Chapter 621: Divine Power
Under Ma Chao's preparation, a military formation similar to a goose formation but tightly integrated together was formed, and the rising clouds were condensed into one.
Afterwards, Ma Chao changed and adjusted the cloud again, making the type of cloud blessing more inclined towards life-saving and durability.
Ma Chao had no idea how he had mastered the ability to change the clouds.
However, Ma Chao knew that this was inseparable from his previous training on the battlefield. At that time, he could vaguely use the cloud energy to bless certain aspects of attack and defense.
Now he is more familiar with this ability and has mastered it more precisely, and can accurately adjust the blessing he needs.
As Ma Chao's army deployed, the earth's slight vibration was transmitted over. The vibration caused by hundreds of thousands of troops moving together was enough for Ma Chao to feel even though he was several miles away.
"Here it comes!" Ma Chao looked at the black shadow appearing on the horizon and the obvious shaking of the earth, with a serious look on his face.
With a ratio of one to fifteen, this war is really not easy to fight.
Looking at the gray line in the sky from afar, sweat appeared on the palms of those private soldiers of the aristocratic families. It was almost impossible for them not to be nervous.
Their qualities are all good, but they have too little experience in warfare and their willpower is far inferior to that of Ma Chao's headquarters.
Although the barbarians in Ma Chao's headquarters were seeing such an overwhelming cavalry for the first time.
You have to know that the Romans are mainly composed of infantry, and their cavalry units are very small.
But overall he appeared much calmer. After all, he was a veteran who had experienced the war and he was not too afraid.
"Be on guard, prepare for battle!"
Following Ma Chao's order, the soldiers, who had already learned military orders into their bones, all prepared themselves.
The arrow was taken out and placed on the bowstring, the large shield was placed at an angle, and the spear was standing upright, ready to withstand the first wave of attack.
Once they get caught in a melee, the endless cavalry will become an obstacle for them to accelerate again.
"However, the Hu people are still the Hu people. There is a huge gap between them and the regular army!" Ma Chao couldn't help sneering as he looked at the Hu people who almost filled his field of vision.
From Ma Chao's current perspective, this group of Hu people are simply rubbish.
Not only was there no coordination between them, but even the clouds formed between them had gaps. These were points that he could exploit later, and they were advantages he had grasped before the battle even started.
"But the number is too many after all!" Ma Chao took a deep breath and felt the pressure.
The Hu people had many flaws, but considering their huge number of hundreds of thousands, none of these flaws were fatal. They might give Ma Chao an advantage in bleeding, but they were far from enough for him to defeat these Hu people.
Ma Chao frowned and took deep breaths to calm his inner restlessness, but for some reason he just felt hot all over.
"How did General Guan do it? Is the gap between us so big?"
At this time, he suddenly thought of Guan Yu. The news that Guan Yu led his troops to kill the general and seize the flag among thousands of troops, and then defeated hundreds of thousands of troops in one fell swoop shocked him greatly.
Now that he was facing this number of enemies , he realized how crazy this was.
As the Hu people rushed forward, the distance between the two sides became closer and closer, and the earth-shaking feeling gradually disappeared, but it was replaced by an increasingly strong feeling as if dark clouds were pressing down and thunder was about to fall.
When the two sides were one mile apart, the sun hanging high in the sky was already obscured by dark clouds, or rather, mist.
Both sides were silently preparing. When the Hu cavalry crossed the maximum distance of one mile, their speed suddenly exploded. The cavalry in the center accelerated madly and rushed towards Ma Chao's central army.
Although they were still scattered, they were like layers of waves constantly attacking Ma Chao.
"Break!"
As these Hu people burst out at an astonishing speed, Ma Chao mobilized the clouds and quickly slashed out several legion attacks, like hitting a snake's weak spot, smashing the Hu cavalry in their path.
Ma Chao did not attack these cavalrymen directly. Even though he could use these legions to attack and cause considerable , he did not do so.
What he wanted was to engage in a fight with these Hu people. Only by dragging these Hu cavalry into a tactic of adding fuel to the fire could he firmly grasp the initiative in adversity.
With the help of the measured nodes, the legion's attack instantly caused an entire piece of land to collapse, forming a rugged pit.
Ma Chao looked with satisfaction at the heir of the aristocratic family beside him, a young man from the Wang family in Chang'an, Wang Yu, who had poor ability to lead troops.
This geomancy technique itself was quite strong and helped him a lot.
“Archery!”
Arrows rained down and many Hu people fell off their horses.
However, the Hu cavalry were not there to do nothing. As a nation on horseback, they were no strangers to horseback archery. However, without the support of stirrups, shooting depended entirely on feeling.
Naturally, they suffered a small loss when facing the archers guarded by shield soldiers. Although they were not completely unscathed, not many were shot and killed.
"charge!"
Accompanied by Ma Chao's roar and the sound of war drums, Ma Chao did not stay where he was. Instead, he took advantage of the chaos among the Hu people in front of him and launched a counterattack against the Hu cavalry.
As the king of cold weapon warfare, cavalry has an obvious weakness, which is the limitation of speed.
Ma Chao used the earth as a trap and directly created a rugged depression. If it were the Han Dynasty, they would have many ways to solve it, such as directly paving the road with clouds or something like that.
But when it comes to these Xianbei, they can only choose to bypass it, which invisibly reduces the speed of the charge a lot, and it is impossible to speed up again.
Ma Chao seized this opportunity and launched a counterattack against the cavalry in order to make the secondary acceleration of these Hu cavalry come to naught.
He didn't want to take the cavalry's charge head-on, so the best way was to bring the war back to the mixed warfare he was most familiar with.
"A mantis trying to stop a chariot!"
Bu Chenyi looked at Ma Chao who took the initiative to charge with a sneer on his face.
Cavalry fighting infantry, with such great restraint, and the number ratio was almost one to fifteen. If they lost, he would take off his head and let the opponent kick it like a ball.
"Sure enough, the Han Dynasty is now in decline. Such an idiot can become the commander of an army!" Bu Chenyi said arrogantly.
Then he glanced at several tribal leaders around him who intended to compete with him for the leadership, and a hint of fear appeared in his eyes.
Compared with the declining Han army, these ambitious people around him are the ones he needs to care more about.
Ma Chao took the lead and suddenly squeezed his horse's belly. Sha Lifei and he communicated with each other and rushed out immediately.
As the two sides got closer, their clouds became entangled together, and Ma Chao could clearly see the hideous look on the Hu man's face.
Almost in the next moment, Ma Chao brandished his weapon and charged into the Hu people.
The sharp internal energy of the tiger-head spear, combined with Ma Chao's sudden burst of speed, left the bodies of the mixed Hu people in a bloody mess wherever Ma Chao passed.
Even the Hu cavalry behind naturally avoided Ma Chao and split into two sides.
Ma Chao naturally did not look back, and started hacking and killing in the direction of the Bagua Formation.
"Waste! All of you waste!"
After seeing this scene, Bu Chenyi became furious and cursed coldly, because it was the Hu cavalry under his command who avoided Ma Chao.
This scene was also seen by the leaders of other tribes. For a moment, Bu Chenyi was filled with grief and anger, and he actually rode his horse and rushed towards Ma Chao.
His active avoidance of Ma Chao made him lose face.
The Hu people admire the strong, and a group of Hu people who don't even dare to fight are naturally the lowest among the Hu people.
He had to kill Ma Chao with his own hands in order to re-establish his prestige, otherwise his position in this coalition would be over.
Of course Ma Chao could not hear what Bu Chenyi said, nor could he see Bu Chenyi attacking him.
He and his troops had already collided with the Hu cavalry. For a moment, swords were flying and blood was splattered everywhere.
The fierce offensive, coupled with Ma Chao's heroic demeanor, and with only one-fifteenth of the troops, the Han army miraculously suppressed the mixed Hu people at the moment of collision.
The miscellaneous Hu cavalry surged in like a raging tide, but Ma Chao and his soldiers were like stubborn rocks, breaking through wave after wave. They were not at all intimidated by the endless number of Hu cavalry, but instead continued to advance triumphantly.
With a loud shout from Ma Chao, the captain of the Western Xianbei Hu tribe, along with the flag representing the tribe, were cut off by Ma Chao.
The morale of the surrounding Hu cavalry showed a noticeable decline, but in the midst of such a surging number, Ma Chao and his men's strong momentum was constantly being weakened.
For an army of hundreds of thousands, the killing of a few officers and leaders would not affect the overall situation at all. Except for the Hu cavalry led by the centurion, the other Hu cavalry might not even have noticed the death of the centurion.
The Han army's standard uniforms had become a conspicuous target at this moment, effectively helping these Hu people distinguish between friend and foe.
Gradually, Ma Chao was no longer able to lead with such unstoppable force. In a war of this scale, there were only two ways to end the war by using opposing forces.
One is to rely on thunder-like means to directly defeat the enemy, causing the enemy's morale to collapse and the army to disperse without a fight.
The other is to rely on fierce strength to directly push back the army and then defeat the opponent.
However, both of these methods are impossible for Ma Chao now.
After Ma Chao chopped down a few more Hu people who looked like small leaders, he suddenly discovered that the Hu army was still as surging as before, and the overall situation had not changed much.
The passage they had just fought hard to carve out had now disappeared into the overall formation of the mixed Hu people. If his body had not been stained with blood, Ma Chao would have doubted that everything that had happened before had never happened.
Fortunately, Zhuge Liang left coordinates on him, so he could rely on his own internal energy to accurately locate the direction.
After sensing and determining the direction, Ma Chao continued to lead his troops to charge.
"bite!"
Ma Chao swung his spear straight forward, but he didn't expect that the spear, which was as powerful as a bamboo, was blocked this time. Ma Chao frowned and slashed at the person who came, his expression becoming more solemn.
He knew that a big fish had come. This feeling was definitely the result of internal energy leaving the body.
"Han general, you are dead today. I will use your head to wash away the shame of the foreign tribe!" Bu Yiyi said to Ma Chao in broken Chinese.
Ma Chao didn't say much. The two sides had already fought to this extent, so what else was there to say.
He took a deep breath and launched an attack towards the opponent. When he was about to kill him with ten moves, he didn't expect that another person would rush out and block his attack.
After a brief respite, Ma Chao frantically gathered his strength, and this time he used fifteen moves to force the second Hu general into a deadly situation. He was about to kill him, but was stopped again.
Ma Chao's face turned ugly. At this time, he couldn't stop. If he hesitated for a moment, more soldiers might be killed by the army.
"You are just trash. Today, I, Ma Mengqi, will kill all of you in ten moves!"
With a roar, Ma Chao wielded the tiger-head spear and brought all three people into attack range.
"You will die here!" The third general with internal energy out of his body held a big knife and looked at Ma Chao coldly.
The three of them do not have legion talents, but they also use their internal energy to leave their bodies when they fight, so they are definitely not weak.
Under normal circumstances, even if Ma Chao played steadily and cautiously, he would definitely be able to defeat them, or even kill them easily.
But now Ma Chao no longer has that leeway. He is in the midst of a chaotic army and has killed countless people along the way. Now Ma Chao's internal energy is almost empty.
Ma Chao pursed his lips and was too disdainful to talk to the Hu general in front of him. He just accelerated the attack with the spear in his hand.
"rise!"
Ma Chao used his legion's talents to the maximum without reservation.
The reason why I had been holding back before was to keep a trump card in mind, and now it comes in handy.
Previously, his legion talent had already been bequeathed to his headquarters, but after returning to the Central Plains, Guo Hao took the opportunity to give Ma Chao some special treatment.
What allowed Ma Chao to go one step further was the birth of a new talent, a talent that came from his inner desire.
Ma Chao's pursuits were very simple. He did not have his father Ma Teng's persistence in pursuing glory for the family. All he pursued was strength and to constantly challenge the strong.
“Divine power!”
Ma Chao, known as the Mighty General, developed a new legion talent, a talent that challenges the strong and ignores the weak.
The effect is very simple, that is, when facing an enemy stronger than oneself, the will of the entire legion is stimulated and the whole will enter a period of rapid growth.
When facing the weak, this talent will also elevate the will, but the only talent left is a strong sense of oppression.
Although they are now in a tough battle, in the hearts of all the soldiers under Ma Chao, these mixed Hu people are weaklings.
This talent may not be useful against the regular imperial army, but it is perfect for bullying the mixed barbarians now.
In just a moment, the pressure like a natural enemy instantly descended upon the nearby Hu cavalry.
All the Hu people could not help but become timid in their actions.
