Chapter 0088 - Commander's Tournament [1]
The leisurely Miss Lin Di played with a stick and performed the Tang family's kung fu freely in the beautiful fragrant garden full of flowers, and her skirt flew with petals, like a picture of a jade woman.
"Yes, yes!" came the sound of clapping hands and applauding from nowhere.
Following the sonorous voice to find the source, a man wearing a purple-red cloak, an official hat like a guard, and a long-handled sword entered Lin Di's field of vision.
"Hey, it's Brother Yuanfang, hehe, Brother Yuanfang, why do you have time to come to me today?" The naughty Miss Lin Di immediately became coquettish when she saw her old acquaintance, holding her arms and holding on.
"Alas, I said Miss, can you not make out with my eldest brother and hold a stick at me. β
"Hehe...... hee" Lin Di smiled embarrassedly, and casually threw the stick on the ground and ignored it.
"By the way, the eldest brother has serious business. What about your father, where is the general of Zhenguo?" Yuan Fang did not forget the original intention of coming to the villa.
"Hmph, you know you didn't come to me on purpose. Lin Di replied stingily, "My father and General Zhenguo are playing in the pavilion, I'll take you there!"
"Well, let's go!"
Lin Di jumped under the stone pavilion like a lively child, "Dad, general! Brother Yuanfang is here." β
"Li Yuanfang is here, Di Xiang may have something to tell me and wait. Please!" Tang Yande reacted first.
The two were about to get up and greet the distinguished guests of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and Li Yuanfang went to the pavilion to salute: "The younger Yuanfang has seen the old owner, meet General Zhang!"
"Ai, Yuan Fang, it's all your own people, you don't have to be formal, come, sit down!" said the master of Tang Zhuang.
"Thank you, the old owner. β
"Is there any special entrustment and explanation for Di Xiangye?" Tang Yande got straight to the point.
"Well, don't hide it from the owner and the general, recently the border pass reported that the border border between the Yueshi country and our country suddenly assembled a large army, and General Mahan also found out that Tubaoye Pass had secretly trained a powerful team called the snake corps. The emperor adopted the advice of the prime minister and decided to select a person with outstanding martial arts, courage and resourcefulness as the leading general, and lead the troops to support the border pass to prepare for the battle. β
"Tubao Yeguan is ambitious and wise, he can be called a generation of heroes, and Mahan is not his opponent. Who is the emperor going to send? What is Wu Chenghe's moving?" Zhang Jinkai asked eagerly.
"The emperor has not yet decided. Wu Chengsi originally recommended Wu Zhuohan to go, because Zhonglang General He Xu made a bold statement, and after the unanimous opinion of the courtiers, the final winner would be screened out through Dianjiangtai to serve as the leading general. β
Wu Zhuohan is also a late born with excellent martial arts in the court, and the final winner should be him, but this person has done a lot of evil, who doesn't know that Wu Chenghei wants to use his family to take the opportunity to occupy military power, and the power is tilted towards the government and the opposition, and he must not be allowed to succeed. But it's hard to find someone who can defeat him. General, what do you think?" Tang Yande handed over the problem to Zhang Jinkai.
"It's not that there are no candidates, it depends on whether he is willing or not. β
Yuan Fang couldn't wait to reply: "Who is the general referring to?"
"Hahaha, the surname is Xiong. Zhang Jinkai said confidently.
"That's right, Xiong Shaoxia Wen Taowu is strategic, when it comes to his kung fu skills, it is even more exquisite, even the old man's phantom Tang Feng's legs are at most a tie with him. On the surface, the imperial court elected generals, but in fact, this matter is related to the lives of the people in the world, in case Wu Chenghei's henchmen obtain military power, the consequences will be unimaginable. Haozhen Qianzhuang may be the base of their intention to rebel, if you add the military power of the imperial court, Li Tang not only has no hope, but Wu Zhou will also be replaced, and it can only be the tyranny of his Wu Chenghei. The old farmer looked quite excited.
"Two, who is this Xiong Yan?" asked Yuan Fang very curiously.
"Oh, Xiong Hao is a swordsman who travels the world, and when he heard Wu Chenghe's outrageous atrocities, he stepped forward to fight against Wu Chenghe. He has excellent martial arts, and his sword skills and light skills can be compared with Yuan Fang, but his swordsmanship is unfathomable, and I am afraid that it is difficult for you and me to be his opponent together. The old farmer replied knowingly.
"Oh, that Yuan Fang really wants to see this young man, to be so highly praised by the old Tang Zhuang, this person must be an extraordinary hero!"
"Haha, say Cao Cao Cao Cao is here, Xiong Gongzi, I will introduce you, this is Di Xiang's cadre Li Yuanfang's guard, this is Xiong Yan. Zhang Jinkai saw Xiong Hao, who happened to come, and took the opportunity to introduce.
"I've seen Escort Li, I've heard for a long time that Detective Di Xiang has a guard Li Yuanfang with outstanding martial arts by his side, and I'm lucky to see him today!"
"Hehe, Xiong Shaoxia has won the award, I really want to see your swordsmanship another day, the old owner admires you very much." β
"That's the owner's love. β
The two humbly complimented each other, but the two elders became superfluous, but Miss Lin Di next to her was even more embarrassed, no one paid attention to her, she had to stay under the pavilion and lightly beat the flowers and plants to relieve her boredom, and eavesdropped on their conversation by the way.
After Li Yuanfang's detailed explanation of the intention, as well as the strong recommendation of General Zhenguo and the owner of Tang Lao, although Xiong Hao did not forget the rivers and lakes, but for the sake of the righteousness of the world, he resolutely decided to join the imperial court to participate in the general Taiyuan, so General Zhenguo immediately revised the book to introduce Xiong Yuan to Li Yuanfang to Di Xiangye.
After the morning of the second day, Emperor Wu led all the ministers of civil and military affairs to visit the general station to observe the selection of the general competition.
The eunuchs close to Emperor Wu arranged to read out according to the will: "All the courtiers recommend, regardless of the position, can be selected fairly." The two sides in the first round were, Wu Zhuohan, the first-class guard of the Imperial Forest Army, and Jiang He, a junior general under the command of General Zhenguo. β
The young general Jiang He's newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, although he is not as good as Wu Zhuohan in the imperial court, but the spear in his hand is not vegetarian, his marksmanship is accurate, and he can be equal to Wu Zhuohan in the first few rounds. However, after all, he is still a young general, although his marksmanship is good but his strength is insufficient, Wu Zhuohan did not give him a chance to react and fight back, the weapon in his hand was knocked away, and Jiang He was eliminated in the first round.
"Wu Zhuo Hansheng!"
Wu Chengsi watched the battle very easily, but then the faces of the second fighter made his expression change abnormally.
"The two sides in the second game are, Qin Jialie, the prince of the Tang Dynasty Wu Zhou Zuodu, and Xiong Yan, the protΓ©gΓ© of Di Xiang. β
"Is it him?" Wu Chengsi was shocked when he saw Xiong Yan's appearance.
Wu Zhuohan on the side also instantly froze, "How could it be him?"
Wu Zhuohan, who was originally full of confidence, suddenly felt a little worried that the chances of winning would become smaller, he had witnessed Xiong Hao and Wu Chenghei being indistinguishable, not to mention his own martial arts.
Qin Jialie is known as the brave general of the Tang Dynasty and Zhou, and he is also a rare general from an official family. The calm Xiong Hao first tested the bottom. After understanding the opponent's skills, he didn't send out all his strength, he took out a weapon on the field at random, and only ten rounds picked up Fang Tian's painting halberd, which was the fastest defeat since Qin Jialie participated in the Dianjiangtai competition several times, and he couldn't believe that there was such a powerful skill in the world.
Even Emperor Wu liked it very much, "This Xiong Hao is really outstanding in martial arts, he is worthy of being recommended by Di Lao, it seems that my Celestial Empire is still full of talents." β
"Thanking the emperor for great blessings, Ze bathes the world!" the ministers exclaimed.