There just was no way that he alone, along with all of the other strategists there, would be able to pull off any kind of comeback or even a feasible retreat without the help of the mastermind Xuan Feng or the commander's voice of Lun Hu that was able to make hundreds of thousands of men become filled with confidence even in the toughest of situations. For once, the all-stars were running away without even so much as trying to get their army out of there, that was just how much they were outclassed at the moment.
Xuan Feng was deciding what to do now that they had finally defeated Baron. He had just met up with Jiang Yan, Lun Hu, and Jie Zi Fang when there seemed to be a hundred different explosions taking place at once. The four of them knew that something wasn't right and immediately ran to the outside of the temporary shelter that they had built. Just before they reached the exit, one of their senior officers was rushing in looking for them.
(SO) "Sirs, there seems to be an enemy attack." The senior officer said panicked.
(XF) "We are under enemy attack? Who are they, the sun should have just set so we should be able to see who they are." Xuan Feng shouted in between the explosions.
(SO) "I'm sorry sir, the enemies are in the sky, higher than anything we can use to detect where they are. We just have no way of knowing who we are up against."
(LH) "Have the planes take off and try to engage them in combat." Lun Hu shouted in the back.
(SO) "We have already tried to do that but the enemy seems to be able to detect them no matter which direction we send the fighters and shoot them down before they even reach cruising altitude. We are outmatched."
(JY) "What are the casualty rates?" Jiang Yan asked.
(SO) "..."
(JZF) "We asked you a question, why aren't you responding?"
(SO) "I think it is better if the four of you see for yourselves just how extensive the damage to your army truly is."
With that, the four of them rushed towards the outdoors just as they had tried to do before they were stopped by the senior officer. What they saw was defeat as they had never seen before. Their army was in complete and utter devastation. The airfields near completely destroyed, and with them, the majority of their air force. There were fires as far as the eye could see, wounded men everywhere, destroyed artillery and vehicles. Xuan Feng and the rest of the three all-stars were at a loss for words, they had almost always been the one on the victorious side, but now they were so easily crippled. For once, they knew despair in the form of whoever their enemies were.
(XF) "This...this can't be."
(JY) "Who could have done such a thing? This doesn't make sense, there shouldn't be anyone with this type of firepower in the Chinese community."
(LH) "Unless it's the Bair fighters."
(JZF) "It seems as if we are the first to be the target of the Bair fighters, it can only be them."
(XF) "Still, I had no idea that they were able to do such an extensive blow to us in less than a half-hour."
(LH) "Teacher, going by my estimates, there are at least a million casualties. Likely at least a quarter of that number are done for in this kind of constant bombardment."
(XF) "I hate to say it, but I don't really think there is a way for us to get out of this mess except for a full-scale retreat of everyone for themselves. Though this is an embarrassing tactic, this will ensure that at least some of us will make it out alive to fight another day."
(JZF) "Agreed, this is the best move available to us now. With such a high casualty rate, there is absolutely nothing we can do about it."
(LH) "There hasn't been an explosion in quite some time, let's take this chance to make a move."
(JY) "You guys go on first, I'll go around and lead what men that haven't been injured and try to get them back to the base."
(XF) "You can't help yourself to not do this, can you? Fine, don't overexert yourself. Make sure that if there are enemies on the prowl to be extra careful, all of you. I'll meet you back at the Yellow Wang capital base."
(LH) "See you there-" Lun Hu said but something caught his attention. The explosions started again, and not only that, they seem to have intensified from the first wave as well. Were their enemies really trying to get rid of them with this method?
(JZF) "Let's move now while the casualties are at a minimum."
Just as Jie Zi Fang finished his words, an explosion from just a couple of meters from where the four of them were standing hit them near full force. Now, thanks to their status as strategists, they were far less prone to damage as their regular soldiers, but explosions would still affect them to quite a degree. In the strategist title, there was a lot of room as to how powerful an individual can become. The minimum base strategist would have the strength of 50 regular soldiers, and depending on how much one trained their bodies, this could go up to near-infinite amounts.
Jie Zi Fang had the toughest body out of all four of them, next up was Lun Hu, then Jiang Yan and finally Xuan Feng. Even for Jie Zi Fang, this explosion was not something that he could immediately shake off. He lay on the ground for a solid few minutes before he realized that the other three had been knocked out cold and that he was the only one conscious. There just was no time to delay and he immediately got his allies onto an armored vehicle and got out of there as fast as the darned thing could go.