Chapter 460: Fighting

Zhou Yan and Wang Zuxian didn't stay at Xu Feng's house for too long. Seeing that Xu Feng was talking in a daze, they got up and left, leaving her to rest at home alone.

Xu Feng really couldn't hold on any longer, so he didn't leave them alone.

After leaving Xu Feng's house, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon. Wang Zuxian looked at the east and west exits of Guanghua Hutong and asked, "Where are we going now?"

"Let's go to Changchun Temple and have a look."

"OK."

Wang Zuxian is quite interested in temples.

Zhou Yan proposed to visit Changchun Temple because it was indeed very close. The straight-line distance between their current location and the north gate of Changchun Temple was only about a hundred meters.

If you want to walk there, it's a little more troublesome. You need to go out from the west side of the alley first, and then go around it, but it's only a distance of two to three hundred meters.

On the way there, Zhou Yan told Wang Zuxian some of the history of Changchun Street.

Knowing that Changchun Temple was built in the Wanli year and was named by the emperor, it is known as the first temple in the capital. Wang Zuxian was very interested in this temple.

In her mind, a picture of a magnificent temple emerged.

But after arriving at Changchun Temple, she was greatly disappointed. Changchun Temple was not just dilapidated. It didn't look like a temple at all, but like a large courtyard, filled with people and full of life.

The only advantage is that there are no thresholds and no cards, so you can come and go at will.

"Isn't this a temple? Why are there so many people living there?"

Zhou Yan explained, "In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, this was the office space of the Military Officers Association. Later, more and more people came in, and it became a large courtyard. When there were more people, it became difficult to maintain the things inside the temple, which led to what it is now. ”

"pity."

"It's also part of history."

"Is destruction also part of history?" Wang Zuxian curled his lips.

"In fact, it is true. In the long history, this kind of regret is everywhere and it is difficult to avoid."

Zhou Yan and Wang Zuxian found three large bluestone plaques in the temple, with three powerful characters written on them: Xuanwumen.

"After the Revolution of 1911, Zhu Qijin, the then Chief of Internal Affairs of the Yanjing Government, presided over the replacement of all the Manchu and Chinese plaques on the original nine city gates of the capital, and invited the famous scholar Shao Zhang to redo the plaques. What you see now is the plaque on the tower of Xuanwu Gate. "

"Is the Xuanwu Gate Tower still there?"

"No more, that's why you can see this plaque here. The Xuanwumen Gate Tower was demolished in 1965, thirty-one years ago. When the People's Republic of China was first founded, the Construction Bureau did a period of repair work on ancient buildings. Later, the project was interrupted. Not only could it no longer be repaired, but what had already been repaired might have to be demolished.”

"What a pity. Those ancient towers are cultural treasures."

Zhou Yan smiled. Many people had the same idea as Wang Zuxian. They thought it would be a pity to demolish the city gate tower.

However, from the perspective of economic development, it is not a pity to demolish these gate towers. If these gate towers are retained, they will not only seriously hinder the economic development of Yanjing, but also cost a lot of money to maintain every year.

The only pity is that many of the stone plaques and foundation stones of the city tower that were removed at that time have been lost.

It is said that it was placed in a warehouse in Taiping Lake earlier, but later it was unknown where it went, and it is not known whether it was damaged or hidden privately.

In the entire Changchun Temple, there are only these three plaques worth seeing. Fortunately, Zhou Yan knows a lot about these histories and can explain a lot to Wang Zuxian.

He started from Xuanwumen Gate Tower to Guangqumen, Fuchengmen, Guang'anmen, Dongzhimen, Chaoyangmen, and introduced most of the sixteen city gate towers in Yanjing.

He also told them in great detail, including when these buildings were built, whether there were arrow towers and barbicans before, and when those arrow towers and barbicans were demolished.

After hearing this, Wang Zuxian couldn't help but exclaimed, "You are better than those tour guides. If you didn't know better, I would have thought you were from Yanjing."

Zhou Yan said with a smile, "Yanjing people don't pay attention to these things. Just like you, do you know about Beishi?"

Wang Zuxian shrugged, "I don't know much about it. Except for my home, school and shopping malls, I rarely go to other places. Even if I go, I rarely pay attention to these details."

"Isn't that right? I saw all this from literary and historical materials."

…

After coming out of Changchun Temple, Zhou Yan took Wang Zuxian to the art garden west of the city government building.

Xuanwu Yiyuan is called a small park because it is a place where children often come to play.

Entering from the south of the park, there is a road that divides the park into two parts. There are several Tushan mountains on the west side and a children's playground on the east side.

However, the park was deserted at the moment, and the playground was covered in heavy snow, with only a few lines of footprints.

Xuanwu Art Garden feels a bit like a Jiangnan garden, with small bridges, flowing water, and pavilions. However, it is now covered with snow, and many of the scenery can no longer be distinguished.

This is also the characteristic of snow, it has a kind of arbitrary charm.

It was really not a wise idea to go to the park in this damn weather, so the two of them didn't plan to stay in the garden for too long. They strolled on the road in the middle for a few dozen meters before turning around and going out.

But not long after they left, they saw a group of boys playfully coming from the north side of the park.

This group of boys were all about ten years old, and they were all wrapped up tightly. As soon as the two in front arrived at the playground, they shouted, "The snow has not even cleared yet."

"I knew it wasn't cleared."

"It's definitely not cleared. It's going to snow tomorrow. If we clear the snow today, wouldn't it be useless?"

"We can just clear it ourselves."

Among the children, there was a taller one, probably the leader of this small group. He walked to the edge of the playground and said, "Whoever wants to play something, do it yourself. If you don't, you're not allowed to play."

His words really worked. The remaining seven or eight children ran to find their favorite equipment to clear the snow.

As for himself, he stood by with his hands behind his back and watched, without any intention of doing anything.

Zhou Yan and Wang Zuxian found it interesting and were not in a hurry to leave. They stood on the side of the road and watched them with interest.

After a while, a short child cleaned the seesaw and ran to the tall one, "Brother Yang, I cleaned the seesaw. Do you want to play with me?"

Zhou Yan smiled. This little guy was quite perceptive and knew how to please the leader.

But Brother Yang waved his hand, "No, go find someone else to play."

Then Brother Yang announced loudly, "Zhang Xiaocan has cleared the seesaw. Anyone who wants to play can apply to him."

"I'll apply."

"I'll apply too."

Several children raised their hands, and Brother Yang said, "Since there are multiple applicants, let Zhang Xiaocan decide."

"I choose Li Wen." Zhang Xiaocan made a decision quickly.

"Well, Li Wen, go play the seesaw with Zhang Xiaocan."

"Great."

Another little guy gave up the parallel bars that he was cleaning with excitement and ran to play the seesaw with Zhang Xiaocan.

It can be seen that Zhang Xiaocan did not choose randomly. He chose someone who was about the same height and weight as him.     If the height and weight difference is too big, the playing experience will be very poor.

After the ownership of the seesaw was determined, other equipment was cleared out one after another. Without exception, those children would come to Brother Yang to "ask for instructions" and only go to play after Brother Yang's approval.

Zhou Yan couldn't help but sigh that the discipline of this group of children was too high.

This Yang Ge is not simple, he is so skillful at such a young age.

In fact, every school, or even every class, has a leader like Yang Ge, and the others follow this leader.

Usually, this leader is a little bigger and taller than the others.

Yang Ge's body shape also conforms to this characteristic.

However, this is the first time Zhou Yan has seen such a high-disciplined group.

This Yang Ge is very interesting. He has the power to decide the ownership of each equipment, and every child invites Yang Ge to play with them, but Yang Ge refuses. He just stands quietly by and maintains order with his eyes.

If someone is tired of playing with his own equipment and wants to play with other equipment, he will also apply to Yang Ge. After consideration, Yang Ge will choose to let the other party go back or help him coordinate.

Basically, as long as Yang Ge comes forward, coordination will definitely be successful.

Zhou Yan and Wang Zuxian watched for nearly an hour, and during this time, the whole group ran very smoothly, and there was no conflict between all the children.

After a while, Brother Yang took out something similar to a pager from his pocket, probably to check the time, and then said, "Let's get ready for the battle."

When Brother Yang said they were going to fight, most of the children abandoned the equipment they were playing with and stood up.

"Finally, the battle is about to begin."

"Brother Yang, I want to be in a group with you."

"How are we going to group today?"

Brother Yang took out a small stack of "match skins" from his pocket and said, "Today we'll draw lots. One team will get the Calabash Brothers, and the other team will get the goblin."

What he had in his hand were Calabash Brothers picture cards, which usually consisted of a large piece of paper with many small picture cards. After the children bought them home, they simply cut them into pieces, and they were all characters from "Calabash Brothers".

These picture cards were about the size of a matchbox, so some people called them match skins.

Other children came over to draw lots, and after they got them, they started looking for teammates.

In addition to Brother Yang, there were seven people in total. After drawing lots, they were divided into two teams, one team of three people and one team of four people.

In this case, Brother Yang automatically entered the three-person team.

Seeing Brother Yang enter the three-person team, the children in the other team wailed.

"We are going to lose again."

"It's over."

From their reactions, we can see that Brother Yang must be very strong.

Brother Yang smiled and said, "How about this, our team will give ten balls."

Hearing him give ten balls, the children in the other team smiled.

At this time, Zhou Yan and Joey Wong were probably sure that the fight these children were talking about should be a snowball fight.

"Third brother, should we also join?" Joey Wong suddenly said.

Zhou Yan heard her words and was about to speak, but saw that she had already raised her foot and walked towards the group of children.

"Children, can you join us?"

Facing Joey Wong's application to join, everyone looked at "Brother Yang" and waited for him to make a decision.

Brother Yang looked Wang Zuxian up and down and said, "Both of you want to join?"

"Can I?"

"Sure, you join our team and the other one joins the other team."

The application was approved, and Wang Zuxian said happily, "Thank you, little brother."

"You're welcome." Brother Yang waved his hand very maturely, and said to the other children, "Because the new members have been reassigned, the rule of ten balls just now has been invalidated."

They had no objection to this. After all, Zhou Yan was stronger than Wang Zuxian at first glance, and the strength of both sides was much more balanced.

Wang Zuxian waved to Zhou Yan again, "Third brother, come here."

Zhou Yan smiled and walked towards her.

She had been thinking about having a snowball fight, and now she finally got the chance, so she naturally didn't want to miss it.

After Zhou Yan arrived, Brother Yang explained the rules to them again.

Yes, their snowball fight also has rules, and they are quite complicated.

They used the paths in the park as boundaries to divide many areas, which are divided into three categories in total.

One is the blue position, the other is the red position, and the third is the buffer zone.

Both sides cannot go to each other's position. As for the buffer zone, both sides can enter, but only one person can enter at a time.

The scoring rule is that as long as someone on your side hits a snowball, the other side gets one point, and vice versa.

That is to say, even if a snowball from one of your own team hits a teammate, the other side will still score.

Zhou Yan thinks their rules are good, but it is a bit difficult to implement. After all, snowball fights are more chaotic, and who can keep score well?

But when the fight really started, Zhou Yan found that keeping score did not seem to be difficult, because there was a military buffer zone, and both sides could not attack the other side's position. In fact, the battle was not too chaotic, and the score was not as much as imagined.

If you just stand in your own position, it is not easy to hit the other side, because the distance is too far.

In order to prevent the enemy from hitting, both teams have tactics, and they actually use a modified version of the three-three system tactics.

The reason why it is a modified version is that their number is not a multiple of three.

In order to get closer to the enemy, both sides must regularly send one of their teammates into the buffer zone to serve as a pioneer.

The pioneers sent usually bring a bunch of snowballs and throw all the snowballs out in a short time. Not seeking accuracy, just seeking firepower coverage.

This is because there are not many people. If there are more people, Zhou Yan estimated that the rules would be changed so that each team can have three members enter the buffer zone, so that there are more tactical ways to play.

After this snowball fight, even Zhou Yan was exhausted, but his achievements were also outstanding.

Although he did not cooperate with others so well, he was tall, long-armed and strong, and had an absolute advantage.

At first, he made snowballs by himself, but later he simply called the short Zhang Xiaocan to his side and asked Zhang Xiaocan to help him make snowballs, and he concentrated on firing cannons.

In this way, with sufficient shells, he alone formed firepower suppression on the opponent. (End of this chapter)