Chapter 986 - Pursuit? Ambush? (1/2)
Chapter 986: Pursuit? Ambush?
“Retreat! Retreat immediately!”
Looking at Ahetu’s group who were as agile as monkeys, Bai Xiaofei decisively ordered an immediate retreat. Adding a bitter smile on his face was that the huge team took off from the cliffs at such a speed that made him think that they had long been ready to run.
“Don’t be surprised, think about who you are leading. Compared to fighting, this is what they are best at,” commented Ye Qingtong indifferently.
Bai Xiaofei couldn’t help but feel embarrassed. After all, for bandits and battlefield cannon fodder, escaping was the most compulsory skill for survival!
In less than five minutes, the 10,000-odd men were nowhere to be seen, leaving only 2000 thousand stripped-clean and tied-up prisoners when Ahetu appeared on the cliff with his people.
“Where are they?” asked Ahetu coldly,
The captain of the captured group stumbled over and replied in a trembling voice, “Reporting to Chief, they… they ran away…”
Originally, he truly looked forward to the arrival of friendly forces, but after seeing Ahetu, this expectation turned into fear.
“So many of our brothers died, yet you lot survived as prisoners. Our face is all lost by you!” Without many words, Ahetu waved his machete.
“Chief! It’s to gather information! They… They are not Moonlight’s regular troops, but a group of cannon fodder and bandits. There are more than 10,000 people in total, and they don’t even have decent equipment!” The captain made his final struggle with the best excuse he could come up with.
“You mean I’ve been stalled here by a group of trash and fed them the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers?!” Ahetu snorted.
Hearing this, the team captain’s face turned ash-pale.
“The Sacks only have sacrificed brave fighters, no prisoners!”
As Ahetu’s icy declaration echoed, the elite team executed his order without any hesitation, cutting down the captured group. Captives were a disgrace to real soldiers!
With the departure of Bai Xiaofei’s group, the road ahead of the Sacks became obstacle-free. However, the devastated valley filled with rubble gave Ahetu’s army a headache.
“Send thirty thousand people to pursue! That group of people cannot be let off!” ordered Ahetu, who could not swallow his fury. Although he cut down the team captain earlier, he had still listened to his words. No soldier of Sacks would lie about such a thing.
The selected squad of 30,000 immediately put down the supplies they carried and assembled. While they spent a long time passing through the valley on horseback, the lost time would easily be covered as Bai Xiaofei’s group was only on foot.
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“Hold on!”