In the command center, a staff officer reminded: "Fort Lord, what should we do?"

"Should we retreat first?"

"There are three other lines of defense guarding the city. Should we notify them?"

The staff officer's words seemed to remind Marion. He raised his head suddenly, his eyes full of bloodshot.

He said in a dry voice: "You are right. Now quickly order the troops that can retreat and quickly leave the defense line!"

"If we don't retreat now, once the enemy breaks through the defenses of Lake Sislan and cuts off our logistics, everything will be over!"

The staff officer quickly responded, "Yes, sir!"

Marion seemed to have regained his composure. No one who could sit in this position was a real fool.

Although the battle of the Sislan Lake defense line failed, they could not give up.

Marion's mind was spinning rapidly, and he immediately ordered: "Let the artillery retreat quickly!"

"At the same time, notify the remaining engineering troops to blow up as many roads as possible!"

"Even if we can't stop the enemy, we must slow down their attack and reduce the speed of their supply transportation!"

After giving these orders, Marion's eyes turned red. He looked at the map in front of him, which showed the defensive positions being lost one by one.

It seems that it won’t be long before the enemy arrives here.

He sighed deeply and said, "The headquarters should retreat as well!"

"You can't die here. Take the remaining troops and temporarily evacuate the war zone."

A staff officer was stunned for a moment. He looked up and asked hurriedly, "Sir, how about you?"

Marion sighed, pulled out his pistol, and said, "Someone has to take responsibility for this battle mistake."

"So many soldiers have died. I can't just abandon them and go away."

When the staff officer saw that Marion was determined to die, he immediately felt that something was wrong. Marion must not die, at least not here.

He yelled, "Sir, you can't give up so easily!"

"Our army hasn't been completely destroyed yet. We still have part of the Mechanized Brigade and the troops in Yanaka Valley. We can still fight!"

"You have to lead us to continue fighting!"

But Marion was apparently deaf to it.

The next moment, the staff officer said to the stunned guards, "Quick, take the commander away!"

Hearing this, the guards came to their senses and quickly rushed up, snatched Marion's pistol, and pulled him out.

"No!"

"Let me die here!"

"I can't abandon my soldiers!..."

On the way, Marion kept shouting, but as an ordinary person, he had no power to fight back against his burly guards and was taken away.

His adjutant took one last look at the headquarters and gave the order in a cold voice: "Retreat, take away everyone you can!"

"Whatever you can't take away will be blown up on the spot!"

"yes!"

…

The battle ended completely not long after Marion's command headquarters evacuated.

The outcome of the battle was that most of the enemy's mecha troops were annihilated and seven or eight mechas surrendered, which was presented to Li Xin.

As for the enemy's infantry positions, they surrendered quickly after the mecha troops had safely surrendered.

The positions established by these infantry and the blocking belts they built to block tanks and armored vehicles were also destroyed by the attacks of the mechas.

Under the crushing of the mechas, these infantrymen completely lost the courage to resist, and soon surrendered in small batches and then on a large scale.

When Li Xin and his men arrived at the enemy's headquarters, it was already deserted.

In the distance, explosions continued to be heard.

Li Xin snorted coldly and said, "The enemy is bombing the road!"

He immediately ordered a mecha squadron leader: "Wan Wenbing, lead your squadron to pursue the enemy, drive away the enemy's engineering troops, and save the road!"

"I'll have the Mechanical Brigade follow you!"

"Yes! Supervisor!"

Immediately, a squadron of mecha troops, plus a battalion-level armored unit, broke away from the battlefield that had gradually calmed down and began to pursue along the highway.

This pursuit will obviously not produce any results. Its purpose is to drive away the enemy's engineering corps and prevent further damage to the road.

When everything calmed down, the enemy's engineering troops were either caught up and captured, or they ran away.

Li Xin began to calculate the results of this battle.

There are more than 6,000 defense forces in Lake Sislan, and a squadron of mecha troops. This time, only some engineers and artillery troops escaped.

Even if all the other miscellaneous people were added together, there were less than a thousand people who escaped.

Marion's defense work took at least half a month to prepare. As a result, excluding the time for preliminary exploration, after Li Xin launched the general attack, the defensive position did not even hold out for more than four hours.

Weng Hua on the side began to report the results of this battle to Li Xin.

"Supervisor! The battle results are out."

Li Xin said casually: "Tell me, how about this time?"

Weng Hua said: "This time, the enemy's forces are mainly half a brigade from Nordon Fort and a motorized infantry brigade from Dewan Technology."

"Plus a squadron of hound-type mecha units."

"Currently, our army has destroyed one Mad Lion mecha, 43 Hound mechas, and captured seven."

"As for the enemy's infantry units, we have captured 3,537 soldiers, killed approximately 1,500, and nearly 1,000 others have escaped."

Li Xin nodded slightly, then asked, "Has Guan Yong reported the battle situation?"

After checking it out, Weng Hua said, "Director, Guan Yong also did the post-war statistics."

"In this battle, their flying force launched three batches of attacks."

"A total of 67 enemy main battle tanks, 75 infantry fighting vehicles, and 63 armored personnel carriers were destroyed. In addition, five enemy air defense radars and 14 air defense vehicles were destroyed."

"The number of enemy casualties is currently unknown."

Upon hearing this, Li Xin was overjoyed and said, "Well done!"

"The Army Aviation Regiment is really good. They have basically crippled the enemy's mechanized brigade!"

Li Xin found it unbelievable that the Army Aviation Regiment could achieve such results.

For the Army Aviation Regiment, the combat aspect of completely annihilating the enemy's mechanized brigade is not a problem. The difficulty lies in the fact that the enemy can run away.

After their vehicles were destroyed by anti-aircraft fire, they began to flee in all directions.

The Army Aviation Regiment's first wave of attack was the most effective, and the greatest results of this battle were achieved in the first wave.

By the time they went back to replenish their ammunition and came for the second and third waves, the enemies had already scattered, and the time spent chasing them was much longer than the time spent killing them.