On the ninth day of September, the Double Ninth Festival, the annual insect war of the five countries was held in the Fangchun Garden on the side of the Ganquan Palace of the Southern Han Xing Palace, it seemed to be a small sports meeting, the insect fighters of each country stood under the banner of embroidered with their respective national names, each team was about more than ten people, the sole host of the Southern Han Dynasty lineup was the most vast, there were more than 100 people, each holding a worm jar covered with red and hanging colors, it was spectacular. (Eye to the book)

  The snow pig prince wore a green gauze hat and a green satin robe, surrounded by a group of castrated officials, and came to the Yuewang platform in Fangchun Garden, and gave a speech, talking about the way of fighting insects, such as fighting insects can be Anbang, fighting insects can rejuvenate the country, and finally said loudly: "I announce that this year's Five Nations Insect War ---- opens!" ”

  The silk and bamboo orchestra played up, first of all, the hundred insects were fighting, it was those crickets in the insect garden of Baoqing Palace, now they were catching and killing, and the crickets were loud for a while, and fifty pairs of yellow-backed insects were biting each other, which was a bit chaotic.

  After the battle of the hundred insects, it was an exhibition match of ten pairs of green-backed fierce insects, and the fighting insects of the Northern Song Dynasty, Shu Song Dynasty, and Wuyue countries present saw that the Southern Han Dynasty was ten pairs of green-backed insects, and they were all secretly frightened, and they didn't know what level of fierce insects the Southern Han participated in!

  Zhou Xuan took three idiots, four idiots, and ten government soldiers, and Doctor Fang also came to join in the fun, cumin loved to watch her uncle fight insects, and she changed into men's clothes and followed, she was a thin little scholar, a bit like Lin Hanyun at the beginning.

  According to the regulations of the insect competition, one person from each of the five countries must first form an arbitration alliance in order to test the insects, determine the victory or defeat, and determine the violation. Muttered something to the "Snow Lion King" in the black clay pot.

  At the end of the day, the five-nation arbitration envoy began to inspect the worm, according to the regulations. Each country can send two crickets to fight, this is to prevent the crickets who lost in the first round from being injured and unable to participate in the next round, and the two crickets on each side can take turns to play, but Zhou Xuan only has this "Snow Lion King" to fight, and the competition system is a single round-robin, which means that the "Snow Lion King" must pass four levels in a row to win the championship.

  Speaking of which, last year's "untouchable" won the championship in Hongzhou and encountered more opponents, but the first few rounds were all yellow-backed insects and were vulnerable. Just warmed up, the last three rounds are hard battles, and every "Snow Lion King" is a hard battle of life and death, and there are alternate fierce insects in other countries, and the "Snow Lion King" is just a cricket fighting.

  Zhou Xuan followed the arbitration envoys of the other four countries to see the fighting insects of the Northern Song Dynasty first, last year's insect war of the five countries was the Northern Song Dynasty's insect king battle against the Qinhuai River to win the championship, only to see the Northern Song Dynasty fighting insects put two cyan clay pots on the low table, first unveiled the breathable cover of one of them, this is the main force of the fighting insects on the field. The arbitration envoys of the five countries leaned their heads together to look at it, and gasped for air.

  Zhou Xuan is short-sighted, and he can see it very clearly when he gets close, this fighting insect in the Northern Song Dynasty is a pure green-backed insect, which is a bit similar to the "Tiger Idiot Xu Chu" that Zhou Xuan saw last year, with a wide head and a green body, but the head is dark with a layer of purple gas, and the dark blue pincers are obviously more domineering than the "Tiger Idiot Xu", and the sawtooth is sensitive. It makes people worry that their fingers will be bitten off when they stretch out, just such a little difference, the cricket in front of him is one level higher than the "Tiger Idiot Xu Chu", ---- the general level, and look at the calm and atmospheric appearance of this insect. Recuperation is also extremely effective, even among the general-level crickets, it is also the best, and it should be a super fierce insect that is stronger than the general general and weaker than the general insect king.

  Zhou Xuan had only seen such fierce insects in the Qing Dynasty Zhu Congyan's "Cricket Illustrated Book" before, Jia Rudao's "Promoting Weaving Sutra" and Yuan Hongdao's "Promoting Weaving Zhi" have all mentioned this kind of fierce insects with green and big teeth, and they are considered to be the best fighting insects in a million.

  Zhou Xuan asked, "What's the name of this worm?" ”

  The Northern Song Dynasty Fighting Insect Envoy said proudly: "The purple-faced Heavenly King is a vast sea!" ”

  Xiong Kuohai was a fierce general during the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the Song State did not like to name it after the generals of the Three Kingdoms. I like to name it after the more recent Sui Zhou Meng.

  Xuan nodded and praised: "This insect really deserves this name." Please show the lieutenant. ”

  The Northern Song Dynasty Fighting Insect Envoy opened another green clay pot, and it was a general-level blue-backed insect again. Named "Red-eyed and Yellow-whiskered Wu Tianxi", Zhou Xuan took a closer look at this yellow-whiskered and red-eyed fierce insect, and analyzed that its strength and the "Twin Halberd Dianwei" were between the two giants, the gap was slight, and the Northern Song Dynasty had two general-level super fierce insects with extremely close strength, even if there was no insect king, the hope of winning the championship was also great.

  The arbitration envoy of the five countries went to see the main and deputy fighting insects of Wu Yueguo, the deputy insect Zhou Xuan had seen, the day before yesterday, Wu Yueguo Baodi insect envoy held two green-backed insects, among which there was this deputy general insect, which belonged to the strong level of lieutenant generals, Wu Yue people liked to use the fierce general of Wu during the Three Kingdoms to name, this insect deputy general was named "Donglai Tai Shi Ci", and another insect commander named "Little Overlord Sun Ce" was the main general of the fighting insect, which had the strength of the general level, and it seemed that the Bao insect made Zhou Xuan still conceal his strength that night.

  Zhou Xuan preliminarily judged that Wu Yueguo had no hope of winning the championship this time, and the lieutenant general-level crickets were considered weak insects here, and the general-level "Little Overlord Sun Ce" could only confront the "red-eyed and yellow-bearded Wu Tianxi" of the Northern Song Dynasty at most, and there should be no chance of winning in the face of the "purple-faced heavenly king and the vast sea".

  The five countries arbitration envoy went to see the fighting insects of the Shu Song Dynasty, the Shu Song Dynasty was the Northern Song Dynasty Zhao Guangyi's nephew Zhao Defang occupied the Western Shu and Southern Chu established the country, the territory is vast, there are eighty-one states, but the national strength is only stronger than Wu Yue in the five countries, Zhao Defang's governance is far inferior to Zhao Guangyi, but when the Shu general Dou Worm made the main general Dou Worm shine out, Zhou Xuan's fine eyes suddenly widened

  "Worm King! Worm King! Finally met the Worm King! ”

  The head is big and the teeth are big, the back is like hard armor, the whiskers are like thorns, the six legs are strong, the square head is faintly convex in the middle, and the green air is shining brightly, and the head is swaggering, as if there are ten thousand insects lurking in front of him, showing the appearance of the insect king.

  The arbiters of the five umbrellas are all "tsk" and admire, asking the name of the insect king? He replied: "General Tianbao." ”

  Tianbao general, Yuwen Chengdu also, has the courage of Wanfu, Xiong Kuohai and Wu Tianxi have been defeated under Yuwen Chengdu, it seems that Shu Song is more powerful than the Northern Song Dynasty.

  The deputy general insect of Shu Song is a lieutenant general-level insect named "Jin Gong Qin Qiong".

  Now it was Tang Guo's turn to show the fighting insects, and the four idiots took out the insect jar and said: "I, Tang Guo, only sent a fierce insect to participate in the war, please see ---- of the arbitrators."

  Zhou Xuan smiled and stood still, looking at the four arbiters leaning over and bowing their heads, his mouth was full of "hey, hey", obviously stunned by a white-backed insect, it is not uncommon for the insect king to appear in the insect war of the five countries, there is a worm king every year, but with a white-backed insect, it is really the first time in the world, unheard of!

  But everyone was very self-contained, and they didn't say anything sarcastic, and after being surprised, they went to see the fighting insects presented by the host country, the insect king, the insect king, and the insect king!

  I saw the snow pig prince smiling and holding a worm jar himself, and there was a pure cyan ground cricket in the jar, which was larger than all the crickets seen before, and a few points larger than the "Tianbao General Yuwen Chengdu" of the Shu Song Dynasty.

  The Snow Pig Prince said proudly: "This is the main general of my Han Kingdom, the famous Insect King Lu Bu, haha, the Insect King is also superior, and look at how my Han Insect King Lu Bu fights the Tianbao General, see if Lu Bu is powerful, or Yuwen Chengdu is invincible?" ”

  The deputy general of the Southern Han Dynasty is also extremely powerful, it is a general-level insect, named "Xiliang Ma Chao", and its strength is comparable to Wu Yue's "Little Overlord Sun Ce" and the Northern Song Dynasty's "Red-eyed and Yellow-bearded Wu Tianxi".

  The insect test is over, and the lottery begins, to see which country is the first battle against which ^H country?

  The result of the draw was that the first battle on the morning of Chongyang morning: Wu Yue vs. Southern Han, Northern Song vs. Shu Song, Tang State bye, anyway, there is a country bye in each round; Second battle in the afternoon: Tang State vs. Shu Song, Northern Song Dynasty vs. Southern Han, Wu Yue bye; On the morning of the tenth day of the first month of September: Tang State vs. Southern Han, Northern Han vs. Wu Yue, Shu Song bye; Afternoon resumption: Tang State vs. Wu Yue, Shu Song vs. Southern Han, Northern Song Dynasty bye; The final battle on the morning of September 11: Tang against the Northern Song Dynasty, Wu Yue against the Shu Song Dynasty.

  In three days, a total of ten heavyweight insect battles, the expected excitement attracted a large number of gamblers, and there were gamblers from the Northern Song Dynasty by sea boat, who traveled thousands of miles back and forth just to bet on their Northern Song Dynasty's main general insect "Purple-faced Heavenly King" to win.

  The officials of the Han State almost rushed out of the nest, betting all on their "Insect King Lu Bu" to win, and the gambling silver was estimated to be more than one million taels.

  Before the official start of the war at the time of the solstice, the odds of Wu Yue's battle against the Southern Han Dynasty on the Yue Wang platform were: Wu Yue paid 25 to 10, and the Southern Han Dynasty paid 1 to 1, the odds were very different, there was nothing to gain, everyone was optimistic about the Southern Han, this is a sure thing, "Insect King Lu Bu" is the favorite to win the championship, how can Wu Yue's weak generals and lieutenant generals resist the enemy!

  According to the rules of the game, both sides of the fighting insects can arbitrarily send the main and deputy generals to fight, and the insects are bright at the same time in front of the bucket, and the snow pig prince of the Southern Han Dynasty supervises the battle.

  On the other hand, Wu Yue sent his deputy general "Donglai Tai Shi Ci" to meet the battle, which attracted the Han princes and ministers who watched the battle, and the main general avoided the battle, which was really ashamed.

  Zhou Xuan understands the choice of the abalone worm, anyway, in the face of the "insect king Lu Bu", whether it is the general-level commander "Xiaobawang Sun Ce", or the deputy general "Donglai Tai Shici" is not his opponent, why not let the deputy general face the battle, and let the main general recuperate to deal with the fighting insects of other countries, there is no hope of winning the championship, so it is better to fight not to be at the bottom.

  Xiaodao broke his promise, and he didn't get out 6,000 words, because he treated his back injury today, pulled it, and felt more comfortable, and he was riddled with injuries, and he didn't dare to promise, anyway, Xiaodao tried his best to code.

  Another: The names of the generals of the Sui and Tang dynasties mentioned in this chapter have nothing to do with the official history, and they use the words in "Speaking of the Tang Dynasty" and "Xing Tang".

  (Eye to the book)