Those remaining four or five thousand Japanese soldiers had witnessed their own aircraft being destroyed as if they were mere toys!
At this moment, having long since lost all fighting spirit, they thought only of making haste to leave, terrified that if they lagged behind, they would be annihilated!
With morale gone, and coupled with the retreat order given by that old devil Shinji, the Jap runaways moved at a speed far greater than when they had marched in formation to attack!
Chapter 255