The remaining 3,000 or 4,000 soldiers then began to flee frantically.
With this retreat, the soldiers who had been at the front exposed their backs completely to the range of the Hamid soldiers, so they lost several hundred more men in the retreat.
All soldiers retreated to the back of the armoured vehicles. The front line commander immediately began to take a head count.
Soon, attrition was reported from each company. One thousand three hundred men had died.
Among them, there were also more than 500 mercenaries from the Ten Thousand Dragons Temple.
This time, Ten Thousand Dragons sent 10,000 mercenaries to Syria.
In principle, these people were to obey the command of the Syrian government forces and cooperate with them in the extermination of the anti-government forces.
The Syrian government forces have split these 10,000 Wondrous Dragon Temple mercenaries, with the 10,000 being divided equally into four, playing in tandem with the four divisions of the government forces on multiple fronts.
And the army that came to crush Hamid this time. There were two and a half thousand mercenaries from the Hall of Ten Thousand Dragons.
Originally, the officers of the Hall of Ten Thousand Dragons were a little gullible, as were the commanders of the government army.
They felt that they had already seen the level of the Syrian anti-government forces and that it would be a breeze to eliminate them.
So they didn't do enough preparations at all. They only thought that after they had helped the government to solve its biggest problem, they would immediately set up their own mercenary base in Syria and further strengthen their influence in the Middle East.
But to their surprise. This time, they suffered an unprecedented blow because of their rashness.
Over five hundred fresh lives were thrown directly onto the sloping hillside directly above the Hamid base.
The commander of this Wan Long Temple mercenary unit was a yellow man who was about thirty years old.
His name was Logan Azerlat. He was a five-star war general of the Ten Thousand Dragons Temple, and was considered one of the core cadres.
In the Ten Thousand Dragons Hall, apart from a War God and four War Kings, there were nearly a hundred War Generals underneath.
And the war generals' abilities and biographies and battle achievements. It determines their star rating.
The stars of a war general ranged from one star to five stars, and a five-star war general, naturally, was the highest among war generals, and there were only twenty to thirty war generals in total who could get this level.
Counting the War Gods and the Four Battle Kings, Logan Azerlat's ranking in the Ten Thousand Dragons Hall was at least in the top forty.
This time, he had followed Jerold, the First Warlord of the Ten Thousand Dragons Hall, to conquer Syria, and he had been on a roll before, with few casualties among his men.
However, he had never expected that so many people would die just as the battle began today!
After he saw that his team had suffered heavy losses. Immediately, he approached the top commander of his government forces and angrily denounced in Chinese: "Your pre-war intelligence work is a pile of sh*t! Hamid has built so many hidden permanent fortifications, why did you never tell us this intelligence?"
The supreme commander who was questioned was also annoyed and responded in less than proficient Chinese, "What you're asking is f*cking bullsh*t, if I had known that he had built permanent fortifications then I would have told you this information, but the problem is that I didn't know either!"
The commander of the Ten Thousand Dragons Hall turned blue at his opponent's righteousness and said angrily, "Intelligence gathering before the war. It's a top priority for any army, why didn't you do it? That's not too unprofessional!"
The commander of the government army asked him rhetorically, "We are unprofessional, but if you, the Hall of Ten Thousand Dragons, are so professional, why didn't you also do pre-war intelligence gathering? After coming to Syria, have the generals of the Hall of Ten Thousand Dragons fallen to the same level of combat as us?"
"F*ck!" Logan Azerlat cursed angrily and gritted his teeth, "Do you f*cking think fighting a war is like a shrew cursing the streets? I don't have time to bullsh*t here, you have to give me an explanation for these five hundred or so men I lost!"
The government commander said in a cold voice, "Don't give me that sh*t! It's normal to lose men in war, you want me to give you an explanation, I lost nearly a thousand men, who's going to give me an explanation? The most important thing now is to take out Hamid's base! Capture Hamid and behead him! That's the only way to console the dead soldiers!"
He said. The other side stared coldly at Logan Azerlat and reminded, "More importantly, it is also the only way to save each of us from the reprimand of our superiors! If we lose so many men and still haven't brought down Hamid, my superiors won't spare me, but I'm sure your superiors won't spare you either!"
Logan Azerlat was speechless for a moment.
What the other side said was true.
It was not afraid to suffer losses in war, but what was most feared was. After suffering losses, he still failed to win.
If he really couldn't defeat Hamid, he would definitely become a laughing stock in the Hall of Ten Thousand Dragons! Even his future would be ruined!
So. He looked at the government army commander and said in a cold voice, "Your artillery just blew up so many rounds and the other side still has such strong firepower, which proves that their permanent fortifications are quite sturdy. If this battle turns into an assault, and it's still from the bottom up, I'm afraid it won't be so good!"
The government commander gritted his teeth and said, "Then I'll have the artillery bomb a few more rounds!"
"It's useless!" Logan Azerlat said, "So many rounds just now were ineffective, I'm afraid it's useless to bomb again!"
He gave a slight pause and thought for a moment before speaking, "How about this, you send your soldiers with heavy weapons to continue the feint attack on his front, I'll lead our men from the Ten Thousand Dragons Hall to meander back through the flanking peaks and quietly touch the high ground, then go straight around to their flanks to outflank them!"