The chapter opens with Liefeng's reaction to the news that the new recruits have been beaten back. He says that if he had known earlier, he would have arrived sooner. Liefeng says that they have arrived three days early. He asks why they didn't set off their signal flares earlier. When they were surrounded, they killed the messengers and the shenshu divisions signal bombs were redunant. But now isn't the time to talk about such matters. It's been an hour and a half since they broke the encirclement. He's not sure if Lieutenant Cang and the other brat are still holding on. He also asks why brat cang is with the Griffin unit instead of the Shenshu division. He turns back to his parents and begs them to help him once more. He pulls away his blade. He apologizes for it, saying that if everyone were able to survive, he wouldn't be able to protect his mother, his aunt, his pebble, and