Warring States Odyssey

  After the goal, the surrounding soldiers immediately erupted in cheers like a mountain flood for Gao Yuan's performance, because the kicking technique shown by Gao Yuan was something that the soldiers had never seen before, it was not only novel but also much more beautiful than the military's previous football. Du Yi, Li Yinghong and other participating soldiers from the central camp also rushed over to congratulate Gao Yuan.

  Li Yinghong was even more surprised and delighted, and patted his chest several times, saying: "You're really capable, you should have come on stage earlier."

  Du Yi put one hand on Gao Yuan's shoulder and said, "Big sister, now you know I was right, don't you?"

  Gao Yuan Dao: "Don't be too happy yet, we're still one goal behind!"

  Li Yinghong said: "Right, we must win today's match against Qianjun Camp, it all depends on you."

  At this time, on the platform, Li Mu and other generals were also quite surprised. Yuan Xuan said: "This little guy is indeed a master of Cuju."

  Li Mu smiled and said: "General Yuan, this time your vanguard camp is probably going to lose."

  Yuan Xuan said, "General, don't be too happy yet. Cuju is played with sixteen people, and even if your Central Army camp has one more person, it won't change the overall situation. We are still leading by two flags."

  In the midst of laughter and noise, the game started again. The ball was kicked from the rear of the front camp by a soldier, flying high and far into the air until it reached the rear of the central camp. Tian Hu and Tian Bao were waiting there. The ball flew towards Tian Hu's side. As he watched the trajectory of the ball in flight, he adjusted his position to judge where the ball would land.

  At this time, Gao Yuan also returned to his own backcourt and rushed to Tian Hu's side. He didn't compete with Tian Hu for position, but stuck behind him. When the ball fell from mid-air to chest-high, Gao Yuan suddenly darted forward from behind Tian Hu, taking a step ahead to block the ball with his chest, and immediately took off in a sprint towards the military camp's direction.

  Soldiers from the front camp came to intercept, but Gao Yuan dodged and weaved through the crowd, suddenly breaking through six or seven people in one breath, sprinting over 50 meters, with only about 30 meters left to the front gate of the camp. At this time, another six or seven people blocked Gao Yuan's path, forming a line about ten meters away from him.

  Gao Yuan saw it, and immediately picked up the ball from his toes, flew over everyone's heads, drew a big arc, and rolled towards the goal with a loud crash. Although several former soldiers turned around and chased after him desperately, they were still one step late, and followed the ball into the goal together.

  The result was that Gao Yuan only had a few minutes on the field, but he scored two goals in a row, tying the game. The soldiers of the Zhongjun camp were naturally boosted in morale, and the Qianjun camp did not want to lose either. They also noticed that Gao Yuan was a huge threat, so they sent out five or six people specifically to defend against him. As soon as Gao Yuan got the ball, four or five people would come up to grab it from him.

  This has also brought a lot of pressure to the plateau, because after all, the plateau's ball skills are only at an amateur level and not truly Maradona. Of course, if it were in the past, the plateau's teammates would actively come to support, or use the plateau to attract most opponents and break through from other empty spaces. But now, this batch of companions obviously doesn't have this awareness. Even if someone comes to support the plateau, they don't get the gist of it and can't help the plateau at all. Sometimes they even block the plateau's breakthrough direction and end up helping the opponent. As a result, under the siege of many people, the plateau also starts to frequently make mistakes and lose the ball. Of course, when he comes on stage, he still brings huge pressure to the front camp, and both sides are evenly matched for a while, kicking each other into a stalemate.

  After a stalemate of over ten minutes, the front camp intercepted the ball again in their own backcourt. A soldier rounded his leg and kicked the ball strongly to the front court. Wang Hu, Wang Bao and several defensive soldiers from the middle camp rushed to compete for the ball, but Wang Hu and Wang Bao relied on their height and strength, squeezed open the opponent, snatched the ball, and then Wang Hu kicked the ball hard, finally scoring another goal.

  Another reversal of the score, the soldiers in the front camp also cheered and were very happy. While the game had not started yet, Gao Yuan hastily gathered Li Yinghong, Du Yi and other main players from the middle camp to brief them on tactics. After all, it was impossible for one person to do everything alone, and now they could only improvise. Fortunately, the people in the middle camp were already deeply convinced of Gao Yuan's abilities, although they did not understand the tactics he had devised, but still followed his instructions.

  After the game restarted, the situation changed greatly. On defense, Gao Yuan used a man-to-man defense, with four players in his own half-court, two of whom were assigned to guard Wang Hu and Wang Bao brothers. When defending, they did not double-team together, but instead one player stuck to their opponent, using close defense to disrupt their ball-handling without directly competing with the Wang brothers for the ball. Meanwhile, another player provided support from behind and paid attention to blocking the opponent's shooting angle.

  This way, the power of Wang Hu and Wang Bao brothers was greatly reduced. Even if they held the ball in the front court, due to someone's close defense and others blocking the shooting angle, it was difficult to pose a threat to the gate of Zhongjunying. Either accidentally being poked away by the opponent or hitting the opponent's body when shooting.

  After stabilizing their defense, the Chinese team frequently launched counterattacks. Gao Lin also intended to retreat and get close to the two sides, rarely making forced breakthroughs, and constantly teaching others how to cooperate with him, how to run positions, and how to respond to his passes.

  After a stalemate of over ten minutes, Gao Yuan held the ball on the left side and immediately four or five people rushed up to grab it. At this time, Du Yi finally ran out of an appropriate position, responding to Gao Yuan. So Gao Yuan immediately passed the ball to Du Yi. And after Du Yi received the ball, he also followed Gao Yuan's tactics, standing still on the spot, and kicked the ball forward to Gao Yuan, who was running straight through the opponent's encirclement.

  In fact, this is just a simple wall pass technique in football, and this time the passing finally got it right, resulting in Gao Yuan successfully shaking off the opponent's encirclement and sprinting forward along the left side with the ball.

  And immediately, six or seven people rushed over to surround Gao Yuan, but at this time, Gao Yuan's speed had already picked up, not allowing the soldiers from the front camp to leisurely set up a siege circle. As a result, Gao Yuan continuously dodged two people and brought the ball to a position about 12-13 meters away from the left side of the bottom line.

  At this time, most of the vanguard soldiers were attracted to the left by Gao Yuan, who was desperately chasing after him. Meanwhile, Gao Yuan also noticed that Li Yinghong and five or six other central camp soldiers had arrived at their designated positions on the right flank. Immediately, Gao Yuan kicked the ball towards the center.

  Moreover, in front of the gate of the former military camp, there was only one soldier guarding it, but his position was not good, and he could only look up at the ball flying over his head. Among the five or six soldiers from the middle military camp who had arrived on the scene, Li Yinghong happened to grab the ball's landing point. She didn't wait for the ball to hit the ground, and she jumped into the air with one leg, and the ball flew through the two pillars like a meteor. Thus completing a classic bottom pass, the tactical coordination of the middle road ambush.

  After the goal, Li Yinghong was also excited to wave his arms and shout loudly. He suddenly jumped onto Gao Yuan's back as he ran over to celebrate and hugged him tightly.

  Li Mu nodded slightly after seeing the goal on the high platform, and when he saw Li Yinghong's crazy appearance after scoring the goal, Li Mu couldn't help but shake his head and smile wryly, saying: "This crazy girl, it's probably going to be hard for her to get married in the future."

  Yuan Xuan smiled and said, "General, you are worrying too much. In Handan City, there are at least 80 young men who want to marry the eldest sister. It is even said that the king himself has intentions of letting the eldest sister enter the palace as a companion."

  Li Mu smiled and said, "This crazy girl, if she really enters the palace, I'm afraid she won't be able to stay for even a day before wanting to come out."

  The game continued, although the score returned to the starting line again, but the situation on the field changed completely. The front camp relied on Wang Hu and Wang Bao brothers' tactics of grabbing the ball in the front court, which was basically controlled by the middle camp. Under the leadership of Gao Yuan, the middle camp also started to play some simple coordinated tactics, although they were also making mistakes one after another. Out of ten times, they could succeed two or three times, and as long as they succeeded once, they would pose a threat to the front camp's goal.

  The two sides revolved for a few more minutes, and the plateau found a gap in the seam, passing the ball out, allowing others to score another goal, also making the central camp surpass the score for the first time.

  After falling behind in the score, their tactics were completely suppressed by the opponent, and there was no other means to counterattack. The soldiers of the front camp suffered a significant blow, and there were also many contradictions in defense. If they defended the high ground with all their might, there would be many empty spaces on the field. But if they relaxed their defense of the high ground, it would be difficult to stop the personal breakthroughs of the high ground. As a result, they lost miserably, and within twenty minutes, Gaoyuan and Li Yinghong scored two more goals, finally winning this cuju match.

  After the victory, the soldiers in the central camp were overjoyed, and Gao Yuan was naturally the biggest contributor to the victory, receiving a warm welcome from the soldiers.

  But the soldiers of the previous military camp were not convinced, and Wang Hu said to Du Yi: "Little Du, don't be too happy too early, this time you didn't win by your own strength. If Mr. Gao hadn't come on stage, you wouldn't have won us, the previous military camp. If you're capable, don't let Mr. Gao come on stage next time, and we'll compete again."

  Du Yi laughed and said, "Wang Hu, Mr. Gao is now one of our people in the middle army camp, how about it? It's completely reasonable for him to come on stage, and he will be on stage for all future cuju matches. You just lose, don't make up other excuses."

  Wang Hu grunted twice and didn't say anything else, then led his companions away with a huff.

  Watching them leave, Li Yinghong smiled and said: "This time it's really satisfying, we finally won against them once." Turning his head to Gao Yuan, he said: "Gao Yuan, starting from tomorrow, you teach us how to play Cuju. Next time, even if you don't participate, we can still win against them."