Today's fourth update: Chapter 2874! 4/4!
"That's enough. The remaining people are nothing to worry about. Kill those who should be killed, and capture those who should be captured!"
With A Li's threat gone, the rabbit clan, who had originally let A Li, Yun BuHuo, and the other defeated remnants leave, reorganized their forces and returned in force, their spearhead aimed directly at the main Cat Army that had pushed deep into the rabbit clan's battlefield.
Under such circumstances, A Li and the others had indeed been rescued. But in this buy-one-get-ten-thousand-free, fighting-fire-with-fire approach, the cat clan's main force led by Yanran had instead become turtles trapped in a jar.
If they advanced, they would face countless rabbit clan soldiers with an army of several million. The outcome would be nothing more than dying on the battlefield.
If they retreated, they would leave their backs exposed to the rabbit clan. Moreover, Yanran was convinced that rabbit clan troops mobilized from other directions had already cut off their escape route from behind.
In this situation, if they made no changes, Yanran and the others would not only fail to rescue A Li and the rest—they feared even the cat clan's main force would be unable to avoid total annihilation.
At this moment, no resentment was more frightening than the crisis bearing down on them.
As the most respected person in the entire Cat Army, Dou Chen no longer shrank back. He led a group of cat clan elders before Yanran and said, "Miss Yanran, take Sir A Li and the others and flee. Escape with as many people as you can."
"We old fellows will stay behind to cover the rear. If those rabbit bastards want to chase you, they'll have to step over our corpses first."
Perhaps some would