On the whole, Daxizhou has strong folk customs and prosperous martial arts.
As long as the common people have something to eat, they will find ways to improve their combat power and seek a better future, especially for the noble class.
For aristocrats like the Duke of Xiangshan, it was a later thing that an imperial queen came out of their family. The territory of the Xiangshan Principality was created by the ancestors with real swords and guns.
The grandfather of the Duke of Xiangshan, the founder of the Principality of Xiangshan, was a master with a two-character title, and the title was "God of Riding".
As the name suggests, this is a master who is very good at horse fighting. Whenever the two armies confront each other, the old duke is invincible all over the world on horseback. He was the number one warrior of the Tianlan Empire back then.
Back then, the mount of the "God of Riding" was a rare black horse riding on snow.
Although this horse looks similar to an ordinary horse, it is actually a different species.
The ribs are not individual, but connected as a whole, also known as "slab-rib black unicorn", it is easy to travel thousands of miles a day, and it is also invulnerable.
Today, the green-haired third-generation Duke of Xiangshan is not as capable as his grandfather was in those days, but it is enough to look at, and the three-character title is "Little Rider".
And the mount under his crotch is still the alien horse from back then. This thing has a long lifespan, and people can't survive it.
Lin Shuo was more than 30 meters away from the Duke of Xiangshan. Seeing the battle on the opposite side, he asked the wedding party behind him to hide aside.
In fact, there is no need for the leader of the Hunting Gate to remind him of this matter. The welcoming team behind him was originally from the Duke's Mansion. Seeing his master slashing in front of him, he wanted to run away a long time ago.
When Lin Shuo opened his mouth, they dispersed in a rush, even leaving the two sedan chairs for the bride on the road.
Lin Shuo took a look at the situation behind, sucked his teeth, signaled the Duke of Xiangshan to wait a while, and then moved the sedan chair to the side by himself.
The style of the sedan chair here is similar to that of ancient China, but because the people who carry the sedan chair are generally cultivated, the materials used for the sedan chair are relatively solid. Not to mention the size, the weight is quite heavy.
Each sedan chair is carried by eight people, and the weight is about a thousand catties.
In order to save time, Lin Shuo grabbed the front end of a sedan chair with one hand, and got up with a slight lift of his arms. He held a sedan chair in each hand and put it aside gently.
The hand of the head of the hunting gate was revealed, which made the Duke of Xiangshan, who was thirty meters away, look a little more dignified.
The two sedan chairs weigh a total of two thousand catties, which is nothing in the eyes of title-level experts.
However, the sedan chair is different from the stone lock dumbbell, which is not convenient to hold and exert force, and it is actually difficult to borrow waist strength.
Lin Shuo basically relied on the strength of his wrist. The armpit supported one end of the pole of the sedan chair. When he lifted his wrist as a fulcrum, the sedan chair got up.
Counting the lever arm, the Duke of Xiangshan could tell that this man had a lot of strength in his arms.
Needless to say, just relying on the strength in his hands, he must be a title-level master.
It's not clear how many titles, but the Duke of Xiangshan knows that he can't underestimate the other party.
At the same time, he also understood in his heart that the main purpose of blocking the other party at the moment was to find out the details of this person for the First Prince.
If he really wanted to take this person's life, it would depend on the Third Prince's side, and he couldn't do it directly.
When the Duke of Xiangshan was thinking about it, Lin Shuo was not idle.
The leader of the hunting gate is also considering whether the person opposite can be killed.
For Lin Shuo, the opponent's swords and horses were not much deterrent, because the inheritance of the Lin family evolved from fighting on the battlefield.
Fighting on foot against horses, Lin Shuo has many ways.
But after observing for a while, Lin Shuo felt that the person opposite him could not be killed.
One is that killing people now is tantamount to scaring the snake in advance, and it is definitely uneconomical for this group of people to be dealt with jointly by the First Prince and the Third Prince.
There was another reason, Lin Shuo found that the opposite horse was good.
It is not afraid of itself, which is very rare.
As the heir of the Lin family, the leader of the Liemen has many alien lives in his hands since Yicheng, and secondly, he is close to Master Zhui, so he will be contaminated with Master Zhui's aura.
No matter which of these two points, for ordinary aliens, it means that the natural enemy is coming, and they will be afraid.
Only a very small number of powerful alien species are not afraid of Lin Shuo, such as the white-eared scorpion and the seven-color muntjac.
When they were in the Principality of Mia before, those griffins were actually afraid of Lin Shuo. When they surrounded Lin Shuo, they didn't dare to go forward. If they didn't have Nemea's order to suppress them, they would have run away long ago.
Today, Duke Xiangshan's mount looks unusual in mental quality.
However, Lin Shuo knew some horse-sighting skills from his family background, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that this horse was really good.
This trip to the foggy forest in Middle-earth is a long way away, and the carriage has no shock absorbers, so the bumps are uncomfortable. It is better to ride a horse directly.
And if you want to get this horse, it is obviously not appropriate to kill the owner of the horse now.
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The two sides observed each other for a while, and the Duke of Xiangshan spoke:
"Mr. Lin, our trip is just an inherent procedure of the wedding, so we don't have to take it so seriously.
It's just that people who practice martial arts in my generation will always be happy to see a master who is evenly matched.
I don't think it's better than this, let's just take one move, and one move will determine the outcome.
You win, and the two brides take it.
If you lose, it's another matter, what do you think? "
Lin Shuo nodded, and said, "My lord duke's proposal is very suitable for me. If I lose, we don't need to think about it. Let's mark the way first.
If I, Lin Shuo, were not the one-stroke enemy of the Duke, one of the two brides, that is, my wife, Artemis, the Duchess of Mia, I would have lost to you.
Today, how about you paying homage to her? "
Lin Shuo's words came out of his mouth, which can be called earth-shattering.
All the spectators in the Duke's mansion opened their mouths wide enough to stuff an egg, and Duke Xiangshan almost didn't fall off his horse.
The busiest thing was the small building in the Duke's Mansion of Xiangshan, where the two brides were waiting right now.
When Artemis heard what Lin Shuo said outside, she threw off her red hijab in anger, jumped to the street, and said, "Lin Shuo! You bastard!"
Lin Shuo was not annoyed when he heard the woman scolding him, and said calmly, "Marry a chicken as a chicken and marry a dog as a dog. Since you want to marry me as a concubine, you must allow me to send you away."
Artemis wanted to scold again, but Su Dongdong on the side covered her mouth. I don't know what the fourth lady of the Lin family said, and this woman stopped talking.
The Duke of Xiangshan didn't realize it until now, and he immediately regained his energy and asked, "Mr. Lin, are you serious?"
"Really." Lin Shuo said, "However, if I bet such a big lottery, will the Duke also give me a corresponding bargaining chip?"
The Duke of Xiangshan was overjoyed, and said repeatedly: "It should be. Tell me, if I lose, what do you want? Otherwise, my five-room concubine will give you everything."
"No, no, no." Lin Shuo quickly waved his hands, "I don't want the duchess, I want the snow-riding black horse under the crotch of the duke."
"This..." The Duke of Xiangshan was startled and hesitated for a while.
This is a BMW passed down from my grandfather, and its significance to the Duke's Mansion is no less than that of the Principality itself.
Lin Shuo's bite was obviously biting hard.
Fortunately, the Duke of Xiangshan hesitated for a while, but soon agreed: "Okay!"
Lin Shuo looked at the green-haired young man, and he naturally understood what he was thinking.
This person is quite ghostly, and he has set the rules for one move.
This is very beneficial to the side that fights immediately, but not to the side that fights on foot.
Because fighting immediately, using the horse's high-speed momentum, the strongest move is the first move.
However, if the infantry side wants to defeat the enemy, generally speaking, it has to pass the first move and stop the horse before thinking of a way.
But if Lin Shuo really came like this, the rule in this fight is that one move will determine the outcome, and as long as Lin Shuo evades, he will be considered a loser.
In addition, people have horses and knives, Lin Shuo is empty-handed at this moment, the situation is in favor of the Duke of Xiangshan, so he agreed.
The two sides draw their own paths, and this one-movement contest is about to begin.
But at this time, Lin Shuo felt something in his heart, and turned his head to look to the north.
This is near the outer wall of the Duke's Mansion. Looking north from here, you can see a water pavilion.
More than 200 meters to the north is an artificial lake. A five-story building is built on the lake, and the two ends are connected by Jiuqu Baiyu Bridge.
Today's wedding will be held there, and most of the guests have already taken their seats there, including the First Prince and the Third Prince.
These guests were on top of tall buildings, and they were all watching the commotion near the outer wall together.
Lin Shuo had a feeling in his heart, it was because some experts locked their eyes on him.
There is obviously more than one such master.
On the south side of Lin Shuo's position, three hundred meters away from the outer wall of the Duke's Mansion, this is a guard tower for the Duke's garrison.
This tower was established during the war of the founding of the Principality of Mia. It is more than 30 meters high. Now it has been idle for many years and no one is stationed. The windows of the tower are also closed.
Just as Lin Shuo was looking north, the window on the tower was opened from the inside.
A black gun barrel sticks out.
At the same time, there were still people smoking in the window, and a cigarette pipe and pot was burning red.
As a result, the pressure on Lin Shuo dropped suddenly, and those masters who looked at Lin Shuo looked away.
The Duke of Xiangshan who was 30 meters away from Lin Shuo shouted loudly at this moment, urged the BMW under his crotch, and began to charge Lin Shuo.
Of course, Lin Shuo would not underestimate this person's strength.
With the three-character title of "Little Riding God", this is the number one horse warrior in today's Lan Empire.
Immediate combat is actually not an advantage in personal competitions. It has strict requirements on space and is too restrictive.
However, if the distance is widened and the victory is determined by one move, the situation will be extremely favorable.
At this time, the Duke of Xiangshan charged forward with all his strength, that was the unity of man and horse.
The horse was so fast that the sound of hooves could not be heard. In a trance, the Duke of Xiangshan had already approached Lin Shuo with his horse and man.
The long knife in this person's hand rises and falls, like a flash of lightning!
With the speed and power of the other party's move, Lin Shuo felt that he should be able to compete with Chu Hongyi.
Facing such an attack, Lin Shuo was clear in his heart, and it was useless for him to go empty-handed.
To fight the enemy empty-handed, you have to avoid this move first, and then go up against it. But as long as he avoids it, he will lose.
It would be very convenient if Lord Chaser was here at this moment, but today is a day of great joy, and it is impossible for Lin Shuo to bring Master Chaser to greet the relatives.
With Lord Chaser not around, Lin Shuo had to find a substitute.
So when setting up the sedan chairs just now, one of the sedan chairs, Lin Shuo, was placed by his hand, as soon as he stretched out his hand, he had it.
At this moment, seeing the Duke of Xiangshan approaching with one horse, half of the long knife in his hand fell, Lin Shuo stretched out his hand to pinch the pole of the sedan chair, and swung it sideways.
This time, it was the explosive power in his hands.
In the end is your sword faster, or my sedan chair faster.
The knife edge is sharp and the wind resistance is very small, so the sedan chair is different.
Especially the sedan chair on Daxizhou is made of solid materials, and the pestle looks like a small house. It is heavy and wind-resistant, so it is not so convenient to swing.
Lin Shuo wouldn't be that stupid if it was purely about the speed of his moves.
To kill an enemy on the battlefield, one should be one inch long and one inch strong.
Lin Shuo had already visually observed that the pole of the sedan chair was two inches longer than the pole of Duke Xiangshan's knife.
The Duke of Xiangshan had obviously practiced this move countless times. When he came to the front and dropped the long knife, the distance and speed were considered good, and they matched well.
So Lin Shuo's sedan chair swung over and hit him. He was not close enough to Lin Shuo, two inches away, and the long knife couldn't reach him.
Then, inside the outer wall of the Duke's Mansion, a gust of wind suddenly blew up, and a sedan chair whizzed by on horseback.
In the blink of an eye, the Duke of Xiangshan was gone.
On the outer wall not far away, a human-shaped hole was pierced.
One move determines the outcome, and the opponent is thrown flying and the sedan chair is also smashed.
In front of him, the momentum of the snow-treading Wuzi continued unabated, and Lin Shuo got on his horse as soon as he turned over.
The head of the hunting gate reined in the reins, stopped the horse first, and then directed the horse's head to face the small building, and said to the two brides inside:
"I'm sorry, the sedan chair is broken, so you two can only squeeze together."
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