After traveling to the Song Dynasty for a year, Zhao Weiji, who had basically adapted to ancient life, began to notice some changes in himself. This change was not bad at all, as it seemed that the body's original skills were beginning to show off.

For example, Zhao Weiji is now good at writing calligraphy. As a science and engineering geek, he would not be able to practice good calligraphy no matter how much knowledge he has in liberal arts. But now he is good at writing calligraphy.

In addition, he now has good martial arts. Although he is still far behind Zhao Xin and the masters of the Yang family generals, he is already much higher than ordinary soldiers. In terms of numerical values, if Yang Yanzhao is a

If it's a hundred, Zhao Weiji is already seventy-five.

Moreover, Zhao Weiji not only has pretty good martial arts, he is also an expert in riding and archery. In terms of numerical values, if his martial arts is seventy-five, his riding and shooting skills are actually close to ninety.

Not only did his physical skills begin to show, but the knowledge he had learned in his previous body also began to appear in his mind. For example, some simple marching formations, art of war, and Confucian classics, as well as other ancient classics.

If physical skills can be explained by scientific names such as muscle memory and conditioned reflexes, these brain things cannot be explained.

Regarding this, he once asked Xin Zhao. From Xin Zhao, he learned that the previous owner of this body was not only agile and eager to learn, but also dabbled in martial arts, riding and archery.

Although these skills began to slowly emerge, all the personal life memories that this body was supposed to have had no response at all. Zhao Weiji could only attribute this to the fact that he had the aura of the protagonist, and God was starting to cheat him.

In order to adapt to the emergence of these skills, especially physical skills, Zhao Weiji began to participate in the daily training of generals and soldiers. He clearly understood that these skills might be of great help to him on the battlefield in the future.

But Zhao Weiji, who participated in the training, realized how boring and unscientific the military training in the Song Dynasty was. Apart from basic battle formation training and equipment training, there was no other training. Although these soldiers had excellent battle formation execution capabilities,

And the ability to control equipment is pretty good, but my own foundation is very poor. Especially physical fitness, body balance, reaction and physical confrontation, etc.

Since the Central Plains has already begun large-scale agricultural activities of raising pigs, eating meat is no longer such a luxury activity. The border guards have ensured the supply of meat. However, the soldiers' physical foundation is still so poor. There is only one explanation, and that is training.

Can't keep up.

Because they are professional soldiers, without the basic exercise of farming, the physical fitness of the soldiers of the Song Dynasty is actually not as good as that of the previous dynasty. What's more, compared with the Khitan people who run on the grasslands all year round.

For this problem, Zhao Weiji thought of a solution, and that was football.

That's right, it's football, not the Cuju of this era, but the modern football of later generations. The threshold for entry into Cuju of this era is too high, and most of the time it's about pursuing tricks. Basically, it's all about the kicks of later football, and there is no competition.

There is so much physical confrontation. The basic physical training is not as comprehensive as modern football. So Zhao Weiji decisively prepared to plagiarize modern football as the basic physical training. Because pure training is too boring and not as interesting as football. Zhao Weiji believes

Football that can conquer the world in later generations can also conquer the soldiers of the Song Dynasty.

And another piece of good news for Zhao Weiji is that the Tang Dynasty of China had already invented an internally inflated rubber ball. This kind of ball is made by putting an animal urine bubble into the balloon and then blowing it up. Although the rubber ball is not as popular as the one used in later generations.

The ball is a little worse, but it's enough for football.

On this day, Zhao Weiji found Yang Yanzhao and discussed with him the situation of the soldiers he saw.

"I know that the physical foundation of soldiers is not good enough, but there is no way. Basic training is too boring. If the soldiers in the army are dissatisfied and mutiny, it will be troublesome." Yang Yanzhao sighed and said.

"That's no problem. We don't do boring basic training, we play games." Zhao Weiji took out a football, threw it on the ground, picked it up with his toes, and made a few bouncing movements.

"You mean Cuju? No, no, Cuju is too difficult, and it's really not strong enough to participate." Yang Yanzhao shook his head and said after seeing Zhao Weiji click the ball.

"What I plan to play is Cuju, but it's not. It's much simpler than Cuju. First of all, I play Cuju on the ground."

"Kicked on the ground?" Yang Yanzhao didn't quite understand.

In the past, the way Cuju was played was similar to shuttlecock. Several people kept bumping and passing the ball, but they couldn't let the ball fall to the ground. Zhao Weiji here said that he put the ball on the ground and kicked it, which made Yang Yanzhao confused.

"Well, Yanzhao, let's go to the school field to find some people. Then I will demonstrate how to play this new Cuju." Zhao Weiji said and pulled Yang Yanzhao towards the school field.

After arriving at the school field, Zhao Weiji had someone vacate a site almost as big as a modern football field. Then he used lime powder to draw various lines on the football field. Then he had someone make two simple goals out of wood.

On the bottom line at both ends, twenty-two people were finally found to stand on the field, and they were divided into two teams, with eleven people in each team, respectively wearing red and blue vests.

Just when everyone was confused, Zhao Weiji started to speak: "Today we play a new game called football."

Upon hearing Zhao Weiji's words, the people below immediately exploded: "Football? Isn't it Cuju?"

"It's not Cuju, it's football. The ball in this game is played underground." As he spoke, Zhao Weiji began to explain the rules of football.

Since Zhao Weiji traveled through time, he directly skipped the century-old development history of football and moved the latest rules directly to the Song Dynasty. Although it took a lot of effort to explain, and people asked questions from time to time, after spending half a day

After an hour, all the soldiers finally understood how to play this football.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Weiji acted as the referee himself, and then asked the twenty-two people who were already standing on the field to divide into two teams and start trying to play a football match.

Because Zhao Weiji just transferred the rules of later generations, but did not say anything about technical and tactical issues. The game was extremely chaotic at the beginning, with ten people except the goalkeeper rushing forward together. And because they did not master the strength at the beginning, fouls occurred one after another.

, Zhao Weiji's hands were soft when he picked out the cards. In order to allow the game to continue, he had to change the rules. The person who was sent off with a red card could find someone to replace him. Otherwise, there would be no one from both teams in less than twenty minutes.

Already.

Although this group of people came into contact with football for the first time, the scene was extremely chaotic at first, and there was no order at all in offense and defense. But soon the military's combat literacy began to come into play, and these people had begun to have a preliminary division of labor.

People on the team have begun to have someone responsible for defense and someone responsible for offense. It is no longer a mess of ten people attacking and defending together. Although it is not as detailed as the super division of labor in later generations of football, it is already a good start.

Yang Yanzhao, who was on the sidelines, gradually began to feel the benefits of football as he watched. First, everyone was running around the field, even the goalkeeper was moving in a small area. Then there were people.

There are constant physical confrontations between them. And due to the existence of rules, although there are physical confrontations, it is not easy to cause the non-combat attrition of a large number of personnel.

In addition to the physical exercise of the players, the greatest benefit of this football is that it improves the participants' judgment of their own position in the formation. This has a strong assisting effect on the positioning of the formation in actual combat.

The more he watched, the happier he became. Yang Yanzhao found that he had fallen in love with this game. When a person on the red team was ejected for a foul, he took that person's vest and put it on himself before leaving the game.

Yang Yanzhao is worthy of being a battle-experienced general, and he quickly adapted to this game. His superb martial arts skills allowed him to control his body well and then control the football. Soon Yang Yanzhao became the core of the red team's offense. And on the field

The originally balanced situation was broken, and the balance of victory tilted towards the red team.

In the end, the game lasted for an hour and the red team won with a score of 8:4. Yang Yanzhao not only scored a hat trick, but also had an assist. This made Zhao Weiji, the referee, not only sigh that if you are good at martial arts, basically any sport is not a problem.

"Guoxiang, you are really a genius. How did you come up with such a game? It is not only fun. It is also of great help to soldiers." Yang Yanzhao excitedly said to Zhao Weiji after the game.

"Maybe inspiration suddenly came to me." Zhao Weiji explained with a smile.

Yang Yanzhao was still immersed in the excitement of the game just now, so he didn't pay much attention to Zhao Weiji's explanation.

As football began to be promoted in Daizhou and Yanmenguan, the physical fitness of the soldiers has been greatly improved. And it is not just the soldiers who are playing, but even the generals sometimes can't help but come off the field to play a game.

Another change brought about by the promotion of football is that Zhao Weiji, a shameless guy, actually organizes a group of soldiers to go to Daizhou City for public games every ten days, and then he uses this to sell tickets. Although the tickets are not expensive.

, but football has become very popular in Daizhou. He makes a lot of money every time. What is kind of is that Zhao Weiji directly uses this income as a bonus for the winner of each open competition. It is fun and

With extra money earned, the soldiers' enthusiasm became even higher.

While Zhao Weiji continued to exert influence on the northern border, he did not let go of the Central Plains. Through correspondence with Chai Yu, his advanced thinking was also quietly changing the Central Plains.
Chapter completed!