The next day, Duhe received news from the palace.

At dusk last night, Li Shimin killed the rabbit in the East Palace.

As for whether the prince has been punished or not, and has not received the news, Du He also does not know, but the answer is obvious.

Li Shimin usually looks amiable, but he was once a general who killed and fought resolutely, and he was ruthless! provoked him, and it would be strange that Li Chengqian would have a good time.

But now he has no intention of paying attention to Li Chengqian, this is said to be the championship of cross-country racing, and on this day there will be the first gold medal of the first sports meeting in history.

Since this cross-country race is not a one-on-one race, but a group-to-group race, the process is particularly fast.

All 10 participants have gathered.

Du He and Li Yexu were chatting on the side, standing quietly on the side with generosity, revealing the belief in victory, and a Gaochang person stood restrainedly, with a little shy on his face, looking a little introverted.

He called An Longma and he was not tall, but no one here dared to underestimate him.

Like Li Yexu, he participated in the three events of riding, and each race ranked first with excellent results, and he was the favorite to win the championship in this competition, and he was also Li Yexu's strongest opponent in the field. Others are also extraordinary, but relatively inferior to one or two.

"Players draw lots!" The referee brought over a crockpot with folded notes indicating the serial numbers of the horses that the contestants were about to receive.

Dadu Shedang walked over first, stretched out his hand and grabbed one, it was the number one, "One, first, good sign, it seems that the gods have made me the first!" He smiled smugly, and didn't forget to glance at Du He after speaking.

Du He directly ignored him, and was no longer surprised by his arrogant and arrogant and self-righteous surname.

Ten contestants, each of whom was given a number.

Du got a note with the word "twenty" written on it, there were a total of twenty horses, according to the rhetoric set by Dadu, he should be the first to the bottom, he nodded, very thoughtful.

"Enter the stable and choose the horse!" The referee opened the stables, and twenty almost tall horses appeared in front of them.

According to the number, Duho found his partner in the race.

It was a swarthy and sturdy horse, and it looked pretty good!

"Contestants can train horses here, but they must not go out of the designated range, otherwise they will be disqualified." The referee still told him the rules of the competition, but few people paid attention to him.

Only half an hour of taming time, Duhe they are racing against time to follow the horses to play a relationship, only to achieve the tacit understanding of people and horses, in order to play the best in the race, with the fastest speed to reach the end first, to win the race.

To put it bluntly, they are patting on the back, really on the back, I hope Uncle Ma can cooperate with them better and win.

Du He and Li Yexu used the methods given to them by Qin Qiong, brushing the horses, "as long as they are comfortable to serve, they will naturally go thousands of miles when they get mad" This is the method that Qin Qiong taught them.

The others have their own tricks, some ride directly, some feed the horses, and some even bathe it, and the war horses are waiting like gentlemen.

Anlong is the only one who is an outlier, he is examining the horse's body, looking at its eyes, and seeing what its hooves are doing, no one can tell.

Half an hour, in a blink of an eye!

All of them showed up at the starting line.

The referee explained the route of the race, which was worthy of a championship, with a distance of five miles from the start to the finish and countless obstacles along the way.

Since the cross-country race is carried out in the wild, there is no ticket or ticket, as long as you are on the road, you can watch, so the two sets of the track have already gathered a large number of spectators. Perhaps because it was the championship race, there were a lot of people lined up on both sides of the track, with no end in sight.

"Ready, ready...... Knock ......" the drummer beat the drums of the game.

"Drive!" More than a dozen people reined in their horses and took the pace of charging.

Amid the cheers of the audience, Duhe rushed out first.

Li Yexu's expression changed slightly, and he called "Qinglian", but it was not easy to say anything during the game!

The magnanimity even showed a sneer of victory!

Du He also heard Li Yexu's call, and smiled slightly, knowing what he wanted to say. The runners of the race don't know, so no one knows where there will be obstacles, where there will be firecrackers, where there will be pools, where there will be mountains.

And the people who run first are often pioneers, especially for pathfinders, and so far there is no one who can stick to the end of the first place.

All the contestants almost reached a consensus not to fight for the first place in the first half of the road, but only for the first place in the second half of the road.

A running style like Duhe, which bears the brunt of the matter, is the most irrational in their eyes.

But they didn't know that this was exactly the tactical running method chosen by Du He, they used the first to explore the way, and Du He used the first to increase the distance between each other, so as to lead the bottom in one breath. He believes in his skill and adaptability, and even if he doesn't know what dangers lie ahead, he can get through them one by one.

The first to appear in front of him was the hurdle, Du He's eyesight was far away to be ready, his legs clamped the horse's belly, the horse volleyed into the air, the one-meter-high hurdle easily jumped over, excellent horse control technology, so that the audience on the left and right tracks onlookers let out an exclamation.

A few moments after he crossed the hurdles, the second place had just crossed the hurdles, and neither of them was aware of the running tactics used by Duho.

Duho still accelerated, and after about five hundred meters, a small river appeared in front of him, which crossed the course in two sections, and there were five pontoon bridges made of wooden planks, no wider than the body of a horse, and the only way to cross the river was to cross the pontoon.

Du He did not hesitate, slowed down and walked slowly, on the way. Suddenly, I heard the earth-shattering gongs and drums, and a group of eight lambs hid in the bushes opposite and beat the war drums, and the sound was like a war.

Sitting down and hearing such movement, the war horse couldn't help but be startled, his ears moved, and he took a small step back, but fortunately, Du He hurriedly pulled the reins and stabilized the war horse, so as to avoid falling into the river, and couldn't help but curse secretly, the bastard thought of the ghost idea.

This pontoon bridge is dangerous enough, and this trick is coming!

Calming his nerves, he rode across the pontoon bridge and sped away.

The group behind heard the sound of the drums, smiled, and made preparations in advance.

They had early warnings along the way, so it was very easy for them to run, especially in dangerous places, and they were not frightened when they encountered unexpected things like Duhe.

After running almost half the distance, they came over in shock, although they had Du He's warning in advance, but they also had to go through the same dangerous places, and it would not save much time than Du He, and Du He relied on the advantage of going first, and they were getting farther and farther away, so far they could only look at his back from afar.

"What a cunning fellow!" Dadu shouted angrily, and the prancing horse raised his whip and sped up.

The same is true for others.

But they have lost the first opportunity, although Du He has a dangerous road ahead, but he has a keen sense of martial arts and six senses, which is different from ordinary people, and he can often see the opportunity in advance, even if he can't and can stabilize the war horse with excellent reflexes, and then calmly break through.

The riders behind him were getting closer and closer, but there was only one last hurdle in front of Du He: rows of horizontal railings of more than two meters appeared in front of him, and the horizontal railings were arranged in rows, forming a passage similar to a cave for a hundred meters.

Obviously, this last pass is to pass through the cave for a full 100 meters.

The horse is exactly two meters high, and it is impossible for a person to pass on horseback, and the only way is to ride sideways, or lean back on the horse's back, or hide directly under the horse's belly, and there is no other way to pass.

Because the moment of the final victory can be seen here, there are especially many people, but more than 20,000 people gathered in a small place, and more than 20,000 pairs of eyes are looking forward to what method Du He will use to overcome this last hurdle and go to victory.

Faced with this situation, Du He let out a long roar, and he didn't choose that kind but slapped the horse's buttocks with a fierce whip, under the horrified gaze of more than 10,000 people. The man flew up in the air and ran forward directly on the top of the railing.

Horses are extremely fast, and so are people!

The horse rushed out of the way, and the man stepped on the last railing, and in the incredible eyes of thousands of people, Duhe returned to the horse and calmly rushed to the finish line.

Everything stood still, as if time and space had frozen at this moment.

The audience was so quiet that the pin drop could be heard.

Not only the spectators, but even the running riders were stunned one by one.

Suddenly there was a loud "bang"!

Dadu set hit the railing and flew upside down, falling heavily to the ground. It turned out that he didn't want to lose, so he chased the most urgently, and when he was stunned, he forgot to slow down, and directly hit the hurdle and flew upside down.

The magnanimity set up this knockdown also made the riders and spectators on the field react.

The audience chanted Duho's name and erupted in earth-shattering shouts.

The rest of the riders also crossed the tunnel as well as they could, and crossed the finish line in turn, and of course fell to the ground tragically and groaned.

Duhe won the first championship, An Longma was second, and Li Yexu won the third place, losing to An Longma with a horse body.

In front of everyone's eyes, the referee shouted: "I announce that the riding cross-country race, Datang Duhe, won the championship!" ”

"Congratulations!" Li Yexu lost a little regrettably, but as a friend, he still expressed his heartfelt admiration and stretched out his hand.

"Thank you!"

The two hands were clasped tightly together.

"I'm not convinced, it's not fair!" Dadu set rushed over and shouted at the referee with an unwilling face: "He committed a foul!" ”

The referee was stunned, obviously asked, and was stunned for a while: "May I ask what rules the No. 20 player committed?" How did I not know? ”

"Uh......" Dadu set was speechless, the race only kneeling riders could not dismount, feet could not touch the ground, and if they hit the ground, they would lose, Du He did not touch the ground with his feet.

This didn't make sense, and he shouted again: "You cheat! ”

Li Yexu said disdainfully: "Qinglian is fighting for the first place in front, but we haven't kept up." But you say that he is deceitful, and it makes no sense. ”

Du He also amused him, and said disdainfully: "A good man can afford to lose, let it go, it's really embarrassing my face to agree with you to gamble!" ”

The people around him also expressed their contempt and disdain for the generous setup.

Dadu also knew that he was unreasonable, so he angrily squeezed away from the crowd and left.

Like a triumphant general, Duhe returned to the arena surrounded by a crowd of people.

Under the gaze of nearly 100,000 spectators in the arena, he made it to the podium.

An Longma and Li Yexu also stood on his left and right sides respectively, and the Ministry of Rites Shangshu, who was in charge of the competition, personally brought a golden gold medal to Duhe.

At the moment when Du He hung the gold medal, the entire arena gathered into two words: "Du He!" Cheers soared into the sky.

Du He and Li Yexu returned to the lounge, Luo Tong, Li Jingye, Fang Yiai, and Li Yesi surrounded them to congratulate them, and the Cheng family Ba King Kong also squeezed in to congratulate them together.

Cheng Chuliang said with a smile: "Du Boy got the first, how about celebrating it, Du Boy on the first floor of Chang'an has a treat tonight, how about we have a big meal?" ”

The crowd followed suit.

Du He was also really happy in his heart, and said in one breath: "No problem!" ”

"By the way, what's going on with our next event?" Du He asked Li Yesi. He went to the competition early this morning, and he didn't look at the schedule list. They won the group stage and split the quarter-finals, but I don't know how the quarter-finals were distributed.

Li Yesi smiled: "The road is narrow! I won the lottery of generosity, but Songtsan Xiruo won the lottery of you! The game is scheduled for tomorrow, and it seems that you have no hope of playing against Dadushi! ”

There was confidence in his tone.

"Same!" Du He said disapprerovitously: "You won the battle with Dadu, and I am beating you, which can also prove that I am stronger than him!" ”

Li Yesi also laughed: "It's been a long time since I waited for this day, some time ago, my master Qiu Bearded Ke came to Chang'an and taught me a few tricks, and I just want to give it a try, we'll see you in the finals!" ”

"Okay!" The two laughed one after another, and there was an awe-inspiring battle intent in their eyes.

They are both brothers and rivals.

When you are brothers, you support each other, and when you are an opponent, you can confirm each other and learn from each other, and make progress together.

Next was Li Jingye's archery competition, and Du He had just walked out of the lounge and heard a deafening cheer outside the venue. The cheers outweighed the cries when he received the gold medal.

I couldn't help but look at the arena curiously, and it turned out that the princess Yao Chi of the Xiangxiong Kingdom had appeared...... She was wearing a plain white tight-fitting suit, with light jade steps, and came to the center of the scene, revealing a graceful and moving demeanor with every move.

Du He couldn't help but smile bitterly, beauties are popular no matter what era they are, this is an immutable law.

But the next scene left him dumbfounded.

Princess Yaochi bent her bow and arrows, "Bang!" With a bang, three powerful arrows burst out one after another, and they were impartial at the red heart of the arrow target three hundred steps away, and the onlookers burst into earth-shaking applause!

Princess Yaochi was given the right to enter the finals.

Li Jingye was not surprised at all, and said with a smile: "As long as I win this game, the opponent in the final will be her!" ”

After speaking, he walked into the arena with his head held high.

(To be continued)