A month passed quickly.

At the beginning of March of 187.

Jiaozhou is a good time in March, the sun is not strong, and it is accompanied by some gentle spring breeze, blowing over, and a little cool.

The school yard in Hepu City was full of soldiers at this time.

These soldiers included the soldiers of the original Hepu County, as well as the soldiers of the first battalion under Xu Huang.

Of course, they were all sitting outside, but at the innermost were a hundred archers selected from various armies.

Liu Zheng's five military camps, each military camp, has ten places, can be said to be one in a thousand, fifty from each military camp, a wave of auditions, from their own team to fight the archery competition, obtained the qualification to come to Hepu for archery competition.

These people are all archery masters in the various military camps under Liu Zheng, among them, the ages are uneven, some are decades of old hunters, although they are more than half a hundred years old, but they are one-handed archery skills that make them superb, and they are praised.

There are also teenage sons who stand out because of their talent and outstanding archery skills.

Of course, in addition to these fifty selected from the military camps in various places, there are other fifty people, who are selected by the county soldiers in various counties, and the archery skills of these people are uneven, but they are indeed the best selected from a state and county, and they are not too bad, and they are all strong candidates who hope to compete for the final championship.

In addition to these soldiers, there are many generals who can be selected without having to go through the selection process.

Directly into the ranks of the selection of generals. Among them, there are many Huang Gai, Cheng Pu and others who were originally subordinate to Sun Jian.

They were originally in Linyi County to assist Sun Jian in defending some remnants of foreign tribes.

But after hearing the news of this archery competition promulgated by Liu Zheng, he was also interested and wanted to show his skills in front of Liu Zheng.

Anyway, there was still a month to go before the date of the archery competition agreed by Liu Zheng, and they went north directly from Linyi County by merchant ship to Hepu City, but it was only a few days.

In this way, a huge archery competition officially began, and the participants were first placed on a school field at a distance of 50 paces.

There are 10 fixed targets on it. The 100 men were divided into 10 groups, and a group of 10 people shot at a fixed target, with three arrows at a time. The five people with the most points in each round win.

And so on, compete for the top 10.

Then the top ten soldiers competed with the generals under Liu Zheng, competing for the ten strongest archery in the real sense, as well as the top three and the final championship.

As Liu Zheng ordered the game to officially begin, the people who were divided into ten groups began to stand in their positions one after another, firing their bows and arrows. Gradually fire the arrows in your hand.

The sound of swishing came from the school yard one after another at this time.

Sharp arrows were released from the hands of those who participated in the competition, and then they shot out quickly, turning into a thin line and fixing on the target fifty paces away.

Fifty paces is actually only an introductory level of archery, and it cannot be counted as a distance for real master competitions.

As far as Liu Zheng knew, Huang Zhong was able to penetrate Yang in a hundred steps, and a distance of fifty steps was simply a breeze for an archery master like Huang Zhong.

And the distance of 50 paces is about 30 meters at most, using modern meters as a unit of measurement.

The distance of modern shooting competitions is generally 70 meters, and if you convert it to the ancient distance unit, it is also about 100 paces.

Normally, 100 steps is the foundation that a master shooter can achieve.

Of course, the main reason why Liu Zheng did not directly place a 100-step arrow target was because not everyone who knew archery could reach a 100-step distance.

Fifty steps, a distance of thirty meters, is already a normal shooting range, the two armies are fighting, and at a distance of thirty meters, you can already see the main general of the other side.

He needed accuracy, not distance.

When the first round of arrows was released, Yuan Zhou, Xu You and other literati began to go up to count the scores.

Yuan Zhou and Xu You both know archery, after all, the ancient times paid attention to the six arts, and literati also needed to learn archery, but they only knew how to do it, and they were not proficient.

Counting the scores of the arrows on the target, they were very good at it, and soon counted the scores of ten people.

"Twenty-seven points for the first target!"

"Twenty-three points for the second target!"

"Twenty-six points for the third target!"

……

After counting the scores, he continued to change to the second round of people and continued the test.

The whole morning was spent in the midst of these ten rounds of soldier shooting competitions.

It took two hours, and the competition of soldiers selected from various barracks came to an end, and ten people soon stood out among the hundred.

Seven of them were recommended from various states and counties, while the remaining three were all from Huang Zhong's second battalion.

And he was the first to follow Huang Zhong and was trained by Huang Zhong from Runan.

These three people are the first batch of shooters among the leaders, after two years of Huang Zhong's continuous **, archery skills are becoming more and more superb, and now in the whole army's competition, defeated many strong enemies, directly broke into the top ten positions, and can be regarded as living up to Huang Zhong's high expectations.

Huang Zhong only sent ten people to participate this time, ten people, only three broke into the top ten, this result, he was not very satisfied, the look on his face was not very good-looking, but there were three people who could enter the ranks of the final competition with the generals, and even compete for the top ten places.

still makes Huang Zhong feel a little relieved, at least he is in the army, and his identity as an archery master can't run.

After the competition of these soldiers was over, it was soon the turn of the generals to compete.

Before the competition really started, Tai Shici was also watching the competition of the soldiers under Liu Zheng.

Although Tai Shici was slightly scoffed at the distance of fifty paces of the team, he couldn't help but be a little surprised when he saw that these soldiers under Liu Zheng were able to shoot more than 20 points, and none of them missed the target.

"Yes, Brother Liu Zheng, those soldiers and horses under your command are very good at archery, with this ability, why are you just a small soldier."

Tai Shi Ci felt sorry for those people, but Liu Zheng just smiled and didn't say much, no matter how high his archery skills are, he is only promoted in rank, but his position in the army still depends on the overall situation. This is not something that can be done by a person who has always had great skills.

No matter how powerful a military general is, no matter how strong his personal force is, he is only a military general, and he cannot become a coach.

Those who can become coaches need to be personally recognized by Liu Zheng to be qualified.