Chapter 105: Order of the Bronze Star
If the regulations were really complied with, then the Allies would not have provided Zhang Yang with these dummies, perhaps because Lucas's behavior should be executed with the most severe military law in the eyes of the Allied leadership, so the above actions were made. In any case, there is no responsibility for using these dummy bombs.
The special nature of the Nightkin team is destined to be different from the regular troops, and some things that are beyond the authority of the regular troops can be accessed by the Nightkin team.
In any case, none of these dummy bullets were wasted in Nelson's hands, and the two bullets directly eliminated the two targets of the trip.
Colonel Schleier may not have a lot of blood debts like Lucas, but he also climbed up by stepping on the blood and corpses of countless people, Nelson was at ease with his killing, and he didn't even need to mobilize for war in advance, and even comforted Zhang Yang not to worry about the impact afterwards, if something happened, he would bear it himself.
After more than two months of contact, Zhang Yang and the entire Nightkin Brigade have merged together and become a complete collective. It may not be as powerful as the elite troops of later generations, but don't forget that the Nightkin has only been established for more than two months, and there is still time to grind in.
As the so-called battlefield is the best way to forge a friend of life and death, whether it is a stranger, or a few times under the rain of bullets, they will become familiar with each other.
With the help of the chaotic crowd, Zhang Yang and Perez confirmed Lucas's death with their own eyes, and then took advantage of the chaos to leave the place, and immediately felt a hidden gathering point as quickly as possible.
After waiting for everyone to evacuate to the assembly point, the next step was confirmed. The Allied dark line in Paris would have helped them flee France, and this time the journey was too treacherous, and there was a risk of an exchange of fire along the way. Zhang Yang did not take Hersha with him, although the little girl was already determined to leave with her.
In the end, under Zhang Yang's assurance, Hersha agreed to stay and be taken care of by Butoranco, and then the members of the third team of the Night Walkers, including Zhang Yang, evacuated France in batches, after five days of tossing and turning. Zhang Yang and others finally set foot on British soil again.
Two days before the assassination, Zhang Yang successfully took ownership of three of the eight future French wineries, and he was fully controlled. Part of the funds for the acquisition were obtained by Zhang Yang after notarizing and mortgaging Uncle Ma's assets in the United States, and part of it was a loan from Rockefeller.
Although it seems that Zhang Yang has nothing at the moment, and has acquired several wineries that had little performance during the war, Zhang Yang knows. After the end of World War II, the three wineries will officially rise. And in addition to these three fully controlled. The remaining five wineries were also partially controlled by the public, and they were original shares, which meant that in a few decades it would turn into a huge amount of money.
Among them, because the wine industry is much more low-key than the arms, energy and other industries, and Zhang Yang did not choose to disclose his identity, except for the agent of the winery, no one knows that the owner of the winery has changed. One of the businesses was to ask Perez for help and hire several professional agents to manage it. Zhang Yang only needs to easily get dividends. Dividends and other earnings were transferred to an anonymous account at a Swiss bank that Zhang Yang had newly applied for.
France is the territory of the Germans at the moment, after all, and it is not good to make too many moves. I can only take advantage of these two days to get these wineries, and I am powerless for other industries at the moment.
After their return to London, they received a huge welcome.
This was a private conferment, except for the members of the third squad, Lieutenant General Spatz, Brigadier General Morrent, and Colonel Phillips, all three senior generals of the United States Army attended, and Lieutenant General Spatz personally brought a new epaulette to Zhang Yang, a bright and bright lieutenant colonel.
Since it was not yet time to officially expose the Nightcrawlers, the operation was kept secret and the award was held privately, but this did not prevent the other soldiers from speculating about their mission, and a bright rank of lieutenant colonel was enough to prove it.
In addition to the promotion of military rank, it is probably to compensate for the last rescue and reconnaissance operation, as well as the great help brought by Dr. Rolf, as well as the credit for the formation of the Nightkin Brigade, Zhang Yang also has an extra Bronze Star Medal on his body, and he doesn't know much about the Bronze Star Medal Zhang Yang, only that it is still very valuable for individuals, not to mention that he is a Chinese?
Nelson was directly promoted to the rank of lieutenant because he personally shot and killed a German major general, a German colonel, and his personal appearance was prominent. A major general plus a colonel's head was worth the price, and it was also Spatz himself who replaced Nelson's new epaulettes.
In addition to Zhang Yang and Nelson, everyone in the third squad was rewarded, due to the particularity of the medal, this time the credit was not enough for everyone to get a medal, but all the lieutenants were promoted to one level at once, and the recruits who were originally newly recruited were collectively promoted from second class to corporal, and there were several sergeant veterans, promoted to sergeant major, and the next promotion was warrant officer.
Although there are no medals, the promotion of military ranks is enough to make everyone happy.
After Phillips warned everyone to keep the content of this operation secret, he let Zhang Yang and the others leave, and after seeing Zhang Yang again, he found that the rank of Zhang Yang's shoulder had been upgraded again, and many people gasped.
If Zhang Yang is a white person, or even a black person, it won't be too strange, but the worst thing is that Zhang Yang is a standard yellow person, Chinese-American, which makes everyone talk about it. Everyone knows how difficult it is for a Chinese to be promoted to the rank here, and Zhang Yang not only did it, but also surpassed the vast majority of people in the same group as him, and when the impossible became possible, Zhang Yang became the object of heated discussion and worship by everyone.
The rest of the time was no longer peaceful, perhaps sensing that the Allies were brewing some big plans, the Germans suddenly began to counterattack on all sides of the battlefield, and Zhang Yang found that the Hydra, which was originally known for its mystery, had become more and more exposed in recent times, which made him feel a little bad.
In the original plot, the hydra at this time should be more and more low-key in order to accumulate strength, and the contrast between the front and back made Zhang Yang a little suspicious. After sending a team under the command of the Nightkin to investigate many times, Zhang Yang got some information, and it was not the Red Skull that repeatedly attacked, but Baron Starak's subordinates.
Baron Starak himself was an excellent military strategist and conspirator, perhaps sensing the peculiarity of the Nightkin formed by Zhang Yang, and sent a secret team that also belonged to the early special forces to operate around. According to the reports of the Nightkin Squad, where the Hydra Squad appears, they often mainly capture the Allied forces alive, and obtain Allied information through interrogation and other means.
After Zhang Yang became a lieutenant colonel, although he did not sit in the command headquarters to command, the opportunity to go directly to the battlefield was much less, and sometimes he had to stay in the British camp of the 107th Infantry Regiment to direct the actions of the Night Kliners. Although Phillips and others far surpassed Zhang Yang in terms of strategy and command, Zhang Yang was able to put forward many useful mentions in combination with the historical data of later generations in specific targeted battles, which was also the main reason why Zhang Yang was left in the camp.
In other words, in the eyes of the Allies or Phillips, the potential and value of the show were getting higher and higher, and it was no longer possible to venture into the front line as before.
And in this case, more than a month has passed, Zhang Yang and Baron Straker's Hydra team have had several contacts, but both sides have not been able to take advantage, the equipment of the Straker team is more advanced, but in the same way, Zhang Yang has Howard Stark, a top American scientist behind them, although some boast, but no one can deny that Howard is an excellent scientist.
Perhaps because of the confrontation with Hydra, Howard burst out with great energy, and in the face of the new Hydra weapon captured by the Nightkin team, Howard would analyze it in the shortest possible time, and then try to equip it to the Allies. And since new weapons need to be tested, often the first users are the Nightkin brigades.
This is not just Howard's decision, as Phillips lost to Agent Carter in a previous exercise, giving priority to the Nightkin the use of new weapons, which is what is happening.
With the escalation of the war, the collision between the two sides became more and more intense, and casualties began to appear in the ranks of the Nightkin team, which was very unlikely in the past, after all, Zhang Yang mainly carried out special operations such as infiltrating the Nightkin behind enemy lines, not conventional frontal combat, but under the entanglement of Baron Straker, the casualties of some squads could not be avoided.
Perhaps Straker got the news from some sources that it was Zhang Yang who hijacked Dr. Rolf and blew up a German air base by the way, bringing with him a colonel and a bombing group, along with a number of new fighters ME262, so that Zhang Yang was repeatedly fighting. After perceiving this situation, Zhang Yang and Phillips immediately adjusted their strategic plan, withdrew the Nightkin from the existing battlefield range, and prepared to take a temporary break for a while, and by the way, summarize their experience and report it to the army leadership.
Obviously, the achievements and dedication of the Nightkin have given the US Army some hope, so it has the idea of expanding the special forces, after all, a Nightkin brigade is only in its early forties, and it can't even make a splash in the world. And if it is to be formed, it will inevitably be impossible to bypass Zhang Yang and the Nightkin, in other words, the Nightkin has become the ancestor of the US Army Special Forces in some ways...... (To be continued......)