Everyone understands the truth of seeking wealth and danger, but the vast majority of people don't have the courage to do it.

The spirits of hell are also intelligent creatures, and they are no exception.

Therefore, most of the soldiers made what they thought was the wisest choice at the first time, and retreated to the west bank of the Ghost River with what they had just grabbed, to see if they could cross the battlefield, return to their hometown, and live the life of a rich man from now on.

The territory of the Fire Tree Empire was so vast that they did not believe that these humans could really spread the flames of war to their homeland, so far away from the western front.

Only a small fraction of the soldiers—about three hundred—chose to stay behind and follow Ishinuma's adventures, and the vast majority of them were members of Ishinuma's own team.

Time was pressing, and humans could launch a counterattack at any time, neither Ishinuma nor the soldiers who planned to retreat were willing to waste time, and once the choice was made, Ishinuma immediately announced the dissolution of the meeting.

The soldiers, who were ready to retreat, packed their things, withdrew from the settlements in large bags and began to return along the same route.

The road has proven to be safe, and even if the human logistics base in front of it is captured, there can be no enemy.

So the soldiers were relieved, feeling that there would be no danger until they crossed the river, and they were scrambling along the road toward the Phantom River like loose ducks, laughing and laughing with ease, exchanging ideas about each other's gains and their thoughts on the future. The officers in the ranks also did not have the idea of organizing the ranks. This is a team composed of defeated soldiers, and these low-level petty officers have no prestige in the hearts of the soldiers.

The retreating procession, which had reached a position about ten miles from the settlement, was raided.

The overwhelming power of the magic weapon fell from the sky, and in just an instant, it swallowed up all the scattered teams on the road.

After the first wave of blows, half of them were destroyed.

This kind of landslide-like cluster attack reminded these routs of the scene when they encountered the human puppet army on the battlefield, and the survivors were immediately terrified, and cried out in shock: "The human race has come back!" "Scattered.

Huge puppets came out from all directions, not very many in number, only more than a hundred, but it was enough to deal with the rout soldiers who were scared of their courage. The puppet quickly chased after the fleeing rout, and the long straight magic weapon with a black barrel in his hand spewed out a chain of flame light, beating the rout soldiers into a sieve one by one.

The entire battle lasted less than ten minutes.

Suddenly, the battlefield fell silent.

The puppets examined the corpses of the routed soldiers one by one, but if there were any who did not die, they replenished their guns on the spot, and the sporadic gunshots and screams occasionally rang out, which was even more cruel and bloody.

About 300 meters away from the battlefield, under a cluster of tall plants, stood several stone spirits, watching the battlefield, led by Ishinuma.

All around him were cronies who signed up to stay at the first time, and all of them were spirits of the stone type.

One of them looked at the situation on the battlefield and said with some reluctance: "My lord, just let them go back, why kill them all?" After all, you've been with us all the way......"

Ishinuma said expressionlessly, "What if they really run into a large army of humans on the way back?" Once the human race learns that the logistics base is lost, they will definitely return to the division as soon as possible, and then we will all have to die without a place to bury! In addition to this, Ishinuma also had the idea of training, he was not familiar with the combat methods of the puppets, and it was impossible to wait until the time to officially attack the next settlement of the human race, and this was a perfect opportunity for him to do so.

Just before the meeting of all the soldiers, Ishinuma secretly arranged for his cronies to lead 200 newly engaged demon drive puppets to the ambush on the way back to the Ghost River.

Although he had already seen the sharpness of the puppet attack, he only felt that the sky was falling apart at that time, and he was frightened, how could he have time to observe carefully, standing outside the battlefield at this time, he knew that this attack was simply indestructible, in Ishinuma's opinion, even the fire dragoons, who were known as the first elite of the dynasty, were just like chickens and dogs in the face of this kind of attack.

Will the dynasty really be able to withstand the onslaught of such forces?

Iinuma hesitated for a moment, but he quickly reaffirmed his belief that no matter what, he was an officer of the dynasty and should fight for the dynasty to the end.

Although Ishinuma was also wise enough to follow in the footsteps of senior officers and side with the rebels in the recent coup d'état, it was only an internal affair of the dynasty and could never be compared with the current crisis of the country. As a responsible dynasty officer, he had to do his best.

After the battlefield was cleaned up, the number was counted, and it was exactly the same as the number of defeated soldiers who signed up to leave.

After simply burying the body, Ishinuma led the team back to the settlement, arranged for fifty cronies to guard the settlement with about 300 qì puppets, and sent two wind spirits to the gorge pass to report the situation to the Eastern Border Command, and set out on the journey with 300 subordinates and 700 qì puppets.

At this time, the company employee who had escaped from the logistics settlement had just arrived at another settlement closest to the logistics base, where he again tried to contact the westward command center, but still received no reply.

The strange silence in the command center made the mages in the settlement have a very bad premonition.

Since the enemy can suddenly appear and ambush the logistics base, is it possible to send another team to directly attack the command center and carry out the decapitation operation?

Now those who remain in the rear are the new employees of the company who have no combat experience, and they have never encountered this situation, and they are a little numb for a while, and after some urgent discussions, it was decided that the employee who escaped from the logistics base continued to go to the command center, while the employees of this settlement organized a defensive front on the spot. After making these two decisions, the employee who escaped hesitated for a moment and asked if he should contact the company's headquarters directly to report the situation here. There was a brief silence at this small meeting.

Reporting to a higher level has always been the most taboo thing in any place, and that is tantamount to making a small report to the superiors to the bosses, and these newly promoted employees who have been sent to the western development units are already the most discriminated against and excluded group, and if they do skipping the level of reporting again, I am afraid that they will not want to stay here any longer. Yang Zhenghua is a character who doesn't rub sand in his eyes. These mages did not know that Yang Zhenghua had been secretly placed under house arrest by the investigation team sent by the company and the mage association. If they knew, they might have chosen to report to the company's headquarters. Now, they don't have the option to report directly to the head office. They believed that this situation was only caused by temporary strategic negligence, and that the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Western Pioneer Force could completely solve these troubles on their own, and there was no need to report to the company's headquarters.