After complaining, Zhukov lowered his head and saw the Wolf King who had been tied into a rice dumpling by Xu Rui. Seeing this, Zhukov immediately guessed Xu Rui's intention, shook his head and said: "Colonel Xu, wild wolves are difficult to tame. .”
Xu Rui seized the opportunity and said with a pun: "In our Chinese belief, as long as you work hard, there is nothing impossible. Kuafu can chase the sun, Hou Yi can shoot the sun, and even fools can do it." A man can also move mountains, but compared to these, what does taming a mere wild wolf mean?"
What Xu Rui said is not nonsense. This is also a significant feature that distinguishes Chinese civilization from other civilizations.
Other civilizations, whether it is ancient Indian civilization, ancient Egyptian civilization, ancient Greek civilization, or even modern Western civilization, all advocate absolute obedience to gods, but only the classics of Chinese civilization have recorded a large number of stories related to Mythological stories about gods fighting against each other, such as Kuafu chasing the sun, Hou Yi shooting the sun, Yu Gong moving mountains, Jiang Ziya, a mere human being, even dared to entrust gods to themselves, which is simply unimaginable in Western mythology.
In other words, other civilizations follow God's will and do what God allows, but only the Chinese do not believe in ghosts and gods, but only believe in man's victory over heaven!
The Russian female translator who came with me had indeed stayed in the Northeast, and had actually heard of these mythical stories told by Xu Rui, so she gave the original translation to Zhukov. After listening to the translation, Zhukov immediately showed a look of surprise on his face. How could we not hear the implication of Xu Rui's words? They were using the taming of wild wolves as an excuse to show their determination.
In this negotiation, the Chinese will definitely not give up until they achieve their goals.
At that moment, Zhukov also lost no time in saying: "Colonel Xu, please forgive me, people should be more sensible. It is better not to blindly insist on something that you know there is no hope of success."
Zhukov also said something, telling Xu Rui not to have unrealistic illusions about this negotiation.
Xu Rui could naturally understand Zhukov's lingo, and immediately said: "General Zhukov, how about we make a bet?"
"Bet? We Slavs are not good at gambling." Zhukov shook his head and rejected Xu Rui's proposal without hesitation, and then continued, "But we Slavs are warlike, Colonel Xu, and it just so happens that the wolves have been given to us by now. I've run away, it's a snowy night, there's nothing to do anyway, how about we have a martial arts competition?"
Xu Rui proposed gambling to determine the outcome, but Zhukov refused and proposed a martial arts competition to determine the outcome.
This time it played into Xu Rui's heart, and he readily agreed: "Okay, but how can we compare it?"
A cunning look flashed across Zhukov's eyes, and he said: "There are three competitions, first shooting, then wrestling, and then riding. Each side sends three soldiers to each event, and finally the total score is calculated to see which side wins. If you win two projects, Colonel Xu, do you think this is fair?"
Zhukov had one last sentence that he did not say, which was that the losing party must make concessions in the negotiation.
Xu Rui heard Zhukov's argot and had no objection to it, because he was very sure that Langya would win this game without any doubt. He nodded and said: "This competition is very fair, we have no objection."
"Very good." Zhukov smiled and said, "Then let's start selecting the players to participate in the competition. Oh yes, we must first clean up the competition venue. These dirty and bloody wolf corpses must be cleaned up first." After that, Zhukov turned around and shouted to Shakhsky, "Shahsky, hurry up and get people to clean up all these corpses."
"Yes, Your Excellency General." Shakhsky agreed and quickly led people to start cleaning up the wolf carcasses.
Soon, the camp was cleared, and Shakhsky even asked the soldiers to place torches around the camp, making the entire camp brightly lit, as if it were daytime.
The first competition event was shooting. Xu Rui did not bother to take action himself and chose Leng Tiefeng, Zuanshan Leopard and Sweet Potato. Zhukov also selected three Soviet soldiers from the guards. In order to ensure fairness as much as possible, the two sides exchanged firearms.
, the Wolf Fang team members used Soviet Mosin Nagant rifles, while the Soviet soldiers used Mauser sniper rifles. Of course, the scope was removed.
The three Soviet soldiers Zhukov selected were all famous sharpshooters in the guard company, and the soldiers in the guard company were all selected from the hundreds of thousands of troops on the Far East Front. They can be said to be one in a million, so for the next
In the shooting competition, Zhukov can be said to be full of confidence.
Because of his confidence, Zhukov said generously: "Colonel Xu, it's up to you to decide how to compare."
Xu Rui smiled and said: "I heard that there is a game in Russia called Russian Roulette. How about we imitate Russian Roulette? Your soldiers and mine stand in two rows two hundred meters apart.
How about shooting a snowball on the opponent's head face to face? This can better test the psychological quality of a shooter."
Upon hearing this, Zhukov and all the Soviet soldiers changed their expressions.
Shooting snowballs at each other's heads from two hundred meters apart? This is all nonsense, damn, this really tests the psychological quality of a shooter. The problem is that with this way of playing, the side with better marksmanship and better psychological quality will obviously suffer.
He was determined not to do this kind of loss-making business. At that moment, Zhukov's face trembled and he said, "Colonel Xu, why don't you change it to something else?"
"Don't mind, General, I'm just joking." Xu Rui smiled and said, "Then let's do target shooting. There happens to be ready-made wild wolf corpses here, so shoot the wolf corpses from a certain distance. In the end, as long as
How about counting the bullet holes on the wolf carcasses to find out the result?"
Some wild wolves were shot and killed, while others were stabbed to death with daggers by members of the Wolf Fang Team.
The wild wolf stabbed to death with a dagger had no bullet holes in its body, so it could be used as a target.
"A good suggestion." Zhukov said, "So, how far away should the target be?"
A sly smile immediately appeared on Xu Rui's lips, and he said calmly: "How about eight hundred meters."
"What, eight hundred meters?!" Zhukov and the Soviet major general behind him immediately widened their eyes.
At a distance of 800 meters, even in the daytime with good lighting, it is not possible to hit the body of a wild wolf, right? What's more, it is still at night, and torch lighting cannot replace sunlight.
After a long while, Zhukov said solemnly: "Colonel Xu, do you really want 800 meters?"
Xu Rui smiled slightly and said very considerately: "General, if you think it's far away, it doesn't matter if it's closer."
"Oh no, no, no, that's not what I meant." Zhukov immediately blushed. Even though he did feel that the distance of 800 meters was a bit far in his heart, he could never admit it because it would be detrimental to the national dignity.
, Zhukov then said, "Since Colonel Xu is so confident, let's keep the distance of 800 meters."
Shaskih took several Soviet soldiers to select two wolf corpses without bullet holes, and then carried them 800 meters away. Of course, this was only an estimated distance, in order to increase the hit rate of the Soviet gunners as much as possible.
, Shaskih also did some tricks, deliberately planting two more torches next to the target of the Soviet soldiers' wolf corpses.
Unfortunately, this little trick is of no use.
After five rounds of bullets were fired, the bullet holes on the wild wolf's body were counted again. There were thirteen bullet holes in the wolf's teeth. In other words, only two bullets missed. This was actually because Leng Tiefeng and the others were not familiar with the newly obtained weapons.
With the Mosin-Nagant rifle, it was difficult to guarantee the hit rate when shooting the first shot, so I just got lucky and hit the target by chance.
Looking back at the hit rate of Soviet gunners, it seems a bit miserable.
The three gunmen fired all fifteen bullets, but only six hits!
After personally counting the number of bullet holes on the wolf's corpse, Zhukov suddenly turned livid with anger. He never expected that a game that was supposed to be a sure win could actually be lost! Zhukov really didn't want to admit this result.
However, the deal was already done, the hard facts were placed in front of him, and he had no choice but to deny them.
After the shooting competition, the next event is wrestling.
Zhukov was more cautious now, because the Soviet army could no longer afford to lose. If they lost again in wrestling, there would be no need to compete in the remaining riding skills. So Zhukov picked three big men from the guard company, including
A big man named Molotov was more than two meters tall and looked like a hill standing there.
The other two Soviet soldiers were also over 1.9 meters tall and strong.
Xu Rui regretted that he would have brought the soldiers and the Siberian tiger if he had known earlier.
Regardless of size or strength, soldiers and Siberian tigers will never suffer.
However, even if the Siberian tigers and soldiers are not here, Xu Rui is not afraid, because wrestling relies not only on simple size or strength, but skills are also very important factors. Especially the wrestling they are competing with now is not the same as many in the Olympics.
Wrestling with rules is now closer to fighting than wrestling.
When it comes to fighting, their Wolf Fangs are really not afraid of anyone.
At the moment, Xu Rui chose Leng Tiefeng, Zhuan Shanbao and him, making up the trio.
However, Zhukov objected, saying that Leng Tiefeng and Zhuanshan Bao had already participated in the shooting competition, so they could no longer participate in the wrestling competition. This was a temporary addition, but Xu Rui did not argue with him and agreed.
Zou Chao and Wang Bin replaced Leng Tiefeng and Zhuan Shanbao. These two Central Military Academy students are also good fighters.
This time Zhukov was indeed more cautious than before. Not only did he temporarily modify the rules of the competition, but he also asked China to send the first player to participate. This was a trick, because after China sent the players first, the Soviet side could then send out the players according to the requirements of the Chinese side.
Players were asked to make corresponding adjustments. In this way, the Soviet side could use Tian Ji's horse racing method to win without being superior in strength. This shows that Zhukov is really anxious.
Xu Ruiyi had no intention of arguing with Zhukov and strode into the designated wrestling ring.