The football Hu Hai asked Tian Ren to make is very special. After all, it is impossible to create a perfect football like later generations. But this football took a lot of hard work by Hu Hai and Tian Ren before it was finally finalized.
The surface of the ball is directly wrapped and sewn with three layers of cowhide or sheepskin, while the inside is made of thin bamboo strips completely woven into a hollow ball shape. There are bamboo strips inside the bamboo ball to share the impact of being kicked.
The hollow part in the middle is filled with some fine wool or the like, which can be said to be perfect.
Wang Qian and Du Teng had a tacit understanding this time, and each selected five generals from the Forbidden Army and the Prisoner Army to form their own football teams.
Seeing the people they had chosen, Hu Hai nodded calmly. If Wang Qian only picked the generals of the Forbidden Army and Du Teng only picked the generals of the New Prisoners' Army, then Hu Hai was going to let them both go.
Hu Hai waved his hand, and twelve dragon guards who had been trained in the rules rushed to the surroundings of the football field with special flags. Adding the four corners, there were exactly four people on each side.
Looking at the twenty-two generals who had taken off their armors and only wore their best uniforms, Hu Hai suddenly remembered that there were no jerseys. Hu Hai had an idea and asked Ying Yi to bring in ink and simply write on the front and back of each person. Eleven Arabic numerals from 1 to 11.
Then Hu Hai ignored the surprised looks of Wei Liao and others and took two kinds of cloth strips, black and red, and asked the people in each team to tie a black or red cloth strip and said: "Okay, now Wang Qian is the black team and Du Teng is the red team." .It starts with the sound of drums. It is three-quarters of an hour in the first half. The captain can stop it for a quarter of an hour in the middle. The same goes for the second half."
"Your Majesty, may I ask what this writing is about?" Wei Liao couldn't bear it for a long time and still pointed at the huge black numbers on the chests and backs of Wang Qian and others and asked.
"Oh, this, these are numbers, one to ten. Isn't this convenient? Okay, okay, don't ask about this. I will explain this to my old lady after the competition is over. Numbers, let’s start the game now.”
"Here!"
At this moment, a dragon guard came over and reported: "Your Majesty, Concubine Li is asking for an audience outside the camp."
"Concubine Li? Why is she here again? Go and ask her to go back, saying that I have political affairs to be busy with." Hu Hai said impatiently, and then said to Wang Qian and Du Teng who were still standing aside: "Come and draw lots, draw lots Kick-off for short to medium branches.”
This is the second time that Li Fei came to visit Hu Hai seven days after he came to the Bashang Camp. The first time was on the second day after Hu Hai arrived at the Bashang Camp, and Li Fei followed him all the way. At that time, he was Hu Hai coaxed and coaxed him back.
As soon as Li Fei left, Hu Hai turned around and forgot about Li Fei, but he did not expect that Li Fei would come again today.
The exposed parts of the two branches held in Hu Hai's hands were both the same length, but Du Teng had better luck and picked the shorter one, and the red team kicked off.
Seeing that the black and red teams had already entered the arena, Hu Hai turned around and was about to start the game by beating the drums himself. When he turned around and saw that the guard who had just come to report had not left yet, Hu Hai said: "Didn't I tell you that I have political affairs to be busy with now? Is she going back? Why don't you go?"
"Your Majesty, Xiao Ba Shi said that Concubine Li lost her temper outside the camp and must see Your Majesty. The soldiers guarding the camp did not dare to stop her." Ying Yi quickly explained for the Dragon Guard named Long Ba Shi.
"How outrageous! You win Ying Yi and take her back to the palace for confinement. From now on, she is not allowed to leave the palace even half a step." When Hu Hai heard that Li Fei was angry at the sentry at the gate of the camp, his eyebrows suddenly jumped in anger. Drink to.
"This... Your Majesty..." Ying Yi hesitated, everyone knew that Li Fei was Hu Hai's favorite concubine.
"Don't you understand what I'm saying?" Hu Hai interrupted Ying Yi.
"I obey your order!" Yingyi responded quickly.
"Dong dong dong"
Ignoring Ying Yi, Hu Hai turned around and started beating the drum in front of him.
The black and red teams, which had been preparing for a long time, suddenly started fighting fiercely, and the simple football field suddenly billowed with yellow smoke.
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When Ying Yi rushed back with urgent military information from Wang Li's office in Chen County, Hu Hai was facing the two temporary general-level football teams of Wang Gan and Du Teng, who were lined up in two rows on the edge of the football field, dejected, bruised and bruised.
Wei Liao and Zhang Han were hiding far away, clearly snickering as they shrugged their shoulders. The remaining six hundred generals at all levels did not dare to run to the side like the two of them, so they had to stand together. The group watched Wang Qian and the other twenty-two people being scolded, but the snickering laughter of schadenfreude could still be heard from time to time.
A group of generals who were very grateful to Wang Qian and Du Teng for not choosing them, thus depriving themselves of the opportunity to show their faces in front of the emperor. If they had really chosen themselves, they would be the ones who would be scolded now with bruises and swollen faces. Already.
"What do you think I should say to you, Wang Gan? You are the captain. Do you know what a captain is? Can you form a formation? Look at the formation you put your team in. A swarm of swarms rushed up, and this It's about kicking a ball, not grabbing it. How stupid!"
Hu Hai put his hands on his hips, pointed at Wang Gan's nose and cursed with spittle. Gan Gan had his head drooped, and the right half of his eye was purple and swollen, looking like a one-eyed panda.
"Du Teng, why are you laughing? You are also a pig. When you kick the ball, you don't lead your people to attack his goal. Why are you beating Wang? Don't laugh, I can see clearly, Wang Gan's panda The eye is your sneak attack. You are insidious! You deserve Wang Gan to punch you in the left eye!"
Hu Hai pointed at Du Teng, who was covering his mouth and snickering with purple circles on the left side of his eyes, and said mercilessly. Du Teng immediately blushed, and then he knew that Wang Gan had hit his eyes, and Wang Qian also knew at this time. He was beaten by Du Teng.
The two people, who were still glaring at each other angrily, saw each other's miserable and ridiculous look, and immediately laughed away their grudges.
"You, it's you, don't look at it, it's you No. 8. You are the red team, not the black team. Do you still feel a sense of accomplishment when you deliver the ball to your own goal? Are you all pigs too? He delivers the ball for others. When you get into your own goal, you still cheer?"
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At the end of the story, Hu Hai himself couldn't speak any more. Seeing the pitiful looks of a group of senior generals in ragged clothes in front of him, Hu Hai finally couldn't help laughing.
It’s no wonder that Hu Hai was angry. The game that was terminated due to a group fight within just a few minutes of starting could be said to have featured all the funny scenes that can be staged on a football field.
Pulling people, kicking people, playing dirty tricks, crossing the line, grabbing the ball with hands, own goals, etc., until it finally turned into a gang fight between two teams of more than 20 generals of all levels on the football field.
Everything started the moment the drums sounded, and things developed so fast that Hu Hai and the surrounding dragon guards who acted as deputy referees had no time to react, and then the more than 20 people started fighting together.
When Hu Hai smiled, Wei Liao and Zhang Han, who were hiding far away, burst out laughing, and the other six hundred or so generals who were not on the scene also laughed. The two teams who were still glaring at each other looked at each other in embarrassment, and also
Laughed sheepishly.
Ying Yi, who was confused, sneaked up to Hu Hai and whispered: "Your Majesty, there is an urgent military situation from General Wang Li!"