Late Tang

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Players from both sides galloped like a shuttle on the court.The ball is flying in the air, the white robe is dominant for a while, and the brown is in the lead for a while.Seeing that half an hour of the first game is approaching, the two sides are still in a stalemate.

At this point in the game score, Xin Yan scored three goals alone, Shi Haiwan, Shi Jingcun, and Qi Bizhang each scored one goal, and the White team had already planted six small flags.On the Shence Army side, although no one scored three goals alone, for example, they also reached six points.

Liu Xun and the others had already been ordered by Li Jing before they came on the field. They didn't need to score goals. Their task was to try to prevent the opponent from scoring, grab the ball and pass it to Xin Yan to create scoring opportunities for Xin Yan.Xin Yan scored three goals, not only because of his good polo skills, but also because of the wonderful passes of Liu Xun and Gao Siji.However, Li Cunxiao and Wang Yanzhang are not good at the game. They are completely shit sticks on the court, specializing in destructive moves.

Grabbing the ball, rushing, intercepting, and blocking, these are the roles they play.

At this moment, Niu Xu, the vanguard of Shence's army who was closely watched by Li Cunxiao, let out a roar, and violently swung his crescent stick at Li Cunxiao's company.His football skills are the best in Zuo Shence's army, but he has been harassed by Li Cunxiao and Wang Yanzhang, and he has not scored a goal until now, and he is completely angry.

Seeing his fierce action, Li Cunxiao not only did not give way, but a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he directly made a motion of grabbing the ball, raised his crescent stick and swung it away.But this stick is aimed at the ball at all, but directly at the person.

The two crescent poles collided fiercely, and under Li Cunxiao's enormous force, the heads of the two crimson poles broke directly. The crescent pole in Li Cunxiao's hand continued to castrate, and finally hit Niu Xu's forearm.With a click, Niu Xu screamed and fell off the horse. Just now, he felt that his arm bone had been shattered.

"This is a foul!" Chen Jingxuan jumped up and shouted, gesticulating.

Tian Lingzi also got up immediately, and said to Li Xuan who was on the viewing platform in front of the hall: "Your Majesty, this is intentional injury!"

Li Xuan leaned on the soft couch and watched the match with full concentration. He didn't turn his head when he heard Tian Lingzi's words, "This is indeed hurting someone on purpose."

Tian Lingzi was overjoyed, and was about to ask the emperor to send Li Cunxiao off, when he heard the emperor say, "Niu Xu's swing was obviously aimed at Li Cunxiao. But unexpectedly, Li Jing's four disciples really He deserves to be called the fierce general who once killed a tiger with his bare hands. Not only did he not evade, but he counterattacked the pole. This Niu Xu, this is really a steal. Playing ball is playing ball. Although collision is inevitable, such an intentional injury The human heart is wrong. Suspend the game and carry Niu Xu down, probably his arm is broken, and the next game will not be able to be played, Tian Gong, the Zuo Shence team should change."

"Your Majesty, what about Li Cunxiao?"

Li Xuan snorted coldly and did not speak again, Tian Lingzi quickly shut up, he knew in his heart that this was a big loss.Niu Xu is already a polo master, and now he has been knocked out in the first match. What's more important is that with this beginning, no one will dare to play tricks on the opponent in the future.

After a brief pause, the game continued.

At the restart, Team Xinyu immediately played an exquisite coordination. Liu Xun and Gao Siji broke through the interception of Team Sensory and arrived near the hole.At this time, Xin Yan had also escaped from the interception of the Shence team and rushed to the horse.

Yang Shili of the Shence Team turned pale with shock, and several people surrounded him separately.At this time, Luo Yuangao, who was in front, found that there was no one in the middle, and there was a gap.In a hurry, he yelled: "The middle is empty, quickly return to defense, return to the middle."

As soon as Luo Yuangao finished shouting, Li Cunxiao actually urged the horse to come over.

At the same time, Xin Yan, who had already been outflanked, did not continue to try to score, but directly made an extremely beautiful back kick. The polo flew out of the gap between the Shence team's counting riders, and landed directly on the unmanned team. Next to Li Cunxiao who was guarding.Just now Li Cunxiao's strike was so vicious that he beat Niu Xu off the field.Therefore, the new Shence Army players didn't dare to stick too close, and they also saw that Li Cunxiao, this guy, doesn't seem to be very good at polo except for messing around.Therefore, they adjusted their tactics slightly. They mainly focused on Xin Yan, and then Mi Haiwan, Liu Xun and others. They paid little attention to Li Cunxiao and Wang Yanzong.

The ball was in front of the horse. Li Cunxiao had played for so long, and this was the first time a ball was passed in front of him.Immediately, he couldn't help being excited, so he rode his horse forward and made a fierce swing. When Luo Yuangao was less than ten feet away, he hit the ball.

The colorful orb drew a beautiful arc, flew past Luo Yuangao in a straight line, and landed in front of Wang Yanzhang's horse.

Luo Yuangao quickly rode his horse to intercept Wang Yanzhang, who was unmarked. Wang Yanzhang laughed: "Can you stop me?"

Without waiting for Luo Yuangao to rush forward, Wang Yanzhang swung the ball directly, and unexpectedly hit the ball at Li Cunxiao who had already rushed forward.

Luo Yuangao hastily went to stop Li Cunxiao again, but Li Cunxiao waited for him to approach, and put the ball in front of Wang Yanzhang's horse with another stroke.

Li Cunxiao and Wang Yanzhang's polo skills are indeed not good, but no matter how good they are, they are brave players on horseback. Hitting the ball is the same as riding and shooting. One method can master all methods. When no one is marking, the two alternately hit and pass the ball , advance alternately.

Luo Yuangao was played around like a monkey by the two, but at this time the others were held back by Xin Yan and others. For a while, he was tired of running, but he could only watch the two getting closer to the goal.In the end, I can only pray in my heart. They are not good at the game, and they can't get the ball under the goal.

"Look at my goal!" Li Cunxiao looked at the end of the field. Xin Yan and others were still entangled with the other players of the Shence Army, and they couldn't catch the ball at all.After thinking about it, he just shot directly by himself.

After a loud roar, Li Cunxiao waved the crescent stick and hit the ball directly and violently. The ball whizzed past Luo Yuangao again. Thirty steps away, the ball went straight through the hole and entered.

There was thunderous cheers outside the court, and everyone could tell that when he first came on the court, this black guy didn't know how to hit the ball at all, he only messed around.But now, he actually played such an exquisite continuous pass with another black man, received the ball alternately, and then scored a lore.

Thirty steps into the hole, this is completely at the level of playing ball.Many royal princesses, noble ladies and ladies in the stands screamed excitedly.

Seeing the goal, Li Xuan in the stands in the front hall couldn't help but slapped his thigh hard, jumped up and punched and shouted: "Strike, beautiful!!" Tian Lingzi next to him grinned, because the emperor just re-shot The thigh shot was his thigh.

Li Jing was also sitting next to the emperor at this time, and couldn't help laughing out loud when he saw this scene.

"Qi Guogong, your disciple has a great character, I like it very much, how about leaving him in the palace to play with me?"

"Your Majesty is absurd. This disciple is just a sheep-herding boy from Daibei. He is very vulgar and difficult to control. The ball just now was just a blind cat meeting a dead mouse. Let him hit another ball now. It is impossible to hit. How dare such a minister dare to stay by His Majesty's side!"

The emperor heard that Li Cunxiao was just a sheep-herding boy, and he was reluctant to let Li Jing go when he saw Li Jing, so he just let it go.

A gong sounded on the field, and the time for the first match was up. The final score on the field was [-]-[-].However, anyone with a discerning eye has already seen that the Shence team is already at an absolute disadvantage. Without Niu Xu, the next game will be even more difficult.

During the half-time break, the knights of the two teams got off their horses one after another to rest, drink tea and water, and change their horses.The aristocrats watching the game also got up one after another, changed their clothes, drank tea and so on.

Taking advantage of this vacancy, the emperor actually smiled and said to Li Jing, Tian Lingzi and other ministers: "This game is really exciting. One side is the polo powerhouse Shence team. Last year's Chang'an Polo Competition, it was the Zuo Shence team that won the championship. But The Shishi team here, although it seems that there are a few skills that are not very proficient, but the victory is amazing. I have a suggestion, why don't I open a village, and you lovers bet on each other's fancy team, we kings and ministers How about a gamble together?"

Yang Fugong immediately smiled and said, "I don't know how your majesty's village is, how are the two teams going?"

"If you bet on winning or losing, you will pay one for one. If you bet on the number of matches, you will pay two for one. If you can bet on the number of goals, you will pay ten for one. If you can bet on the number of goals scored by a single player, you will pay twenty for one."

Seeing that the emperor actually set up a gambling house, Li Jing, Zheng Congyun and others looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

Tian Lingzi smiled and said, "Your Majesty, why don't you let the old slave be the villa?"

Following Tian Lingzi's gaze, Li Yan saw that Zheng Congxun, Zheng Tian, ​​Li Jing, Yu Jian, Yu Cong, Li Wei, Cui Anqian and other ministers all looked unhappy, and he knew that these ministers objected in their hearts.At the moment, Tian Lingzi will be the banker, anyway, Tian Lingzi's banker is no different from his own banker.

The gambling house was established soon, and Ximen Sigong, Yang Fugong, Zhang Tai and others all placed bets of [-] yuan. However, they did not bet on which team would win, but directly bet on whether Li Cunxiao could score another goal. A company of ten.

Li Xuan also gambled, but he gambled more professionally. He bet on all the players on the field, betting on the number of goals they scored.Tian Lingzi also called many eunuchs and asked them to take their notebooks and go to the nobles watching the game to place bets.Mr. Arita bets openly, so naturally everyone bets.

"Duke Qi, I don't know how you bet?" Tian Lingzi said with a smirk on his face. Today, there are so many nobles participating in this game, the one who opens the house must be the final winner and can make a lot of money.

"Can I place any bets?" Li Jing asked with a smile.

"Yes." Tian Lingzi smiled more enthusiastically.

"Then I'll bet 500 million on the white team!" Li Jing smiled brightly, but Tian Lingzi was momentarily stunned.

Seeing that he wanted to deny it, Li Jing sneered and said, "Just now Eunuch Tian seemed to say that he can place bets as he pleases, so it doesn't mean he can't afford it anymore?"

Tian Lingzi was burning with anger, but at this moment, in front of all the monarchs and ministers, he had already said his words, so how could he go back on his word.Can't help regretting that he didn't increase the bet limit just now, gritted his teeth, Tian Lingzi said coldly: "Okay, let's take this bet!" (To be continued.)