The elite musketeers, who ignored the night, immediately taught the Russian soldiers a lesson, but after the Russian soldiers adopted the strategy of shooting and running, the elite musketeers could not inflict much damage on them for a while.

After repeated battles between the two sides, Neiman even dispatched a large army to attack the water collection team, which slightly suppressed the Chechen army's water collection operation, so that the Chechen army's water collection team had to go further downstream to obtain water.

Neiman succeeded in reducing the supply of water to the Chechen army, but his attempts to force the Chechen army to accept a decisive battle were not successful at all. Because Timur ordered the snow to be turned into water on the spot, and to remain where it was.

The problem of drinking water for tens of thousands of troops has been solved for the time being, but this is not a long-term solution, the sky has cleared, and it will not snow for several days in a row. This water source problem is still stuck in the Chechen army, after all, the Soviet Russian army occupies a geographical advantage, and if you want to seize the water source, you have to attack the positions of the Soviet Russian army.

Timur saw that the grain and grass in the army were still rich for the time being, and the snow around him could be used for a while.

It is you who have a good plan, and I have a wall ladder.

While Neiman and the Chechen army were fighting for water, Timur was concerned about the baggage of the Soviet-Mongolian army. To be on the safe side, Neiman left part of his baggage in Baganor on the banks of the Kruren River.

This would be a confrontation with the Chechen army for several days, and Baganor also sent some firewood and grass to Zargret Khan to replenish the grain and grass stocks of the front-line army.

The Soviet-Mongolian coalition army also has nearly 30,000 people, as well as a large number of Mongolian soldiers' war horses and cart pullers, and the daily consumption is astronomical. But he forgot that many of Timur's servants were indigenous people from Siberia, and he forgot that this kind of terrain was especially suitable for skiing!

Using this particular tool, Timur's servant army instead intercepted a convoy of 500 sleds on the mountain road between Baganor and Zargrad Khan, which Neiman considered safe. Before the Soviet-Mongolian reinforcements arrived, they were all burned. As a result, the logistical supply lines of the Soviet-Mongolian coalition army suffered heavy losses, which made the logistics of the Soviet-Mongolian coalition army, which was not wealthy, even worse.

As a result, the two sides began a war of attrition again, and by the 12th day, the Soviet-Mongolian coalition army had only enough food and grass for 3 days, and the situation became more and more difficult. Neiman stood silently on the low walls of Zargret Khan and watched as night slowly descended, and another day was about to pass. The barracks in the dusk were busy, except for the people who carried water and made food, they were walking horses and feeding forage. The soldiers patrolling in various places also returned to the camp to change shifts, and there was a lot of noise.

As the sun gradually sank in the west, the horse lanterns, wind lanterns, and bonfires of each battalion were lit one by one, and the same was true of the camps of the Chechen army in the distance.

As the sky darkened, the sun in the west took up its last golden yellow, but the sporadic lights gradually felt brighter, and a sea of lights formed around Zargrad Khan, which brought not only brightness but also warmth, making Neiman feel like he was back in Moscow.

Looking at the white snow in the middle of the sea of lights, which was white and dazzling in the moonlight, Neiman suddenly made a decision to convene a military meeting overnight.

At this meeting, it was finally decided that the Eastern Expeditionary Army would withdraw to Baganor and restore logistics and supplies first.

That night, the Soviet-Mongolian forces began to retreat in turn under the cover of night, with the Soviet-Russian army in the center first, then Ivanov's left flank, and the complete Choibalsan right flank behind the palace.

Hope is wonderful, but reality is cruel.

Since Neiman issued the order to hold the meeting after dinner, and when the generals of the various armies had finished the meeting and then conveyed it to the army, many military camps had already begun to blow the night trumpet, turn off the lights and go to bed. In this cold day, people are dragged out of the warm bed, and as long as they are resentful.

The few Mongol ministers refused to abandon their positions, and the fierce generals and the Russian soldiers who came to command caused a fierce quarrel and almost fired their guns, so their retreat was delayed by Yan Zòng.

It was not until dawn that the right flank of Choibalsan was dispatched, followed by the Russian army, and by this time the outposts ordered to advance had already reached Baganor.

After daybreak, the Soviet-Mongolian forces completely withdrew from Zalgret Khan and began to slowly enter the mountains, but the entire front had been dispersed into three parts for various reasons, each several miles apart, and the shape was very critical.

It was early in the morning of January 18, 1922 A.D.

Timur's Guò watchtower found that the Soviet-Mongol forces had abandoned their positions, leaving only the trenches they had dug earlier.

Timur observed for a while, believing that they were scattered in a scattered formation, and determined that the Russians were not luring the enemy, but were defeated, so he ordered the whole line to pursue.

The Mongol cavalry summoned by the various divisions took the lead in order to fight for success, and the servant army and other infantry followed closely behind, and pressed on Zalgret Khan in a chaotic manner.

Seeing that the Chechen army had pressed the whole army without the slightest hesitation, the severity of the situation immediately escalated N times, and immediately ordered the trumpeters to order the troops around him to be gathered, and the Soviet-Mongolian coalition army of about 12,000 people was cut off. The Choibalsan troops, which belonged to the second echelon, also stopped retreating when they saw that the situation was critical, and the front team changed into a rear team and moved closer to the first echelon of Neiman, and the miscellaneous troops of Western Mongolia led by Ivanov belonged to the third echelon, and at this moment they stopped advancing and cautiously dragged on the mountain road behind.

Seeing the Chechen army approaching, Neiman immediately ordered his troops to form on a slightly raised flat plateau. All the soldiers were in a kneeling and standing position, not because they wanted to be targets, but because the snow on the ground was too thick, and if they were lying on their stomachs, there would be bursts of snow and fog when shooting, blocking their vision, which was not conducive to continuous shooting.

Before they could slowly arrange their positions, the cavalry of the Eastern Mongol tribes rushed to the front to attack in the blink of an eye, and tried to outflank the Russian camp in a roundabout way - a typical tactic of the Mongol cavalry, which belonged to the ancestral craft.

But whether the Mongol tribal cavalry succeeded in the roundabout or not was to test the Mongols' riding skills. This place is no longer a plain, but a part of the terrain close to the mountains. The terrain was already quite broken, with ravines and snowfalls, and the surface looked flat and endless. But as soon as the cavalry stepped on it, the original terrain was torn apart.

The activities of the cavalry of the Eastern Mongolian tribes here were greatly restricted. Not only do you have to resist the bullets of the Russians, but you also have to be careful of the invisible trap under your feet, and under double use, you will naturally suffer heavy losses.

The hoplites of the Timurid legion, who arrived later, did not hold two-handed swords of more than one meter as usual, but carried bulletproof iron shields up to 2 centimeters thick, and stumbled to set up a mixed shield phalanx 150 meters in front of the Soviet Russians' formation, providing shelter for these poor Eastern Mongolian tribal cavalry.

Watching the bullets splash on the opponent's shield, "clanging", Neiman's face was pale, and when he just saw the other party resisting the big shield, he was still laughing at the other party's backwardness, but now although he doesn't know what kind of shield the other party is made of, but after all, it is blocking the bullets shot from his side, if the other party approaches step by step, the consequences will be unimaginable.

However, fortunately, the other party was only a hundred meters away, forming a shield wall, and there was no intention of moving forward.

Why not rush to fifty meters or closer? That's because of the quality of these bulletproof shields, anti-rifle bullets or even machine gun bullets are fine at a distance of 100 meters, but it is enough to choke within 100 meters! If you are hit by the opponent more than once, the bulletproof shield will still burst.

And the archers of Timur's legion, who were hurrying behind them, also hid behind their shields and began to line up in response to the rain of bullets fired by the opposing side with wave after salvo, in Timur's words: "The Russian camp was drowned in a rain of arrows like a summer rainstorm." "

A hundred paces away from the Soviet defensive line, the sound of thousands of bowstrings flicking was terrifying, and thousands of feathered arrows flew high through the shield array, pouring down from the sky with a parabolic falling trajectory visible to the naked eye. In the memories of the Russian soldiers, these feathered arrows with inaccurate heads and limited damage to cotton robes were not too worried, but it was their self-confidence that left them with an unforgettable memory. The indiscriminate shooting made the formation of the Soviet and Russian defense line loosen up a little in an instant.

If it was only the Soviet Russian army on the position, then under the blow of this rain of arrows, their end would definitely be a group of dragons without a leader, holding their heads and running away!

But there was also an army with semi-firearms in the Soviet Russian army, the Mongolian People's Army. These Mongol warriors were also battle-hardened and well-trained, and while absorbing the military culture of the Soviet Russians, some did not abandon their ancestral round shields. No, they were connecting the pieces of shields they carried with them to form a solid shield defense line, but after all, there were not many Mongol warriors with shields left, and the limited few shields could only be used to protect the minds of the army.

Although the round shield used by the cavalry, it is better than nothing at this time, although from time to time someone is shot and falls to the ground, but with a backbone such as Neiman, the battle line formed by the Russians is still not chaotic at all. Braving the constantly falling arrow feathers, he was busy shooting in his hands, but he was busy dodging under his feet, not daring to be a little light, just waiting for the opponent's archers to lose their strength. But the arrows they were looking forward to did not stop, and when the bullets in their hands were all out of a magazine, the opponent's arrows were still shooting in waves. At this moment, the Russian soldiers were in a mess, and this reloading bullet could not run around.

Fortunately, with the two sides firing, the long-awaited artillery fire of the Soviet Russian army also began to roar in the rain of arrows. Earlier, the Russian army was preparing to evacuate, and these baby bumps were naturally carried by Neiman himself. However, because the Eastern Mongolian tribes came too fast, and before the artillery could be taken off the gun mount, the Soviet Russian army fought with each other, so they did not join in the fun.

But now I see the dense infantry formations of the Chechen army, if they don't open artillery, then they are all decorations. The hastily erected artillery was ordered to open fire by the artillery commander without adjusting the Zhu Yuan.

Because they did not adjust the Zhu Yuan, some artillerymen were afraid that they would miss the shot, so they flattened the muzzle of the gun and almost aimed at the big black shield 100 meters away.

The hoplites of the Timurid regiment carried bulletproof iron shields up to 2 cm thick, and the surface of the iron shields had also been carburized by the Germans on battleships, but after all, the bulletproof iron shields carried by the hoplites were not armored vehicles or tanks.