Laz didn't know about the incoming bombing run and therefore wasn't heading in the same direction as others. Instead, he was making his way further through town since he knew that everyone else was heading in the other direction. In two separate instances, Laz came upon groups of troops who were retreating on foot in the direction he was driving from and he had to swerve to avoid them. Both times the troops tried to flag him down, but of course Laz wasn't going to stop. Instead, he drove the half destroyed vehicle straight into the pursuing bugs and with a swing of his fist, blasted them away. The hornets and giant mantis like bugs exploded like water balloons full of blood while the stronger and more solid black beetles were crushed and sent flying. Some of them died but many of them survived.