The students' Pokémon charged toward the instructors' formation with almost no coordination.
Strictly speaking, that formation was better described as a battle formation!
But Li Hong wasn't strong enough to stir the soldiers' blood and fighting spirit, so for now, it was only a formation.
It couldn't truly be called a battle formation!
Even so, with the soldiers drawn up together and the vast gap in strength,
the students were in for a rough time.
With so many people involved, the students could only give their Pokémon orders in advance, then let them charge in and fight on their own.
Without anyone adapting to the situation, and with most of their Pokémon still at the Rookie Trainer level, mistakes were inevitable.
"Hey, watch your Pokémon! Your Tentacruel hit my Gyarados!"
"What? Look properly—that's not my Tentacruel! And even if it were, I couldn't do anything about it. It can't hear me from here!"
That exchange was a tiny snapshot of conversations playing out again and again among the students.
The instructors, meanwhile, stood firm as mountains.
They held their basic formation and kept striking back.
Most of them still had four Pokémon they hadn't even deployed.
For now, while the students were new to this kind of free-for-all, the instructors focused on holding their ground.
Once the students' Pokémon had worn themselves out with futile attacks, the real counterattack would begin!
Xu Mu wasn't idle either. As he watched from above, he gave the viewers in his livestream a running commentary.
To be fair, besides his time at the Borderlands, Xu Mu had seen several large-scale battlefields.
On a battlefield, many of the tricks Trainers relied on in ordinary Pokémon battles simply didn't work.
What mattered here was moving as one and obeying orders. No one could let personal flair