"Zhaozhi has also seen the forbidden army's polo team?"

Zhou Miao suddenly became curious, although he couldn't play polo, he could play polo, just as a tool to pass the time in his spare time.

He had seen the forbidden army, but he had never seen the forbidden army's polo team.

"Back to the long history, I was fortunate to see a game of the Zuo Yulin Army Polo Team in Taiyuan, which opened Liu's eyes. Although I don't know how the polo team is in front of me, this horse is not as good as the forbidden army. Liu Can said truthfully.

Zhou Miao touched his beard and smiled, "This is normal." Now that the imperial court has recovered Longyou and Hexi, there is no shortage of war horses, and the forbidden army is the army that the court relies on the most, and the war horses are naturally good. ”

For the conversation between the two, Du Xunhe was a little unhappy, he was a future jinshi, but he didn't expect this Liu Can to abandon himself in a blink of an eye, and he had a hot fight with Zhou Xuan.

But as the cheers came, everyone's eyes were immediately drawn to the field, and it turned out that the polo game was about to begin.

"Ling Qing, have you heard? The defense envoy wants to select 20 people to represent Shaanzhou to participate in the polo match in Chang'an in this competition, and 10 of us will be eliminated. ”

While the referee was reading out the rules of the game aloud in the middle of the field, the middle of the military polo team was whispering.

"The elimination won't be a few of us, especially Ling Qing, who is a good hand praised by the defense envoys."

"Ten people are eliminated for sure, it is said that in the rules issued by the imperial court, each polo team can only send twenty people to participate, ten official members, and ten alternate players.

Instead of worrying about this, let's think about how to win this first game. The team on the other side is not good at stubble, and in terms of polo skills, it is much better than us. Ling Qing, who had a young face, looked at the polo team opposite with a solemn expression.

It's not that Ling Qing 'grows the morale of others and destroys his own prestige', but in terms of polo skills, they are really not as good as the polo players trained by these big families and wealthy businessmen.

You must know that this polo is not something that can be played by just one person.

To play polo, at least you have to have a horse.

Although the Tang Dynasty has not lacked horses since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the price of horses is not cheap, and ordinary families who are slightly richer can use inferior horses to travel, but the horses used to play polo must be good horses.

The price of a good horse is not cheap, and it is not affordable for ordinary families. Therefore, in the Tang Dynasty, polo is an aristocratic sport, just like equestrian or golf in later generations, and ordinary families have no conditions even if they yearn for it.

The players of the polo team opposite come from various big families or wealthy merchants, and many of them are directly children of these families and have the conditions to learn polo.

But these soldiers can't, the rule of the imperial court is that the contestants can only be officers or soldiers below the captain to participate, which is not a small restriction.

There is a characteristic of playing polo in the army, most of the people with good skills are middle and high-ranking generals, because they have the conditions to play and have rich experience.

Among the thirty people selected by Chang Xingru, when they were selected, there were less than five people who could actually play polo, and the others were good at riding.

Ling Qing was not among the five people, but in the later training, he was more hard and serious, and his skills improved. But after all, these people have a short time to learn, and compared with the opposite polo team, I am afraid that the only advantage is discipline.

"Afraid of what? It's all on the field, it's a big deal to go out and fight, I don't believe in fighting these people on the other side. ”

"Yes, fight!"

Ling Qing shook his head, "You can't come nonsense!" I'll listen to my command later, and give them something different, maybe it will work wonders. ”

As the rules were read, two teams entered the arena one after another, a military team dressed in red with a red ribbon on the other, and a family team dressed in black on the other.

It was not Chang Xingru who kicked off, but Zhou Xuan. Zhou Miao came to the sidelines, holding the colorful polo in his hand, and as the drum sounded, he threw it into the sky, and the game also meant the official beginning.

Although there were not many spectators, the cheers did not stop as soon as the game began. On the one hand, there are warriors in the army, and on the other hand, there are polo players from major families, each with its own advantages and disadvantages, which makes the audience look forward to it.

The game was fierce from the start, with players from both sides waving their sticks and scrambling.

However, at the beginning, because the skills of the military team were not good, the ball was snatched by a player from the family team.

The members of the military team immediately surrounded and tried to snatch the polo, but they were blocked by the members of the family team. Seeing that the opponent was getting closer and closer to the gate of his team, Ling Qing leaned over, clamped the horse between his legs, and his whole body was suspended in the air, and then raised his staff to snatch the polo ball that was controlled by the family team.

The players of the family team were also stunned for a moment, they didn't expect this kind of operation, just when they were stunned, the polo had already been snatched by Ling Qing and passed to the military team members in the rear.

"Good shot!"

Seeing Ling Qing using his skillful riding skills to snatch the polo from the hands of the family team, the audience was cheering, and even Chang Xingru couldn't help but applaud.

"Father, this riding skill named Ling Qing is indeed exquisite, and the child is ashamed of himself." Thinking of the superb riding skills shown by the opponent just now, Chang Wei also admired it a little.

"My father is also a talent that I discovered by accident, and I don't usually see that I have this ability." Chang Xingru laughed.

However, it didn't take long for the two to be happy, the situation of the scene reversed again, and in the process of passing, Qiu was snatched away by the players of the family team again, and the two of them blocked Ling Qing, so that he couldn't get close to the ball at all.

The skilled family player rushed left and right with the polo, followed by another player, and finally came to the gate, leaned down, raised his staff and swung the ball violently, and then the spectators saw the colorful polo cross a beautiful arc and fall into the gate of the military team.

"The ball is in! The ball is in! ”

Seeing the goal scored, the audience cheered, and as the drum sounded, the referee announced the result loudly, "One goal for the black team!" ”

"Third child, what are you doing? Did you run out of energy on a woman last night? ”

Unexpectedly, the family team got off to a good start, which made the military team a little resentful, and the player who failed to hold the ball became a punching bag.

"I didn't expect that person to come straight over!"

"You don't know how to crash back?"

"Okay, isn't it just a ball? It's still early, and we still have a chance to catch it back! ”

Seeing that the game was just like this by the family team, Ling Qing was also a little depressed in his heart, he didn't expect to lose the ball so quickly.

In the next game, both sides won and lost, but it was still the family team who led by two goals. Seeing that there was still a quarter of an hour left, Ling Qing, who had already figured out the characteristics of the family team's play, had a plan to counterattack in his heart!