When everyone sat down according to the order of their seats, Zhang Zhaohua found that this huge venue was already crowded with people pulling skirts and sleeves, because not only the generals of King Yan present, the palace maids and eunuchs of the palace, but also the personal guards of King Yan and the sergeants who were promoted to show their skills when shooting arrows today, one by one, the atmosphere was very hot. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhang Zhaohua looked left and right and found that everything else was fine, only the five color sheds in the northeast seemed to be a little discordant. Because this is a place where palace maids and eunuchs and ordinary soldiers gather to watch, the number of people is no less than two or three hundred, although the place is enough, but always want to see more clearly, so everyone involuntarily pushed forward, repeatedly crossed the line, and was blocked back several times by the eunuch who maintained order next to him, but it didn't take long for the old state to recur, and the crowd squeezed forward.

Zhang Zhaohua pouted when he saw it, and asked Hanshuang to call the eunuch who maintained order over, and said, "I have never seen anyone more stupid than you!"

The eunuch was not too old, a little in his early twenties, and when he was scolded, he didn't bow his head angrily, Zhang Zhaohua said: "In the spring dock, there are three or five beech wooden tables, won't you move all those tables and block them in front of the crowd?"

"Cai Peng," the eunuch didn't react for a while, and muttered, "The space is not enough." ”

"Say you're stupid, you're really an elm pimple head," Zhang Zhaohua said: "Who told you to put it in the color shed? I let you put it in front of the color shed, three or five tables lined up horizontally, and then go to the restaurant to ask for fruit plates and food plates, so that anyone can push the table, isn't everyone happy—why are you still stunned, still waiting for me to move the table for you!"

The eunuch ran away quickly with the corners of his robe, but he was still clever, and after a while, he really commanded a few people to carry the beech wooden table in front of the color shed, and it happened that the dining house sent all kinds of rice dumplings to the Lianbi Pavilion, and there were leftovers, so they loaded the plate and sent it to the color shed, and sure enough, everyone didn't just push people with their heads high.

After beating the drum for the third time, King Yan raised his arm and signaled, and in an instant, the entire school field was quiet, and Zhang Zhaohua gasped.

She has always known that King Yan is good at governing the army, and even brought the military law into the palace, all deployments are forbidden by order, and there are few that cannot be issued from above, but now this scene seems to be even worse than she imagined, this is no longer good at governing the army and being good at controlling people, which makes hundreds of people like a means of command, Zhang Zhaohua is sincerely convinced.

"This king is today, Duanyang noon," King Yan's deep voice echoed in all directions of the school field: "Watching the ball and shooting willows with you, there is a word, who can solve my doubts?"

"Shoot willows," Yan Wang said, "Is it Hu custom, or Han customs?"

Everyone chattered, and after a while, there was a humane among the generals: "Your Highness, the last general has heard that it is a foreign custom to use willows as a target and gallop horses to shoot them. In the Liao Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty and even the former Yuan Dynasty, its origin is to uphold the Han Dynasty Xiongnu forest customs, but also originated from the Xianbei tribe during the autumn festival of the horse galloping around the willow branches for three weeks. ”

King Yan didn't say anything, but when he heard the civil officials, Ge Changshi flicked his sleeves and stood up and said, "Otherwise." ”

The word "willow shooting" was mentioned as early as in the "Historical Records", and the "Historical Records" mentioned that people in the Spring and Autumn Period had stories of shooting willows. Ge Changshi talked eloquently: "In the Spring and Autumn Period, Chu has a sharpshooter to raise Youji, who can go to the willow leaves and shoot them in a hundred steps, and shoot them in a hundred shots." It can be seen that shooting willows is a Chinese custom. ”

"The state of Chu does not live in Huaxia," there are also people among the generals who are not convinced: "It is a self-proclaimed barbarian, speaking of which, it is not nonsense!"

"Tracing back to its origin, the Central Plains has had a salute since ancient times, and the Xiongnu and Xianbei have the custom of stepping into the forest," Li Xian stood up and saluted King Yan and said: "Huayi is here, there should be no other!"

Yan Wang said happily: "Si Yan is very good!" said that he personally drank wine in the golden bottle and gave it to Li Xian to drink.

"Shooting willows, from the Chinese shooting salute, is also from the Jin Liao custom," Yan Wang said: "Although Huayi is different, I regard it as the same family." Today's hanging ball color door, 100 steps through the Yang, horse racing and willow cutting, these three regardless of Mongolia, color, female straight, if you can win, you will be given a brocade robe, a gold armor, can win all, not only a horn bow——"

At this time, the sergeants of the school field cheered together, because the horn bow is really a very rare reward, this is the pinnacle of ancient Chinese bows and arrows, it is made of horns, bamboo and wood tires, cow tendons, buffalo horns, fish maw glue, snake skin and other materials through 100 processes processed, the technical difficulty is high, the production cycle is long, but can not be preserved for a long time, the longest can be preserved for 100 years.

The horn bow that King Yan brought to reward today is only three in the treasury of the palace, it is said that it was captured in the pursuit of the Mongols in Helin, not made in the palace, the craftsmen of the palace have been studying this kind of bow for a long time, but they have never been able to understand all the technology, for example, the ground horn noodles are roasted on the fire, the degree of fire roasting, they always can't grasp it well, the horns are either hard or soft into a ball of mud, and they can't reach the standard of flexibility, just this one has stumped so many ingenious craftsmen, Zhang Zhaohua can't even think about how many processes this bow has taken to process it, it is said that this kind of bow can really be a hundred shots。

There are only three bows, but King Yan did not keep one privately, and all of them were taken out as rewards in today's competition, this is what Zhang Zhaohua thought before, King Yan did not regard these three rare bows as treasures, but thought that the soldiers who died for him were his treasures.

However, King Yan also took off a dagger inlaid with gems on his body and put it on the tray, saying, "This fish scale dagger should also be rewarded to the brave!"

This dagger Zhang Zhaohua also caught, and that day King Yan asked her to divide the leg of mutton at the family banquet, so he untied the dagger and let her share it. Zhang Zhaohua didn't pay much attention to the dagger at that time, but remembered that this dagger was indeed very sharp, and it didn't take much effort to remove the lamb leg meat, and the meat on the bones could also be scraped clean, and now that I think about it, this is definitely an extraordinary weapon.

The enthusiasm of the soldiers was aroused, and the school field was cheered like a tsunami.

Before the start of the game, there was a special horse team on the field to perform the show, with the sound of the drums, the leader of the team rode the horse to lead the flag, and then the people rode out of the field, on the horse or up or down, or left or right to perform difficult fancy movements, in addition to being able to stand on horseback, straddle the horseback and tiptoe to a ninety-degree high leg lift, throwing and throwing fast, people and horses get along, very good-looking, especially in the pavilion to watch the female dependents, excited face is red.

"Although it is a trick," Zhou Shi, the wife of Wang Zhen of the hundred households, said: "But if you can't stand it, it's dazzling!"

That's right, this kind of performance is really dazzling to watch, after all, on dozens of horses, everyone has their own set of postures, and they change different shapes between shuttles, which makes people look at this but don't care about that.

After the equestrian performance, the real and most exciting competition has officially arrived, the competition has a total of three items, as Yan Wang said, the first is the hanging ball color door, that is, the school field of the camp gate hanging a juju as big a color ball, one hundred and fifty steps apart, but anyone who can shoot, even if the first shooting skills are qualified, can also get the reward of "a brocade robe".

The difficulty of the second competition is raised at once, called "100 steps through Yang", the word is as it inspires, on the field with wicker to go green a foot, inserted into the soil five inches, so that the galloping horse shoots, the winner wins.

This item also has requirements, not only to shoot, but also to shoot the willow branches, which is to test the strength of the arm, and there is also an arrow without feathers to shoot the willow.