Kuba and Shikele knew that the most important thing now was to gather the troops in their hands and fight the enemy head-on. As long as they could make the enemy wary and unwilling to fight them to the death, they could leave behind some rearguard troops and withdraw with their main force. As for the cannon fodder, they could abandon them.
As long as they still had troops capable of fighting, even if Heshima wanted to punish them, at most he would demote them and retain them in service. He would not take their lives. As long as their own power bases remained, they could naturally rise back to Commander of Ten Thousand.
As veteran officers who had spent years on the battlefield, Kuba and Shikele naturally understood that this was the moment when they had to risk their lives. They would lead their troops into battle with the resolve to die.
They decided to lead the troops personally. Although those terrifying attacks were immensely powerful, they could not cover the entire battlefield. In truth, swords and blades were still what would decide victory or defeat.
After the initial chaos, they had already ordered their troops to spread out as much as possible. By now, the bombardment was causing them far fewer losses.
After all, there were only a little over thirty 100mm and 120mm mortars with sufficient range combined, and the area they could cover was extremely limited. Some shells had also landed on the cannon fodder units, so the damage to their direct forces was limited.
Once the two had regrouped their direct forces, they began advancing. Their target was singular: the Two Rivers Legion.
At this moment, the Two Rivers Legion had already begun fighting the Barbarian vanguard head-on. The Barbarian formation had been blasted beyond