Chapter 249: Life and Death
"Damn it!" Doctor Luo shook his dizzy head, feeling a person pressing heavily on his body, and then turned over from him and yelled at him loudly: "Doctor, you have to take care of yourself, don't blindly rush forward, beware of bombs!" β
It was Lip's voice, and then he was pulled up. He threw himself on the snow and said gratefully, "Thank you, Lipp!" With that, he continued to rush towards Carson.
"I don't want to die here, I don't want to die here!" Cabaster sat trembling in the bunker, his hands clasping his shoulders tightly, and her rifle tossed aside. His face was pale and he was cowering. Obviously, a recruit like him was almost frightened in the face of such a fierce bombardment. He kept muttering the words, the only comfort he could give himself.
"You'd better pray to God!" Donnet, who was hiding in a bunker with him, yelled at him, he couldn't get used to seeing this guy as timid as a mouse, even though he was a recruit, but when he first participated in the Battle of Carrington, although he was also scared, he didn't charge forward the same way. And when his friend Brown was killed, he vowed to train himself to be a hard-hearted man, and that he should not be soft on the Germans, and that he should not be afraid of the Germans.
"Boom!" With a loud bang, the wood covered by their bunker was overturned quite a bit, and some of the wood fell directly and smashed into the bunker, and Donnatt pulled over the cabast, who no longer knew how to move. A thick piece of wood smashed into the spot where Kabaster had just taken it. Their bunkers were in the open.
"Damn, are you going to kill me?" Donnatt grabbed Cabaster by the collar, shoved him against the dirt wall of the bunker, and spat at him.
"No, no, we're done, our bunkers are finished. Sergeant, let's run away! "Cabaster panicked, he didn't know what to do now, he just wanted to escape from this place, he felt very unsafe without the cover cover, he had to run to the bunker next to Stenson, which was still intact.
Kabaster didn't hesitate, he wanted to get out of here immediately, he got up desperately, crawled out of the bunker, and was about to run towards the bunker next to him. But his move surprised Donnat. If he runs out of cover at this time, it is obvious what the consequences will be, this is to be expected, he couldn't help but curse: "Fool from the countryside! Then they chased after him, trying to get him back.
"Stop, damn it, come back!" Donnatt yelled at him, grabbed him from behind, and was about to pull him back to cover when suddenly a bomb fell from the sky.
"God, I was killed by this guy!" Donnatt let out a final cry, and he saw the bomb fall three meters away from him like a huge meteorite, and the body of the bomb was almost completely buried in the snow. He barely had time to think before he was about to knock Kabaster down, but the bomb fell to the ground, only stayed for two seconds, and then with a "boom", a huge wave of air lifted the two of them into the air, and with the split of their limbs, the two of them fell heavily to the ground.
"Doctor...... Bear. After Donnatt fell heavily to the ground, he watched as Cabaster made a dull sound like a bag of potatoes thrown off his shoulder, and then remained motionless. He tried to call the doctor, but all he could do was a phlegm-like sound in his throat, followed by a gush of blood gushing out of his mouth.
His eyes began to dilute, and he gradually felt the coldness of the snow, he felt that he was very cold, and it became very light, so that he couldn't help but want to hug his body, but he couldn't move, his consciousness gradually blurred, and his eyes slowly became dark, he heard someone calling his name, in the blurred image, it seemed to be the appearance of Doctor Luo, and his loud shouting.
"Brownβ" Donnatt tried to summon his friend, and the images flashed through his mind: life at Taco's barracks, falling in the blazing sky of Normandy, charging Brown towards Carrington, Brown's desperate eyes, and the letter fluttering in the wind in his hand...... Then there was a bang, and everything fell silent in the dark.
"Damn, what's wrong with him?" Someone shouted loudly, it was Lip's voice.
"He's got wounds everywhere, the arteries in his thighs were cut, damn it, I couldn't find it, he was dressed too thickly!" It was Doctor Luo's voice, anxious and unwilling.
"Look at me, look at me, Donnet, you're going to be fine, hold on, damn it, you're going to hold on!" Another voice was shouting anxiously and frantically, it was Hubler's.
Doctor Luo tore open his clothes, then examined the wounds on his body, and kept wiping the blood from the hideous wounds on his body: "Hubole, help me press it, hurry up, press the wound on my chest!" β
"Doctor!" Lip pressed the artery in Donnat's neck and suddenly yelled at Dr. Law.
"Hurry up, I'm going to find the wound on his thigh!" Doctor Luo roared.
"Doctor, he's dead!" Lip yelled at Dr. Law, then sat down on the ground as they dragged Donnat into his own bunker to give first aid, but it was all in vain.
", grass, grass!" Doctor Luo suddenly put the blood-stained gauze on the ground, and then sat down on the ground in the bunker like a wooden carving, his face pale and terrible.
One shell killed two people. Kabaste's head was cut in half by shrapnel, and when it was lifted into the air, he was already dead, and he fell down as a corpse. Donnat was covered in shrapnel, and in several places the shrapnel directly severed the arteries. This is the second time Donnatt has been injured, but he never got another chance to get injured.
"Oh my God!" Hubl covered his face with his hands and sat down in the bunker with a dejected expression. His gaze was glazed.
Sergeant Donnatt is a veteran from the Tacoya Barracks. He had been with his brothers since he stepped into the barracks for training, and although he had sometimes committed the taboos of his brothers, he did come to be called a brave man, and he proved himself to be the brother of all people with e-faces. He has experienced countless battles, large and small, and has a lot of experience, but in this ice and snow, in the eyes of his comrades, he died helplessly. His brothers were left with only bouts of grief.
I don't know when the bombing ended, and the people who stayed in this bunker were the first to see the first rays of sunlight after dawn, and the top cover of the bunker was torn off by the bomb, and the sunlight easily shone on everyone's face. The German planes did not dare to appear during the day, the sky during the day was Allied, and the night was the time for them to haunt.
Captain Parks walked a little hard in the snow, he walked slowly, but he still had to report yesterday's situation to Captain Winters. Yesterday's bombing blinded all the brothers. The joyous atmosphere that had been built up for several days was bombed overnight, and they all stayed quietly in their bunkers, except for Sergeants Timbert and Lipp patrolling the defensive line, and constantly urging the non-commissioned officers of the platoon to take care of their brothers.
"Donnatt and Cabaster are dead, Carson, Mook, Pankara and Webster are injured, but their injuries are not serious, and they will be fine after a day or two at the first aid post." Captain Parks felt a little cold, and he stood stiffly, reporting to Winters and Nickerson, who were sitting in the ventilated sheds around the battalion headquarters.
"Kabaster was killed directly, and Donnat was cut by shrapnel! Lipp was still alive when they found him, and he was wearing too much to find an artery to stop the wound, so he didn't hold on. Parks looked gloomy.
"Lacey, even if you knew, it wouldn't help." Nickerson looked at Parks and comforted, "The arteries are cut, and it's all over." β
"Sit down!" Captain Winters motioned for Parks to sit down, then brought the coffee brewed in the jar, handed it to Parks, and said, "Here's a little, it's just brewed, and it's useful to you!" β
Parks nodded, then took it, sighed softly, "Donnat is a veteran of the Tacoya Barracks. β
"I know!" Captain Winters nodded.
"Now every veteran is a valuable asset of E Company, and the brotherhood between veterans is also very deep." Parks continued, "They love each other, trust each other, and even sacrifice their lives for each other. But it is true that there are fewer and fewer such veterans now. The veterans who came out of Takoya, those who were wounded and left the team, those who were killed, and those who were transferred, are now not many in the company. Dick, I used to think I could survive this, butβbut now, I can't bear to see the veterans leave one by one, it's so hard! β
"I know!" Winters nodded, feeling the same way himself. Although he is now the battalion commander, he has never given up his concern for E Company, he especially cares about those veterans, those veterans who have been with him since training, they are the real spiritual pillar of E Company, and they are the support of all the brothers who joined later. If one day the veterans can't stand the collapse and collapses, then the blow to morale will be devastating and unbearable.
"Have a good talk with your brothers!" Winters couldn't think of any words to comfort Parks, because he was in the same mood as Parks, full of helplessness.
"I know. Now I need to see how badly we've been damaged, and I've got to urge them to get their bunkers back in place, I've got to make sure now! Parks stood up, nodded at Winters and Nickerson, and headed outside.
"Lacey!" Winters stopped him.
"What?" Parks stopped in the doorway and turned to look at Captain Winters.
"The non-commissioned officers are indispensable to Company E, and it is they who hold veterans and recruits together as a company. I suggest you talk to the non-commissioned officers first, and then they do the rest, I believe that in E Company, emotions are not the worst, after all, they just need to know that you are still a company commander. β
Captain Parks nodded, and walked out. He knew Captain Winters was right.
(To be continued)