"E Company a row of brothers assemble!" Sergeant Tybert shouted loudly. Then several sergeants in the company were greeting the brothers of the platoon. Gradually, they converged in one of the largest squares in town.

"Oh, don't tell me, it's a signal to be ready to go." Kaber muttered as he stood in line, "Didn't we just pull off last night?" Don't the people in the division know how tired we are? ”

"Shut up, Kaber, it doesn't make sense to say this." Martin couldn't help but interject as he passed by Kaber.

The brothers of the entire Company of E had gathered, and they lined up and watched as Winters walked to a table at the front of the line, followed by several officers such as Parks, Wales, and Nexon.

"It's all hard work, and I want to tell you that from tomorrow we will enter the defensive positions south of Carrington, so I ask everyone to stay in this town as much as possible and not cause trouble." Winters then nodded at Parks, and turned sideways for him to come over and stand on the stage, "Second Lieutenant Parks has something to announce. ”

"I hope it's a good thing!" Jost muttered.

The brothers of E-Company were a little drumming in their hearts, after all, the first news announced by Winters was not good news. They now have a deep resentment towards the so-called news, almost reflexively. After all, since the D day, for E Company, they have always been constantly accepting all kinds of orders and participating in all kinds of battles.

"Landowman, Martin, Gunnere, White, Durkman, Siffordi, Peccandy, Tybert, Toy, Gordon and Leegotte. All the brothers whose names I pronounced remained, and the rest disbanded! Parks didn't make any announcements, he just read a long list of names and disbanded the group.

"What the hell?" Paikanti muttered.

The hearts of all the people who were called by name suddenly felt as if something was about to happen. Apparently there must be something, and it's not a good job. They all awaited further clarification from Parkes.

"Over to you!" Winters nodded at Parks, then motioned for Nickerson and Wales to leave.

"Dick!" Parks stopped him and handed over a piece of paper, "This is the material I need, basically our division headquarters can make it up, and I will leave before two o'clock in the afternoon." ”

Winters took it and looked at it, it was all some standing equipment, it should not be difficult to get it together, and nodded and said, "Okay, I'll get it all and give it to you before you leave!" Then he patted Parks on the shoulder and left with Nickerson and the others.

"Alright GIs, come here, we have a mission." Parks let out a loud shout.

The brothers who stayed behind looked at each other, and they looked like they were.

"What a mission, sir!" The big bull Landowman shouted.

Parks smiled slightly, "Save Private Nilander." Daniel! ”

Everyone was stunned, then looked at Parks in a daze.

"Sir, are you going to let us save a guy named Niland?" "Or let's go back to our positions and fight the Germans?" You know, we're only a dozen of us now, and it's useless at all. ”

Parks nodded, "Alright, brothers, let me tell you why." Bob? Nieland was a private in the 82nd Division, who was captured by the Germans in a battle. He was held in a prisoner of war camp of the German Sixth Parachute Regiment that was now confronting us. ”

"But what does this have to do with us?" Lee Gott muttered.

"Yes, it has nothing to do with us, before this, I didn't even know that there was such a guy as Nilander in this world, and I don't care if he was captured or not. But brothers, now it's with us! Parks looked at Legot, and then saw that everyone was looking at him, so he nodded, "This guy has three brothers, one is D Company named Fritz?" Nielander, I'm sure you've heard the name, was killed by the Germans during a night march, a brother who was a platoon leader died on Utah Beach that day, and another brother who was a pilot in the Burma-India theater of operations was killed this week. That is, all three of his brothers were killed, and he himself was captured by the Germans. ”

"But, sir, what kind of task is this?" Sifudi raised his hand and asked a question.

Parks didn't answer his question directly, but continued, "So Bob? Niland's mother received 3 death notification telegrams from the War Department on the same day. Therefore, in order to avoid Niland's mother receiving a fourth death telegram, the people at the War Department decided on a foolish mission. ”

"Oh my God, it's not going to be for us to go to the damn German POW camp and get that guy back, right?" Li Gaote couldn't help but pat his forehead in annoyance, looking very frustrated.

"Congratulations, got it right, Legot." Parks nodded, "But there is no prize." ”

"Sir!" Sifudi raised his hand again.

"Is there anything to ask? Just ask, Sifudi. Parks nodded at him.

"Excuse me, can we question this operation, or do we have questions?" Sifodi asked a question that all the GIs here wanted to ask, and then they all looked at Parks eagerly.

Parks looked at him, then smiled, "Okay, I'll try to explain it to you." Please let us know if you have any questions. ”

"Well, can we refuse this task?" Sifudi seemed to have mustered up a lot of courage, "Everyone knows that this mission is no different from suicide. ”

Parks smiled slightly, and then replied: "Well, you can refuse to carry out this mission, but the premise is that I must refuse this mission from the company headquarters, then the company headquarters will refuse the regimental headquarters, then the regimental headquarters will refuse the division headquarters, and finally the division headquarters will refuse the army headquarters. And so on, but I think that General Taylor of the division headquarters would not refuse the War Department, and who else has a problem? ”

Sifodi hung his head in annoyance. At this time, someone raised his hand again, and it was Li Gaot.

"What I want to say is that the 101st Division has many regiments, and the regimental headquarters also has nine companies, why did they choose Company E?" Legot looked at Parks and said loudly.

"I also wonder why. So I asked Company Commander Winters the same question. Want to hear what Company Commander Winters had to say? Parks looked at their eager eyes and smiled, "Captain Winters relayed the words of Colonel Zinke, and Colonel said: Company E is the best company of the 506th Regiment, so it is also the best company of the 101st Division, because the 506th Regiment is the best regiment of the 101st Division. That's it. ”

"Why choose us?" Martin finally couldn't help but interject, he'd been listening to it all along.

Parks nodded and said, "That's a great question, I also asked Winters Company Commander like this, and he told me: Parks, I can't think of a second person to lead this mission besides you." Now I have to pass this on to you: Guys, out of you, I really can't think of anyone else for this task. Are you satisfied with this answer? ”

Everyone couldn't help but burst into laughter, and Xifudi muttered: "That is, there is no choice?" ”

Parks nodded and said solemnly, "Yes, Sifudi, we have no choice. Okay, pack your things, we'll leave at 2 p.m., and I'll have a detailed report to you then. Disband! ”

And the people scattered in all directions. To be honest, morale is not very high. They were passive and sloppy about the suicidal task, but they didn't refuse, because it was a mission and had to be carried out.

"Hey, Toy, you've got a mission?" Kaber looked at Joe? Toy walked up from the square and accosted him.

Toy was not in a good mood, nodded and said impatiently, "Yes, yes, is there anything else?" ”

"Oh, no!" Kaber didn't give in sideways, then looked at Tabort who was following him and said, "Did he eat gunpowder?" Or did someone provoke him? ”

"You're the one who provoked him. Cobb! Tybert walked past him with a blank face.

"You're dead! Cobb! Li Gaote, who came from behind, made a design gesture with his hand, and then winked at him, "Maybe you want to taste the taste of the tiger ring in his hand?" ”

"Hey, what's wrong with me?" Kaber spread his hands and said dissatisfiedly to the others, "Who did I provoke?" Why did you do this to me? ”

"If you shut up, nothing will happen to you!" White had never been very happy with Caber, and the two of them hadn't faced each other since Caber had killed the Frenchman by mistake.

"What the hell is going on?" Bloe was also a little curious about them, and after being left behind by Parks, they were like this, and it was certain that it was not a comfortable task.

"I don't know, why don't you ask yourself?" Malachi, who was beside him, said to him.

Bloy nodded, but didn't speak, he looked at them a little distracted.

The morning hours are at their disposal. A couple of them went to get a haircut and then hung up their beards. Martin was writing a letter, and he wanted to write a letter to his family. After all, for this mission, they all think that it is nine deaths.

"Here's what you'll need, a bar, two M1 sniper rifles, isn't this thing easy to get, smoke grenades, flashlights, radios, anything else that needs to be added?" Winters laid out the equipment in a warehouse, then looked at Parks, "And the Englishman's Stern MK2S submachine gun, this one was painstakingly obtained by Colonel Zinke." ”

"That's all!" Parks nodded, this is basically the simplest special operations equipment for a sergeant, but now it can only be like this, "Okay, thank you, Winters." ”

"Do you need me to talk to my brothers?" Winters asked, looking at Parks.

"No," Parks laughed, "I would be upset even if I were given such a task, but don't worry, Dick, they are very disciplined soldiers. ”

"Okay!" Winters was about to say something.

At this time, a group of people appeared at the door of the warehouse, and Winters saw that it was the soldier named by Parks. None of them were left behind, and they arrived on time.

(To be continued)