In contrast to Valen is his chief of staff. He is not necessarily targeting Valen, but is analyzing the matter based on facts.
After hearing what Valen said, the Chief of Staff immediately retorted, "Sir, we can't gamble anymore. If we make a mistake, these tens of thousands of people will suffer heavy losses!"
"I don't recommend continuing to chase and attack!"
Valen continued, "It can be seen from the enemy's military composition!"
"Once their mecha units are damaged, the rest of their units won't pose much of a threat to us!"
"We can directly attack this urban settlement of Dewan Technology!"
"The enemy only has one mechanized infantry brigade. The rest are light infantry garrisons, and most of them are new recruits. Their combat effectiveness won't be very strong!"
"Their mechanized brigade will definitely suffer losses when they ambush Nodon Castle, and there's also a sandstorm attack from behind! The losses are definitely going to be huge!"
"This is our chance. Now is the time when their fighting power is at its weakest!"
"If we miss this opportunity and wait another two days, the enemy will be able to recover to their best condition. That will make it truly difficult to defeat them, and the group will need to mobilize troops for support."
"This is taking too long, and whether we can mobilize troops to support us is even a problem."
Valen looked at his chief of staff sincerely and said, "You and I have worked together for such a long time. Although we sometimes disagree, if we go back in disgrace now, this battle will not end well for either of us!"
Upon hearing this, the Chief of Staff couldn't help but sigh. Valen's last sentence was right.
Valen still has a family to rely on. While taking on greater responsibilities, he can use the family's power and at most go to a sinecure department.
But he has no family to rely on. Although his responsibilities are smaller, he probably won't have room for further advancement in the end.
Thinking of this, the Chief of Staff hesitated for a moment and said, "Lord Valen, I still have reservations. I think we should withdraw!"
"But... since you insist so much, and you are the military commander, then I am willing to follow your orders."
Hearing this, Valen smiled with satisfaction.
Although the chief of staff's final words were a tactic to shirk responsibility for the failure of prevention.
But when it really comes to that, he can't shirk responsibility just because he wants to. As a senior military officer, in most cases, they all share the punishment.
After obtaining the consent of his deputy, Valen quickly ordered the troops to start heading back towards the headquarters of Dewan Technology.
This time, he wanted to catch Li Xin off guard.
At least we should take advantage of Li Xin's poor condition and attack him, and not give Li Xin any chance.
The mecha troops led the way, followed closely by the armored troops. But this time they had learned their lesson and were not reluctant to use drones in such a complex electromagnetic environment.
There are always fiber optic drones conducting reconnaissance in the air.
This is good, but the loss is a bit higher. It doesn’t mean that there will be no problems with fiber optic drones.
The environment of these uninhabited areas is special, and the damage to electronic components is quite large. A drone with reconnaissance capabilities can only fly for an hour at most before it is completely damaged and cannot be saved. The only option is to replace the internal equipment and components.
This is also why Stella doesn't want to use drones when marching.
And no one could have imagined that Li Xin, who was said to be holding on, would suddenly advance hundreds of kilometers to set an ambush.
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While Valen was desperately chasing Li Xin, Li Xin did not hesitate at all and led his troops back to the settlement city of Dewan Technology.
The distance between the two sides is less than five hours.
And this time is constantly shortening, because what Li Xin wants to take away are not only the soldiers of the two mechanized brigades who have fought, but also a larger number of captured troops and even mecha troops.
The speed of returning naturally slowed down.
Along the way, Valen even took a few people to check out the battlefield where Li Xin ambushed Nodong Castle.
Among the traces of battle left on the battlefield, Valen analyzed the entire battle scene.
Combined with the battle records sent back by Marion before his death, Valen analyzed the situation of Li Xin's ambush this time almost accurately.
The battlefield was littered with fallen corpses, and their weapons had not even been taken away. Li Xin didn't even seem to have cleaned up the battlefield.
The flames of the destroyed armored vehicles had all been extinguished, and only a few of them were still emitting black smoke.
Most of the vehicles were half buried by the sandstorm. Valen even saw a lot of damaged hound mechas from Nordongburg.
On the battlefield, Valen did not find the bodies of the enemy's Dagger Servant, but saw some armor fragments and equipment fragments that did not belong to the Hound Mech.
Standing in front of a shattered piece of armor, Valen used his psychic powers to levitate the fragment.
Judging from the color and shape of the armor, this is a fragment of the cockpit of a Gladius Sergeant.
After reading it, Valen threw away the fragment, used his psychic power to fly, and hovered in the air, looking around at the battlefield.
There were no bodies of Dagger Sergeants here, which was not good news for him. Of course, it did not mean that there were no Dagger Sergeants killed in battle.
But all the dagger servants, including those damaged in battle, were taken away.
In this way, Valen had no way to analyze the remaining number of the enemy's mecha troops from the equipment left on the battlefield.
Secondly, it also proves that the enemy's losses this time were probably not great, otherwise they would not have the spare energy to take away such a damaged mecha.
On the battlefield, there were quite a few damaged blueprint armored vehicles, most of which were infantry fighting vehicles. Valen counted the number and had an idea in mind.
Then he left the battlefield and quickly caught up with the large army that had run far away.
Returning to the troops, the chief of staff inquired, "What are the enemy's losses?"
To avoid worrying his chief of staff, Valen turned his gaze and exaggerated, saying, "The enemy's losses are also significant. The sandstorm has had a significant impact. I saw seventy or eighty destroyed armored vehicles."
The Chief of Staff quickly asked, "Where's the mecha?"
Valen shook his head: "I didn't see any damage to the mecha, it must have been taken away."
"But no matter what, we've already come this far. Stay confident. We will definitely win this battle!"
So, just a few hours after Li Xin returned to Dewan Technology, Valen's army arrived at the settlement right after him.
Of course, this has also been discovered by Li Xin.
After all, there are observation posts and radar detection on the periphery.
A war is about to break out again.
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