Fifty-Eight Polo (B)

At this moment, the two riders of the red team in front of the red knight who were advancing in possession of the ball crossed over more than 40 steps away from the goal of the green team and ran away diagonally. The Tsing Yi knights who defended them hurriedly followed their horses to catch up, and immediately revealed a gap of more than 20 steps in front of the goal.

As soon as the red knight who was advancing with the ball saw it, he immediately urged the horse to speed up and leaped through the gap, causing the two green knights who were approaching him to pounce. And when the other two Tsing Knights who lost their defensive positions found out that they were chasing back again, it was too late for the red knights to dribble the ball through the horse and pounce straight towards the goal of the Green Team.

The last Tsing Yi knight guarding the goal saw that the situation was not good, and immediately urged the horse to catch up. The two horses met about fifteen paces away from the youth goal. The cardinal swings his cane and is ready to hit the ball hard. The Tsing Yi Knight was too late to hit the ball, so he immediately swung his staff at the opponent's bow, hoping to interfere with the opponent's hitting route. Hitting people with a cane is prohibited in polo matches, but hitting a cane with a cane is allowed, and it is not a violation.

With a "snap", the two poles struck each other, and the knight on horseback shook each other, and the wrong horse ran away. When the two horses staggered, the afterglow of the Tsing Yi knight suddenly saw that the red ball was still standing still. immediately understood that the red knight just shook a little, and he didn't hit the ball with Ben, and immediately shouted in his heart that it was not good, because at this time, the goal of the youth team was wide open, and no one blocked it.

Immediately after that, another rider of the red team sped up from behind, and with a swing of his staff, the red ball rolled down the ground and entered the gate of the green team.

These moves were all done in a flash of lightning, and the red team pulled a goal back, and the two sides returned to a draw. It caused a burst of cheers from the outside of the arena, which was louder than just now.

And on the high platform, this time even Chen Junqing and Zhao Ruyu, Chen Liang and others were also a little moved, although they are not proficient in military affairs, but they have also heard a lot, have seen some, seeing that the two teams in the field are now cooperating with each other to cover, the virtual and real are connected, and the completion is very ingenious, such a cavalry cooperation has never been seen in the Song army, which also shows how well-trained the cavalry of the Jin army is.

On the pitch, the game is still going on. Because both sides conceded a goal soon after the start, both sides played very carefully in the subsequent game, and no one dared to concede another goal lightly.

Although this is just an exhibition match, but I don't know if Jin Guo had ordered in advance, or the knights of both teams have a strong desire to win, as the game progresses, the competition between the two sides gradually began to become fierce, only to hear the sound of hooves rise and fall sharply, their respective knights are hurrying up, scrambling, and will not be allowed.

More than a dozen war horses are driving from east to west on the field, the wind is urgent, and the hooves of the horses galloping back and forth are even more dizzying. The bow stick waved "whirring" with the wind, hitting the ball "hooping" sound, suddenly rolling close to the ground, suddenly bouncing on the ground, and suddenly speeding in mid-air, like a meteor, very brilliant, so that people can see that they don't even blink their eyes.

In less than half an hour, although neither side scored again, they collided with each other, broke five bow sticks, and three knights fell off their horses in the scramble, two of them were injured and could not play again, and the game had to be suspended twice so that the two sides had time to replace the bow sticks with new ones, and the intensity of the competition was average.

The soldiers and others who watched had almost never seen a polo game, but this time they opened their eyes to realize that there was such an exquisite polo game. Because this is Jin Guoren's own game, the audience does not have the heart of favoring that side, so they are gradually infected by the atmosphere of the competition, and they have applauded the performance of both sides.

At this time, Bai Yanjing and Wanyan Chen Monk saw that the horse team had a great psychological impact on the ministers of the Great Song Dynasty, and also mobilized the emotions of the Song soldiers, and they couldn't help but be very happy, seeing that the goal of this mission to the Southern Song Dynasty had reached most of them. However, because he hadn't seen Yang Yan yet, he was still a little uneasy.

On the field, the youth team once again attacked the red team's half, and the five or six horsemen fanned out, forming a siege on the red team's gate. I saw a knight in green clothes advance with the ball, dodged the red knight who defended him, flashed a gap, and at a distance of twenty steps from the red team's goal, he swung his staff and slammed it, and the ball flew into the red team's back goal like a meteor.

At this time, the knight of the red team guarding the door caught up, and the man stood up on the horse's back, leaned forward, and stretched out the cane in his hand as far as he could, only to hear the sound of "bang", and finally stopped the ball in mid-air. But the blow was so powerful that the red knight couldn't unload the ball and stop it, and the ball bounced more than a foot high, flew outward, and was picked up by another Tsing Knight again.

After the Tsing Yi knight got the ball, he didn't hesitate, and immediately swung his staff and slammed it in the first time to attack the goal again.

The red ball flew towards the red team's goal again like lightning, and then another red knight rode to the door, and with a "peng", the red ball actually hit his body. The strength of this ball was no worse than the previous one, and the red knight screamed and fell off the horse. Fortunately, this time the ball did not bounce far and was intercepted by another red knight.

The red-clad knight swung his staff and struck the ball high into the air, arcing through the air and leaping past several men before landing in the middle of the green team's half.

At this time, a red knight was cruising alone near the halfway line, and as soon as he saw the ball flying, he immediately caught up, unloaded the ball steadily, and ran towards the youth team team in possession. At this time, almost all the knights of the green team stayed in the half of the red team, and wanted to go back to the horse to chase after them, but it was too late, and only one knight pulled the horse's head in time and caught up. The knights who stayed behind in the goal of the youth team also stared at the red knights approaching the goal with great caution, ready to attack and block at any time. And now, although one of the players in the red team was injured and fell off the horse, he was attacking with the ball at this time, so the notary Wanyan Chen did not stop the game.

At this time, the Tsing Knight caught up with the warp, only to see a red and a green two horses almost galloping side by side, the Tsing Knight waved his staff to grab the ball, the red knight also waved his staff to block, the two bow sticks exchanged several times, the red knight guarded the wind and rain, and still controlled the ball steadily.

And in the middle of the competition between the two, the two riders approached the goal of the youth team. The knights who stayed behind in the goal of the youth team could no longer look at this time, and immediately urged the horse to come to defense.

The cardinal knight hooked the ball with his staff, and with a sharp pull on the reins, the horse let out a roar, raised his front hooves high, and although he was still in the air, he rushed forward a few more steps, but the knight in green clothes, who was chasing after him, could not hold back, and rushed to the front at once.

As soon as the front hooves of the red knight landed on the horse, the green knight who stayed in the goal urged the horse to rush up, stretched out his bowing staff, and hit the ball. When the red knight saw it, he immediately touched the red ball with his cane, and the ball drilled under the belly of the horse on which he was sitting, and the green knight immediately hit the air with a cane. And after this pause, two Tsing Yi knights immediately behind him saw that they were about to catch up.

After the red knight dodged the blow, he immediately quickly changed his hand from behind, and the moment before the ball left his control, he stabbed the stick, and the red ball stuck to the ground, jumped over the green knight who had just rushed to the front, and rolled towards the goal of the green team.

When the knight saw this, he hurried after his horse, and the man leaned forward as far as he could on the horse's back, and stretched out his staff to hook the ball. But in the end, he was half a step too late, and the cane was only a few inches away from the ball, and he couldn't hook it, so he could only watch the ball roll into the ball.

When the red-clothed knight broke through on his own, everyone held their breath and didn't even blink their eyes. At this time, when I finally hit the ball, I immediately let out a sigh of relief, and then immediately burst into a thunderous cheer.

Zhao Chen was also completely attracted by the game just now, he was not yet twenty years old, in fact, he was still a young man, and he was naturally very curious about this kind of new thing, so he was very fascinated by it, and after seeing the goal, he couldn't help but slap his thigh hard, looking very excited.

But when he came back to his senses and looked at the ministers on the high platform, he found that Zhao Yueru, Chen Junqing, Yang Yizhong, Han Yanzhi, Li Xianzhong and others were all very heavy, and although Bai Yanjing remained calm on the surface, he couldn't help but show a smug look in his eyes, and he couldn't help but be a little surprised, but after thinking about it carefully, he also understood a little, and then realized that this was not just a polo game, but Jin Guo was showing their superb riding skills and tactical cooperation to the Great Song Dynasty.

Think about it again, I saw Song Jun perform several times, but compared to the polo game in front of him, it was quite inferior, if the cavalry of the Jin Kingdom was so elite, it would indeed be a terrible thing. And now all the soldiers in the field are obviously mobilized by such a polo, obviously greatly increasing the prestige of Jin Guo, but they can't say anything, if the result is really like this, then the effect of this autumn is also greatly dismantled, so not only is he very anxious.

Just when the two sides were ready to restart the game and continue the game. I saw a fast horse galloping in from outside the camp gate, and the knight on horseback held a secret slip wrapped in red silk in his hand, and said loudly: "Good news, good news, our army has won a great victory in Lanzhou, and defeated the Western Xia army." After shouting several times, he finally came to the high platform, hurriedly kicked the high platform, and was happy with the good news.

A waiter had already taken the secret slip and presented it to Zhao Chen.

Zhao Chen hurriedly took the secret slip, opened it and took a look, and sure enough, it was the Lanzhou victory sent back by Yang Yan. I was surprised and delighted in my heart, this good news came too timely, and I hurriedly ordered someone to hand it over to Li Xianzhong and read it out in public.

After Li Xianzhong finished reading, the audience resounded with a burst of enthusiastic cheers, and the news of the victory was naturally more inspiring than anything else, and tens of thousands of soldiers shouted in unison: "Long live, long live." "The emotions that were aroused by watching the polo game just now turned into joy for victory.

Wanyan Chen Monk and Bai Yanjing looked at each other, and at this time, they still didn't understand the Song Dynasty's plan to hide from the world, and they didn't have the heart to think about any polo anymore, they just wanted to send the news back to Zhongdu as soon as possible.