Entering the specially built polo field in the palace, Wu Yingying saw Lu Xi, Shi Baoxun, and Ma Jicheng at yesterday's dinner, Liu Yanzhao sat next to the Han Emperor Liu Jiye with a smile, called uncle, Liu Jiye was also accompanied by a personable middle-aged man, and after Liu Yanzhao's introduction, he knew that he was Lu Xi's father, Lu Jun, the captain of the horse.

Because Wu Yingying was newly attached, he was led to a private seat by the eunuch after going to meet Liu Jiye. Liu Yanzhao saw that he was not allowed to be among the close ministers of the Son of Heaven, so he looked apologetically, but Wu Yingying didn't care, and sat firmly in his seat, watching this rare Chinese polo game in later generations.

At this time, the rules of polo were slightly different from those of later generations, less gentlemen's sports, more bloody and fierce war, and it was common for a polo player to be injured after a polo was played. Later, Han Derang, a favorite minister of the Liao Dynasty, was hit by a Khitan nobleman when playing polo, and the Empress Dowager Xiao immediately beheaded the person who hit him.

Soon after sitting down, I saw the two riders of the Eagle Yang Army and the Guards and the Guards entering from both sides of the square court, holding their clubs high to salute the Han Emperor Liu Jiye in the stands.

Liu Jiye had a satisfied look on his face and signaled for the game to start, and the riders went to the middle of the field to kick off.

I saw the fierce rider rushing to and fro in the middle of the field with clubs in hand, and the horses' hooves had to turn up pieces of dirt and fly, which really resembled a battlefield fight.

Not only Liu Jiye, Liu Yanzhao, Wu Yingying and other men watched the two sides fight with full attention, but the palace concubines and ladies of various mansions, who had the rare opportunity to appreciate such a powerful man, watched with even more attention, although they were not as hoarse and screaming and cheering as the fans of later generations, but they did not whisper and joke with each other about a particularly tall and athletic rider in the field.

While appreciating polo, it is also pleasing to the eye to occasionally appreciate the beauties in Jinyang City.

Wu Yingying was watching intently, but Lu Jun, the captain of the horses, paced in front of him and said with a smile: "Is it the first time for Commander Wu to watch polo?"

Seeing that Wu Yingying was a little embarrassed, Lu Jun said quietly: "Young horses in the south, it is natural for the general to see him in Jinling. It's just that before the Tuhun army moved to Lanzhou, no one had ever won the polo game in Beijing!" After he said such a few clueless words, he arched his hand and moved to talk to others.

Wu Yingying was slightly stunned, I don't know if he was kind or had ulterior motives, and then laughed at himself, why bother with what others think, leave the Jinyang Tiangao Emperor Yuanzhao, just follow his own path, Tuhun Zizi, it is really famous.

In autumn, the sky in Lanzhou seems to be leaking, and the rain does not stop. There is very little farmland in Lanzhou, and no one will open up the land to grow grain in this place where there are Khitan rangers and horse thieves at both ends in three days.

The shabby bedding clothes were moldy, the little grain stock was moldy, and even the saddle smelled of mold and ugliness. Ever since the Tuhun Army was sent to this place where birds don't, the situation has been getting worse and worse.

Tuhun is the abbreviation of Tuyuhun, the heyday of the power east to the base (stack) river, west to Khotan, north to Gaochang, northeast to Qinling. Located on the Silk Road route, Tuyuhun served as an intermediary, guide and translator for the land transportation of Central Asia, and benefited greatly from it. The history is called Fu Lian Tiao's internal cultivation tribute, and the outside is Rong Di, and the number is strong and rich.

It is a pity that after the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty in the Central Plains was unable to take care of the Western Regions of Longyou, and the Tubo power flourished, and the Tuyuhun tribe attached to the Tang Dynasty was forced to move eastward continuously, and the tribes were scattered. Only the Later Tang Zhuangzong collected Tuyu Hun Jian'er to establish this cavalry, and the Tuhun army was still under the name of the past.

In fact, after decades of conquest and killing, personnel changes, and the Tuhun army at this time was not all descendants of Tuyuhun, and the soldiers considered themselves to be Han and Hu and Han hybrids.

Jinyang, the town of the Tuhun army, was the main cavalry of the five dynasties of the Central Plains court left in Jinyang, the northern capital, to suppress the Khitan party. At this time, the Han Emperor Liu Jiyuan was cruel and murderous, ruthless, and after killing the commander of the Tuhun army, Wei Li, he was worried about turning elbows and armpits, so he sent the entire Tuhun army to Lanzhou. Three thousand military households to help the old and the young, wandering, easy to come to the boundary of Lanzhou, Lanzhou City in the Tang Dynasty had a household registration of more than 10,000, at this time there are less than 3,000. Seeing that there were many empty houses in the city, the military families looked for suitable houses in Lanzhou City and cleaned them to live. Oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, five things to open the door, everything is lacking in Lanzhou City, and the military families are worried about their livelihoods. Many soldiers guarding the city wall looked into the distance day by day, not looking at the party and Khitans who had invaded the border, but hoping that the convoy carrying military rations would arrive earlier.

"In three days, the family will be starved of food. Captain Yu Fu Ren Rail silently recited, this polo master who led the territory to walk sideways in Jinyang, now just to feed the family's two big, two small and four mouths are worried about a lot of white hair, whenever he thinks of the little baby at home with a yellow face and thin muscles, and his eyes are godless, Yu Fu can't help but pinch the handle of the knife, this dog emperor kills people without seeing blood, and the three thousand men of the Tuhun army are sent to this wild place, there is no supplement, only a few years, the famous Tuhun army will be scattered.

Yu Furenliang turned his head to look at the soldiers who were cowering and hiding under the city tower to avoid the rain, and sighed knowingly, is such a deceitful military spirit still the earthy mud of the north and south of the mighty desert in the past? Thinking of this, he involuntarily straightened his waist even more, but his stomach remembered the sound of cooing without arguing, Yu Furenliang swallowed a mouthful of saliva involuntarily, but his stomach was even more hungry.

In order to distract himself, Yu Furen looked into the distance, and suddenly, a bright red flag appeared on the horizon in the distance, sometimes the rain soaked the flag, clinging to the thick five-zhang flagpole, and sometimes the strong west wind raised the flag high, swaying in the wind and rain with a heavy weight. The eyesight cultivated by shooting geese made Yu Furen see clearly, and the banner was written with six ink dripping and vigorous characters.

With this banner gradually emerged was the army that had been silent and well-organized. The foot soldiers carried their heavy bags on their backs and marched silently in the rain, judging from the neat and orderly tips of their spears, the infantry in a column of four walked in perfect order. Yu Fu Renliang silently counted in his heart, there were three neat spear battalions, about 1,500 soldiers.

Behind the spear camp were hundreds of carts, the goods piled up on the carts were tightly covered with sheepskins, and the people who drove the carts were nearly a thousand people, and approached Yu Furen Rail to recognize the handles of several old village car dealers in Jinyang City.