~Date: ~November 14th~

Slaven ordered the burial of the bodies of the fallen soldiers on both sides. He turned around and looked at the wheeled armored tanks of the coalition. The three tanks were destroyed by the artillery group commanded by Slaven and then detonated by the retreating coalition. The turret and heavy machine gun had been damaged and deformed. Slaven stepped forward and looked carefully at the barrel of the 12.7-caliber heavy machine gun on the turret. After a while, he murmured, "The Chinese weapons are very advanced. I am afraid that Germany and Britain and France are not equipped yet!"

"Comrade Commander, the soldiers who fell on both sides have been buried. Our side has 182 lightly injured and 54 seriously injured. The heavy machine gun on the other side's armored vehicle is too powerful. The seriously injured are afraid that it will be difficult for the serious injuries. Please instruct the next action!" Xin Bike, the political commissar of the division, asked for instructions in a heavy tone.

"The Forward Regiment has become a rear guard, and the Second Regiment of the Second Brigade is the leader, with the artillery company and heavy machine gun battalion following closely behind, and continue to pursue the retreating enemies of Briguma! If you are injured, let's act with the Group Army Command. Leave two medical soldiers to take care of the seriously injured on the spot, give them some water and food, and wait for other brothers to take shelter! The remaining minor wounded people get on the carriage and follow the team first!"

Slaven quickly made a decision that he had to give up the seriously injured. The rumors that the coalition forces preferential treatment of prisoners were no longer a secret. Aihe and Lezevsky were both alive? But Slaven and the division commander and political commissar did not dare to tell the soldiers bluntly that they could only let them experience it themselves. No matter what, the seriously injured at least did not need to point them at their heads and pull the trigger as they used to.

Although it was a bit inappropriate for the political commissars of the First Siberian Infantry Division to leave the wounded to the enemy, in front of the powerful Slaven and Hao, even the political commissar of the division, Xinbik, was not so stupid that he wanted to stand up and oppose the seriously injured.

"Comrade Commander, the armored forces of the coalition forces are too strong and well-trained. The opponent only had one battalion of troops just now, but if it weren't for our artillery, the troops of the two regiments might not be able to defeat the opponent. Should we stop when we see the opportunity and retreat to the west quickly?" Hao finally boldly suggested.

Slaven sighed in his heart, thinking, "Don't I want to retreat west quickly?" But now if I run, I can't fight. How can my legs run past the other person's four wheels?" Thinking of this, this guy waved his hand and said firmly,

"It's not time to retreat yet. We are now pretending to be the main force of the group army. If an opponent's armored battalion suffered a loss, it is probably moving closer to their main force. If we run away, the opponent will immediately come back to our senses and know that we are retreating, so we must continue to attack. Taking advantage of the restriction of the opponent's air force at night, the entire division will arch forward twenty kilometers further. Then we will decide whether to withdraw or defend according to the situation!"

The commander Slaven has a very high prestige in his Fifth Army. Since he was so persistent, his subordinates had to obey. Fortunately, although the casualties ratio in this encounter just now were completely undesirable, we finally won, right? So the morale of the team has recovered a lot from the tension and fear in the morning. The entire division stopped working. The commander of the Second Brigade Bishaofu led a regiment to continue to open the road north. Behind him were six artillery companies and one heavy machine gun battalion on both sides of the left and right wings, and then there were three side-by-side infantry regiments. The minor wounded all rode on the remaining war horses of the cavalry reconnaissance battalion of the army.

The seriously injured and the two medical soldiers who stayed watched the brigade heading north with a silent look on their faces. They felt extremely sad. Several people with mental collapse roared and asked their comrades to shoot themselves, but no one paid attention to them. Later, a small medical soldiers swung the butt stock to knock on the forehead, making them dizzy.

If it weren't for the rumors that the coalition forces preferential treatment of prisoners on the Ufa battlefield, most of the seriously injured people committed suicide, and the two medical soldiers probably refused to stay like this. Now, at least everyone still has some expectations in their hearts. If they are really captured, they can survive? As for the decision to abandon the seriously injured people and break through with light equipment, since the commander of the group army assumes the responsibility of Deng, what does it have to do with us unlucky guys?

Besides, what happened to the commander of the army? Is Lezevsky not the commander of the Fourth Army? Is Eh the chief of staff of our Fifth Army? I heard that after putting down the weapons, the coalition forces will still treat prisoners preferentially!

Just as Slaven himself said, of course, two legs could not run four wheels. Since the First Siberian Infantry Division, which was in disguise the main force of the group army, attacked northward, luring the enemy and attracting the attention of the coalition forces, did not say that they had fought such a small battle with the reconnaissance and police force and then turned around and ran away.

At nine o'clock that night, Slaven's division encountered the coalition ground troops again. It was still the opponent's armored reconnaissance battalion. However, before the opponent could wait for his artillery company to take action, he had a fire with the Forward Regiment and ran north again. The Second Brigade's Second Regiment suffered 200 casualties, while the opponent looked unscathed and fought and retreated to the north.

Slaven's artillery company had no time to unfold, and the heavy machine gun battalion on both wings did not hold anyone else. At this time, the place where the two sides contacted each other and were ten kilometers northwest of Briguma. The Siberian Infantry Division, who was running with her feet and sweaty, stopped to rest.

"Comrade Commander, the coalition seems to be luring the enemy deeper. The armored battalion wanted to run away, and it ran away long ago. It was obvious that it stopped waiting for us. Everyone was afraid that there would be ambush behind the other side! Can we stop chasing and turn heading to the west??" The division commander couldn't help it again this time. This guy was originally a bold master, but playing hide-and-seek with the coalition on this hazy night made him extremely depressed.

The commander of the Second Brigade led the Second Regiment to explore the way in front, but was ambushed by the heavy machine guns on the armored vehicle that were ambushed. The other party set up a pocket array and temporarily tripped and thundered on both sides of the road with grenades. The vanguard company of the Second Regiment was so dark that it was so bright that it could not be seen. After the grenades rang, several soldiers were blown away. The explosion sounded like a signal. A dozen large-caliber heavy machine guns suddenly appeared in the woods 1,200 meters away. The vanguard company was caught off guard and was almost wiped out by a pouring rain of bullets!

When the artillery company behind removed the cannon and opened its stance to bombard the opponent's position, the armored carriage in the middle was already gone, and the heavy machine gun battalion surrounded on both wings was as tired as a dog to catch up with the opponent. The carriage rushing in front tripped and the grenades arranged by the opponent and the people who were bombed were overturned. Then a group of large-caliber mortar shells roared from the sky. The two heavy machine gun battalions lost at least six carriages and horse-drawn machine guns. When the large group of people chased after him, the other party had already retreated.

If the first encounter between Slaven and his troops won and boosted morale, then at 9 o'clock in the evening, this encounter was obviously an ambush by the Soviet Red Army. A mere armored battalion dared to ambush a division. The opponent's commander was really amazing, and he was extremely good at using grenades and mortars. He was typical of running away after a fight. The wheeled armored vehicle of the coalition forces was a 360-degree rotating turret, which could be shot towards the enemy regardless of attack or retreat.

The Soviet Red Army's horse-drawn machine guns often had to stop and turn their heads before they could shoot at the other side. The gap between them suddenly became bigger, not to mention that the power of the Maxim heavy machine gun was far less than that of the opponent's 12.7 large caliber heavy machine gun. The defeat in the second battle obviously greatly dampened the morale of Slaven, the infantry division. This time the division commander could no longer bear it and ran to his commander again to ask for his order:

"Comrade Slaven! The commander of the Second Regiment Sabo was killed! The Avant-garde company was almost wiped out. I don't oppose the combat plan you mentioned to lure the enemy and disguise the main force. But it's a fantasy that we used two feet to chase the other four wheels. The coalition forces on the opposite side had a flexible and diverse fighting style. If we continue to fight like this, we will have little chance of casualties. When we encounter the main force of the enemy, we will lose our strength to fight back!"

The bandage of his wound was soaked with blood, and the commander of the second regiment just now was torn to pieces by the enemy's nearly 20 large-caliber heavy machine guns.

"Why do we fight with you? The entire division turned around and ran to the west? Do you think the other party would not follow him?" Slaven asked angrily. He was actually very annoyed, and he didn't expect that the other party's mere reconnaissance battalion would be so difficult!

"Comrade Slaven, I have an idea," said the light-faced Slaven to the side and whispered,

"We left three artillery companies to arrange artillery positions on the spot, and then the infantry regiment turned their heads and headed west under the protection of the heavy machine gun battalion. After walking five kilometers, the three artillery companies set up positions. Three artillery companies here followed again. This time, these three artillery companies went west and followed the infantry regiment for five kilometers, and then the three followed again. In this way, the infantry could always act under the cover of our artillery group. What do you think?"

Looking at his commander with anticipation, he was very proud of the way he came up with. Without the support of artillery, the opponent's wheeled armored vehicles were simply irresistible. Ordinary infantry had no suitable means to deal with wheeled armored combat vehicles. Moreover, the firepower of their on-board infantry after getting off the vehicle was not as good as Chen Da. The squad's machine guns and mortars were used incredible ways.
Chapter completed!