Going into the forest
Regardless of the plans and thoughts his enemies might be having, Bai Zemin's movements and actions did not waver even for an instant.
For four full days, he led his army of 15 thousand soul evolvers and advanced directly northward. Although he had lost contact with the other 5 thousand soul evolvers who had separated under his orders to head south, Bai Zemin was at ease in his heart.
In these four days that passed, Bai Zemin and his army struck down two more Russian bases. The troops there could not retreat in time as a large-scale mass retreat was not as simple as crossing the teleport gate and that was it; there were many things to do.
Moving food, treasures, vehicles, disassembling technology, erasing and destroying data, etc. All of these things were time consuming and the virtually unstoppable advance of the Transcendent faction certainly wasn't of much help to the New Russia faction.