey's actions, or give him advice, provided that you let him explain to us first for each action. Otherwise we might miss out on the exciting part! ”

"Would you love to get involved?" Winters suddenly looked at Nickerson and laughed, "Don't even think about it, you're no longer fit to participate in the company's operations." You are now a captain, the deputy commander of the battalion headquarters. ”

"Well, Dick, I'm just thinking about it!" Nickerson smiled and raised his hands in a gesture of surrender.

Because of the improved conditions, there was another great victory, and there were no casualties among the brothers, and more importantly, although the German patrols were not interrupted, they no longer dared to penetrate deep into the line of E Company, and their artillery no longer bombarded the line of E Company with impunity. All this is realized, and the brothers of E Company are now in the best of their lives.

The day before Christmas, when Lee Gotte opened his eyes, he saw a very good sunshine, and it looked like the sun would be shining all the time today, and it would not just show his face for a moment. What's more, the sky has become very clear and no longer gray. This made him feel refreshed.

"It's been a long time since I've enjoyed such sunshine!" Legot swaggered out of the bunker, and then he sat down on a tree trunk, ready to enjoy the sunbath, and shouted at the other guy in the bunker, Sifudi, "Don't stay in it and get moldy, come out and enjoy the sun, I'm fed up with that gray ghost weather!" ”

At that moment, a head emerged from the bunker, and then an exclamation was heard: "Oh God, is it Christmas?" How do I feel that the sunlight is all colored! With that, Sifudi crawled out, and he stood by the mouth of the bunker with his rifle, and looked up at the sunlight in the sky, and couldn't help but marvel.

"I would never have imagined two years ago that I would have a Christmas in such a place, in such an environment, God, in my memory, Christmas is always a beautiful glittering Christmas tree, and delicious food and wine." Sifudi withdrew his gaze, then walked over to Li Gaot and said, "How did you spend Christmas?" ”

Li Gaot smiled: "I first make a cup of coffee with snow, and then open a bottle of brandy, this is what I got yesterday, it tastes good, I have tasted it!" Then I thought about the beautiful lady in Paris, and then nestled in the bunker to solve my physiological needs. ”

"Oh God, you're saying you're going to solve the surname problem yourself?" Xifudi couldn't help but exclaim, he was about to express his great opinion to Li Gaote, when he suddenly saw Li Gaote's face change slightly, and then raised his head and looked at the sky!

There was a faint "buzzing" sound in the sky, it was an airplane!

"Damn, hurry up and get out of cover!" Legotte let out a yell, and then ran quickly towards the cover, and they saw a group of planes flying towards them in the distance in the dark sky.

"Airplane!" Obviously, someone also spotted the sudden plane in the sky, and at this time, Sifudi grabbed Li Gaote and laughed: "Make our plane, God, our plane!" ”

"Still smoke bombs, damn it, hurry up, they must have come to send us supplies!" Leegot to his senses, pulled out a smoke bomb, and ran towards the outer edge of the woods, pushing the smoke bomb far away. Not far from them, puffs of red smoke rose and filled the woods, in the clearing outside the trees.

"God, our planes!" Someone was shouting with joy.

One of the brothers ran out of the woods, waving their arms into the sky, shouting at the flying swarm. And more brothers are flying in the direction of Bastogne.

The sky was full of mountains about to set, bundles of material falling with parachutes over Bastone.

"Our supplies have arrived!" Parks burst out of cover, and then he stood next to it, watching as the material falling from the sky continued to fall behind the lines, and some on Baston.

"We can finally open fire on the Germans!" Wales also rushed to Parkes's side at this time, with a stupid expression, to be honest, during the period of being suppressed by the Germans, everyone in Company E was full of resentment towards the Germans.

"Yes, we can shell the Germans, but we still have to be careful with them. Because we don't have an advantage! Parks said and patted Wales on the shoulder and said, "Okay, let's go to the battalion headquarters, tomorrow is Christmas, the Germans won't let us have a peaceful Christmas, we have to prepare early!" ”

(To be continued)