Chapter 108: Dead to the End!
The atmosphere on the battlefield became more and more tense.
Ma Chao's eyes widened angrily, and the situation in front of him made him feel depressed and helpless.
He is the general of the Ma family, and his reputation is far and wide, but he is helpless in this mandarin duck array, rushing left and right, but he has never been able to break through this encirclement, and the anxiety and anger in his heart burn like a fire.
Ma Chao became more and more annoyed, feeling that the situation he was trapped in was becoming more and more difficult to escape, and he must not let himself be trapped in the formation like this, and let time pass like this.
"Team One, Team Two, Charge!" Ma Chao roared and gave the order to charge the two centurians.
At this time, he couldn't care about face, and he had to quickly break out of the encirclement, so he decisively mobilized twice the strength of Cao Zhang's army to rush into battle to help him.
Ma Chao's subordinates had been waiting patiently for a long time, and now they finally heard Ma Chao's command, and quickly roared and waved their weapons, and launched a charge towards the big mandarin duck array.
Ma Chao's reaction was already expected by Cao Zhang, he understood that Ma Chao would never be willing to be trapped by himself like this, and if necessary, he would definitely send troops to attack, and he was ready to deal with it a long time ago.
"Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, and Zhong continue to surround Ma Chao! Can, leave, gen, and resist the enemy! Cao Zhang quickly gave instructions to the nine squads!
He named each squad according to the direction of the gossip, so that it was convenient to command and dispatch.
Under Cao Zhang's command, the squads of the Mandarin Duck Formation quickly began to act, and the four squads and the central squad continued to maintain the encirclement of Ma Chao.
The other four squads quickly broke away from the encirclement and blocked their perimeter to block the onslaught of Ma Chao's two centurians.
Although they are at a disadvantage in numbers, the displacement of the Mandarin Duck Formation, the flexible formation, and the cross-changes of the four squads have never allowed Ma Chao's two hundred-man teams to find a breakthrough.
They were constantly pushed away and blocked, and they were never able to join up with Ma Chao and form a broken formation.
As the number of people around Ma Chao in the center decreased, Ma Chao's pressure dropped sharply, and he was able to free up time to take a look at the situation on the periphery.
It's okay not to look at it, but when I see it, his heart is tight: although his two-hundred-man team has an obvious numerical advantage, the Mandarin Duck Formation, with its flexible and changeable formation, did not give his team any chance to break through, blocking them out, forming two areas, and he still couldn't break out of the encirclement.
Ma Chao was in a hurry, he waved the spear in his hand vigorously, and kept rushing left and right, trying to break out of the siege.
Cao Zhang's brows tightened, after all, it was the first time he used the mandarin duck array, and he was facing a super-first-class famous general, Ma Chao, and he was afraid of making a mistake.
Cao Zhang turned his head to look at Li Jin, who had been commanding the battle, and issued an order: "Season, entangle him!" ”
He must now let Li Jin personally step forward to fight against Ma Chao. After all, Li Jin had defeated Lu Bu and Wang Yue and had extraordinary combat experience. He hoped that Li Jin would be able to drag Ma Chao and cooperate with the other five squads to continue to trap Ma Chao.
Li Jin understood, quickly raised the spear in his hand, urged the horse to step forward, and started a fight with Ma Chao.
When Ma Chao saw Li Jin step forward, he didn't take him seriously at all, in his cognition, Li Jin was just Cao Zhang's captain of the guard, how much ability he could have. However, when the two actually fought each other, Ma Chao realized that Li Jin's force was extraordinarily outstanding.
Li Jin, with his excellent body skills and superb marksmanship, was like an unshakable barrier, blocking Ma Chao in place. His attacks kept coming, accurate and ferocious, keeping Ma Chao on his toes at all times.
The five squads of the Mandarin Duck Formation, seeing that Li Jin had successfully blocked Ma Chao, began to attack closely. Each member of the team displayed their strongest martial arts, and they launched attacks from different directions, surrounding Ma Chao and not giving him any chance to escape.
Li Jin and the staggered attacks of the five squads made Ma Chao fall into trouble again, and he found that not only could he not win against Li Jin, but even more dangerous than the soldiers who simply faced the Mandarin Duck Formation before.
Ma Teng, who was on the high platform, watched the battle between the two sides below, and his eyes widened in shock.
At first, Ma Chao was trapped by the mandarin duck array single-handedly, and he secretly complained that it was the horse that surpassed Yu Tuoda, which led to the trapping. But now Ma Chao has moved twice as many troops as the other party, but he is completely blocked, and he still can't get out of trouble, which is enough to show the strength of Cao Zhang's army.
Ma Teng began to believe in his heart that what Cao Zhang said about winning more with less and defeating Li Dao was true.
Ma Yunlu watched the battle between the two sides, and her heart was also extremely shocked, at first she was worried that Cao Zhang was exaggerating and it was impossible to win Ma Chao.
But now Ma Chao has mobilized two hundred-person teams, but he still can't break through the siege, which also makes Ma Yunlu marvel that Cao Zhang really has extraordinary skills.
On the battlefield, the fierce duel between Ma Chao and Li Jin filled the entire space. Their moves are intertwined like lightning, and each collision is imbued with devastating power.
Ma Chao swung the long knife in his hand fiercely, and the attack was fierce and furious, while Li Jin was as steady as Mount Tai, resisting every attack.
The battle between Li Jin and Ma Chao broke out like a spark in an instant.
With his excellent martial arts and experience, Li Jin unleashed a series of consecutive attacks, forcing Ma Chao to go all out.
No matter how Ma Chao charged, Li Jin was always able to steadily resist his attacks. Li Jin relied on his extraordinary skills to easily dodge every impact of Ma Chao, and every time he attacked, he was able to accurately find Ma Chao's weakness and make him fall into passivity.
Ma Chao's anger grew stronger, and he attacked Li Jin like crazy, hoping to subdue him with a single blow.
However, each of his attacks was easily defused by Li Jin.
Li Jin's martial arts are superb and almost impeccable. The members of the Mandarin Duck Formation were also constantly putting pressure on Ma Chao, so that he had to be distracted to deal with the siege from all around, and he couldn't concentrate on fighting Li Jin at all.
Time passed little by little, and Ma Chao's anger became more and more accumulated. In his heart, he was angry and ashamed, he was brave and powerful, but now he has twice the number of troops, and he still can't get out of trouble, which 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 array anymore. So he gave the order again.
"Charge the whole army!" After Ma Chao dodged a shot from Li Jin's stab, he gave the command again!
At this time, he couldn't care much about it, and only thought that he must break through the siege of Cao Zhang's battle array, so he threw all the remaining seven hundred troops into the charge at any cost.
Hearing Ma Chao's command, Cao Zhang's brows instantly furrowed.
He fully understood that Ma Chao, who was angry, no longer had any worries and showed all his hole cards. And now there is still a quarter of an hour or so, and it is only half an hour.
In other words, he and his subordinates must hold on to the last quarter of an hour and not let Ma Chao stand out from the battle formation in order to win today's gambling game!
"Qian, Kun, Zhen, Redeem, resist the enemy!" Cao Zhang did not hesitate to give an order, and sent the other four teams around Ma Chao out together to block the impact of the seven hundred-man team.
There was only one team left in the center of the formation, cooperating with Li Jin and continuing to besiege Ma Chao.
The eight peripheral squads were under tremendous pressure, and although the mandarin duck formation was flexible, the huge difference in numbers, coupled with the original strong impact of the Ma Chao team, caused their activity space to be greatly compressed, and the defense line began to loosen.
Ma Chao also understood that now was his best chance to break through, he shook his spirits, waved the wooden gun in his hand, and frantically attacked Li Jin and the only team around him, trying to break out and join his subordinates.
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, and he continued to command the eight squads on the periphery to defend against the impact of Ma Chao's thousand-strong troops.
Cao Zhang understood that as long as he could insist on not letting the soldiers from the periphery rush in, Li Jin would definitely be able to complete the task of trapping Ma Chao.
Ma Teng on the high platform was also shocked when he saw this fierce scene, he really couldn't imagine that the hundred-person team under Cao Zhang's command could really complete the task of blocking Ma Chao's thousand-person team and besieging Ma Chao.
Ma Chao's two younger brothers, Ma Tie and Ma Xiu, naturally didn't want to see Ma Chao lose the gambling game, so the two of them 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 subordinates.
Ma Yunlu stood on the high platform, looking at Cao Zhang, who was calmly waving the command flag and commanding the battle, his eyes were fixed again. This was the first time besides his father and brother that she had been attracted to a man who exuded infinite pride.
Over the entire school field, the sound of war drums and shouts was intertwined.
Minutes and seconds passed, and everyone on the battlefield was immersed in the heat of battle. They are constantly making moves, each showing their talents, one side is defending with all their might, and the other is attacking with all their might.
With the passage of time, the balance of victory has begun to tilt, and the Mandarin Duck Formation under Cao Zhang's command has gradually been unable to withstand the impact of the Ma Chao Thousand Team.
Cao Zhang knew that his subordinates had reached the limit of their physical strength and endurance, and now their biggest enemy was not the Ma Chao team in front of them, but time.
There was not much left in half an hour, and he had to stay the course, not allowing the impending victory to slip through his hands.
Cao Zhang personally swung his gun and pounced on Ma Chao, and fought him together with Li Jin, at this time, there was no need to talk about any rules, victory was the most important thing.
At the same time as he rushed to Ma Chao's side, he let out an angry roar: "Wai! ”
At the last moment, he made a bold and crazy decision: to give up blocking the periphery, all a hundred people turned around, surrounded Ma Chao to the death, and dragged it for half an hour.
The eight squads that originally resisted the enemy, after receiving Cao Zhang's instructions, also quickly shrunk, quickly approached the center of the battle formation to besiege Ma Chao's squad, and surrounded Ma Chao, Cao Zhang, and Li Jin to the death.
At this time, they don't need to attack Ma Chao anymore, there is only one task, that is, to block the impact of the peripheral forces at all costs, and they must not let them join Ma Chao.
After continuous battles, Ma Chao's physical strength was gradually exhausted, and Cao Zhang joined in with Li Jin, which doubled 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 frantically waved the wooden gun in his hand and launched a final assault on Li Jin and Cao Zhang.
Cao Zhang and Li Jin also felt Ma Chao's madness, they both understood that it had now reached the last critical moment, and the two found the feeling of joining forces against Wang Yue again, and tried their best to entangle with Ma Chao.
Every move on the battlefield is extremely difficult, and every move carries the hope of both sides.
As the minutes ticked by, both sides gritted their teeth and made their last efforts.
Finally, a gong sounded on the high platform, and Ma Teng's roar also sounded: "It's time!" Stop! ”
The people, who had long been tired to the point of prostration, heard this shout, and they were unable to fight anymore, so they all put down their weapons and stopped fighting.
Cao Zhang and Li Jin glanced at each other, and both of them had smiles on their tired faces, they finally completed the impossible miracle once again and won the game with Ma Chao.