Retreat is an art in the actions of an army, especially in the event of defeat, and it is a necessary quality for every great commander to successfully bring out of danger an army full of the atmosphere of defeat and whose fate is constantly hovering at both ends of life and death. If it is said that leading the army forward in the midst of victory is the basic quality of a commander, then leading the army to a successful retreat in the midst of defeat and moving towards more victories is a great quality of a commander. And the latter will be more successful because of the greatness of this commander, who was still a commander at all levels at that time, and their upbringing will be an incomparably powerful asset for the entire army. The education of defeat is something that those who win can never understand. And striving for the top in the face of adversity is not a quality that everyone will have.

The Red Army's 25,000-mile long march and three years of guerrilla warfare in the south have produced countless generals for the entire republic who can seek victory in the face of adversity. After several crushing defeats at Napoleon's hands, Wellington of England finally defeated Napoleon at the Iron Slippery Road and successfully exiled Napoleon. During World War II, the Soviet Union retreated from the western border to the city of Moscow, and the final counterattack of World War II began here. This is the art of retreat, retreating not only to preserve strength, but also to strengthen oneself, to pressure the strength, to advance to a higher place. Just like our punch forward attack, the straight attack fist is powerless, only the punch is slightly withdrawn, and another attack will obtain a greater strike effect, which is a very simple truth, but it is also a famous saying.

The expeditionary force is retreating step by step, and Kong Ming's plan is slowly consuming the vitality of both immortals and demons in this continuous retreat, and at the same time constantly accumulating more energy for the expeditionary force through the Divine Absorption Array, after all, all the divine stones of the expeditionary force are still too few compared to the upcoming battles again and again. They can annihilate this temporary team of immortals and demons in one fell swoop, but they will also consume all the divine stones because of this, and after the battle, countless god-level powerhouses will directly fall into the realm of gods, which is unacceptable for a wise man. And this does not include those god-man powerhouses who will die in battle, after all, the god-man level powerhouses of the expeditionary force have reached the god-man level after so many years, but the real god-man level battles are very few, and the experience is impossible to talk about, even if the battle between one's own people will be controlled within a controllable range, and it is difficult to truly appreciate the strength of the god-man, otherwise. The expeditionary force doesn't have so many divine stones for these big families to consume. It's just that in this way, their training is not much different from no training, it's nothing more than more magic spells, in addition, it's just that they are constantly filling in more things in their own small universe, that's it, if this time. Fight with the immortals and demons, then the gods of the three expeditionary forces. may not be able to beat an immortal, or a demon. Therefore, they need to go through such a retreat, step by step to grasp some methods of fighting god-level powerhouses, even if they look at it, it will allow them to control more chances of victory in the battle they are about to arrive.

The second point is also the common idea of the command of the expeditionary force. That is to drag this immortal and demonic power away from the Zhongzhou continent as much as possible, and drag the time back as much as possible, until the battle in the other two directions begins, so that even if the immortals and demons here are surrounded and annihilated by the expeditionary force. Then it is impossible for the other two directions to free up a little force to support the battle here. It can be said that the true spirit of retreat is to exchange space for time.

"Commander, the enemy is approaching our second line of defense. A staff officer reported to the landing Zhongyi.

"At this speed, it should take half an hour to arrive, it's too fast! Alas, too hasty. Lu Zhongyi sighed. After evacuating the West Island, he divided the entire 100,000 gods into two parts, each with half of the god-absorbing array and half of the forbidden sky formation, and arranged the second and third lines of defense respectively. After seeing that the other party did not land directly on the ground or engage in a divine war with the expeditionary force at sea, he was even more bold to implement these things, seeking wealth and danger. Not only that, but he also ordered people to sort out the fourth, fifth, and sixth lines of defense prepared in the back, so that once these formations in front of them were withdrawn there, they could have a place to stay, so that a continuous and uninterrupted defense line could be formed, so that those immortals and demons could wear down their strength to a minimum on such a line of defense.

"Come on, be content, this has been done very well, who knows that the immortals and demons will unite? Fang Qingzhi, commander of the First Marine Army, sighed, this is simply a hell, isn't it claimed that the immortals and demons are incompatible, how can they stand together? Could it be that there are some unspeakable secrets behind this matter? Fang Qingzhi couldn't help but think maliciously.

"yes, miscalculated. Thankfully, I had five hours, otherwise I would have had to retreat straight to headquarters. This battle can't be fought. Lu Zhongyi said with a smile, he can only have fun in such hardships now. The union of immortals and demons is beyond everyone's cognition, not only the people in the command headquarters were caught off guard, but Lu Zhongyi, who was commanding in front, was even more surprised, which completely subverted their understanding of the definition of immortals and demons, if it is said that among the three parties of immortals and demons, which two sides are most likely to unite, then it is not immortals and demons, but immortals, after all, everyone is human beings and has a common language, but the reality is cruel, the immortals are not united, but the immortals and demons are together.

The second line of defense, the soldiers of the expeditionary force at this time are hidden in this sea area, because there is less than half of the sucking array, so the distance between them has been widened a lot, only in this way can the enemy be threatened in a larger range, otherwise, if it is too small, the enemy will pass by with a detour, and it will be in vain.

"Head, do you think those immortals and demons will rush down directly this time?" Wang Wu asked. At this time, he was more than ten meters below the sea, not far in front of him was the God Absorbing Array that their squad was responsible for, this formation was placed on the body of a huge demonic beast at this time, I have to say that the expeditionary force's fourteen years of naval warfare were not fought in vain, not only improved their strength a lot, but also allowed them to really control some methods and tricks of controlling demonic beasts. On top of the formation, a large area of aquatic plants was spread, covering the entire formation. Above the aquatic plants, a large school of small fish swims around, and the whole thing looks like a shallow sea from the sky. Of course, if you use your divine sense to look at the past, it is almost the same, after all, although the army's hidden methods are not the best one, they are the most effective, and the battle is not fought in vain.

"I don't know, if they rush down, then it's going to be a very big melee fight, and then our bodies will have the upper hand. Hehe, compared to the stronger ones in our bodies, those immortals can only be looking for death, not to mention that my Yan is less affected by the God Absorbing Array, and they are greatly affected, so in this way, our chances of winning are a lot more. Deputy Ban said with a smile, they have been fighting on the sea for fourteen years, and they really have countless experiences in fighting on this sea, and in a way, the sea is even the home of the expeditionary force.

"You don't have to say a lot, take a look, the hungry monsters around you, the meat of the immortals and demons are their best food. Once they rush into the sea, then these monsters will be a big help. The squad leader also smiled, the strength and number of demonic beasts, but they are accompanied by all the processes from weak to strong, and they know a lot about this.

The tranquility before the battle is always quiet, and the people above are distressed by the urgency of time, and this feeling will be much less when they get to the bottom, after all, they are all at this point, no matter how much preparation there is, they can't be directly implemented, and the number of preparations before is how much, and the soldiers on the front line are as much as they do. The only thing they were nervous about was when the enemy would arrive.

"Team leader, do you think we can fight a little more happily this time? After being a god for so long, we have never really let go of a fight, and even the battle half a day ago, we just watched and didn't make any moves, it's really not fun!" Wang Wu whispered again.

"Damn, don't take me with you if you look for death, I don't know you!" The squad leader hurriedly said, "Ma, I don't know how many years people have been immortals, ten or eight years have always been, what combat effectiveness do they have, how many days have we become gods? What combat effectiveness, can it be compared? Ma, if I am familiar with the fighting methods of gods, I will beat the three of them one by one!" The squad leader said with some unhappiness. For the officers and men of the expeditionary force, the battle is not terrible, but the useless and unprepared battle is not to their liking, after all, no matter who they are, they like to win rather than lose, and like to press others to fight, not the other way around. It's just that in their cognition, ten or eight years to become an immortal is very remarkable, after all, it doesn't seem that it takes too much time and experience for them to become gods. If these thoughts of theirs were heard by those immortals, they would really be ashamed, ten or eight years, hundreds or thousands of years, or even the same.

"Wang Wu, you cow, why don't we have a challenge after this battle?"

"Well, I think so. Wang Wu said with a smile, he was originally a battle maniac, and it was extremely satisfying to have a fight.

"Hmm, you come to pretend to be an immortal, the three of us come to fight, one immortal against a group of gods, hmm, no matter how you look at this idea, the gods and men will suffer. That's it!" said the deputy smiled.

"Haha......!" A few small voices came from nearby, and for a while, this kind of heads-up was really deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

"Okay, don't laugh, the enemy is not far ahead, and now they are less than three hundred kilometers away from us, and soon their divine sense will be able to sweep here. Focus on me, get ready to fight!" The squad leader commanded while listening to the sound of the magic communicator in his ears, and everyone was quiet for a while, and the Shenyuan in their bodies was cleaned up, and there was no fluctuation of divine power. (To be continued......)