Chapter Thirty-One: Wang Fei's Solo Challenge

  Just as the two were frolicking, Wang Fei's voice suddenly came from outside the door. "It's another Yellow Turban Rebellion, how can you two be so careless? What if someone happens to pass by and hears it?"

  Scolded by Wang Fei, Xu Shu immediately looked embarrassed and stuck out her tongue. Wang Xu took the opportunity to glare at her, feeling a bit relieved, before turning his head to ask: "Second Brother, have you made all the arrangements?"

  "Don't worry, it's all arranged."

  As he spoke, Wang Fei quickly walked to the right side of Wang Xu, knelt down on the cushion and continued with a worried tone: "But I still have a small concern?"

  "What? Still worried about supplies?"

  Shaking his head, Wang Fei frowned and said: "It's not that, it's a command problem. We now have a full three thousand people, but in the high-level command system, there are only the three of us. If we follow your previous arrangement and leave the few guests who were responsible for the manor to take care of things, military affairs will be exceptionally busy, efficiency will be low, and the combat effectiveness of the brothers will definitely decrease a lot!"

  After hearing this, Wang Xu spread his hands and sighed: "Second brother, I thought of this problem a long time ago, but where can I go to find talented people? The guests in charge of training must stay at home. They are the five most important talents in the family, with good martial arts skills and wisdom. Otherwise, they would not have been sent by Father to take charge of things here. Our family's armed forces are already weak, so we need them to hold down the fort. So, it can only be us three who suffer, and hand over unimportant military affairs to cleverer soldiers below, trying our best to cultivate and promote a batch of people!"

  "Alas! In that case, I can only do as you say." With a sigh, Wang Fei spoke again and asked: "Does Third Brother have any other instructions?"

  "It's all over!" He shook his head, Wang Xu really didn't expect Wang Fei to handle military affairs so quickly.

  Seeing the three of them sitting here doing nothing, Wang Xu thought for a moment and said: "Second brother, since we have nothing to do now, why don't you and I go to the training grounds to practice our swordplay? It's boring just sitting around, let's warm up for the upcoming battle!"

  "Warming up? Haha! San Di's new vocabulary is endless. Alright! I'm also itching to fight, but let's make one thing clear, I'm not your opponent, you can't be too ruthless!" Wang Fei was a loyal and eager fighter, hearing this suggestion, how could he not agree? He was still sitting there, but a surge of battle intent had already emerged.

  "Don't worry! I'm going to play horse racing today, so you don't have to worry."

  As soon as he heard it was a horse fight, Wang Fei became even more excited. "Third brother, this is what you asked for, don't blame me for bullying you. To be honest, your riding skills are really too poor, on the horse you're not my opponent!"

  Looking at his complacent appearance, Wang Xu was indignant in his heart and couldn't help but blurt out: "What's so great about that? Just wait until I come up with stirrups, you'll be in trouble!"

  "What's a stirrup?"

  Even seeing himself making a slip of the tongue, Wang Xu hastily covered it up by saying: "It's just something that helps with riding skills, I'm currently designing and researching it, wait until it's made in the future and I'll show you."

  He finished speaking and hastily got up, pulling the bewildered Wang Fei towards the school field. Xu Shu had originally wanted to get revenge, but seeing Wang Xu running quickly, she stomped her foot in anger and followed him furiously.

  All the way to the school field, laughing and joking, after ordering the guards on duty to bring their respective weapons. Wang Xu and Wang Fei exchanged a smile, grasped the reins of their horses, and with a swift flip of their bodies, they had already taken up positions on horseback.

  Looking at Wang Fei, who held a long spear in one hand and had his hair tied up high, with an air of majesty all around him. Wang Xu smiled faintly, and the spear casually drew a circle before being tucked under his right arm, its tip pointing towards the ground, as a sense of battle intent also arose.

  "Second brother, no more nonsense, come on!"

  "Good!" With a loud whoop, Wang Fei clamped his legs tightly around the horse's belly and charged straight at Wang Xu without hesitation.

  Wang Xu didn't hesitate either, his eyes gleaming with a sharp light as he pulled on the reins and rode forward to meet him.

  "Clang!" A loud crash of metal on metal, the two long spears clashed and collided in mid-air.

  The first round of Ma Zhan's fight was generally a probing attack, but this was exactly what Wang Xu was most worried about and the most headache. Because this round mainly compared internal strength, reaction, and physical strength, it could be said that it was the most direct collision.

  Originally, apart from physical strength, Wang Xu was better than Wang Fei in every aspect. However, his riding skills were not good enough, and without stirrups to support him, he found it difficult to sit steadily on the horse. Moreover, due to his age, his body was relatively short and small, so if he wasn't careful, he would easily be thrown off the horse. To be as stable as Mount Tai, one needs to have extremely good strength and riding skills, but Wang Xu had not yet reached that exceptionally high standard.

  So, he not only has to defend against Wang Fei's attacks, but also has to consume a lot of physical strength, internal energy and mental power to ensure the stability of his body. This is also one of the reasons why Ma Chao gets excited when talking about fighting against Wang Fei on horseback, because if they were to fight on foot, Wang Fei would be completely inferior to Wang Xun!

  After enduring the most troublesome union, Wang Xu quickly turned his horse's head after brushing past the warhorse. Seeing that Wang Fei's momentum was getting stronger and stronger, he didn't say much and immediately drove his horse to fight with Wang Fei again.

  The second round was not far apart, so there was no great impact. Therefore, the two men who were manipulating the war horses to kill each other again also showed off their skills, killing each other in a difficult-to-separate and difficult-to-solve manner.

  In fact, Wang Xu was always in a suppressed state because the war horse was unstable and the moves were naturally not in place. The reason why he could fight with Wang Fei without winning or losing was entirely due to his stronger internal strength and martial arts cultivation.

  Unconsciously, the two had already exchanged hundreds of moves on horseback. Wang Fei was getting more and more courageous in battle, but Wang Xu was somewhat at a loss for words, his internal energy greatly depleted.

  As Wang Fei's attacks grew more intense, the weakness of being off-balance in combat became increasingly apparent, causing Wang Xu's gunplay to become gradually disordered. Although he could barely control it with his cultivation at first, as the battle continued, the rapid consumption of physical and internal energy made the subtle weakness have a greater impact on the overall situation.

  After losing to Baihe, Wang Xu's spear technique was completely disorganized and he could only passively resist.

  On the other hand, it can also be said that Wang Fei used the right tactics. He knew that his martial arts skills were inferior to those of Wang Xu, so he didn't rush to determine the outcome. Instead, he seized on Wang Xu's weakness in horsemanship and waited for him to make a mistake.

  After supporting dozens of rounds, facing Wang Fei's use of his own open middle door to shoot out a thunderbolt gun, Wang Xu, although barely using the long gun tail's gun drill to open it, was powerless to stabilize his body again. Under the reaction force, he slid to the side, and was about to fall off the horse.

  Wang Fei saw this and burst out laughing. With a sudden release of his inner energy, he countered the attack with his spear and directly struck the long spear in Wang Xu's hand.

  At this moment, Wang Xu's body had completely lost its center of gravity and could no longer hold onto the gun handle. The long gun in his hand was instantly knocked flying by Wang Fei. Of course, if it were on a real battlefield, what would have been attacked wasn't the weapon but Wang Xu's head!

  At this time, Wang Xu was also in a sorry state. His hair was disheveled, his hands tightly grasping the horse's head, and his legs clamped tightly around the horse's belly, expending a lot of effort to climb back onto the horse's back.

  After taking a few deep breaths, Wang Xu sighed and shook his head with a bitter smile. "Second Brother's martial arts have improved again!"