Chapter 565: Chapter 150: Husband of Mu Lan_2
Red Flower Battle Formation!
This was the battle formation Mu Lan was most familiar with and also her trump card.
Above the Red Flower Camp, a huge Red Flower Dharma Image charged directly towards Ma Liangcai’s Ink Smoke Army.
Seeing the opportunity, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei immediately changed their strategy, commanding their troops to turn around and attack.
On the plains, the three armies clashed head-on.
Ma Liangcai held a brush in his hands, dotting and tracing, arranging the battlefield.
In just a dozen breaths or so, he created ditches across the plains and raised the terrain on his side, forming a gentle hillock.
Ma Liangcai continued to draw, creating fences, wooden stakes, and even complete encampments!
The water level in the Ink Pool Dharma Image dropped drastically, but it was continually supported by the entire army, replenishing the ink to keep the level rising.
Ma Liangcai took on the defensive, with the Three Generals Camp and the Red Flower Camp attacking from the left and right, targeting the hillock encampment.
The attack failed to make progress!
Combining his artistry and military art, Ma Liangcai transformed the battlefield with each stroke of the brush. He launched a grand offensive, turning the entire battlefield into his canvas.
“Indeed, he is a famed general from Liangzhu Country.”
“So formidable!”
Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei all looked solemn, quickly recognizing Ma Liangcai’s strength during the intense combat.
During the battle, the White Jade Camp and the Golden Halberd Army arrived successively.
Shuangjing and Sun Gan, seemingly in agreement, both chose to watch from the sidelines, not engaging their troops in the battle.
Mu Lan, Liu Er and others exchanged Divine Sense communications, but couldn’t convince the two to act.
Shuangjing made excuses: to observe carefully and strike all at once upon detecting the Ink Smoke Army’s weakness, thus securing victory.
Sun Gan, on the other hand, claimed he had to keep an eye on Shuangjing to guard against any disadvantage from the White Jade Camp and also demanded Mu Lan to consider acknowledging him as her husband promptly.
Mu Lan sneered repeatedly.
Her disposition was staunch; the more others pressed her, the less likely she was to submit.
Sun Gan and Shuangjing were not ignorant of Mu Lan’s disposition.
They both wanted to take this chance to subdue the daughter of the military family, thinking that if they controlled the Upper General Mansion in the future, their wife should be completely obedient to them.
Mu Lan waved the battle flag, commanding the battle formation to initiate a change.
The Red Flower Dharma Image suddenly flew out, enveloping the Ink Pool Dharma Image directly.
Ma Liangcai felt the connection weaken significantly, nearly severing.
He quickly moved his brush broadly, casting a spell—Dragon-Snake Stroke!
He splashed ink and swung his brush. The black brushstrokes transformed into a dragon and a horned serpent in mid-air.
The dragon and serpent struck together, boring through the Red Flower Dharma Image, stabilizing the Ink Pool Dharma Image once more.
Mu Lan’s complexion paled, her body swayed, almost falling from her horse.
With her tactic failed, she rapidly maneuvered the battle formation, retracting the Red Flower Dharma Image.
The Red Flower Dharma Image, now with a huge hole, returned above Red Flower Camp, drawing military power urgently for repairs.
For a time, the Red Flower Camp’s military power continued to deplete, and their overall combat strength plunged sharply.
Ma Liangcai was very astute, seizing the opportunity to lead the Ink Smoke Army out of the encampment, switching from defense to offense.
The defense lines of the Red Flower Camp were broken one after the other, forced to imitate the previous behavior of the Three Generals Camp, retreating while fighting.
The Ink Smoke Army, like a pack of starved wolves, kept gnawing at the Red Flower Camp, causing significant losses to Mu Lan’s forces and putting them in a very difficult situation.
Realizing the unfavorable situation, Shuangjing and Sun Gan hurriedly led their forces in support.
The White Jade Plaque subdued the smog, the Golden Spear Dharma Image piercing sharply, hitting the Ink Pool and causing ink to spill out.
With these two fresh forces, the Red Flower Camp moved swiftly from danger to safety.
Ma Liangcai smiled lightly, having anticipated their actions, and once again repeatedly wielded his brush, shaping the battlefield and constructing defenses.
This time around, it was the White Jade Camp and the Golden Halberd Army’s turn to attack the Ink Smoke Army from both sides, while the Three Generals Camp and the Red Flower Camp urgently regrouped.
Moments later, the four armies were positioned to the east, south, west, and north, encircling the Ink Smoke Army.
Pressure mounting, Ma Liangcai laughed heartily: “Gentlemen, now witness my Divine Skills.”
Divine Skills—Brush of Execution, Stroke of Conquest!
The next moment, the Ink Pool overturned, pouring out almost all of its ink.
Ink cascaded from the sky, splattering on the ground and morphing into a tremendous force of iron cavalry.
The iron cavalry charged forth, unstoppable!
The Red Flower Camp bore the brunt, its defense lines, as fragile as paper, continually breached.
The iron cavalry charged through, reaching the Central Army and forcing Mu Lan to take action herself.
The Main General being entangled significantly affected the operation of the Red Flower Battle Formation, with the power of the Red Flower Dharma Image visibly and rapidly diminishing.
Seeing the gravity of the situation, Liu Er shouted, “Quickly rescue General Mu Lan!”
The Three Generals Camp shifted its position, charging towards the most intense battlefield.
Shuangjing and Sun Gan, however, took other actions, almost simultaneously exerting their full strength, fiercely attacking the encampment.
If the Ink Smoke Army in the encampment were severely damaged, Ma Liangcai, no matter how powerful, would not be a match for the Golden Halberd Army and the White Jade Camp.
As for Mu Lan…
It would be good if she lost!
After all, this wasn’t a real battlefield, but just a General Validation Map.
“Once Mu Lan is defeated and eliminated, she will have to choose the victor as her husband if she wants to retain the Red Flower Camp!” Sun Gan’s eyes shone with sharp light, “And the final victor will surely be me!”
Ma Liangcai, in his efforts to crush the Red Flower Camp, almost ran out of ink, revealing a weakness.
Sun Gan seized this battle opportunity firmly.
Mu Lan spat blood repeatedly.
Already injured and in poor condition, she found herself in the midst of fierce combat while organizing the Red Flower Battle Formation, stretched thin and struggling to defend.
A Stroke of Hooked Sharpness!
Ma Liangcai, holding the brush, remotely targeted Mu Lan and gently made a hook stroke.
The ink was as sharp as a knife, suddenly striking her body, bisecting Mu Lan and defeating her, eliminating her from the battlefield!
“That’s awful!” Liu Er and others felt a sinking feeling in their hearts.
On this battlefield, the truly trustworthy ally was only the Red Flower Camp.
With Mu Lan’s “death,” the soldiers of the Red Flower Camp either resisted or scattered in retreat.