Ten miles west of Yingzhou City, a grandstand has already been erected.

Under the stands, there are a lot of people, and people can be heard talking everywhere in the bustling crowd, and various voices are intertwined, adding a bit of noisy atmosphere.

The Yi people in Yingzhou have a long history of falconry and hunting methods, and the Han people are also accustomed to it. Despite this, the Yingzhou Governor's Mansion came forward to hold a falconry competition, which had never been done before, and naturally attracted countless people to come and see the trouble.

For such a big scene, of course, someone is indispensable to maintain order.

Fang Hatshui led the catchers of Yingzhou City to set out in their nests, forming a human wall between the crowd and the stands.

Due to the recovery of Yulu, Fang hated the water official and reinstated.

However, at this moment, Fang Hatshui's face could not see half of the joy.

The falconry competition began, and the officials of Yingzhou sat high in the stands.

Zhao Wenhui loudly announced to the audience participating in the falconry competition, "As soon as the order sounds, the eagle can be released, limited to two hours, no matter who it is, as long as his falcon catches the most prey, he is the final winner!" ”

As he spoke, Zhao Wenhui raised his hand, pointed to the five hundred taels of silver on the table next to him, and said, "This is the lottery of today's Eagle Racing Conference!" ”

Listening to Zhao Wenhui's words, everyone in the audience was so excited that they were gearing up and screaming.

Of course, there are quite a few people who seem to be very silent.

All the participants tightly held the eagle with wings spread on their arms, ready to go!

Li Shihuo came prepared this time, the Khitan falcon stunt is famous all over the world, especially Hai Dongqing, the iron wings are stretched out, covering the clouds, and one wing down, can overturn the ferocious jackal a few heels. Its steel-like eagle claws can grab a hundred-pound strong sheep into the air with one claw, fall from a height of thousands of feet, and shatter bones. Its hook-like mouth can tear open the raw cowhide in one bite, and in an instant, the prey will be disemboweled, and it will die.

Finally, the hour has come.

Listening to Zhao Wenhui's order, everyone in the audience shook their arms, and the eagle on the shelf flapped its wings violently, flying towards the sky like an arrow off the string.

For a while, the eagles in the sky danced wildly, so it was not noisy.

Hai Dongqing, who was inactivated by Li, was the fastest, and as soon as it circled in the air, it suddenly rushed straight to the ground.

Before the watcher could come to his senses, the eagle rose into the air again, and in an instant caught a fat rabbit in front of Li Sheng.

All this is done in one go quietly, like a swordsman who kills invisibly, how can it not be surprising?

Yan Ke in the stands whispered to Zhao Wenhui, "Zhao Dudu, people often say, 'There are 60 out of 300 feather insects, and Shenjun is the most Haidongqing', and the eagle that Li lost his life is Haidongqing!" ”

Zhao Wenhui said with a look of surprise, "I also heard that Haidongqing is divided into jade claws, autumn yellow, wave yellow, three-year dragon four and other names, among them, jade claws are the most high-quality, and it is hard to find gold, could it be that this Haidongqing of his is the jade claw condor?" ”

"Exactly!" Yan Ke's voice lowered a little lower, "Governor, do you think, if we send King Liang more Jade Claw Haidongqing, will King Liang be very happy?" ”

Zhao Wenhui

Slightly bowed, no longer speaking.

After a while, the other eagles also took their prey back.

Li's inactive Hai Dongqing was really different, and he actually grabbed a rabbit with one paw and fell in front of his master.

People were amazed and couldn't understand how an eagle could catch two rabbits at the same time.

As time goes on, more and more eagles fly back, leaving their prey behind and flying away again.

The hares and pheasants in front of the stands are piled up, and there are countless of them.

When the two hours came, Zhao Wenhui and Yan Ke walked down the stands and inspected the prey placed on the ground.

Some of the people were arrogant, and some were silent.

In the last count, two of their eagles had each hunted ten kinds of prey.

One of them was Li Lost, while the other was Li Dayu, the leader of the Xi clan.

There is only one bonus, but there are two first names, which makes Zhao Wenhui a little difficult.

Yan Ke rolled his eyes and whispered a few words in Zhao Wenhui's ear.

Zhao Wenhui nodded, turned to the stands, and loudly announced, "The number of prey captured by Khitan Li is equal to that of Li Dayu of the Xi nationality, and the two of them will compete again, whoever catches the prey first will win!" ”

Listening to Zhao Wenhui's words, Feng Qingshan, who was sitting in the stands, couldn't help frowning.

Feng Qingshan was very disgusted with Yan Ke's Eagle Race, and wanted to take leave but not come, but Zhao Wenhui refused to allow leave, and strictly ordered all officials not to be absent.

Although the bonus is not much, only five hundred taels of silver, it is a matter of face. It stands to reason that the Governor's Mansion will issue another 500 taels of silver and declare Li Weihuo and Li Dayu both winners of the matter, and the matter will be successfully resolved.

Let Li lose life and compete with Li Dayu again, no matter who loses, he will feel that he has no face, and the resentment will inevitably be recorded on the head of the governor's mansion, which will do more harm than good to the future management.

Feng Qingshan's worries were ignored, and everyone in the audience did not cheer.

Obviously, the final winner will be selected from the two of them, Li Fuhuo and Li Dayu. Since you can't get the first place, it's not worth it to be able to see the trouble.

Compared with Hai Dongqing, who was inactive, Li Dayu's eagle is much taller and more powerful, and it looks like a mighty "Eagle King".

With Zhao Wenhui's order, Li Dayu's arm shook, and with a whistle, the "Eagle King" soared into the air, flying low and hovering above everyone's heads, letting out bursts of passionate chirps.

Li was not in a hurry at all, he reached out and touched Hai Dongqing's feathers, and pointed to the "Eagle King".

Hai Dongqing let out a long roar, and stabbed at the "Eagle King" like a sharp sword.

The "Eagle King" saw that Hai Dongqing was fierce, and hurriedly showed his claws, but he didn't want Hai Dongqing to shake his wings and rise into the sky.

The "Eagle King" followed, Hai Dongqing suddenly returned to the horse pistol, and with lightning speed, the iron mouth hit its head at once, only to hear a terrible scream, and the "Eagle King" fled in the wilderness.

The two eagles flew farther and farther away, and the crowd of onlookers let out a cheer......

At this moment, a small dot appeared on the top of Hai Dongqing's head, silently. The small black dot is getting bigger and bigger, it turns out to be the "Eagle King", which is going to be sent behind Hai Dongqing

Strike a fatal blow.

Some screamed, and more covered their mouths......

At the moment when the "Eagle King" was about to hit Hai Dongqing, he saw Hai Dongqing's shape flicker, and he lightly avoids the opponent's iron mouth and steel claws. Then, Hai Dongqing turned agilely, and drew an arc in the oblique stab to stop it.

The two black dots approached, twisted into a ball, and swirled up and down in the air.

Suddenly, one of the black dots fell like a kite with a broken string, while the other began to fly back slowly.

Gradually, getting closer.

Everyone finally saw clearly that it was Hai Dongqing!

With a "plop" sound, Hai Dongqing threw the prey to the ground.

When people saw it, they were shocked. Hai Dongqing actually caught a wolf, but the wolf had not yet swallowed, his mouth was open and his face was covered with blood.

Hai Dongqing flapped his wings and returned to the eagle frame where Li had lost his life.

Li Shihuo reached out and stroked Hai Dongqing's head, and said proudly, "Just let you catch the free son, you have to catch a wolf to show off!" ”

In any case, Li Dayu is also the leader of the Xi clan. At this moment, after listening to Li Yanhuo's words, Li Da was blushing and walked away.

Looking at Li Dayu's back, Li shook his head disdainfully. He took out a handkerchief from his arms and slowly wiped the blood stains on Hai Dongqing's mouth and paws.

Looking at this scene in front of him, Zhao Wenhui showed an unpredictable smile on his face.

……

On the second day of the falconry competition, Li Fuhuo and the Khitan youths entered the cityside military camp to start training.

At the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the cityside system was established. The city side is a system of integration of soldiers and herdsmen, and the imperial court places the internal relocation of the Tibetan people next to the military town, maintains their tribal organization, pays light taxes, and sends their own saddle horses to serve in wartime.

The city army is coached twice a year, and the autumn army is dispersed. If there is an emergency, help will be ordered.

There are 40,000 soldiers and horses under the jurisdiction of the governor of Yingzhou, but in fact, there are only about 3,000 soldiers in the imperial court, and the rest are city side troops. More than 10,000 people are trained every year in Yingzhou City, and the entire rotation training is repeated in three years.

Due to the drought in Yingzhou this time, with the joint efforts of Lu Xiaoxian and Xie Yunxuan, Zhao Wenhui agreed to start the training ahead of schedule, and the number of participants in the training was more than double that of previous years.

According to the standard of the Great Zhou army, every five sergeants are a team, and a team commander is established. Two soldiers are a group, and a gang leader is set up. For every five groups of a team, there is a team leader. For every two brigades, there is a lieutenant.

The task of organizing and training the city side is undertaken by the government soldiers of the regular army, and the number of government soldiers is limited, so the captain, the gang commander and the captain are all selected by the city side sergeants.

Officers above the rank of lieutenant are appointed by experienced government soldiers.

The training and training by the city are mainly aimed at the young and strong people of the Yi tribe in the inner annex, and there has never been a Han child in the city of Yingzhou to participate in the training.

This time, Lu Xiaoxian, Zhao Liang and other gentlemen appeared in the military camp near the city, which can be regarded as breaking this convention.

I don't know if it's a coincidence, Lu Xiaoxian, Zhao Liang and Zhong Xuan happened to be in the same team with Li Shihuo. This team is in addition to Lu Xiaoxian and Zhao

Except for Liang and the rest of the city, the rest were Khitans, and Li was naturally selected as the team leader.

Seeing that Li had lost his life and became a team leader, Zhao Liang's head couldn't help but droop down, and he had to be tortured to death.

In fact, Zhao Liang was completely overthinking, and Li Yanhuo didn't have the heart to think about how to torture Zhao Liang and the others. At this moment, his head was drooping like Zhao Liang.

There were hundreds of captains in the military camp near the city, and Li Shihuo couldn't understand why he was so unlucky, but he met "King Liu Yan".

"Liu Yan Wang" is a veteran surnamed Liu, and it is said that the people who have trained under him do not tremble in their legs and stomachs when they see him. Because he is so terrifying, he is known as the "Hades".

In this training, Liu Yanwang was the captain of Li Yanhuo's team.

King of the Tang pit

King of the Tang pit