If Yue Zhong were to leave, the situation will become more dire.
Yue Zhong ignored Shen Hongyang, and in a few breaths he got on top of Greenie, flying towards his troops.
“Heed my command! All battalions are to retreat immediately and make your way back to SY County! Special Combat Forces maintain your resistance from where you guys are! Xu Zhengang, you organize the retreat!” Sitting aboard Greenie, Yue Zhong talked through the walkie-talkie, giving a slew of orders to his subordinates.
“Commander! What happened?” Xu Zhengang who was in the midst of commanding, immediately asked Yue Zhong. He could detect that there was something wrong from the urgent tone of Yue Zhong.
Yue Zhong gritted his teeth and said, “Those bastards Luo Tianyi and Su Dongming have deserted!! We can’t hold the horde back anymore!”
“I understand! I will complete your orders!” Xu Zhengang replied and immediately started organizing the retreat!!
The 1st Battalion which had the least equipment to worry about were the first to retreat. They started making their way back towards SY County in huge steps, everyone of them holding a can of Type 2 Mutant Meat. They ate while walking, and the precious Type 2 Mutant Meat helped recover their vitality.
The various equipments and setups on the hills were torn down and packed into the vehicles, and the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Battalions started making their way back. Only the Special Combat Forces remained behind to defend the Gorge, buying some time for the rest of the battalions.
Yue Zhong transmitted an order to Guo Quan: “Guo Quan! Take all the troops now and conquer the riverbank bridge!! Transfer all the survivors to the other side. That is the only path of retreat for our troops, you must definitely protect it!!”
Guo Quan replied loudly: “Yes! Commander Yue!!”
After Yue Zhong left, Liu Huifeng and Qian Weimin both stared coldly at Shen Hongyang, not even bothering about him anymore, before they both left the command centre and gave the urgent commands to their subordinates to abandon their posts and prepare to evacuate. As long as there were people remaining, there would be a chance back at SY County.
The moment the troops of Liu Huifeng and Qian Weimin left their posts, the entire defence line collapsed, and the zombies made their advance through the various posts.
Shen Hongyang had immediately deployed the tanks and IFVs to fire crazily at the zombies in an attempt to kill them.
However, the moment the soldiers on the ground received news of the retreat of the other 5 powers, Shen Hongyang’s troops all felt despair. Some of the companies started to lose their will to fight, and ran for their lives.
Zombies had routed around from the gap left by Luo Tianyi and were attacking Shen Hongyang’s soldiers, surrounding them on both sides.
With their retreat cut off, the troops started to lose composure, and a huge number of the soldiers abandoned their positions, throwing their equipment and running into the night.
The S1s and S2s amongst the horde were the most terrifying killers, they chased down those soldiers who tried to run, killing them effortlessly.
There were many deaths happening every single second. The defence line collapsed and the soldiers lost all composure and will to fight, throwing down their equipment. All sorts of ammo belts, heavy machine guns, mortars, rocket launchers, were all left behind. They only had the thought of lightening their weights so as to escape faster.
One officer ran up to Shen Hongyang’s side and pleaded bitterly, “Division Commander!! Please evacuate!! We can’t hold on any longer!! If we don’t, the zombies will reach here soon!!”
Shen Hongyang looked at the chaos and death on the screen, and looked crestfallen: “Was I wrong? Where was I wrong? How did it become like this??”
Shen Hongyang looked at his elite soldiers being bitten to death, and felt pain in his heart. These were the hope for mankind.
Due to Liu Huifeng and Qian Weimin pulling their troops at the first moment, Shen Hongyang’s troops were encircled by the zombies, and a huge number of them were dying out, in fact, only Shen Xue’s elite First Battalion was left fending for themselves.
The officer could not care less about ranks and hierarchy anymore as he shouted at Shen Hongyang, “Division Commander!! If you still don’t act, Miss Shen Xue’s unit is gonna be annihilated!!”
“Let the First Battalion retreat!! Send the armored vehicles to cover them!!” Shen Hongyang seemed to have been jolted to his senses after that shout and quickly issued the orders.
Upon Shen Hongyang’s activation, the tanks and IFVS formed an assault line, and charged into the horde, crushing any zombies in their paths.
The 7 assault helicopters were also activated by Shen Hongyang, and followed the armored vehicles to rescue the First Battalion that was surrounded by zombies.