Chapter 416: The Dancing Monkey
This should be considered the most embarrassing day since Rogers became a super soldier.
Early in the morning, his song and dance troupe rushed to the camp where the 107th Infantry Regiment was located, as if it had done it many times before, and on the improvised shabby stage, Rogers took the lead and gave a speech to the thousands of soldiers sitting on the ground outside the stage.
But at the end of his speech, he asked the special audience in front of him, "Are you ready to go with me to repair Hitler?" After that, there was no excited cheer, just a suppressed silence.
Everyone was watching him, but Rogers saw only impatience in the soldiers.
It was completely different from when he was back home, and when Rogers began to perform in these barracks close to the battlefield, he could clearly feel the cold attitude of these real soldiers towards him.
However, the soldiers in this barracks were particularly strong, and Rogers' enthusiastic speech did not have any effect at all.
Rogers stood behind the microphone, once again feeling a little overwhelmed, as if he had first appeared on stage, looking at the soldiers in front of him, and had to bite the bullet and continue: "Okay, are there any volunteers?" ”
"Why are we here without volunteers?" Suddenly, a voice came from the crowd, "We want to see beautiful women!" ”
The sound was far more effective than Rogers' motivational speech, and it immediately drew cheers from the soldiers below.
Rogers felt a little parched, glanced behind him, and said, "I guess they only sing one song, but I'll see what I can do." ”
"Go, sweetheart!"
"Your boots are good, little fairy!"
Rogers was still met with the disdainful taunts of the soldiers.
"Please, guys", Rogers was a little hesitant to stay on stage at this time, but still reluctantly said: "We are on the same team." ”
"Captain!" As soon as Rogers' words fell, a soldier in the crowd stood up with a shout, took off his pants with his back to him, and said sarcastically: "Sign here!" ”
The soldiers burst into even louder applause and cheers, and then one of the soldiers in the crowd suddenly stood up and smashed the tomatoes in his hand directly at Rogers.
Rogers hurriedly raised the shield in his left hand to block the tomatoes that smashed one after another, and left the stage in a disarray.
Beside him, beautiful girls in short skirts appeared on the stage, and he could hear the enthusiastic applause of the soldiers on the opposite side of the stage, which was definitely not his own. Obviously, in the eyes of these soldiers, these beauties who perform singing and dancing are much more important than a clown like him.
That's right, it's the clown. In the country of the war in place, he was an inspirational icon. However, in front of these real soldiers, he, the so-called superhero, is just a well-packaged clown who is actually useless at all.
At the back of the audience, Ye Qianhu sat in a jeep, watching this familiar scene with cold eyes.
Seeing that everything was the same as he remembered, he was relieved, at least, everything was still developing according to the original plot, although there was a difference in time.
According to the timing in the film, whether it was Bucky Barnes's capture of Hydra or Rogers' humiliation on stage, it should have happened in November 1993, not until the early summer of 1944, as is the case now.
However, the reality will always be a little different from the movie, although it is much later, but everything is still happening step by step. This opportunity for Rogers to become the real Captain America was long overdue, but at least it came up again.
"He didn't deserve such an insult." Beside him, Peggy Carter said with a frown.
"Maybe", shaking his head, Ye Qianhu said: "He just hasn't found his true position now, when he shows his true value, not just performing on stage, these soldiers will give him the respect he wants." ”
Although the performance of these soldiers just now was very unlikeable, Ye Qianhu, who had also been on the battlefield for a long time, understood their mentality very well.
They are fighting on the front lines of the battlefield, accompanied by death every day, and they don't know when they will really die here. And Rogers is famous for Nuoda, but he is just singing and dancing on the stage, so it's not bad for them to treat Rogers as a usual fun, as for respect, why? Does he have a nice pair of boots?
Looking up at the cloudy sky, Ye Qianhu said to Peggy Carter, "It's going to rain." ”
The rain came faster than expected, and the song and dance performance on the stage was not even halfway through, when the raindrops fell one after another, and the soldiers who were immersed in the performance were unwilling to hurry out of here.
The audience had already left, and the performances on the stage had to be interrupted, and the beauties who were performing hurriedly left the stage.
When Ye Qianhu and Peggy Carter found Rogers, he was sitting on the wooden staircase behind the stage, with his head down, using a pencil to draw his unfinished work in his notebook, a dancing monkey.
"What is this, your self-portrait?" A familiar voice suddenly sounded behind him, Rogers quickly turned his head, and then saw Ye Qianhu who was putting away his umbrella, and Peggy Carter beside him.
"Sir, I didn't know you were here." Rogers said in surprise.
"I heard you're coming here to perform, so Peggy and I came to see you perform." Ye Qianhu said with a smile.
"You're doing a good job." At this time, Peggy Carter also said.
"yes, uh", Rogers touched his nose, trying to make himself forget what was happening on stage, "I'm going to have to improvise, my old audience was usually, kids." ”
After a pause, Rogers shook his head self-deprecatingly, "You must have seen what just happened. ”
"Do you need me to say anything to comfort you?" Ye Qianhu said lightly.
Rogers shook his head, "No, sir, I'm not that vulnerable. ”
"It's just, a little disappointed, a little disappointed in myself, it's not what I want."
"At least you're the hope in their eyes now." Peggy Carter comforted.
"I didn't go to a state, and the sales of the Treasury would go up by 10 percent." "That's what I'm doing, at least Councillor Brand is still asking me to do something, and Colonel Philip still wants to keep me in the lab." ”
"My dream home has always been to go to the battlefields abroad and play for my country on the front lines. When I finally got my wish, I was wearing tights. ”
At this time, there was a commotion in the tent not far behind, and they saw that it was a medical vehicle parked in front of a tent marked with a red cross, and then someone carried the wounded in the car inside into the tent on a stretcher for treatment.
"They've just fought a bad fight, haven't they?" Rogers asked.
Peggy Carter looked at Qianhu and said, "It seems that you are in charge of the intelligence here recently." ”
Ye Qianhu nodded and explained to Rogers: "Yesterday, Schmidt sent a force, only two hundred soldiers were sent here to meet the battle, they underestimated the strength of the other party, these soldiers suffered heavy losses, so far, no more than fifty soldiers have returned, and many of them are wounded. ”
After a pause, Ye Qianhu said: "Just now there were people from the 107th Infantry Regiment in your audience, and the people who went to meet them were also people from the 107th Infantry Regiment. The others were either killed or captured. ”
Peggy Carter didn't have any special reaction to what Ye Qianhu said, although such a heavy loss battle was very cruel, but here, it was actually a thing that everyone was accustomed to.
However, hearing the name of the 107th Infantry Regiment, Rogers' face suddenly became ugly, and he threw down his notebook and ran towards the other side of the barracks.
"What's wrong with him?" Peggy Carter looked at Ye Qianhu for some reason.
Ye Qianhu said: "If I'm not mistaken, Rogers' best friend is in the 107th Infantry Regiment. ”
The supreme commander of this barracks, coincidentally, was their old acquaintance, Colonel Philip.
Rogers hurried to Colonel Philip's tent, where he was sitting behind a desk to sign letters of condolence to the families of the soldiers who had died in battle.
Hearing someone shouting his name, Colonel Philip looked up and saw Rogers covered in rain, "Isn't this a man with a star on his chest and a plan hidden, what are your plans for today?" ”
"I want a list of casualties from the Battle of Bolzano." Rogers was in no mood to heed Colonel Philip's sarcasm and directly stated his purpose.
"You're not qualified to command me, boy." Colonel Philip said in an unkind tone.
"I just want to know about the 107th Infantry Section, Sergeant James Barnes." Rogers emphasized.
At this time, Colonel Philip saw Ye Qianhu and Peggy Carter who entered the tent, and immediately understood how Rogers knew about the battle, and the pen in his hand pointed at Ye Qianhu, "Fawkes, I'll settle accounts with you later." ”
Rogers continued, "Please tell me about him, B-A-R..."
"I know how to spell", Rogers was interrupted by Colonel Philip before he could finish speaking, the two looked at each other in silence, and Colonel Philip finally spoke: "I signed a lot of letters of condolence today, and I can't remember the name, but I have an impression of this name, and I regret it." ”
Rogers took a deep breath, "What about the others, are you ready to rescue?" ”
"You have to focus on the big picture." Colonel Philip put down the letters of condolence and said.
There was no direct answer, but Rogers already understood what Colonel Philip meant, and put the overall situation first, isn't it just to abandon those few people.
"But now that you know where they are, why..."
"Thirty miles behind the local lines, they had to pass through the most heavily guarded areas in Europe, and they would only lose more people to rescue them."
Colonel Philip gestured to the location on the map behind him, and said, "I don't expect you to understand this, because you're just a dancing clown." ”
"I think I understand." Rogers said in a somewhat stiff tone.
"Then go somewhere else to understand," Colonel Philip glanced at him, and went on with his work, "You'll have to get to somewhere else in thirty minutes." ”
"Fawkes, look at these things, there are some minor troubles that you need to deal with."
"Here it is." Ye Qianhu replied, saw that Rogers was seriously looking at the location marked on the map, patted Peggy's arm, and said in a low voice, "Look at him." ”
Peggy Carter frowned when she saw Rogers' back leaving in a hurry, "You mean, he might go to save those people?" ”
"Not probably, he's definitely going." Ye Qianhu said a word, and then came to Colonel Philip's side.
is completely different from in the movie, this time because of his presence, the relationship between Peggy Carter and Rogers is at most a colleague relationship in the same department, and that's it. Although it is now for Peggy Carter to help Rogers, Ye Qianhu will not have other scruples like at the beginning. This year's relationship is enough for him to understand Peggy Carter's feelings for him, and there is no need to think about it.
Colonel Philip seemed to have forgotten about the trouble he was going to make trouble for him in a blink of an eye, and turned out a document and handed it to Ye Qianhu, saying, "What we have to face is never only the enemy in front, but also to guard against our back. ”
"This is the latest cracked list, it's a bit of a hassle, I hope you can go there yourself this time and clean up the eyes that Hydra put behind them."
Ye Qianhu turned this document, opened it and looked at it, it was the information of more than a dozen people, with different occupations, but they were all already confirmed, the spies of Hydra.
Looking at the information of these spies, Ye Qianhu leaned on the table and said to Colonel Philip: "You don't actually need to be so tough on him. ”
"I almost forgot, he's still your student", Colonel Philip, of course, knew that Ye Qianhu was talking about Rogers, shrugged his shoulders, and said, "It's your business to appease people's hearts, I'm so busy, how can I have this time." ”
With the list given to him by Colonel Philip, without staying here for too long, Ye Qianhu explained a few more words to Peggy Carter, and left here in a car from the barracks in the heavy rain.
Rogers, on his side, doesn't have to think about it to know what's going to happen.
Alone at Hydra's base, he managed to bring back his best friend and other captured soldiers after making a fuss there, and destroyed one of Hydra's bases.
It was the next battle that allowed Rogers to truly show his worth in front of everyone, and from then on, it was the honor that should have belonged to him, as well as the title of Captain America.
In this Rogers debut, Ye Qianhu is not ready to get involved, and will deal with some spies first. But then, it's time for him to do his own thing. His real mission in this world has been delayed for too long, and it should be over.