Although Zhang Zipeng's skills were extraordinary, it took him three to four hours to repair all the Swordmaidens.
After all, there were dozens of Swordmaidens that needed to be repaired. His speed was considered fast at any time.
However, the three to four hours made Guhan anxious. With the speed of the Universe Level Yuan Kou, Misaka Mikoto only needed ten minutes to reach the Meiling Mountain Range.
In other words, Misaka Mikoto should have met Loki three to four hours ago. He did not know how she was doing. Did she manage to kill Loki … or was it really as he feared, that she was once again deceived by the cunning Loki?
However, when Guhan and Gui Yi finished recharging their strength and charged out of the recasting workshop like tigers released from their cages, Guhan temporarily threw these questions to the back of his mind. He needed to be fully focused during a battle. Guhan was currently carrying the lives of more than forty people on his shoulders.
Guhan did not want the tragedy of being ambushed by the Dark Shadow Wolves to happen again.
Of course, Guhan still had some restrictions and reservations during the battle. For example, he could not use the Douyu Sword. Also, he could not use any of the skills in the Nine Swords of Mysterious Heaven other than the Sword of the Abyss. It was best not to use them either. There might be people who were fans of the Military Governor.
Speaking of the Military Governor, Guhan had not logged into the game for a whole month. He did not know what was going on in the game, whether the King of Yue was doing well in the game, and whether the players there had forgotten about him.
Although these two restrictions caused Guhan to be unable to unleash his full strength, he could only unleash about 50% of it. However, even with only 50% of it, Guhan's elegance during the battle was enough to stun all the Swordmaidens.
In fact, they had already witnessed Guhan's battle when they went to the recasting workshop.
However, at that time, the Yuan Kou were not concentrated enough. Most of the time, they charged at him one by one. Guhan's fighting style was characterized by speed, accuracy, and ruthlessness. He was like a seasoned assassin who was ruthless and could kill with a single strike. This was also the impression that most of the sword-bearers had of Guhan.
However, it was different this time. This was because they were going to charge out of the Yue Yang Fort's main gate, which would inevitably alarm Yuan Kou's main forces. This battle was no longer a one on one fight, but a one on two, one on five, or even one on ten, or even one on a hundred.
On one side was the numerous and fearless Magical Beast Yuan Kou, while on the other side were the few human swordsmen who were proficient in battle formations.
In large-scale battles between humans and Yuan Kou, it was necessary to introduce battle formations. This was because only a battle formation could protect the vulnerable Swordmaidens and allow them to unleash their full strength.
In large-scale battles, the number of humans and Yuan Kou would usually be more than 50. In a battle of this scale, it would be impossible for the swordmaidens to hide in a hidden place and command the Sword Ladies like guerrilla warfare. With a large number of Yuan Kou, they could easily find the hidden swordmaidens and kill them when the Sword Ladies were not around them … Without the swordmaidens, the Sword Ladies would naturally be finished.
Therefore, in large-scale battles, protecting the swordmaidens was something that every commander had to consider. As such, having the Sword Ladies form a battle formation and protect the swordmaidens in the middle of the formation was the best way to move around and fight with the Sword Ladies. This was how the Battle Formation Technique came about. After a thousand years, it became an essential technique for humans to use in large-scale battles.
Every battle formation needed a commander. They would make changes to the battle formation according to the situation of the battle. This would allow the Sword Ladies to effectively unleash the power of the Sword Ladies and ensure that the battle formation would not be broken by Yuan Kou … Once the battle formation was broken, the core swordmaidens would become lambs waiting to be slaughtered.
Right now, the commander of the battle formation was Gui Yi. This was because out of everyone present, Gui Yi was the only one who had actual experience in commanding a battle formation.
Although Guhan had commanded more than ten thousand people in the famous Challenge Battle, that was in the game after all. It could not be compared to real life.
Although Guhan did not think that his ability to command a battle formation was weaker than Gui Yi's, in actual battle, Guhan was definitely not as good as Gui Yi. Therefore, Guhan decided to become an apprentice first and secretly observe and learn Gui Yi's commanding skills.
Under Gui Yi's command, this small group of forty or so swordbearers set up a simple Arrow Formation.
The Arrow Formation was one of the simplest and most commonly used assault formations. It arranged the swordmaidens into the shape of an arrow. The swordmaidens of the swordmaidens who were good at attacking would form the two sides of the formation, forming a sharp blade that would pierce through the enemy's defenses. The swordmaidens of the swordmaidens who were good at defending would protect the back of the swordmaidens, blocking attacks from the back. The swordmaidens would be in the center of the swordmaidens' protection. After all, not every swordmaiden was like Guhan, able to charge into battle on their own.
The Arrow Formation's attack power and movement speed were very strong. Just like the arrow in its name, it could carve a bloody path through the densely packed enemy troops. It was the best formation to break through the enemy's formation.
However, the Arrow Formation had a flaw that could not be considered a flaw, nor a flaw within a flaw.
It was the sharpest point of the Arrow Formation, which was the point at the very center of the formation, which was equivalent to the tip of the arrow. Its attack power had to be strong enough. Figuratively speaking, it had to be sharp enough to quickly kill the enemy in front of it. It had to be able to tear open a certain point in the enemy's formation, and then the formation could use this point to open a path forward.
It was like a sword. If the tip of the sword was blunt and not sharp enough, then no matter how much strength you used, it would be very difficult to pierce the enemy's body.
On the contrary, if the tip of the sword was sharp enough, then you only needed a little bit of strength to pierce the enemy's heart.
So the position of the Arrow Formation's tip was very important. In the beginning, Gui Yi had planned to let his Famed Sword tier swordmaidens take this position. After all, he was the only Famed Sword tier swordmaidens here, and in theory, the strongest.
However, Gu Han stopped Gui Yi and volunteered himself to take up the position of Sharpness of the Arrow.
In Guhan's words, as the commander of a formation, Gui Yi had to be in the middle of the formation. Only then would he be able to see and listen in all directions, and command the formation's changes.
He should be fully focused on commanding the formation, and not be distracted by fighting.
Guhan's words made Gui Yi speechless, because that was the truth. In battles, the commander was always at the center of the formation. They had to focus all their attention on observing the situation between the enemy and themselves, and did not have any spare thoughts to fight or anything … so the position of commander was usually not assigned according to the strength of the battle, but according to the ability to command. Many famous generals in history, they might only be Ancient Sword tier swordmaidens, but they could command tens of thousands of Famed Sword tier swordmaidens, Spirit Sword tier swordmaidens, and even Immortal Sword tier swordmaidens to fight.
If not for the fact that Gui Yi was the only one with experience commanding a formation, then Gui Yi's best position would not be the commander, but the position next to Guhan. Together with Guhan's swordmaidens, they would tear apart the enemy's line of defense.
Before the battle began, Gui Yi had been a little worried. Would Guhan be able to take on the position of Sharp Arrow, and would he be able to tear apart the Yuan Kou in front of him? But when the battle began, Gui Yi realized that his worries were completely unnecessary. Or rather, he should not be worried about whether Guhan could tear apart Yuan Kou, but whether the others could keep up with Guhan's speed.
Guhan's battle was too dazzling. He was like the sun, fighting at the very front. The Heavenly Sword in his hand swung wildly, and no matter what Yuan Kou met him, it would quickly turn into nothingness. The speed at which he killed enemies was even faster than the dozen or so swordmaidens acting as Sharp Arrow. No wonder Gui Yi was worried that the other swordmaidens would not be able to keep up with Guhan's speed. He could only smile bitterly and send a message to Guhan, telling him to slow down. Otherwise, the entire formation would fall apart.
"I didn't expect this Guhan to be a Swordmaster!
I didn't even notice this before! "Gui Yi could not help but sigh when he saw the only man in the row of swordmaidens moving around.
Actually, Guhan had already personally joined the battle when they went to the recasting workshop, but Gui Yi did not notice this. It was only now that he realized that Guhan was actually a Swordmaster.
"This kind of swordsmanship, I'm afraid even the Chaos Sword Spirit is no better than this!
If only I could become a Swordmaster too! "
A few swordmaidens who were protected by swordmaidens said in disappointment. Seeing Guhan's heroic appearance while wielding a longsword, these swordmaidens were extremely enthralled. They all wished that they could be like Guhan, wielding their swordmaidens and roaming the battlefield, instead of being protected by their swordmaidens in the core of the formation and only being able to watch their swordmaidens fight.
Unfortunately, swordsmanship required talent, and most swordmaidens did not have this talent. Even if they practiced swordsmanship for their entire lives, they would not be able to surpass the swordsmanship that their swordmaidens had accumulated for thousands of years … Some of the swordmaidens who were unwilling to give up had gone to a Swordmaster's training class when they were young and learned swordsmanship for a while.
The most they would receive was this: "You are a genius swordsman, a genius swordsman that only appears once a week."
These sword bearers who desired to become a Sword Master silently thought about it. After an unknown amount of time, they suddenly heard a burst of cheers. At this time, they discovered that the gates of Yue Yang Fort were already right in front of them. They had already successfully broken through the layers of defenses of Yue Yang Fort. They were only one step away from escaping this place.
"Did we just win?" The swordmaidens were in disbelief. The battle was completely different from what they had imagined.
They had even prepared to fight Yuan Kou with their flesh after the formation was broken through.
They even set the success rate of breaking out of the encirclement at 30%. They were fighting with the belief that they would fight to the death.
However, to their dismay, they did not even have a few hundred words to describe the battle, yet they had easily broken through the place that they had once regarded as a dangerous place.
Naturally, everyone's attention was focused on Guhan, who was still fighting at the front … the guy was not human, he was a monster!