Is the event over today?

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The sun is blazing.

Just after midnight, a round of scorching sun had broken through the clouds, but in two or three hours, the ground was hot.

This should have been the time when everyone was in the house to hide from the sun, but the day before at the same time, there were still few pedestrians outside the Nanxun Gate, which was already crowded, men, women and children crowded together densely, or stepping on horses, or padding feet, and some children even sat on the shoulders of their fathers and brothers, shouting with their hands.

The streets were full of people, and many vendors shrank and squeezed through the crowd with difficulty, squeezing while waving their things in their hands and shouting: "Straw hats! Thatched hats! But spend a few cooking cakes to get my hat, no matter how big the sun is, I am not afraid of the heat! Sell one less one, and you can't find it again after selling! ”

The weather is very hot, the sun is very big, most of the people who come are improvised, there is no preparation at all, the sun has been half a day, many people are sweating, but at this time they can squeeze out, and when they want to go home and get their hats, where is there a seat in front of them at this time, someone will bring those who sell hats, and ask: "How much does your straw hat cost a penny?" ”

The dealer replied: "You take the baby, for the sake of the baby, it will be cheaper for you, eighty yuan a top!" ”

The questioner was immediately so shocked that his eyes were about to crack, and he shouted, "Where are you from Xiangma to do business in the capital?" At the feet of the Son of Heaven, the sky is bright! Eighty wen a straw hat, why don't you grab it! ”

The vendor laughed and said: "My straw hat has three layers, which is completely different from the grass in other houses. ”

As he spoke, he turned over with great effort, exposed his already soaked back to him, and said, "Look at the sweat on my back, it's not worth twenty cents?" I'll give you thirty articles, and you can squeeze it out and take a look! ”

Again: "On such a hot day, my hat is already a fair price, you ask other families, only more expensive, look at the little child you brought, your face is tanned, don't be afraid to go home in the heat!" ”

After going back and forth, in the end, the price of the hat was ten yuan lower, and the hawker could sell it at three or four times higher than the usual price.

As for those who sell mazars, those who sell cool drinks, and those who sell handkerchiefs, they also squeeze in and squeeze in, and they have earned enough money for a month in the past half a day.

There are also people who do side business, but from time to time they catch the street dressed a little decently and ask a few words.

"Outside the old man, I have a private room on the Qingming Building, just on the second floor, just facing the Yujin Garden, I can see the inside, only a dozen zhang apart, clear, and there is a roof to shade the sun, and it is in a high place, is it not ten times better than being crowded with those many people here?"

Once the other party accosted him, he replied: "Five hundred wen for one person!" Where to find such a good price, go to Qingminglou to charter a private room, a little to two taels of silver, plus tea to eat, I'm afraid it is five taels can't beat, although you don't fancy this money, but now in such a hurry, Yujin Garden is not given in, and the place next to it can not find a suitable place to see the inside, it is better to follow me together! ”

Outside the Nanxun Gate, there are many people, and there are thousands of people gathered here.

Soon, there was another commotion in the already noisy crowd, and everyone turned to the right to squeeze forward.

I saw a dozen or twenty horse-drawn carriages driven by four horses coming from a distance, and the body was a large, empty wooden cage, in which were locked in huge beasts with shackles on their feet.

Someone shouted, "Look, white elephant! ”

Someone else laughed at him: "I'm afraid you're not blind!" Where is the white! ”

The elephant in the wooden cage is gray-black, as if pasted with a thick layer of soil, which is completely different from the white elephants from the Western Regions that can be seen in the Yujin Garden in the past, and is also different from the tame elephants used to juggle in the workshop.

The people who rushed forward were so overwhelmed by the half-overturned carriage that they heard the elephant's howl, and the sound was terrible, as if it were about to get into their ears, and everyone was so frightened that they hurriedly retreated.

The guards escorting the carriage hurriedly came up to disperse the crowd, straightened the body again, and hurried towards the Yujin Garden.

The crowd flocked to follow, but they did not dare to get too close, and they were reluctant to go too far, until the elephant chariot had completely entered the garden, and the people rushed back to their original positions.

"That's the war elephant of Cochin? Sure enough, it's not ordinary with the juggling in the capital! ”

"Can he who fights the same as he who plays for you? You see that the eyes are as big as brass bells, more fierce than the robbers, and they are the real beasts, glaring at you, as if they are going to eat you, so scary! ”

"Yikes! The elephant's head is as tall as a mountain! How are you going to fight this?! ”

"It's just one head, I heard them say that the elephant array of Jiaozhi can have hundreds or thousands of heads at a time, and if they pounce together, they can also crush people into pulp!"

A group of people were talking, and suddenly someone shouted, "Look! That's not the inner sanctum banzhi! ”

He could only shout, and he could already see that the people who were close to him had lowered down one after another, knelt down, and there were bursts of mountain shouts, and only "Hurray!" could be heard. "Your Majesty! "It's endless, it's almost heaven-shattering.

Guo Shizhong led the ministers from Yujin Garden to greet each other, and on the other hand, he slandered in his heart that these people had nothing to do when they were full, and they were so idle that they gathered here.

Zhao Rui quickly got off the royal car, he exempted the courtiers, but he raised his head and looked around, and called to one of them: "Gu Qing! ”

Gu Yanzhang stepped forward a few steps, and before he could speak, he could already hear Zhao Rui say again: "Where is the elephant array?" ”

A group of men marched forward with hundreds of janissaries, and soon entered a school yard.

The school yard is solidly surrounded by wooden fences, and there are guards guarding and guarding them outside.

When Zhao Rui sat down, dozens of officials also returned to their respective positions, and finally someone led the elephant to approach the school grounds.

Gu Yanzhang stood not far from Zhao Rui, and explained at this time: "The Jiaozhi Elephant Array dispatched three or four hundred war elephants at a minimum, and five or six hundred war elephants at most, the war elephants have rough skin and thick meat, ordinary bows, arrows, knives and axes are helpless, Zhang Dujian coincidentally captured twenty war elephants, all here......

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a shout of killing in the school yard, and a team of two hundred guards rushed in and faced the twenty elephants.

Gu Yanzhang had already said: "Jiaozhi is mostly mountainous and forested, and the elephant array is mostly in the jungle, and the divine arm bow is not easy to use, nor is it easy to aim, so you can only ...... the enemy after the soldiers are close."

Zhao Rui listened to Gu Yanzhang with one ear, and listened to the voices of people, elephants, and fights in the field with one ear, only hated that he had too few ears, and he couldn't wait for two more to come out, and his eyes were even more dizzying by the battle in the school field.

Dozens of paces away, the ground in the field was full of branches, trunks and various obstacles, two hundred guards, or armed with knives, or axes, or holding the bow in their hands, or carrying bows and arrows behind their backs, divided into four teams, the ones with swords and axes to cover the bows and arrows, were about to step forward to distract the attention of the elephants, leaving time for the archers behind the arms to aim.

The school field occupies a lot of land in Yujin Garden, but the distance between the forbidden army and the war elephant is not far away, and for the well-trained war elephant, it is only a moment to run from beginning to end.

When the twenty war elephants galloped up at the same time, facing the Praetorian Guards who rushed forward to kill, it was really fierce and fierce, Zhao Rui sat dozens of steps away, and he already felt that the ground was shaking.

He involuntarily shrank back, his hands clenched into fists.

It's so fast!

How could such a bulky-looking beast run so fast!

It's lightning bolts!

When Zhao Rui, who was outside the field, felt fast as a bystander, how could the guards facing the battle in the field react.

Fortunately, everyone was carefully selected, and they were trained every day, and they never relaxed, and all of them were outstanding in martial arts, at this time, even if they were startled by the crushed elephant array, they did not surrender completely, but the divine arm bow was too late to aim, so they had to use a knife and axe to step forward and slash.

This time, even if Zhao Rui was not present, he also noticed that the situation was not good.

Seeing that it was just a thick trunk, it lightly hit the guard, and the man dropped his weapon on the ground, covering the wound and screaming, the war elephant raised his leg, and fortunately did not step on the man, but stepped on the dirt ground, leaving a footprint that was enough deep.

That's not a wet mud floor! It's a dry mud floor!

Among the twenty war elephants, there was still cooperation, and they were very tacitly divided into two groups, one group was responsible for breaking up the guards and not asking them to form a queue, and the other group only used the trunk to hit the head and chest of the guards.

In just a few moments, two hundred Praetorian guards were swept to pieces, screaming and screaming.

Even though he had already guessed that the war elephants were difficult to fight, Zhao Rui originally thought that the carefully selected Praetorian Guards would be able to support the elephant formation even if they couldn't win, but they would be able to support it for a long time.

Zhao Rui's face was extremely ugly.

Gu Yanzhang saw the situation in the field and knew what the emperor beside him was worried about, and then explained: "Although the palace is an elite soldier, he has never encountered the elephant array, and in a hurry, it is difficult to give full play to the ability of the past. ”

Zhao Rui frowned, and when he heard Gu Yanzhang say this, although he was a little more relaxed in his heart, he was still panicked.

The captain of the Praetorian Guard in the field saw that the situation was not good, and knew that if he continued to fight, he would really cause death, so he hurriedly blew the horn on his chest.

With the sound of the trumpet, the fences on both sides of the school field were opened, and the two groups of cavalry swept in from both sides, and ran towards the elephant formation "with success".

The two teams soon converged in one place, and the leader did not even wear heavy armor, but only a thin piece of armor, and no helmet was put on, revealing a swarthy face.

The expression on his face was very serious, but a pair of eyes were extremely bright, as if his whole face was lit up to shine, but it seemed that the black was not too dark, but there was a rare spirit.

His man clamped the horse's belly and shouted, "The sub-team raises the bow!" Team up with me! ”

While shouting, he took the lead and ran forward with the big knife in his hand.

A detachment of cavalry followed him and rushed forward without fear.

The cavalry had the reins in their left hand and their long knives in their right, and they did not speak, and for a moment they could only hear the sound of horses' hooves striking the ground and the roar of rage in the battle elephant array.

The elephant array formed two teams and rushed forward to meet them.

The two elephant formations collided with the same cavalry and made a mistake.

The cavalry did not stop, nor did the elephant, but when the two collided in one place, the leader raised his long knife and shouted, "Raise your sword!" ”

The cavalry team brushed dozens of long knives and raised them high in the scorching sun, and the blades were not still reflecting the light, and they fell down with the sound of the wind.

The knives all ran towards the trunk.

With a "", Zhao Rui couldn't help but stand up and looked not far away with his mouth open.

He was not the only one who made this action, and many ministers in the field generally stood up, all of them clenched their fists and stared at the field.

The long knife fell.

Zhao Rui pricked up her ears.

A voice not far away immediately came.

"Moo——!"

More than a dozen war elephants shook their trunks, threw out blood all over the ground, and stepped on the ground with four feet, stepping on countless big footprints two or three inches deep, running around in an orderly manner.

The man in the lead only shouted, and all the horsemen did not like to fight, and ran after him.

Immediately afterward, there was a continuous sound of breaking through the air, short and urgent.

Fifty Divine Arm Bows had already taken aim at the war elephant and shot out.

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It took more than an hour for a hundred men to kill all twenty war elephants.

Zhao Rui was covered with sweat, and his back was wet, not hot, but urgent.

For nearly two hours, his mood fluctuated, first anxious and disappointed, then eager and excited, and finally collapsed.

Gu Yanzhang stood aside, and remembered explaining to him: "The war elephants in Jiaozhi are all raised since childhood, they are fierce by nature, and they are born for war, even if they are put back in the mountains and forests, they will also find a few times and rush out, and then they will bite and kill when they see people. ”

Where did Zhao Rui have time to pay attention to a few elephants.

Even though he didn't play by himself, he was even more excited than the people who played, pointed to the one who was still riding on horseback, and asked, "That's Zhang Qing?" ”

Gu Yanzhang nodded, the corners of his mouth involuntarily hooked up, but his face remained unchanged, and he only replied: "It's Zhang Dujian." ”

Zhao Rui took two steps forward, looked at Zhang Dingya carefully, and then turned his head to Gu Yanzhang and smiled: "Why is Zhang Qing so dark!" ”

As he spoke, he looked back at the cavalry who were cleaning up the mess.

The soldiers who came down from the Quang Nam battlefield were all wearing only thin armor and no helmets on their heads, and even their height was not comparable to that of the Praetorian Guards who had just retreated, and as for their appearance, they didn't need to mention it.

Zhao Rui looked at it once, and said, "It's all black!" ”

When he said this, he smiled on his face, and his tone was even more proud.

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