Zhang Zhaohua got up in the morning, and after dinner, she rushed to the racecourse, and in late November, Beiping was already covered in snow, and her shoulders passed through the back garden, and she stopped for a while—because the fir trees and pines in the garden had turned into jade branches, and those empty branches were hung with strips of snow that were both soft and firm, and there were some thin round and short ice armors, which were like budding pre-blooming flowers.

Zhang Zhaohua stretched out his hand and left an empty branch, this thing only stayed in her hand for a few breaths, so she froze so much that she kept breathing, and called the palace people who accompanied her to come and handed her the empty branch: "You put it in the jade pot spring bottle in front of the Shizi table, and then carry the bottle outside, be careful not to knock it!"

She has important things to do today, otherwise she must be in the garden for a long time, and her important thing is to play polo. It seems like a frolic, but it's not.

This started a few days ago, when she said a long-standing wish in front of Princess Xu - she wanted the princess to teach her people, she had been thinking about using this to train the palace people around her since the Guangzhimen was breached on July 7, after seeing the battle formation of the people around the princess.

Princess Xu couldn't help laughing, and there happened to be a woman beside her, this woman was Beji Pucha of the Duoyan tribe, Pucha didn't know what a battle formation was, but her equestrian skills were rare opponents, Mongolians were born to be a nation on horseback, when Zhang Zhaohua said, she also listened, and finally looked at the palace people behind her with her eyes, and even patted Han Dong's buttocks, so frightened that Han Dong jumped up with his skirt, but heard Pu Cha say: "Princess Shi, these few around you don't often run and jump!"

She was telling the truth, including Zhang Zhaohua herself, when she was busy, she often gave up exercising, but Princess Xu and Pu Cha said in unison that it was not an overnight matter to pull off their muscles and bones first.

Then Zhang Zhaohua became impatient and asked how to stretch his muscles, and Pu Cha said: "Play polo! This is learned from you Han people! Those who can't ride horses can go up, and after a few times, they can also ride horses!"

Playing polo actually relies on the control of the people on the horse, so that the horse and the person toss and turn, back and forth to borrow strength, Zhang Zhaohua saw her swearing, and the princess also nodded, so he made an appointment with her, first learned from polo, and when the group of people around her trained their muscles, the princess would personally teach them the skills of the battle formation.

When she arrived at the racecourse, Hanshuang and the sixty-four palace people she had selected were already waiting there, Zhang Zhaohua arrived at the hour of the hour, and they arrived at the third quarter of the hour according to their own orders. Pucha came with her, and when he saw it, he couldn't help but let out a "huh", and was very surprised and admired.

Zhang Zhaohua didn't show it on his face, but he was very proud in his heart, these people obeyed her orders, and they couldn't say that they were like commands, but they also ordered and forbidden, saying that when the time came, these people didn't dare to be late.

Even Princess Xu applauded when she saw it: "There is a look, there is a look!"

Just when Princess Xu was forming a team for them, many soldiers had gathered around, looking at them very curiously, pointing and smiling.

In fact, the racecourse is not only their women's team, but also soldiers in armor and armed with a spear, some riding on horses, some standing on the ground, but they are all opened by Zhang Zhaohua.

The polo game is a double goal, and the two teams of the game have 12 players each, and 64 players can be rotated. There are red and green clothes that have been prepared for a long time, all of them are vests, as long as you put them on.

The polo is hollow, made of lambskin, the size of a fist, the staff is about three or four feet long, and the end of the shot is crescent-shaped. Polo is a game in which players compete for the ball with their sticks on horses, and do everything possible to avoid the opponent's interception, pass the ball to their teammates or shoot directly at the goal.

As for some regulations, it is still necessary to say in advance, such as not hitting people with a stick, the hand holding the stick must be the right hand, not the left hand, Zhang Zhaohua heard it, and found that this is actually the same as the rules of the polo game in later generations, and the intentional collision between players is regarded as a violation - she has seen the polo game in later generations, and has not seen it at this time, so she is also very interested.

In Zhang Zhaohua's team, there were seventeen who could ride horses, and they were pulled into the field to familiarize themselves with the rules - the rest of the palace people also equipped them with tame mare mounts, so that they could slowly learn to ride horses.

The princess sent six men to serve by her side, and she took up her own horses, and led a team, which was tied with red silk and clothed in crimson narrow-sleeved armor, while the other team, led by Pucha, was made of green silk and green armor, and their mounts were well tied, not only with red tassels, but also with brass bells around their necks, and silk tapestry.

Zhang Zhaohua also turned over and got on the horse, followed the field and ran around the field a few laps, feeling like two teams of colorful butterflies flew in, and the bell rang so crisply, as if Meng Dong had become a spring as gratifying.

Xiang Guan was selected to be in charge of teeing off, that is, he threw the red ball into the middle of the field, and the fight between the red and green teams began. Not only the people watching were excited, but the players on the field were also shouting and galloping around on horseback.

"This is my ball!" Arimiya became angry: "You can't grab it!"

At the beginning, such complaints were endless, and they were not particularly familiar with the rules, and they were robbed of the ball, and it turned into a scuffle between struggling and grabbing.

At this time, a stick was inserted diagonally, and the ball was gently picked, and the red polo ball jumped up from the ground as if it had life, drawing a beautiful arc in the air, and Princess Xu turned the horse and ran in the direction of the polo.

met two people from the green team in the middle, but they were all stunned, and they didn't think to intercept until Princess Xu brushed over, but Princess Xu had already hooked the polo and successfully hit it into the goal.

"Oh-" everyone exclaimed, and a red embroidered flag was erected in the middle of the field. An embroidered flag is a "chip", which side has more "chips", which side is the winner.

Not to be outdone, Pucha snatched back the polo from the red team, her body was extremely flexible and flexible, and she could even soar into the air on the horse, hooking the polo with one foot to avoid the opponent's snatch. And her riding skills are quite powerful, she can control the mount to run and bumble, sometimes jumping high, sometimes swaying, galloping forward, including Zhang Zhaohua and Princess Xu all went up to snatch it, but they didn't take it down.

"Look," said Pucha, who was half on the side of the horse, in a rather beautiful pose: "This is called hiding in the stirrup!"

There were also those who accidentally fell off their horses, but everyone had a great time, and they didn't even care about wiping the dust, so they flew on their horses and continued to scramble, and finally the green team, under the leadership of Pucha, won by a narrow margin.

"How is it," Pu Cha looked at Zhang Zhaohua, who was wiping his sweat, and said with a smile: "After this scene, the practice will start!"

Zhang Zhaohua nodded and said: "It's a lot of exercise, but I found a problem, these people don't know how to cooperate!"

A group of palace people, usually they must be obedient, but once they are happy, they can't hear Zhang Zhaohua's command. She wants everyone's cooperation, not a swarm of flies that scream without a head. They all rushed to get ahead, but instead it became a pot of porridge.

Zhang Zhaohua has a way in her heart, she wants to train this group of people with the methods of military training in later generations, once she establishes this idea, there are countless ideas that begin to be constructed, and the people who are still running horses on the horse farm are swept by her one by one, and inexplicably feel a little cold in her back, but she doesn't know what the reason is.

She saw a familiar figure on the horse farm, squatting on the ground and mending the drum, and couldn't help but call: "Yishiha-"