Sitting on the right side of the middle-aged officer was a large man in his thirties, with an unshaven beard and a fierce look. He had gauze wrapped around his forehead and no hat. He looked like a fierce general.
"If you ask me, everyone rushes in and fights. If you die, you die. As long as the survivors can grab the supplies in the convoy, our lives will be much easier in the future. It doesn't matter whether we continue to fight or hide."
Sitting on the left was an elegant officer. The color of his collar badge looked like that of a major. His face was very poor, and his eyes were bloodshot. He casually unbuttoned his military discipline button. His face was filled with dark clouds and he was in a daze. Hearing the big man speak, he came back to his senses and looked at the rich middle-aged officer. Said: "Brigadier, I still feel that we cannot stop. Although the enemy has not chased us, it does not mean that other enemies will not pass by. We have been parked here for more than two hours, and we cannot stay in this place any longer!"
"Can't stay? Where can we go if we can't stay here? We can't last three days without food, and we can't do anything without weapons and equipment." The brigade commander half-smiled, with complicated eyes.
"It really doesn't work... Let's go west, into the mountains, and try to find other teams to the west."
Hearing this, the brigade commander stared at the hat in his hand for a while, and suddenly said: "To the west? The army of the German Empire is also fighting to the west. You have also seen their army. Do you think our army can stop it?" They? They can’t always go west, right?”
"We can't fight any more. We have wasted a long time. If we run out... there will be no hope."
The fierce general said: "If you ask me, we still have to grab the supplies in front of us, and then hide in the mountains for a while. After this period of persistence, we will find an opportunity to go south to Sarajevo."
Seeing several low-level officers around him speaking in agreement, Major Ruya lowered his head and remained silent.
"We can't just count the casualties. If we don't have supplies, we will die if we enter the mountain. So it's settled. Let's gather our forces. This time we will take down the enemy's supply convoy at any cost."
After hearing the order, everyone got up and gathered their troops. Only the brigade commander and Major Ruya were left on the scene. The two were speechless, each thinking about their own thoughts.
There are more than 700 soldiers in this group of soldiers who have just been withdrawn from the position. They seem to be a lot, but in fact they are the only remaining men of a full brigade. They belong to the same brigade that was stationed at the previous defensive position. Yesterday there were still more than 4,000 strong soldiers and horses. In just one morning, now only these defeated soldiers were left. The chief of staff gathered together during the retreat, but only more than 700 people were gathered.
That's right, Major Ruya is the chief of staff of this brigade. Without his insistence on gathering the remaining soldiers, there would not be more than 700 people now, but 70 would be considered good. The brigade commander was injured in the arm and was breached at the defense line. Immediately, he ran away with his guards regardless. On the way, he met the chief of staff who was gathering the troops, and then he joined forces and retreated north.
At the beginning, the enemy chased for a while, causing us to lose some soldiers. Later, we didn't know why the enemy didn't catch up, so everyone breathed a sigh of relief. As for looking back to see what happened, whoever has the leisure can go ahead. Anyway, let's go first. Let’s talk after running away.
Until I met Ai at the corner and ran into the leading escort of the German army's supply convoy, both sides hid in panic and opened fire on the opposite side. Whether to fight or to turn in another direction and continue to retreat, the officers never debated the outcome, so The stalemate has reached now.
Fortunately, the results have finally come. The soldiers have finally gathered. Even the clerks at the brigade headquarters have tightened their weapons, waiting for the commander to give the order, and then make a desperate charge towards the enemy two to three hundred meters in front.
The brigade commander held a telescope in his hand to observe the enemy on the opposite side. He had just raised his hand to issue an order for a full-scale attack. At this time, the whistling sound of artillery shells was heard in the air, and then three artillery shells exploded among the soldiers lying on the ground.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The smoke that began to rise in the camp made the brigade commander and all the officers' eyes glazed over, and they turned their heads to look in the direction from which the shells were flying behind them. The explosions gradually became louder. Sand, gravel, and weeds were flying. The sight was instantly filled with gunpowder smoke, shaking this small wasteland and shaking everyone's hearts...
Not long after, a soldier stumbled from the rear and found a group of officers who were still in a daze. The soldier fell down in front of the brigade commander in embarrassment. Before he could get up, he quickly reported: "Report to the brigade commander, four people have appeared in the rear. An enemy tank is now less than two kilometers away and is expected to come into contact with us in three minutes."
"Give me the order, brigade commander. If we don't fight, it will be too late." The fierce general became anxious at this time and hurriedly said to the brigade commander.
Seeing that the brigade commander was still in a daze and was reluctant to give orders, the general stamped his feet and left in a hurry. After a while, he led a team in the direction of the supply convoy.
The camp was already in chaos. Some were charging towards the supply convoy with the meng generals, some were turning around and running backwards to block the tanks, and some were injured by the explosion and rolling and wailing on the ground. The brigade commander with an injured arm and a handsome face had dull eyes and kept mumbling: "It's over... It's really over now."
The sound of gunfire not far away suddenly became fierce, followed by another dense explosion. After a while, another soldier hurried over: "Report to the brigade commander, Captain Gottlieb is leading the charge. The enemy used a large number of grenades to hold them back and suffered heavy casualties. They have already led the rest of the troops to break through to the west..."
The brigade commander was dumbfounded, as if he had turned into a sculpture, and the blink of an eye became a luxury. Everyone who looked in the direction of the smoke was silent. Some soldiers were quietly crawling away, some soldiers continued to curl up numbly, and some soldiers were confused and confused.
Major Ruya pulled him off the edge of the ridge. The brigade commander seemed to have gained consciousness and murmured in a low voice: "This is not what I want... none of this... is what I want..."
"What should we do now? Are you talking?" Major Ruya shook the brigade commander's shoulders, hoping that the absent-minded brigade commander could regain his composure.
The brigade commander raised his absent-minded face and looked towards the blue sky in the distance: "Let's all go. If you can still go, if you are still willing to go, let's all go!"
He seemed to no longer hear any sounds, and just stared blankly into the distance. The sound of wind, gunshots, explosions, and shouts all around him seemed to be moving away from him.
Major Ruya wanted to laugh, but he couldn't. It wasn't that he didn't dare to laugh, but he just couldn't. He took a deep breath in desperation and said, "Brigade commander, I will arrange for the rear to block the attack. You should seize the time to lead the team westward and into the mountains."
Seeing the brigade commander's lack of response, Major Ruya shook his head helplessly, turned around and walked towards a group of soldiers who had no master.
