On the polo field of the Yulin Army on the west side of the Imperial City, a newly established polo team began its first day of training.

Li Zhen is the leader of the seven-man team, and his goal is to expand the number to ten, with five full-time polo players and five back-up.

In the corner of the polo field, Li Zhen was explaining the rules he had set to everyone.

"Practice for an hour every morning and evening, and you must not be absent unless you are out on official business. ”

"I didn't expect to win this polo tournament, but I wanted to have a place. ”

The place Li Zhen refers to is to enter the top ten, but to enter the top ten among nearly 200 polo teams, it is not easy to say, Li Zhen also understands in his heart, but he wants to fight for it.

The six polo players lined up, and the tallest was Pei Kuan from the Thousand Cavalry Battalion, who was only sixteen years old, but he was unusually burly, a head taller than Li Zhen, and his shoulders were particularly broad, making people feel as steady as a mountain.

Although he is tall and burly, Pei Kuan comes from the famous Wenxi Pei family, an old family, and he is destined not to be a reckless man.

Li Zhen asked Pei Kuan and Jiu Zhi to play left and right defense, and he took a fancy to the wide stature of the two of them and let them be responsible for the defense of the backcourt.

The left and right wings were handed over to Li Linfu and Sun Lin, the two were mainly responsible for intercepting and passing, compared with Li Linfu's single-minded stammering with Shangguan Wan'er, Sun Lin participated in Li Zhen's team in order to return Li Zhen's favor.

The first is that Li Zhen saved the life of his brother Sun Li in Dunhuang, and the second is that Li Zhen assisted his brother in solving the Broken Tan case, so that his brother was promoted to Dali Temple again, out of gratitude, Sun Lin did not hesitate to join Li Zhen's team after being invited.

As for the two back-ups, Ye Chao and Xiao Xi, Ye Chao is Zhao Qiuniang's third apprentice, the same age as Li Zhen, who is thin and tall, and looks careless about everything.

Ye Chao's head is thin and yellow, his skin is pale, in fact, he has a little albinism, he is also a Qianniu guard now, although he himself doesn't care, but his parents are very excited.

Xiao Xi was the only one who did not appear on the court as a guard, and Shangguan Wan'er arranged for him to enter the imperial doctor's room, and named him as the apprentice of Shen Nanmu, the imperial doctor of Xi.

He is quite strong, but unfortunately he is not tall enough, and in front of the tall and big Qianniu guards, he is like a child.

But the core of the polo team is the shooter, so to speak, the left and right wings are for the shooter, all polo teams are around the shooter to fight against each other, the shooter's scoring ability is directly related to the victory or defeat of the game and the ranking of the polo team.

Li Zhen is naturally the shooter of this polo team, the captain on the field and the core of the team.

Li Zhen trained a few words, and then shouted: "Start practicing shooting and defense!"

The six turned over and were divided into three assistants to practice shooting and defense.

At this time, Li Zhen glanced at the other side of the polo field, and there was also a polo team training on the other side of the polo field, which should be Xue Huaiyi's polo team.

At this time, Xue Huaiyi stood on the side of the court and stared at Li Zhen's training, since the return of winter hunting, Xue Huaiyi has been very low-key, obscure, and can no longer see his former arrogance.

In fact, this is also the first time he has kept a low profile in the past ten years, and Xue Huaiyi has served Wu Zetian for almost ten years.

In the past ten years, he has been windy and rainy, flying in and out of the palace, everyone is scrambling to flatter him, even Wu Sansi and Wu Chengsi have to rush to lead him and pull him.

Although in the past two years, he also felt that the Holy Lord no longer valued him as much as before, but he didn't care too much, and continued to be arrogant and domineering, doing whatever he wanted, until Wei Tuan'er was executed, Xue Huaiyi finally had a little fear.

And the saint enshrined the Maitreya relics in the Shaolin Temple instead of his White Horse Temple, which also made Xue Huaiyi feel a trace of inexplicable fear after the thunder.

At this time, he heard someone shouting from a distance: "Li Zhen, good fight!"

It turned out that Li Zhen was doing a batting and shooting demonstration for several of his subordinates, the corners of Xue Huaiyi's mouth couldn't help twitching, he was full of hatred for this Li Zhen in his heart, it was he who helped Shangguan Wan'er to bring down Wei Tuan'er and deprived himself of an important ally,

"Wu Yanxiu!" Xue Huaiyi suddenly shouted.

Wu Yanxiu, who was practicing on the court, hurriedly stepped forward and hugged his fists and said, "What is the matter with the general looking for a humble position?"

Wu Yanxiu is the son of Wu Chenghei, who was named the king of Huaiyang County, and is also the general of Zuo Yulin's army, and he is a talent, because his father Wu Chengsi was under house arrest in the Eagle Dog Fang, so that their family is desperately trying to please Xue Huaiyi, and begging him to persuade the saint to release his father.

Wu Yanxiu played extremely good polo, he was the leader of Xue Huaiyi's polo team, and in last year's polo tournament, his team won the fifth place, which was enough to make him raise his eyebrows.

Xue Huaiyi glanced at Li Zhen and said coldly: "That person is too arrogant!"

Wu Yanxiu immediately understood, turned his horse's head and ran towards Li Zhen, and Xue Huaiyi also slowly walked over.

Li Zhenzheng and his companions practice shooting on the court, the polo door is to dig a grapefruit-sized hole in the door panel, each side stands a wooden plank, about a thousand paces apart, ten riders compete on the field, to score the opponent's hole to determine the winner.

Although the shooter is the soul of the team, it is by no means the only shooter who can shoot, so everyone needs to master high shooting skills.

Last year, Li Zhen shocked the whole city with a beautiful cloud-piercing ball that entered the hole 50 steps away.

But for the polo masters of the national competition, it is common to walk into the hole at 30, and although it is difficult to walk into the hole at 50, there are many people who can do it.

Qianqi Yinglang, known as the first master of polo in the Tang Dynasty, stacked Dou Xianyun on the ground with 20 copper coins, swung 20 times in the gallop, and shot the copper coins into the hole 50 steps away one by one, which was fine and accurate, and breathtaking.

"Guard Li played very well!"

There was an exclamation from behind, and as soon as Li Zhen turned around, he saw Wu Yanxiu, the general of Yulin Junlang, appear behind him, although he had a smile on his face, his eyes were full of coldness.

Although the Wu family is not very clear about the role played by Li Zhen in the Poison Sutra case, Li Zhen has a direct relationship with the relics case, it was Li Zhen who gave the shadow relics to Wu Shun, and Wu Chengsi was convicted of offering the shadow relics, so in a certain way, Wu Chengsi was dismissed and imprisoned, and Li Zhen had something to do with it.

It is precisely for this reason that both Wu Furong and Wu Yanxiu are full of hatred for Li Zhen.

It was only because Li Zhen had Shangguan Wan'er as a backstage and the saint's personal guard that they could hold back the anger in their hearts.

Li Zhen naturally didn't have a good impression of Wu Chenghe's children, he clenched his fists and said lightly: "Thank you General Wu for your praise!"

Wu Yanxiu was even more annoyed in his heart, he was the king of Huaiyang County first, and then the general of Yulin Junlang, Li Zhen should call him His Royal Highness, not a general, this kind of title of avoiding high and low is obviously disrespectful to him.

Although he hated it in his heart, he didn't show it on his face, and said with a smile: "I'll also play a ball, please ask Guard Li for advice!"

Of course, Li Zhen knew that he had nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, and when he caught a glimpse of Xue Huaiyi standing not far away, he sneered in his heart, and pretended to be happy: "General Wu is welcome to come and give guidance." ”

He turned his horse's head and stepped aside, Li Linfu's eyes showed a look of worry, this Wu Yanxiu is not good.

He stepped forward and whispered to Li Zhen: "Wu Yanxiu is one of the five major polo masters in the Yulin Army, and he is also Xue Huaiyi's shooter, and their polo team won the fifth place last year, and their strength is strong. ”

Li Zhen nodded, "Thanks for the reminder!"

At this time, the soldiers of the Yulin Army who were practicing martial arts archery on the polo field gathered around, standing in the distance and discussing, and soon everyone understood that this was Wu Yanxiu challenging Li Zhen.

Wu Yanxiu is a polo master of the Yulin Army, everyone knows, and although Li Zhen is a rising star, he is only famous for riding and shooting, no one has ever seen what the level of polo is.

However, according to the convention, a person who is good at riding and shooting will not be weak in polo, and everyone is full of expectations for him.

Wu Yanxiu had already placed a polo fifty steps away from the hole, which meant that he was going to shoot fifty steps away, which made everyone around him excited.

Wu Yanxiu glanced at Li Zhen coldly, he turned over and got on his horse, galloped on his horse, and when the war horse ran over the polo, he swung sideways and slammed it, hitting a beautiful long-line ball, a black shadow flew by, and the polo shot into the hole accurately.

There was a round of applause all around, and even Xue Huaiyi couldn't help but applaud lightly, with an approving smile on his face.

Generally speaking, fifty steps is almost the limit of a polo player, at most it is a difference of one or two more steps, Li Zhen may be on par with Wu Yanxiu, if you want to surpass him, you can either hit the flying ball while running, but the possibility of failure is too great.

Even the number one master, Dou Xianyun, did not dare to guarantee that every ball would be hit, and he himself once admitted that hitting a high ball from fifty steps away, and being able to shoot six out of ten balls is considered an excellent swing.

For Li Zhen, whether or not to pass Wu Yanxiu is no longer a technical issue, but a political issue, Wu Yanxiu came forward to provoke, and Xue Huaiyi watched coldly.

Should he fight or keep a low profile, make a draw with Wu Yanxiu, save a little face for the other party, and don't make a strong enemy for the time being.

Li Zhen was really a little undecided, and at this moment, he glanced at it, and now there were more than a dozen palace maids standing not far away, and a young woman in a purple floor-length skirt was clustered in the middle, quietly watching this side.

Li Zhen's heart was full of enthusiasm, the arena was like a battlefield, he had to maintain the dignity of the team and himself, he glanced back at Jiuzhi and Xiaoxi, and both of them nodded knowingly.

Jiuzhi can make long passes, and small passes are extremely delicate, and more importantly, they have cooperated with Li Zhen for many years, and everyone has a very tacit understanding.

This is also the reason why Li Zhen must let Xiao Xi participate in the team, he doesn't need to play every game, as long as he passes a good ball to himself at a critical moment.

Li Zhen urged the horse to the court, Jiuzhi and Xiao Xi followed, and there were already people applauding around them, and the three of them must have played actual combat.

The three of them quickly formed a big triangle position, Jiu Zhi was about 500 steps away from the goal, the small rules were in the middle, and Li Zhen was about 80 steps away from the goal.

At this time, Li Zhen raised the cue high, signaled the ball, and Chang Kuan threw the polo at Jiuzhi from the sidelines, and Jiuzhi shouted loudly and urged the horse to run against the ball.

When the ball flew in front of him, he swung his club and struck it with great power, and the polo rose into the air and shot at a small shot three hundred paces away.

For a defender like Sakushi, he doesn't need to be very precise, but about strength, and he has to hit the ball to the front as much as possible, so it is usually a tall and fat person who acts as a defender.

The polo hit a high throwing line, but he didn't catch the first shot, he silently calculated the ball and strength in his heart, and immediately turned the horse's head to run, and the polo landed and bounced high, extremely fast.

When the polo was about to land for the second time, it happened to be next to Xiao Xi, and I saw him flick it with the club, and the polo changed direction and flew sideways towards Li Zhen.

Li Zhen was already ready, he galloped on his horse, galloping towards the shooting point of fifty steps, at this time the degree of the polo is neither fast nor slow, the position is not high or low, and it does not spin, this is the best pass.

Even Wu Yanxiu's face changed, that thin boy was not amazing, but his control of the ball and power was too exquisite.

Li Zhen shouted, and a powerful shot from fifty-five steps away, 'pop!', and the polo shot into the hole like a straight line.

There was a burst of cheers all around, applause was like thunder, and countless people shouted: "Wonderful fight!"

This shot was not only wonderful, but even the pass was extremely ingenious, and immediately compared Wu Yanxiu's set-piece, Li Zhen immediately stepped forward and smiled at Wu Yanxiu: "General Wu, admit it!"

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