Chapter 24: The Arena (2)
Fighting competition, he is a sports competition held in the arena, although there is a suspicion of selling dog meat on the head of a sheep, the focus is on fighting, but it is still a competition.
To put it simply, it is the Shaolin football hell version.
To be more specific:
Props: A large enough field, fifteen people on each side of the game, a solid large iron ball, and a small hole at each end of the field that is only a small circle larger than the iron ball.
Winning rules: Within the specified time, it is generally two hours, and the ball into the opponent's hole is counted as one point at a time, and the one with the highest score wins.
His Majesty the Emperor secretly went to watch two shows when he was still a little marquis, originally to remember the past, but he didn't remember it at all, and he looked stupid.
It is a sports competition without referees.
How do you judge the winner of a game without a referee? It's too simple, just watch the game.
The first is a relatively low-level cushion match between the two sides, using techniques and tactics that are said to have been popular for a while hundreds of years ago, but are no longer very popular nowadays.
Here's how the game runs...... A solid iron ball was placed in the middle of the field, and fifteen fierce and wild boys from each side of the game recuperated and appeared on the stage amid the cheers of the supporters, one by one looking at each other. Then the audience began to act as a starting pistol, shouting in unison: "Hit him, hit him, hit him!"
Then the thirty young men quickly approached, rushed together, practiced iron cloth shirts, practiced iron head skills, dodged rapid light skills, and invisibly stole hearts and peaches......
There are tactical cooperation, there are solo fights, there are sneak attacks, and there are those who run around to stir up the situation and find that the fighters are ready to fight more and less......
It's called a dazzling, wonderful, every moment someone flies out of the battle circle, scarred, flesh blurred to the ground, but the most important thing in the game is the tenacious fighting spirit, in the stunned gaze of His Majesty the Emperor who was still the little marquis, those players who were seriously injured and flew out of the battle circle, as long as they can still get up, no one pretends to be dead, one by one desperately struggling even if they climb to climb into the battle circle again, the atmosphere is instantly tragic and heroic to the extreme.
It was a close match, all the red players were seriously injured and could only moan in pain, and the blue players were basically all seriously injured and could not move, but finally one of them was stubbornly struggling and crawling, crawling towards the solid iron ball, yes, it was the key prop that had been close to everyone's feet since the beginning of the game, but no one had ever paid attention to it, and now the opponent was all down, and finally someone crawled towards it.
If it had knowledge, it would have been so excited that it would have shed tears.
All the audience watched the blood boiling, cheering one by one, with tenacious perseverance in the whole stadium in the neat and terrifying cheers of the whole audience with the iron ball crawled towards the opponent's hole door, and finally scored with a header, and then could not support the coma in front of the cave door.
However, he had already earned a crucial point for his team and advanced to the next round of the league with a 1-0 victory, and he was credited with heroic praise and applause.
This game made the little marquis burst into tears.
I thought, the only difference between this and signing a life-and-death duel is that when the seriously injured athlete returns from his son's practice of peerless magic skills, he will find the embarrassment of not knowing who the enemy is, and it is impossible to kill all the people present at the time.
It's impossible to be immortal, and there is a mantra that says, "Don't enter the arena if you're afraid of death", and the only difference between the legendary ancient gladiatorial arena is probably that both sides don't have weapons.
Then the second game, which is the real race, teaches the little marquis to be a man, what does it mean to have no weapons, and the weapons are always there.
This is also the most popular technique and tactic now, called "bloody battle to the end", blood, blood, no lack of blood!
Passion vs. boom!
The solid iron ball was never ignored again, and it was the protagonist of the whole scene at the beginning.
Whether you use the Hercules eagle claw to grab the ball and smash it on the opponent's head, or use the invincible whirlwind leg to hit the opponent's chest, or you are confident that the iron head is amazing, the head pool ball hits people, anyway, a solid iron ball the size of a head has never landed since it was kicked off the ground at the beginning, and the iron ball hit back and forth on the chest, feet, head, hands, hips, shoulders and other parts of the human body on both sides of the red and blue.
The speed of the iron ball is amazing, and the friction makes the air rattle, like a shrill whistle all the time, anyway, don't think about scoring until you knock the opponent down.
No matter how beautiful the shot is, it is difficult to break the defense, and the defender only needs a chest block, at the cost of breaking two or three ribs.
So after smashing dozens of ribs, dozens of leg bones, arm bones, shoulder bones and even skulls, the red team finally scored, and it hit ten times in a row, winning 10:0!
Because the other party was all knocked down.
Looking at the slimy iron ball that was wrapped in a thick layer of blood and bone slag, and was still dripping and spinning, the little Hou Ye said in his heart, this is not a weapon, this is a murder weapon!
The biggest difference with ancient gladiatorial fighting is that athletes are not slaves, personal freedom is not restricted, each is voluntary, the arena can only be bait for profit, once there is a compulsive behavior, this arena will be blocked in all directions.
This makes the athletes of those famous strong teams not too happy in life off the field.
The so-called hairpins embrace prostitutes, indulge in alcohol and sing, swagger through the market, and wander into the wreckage.
If you don't work or work, you just have a high level of life enjoyment just by fighting, and you are secretly swallowed and envied by people while secretly spitting and scolding for being unqualified and uneducated, and that's what you're talking about.
Therefore, those who are successful in martial arts, who do not want to move bricks and hoe fields to earn living expenses, and are reluctant to stay away from the world of flowers to be bandits and bandits who are chased by the official army, and who look down on the young men who are trained by their bosses to be like dogs and receive their salaries every day, there is the best way out, to be athletes.
His Majesty the Emperor thought casually while listening to Cheng Taizhong's report.
“...... Therefore, although there are many people who are strongly calling for the intensity of the fight to be lowered, the protection to be increased, and even the need to ban this barbaric sport, no matter how you look at it, the fighting arena economy will continue to flourish and have a lot to do. ”
His Majesty the Emperor saw that Cheng Taizhong was dry-mouthed, and greeted: "Don't worry, drink saliva, your analysis is simple and insightful, which makes me very inspired."
...... Tell us more about the leagues at all levels. ”
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Cheng Taizhong took a sip of water and continued:
"There are four levels of fighting leagues, A, B, and C are independent events formed within each country, and some small countries are barely able to organize a C-level league, and even self-entertainment is reluctant, basically losing money, and stronger countries can form a B-division league to basically be able to break even, and occasionally there are meager profits. More than ninety percent of the revenue is accounted for by the first division and the major league. ”
"And only countries with a small power (a country with a land area of more than 5 million square kilometers, that is, a common name for countries with a land area of 0.05 roads and less than 0.1 roads) can barely support the first division.
The major league is the only event that breaks national boundaries and has a global influence, and only countries with the first league are eligible to participate in this feast.
Small powers can form a team, 305 of the 470 small powers have their own first-division league, counting 305 teams, and 107 powers can each form two teams, which is another 214 teams.
The 37 minor overlords can each form three teams, which is another 111 teams, and the 7 overlords can each form four teams, which is again 28 teams.
The four dynasties can each form five teams, which is another 20 teams, and our empire can form 9 teams, which means that the super league whose influence spreads all over the world is the competition of these 687 teams. ”
His Majesty the Emperor interjected, "There should only be 685 clans now. ”
"Impossible!" was questioned in the professional field, and Cheng Taizhong forgot the true identity of the leader opposite for a while.
His Majesty the Emperor said as if he were saying something ordinary: "Yesterday there was a powerful country that was ruled at the Great Imperial Council, and now General Wei Chi should have set off, so there should be two fewer places in the future." ”
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Concentrate:
A country that occupies more than one road and is known as a hegemon;
More than half the road, the whole road is not full, small overlord;(5 road-1 road, that is, 0.5 road-1 road)
Between 10 million and 50 million countries, the country is strong; (1 to 5 roads, that is, 0.1 road - 0.5 road)
5 million to 10 million land, small power (5 states to 1 road, 0.05-0.1 road)