Captain Miller did not move, as if he had not heard Leybin's shouting, everyone remained silent, and Rybin kept his mouth shut in amusement, and did not continue to shout.

"What's the stake now?" Captain Miller asked suddenly.

Everyone was stunned, this was a completely unrelated question, why did he ask this suddenly.

Jason replied, "Captain, the bet is still $300!" ”

"I would have waited until the stakes reached $500 before I announced this answer," said Captain Miller with a smile, and the afterglow of the setting sun shone on his face, making his face soft and glowing, not at all like a soldier, "Teacher, before the war I was a secondary school English writing teacher, and there, whenever I talk about my profession, people say, oh, you know it at a glance, but here, it's a big, big secret, and this war has made me completely different, I don't even know if my wife will ever recognize me. ”

"Ryan, I didn't know who you were when I received this assignment, until now, you are just a name for me, and I just have to complete this drudgery to find you. You don't want to leave, you want to return to the battlefield, I won't stop you, you want to leave, I won't stop anyone, I will even submit a report for you on the completion of the mission! ”

Captain Miller, speaking in a deep and sincere voice, looked around at the crowd and continued, "Each of us wants to end this damn war quickly and go home early, and so do I." It's just that I know that every time I kill someone, I will be one step further away from my home and my hometown! ”

When he finished speaking, he sat down and showed his determination with his actions.

Everyone fell silent, and the evening breeze whistled softly through the ruins of Langham Town, singing like a song, and Sergeant Howard stepped forward and said, "Captain, since Ryan insists on not leaving, we have found him and completed the mission. Each of us had two choices, one was to go back and leave now, and the other was to stay and fight with him. Captain, if you ask me about my options, I would say stay. So if one day, I look back on the past, and I may feel that saving Private Ryan is an incomparably great masterpiece that I have accomplished in this war-torn era. ”

He stood in front of Captain Miller with the sunset on his back, his Thomson carbine in both hands, like a burly iron tower, but his eyes were as soft as if they had melted into the sunset.

Wade stood next to the trumpet phonograph, raised the tonearm, and put it back on the edge of the vinyl record, Edith Piafoe sang softly in everyone's ears again, and his unique voice, with a faint and sad singing voice, lingered around everyone again, no one left at this time, even Leybin hugged the B.A.R. in his hand. M1918A2 automatic rifles.

In the afterglow of the sunset in front of Lei Rui's eyes, lines of text scrolled:

…… Mission Update: Rescue - Attack and Defense of the Langham Bridgehead

…… Mission Brief: Private James of the 101st Airborne Division. Ryan insists on participating in the Battle of the Langham Bridgehead, joining him in the battle, and keeping him safe!

…… Mission Success: 1. Survival; 2. Ensure Ryan's safety.

…… Mission failure: 1. Death, remarks Death means that the soul is scattered, completely eliminated, and will not return to the original main world! 2. Ryan's death and the death of the target character means that the mission fails and the corresponding merit points will be deducted!

Lei Rui is a little strange, this is a hint of the mission update, that is, the mission to save Private Ryan has not been completed, so he does not have the option to leave like everyone else.

He had only one option, and that was to stay and take part in the almost mortal battle of the Langlem bridgehead, and also make sure Ryan's safety, or else the mission would be judged to fail!

Not a single member of the entire seven-man squad left, and in the mixed squad of rangers and paratroopers, Captain Miller had the highest rank and took on the role of commander as a matter of course.

He led the people at both ends of the Langham Bridge, and had already walked around the town of Langlem, and then gathered everyone together, and there were only 19 people.

The weapons were also all put together, a half-track motorcycle captured from the Germans, two Browning M1919A4-30 machine guns, a German MG42 machine gun that Lei Rui carried all the way, 17 grenades, 11 Hawkins mines, two M1A1 Bazookas, plus rifles in everyone's hands, Captain Miller's Thomson submachine gun, Sergeant Howard's Thomson carbine, and Leibin's B.A.R. M1918A2 automatic rifles, Jason's Springfield sniper rifles, and everyone else is an all-in-one M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle.

It was predictable that the Germans would come attacking with mixed infantry and tank formations, whose goal was to capture the Langlem Bridge and garrison it until the time when the large forces launched a counteroffensive.

The only thing that is not known is how many tanks there will be, how many troops there will be.

The good news was that Corporal Hansen had reported the military situation to the command, and the response from the command was to hold the Langlem Bridge and wait for reinforcements to arrive.

That is, the command has sent reinforcements!

Captain Miller gathered everyone together, that is, he was ready to brainstorm ideas, decide on the tactical arrangement of the defense, and solve the problem of insufficient ammunition.

"Ray, what do you think?" Captain Miller first named Lei Rui and asked for his opinion.

In the battle of pulling out the German MG42 machine gun position under the abandoned radar station on the road, Captain Miller's suggestion shocked Captain Miller, especially the actual situation of the later battle, which perfectly achieved the expected purpose of Lei Rui's front and rear flanking tactics, and everyone was unscathed, and the result of destroying the enemy and capturing one MG42 machine gun by four people was achieved.

And then Lei Rui insisted on bringing this MG42 machine gun, as well as all the ammunition boxes, the significance of this move is extremely obvious now!

It is simply self-evident what an MG42 machine gun, plus a whole four boxes of ammunition boxes, means for the upcoming bridgehead offensive and defensive battle.

At this moment, it is not the time to excuse himself, Lei Rui is not polite, and said to the simple model on the ground with stones and wooden planks: "Captain, with all due respect, with our people, these firepower, we can't hold this bridge, what we can do is to delay time and win the time when reinforcements arrive, so it is useless to fight hard, we can only use multi-level firepower points to hinder the enemy's attack as much as possible, and at the same time we have to prepare for the worst, in case we can't hold it, we must take one step ahead and blow up the bridge!" ”

Captain Miller nodded, motioning for Lei Rui to continue.

"So someone has to be on this side of the bridge, ready to blow it up! This task has to be done by Ryan and the military doctor Wade! ”

Ryan just wanted to speak, but was stopped by Captain Miller raising his hand, and Lei Rui continued: "Jason, as a sharpshooter, must give full play to his greatest combat value, he is alone in a team, and there is no fixed location on the battlefield, he can change positions according to the changes in the battlefield situation, and pick out the enemy's valuable targets!" Commanders, heavy fire shooters, and so on and so forth. ”

"Isn't that tower a good lookout and sniper position?" Sergeant Howard asked suddenly.