Chapter 488 James

Lieutenant James is a veteran who has served for three years.

His father was worried that his son's playboy nature would bring disgrace to the family, so he couldn't wait to throw him into the army as soon as he reached the age of service. Unfortunately, he was not content in the army because of his playboy nature. He often flirted with other women and was punished several times. If it weren't for his father, he would have been expelled from the army as a scum.

So his comrades who served in the same batch were promoted, but he was still a poor private, and he was not even selected for the glorious expeditionary force.

Yes, it was "glorious". In order to fight side by side with the ally France to fight against the hateful German invaders, the soldiers all signed up to join the expeditionary force. Although James was a playboy, he was not a coward who was afraid of death. He also wanted to experience the test of blood and fire like a real man. Unfortunately, perhaps the superiors were worried that he would bring his daily bad habits to France and embarrass the British, so they did not approve his request and threw him in Britain.

As a result, everyone knows that the expeditionary force that crossed the sea and landed in France was easily defeated by the Germans and sent to the prisoner-of-war camp.

The British high-level officials, who lost nearly 300,000 elite troops at once, fell into great panic. Because they were worried that the Germans would cross the sea and land in Britain at any time, they desperately expanded the army and increased defense. This made veterans like James a hot commodity in the army. He thought he would only be a private in his life, but he took a rocket and soared up. He was first appointed as a deputy platoon leader from a private, and then he was appointed as an acting company commander not long after. Now he is a formal company commander, but all the soldiers under him are recruits, that is, the kind who have just learned how to shoot.

A few days ago, his regiment was sent to Norwich to strengthen the coastal defense near Norwich. Before their defensive positions were completed, the Germans launched an attack. No one expected that the German army would choose such a place far away from the port to attack.

From the regimental meeting in the morning, we learned that the German paratroopers landed behind them, destroyed roads and occupied bridges, and even slaughtered their wives and children. But as a force guarding the coastline, they could do nothing. They could only hope that the Germans would be severely damaged during the landing process and give up the idea of ​​landing. Then they could turn around and deal with the group of hateful German paratroopers behind them.

Unfortunately, the Germans' combat effectiveness once again exceeded everyone's imagination. The German landing troops can be said to have easily broken through the first line of defense and rushed towards their unfinished line of defense with great momentum.

"Bang!" Raising his Lee Enfield rifle, James hit a German soldier in the distance who was holding a gun and shooting non-stop. After being a soldier for three years, he still had confidence in his marksmanship.

Sure enough, the German soldier fell down, but the soldier next to him had noticed James, and a burst of fire broke out from the muzzle of the gun in his hand.

"..." James suddenly felt that his chest was hit hard by a sledgehammer for several consecutive times, and the whole person fell down powerlessly. What I was thinking about was the rifle that could fire continuously.

After suffering very few casualties, the German soldiers approached the British trenches under the cover of dense machine gun fire, first throwing grenades at them, and then jumping into the trenches after a short charge. Some British soldiers who were still alive wanted to take up weapons to resist, but were instantly shot into sieves by the German assault rifles and submachine guns.

The German army continued to chase the fleeing British soldiers, leaving some people to clean up the battlefield.

A young face appeared in James' eyes. James thought that this German soldier would kill him with a bayonet or a bullet, but he didn't expect that the German soldier would stare at him for a long time and then a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. "I've never seen someone pretending to be dead and staring with his eyes wide open." He kicked the rifle next to James and shouted. "Medic, there is a wounded soldier pretending to be dead."

The medic carrying the first aid kit ran over to check the wound. He saw that the clothes on the left chest of the British soldier had been penetrated by bullets, but there was no bleeding. The medic curiously touched James' chest and felt a hard object. "What is it?"

The medic unbuttoned James' clothes out of curiosity and took out the hard object in his arms. When he saw what it was, the medic couldn't help laughing. "Aha, everyone come and see, there is a lucky guy here, His Highness Yannick saved his life."

The soldiers around gathered when they heard the sound. "What's the situation?"

The medic raised the book in his hand. "This guy has a book written by His Highness Yannick in his arms, which just helped him block two bullets." The book blocked the two bullets that would have torn James' heart. Although the strong impact still broke his ribs, it saved his life.

"Oh!"

"This guy is really lucky!"

Looking at the German soldiers who were gathered around and scrambling to grab the book with two bullets, James really didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

He was recently chasing a girl with a strong literary temperament. The girl was very interested in the works of the German crown prince, so he bought a book so that he could quote a few famous sentences when chatting with the girl.

Just before the battle, he stuffed the book into his arms, but he didn't expect that this book would become his life-saving magic weapon.

After the examination, the medical soldier found that James's wound was not serious. After the broken ribs and the wound on the shoulder healed, he was a normal person again.

A few days later, James and other prisoners of war were sent to a liberty ship with the German wounded and returned to Germany.

Listening to the long whistle of the ship, James sighed deeply. He was captured in Dunkirk without participating in the expeditionary force, but became a prisoner in the UK; it seems that he is destined to be a prisoner after all. I don’t know if I can be imprisoned with my former squad brothers in the prisoner-of-war camp.

Just thinking about staying in a prisoner-of-war camp without beautiful girls for several years is really chilling.

"Captain, they won’t kill us all, right?" Just when James was full of random thoughts, a timid voice sounded beside his ear.

Without looking back, James guessed that the person who spoke was a new recruit in their company. James even doubted whether he was an adult before. He was just a timid child. He was a little worried about whether this child could survive in the prisoner-of-war camp. "Don't worry, if they want to kill you, they will shoot you on the battlefield. Why bring you to the prisoner-of-war camp?"