Legend of the Demon Emperor of Kyushu

Chapter 47 Fate is like a chess game (6)

Liu Shang, the centurion chief of the first guard, is the capable general of the chief guard Bai Chengyan, an authentic sixth-rank warrior, and at this time he is on the court of the Imperial Palace of the State of Ju, calmly watching everything on the chessboard.

As the 'car' chess on the red square chessboard!

In his house on Jinyun Street, there is 300 taels of silver given to him by the head of the guard.

Of course, it was money for doing business, for Ye Ziqi and Gu Feng's two lives.

At first, when he learned that the two targets were going to participate in "Martial Arts Chess" in the military exercise, Liu Shang felt mixed feelings.

What is worrying is that the number of participants in martial arts is very small, and the audience is full of attention. It is difficult to follow the original plan, hide in the crowd, and secretly play tricks.

The good news is that in this way, two lives of the target can be taken openly, without pretending to be an accident; and martial arts is the only game in which one guard can beat the second guard and the third guard in the military exercise!

To explain, there is a complex military background behind this:

Among the three Davids, one guard is in charge of guarding Hanye City, and has the least experience in battles. Moreover, the head of the guard, Bai Chengyan, is focused on the officialdom, busy all day trying to win over the dignitaries in the court and ensure that he will inherit the position of the king in the future. military affairs.

Therefore, in comparison, the strength of the first guard is far behind that of the third guard, let alone Lian Hongye's second guard.

Corruption is commonplace, and there is no war, which leads to the fact that the truly capable people in Yiwei have almost no way to be promoted, and they are silent among ordinary soldiers.

The "martial arts chess" in the military exercise gave them a very rare stage to prove themselves, so every year they earned a lot of places, and the final appearances were all elite fullbacks.

In contrast, the strong fighters in the second and third guards have already become famous on the battlefield, and have received the official salaries of the commander and centurion. It is too late for each of them to seek safety, and there is no need to take the risk of taking this muddy water .

As a result, apart from a young man like Ye Ziqi who is eager to make his mark, there is no capable person who is willing to participate in Wuqi.This gave Liu Shang the best advantage to take the opportunity to kill Ye and Gu.

In private, he had already promised to all the officers and soldiers participating in "Martial Arts Chess" that no matter whoever took the heads of Ye and Gu, he would get 50 taels of silver per life!
At this moment, the red chess "horse" chess is rushing towards the target named Ye Ziqi, and it is time for him to see the promised reward land.

"Bah!——" The moment the black horse neighed, people and horses intertwined, the vigorous horse raised its front hooves high, and the shadow fell on the young man like a mountain.

Ye Ziqi swung his spear away with a sword, followed by entering the sword into the horse's belly!

Red blood, like rain, bathed his whole body.

In the next moment, the black horse collapsed, and his body completely fell to Ye Ziqi, completely crushing him to the ground!

"It's done!"

Liu Shang said happily in his heart.

Tang Zhao's face showed joy.

Tang Sizhou nodded slightly.

Tang Wandie's heartstrings suddenly tightened.

The commander raised the red flag.

The second guard's voice was hoarse.

Everything is a foregone conclusion.

But just before the atmosphere of the audience was about to erupt——

The dark horse moved.

The commander's half-raised hand stopped, in the center of his line of sight, where thousands of people pointed at each other in the school field——

The dark horse was picked up!
The atmosphere of the audience seemed to be suffocated, staring blankly at the young soldier who "forced the palace" on the chessboard.

He stood up carrying the black horse with a grim expression, finally bowed his upper body slightly, grabbed the upper arms of the black horse's front and rear legs with both hands, propped up the horse's belly with his shoulders, and carried the whole horse on his back!
The body soaked in horse blood, so young, seems to stand upright.

"it is good!"

I don't know how long there was silence, but with a loud cheer, the atmosphere of the school grounds was ignited!
"Okay! Hahaha..."

"Wonderful!"

"My country of Ju is so brave, we will surely repel the horse thieves!"

"Long live Ju Country!"

……

The Red Chess cavalry had been thrown off their horses earlier, but now they sat up with their guns and were about to get up when they looked up and saw their mounts being lifted up into the sky.

The strength to stand up was suddenly emptied, and it felt like the wind was blowing in my heart.

He thought of the giant Kuafu.

"boom!"

The black horse was smashed by Ye Ziqi on the cavalry, and the cavalry fainted.

"Hei wins!"

The commander raised the black flag, and the atmosphere in the audience boiled again.

Liu Shang lowered his head and scratched his nose amidst the roaring applause from all sides. This was his habit when he felt nervous. The job of 300 taels was really not easy to accept.He regretted it. When Baichengyan called him to do this, he should have excused his illness and declined.

"Five into one!"

The chess game continued, Ye Ziqi walked to the center of the nine squares of the red square, and became a piece that would determine the outcome.

"Two cars back four!"

"Gong Ba Ping Si, General!"

"Che Er Ping Wu, Eat pawns!"

As soon as the chess order came out, the audience was shocked, the king Baicheng Jiong even ignored the red general who was "bowed" by the chess general, and wanted to eat Ye Ziqi, a heart-warming pawn first!
Liu Shang took a long, long breath.

Then, he tapped the end of the gun on the car, and held the gun with both hands.

The coachman understood, drove the chariot pulled by two horses, and rushed straight towards Ye Ziqi in the center of the Jiugong grid.

On a real battlefield, a chariot should be ridden by at least three people, one holding a bow, one holding a gun, one driving, and usually four horses riding together.

Therefore, there is a saying in the Art of War: "The chariot and rider are the soldiers of the army. Therefore, ten chariots defeat a thousand people, and a hundred chariots disrupt ten thousand." (Note [-])

Although "Wuqi" has reduced the strength of the chariot and changed it to only one person standing on the chariot to fight, for infantry, trying to stop it is still tantamount to using a mantis as a chariot.

The wheels rolled towards Ye Ziqi with the sound of "clang, clang, clang", and when the horse's head approached, Liu Shang stabbed straight with his spear, but he never expected that Ye Ziqi suddenly raised his head at this moment, roared, and swung his sword to slash at him. !
The spears and swords intersected, and the spears and swords were swung away with immeasurable force!

Because it never occurred to Ye Ziqi that he didn't dodge, but confronted head-on, Liu Shang missed the best opportunity to attack.In fact, at that moment, he really thought that Ye Ziqi was going to rush forward and slash him with a sword, until the wheels rolled by, he remembered in a cold sweat that according to the rules, Ye Ziqi could only defend this round.

Take the attack as a guard.

"Bang, bang..."

A drum-like sound suddenly sounded in his ears. Liu Shang looked back, and it turned out that Ye Ziqi was chasing after him with a sword in his stride!

"Stinky boy!" Liu Shang was furious when he saw this, thinking that he had been in the army for nearly twenty years, and he was a centurion of a guard, how could he be chased and killed by a new soldier?Nai said angrily, "Stop!"

The driver immediately stopped the horse, Liu Shang shook his body, and then realized that he might be too impulsive.But Ye Ziqi seized this opportunity and jumped onto the chariot in one fell swoop!
Seeing this, Liu Shang didn't say much, and shot down with a single shot!
"Snapped!"

Ye Ziqi blocked the incoming gun with a horizontal sword, took two steps back under the heavy pressure, the soles of his feet pressed against the rear edge of the car, and finally stabilized.Then he changed his tactics and wanted to fight back, but at this time Liu Shang's second shot had already come up.

"Run!" Liu Shang roared, and the chariot started to move again.Ye Ziqi suddenly became unsteady on his feet.

This is exactly Liu Shang's scheming, he sees that Ye Ziqi's strength is his extraordinary strength, but the difference is that he is young, his moves are far less proficient than his own, and he is not suitable for fighting in a car.

So he made the chariot run, Ye Ziqi's pace became hasty on the swaying carriage, and Liu Shang used a set of "Liuhe marksmanship" to make the clouds flow smoothly, big three hits, small three hits, and pressed Ye Ziqi down to only one The power of defense, but the power to fight back!

After the long spear was split vertically, followed by a wrapped spear, the tip of the spear was circled, and Ye Ziqi's sword was pushed away, and then Liu Shang pressed the tip of the spear with a lunge, and stabbed Ye Ziqi's chest straight!
Ye Ziqijian was entangled, but he didn't wait to die. He slapped the gun with his left hand and missed it.Just at this moment, the sword in the right hand was completely castrated, so he reversed and slashed back from top to bottom.

Seeing this, Liu Shang held the gun in his left hand and slid the handle backwards, raised the gun up to chest height with his right hand, and at the same time turned the gun horizontally from left to right with both hands, and knocked the sword away. With this move "cloud pull gun", sweep the gun around, and wave it towards Ye Ziqi again!
Ye Ziqi could only return his sword to defend, his body was beaten and he took two steps to the right, Liu Shang didn't give him a chance to breathe, he immediately retracted the body of the gun and hit it, Ye Ziqi blocked it again with his horizontal sword, he was panting for breath under the combined attack Not enough, and was pushed back two steps, back to the edge of the car body, there is no way back.

Liu Shang was overjoyed, he took a step forward and slashed the spear obliquely, the tip of the spear fell straight on Ye Ziqi's head!
A vertical shadow fell on Ye Ziqi's face, there was no way to hide this time, so he had to raise his sword to block, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that this block was hasty and weak, the young man who had just become famous in the first battle would die on the spot!

"Snapped!"

The moment the guns and swords collided, a scene that no one could have dreamed of appeared!

The spear broke, and half of the gun fell to the ground with a "slap".

Seeing this, Liu Shang was completely stunned, Ye Ziqi immediately swung his sword horizontally, and Liu Shang's helmet flew out of the chariot!

Liu Shang lowered his head, raised his hand to touch the bottom of his neck, found a hand full of blood, shook his body, and fell off the chariot!
The military doctor on the sidelines immediately entered the arena, and Ye Ziqi stomped his foot on the carriage, the driver immediately stopped his horse, turned around and was about to speak: "Liu Chang—" Then his face changed drastically, and he could no longer move his mouth.

It wasn't just him, all the officials' family members in the school grounds opened their mouths wide this time.

Among them, only a girl in green had tears in her eyes.

The commander once again raised the black flag for the boy.

"Hei wins!"

First win the "horse", and then win the "car".

The school field is boiling!

"Huh——" Ye Ziqi let out a long breath of white air amidst the cheers from all around, then lowered his head to look at the bronze sword in his hand, stroked the blade, and said to himself: "This is a sixth-rank warrior. Shang Xia Changdan couldn't win the fight, but this time it was right to add the sorcery 'Iron Erosion Technique' to the sword."

The Iron Erosion Art is exactly the black art he used to defeat Gu Feng a year ago.

This time, he saved him again.

Then, Ye Ziqi raised his head and looked in the direction of Tang Wandie, raised his sword and waved it to express his gratitude to her for giving her the pill.This was immediately regarded as an act of receiving applause from the audience, and the atmosphere was once again pushed to a climax.

Tang Wandie covered her lips with both hands, and tears finally burst out of her eyes!

She understood that Ye Ziqi's sword was swinging at her, which made her too shy to raise her head, afraid to look at the person on the chessboard.However, I couldn't help wishing that I would also stand on the school field at this time, standing next to him, so that I could bask in the attention and cheers of the audience, and announce to everyone:

look!This is her man!
But in fact, when she thought to herself, "He became famous in one fell swoop this time, and his promotion to centurion is just around the corner. A centurion under the age of 20, even if he has no family background, must be qualified to propose marriage to his family", she already Too shy to stand anyone's gaze!
On the general stage, the king Baicheng Jiong did not continue to make moves, but gently pushed the chessboard away.

The ruler of a country cannot lose too much face.

The attendant understood immediately and took the chess table away.

"Shuang'er, is there anything you want?" Bai Chengjiong asked.

This question is also a rule of "Wuqi", the king will agree to a request of the winner.

Baichengshuang stood up, then knelt and saluted Baicheng Jiong:
"My father, please give my son another year."

Baicheng Jiong thought for a while, but his eyes drifted to an old man in gray robe beside him. The old man nodded, Bai Chengjiong thought for a while, and said: "Yes."

"Thank you father!"

At this moment, Baichengshuang looked back towards the school field, looking at Ye Ziqi, the soldier who helped her win this victory, with a strange look in his eyes.

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Note [-]: From "Wu Jing Zong Yao·Previous Collection·Volume [-]".

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