"Commander of the Corps, let's go back to support Base 5."

In the communication channel of the independent group leader, the blind man's suggestion was echoed by everyone.

"Yes, although the mechas have no energy, they can be replaced on the battleship. Some damaged areas can also be repaired at the same time."

"Two thousand imperial mechas, the base can't defeat them."

"I always feel that the empire will not let Han force lead an attack on their main force. With 200,000 troops, the empire must have backup. If Han force is delayed..."

"Commander of the Corps, let's go back."

While the team captains were talking, they did not stop chasing the imperial mechas. Under their pursuit, more than 400 imperial mechas were pursued, and now only more than 300 were left.

Since the beginning of the war, they have defeated nearly 1,200 of the total 1,535 Imperial mechas, helping to establish an absolute advantage on the frontal battlefield. The Empire's third line of defense has been breached.

As of now, they will not have any problems evacuating from the western theater.

"This time, is it a true triumph?"

Su Chuanyun's voice when asking questions was not as energetic as usual, but rather sluggish.

The independent regiment, which achieved brilliant results, lost thirty-four people in today's battle.

Compared with the number of people who died in the western theater today, this number is simply not worth mentioning. But it is very heavy for the independent regiment. Counting the seven people who died in the battles in the previous few days, there are only 243 independent regiments.

, the loss of troops has exceeded one-sixth.

"Of course, forget it." After Qin Tong answered Su Chuanyun's question in a positive tone, he paused and then asked: "Old Ji, give the order, let's go back."

Ji Xinghe has not given any orders, and has been rushing to the front, leading the 170 mountain-cutting mechas of the independent regiment, frantically pursuing the imperial mechas.

This kind of pursuit is very meaningful, because theoretically, it is almost impossible for those relatively slow conventional mechas, baron, and viscount-level noble mechas to escape from their pursuit.

Unless the three Duke-class and seven Marquis-class mechas turned around to intercept with the Earl-class mechas. But they didn't dare to turn around. They really didn't know how much energy the independent group's mechas had left.

Even with 1,500 mechas, they can't defeat the Independent Regiment. Although the number of mechas in the independent regiment has become smaller now, the number of their mechas is even smaller.

How dare you fight?

Moreover, the order given by Yinan was to let them escape at all costs, which can also be said to be to preserve their strength for the future.

With an honest and upright reason, they didn't even care about those regular-level Imperial mechas when they ran away without looking back.

However, the suggestions made by Qin Tong and others are also very meaningful.

The war in the No. 5 Base Theater is about to begin, and the independent regiment should seize the time to return reinforcements. Although the Western Theater is also an important battlefield for the Federation to face the Empire, it is theoretically more important than the No. 5 Base Theater.

But Base 5 is the home of the Independent Regiment.

The people of the Independent Group actually have no home on the alien planet, but they all know that Ji Xinghe has a home on the alien planet - the place where Ji Rong Xinyue is, is Ji Xinghe's home.

"We are not going back to support."

Ji Xinghe finally spoke, and his words stunned the captains of the independent group.

Before the team leaders could emphasize that Base 5 might not be able to be defended, Ji Xinghe had already stated his reasons.

"If we all go back, the empire will counterattack as soon as possible, and the 56,395 people who have died in the western theater in the past seven days will have all died in vain."

The communication channel fell silent. Su Chuanyun, who caught up with several Imperial mechas, snatched the gold stars from his team members as if to vent his anger.

Compared with their defeats, the losses of the Independent Regiment are simply not worth mentioning in terms of numbers, but this is because they all have advanced mechas, and they are the only special-level ones with more than fifty gold stars before.

Only mecha warriors are eligible to apply for mecha.

But the mecha warriors in the western theater did not have mechas like them. Those conventional troops who launched a charge against the imperial defense line and then started the clearing operation did not have mechas.

Bullets, artillery shells, missiles and other weapons that the independent group can ignore can easily cause fatal damage to them.

The main casualties during these seven days occurred in the battles against the second and third lines of defense of the empire.

The two imperial lines of defense were breached, and the Independent Regiment was indispensable, but the more than 50,000 people who died in the Western Theater were also indispensable.

"But if we don't go back..." Cripple hesitated for a moment, and did not say what he really wanted to say, but changed his words: "Old man, let's go back, just our Galaxy Team."

Qin Tong immediately agreed: "We still have 170 Zhanshan. If only our Galaxy team members go back, we can leave 160 for the western theater, which is almost enough."

Among the members of the independent regiment who arrived in the western theater, there were 19 members of the original Xinghe team, excluding Ji Xinghe, but five of them died in today's battle, so now there are only 14 left.

Qin Tong, Harris, blind man, lame man, Su Chuanyun, Andre, left hand, deaf man, lame man, Li Lehai, Zhang Ji, Liu Junle, Jiang Yun, Chu Feng.

Among them, Qin Tong, Harris, Blind Man, and Cripple have ace mechas, so there are only ten people who need to use Zhanshan.

From this point of view, the results of the independent group have to be discounted, because the original Galaxy team has achieved the goal of all aces, that is to say, five ace mecha warriors died today.

Counting the nineteen aces of the Galaxy Team, the Federation currently has only forty-three ace mecha warriors, including one galaxy-level mecha warrior.

Such losses would have been unbearable for the Federation before neural link technology began to become popular. But now with the emergence of Yu Ren, a new ace, it is no longer as difficult for the Federation to build an ace mecha warrior.

.

Therefore, the results of the independent regiment are still brilliant.

"They can't do it without us." Ji Xinghe directly rejected this suggestion, and what he said was also true.

If it weren't for the sacrifice of the five ace mecha warriors of the Galaxy Team today, it would be impossible for the Independent Group to retain 170 combat mechas. Once the number of defeated mechas increases too much, the outcome may be reversed.

"But..." The blind man thought of something: "Old Ji, which trick do you really want to use?"

Ji Xinghe responded softly: "Yes, it's that move."

The communication channel became quiet and the pursuit battle continued. It was only when the remaining energy of many mechas in the independent group was less than 5% that Ji Xinghe ordered a retreat.

Their adventure is worthwhile. Without these imperial mechas being pursued by them, the Western Theater's operational goal of regaining the defense line of Outpost 1844 will be fully achieved at noon tomorrow at the latest.

The Independent Regiment did not participate in the clearance battle, but directly returned to the defense line of Outpost 1842 to rest and recuperate.

Ji Xinghe did not personally repair the mechas of the Independent Regiment this time. The mechanics in the western theater understood this very well. They all felt that it was because Ji Xinghe was not physically fit enough and needed a good rest.

But when they saw Ji Xinghe get into a second-generation simulation system operation cabin that had just been sent over by Chen Xun and looked like a modified one, they felt that things were not that simple.

…………

The war in the Western Theater has not yet ended, and the real-time statistics of the results have appeared in front of Kent Weiss, which made him feel a little regretful and couldn't help but laugh.

"So far, in the active offensive operation that lasted for seven days, the western theater has annihilated more than 500,000 enemy troops and destroyed more than 3,700 imperial mechas, of which 2,352 were made by

The independent regiment defeated it."

"Forty-one members of the Independent Regiment died, five of whom were ace mecha warriors, twenty-two were special-level mecha warriors, and fourteen were first-level mecha warriors."

"Fifty-six thousand, four hundred and thirty-five people died in the western theater, including 935 mecha warriors, 11 special-level mecha warriors, and 73 first-level mecha warriors..."

"The number of Imperial mechas captured in the Western Theater of Operations is 3,207. According to the preliminary report of the Mechanical Maintenance Corps, the number of mechas that can be repaired and modified is 1,756..."

Kentweis listened and suddenly interrupted the report: "General Ji Xinghe, how many battles have you defeated personally?"

The reporting officer did not answer directly, but hesitated and asked: "Commander, those Imperial mechas that were destroyed by our mechas after General Ji Xinghe was damaged, are they counted in General Ji Xinghe's personal cumulative defeats?"

"Of course it counts." Kentweis frowned, with a somewhat dissatisfied tone: "Without General Ji Xinghe's damage, where would there be a chance to hit the target? Don't ask about this kind of thing again in the future. Our mecha warriors heard it, and they

They will be very dissatisfied and feel that you are insulting them."

"yes."

The reporting staff acted as if they had been prepared. After confirming the answer, they said directly: "General Ji Xinghe's personal total number of personal defeats has reached 1,759, of which 431 were destroyed by us.

Two hundred and thirty-five of those harvested in the Western Theater were harvested today."

Hearing this number that made everyone present couldn't help but marvel, Kent Weiss frowned but did not relax.

Why can't it be done together?

Kentweis recalled how Ji Xinghe led the independent group to pursue the battle just now, especially when Ji Xinghe obviously had a chance to defeat the imperial mecha, but gave the opportunity to other members of the independent group, and he felt even more regretful.

The only person left in the independent group who was not beaten was Ji Xinghe, or only the original Xinghe team was left. This was his first regret.

The Independent Group sacrificed five ace mecha warriors, which was his second regret. Although he also knew that the sacrifice of those five aces greatly helped the Independent Group win, but an ace is an ace.

Even if it is not as valuable as before, it is still worth exchanging ten special-level lives for one ace life.

The third regret is that Ji Xinghe's cumulative defeats were not completed. If Ji Xinghe got two thousand gold stars today, he would immediately promote the decision to award Ji Xinghe the rank of Lieutenant General.

Although Ji Xinghe has led the independent regiment and has achieved extremely high military exploits, according to the rules of the independent regiment or the Galaxy Squad, most of these military exploits will be divided among the team members.

All of Ji Xinghe's personal military exploits will be used by him in exchange for related resources.

If he strives for it with all his strength, and Longzhou will definitely cooperate, it will not be a big problem for Ji Xinghe to obtain the rank of lieutenant general, but it will not be so easy for him to give Ji Xinghe the Galaxy Medal.

Kentweis is not wholeheartedly doing good for Ji Xinghe, he has his own agenda.

With only the rank of lieutenant general, Ji Xinghe can still belong to Tu Yuan's command sequence, but with the Galaxy Medal, the independent regiment led by Ji Xinghe can only belong to the commander-in-chief's command sequence.

That is his command sequence.

So, do you want to...

Watching Ji Xinghe lead the independent regiment back to outpost 1840, watching the war in the base 5 theater have begun, thinking about the news that the top organization told him the day before yesterday...

After Kentweis hesitated, he still sent a message to Don Qiao: Don't forget your mission.

After sending this message, Kentweis thought he would receive a message from Don Qiao applying for certain permissions, but what he didn't expect was that Don Qiao responded to his message very quickly:

General Ji Xinghe ordered the independent regiment to rest and recuperate at outpost No. 1840.
To be continued...