139: Chapter 139 Break Up the Enemy's Strength into Smaller Units! Lure Them Deeper!

Even Xu Feng, the least intelligent among them, realized at this moment that Li Mo's proposed strategy was actually most dangerous for himself!

The enemy's top combatants would inevitably target Li Mo!

Furthermore, the main force of this hundred-thousand-strong army would also view Li Mo as a high-priority target, perhaps even placing a massive bounty on him.

Xu Feng immediately objected: "No way, Boss, this is too dangerous! You'll lose your life; I don't agree to this plan!"

Zheng Jiahao hesitated for a moment, then said: "Li Mo, this plan of yours can indeed avoid casualties to the greatest extent, but the risk you personally bear is too great. Don't forget, you are our commander-in-chief; without you, the Vanguard Battalion couldn't even exist! It's not worth it!"

After the two finished speaking, Li Mo looked at Qin Zhengnan and Wu Yuqing.

"What? You two don't agree either?"

Qin Zhengnan sighed and immediately said: "Captain Li, I know I can't stop you, but I have one request: I must follow you! If those people from the Black Earth Tribe have the guts, let them kill me. I don't believe my great-grandfather won't avenge me!"

Wu Yuqing smiled slightly at this: "I have to say, this plan of yours is quite interesting. I want to see just how strong a warrior of the Heaven and Earth Realm really is!"

Neither of them questioned Li Mo's plan, but their only condition was that they must accompany Li Mo.

Although they were all descendants of the Martial God Family, there wasn't a single coward among them.

Li Mo looked at Zheng Jiahao and Xu Feng again.

"Do you two still have any objections?"

Zheng Jiahao and Xu Feng stopped speaking; they knew they couldn't stop Li Mo now.

"Fine! Boss! We are brothers who have experienced life and death together; let's do it! At worst, eighteen years from now, I'll be a hero again! I'm going with you too!"

With all the officers in agreement, the plan to disperse into small units began to be executed immediately.

Li Mo quickly reported his plan to Zhao Zhenyuan.

In reality, Li Mo's decision to disperse was not purely to reduce casualties; he intended to use the five thousand men of the Vanguard Battalion to stall the enemy's hundred thousand troops, allowing the main force of Daxia to arrive at this location first.

If the main force of Daxia could annihilate these hundred thousand enemy troops, it would be a fatal blow to the enemy!

Who could have guessed that Zhao Zhenyuan, upon receiving Li Mo's call, would suddenly fly into a rage.

"Li Mo, you are being reckless! What did I tell you before you set out? Prioritize your own safety! You are the commander of the Vanguard Battalion that I personally appointed! How can you make such a meaningless sacrifice?"

"Listen to me, leave four thousand troops to intercept the enemy, and return with the rest of the men and those hundreds of thousands of kilograms of star crystal!"

Zhao Zhenyuan did not say it explicitly, but the plan he wanted Li Mo to execute was to leave four thousand men as cannon fodder, then have Li Mo retreat in time.

As a commander, his considerations were understandable; anyone could see that Li Mo's future achievements would be limitless. He had fully demonstrated his military talent, and it was not impossible for him to become a Daxia Marshal in the future.

To Zhao Zhenyuan, Li Mo's life was far more important than the lives of the Vanguard Battalion soldiers.

However, Li Mo could not bring himself to issue such an order.

Back at the mining area, these fine men of Daxia had not betrayed Li Mo's trust; faced with the priceless star crystal, they had not been tempted, nor had they defected. Therefore, Li Mo could not betray them now and let them die in vain for his own safety.

He would live and die with his soldiers!

"Marshal, I'm sorry, but I have to disobey orders this time!"

Li Mo resolutely hung up the phone and immediately carried out the plan to disperse into small units.

The five thousand men of the Vanguard Battalion were immediately organized into five hundred different small teams, scattering and fleeing in all directions.

"Li Mo! Li Mo..." Hearing no further movement on the other end of the line, Zhao Zhenyuan, in a fit of rage, smashed the phone.

"That stubborn mule! Just as stubborn as his father!" Zhao Zhenyuan sighed and immediately put on his Marshal's cloak.

"Secretary! Come here immediately! Issue an order to the entire army to speed up! It must be fast!"

In fact, Zhao Zhenyuan was already on his way to the Qiyuan Mountains, but the marching speed of a four-hundred-thousand-strong army was inevitably much slower than that of a small unit.

The secretary was shocked when he heard this; he had not expected the Marshal to force the entire army to march at forced speed just for the commander of a Vanguard Battalion.

But this was indeed the best way to support Li Mo as quickly as possible.

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Meanwhile, the hundred-thousand-strong army of General Gemu and General Erik finally advanced to the vicinity of the Rainforest Mining Area.

They followed the traces left by Li Mo and his group, and soon determined the direction Li Mo had fled after destroying the mining area.

It was the northwest!

The area to the northwest consisted mostly of mountain forests and stone forests, places that were easy to hide in.

At the same time, this was the largest stretch of wilderness forest outside the border of the Black Earth Tribe, covering over a million square kilometers.

Looking at this long stretch of forest, General Gemu couldn't help but exclaim: "This Li Mo is a novice, but he's really troublesome! In such a large jungle and mountain area, even with a hundred thousand men, it's not easy to find them!"

General Erik snorted coldly: "Hah! So what? General Gemu, don't forget those infrared scanning devices that the Baiou Empire gave us years ago. As long as we use the infrared scanning devices to scan, with so many of them gathered together, they will have nowhere to hide no matter where they are!"

Upon hearing this, General Gemu smiled slightly: "That's true, I had forgotten if you hadn't reminded me! Even in a forest area of over a million square kilometers, it only takes an hour or so to scan it with drones! They aren't carrying electromagnetic interference or signal shielding equipment! As long as we find the place where they are gathered, we can annihilate them immediately!"

General Gemu immediately issued the order, and the next moment, dense swarms of drones flew toward the dense primeval forest ahead at a low altitude of one hundred meters.

These drones were extremely fast and had a very wide scanning range; a single drone could easily detect infrared reactions within a radius of dozens of kilometers and mark red spots on the map.

Although there were many exotic beasts in the forest, rarely would a large group of them gather together.

Therefore, after these drones finished scanning, General Gemu and General Erik only needed to find the place on the map with the densest infrared reactions, which would be equivalent to finding the Vanguard Battalion.

This time they really guessed right; the equipment Li Mo carried indeed lacked electromagnetic pulse devices and signal shielding equipment, so they could only watch helplessly as the drones flew rapidly overhead.

Soon, a map covered with infrared range marker points was delivered to the two generals, General Gemu and General Erik.

But General Erik, who had been extremely confident, was instantly dumbfounded when he saw the map.

Because the infrared reaction marker points on the map were very uniform, and there were no points indicating large crowds!

If not for the traces left by Li Mo and his group during their march, General Erik would even have doubted whether Li Mo's Vanguard Battalion had entered this area at all.

"Fuck! What is going on?"