Mythical Three Kingdoms

By the time Chen Dao and Liu Ye’s rear army converged, Cai Yang’s cavalry had already fiercely pursued Liu Ye’s rear army. If it weren’t for the soldiers fiercely guarding Liu Ye, he might have already been captured by Cai Yang.

”Wen Ze, do your best to hold the front, I will first secure the strategist, then we’ll break out from the front!” Chen Dao, after ensuring Liu Ye was safe, felt much relieved. Liu Ye was unharmed despite his rear army being surrounded and attacked.

”Okay, I’ll do my best to hold them off!” Yu Jin replied sullenly, having suffered a major setback from Le Jin earlier, he was determined to strike back this time!

Upon Yu Jin’s response, he immediately led the charge against the Cao army, engaging them in fierce combat. He no longer expected to disrupt the rebel army with regular soldiers but instead activated his legion talent to forcibly gather Cloud Qi, strengthening his own forces.

Yu Jin, being a knowledgeable soldier, knew it was not easy to stop Le Jin and Li Dian with his abilities under the current situation. Therefore, he abandoned the idea of resisting, directly activating his legion talent, utilizing Cloud Qi to greatly enhance the soldiers’ strength and attack.

Using attack to counter attack, having trained soldiers for many years, Yu Jin had become well-versed in ordinary military formations, even if he hadn’t encountered someone willing to teach top-tier formations. Though not as instinctively adept with the Spearhead Formation as the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, Yu Jin had mastered changing formations amidst the chaos of rebel battles.

With Yu Jin’s disregard for casualties in forced dispatch, soon a layer-by-layer Fish-Scale Formation with gunners at its core was constructed.

Though, due to the chaos, Liu Bei’s soldiers had no idea what kind of formation they were in, being veterans, they knew how to cooperate. Under Yu Jin’s relentless dispatch, after the Fish-Scale Formation took rough shape, Liu Bei’s veteran soldiers, relying on years of battle experience, instinctively filled in the almost correct positions.

From afar, Xun Youi watched the swiftly arranged Fish-Scale Formation on Central Avenue, revealing a touch of surprise, just this technique was enough to prove Yu Jin’s capability.

As layer upon layer of Fish-Scale Formations were laid, Yu Jin began a counter-offensive against Le Jin and Li Dian. Though the overall situation was still dire, stopping them momentarily was not a problem. The rest depended on Chen Dao. As for Liu Ye, in such a chaotic battle, a strategist could only watch unless he personally had backup plans!

While Yu Jin struggled to fend off Le Jin and Li Dian, Chen Dao led nearly a thousand guards, charging towards Cai Yang with a calm demeanor.

”Ding!” Chen Dao’s long spear blocked Cai Yang’s great sword, gazing at Cai Yang with a somber expression.

”Hahaha, Chen Dao, watch the sword!” Cai Yang was neither surprised nor dismayed by Chen Dao’s defensive maneuvers, promptly swinging his sword towards Chen Dao.

”You guys go protect the strategist!” Chen Dao evaded Cai Yang’s attack, then called to the other soldiers, subsequently turning his horse to face Cai Yang, ”Mere courage, without legion talent, individual strength on the battlefield is nothing but an ant!”

As Chen Dao unfolded his legion talent, just like his Inner Qi, Chen Dao’s legion talent lacked any Radiance or color, yet at that very moment, the transformation in Chen Dao Guards was truly astonishing.

In Cai Yang’s view, Chen Dao, already caught in their trap, mocked him so. That made him charge at Chen Dao with a sword, his fierce aura heavily intending to slash Chen Dao downdismount.

Chen Dao simply cast a scornful glance at Cai Yang without taking much action. Before Cai Yang charged towards him, Chen Dao’s soldiers had already launched an attack on Cai Yang, which he casually countered.

Slashing one Chen Dao’s guard with a single swipe, before Cai Yang could retract his blade, several soldiers attacked him again, and the angles and positions of this attack made it difficult for an ordinary person to avoid.

Luckily, Cai Yang had honed his sword techniques over many years, blocking one guard’s long spear with a strike, and deflecting another guard’s spearhead, then sidestepped other attacks, narrowly avoiding injury. No matter how strong the Inner Qi Manifestation, under the suppression of Cloud Qi, it will be restrained.

But before he could catch a breath, more Chen Dao Guards charged forth, and only then did Cai Yang realize his guards had been forced aside by Chen Dao Guards. A sweep of his surroundings made Cai Yang break out in a cold sweat.

It was then Chen Dao seized the moment to charge head-on, pointing his spear directly at Cai Yang, while a multitude of guards also launched an attack on Cai Yang. On this battlefield, Chen Dao wasn’t about to uphold the pretense of ensuring a one-on-one with Cai Yang!

Cai Yang swung his sword upwards to knock aside Chen Dao’s long spear, then forcefully charged to the side, only to have his prized steed stabbed directly by a Chen Dao guard, causing it to shy in pain. Subsequently, guards from all directions unleashed their full-force attacks on Cai Yang, undaunted by death.

At this point, Cai Yang could no longer concern himself with his steed. His arms abruptly exerted force, prompting the steed to gallop fiercely forward, striving to dodge the spears thrusting towards him.

Nonetheless, despite such efforts, he couldn’t completely dodge the attacks launched from all directions by Chen Dao Guards. His back was sliced with a massive wound, if not for the protective armor, that strike might have been fatal.

In the instant the surrounding guards injured Cai Yang, Chen Dao seized the opportunity to unleash his most powerful thrust, aiming directly at Cai Yang’s abdomen. As long as Cai Yang was taken down, the rear army would stabilize, and whether to fight or retreat afterward was up to Liu Bei’s Army!

”Open!” Cai Yang realized in an inattentive moment that Chen Dao’s Guards were not ordinary soldiers.

As Chen Dao thrust his spear toward Cai Yang’s chest and abdomen, Cai Yang’s eyes flashed with radiance, both hands gripping his long-handled great sword, sweeping it horizontally forwards, a move prepared for a previous generation!

”Thump!” A series of muffled sounds, the spearhead of the long spear in Chen Dao’s hand was directly slashed off, while the extension of the sword light from Cai Yang’s great sword cut down over a dozen White Spear Elite Soldiers surrounding them.

At this moment, Cai Yang’s complexion also turned abnormally sallow, but after all, Cai Yang had prepared for this. When he saw that due to the suppression of Cloud Qi, his move merely injured Chen Dao instead of killing, he promptly hesitated no more and spurred his horse to dash out. Staying another second would mean his death by the encroaching guards!

Chen Dao, clutching his chest wound, growled like a wounded tiger, ”Send three hundred to capture Cai Yang and his rear army, the rest follow me!”

Chen Dao gazed furiously at Cai Yang’s retreating figure, then led five hundred guards to assist Yu Jin. The remaining three hundred, relying on their strength far surpassing elite veterans, soon stabilized the rear army, but capturing Cai Yang as Chen Dao commanded proved beyond their capability.