As the devils' First Group Column began to collapse, the Second Group Column could no longer withstand the pressure and started to retreat as well! Under normal circumstances, an interception force made up of low-ranking devils and six hundred thousand Steel Bones should never have been able to do anything to the Second Group Column's army of nearly six hundred thousand devils.
But they had no choice but to retreat, because the First Group was finished! It was not as if they had not considered going to its rescue, but the demons' interception and the Steel Bones' assault prevented them from advancing. They had to fall back to gain space, while also shortening the distance to the reserves so they could bring them in, reinforce the formation's depth and strength, and prepare for the coming counterattack.
That was right—the devils had not given up. They still intended to counterattack.
Although the First Group Column had collapsed, it had only collapsed; it had not been annihilated. If those routed troops could be properly reorganized, they could still preserve at least fifty percent of their forces. In other words, the devils still had a chance to turn defeat into victory in terms of troop numbers.
That was why they had to retreat, trading space for time so the troops would have a chance to regroup.
"Hmph! These devils really have some nerve!"
Naturally, the devils' movements could not escape Solam's notice. Yet that was precisely why Solam felt so irritated. These devils truly did not take them seriously at all. In an ordinary army, under the current circumstances, the commander should already have been considering retreat. But the devils? Not only were they not thinking of fleeing as quickly as possible, they were instead planning to regroup and launch a counterattack. Calling