Chapter 78: July

"PS: I recently discovered that after "The Court of the Great Wei", "Wife is General" actually has a listening book, and the partner with the starting point is also "Himalayan FM". The actor is a girl called "Yinxi Pavilion Master", with a female voice, and the voice is very good~ The most surprising thing for the author is that there are also dubbing during the broadcast, such as drawing a sword and neighing horses, which is quite powerful. If you are interested, you may wish to try it out."

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In the laughter of the surrounding people, Meng Hu became angry.

He spat out the dirt in his mouth twice, grabbed the reins, and tried to force his way onto the horse's back.

The animals and beasts in the world can actually feel people's "good thoughts" and "evil thoughts", which is the instinct of animals to "seek good fortune and avoid evil".

Only then did Meng Zhong release his good thoughts as much as possible, so the war horse was defenseless against him and was willing to let him sit on the horse's back, but now, Meng Hu's rough movements made the other war horse feel panicked and uneasy, so that Meng Hu was forced to sit on the back of the horse, and the horse jumped and kicked wildly, trying to throw Meng Hu off his horse again.

However, Menghu clung to the horse's neck.

"It's falling, it's going to fall......"

In the slightly panicked voices of the surrounding people, the war horse fell to the ground sideways, and even Menghu fell to the ground, but even so, Menghu still strangled the warhorse's neck and wrestled with it on the ground, trying to force it to submit.

Zhao Yong was amused, and said to the soldiers around him with a smile: "This son must be a warrior in the future!" ”

In the end, after tossing for half an hour, the war horse finally stopped moving, and Zhao Zhao reminded Meng Hu next to him: "Boy, you don't have to strangle it anymore, it won't resist you anymore." ”

Seeing this, Meng Hu let go of his hand.

Sure enough, when he tried to ride again, the horse didn't resist.

However, looking at Meng Hu riding triumphantly on horseback, Wu Ying, Meng Sui, Xiang Yi and the others pursed their lips disdainfully.

Because Meng Zhong only spent a few dozen breaths of work before and after, but Meng Hu spent nearly a moment, and he was covered in mud, so he was not embarrassed.

In this contrast, of course, everyone will choose Meng Zhong's way instead of learning from Meng Hu.

Sure enough, according to Menghu's way, everyone quickly rode on horseback, and at this time, Master Zhao also left his seat, turned over and rode on the back of a war horse, and personally taught everyone the essentials of riding.

Because the stirrup at this time is a unilateral stirrup, which is used to let people borrow strength to get on the horse, not a harness that can be borrowed when riding, so when riding a war horse, the knight needs to lie on the horse's back and clamp the horse's belly with the strength of his legs and legs, so as to avoid being thrown off on the way to the galloping horse.

This is the greatest test that a knight in the world has to face, and it is also the most difficult part of training cavalry.

From slowing and galloping, Meng Zhong and others tried for an afternoon, and then they barely mastered the riding skills, and the price was that the buttocks were almost numb by the horse's back, and the inner legs were even more painful by the horse's belly, so that when they dismounted and walked, they felt unbearable pain in their hips, and they limped when they walked, which made Master Zhao and the Zhao pawns laugh loudly.

After learning riding for three days, Meng Zhong and the others were only a little familiar with it, so Zhao Yong took them around to hunt.

Because Zhao pawn helped drive away the prey, Zhao Yong and his party soon encountered several deer.

Seeing this, Zhao Yong was not in a hurry to shoot arrows, reined in the reins of the horse and turned his head to Meng Zhong and said, "Meng Zhong, let me see your archery skills." ”

So, Meng Zhong drew his bow and set up an arrow, and shot an arrow at a few deer in the distance from a distance of about 20 zhang.

It has to be said that the feeling of shooting arrows on horseback is very different from the feeling of standing on flat ground or standing on a chariot, because the war horse under the crotch will make the horse's back and belly rise and fall because of breathing, which greatly affects the accuracy of the knight when archery.

No, with three arrows in a row, Meng Zhong failed to shoot the deer in the distance, but scared those deer away.

In this regard, Meng Zhong was also quite embarrassed.

But Master Zhao was not surprised, he taught Meng Zhongdao: "Riding archery, unlike standing shooting, you also need to consider the breath of the war horse under your crotch. The breath of the war horse fluctuates regularly, keep this law in mind, let yourself and the war horse become one, and you can shoot the target. ”

As he was talking, the deer were driven back by Zhao pawns in the distance, so he patted Meng Zhong's arm and said, "Come, try another arrow." ”

"Merge with the warhorse?"

Meng Zhong pondered the words of Master Zhao's father, adjusted his breath in the way Zhuangzi taught him, and immediately drew his bow and arrows, aiming at the prey in the distance.

"Poofβ€”"

I saw a string sound, and in the distance there was a deer in the back of the abdomen, and he was hit by an arrow.

However, the deer did not die, and it fled in a panic as it was wounded.

"Good!"

Master Zhao stroked his palm and praised, and immediately, he smiled and said to Meng Zhong: "It's a pity that it didn't kill it with one arrow, now you need to catch up with it and shoot it." ”

With that, they chased the deer for a few miles, and then they were given another chance to shoot.

At this time, Master Zhao's father said to Meng Zhong: "This time aim at his head and shoot him with one blow." ”

Meng Zhong nodded, drew his bow and arrows, and focused on his prey, but the arrow shot was slightly different from what he expected, and only hit the deer's neck.

But even so, the neck was so important that after the deer had escaped about a hundred feet, it fell to the ground, but judging from the fact that its belly was still rising and falling, it was not dead.

Seeing this, Master Zhao handed a short sword to Meng Zhong, and said with a chuckle: "That's your prey, you go and kill it." ”

Meng Zhong rode to the deer's side, turned over and dismounted, knelt down beside the latter, pressed his short sword against the deer's throat, and looked at its still rolling eyes.

"Poof."

The sharp blade plunged into the deer's throat, and it struggled violently a few times before moving away.

At this time, Master Zhao drove the war horse to Meng Zhong's side, and when he saw that Meng Zhong's face was splashed with a little blood but his face did not change, he nodded secretly in his heart.

Afterwards, Meng Zhong wiped the blood on his face with a cloth and turned over on his horse again.

At this time, Master Zhao's father asked Meng Zhong in a low voice: "Have you ever killed someone, right?" At what time? ”

Meng Zhong said truthfully: "When my Song State attacked Teng State, I killed four soldiers of Teng State......"

After staring at Meng Zhong's eyes for a long time, Master Zhao said approvingly: "You are an excellent soldier, I have come to believe that you can protect me." ”

As Meng Heng and Meng Min said at the beginning, whether they dare to kill people is the first test of becoming a soldier in contemporary times, and a person who does not dare to see blood, no matter how high his martial arts are, he cannot be a qualified soldier.

After testing Meng Zhong, Master Zhao began to test Wu Ying, Meng Hu, Meng Sui and others, and during this period, he also performed his archery skills.

I have to say that Lord Zhao's father is worthy of being the monarch of Zhao who promoted Hu Fu to ride and shoot, his archery skills are much better than Meng Zhong, and the prey he targets is often killed with one arrow, unlike Meng Zhong, who hit the deer with two arrows but could not kill it, and finally had to kill it with the help of a short sword.

However, to Zhao's father's surprise, Meng Zhong stopped shooting his prey after killing the deer.

So he asked curiously, "Can a deer satisfy you?" ”

Meng Zhong replied, "Yes." …… My teacher, Master Zhuang, once taught me that people kill wild beasts to satisfy their hunger, which is called "Heavenly Principle"; Now that I have been given a deer that I can eat for a few days, if I am not greedy enough, I still hope to get more, which is called "human desire", and people should not kill indiscriminately for their own human desires. ”

Hearing this, Master Zhao's face showed a look of surprise, and after taking a few deep glances at Meng Zhong, he nodded and said, "It is worthy of the words of a sage." ”

After that, he smiled and said, "In that case, let's stop here for today." ”

So, Master Zhao, Meng Zhong and others returned to the Dune Palace, and distributed the prey to the soldiers in the camp.

During this period, "Xu Jun", a general of Zhao who followed him to hunt, asked Zhao Yong: "Master father, you seem to value that young man named Meng Zhong very much?" ”

Zhao Yong stroked his beard and said: "This son is a very principled person, neither cowardly, nor indiscriminately killing, with courage in his heart and not deliberately showing bravery, over time, it will become a great weapon." ”

"What about the other teenagers?" Xu Jun asked again.

Zhao Yong thought for a while and said: "The rest of the sons, Yimenghu is the most courageous and courageous, but he acts a little recklessly; Secondly, Wu Ying, this son is old, although he has the courage but lacks the courage like Menghu. As for the other ......"

Speaking of this, he shook his head, indicating that he didn't know much about it for the time being.

Xu Jun nodded and said, "What the master father said is extremely true. …… Maybe these teenagers will become the pillars of my Zhao country in the future. Especially the Meng Zhong you value, he is the same age as the king, and maybe he will become an important minister to assist the king in the future. ”

Hearing this, Master Zhao's eyes flickered slightly, but he still chuckled and nodded.

"Assist the king...... What?'

Glancing at Xu Jun quietly, Master Zhao secretly pinched the reins.

Throughout the following June, Zhao Yong personally taught Meng Zhong, Meng Hu, Wu Ying, Hua Hu and others, teaching them horsemanship, swordsmanship, and archery.

In this regard, the soldiers of Zhao Guo in the military camp were quite surprised.

And Zhao Yong said with a smile that he taught Zhuzi martial arts just to relieve boredom and pass the time.

So Zhao Jiang, Xu Jun and others suddenly realized.

Waiting until mid-July, good news came from the frontline battlefield, saying that Zhao Yong's eldest son "Gongzi Zhang", as well as Zhao generals Zhao Yuan, Niu Qian, Zhao Xi, Li Yan and others, jointly attacked the capital of Zhongshan "Lingshou" and was about to break through the city.

Seeing this, Master Zhao's father took Li Shi, the envoy of the Song State, as well as Meng Zhong, Meng Hu, Meng Sui, Wu Ying and other young guards, to Zhongshan Kingdom, hoping to witness the scene of his Zhao State attacking Zhongshan Kingdom.

After all, it was the lifelong wish of his deceased father Zhao Suhou to destroy Zhongshan, and it was not until his generation that he Zhao Guo fulfilled Zhao Suhou's wish.

In late July, Zhao Yong arrived in Lingshou with Meng Zhong and others.

At this time, his eldest son "Gongzi Zhang" had already broken through Lingshou and captured the king of Zhongshan "Shang" together with the rest of the Zhao generals.

In July of the third year of King He of Zhao, the state of Zhao fell to the state of Zhongshan.

At this point, Zhao Guo can finally compete with Qi State without any worries.