How can I bow my head and serve the powerful officials?

After Xie Chengze got the sheep, he immediately took it to the ice rink for a skate.

I even deliberately slaughtered one and made it into a fragrant mutton soup, just to tempt them.

Hehe, he is so bad~

No matter they were bandits or soldiers, when they saw the group of fat and fleshy grassland sheep, their eyes became red and straight, and they wished they could travel back to the day of the competition immediately, win the game and eat enough mutton.

But they couldn't cross the ice, so they could only practice skating on the ice rink, to avoid falling flat on the ice when the game started, let alone winning.

The soldiers quickly selected twenty people. Ice skating is a strenuous job. If they want to play two out of three games, and each game lasts half an hour, they must have substitutes to complete the entire game. This is within the rules and is not considered a foul.

For them, the number of goals scored by an individual is not important; the most important thing is to allow the entire army to eat mutton.

On the other hand, the standing army wanted both. They were not bandits from the same mountain, so once their interests were touched, their true nature would be exposed, and they all wanted to go on the field and get the reward themselves.

So they were fighting hard for a place to play. The soldiers had been practicing for two days, but here they were still pushing and shoving each other, complaining about the poor level of the people playing and clamoring to play themselves.

Until the day of the game.

The ice rink was surrounded by bandits and soldiers. Because of the competition, they were able to take half a day off to watch the game. Even the prefect and the county magistrate were called over and sat on the viewing platform with Xie Chengze, Shen Yuan, Xie Shoujun and others to witness the contest between the two armies.

In the biting cold wind, the two groups of people stood on the ice rink fully armed, with numbers painted on the back of their shiny armor with sheep's blood.

The blue team was composed of bandits, with cloth strips on their heads that were blown all over the place by the cold wind, waving hockey sticks in their hands, and whistling defiantly at the opposite side. The opposite side was composed of soldiers from the red team, who were well-trained and lined up in a row, holding the hockey sticks tightly in their hands in a state of combat readiness, and looking firmly towards the center of the ice rink.

In the center of the ice rink, one person from each side stood opposite each other. A small ball made of a round piece of wood was placed on the ground and painted black to make it easier to find the position of the wooden ball during the competition on the ice rink.

The players on both sides were like a torrent ready to go. At Zhu Xiaobiao's order, they all bent their bodies like black panthers. The captain of the blue team hit the puck first and headed towards the red team's goal like an arrow.

The soldiers of the Red Team immediately rushed forward to intercept them. However, the Blue Team was not to be trifled with and followed suit to block them. However, their coordination was obviously not as good as that of the Red Team and they were soon left behind by the Red Team.

The captain of the blue team was surrounded by three red team soldiers and had to change the direction of the puck to find another way out. However, the captain of the red team took the opportunity to steal the puck. The captain of the blue team shouted anxiously and asked people to block the captain of the red team and try to steal the puck in the same way. However, the captain of the red team made a sharp turn and cleverly passed the puck under the legs of a blue team member and passed it to a teammate who was coming at high speed from the flank.

The teammate caught the puck and saw the blue team members rushing towards him, so he immediately swung the puck towards another teammate in the distance. The third teammate caught the puck and quickly hit it towards the fourth teammate who was already in position further away, and that teammate hit the puck towards the defenseless goal.

The soldiers watching the game cheered and shouted encouragement for the Red Team, while the bandits sighed and cursed, despising the Blue Team.

Zhu Xiaobiao immediately struck the gong and shouted, "No. 8 of the Red Team scored one point!"

"Depend on!"

In order to grab individual points, no one on the blue team was willing to be the goalkeeper. The captain of the blue team immediately cursed and shouted, "Liu Quan! You go be the goalkeeper!"

"Why should I guard the door?" The man called Liu Quan said unconvincedly, "We agreed to guard the door together!"

"Do you still want to eat mutton?" the captain of the blue team scolded, "I'll give you half of the golden cake when the time comes, okay?"

Liu Quan then slid towards the goal muttering to himself. The game was still going on. This time the red team grabbed the puck and started dribbling it towards the blue team's goal. Having learned from the last lesson, the captain of the blue team asked his teammates to spread out, intending to use the same method the red team had used to grab the ball.

Unexpectedly, he was surrounded by the red team members again. He wanted to hit the ball out, but the two putters beside him were swaying and squeezing him. He was so angry that he pushed one of the red team members down and hit the ball out. "Push the fucking ball! You're really in the way!"

The soldier fell on the ice, and Zhu Xiaobiao immediately started to bang the gong, shouting, "Blue team No. 1 committed a foul! Get off the court! Stop the game and make a substitution!"

"What?" The captain was immediately dumbfounded. He shouted that he had not committed any foul, but the rules were as strict as a mountain. Two people flew in from the outside and dragged the captain of the blue team away.

After losing their captain, the Blue Team One seemed to have lost its backbone. They trained one team at a time, with at most two teams fighting each other, and they never cooperated with other teams at all.

The other teams were also afraid that by helping out they would consume their energy and thus drag down their own teams, so they were unwilling to send anyone.

In the end, the Blue Team could only choose five people to play, and as they were short of one man, they unsurprisingly lost the game.

With the lesson learned from the previous game, the Blue Team 2 was obviously much more restrained. In this round, the second in command of Qianjin Village also participated. His height and physique were comparable to those of the Huns, which made the soldiers feel timid when they saw him. However, Xie Chengze secretly gave him some special treatment, and he directly defeated the Red Team and won the second game.

Seeing this, many bandit soldiers excitedly shouted No. 2, which was the number of the second in command. On the ice rink, there was no name, only the number, and the number represented his honor in the ice hockey world.

The score of one to one instantly brought the atmosphere of the entire venue to a climax. Everyone stared at the ice rink intently, secretly guessing who the final winner would be.

With the victory in the second game, the morale of the bandits was greatly boosted, as if they saw hope. The reward for the highest individual score had undoubtedly fallen to the second in command and a player from the second team. Now, if they still wanted rewards, they could only win the game and get plenty of mutton.

The three blue teams finally reached a consensus and no longer coveted individual points, but chose to win the game.

Although they were bandits, they also paid attention to tactics. What's more, they had a "master" behind them secretly guiding them. Except for the second in command, the ice hockey skills of the other members of the first two teams were not very good, especially the first team, which had poor skills and internal strife, so they were pushed out to play the first game.

The third team is the elite team in the bandit army.