You’re not lying!
Don’t lie to me!
At this time, there was no time to talk about this. The commander immediately bellowed loudly: “Organize a counterattack!”
Organize a counterattack!
Yes, they had to quickly organize a counterattack now. But could they organize one? Because the orders from above were for them to race back to the main base at top speed. Thus, they had formed a flowing pipeline formation.
Two men paired up, jogging along.
This way, they moved the fastest.
Only this allowed them to get back at full speed.
But the South Land army had never imagined, not even in their dreams, that the eight thousand South Land troops hadn’t been able to hold out for even five minutes. Their flowing pipeline formation marching route… the soldiers at the front couldn’t even see the end anymore.
Now they had to organize a counterattack, but how?
Just like that, the Red Flames were like a surging steel torrent, directly massacring their way up the pipeline. Especially Theresa Lindsay, Logan Garcia, and Xie Zibin at the front. They were like unstoppable forces.
Kill.
Continuously killing!
The other side didn’t even have a chance to organize a counterattack. You could say they had made mistake after mistake. That order to retreat had doomed their nearly thirty thousand soldiers.
It was a slaughter.
Ten minutes later, this news reached Jackie’s ears. Jackie’s expression was extremely ugly. “Thirty thousand soldiers massacred? What was that commander eating?”
He hadn’t expected this either.
Everyone was shocked by this news.
They had actually been annihilated.
How was that possible?
They were all familiar with the combat ability of that army. Weak to an unbelievable extent. They couldn’t even be called soldiers. They felt ten thousand South Land troops would have been enough to wipe them out.
Sending out thirty thousand was just to be safe.
Yet all thirty thousand had been slaughtered.
If that commander of those thirty thousand men appeared before them now, they felt like they would tear him apart alive. What a pig, to lose to a bunch of new recruits with thirty thousand South Land troops.
Impossible.
“General, we request to fight. We will definitely wipe out the Red Flames.”
“General, the Red Flames are too arrogant.”
“General, we wish to kill those people.”
The South Land generals were extremely furious. To actually be wiped out by that rabble, it was the ultimate humiliation! They wanted to destroy the Red Flames.
But Jackie’s expression was gloomy. “No, we need to retreat. Don’t forget, from the intel we previously scouted, this is just bait. The main force could be slipping past us towards Mountland as we speak. We can’t fall for the enemy’s scheme. So, retreat. I just looked at the map. If I clash with this army, the best way for them to slip past us is the northeast. So we’ll head northeast.”
“Yes.”
All the generals had a bellyful of anger, but they also knew this was the truth.
They absolutely could not let the enemy have their way.
“Retreat, all troops retreat!”
With the order, all the South Land troops began retreating.
Afterwards, the Red Flames caught up. Seeing the tracks and looking into the distance, Theresa Lindsay said: “Pursue!”
In an instant, a ridiculous battle unfolded on this battlefield. A South Land army of seventy thousand, no, forty thousand now, sufficient to wipe out the Red Flames, was being chased down by the Red Flames.
Previously, the Red Flames only had the momentum of blindly charging ahead, as well as catching the opponent’s formation off guard.
That was how they had wiped out the others.
But they had also suffered immense casualties themselves.
Of the original fifty thousand Red Flames, over ten thousand had been lost, leaving less than forty thousand Red Flames. Forty thousand versus forty thousand – with the elite South Land army, they probably wouldn’t need to sacrifice too many to wipe out the Red Flames.
Yet the South Land army didn’t fight at all. They just kept running.
It looked extremely ridiculous.
North of the battlefield, Aguda watched this scene, his expression extremely strange. He stroked his head, looking completely baffled. “Since when did the South Land army become so weak? Chased down by the Red Flames? Which general is this? So useless!”
He was truly useless.
Aguda had been part of the South Land army previously, so he knew that for this invasion, every South Land soldier was an elite troop. They had trained for who knew how long before forming this million-man elite army.
But he really couldn’t understand the scene before his eyes.
Just running nonstop.
Running from what?
What was there to run from?
“Nevermind. Brothers, come with me. A reward of one thousand gold coins for capturing a prisoner. Our happy futures after this depend on this battle. Kill!” Aguda led the Punishment Legion to attack.
But they weren’t helping the Red Flames.
Rather, they were picking the battlefield clean. Mainly capturing prisoners.
It was impossible for everyone to be killed, especially in a pursuit battle like this. They stayed behind to capture prisoners. The Punishment Legion had started with only ten thousand men but now had thirty thousand.
This was how they replenished their numbers.
And they controlled these men with money, with rewards.
The Punishment Legion was no longer a purely South Land force. The first thing that happened when someone joined was that they had to kill a South Land soldier, marking their betrayal of South Land. Then they used money to control these men.
Many of the South Land soldiers were completely illiterate and had trained their whole lives.
After killing a South Land soldier, there was no turning back. The rules of the Punishment Legion had already spread, even back to South Land itself. There was no going back. South Land would never let them live if they did.
Then they were blinded by the money promised by the Kisia Primus.
Gradually, the Punishment Legion turned into beasts. At the same time, they also became more and more adept at assimilating South Land troops. Out of every ten, the five with hardened wills would commit suicide. The remaining five would slowly surrender.
Not everyone had the courage to take their own lives.
This operation had driven the legion mad.
They could also be called bounty hunters.
But they were bounty hunters locked in a cage by Primus, tied on a leash. Aguda saw through all this. He could also change it, even turning the legion’s coats here for great merits, allowing them to return to South Land.
Though not as heroes, at least they wouldn’t die.
But that was impossible.
His younger brother had died at the hands of Pierre Calder.
This was a blood feud.
He had to avenge this.
One day, he would kill his way into the South Land border and kill Pierre Calder with his own hands. For this, he was willing to give everything – faith, race, even his life.
On this side, there was another group. After seeing this scene, one of their scouts had been going ‘WTF, WTF, WTF’ continuously.
Until he returned to Reese Daniels’ side.
“Report. Exterior is safe, we can leave now.” The scout said.
“Was it Theresa and the others who drew away that South Land army?” Reese Daniels sat on a rock, his expression gloomy as he asked.
They had been about to leave, but were persuaded to stay by the old general left behind by his father. To leave when the Red Flames clashed with the South Land army. At first, Reese Daniels was unwilling.
After all, this was akin to sacrificing Theresa Lindsay.
But he was persuaded by the general’s words: “This is war. This is for Kisia.”
That’s right.
This was war.
Not child’s play.
There was no need for personal feelings. They just needed to take actions most beneficial to the war effort.
And so he waited here for news, for news of Theresa Lindsay being hunted by the South Land army. And now, the wait was finally over. His heart quaked, shaking wildly. He knew what the Red Flames’ combat ability was like.
He feared they had been wiped out.
But the scout looked up and said: “The Red Flames wiped out thirty thousand South Land troops, then began chasing the remaining forty thousand.”