The schedule of the "Imperial Tryout" was drawn up by Ise Sadaki, the deacon of the shogunate office, but the actual framework came from the small talk of the tie. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoWhether it is a sword or iron cannon competition, it is divided into three stages: primary, secondary, and final.

In the Iron Cannon Competition, the first day of the primary selection was divided into 15 groups, each of whom fired 10 times. Finally, after a one-day competition, he hit three shots to advance, and 54 people were selected from more than 200 contestants. Inatomi Younao, who was favored in advance, and Tsuda, who was favored in advance, passed the test smoothly, but the most impressive thing was a Nanban who called himself "a certain Shiro".

After a day of rest, the third day was held, and everyone was divided into four groups, each shooting 20 times, and finally with nine rounds as the standard, eleven people were selected to enter the finals. At the top of the list was still the Southern Barbarian, who hit fifteen projectiles and took the lead. The highly anticipated Inatomi Yu straight 12 shots, Tsuda counted 11 rounds, which can be regarded as an extraordinary performance, but the gap is still very large.

However, an unknown person named "Tian Fu Jingcheng", after hitting five small shots in the primary election, played an amazing role in the second selection, achieving a good result of 14 rounds. Second only to that terrible Southern Barbarian.

Therefore, Tian Fu Jingcheng immediately became a reserve of national heroes in the minds of Fusang iron cannon lovers.

As for why he went one step further in the re-election stage, he was even more powerful than the descendants of Tango Inatomi-ryu and Kii-Tsuda-ryu? Here's how he replied:

"With the help of an elder, the iron cannon has been improved, so it is more and more accurate. The name of the other party? It's inconvenient to disclose this, but I can only tell you that this elder has opened a new iron cannon forges in Izumi Province, called 'Harutaya'. ”

The so-called "Springfield House" is naturally a workshop built by Heide Honhide and Rafael Castello in cooperation with each other, specializing in the production of rifled iron cannons. The name "Springfield" is entirely out of bad taste. In his previous life, he mistook the Springfield rifle for the Fuso brand and made a joke, so among the major guns in world history, only he was most impressed by this name, so he did not hesitate to steal it.

The advertising words memorized by Tian Fu Jingcheng caused a certain sensation, but the influence was not wide enough for the time being, because the final results of the game were not released.

The final was held two days after the re-election, and eleven people fired at the same time, each with 50 projectiles.

In the previous kendo competition, the audience increased as you went to the back, and before the final trial, more than half of the people in Kyoto Town were discussing the names of Yagyu Sogan and Yoshioka Constitution. But the spectators of the cannon race are getting smaller and smaller, because the layman who watches the bustling passers-by cannot get satisfaction from the noise and smoke.

Fan Xiu made a visual inspection, and the total number of people who came to watch the iron cannon game should be less than a thousand. But you can see many businessmen who are engaged in the arms business, or daimyo who are interested in forming troops. The rest were also mid-to-high-level samurai who were interested in the craft. After all, the popularity of this thing in Fuso is not so high at present, and the low-level samurai can't afford to play it for the time being.

Therefore, although the audience is small, they are all high-quality potential customers, and this wave of advertising effect is absolutely worth it.

In front of these hundreds of "potential customers", the new "brand spokesperson" Tian Fu Jingcheng and the former spokesperson, Kuraoudi Manaeus, who is now demoted to the villain boss, launched a fierce competition.

Although the final was said to be 50 shooting opportunities, it was only halfway through the time, and the audience knew very well that these two guys had already thrown off the third place by more than five points, and there was no suspense about the selection of the champion and runner-up.

This is because Tie Honshu made a temporary suggestion and added a rule, that is: each player has a staff member next to him, who is responsible for reporting the number. Each time it is launched, it is reported whether it has hit the target or not, as well as the current total score.

For example, after Tian Fu Jingcheng was shot, the man next to him shouted:

"Tian Fu Jingcheng! Twenty-eight have been shot, and seventeen have been hit! ”

After a dumb fire or miss, it becomes:

"Tian Fu Jingcheng is not hit! Twenty-nine shots, seventeen hits! ”

This undoubtedly greatly enhances the spectacle of the game.

He also envisions that further improvements can be made to allow players to shoot at the same time, and then report the rankings in real time. It's a pity that I didn't expect it at first, otherwise I wouldn't have watched the lively audience.

But it's a long way to go, and it's not too late to think about it.

About half an hour after the start of the game, Tafu Jingcheng shot forty times, hitting the target twenty-five. The Nanban under the pseudonym "A certain Shiro" shot 42 times, hitting 28 targets. The others were about forty times, but none of them were more than twenty.

At this time, the southern barbarian deliberately slowed down his pace, turned around and glanced to the left and right.

This insignificant little action suddenly stirred up a tense atmosphere for some reason.

An audience member couldn't help but shout: "Lord Tafu, please fight hard, don't let that southern barbarian be arrogant in Kyoto!" ”

These words instantly resonated, and many people echoed the same, expressing similar awareness, and finally turned into a "shout in unison."

In the field, Nakata Fu Jingcheng raised the iron cannon, pulled the trigger, and hit it with one blow, and the audience was so excited that they shouted "Victory!" ”。 Even if they don't hit, they will be replaced by a deep voice and shout together, "Reluctantly!" ”。

Hirate sat from a distance and watched, satisfied. This professional team is still quite reliable, it has collected fifty yuan, and the things it does are quite beautiful, and the timing is also good. It's no wonder that Kyoto's folk theater troupes hire this kind of person before performing.

The ordinary ignorant masses will only be moved by this group emotion, how can they think about it. But Nobunaga reacted immediately, and then glanced at Hiratsu with a strange look.

He obviously saw something, but didn't bother to care.

This cheering seemed to have played a role, and in the shouting, the Nanban seemed to be less accurate, missing three times in a row before hitting again and giving up the advantage.

And Tian Fu Jingcheng shot steadily without hurrying.

After a while, the Southern Barbarians were forty-six shots and twenty-nine, and Tian Fu Jingcheng was forty-five shots and twenty-nine.

The atmosphere of the scene reached a boiling point, and the audience was almost in a state of frenzy, and the cries were shocking.

Even the "director" Pingshou Fan Xiu was a little nervous, worried that the "protagonist" and "first supporting role" off the field couldn't stand the atmosphere for a while!

This Kulaoudi, why do you want to make it so extreme? Wouldn't it be better to start waterproofing earlier?

Fortunately, the plot trend has not changed much.

The 47th attempt of the Southern Barbarians failed, and the 46th attempt of Tianfu Jingcheng also failed. It's still twenty-nine flats.

Then the southern barbarians shot, Tian Fu also hit, thirty flat.

Then the southern barbarians were not hit again, and Tian Fu was hit again, thirty to thirty-one.

There was only one shot left, and the Nanban began to hesitate a little, and the pace slowed down further. Tian Fu Jingcheng was not affected, calmly loaded by himself, checked the fire rope, raised the iron cannon to the same shoulder height, closed his left eye, aimed sideways with his head, and pulled the trigger-

Hit in response.

Thirty-thirty-two, two shots ahead, but only the last round of the game remained.

"Huh! Huh! Oh! ”

The audience outside the arena couldn't help but imitate the ritual of winning the battle and let out three shouts.

Before the end of the competition, everyone was eager to see the "national heroes" who won glory for the country. For a while, there was a surge of people, celebrating with crowns, talking heads and ears, and excited.

Everyone said:

"After the primary election, I guessed that this Lord Tianfu would definitely be able to win the championship."

"I stayed in the same room with him the other day and took the commission together. I've been optimistic about him for a long time! ”

"What is this? I've been with him for many years! Since I was a child, I have felt that the bones of Lord Tian Fu are strange......"

"Bragging, huh? The last time I met someone from Guoyou Village, you said the same thing. ”

"Ahem...... They are all Omi, so why aren't they fellow villagers? ”

……

The results of the remaining nine contestants were largely ignored. But Hite, Honhide, saw that Oda Nobunaga, who was sitting in the middle of the curtain on the high platform, was still pondering the list of players, and did not pay attention to the result of the duel on the field.

It seems that Nobunaga, a pragmatist, was not too interested in the immature rifling technique, and he would still follow the route of concentrating a salvo of a large number of iron cannons.

This could also be a good thing for a tie.