Chapter 169: Bravery Laced with Foolishness (Happy New Year)
The Mausoleum Guard Squad, which originally numbered over two hundred, had been decimated in a fierce encounter with the Fruit Tree Army. Over a hundred had been captured, leaving fewer than a hundred remaining.
Facing the seemingly endless Fruit Tree Army, capable of "alternating resistance" tactics, the Guard Squad knew they were outmatched and were forced to shift their strategy, starting to attack towards the rear.
During the squad's hasty retreat, another forty to fifty men were captured by the trees for not running fast enough.
Finally, at the entrance to the forehall of the royal mausoleum, the Mausoleum Guard Squad did another headcount and discovered that they had only forty to fifty men left.
Fortunately, the squad leader was a Foundation Establishment cultivator, able to temporarily erect a defensive barrier to prevent the Fruit Trees from also rushing into the mausoleum.