Chapter 29: Thirty-Six Chess
"It looks good, but that's all it tastes like. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info" Gulif and Arashi have become acquainted, and when they have regained their nature, they can say whatever they want, and take a sip of the crimson-colored wine that looks very sweet, "Tsk, this wine is not completely devoid of alcohol!"
Yu Youzi hadn't used his habit to point to the set of utensils, and when he heard this, he pretended to be a cup he was happy to raise, and tasted it, after all, alcohol, a substance with a chemical structure, was the only thing he could taste at the moment—it was indeed negligible.
Arashi: "That's what it is...... After all, alcohol is forbidden in the army, and even high-ranking officer benefits can't be given too strong bars......"
Greeve: "Well, I think too much......" and then changed to Patsi and said to Yu Youzi, "There are no separate rooms on the second floor, and the reading tables and chairs are all placed in the open space near the bookshelves...... How do we rest at night?"
"I didn't see any room on the third floor, it seems that I took it for granted, this is probably not an ordinary library, it may be a place to store literature...... There should be a curator's room, so let's find out later. ”
Gulif nodded, twisting the meat as he explained to Arashi, asking him if he was familiar with the place. However, as an occupying army, Arashi is actually coming to this city for the first time, and he doesn't know much better than them.
Arashi: "...... I don't know about this city, but one thing I do know is very good -- don't say it, in the three years since I joined the army, this is the best field food I've ever eaten. ”
Greve: "Oh, I've been in the Royal Guard, and I really don't know what the food for the general army is......"
The two of them talked about the daily meals of their respective troops, and Lan cried out that it was impossible, and it was better than the food in the best restaurant in his hometown he knew.
Yu Youzi listened to them say new and unfamiliar local specialties and words, while observing their use of tableware, originally thought that the action of twisting things with two fingers to eat should be very contrived and rude, but their movements were very smooth and natural and even showed a kind of elegance, in fact, it was similar to Chinese chopsticks, and after being proficient, they could actually use a sense of culture, and the various spoons of Hero Country and Carrelian gave people a professional, detailed and even complicated feeling.
After dinner, the three of them found a row of independent rooms opposite the door on the first floor, some of which stored various documents, and about six separate rooms with a space of about fifty square meters, all of which were standard office decoration and configuration, but there were all kinds of tables, chairs, and cabinets stacked in a mess, as if entering a furniture showroom in the furniture city, and a room that looked very high-end was also full of tables and chairs, but both drawers and cabinets were empty.
Yu Youzi reasoned after looking around - it seems that the people here took away or destroyed all the materials before evacuating, and then moved in a pile of furniture to block the door from the inside and make a final resistance, but I don't know why everyone left, but the various tables and chairs that moved in did not return to their original places.
Agreed to get up tomorrow, Lan set his watch, and the three of them picked a room to rest - this is Yu Youzi's request, he needs to secretly study the Wagu language, literature, and knowledge, and the excuse is too easy to find, directly saying that there are too many furniture piles, and the three of them are too crowded together......
Lan found a chess piece, a kind of chess they had seen, Yu Youzi had never seen a chess, the chessboard was a hexagonal square, and the chess pieces were like small pebbles like Go, but there were three colors: black and white and red.
It had just been nightfall, and it was too early to go to bed, so Greif and Lan Xian found a random desk to play chess, Yu Youzi was very interested in knowing the rules, but now the most important thing was to study books, and he took a portable lamp and walked around the bookshelf by himself.
It is worthy of the Archives Museum, full of knowledge books, according to the words of Wagu Nagu that were barely mastered in the previous two books, I found a language bookshelf on the first floor, a dictionary of mutual translations of various languages, a thick pile like a mountain, Yu Youzi first only brought back the dictionaries and dictionaries of Wagu Nagu and Pasi and Hikland, under the seal of the level lock, he almost couldn't hold these four thick books, and then on the third floor, he picked up the books about fuel and star maple leaves that he was most interested in now.
After returning to the curator's room and putting down the books, he went out to greet Gulif and Arashi, saying that he had rested first, so as not to make them strange when he saw that he had taken a bunch of books in Wagu Nagu script, and closed the door and turned the lantern into table lamp mode, and the room instantly lit up and began to learn the language frantically.
There are four dictionaries and dictionaries, but the amount of information is larger than the three hundred and sixteen ledgers prepared by Carofen, which is more difficult than all the magic books I have read before, and it is very laborious. And because it is a dictionary, the phonetic pronunciation is inevitable, so now Yu Youzi has completely mastered the three languages of Passi, Wagunagu, and Hikland.
In such a short period of intensive language learning, it was the first time for me to challenge something I had never done before.
After closing his eyes for a while, Yu Youzi decided to rest for a while, and went out to look at Cliff and Lan, the two of them stared intently at the chessboard under the light of the lantern, red and black had been mixed together, and white occupied three corners to guard one side, and asked the time, this study actually passed three squares of time, it was already night, and the two of them indulged in black, white and red three-color chess until now more than thirty grids in the evening, replaced by the twenty-four hours of the earth, almost more than twenty o'clock.
The bag of mulled wine at dinner had been drunk, but now there were four bags of the same mulled wine of 500ml each on the side of the chessboard......
When he went back to the camp to find the kitchen to get a wine glass, the logistics manager forced it, and Arashi said this: This is all thanks to the blessing of His Excellency Sernlupp, and Diri has specially explained the best food to be supplied to the "foreign observers", so the manager thought of simply sending more wine, and put it in the basket to drink a bag before taking it out.
Since it was his own light, Yu Youzi was not polite, and brought himself a glass, and actually took two empty bags, looking at the wine glasses in the hands of the two, it seems that the two of them drank it while playing chess, and it is really Yaxing.
Gulif looked at Yu Youzi who was sitting down to watch him play two chess games, he was also a little tired, so he explained this chess game to Yu Youzi in this endgame, which was regarded as a relief for himself.
It turns out that this chess is called three six chess, the name comes from the three kinds of chess pieces hexagonal chessboard, Gulif told Yu Youzi that this is what Lan just told him in his hometown, and the explanation of the old capital in the gold is that there are three ways to play, six quarters of time, and the specific three kinds of Cliff himself can't say, anyway, the most played is that they are now playing the endgame is "winning white", the second is "turning the table", and the third is divided "killing each other", "grabbing points", "gaining the upper hand" and the like...... Six ticks of time means that it takes six quarters or a lot of time to complete a well-matched "white take", but Cliff and Arashi seem to have played all of their moves at least three times in three squares - both of them are stinky chess baskets.
Yu Youzi listened for a while, and after looking at it, he probably understood the rules, the most important "white shot", it is divided into two ways to play one throw and six throws, the so-called white is to seize the white on the chessboard on both sides, each person starts the game in addition to the red and black two colors selected by themselves, there are the same number of white children: the red and black sons represent the army, the white children represent the city, and the hexagonal chessboard is a cross square like Go, and the children fall on the intersection points.
The most basic rule is: a "Tian" character grid, you can drop nine chess pieces, four square vertices, four cross points if they are your own army, then the word surrounded in the middle is considered to be eliminated, whether it is the enemy or white, you can take it away if you are surrounded, in the words of chess and Go, it is "eaten".
The "one throw" method refers to the opening double shot to arrange all the whites on the board according to their own ideas, and then start to fight for their own army, and the final victory is to see who eats more whites.
"Six throws" is a relatively formal way to play, according to the time, from the beginning of each moment both sides must fall on the chessboard, occupy at least one white, to the last sixth moment must put all the whites in the basket, in the real world it feels like every once in a while, there are more rear cities are involved in the war, and finally a full-scale war.
The difference with the first throw is that the besieged white pieces are still on the chessboard, which is considered to be temporarily occupied by you, and the enemy army can fight for it back. The final victory or defeat is when the armies of both sides are exhausted, that is, when the red and black pieces in their chess baskets are used up, count who occupies the most cities, this is a complete game of six throws to win white, thinking about the battle and using up all the chess pieces just six quarters. What is not satisfactory is that at a certain moment, one side has no white to enter the game, or there is no white white to encircle, that is, all the cities are gone, and losing all the territory is naturally losing.
At present, Lan is about to encounter this kind of losing situation, he put all his white pieces into a corner of the chessboard at the third moment, he learned Greeve's previous tactics - in the area controlled by his superior forces, Gulif used this set to surround the two corners of the white zi, and when the final game must have occupied more, so he couldn't wait to put all his white pieces -
But Lan didn't expect the practical significance symbolized by this move: his entire army appeared around his important city, which would only appear when he was in a big retreat and was close to the defense of the capital......
Yu Youzi, who had just watched the meeting, faintly felt that he was pressed all the white sons at one time, which is equivalent to a big gamble with the strength of the whole country, and the way to bet on the fortune of the country is obviously an irrational way with huge risks.
Gulf didn't expect this either, he was also messing around, seeing that he had successfully surrounded all the whites in a corner at the beginning, and he was happy, and he cast all his whites in the corner next to him a moment ago, so that next to his main force, the two territories were connected together, and he successfully withstood Lan's offensive.
And now Lan has lost all the chips of his country, and as a result, he has taken too many positions on the chessboard, so that his sunspots can't mediate, and let the red son strangle it little by little, and in the end, the white son in this corner is also occupied - the white son is a city, not that the legion cannot encircle and kill the enemy color, and will occupy the grid so that his son cannot fall or form an encirclement, and the superior forces in the air cannot be brought into play......
This is also very similar to reality, it is one thing to be more ambitious to be a warrior in your own homeland, but there is also the possibility that there will be more concerns and you can't show it.
In short, in the end, Lan's current situation is that there is no white son to fall, and there is no white son in his occupation on the scene, and he can't take back a city until the next moment, so he can be regarded as losing the entire land and defeating. Arashi kept looking at his watch, quickly dropping his pieces on the chessboard, and kept urging Greeve to hurry up, until finally he sighed and conceded defeat.
"Hey...... I'm getting a little dizzy, how long have we been going down this one?" asked Cliff, sipping down the victorious liqueur.
"Less than three quarters...... It's the longest game, and to be honest, you're the best person I've ever met, better than my village elder. ”
"How do you compare it to your non-commissioned officer Diri?"
"Master Non-Commissioned Officer, he doesn't play chess. ”
"I've drunk a lot of wine, so let's rest...... Tomorrow should be the last day of this war, so get up early. The latter sentence Cliff said to the other two in Hickland and Pasi, respectively.
Lan began to pack up the three or six chess, and Yu Youzi drank dry wine and said, "Actually, I've always wanted to ask, do you royal guards all speak Paxi?"
"How is it possible, I studied for three years for this mission!" Greif said proudly, it turned out that he was a royal guard three years ago, and he was the escort of the Hickland envoys at the organizing meeting of the Ring Tower Competition, but that time was not held in the country of heroes, but in the country of dragons, and that time due to some misunderstandings and embarrassments caused by the language barrier made him remember it vividly, so he specially studied the Pasi language hard for this mission to the old capital of the Golden Lane......
It's really a stunned young man who is too serious, Yu Youzi commented in his heart, and at the same time silently hit him in his heart: It takes three years to learn, and this handsome guy will listen and speak in three moments!
The three of them talked and laughed and chatted for a while before going back to their rooms, Yu Youzi wanted to continue reading, after all, he came from the amusement park in the morning, and now it is not noon at best......
And in the ruins outside, there are also two people who are full of spirits.
"Sister, shall we enter through the main entrance?"
"There's a little bit of space in front of me, the patrols are still circling around here, and we have to settle on the last code, and I always feel like something is wrong...... Let's go around to the back. ”
The twin sisters, who had pulled up their long emerald green hair and wrapped them in a round-headed hat, looked like two night cats with their emerald green eyes, and stalked through the ruins of the city, dodging the towering watchtowers, sentries and patrols on the rooftops, and sneaked around the side door behind the city library.