Although the emperors of the Pingtang State and the Pinghan Kingdom agreed to negotiate peace, neither of the two emperors refused to give up the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun at the same time. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Both of them were afraid that the other party would take advantage of the opportunity to negotiate peace and suddenly enter the sixteen states of Yanyun.

At present, the two countries have just experienced a series of wars with the Tuliao State, and the money and grain in the treasury are very expensive, although they know that the terrain of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun is dangerous, they are not able to launch such a large-scale national war to seize this land for the time being.

Another important reason is that the sixteen states of Yanyun are too desolate and almost killed by the Tuliao State into a no-man's land. This Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures are so desolate, after any country is defeated, there is no ten years of life and gathering, and they don't want to slow down the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures.

The sixteen states of Yanyun are now like chicken ribs for the emperors of the two countries. Reluctant to give up the dangerous terrain of the sixteen states of Yanyun. But after snatching it, it was desolate, and it was necessary to continue to spend a lot of money and food on soldiers.

Now although the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are like chicken ribs in the hearts of the two emperors, the two emperors are afraid that the other party will not dislike them.

Therefore, in this peace, the Pingtang State asked the Dingbei garrison to be a guarantee, and the Pinghan court all agreed. With the Dingbei garrison in place, the two emperors finally stopped worrying about each other's cheating.

The ministers in charge of the peace talks between the two countries were finally able to sit in a tent and begin to discuss specific matters.

However, this peace negotiation was also stumbling and extremely difficult. The root lies in the emperors of the two countries.

Liu Lai, Ping Hanguo, went out to mix with society at the age of thirteen or fourteen, ate and drank everywhere, and when he was older, he took his follower in his waistband to fight the world. He has lived to the present, taking advantage of others, and has never let others take advantage of himself. His Majesty the Emperor has two best friends in his life, one is called "I'd rather die than suffer", and the other is called "desperately taking advantage".

Not to mention Li Shiluan, the emperor of the Ping Tang Kingdom, who refused to be subservient to others in his life. When his father and brother were pressing on his head, he rebelled and got rid of his father and brother.

These two emperors, before the envoys set out, instructed their envoys to do everything possible to take advantage of them, and at the same time they must not suffer losses.

Therefore, in the process of negotiation and specific negotiations, the two envoys each had their own words, wanting to take advantage of their own emperor so that they could capture the sixteen states of Yanyun in the future.

The envoys on both sides are shrewd people, and no one is a fool, and they uphold the practice of preferring death to suffer losses and desperately taking advantage.

As a result, the two countries have been discussing and negotiating for more than a month, but still have not been able to reach any agreement. The sixteen states of Yanyun are so big, everyone wants to occupy more, and no one wants to less, this matter cannot be solved.

A month later, Commander Xiao Liu and Li Deyi took 10,000 garrison recruits, 3,000 cavalry, Wang Zhuangbiao, Li Wudi, Zhu Biao, Liu Ying and others to the vicinity of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, and they should make an appointment to preside over the peace between the two families. As for that Wang Jingluo, he is still a recruit and came to the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun with the brigade.

After arriving at the ground, the camp selected by the head of Xiao Liu was neither on the territory of the Pingtang Kingdom nor on the territory of the Pinghan Kingdom, but in the territory of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, not far from the camp of Ran Tuhu. As a defeated general, Ran Tuhu certainly has no opinion on this, and he doesn't dare to have it.

After Li Deyi arrived, he inquired, and the two discussed for more than a month, but still failed to reach any agreement.

After understanding the situation clearly, Li Deyi felt that if the two families continued to discuss like this, I am afraid that the discussion would not be able to figure out a clue by the end of the year. Li Deyi still has a lot of important things to do, so how can he have time to accompany the two families to quarrel here. He approached his brother and wanted to come up with a quick solution to the current impasse.

Commander Xiao Liu is much more stable than Li Deyi, he knows that now that the two countries have heavy troops, it is impossible to easily compromise with each other no matter what, and if it is not good, they will still have to fight in the end, and they will be divided into male and female. Therefore, after Xiao Liu's regiment went down to the camp, he immediately cast out the reconnaissance cavalry and began to make the terrain sand table of the sixteen states of Yanyun.

Since there is always a battle, you have to prepare in advance and grasp the surrounding terrain clearly.

As soon as Li De found his senior brother, he saw at a glance that his senior brother was making a sand table. After a few glances, Li Deyi opened his mouth and asked, "Senior brother, what are the rows in the middle of the camps of these two countries?" ”

Commander Xiao Liu said: "It was a ditch dug by the soldiers and horses of the two countries. ”

"Oh? This ditch is kind of interesting. It is right in the middle of the military camps of the two countries, separating the two sides. It seems that these two families don't want to fight. Li Deyi said with a smile.

When the brothers and sisters first arrived, they didn't know what the rows of ditches were for.

The two brothers began to discuss the matter of peace between the two countries. Although they couldn't think of any good countermeasures for a while, after the two discussed, they agreed that Ran Tuhu should also be brought in to participate in the peace negotiations. After all, Ran Tuhu is now the nominal controller of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, and no plan can be discussed in the end, but he can't get around him in the end.

Subsequently, the Dingbei garrison regiment sent soldiers to inform Ran Tuhu of the matter.

Li Deyi saw that there was no good solution at the moment, so he simply wandered around every day, wanting to try his luck and see if he could find a way to come out.

After wandering around for two days, Li Deyi found that the soldiers of the two countries are now also idle and panicked, and there are often fights and gambling that violate military discipline.

The commanders of the two countries did not pay attention to this, and they knew in their hearts why the soldiers below were like this. The army has been stationed outside for a long time, and it is clear that there is a possibility of war at any time, and the opponent is right under his nose, but he can't fight every day.

After such a long confrontation, the pressure on the soldiers' hearts has long been extremely heavy. Now the soldiers are finding some ways to vent their emotions, as long as they don't make trouble, it's not easy to say anything when they are generals, so the generals on both sides turn a blind eye and forget it.

On this day, Li Deyi suddenly saw a group of soldiers from the Pingtang Kingdom, gathering together, kicking a blowing pig urine bubble. He suddenly remembered that it seemed that this kind of activity had been mentioned in "The Romance of Taizu Dingchao".

It is said that 600 years ago, the founding Taizu of Pingzhou invented a "sport" game called football. There are eleven players on each side of the field, competing for a ball, and whoever can shoot the ball into the opponent's wooden goal will score a point, and the team with the most points will win.

It is said that this football was specially invented by the founding ancestor of Pingzhou in order to enrich the boring life of the barracks and train and select elite soldiers by the way.

According to the book, during the reign of Taizu, the founding father of the Ping Zhou Dynasty, this kind of football activity first came out of the army, and then it became popular all over the world, setting off a frenzy of football for the whole people. It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and with the participation of rich families, they tried to start manipulating the game with money, and secretly opened gambling games to make a lot of money. "The money that Lao Tzu earns by virtue of his ability can spend it as he wants. Why can't you spend money on the results? ”

When the founding ancestor of the Ping Zhou Dynasty was there, these families did not dare to be too presumptuous, and only dared to secretly manipulate the game. After his old man was feathered, this football game was completely reduced to a thing in the hands of the family, a competition for money, and even the royal family participated in it to make money.

In the end, the football game became more and more noisy, and more than 100 years later, gradually the people of Pingzhou stopped paying attention to it. We all know that the result of the game depends on which team has more money in the background, so what else is there to see? To be honest, it was also too unbelievable for the families of the Ping Zhou Dynasty. From big games to small games, every game has to spend money to control wins and losses, and ordinary people can't see a real game, and after a long time, they will get tired of it.

Finally, during the reign of Emperor Yingzong, the fifth emperor of the Ping Zhou Dynasty, an emperor surnamed Xie said that football matches were shady and immoral, and even murdered because of this, which should be banned.

This Yu Shi surnamed Xie will pick the right time to do things. At that time, Emperor Yingzong had just been pitted three million silver coins by the family in the "Tumubao" league not long ago, and he was angry. Even with that, during that time, Emperor Yingzong was also very disgusted with football games.

In the end, in a fit of rage, Emperor Yingzong directly issued an order to permanently ban football matches. Since then, in the final peace of the Zhou Dynasty, this football activity has completely degenerated into folk juggling, and it can no longer be officially held.

Later generations of football lovers called this incident the "Tumubao Incident" to mourn the football match that was forever banned by Emperor Yingzong.

As soon as Li Deyi saw the soldiers of the Pingtang Kingdom kicking pig urine bubbles (it is said that the earliest football 600 years ago was made of pig urine bubbles inflated and wrapped with a thick layer of leather on the outside), he couldn't help but play with his heart and decided to restart this football game according to the account in "The Romance of Taizu Dingchao".

As soon as he said it, Li Deyi immediately summoned the soldiers and horses of the two countries in the name of the Dingbei garrison regiment and assembled on the north side of the row of dung ditches in the middle.

The Dingbei garrison regiment had an order, and although the generals of the two countries did not know what was going on, they did not dare to disobey it, and immediately gathered their soldiers and rushed to the meeting place.

Subsequently, Li Deyi carefully selected a group of soldiers who could play football from among the soldiers of the two countries, and divided them into eight teams, four teams from each country, with 23 people in each team, 11 players for the game, and 12 substitutes.

Li De turned his mind and called the game played by these eight teams the Yanyun Cup. The winning team will receive a bronze trophy and a grand prize of 3,000 silver coins.

Li Deyi personally tidied up the field and built four football fields. During this period, the third uncle appeared out of nowhere and shouted for help. Not to mention, the third uncle really understands football and gave Li Deyi a lot of advice, some of which are not recorded in "The Romance of Taizu Dingchao".

For example, the rules of football games, such as what does "offside foul" mean, football referees, yellow cards, red cards, etc., are all handled by the third uncle. "The Romance of Taizu Dingchao" didn't talk so carefully, Li Deyi didn't understand this, so he could only listen to the third uncle. As for the referees, in order to maintain fairness, they are all served by the elite soldiers of the garrison regiment.

The teams have been chosen, the venues have been set up, and the rules have been set. Under the heavy reward, the eight teams took out all their abilities and attacked fiercely. In the first round of the game, the football teams of the two countries fought each other, and the points elimination system was implemented, with the winner getting three points, one point for a draw, and zero points for a loss.

Subsequently, the top four points will be selected to enter the knockout round to determine the final winner.

The first Yanyun Cup is in full swing. The soldiers of the two countries sweated on the field, fought hard, and you fought for me. In the beginning, the football teams of both countries were not very good at playing, and it was basically a mess.

But soon, Han generals took the lead in applying the formation to football. He is worthy of being a military genius, after watching a few football games, after the third uncle mentioned a few words, he grasped the key trick and figured out a set of all-attack and all-defense positions on his own, 4-3-3. The Pinghan national football team used this formation and soon won two victories in succession.

Seeing that his football team was kicked all over the place, Pharmacist Li was anxious. Fortunately, he is not a vegetarian, and after his team was defeated by the Pinghan football team with this formation for two consecutive games, Pharmacist Li also figured out the key and arranged for his team to practice the formation to target.

Li Yaoshi imitated Han Jiangbing's division of the football players into three parts, the front, middle and back, and arranged the formation, dividing his team into a 3-5-2 formation, focusing on defensive counterattacks, and immediately curbing the winning streak of the Pinghan football team.