In the afternoon, Du Wei came to the barracks next to the castle. Now there are more than three hundred private soldiers guarding the castle in the barracks.
Because of Du Wei's hijacking by the magician this time, in order to strengthen the security of the castle, the family has already mobilized another light infantry regiment to this barracks. Currently, the Luo Lin family's private army is responsible for guarding the castle and the surrounding area. The number of people has reached a thousand.
Du Wei swaggered into the barracks on horseback, and Cavalier Robert rushed over immediately with his men.
Because of Du Wei's hijacking this time, he was demoted by half a level after he came back, but it was only a nominal demotion. He still led the cavalry team, and he would find an excuse to reinstate his post before the end of the year. up.
After Du Wei walked into the barracks, everyone immediately noticed... This young master's mount!
The carefully selected, the best horse in the entire castle... This horse has been coveted by Robert Cavalier for a long time...
But now, this steed with a snow-white mane... its tail is already bald!
Seeing Master Du Wei sitting on this bald-tailed horse, he seemed to be very happy... Robert suddenly felt his scalp go numb: What does this young master want to do
"Dear Robert Knight, I just came here to see what the young men of the family are doing." Du Wei smiled harmlessly.
"Master, it's still spring, and the spring drills have just ended. Recently, everyone is still finishing their work. As for the daily patrol missions, they are all done by the cavalry... I don't know what you want to see?" Robert looked at Du Wei's face With a smile on his face, his heart suddenly moved, and he tentatively said: "Maybe you want to go hunting? If so, I will immediately call a team of cavalry to accompany you."
From Robert's point of view, the grounded young master was probably bored and wanted to have some fun.
Hunting is a trivial matter.
"No, it's not hunting." Du Wei smiled happily: "I'm here today to ask everyone to play a new trick, a new game I just came up with!"
Du Wei took something from the saddle, and Robert saw that it was a small cloth bag.
After untying the cloth bag, Du Wei was holding a ball in his hand!
Well, for this ball, Du Wei paid a lot of money.
In order to save money, Du Wei had no extra money to buy cowhide, so he simply went back to the room, picked out a leather jacket of his own, and asked the old housekeeper to find a maid who knew how to do needlework. Require…
Just sew into a ball shape, the job is not difficult. The maid finished it in a few strokes, and the stitching was strong.
As for the padding in the ball...
There is no rubber in this world, and there is no way to make a real inflatable ball. In order to maintain elasticity, you can only get some soft stuffing, preferably some hair or the like... For example, a horse's tail!
In this way, Ruthless contributed a leather jacket, plus the tail of his steed. One ball will do it.
While making this thing, several servants next to him were looking at Du Wei with "prodigal" eyes, only Du Wei didn't care.
Get some pocket money and watch it.
"Robert, look, here's my new game... I call it... football."
"Eleven players on each side, one of them is the goalkeeper. Except for the goalkeeper who can use his hands, any other player is not allowed to touch the ball with any part of his arm, otherwise it is a foul! With the cooperation of the players, try to kick the ball into the opponent's goal! At the same time, let go of the opponent tightly and prevent the opponent from kicking into your own goal... "
Du Wei roughly explained the basic rules of football. These rules are not cumbersome, and more than a hundred soldiers quickly understood them.
Just use your feet to kick the ball!
On the drill ground for military training, two saddles are used to draw a goal frame on both sides.
Du Wei went on the field in person, selected Robert Cavaliers, and several cavalrymen who had gone out with him to form a team. Another group of officers was asked to form another team, and the game began.
At the beginning, it was naturally full of jokes. The officers of the Luo Lin family, who had never played football, often fouled habitually. The ball exploded.
Fortunately, Du Wei had already made preparations, and the maid who was able to do needlework immediately sewed it on the spot... and the unlucky knight contributed the tail of his war horse.
Also, when a knight rushes forward with the ball, often the opponent will habitually make some illegal moves in order to stop him... It really opened Du Wei's eyes!
Often when a person dribbles the ball just after halftime, the opponent surrounds him and kicks him, not at the ball, but at the person! Then the two almost gave up the ball, and you came and went to make a full martial arts! One side's fighting spirit is shining, the other side's body is fierce, and the fight is exhilarating!
It has to be said that the officers of the Luo Lin family are quite proficient in martial arts, with extraordinary hands and excellent physical fitness. On the contrary, after running a few laps, Du Wei lost his physical strength, so he simply replaced him, and he himself became the referee.
After the unrelenting red card sent off a few guys who played football and became a martial arts tournament, the rest of them finally played a little bit.
Du Wei also demonstrated a few moves of dribbling and juggling the ball, and tried a long-range free kick. In one afternoon, these soldiers finally basically mastered the rules of football.
Even the rules of "offside", "penalty kick for fouls in the penalty area", "direct free kick" and "indirect free kick" are played decently.
In the evening, the smartest guy had already learned to dive in the restricted area!
Although this guy performed very poorly, Du Wei had to send him a penalty with full respect. Because his favorite star in his previous life was Inzaghi, known as the "king of flopping".
This penalty kick also won the indignation of the onlookers who yelled at the "black whistle".
One afternoon, all the officers and soldiers in the barracks fell in love with this man's sport!
The "World's No. 1 Movement" in the previous life was indeed not built!
In the evening, Du Wei had already discovered that several high-ranking military officers had reluctantly found out their leather clothes and handed them to the maids to cut them into balls. At the same time... they also contributed a few ponytails.
It was almost when the sun went down that the group left the training ground reluctantly. The soldiers who won the ball cheered and left as if they had won the battle, while the losing side gritted their teeth and agreed to fight again tomorrow.
For all this, Du Wei is very satisfied!
At night, Du Wei came to the small building that belonged to him. Solskjaer had already gone back to rest. At night, this building belonged to Du Wei alone.
Let a few guards stand outside and not let anyone in.
Du Wei went up to the third floor with peace of mind, stood on the terrace, and looked up at the sky.
"What the hell are you doing during the day?" Semel behind him was sitting on the railing, with Bai Shengsheng's calves raised high, making Du Wei dazzled for a while.
Trying to turn his head sideways, Du Wei sighed: "Make money."
"Make money?" Semel laughed. She followed Du Wei all day, but only Du Wei could see her. Semel smiled for a while, obviously not believing it: "You lost a leather coat and cut off your own horse's tail. At the end of the day, you sweated all over, stained two clothes, and only changed your whole body with dust ... Is this also called making money?"
Du Wei rolled his eyes directly: "What do you know? Just wait and see."
It was already midnight, there was no cloud in the sky, and the starry sky was brilliant. Du Wei looked at the time: "Can we start now?"
"The practice of star magic is actually not difficult...but the most difficult thing is to start." When it came to star magic, Semel's attitude became a lot more serious. It was at this moment that the expression on her face seemed to remind Du Wei That great female astrologer.
Du Wei sat down according to Semel's instructions.
"Feel it with your heart."
"What do you feel?" Du Wei stared.
"Stars!" Sammel said slowly: "Feel the power of stars." After a pause, she explained: "Of course, at the beginning, you can't feel the entire starry sky, I ask you to choose one of them , and then after you sit down, you have to use all your magical senses to feel... feel the response of everything that the star gives you... It's hard, and it doesn't happen overnight."
Later, Semel taught Du Wei a spell, and she asked Du Wei to recite the spell silently in his heart, and then choose a star as his target.
"Which one should I choose?"
"The biggest and brightest one," Semel replied.
Du Wei was stunned: "The biggest and brightest? God, there are so many stars in the sky, which one is the biggest and brightest?"
Semel smiled mysteriously at this moment, she gently raised her hand and pointed to the sky... Under the moonlight, Semel's smile was charming, with a hint of mystery, and her eyes were peaceful and unfathomable!
What she was referring to was... the moon!
Du Wei was stunned!
moon! It's the moon!
He looked at Semel in surprise...the great female astrologer...does she even know this? According to Du Wei's previous life, the sun is a star, and the moon is a satellite of the earth. They are the largest in the sky because of their size and their distance from the earth!
In fact, in this world, even magicians divide the sun, moon, and stars into three different categories!
But no one knows... The sun and the moon are actually one of the stars!
"Feel with your heart, feel any fluctuations! Even if it's just a shock of the soul. This process will be very long, maybe a day, maybe even a year... If you can take this step, you will have the opportunity to learn star magic... Otherwise... only It can be said that you don’t have this talent.”
After Semel finished speaking, he yawned and sat lazily aside, looking at Du Wei who was meditating with his eyes closed and facing the sky...
At the beginning, Du Wei tried to use traditional magic methods to sense...
With an additional "antenna" on his head, Du Wei's sensing power is very strong. He can even feel the airflow and wind fluctuations in the sky. He can feel the flow of rivers miles away... He can even feel Listen to the sound of rushing water...
But the stars, the moon...
The distance is too far away!
Too far too far!
Du Wei tried his best to spread out his mental power, but the tentacles of the mental power became weaker as he went to the sky... Even Du Wei tried his best, he could feel the high-altitude wind... This is already the limit!
moon
Du Wei is a reincarnated person, of course he knows how far the moon is from the ground where he is... How far is it! ! With such a distance, Duweke didn't think that his mental power could pass through that astronomical distance!
Obviously, on the first night, Du Wei failed.
"I can't give you specific guidance, because you have to understand these things yourself." Semel sighed: "If you understand these things, you understand them. If you don't understand them, I can't say anything about them." clear."
Fortunately, Du Wei did not feel any setbacks. Anyway, Semel also said that things will not be so simple. And Du Wei...he has plenty of time! He has nothing else now, but he has a lot of free time.
In the morning, although he didn't sleep all night, Du Wei, who had been meditating all night, became more energetic. He was full of energy, and he didn't look sleepy at all.
Du Wei faintly felt that the spell Semel told him seemed to have a huge effect on the growth of spiritual power! Far more effective than ordinary magic meditation!
This increase does not refer to an increase in the total amount of mental power... but... I feel that my mental power has undergone some kind of refinement, making it more pure...
In the morning, Du Wei came to the barracks again. Today Du Wei summoned more troops... Almost all the soldiers who did not have patrol missions all came to the drill ground.
During the half day yesterday, all the soldiers who participated in the football game fell in love with this kind of sport.
Today, Du Wei proposed a new way to play.
"I'll give you one hundred gold coins." Du Wei said with a smile, "You can form any team you want, and then sign up for the competition! The groups will be drawn according to the lottery... The losers will be eliminated, and the winners will continue to compete with other teams! The winning team will get a bonus of 100 gold coins."
Although Robert thinks that this kind of football game is a bit unprofessional... But this kind of game is not harmful to the soldiers, at least running around can improve their physical strength. Moreover, they have just gone through the spring drills, and the soldiers are now in a period of recuperation, and the training is not so strict.
In addition, this young master is so interested, it is not easy to refute his face...
Of course, the deeper reason is that Robert Knight himself quite likes this game.
The officer did not object to the suggestion made by the most distinguished young master. Of course, the soldiers would not object.
What's more... There are bonuses to get!
In order to keep the "cup match" going on and keep the soldiers' physical strength, Du Wei deliberately shortened the time of a match.
The regular game in the previous life was 90 minutes, but Du Wei's time here is only half.
Soon, several logistics clerks in the barracks were in charge of registration, and the eager soldiers, according to their personal relationships, even formed a team from their own team to sign up for the competition.
The chaotic scene lasted the whole morning, and there were a total of forty teams registered in the end!
Calculated based on a team with fifteen players (Du Wei's customized list of eleven players and four substitutes).
The number of participants reached 600! In other words, more than half of the thousand soldiers in the entire barracks participated.
Fortunately, the playground is big enough, and... here, there are large woods and lawns outside, so there is no need to worry about the venue.
Du Wei drew lots in person to divide the groups, so the Luo Lin family's first football cup started...
Because it is based on the lottery elimination system, after the first round of competition, only half of the forty teams are left.
Because of the venue, it is impossible to play the twenty matches in the first round at the same time. So in the afternoon, the Top Twenty was born!
At this time, Du Wei, who has watched most of the games, has obtained enough information by relying on his magician's super mental power and memory!
Which teams have better physical strength, which teams are more capable of flopping, which teams have more talented players, and which teams are weaker...
Du Wei firmly remembered these details.
Then, before the start of the next round, Du Wei suggested with a smile: "It's not interesting to just watch others play like this... Let's make some bets!"