Late Tang

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Li Jing frowned after hearing the emperor finished the rules of the game.What I said yesterday was not like that. What I said yesterday was that Li Jing and Tian Lingzi each recommended four players to play. , Jiedu judge and other posts.

But now, overnight, it turned out that the winner can enter the Datong Army, and the loser can also enter the Lulong Army.Li Jing looked at Tian Lingzi, but happened to see him looking at Li Jing with a smile on his face, and there was a bit of smugness in that smile.Needless to say, this change must have been driven by Tian Lingzi.In this way, no matter whether he wins or loses, he can get a feudal town.

Although Li Jing was a little dissatisfied with these changes, she didn't care too much.In Li Jing's heart, it is possible to fight for the same army on behalf of Peking University. After all, this place is very important because it is a place where people live in groups.But Lu Longjun is different. This is an old military town in Hebei, which has always been beyond the control of the imperial court.Although Lu Longzhen stepped down for two consecutive Jiedu envoys, and Zhang Gongsu and Li Maoxun replaced them within a short period of time, Li Keju still stayed behind Lu Long, waiting for the imperial court to confer on him as the official Lulong Jiedu envoy.

At this time, the imperial court sent him concurrently as Lulong Jiedu envoy to stimulate these rebellious and arrogant soldiers. If such a group of deputy ambassadors, deputy envoys and other senior officials were sent down, there would definitely be troubles in Youzhou, Hebei.You must know that after the Anshi Rebellion, all the towns in the world often mutinied, and among them, Lulong Town had the most frequent mutinies.According to the information collected by Li Jing, after the Anshi Rebellion, the three most turbulent towns in the world were Lulong Town, Youzhou, with more than 20 mutinies.Next was Wei Bojun, who mutinied eighteen times, and then Zelu Town, which is now Zhaoyi Town, mutinied twelve times.

This damn eunuch Tian only has power in his heart.When they saw that he had basically controlled the situation in Lulong when he entered Youzhou with [-] soldiers, did they really think that Lulong town was made of mud?Last time, Li Jing had the opportunity entirely by borrowing the discord between Li Keju and the leaders of the army.Moreover, Li Jing only supported Li Keju to control Youzhou, and he didn't really fully intervene in it.Tian Lingzi really wanted to send his brother to Youzhou, and Li Jing was willing to watch a good show, but Guan Jian's previous strategy arrangements were almost in vain, which made him hate it.

Moreover, in this new rule, the final selection of the official position of the commander-in-chief is based on the number of personal hits. This is undoubtedly a very powerful trick.In this way, Mi Haiwan and others will definitely not be able to cooperate. These people are all ambitious people. Who wants to be a deputy ambassador and envoy? Capsize.And after increasing to ten people on each side, this also made Li Jing a little unprepared.

"Marshal, I think Tian Lingzi has no good intentions, we have to be careful." If it's just a four-player match, the scene won't be too chaotic.But if it's a 20-player game, it's going to be messy.Li Jing heard the meaning of Li Zhen's words, the crowd was so chaotic, maybe Tian Lingzi would secretly play tricks.

It is too common to make dirty tricks on the court. For example, Tang Xuanzong, known as the Little Taizong, was the uncle of Tang Wuzong Li Yan. Li Yan always wanted to kill him but it was not convenient to do it publicly, so he sent someone to borrow a ball game Opportunity to conspire and assassinate.However, Li Chen has excellent riding skills and superb ball skills. It is said that every time he holds a bow stick, he gallops and leaps, transports the bow in the air, hits hundreds of times in a row, and the horse gallops without stopping, as fast as lightning. Known as the number one skill in the polo skills of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, he escaped the poisonous hand.

In his later years, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty favored Anlu Mountain and entrusted him with the important task of being the envoy of the three towns.His son Tang Suzong Li Heng had already seen An Lushan's rebellious ambitions, and tried to kill him several times by playing basketball.In the end, due to Tang Xuanzong's various protections, he failed to do so.

In the 14th year of Tianbao, An Lushan led an army to rebel, and a large area of ​​land north of the Yellow River fell into the hands of the rebels. Yan Zhenqing and other officials insisted on fighting against the rebels.However, with few soldiers and food shortages, the situation was very dangerous.At the time of hardships and hardships, the prefect of Changshan, Wang Chu, was shaken. He exchanged letters with Shi Siming, the deputy commander of the rebel army, and planned to lead his troops to surrender.The officers under Changshan prefect were all men with a sense of justice and were unwilling to surrender to the rebels.However, Wang Yu's surrender behavior is not yet clear, so it is inconvenient to object.Once his conspiracy becomes a fact, and there are rebels as foreign aid, it will be very difficult to deal with.So, a dozen small officers took advantage of the opportunity of the ball game to knock down Wang Chu's horse, and the other dozen riders swarmed up and ran past like lightning, trampling the thief Wang Chu's bones like mud, and the blood stained the loess. The plot to surrender was crushed.

After thinking for a while, Li Jing said: "It just so happens that we don't have enough manpower here, call Bo Wu and the other six together, and let them concentrate on protecting General Xin."

Li Zhen also felt that this method was feasible. Among Li Jing's six disciples, Liu Xun and Gao Siji played polo very well, while the other four learned polo late. Although their polo skills were not high, their polo Riding skills are very good, but it is not bad to let them take care of them on the field.

Soon, a eunuch came to inquire about the personnel of the two teams. Each team could have five substitute players.The ten players on Li Jing's side are Xin Xun, Mi Haiwan, Shi Jingcun, Qi Bizhang, and Li Jing's six disciples. The five substitutes are Xin Xun's two nephews, the mountain monk and the elder, and the other three are Mi Haiwan and the three of them each have a subordinate.

On Tian Lingzi's side were the fifteen generals of the Zuo Shence Army, among whom Chen Jingxuan was actually on the bench, which made Li Jing secretly feel that something was wrong.

The polo teams of the two sides, Li Jing's side was given a white narrow-sleeve and hip-less gown, while Tian Lingzi was given a brown narrow-sleeve and hip-less gown.In order to highlight the ornamental surname, the horses on both sides also used different colors. The horses on Li Jing's side were all pure white horses, while the Shence Army's side were all black horses.The ponytails on both sides are also tied in knots according to the rules of the court.

The court of the entire Linde Hall is forty feet long and sixteen feet wide.The whole stadium is well repaired, it looks like a rock when viewed from a flat surface, and looks like a mirror when viewed from below.There are special regulations that no grass can grow on the field.In order to avoid dust from flying when playing, the court has to be poured with oil after it is built to make the court smooth and bright.

The entire Kunde Palace Stadium can accommodate 5000 people watching at the same time.

After everything was ready, around noon, the emperor Li Xuan, who had changed into a narrow-sleeved military uniform, appeared on the field himself on horseback.He holds a crescent stick in his right hand, and a hollow wooden seven-bay ball embroidered with seven colors, which is slightly smaller than a fist.

The Son of Heaven will kick off today's game in person, which arouses cheers and applause from the entire stadium.

On top of Li Xuan's sweaty horse, his whole person's momentum has indeed changed, and he has become extremely confident.Standing in the court, Li Xuan rode his horse slowly around the court for a circle, then returned to the center of the court, and threw the seven golden balls into the air without rushing.

However, at this time, the polo players of the two teams were watching from the sidelines, and did not go up to fight for it.

The polo was thrown high into the air, and then fell down. At this moment, Li Xuan kicked the horse's belly, shouted loudly, held the crescent stick in both hands, twisted his waist and stretched his arms fiercely, and struck forward.

On the spot, someone shouted a congratulatory poem: "Turn your arms sideways and put your arms on the horse's belly, and the thunderbolt will come to your hand!"

Amidst the thunderous congratulations, the colorful polo roared and shot towards the left goal. The polo directly hit the hole on the wooden wall, which was only one foot high, and fell into the ball behind the hole.

There were thunderous cheers on the field, applauding the emperor's wonderful kick-off performance.Li Jing was also a little surprised. The emperor stood on the middle line of the court. Although no one was fighting for it, his shot directly hit the hole that was only a little over a foot on the wooden wall [-] steps away. The accuracy still surprised him.No wonder the emperor once told Yeling Shiyezhu that if there was polo in the imperial examination, he would definitely be the No. [-] scholar.

Song Huizong of the later generations was an emperor with excellent calligraphy and painting, and Li Yu, the empress of the later Tang Dynasty, was a generation of poets. Now this Li Xuan is only 13 years old, and his polo skills are so good, he can definitely be called a generation of polo masters.It's a pity that Li Xuan and Song Huizong are the same as the Tang Empress, they are still emperors.

After Li Xuan scored this goal, two teams entered the field, one was the assassin team with white horses and white robes, and the other was the magic generals with brown robes and black horses.In front of Li Xuan, the two teams exchanged clubs first to show friendship.

Then Li Xuan retreated to the sidelines and threw the seven polo balls in his hands into the air. There was a sound of drums, and the polo plug officially started.

As soon as the game started, it was very exciting. The ten people on Xin Yu's side were all first-class frontier generals, while the Shence Army's side was even more polo masters from the Forbidden Army. Except for the three generals nominated by Tian Lingzi, The remaining seven players are all polo worship-level players of the Shence Army Polo Team.

"The bead ball is thrown suddenly, the crescent stick fights, and they drive away, and arms cross each other." Li Zhen watched the game on the field, and couldn't help improvising a poem at this time.

An hourglass has been set up on the field to time the clock. There is a guard under each door on both sides, and five drummers are playing drums behind each to add to the fun.

On the sidelines, two rows of flags were planted, one side was white and the other was brown. Behind each flag stood a guard who sang points.

At this time, the ball on the field has just fallen, and both sides are waving their crescent sticks to fight desperately.Li Cunxiao has the strongest strength, but he is not very proficient in polo, so when the game started, he directly rammed into the opponent's team.There are not many rules in the polo game. In addition to not intentionally hurting people, some physical contact is allowed.

Yang Shili, a general of the Shence Army, saw the ball being hit by his teammates and galloped forward, but unexpectedly a big black one rushed over from the slope, with the crescent stick in his hand raised high, when the two horses crossed, suddenly A ruthless elbow hit his arm, and half of his body went numb immediately, the crescent stick in his hand froze, and he had missed the necessary shot.The flower-haired Xin Yan had already galloped past, half-bent down, and with a wave of his arms, the colorful polo flew towards the opponent's goal in a beautiful arc with a whistling sound. .

Seeing that there was already a shot at the start of the game, the surrounding nobles stood up one after another and watched with their necks bowed.

The defender standing behind the goal shouted loudly: "The ball has been scored!"

The five drummers immediately cheered up and beat a burst of joyful drumbeats. At the same time, the judgment of the scene shouted loudly: "Xin Yan of the white team scored a goal!" A guard quickly pulled out a flag from the small white flag and walked to one side. On the platform, plant a white flag!

It wasn't until this time that the audience on the field saw that there was indeed a colorful treasure ball lying in the ball behind the goal hole of the brown team! (To be continued.)