After a day of fierce fighting, with the end of the selection competition everywhere, the crowd gradually dispersed, Gong Sheng and others dressed in the afterglow of the sunset along the valley water all the way to the west, passed the hundred-foot building, and turned to the nearest trade in the west market at the Chengming Gate. Tai Shi Yuyao pointed to a pennant with "Spring in the Garden" written on it and said, "You might as well eat some spring cakes." So the group entered this restaurant, which is known as full of spring, and sat down.

After a while, the dish was on the table, with a small dish of shredded potatoes, a small plate of beef in sauce, a plate of hexagonia, a plate of fried bean sprouts, a plate of shredded pork in Beijing sauce, a plate of homemade tofu, a large bowl of vegetarian stewed soup, and a dish of roast duck. The steamed spring cake is a thin layer, soaked in a faint fragrance, the duck meat is smooth but not greasy, and the oil is fragrant after eating, and then a sip of wine, everyone is happy.

Everyone watched or participated in the war, all tired at the end of the day, but although they had already sweated through their clothes, their interest was rising, Tai Shiyu rolled the spring cakes of shredded potatoes, shredded pork in Beijing sauce, and Liuhe vegetables in his hand, and said while eating: "So comfortable, how can there be no poetry?" ”

Gongsun Ce smiled: "Yiyuan, you want to write a poem?" ”

Xiahou Xiong echoed and said: "Taishi's great talent must have a new work. ”

Gong Sheng said excitedly: "Yiyuan, you don't have to be reluctant. ”

Tai Shiyu saw everyone coaxing, and helplessly chewed the spring cake in his mouth, a mouthful of smooth and salty crisp, and then said: "I may not be unable to make it." He looked out the window while thinking, the pale yellow sky softened the clouds, the lush branches leaned quietly outside the window, planning for a moment Tai Shiyu knocked on the table with one hand and chanted: "The golden drum is not disturbed for a while, the wind and smoke are quiet for a while, the sunset is just right, and there is no evening breeze blowing the clothes cold." ”

A poem was written, Tai Shiyu said "fortunately not dishonored", and then took a cup and made a gesture of doing it first to drink it all, and then knocked the empty cup on the table, sighed and said, "Happy!" And they all drank bitterly and got drunk.

On the third day, the big competition in the Xuanwu field continued, and the audience was like a crowd for three days, and the atmosphere became more and more enthusiastic. Gong Sheng had already had a bye for foot shooting and cavalry shooting, but fortunately, he had never been byed in foot combat and cavalry battle. Yao was much luckier, and was byed in the riding and shooting event. Tai Shiyu only participated in the trial of infantry shooting and mounted shooting, but he was also byed in foot shooting.

At the colorful flag booth, Liu Yongming was wielding a sword and fighting, "Kill!" Liu Yao let out a tiger roar, the two swords intersected, only to see Liu Yao's hands make the wooden sword twisted the opponent's sword, the two swords stirred together like a spinning top and repeatedly strangled, four or five rounds later, the opponent was already unstable with the sword, Liu Yao roared in a low voice, "Go!" With both hands, he pushed and sent, and stabbed the opponent's henchman with a sword.

The military attache announced loudly: "Liu Yao in the clouds wins!" ”

Liu Yao laughed, handed over the wooden sword of the competition, Xiahou Xiong and Gongsun Ce came up, Gongsun Ce asked: "Brother Liu, I'm afraid what you just used is not a curling blade knife?" ”

Liu Yao showed a confirmed smile and said: "Ziping has good eyesight, the stunt of this bladed knife is that I met Mr. Yinchuan in Hengshan when I was on a study tour, and I was taught this kung fu by the old man Qingyan. ”

Xiahou Xiong said: "Mr. Yinchuan Fei Yi? The grandmaster of the generation who is famous for his boxing? I've heard that Mr. Okukawa's hands, heart fists, and loose hands are all amazing skills, Yongming, have you learned? ”

Liu Yao shook his head and said, "I only learned the blade knife and the back knife from Mr. Yinchuan, and I didn't learn any boxing techniques. ”

At this time, Tai Shiyu hurriedly arrived and said to Liu Yao: "Yongming come with me quickly, it's almost time for you to play on the cavalry battle!" Liu Yao hurriedly followed Tai Shiyu to the cavalry battlefield, and it was his turn to go into battle in a short time.

The military attache announced loudly: "Liu Yao in the clouds to Chen An in Hedong!" ”

Liu Yao looked at his opponent, the person named Chen An on the other side was of medium stature and was not a big man with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, but his sword eyebrows were sharp, his aura was high, he was wearing a gray and white checkered martial arts robe, a simple thunder scarf was tied on his head, and his gestures were faintly strong and domineering. Chen An and Liu Yao glanced at each other, and even hugged Liu Yao with a faint smile, and the corners of Liu Yao's mouth also grinned slightly, and he felt that this person must be a fierce opponent.

Chen Anqi is a native of Xie County, Hedong County. A few years ago, because a friend was killed by the children of the Wangliu clan in Hedong County, Chen Daowei fled away from home after killing and avenging, and wandered here for several years.

After Chen An and Liu Yao said hello, they didn't wear armor, and went straight to lead the horse.

"Good guy, you're there!" Liu Yao secretly praised in his heart, he was unwilling to take advantage of Chen An, and then he also pushed the armor indicated by the military attaché, and got on the horse directly.

"Boom!" With a drum sound, Chen An slapped his hand on the crotch horse, and raised his hooves in the neighing of the war horse and rushed towards Liu Yao, who was a hundred steps away. Fifty steps galloped by, Chen An's long lance poked out, making a move of pear blossoms, and the lance was like a falling flower, so that people couldn't tell where the thorn was.

Liu Yao is also a lance long thorn, so that a trick of catkins with the wind, the same blade is uncertain, as if the catkins fluttering in the wind, obviously a strong and domineering lance but it just gives people a feeling of flying flocculent.

The falling flowers will fly, not gentle but golden and iron, the intersection of the two lances makes a crisp sound of "bang", and the two of them feel that their palms are slightly numb.

Liu Yao said secretly: Good strength!

Chen An also said secretly: Good strength!

Liu Yao thought to himself: This Chen An is thinking of it together, and it is also a collapse force.

Chen An thought: This Liu Yao is a piece of the river I want to go, and I also use false tricks to test it.

Chen An looked up to the sky and laughed, and waved his finger: "Come on!" Have a good time! “

Liu Yao snorted coldly, and also pointed at Chen An and said, "I'm afraid you won't succeed!" “

The two of them immediately slapped their horses and killed one place again, only to see the two of them each showing their own combat skills, and the long lance shook out flying flowers, sometimes like a wild knife breaking the angry waves, sometimes like an iron whip waving a thunderbolt, only to see the audience in the audience as if they were fascinated.

After more than forty years of closure, Liu Yongming secretly said in his heart: "What a Hedong Chen An, what a fierce opponent!" Then the heart began to think of deceit. So after more than 20 years, Liu Yao became weaker and weaker the more he fought, and seeing that he was falling behind, he could only parry. Suddenly, Liu Yao fled halfway, seemingly planning to temporarily retreat and regroup.

Chen An shouted angrily: "Where to go!" He chased Liu Yao after the horse, but although he chased and fled, the distance did not close.

In the short distance of 100 steps, Liu Yao fled more and more urgently, "Damn, did he see through my plan?" Liu Yao was anxious that he was already very close to the edge of the competition venue, and if he ran away, he would really lose.

"Humph! Forcing you out! Chen An secretly calculated the outcome in his heart, he probed forward with a long lance, always taking the lead, and at the same time maintaining the persecution of Liu Yao, to let Liu Yao be forced out of the arena.

"Let's go!" Liu Yao patted the war horse, and suddenly turned the horse's head, he had the kung fu of a wave bottom gun, which was also a must in the horse pistol, but at this time he had to give up his tricks, so he could only turn around to face the battle.

Chen An snorted lightly, "I'm waiting for you!" Then he finally stabbed out the long-lost long lance, this thorn did not seek to defeat the enemy, but as long as he took the advantage of the first hand to force Liu Yao to continue to go out of the field. Chen An ignored Liu Yao's counterattack with the long lance in his hand, and hit the hind legs of the war horse under Liu Yao's crotch first, with a long neigh, Liu Yao's crotch war horse was unstable in the running, and suddenly fell to the sidelines.

Between the lightning and flint, Liu Yao held the lance in one hand, and pressed the horse's back with the other hand to jump and abandon the horse, he Liu Yongming has not lost yet. The war horse had already fallen to the sidelines, and Liu Yaoyue stabbed Chen An in mid-air. With a soft sound, Chen An waved the lance with his backhand to block, and the two lances were tightly glued, and Chen Daowei used stickiness. There was another loud bang, and the horse fell heavily to the ground, stirring up a large cloud of smoke and dust.

The fallen war horse neighed in pain, and Chen An and Liu Yao held the lance and twisted tightly together, but Chen An was on the horse, and Liu Yao was under the horse.

Liu Yongming has already lost.

When Liu Yao and Chen An were fighting, Gong Sheng was also in the midst of a fierce battle. Gong Sheng flew like a horse, and he used his horsepower to swing his lance and hit directly, "Medium!" Gong Sheng let out a low shout, and the long lance tore through the roaring wind, stabbing out with the momentum of breaking everything.

However, Gong Sheng's thunder blow pierced the air, and his opponent dared to respond with a false move in the face of such a domineering blow, only slightly resisting Gong Sheng's blow and swimming away with a slippery force, and then turned around and found a gap to stab Gong Sheng.

The long lance hit the air, Gong Sheng used the old move but it was not as unpredictable as the opponent expected, and the long lance turned into a sweeping block without any stagnation in Gong Sheng's hands, "Knock! There was a sound, and there was a hammer-like shock in his hand, and Gong Sheng knew that this was the opponent's use of collapse strength to make himself unable to hold the weapon.

Gong Sheng snorted coldly, first used his strength, holding the long lance tight on the outside and loose on the inside, the long lance shook slightly, and then unloaded the menacing blow, and used the stickiness without any intermission, tightly twisted the opponent's weapon, changed the sweep to the bottom pick, and the long lance circled an arc to make a move Jiaolong to explore the sea.

The twisted lance made a squeaky grinding sound, and at the last moment, Gong Sheng once again changed his luck skills, and the stickiness became slippery without stagnation, and the strength change between a sticky and a slippery, a heavy and a light was wonderful to the top, and a stab at the last moment was like an underwater dragon rowing out of the water, almost unhindered to kill the opponent.

The opponent twisted his waist and leaned back, and in this extremely short moment, he barely lifted the lance, but the lance brushed the opponent's placket but failed to hit, and the opponent narrowly avoided a stab from Gong Sheng, and finally galloped away calmly.

"People say that the Wu people are weak and not good at riding, but when I saw it today, I realized that it was a rumor, where is this surnamed Gong not good at riding!" Ping Xian gasped heavily, fighting for more than twenty consecutive battles, he thoroughly comprehended Gong Yinglong's superb martial arts, and his hands were trembling slightly.

Ping Xian didn't wear armor as always, only wore a brown shirt, and a thunder scarf of the same color was tied on his head, and he was still the same strong, but this time he secretly blamed himself. Although Ping Xian is young, he has always been conceited of his divine power, and he has never suffered a loss in strength when he confronts people, and he is fierce by nature, and he has never fallen behind in momentum when he is right with people. This time he competed with Gong Sheng, not only did he fall completely behind in terms of strength, but he was even more angry every time he faced the impact of Gong Sheng's horse, and he had to lose almost every round.

Gong Sheng didn't give Ping Xian a chance to breathe, he rode his horse and killed Ping Xian again, Ping Xian was depressed, and he was angry in his heart, Lao Tzu may not lose! Then Ping Xian shouted: "Come on! "I also patted the horse to meet him.

The field was dusty and the wind was rolling, Gong Sheng and Ping Xian fought for more than 20 years, Gong Sheng seized the opportunity of Ping Xian's slow half a move, forced Ping Xian to be unable to get out, the two horses galloped in parallel, the two fought close to each other, and in a blink of an eye, it was a few together. Gong Sheng swirled and swung the long lance in his hand, and the lance was thrown and bent like an iron whip under the strong force.

Ping Xian returned to the horizontal frame, a thunderbolt exploded in his chest, and the strong strength actually bent the lance in Ping Xian's hand to make the straight lance show a concave arc, and then the blade at the end of the strong crossbow pecked at Ping Xian's chest like a dragonfly.

Although most of the strength had been dissipated, the final lance blow still made Heixian's chest stagnate, and Gong Sheng's next round of offensive was like a storm without stopping. Gong Sheng didn't win a blow, and his backhand made the tail of the lance as a lance and another flirtat. Ping Xian couldn't catch it at this time, so he could only parry hard, only feeling that he could barely resist Gong Sheng's strong force, and suddenly he felt that Gong Sheng's lance had been out of his control like a loach, and before he could react, the tail of the lance suddenly pierced Ping Xian's waist, and a strong attack, Ping Xian broke away from the horse's back like a cloud - the victory and defeat had been divided.

Gongsun Ce, Tai Shiyu, and Xiahou Xiong outside the field stepped forward to congratulate, and Gong Sheng joked: "After winning the championship, I'm afraid I won't be Bi Ma Wen again?" And they laughed.

Outside the arena of foot combat, Liu Yao waited sideways, and after he was defeated in the cavalry battle, he came here to wait for the competition of infantry combat.

After waiting for a short time, it was his turn to go into battle, only to hear the military attache read loudly: "Liu Yao in the clouds to Changshan Duan Wenyang!" ”

Duan Wenyang strode forward and stepped into the ring. This Duan Langjun was dressed in a blue brocade robe, with a green silk and gold ribbon tied around his waist, his face was like a jade crown, his eyes were full of swords, and the onlookers did not know how many autumn waves they had thrown over.

Liu Yao pointed at the young man in the green shirt and asked, "He is the hard hand from Changshan you said?" These words were asking Gong Sheng and the others, who also came to the infantry arena to watch the battle at this time.

Gong Sheng and the others listened to Liu Yao's words and said yes, and Dai Yuan specially reminded: "Yongming must be careful, this young man is very powerful. ”

Liu Yao laughed: "Horse combat is not necessarily strong foot combat, you can see how I break the enemy." ”

Liu Yao strode into the ring, he shook his two white eyebrows and looked at Duan Wenyang and sneered: "Please." As soon as the words fell, he made a move, "open the door and steal", and killed Duan Wenyang. The so-called "opening the door and stealing" is also a commonly used starting sword gesture in swordsmanship competitions, but it is different from "welcoming guests in the pine" and the like, which is a naked expression of hostility.

As soon as the two came into contact, they attacked repeatedly, only to see that Liu Yao's sword was strong and powerful, and he used stunts such as back knives and curly bladed knives in a row, while Duan Wenyang came out with both swords, both offensive and defensive, punctual and offensive and defensive, and offensive and defensive. So I saw Duan Wenyang Fang take three steps back, and then took three steps forward, and it was difficult to distinguish from Liu Yao's repeated advance and retreat.

The two fought dozens of moves in a row, Liu Yao took a half step back and then lunged slightly to avoid Duan Wenyang's attack, and then drew a large semicircle with his sword and slashed in front of him, which was a move in Yan Zhao's Baibu sword Bai Lu nodded.

Duan Wenyang's upper body was shrouded in Liu Yao's sword momentum, and if he didn't slow down the attack, he would be easily killed, but how could this be difficult to stop him? Duan Wenyang didn't stop at all, parrying with one sword and attacking with another.

Liu Yao did not hesitate to turn around and take a big step back, and then swung his sword back, using the next move of the egret nodding Feihong to break the air, take a step back and a half to slash two swords in a row, the hunting wind roared with the sword, Duan Wenyang finally turned from attack to defense, and the two of them changed the offensive and defensive situation again.

Gongsun Ce, who was watching the battle from the sidelines, said: "First use the egret to nod and counterattack, the next move Feihong is to break the air or counterattack, Brother Liu has calculated that one move the egret nod is not enough to stop Duan Wenyang's offensive." ”

Dai Yuan responded: "That young man named Duan Wenyang is indeed a strong opponent, although he is young, but I am afraid that there are few people in the Su Guards who can compare with the skills of this horse's foot fighting, don't bully the young man to be poor." ”

On the field, the two fought hundreds of moves, although Liu Yao was a few years older, he couldn't take advantage of his strength at all, the two came and went, the clothes flew and fought heroically, one was white-eyed and high-crowned, and the other was jade-faced and green-shirted, but the screams of the girls and ladies on the field became more and more undisguised.

"Yikes! Duan Gongzi! A hurried girl exclaimed, and Liu Yongming's fierce attack on the field obviously made the girl who admired Duan Wenyang nervous.

"Hey, our sister is nervous?" Another girl laughed again, there was no way Gong Sheng's ears were good, and he didn't hear a word in the thousands of noises.

"Not really! Xueqi, do you have the one you like? Do you want me to be your matchmaker? The girl known as Zhihan also teased.

Gong Sheng looked at it when he heard the voice, the girl named Zhihan had tight eyebrows, and her white and tender hands were clenched tightly from time to time, obviously her heart was pinned on the young man on the field. Gong Sheng glanced at the girl named Xueqi again, the girl's face was full of peach blossoms, the cherry sip was tight, and she showed a smile from time to time.

Gong Sheng looked at the field again, and saw Duan Wenyang forcing Liu Yongming back half a step with a sword, and then the sword was like a spiral, and the two swords were swung alternately with a backhand, slashing in a row, without gaps, without stopping, like a gust of wind completely enveloping Liu Yao. Liu Yao blocked one sword, then the next sword, he blocked another sword, and then the next sword, and the cycle continued, without breaking off.

Gong Sheng chuckled: "Whirlwind Infinite Blade." ”

Liu Yao's eyes had nothing else but the sword that kept killing him, he resisted with a sword, retreated step by step, and after retreating for more than ten steps, the wind-like sword momentum still did not weaken at all, and Liu Yongming could only retreat again.

Tai Shiyu asked Gong Sheng: "The envoy surnamed Duan is called the Whirlwind Infinite Blade?" ”

Under the storm of sword blades rolled up by Duan Wenyang, Liu Yongming defended every step back, and took another twenty steps, and finally he couldn't block it with a sword, Duan Wenyang's sword followed him like a shadow, "Bang!" Syllable! Syllable! Syllable! Syllable! Liu Yao's left shoulder, right arm, side waist, right rib, and left arm were continuously hit by the sword, and Liu Yao, who had retreated thirty steps, could no longer maintain his balance and fell to the ground on his back.

The audience roared loudly, and the wonderful competition ignited the passion buried in people's hearts, "Changshan Duan wins!" "What a warrior from the mountains!" "That little Langjun surnamed Duan is coming to my house! Tube full! "Listen, the kid surnamed Duan! My lord is the Duke of Jingling, let me ask you if you would like to be a guard? "That kid from the Duan family, have you married a wife?" The old man opened a tavern, and there was a woman waiting to be married. . . ”

Skipping the miscellaneous gossip of demons and monsters coming from his ears, Gong Sheng responded to Taishi Yiyuan and said: "Yes, the Whirlwind Infinite Blade is the swordsmanship of Taiping Zhenren, and this young man should be the master of this senior." ”

Tai Shiyu said: "Now it seems that Yinglong, you and this son should have a battle." ”

Gong Sheng nodded and said, "It is indeed a strong enemy." ”

At this time, Liu Yao got off the field, he reached out and pressed the ribs, and felt a faint pain in the place where the sword was hit, and Gong Sheng and the others hurriedly greeted him. Liu Yao immediately laughed and said: "Victory and defeat are common things in soldiers, I, Liu Yongming, am an enemy of 10,000 people, how can I care about the victory or defeat of a single fight?" ”

In the following half a day, Gong Yinglong fought several infantry and cavalry battles, Taishi Yiyuan tried several rounds of cavalry and archery, and Liu Yongming tried several rounds of infantry and cavalry shooting, and they all received the orders of the military attache in front of the gate of Daxia tomorrow. There are only six people left who have not lost the competition so far, and there is only one competition left in the four events of foot combat, cavalry combat, infantry shooting, and mounted archery.

The young official of Xiangguo's Mansion gave Gong Sheng a jade plaque and said to Gong Sheng, "Tomorrow, you will come to Daxiamen with this card to find me, and I will lead you to meet Xiangguo, and he will watch the battle in person." ”

Gong Sheng then asked, "How do you call it?" ”

The official smiled and said, "My name is Du Yin, you just say you can find Du Lingshi." ”

Gong Sheng asked again: "Who is the one who will compete with me tomorrow?" ”

Du Yin then replied: "Foot combat competition between you and Changshan Duan Wenyang." ”

After a while, it was Gong Sheng and Du Yin again, Du Yin gave Gong Shengshu a thumbs up and said with a smile: "The strong man is really a good skill, you are also shortlisted for the cavalry battle, and your opponent tomorrow is Chen An, a native of Hedong." ”

Gong Sheng took the jade card, resigned Du Yin, gathered a group of friends, and learned that Tai Shiyu and Liu Yao were also shortlisted, Tai Shiyu will compete with Murong Han for riding and shooting, and Liu Yao will compete with Murong Han for foot shooting. After a day of fierce fighting, despite the extraordinary achievements, everyone did not drink together to celebrate, but went home early to rest and prepare for the imperial examination in front of the palace tomorrow.

Note: Du Yin, ancestor of Tang Du Mu