Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Chu Feng also began to mobilize his army of chess pieces.
However, unlike when he had faced Yuwen Hualong previously, Chu Feng did not order his pieces to launch a direct assault.
Instead, his chess pieces began arranging themselves into formations, setting up a defensive layout. He intended to hold steady and wait for his opponent to make the move — a purely defensive strategy.
"Hmph."
Upon seeing this, Han Yu let out a faint smile and thought to himself: Some people simply can't be defended against. Like me.
With that thought, Han Yu stopped advancing his army of pieces at a leisurely pace and instead accelerated their march.
In the blink of an eye, Han Yu's army of chess pieces had closed the distance to Chu Feng's forces, and the two armies clashed in a frenzy of combat.
At that moment, the eyes of every onlooker lit up with intensity.
The crowd stared unblinkingly at the entire chessboard, unwilling to miss even a single second of the spectacle.
And Han Yu did not disappoint. His army of chess pieces was practically unstoppable — Chu Feng's pieces fell one after another beneath Han Yu's onslaught.
In the blink of an eye, Han Yu's army had carved its way deep into the heart of Chu Feng's formation.
However, people quickly noticed something else. As Han Yu's forces pressed further into Chu Feng's ranks, they realized that Han Yu's pieces were also beginning to fall.
In that moment, a single word flashed through everyone's eyes: shock.
How could Han Yu's overwhelmingly powerful chess pieces possibly be slain by Chu Feng's? It defied all logic.
It was one thing for multiple pieces to gang up on a single opponent — that could be forgiven. But even in one-on-one encounters, Han Yu's pieces were being cut down by Chu Feng's.
Before long, the crowd realized that although the pieces were fighting one-on-one, Chu Feng's pieces were fundamentally different from Han Yu's.
And upon closer inspection, they quickly discovered that across the entire chessboard, the pieces on both Chu Feng's and Han Yu's sides were not uniform.
Each side had divided their pieces into multiple types. Every piece not only looked different, but seemed to serve a different role and possessed different combat strength.
Based on the ongoing battle, the onlookers gradually came to understand which pieces were strong and which were weak.
The strongest pieces were Chu Feng's — the ones capable of defeating Han Yu's pieces even in a one-on-one matchup.
Han Yu also possessed pieces with powerful individual combat capabilities.
Unfortunately, those elite pieces of his had all been surrounded and overwhelmed by what appeared to be Chu Feng's weakest units.
Despite their superior individual strength, they simply could not withstand Chu Feng's seemingly weakest pieces.
Rather than saying that sheer numbers won the day, it was more accurate to say that these pieces possessed a system of mutual counters.
Yes — a relationship of mutual counters. The crowd had figured it out.
Han Yu had figured it out too. But it was too late.
By the time Han Yu realized that these chess pieces operated on a system of mutual strengths and weaknesses, the opportunity had already passed.
Because he had already fallen into a disadvantage, with Chu Feng pushing him into a corner.
Even at the very start, his army's overall power had truly been superior to Chu Feng's.
But now, because his key pieces had all been eliminated, his overall strength had fallen far behind Chu Feng's.
This had happened for one reason alone: Chu Feng had discovered the secret of these chess pieces ahead of time.
And he had arranged his formations perfectly, laying a trap that Han Yu had walked right into.
The current Han Yu was like a turtle trapped in a jar — thoroughly locked down by Chu Feng with no way out.