Liu Zhang muttered subconsciously: "What the hell is this?!"
Dirang looked at Liu Zhang and then at the other people, feeling that there was a look of confusion on people's faces. He put his hands behind his back and looked proud, as if to say: Look at how you have never seen the world!
At this time, Liu Xiu slowly said: "This is a lion, a male lion."
After hearing Liu Xiu's words, the confusion on everyone's faces turned to surprise. It turned out that this was a lion. In the past, they had only seen such beasts as lions in books, but they had no concept in their minds. Today they saw the real thing.
Dirang didn't expect Liu Xiu to recognize the lion. He rolled his eyes, caressed his chest and saluted Liu Xiu, and said: "The emperor of the Han Dynasty is indeed well-informed." As he spoke, he pointed to the outside of the palace and said: "Back then,
In order to capture this lion, a total of twelve people were dispatched. This lion was sent to Kushan. We, the three brave warriors of Kushan, subdued it with our bare hands. I don’t know how many people it would take to subdue this lion with our bare hands.
ah?"
The so-called subduing does not mean killing it, but subduing it. You must know that subduing a lion is much more difficult than killing a lion, and it must be subdued with bare hands, which is even more difficult. It requires
What a strength!
After Di Rang finished speaking, even powerful generals like Wu Han, Geng Yan, Gai Yan, and Yao Qi could not help but frown. Upon seeing this, Di Rang looked at Liu Xiu with a smile and waited for his answer.
Kushan is a lion that can be subdued by three people with bare hands. If a big man wants to defeat Kushan, he must be at least three people below. In other words, there can only be one or two people.
Not to mention one person, even two people, trying to hold down such a big lion with bare hands is undoubtedly a dream. Just when the ministers in the hall looked at each other, Liu Xiu looked at Zhang Kun beside him.
The latter understood, and immediately walked up to Liu Xiu, bent down, and put his ear close to Liu Xiu. The latter whispered a few words in his ear. Zhang Kun nodded while waiting for Liu Xiu to speak, and he came from the main hall.
The small door at the back retreated.
After Zhang Kun left, Liu Xiu looked at Di Rang happily and said, "It's just a beast. Why do we need manpower to subdue it?"
Di Rang didn't understand what Liu Xiu meant and asked in confusion: "What do you mean by your Majesty's words?"
Liu Xiu smiled but said nothing.
Not long after, Zhang Kun came back from outside, followed by a black leopard and two large spotted tigers.
Seeing Zhang Kun actually leading a leopard and two tigers into the hall, Di Rang was shocked, subconsciously raised his finger and asked: "This... this is..."
"Subduing a beast is not a skill, but making a beast surrender to you is the real skill."
As he spoke, Liu Xiu turned sideways and stretched out his hands to the leopard and the two tigers. Black-haired, big-flowered, and er-haired ran over and licked Liu Xiu's palm again and again.
Normally, they would not listen to Liu Xiu like this, but Liu Xiu didn't know where he got a piece of beef with sauce, and secretly smeared the sauce on his palms under the table.
Smelling the smell of sauced beef, the two leopards and tigers became energetic. They rushed to Liu Xiu and added a few times. The sauce stuck to Liu Xiu's palm was licked clean, and then they didn't look at it.
When they got to where the beef was, a leopard and two tigers looked at Liu Xiu with puzzled and cute eyes.
Liu Xiu pointed to the iron cage outside and said, "Did you see it?" Then, he bent down and whispered, "Whoever can control that lion will have soy beef to eat."
I don’t know if Heimao, Dahua, and Ermao understood Liu Xiu’s words. One leopard and two tigers followed Liu Xiu’s fingers and looked towards the square outside the main hall.
When they saw clearly the male lion in the iron cage, their eyes became cold, and at the same time, the hairs all over their bodies stood on end.
Perhaps these ferocious beasts, standing at the top of the food chain, have a natural feeling of repulsion towards each other. Seeing this male lion with black fur and large flowers, Ermao immediately felt strong hostility.
Liu Xiu nodded with satisfaction, looked at Dirang who was still dumbfounded, and said: "Dirang, the lion is your Kushan beast, the leopard and the tiger are the beasts of my big man. To be fair, you can choose from the three of them.
One, fighting with your Kushan lion alone."
Di Rang did not expect that Liu Xiu would make such a request and let the beast compete with the beast.
He pondered for a moment, then looked carefully at Heimao, Dahua, and Ermao, and his eyes swept over the leopard and the two tigers. For beasts, the bigger they are, the stronger they are, and the more powerful they will naturally be.
Compared with the spotted tiger, the black panther is relatively smaller, more slender, and appears to be more supple.
After looking at it, Dirang pointed to the black fur and said: "Your Majesty, I will choose this black leopard!"
Liu Xiu was delighted, you really knew how to pick, and you picked the most powerful one. Liu Xiu was familiar with black-haired, big-flowered, and two-haired. Even though the tiger was bigger than the leopard, in a real fight, black-haired might not necessarily suffer.
He nodded, rubbed the top of Heimao's head, and said with a smile: "Heimao, this scene is up to you!"
After receiving Liu Xiu's instruction, Heimao walked out of the hall step by step with graceful cat steps without saying a word.
Seeing such a big black panther approaching, the expressions of the servants standing beside the carriage changed. People were so frightened that they stepped back one after another.
Heimao walked up to the carriage confidently, first looked at the people around him, and then his eyes fell on the lion in the cage.
One leopard and two tigers were hostile to the lion. When the lion saw the black fur, he immediately showed hostility. It paced back and forth in the cage angrily, and roared at the black fur outside the cage from time to time: "Roar——
"
The horses pulling the carriage trembled and trembled when they heard the lion's roar, and stamped their hooves on the ground uneasily. Several followers picked up long poles, and at the end of the poles, there was a loop-shaped noose.
They put the pole into the cage and covered the lion's head. Several people worked together to secure the lion. Then someone took out the key, unlocked the iron cage, and then worked together to open the heavy iron door.
The moment they opened the door, the lion roared again, broke free from several nooses, and jumped straight out of the cage.
Heimao, who was standing in front of the iron cage, jumped back to avoid the lion's pounce.
Wow!
Seeing the lion break free from the cage, the palace guards around him all raised their crossbows, all pointed at the lion.
Liu Xiu stood up in the hall, walked out of the hall, and when he reached the door of the hall, he raised his hand.
Upon receiving Liu Xiu's signal, the guards put down their crossbows one after another, and then retreated together, forming a circle around them and staring intently.
Di Rang, Wu Han and others also hurried out of the hall and stood on both sides of Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu clasped his hands behind his back and looked down condescendingly.
In the crowd, I saw the male lion stepping on the pole and tearing off the noose around his head one by one.
Without such annoying restraints, the male lion is even more powerful. He shakes his head vigorously, and the long lion hair around his neck becomes fluffy. It seems that his head is twice as big.
The male lion ignored the crowd around him and looked at the black fur not far away. He slowly opened his mouth, revealing his sharp fangs, and transparent saliva dripped from the gaps between his teeth.
Heimao still had the same leisurely attitude, slowly circling around the male lion. This was the first time he had seen this species of lion, and it seemed that it was easier to deal with than Dahua and Ermao.
The lion who was the first to attack roared angrily, opened its huge mouth, and pounced straight at Black Hair. Seeing the lion suddenly launch an attack, there were screams of surprise from all around.
As the lion pounced in front of Heimao, Heimao's two hind paws kicked hard on the ground, and a black shadow flew into the air. Heimao jumped three or four meters high.
The lion that pounced passed under it. When the black hair fell, its head was facing down, its two front paws were slightly together, and it landed on the lion's back without any bias.
The black hair smashed the lion so hard that it let out a strange cry. Before the lion could react, the black hair slid down from its back and bit the lion's neck.
The lion was frightened and wanted to turn back and bite the black hair. Unfortunately, its mouth was not long enough and the black hair was biting its neck. No matter how hard the lion turned back and bit, the black hair could not be reached.
Heimao didn't give the lion much chance. He fell to the ground and used his own gravity to drag the lion down with him. The leopard and the lion both fell to the ground. Heimao was still biting the lion's neck.
The lion stopped moving, and the black fur also stopped moving. The two beasts were lying on the ground, their bellies rising and falling together, breathing heavily. After an unknown amount of time, the lion struggled again.
As it kept swinging its body, the black hair was sometimes on its left side, and sometimes on its right side, but the black hair's mouth never let go, and it was biting hard from the beginning to the end.
At this time, Dirang began to become nervous. His mouth opened unconsciously, growing bigger and bigger. He leaned forward and clenched his fists tightly. Looking at his impatient look, it seemed that he wanted to join the battle himself.
of.
The lion struggled for a while, but stopped moving again, and the black fur did not move. The leopard and the lion began to lie on the ground again, panting violently.
This was repeated for at least five or six times. The lion's physical strength was gradually exhausted, and its struggle became weaker and weaker. When I looked at it again, the ferocity and violence in its eyes were no longer there, but only despair and despair.
helpless.
Seeing the change in the lion's eyes, the surrounding palace guards looked at each other in confusion. People slowly put down their lifted shields, and some guards turned their eyes elsewhere, unable to bear to look any further.
Even if he is not a human being, but just an animal, the look in his eyes when he is about to die is still heart-wrenching to watch.
When the lion stopped struggling for a long time, Heimao finally let go and jumped back two meters. Blood was dripping from Heimao's mouth. The lion stood up staggeringly, and blood was flowing on its neck.
As noted.
In fact, the black hair did not bite the lion's throat, otherwise, the lion would have died long ago. As carnivores, their skill is to bite off the throat of their prey, and they protect their own fatal points extremely well.
But Heimao has been biting its neck for so long, and it has exhausted all its physical strength. Of course, Heimao is not easy either, and his physical strength is severely exhausted.
Watching the lion stand up again, Heimao walked over step by step. The lion opened his mouth wide at Heimao in dissatisfaction and roared. Heimao came to Heimao, raised his left front paw, and slapped the lion's face.
On top of head.
The lion was so furious that he jumped forward and bit into the black fur.
This was a veritable fight between trapped animals. The black-haired body jumped sideways, allowing the lion to take a bite, and then it pounced forward again, this time raising its right paw and slapping the lion's head continuously.
Heimao's claws were so fast that it was estimated that four or five claws could be released in one second, beating the lion on the head. The lion's physical strength was exhausted, but now it was slapped by Heimao again, and its body was finally unbearable.
He fell to the ground under a heavy burden.
It opened its mouth and let out a low roar, seemingly still dissatisfied, but was immediately slapped by the black-haired front paws.
The lion made two gurgling sounds in its throat, and closed its open mouth. Black Hair stood in front of the lying lion, raised his right paw, and gestured probingly on the lion's head.
This time, no matter how provocative it was, the lion did not move. The eyes looking at the black hair naturally showed fear.
The black man walked twice around the lion, stood beside him, pressed his two front paws on his body, opened his mouth wide, and let out a long roar.
