Chapter Seventy-Four: Undefeated and Defeated

Huang Zhonglihe defeated Wen Chou, and three shots with one arrow made him retreat in the face of difficulties, and he had to show his strength after several years of martial arts, and he was extremely happy in his chest. In the past, I often sighed that I had done nothing for decades, and half of my life had passed, but now I have swept away the haze in my heart, and I am full of spirit and pride! At the age of forty-one, he seemed to be back in his twenties, and he was not tired at all.

One man and one horse, standing in the middle of the field with a knife and a bow, no one dared to come forward to challenge, so that it only took half an hour to win the success and obtain the qualification to challenge the champion Hou Ma Chao.

At this moment, a ride suddenly appeared at the registration office on the left. Immediately sat a young general with a helmet and armor, no more than thirty years old, burly, resolute, eyes sharp, holding a long steel knife, holding a majestic style, shouting: "Huang Zhong is rampant, Peiguo Xiahou Yuan came to meet you!" ”

Huang Zhong was in high spirits, and he also shouted: "Good come! So saying, the horse rushed forward.

The two of them fought against the big knife, one was strong and heavy, and the other was ruthless, and it was difficult to distinguish for a while. Both inside and outside the field, whether it was the Son of Heaven or the common people, they were immediately excited, such a high-level military duel was not something that could be seen if you wanted to see it.

As mentioned above, after Xiahou Ying was a famous general in the Western Han Dynasty, Xiahou Ying had no blood relationship with Cao Ying, but this Xiahou Yuan and Cao Ying were related, and Cao Ying's wife Mrs. Ding's sister married Xiahou Yuan as his wife, and the two were actually brothers-in-law.

Xiahou Yuan is a righteous man with deep righteousness and strong courage. In the early years, Cao Ying offended the powerful, and the government wanted to ask him about his crime, but Xiahou Yuan took his body as his guilt. After Cao Ying escaped, he managed to rescue Xiahou Yuan, it can be said that the two had a fateful friendship, plus his cousin Xiahou Yuan, the brotherhood between the three was not weaker than Liu Guanzhang. In the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Henan and Yanzhou were the most affected, the people fled in all directions due to famine, and Xiahou Yuan abandoned his young son in order to find his dead brother and orphan daughter.

Xiahou Yuan is known for leading troops with strange things, especially good at running battles, and his martial arts are slightly inferior to his cousin Xiahou Yuan. Although Zhang Fei fought hard to retreat in the romance, he was able to fight with Huang Zhong for 20 without winning or losing, and in addition, he killed Cheng Yi, slashed Changqi in Sanhe, and dragged the knife to earn Yang Ren and many other performances, which were enough to make him one of the first-class generals.

Huang Zhong had just won over Wen Chou, and his physical strength must have been seriously damaged, after all, Wen Chou was not a soft persimmon. At this moment, Xiahou Yuan, who is like a dragon and a tiger, is naturally a little powerless, although he can occupy the absolute upper hand, it is difficult to win, and after fifty or sixty times, the battle situation is in a stalemate.

He Jin was afraid that Xiahou Yuan would lose again, so he always paid attention to the two people on the field, as long as Xiahou Yuan could survive Lily, he had his own way to eliminate Huang Zhong.

And because Xiahou Yuan had received Cao Ying's orders in advance, his sword skills were all defensive at the moment, and occasionally he could cause a lot of trouble to Huang Zhong with a surprise blow. Don't seek merit but seek no fault, although his arms were sore, but he was shocked by Huang Zhong's big knife, he would not be defeated in a short time.

Huang Zhong knew the rules of the hero fight, although he couldn't be sure whether Xiahou Yuan was He Jin's person, but once the two of them stalemate to Lily and he didn't have the advantage of the surname, He Jin would never let himself win. In a hurry, the offensive couldn't help but speed up a little, but unfortunately he couldn't exert his full strength at all because of the sore arms.

The two of them attacked with all their strength, defended with all their strength, consumed most of their strength as one, and waited for work at ease, Huang Zhong's advantage became smaller and smaller, and Xiahou Yuan also began to adjust his state, strengthen his attack, and reduce his defense.

In the blink of an eye, the two had fought for nearly a lily, and Huang Zhong saw that he couldn't take Xiahou Yuan, so he suddenly had a plan, picked up his knife and left. Xiahou Yuan subconsciously wanted to catch up, but the war horse reacted as soon as he ran two steps, and chuckled: "Can you earn me just a little drag?" This is a competition in the ring, not a fight of life and death! ”

Huang Zhong sighed secretly, his face full of decadence, because at this time, the giant hourglass had run out, and there was no chance to turn the tables around.

On the high platform, before Huangfu Song could speak, the ecstatic He Jin took the lead and said loudly: "The person recommended by Cao Yilang is really good, Huang Zhong is quite brave, but now he can only flee from the wind, what does General Huangfu think?" ”

From Huangfu Song's eyes, it can naturally be seen that Huang Zhong has always had the upper hand, but the bad thing is that Huang Zhong should not use the drag knife plan. He knew that this was a drag-and-knife plan, but He Jin didn't know, He Miao didn't know, the people around him didn't know, and the Son of Heaven didn't know. sighed at the moment, then ordered someone to beat the gong, got up and shouted to the side of the high platform: "Xiahou Yuan wins this competition, you have a stick of incense to rest, and you can challenge the champion Hou Ma Chao later!" In addition, that Huang Zhuangshi, please step forward and answer! ”

Everyone cheered, Huang Zhong wiped the sweat on his forehead, but his face was full of anger, his heart was indignant, and he shouted: "Huang is just a mountain and a wild villager, what do you have to answer?" We will not accompany you! With that, one person rode straight towards the gate of the school field.

Huangfu Song was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Huang Zhong to be so fierce, he couldn't help but secretly shake his head with guilt, and glanced back at the Ling Emperor who was nothing, with mixed feelings in his heart.

Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty clapped his hands and said, "This person is really recommended by Cao Yilang?" ”

He Jin said: "That's right, if Your Majesty doesn't believe it, you can take it to the registration book!" ”

Liu Hong said: "I naturally trust the general, Cao Yilang has repeatedly broken the Yellow Turban thief, and has made great contributions to the imperial court. But I don't know where Cao Yilang is now? ”

He Jin was overjoyed, and said without thinking about it: "Far away in the sky, close in front of you!" With that, he waved his hand to the audience. Cao Ying didn't want to let go of the opportunity to take charge of the military in front of him, and immediately came to the stage to salute Emperor Ling.

Emperor Ling was overjoyed when he saw Cao Ying, and said with a smile: "I haven't seen Cao Aiqing for a year since she was sick, and now I see that your demeanor is better than in the past, I am very happy, it is rare that Aiqing can also recommend talents for my Han, I promise you today, no matter whether this strong man can defeat the champion Hou, you can serve as a captain!" ”

Cao Ying's heart was slightly moved, because of the contradiction with Zhang Rang and others, he had been sick and not going to court for more than a year, but he didn't expect Emperor Ling to still miss him, and said gratefully: "Thank you for Your Majesty's care, you are no longer in trouble, and you should serve the imperial court!" ”

Ma Chao didn't have the heart to participate in the intrigue within the court, so he had already put on his armor and waited for the result. I wanted to take the opportunity to fight with the exhausted Huang Zhong, but I didn't expect that there was a scene with the surname of the drama in the ending. Although he felt unhappy for Huang Zhong, he was also a little happy in his heart, because Xiahou Yuan was much easier to deal with than Huang Zhong. Seeing Huang Zhong's back riding away alone, his heart suddenly moved, and he immediately rode his horse to chase after him from the outside.

How fast is the lightning barge? When Huang Zhong went out, he was entangled by Meng Da again, although he politely rejected Meng Da, but he also delayed a lot of time, so he was caught up by Ma Chao before he walked out of Wuli.

"Huang Zhuangshi walks slowly, listen to Chao's words first!"

When Huang Zhong heard this, he stopped the war horse and looked back, only to see Ma Chao fully armed and rushed up, so he frowned and said: "I don't know what advice the champion Hou has, I want to have a fight with Huang!" ”

Ma Chao also reined in the thunder, hugged his fists and said: "Huang Lao Hero misunderstood, although Chao is conceited and brave, but his age may not be as good as the old hero's son, how dare he compare with Huang Lao Hero?" ”

Huang Zhong's heart was relieved, he stroked his pitch-black short beard, and said in a mocking tone: "Is the old man very old? In addition, the word hero does not dare to be, the champion Hou Zhong is unparalleled, and many deeds have long been heard of by the old man, and the word hero is none other than you! But I don't know what happened to the champion Hou looking for the old man? ”

Ma Chao didn't even dare to say it, but he smiled bitterly in his heart, in his thinking, Huang Zhong has always been synonymous with old and strong, so he subconsciously shouted out a "old" word, and at this time Huang Zhong was only in his early forties, just in the prime of life, and "old" has nothing to do with it, and the current Zhengse said: "Hansheng misunderstood, 'old' does not refer to old, experienced, highly respected, experienced can also be called 'old', such as the old horse knows the way, the young and the old, the old is serious, the old is calculating, the old is sophisticated, etc., Hansheng is excellent in martial arts, archery is supernatural, When it is my predecessor, I dare to call the old hero! ”

Huang Zhong laughed, gave a thumbs up and praised: "I have heard the champion Hou Wenwu Shuangquan for a long time, and now I see that he is really a person who can speak well!" The old man is not a stingy person, this matter should not be mentioned, and the champion Hou doesn't want the old man to be your personal soldier! ”

"Ugh!" Ma Chao was embarrassed for a while, secretly scolded Meng Da for not knowing how to be flexible, and said embarrassedly: "Where is it?" The old hero's martial arts are world-famous, how can he dare to let the old hero be my own soldier? With the talent of Hansheng, it is enough to lead an army and serve as a general who stands alone, such as today's chaos, thieves and armies, local divisions, beacon fires, super ambitions, want to build immortal deeds with a seven-foot body, if there is such a general as Hansheng, he will be able to add wings like a tiger, and calm the world can be waited! ”

Huang Zhong's face was full of seriousness when he heard this, and he asked in a deep voice: "I don't know that the world you are talking about is the world of the Liu family?" Or is it the world of the Ma family? ”

Ma Chao frowned slightly, this question was more acute, and it was extremely difficult to answer, because he was not sure whether Huang Zhong was interested in the Han family, so he thought about it and said: "It's not the Liu family, it's not the Ma family, the world is the world of the people!" ”

Huang Zhong was in awe when he heard this, hugged his fists and said: "Champion Hou is really very human!" I also heard about your three wishes before, and then thought about what the champion Hou did, although there were flaws, he did not hide Yu, and he should be a good master of a generation. The old man is conceited and has lost half his life, and he doesn't want to continue to bury it, but there is a difficulty in this, forgive the old man for not agreeing immediately, this matter needs to be discussed in the long run! ”

Ma Chao's heart moved, and he suddenly remembered Ding Yuan's words, and then thought of the events of Huang Zhong's death in history, his heart suddenly brightened, and he said at the moment: "Could it be that it is related to Hansheng's beloved son's serious illness and difficult to recover?" ”

"Exactly!" Huang Zhong's face was gloomy, and he said: "The old man is over forty years old, only one son and one daughter, the eldest son Huang Xunian is twelve, just the same year as the general, but unfortunately because the inner son injured the fetal gas when she was pregnant in October of that year, she was sick since she was a child, and it has become more and more serious in recent years. ”