Chapter 298: The Quarterfinals of the Cavalry Battle
Before the start of the third martial arts subject, Bai Sheng saw the four famous arrests that maintained order.
As a "victim", of course Bai Sheng wanted to take the initiative to inquire about the progress of the investigation of the case, but Zhang Yinglong's answer to him was that he did not catch Song Jiang and the others.
Bai Sheng was furious: "What are you headhunters for? The imperial court has taken money to support you, but it can't protect a prosperous future! The rights and interests of our taxpayers ......."
At this point, I realized that I had slipped my mouth, and I immediately stopped.
There were naturally many taxpayers in the Song Dynasty, and all ordinary people had to pay taxes, but the laws and officials of the Song Dynasty rarely maintained the taxpayers, and the people mainly maintained the people who did not pay taxes.
Of course, the four famous arresters don't understand what the rights and interests of taxpayers are, but they are very angry about Bai Sheng's reprimand, even if you are lucky if you don't catch the two suspects in your family, you are embarrassed to point fingers here?
It's just that they can only babble these words in their hearts, and they don't dare to talk to Bai Sheng, not only do they not dare, but even their leader Teng Zhongxiao doesn't dare.
The third subject is horse warfare.
The so-called horse battle is that the two sides of the opposing team ride horses to kill. The rules allow one or even both sides of the battle to abandon their horses and fight on foot, as long as you feel more confident about riding a horse than not riding, then you can ride it or not.
However, like Wu Song, they lost a lot if they did not pass the horse archery lift, because they had lost the qualification to participate in subject three. No matter how strong the foot battle is, it can only be reduced to a spectator in the stands.
A total of 64 students participated in the test, divided into two groups for elimination, and the top 32 were selected first.
Thirty-two fields were divided into the entire school field for sixty-four people to compete with each other. This will be a real showdown, both victory and defeat, but also life and death!
Therefore, every lifter is required to sign a life and death document before going on the field. The gist of the document is that I volunteered to participate in the martial arts, and I was beaten to death, and I only need to put a handprint on it, even if the contract is successful.
Of course, Juzi can also choose not to sign a contract, and those who do not sign a contract are not eligible to participate in the horse war.
But no one chooses not to sign a contract, and they don't even dare to face such a competition, so what else can they talk about going to the Western Xia? The Western Xia people will not stop with you!
In fact, the sixty-four signings are already on the list, but they still need to determine their final ranking through horse battles, which is more convincing than the previous ranking.
The 32 weaker ones were re-ranked according to their results in the first two subjects.
There is no need to draw lots for the matchmaking arrangement, and according to the ranking of subjects 1 and 2, the first place will be taken against the 64th place, the second place will be against the 63rd place, and so on, until the 32nd place will play the 33rd place.
The squad has been decided. Wang's lottery ticket sales staff began to be busy in the stands, 31 of the 32 duels can be used as a guessing item, only one can not be sold, this one is the first place vs. 64th place duel.
The sixty-fourth place is not Sun Shan, but Zhanlu of Nanxia Boxing Gym.
Needless to say, Zhanlu's opponent is Bai Sheng, Zhanlu chose to admit defeat directly, he can't even beat Yi Xiao, how dare he fight Bai Sheng? This has been simulated in the Royal Boxing Gym, there is no need to lose another person, you can only recognize some back.
directly admitted defeat, was decent and betrayed, and Bai Sheng directly advanced to the top 32. The field that belonged to him and his opponent was vacant.
Riding a jade lion, Bai Sheng made a real spectator on the sidelines, watching the fight on the other thirty-one fields.
He saw Zhanren Long, Feng Nandu, Murong Qian, Yi Xiao, Zhanfu, Zhan Shou, Zhan Xi, Luo Lida, Shui Ningzhu, Wei Xianda and others fighting with their respective opponents, and the results were all light.
In addition to paying attention to the martial arts of these people, he paid special attention to Wei Xianda's matchup. Wei Xianda rode a tall horse, holding an eyebrow knife in his hand, and with just one face, he knocked one of his opponent's spears into the air.
No matter how you look at it, the spear that was knocked off looked like the lifter had deliberately thrown it into the sky.
This person should have been bought by the Wei family this morning, this world is really dark. Bai Sheng remembered that this person was a son of Jiangzhou, and he couldn't help but be very dissatisfied with Cai Jing's ninth son, Cai Dezhang.
The political situation in Jiangzhou is very corrupt, the warden led the prisoners to the capital to commit crimes, and the people who participated in the martial arts took bribes and cheated, does the prefect of Jiangzhou still want to do it?
In addition to the above-mentioned people, the matchups between the other lifters were evenly matched, and it was difficult to solve the problem for a while, and it took half an hour to end the first round of elimination.
The top 32 were released, and most of the audience had no joy or sorrow, even if they bought the winner of the first round, they did not gain much because of the low odds, and those viewers who bought the underdog were also indifferent because they were psychologically prepared and did not break out of the underdog.
The elimination of the second round began immediately, and Bai Sheng was against Shui Ningzhu, just like Zhanlu in the first round, Shui Ningzhu directly admitted defeat, and Bai Sheng directly entered the top 16.
No one questioned Bai Sheng's victory without a fight, on the contrary, people understood Bai Sheng's promotion very well. You fight with Bai Sheng, even if you win him, he is also a martial champion, so why do you need to fight? Although Bai Sheng can go to Tong Guan's account to be a partial general, but what if you lose?
Unlike the first round of elimination, in the second round, except for Bai Sheng and Shui Ningzhu, the remaining fifteen duels went quickly, because almost every pair of lifters had a master, and the number of evenly matched matches became rare.
And the fastest of them is still Wei Xianda. Wei Xianda once again "knocked off" one of his opponent's long-handled axes and advanced, and the opponent was a lifter from Qingzhou.
Bai Sheng looked at this scene with a smile and thought: It seems that the Wei family had already bought all of Wei Xianda's opponents last night, but I don't know who will cooperate with him to cheat when he reaches the top eight or even the top four.
The round of 16 is faster to reach the top eight. Yi Xiao confronted Bai Sheng, and still gave in directly.
Zhan Shou faced Wei Xianda, the two "fierce battle" for more than 20 years, Zhan Shou "did not support", fell into the saddle and left, Wei Xianda won.
The top eight are Bai Sheng, Murong Qian, Feng Nandu, Zhan Renlong, Zhan Fu, Wei Xianda, Luo Lida, and Zhang Jun.
Among them, this Zhang Jun has some meaning. Zhang Jun is a lifter from Fengyang Mansion, and he has been inconspicuous in the previous exams, whether it is in the top 500 weightlifting or the top 64 in riding and archery, he is the bottom role, but he is not the first from the bottom, but the third and fourth from the bottom.
But the strange thing is that no matter which subject, he can't be eliminated, and he always keeps up.
Especially in the three rounds of elimination, his opponents in each round are unknown, but he won every round very reluctantly, and it can be said that he stumbled into the quarterfinals, which is not the same as the other seven.
If someone made a fortune through the lottery in the three rounds of the game this morning, it must be on Zhang Jun! Because among the current quarterfinals, he is the only dark horse who is not favored.
The eight-in-four match is about to begin, and the matchup situation is:
Bai Sheng vs. Zhang Jun;
Murong Qian to Lo Lida;
Feng Nandu vs. Wei Xianda;
Exhibition of people and dragons to exhibition blessings.
This round of matchups is very different from the previous ones.
First of all, Zhang Jun didn't have any intention of bowing to the wind, and rode his war horse to the edge of the field that was always idle, waiting for Bai to win.
The second is that Zhan Fu directly admits defeat to Zhan Renlong, and Jia Ding is against the head of the family, how can he not admit defeat? So Zhan Renlong took the lead in entering the top four and became a spectator of this round of duel;
Then there were Wei Xianda and Feng Nandu, everyone saw Wei Xianda come to the edge of Feng Nandu and whisper for a while, but with Feng Nandu's shake, Wei Xianda got on the horse and entered the venue angrily;
The last highlight is Murong Qian and Luo Lida, Murong Qian has never fought on horseback, and he used to fight against horsemen on foot, but he can easily win. And Lorida has always ridden a horse, but this time, for some reason, she chose to abandon her horse and fight.