Chapter 77 Kansai Hercules in the first quarter

Zhang Yi returned to Xianyang and immediately smelled a strange smell. On the long street, Chinese people gathered in twos and threes to discuss something, and there seemed to be a kind of mystery between their brows.Several markets in Shangshangfang are even more lively. People are gathering in restaurants, shops and streets, especially the noisy Liuhu Market, talking and laughing, as if there is an unspeakable happy event .When businessmen from the six countries met, they shook their heads in astonishment, tsk-tsk in amazement, and repeatedly shouted, "Amazing! Amazing! The Qin State is so proud!" Zhang Yi was very puzzled. The laws of the State of Qin included the crime of "beguiling the public with false speech", which forbids people from discussing the right and wrong of state affairs. , Spread gossip, the current street scene is impossible to encounter on weekdays, it must be something extraordinary happened in Xianyang!In the midst of confusion, I suddenly heard a voice shouting from the side of the street: "That's it! The general's first great achievement!" Zhang Yi suddenly woke up, and immediately ordered the car to turn around and come to Sima Cuo's mansion.When they arrived at the gate of the mansion, the elders greeted him in a hurry, but said that the general had gone to the school's military field.Zhang Yi didn't ask any more questions, and then turned around and drove towards the school military field.

The school military field is located in the Xifang Guoren District of Xianyang City, close to the west gate, covering an area of ​​more than 100 mu, and it is another square in the city second only to the Palace Square.It is said to be the school military field, but in fact it is just the palace guards and city defenders who often train and drill here. The 50,000 troops defending Xianyang are stationed in the Weishui River Valley outside the east gate. They have their own special training camps and do not need to enter. Xianyang City School Army.Therefore, the school military field in the capital city is actually a special training ground for the ten thousand palace guards and the ten thousand city defenders.However, this school military field also has a special purpose, which is to hold a grand celebration ceremony, where the monarch, officials, clans, and people of the country celebrate together.This kind of moment is often a joyous carnival that is rarely seen in the Qin government and the public.

As soon as you enter Xifang Long Street, you can see pedestrians flowing westward in an endless stream, and shouts and cheers are faintly heard from the direction of the school's military field.Zhang Yi didn't need to ask any more, she knew that the king of Qin must be holding a celebration for the victorious division of Sima Cuo's army.When Zhang Yi's chariots and horses came to the gate of the school's military field, the gatekeeper immediately greeted him and wanted to lead the prime minister to the king's platform.Zhang Yi smiled and refused.After getting out of the car, he changed into a commoner suit, took off the jade crown on his head, and squeezed into the school's field with only Ying Hua and Fei Yun.

The military field of Xianyang School can be called a wonder in the world.The square is surrounded by hillside terraced wooden stands, which extend to high places layer by layer, with the top floor reaching a height of more than three feet.The central area facing north and south is the Wangtai, the top floor is six feet higher than the surrounding stands, a full three feet six feet high!Every time there is a grand celebration, there are crowds of people on all sides of the stands, overlooking the grand performance in the central venue, and the cheers and shouts resound through Xianyang like a mountain roar and a tsunami!The distribution of the stands of the school's military field is also very particular: the central area facing the north and south is the exclusive area for the royal family and nobles and ministers of the middle school, and Xianyang people call it the king's stand; It guards the Wangtai area; the south stand facing the Zhengbei Wangtai is the area for foreign envoys and merchants, which is called "Liuguotai" by Xianyang people; The three districts on the front are Juemin, Shizi, and Baigong, and the three districts on the west are farmers, veterans, and merchants.Generally speaking, for any celebration, the thousands of people gathered in the school's military field included the elite population of the Qin State's ruling and opposition parties, and also accommodated all kinds of people from Shandong countries in Qin State.Therefore, every celebration actually becomes an excellent opportunity to show the strength of Qin to the world. Every Qin person is very excited, and the shouts are extremely loud!

The Qin people were originally the Mabei tribe, and they retained the long-standing and ancient tradition of gathering in the western grasslands.Shang Yang supervised the construction of Xianyang, so he built this strange and majestic school military field. He really wanted to make this gathering tradition of the Qin people have a place to vent in the capital, but he didn't want it to become the most magnificent capital wonder in the world.The later Efang Palace, of course, was a great venue for such gatherings. Ying Hua is most familiar with the school's military field. She pulls Zhang Yi in the front, and Fei Yun protects the back. The three of them zigzag and huddle together, and finally squeezed into the merchant area of ​​the south stand among the scattered crowds.This place is full of merchants from the six countries, no one knows Zhang Yi, and it is easier for Yinghua Feiyun to guard him.Unexpectedly, just before he was seated in the stands, he heard the rumble of war drums, followed by shouts like a tsunami: "Hercules is on the stage—!" "Long live! Long live—!" Zhang Yi has excellent eyesight, It was a big surprise to see it in the field!

Amidst the sound of rumbling drums, but heard a roar of "Moo!", five Qinchuan yellow cattle came out one after another, wearing red cloth hoods and bronze masks, as ferocious and mighty as divine beasts.What's even more peculiar is that there are two big golden characters embroidered on both sides of the cow's red cloth cover, one is "Strong" and the other is "Bull God"!Zhang Yi knew that the cattle from the Weishui Plain were called Qinchuan cattle by the six kingdoms of Shandong.The Qin people only said who was strong, and their oral proverb was "the younger generation has the strength of an ox!" Now, these five Qinchuan cattle are coming out in full dress, are they going to split the two kings of Ba and Shu?Zhang Yi was thinking about it, but heard another roar like a tsunami, and saw a two-horse chariot galloping in from the east entrance of the school military field. On the chariot stood a big man with a black cloak, black iron armor, and a black iron spear helmet , one foot tall, like a real black iron tower!

The chariot clattered around the arena for a circle, and then stopped beside the five "Hercules".The black iron tower bowed to the Zhengbei Wangtai, and bowed to the stands in all directions.Suddenly, I heard a voice resounding in the school's military field: "Infantry fighter Wuhuo——! Compete with Wu Niu, and celebrate the return of Bashu to Qin—!" The voice came from nowhere, and it was like thunder rolling over the sky. , The reverberating sound of the rumble was actually roaring continuously, like a god in the air! "Thunder" rolled over, and another tsunami suddenly erupted in the audience: "Long live Wuhuo—!" "Long live Daqin—!"

The cheers subsided, and a centurion of soldiers entered the arena, spreading out around the chariot and Hercules to form a large circle.The centurion with the sword waved his command flag, and saw the two white horses in the chariot shaft were unbridled and led away, and the iron-wheeled chariot was firmly fixed on four pre-planted iron wheels by thick chains. On the pile, only the black iron tower was left standing on the chariot.The centurion ordered the flag to be split again, and the five Qinchuan cattle were immediately led to five directions around the chariot, and put on special thick leather ropes. The thick leather ropes behind each cow's head were tied to On the body of the Black Iron Tower—two arms tied to both hands, two legs tied, and one around the neck. These five positions are exactly the key positions for dismemberment.Even if it is copper tendons and iron bones, it can only be smashed to pieces under the crazily torn by the tens of thousands of catties of five strong cattle!Suddenly, Zhang Yi thought of Shang Yang who had been torn apart by a car, and felt absurd and bizarre in a chill, and he didn't know where he was in a daze.

Zhang Yi woke up suddenly with a burst of sharp horns and a roar of "moo!"I saw that the five oxtails in the arena had turned into five dancing torches. The ox was in pain, exerting strength, spitting and pawing its hooves, and roaring towards the five directions!Looking at the black iron tower on the chariot, it remained motionless, making the sound of gnashing teeth.The crowded military field was as quiet as a deep mountain canyon.Suddenly, the Black Iron Tower roared loudly, and the black cloak suddenly bulged, and the Black Iron Tower looked like a goshawk nailed to the blue sky!Almost in a flash, the five burly oxen roared in unison, and then backed up a few steps in unison, and fell to the ground like five hills, arousing five huge clouds of smoke and dust!

"Five bulls compete -! Wu wins -!" The thunderous rumbling voice ran over the audience again. "Long live—!" "Long live Wuhuo—!" "Long live Daqin—!" The school's military field was boiling! At this time, the rumbling war drums sounded again, and two colorful long-nosed monsters stepped on the drums, and walked to the center of the school army ground unsteadily. "Hey! River elephant?" Fei Yun exclaimed in a low voice. Zhang Yi looked at it carefully, and the colorful monsters were exactly two river elephants!The river elephant is an elephant in the jungle of the Hanoi Plain. It lives on the Dahe Plain of the Wei and Han countries. It is more ferocious than the elephants in the south of the Lingnan of Chu. At ordinary times, even ten Qinchuan cattle are no match for a river elephant!More importantly, river elephants are extremely difficult to domesticate. Except for Wei Guo who domesticated more than 30 river elephants and formed an elephant army when Wu Qi was a general, no country in the Warring States period domesticated a river elephant.Zhang Yi couldn't think of it for a while, but how did the two colorfully decorated river elephants come about?

At this time, the rumbling thunder ran over the audience again: "Tiger Rider Meng Ben, come out——!" The audience suddenly roared and the sound of long live was deafening!Ying Hua yelled something into Zhang Yi's ear, but Zhang Yi didn't hear clearly, so she just smiled and shook her head and pointed to the middle of the field, signaling Ying Hua to just finish watching. At this moment, a chariot rattled into the school's military field, and it drew cheers as soon as it appeared.At a glance, Zhang Yi knew that it was a purpose-built fine iron chariot, and there was an iron-blue cloud of cold light while it was galloping!The refined iron chariot was pulled by four horses, the hoofs of the horses were like thunder, and a thick cloud of smoke was rolled up by the rumbling wheels. The momentum was really astonishing.There was a warrior in the car, more than ten feet tall, with a black cloak, natural iron armor, and a big beard with sideburns and cheeks. He was even stronger and more powerful than the Wu Huo just now!The bronze chariot drove past the king's platform, and the warriors on the chariot shouted like thunder: "Long live the Great Qin Kingdom!" It's the voice of this warrior, it's really unbelievable for a human to have such a voice! When I was surprised, another chariot with shining brilliance rumbled in.This is a bronze chariot, and the person on the chariot has a black embroidered gold cloak, a bronze armor, and a copper spear on the helmet that is a foot long, and a yellow curly beard with sideburns and beards, which looks like Beidi. Hu people are average.During the flight, the light of the bronze chariot, bronze armor, and embroidered gold cloak intertwined together, like a golden god, the audience suddenly boiled! Zhang Yi felt suspicious.This person is out of phase, and with his unusually noble bronze chariot and embroidered gold cloak, he is definitely not an ordinary warrior.Zhang Yi is familiar with the famous warriors of the Qin State, but he can't remember who this person is anyway?Could it be the prince of Bashu who was captured by Sima Cuo?Impossible, how can Bashu people have such barbarian looks?While wondering, Ying Hua crawled on Zhang Yi's shoulder and shouted sharply: "Prince! The prince is swaying—!" Zhang Yi heard it clearly this time, and her heart sank. Looking at the school's military field again, Meng Ben has already jumped off the fine iron chariot, and the sound of thunder rumbles over again: "Meng Ben raises the elephant——, to open the way for Hercules—!" Shout out.The Shandong merchants around Zhang Yi shook their heads one after another.Even if an ordinary person is a strongman, it is extremely rare to have the strength of a thousand catties.There is a saying in Kuang Min: "A man has no strength to raise his hand." This huge river elephant weighs at least five or six thousand catties, how can it be lifted?Zhang Yi is proficient, and Su Chang can be regarded as proficient in martial arts, but he has never heard of such strength, so he frowned. At this time, the centurion in the field split the command flag, and a river elephant was driven to an iron plate by the elephant trainer warrior.The iron plates were placed on four thick wooden stakes half a person's height, and when the river elephant swayed up, the iron plates made a crisp sound.The centurion blew the flag again, and saw Meng Ben quickly take off his cloak and armor, leaving only a short cowhide jacket. He strode up to the iron plate, and then squatted under the iron plate.The tens of thousands of people in the audience could not help holding their breath, but there was no sound. All of a sudden, a thunderous roar of "Hey!" rolled over, and the huge river elephant screamed in horror. Meng Ben under the iron plate had stretched his arms and stood upright like an iron pillar! "Long live—!" The audience erupted into a landslide-like cry. Meng Ben put down the river elephant steadily, walked out of the iron plate, and bowed to the north platform, and there was another roar of thunder: "Hercules—! Raise the chariot river elephant—! Show our country's majesty—!" The sound of thunder roared During the rumble, the flag was raised and lowered, the four steeds of the bronze chariot were unloaded and led away, and another, fatter river elephant swayed onto the chariot.But Zhang Yi understood that the hardness and toughness of bronze is not as good as that of refined iron, so the copper plate used to build the chariot is much thicker than the iron plate, that is to say, this bronze chariot is much heavier than that refined iron chariot. Then stand on an even fatter river elephant, whose total weight is still in the tens of thousands of catties!What's more difficult is that there are no rings or buckles under the chariot, which is difficult to grasp and pick out. The space between the spokes can only allow ordinary people to curl up and curl up, so it is extremely difficult to exert force.Under such circumstances, it is really unimaginable to lift such a huge object! Under the attention of all the people, I saw that the golden Hercules took off the gold embroidered cloak and bronze armor, just like Meng Ben, leaving only a short leather jacket.He didn't roar like a thunderous tiger like Meng Ben did, he just swung his arms and legs and squatted down under the wheels of the bronze chariot.Thousands of people in the school's military field probably also knew that this man was not an ordinary warrior, and they held their breath nervously, the large school's military field was like a quiet valley.The merchants and envoys of the six countries even stared at the field in a daze. In the silence, the centurion ordered the flag to be split, and the mighty and majestic Meng Ben Wuhuo stood guard on both sides of the bronze chariot like iron towers. A river elephant swaying like a car going up a mountain.All of a sudden, there was a muffled roar, and the bronze chariot, together with the hill-like river elephant, suddenly rose and landed again!The huge river elephant let out a terrified scream, then lay down on the chariot like a mountain, and pulled out a pile of black feces, but the chariot was still standing in the air, motionless! "Ah! Look, both legs are stuck in the ground!" A Shandong businessman screamed. The ground of the school military field was originally compacted hard soil, and it was also trampled by horses and soldiers for years, so it was almost as hard as a big green brick.On such a ground, the legs can suddenly be inserted more than two feet, who can not be thrilled?Amidst the silence and panting, shouts like a tsunami erupted suddenly from the school military field. People took off the jade crowns and bamboo crowns from their heads one after another, and held them in their hands, playing and shouting, shouting "Long live the Great Qin Kingdom" It turned out to be one wave after another! There was a commotion on the central platform, and the rumbling thunder was heard again: "The King of Qin ordered: give Meng Ben the title of Hercules of Kansai Huben, and Wu gets the title of Kansai Huben Hercules—!"