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    Wrestling!  In fact, it is a bare-handed fight. The form of the competition is somewhat similar to that of wrestling in later generations. It not only requires the players to have a certain amount of strength, but also requires extremely high skills. However, this form of competition is actually a competition of strength.  A person with great strength can defeat his opponent with brute force even if he lacks skills, hence the name wrestling.

    "Bah, bah, bah~" On the wrestling stage made of solid wood, Fang Yiai and the big Tubo man named Mantu twisted their arms together, their two big faces turned red, and they slowly turned in circles, trying to knock each other down.  .  Now both of them were naked, and only wore a pair of cow-nose short-sleeves on their lower bodies. The sweat on their bodies was steaming, which was in sharp contrast to the cold winter.

    "Fang Yiai~Fang Yiai" The audience below were also very excited, shouting Fang Yiai's name loudly to cheer him on.  There is an advantage in fighting locally. The audience below are all people of the Tang Dynasty, so naturally they will not cheer for Mantu, a Tibetan.

    "Hu Li, how long will this stalemate continue? I think brother Yi'ai seems to be in trouble. If I had known earlier, would I have let you come on stage?" Li Min stood in the audience, looking at Yi'ai on the stage with a worried expression.  said.  In fact, he is not very good at wrestling, and he has no idea whether the situation on the field is good or bad?

    Upon hearing this, Hu Li chuckled and said: "Your Highness, don't worry. If Yiai and the other party meet on the battlefield, then he will definitely die. After all, this barbarian has murderous aura all over his body. He crawled out from the pile of dead people.  It¡¯s not comparable to a stupid young man like Yiai!¡±

    Li Min originally thought that Hu Li would comfort him with a few words, but he didn't expect that the other party would actually say something like this.  Just when he was about to complain, he heard the other party say again: "But now it's a wrestling match. The rules have already stated that you are not allowed to attack the opponent's vital parts, and even the means of attack are restricted. In this way, only pure strength and some close range are left."  A competition of physical skills. In terms of strength, the two are almost the same, but in terms of close combat skills. The barbarian has not received any special training at all. He just fights with the instincts developed on the battlefield. At first, he looked at  Nothing happens. But we will soon be at a disadvantage!"

    As soon as Hu Li finished speaking, Fang Yiai on the stage suddenly hooked his leg, causing Man Tu to lose his balance by hooking one of his legs. At the same time, his arms suddenly tightened, knocking Man Tu to the ground.  While the other person had not yet stood up, Fang Yiai followed up and grabbed Mantu's legs, dragged him back a few meters, and then suddenly threw the other person up.  As a result, Mantu's body was in the air and he couldn't find any place to use his strength, so he had to grab it with both hands.  He was also yelling angrily!

    Seeing the sudden change on the stage, the audience in the audience cheered loudly, and they all very wisely retreated backwards. Fang Yiai spotted an open space under the stage, and threw the opponent off with his arms.

    There was a loud "Boom~" sound.  Mantu's heavy body hit the ground hard, kicking up a cloud of gray dust, but the opponent was obviously not injured. He straightened up and stood up again, screaming strangely and trying to rush to the stage again.  Unfortunately, according to the rules of the game, being thrown off the stage counts as a loss.  So several Tubo companions in the audience immediately grabbed him, and then spoke in Tubo language for a long time before the mantu calmed down.

    Fang Yiai on the stage narrowly defeated the opponent with one move. Amid the cheers of the audience, he was so proud that he did not forget to make a provocative gesture to Mantu, which made the opponent angry again.  He screamed strangely and tried hard to get on the stage. After all, he was known as the strongest man in Tubo and had never been defeated in terms of strength. Unexpectedly, he was defeated twice in a row by a Tang man today if he was not careful. It really made him feel  It was extremely humiliating. Fortunately, the Tibetan people around him tried their best to hold him back, otherwise there might have been a fight in the arena.

    Wrestling determines the winner, and then comes the last game on the first day. However, compared to horse racing and wrestling, not many people can play javelin, because in the dynasty before the Song Dynasty, there were very few soldiers in the army.  Even if someone uses a throwing gun as a weapon, it is usually used as a hunting tool. After all, this thing has a small killing range, can only be used once, and is inconvenient to carry, so few people deliberately practice it.

    Li Min did not introduce the javelin throw competition to the Winter Games at first, but later found that there were a few competition items, so he had to make up the number. Unexpectedly, there were many people who signed up. After all, compared with other events, the javelin throwing requirements  It's very low, as long as you don't step on the line, anything else is casual, as long as you can throw the javelin.

    However, when the javelin throwers came on stage, Li Min was stunned because he found that the Tibetan players in the competition looked very strange. Although they were dressed like other Tubo people, this guy was tall, with curly brown hair, a high nose and deep eyes.  His pupils were blue, and he didn't look like an East Asian. Instead, he felt like a European from later generations.

    "Brother Yan, look at that Tubo man competing, why does he look so strange?" Yan Bei happened to be next to him, and Li MinHe quickly pulled him over and pointed at the Tibetan man on the field and asked.

    "Isn't this strange? Tubo and the Western Regions are very close to each other. Many people from the Western Regions go to Tubo to do business or live there, so it's normal for there to be people from the Western Regions among the Tubo people!" Yan Bei replied indifferently.  , in his eyes, the people in the Western Region all look like this, there is nothing surprising at all.

    "No, this guy is definitely not from the Western Regions!" Li Min said with great certainty.  Thanks to the developed information technology of later generations, whether it is television, television or the Internet, everyone has an understanding of the world outside their own country.  Although Li Min has never been out of the country, he can still distinguish the appearance of people from various places. Although the people from the Western Regions also have tall noses and deep eyes, they are more like the Arabs from Central Asia and West Asia in later generations, and the Tubo people in front of him  He is a standard European race. He is even sure that the other party should be a Southern European, because that is the birthplace of European civilization and has the most frequent contact with Eastern civilization. At the same time, the famous Roman Empire is located  There.

    Thinking of Rome, Li Min suddenly felt something in his heart, as if he had caught something key. But when he thought about it carefully, he couldn't think of it. This gave him a very bad premonition.  And the next game just confirmed Li Min's hunch.

    The style of the javelin was designed by Li Min according to later generations, with two pointed ends and a thick middle. This style can extend the flight time of the javelin in the air and make the throw farther.  Of course, the gun body cannot be made of aluminum alloy. There is no aluminum available in this era, so the gun body is mainly made of hardwood. The gun tips at both ends are made of fine steel. The combination with the wooden gun body is very smooth.  Increase wind resistance.

    Although there are many people participating in the javelin competition, few people can master the tricks of this new type of event, so most of them can only throw thirty or forty steps, and some can reach more than fifty steps. This is mainly because  Because of the reasonable design of the javelin, otherwise most people can only throw twenty or thirty steps at most, which is good.

    However, when the Tubo European came on the court, he threw sixty steps the first time, and the second and third times were farther and farther each time. The final result reached seventy-two steps, and he waited until one point and three meters.  If you think about it, then this guy's longest throwing distance has reached more than ninety meters, almost breaking the 100-meter mark.

    Seeing this situation, Li Min couldn't help but regret a little. He didn't expect that the Tubo people were full of talents. It was only the first day of the competition and they had already won two championships. If he had known this, he should have said more.

    Although he regretted it in his heart, since the other party won the competition in full view of the public, he could not cheat, so he had to give the other party the award with a smile. However, after awarding the award, Li Min specially summoned the other party, and then with the help of Yan Bei  Next, they communicated in Tubo dialect. Although there were many place names and people's names that could not be translated, Li Min still understood the origin of this person.

    Just as Li Min guessed, the man in front of him was indeed a European, and he did come from the Eastern Roman Empire. His name was too long, and Yanbei couldn't translate it. He only called him Ciro from the pronunciation, and according to this Ciro's boast  , he was born into the great Crispus family in Rome, and he was also a Roman nobleman. Unfortunately, five years ago, when his army fought against the great cannibals, the newly rising Arab Empire, unfortunately most of the battles  He died, and he was shamefully made a prisoner. Later, he was sold to businessmen heading to the East. He fled to Tubo just two years ago. By coincidence, he joined the Tubo army to suppress the rebellion. Because of his bravery in battle and his personal ability,  Outstanding, that's why he was absorbed by Songtsen Gampo's royal guards, and this time he came to Datang with the army.

    Listening to Yan Bei¡¯s translation, Li Min suddenly realized. He finally thought about what the bad premonition he had before the game was?  In his previous life, he had watched some movies and TV shows about Rome. He remembered that on the battlefield, throwing spears was one of the standard weapons of the Roman army. Most Roman soldiers would undergo special spear-throwing training, and this is what Ciro was like.  Why can this guy throw the javelin so far? After all, compared to amateur players like Datang, he is the real professional javelin thrower.

    Due to limited time and poor translation, Li Min didn't get much information from Shi Luo. He only knew that the Eastern Roman Empire defeated the Persians more than ten years ago, but now it was completely defeated by the cannibals.  A large area of ??territory was lost, but the power of Dashi was expanding rapidly. It even went to war with Persia and Rome, and both of them had the upper hand, leaving the two ancient countries with long histories unable to fight back.

    Li Min doesn't need this information for the time being, but it's always good to know more about it, so after expressing his gratitude to Silla, the unlucky guy living in a foreign land, he sent him back. Of course, Li Min didn't forget to give him a message.  It's a small reward, after all, he might be needed for something in the future.

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