By noon, the area of Paedan's defenses had shrunk to the main road and the out-of-town defense points in the east of the town. However, the exhausted Elta Army was unable to fight again after facing an enemy several times its size and defeating it.

Paedan sent emissaries in the hope of a two-hour truce before the battle. After weighing the pros and cons, the former PLA officer corps decided to grant him what he invited - no matter how brave the guy here is, he still needs to eat and rest. They had been fighting from sunrise for seven hours straight, and there was no shortage of rashness and recklessness during that time. If they are not allowed to rest and eat, I am afraid that there will be a situation where the crossbow will end, and the loss will probably be unbearable at that time.

As for not being able to collect all the land in Sanqiao Town before lunch, it is naturally something that cannot be forced. Neither the Elta nor the Chinese officers who directed them did not, or did not want, the outdated concept of "political command". Can Sanqiao Town be laid today is planned, as for unplanned? It's certainly best to have that.

"Temporary truce and return to safety?" The Platoon Commander of the Elta Army, who had just led the three squads that were still fully manned to take a three-fork street intersection, hesitated for a moment on the radio, then glanced at his subordinates who were high-spirited but equally tired, and replied sharply through gritted teeth:

"Yes, mission guaranteed!"

It is just as difficult to keep them in their tracks when they are marching as it is to keep them in their tracks when they are in a breakup. At the moment, Elta's army is systematically withdrawing from the line of fire, covering each other in the process - a scene that impressed the last surviving front-line officers of the Magic Lance Team.

"They're gone?" The centurion, who raised his head, breathed a sigh of relief, and if he continued to fight, his hundred-man team would go from a serious attrition to a full-strength squad...... Although the retreating neighborhood in the distance can be rewarded by walking a few steps by itself, the retreating enemy army still seems to be exuding an aura that does not welcome its advance.

The cells of the whole body are admonishing: it is better not to act rashly.

In fact, it was true, and the Magic Spear team on the front line soon received an order to reach a truce and retreat. Before the officers and men who were close to the rout could listen to all the orders conveyed by the messengers, they were instinctively driven to run wildly towards their last safe zone. It's so fast that even Hong Kong journalists can't match it.

Seeing this, the soldiers of the Elta Army, who were slowly retreating, smiled from the bottom of their hearts. The enemy in Elta's Army Tactics Code will launch a counter-assault when retreating, sticking to the retreating team...... The Elta Army did not counter-charge because of the truce that had just been reached, and their enemies not only did not counter-charge, but also failed to hold their retreating positions. This made them look down on their enemies a little bit.

The retreating troops converged little by little on both sides of the main road, and finally converged on the main road into a sea of army green. Their uniforms were stained with gunsmoke, and many of them had holes in their uniforms. However, the bruises, contusions, did not stop their loud military songs from slamming hoarsely on the main road of Sanqiao Town, and the doors of the houses buzzed.

A hard-won victory is more refreshing than a thousand. If on the first day of the battle, they relied on epoch-making breakthrough armored equipment, on the second day, they had already relied on their flesh to break through the defenses of the magic spear team, which was listed as a strong enemy in the battle briefing, several times their own defense, which was really a proud result.

However, the progress of one and a half regiments of the front in the battle of the town of Three Bridges ended there. While they sat on the ground and enjoyed lunch, a unit that had not been put to the front was already marching east with a full stomach, and new orders were transmitted along the line by radio and officers of all ranks.

"What? The afternoon battle has nothing to do with us? The platoon commander who had just withdrawn looked confused and held a stainless steel lunch box and paper bag in his hand, and the bread in his mouth almost fell down.

"That's right, the whole regiment will be sent to the rear for rectification next." The former PLA battalion commander said seemingly casually. "The attrition situation is still quite serious, and there is no way to do it. When you're full, execute your orders. ”

The strength of the Elta Army in front of the army is short for a while, and the reason is actually very simple. There are a total of three regiments of the regular army of the Elta Army, and only one and a half regiments of troops have been invested in the town of Sanqiao.

However, by noon, the regiment that had been left behind was already able to play a huge role. This was far more prudent than throwing the regiment into battle in the morning and shrinking the line by noon, which would have dragged on for at least an afternoon if the Spear Squad had not been driven out of Three Bridges in one fell swoop before noon.

Paedan, on the other hand, threw most of his forces on the front line from the beginning. Elta's military science was not without advice to generals to adopt the method of wheel warfare in defensive warfare, and Paudin was not completely ignorant of this. His "crazy move" of throwing all his forces into the front line, and the retreating troops resting for a while and then refilling the broken zone of the defensive line was completely out of desperation...... The enemy's meat grinder is too powerful to give its soldiers room to make up in urban warfare.

The two hours that Paedin won seemed to have pulled the two armies to the same level of non-fatigue. However, Paudin has also recognized one of them. As for the second, it was only in the afternoon of this day that he could realize it.

"The smell of this broth is coming from the west side of the street?"

"Yes, Lord Padan."

Badan angrily nibbled down a bite of jerky. Even if he is a general of an army, he only has hard as stone jerky to gnaw, and those farmers, grooms, stall vendors, and walkers and pawns have drunk broth? It's really uncomfortable to have this status reversed.

"Lihusav, do you remember when we were in the Eastern Army, those mud-legged people wagged their tails and begged us for leftovers?"

"Yes, Lord Padan." Lihusav was also a subordinate of Bodin in the Eastern Army. Paedan developed, and the previous subordinates who escaped with him also ascended to heaven. "My subordinates also feel that mud legs are not worth being served so well by people from other worlds."

But they just waited like that, and they waited with a clear eye. The soldiers who are waiting for them can see at a glance that they are better than us, what are the people of the other world thinking? I can't guess. ”

Between the two of them, they only heard the guards break into the door in a panic: "General, dozens of soldiers smelled the smell of broth and went to the enemy camp to surrender!" ”

"Do you want to stop it?" Lihusaf stood up suddenly.

"Can you stop it now?" Paedin shook his head. "Sit down, my friend. It's good to gather and disperse, and if they want to suffer, they just let them go. ”

"But......" Lihusav clenched the cold bread in his hand. But our forces are overstretched, and if we don't take immediate measures, I'm afraid I'll ......."

"Afraid of what? I don't know if you and I can't figure out if I'm eating a severed head meal? Paedan calmly pressed his old subordinate back into his seat.

Looking at the frightened faces of his subordinates, Bodin added: "If you have the leisure to see if the ammunition is still sufficient, and if the gauze is enough, if we can survive this afternoon, even if we are worthy of the kindness of Master Ouffel Mondridge, then I will consider retreating." ”

Two hours is not a long time. The soldiers of the Magic Lance were still on the verge of collapse, and they were counting on the enemy on the opposite side, who had also rested for more than an hour, but they were wrong.

The flowery green figure emerging from the street was completely different from the tired soldiers of two hours ago, and even the military uniform was close to brand new when you looked closely.

At this point, there have been no waves in the battle in Sanqiao Town. The Magic Spear Team, which had lost its fighting spirit, continued to break up, retreat, and surrender. Around sixteen o'clock, Paedan committed suicide by drinking bullets after the defense was hopeless, and the rest of the troops quickly surrendered. This is the end of the war in the town of Three Bridges.

However, the battle is not over. On the river in the town of Three Bridges, a hard-shelled inflatable boat and a river assault boat are transporting stretchers and standing wounded people back and forth.

"Students, look at it." Zhao Lei waved the intestinal forceps and examined the organs while showing the abdominal structure to his students.

The Elta Army soldier on the operating table has his feet high and his head low, showing a thirty-degree chamfer. He was stabbed in the abdomen by the sword of the Demon Lance Team, but fortunately it was not very serious. But if this injury were on the other side, he would have to die in pain.

"This guy has basically no problems with his organs. On laparoscopy, we can only see penetrating injuries to the abdominal wall and rupture of the small intestine. For such patients who are biologically and hemodynamically stable at the time of admission, it is best not to perform exploratory laparotomy at the time of care. ”

Several Elta people who had learned all the way from the barefoot doctor nodded yes, and some did not forget to take out their notebooks and write down a few words on paper. Although they don't understand something, they will understand it by learning more - from how to use antibiotics, to what antibiotics are, to how to dissect and how to suture, they have all been crawling all the way.

"In the future, in practice, the right to decide such cases will gradually be opened up to you. Okay, let me show you how to perform laparoscopic repair of small bowel rupture and abdominal wall wound closure. ”

The casualties in the Battle of Three Bridges fell into two main categories: the lightly and severely wounded of the Elta Army, and the captured wounded of the enemy army. The difference between the two is mainly reflected in the chief surgeon, the wounded of the Elta Army always receive the highest priority treatment, of course, they inevitably become the "living textbook model" of Chinese surgeons, and they have to endure some fingering within the scope of tolerance - anyway, after general anesthesia, you are also at a loss and don't know anything.

As for the captured wounded, it was a "living workbook" that put future Elta surgeons to work and test their learning.