Belus, who was originally angry, felt a powerful coercion on Zhao Junsheng's body, he was like being poured a basin of cold water, and suddenly hit a spirit, his anger disappeared instantly, and he hurriedly saluted Zhao Junsheng: "Dear Your Majesty, Belus has offended your majesty, I am angered by him, I promise you that such a thing will not happen again, please forgive your Majesty for my mistakes!" ”

Belus has already admitted his mistake, and he is also a Persian envoy and prince, and Zhao Junsheng is not easy to pursue again, "Okay, I hope there will be no next time!" Alright, everyone, the feast continues! ”

The envoys of all countries sat down one after another, and the banquet hall resumed its lively scene.

Zhao Junsheng summoned the court dancers and musicians, and ordered the dancers to dance to the accompaniment of the musicians.

The customs and customs of various places are different, for the Persians and the Bada people, watching the dancers dance in Chang'an City is quite exotic, and the envoys of various countries are also very interested.

In the second half of the banquet, the envoys of all countries were full of wine and food, and several people were drunk on the table, and many people were drunk.

Zhao Junsheng was about to announce the end of the banquet, when the prince Wen He suddenly stood up and saluted Zhao Junsheng and said: "Your Majesty, I heard that the Prince of Persia came to Chang'an this time with more than 100 undead cavalry known as Persia as an escort, this undead cavalry is the Persian Emperor's guard, the establishment of more than 10,000 people in its heyday, and its combat effectiveness ranks first among all the Persian armies!" It just so happened that my escort this time also had a hundred cavalry, and these cavalry were the strongest cavalry in our country, and I had heard that His Majesty's army was also extremely strong, so I wanted to let my cavalry compete with Prince Belus's escort cavalry and His Majesty's cavalry, and ask Your Majesty's permission to be a judge! ”

Zhao Junsheng is very unhappy in his heart, this Wen He always likes to make trouble, can't you have a good meal?

He looked at Belus, "Prince Belus, what do you mean?" ”

Belus's mind turned, and he replied, "If His Majesty's cavalry participates, I will send someone to participate too!" ”

Zhao Junsheng pondered for a moment and said to the envoys: "My army is not a tool for entertainment, but a guardian to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy and protect the people!" Their weapons are generally unsheathed, and when they are unsheathed, they will see blood! Therefore, don't do the bad game of entertaining the public by force, if the two must compete, I suggest changing it to a polo competition, each side has eleven knights, one of them is the goalkeeper, and the other ten are responsible for defense and offense, limited to one hour, the game will end when the time comes, whichever side scores more goals will win, and the one with fewer goals will lose! If you both agree, I'll send a polo team as well! ”

Belus looked at Wenhe, "Do you dare to compare?" ”

"Afraid you won't make it? Hum! After speaking, Wen He turned to face Zhao Junsheng: "Your Majesty, I agree!" ”

"Your Majesty, I also agree!" Belus also said.

At this time, the Silla envoy stood up and asked, "Dare to ask Your Majesty, is there any reward for the winning polo team?" If you just play without a lottery, isn't it too boring, and the warriors who participate in the competition will not have any passion, right? ”

Zhao Junsheng looked at the Silla envoy and said with a smile: "The Silla envoy is reasonable! In this way, the envoys of all countries can send a polo team to participate, take the top three, the first team is called the champion, will receive a prize of 10,000 yuan, and each of them will receive a champion gold medal; The second-place team is called the runner-up and receives a prize of 5,000 yuan, each of which receives a silver medal; The third-place polo team is called the third place, and will receive a prize of 3,000 yuan and a bronze medal each! All the prize money and the cost of making medals will be borne by the royal family, and the preparation of the event will also be sent by the royal family, and the specific date of the competition will be held in a month, which means that you still have a month to train the knights! ”

"In addition, for the sake of fairness and aesthetics, all the horses, riding equipment, hats, clothing, boots, gloves, clubs, polos, etc. of the knights participating in the competition are provided by our royal family! But all the things you usually train can only be purchased by yourself, and our royal family has a special shop in Chang'an City to sell these things, so you can go and buy them! ”

The envoy of Silla immediately raised his hand: "Your Majesty, Silla has signed up to send a polo team to participate!" ”

The Baekje envoy also immediately raised his hand: "Baekje will also sign up to send a team to participate!" ”

For a time, the envoys of all countries were not to be outdone, and they all wanted to sign up to send teams to participate in the competition, and the people of the southwestern countries were not good at riding horses, but the Qianguo held this kind of activity, and they did not want to be isolated and looked down upon, so they could only sign up for the competition.

Zhao Junsheng was very happy and said to the envoys of various countries: "Polo is a fierce and technical sport, it has high requirements for riding, teammate cooperation, and ball skills. ”

The envoys of all countries said: "Certainly, definitely! ”

Mulan's face smiled, holding such an event can attract a lot of sponsorship, especially in the name of the royal activities, some well-known commercial houses in Daqian are very enthusiastic to compete for advertising space, after all, the activities held by the royal family have enough influence, spending money to compete for advertising space can not only enhance the reputation of the commercial house, but also drive the sales of goods.

After the feast, as soon as the envoys returned to the embassy, they began to select knights from among their entourage, and sent people to the royal shops in the city to buy a series of things such as riding equipment, clothing, shoes and socks, clubs, polos, gloves, etc.

In order to train the knights' ball skills, riding skills, coordination and tactics, the envoys of various countries participating in polo matches had to rent some venues inside and outside Chang'an City, and they were not shared with other teams, but only used separately to prevent the leakage of training methods and tactics.

The Persian polo team was slow to move, and when they wanted to rent a suitable venue, there was no suitable and confidential place in Chang'an City, so they had to rent a relatively secluded field in a nearby village outside the city.

That evening, Belus left his team members in the village to stay, and he returned to the city with a dozen knights in Shapur, the captain of the escort.

When passing through a mess of rocks, arrows suddenly shot out from the artemisia grass on both sides, and the Persian knights on horseback were shot down one by one, and even Belus was shot several arrows, and he was also taken care of, and the other knights only shot one arrow, and he was hit by three arrows.

"Protect Your Highness, protect Your Highness!" Shapur swung his scimitar and slashed at several arrows in succession, and he jumped from his horse to block Belus, who had already been hit by the arrows and fell to the ground.

After a few rounds of arrows, the black-clad Assassins hiding in the artemisia grass rushed out and charged towards Shapur and Belus.

"Dangdangdang" A series of weapons resonated sounded.

At that moment, Belus rose from the pain and drew his scimitar to fight the Assassins.

Shapur fended off the hacking of the black-clad assassins as he turned around and shouted, "Your Highness, are you alright?" ”

"It's okay, a few arrows won't kill me!" Belus responds as he fights.

It turned out that these Persian undead cavalry were all wearing heavy armor, and ordinary arrows could not penetrate their armor at all, and most of the arrows were stuck, and only suffered some flesh wounds, but did not hurt the vital parts.

After these Persian undead cavalry joined the battle group one by one, the black-clad assassins who had initially gained the absolute upper hand soon became overwhelmed, and their swords could not hurt them at all by slashing at the armor of these Persian undead cavalry, and the assassins were injured one after another.

When the leading assassin saw that the situation was not right, he was worried that all of them would be lost here, so he immediately blew a loud whistle, and the other black-clad assassins quickly withdrew.

The Persian warriors wanted to chase after them, but they were stopped by Shapur: "Stop chasing, it's important to protect Your Highness!" ”

The Persian warriors had no choice but to stop and guard Belus in the middle, Belus sat on the ground, his face was in some pain, and Shapur squatted beside him: "Your Highness, are you injured?" Take off your clothes! ”

A Persian warrior pulled out a knife and tore off Belus's clothes, it turned out that Belus was still wearing a soft armor in his clothes, if it wasn't for this soft armor to block the arrows, I am afraid that Belus would have died a long time ago.

"It's okay, it's just that an arrow pierced through some soft armor, but the arrow didn't pierce the chest, I'll wrap you first, and when I return to the city, I will find a doctor to clean the wound, and then apply some healing medicine, and it'll be fine!" Shapur said.

As Shapur tore his tattered clothes into strips of cloth to bandage his wounds, Belus asked: "How much have we lost to our men?" ”

"Five died, all of them were cut or pierced in the throat and died, because the weather began to get hotter, they all took off their neck guards, so they only had their throats weak, those assassins just caught this flaw, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to hurt our samurai at all!"

The reason why this Persian cavalry is called the undead cavalry is because they are all armoured, and it is difficult for them to be fatally injured by arrow strikes or one or two attacks with small arms, and it is difficult for the enemy's spears and spears to pierce their breastplates when attacking in the front, so the casualty rate of this cavalry on the battlefield is very small, but they have a characteristic, that is, the horses only have half armor, that is, the front half of the body armor, and the back half of the body has no armor, and later the Byzantine development of armored cavalry largely borrowed from the Persian undead cavalry, Horses only have the front half of the armor, because there is no need to wear the whole body armor, which can reduce the burden on the horse and save money.

Belus endured the pain and said, "Send someone to report to the police and find a doctor to come and treat the wounded!" ”