Under Wu Nai's gradual lure, Edward Walker finally revealed his secret to defeating his opponent: "Mr. Wu Nai, although the swordsmanship of your palace guards is exquisite, I can see that they have no actual combat experience. They thought they were clever at luring me to make moves, but they were always directly defeated by a wave of my counter-lure. ”

Wu Nai was naturally not satisfied with such a simple sentence, and continued to induce Edward to reveal his secret: "Oh, so how did Mr. Edward defeat them?

Edward replied: "Mr. Wu Nai, first of all, I want to explain to you that I am not actually a Diuman person, Diuman is our suzerain, and I was promoted to the Pope's Hall as an instructor of the Guards because of my military exploits. ”

Edward pointed to himself, his hand in the air in a gesture that looked like a short spear, and said, "My move is called semi-swordsmanship, which requires the use of a long sword, which is lighter and longer than the broadsword of your guards. Strictly speaking, my swordsmanship is not considered a martial art of Diuman, because the Diuman people are good at using large swords and short swords. For semi-swordsmanship, the Dioman short sword was too short, and the great sword was too long, and these two weapons would only prevent me from using them, and also made it difficult for me to teach the recruits in the Papal Hall. ”

Wu Nai listened carefully, poured another glass of wine for Edward, and asked, "It's really hard Mr. Edward, then, what do you think is the difference between Daxuan martial arts and your hometown's semi-swordsmanship?"

Edward drank the wine in the glass and continued: "I don't know much of your Daxuan's martial arts, but those few people can serve as royal guards, which means that they are also the best of your Daxuan. Personally, I assert that your Daxuan's martial arts are not as good as our Diuman, and the semi-swordsmanship emphasizes the integration of offense and defense, which is simple and capable. And your martial arts always make a lot of superfluous moves, very dependent on defensive counterattacks, every time I only take the first step in the attack to feint, they will come to intercept me, so every time I only use the fake move, first use the sword body to block their deceived volley's big knife, and then take advantage of the backhand attack, I can easily defeat them. ”

Wu Nai pretended to nod with admiration, but secretly thought in his heart: "Hmph, those guys you defeated sound like a group of foolish kids, it is estimated that they are a group of fake tricks who can only embroider their fists and legs, how can they represent me to promote martial arts! I see that your beard is just a frog at the bottom of the well!"

Before Wu Nai could continue to ask, Edward continued: "Mr. Wu Nai, I personally think that you Daxuan can learn my semi-swordsmanship and combat philosophy, and you Daxuan guards those big swords, not only are they not flexible, but the length is also sorry for the weight, you should learn to use the sword!"

Wu Nai replied with a smile: "That's, that's." I thought to myself: "Dare to say that I should learn to use a sword? It's good that you didn't let Xiaobai on the other side hear this, otherwise this wouldn't give you a beating in the public except for the 'Nanchu One Sword' that I had no defeat before! I remember that there were rumors that because of the reform, most of the palace weapons are now equipped with ceremonial weapons, focusing on majesty and deterrence, and actual combat ability is secondary. Okay, you're a foreigner, you know a fart! Let you have to be scared first, what is the sword of Daxuan, sooner or later you will see it!"

Wu Nai was about to continue the toast, but Edward politely refused: "Mr. Wu Nai, I'm almost done, I've been drunk several times in your announcement, and I can't drink anymore this time no matter what." Tonight is our Almighty Lord Sunday, and I cannot afford to delay the prayer. ”

Wu patiently thought, you kid is about to blow the sky today, and if you don't overturn you today, I'm sorry for our martial arts practitioners. So he continued to persuade him to drink more: "Isn't it just prayer? It would be nice to do it another day! Come, a toast to the hometown that gave birth to heroes like you!"

Edward replied with a serious face: "Mr. Wu Nai, preventing a devout believer of the Holy Lord from worshipping will be punished with flogging in Diuman. ”

Wu Nai sensed from Edward's words and deeds that the matter of worship and prayer should have a very special meaning for the Diuman people, and if he tried to persuade him, it might be counterproductive.

So Wu Nai hurriedly apologized: "Oh, I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Little brother, I don't know the importance of this matter, and I ask Mr. Edward to forgive me!"

Edward also smiled back: "It doesn't matter, after all, you people in the Great Xuan Empire do not understand the greatness of God, I believe that one day, our Almighty Lord will bring his gospel to your Great Xuan." ”

Did your god tell you that I was gearing up to clean you up, and that the Almighty Holy Lord was teasing me?

Wu Nai continued to greet Edward, and while talking, he tried to make Edward improve his good opinion of himself. Under Wu Nai's deliberate covering, Edward didn't see her again, she listened quietly to the conversation between the two while eating. On the other hand, Bai Yu also lowered his head and listened, after all, there was Prime Minister Lu Yunhe, as long as he didn't talk and listened well.

In this way, the feast ended in a harmonious atmosphere, and after kneeling to bid farewell to His Majesty the Emperor, the people who were full of wine and food talked happily and slowly left.

Wu Nai and his entourage had just converged outside the door of the banquet hall when they were stopped by Huaide, who trotted out all the way.

Huaide looked around and made sure that no one was paying attention, so he whispered: "Pass on Your Majesty's message, please follow me to the side hall to have a meeting." ”

After saying that, Huaide took the three of them together and quietly left through the side door.

After the three of them came to the side hall, they waited in the side hall for a while, and the emperor and the prime minister seemed to need to greet several other important ministers of the court. However, the three of them did not wait too long, the emperor and the prime minister only worked for a while, and they also came to the side hall together.

The emperor waved his hand to signal that there was no need to be polite, he sat down impatiently, and the first thing he said was: "Teacher, and three knights, tell me what you have gained today." ”

As soon as Wu Nai wanted to speak, the prime minister replied first: "Your Majesty, the old minister will speak first!"

The Emperor nodded, and the Prime Minister stroked his beard habitually, and said: "The old minister probed the tone of the envoy John today, and learned that this royal instructor Edward was not from their own country, but was originally a battle-hardened veteran of his vassal country, and was later promoted because of his personal bravery. ”

After Lu Yunhe finished speaking, he looked at Wu Nai, Wu Nai nodded, and signaled that he also inquired about this matter.

Lü Yunhe continued: "The minister also learned that their Diuman people believed in gods and martial arts, and were extremely devout to their gods, and often expanded their territory in the name of mission. And they have been fighting for this for many years, from peasants to nobles in the country, it can be said that all the people can be soldiers. Their laws even stipulate that all judgments can be decided by one-on-one duels, and in the opinion of the courtiers, they are fearless in the name of God, and their courage is rare in the world. Private fighting among their people is prevalent, and many of them have been mercenaries for many years, and their martial arts skills are naturally refined. All in all, this Diuman is so brave and ruthless that it should not be underestimated!"

The emperor was anxious when he heard this: "Then in your opinion, our chances of winning are very small, right?"

Lu Yunhe smiled mysteriously, looked at everyone, and replied slowly: "Hahaha, no! The minister will tell His Majesty about the weaknesses of this Diuman people now!"