Chapter 896, I’ll buy you guys a little bit of time

Under the cover of the Sixth Division, the Seventh, Fifth, First, and Fourth Divisions, finally got a rare chance to take a breather and retreat, and the four P5s already understood that they had fallen into the trap of the Expeditionary Corps as soon as they learned that the Sixth Division had been ambushed.

So what they had to do now was never to mourn the fallen soldiers of the 6th Division, but to race against time.

Only when they returned to the south of the Great Wall would Firestarter have the ability to continue circling the Expeditionary Corps.

Among them, the 1st and 4th divisions were better off, they had gradually fallen behind in their pursuit and were now withdrawing most rapidly in turn.

P5077, the commander of the 1st Division, lamented with his adjutant as he commanded his troops to retreat in an orderly fashion.

He stood on the command vehicle and looked outside, the moment he saw the tired look on the soldiers’ faces, P5077 said, “It would have been better if we had listened to P5092 earlier, in front of a big battle there is no room for personal self-interests, it’s our fault.”

“Sir, it’s useless to talk about this now, retreat is the first priority,” said the adjutant, “Fortunately, our department is far away from the battlefield, it is expected that we can arrive at the Great Wall in two hours, and then the firepower above the wall will be able to stop the barbarians from continuing their pursuit.”

“Hopefully ……,” said P5077.

However, as soon as the words left his mouth, the commander of the infantry brigade in the flank and rear suddenly called the command vehicle, “Sir, the flank is under attack, it’s the Expeditionary Corps!”

“What’s the situation?” P5077 asked with a frown, “Why are the barbarians here?”

“They should have been ambushed here long ago and just suddenly appeared now,” the 3rd Infantry Brigade Commander said sharply, “It’s a good thing that they came one step late, the 7th Division behind us is their main target of attack, my department can get rid of them as soon as possible, sir, waiting for your instruction, should my department go to support the 7th Division or continue the retreat?”

P5077 immediately ordered a map to be brought to him, he carefully looked at the nearby terrain, and as a result, he sucked in a breath of cold air, “It’s not that this brute force is late, but rather that we retreated faster than they thought! The troops that appeared on the flanks were originally going to encircle us all, don’t get entangled, the other party must be one of the main forces of the Expeditionary Corps, if we are dragged here by them, it’s all over!”

“Roger,” replied the Infantry Brigade Commander.

At this moment, P5077’s heart was cold, if it wasn’t for the Sixth Division’s vow to stay behind and delay for half an hour, then their First Division and Seventh Division on the western flank would have been entangled by the barbarians’ main force in the north, and wouldn’t have been able to evacuate so quickly.

If they were half an hour late, the main force that had suddenly appeared would have suddenly appeared from their rear and blocked them all on the way back south.

But now it was different, the 1st Division had already left the opponent’s encirclement in advance.

P5077 said, “Immediately contact the other main forces and ask for the situation!”

Soon, the combat staff got replies from various units, “The 4th Division, which was in the rear with all of us, left the encirclement early as well, but the 7th Division and the 5th Division were all in the encirclement, and the enemy was directly encircling from the two flanks, so if we’re half an hour slow, none of the four divisions will be able to get away. They judged that the two sides of this enemy army responsible for the encirclement totaled more than 15,000 men.”

That is, the Seventh and Fifth Divisions were facing the main force of the Expeditionary Corps of over seven thousand men each.

A fifteen thousand man expeditionary corps was enough to block the 40,000 fire troops that had run out of food, although they couldn’t all be killed, it was still no problem to stop them and drag them to the arrival of the northern main force of the expeditionary corps.

Until this moment, the value of the Sixth Division’s sworn rearguard was not fully realized.

The adjutant looked at P5077: “Sir, should we go back to receive the 7th and 5th divisions?”

P5077 sat in his chair in silence for a long time before saying, “Retreat, continue to retreat, this time is what the 6th Division has given us in exchange for their lives, cherish it! Get me the 7th Division!”

At this moment, the highest general of the 7th division, P5067, was looking back at the expeditionary regiments appearing in the rear and flanks, in the confusion the soldiers responded to the battle in haste, the strength of the two sides was vastly different, and the frontline soldiers were killed just as soon as they came into contact with the other side.

The phone rang, on the other side of the phone: “This is P5077 of the 1st Division, my department is just south of you, but we can’t go back to support.”

P5067, who was caught in a heavy siege, smiled, “You guys go, the humans south of the Great Wall, I’m counting on you.”

P5077 said in a low voice, “Old classmate, do you know what you’re up against?”

“Of course I know,” P5067 laughed, “But we can’t just let P5031 alone be punished can we, it’s obvious that everyone made the wrong decision, so we have to pay for our own decisions.”

P5077 hesitated, “But ……”

“There’s nothing but,” P5067 said decisively, “The 6th division can hold off the barbarians for us for half an hour, our 7th division can hold off the barbarians for you for half an hour as well, your department continues to retreat, repeat, your department continues to retreat.”

After saying that, P5067 hung up the phone, he asked his men to fetch his saber for him, and then pressed the red button on the command vehicle, “It’s an honor to live and die with you all, the 6th division is gone, now it’s time for us, the 7th division, to step up. The 6th Division bought us half an hour, we now have to buy half an hour for the 1st and 4th Divisions.”

“Time is a precious thing right, everyone says an inch of time is an inch of gold, I P5067 don’t have that much money to buy time, I can only take my life for it.”

“Gentlemen, today’s deadly battle will not retreat, this is the honor of my fire to guard the survival of the human race in the Central Plains.”

However, at this very moment, someone from the front combat unit suddenly connected to the communication channel of the command vehicle, “Sir, suddenly an outsider has entered the battlefield! Repeat, unknown person has entered the battlefield!”

“Who? How many people?” P5067 froze for a moment.

The so-called unknown characters, that was of course people outside of the Fire Seed and the Expeditionary Corps, it could be Wang’s people, it could be Zhou’s people, or whoever else it was, but they were all people who shouldn’t have appeared here.

“Report sir, there are only two people on the other side, it’s the white mask, the legendary one,” the front line reported.

P5067 rushed out of the command vehicle, he climbed up to the top of the command vehicle, then raised his binoculars towards the far front line.

At this moment, there were two people who were carrying their swords towards the battlefield, unhurriedly and calmly.

Regardless of whether it was the Fire Seed’s side or the Expeditionary Corps, the soldiers were remembered by thousands, so the two isolated people looked a little thin and a little lonely.

Moreover, many people who had paid attention to the news of the Transcendents knew that the white mask was actually not a person, but someone’s ability, the ability of a certain big figure in the Northwest.

When thinking about the other party being only one person in this way, P5067 felt that the other party’s figure walking into the battlefield was even lonelier.

In the binoculars, P5067 suddenly saw that the other party seemed to be saying something to the frontline soldiers, so he immediately asked, “What is the other party saying.”

In the communication channel, a frontline combat commander said with difficulty, “He told us to retreat, he said he came to help us buy some time.”

As he spoke, there was also sniper fire coming from the distance, vast and distant.