"I hope you can give me a very good idea!" Winters frowned when Parks came in, "We're going to find a few solutions, so I'd like to hear from you as well." At present, the integration of new recruits and veterans will be the key to our problems, and we must negotiate a solution. Tell us your opinion! ”

Parks was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "This is indeed a big problem. Then he looked around at the guys who were sitting or standing, and said, "What do you guys think?" ”

"Dick vetoed it!" Wales shrugged his shoulders, "He can't come up with any good ideas himself." You're the only one who hasn't expressed his opinion, so he sees you as a savior! ”

"That's his anxiety at work!" Parks made a joke and nodded, "Actually, it's a pretty simple question. ”

"Simple?" Everyone stared at him.

"Yes, we need to find the cause first before we can make a judgment, right?" Parks raised his hands in a gesture of surrender and smiled, "Don't look at me like that. ”

"No, no, we're not going to interrupt you, tell me what you think!" Winters nodded, he knew that there was a reason for any situation, and it was right to find the cause and prescribe the right medicine, maybe he was a little too anxious as Parks said, and thus lost some judgment, resulting in the current helpless situation.

Parks nodded, then pondered, "Actually, it's just my judgment. The veterans had all come together from the Takoya barracks from Company E. They had trained together for two years, especially in the Battle of Normandy, where they struggled between life and death, helping together, staying in a foxhole together, and starving or scurrying like a gopher by a German bomb. So...... So in their eyes, only old brothers have the kind of brotherhood that has been tested by blood and fire. And the recruits have to behave, and now it will seem very naïve to them. ”

"Yes, yes, that's it!" Wales waited for Parks to start, and immediately responded, "Especially when the veterans hear the recruits' longing and yearning for the battlefield from time to time, they will have a disdainful mentality, thinking that they are too pediatric!" I agree with Parks! ”

Pickak and Compton also nodded, as they felt about the recruits.

"So—" Winters coughed dryly, "are there any specific suggestions?" ”

Parks shrugged his shoulders, then spread his hands and said, "You're stumped me!" ”

Winters looked around, and everyone said they couldn't do anything.

"Do you have to let these new guys go to battle before you can gain the trust of those old brothers?" Winters frowned again and said, "If we can't solve this problem before the battle, when we really fight the Germans in the future, we will lose our own brothers." ”

"I believe that the old brothers of E Company also understand this truth, but they already have a noble posture, and it is difficult to let go of it now." Nickerson nodded, "No one wants to let go of the arrogance and arrogance that they have cultivated in the bitter battle!" ”

Everyone stayed quietly in the company, and they all fell into deep thought, trying to find a way. Although it seems to be just a matter of merging the two teams, it is not easy to find a way to do it that seems to work well.

"Ahem!" Winters suddenly coughed dryly, and then said, "Listen, guys, maybe I have a good idea, but it's a bit risky, and I'd like to hear your opinions." ”

"Say it, Dick!" Several people said to him, and they were full of anticipation.

"I brought some live ammunition from Normandy." As soon as Winters spoke, everyone was stunned. Once the ammunition had been delivered to the front, it was not allowed to be brought back to Britain without permission.

"Okay, don't look at me like that." Winters smiled wryly, "I brought it back secretly. Because I thought I'd be able to use these things one day. ”

Wales nodded and said, "Well, the question is, what are you going to do?" Training with live ammunition? ”

"Yes, Harry!" Winters nodded, "By training with live ammunition, we give the veterans and recruits the feeling that they are under fire, and make them feel like they are advancing under the attack of the Germans." Saying that, he nodded and looked at the company's humanity: "I know it's very risky to do this, but this is really the best way to fuse E company." ”

"Let them build a brotherhood in the midst of artillery fire?" Parks felt that Winters' idea was very good, but the stakes were also very high, because it was a life-threatening situation for the brothers in training. What's more, this kind of live-fire training will not be approved by the superiors, and if something goes wrong, then Winters will be fully responsible.

"Yes, that's the best I can think of!" Winters nodded.

"No, no, Dick, you can't be stupid!" Nickerson had to interrupt him at this point, and he tried to get him to change his mind, "That's too bad, you give up!" ”

"What better way could you think of? Nick! Winters looked at Nickerson, looking a little helpless.

"But it's not worth risking yourself for this!" Nickerson shook his head, "And you're putting your brothers in danger too, and if there's a casualty, it's going to chill your brothers." ”

Still a little stubborn, Winters looked out the window, where there were a few veterans: "Nick, look at the veterans outside." They are now lazy, arrogant, impulsive, and empty-eyed, as if they had come back from the great work of everyone in Normandy, and did not take everything into account. This state of affairs is absolutely not good, if we do not change them, sooner or later they will have to eat the guns of the Germans. ”

Nickerson and everyone looked out the window, and there was an old soldier holding a bottle of wine. It's a little drunk.

"This seems to be me, too!" Nickerson smiled a little embarrassedly, "Okay, I can't talk about you, but I still want to advise you to think about it." ”

Winters nodded, "I'm going to think about it, but I'm going to think about how to make a good plan in training, which is a guarantee that they won't be injured or injured due to mistakes." ”

Everyone said no more, because this plan did have a great effect, but Winters was bent on carrying it out, so he could only try to improve it in the implementation plan to avoid tragedy.

But this plan was still known to Colonel Zinke, who sent the officer on duty to call Captain Winters to the company headquarters.

"Do you need to explain?" Colonel Zinke was calm, "You want live-fire training?" ”

"Yes, sir!" Winters nodded, he was also calm, once he decided to do it, he had to be brave enough to do it. Unless Colonel Zinke expressed his unequivocal opposition and ordered him to stop.

"Dick, I know it's a good idea!" Colonel Zinke's answer was somewhat surprising to Winters, "It's a great way for the recruits to train. ”

"Thank you, sir!" Winters said this from the heart. He didn't expect Colonel Zink to agree, but it was clear that Colonel Zinke hadn't finished his sentence.

"It's just, there's a lot of risk involved, you know?" Zink lit a cigar.

"I know!"

"Well, you have to come up with a good way to deal with the risks that may arise. This is my basic requirement! ”

"I see, we've got a plan!" Winters began to look excited.

Colonel Zinke nodded, and was stunned for a moment before saying to Winters: "Dick, I know that you are not an impulsive person in doing things, and you are also very careful, which is your strength. But now in the entire 101st Division, only your company exercises with live ammunition, the division headquarters may not allow it, so I can only ...... this matter Pretend not to know. ”

Winters suddenly understood, it turned out that Colonel Zinke called him over, not to choose for or against, but to tell himself: You want live ammunition training? Okay, but don't get involved with me, I'm not going to be responsible for your impulsiveness.

"Alright, sir, this is what I will do myself!" Winters nodded, then saluted Colonel Zink before turning back to the company.

Despite such an unpleasant experience, Winters decided to stick with such a plan. So after a company training session, Winters began to address his brothers.

"E Company brothers, form a conversation formation!" Standing on the hood of a jeep at the training ground, Wales waved loudly to his brothers, "Come here, all of you hurry up." ”

Everyone gathered around, and then Wales jumped down and gave way to Captain Winters.

Winters stood on the hood of the car, cleared his throat and said, "From tomorrow onwards, our training plan has changed. We will conduct live-fire training. ”

As soon as Winters's words fell, there was a stirring in the crowd, and it was obvious that these guys, whether they were veterans or newcomers, were shocked by the news, which meant that every time they trained, they had to concentrate 100%, otherwise, they would be hit by the temptation and die. The veterans of Company E had fought and had trained with live ammunition, but now it was time to recuperate after the war, and Winters's move undoubtedly made them highly nervous again.

The recruits had different expressions, some were excited, some were excited, and some felt it was an adventure.

"Live-fire training? Does this mean that we may also lose our lives in live ammunition? Miller couldn't help but ask a little worriedly, "Or will we be killed by our own guns and bullets before we go to war and be killed by the Germans?" ”

"yes, at least that's what we're hearing about this crazy training program right now." Heflon nodded and smiled, "But I like this kind of training, I can find the feeling of killing Germans!" ”

"God!" Miller looked at Captain Winters and couldn't help but moan.

"Everyone will have another training briefing, I hope the brothers can follow the briefing, otherwise you will lose your own life!" Winters exclaimed, "We'll do this from tomorrow, disband!" ”

(To be continued)