The enemy retreated slightly, and the army of the Divine Envoy King did not dare to pursue rashly.

The advanced legions that had just experienced the great battle were ordered to hold on to the spot, and at the same time sent heralds to search for the defeated troops and return to the troops.

The constant return of routs has also brought back more information. The protagonist then learns that the commanders of the 44th and 45th Legions have been killed. The protagonist had to temporarily appoint two outstanding squad commanders from the 41st and 48th Legions to temporarily serve as the two corps commanders.

After all, more than half of the warriors of these two legions are still alive, and they can't be left without a leader.

The subsequent legions also arrived in place one after another, and a coherent defensive line was finally formed, which would not give the enemy a chance to surprise again.

At the same time, the Scythe Scouts have regained contact with the larger army. The scouts reported that the enemy had broken the siege from the lair of [Sitong City] and quickly retreated to the west of the city to assemble.

The protagonist judges that the enemy is also shrinking the battle line and gathering troops, and he doesn't dare to be careless, and the melee in the dense fog just now is still vivid.

Especially now that the protagonist is no longer in the state of "gods descending to earth" today, otherwise the painful sequelae should haunt him again.

The corpses of the Destroyers that had just been killed were also collected, dissected, and the mystery orb was removed, and it was temporarily transported back to the temporary secondary nest. Mystic Orbs are now an important strategic resource.

The protagonist waits until the last legion is in place, and then directs the army to run in a horizontal formation tens of meters long, like a line of fire from wildfire, unstoppably towards the enemy position reported by the scouts.

At this time, more than half an hour had passed since the end of the previous battle.

Due to the size of the troops, the protagonist also had to stop the troops every ten minutes or so, and the troops adjusted their positions to each other to make the front smooth, otherwise the advance speed of each army could be fast and slow, and the whole front would be uneven.

But even with this constant adjustment, the whole front still bends sharply like a wave of bullying, which is no longer a helpless thing, under the dense fog, the troops who are far away cannot observe each other at all, and can only try to be on par with the regiments around them, causing a big error.

The army soon passed through the location of the [Sitong City], and the messenger contacted the defenders, telling them to stand still and wait for the army to completely break the siege.

In the fog, the protagonist can only figure out the enemy's movements and locations based on the reports of the Scythe Ant Scouts, but the Scythe Ants are also limited in their detection, and they are constantly suffering casualties due to sudden enemy counterattacks.

But at least, they figured out that the enemy was still not far west of the city.

The army advanced in that direction, and when it reached the predetermined territory, it was indeed met with a counterattack from the enemy.

But this is not the main force of the enemy!

Only a few dozen Destroyers counterattacked, and they seemed to ignore the tens of thousands of Divine Envoy King armies in front of them, and resolutely attacked one of the legions.

Several nearby legions, which had been in good positions for a long time, quickly surrounded and killed a small number of enemies.

But this is not the main enemy force that the protagonist is pursuing, the protagonist has some cold sweat in his heart, and the main enemy force has lost its trace, and it is possible to attack from any angle in the thick fog.

The protagonist hurriedly sends an order down to the Scythe Hunter Scouts to quickly expand the cordon to prevent the enemy from attacking. Some of the legions are also equipped with scythe ant scouts, and some are big-headed ant scouts, and all of these scouts are also on guard.

The protagonist also knows that this is just a remedy, and the Destroyer's assault is extremely fast, and the scouts often don't have time to reciprocate.

He also ordered the legions to move closer to each other, moving from a longer, sparse offensive mode to a tighter defensive mode.

At this point, the fog finally had a tendency to fade down, and the sunlight penetrated more strongly.

By the time the divine army had finished shrinking, and thousands of scouts had searched the army over and over again, but found nothing, it was nearly noon.

The fog finally dispersed helplessly, and the flying knights, who had only heard the sound but could not be seen, also showed their bodies in the air.

The Flying Knights finally stopped being blind, and they quickly found the protagonist according to the mace carried by the Praetorian Guard team, and landed, and the protagonist also asked them to immediately reconnoiter the movement of the enemy's main force.

The army stood still, waiting for information.

Soon, the Flying Knights discovered and reported that a force of two or three thousand destroyers was rapidly retreating towards [Spiral Flower City]. And the Destroyer who had originally set out from [Spiral Flower City] has also returned.

The enemy did not take advantage of the dense fog to launch another counterattack, but retreated with great speed.

Based on the packets, the protagonist judges that the speed of the Divine Envoy King's army is simply not enough to catch up with the enemy before sunset.

This enemy gives the protagonist the feeling of being very cunning, using a wave of surprise attacks in the fog to interfere with his judgment, and then leaving a small number of troops to deceive the Scythe Hunter Ant Scout, but the main force quickly retreats, leaving his army in the air, wasting half a day in vain.

The protagonist's two goals today, one is to rescue [Sitong City], and this goal is completed; Another goal was to destroy the enemy's main forces in the southern theater of operations, but let the enemy run.

The enemy is now gathering in the area of [Swirling Flower City], and when combined, there will be more total forces than when besieging [Sitong City].

Since he can't catch up, the protagonist is not in a hurry, and leads the army to enter the [Sitong City].

This strategically located nest was in shambles during the multi-day offensive and defensive battle, and the defenders without ballistas had to rely on their strength and terrain.

When the protagonist arrives with his army, the defenders have already suffered more than half of the casualties.

The protagonist encourages the defender commanders to replenish the remaining forces with the most losses to the legions that have been damaged today, and the commander immediately returns to his lair to regroup his troops.

The grain from the nearby grain platform was also transported to [Sitong City], and with the grain stockpiled, it was roughly enough for the army for four days.

Today's battle lasted for half a day, and some of the fighters consumed a lot, and the protagonist let everyone eat and drink to their heart's content, preparing to kill non-stop to [Spiral Flower City] the next day.

This is also a matter of no choice, now the army does not have much food in stock, and the main nest [Qingqiu City] can't get together a lot of food, and some of it has to be left to deal with emergencies.

The protagonist only hopes to be able to continuously regain the lost territory to obtain some grain stocks, and then completely destroy the enemy in the southern theater of operations before the stocks are exhausted, besiege the enemy in the northwest of the south bank of the Great River, and then wait until the first grain harvest to launch a general offensive to completely destroy the enemy forces on the south bank of the Great River.

Later that evening, the Flying Knights finally completed their routine reconnaissance after the fog had cleared.

The enemy forces that had disappeared from the [Trench City] were still nowhere to be seen, while the [Bridgehead] on the north bank of the Great River reported that the enemy was continuing to assemble outside the city, and there were signs of an imminent large-scale siege.

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