It has been a year since he traveled to the Song Dynasty, and Zhao Weiji, who has basically adapted to ancient life, began to find that he had changed somehow. It's not a bad change, but it's like the skills of this body are beginning to show.

For example, Zhao Weiji is now a good calligrapher, as a science and engineering otaku, even if he has more liberal arts knowledge, he will not be able to practice a good calligraphy. But now he writes a good book.

What's more, he now has a good martial arts. Although compared to Zhao Xin, the Yang family's generals are still much worse than these masters, but they are already much higher than ordinary soldiers. Converted into a numerical value, if Yang Yanzhao is one hundred, how can Zhao Weiji also have seventy-five.

And Zhao Weiji not only has a good martial arts, but also an expert in riding and archery, also in terms of values, if the martial arts are seventy-five, the riding and archery is actually close to ninety.

Not only did his physical skills begin to show, but his mind now began to show what he had learned from his previous body. For example, some simple marching formations, the art of war. There are also Confucian classics, as well as other ancient classics. If physical skills can be explained by scientific names such as muscle memory and conditioning, these brain things cannot be explained.

For these, he once asked Zhao Xin. From Zhao Xin's mouth, it turned out that the owner of this body was not only keen and studious, but also dabbled in martial arts and horse archery.

Although these skills began to emerge slowly, all the personal life memories that the body was supposed to have had did not react at all. For this, Zhao Weiji can only be attributed to the fact that he has the aura of the protagonist, and God has begun to help him hang up.

In order to accommodate the emergence of these skills, especially physical ones. Zhao Weiji began to participate in the regular training of generals and soldiers. He clearly understood that these skills could be of great help to him on the battlefield in the future.

But Zhao Weiji, who participated in the training, knew how boring and unscientific the military training of the Song Dynasty was. There is no training other than basic battle formation training and equipment training. Although the execution ability of these soldiers in battle formations and the ability to control equipment are not bad, their own foundation is very poor. In particular, physical fitness, body balance, reflexes, and physical confrontation.

Since large-scale pig farming has already begun in the Central Plains, eating meat is no longer such a luxury activity. The border guards ensured the supply of meat. But there is only one explanation for the fact that the soldier's physical foundation is still so bad, that is, the training cannot keep up.

Because they are professional soldiers, there is no basic training activity of farming, and the physical fitness of soldiers in the Song Dynasty is not as good as that of the previous dynasty. Not to mention compared to the Khitans who gallop on the steppe all year round.

For this problem, Zhao Weiji thought of a solution, that is, football.

That's right, it's football, not the keju of this era, but the modern football of later generations. In this era, the entry threshold for Kemari is too high, and more often than not, it is the pursuit of fancy. It's basically all the juggling of football later, and the game doesn't have much physical confrontation. The training of the physical foundation is not as comprehensive as that of modern football. Therefore, Zhao Weiji decisively prepared to plagiarize modern football as a basic training for the body. Because simple training is too boring. Not as much fun as football. Zhao Weiji believed that football that could conquer the world in later generations could conquer the soldiers of the Song Dynasty.

And there is also good news for Zhao Weiji, that is, the Tang Dynasty of China has invented an inflatable leather ball. Such a ball is made by placing an animal urine bubble into the balloon and then blowing it up. Although the ball is worse than that of later generations, it is enough for football.

On this day, Zhao Weiji found Yang Yanzhao and discussed the situation of the soldiers he saw with him.

"I know that the soldier's physical foundation is not enough, but there is no way. Basic training is too boring, and it will be troublesome if the soldiers in the army are dissatisfied and mutiny. Yang Yanzhao said after sighing.

"That's fine, we don't do boring basic training, we play games." Saying that, Zhao Weiji took out a football, threw it on the ground, and then picked it up with his toes, and made a few movements to juggle the ball.

"You mean Keju? No, no, it's too difficult to keju, and the surname is really not strong. Yang Yanzhao shook his head and said after seeing Zhao Weiji click on the penalty.

"I'm going to play Kemari, but it's not. It's much simpler than Kemari, first of all, I kicked it on the ground. ”

"Kicked on the ground?" Yang Yanzhao didn't understand very well.

In the past, Keju was a bit similar to a shuttlecock, where several people kept bouncing the ball and passing the ball, but they couldn't let the ball hit the ground. Here, Zhao Weiji said that he put the ball on the ground and kicked it, which made Yang Yanzhao confused.

"In this case, Yanzhao, let's go to the school field to find some people. Then I'll show you how to play this new Kemari. Zhao Weiji said and pulled Yang Yanzhao to the school field.

After arriving at the school field, Zhao Weiji let people vacate a territory almost the size of a modern football field. Then he used lime powder to draw various lines on the football field. Immediately after that, two simple goals were made out of wood and placed on the bottom line at both ends. In the end, twenty-two people were found to stand on the field, and they were divided into two teams, each with eleven people, each wearing red and blue vests.

Just when everyone didn't know why, Zhao Weiji began to speak: "Today, let's play a new game called football." ”

As soon as he heard Zhao Weiji's words, the people below immediately fried the pot: "Football? Isn't it Kemari? ”

"It's not Keju, it's football, and this game ball is played underground." Saying that, Zhao Weiji began to explain the rules of football.

Since Zhao Weiji crossed over, he directly skipped the century-old development history of football, and moved the latest rules directly to the Song Dynasty. Although it took a lot of effort to explain, and there were still questions from time to time, it took half an hour later. All the soldiers finally understood how to play this football.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Weiji acted as the referee himself, and then let the twenty-two people who were already standing on the field divide into two teams and began to try to play a football game.

Because Zhao Weiji only moved the rules of the later generations, he didn't say anything about techniques and tactics. At first, the game was unusually chaotic, and ten people except the goalkeeper rushed forward together. And because he didn't grasp the strength well at the beginning, fouls appeared endlessly, and Zhao Weiji's hands were soft. In order to allow the game to continue, he had to change the rules a little, and the person who was sent off with a red card could find someone to replace him. Otherwise, there would be no one for both teams in less than twenty minutes.

Although this group of people was new to football, the scene was extremely chaotic at first, and there was no discipline at all in attack and defense. But soon the soldiers' combat formation quality began to play a role, and these people had begun to have a preliminary division of labor. The people on the field have begun to have someone in charge of defense, someone in charge of attacking, and it is no longer ten people who are in a mess attacking and defending together. Although it is not as detailed as the super division of labor in football in later generations, it is already very good as a start.

Yang Yanzhao, who was on the side, gradually began to feel the benefits of football as he watched. The first is that everyone is running around the field, even the goalkeeper is moving in a small area. And then there's the constant physical confrontation between people. And because of the existence of the rules, although there is a physical confrontation, it is not easy to cause a large number of non-combat casters to attrition.

And in addition to the physical exercise of the participants, one of the biggest benefits of this football is to improve the judgment of the participants' own position in the formation. This has a strong auxiliary effect on the movement of the formation in actual combat.

The more he watched, the happier Yang Yanzhao became, finding that he had fallen in love with the game, and when one of the red team members on the field was sent off for a foul, he took the man's vest and put it on his body and then got off the game.

Yang Yanzhao is worthy of being a battle-hardened general, and he quickly adapted to this game. His superb martial arts skills allow him to control his body very well, and then control football. Soon, Yang Yanzhao became the core of the red team's attack. The balance on the field was broken, and the balance of victory tipped in favor of the red team.

In the end, the game lasted for an hour and the red team won with a score of 8:4, and Yang Yanzhao not only scored a hat-trick, but also had an assist. This made Zhao Weiji, as a referee, not only sigh, but also sighed, if the martial arts are good, basically any sport is not a problem.

"Guoxiang, you are really a genius, how did you come up with such a game, it is not only fun. And it is of great help to soldiers. After the game, Yang Yanzhao said excitedly to Zhao Weiji.

"Maybe it was a sudden inspiration." Zhao Weiji explained with a smile.

Yang Yanzhao was still immersed in the excitement of the game just now, so he didn't care much about Zhao Weiji's explanation.

With the promotion of football in Daizhou and Yanmen Pass, the foundation of soldiers' physical fitness has been greatly improved. And it's not just the soldiers who are playing, even the generals sometimes can't help but kick a game.

Another change brought about by the promotion of football is that Zhao Weiji, a guy who has no temperament, actually organizes a group of soldiers to go to Daizhou City every ten days to do public games, and then he uses this to sell tickets. Although the tickets are not expensive, football is already very popular in Daizhou. Every time I make a lot of money. What is quite kind is that Zhao Weiji directly used this income as a bonus for the winner of each open tournament. It was fun and extra money to be made, and the enthusiasm of the soldiers was even higher.

Just when Zhao Weiji was constantly exerting influence on the northern border, he did not let go of the Central Plains, and through the correspondence with Chai Yu, his advanced thinking was also quietly changing the Central Plains.

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