Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 490 Circle
In fact, for someone like Tie Hongyan who once galloped on the battlefield and commanded with confidence, even if she reviewed the situation of the previous competition too much before the next competition, she might not be affected much in the subsequent competitions. However, she attached great importance to this competition, and felt that it should be a principle of hers not to review the situations of past competitions too much. So before the competition started, she said that no one should be asked about the situation of the previous competition until the competition was completely over.

When she returned to Aoqian Palace, she saw Wu Xunsheng, who was on his way back to Peilianju, walking in front of her. Wu Xunsheng heard her footsteps and looked back. After they greeted each other almost at the same time, Wu Xunsheng said something to encourage her and left in a hurry.

The second day's competition was a competition that did not include horseback archery. When discussing the competition format, someone suggested that the participants fight each other, but this was quickly opposed. The reason for the opposition was that the participants were all from Tiecang, and it would be bad if serious accidental injuries occurred. Therefore, the competition that did not include horseback archery did not adopt the fighting format in the end.

Tie Wandao ordered his men to capture a large number of people from the blue-armored men who were doing the work and tie them up one by one. Some of these people were relatively inefficient at work, some were not obedient in temper, and some were simply people that Tie Wandao's men did not like.

Tie Wandao's men made a batch of numbered labels out of cloth and sewed them onto the sleeves of the blue-armored men. Each numbered label was sewn at one corner with only one thread, and the sewing was not strong. According to Tie Wandao's requirements, they had to ensure that the numbers would not fall off easily, and that anyone who wanted to pull the numbered labels off could remove them without any effort.

After sewing the numbered labels on the sleeves of the blue-armored men, Tie Wandao's men divided the blue-armored men into several groups according to the number of contestants. Each group of blue-armored men belonged to one contestant.

The contestants stood side by side behind a white line drawn on the ground in advance, keeping a certain distance between each person. Each group of blue-armored people was brought to the front of the contestant they belonged to, but very far away from the contestant. If the contestant wanted to contact the group of blue-armored people belonging to him, he had to move a long distance.

Several of Tie Wandao's men drew large circles around the positions of the groups of blue-armored men. In order to ensure that the size of the circles would not differ too significantly, they also used tools.

After the others had done the preparatory activities, a referee named Huang Kan announced the rules of the competition. When he blew the horn, the contestants had to quickly move to the large white circle on the ground where their group of blue-armored people were located, untie the blue-armored people in their group one by one in the large white circle, and control them to prevent the blue-armored people who were untied first from escaping. After untying all the blue-armored people in their group, the contestants could use their usual martial arts to attack them and put them to death. During the process, the contestants could use a weapon, but this weapon could not be a bow and arrow. After killing them, the contestants had to remove the numbered tags on them. The person who killed all the blue-armored people in his group first, got all the numbered tags and returned to the original place was the winner of the competition.

(End of this chapter)