When the equipment for the second battalion arrived, Parks asked to bring the equipment for training, which many of his brothers thought was unnecessary. Despite their complaints, they strictly followed Parkes' requirements. Defensive training continues. And Winters, on the advice of Parks, extended the training to three companies of the entire second battalion!

During training and recuperation, some veterans returned from the hospital. Some of them were slightly injured and didn't stay long at all, like Ellie, who only stayed for a month before returning to camp. Some of the brothers usually came back early, after all, they were reluctant to be sent to a reinforcement station and then reassigned to an unfamiliar company. Even if you want to die, you have to die in E-Company. It's a belief that they're coming back to. Out of concern for the future of combat life and trust in the brothers.

At the company headquarters, Parks saw Lieutenant Compton again, he had recovered, the bullets had not hurt him very much, and he was in great shape, and he was recovering quickly. But his placement became a problem, and the placement of officers was generally decided by the regimental headquarters, but Compton was reluctant to go anywhere else, and Lieutenant Winters naturally asked for his placement as an operational staff officer at the battalion headquarters. Replace Lieutenant Spierre to the vacancy after E Company.

"God, he took my platoon!" Compton complained to Parks in the company, "I've only been gone for over two months, and now everything has changed, everything is different!" ”

"It's all the same, Buck!" Parks smiled at him, to be honest, Buck's psychology has undergone some changes after being injured, which is what Parks knows, after all, there are wailing injuries everywhere in the hospital, and in fact, Buck has also become cautious and mother-in-law after this injury, and he is no longer the decisive Buck!

"I don't want to stay in the battalion headquarters, I can be Lieutenant Spierre's deputy in the platoon!" Compton seemed to be trying to convince Parks, but there was no fiery glint in his eyes, he was just a little uncomfortable or reluctant to be in the row.

"Don't worry, Buck, Lieutenant Spierre will be able to take care of the brothers!" Parks stood up and said to him, "You've been gone for more than two months, and the brothers need a strong man to lead them. Sergeant Tybert is undoubtedly a good non-commissioned officer, but they also need an officer to stabilize people's hearts. Parks knew that he was just looking for a reason to convince Compton, and in fact, Spiel's going to the third row did rely on Spiel's own efforts and his own intentionally or unintentionally facilitated.

"The camp is also a very nice place! Winters would also be a very good boss, he has always been your direct supervisor, and it is still the same now, you are still under his leadership. That's all that matters! Parks patted him on the arm and said, "I know you can't worry about the brothers, but the brothers are really fine!" ”

Compton nodded helplessly and said, "Okay, okay, I see." Then he nodded silently at Parks, walked towards the door, and suddenly turned back and said, "I'm going to get together with my brothers." With that, he opened the door and walked away without looking back. Lieutenant Compton's departure made Parks a little stunned, but to be honest, he did this to give Buck a better ending in the end. If he remained in the company, the likelihood that Buck would eventually quit Company E would increase once he entered Bastogne. But if he stays at the battalion headquarters, then the situation will change a lot, and there will be no collapse there.

Lieutenant Brewer has not yet returned to the team, but he is very fortunate that the part where he was shot has avoided the vital point, so that his recovery is very fast, but it will be some time before he fully recovers. There were also a number of officers who were added to the company. The officers of E Company who participated in the Normandy airborne were Wales and Haliger, and the officers who participated in Operation Market Garden, such as Lieutenant Welfare and Lieutenant Picak, maintained the successive surnames of E Company, so that their surnames were carried on. At the same time, a number of officers were added, such as Lieutenant Sham, who had been a somewhat hysterical officer in Bastone. Parks did not hold any position, but was on standby as a supplementary officer in the third platoon. The deputy platoon commander of the third platoon was another newly recruited lieutenant Waterward. In this way, the officers of E Company are basically composed of a platoon commander, a deputy platoon commander and a supplementary officer, just like Captain Nickerson jokingly said: "This is a preparation made by the division headquarters for fear that the next battle will cause huge casualties to the junior officers, and this preparation will definitely come in handy!" Unfortunately, of course, Nickerson's joke became a reality in the later Battle of Bastogne.

And the soldiers who returned from the hospital had their own surnames that quickly integrated into the team, and they were very familiar with each other. When Donnatt returned to the team, he was very drunk with several brothers from his class, and during training the next day, he almost made a big mistake when he almost shot one of the guys involved in the training with live ammunition.

But even the entire 101st Airborne Division was still not enough. At the same time, a new batch of recruits was sent to France from the American mainland, and these recruits were quickly transported to the Maumian barracks.

Stenson was the recruit who was transferred this time, and with him were his two very good friends, Winnie and Cabuster, who trained together in the U.S. military camp, and were good at fighting and gambling together, so they could be said to be hardcore friends. But the average age of them is just over eighteen.

"I hate being transported from here to there like an object, and I want to be able to slaughter the Germans!" On the way to the Mormion barracks, Stenson complained to his two friends in a bumpy and stuffy can-like truck, "Do you think we're going to be on the front line from the start?" ”

"Don't ask me, I don't know!" Pooh was clearly in a different mood than he was, he was nervous, and the closer he got to the battlefield, the faster his heart was beating, "Damn, I'm getting a little nervous!" ”

"I'm also a little bit, when I boarded from the United States, I was nervous, but maybe I was too nervous, now I'm a little relaxed, it's nothing, it's just a war, and we're chasing the Germans, we're just a trip, a trip to Europe! Don't worry, Pooh, it's nothing! Cabaster looked at Pooh and smiled.

The three of them looked at each other, then smiled. After landing on French territory, they were notified that they would be sent to Company E, 2nd Battalion, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, in Momian.

"God!" When they got the news, the three of them took a breath of cold air, and then their faces couldn't help but be filled with excitement. Company E of the 506th regiment, who would not know? Their company commander was Lieutenant Parks, the recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor who had addressed all Americans over the airwaves. In the American media, this company is clearly the most heroic company in the United States, not only for its repeated exploits, but most importantly, for its losses in large offensive and defensive battles such as Normandy and later Operation Market Garden, which was one of the smallest companies. This also made many recruits yearn for the company very much when they were sent to Europe from the beginning.

Clearly, they were met with jealous eyes from the recruits around them. Forty-four men were with them in the company of E. Everyone's face was almost filled with excitement.

"I can't wait!" Stenson smiled and said to Pooh, "Don't worry, Pooh, now that we're in the best company in the world, don't worry about what's going on." I thought it was like hitting the jackpot. I think we did hit the jackpot. If I can still get the medal, my mother will definitely die of pride for me! ”

"I agree!" Pooh also secretly put his mind at ease, to be honest, he had actually been wondering if he could be assigned to E-Company, and now it seems that God has favored him.

The recruits' trucks pulled into the Momian barracks, and then they began to line up and report to their respective companies. Kandy, Toy, Goneri, Liegaut and others were sent to collect the recruits, and they were placed and assigned to each platoon and squad.

"God, are they all hellkillers?" Pooh looked at these guys with grim expressions and murderous eyes, and couldn't help but shudder suddenly. Obviously, several of them are veterans who have participated in the exhibition since Normandy, and they have experienced a hundred battles, and the natural temperament on their bodies has suppressed these "pink" recruits. Even the pretended calm Stenson and Cabaster.

"They are the non-commissioned officers of Company E!" Stenson coughed dryly, and then found a good reason for himself, "The non-commissioned officers of Company E should be like this, if they don't have a murderous aura, or if they are not killers, how can they be the most powerful company in the world?" ”

"Thankfully, we're on the same side as them, and I'm really worried about the Germans who are our enemies!" Cabaster tried to smile, but he felt that among the four non-commissioned officers, a short, not too tall fellow gave him a cold look, and immediately swallowed the words into his stomach. Even though the guy looked a little short, and a little skinny, nowhere near as strong as his body.

All forty-four recruits thought the same way as them, and they were absolutely obedient to these four men, and could not resist even the slightest. In the eyes of Paikanti, these recruits undoubtedly seem "innocent", in the words of Guneri, they are simply cute and well-behaved babies.

The officers of Company E were bent on integrating the recruits into the team and bringing them up to the standards of team spirit and individual skills of Company E, but the work was difficult because the veterans did not take field drills seriously. However, the non-commissioned officers played an unexpected role, and after retiring from the "island", many veterans of E Company, especially those who came out of the Takoya barracks, basically got the opportunity to be promoted to non-commissioned officers.

The sergeants who began as privates at Tacoya were Lip, Tybert, Martin, Lutz, Paikanti, Mook, Christenson, Landowman, Red, Gordon, Toy, Goneri, Carson, Boyle, Guth, Taylor, Malachi, and others. Many of the officers of Company E during the Takoya period were promoted to the headquarters of the 506th Regiment or the headquarters of the 2nd Battalion, thus helping to maintain this continuity and unity of the Company. It's just that Webster is now the only one who came out of the Tacoya barracks and didn't serve as a non-commissioned officer.

Many officers wanted Webster to be squad leader, but he refused. He thought he had come here to fulfill his duties, and he did - he never let one of his companions fall in battle, whether in France, in Holland - but he never volunteered to do anything, and he was dismissive of promotions.

In the barracks, veterans went on a rampage with weapons and ammunition that they were supposed to turn in when they left the Netherlands, grenades on their belts, boxes of bullets pinned to their straps, knives and other (unauthorized) weapons, and they looked to the recruits more like a group of French Foreign Legion killers.

The arrival of the recruits allowed the veterans to find an opportunity to renovate the barracks. Although it has been several days since this mission was released, the soldiers who have gradually become masters have ignored this mission, and even disdained it. But the recruits are different. Goneri commanded the recruits and began to clean up the barracks.

Although the recruits were somewhat reluctant, they did not dare to say anything. And the big complaint about this is undoubtedly Stensen, for whom he came to Europe to kill the Germans, instead of doing all the dirty work every day.

"I can't stand it anymore!" While cleaning up the propaganda posters and evaluation sheets left by the Germans on the wall, Stenson complained to Pooh and Cabaster who were with him, "Where are the Germans?" I don't understand, since you don't want us to kill the Germans, don't let us do these things! ”

"Shut up!" Cabaster whispered to Stenson, "Don't get in trouble! As he spoke, his eyes squinted at Goneri, who was watching, and it was clear that he was very worried about being punished. The way these veterans punish people is very special.

"What are you talking about?" Gernelly still heard it, and he sneered at Stenson, "Rookie, what are you talking about?" Want to tell me you're going to kill the Germans? Or do you want to die quickly and become a rotting, foul-smelling corpse in the Dutch dirt? Let the vultures and wild dogs everywhere devour? ”

Stenson stopped what he was doing, and straightened up, despite Pooh's tugging at his trouser legs. Although he was still coerced by Gunessey's fierce temperament, he relied on his body taller than Gunessey to barely maintain the confrontation with Gunessey, raised his head and said loudly: "Yes, sir, I want to go to war, kill the Germans, I want to die!" I don't want to do this kind of work again! We are liberators, not laborers. ”

Stenson's words quickly drew the recruits to the job. They began to look in this direction, and a few of them even wanted to jump over to see the excitement. Undoubtedly, after a few days of work, these guys also became a little impatient and restless, and the resentment was accumulating in their hearts, making them forget the shock of seeing these veteran killers in the first place.

"Hell!" Grace scolded, he walked up to Stenson and looked at him, with a cold light in his eyes, "Rookie, do you want to find excitement?" Maybe you're trying to learn a lesson! Let me tell you what obedience is! What is called combat. Come, come, attack me, when I'm a German! Goneri beckoned to him and looked at him defiantly.

Stenson pursed his lips and didn't say a word, but he stared at Guerneri, his hands clenched into fists. And Kabaster whispered to Stenson: "He's a non-commissioned officer, you'd better not rush at him, or you'll die an ugly death." Never mind! ”

"Come on. You idiot, I'm not your boss right now, I'm a German, don't you want a German? Then attack me, do you have such guts? Coward, go home and feed! Goneri looked at him coldly.

"He's just a German!" Stenson read a sentence in his mind, then roared and punched Goneri head-on, confident enough to beat the mocking fellow in the face. He wants him to show that not all recruits are rookies, and he wants him to know how good the recruits are.

"Whew!" Stenson's fist slammed into his face with a strong aura, and everyone couldn't help but let out a scream, apparently as if they felt that the punch was going to hit Guneri in the face.

There was a "bang", a muffled sound, it was not that Gurney had fallen, but that Stenson had bent down and knelt on the ground, and he arched his waist high in pain, and his whole head was knocked on the ground, like one. Guareley dodged the circle with ease, his head quickly deflected, and then he landed a kick on Stensson's stomach.

"Rookie, you're still far away!" Grace looked at Stenson contemptuously, and then said coldly to the others, "Do you still want to try?" A bunch of idiots, hurry up and work, hurry! ”

The effect of this sentence had a huge effect after Stenson fell to the ground, and everyone quickly lowered their heads, and then cleaned up the garbage on the wall, as well as corrected the beds and toilets. And Goneri looked at the busy appearance of this group of recruits, and couldn't help but laugh, and then secretly said "God! Fortunately, when he was training as a recruit, he learned some fighting skills from Parks, which was the luck of the veterans of E Company, and now it seems that it is very practical, even if he uses less fighting skills in battle, but now it has an unexpected effect.

A few days later, the barracks had a new look. The horse manure around the barracks was cleaned, the beds were brand new, and the toilets were no longer disgusting. And the road is relatively smooth. In the barracks was the "Takoya" military newspaper edited by the 506th Regiment, which contained some military news, new developments of the Allied and German armies, and some lace news.

Everyone agreed that the war was going well. In Momion, the mood was high. Since the E-Company is more or less a permanent garrison here, the soldiers are expected to receive more mail and hope that Christmas packages will be sent to them. I can also look forward to going to Paris on vacation; If you're lucky, you might be able to spend Christmas in Paris. Also, there will be a rugby match on Christmas Day, followed by a turkey feast. Rugby games are played with big stakes and practice longer and more difficult.

Even Winters was optimistic about the prospects, and although he had a sense of distress under Parks' lobbying, he was always filled with confidence in the constant Allied advances from the front.

"At least, we're not going to fight right now." Nickerson was talking to Parks at the battalion headquarters, and Winters was looking at the military newspaper sent to the battalion headquarters, which contained General Taylor's analysis of the war situation, and he predicted the progress of the war in the newspaper, and the next battle of the 101st Airborne Division would take place in mid-March, and then the entire 101st Airborne Division would be involved in an unprecedented and final airborne operation in the European theater, and they would be airborne in Berlin before the Soviets took Berlin. Then they would fly to the Pacific Ocean to fight in China or parachute on their own soil. Colonel Zinke actively supported this, and gave circumstantial evidence of General Taylor's prediction.

"In their opinion, we can even parachute into Tokyo and capture our emperor alive, so that there will be no war in the Pacific. Isn't that great? Parks looked at the contents of the military newspaper with irony, and then shook his head at Nickerson and said, "These big men always estimate everything optimistically, but they don't know that only adversity can make people survive, and peace can make people paralyze their minds, and then be destroyed by the enemy!" Parks sighed, then took a sip of Nickerson's favorite, Emerald 69.

"Whatever you think, there's one thing everyone is thinking about right now, which is how do we have a good Christmas!" Nickerson smiled and said, "To be honest, I'm looking forward to this!" War may be a long way away, at least for now, Parks, I know what you think, but we can't keep ourselves on the lookout, we have to enjoy it when it's time to enjoy it! With that, he raised his glass to Parks, and drank it down.

"Alright, Parks, don't worry about that, haven't we already prepared as you proposed?" Seeing that Parks was still unhappy, Winters couldn't help but smile slightly, put down the military report in his hand, and said, "No matter what, other things are not up to us to decide, if you still need training for surnames, I still support this!" These guys, it's time to clean them up, they are causing trouble everywhere. ”

Parks shrugged his shoulders helplessly, he had done his best, at best, the material preparation of the second battalion was very sufficient, but it was not mentally prepared. But Parks already had some calculations. He decided to follow his own plan and try his best to adapt his brothers to the new combat environment in future battles.

Ten days into the training, Parks suddenly issued a training notice in the company, asking for an airborne training session tomorrow morning. The place of the airborne landing was in the field ten miles away from the barracks. The weather report issued by the division headquarters said that tomorrow's weather will be dominated by rain and fog.

This order stunned all the brothers of E, they really couldn't figure out why Parks would decide to do this, knowing that if they were airborne in such weather, there would be injuries, and even more serious, and even fatalities.

(To be continued)