When the two arrived at the Royal Racecourse, it was nearly noon.

Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the bow has been extremely popular in the imperial court and the army, and the female emperor Wu Zetian ascended the throne, and this trend is still unabated, and there is a tendency to surpass the predecessors. In order to match this grand event, the Juju Arena at the Royal Racecourse is also a magnificent venue, with a main arena with a grandstand that can accommodate tens of thousands of people, and a number of venues for weekday practice and small competitions.

Every grand festival, the imperial court will definitely hold this grand event, the emperor will also lead the royal family to watch the royal building, people from all walks of life expect that this year is no exception, so although this matter has just been promulgated this morning, but the princes and nobles, the festival envoys have already made sufficient preparations in advance, entered the divine capital, and are eager to try at this moment.

The bow ceremony shows its head and feet, and it is easy to be favored by nobles, so as to rise to the top, which is also considered a way to promotion, so as long as you have the opportunity to participate, you will do your best to prepare and show your skills. Although the selection competition has not yet begun, the Royal Racecourse is already crowded with people, gongs and drums, and flags in the sky, and this formation is not inferior to the real battlefield.

Generally speaking, the emperor does not personally participate in the bowing, so the crown prince has the highest status among the contestants, and the battle flag of the camp is also the largest, standing in the middle and can be seen from afar. Li Ke and Chen Wuji looked at the battle flag and looked for it. Li Sanlang and Chen Xuanli were wearing scarves on their heads, long boots on their feet, light-colored narrow-sleeved robes, and sticks in their hands, ready to fight at any time, and saw Li Ke and Chen Wuji hurriedly greet each other.

Before the selection competition began, Li Ke took the opportunity to report to Li Sanlang about the investigation of the Qiler Mansion, Li Ke finished speaking, Li Sanlang sighed, and said slowly: "It seems that things are really as we expected, Keduo must be the culprit of this case, and he should be arrested as soon as possible!" But... But where is he hiding? ”

At the beginning of noon, Zhang Changzong slowly walked to the selection arena with the holy decree in his hand, looked around, and said loudly: "The holy decree has arrived, everyone accepts the decree!" ”

Everyone knelt. Zhang Changzong read aloud: "Fengtian carrier, the emperor said." At this moment, in the primary election, everyone must do their best to finally select good talents to repay the emperor's favor and live up to their mission. Outstanding performance will be rewarded with 10 gold! Chin this! ”

Ten gold is not a small amount, if you get ten gold, it can be said that you have a lot of food and clothing, which is nothing to the princes and nobles, but it can be regarded as a great temptation for those ordinary bowers, so after listening to the holy decree, everyone is enthusiastic, and shouts loudly: "Command!" Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live. ”

Zhang Changzong carefully put away the holy decree, walked in front of Li Sanlang, saluted, and said respectfully: "The prince is virtuous, and his bow team has won the championship many times. ”

Li Sanlang returned the salute and replied: "Since this is the case, then we should be disrespectful!" With that, with a wave of his hand, he rode into the center of the field with the bowing team under the prince's tent. In order to win, in addition to the bowing player himself, the horse is naturally important, and the horse's foot strength, speed, physical fitness and flexibility all play a crucial role, especially when the strength of the competitors is close, which is particularly crucial. Because of this, the horses under the prince's account can be described as one in a million, all of them are good horses introduced from the Western Regions, tall and strong, all the horses in the battle are red, and there is not even a single miscellaneous hair.

Li Sanlang bowed his hand to all the participating teams, gave a salute, and said loudly: "In the next talent, take the lead in the battle, and I hope that those who fight in the first battle will be invited!" The originally enthusiastic and eager venue suddenly became silent, not because Li Sanlang was the son of the prince that made everyone scared, but his bowing strength was really daunting. Since Li Sanlang participated in this event three years ago, no one has won even one victory in his hands, he alone is enough, Chen Xuanli next to him is also a leader, the two together, the strength can be said to be far above everyone. At this moment, no one wants to be the opponent at the beginning, which is tantamount to a moth to a fire, so the arena was silent for a while.

Seeing this, Zhang Changzong smiled softly and said, "Why is the fighting spirit of all the warriors gone? After that, he took out another piece of jade pendant from his bosom, raised it and said: "This is the blood jade that the envoys of the foreign domain paid tribute to Your Majesty a few days ago. ”

The jade pendant is translucent throughout, there is blood in the jade, it is not an ordinary vulgar thing at a glance, the value must be a lot of money, there must be a brave man under the so-called heavy reward, seeing this reward, the originally quiet venue is boiling again.

Liang Wang Wu Sansi also raised a bow team, led by Wu Jiang to participate in the competition today, at this moment Wu Jiang stepped forward and said loudly: "Liang Wangfu bow team please fight!" With that, he waved his hand to the team, and the team of Liang Wangfu also rode into the middle of the field.

Zhang Changzong saw that there was finally a challenger entering, so he said loudly: "This is the selection competition, so it is not a time-based competition, and the first five bows will win!" The winner will represent the Celestial Empire. In addition, to ensure that nothing goes wrong, the second place in the result is the alternative team, do you hear clearly? ”

"Whoa!" The crowd shouted in unison!

King Liang is to welcome the saint, and the bow team of King Liang's Mansion is not weak, from the training of players to the selection of horses, but in recent years, he has always been defeated by the prince. Today's competition happened to end the old and new grudges together.

Seeing that the two sides were assembled and prepared, Zhang Changzong waved his chess, and the competition officially began. Everyone on both sides is also riveting their strength, and the wind is back to the electric shock, and they are moving forward. More than 20 running horses, riders, galloped on the court, holding balls, competing to hit the ball, and the scene was difficult to solve for a while.

After a few rounds, both sides attacked and defended, but never scored a goal, and the people watching the game from the sidelines were also enthusiastic. Li Ke has also loved this event since he was a child, he relied on his strong martial arts and superb riding skills and never lost the competition between friends on weekdays, but after all, he has not received strict training in this event, and compared with Li Sanlang and others, the skills must be lacking, so at this time I was very happy to watch, and I was also surprised by the bowing level of Li Sanlang and Chen Xuanli.

Seeing that he couldn't attack for a long time, Li Sanlang signaled Chen Xuanli to pass the bow to himself, he held the bow staff after receiving the bow, took advantage of the momentum to jump, transported the bow in the air, and hit several times, and the horse galloped more than once, as fast as a flow of electricity, the people on the field could not stop, when he came to the opponent's goal, suddenly pulled the reins of the horse, turned the horse's head, the defender could not prevent it, and this sudden change of direction, carelessly, actually fell off the horse, just when everyone's eyes were attracted by the defenders who fell off the horse, Li Sanlang waved his staff with his back to the goal, which is a back-to-back hitting style of play, It is a superb skill in the bow, and there are only a few people who can master it proficiently, but Li Saburo unexpectedly showed this stunt at this moment, and the bow entered in response, and the prince team scored first.

This goal couldn't help but amaze everyone on the sidelines, including Li Ke and Chen Wuji, and huge cheers and cheers broke out on the sidelines. As the so-called preemptive, this goal not only suppressed the opponent from the score, but also from the momentum.

Seeing this, Wu Jiang pointed to the bow hand of the Liang Wang team, and scolded loudly on the sidelines: "You guys are up!" Score fast! Have you been raised for nothing on weekdays? Seeing Wu Jiang like this, the people on the field did not dare to slack off, and continued to start the game from the shock of the goal just now.

But once this person loses his momentum, it is like losing his backbone, and everyone is still shocked by Li Sanlang's goal just now, and now as long as Li Sanlang gets the ball, the opponent is all loud, and the grass and trees are all soldiers. At this time, Ju just arrived under Li Sanlang's staff, and he used the stunt just now, bowing in the air, riding a horse and galloping, the opponent saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly came over to help defend the ball, but this assistance defense completely disrupted the defensive formation, but at this time, he naturally couldn't take care of so much, lest Li Sanlang drive straight into the score again. Just when the opponent was besieging with all his might, Li Sanlang picked up the ball and struck it skillfully, Ju was knocked out of the gap, and Ju did not fly to the goal, but came to Chen Xuanli's staff. Because of the encirclement of Li Sanlang, there was no one around Chen Xuanli to defend at this time, Chen Xuanli drew his stick and hit, and the ball entered in response to the sound and continued to expand the score.

This goal again made the Liang Wang team suddenly realize that their opponent was not Li Sanlang alone, but also Chen Xuanli. When they kicked off again, they shifted their focus to defending Chen Xuanli, and as you can imagine, the defense against Li Sanlang was lax, and he scored again. The Liang Wang team was completely defeated, they didn't know how to defend the two, and as long as one of them was a little lax in defense, they were taken by surprise. Just hesitating, Li Sanlang's cane knocked and passed to another bow player of the team, and the attention of the Liang Wang team was on Li Sanlang and Chen Xuanli, and it seemed to forget that there were ten people on the bow side, and the person received Li Sanlang's bow and then hit the situation, and the ball went in again, and this fourth goal completely destroyed the psychological defense of the Liang Wang team. Sure enough, shortly after kicking off again, Li Sanlang scored another goal, and the Liang Wang team lost.

Wu Jiang looked depressed, Wu Sansi originally wanted to use this well-cultivated bow team to shine today, but he never expected that he would be eliminated from the game just now, Wu Jiang really didn't know how to explain to Wu Sansi, and at this moment he could only scold the bow beater of the Liang Wang team on the sidelines.

Zhang Changzong said loudly: "Please challenge the next team!" ”

Without any accidents, the prince's team, under the leadership of Li Sanlang and Chen Xuanli, defeated one challenger after another with lightning speed, and everyone was impressed by the skills of the two of them.

Seeing that there are fewer and fewer challengers, after an hour, the challengers present have all lost. Zhang Changzong saw that there was no more team, so he walked to the venue and said: "This competition, under the prince's account, the skills are superb, if there is no objection, I declare that the winner of this time is... ”

"Wait!" A woman's voice came from behind everyone, and everyone looked back, it turned out to be Princess Taiping! She was dressed in men's clothes, rode a horse, walked slowly, and followed by more than ten horses.

She came to Zhang Changzong and said, "This palace also raises a team, and is willing to serve the Celestial Empire, I don't know if it's possible?" ”

Zhang Changzong hurriedly replied: "Princess Taiping wants to compete, that is a great blessing, and it should be feasible!" ”

Princess Taiping glanced at Li Sanlang and did not speak again, but Li Sanlang felt a trace of uneasiness in his heart for some reason.