Chapter 21, Entertainment

In the next two days, the visitors of the Gongsun family still boarded in Zujiazhuang.

According to the business card delivered in advance, the Gongsun family will stay in Zujiazhuang for three or five days, nominally to visit here for a while. As for the actual serious matter about marriage, it is also a private conversation between the elders of the clan and Gongsun Zhi, but there is no communication to the outside world. During the day, the ancestral family will arrange a special trip to take the guests of the Gongsun family to the county and township. When they come back in the evening, they will hold a banquet, playing and feasting.

Although Zu Zhao is an indispensable protagonist for the arrival of the Gongsun family this time, he is not accompanied by the guests of the Gongsun family all the time. In addition to traveling with the guests of the Gongsun family for a short time, he still did his own things at other times. He got up early to read or design harnesses. After lunch, he led the leisure people to Xihe Bridge to practice horses. Every time Gongsun Long would follow him and was particularly involved in "playing".

The recent training content is still playing casually. The difference is that Zu Zhao has specially designed some "fresh games" since the past two days. He will randomly divide everyone into two teams and ask the two teams to compete through running, horse racing, group wrestling and other means respectively. For this reason, he also arranged some rewards. The party who wins the competition can have a big meal at the town's wine shop and take all-inclusive drinks.

Rangers are the most bold and eager to have a lot of wine and meat every day. Although most of the rangers who come to respond to the call of Zhang Yuan and Zhang Yu have three or two families, even a rich family like Zu Zhao can't eat meat every meal, let alone them? Therefore, I was extremely excited about this and responded positively one by one.

As for the ancestors' children, they don't care about a meal of wine and meat, but most of them are self-sufficient. How can they be willing to lose to these market players in the game? Therefore, we should also do our best and fight for it at all.

There are various events in the competition, and there can be several types in a single race.

Zu Zhao hopes to improve these young and strong physique step by step. At this stage, it is only a few hundred meters of sprints. In the future, it will increase the mileage of the race little by little, as well as take round-trip running, obstacle running and other methods to sharpen everyone's will and reaction. As for most of the northerners who are good at riding, they still need to be trained to become combat cavalry. In particular, the Han Dynasty has not developed mature heavy cavalry, most of which are light cavalry, which focuses more on testing the skills of knights.

Even if Zhang Yuan, Zhang Yu's two brothers and the children of the Zu family know something about riding and shooting, this is far from enough.

His expected training results are to enable these people to reach the level of array impact. Only knights with active offensive ability can be regarded as cavalry in the true sense. After that, it can be further adjusted according to the actual situation to distinguish the types of cavalry such as scouts, guerrillas, surprise attacks and pursuits.

In addition, personal combat skills cannot be ignored. Most of the time, close combat on the battlefield is full of physical strength and strength. Training group wrestling can not only improve everyone's team consciousness, but also exercise physical strength and strength. In addition, the fighting skills on the battlefield are not useless, and they are more or less better than those who can only be reckless.

All the people who come to Xihe Bridge to participate in the "training" must go through these events. Basically, after running, horse racing and wrestling, the afternoon is almost the same. Whether it is a ranger or ancestor's children, they are all sweaty and dusty, and there are many slightly colorful people, all of whom are happy.

In order to avoid the real hatred of the competitors of the two teams, Zu Zhao expected to redistribute the team once a day, everyone will make a lot and decide, and the Ranger and the children of the Zu family will be separated. Even if more and more people participate in training in the future, they will do it in this way. Until the participants are fully motivated, or officially supported by the county and county governments, so that everyone can devote themselves to the atmosphere of formal discipline.

After the first day of the game, Zu Zhao invited the winner to the town's winery for a drink. He asked the restaurant to only provide a certain amount of alcohol, and as for the amount of meat and vegetables, he did not bring any money with him, but only promised the restaurant to pay the bill tomorrow afternoon. The restaurant had already heard of Zu Zhao's reputation as a "Dragon City Flying General" and knew that the ancestor family was rich, so he readily agreed.

Gongsun Long lost two defeats in this day's test and kept scolding and not spitting on the way back to Zujiazhuang. After all, he is young and energetic, and he is not in the mood to summarize the specific reasons for the failure. He just complains that the team members are not smart enough. Some of the children of the ancestral family who followed were full of resentment. If it hadn't been for the fact that Gongsun Long was a guest, they would have ridiculed each other long ago.

Zu Zhao rode on the horse, smiled indifferently, and said in a very serious tone, "Small fists and feet are enough to tolerate men. The competition is just a formality. The important thing is to cultivate everyone's tacit understanding. If you can't even do this, how can you win in the future? Brother Gongsun, don't you think so?

Sun Long still said quibly, "It was before that I clearly ran to the front, that is, to let those people drag their feet. So is wrestling. I fell down several of them. It's so annoying!"

Zuzuo still said with a smile, "Brother Gongsun is really disappointing. I know that Brother Gongsun is extremely powerful, but in the end, it is still difficult to beat four hands with one punch. Anyone can practice the skills of ten enemies, but if you want to make 100 enemies, thousands of enemies or even tens of thousands of people, it is called true ability.

Gongsun Long looked confused and frowned and thought for a while.

The children of other ancestors also heard it surprisingly and gathered to listen to it.

After a while, Gongsun Long still asked Zu Zhao puzzledly, "Brother Zu, why can't I understand what you said? This... Hundreds of enemies, thousands of enemies and even tens of thousands of people are too much.

Zuzuo said, "Brother Gongsun has ever thought that the reason why Gongsun can defeat several people in wrestling is not because his teammates restrain their opponents from the side, so he has the opportunity to win? Whether it is a test or a real battle to kill the enemy, there has never been a precedent for a person to repel an army. Only by knowing the power of the people can there be the possibility of winning more with less. My words have no other meaning. I just hope that Brother Gongsun will not shift the responsibility to others. Why don't you think about how to unite your team partners?

Gongsun Long understood a little, but even though he was still unconvinced, he no longer had the same fierce reaction as just now.

After a pause, Zu Zhao then smiled and said, "Anyway, the test is just a play. It doesn't matter if you lose for a while. You might as well summarize the experience of failure later and have another game tomorrow."

When Gongsun Long heard this, he immediately stroked his palm and laughed and said repeatedly, "Really, really."

When they returned to Zujiazhuang in the evening, everyone went to wash their bodies first, so that they were late for the dinner that day. However, several elders did not blame him. Since Zu Zhao stated the reason to Zu Ju last time, the ancestors and the guests of the Gongsun family were very clear about the purpose of these teenagers going out. It's a good thing to see that the children of the clan have such enthusiasm. At the banquet, Zu Ju and Gongsun Zhi even paid attention to the afternoon scene.

Zu Ju was just a brief overview, but Gongsun Long said the confrontation arranged by Zu Ju, and finally said what Zu Zhao said on the way back.

When the two elders heard the so-called "ten enemies, hundreds of enemies, thousands of enemies, and tens of thousands of enemies", they were surprised to varying degrees. They looked at each other and felt very much.

The next morning, Zu Zhao just got up to wash, but unexpectedly, Sun Long hurried to see him and asked for some questions about the test this afternoon.

Zu Zhao was surprised that Gongsun Long was so enthusiastic that he could say not much. On the one hand, Gongsun Long would not often live in Xuwu County, let alone participate in the preparation of Xu Wu County. On the other hand, the competition has just begun, and many things must be persistent to understand their own understanding. Come on.

Sun Long can still listen to Zu Zhao's words. After all, in the past few days, he has admired Zu Zhao's gentle, modest, implicit and heroic image. Not only that, he has also witnessed Zu Zhao's skills in the past few days and believes that he has something to do.

However, he still refused to leave all morning, so that Zu Zhao didn't even study scriptures.

After a simple breakfast, Zu Zhao had to take Gongsun Long to the garden to adjust his harness. Gongsun Long was very strange to the harness designed by Zu Zhao, and then focused his attention on this aspect and kept asking questions. Zu Zhao is quite patient, answering questions, and his words are concise. Fortunately, Gongsun Long is also a good horseman in Xuantong County. After listening to Zu Zhao's introduction, he also put forward some suggestions on riding, which helped more or less.

At noon, Zu Zhao had lunch with Gongsun Long. Gongsun Long can't wait to go to the West River Bridge.

Zu Zhao just smiled helplessly at this. He didn't expect that his practice to prepare for theft this year would attract so much interest to a foreigner.

came to the backyard horse farm to prepare horses, and the children of the ancestors were ready as usual. Today, there were a large number of people present, one by one, rubbing their hands and imposing. Obviously, the game arranged yesterday aroused the interest of many people. After returning, these people couldn't help but think about it, which immediately caused more people to feel itchy and eager to try.

When Zu Zhao was preparing the reins, Zu Ji led his horse to his side. Yesterday, his team won a complete victory, and at this moment, there is still a proud look on the winner's face.

"Big son, Uncle Hong should be back in the afternoon to see if he can receive any good horses this year." He casually looked for the topic.

"No matter how good the horse is, it must have good skills. You have to practice well during this period." Zu Zhao said exhortly.

"Of course!" Zu Ji smiled happily.