Han official!

Chapter 4

The two tigers were located at the entrance of a gambling market on the east side and the entrance of a flag pavilion on the west side. The two doormen guarding the entrance had already fled in panic, closed the thick elm door of the flag pavilion, and dared not come out.

Guo Jie showed no fear at all and rushed directly towards the tiger at the gate of the flag pavilion, approaching quickly. He blocked the tiger's head with the ring-handled knife in his right hand and stabbed the two-foot sword in his left hand towards the tiger's soft neck.

"boom!"

The tiger bit the ring-handled knife, the sharp blade was stuck, and its two tiger claws pounced forward fiercely.

The tiger, which hunts animals in the mountains and forests all year round, has obviously eaten humans before and knows how to hunt and kill Han people holding sharp blades.

Guo Jie's heart skipped a beat and he stepped back to avoid the tiger's advance. With his right hand he struggled to pull out the ring-handled knife that was stuck in the tiger's mouth.

It seems easy, but it is very dangerous.

If you are not careful, you will die under the sharp teeth and claws of the tiger.

The two gatekeepers in the flag pavilion just watched, their legs trembling, and they felt the urge to urinate in their lower bodies under their red hakama, and they were almost frightened to wet their pants.

Guo Jie didn't know how to overcome the innate fear in his heart. Instead, he became more and more courageous and continued to fight towards the tiger.

"Haha."

Guo Jie laughed heartily, his courage showing no ordinary arrogance. "What a beast! But today, you will only serve as a means of advancement for me!"

Zhang Qian was stunned. He originally thought that Guo Jie was just an ordinary knight who relied on his courage and would most likely die in the tiger's mouth.

who ever thought.

Guo Jie was truly brave enough to fight a tiger.

Zhang Qian was encouraged and quickened his pace as he rushed towards the gambling market. Wei Guang behind him also quickened his pace, tightly gripping his two-foot sword, and rushed towards another man-eating tiger.

The Han people loved fighting beasts, and wrestling and swordplay had even become daily amusements. When traveling, they would often carry a two-foot sword that could "protect their bodies." Chongda, one of the eighteen marquises initially appointed by Emperor Gaozu, was even more famous for his swordsmanship.

Zhang Qian and Wei Guang began practicing swordsmanship and combat techniques at an early age.

In the past, both of them had fought with swordsmen, but this was the first time they faced a huge tiger.

"boom!"

"Boom!"

The two-foot swords in Zhang Qian and Wei Guang's hands stabbed and chopped on the tiger's sharp teeth and claws, and there was a sound of metal hitting stone. In their hearts, they couldn't help but miss the red belted armor that the Langguan cavalry slaves usually wore. It would also be nice to have a red lacquered double-arc shield.

Under Guo Jie's encouragement, the most primitive fear in the hearts of the two gradually disappeared, and they became more and more courageous in the battle, and their cooperation complemented each other.

"Ha ha!"

"Happy!"

Zhang Qian and Wei Guang burst into laughter. They became more and more proficient in the sword-fighting skills they practiced. They even began to beat the tiger, leaving streaks of blood on its colorful skin.

"boom!"

Guo Jie faced the tiger alone, showing amazing courage and swordsmanship. He was able to subdue the tiger by himself. At the moment when the ring-handled sword broke, the two-foot sword pierced into the tiger's soft belly.

"Roar!"

The tiger roared, and a lot of blood flowed out, and it seemed that half of its intestines were dragging on the ground.

The man-eating beast is at the end of its strength.

"happy!"

Guo Jie panted heavily and shouted loudly, attracting the attention of many people. Without a weapon in his hand, he was like a toothless tiger. He should have fled immediately or run into the extraordinary room to pick up a ring-handled sword.

In the face of Zhang Qian's astonished eyes, Guo Jie still did not retreat and faced the ferocious tiger with his bare hands.

It seems like he is about to perform a feat of fighting a tiger with his bare hands.

In the lion circle of Chang'an City, there are very few knights who are brave enough to fight a tiger alone. It is rare.

Fight a tiger with bare hands.

It is something I have never heard of or seen before.

"Hah!" Guo Jie shouted loudly, and in front of everyone's shocked gaze, he really rushed forward with his bare hands and fought the tiger to death with his bare hands.

Shoubo is also called Bian or Bian. In the army, those with outstanding Shoubo can be reused and promoted from a soldier to a Langguan.

The Juyan Han bamboo slips contain the text "they passed each other and swayed their hands". Hand-to-hand combat was highly respected in the frontier troops. Gan Yanshou was promoted to the position of Qimenlang because of his outstanding performance in the "test", and became a guard beside the emperor.

"boom!"

"Roar!"

Guo Jie punched the tiger's jaw, and the broken blade of the ring-handled knife stuck in the tiger's mouth pierced through the jaw directly. The tiger let out a painful wail, and its head felt dizzy and swollen, and it could no longer hold on.

"Bah!"

Guo Jie flipped over nimbly and rode directly on the tiger's back, hitting the tiger's fragile neck hard and swinging his fists wildly to hit the trachea and blood vessels.

In full view.

A man-eating tiger was beaten to death by Guo Jie with his bare hands.

Complete the feat of fighting a tiger with bare hands!
"color!"

“Good luck!”

"nice!"

The knights hiding in the houses on both sides of Gao Street cheered loudly and looked at Guo Jie in the middle of Gao Street with respect. Several young men from Wuling had their eyes shining and wanted to invite Guo Jie as their guest.

When the two tigers died completely, they lay motionless in the cold snow.

Several young men from Wuling wearing sable robes came out, wanting to buy two tigers to make tiger-skin sable robes to wear on their bodies. They would surely look much more majestic than the other young men from Wuling.

In addition, by buying the tiger, he invited Guo Jie to be a guest in his home.

"Don't be stupid."

Guo Jie saw several eye-catching sable robes and knew that the identities of the people were most likely powerful and wealthy people in Lingyi. A robe is a long robe with a straight hem and a relatively square lapels. The young man who could use sable fur to make a robe and had a frivolous look on his face must be a young man from Wuling.

He dragged a heavy tiger to the door of the extraordinary house, threw it under the eaves, took a cup of wine served by the cook, took a big gulp and handed it to the greedy Zhang Qian.

"How much are two tigers?"

Guo Jie looked at the approaching young men from Wuling and said excitedly, "Can you sell five horses for a high price?"

According to the records of the Juyan Han Dynasty inscriptions that he had read, the price of two tigers was equivalent to five horses. In the early Han Dynasty, there was a shortage of horses, and the emperor could not find good horses of the same color when traveling. He could only ride in a carriage pulled by horses of various colors. This shows how valuable tiger skins were.

Zhang Qian said excitedly, "The Hexi horses are the most expensive, fetching between 4,000 and 15,000 coins. The Guanzhong horses, which are slightly inferior, fetch between 4,000 and 6,000 coins. The tiger you killed with your own hands, with only vital injuries and an intact hide, should fetch a high price of 40,000 coins. The tiger Wei Guang and I killed fetched around 10,000 coins."

A tiger skin was sold at the high price of four Hexi horses.

Guo Jie couldn't help but be shocked and was astonished: "One gold is worth ten thousand coins, forty thousand coins is four golds. The family property of an ordinary person is only ten golds, and I have obtained nearly half of the family property accumulated by an ordinary person for generations."

What surprised Guo Jie even more was that the young man in gorgeous clothes who fought the tiger with him was Wei Guang. Hearing him say that he was a riding slave, he could determine his true identity.

Wei Qing's younger brother Wei Guang.

General Wei Qing attacked the Xiongnu in the north, and Wei Guang also made outstanding military achievements in the south. He pacified the Southern Barbarians, attacked the Kunming Kingdom, and expanded the territory by a thousand miles to establish Yizhou County.

Although both of them have the character "Guang" in their names, Wei Guang's military achievements far surpassed Li Guang's. The area of Yizhou County was equivalent to that of Yunnan Province, and it was a mountainous area covered with jungles and miasma. It was extremely difficult to expand the territory of the Han Dynasty, but the territory of the Han Dynasty was still expanded to the southern limit that the feudal society could control.

The future Wei Qing once pleaded for Guo Jie, but still failed to stop Emperor Wu of Han from killing Guo Jie.

Unexpectedly, Guo Jie had already established friendship with the Wei family members who were still riding slaves.

Wei Guang envied, "If such a complete tiger skin were made into a chastity, it would be far superior to a sable chastity. Wearing it out would surely be the envy of others. Several young men from Wuling would flock to it, and it might even sell for fifty thousand coins."

He didn't want to sell the tiger skin, but he also wanted to make it into a robe. Although it was not as good as Guo Jie's complete tiger skin, it was still quite rare.

Wei Guang had already imagined the scene of going out wearing a tiger-skin robe. Not only would he not be looked down upon, but he would also be looked up to. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel excited.

It’s a pity that he and Zhang Qian killed the tiger together.

(End of this chapter)