Chapter 317: Not an everyday routine
Since Mr. Brian Clough arrived at Hogwarts, all the Quidditch-loving students at Hogwarts have been boiling. Had it not been for the death order of the four deans not to disturb Mr. Clough, the students who asked him for autographs would have filled the hallway.
On the first two days, Mr. Clough gathered the Quidditch teams from the four houses and played an hour-long practice match against the reserves.
While watching the game, an assistant was holding a parchment to help him take notes.
When Dumbledore announced that Mr. Clough needed an assistant, a group of students nearly fought for the spot, and they fought for the winner after some internal competition.
Through the performance of the players in the practice matches, Mr. Clough made a little adjustment to the original school team.
And Zhang, who wanted to be lazy, failed to be lazy this time and became an all-round substitute for the school team, and he had to train with the team every night.
The next time is a variety of tactical drills.
At this time, technical training is no longer useful, and only more tactics can be rehearsed.
With Zhang Xu here, the whole stadium is brightly lit, and he is not afraid that he will not be able to see the ball in the dark at night.
In this way, it will be bitter to Zhang Xu. He doesn't have to do his homework, but he needs to change it.
So he has to drag his tired body to change his homework every night after training.
In addition to his homework, he also had to toss around the organization of the Quidditch tournament of the eight schools.
For a while, Zhang Xu was so busy that he was about to fly.
During Hogsmeade Week in March, Mr. Clough gave all the players a day off, which gave Zhang Xu time to go to his villa and talk to Fleur on the phone. During this time, he was so busy that he even stopped his routine phone calls at night.
Fortunately, during this time, both Percy and Voldemort have died down, and it seems that they all know that Dumbledore is about to leave England for a while, so if they want to make trouble, they will not rush for a while.
In this short leisure time, Zhang Xu walked around Hogmodri after cooking porridge on the phone, replenished sweets at Duke Honey, went to the Three Broomsticks Bar for a drink, and finally decided to run to the café to tease the fish cakes.
As a result, as soon as Zhang Xu walked into the café, he was pulled away by a person running over.
"Quick, we need you now." Anthony Goldstein hurried over, picked up Zhang Xu and ran to the big table in the middle of the café.
During the time when Anthony came to the "Total War" table, Anthony told Zhang Xu that now the four academies are competing, and the losing academies will invite the other three academies to class today, and several representatives of the Eagle Academy have not performed well today, and now they are at the bottom.
The representative of the Eagle Courtyard saw that Anthony pulled Zhang Xu over, so he gave up his position, and Zhang Xu also did his job as a deserved.
Without further ado, the four of them started the game directly.
In front of Zhang Xu is a piece of parchment that serves as a control panel, on which various options are marked.
The terrain was chosen as "random", and soon the table rose and fell, forming an uneven mountainous terrain.
This kind of terrain is not very suitable for cavalry action, unless the cavalry occupies the commanding heights and charges down like an avalanche, otherwise the cavalry climbing the mountain is not as good as the infantry, so this field is dominated by infantry.
At this time, Zhang Xu found that the three opponents were eyebrows, and saw that they were going to deal with him together.
So in the next preparation time, Zhang Xu chose to focus on defense.
After the preparation time was over, the soldiers and horses of the Quartet began to appear on the sand table in the middle of the table, as if they had grown out of the ground.
It's unscientific, but it's magical, and it's a very advanced use of Transfiguration.
When all the soldiers and horses appeared, the onlookers let out exclamations. But soon, the exclamation turned into a "shameless" voice.
Because the four players sit on the four sides of the sand table, the sand table is divided into four isosceles right triangles diagonally, and each player can place his forces in the triangle in front of him.
I saw that Zhang Xu chose eight teams of pikemen with the highest defensive power, eight teams of archers with the highest attack power, three teams of ordinary cavalry and one team of the most basic cannon fodder cavalry.
Then Zhang Xu arranged the troops on the top of the mountain in the corner of the sand table on his right, and behind the top of the mountain was the edge of the sand table. The archers are in the far corner, flanked by cavalry, while pikemen are lined up in front of them, forming a triangle with no gaps on either side of the sand table.
This is the most shameless corner guarding method in the Total War series of games.
The other three players were also stunned at the moment, it was the first time they had seen such a shameless play.
If they don't care about Zhang Xu and fight each other, they can only let Zhang Xu sit and reap the benefits of the fisherman in the end.
If you want to attack Zhang Xu, Zhang Xu, who has a favorable location, can let the feint enemy eat a rain of arrows first, and then wait for them to crash into the spear array.
Zhang Xu also took advantage of the imperfect rules now, if he played like this in his previous life when he was playing against others, he would have been blocked by other players.
The three people on the other side looked at Zhang Xu with a fearless smile, and they were so angry that they wanted to pull out their wands and hit someone.
After the three of them glanced at each other, they began to mobilize their soldiers and horses to attack Zhang Xu's hedgehog-like triangle formation together.
Zhang Xu took a look at the opponent's troops, all of them were mainly infantry, supplemented by archers, and a very small number of cavalry were allocated. Seeing that the other party did not have a catapult, Zhang Xu secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
However, Zhang Xu did not play easily next, and if the opponent rushed up, he had a great chance of sending out GG.
But the three opponents are not of the same mind, and they have to keep some troops to eliminate Zhang Xu and then win the final victory. And the opponent is not proficient in this game, if you can skillfully use the skills of your troops, a tortoiseshell explosion stream can break the spearman's gun array.
As a result, the scene became Zhang Xu's tactics of feeding small dried fish to the fish cakes while dealing with the other party's oiling tactics.
In the end, Zhang Xu completely wiped out the cavalry that launched the counter-charge, and the pikemen lost seventy percent and half of the archers without ammunition were lost as meat shields, blocking the onboard charge launched by the other three at the end.
After winning this game, Zhang Xu won the next two games by relying on the full archer cavalry flying kites and the full heavy cavalry charging.
From this day on, Zhang Xu's gameplay has been listed as a forbidden gameplay.
After getting his own college's score out of the bottom, Zhang Xu left the table with the fish cake and sat down in front of the bar in the café.
After changing the shifts of ginger and fish cakes, Hood put the two bills in front of Zhang Xu.
"Can I get a discount with my VIP card?" Zhang Xu asked after reading the bill.
Zhang Xu promised to help the director of an Auror office settle the bill five times, and he invited the Aurors on vacation to come to the café for two days in a row to spend a round.
Zhang Xu is not short of money, and he still feels big when he sees these two bills.
And how could Hood let Zhang Xu get his wish, shook his head and said to him: "Only the consumption you participate in can use your VIP card, and you can't use it when you settle the bill on behalf of others." ”
Helpless, Zhang Xu had no choice but to take out his money bag and discharge a row of gold coins on the table. Hood put it away after counting the gold coins, and then whispered to Zhang Xu, "If you have time now, go up to the second floor." ”
"The second room on the right-hand side of the second floor?" Zhang Xu looked at Hood with a smile and asked.
Hood touched the ginger and said, "It's your freedom to enter as many rooms as you want." ”
"Hmm." Zhang Xu nodded, and then walked to the second floor.
Entering Hood's room was just a joke, and Zhang Xu went up to the second floor and came to the parlor where he had come back once.
The parlors were open, and there was no one inside.
Last time, there was a paper bag on the coffee table in front of the sofa where Zhang Xu sat last time, and a label was attached to the paper bag.
Zhang Xu walked over and glanced at the label, and found that it said that this bag of information was given to Zhang Xu earlier.
Zhang Xu checked the paper bag and put it away after finding that there was nothing too abnormal. Then he tore off the sticky notes, wrote the receipt on the label, and left with the paper bag.
After saying hello to Hood, Zhang Xu left the café and came to the pig's head bar.
Zhang Xu, who couldn't see his face with his hood, threw a few silver coins at the bar, and then said in a changed voice: "I want a room." ”
The boss behind the bar didn't look at Zhang Xu, but just took out a rusty key from a drawer under the bar and threw it on the bar.
Zhang Xu picked up the key and went upstairs directly.
I have to say that the hygiene of the room upstairs of the pig's head bar is very bad, and it took Zhang Xu several minutes to make it barely able to stay here.
Zhang Xu sat down at the table in the room, lit the candle on the table, and then took out the paper bag he had just obtained in the café, opened it and took out the documents inside.
This document is the interrogation record of Barty Crouch Jr., I don't know how they pry open Barty Crouch Jr.'s mouth, and they got a lot of useful information.
As soon as he turned to the second page, a figure suddenly appeared in the room, pulled out the chair opposite Zhang Xu and sat down, and then said to Zhang Xu: "I didn't expect it to be in the Dujia Bridge Inn." ”
"There are no diamonds worth 50,000 francs here." Zhang Xu looked at the document and said without raising his head.
"I thought you'd choose Mandarin Oriental, London's Hyde Park." The visitor said.
"Maybe it's better to go to Dubai." Zhang Xu replied.
"I prefer the Maldives." The visitor thought for a moment and said.
"Well, so am I." Zhang Xu nodded while looking at the document and said, "Rent an island and come down, no one will disturb you, and it's good to go diving." ”
"Wicked rich man!" Finally, the visitor said viciously.
The two of them chatted like this, word by word, until Zhang Xu carefully read the documents in his hand.
As soon as Zhang Xu put down the documents in his hand, there were three more figures in the room.
"Uh, Ms. Hood, may I ask why you have a camera in your hand?" Zhang Xu asked one of the three people who had just appeared.
"I thought that if the two of you were alone in the same room, something would happen that was worth taking pictures of." Hood looked at Zhang Xu and Wales who were sitting opposite him with a regretful expression.
"It's a shame." Nelson, who was standing next to Hood, also said regretfully.
Rodney also said, "We also set aside half an hour." ”
Just when Wales was about to beat people, Zhang Xu picked up the paper bag on the table and raised it, and asked them, "What the hell are you doing this time?" ”
"We just wanted to see if we could infiltrate Hogwarts." Wales didn't hesitate to say directly.
Zhang Xu put down the paper bag, pinched his eyebrows, and said helplessly: "Although Hogwarts' protective magic has loopholes, it is not something that can be broken through by this spatial magic alone. ”
"It's good that I found out early, otherwise you would have had to do something, Hogwarts' defenses have been strengthened recently."
"Don't say you didn't see those charred corpses that came out of the secret passage to Hogwarts not long ago."
"The trap in the secret passage is so vicious?" Hood asked.
"Do you think I'll say that?" Zhang Xu asked rhetorically.
Regardless of these guys who tried to infiltrate Hogwarts, Zhang Xu copied a copy of the document with an automatic quill pen, returned the original to them, and then put away the attachments.
"If you want to go to Hogwarts, you can submit an application to Professor Dumbledore or Professor McGonagall, and I guess there is a good chance of getting it approved." Zhang Xu said to a few of them, "Don't make so many small moves at this time, in case there is a misunderstanding, it will be bad for everyone to cause unnecessary losses." ”
After speaking, Zhang Xu put on his hood and said goodbye and left.
Walking downstairs and throwing the room key back to the bar, Zhang Xu left the pig's head bar.
When he was about to walk to the door of the Three Broomsticks Bar, he found that the four of them had phantomed out of the Pig's Head Bar and were about to enter the Three Broomsticks Bar.
After returning to Hogwarts, Zhang Xu drove directly to the headmaster's office.
"Those ladies might want to visit Hogwarts." Zhang Xu said to Dumbledore straight to the point.
Dumbledore knew who Zhang Xu was talking about, and after thinking for a while, he asked, "Is their identity okay?" ”
Zhang Xu replied: "We have verified it here, there is no problem with the identity, they are indeed from that side." ”
Seeing that Dumbledore had been silent, as if he was thinking about something, Zhang Xu didn't interrupt him, but just put a copy of Barty Crouch Jr.'s interrogation record that he had just obtained on his desktop.
When Dumbledore came to his senses, he picked up the document and flipped through two pages, then placed it on the side of his desk.
At this time, Dumbledore suddenly thought of something, and said to Zhang Xu while opening the drawer: "By the way, this is for you." ”
Dumbledore then handed a brand new roll of parchment to Zhang Xu.
Zhang Xu took the parchment and opened it, and then asked in surprise: "New map of living spots?" ”
"I asked Remus and Sirius to figure out how to make a few new copies, and I think I'll be able to use them later." Dumbledore said, "You can set up open Cipherwords. ”
Apparently Dumbledore thought it would be useful to defend Hogwarts for the rest of the day, so he asked Lupin and Black to make a few more copies.
As for who the other copies were given, Zhang Xu didn't ask very interestingly.
For destroying invaders, having a live map is like typing in "Black sheep all", and you can easily spot the invaders.
Zhang Xu took a look at the new map of the living spots, which was no different from the old function, and the idea of finding Lu Ping to study it and adding colors to distinguish the names of teachers and students in the school and the intruders arose.
However, if Dumbledore knew that Zhang Xu was sighing in his heart at this time, he finally didn't have to worry about going to the prefect's bathroom to eat a closed door, and I don't know if he would use the old wand "biu" to kill him.