Chapter 391 - 204: Psychology, Battle Statistics, and Relocating to Jin City

Chapter 391: Chapter 204: Psychology, Battle Statistics, and Relocating to Jin City

Lin Feng nodded and quickly issued his orders:

"Assign the new Tier Two Awakeners to the Tier Two Corps. Make proper arrangements for the lists of the fallen and the retired Warriors. Once we transfer to Jin City, we’ll need more manpower to effectively manage the survivors at the base. That’s why these severely wounded Warriors will not—and should not—be abandoned."

A Tier Two Awakener, even one with just a Physical Enhancement Superpower, possessed immense destructive power. They were practically like mini-Supermen.

That was why they had to be managed centrally. If left to their own devices among the rank and file, they could easily cause unnecessary trouble.

Placing them all in the Tier Two Corps, centered around Lin Feng, both guaranteed the team’s elite combat strength and mitigated the impact of Extraordinary Power on the current social order.

Overall, the casualty rate for the Warriors in this decisive battle reached as high as 25%. However, the survivors also experienced exponential growth. Not even counting those who had killed members of the Tier Two Zerg Race, the number of Tier One Late Stage Awakened alone surged from under five hundred to over one thousand, making up a quarter of the entire War Corps.

The fact that every member had now become a Tier One Awakener finally made the Warrior system worthy of its name.

Previously, during recruitment, many new soldiers who were only Enhanced People had also signed up for the Warriors. However, so as not to crush their morale and to set a positive example, Lin Feng hadn’t refused their enlistment.

This, in turn, had led to the Warrior system retaining a significant number of Enhanced People, making the strength of the various companies uneven.

Now, having been baptized by this great battle, this Warrior force was poised to become the backbone of their entire faction, better able to shoulder the responsibility of defending the base.

Having received his orders, Li Ran saluted and prepared to depart.

Lin Feng pinched the bridge of his nose and added,

"Gather the remaining weapons and supplies. We’ll prepare to depart after lunch and withdraw to Jin City."

"Once we reach Jin City, besides setting up defensive arrangements and building fortifications, we need to get the recruitment of new Support Soldiers and Warriors on the agenda as soon as possible."

"Four thousand Warriors are nowhere near enough."

A faint smile touched Li Ran’s lips as he heard Lin Feng finally give the order to withdraw, and he breathed an inward sigh of relief.

In truth, the toll this great battle had taken on their weapons, equipment, and personnel had pushed the unit to its breaking point.

Many had witnessed their comrades being torn apart and had seen the ferocity of the Tier Two Zerg Race firsthand. Their willpower was already on the verge of collapse. If Lin Feng had planned to continue using the ruined city as a base to fight the Hai City Zerg Race...

...they would likely have faced a crisis of plummeting morale.

Most of the unit’s members were just rookies who had joined after the apocalypse. Aside from being slightly stronger, they were essentially no different from ordinary people.

There was still a considerable gap between them and the professional soldiers the Thirteenth Division had taken with them, both in terms of psychological resilience and combat proficiency.

This was something that required time and experience to build. Although they would grow significantly after this battle, such a rebirth couldn’t be achieved overnight.

Right now, everyone needed to rest and process the changes this decisive battle had wrought in each of them.

So Li Ran stopped, turned, and saluted again, his voice filled with respect.

"Yes, sir! I guarantee it will be done!"

After Li Ran left, Liu Yi and Shen Jie, the representatives in charge of the Tier Two Corps, arrived together.

According to their report, seven regular soldiers from the Tier Two Battle Group had been killed in action. The casualties among the Genetic Warriors were higher, with twelve dead.

Fortunately, the regenerative abilities of Tier Two Awakeners were extremely powerful, especially for the Genetic Warriors. Even if they lost a limb, they could regenerate it with the help of the Organic Nutrient Liquid.

So, the dozens who were severely injured had all been saved. With just a few days of recuperation, they would be fully recovered.

In total, they had lost nineteen corps members, leaving one hundred and thirty-nine. Many of the survivors had already broken through to the Tier Two Middle Stage, doubling their power.

With the addition of the newly advanced Tier Two Awakeners, the Tier Two Corps now had a total of two hundred and sixty members.

Relatively speaking, the Tier Two Corps’s overall losses weren’t significant. Bolstered by the fresh blood of those promoted from the Warriors, their strength had actually risen to a new level.

After addressing the matter of the new members, Lin Feng reminded them,

"The Tier Two Corps cannot let its guard down. Maintain your training regimen. Your responsibility isn’t just to defend the base, but also to follow me on offensive missions to kill the Zerg Race’s High-tier Mother Empresses, and any other Tier Three Zerg Race that might appear in the future."

"We can’t just passively defend and retreat. Even if taking the offensive comes at a greater cost, we must press forward resolutely!"

"This is the only way to become truly strong!"

Liu Yi and Shen Jie looked at each other and nodded solemnly.

The eight group leaders of the Tier Two Battle Group dreamed of killing the Tier Three Zerg Race and advancing to Tier Three themselves, so they were naturally more than willing to carry out offensive missions.

After the briefing on personnel changes, the last to arrive was Chen Yanyan: commander of the fleet, one of only two pilots for the Dreadnought Battleship, and the most powerful woman at Lin Feng’s side.

"We lost eighteen of our sixty Tanks. We managed to recover and repair three, so we have forty-five remaining."

"The Tanks’ firepower is clearly insufficient for suppressing the Tier Two Zerg Race, especially when facing the Tier Two Tiger Spine Zergs and Tank Flame Beetles. A single Tank’s five Shotguns can barely slow their charge."

"If it hadn’t been for the help of the Tier Two Battle Group squads, the Tanks might have been completely wiped out..."

Lin Feng’s brow furrowed. He had also noticed that while the fleet was effective against an ordinary Swarm, it was powerless against the Zerg Race commanded by a Tier Three Mid-stage Mother Empress. It couldn’t stop the hundreds, even thousands, of giant Tier Two bugs that blotted out the sky.