Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 221: Car racing (four)

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Immediately afterwards, Procris felt his car suddenly thrown to the outside, and heard a "bang!" sound, the violent vibration almost made him fall off the car, fortunately he tightened the reins.

Besides, the Gauls shouted and yelled. It turned out that his car had collided with the opponent's.

The players all wanted to regain the head position when turning, speeding up their horses one after another, trying to overtake from the outside, and the eight traffic jams almost crowded together, causing multiple collisions.

Such an exciting scene aroused the audience's exclamation, and at the same time aroused their greater enthusiasm for watching the game, and the cheers were higher than the waves.

Unlike an epic movie in the previous life, where sawtooths are placed on the axles of a car, it can damage other players’ cars. It’s impossible for the Greek Games’ racing games to allow such cheating. The participating cars must undergo strict inspections. In order to be allowed to enter the arena, the Dionian Games is even more so. If bad behaviors such as hitting an opponent with a horse whip are found, they will only be sent off. Therefore, this time the collision between the cars did not have the tragedy of car crashes, but it affected the speed of the cars.

Just as Procris' car slowed down due to the collision, another car quickly passed from the outside and rushed to the front.

The car shines with golden light, the driver is dark-skinned, and it wears the same golden light, and the four black horses are also equipped with gorgeous headgear, the whole car looks magnificent. It turned out that this was a driver from Egypt. He was not a slave or a freed slave like a Greek driver, but a little Egyptian nobleman who drove for the heir of Pharaoh Jie Hao. The reason why Jehe sent him to the game was to please Dionia on the one hand, and to show the capabilities and image of Egypt to Dionia and other Mediterranean city states on the other.

Only at the start of the race, the Egyptian envoy delegation led by Jiehe still did not reach Turei, which disappointed the Egyptian driver, but this did not affect his state in the race. Although he was behind at the start, he He was not too anxious. Instead of speeding up and grabbing the lane like other players, he calmly drove the car to the outermost side. With its superb driving skills, not only did not delay the time due to multiple detours, but instead took advantage of other racing cars. When they collided with each other and crowded, they rushed to the front quickly.

Seeing this situation, the Gallic driver was anxious. He whipped his horse and wanted to let the car catch up. As a result, he collided with the car on the outside. The driver was so angry that Bruti yelled at him.

Procris is still calm. Instead of waving his whip, he shook the rein lightly, while blowing a whistle, shouting loudly: "Effia! Run, run!"

According to coach Procris, “Incorporating a mare into the horse pulling the car, although the speed may be a little slower, but it can ensure the stability of the car, and at the same time can stimulate the male The horses compete with each other to speed up the horse speed.” Procris accepted his suggestion, and found that the effect was very good in training, and even later the mare called Efila became the stabilizer of the entire car.

At this moment, this clever young mare seemed to understand what the owner meant. It neighed a few times and hooves straight forward. The three young stallions also worked hard together next to her, Procris’s racing car. Instantly speed up and get out of the crowded racing pile. If the horses were running slightly off at the time, they might encounter the Gallic racing car next to him, which was falling into anxiety.

After a while, the cars on the field were divided into different levels again. The Egyptian car charged forward, Procris followed closely, Gaul, Bruti, and Thebes all kept pace, Cyrenaica and Sinumibi. Ya is a little behind...Everyone, you chase me, each shows its ability, stirring up the dust and fog, the scene is very intense.

The cheers of the audience continued to be hot.

Although Dionian engineers used a mixture of fine sand and fine clay to pave the stadium, they still cannot avoid the dust. Procris followed closely behind the Egyptian racing car and naturally tasted the pain of eating ashes. Through the mist of dust, he saw that the staff on the mid-ridge platform was picking up one of the rows of silver dolphin statues erected on the iron hook, and his heart moved slightly: it was already a circle.

He immediately concentrated, because in front of these dolphins is another stone pillar to turn.

He saw that the Egyptian car in front was close to the ridgeline, apparently intending to hold the inner ring, he turned to look to the side, no car caught up, so he did not hesitate to take the reins to the outside, and at the same time There was a hasty whistle.

The four horses rushed to the outer circle immediately, still maintaining a high speed when turning, because of inertia, Procris' car once again slammed outwards, and also leaned to the right, and was about to overturn.

The nearby audience shouted worriedly.

However, Procris was not in a panic. He grasped the reins tightly, stood firm on his legs, and controlled his center of gravity. The left wheel of the car is suspended, and only after rolling on the right wheel for a while, the left wheel safely touches the ground...

The Dionia audience breathed a sigh of relief, and then the audience cheered thunderously for Procris's wonderful performance.

This is the fast cornering technique that Procris has cultivated in the past two years. Successfully displaying it in real games has also boosted his confidence. He shouted in excitement: "Good job, Efila Good guys!"

The four horses responded with high-pitched neighs, and the four running hooves became more powerful, dragging the car and chasing them.

The Egyptian rider felt a little nervous when he saw Procris who had been chasing his side, and immediately waved his horse whip and shouted: "Frame! Frame!..."

The drivers all learned their lesson and tried to keep the gaps when turning, but the tragedy still happened.

The Macedonian driver who fell in the back was eager to catch up. He still maintained a high speed when cornering, but did not have the superb driving skills of Procris. After colliding with the Sinumibia car ahead, the car overturned. The driver was thrown away...

The audience exclaimed.

The ambulance crew immediately ran into the scene of the accident, lifted the injured driver on a stretcher, and pulled the car to the exit of the stadium. Fortunately, the Macedonian car was the last one, so all the cleanup work was relatively quick and did not affect the race. process.

The doctor arrived quickly and carefully checked the driver's injuries, and found that he had no trauma other than a dislocated arm, a shock and some fainting from the head. He was lucky.

Of course, this is also related to the safety measures taken by the Dionian Games: The Dionian Games racing referee team requires drivers to wear helmets with soft cotton lining, and thick leather clothing and leather pants. It even reduced the starting gate to avoid collisions due to too many cars in the race... But even so, accidents still occurred, and the car race is indeed the most dangerous event in the sports meeting.

Shame, this is simply a shame to Macedonia! …Prince Philip of Macedonia in the VIP table was very angry.

The Macedonian envoy next to him comforted him and said, “You don’t need to be angry. Although Macedonia is rich in horses, people love to ride horses and few people drive. And they have never participated in any racing competition before (the Greek city-state regards Macedonia as Barbarians, they are not allowed to participate in the various games in Greece). They have no experience in racing. They only signed up for this event because of Dionian’s hospitality. Such failures are inevitable."

Philip obviously couldn’t accept such a statement. He said with a stern face: "Since you have participated in the competition, you must have the ambition to win the championship! If you have no experience, you can learn from experienced people and hurry up and train! Dioni Ya sent out the invitation letter a year ago, and what he has been doing for more than a year, behaved so poorly on the court, causing the audience from all over the world to look down on us. How can this be accepted!"

The Macedonian messenger was a bit embarrassed. He sank his face and ignored Fili. He stared at the arena and thought: Although you are a prince, you have no right to come to Dionia without permission. I have added a lot of trouble, and now I still yell at me, I don’t know what is good or bad!

The contemptuous attitude of the Macedonian messenger made Philip gritted his teeth. Although he was young, he was already more knowledgeable in the world. He knew why the other party dared to do so, not only because he was irrelevant in Macedonia, even his brother Macedonia King Patekus also did not have much influence in the country. Most of the power was controlled by Ptolemy and several other ministers. He even suspected that if there was no support from Dionian, the shameless and professed Ptolemy, "It was Patekus and his stepfather," had usurped the throne a long time ago. The domestic monarchy has declined, and Macedonia is a poor and backward country in the eyes of many city-states and countries. Compared with the neighboring Dionian Kingdom Thessaly region, it is completely different.

The reason why Philip came to Dionia secretly was not the main purpose to watch the sports meeting, but to seriously explore how Dionia became like this from a small city-state in just 20 to 30 years. The real reason for a powerful kingdom, but Turri’s population is so large, he is in it, but a drop in the ocean, and no one cares. He was shocked by the prosperity of this huge city, but he lacked administrative experience. It is impossible to see through this prosperity, the real secret that can lead to this prosperity.

Sometimes he can't help but feel frustrated: Is it possible that the Macedonian royal family will always be under the protection of Dionia? ! Could it be that Macedonia will never be able to perform miracles like Dionia? !

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The race is still going on fiercely. Two laps, three laps, four laps...The top two are always the cars of Egypt and Turri. The two drivers are biting each other tightly, and the difference is no more than one horse. body. But the third to fifth place kept changing, sometimes it was Gaul, sometimes it was Bruti, and sometimes it was Corinth... You chased me, it was so lively, it aroused the cheers of the audience outside the venue.