Seeing the oncoming 28th Army tank troops, the Bostonians were a little hesitant, they wanted to go around to the flank to attack, but the Grizzly 3 tank that was coming at full speed did not give them this opportunity, and after getting close to the other side, the Grizzly 3 tank with infrared night vision devices and a four-way stabilization device accurately fired its own shells in motion.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, many M4 vehicles were paralyzed on the ground, and some Grizzly 3 vehicles that had run out of shells even hit them with full horsepower, knocking the much smaller M4 vehicles directly to the ground. Faced with the 28th Army's chariot convoy, the Bostonians were frightened, and they turned their heads and ran towards the village.

"Forward for the Motherland." The main force of the 28th Army, which followed up, shouted the same slogan and threw itself into the pursuit of the Bostonians, Dong Guicheng did not save his own shells, they poured all their firepower into the material warehouses, as well as the rows of supply cars and combat vehicles in the village square, as the dense shells fell, a large number of much-needed supplies for the Axis troops, along with the trucks they carried, were destroyed one after another, and the mushroom cloud of ammunition explosion lit up half of the sky.

Although the Boston Guardian Army was quickly defeated, Dong Guicheng knew very well that he was in the midst of the enemy group and could be surrounded at any time, and after seeing that the results were large enough, Dong Guicheng ordered the troops to quickly withdraw from the battle. After successfully completing the combat mission, Dong Guicheng ordered the troops to immediately evacuate the village and drive towards the nearby dense forest. By the time nearby Axis reinforcements arrived, they were left with nothing but a blaze and corpses.

"Destroy all the vehicles, we're running out of fuel." Dong Guicheng sighed and gave the order to the troops. Although they successfully attacked the supply convoy of Bostonians, the assault also depleted their only fuel and ammunition, and Dong Guicheng had no choice but to destroy these sensitive equipment in order to prevent them from falling into the hands of the enemy.

An explosion sounded, a large number of depleted tanks and self-propelled guns were destroyed by explosives, and the soldiers of the 28th Army watched in despair as their beloved tanks were destroyed, and many of them wept bitterly. Seeing the depressed mood of the troops, Dong Guicheng shouted: "All the personnel gather." ”

His order was quickly conveyed by the rank and file officers, and the remaining less than six thousand soldiers quickly assembled and formed several squares. Looking at the soldiers whose morale was a little low, Dong Guicheng waved his big hand and said loudly: "Comrades-in-arms, do you think we lost this time?" ”

No one at the bottom answered, but everyone could tell from which heads were lowered that they thought so. Dong Guicheng said: "No, I said that you did not lose, in the case of absolute disadvantage, you destroyed more enemies than yourself, destroyed a lot of materials for the enemy, I said that you have completed the task given to us by your superiors excellently, you have won." ”

Seeing that the soldiers around him raised their heads one after another and looked at themselves with hopeful eyes, Dong Guicheng continued: "Yes, we have now lost all our heavy equipment and lost many close comrades-in-arms, but we are not discouraged. One day we will come back, as victors, wearing straight uniforms, to set foot on this land where we have fought, to comfort the souls of our fallen comrades. ”

After Dong Guicheng's encouragement, most of the soldiers had gradually recovered their morale, and everyone looked at their beloved commander with slightly excited eyes. Dong Guicheng nodded with satisfaction: "That's right, the enemy wants us to be demoralized, because then they will be able to succeed." Now we must use our own practical actions to break the enemy's encirclement and let them know that we are an iron army that cannot be defeated or dragged down. I ordered all of them to carry up our wounded comrades, raise the military flag, and sing the military song. We are to go all the way to the east, to break out of the enemy's encirclement, and to return to the main forces. ”

A flaming red battle flag with mottled scorch marks was raised, and under the battle flag fluttering in the wind, the soldiers of the 28th Army carried their wounded comrades and strode away against the rising sun. "Forward for the Motherland." Looking at the marching team, Dong Guicheng raised his arms and shouted.

"Forward for the Motherland." The soldiers responded, I don't know who sang the Chinese Army military song first, and the stirring melody rose from the ranks: "Our team is facing the sun, stepping on the land of the motherland, we are the armed forces of the empire, we are invincible forces...... Soon the whole marching team sounded a majestic song, and everyone couldn't help but sing together. The rousing melody resounded through the heavens and the earth, echoing above the canopy of the jungle for a long time.

The 28th and 29th armies stationed in the territory of the Cossack Empire, with the help of a large number of Cossack troops, successfully delayed the offensive rhythm of the Axis forces and bought time for the large army to deploy defenses, but even so, the pressure on Gao Deyu to command the battle was still quite high.

At this moment, he only had in his hands the 35 corps of the regular army of the Chinese Empire and the 40 corps of the reserve, the 70 wings of the air force, in addition to the remnants of the Cossack Empire who had retreated from the front line, and the nearby garrison troops, a total of eight corps. This was also the reason why the Cossack Empire's northern route was under too much pressure, and they mobilized most of their army and all their air forces to the north to resist.

Fortunately, Dong Guicheng and Song Mingxuan delayed the Axis army for 20 days, especially Song Mingxuan's defense of Minsk, although it could not completely block the offensive route of the Axis army, but for the sake of logistics security, Howell also had to stop the army, first eliminate the Minsk defenders, and ensure the smooth flow of his logistics line.

With only 2.5 million troops and less than 6,000 aircraft, Gao Deyu is also a headache in the face of the aggressive Axis army, which is only one-sixth of the opponent's strength, which is very difficult for the defending side, especially when the opponent's number reaches a certain number, and the qualitative change caused by its quantitative change is quite terrifying.

But the Axis armies also had weaknesses, because the troops came from many countries and were too large in number, resulting in poor logistical organization, great supply pressure, and slightly chaotic command. The speed of the transmission of orders between the troops is low, the reaction time of the troops is slow, and these situations will become more and more serious with the extension of their supply lines, so Gao Deyu decided to adopt a defensive tactic of exchanging space for time, lengthening the opponent's supply line, depleting the opponent's morale, and creating conditions for Armageddon.

The Chinese army was divided into four parts, led by Cossack troops familiar with the terrain, harassing the Axis armies, while gradually retreating for space and time, and using various cities and strategic points to disperse the opposing forces.

In the 20 days that Dong Guicheng and Song Mingxuan won over, Gao Deyu made corresponding arrangements in major cities. After starting this strategy, the troops under the command of Gao Deyu began to lure the Axis troops and slowly retreated, and Howell, who found the main force of the other side, did not dare to divide his troops, so he could only follow closely behind the Gao Deyu army, hoping to destroy the main force of the other side.

The retreat of the troops of the Gaude language was not slow, soon Voliv was abandoned, Pinsk was abandoned, Baranovich was also abandoned, and the Axis army went straight to Mogilev, one of the main cities of the Cossack Empire, but soon Mogilev was also abandoned, and after a month of offensive, the Axis forces were already directed towards Kiev.

Although the Imperial Chinese Army waged several effective wars of annihilation during the retreat, wiping out more than 200,000 Axis troops, these numbers were nothing to the fifteen million Axis troops, and General Howell's forces continued to advance steadily.

The army advanced smoothly, and the complacent General Howell did not notice that the Axis army, which had penetrated more than 400 kilometers into the territory of the Cossack Empire, was becoming more and more inadequate in terms of logistical supply, and at the same time, in order to garrison various strategic points and cities, a large number of their forces were contained, and the entire army command system was also slightly disorganized.

Of course, the retreat is not a blind retreat, Gao Deyu tried every means to make trouble for the Axis army, in order to achieve the combat plan of fatigue and delay the enemy, Fang Ruijun specially sent him the most elite special operations army in the entire empire.

The Special Operations Army, with its large number of snipers, became the demons of the Axis forces, and in the course of the march, a large number of officers of all ranks, as well as the commanders of the armored corps, who had their heads out of their vehicles, were killed. In order to fight these snipers, the Boston Army sent its own snipers, and there were more of them, but the difference in strength between them was not at all something that could be bridged by numbers.

The Boston infantry used the Springfield-style manual sniper rifle made in Boston, the only difference between this sniper rifle and the regular rifle was that it had a quadruple sniper scope, but that was about it. The soldiers of the Special Operations Army are different, because they have a whole set of state-of-the-art supernatural sniper systems on their bodies.

The Chaoshen sniper system was developed by the Weapons Research Institute of the China Foundation at the request of Fang Xiaoyu back then, and it was just equipped with a special operations army four years ago, and for the sake of secrecy, this kind of equipment was only equipped with a special operations army, and even the sniper units of other ordinary troops were not equipped, which shows how much attention the military of the Chinese Empire has attached to it.

The main body of this sniper system is naturally the Chaoshen sniper rifle, which has a barrel length of 762 millimeters, and uses manual rotation to pull the gun, with an effective range of 1,500 meters and a magazine capacity of 10 rounds. The whole gun weighs 14 kilograms bare, and uses a special 11.43 mm bullet, which is quite powerful.

In addition, he is equipped with a 5.5 to 22x adjustable scope, which has an objective lens diameter of 56 mm and a total length of 386 mm, and a screen display to show the adjustment status to help the sniper make subtle adjustments to the factors affecting the accuracy of the shot, such as wind speed, wind force, wind direction, humidity, the earth's gravity, and rotation speed.