These steel monsters didn't need any formation at all. Spreading out a little was actually better. When swinging their enormous five-foot greatswords, having some room was a good thing—it let them inflict greater damage. As for getting injured?
There was no need to consider it at all!
Unless they encountered experts who had reached Qi Refining into Gang, they were all top-tier Body Realm existences by their own strength. What was more, each of them was wearing this full-body armor weighing more than four hundred pounds!
Dian Wei led the charge. The pair of iron halberds in his hands whirled like windmills. Anyone who merely brushed against them died; anyone struck by them perished. Even serious injuries were impossible. The shockwaves created whenever he broke the sound barrier while swinging them were beyond what Cao Army's cannon fodder could withstand.
In an instant, flesh flew everywhere. The blood mist stirred up by Dian Wei formed a small tornado within a ten-meter radius around him.
His Gang Qi had been fused into his body. Although he had lost all ability to externalize his Qi, this let him push his physical strength to its absolute limit. Even amid a great army, even under the suppression of Gang Qi, it didn't weaken him by much. What he had always relied on was his own ten-thousand-jin strength.
Seeing several groups of infantry being slaughtered by these steel-monster-like men as easily as chopping vegetables, Xiahou Dun and the other three obviously couldn't just stand by and watch. While deploying troops, they took the initiative and charged forward. With his great saber whirling in his hand, Xiahou Dun brought it down on the Iron Cans coming straight at him.
Within the cloud energy, they couldn't release Gang Qi either, but the strength enhanced by Gang Qi