The atmosphere on the battlefield became increasingly tense.
Ma Chao's eyes widened with anger, and the situation in front of him made him feel depressed and helpless.
He was a general of the Ma family, with a great reputation, but he was helpless in this mandarin duck formation. He rushed left and right, but he was still unable to break through the encirclement. The anxiety and anger in his heart burned like a raging fire.
Ma Chao became increasingly angry and felt that it was becoming increasingly difficult to escape from the situation he was trapped in. He could never let himself be trapped in the formation and let time pass by like this.
"First team, second team, charge!" Ma Chao roared and gave the charge order to the two centurions.
At this time, he could no longer care about face and had to break out of the encirclement quickly, so he decisively mobilized twice as many troops as Cao Zhang's army to rush into the formation to help him.
Ma Chao's men had been patiently waiting for a long time, and now they finally heard Ma Chao's order to attack. They quickly roared, waved their weapons, and charged towards the Great Yuanyang Formation.
Ma Chao's reaction was already expected by Cao Zhang. He knew that Ma Chao would never be willing to be trapped by him like this. If necessary, he would definitely dispatch troops to attack, and he had already been prepared to deal with it.
"Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, and Zhong continue to encircle Ma Chao! Kan, Li, Gen, and Dui resist the enemy!" Cao Zhang quickly issued instructions to the nine teams!
He named each team according to the Bagua direction, which made it easier for command and dispatch.
Under Cao Zhang's command, each squad of the Yuanyang Formation quickly began to take action. The four squads and the central squad continued to encircle Ma Chao.
The other four teams quickly broke away from the encirclement and blocked their periphery to block the impact of Ma Chao's two centurions.
Although they were at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, the Yuanyang Formation's varied movements, flexible formations, and cross-changing changes among the four squads never allowed Ma Chao's two centurions to find a breakthrough.
They were constantly pushed away and blocked, unable to join Ma Chao and form a broken formation.
As the number of people surrounding Ma Chao in the center decreased, Ma Chao's pressure dropped sharply, and he was able to take some time to look at the situation on the periphery.
It was okay not to look at it, but when he saw it, his heart tightened: Although his two hundred-man team had an obvious numerical advantage, the Yuanyang Formation, with its flexible and changeable formation, did not give his team any chance to break through, blocking them out and forming a After two areas, he still couldn't break out of the siege.
Ma Chao became anxious. He waved the spear in his hand vigorously and kept rushing left and right, trying to break out of the besieging formation.
Cao Zhang frowned. After all, the Yuanyang Formation was used for the first time, and he was facing the super-famous general Ma Chao, so he was afraid of making a mistake.
Cao Zhang turned to look at Li Jin, who had been directing the battle, and issued an order: "Ji Ji, entangle him!"
He must now let Li Jin step forward to fight Ma Chao in person. After all, Li Jin had defeated Lu Bu and Wang Yue and had extraordinary combat experience. He hoped that Li Jin could hold Ma Chao down and cooperate with the other five teams to trap Ma Chao.
Li Jin understood, quickly raised the spear in his hand, urged his horse forward, and started a fight with Ma Chao.
When Ma Chao saw Li Jin coming forward, he didn't take him seriously at all. In his understanding, Li Jin was just Cao Zhang's guard captain, how capable he could be. However, when the two actually fought, Ma Chao realized that Li Jin's martial arts was exceptionally outstanding.
Li Jin relied on his excellent body skills and superb spear skills to act like an unshakable barrier, blocking Ma Chao in place. His attacks kept coming, accurate and ferocious, keeping Ma Chao on alert at all times.
The five teams of Yuanyang Formation, seeing that Li Jin had successfully blocked Ma Chao, began to attack closely. Each team member displayed their strongest martial arts skills and launched attacks from different directions, surrounding Ma Chao and not giving him any chance to escape.
The staggered attacks by Li Jin and the five squads put Ma Chao in trouble again. He found that not only was he unable to defeat Li Jin, but he was even more dangerous than the soldiers who simply faced the Yuanyang Formation before.
Ma Teng, who was on the high platform, looked at the battle between the two sides below and his eyes widened in shock.
At first, Ma Chao was trapped by the Yuanyang Formation alone, and he secretly complained that it was Ma Chao who surpassed Toda and was trapped. But now Ma Chao has mobilized twice as many troops as his opponent, but he is completely blocked and still unable to escape, which is enough to show the strength of Cao Zhang's army.
Ma Teng gradually began to believe that what Cao Zhang said about defeating more with less and defeating Li Jue was true.
Ma Yunlu was extremely shocked when she watched the battle between the two sides. At first, she was worried that Cao Zhang was exaggerating and that it was impossible to win Ma Chao.
But now Ma Chao mobilized two centurions, but still could not break through the siege, which also made Ma Yunlu marvel that Cao Zhang really had extraordinary abilities.
On the battlefield, the fierce duel between Ma Chao and Li Jin filled the entire space. Their moves intertwined like lightning, and every collision was full of destructive power.
Ma Chao waved the long knife in his hand fiercely, and his attack was fierce and violent, while Li Jin was as steady as a mountain, resisting every attack.
The battle between Li Jin and Ma Chao broke out like a spark.
Li Jin relied on his excellent martial arts skills and experience to launch a series of consecutive attacks, forcing Ma Chao to go all out to deal with it.
No matter how Ma Chao charges, Li Jin can always withstand his attacks stably. Li Jin relied on his extraordinary skills to easily avoid every impact of Ma Chao, and every attack he made could accurately find Ma Chao's weakness, making him passive.
Ma Chao's anger became more and more intense, and he attacked Li Jin like crazy, hoping to subdue him with one blow.
However, every time he attacked was easily resolved by Li Jin.
Li Jin's martial arts skills are superb and almost impeccable. The members of the Yuanyang Formation were also constantly putting pressure on Ma Chao, causing him to be distracted from dealing with the siege from all sides and unable to concentrate on fighting Li Jin.
Time passed bit by bit, and Ma Chao's anger accumulated more and more. He was angry and ashamed in his heart. He was brave and powerful in Xiliang, but now he has deployed twice as many troops and still can't get out of trouble. This is already a great shame for him.
His eyes were full of resentment and unwillingness, and he didn't want to be trapped in this mandarin duck formation anymore. So he gave the order again.
"Charge the whole army!" Ma Chao issued the order again after dodging Li Jin's shot!
At this time, he could no longer care about much. He only wanted to break through the siege of Cao Zhang's battle formation, so he put all the remaining seven centurions into the charge at any cost.
Upon hearing Ma Chao's instructions, Cao Zhang's brows instantly furrowed.
He fully understood that in anger, Ma Chao no longer had any worries and showed all his cards. And now there is still about a quarter of an hour, only half an hour.
In other words, he and his men must hold on for the last quarter of an hour and prevent Ma Chao from standing out in the battle in order to win today's bet!
"Qian, Kun, Zhen, Dui, resist the enemy!" Cao Zhang gave the order without hesitation, and sent out the other four teams surrounding Ma Chao to block the attack of the seven centurions.
Only one small team remained in the center of the formation, cooperating with Li Jin to continue besieging Ma Chao.
The eight peripheral teams were under tremendous pressure. Although the Yuanyang Formation was flexible in changes, the huge difference in numbers, coupled with the originally strong impact of the Ma Chao team, caused their movement space to be greatly compressed, and the defense line began to loosen. .
Ma Chao also understood that now was his best chance to break out. He cheered up, waved the wooden gun in his hand, and charged frantically at Li Jin and the only team surrounding him, trying to open a way to rush out, and with his own The subordinates gathered together.
Cao Zhang understood that Li Jin was under tremendous pressure at this time, but he could only hope that Li Jin would try his best to delay, while he continued to command the eight peripheral teams to fully defend Ma Chao's thousand-man troops. impact.
Cao Zhang understood that as long as he could insist on preventing the surrounding soldiers from rushing in, Li Jin would be able to complete the task of trapping Ma Chao.
Ma Teng on the high platform was extremely shocked when he saw this fierce scene. He really didn't expect that Cao Zhang's hundred-man team could actually complete the task of blocking Ma Chao's thousand-man team and besieging Ma Chao.
Ma Chao's two younger brothers, Ma Tie and Ma Xiu, naturally did not want to see Ma Chao lose the bet. They rushed to the war drums under the high platform, personally picked up the drumsticks and beat the war drums to cheer for Ma Chao and his men. .
Ma Yunlu stood on the high platform, looking at Cao Zhang, who was calmly waving the flag and commanding the battle in the center of the battle array, his eyes froze again. This was the first time besides his father and brother that she was attracted by a man who exuded infinite pride.
Over the entire school grounds, the sound of war drums and shouts intertwined.
Time passed by minute by second, and everyone on the battlefield was immersed in the fierce battle. They kept making moves, each showing their special abilities. One side was defending with all its strength, and the other was attacking with all its strength.
As time goes by, the balance of victory has begun to tilt, and the Yuanyang formation under Cao Zhang has gradually been unable to withstand the impact of Ma Chao's thousand-man team.
Cao Zhang knew that his men had reached the limit of their physical strength and endurance. Their biggest enemy now was not the Ma Chao team in front of them, but time.
There was not much left until half an hour. He must persist to the end and must not let the victory that was about to be obtained slip away from his hands.
Cao Zhang personally pounced on Ma Chao with his gun, and worked together with Li Jin to fight him. At this time, there was no need to talk about any rules anymore, victory was the most important thing.
As he rushed to Ma Chao's side, he roared: "Wai!"
At the last moment, he made a bold and crazy decision: to give up blocking the perimeter, all one hundred people turned around, and surrounded Ma Chao for half an hour.
The eight teams that originally resisted the enemy quickly retracted after receiving Cao Zhang's instructions. They quickly approached the center of the battle formation and surrounded Ma Chao's team, tightly surrounding Ma Chao, Cao Zhang, and Li Jin.
At this time, they no longer need to attack Ma Chao. They only have one task, which is to block the impact of the peripheral troops at all costs and never allow them to merge with Ma Chao.
After continuous fighting, Ma Chao's physical strength was gradually exhausted. Cao Zhang joined Li Jin in the joint attack, doubling his pressure.
He also knew in his heart that time was running out and he had to break through the formation in the shortest possible time, otherwise he would lose the bet.
Ma Chao wildly waved the wooden gun in his hand and launched the final attack on Li Jin and Cao Zhang.
Cao Zhang and Li Jin also felt Ma Chao's madness. They both understood that it was the last critical moment. They found the feeling of joining forces to fight Wang Yue and tried their best to entangle Ma Chao.
Every action on the battlefield seems extremely difficult, and every move carries the hope of both sides.
Time passed by minute by second, and both sides gritted their teeth and made their last efforts.
Finally, a gong sounded from the high platform, and Ma Teng's roar also sounded: "Time's up! Stop!"
Everyone, who was already exhausted and exhausted, heard this shout and was unable to fight anymore. They all put down their weapons and stopped fighting.
Cao Zhang and Li Jin looked at each other, with smiles on their tired faces. They finally completed the impossible miracle again and won the bet against Ma Chao.
