Chapter 4 Duel Arena
The morning sun in this era is very beautiful, and it is unusually comfortable to bask in, which is Ouyang Xuan's strongest feeling. Stretch your waist in the sunshine and move your muscles and bones, and want to exercise, but the yard is too small to spread. Don't scare the servants, Tai Chi Boxing, Tai Chi Sword and Southern Boxing and Military Boxing have been practiced again, carrying the burned milk tea back to the wing room, the white wolf brothers and sisters are still sleeping in the house. If you don't disturb their dreams, the poor child doesn't know what her mother is like, and she only stays by her mother's side for a long time and loses the life she should have. I have never met my biological mother, and I have searched for it, but I have found nothing. When I was a child, there was a fortune teller who said that he was his life and would kill his parents, and persuaded his adoptive parents to send him back to the orphanage. But the adoptive parents still insisted on raising themselves.
Drink some tea, eat some air-dried meat, and make black naan, arouse brothers and sisters, throw them beef jerky, a wolf and a bowl of hot spring water. Today I'm going across the street to see the progress of the construction of the mansion. The fiefdom is all constructed according to the drawings drawn by themselves, and there will be no big problem, and the fiefdom has been told by the county decree this year that it is temporarily exempt from taxes, and this right is there by itself. It's just a year's worth of income, and the people's will is still important, although this is the thing that the rulers are most afraid of princes. The potatoes had been planted in small clay pots on the road, and it was time to harvest them in a few days. There are a lot of corn, but I don't know if I can grow seedlings and stick when I plant it, if it is genetically modified, it will be troublesome, and I haven't planted it yet, so I will find a piece of land to plant in the spring. Flipping through the backpack, the rechargeable battery was taken out and the solar panels were unfolded, and placed in the corner of the courtyard for a servant in charge of his own diet and daily life to watch.
The construction site was really in full swing, each performing his duties, and when he found the steward, he threw him a copper ingot, and added two sheep to the servants. They are all poor people, similar to slaves, living very poorly, and eating even worse, which makes Ouyang Xuan feel very uncomfortable, and told the officials in charge that if they dare to be greedy for their mutton, they will destroy him. The white wolf brother and sister were very cooperative, and as soon as they finished speaking, they let out a long howl at him. Everywhere to see that the progress has entered the renovation stage, let them build a ground kang, build a fire room outside, dig a deep pit to make a stove, and the flue is connected to the chimney on the other side through the hole under the ground. This is the case in several rooms. The other interior decorations were gradually improved according to their own design, and they were very satisfied, and they returned to Nie Ping's wing room after noon. Nie hired a full-time musician, who plays a good zheng, and an hour in the afternoon is the study time, and now he can play some ancient songs. What I want to practice today is to familiarize myself with the scales and tunes of later generations on the zheng, and the musician is talking about Gong Shangjiao Zhengyu, and Ouyang Xuan's head can't match the stave, and I still have to practice and ponder repeatedly. It's basically almost finished now, and it's somewhat similar to a guitar. The musician is an old man, and he is already very flattered to learn the piano with a liege, and now he can play his own music and is even more excited. played the song "Spring River Flower Moonlight Night", which was already very smooth, and some of the slight inaccuracies were also corrected repeatedly. When I felt good, I then played "Erquan Reflecting the Moon", which was erhu music, Ouyang Xuan adapted the flute music adapted by the instructor into a guzheng song again, and played it many times, but he was still not satisfied, and he didn't pay attention to the musician, he just lowered his head and played each bar repeatedly, modifying the technique, and he was still not satisfied. I looked up and wanted to consult the musician, but I saw the old gentleman kneeling in front of him, "Sir, why is this, get up, this is to bend this wait" and hurriedly stepped forward to help him up. "The old student has been playing music for 48 years, and he can't compose music yet, so he can create his own fairy music after only a few days of learning, and the old man can meet strange people in this life, and he will die without regrets." "Mr. is not strange, it's just that I'm just playful, and I just asked Mr. for advice...... "As soon as he said this, there was a rumbling carriage outside, and then a sharp voice came, "Where is Hu Hou, where is Hu Hou?" ”
Hurry out and see a yellow door running towards the courtyard at the door, and hurriedly give up to meet him, "This is here, what is the urgency to call this wait?" ”
"Hu Hou, Your Majesty ordered you to bring all the armor and blades, and quickly ride to the forbidden army martial arts field."
"Could it be that the Huns are causing trouble?"
"Exactly, please wait quickly, when I came down, there were already 5 generals killed, and nearly 500 forbidden soldiers, I don't know how many forbidden army generals and soldiers died."
Hurry back to the wing room to get the armor and horse harness, quickly put it on with the help of the yellow door, let the servant lead his own horse, pull the armor closer, put the sword on his back, hang up the crossbow arrow short knife, and quickly put on the harness when the horse is brought over, and tighten the belly belt. After moving the saddle and putting the stirrup on the horse, lift the yellow door and put it on the saddle.
"I also bother the waiter to lead the way", this Huangmen estimated that he had never ridden such a tall horse in his life, and he trembled a little, "out of Anmen, to the east, in the Fuangmen barracks", he lifted the horse out of the hospital gate, knocked the horse's belly under his feet, and the BMW galloped south along Anmen Avenue like an arrow.
When he arrived at the barracks exercise ground, Huang Men's legs were already extremely weak, and there were signs of vomiting, so he quickly carried him down, and was helped by another Huang Men to rest and vomit. He was also led by a eunuch into the martial arts arena, and he was rushing to kill inside. Two Huns rode against about 200 Han cavalry, and the ground was already full of corpses. There must be at least 100 civil and military officials on the platform, and Liu Qi stood a few days behind the case. On the desk on the side of the table, the Huns looked at the field proudly.
The sharp voice of the Yellow Gate remembered that "the general of the Han chariot is waiting for Ouyang Xuan to arrive", and one by one, Ouyang Xuan drove his horse into the hall and dismounted at the entrance of the Dianjiangtai ladder. came to the stage, walked to Liu Qi's side, and bowed his hand and said: "Minister Ouyang Xuan came by order, please show your majesty", "Hu Hou came just in time, this Hun is too rampant, and he killed nearly 600 soldiers of my seven generals in a row" Liu Qi pointed to the bottom excitedly and said.
"Your Majesty's ministers saw these Huns at the Yongmen intersection yesterday, and asked the pawn Liu Tong to bring a message to Your Majesty, if you invite them or conduct any competition, let the ministers participate. He also warned the Huns not to do anything that insulted the Han court, why did they inform the ministers? "When he said this, he was so loud that everyone on stage could hear it." Liu Tong, can there be such a thing as Hu Hou said? Liu Qi turned to Liu Tong who was next to him and asked.
"Your Majesty, the minister has never heard of what Hu Hou said to the Huns, insulting my Han family, the minister has made it clear to Your Majesty, and there is an interpreter to testify." When Ouyang Xuan heard this, he was already furious, and stared at Liu Tong and the interpreter next to him with the eyes of a dead person, and the others next to him looked at Ouyang Xuan silently, like looking at a person who was about to die.
When the Huns saw Ouyang Xuan coming to the stage, they knelt down on one knee in front of him, and said a lot, and the interpreter did not translate this time, because when he saw Ouyang Xuan's gaze, his legs trembled a little. Ouyang Xuan waved his hand, "Get up, I said that if you dare to do something insulting to the Han Court, you don't want to go back to the grassland", I don't know if these people understood.
After the Huns got up, they bowed to Liu Qi, and the leader said in stammering Chinese: "Your Majesty, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, he is lying, what the noble envoy said to us is not what he said to you, what we said, and what this interpreter said to the envoy." We were not sent by King Zuoxian, but by the Venerable Da Danyu. Seeing the armor of the divine envoy allows us to see the presence of the gods, and we cannot lie to the gods of Kunlun"
"If you know what I'm talking about, why do you want to do such a thing?" Ouyang Xuan interjected fiercely, and he didn't speak Han early. "It's not our fault, we're just here to let the Han land open up the trade customs, we want to exchange cattle, sheep and horses for the grain and cloth of the Han land, and this year it's time to marry the princess of the Han family. It was your interpreter and pawn who mistranslated our words, because of etiquette, we can only say that we negotiate in Xiongnu dialect, and the competition was also proposed by your pawn of the Han Dynasty, and we did not do this according to the words of the divine envoy, because the Great Huns also have dignity."
Liu Qi was already trembling with anger, "Come on, take Liu Tong and the interpreter to me and hand them over to the court for strict investigation."
"Your Majesty, don't be angry, there must be something strange behind this matter", the imperial doctor behind him comforted, and Ouyang Xuan said to the Huns: "It's a fact that you entered from Yuyang?" ”。
"Venerable oracle, we are entering from Daishire."
Liu Qi waved his hand and looked at the field, two Hun men were waving their swords to kill the remaining less than 100 Han cavalry. "Your Majesty, please fight". "Okay, you go down", "Huns, I want to challenge all of your Sahur alone", "Honorable oracle, if they join forces, they can reach six thousand people, have you ever thought about it", "What so much nonsense, hurry up", "Noble oracle, it is their unsurpassed glory to be able to compete with you, Kunlun God said that those who can defeat the demonic beasts are the embodiment of God"
Standing on the west side of the racecourse, the white wolf brothers and sisters arrived, signaling them to stay aside. There were already 6 people 500 paces away, and they were ready on the horse. The two teams lined up, with the first two on the left side using a tomahawk, the right side a hammer, the middle left side a hammer, and the right side a mace-like weapon, with an oval weapon with more than 10 one-inch-long nails scattered on the hammer head. The last two people used knives, which were the two people of the Han cavalry who fought in the field just now, and the right arm of the two hammers was thicker than the left arm. In the middle of the venue, the forbidden army was carrying the corpses, looking at those sturdy corpses, Ouyang Xuan felt an inexplicable sadness.
The first horn sounded, Ouyang Xuan hung up the shield in his left hand, held the handle, drew the knife in his right hand, and lived the possible scenes and coping methods in his mind, there can be no mistakes, make a little mistake, and explain his life here today, especially those two who use hammers. The second horn sounded, and the two sides stood on the departure line. If you don't have a bow and arrow, you don't close the tiger wing armor. Liu Qi and the civil and military officials on the stage had already stood up and looked at the center of the field. This method of cultural fighting in diplomatic occasions was abolished from ancient civilizations until the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The more famous in the history books is the Hongmen Banquet, and there is the Ili River Meeting between Wusun and Dawan in the Western Regions.
The third horn sounded, and Ouyang Xuan picked up the horse and galloped, without lifting the reins, and let the horse gallop freely in a straight line. The two sides clashed on the east side of the field, Ouyang Xuan's body leaned forward, the shield in his left hand tightly protected the attack route of the hammer on the left side, the knife in his right hand, and knocked the handle of the tomahawk with the back of the knife from the bottom up, this guy has a lot of strength, if he is an ordinary person, let alone blocking, it would be good if his weapon is not taken off, with the speed of the horse, the shield blocks the battle axe, the knife knocks the hammer, the moment the three horses kick wrongly, the body leans left on the horse, dodging the hammer that has become a flat beat, the right hand collects the knife and goes down around the hammer, swings forward, and then suddenly changes to chop backwards, poof, The end of the knife head is connected with the left arm of the brush and the brush is cut down with the horse.
The first two horses had already staggered, and the second wave of onslaught was coming, the power weapons on both sides were hammered diagonally from the bottom to the top, and the mace on the right was diagonally descending from the top to the bottom. When the first wave of horse's butt passes the horse's head, he sees the direction of the opponent's weapon, leans forward on the saddle and leans to the left, the left hand shield protects the left hammer attack route, the knife is withdrawn to the side, and the face is attached to the leg When the horse's head has reached the position of the opponent's leg, the right foot should be withdrawn through the bush pedal, and the center of gravity is all placed on the left foot horse's pedal. Turn around and ride the horse, the front dial the wrong horse, the third wave has hit, lie on the saddle bridge, the sword and shield block the double knife attack, the wrong horse passes. Get up, slow down, turn the horse. From the sidelines, there was a message from the sidelines, "The Han army is mighty!" The Han army is mighty! "Screams. These people are fighting according to the rules and morality, and none of them use tricks against horses, if they were Han Chinese, the horses would have already hung up. Looking at the two corpses in the field, and the war horses standing in the field, the sadness was even stronger.
Hurry up and the second round of the battle is coming. This time, the opponent is using a knife on the left side of the front, a tomahawk on the right side, a knife on the left side of the back, and a mace on the right side. If this were someone else, it might be a dead end. Strength against weapons, with a saber against a shield.
When the two sides clashed, Ouyang Xuan noticed that the two horses on the back side were on the outside of the horse's head and the horse's buttocks, instead of the usual staggered distance between the legs of a horse. The shield is still protecting the blade line, and the blade of the knife in the right hand is also flat in front of the axe, and the axe is also flat and goes straight to the neck, and the saber on the left side can be ignored, as long as the saber is guarded back. When the three horses and horses clashed, Ouyang Xuan leaned forward to the right, put his center of gravity on the right foot horse, lowered his body, and dodged the axe attack line, the other party was trying to change the route, but it was too late, the flat chopping knife cut horizontally from the upper abdomen, a very beautiful waist chop, as soon as the knife resistance disappeared, the backhand back knife and the back to protect the neck, the knife was just in place, and the back saber had been cut to the knife surface of the neck position. The head of the mace in the back has been swung from the bottom up, and the knife on the left side has also slashed from the top down to the body that is still lying low on the right side. Hurriedly returned to the shield to protect the back, the knife in his right hand quickly rebounded, the back of the knife was carried forward and upward, the body was back to the right, the saber was too late to use the saber back, but Ouyang Xuan was just right, with a flick of his wrist, after the wrong kick, the knife that was already above the head was quickly slashed back, and it was another slash with an oblique shoulder strap back, the head of the person fell to the ground, and the moment there was no block, the guy's stick head rubbed against the shoulder armor and whistled with the wind, and then the body and head were separated. The wrong horse passed, slowed down, turned the horse's head, and cheered everywhere, "Waiting for the might!" "Waiting for the mighty" resounded in the sky.
Looking at the two people left, the reason why Ouyang Xuan left the two of them at the end was because he wanted to give them an honor, and it was easy for a warrior to have, after all, it was a warrior who had defeated 600 Han cavalry and several generals, and it was also to be able to kill each other at once. Fix the shield on the back of the hand, draw the sword in the hand, exchange the swords, hold the sword in the left hand, and hold the sword in the right hand. The other party may also know Ouyang Xuan's intentions, and immediately bowed, raised his saber, and galloped forward. The one who can face death without fear is a real warrior, a hero, and the two of them are.
This time, Ouyang Xuan did not let the horse add to the high speed, and the confrontation in the field, the three horses and horses were staggered, and the two sabers were both flat cuts, but the left side was against the neck, and the right side was against the abdomen. Ouyang Xuan's left hand was raised to his head, and when the sword in his right hand was about to clash, he suddenly shook his wrist forward, and the sword surface bounced away the opponent's saber, and the knife on his left hand had already collided with the saber, and the two sides of his waist were stabbed one after another, the left hand stabbed straight into the ribs of the chest, and the knife in his right hand stabbed beside him. There were two pops, and the sword in his right hand stabbed into the body obliquely from under the right ribs, and the horse speed drove to cut the back body, and the knife in his left hand stabbed straight into the heart from the back. The wrong horse passed, and the two people fell off the horse at the same time. Ouyang Xuan put his sword back into the sheath, took off the crossbow and wound it, and aimed a crossbow arrow at the head of the warrior who was still struggling on the ground, and his body quickly regained its calm.
The arena was silent for a few minutes, followed by thunderous cheers. Liu Qi smiled and said something to the lonely Hun envoy who was kneeling on one knee next to him.
Note: This article mentions that the competition with the Xiongnu was seen in a wild history book on a local stall when I went to cross Qingcheng Mountain a long time ago, I forgot what the name was, it happened in Zhao before the rebellion of Emperor Jing's Seven Kingdoms, a martial arts slave under Liu Sui, the king of Zhao, fought three Hun fighters on the martial arts field, and was killed. I don't remember the reason very clearly, it seems to be because of a bet or something, and in the end, the Xiongnu did not send troops during the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, which seems to be related to this. It's been a long time since I couldn't remember it, so I put this plot on the main character.