Chapter 840: Chess Meets Opponents
The battle between Sun Ce and Tai Shici in Shentingling has always been a drama talked about by fans of the Three Kingdoms, almost comparable to the Battle of the Three Heroes against Lu Bu, compared to the latter, this matter has another characteristic: it has a real basis, not a complete fiction. Based on the consistent urine nature of the history books, this battle is just a passing pass, and it is not as lively as it is said in the romance, whether it is one or two rounds or dozens of rounds, it is not clear.
But Tai Shici's bravery left a deep impression on people, including Sun Ce, of course. He asked himself that compared with the deity, knowledge is an advantage, but martial arts is a shortcoming. The deity and Tai Shi Ci were tied, and he may not be Tai Shi Ci's opponent, so he has been reluctant to go head-to-head. If it weren't for Tai Shi Ci's step-by-step approach, which might destroy his overall strategic plan, he would not have taken this risk.
It was a matter of life and death, and he did not dare to be careless in the slightest, and made the most adequate preparations. Not only did he familiarize himself with Tai Shici's martial arts routines in advance, let Dian Wei, Guo Wu and others do sparring partners, but also let himself rest well, adjust his state to the best, and even the armor and weapons were carefully adjusted, and the casualness of the confrontation with Yu Flip was completely two different concepts.
Fully prepared, not panicked, seeing that Tai Shi Ci had become a trapped beast fighting and only fighting for honor, Sun Ce also let go of his hands and feet and had a final decisive battle with Tai Shi Ci. The initial tension has passed, but the long-dormant blood has quietly woken up, and the long-term practice of the moves has become more and more fluent, he is now like Wang Xizhi when he wrote the Lanting preface, with the most proficient skills, but he forgot the skills, it seems to have a move, and it seems to have no moves, and with a wave of drunkenness, it is the first line of books in the world.
At this time, Tai Shi Ci is undoubtedly the best opponent, neither has an overwhelming advantage, let him be tied, but also will not be crushed with one blow, unable to enjoy himself. It's just between winning and not winning, which can make him go all out without being tied up.
That's the beauty of meeting opponents. With Sun Ce's current situation, he rarely has such an opportunity. Either it is not timely, or it is not the right person.
Sun Ce became more and more courageous, and in a trance, he found the feeling of the bloody battle with Cao Cao again, even better than then. He has no distractions, forgets the moves, just swayes with his hands, sees the moves, and counterattacks at the first opportunity, but every move is as he wants, and it is wonderful to the peak.
Seeing Sun Ce's bravery, Tai Shi Ci was overjoyed when he saw Hunting, knowing that this was a rare opponent, he also let go of the distractions in his heart and went all out to face the battle.
The two of them are fighting each other, you attack and I defend, and it is difficult to distinguish the winner for a while.
Yu flipped over the spear and stood not far away, the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became. He asked himself that his spear skills were outstanding, he rarely met opponents, and he lost to Sun Ce last time, and he was somewhat unconvinced, but he was not prepared enough, and praised Haikou in advance, with five moves as the limit, he tied his hands and feet, if he could let go, he might not be able to win, but it might take a long time. Now that he saw Sun Ce and Tai Shi Ci sacrificing their lives and coming up with clever tricks, he knew that he was sitting in a well and watching the sky.
His spear skills are good, but that's only because he hasn't met a real master. The most he came into contact with was the Yu family, or the scholars who were also children of the family, and he had no intersection with martial artists like Sun Ce and Tai Shici. In his circle, he is a master, and compared with Sun Ce and Tai Shici, he has no advantage at all.
Even if he was well prepared and had no limit to his moves, it would be difficult for him to defeat Sun Ce.
There is a specialization in the art industry, and if you want to become a top master, talent and hard work are indispensable.
Ma Chao stared at his eyes, unable to take his eyes off it. He is a real martial artist, and a good martial artist, he can naturally see that the realm of these two people is not below him, there are not many such people, and such a wonderful battle is even more rare, he doesn't even dare to blink his eyes, for fear of taking a look. He just glanced at Guo Wu opposite him when the two of them were separated, although he couldn't see Guo Wu's face clearly, but looking at his posture, he should be as stunned as himself, and he couldn't help but smile secretly, and he was a little proud. Yan Xing stayed on the other side of the river, and he didn't have the opportunity to appreciate this big battle, which would be a regret for his life.
The onlookers were also dumbfounded. Although they may not be able to understand the subtlety, they are all a little inexplicably excited to see the two fighting so fiercely, and they are fascinated by it one by one, and they don't even dare to come out, for fear of disturbing the two who are dueling.
Although Pound also wanted to see it, he was not as fascinated as Ma Chao, he looked around and pulled Ma Chao's sleeve. Ma Chao impatiently pushed him away and asked him not to disturb him to watch the competition. Pang De twice in a row, seeing that Ma Chao ignored him, he had to ride his horse to Yu Tuo's side.
"Yu Jun, are you taking this opportunity to take Xiling?" Pang De pointed to the opposite side, where there was a crowd of people, and it should be Tai Shici's subordinates.
Yu Fu nodded. "You take a few people with you, and if you can convince them, try not to use force."
Pound agreed, and galloped away with the two knights. Coming to the bottom of the ridge, Pound turned over and dismounted. The soldiers on the ridge saw that Tai Shici was surrounded by Sun Ce's people, and they were frightened, and when they saw Pang De coming to the bottom of the ridge, they were all a little panicked, some pulled out their swords, and some raised their bows and crossbows.
Unfazed, Pound stuck his spear in the ground, unsheathed his long knife, hung it in the saddle, and spread his arms to show that he was not hostile. When the people on the ridge saw this, they looked at each other and put away their weapons. Pound walked up slowly, came to them, and bowed his hand.
"Taishi Ziyi and General Sun hit it off at first sight, and they have decided to serve General Sun, please go down to the mountain to drink together."
The soldiers looked at each other. They saw that Tai Shi Ci was surrounded, put down their bows and arrows, and talked to Sun Ce for a long time, and had already guessed that Tai Shi Ci might have surrendered to Sun Ce, but at the moment there was still a fierce battle, and Tai Shi Ci did not give them orders, so they didn't know what to do. One of the soldiers said, "If you have surrendered, why are you still fighting?" ”
"Heroes cherish each other, and martial arts talk about art." Pang De said with a smile: "The literati talk about the Tao, the warrior competes in martial arts, General Sun is a peerless hero, and Taishi Ziyi is also a hero, they meet each other, not in martial arts, is it a poem?" ”
The soldier felt justified and couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Pound said again: "Everyone, such a big battle, it is rare to see in a hundred years, what can you see if you stand so far away, don't you go down to the mountains, watch it closely, wait for them to finish, and talk about wine, wouldn't it be happy?" ”
As soon as they heard that there was wine to drink, the soldiers who had eaten dry food for a few days were suddenly full of revel, and they had no resistance at all, and after a moment of reserve, they followed Pound down the mountain and into the valley. Seeing this, Ma Chao hurriedly signaled his subordinates to get out of the way and let them get closer. The farther away they are from the mountains, the more difficult it is to retreat, and the two-legged man cannot outrun the four-legged horse, and the horse can cut off their retreat at any time.
Ma Chao gave Pang De a thumbs up and nodded with satisfaction.
At this time, the victory or defeat of the competition in the field has been divided, Sun Ce is getting braver and braver, pressing step by step, Tai Shici wielded his halberd, retreated again and again, and had no strength to fight back, his forehead was full of beads of sweat, and his face was a little pale. After half a day of hard fighting, he was exhausted and was about to lose. He was not resting very well, his physical strength was insufficient, and in order to resist Sun Ce's sharp blade, he used an iron halberd heavier than an ordinary halberd.
Seeing Tai Shi Ci revealing his flaws, Sun Ce shouted, and the long knife slashed at Tai Shi Ci's face with the sound of the wind.
Tai Shi Ci didn't dare to slack off, and the two halberds crossed and formed a cross to block Sun Ce's blade.
The halberds intersected and made a crunching sound. Sun Ce danced the long knife, grabbed the twin halberd branches, stirred vigorously, and picked it out. Tai Shi Ci couldn't hold the iron halberd, the double halberd took off his hand, and flew out more than ten steps, shocked. Seeing that Tai Shici's middle door was wide open, Sun Ce didn't think twice, grabbed the overlord with both hands and rushed into the middle palace, and stabbed out with all his might.