Baibasbahn was carrying out one of the most difficult retreats of his military career, and in fact the first large-scale retreat of his life. All of his military operations up to this point had been movement and offensive, and with the aid of Basbarn's excellent military strategy and execution, his enemies had never had a chance to defeat him, including this one.

If it weren't for the palace coup within Paz that led to the starvation of the army's rations, it wouldn't have been long before Babas Barn was able to capture Frank's papal curtain. Some people once questioned that the rash attack on Frank without arranging the rear was itself a mistake of Baibasbarn's control of the overall situation, but this accusation was too harsh, because Baibasbarn at that time had no reason to be aware of everything that Nisinis was secretly planning, and naturally it was impossible to imagine that Penoncar, whose forces were almost empty, would actually take the risk of launching a coup d'état.

Even in the face of such a sudden turn of events, Baibasbahn was fully prepared to begin the retreat. Strategically, he was assisted by his ally Palci, which greatly alleviated the dilemma of the Paz army who had to retreat long distances due to lack of food, but the friendly forces of Palchi were thousands of miles away on the Bolgan Peninsula. It cannot be overlooked that only 40,000 of the 200,000 Paz troops were able to retreat from the sea in time, and the remaining 160,000 or so had to walk the long road with both feet. Even more frightening was the fact that the Franks were preparing for the retreat of Paz's army, and that they were also preparing for the pursuit. This is simply the worst thing imaginable, and the intention of the enemy to retreat has already been perceived by the enemy before one side has even begun to retreat. However, this was not surprising at all, because from the moment the Frankish army suddenly began to launch interceptions and counter-attacks in an orderly manner, he knew that the commander of the opponent had been replaced by Deguzorff, and he knew how difficult it was to retreat from such an opponent.

Baibasbahn left the most likely chance of escape to the wounded and a small group of elite infantry, while he himself moved with the large force. The retreat of Baibasbar was simple, a night retreat – using the cover of darkness to withdraw all troops from the area of engagement. It was a very risky attempt, with the only advantage being that Frank was not sure which night he would escape. Of course, there could have been many tactical options for withdrawing troops, but Basbarn knew that these little tricks would be ineffective in front of Deguzorf, and the Franks were ready to pursue, so there was no need to use them at all, as long as they had troops along the way to stop the enemy's pursuers.

The real difficulty in the withdrawal was how to maintain the morale of the soldiers after the retreat began. Originally, the expedition to a foreign land, the torture of wind, frost, snow and rain, and the experience of bloody battles, the only capital that could maintain high morale was the impending victory, but all this will disappear when the retreat begins. How many generals ended up on the way out, because when the soldiers they led began to break up, they became just stragglers. The situation of Baibasbahn is more serious, when the soldiers see that the grain transfer stations in the rear are empty all the way to retreat, you can imagine how much blow they will suffer in their hearts - there is no food, there is no place to stop and rest, and behind them is the enemy who is chasing and fighting, this feeling of no way to enter the ground and no way to enter the ground is not the tragic situation of the Frankish army retreat not long ago?

As Bybasbahn had predicted, the Franks were in full pursuit from daybreak. Unaware of the specific direction of Paz's retreat, Frank's army pursued in all directions. Before noon, the first cavalry squad caught up with the rearguard of the Paz army.

After a small encounter, the Frank cavalry left a dozen corpses behind and retreated - they had already found out the possible direction of the main force of the Paz army, there was no need to abandon their lives on the battlefield where they were bound to lose, and it was important to rush back to report the news. The Paz army had neither the intention nor the ability to pursue, and everyone had to save the necessary physical strength for the long escape that followed.

The actual first assault took place that night, and in order to give the troops a few hours to recuperate, Baibasbahn led 10,000 elite men in a fierce battle with Frank's 8,000 pursuers.

The battle lasted about two hours, in which about 2,500 Franks were killed, and about 1,000 were killed, before the Franks retreated.

Later, in order to create more possibilities for the soldiers to survive, Bai Basbahn stood on the front line of the enemy in almost every blockade, and personally used his bravery to buy the troops a little more time to escape. However, he was pleased that the pursuit of the Frankish army was becoming more and more weak - of course, Basbarn would not know the details of Frank's internal affairs, except that the initial pursuit plan was drawn up by Deguzorf in advance, and the rest of the operation was completely under the command of King Fadrin. Deguzorff, who was in prison, could not get the movement of the Paz army in time, so naturally he could not react accordingly, and the command of King Fadrin certainly could not be compared with Deguzorf.

Although each time Baibasbar was able to successfully repel Frank's pursuers, the escape route of the Paz army had been completely exposed, and more and more Frankish troops began to assemble on the coastline of the Borgan Peninsula.

By the eleventh day of the retreat, even Basbahn himself was exhausted—he had barely slept for eleven days, and could only close his eyes on horseback for a while, while he had to devote more energy than anyone else to coordinating the retreat of the entire army, and galloping across the battlefield, even with his iron body would not be able to support it. But Basbahn could not show his tiredness on his face like the other soldiers, because he was the last spiritual support for these tired soldiers, and when the soldiers saw his energetic face, it was also the last hope for their bodies.

Unfortunately, the pursuers reappeared, this time with only about a thousand horsemen, but at a glance Basbarn saw the hammer on their banner, which was the banner of the Knights of the Holy Hammer.

No matter what kind of fool he was in command of Frank's army, no matter how many chances he gave Baibasbahn to repel him, it was the right choice to invest in the most elite Knights of the Holy Hammer at this moment.

Basbahn pulled himself together and drew his scimitar from his waist and shouted to the soldiers, "Look, everyone, the opponent is the Knights of the Holy Hammer!" Regardless of the fact that they are all elite soldiers, but they have now traveled for eleven days like us, and their fatigue is no less than ours, this is the perfect time for us to make a name for ourselves, and killing one member of the Knights of the Holy Hammer is worth more than killing ten enemy troops! Follow me! ”

As a general, they sometimes have to deceive their subordinates, the Knights of the Holy Hammer could have launched an attack on them early in the morning, but it dragged on for a full eleven days, obviously they were well prepared, and at this time, there were less than 2,000 people left in the blocking force of Baibasbahn, how easy was it to use this force to repel the Knights of the Holy Hammer? But even if it's impossible, Baibasbar has no choice.

At the same time as he led his troops in a counter-assault against the Knights of the Holy Hammer, the shadow of an army appeared in the eastern hills, and the banner of this army lifted the spirit of Baibasbahn: it was the Palci banner!