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Chapter 373 - 370: Charge for me!

Cao Buwei pondered thoroughly and eventually accepted Ding Dalin's suggestion.

Knowing he couldn't triumph, why still fight fiercely?

The most rational course of action was to retreat! Preserving strength was the first priority!

"All troops, heed my command!" Cao Buwei bellowed, "Turn around... Retreat!" As he said this, Cao Buwei turned his head to glance at Gao Fei, and with just that look, Gao Fei shivered involuntarily. Cao Buwei then added, "Gao Fei, lead a squad of soldiers to cover our retreat."

"What?!" Gao Fei reacted anxiously, "Why should I be the one to cover the retreat!"

"This is an order!" Cao Buwei's eyes widened, "Dare to defy an order, and I will chop off your head!" Cao Buwei was not joking. If Gao Fei dared to openly defy an order, he had enough reason to execute him.

"You..." Gao Fei was so angry his face turned pale and his body trembled uncontrollably. With tens of thousands of bandits, staying to cover the retreat was tantamount to certain death.

"Everyone apart from Gao Fei's troops, retreat, and fast!" Cao Buwei, leading thousands of soldiers, withdrew along the route they had come.

"Sir, what do we do?" Chen San asked urgently, "Are we really going to cover the retreat?"

"The bandits have tens of thousands of troopers while we only have a few hundred. The disparity in strength is far too great."

"Staying here leaves us with nothing but a path to death."

"Cao Buwei is too ruthless, making us cover the retreat so he can escape, sinister, despicable, shameless! A villain!"

Hundreds of soldiers cursed, filled with righteous indignation.

"We absolutely cannot just throw our lives away! All men, prepare to retreat... Eh, wait!!!" Gao Fei suddenly stood up, his feet on the horse's back, his eyes sparkling with an unusual brilliance.

"Sir, what's wrong?" Chen San asked, "Hurry, we must retreat now or it'll be too late."

"No! We cannot retreat!" Gao Fei smirked, "All men, on my command! Charge!"

"Ah?" Chen San was stupefied.

The other soldiers were also taken aback.

"What are you staring at! Hurry up and charge!" Gao Fei commanded.

"Sir, have you gone mad!" Chen San said urgently, "There are tens of thousands of bandits... A charge would be a senseless death..."

"Chen San, do you trust me?" Gao Fei suddenly asked.

"Ah... Yes," Chen San nodded.

"And you all, do you trust me?" Gao Fei turned to look at the other soldiers.

"We trust you, sir," the hundreds of soldiers answered in unison.

"Since you trust me, then follow me in the charge!" Gao Fei shouted loudly, "I guarantee with my life that you will all be safe!" With that, Gao Fei was the first to spur his horse into a gallop.

Chen San twitched his mouth fiercely, "To hell with it! If we're going to die, so be it!" He rode after Gao Fei.

The other soldiers hesitated briefly before charging out as one. In this moment, they chose to trust Gao Fei, entrusting their lives to his hands. If Gao Fei betrayed them... they were resigned to that fate.

"Kill!!!"

"Kill!!!"

As Gao Fei charged, he yelled at the top of his voice, the sound booming. "Swoosh!" A large hammer materialized in his hand, "Brothers! Kill for me! Ruthlessly kill every single one of these bandits!!!"

"Kill!" Chen San, with eyes reddened, charged forth. Now it was about fighting for survival.

The other soldiers also began howling, "Kill!!!"

"Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh..."

Suddenly, a volley of arrows flew in from the south, instantly killing hundreds of bandits.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

A large contingent of government soldiers appeared from the south, riding tall horses and charging at the bandits. This group was numerous, well-equipped, and with one charge, they broke the bandits' formation. They were well-trained and had formidable fighting capabilities.

A squad of official soldiers stood in the distance, firing cold arrows at the bandits who were fleeing in all directions. Their archery was superb; with each arrow shot, a bandit would die instantly on the spot.

Tens of thousands of official soldiers formed various formations to encircle and suppress the bandits.

Within moments, over half of the bandits were killed, and the remaining ones, panic-stricken, threw down their weapons and knelt to the ground to surrender.

A man clad in golden armor rode over on his horse and with a cold tone, said, "Kill them all! Leave none alive!"

"Kill!"

Tens of thousands of official soldiers rushed forward, mercilessly slaughtering the kneeling bandits.

"No! Please, don't kill me!"

"Please, spare me a way to live!"

"I'll never be a bandit again!"

"Don't kill me..."

No matter how the bandits pleaded for mercy, they could not escape their fate of death.

In the blink of an eye, tens of thousands of bandits were all dead, blood drenching the ground.

...

In the distance.

Chen San and the others were stunned... staring blankly at the scene before them...

Hadn't things changed too quickly?

Just a short while ago, Chen San and the others were prepared to fight to the death against the bandits, but before they could act, tens of thousands of bandits were all dead, not one left.

In comparison to Chen San and his group, Gao Fei seemed much calmer because he had anticipated this outcome long ago.

Half an hour earlier.

Cao Buwei led the soldiers in retreat, leaving Gao Fei behind to cover the rear.

Gao Fei had no intention of needlessly sacrificing his life, and as he was about to flee, he suddenly noticed a large number of official soldiers approaching from a distance... That's when someone might ask, why did no one else notice the soldiers but Gao Fei did? Because Gao Fei had Clairvoyance.

In the past, Gao Fei's Clairvoyance could only see within a few hundred meters, but since entering the Golden Core Stage, Gao Fei's Clairvoyance could see thousands of meters away.

After noticing the large number of official soldiers, Gao Fei changed his mind and decided not to retreat but to charge forward instead!

It turned out Gao Fei made the right choice!

He didn't suffer a scratch, while tens of thousands of bandits were all killed!

...

"Da da da..."

The man in the golden armor rode his horse toward Gao Fei and the others.

What a powerful presence!

Gao Fei was secretly shocked; the man in golden armor exerted immense pressure on him.

"Whose subordinates are you?" asked the man in golden armor, his voice firm and resounding, vibrating the eardrums.

"We are subordinates of Chiliarch Cao Buwei." Gao Fei answered, "My name is Gao Fei, and I am a Centurion."

"Cao Buwei's subordinates?" The man in golden armor was taken aback: "Where is Cao Buwei? Why don't I see him?"

"He..." Gao Fei stuttered, "He left... No no no, he temporarily retreated... Yes, temporarily retreated..."

"Temporarily retreated?" The man in golden armor frowned. "Explain clearly!"

"Here's what happened," Gao Fei licked his dry lips. "Just now, we encountered tens of thousands of bandits. Lord Cao had only a little over two thousand soldiers, and the strength disparity with the bandits was too great... If we were to engage in battle, there was a high likelihood of losing... So Lord Cao ordered a retreat..."