Chapter 124 Polo Tournament

Seeing that Anhe let go of Princess Gaoyang, Wu Mei's pretty face was full of smiles again, and the bereaved love of the house helped Princess Gaoyang to walk away, and she walked into Anhe in a hurry:

Unexpectedly, Xiao Langjun is not only strong in martial arts, but also has such superb ball skills, and the little woman admires it very much. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

Ann and laughed:

"Sister Wu has won the award, but I didn't expect that my sister seems to be a delicate woman, and she doesn't let her eyebrows be raised on the court."

An He didn't know when Wu Mei entered the palace, nor did he know her identity in the palace now.

Is it talented? Or Zhaoyi?

But now she is definitely not the queen, because when she saved her, it was less than two months ago, and she couldn't rise to the position of the queen even if she was on the rocket, and looked at the other two women sitting next to Li Xiaojiu on the table, An He thought: This must be the legendary Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu, which further affirmed An He's thoughts.

Because An He didn't know Wu Mei's current identity, he called a sister.

Wu Mei's heart fluttered when she heard this, she only had an older brother and sister at home, no younger brother and sister, so few people called her an elder sister, and she entered the palace at the age of fifteen, and now she has returned to the palace at the age of twenty-six, it has been eleven years, and the palace gate is as deep as the sea, during which she has never seen her mother and relatives, except for her mother, she can't even remember what her half-brothers look like.

At this time, the young man in front of her, who had saved herself, actually called her sister, and a different kind of affection mixed with family affection was encouraging her.

Suddenly, she looked at An He and said in her mouth:

"You're about to come out of the Taishi Bureau, because I want you to stay in a place where I can see, and I'm going to get you into the palace to be a guard."

An He's wide mouth didn't close for a long time, and when he came to his senses, Wu Mei had already run away with brisk and confident steps.

At noon, after a short rest, Li Xiaojiu led the palace concubines, Chinese and foreign envoys, and civil and military officials to drive the camp of the Longwu Army to watch the bowing competition here.

The Longwu Army is the only all-cavalry unit in the forbidden army, and the requirements for equestrianism are very high, so the Longwu Army has the most soldiers who are good at bowing, and it also has the largest bowing field in Chang'an.

However, the members of the forbidden army were selected from the best of the forbidden army, and most of those people were not from the Longwu army. Those who served as generals in other forbidden army ranks naturally had no fewer opportunities to ride horses than the Long Wu Army, and they had more time to bow down, so their bow fighting skills were better than most of the people in the Long Wu Army.

On the court, there is a goal at each end, which is made of wooden frames, five feet apart, much smaller than modern goals, and does not need to be guarded.

The game is divided into six quarters, each session uses a letter incense, about ten minutes now, and each session of the game has to change venues. Because of the fierce competition, one or two horses have to support the whole race, and then the horsepower will inevitably be tired, which will affect the performance of the players, so the horses must be changed in every race.

The high platform on which the generals of the forbidden army inspected the three armies naturally became the viewing stage for the emperor and many dignitaries and concubines. The red felt had already been laid on the high platform, and a fence was added on three sides, only the side facing the bow field was released, the emperor and the queen sat in the middle, Xiao Shufei did not participate again under the pretext of being unwell, Li Xiaojiu seemed to see through her thoughts, and did not force it again.

In the past two years, there have always been only three teams that have been eligible to participate in the bowing competition: the Tubo team, the Uighur team, and the Tang Guards. Due to the tense relations between the Turks and the Tang Dynasty in recent years, it has been a long time since they have come to the Hajj, and it is impossible to participate in the bowing.

So now there are only Uighurs and the Tang Guards.

An He found that Changsun Run was also among them, although Changsun Run was fined for one year because of the drunken Xianlou incident, and he was not removed from his position as captain, so he was still eligible to participate, besides, Changsun Run usually has nothing to do, and his favorite is Keju and polo, and he has been on the court for a long time, and this guy's ball skills are still very good.

Xue Rengui, An He and the others made serious preparations, although they no longer cared about the victory or defeat, they still hoped to show their strength as much as possible, not to let the Uighurs underestimate the Tang people, but also to fight for greater opportunities for the forbidden army.

Even if they hadn't spent more than a few months with the forbidden army and had a close relationship with each other, once outsiders were involved, hostility would arise spontaneously.

Polo, the first condition is the horse, a horse does not obey the call, the horsepower is not long enough, the action is not dexterous enough, the driver has a skill, but also subject to the restrictions of the horse, if you encounter the general weak team, you can also be like An He in the grass field of Sinong Temple, show the majesty of a batting, but when you meet the world's first-class team, it is absolutely impossible.

Secondly, you also need smart horse control skills, the ball on the field left and right, forward and backward, no good horse control, you can only chase behind the ball all over the field, no matter how good the horse is, it is for nothing.

The next is the mastery of the ball and the cooperation of the team, this sport was introduced from Tibet, and was originally invented by the cavalry when they were idle to relieve boredom, so it has become a sport to test and train the cavalry and the cavalry to fight together. Therefore, the overall level of strength of the team and the individual's ability to control the ball are equally important.

The Uighurs are a people on horseback, and their riding and archery skills are not inferior to those of the Tibetans, and seeing that the other party is also making preparations, Xue Rengui tightened his horse's belly and whispered to An He: "Be careful for a while, some movements when bowing are very dangerous, be careful not to get hurt." ”

An He nodded.

"Woo woo~~~"

Dozens of horns rose high and at the same time made a long sound, and the war drums rumbled loudly, accompanied by the sound of the horns in everyone's ears, and the soldiers who were watching in all directions cheered.

The race is on.

The singer threw the vermilion polo high, and all the riders on both sides clamped their legs between the horse's belly, shouted and shouted, and pounced at the same time.

The Uighurs were a horse-like people after all, and although the distinction between fast and slow was not so obvious over such a short distance, it was evident from the high platform that the Uighurs were rushing forward faster than the guards as a whole.

On the side of the guards, Xue Rengui's speed was not slightly slower than that of the Uighurs, and even faster for a moment, but the two players on the other side arrived at the same time, one swung his staff to hit the ball, and the other also made a cane to hit the ball, but the staff and Xue Rengui's staff "snapped" in mid-air.

At the moment when the two rods clashed, another Uighur picked up the ball with one rod and rushed towards the goal on the side of the guards. An and Tima rushed forward, half a horse's body slower than Xue Rengui's speed, and when he saw the opposing player rushing towards his side, he immediately lifted the reins of the horse, and the war horse was slightly on the side, and the staff in his hand was raised, and the rod was taken out to grab the ball.

"Smack!" There was a crisp sound on the ground, the two sticks struck each other, An He's palm was numb for a while, although the palm was wrapped in linen, there was still a feeling that he couldn't hold it, An He couldn't help but be surprised, this person had so much strength.

Because it was just a polo match, An He didn't use True Qi.

The person on the other side was even more uncomfortable than he felt, and under the exchange of two rods, the speed of the charge was immediately stopped, and the ball was no longer under his control, and he rolled away with a grunt, and was grabbed by the eldest grandson run who rushed up.

"Haha, it's mine!"

Shaking his spirits, he was just about to rush forward with the ball, but several players from the other side came one after another and intercepted the ball again, at this time Xue Rengui turned his horse and rushed back, and fought with An He, who was rushing on the horse.

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