Given a sentence, generate a most likely context or previous statement. The previous statement should be relevant to the given statement.

He faces soldiers in back with him.

Show your work and conclude with the exact phrasing "Therefore, the final answer is [answer]." where [answer] is just the final number or expression that solves the problem.
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Craning his neck, someone looks down at the road and sees soldiers guarding a roadblock up ahead.