"I dare to ask, how many players are there on both sides of the polo field?"
"There can be as few as four or five people, and as many as twenty, depending on the size of the venue and the players' equestrian skills!" Jin Renwen from the side interjected.
"Then let's have eighteen people!" Wang Wenzuo said.
"Why eighteen people?" the prince asked curiously.
"Your Highness, as far as I know, the polo players in the East Palace are not as good as the North Gate Guards in terms of skills and horses. The smaller the number of people in this polo match, the greater the role of personal skills and the quality of the mount. The greater the number of people. If there are too many, the role of that person's skills and the quality of the mount will be reduced. So Wei Chen went a step further. In fact, he originally wanted to say twenty, but now there are only fifteen days until the Lantern Festival, and he is afraid that there will be too many people and it will be too late to practice! "
"So that's what happened!" The prince nodded, and his confidence in Wang Wenzuo increased a lot: "Then Wang Shenjun, you can follow the eighteen-man demonstration and show it to me!"
"Yes, Your Highness!" Wang Wenzuo responded, and then demonstrated on the Go board. He told the eighteen people to line up in three lines according to 4, 8, and 6, and then explained: "If we want to win, it is best to choose The competition system is that whoever gets enough chips first wins, and we also choose more chips, such as twenty times, so that we can consume more horsepower, which is beneficial to our side!"
"Why is the horse-power-consuming competition system beneficial to our side? Our horses are obviously not as good as those of the North Gate Forbidden Army!" the prince asked.
"It's very simple! Prince, please see!" Wang Wenzuo moved the chess pieces representing the riders two spaces forward and two spaces backward, and asked: "Your Highness, how many spaces do you think each chess piece has moved?"
"Four squares!"
"Four squares, if one square is equal to twenty steps, then it is 80 steps. Each rider ran eighty steps in this attack and defense." Then Wang Wenzuo lined up all the chess pieces in a row, and then moved forward four squares, He moved back four spaces and asked, "Your Highness, what about this time?"
"Eight squares!"
"Yes, it's eight squares, a total of 160 steps. Each rider ran 160 steps in an attack and defense, twice as many times as the previous situation!" Seeing that the prince was still a little confused, Jin Renwen said with a smile: "Prince, you see clearly, according to Wang Canjun's first arrangement, when attacking, the last column only needs to pass the ball to the second column, and then pass the ball from the second column to the first column, and then the first column moves forward four times. It takes ten steps to reach the opponent's goal, so each column only needs to run forty steps, which can save a lot of horsepower."
"I see, is there any other benefit?"
"Your Highness, please take a look!" Wang Wenzuo's finger slid above the chessboard: "This pass can not only be done vertically, but also horizontally. For example, if the enemy sees the ball here, it will naturally concentrate here, then our players should move backward. In one row, after the players behind receive the ball, they should pass it laterally and then forward, so that they reach the other side of the field. In this way, they can repeatedly mobilize the enemy's players and consume the opponent's horsepower!" In this way, Wang Wenzuo will remember what he remembered before traveling through time.
"Fly with both wings",
"Xia Di Chuan",
"Long pass to hit the target",
"Put in behind the fullback",
Seven or eight football tactics such as "winger cutting inside" were demonstrated on the chessboard one by one. Prince Li Hong had never seen so many tricks before. He couldn't help but be stunned. Finally, he raised his palms and sighed: "I have been watching polo since I was sensible. I have watched hundreds of games at least, and this is the first time in my life that I know that polo can be played like this. Jin Jiaoyu, why didn’t you introduce Wang Canjun to me earlier?” Jin Renwen argued with a wry smile: “Your Highness, just now This is the first time for me to see this like you. You just heard what Wang Canjun said, he has never played polo, how did I know he still had this ability!"
"Forget it! I have finally opened my eyes tonight. There are still fourteen days before the Lantern Festival. Wang joins the army, and I will leave the polo team to you! The stadium is behind the East Palace, so I will take you there Look, we'll start practicing tomorrow morning!" Seeing the prince's high spirits, Wang Wenzuo couldn't shirk the responsibility, so he and Jin Renwen had to follow the prince's chariot to the back of the palace.
The empty stadium was extremely quiet. With the light of the torch on the wall, Wang Wenzuo could see the eunuch watchman wrapped in a cloak to resist the cold in the aisle not far away. Although he could not see the other person's face clearly, Wang Wenzuo could imagine the other person's heart at this time. sorrow.
Woohoo! The familiar sound of crying came from the direction of Yeting Palace again, but it was much clearer than before. Maybe it was because the distance was closer this time. Wang Wenzuo looked over there subconsciously.
"It's true that the Yeting Palace is punishing the palace officials today, New Year's Eve!" Prince Li Hong looked a little unhappy. He stretched out his hand to call the palace maid aside: "You go over there and say, today is the day to dust off the old and clothe the new with the new." Whatever mistakes you made, let them be forgiven!"
"My slave obeys the order!" the palace maid responded, and then led an eunuch with a lantern towards the direction of Yeting Palace. Li Hong sighed: "Everyone says that the palace is good, but who knows how many things are under this high wall?" sorrow!"
"Yes!" Jin Renwen sighed: "If Jin was not born into the Wang family, he would have fewer worries!"
"Yes, if I were Jin Jiaoyu, I would rather be born in a commoner's family, at least be able to live in the lap of my parents, than have to travel across the ocean and live in a foreign country." Wang Wenzuo on the side listened to the two children of the Wang family, Jin Renwen and Li Hong. Sighing there, the only thing I could do was to shut up and listen.
After about half a meal, the palace maid came back with a strange look on her face. She knelt down and said, "Report to His Highness the Crown Prince, that cry is not the palace maid being punished!"
"Aren't the palace maids being punished? Then today is New Year's Eve, why are they crying? Are they missing their families?"
"This -" The palace maid was kneeling on the ground, and the light shone on her face. Wang Wenzuo could see clearly that her face was suddenly red and white, obviously she had encountered something extremely difficult.
"What on earth is going on!" Prince Li Hong was also interested in the palace maid's performance. He pointed his right hand at the chamberlain who was going with him and asked: "What on earth is going on? Tell me!"
"I don't dare!" The eunuch was startled. He quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed, but he still didn't dare to say anything.
The prince couldn't help but get angry when he saw this: "You all don't want to say anything? Well, you don't need to say anything. I just go and see for myself!" The maid hurriedly stepped forward to stop her: "Your Highness, you can't go! That's not you. Things that should be taken care of!" Prince Li Hong was too lazy to pay attention to the palace maid and waved his hand. Someone had already dragged him aside and took him all the way to Yeting Palace.
Wang Wenzuo and Jin Renwen also followed. The East Palace and Yeting Palace were only separated by a palace road. Li Hong and his party went down the steps and arrived at Yeting Palace in a short while.
The eunuch on duty had already come to greet him.
