The next morning, Rosen, Randleman and others sat on the tank and continued along the road, passing a place called Nunan.
Webster said this was the birthplace of Vincent Van Gogh, and then he was laughed at for showing off. Some even asked: "What does that guy do?"
This made Webster helpless.
Lieutenant Brewer led a platoon at the front, and he was at the forefront, with a base map box slung around his waist and binoculars hanging around his neck, looking very impressive.
Unfortunately, he didn’t know whether it was because of a cramp in his head, so he walked to the middle of the road alone, holding a telescope to look at the house in front of him.
"Is he imitating General Patton?"
"Is this guy crazy?" Randleman whispered: "He looks like a 6-foot-tall A living target."
Before he finished speaking, gunfire rang out in the distance.
Lieutenant Brewer fell to the ground like a felled tree.
"Rosen, it's up to you." Randleman shouted, "Kill them."
Then he jumped off the tank and covered his face with his hands. Lieutenant Brewer, groaning in pain with blood in his throat, was dragged towards the roadside.
Rosen has level 4 sniping, which is already considered one of the best among snipers.
Sitting on the tank before, I had already predicted the sniper's position as soon as I saw the house in the distance.
Hearing Randleman's words at this time, he raised his gun and fired without hesitation.
Bang.
After one shot, the German sniper in the opposite house shot his head on the spot.
Retaliatory attacks from the German army followed immediately, and Company E also began the attack.
Randleman, now the squad leader, rushed forward with his new recruits who had just arrived.
Everything went smoothly at first, until Sergeant Martin discovered a German tank hiding behind a fence 100 meters away. He wanted to warn a British tank that was coming here not to past, and pointed out where the German tanks were hiding.
But the commander of the British tank said stubbornly: "If I didn't see it, I can't fire randomly."
"Damn it, you will see it soon. Sergeant Martin said angrily.
At this time, the German tank slowly turned around and opened fire, directly penetrating the British tank.
The tank caught fire on the spot, but kept moving forward due to inertia.
At this moment, Randleman was nearby. In order to avoid it, he had to move forward, but he was hit by the machine gun on the roof and fled.
So much so that when Company E had to retreat hastily with the other remaining tanks because two British tanks were destroyed in succession, even if someone noticed that Randleman did not withdraw, they could not care less. Got him out.
Wait until everyone evacuated and Captain Winters came over to ask how the situation was., Lipton said: "Captain, 4 of our brothers were killed and 11 were injured. Randleman and Rosen are both missing."
"Randleman and Rosen?" Winters was startled, then said: "Okay, let's leave first."
Lipton wanted to say something, but finally nodded helplessly.
Randleman hid in a barn, hoping to sneak out after dark.
Unexpectedly, he was unlucky and was discovered by a German infantryman, who followed him into the barn.
Just when Randleman picked up the M1 Garand with a bayonet and wanted to fight him to the death, he discovered that the German soldier first had a blood mark on his neck, and then a piece of blood spurted out. The fog then fell to the ground with a thud.
"Dan Niu, I finally found you." Rosen, who had just thrown out a box cutter and cut the German soldier's throat, walked out of the shadow of the barn.
"Why are you here?" Randleman asked.
"Nonsense, if I don't come, who can save you." Rosen said, sorting out his equipment, and said: "When it gets dark later, we will fight out. ”
Randleman nodded.
Rosen pulled out the bayonet, sterilized it, dug out the shrapnel from his back, then sprinkled sulfa powder on it and bandaged it briefly. There was nothing else to do. The healing effect of prayer will naturally make his wounds heal quickly.
When night fell, Rosen woke up the sleepy Randleman and walked out of the barn one after another.
I don’t know if it was because of Rosen’s appearance, but the Dutch girl in the original plot did not appear. Rosen couldn’t help but feel a little sorry for Randleman.
When the two walked out of the barn, Rosen released a shadow cloak.
Compared to the not-so-dark night, the shadow that comes with the skill is undoubtedly more suitable for hiding.
Even if someone notices the abnormality in this shadow, Rosen doesn't care. After all, unless they break in, they can't do anything to him.
Just as Rosen led Randleman forward, patrolling German soldiers inadvertently broke into the Shadow Cloak from time to time. In order not to alert the enemy, Rosen did not fire. Instead, he released the psychic hammer towards him.
Every German infantryman who was attacked froze up at first, then fell to the ground on his back, completely dying.
Randleman followed Rosen, feeling that the night around him was extremely dark and the road seemed very long.
Although he could hear the enemy's footsteps or even the sound of falling to the ground from time to time, he never saw any sign of the enemy.
Until he was completely safe, he realized that the thick ink-like darkness around him had become lighter. At the same time, he also saw a German corpse lying next to him.
He fell to the ground, with blood dripping from his mouth and nose, especially his eyes.It's so red that you can't see the pupils at all.
Even though he was used to seeing dead people, Randleman was still shocked by this horrific sight of death.
However, he did not ask much about what was going on.
Of course Rosen wouldn’t explain anything.
So the two of them chose silence with a tacit understanding
The setback of E Company's attack was like a microcosm of the Allied forces' operations in the entire Market Garden.
Due to poor coordination and tacit understanding between each other, as well as various other reasons, this operation that mobilized a large number of resources and troops ultimately ended in failure.
The subsequent impact caused by this also caused E Company to suffer a lot in the following months.
Rosen drifted on the battlefield like a spectator, but kept communicating with Diana. At this time, he fully understood what it was like to be in a war that lasted for three months, and letters from home were worth ten thousand gold.
If it weren’t for the agreement he had with Diana, which required him to stay in the army and pay close attention to the war in order to find traces of Ares, he would probably have stopped working here long ago.
When the time came on December 17, E Company, which was resting, was stuffed into a truck, packed like jars of sardines, and was transported to a place they didn't even know.
The reason why there was no airdrop was because the weather was bad and there was no way to quickly mobilize enough C-47s. So the soldiers who were sitting without stools and swaying around even a slight turn began to complain crazily.
Some are for this unknowing mission, and some are because they don’t have enough ammunition or enough warm clothes...
In short, everyone has their own dissatisfaction, so they are crowded together like this. , wandering towards the unknown journey.