Chapter 266: Deterrence

Xiao Shi quickly understood the meaning of Zhang Yunwen's words.

I saw Zhang Yunwen leading the way in front, drilling in places where there are few people, drilling grass here, wading puddles there, and coming to look up under the big trees from time to time.

When Yang Shizheng was puzzled, Ma Wangshan pushed him, pointed to the edge of the grass or next to the puddle or under the root of the tree and whispered, "You take a good look again!" ”

Yang Shi took a closer look and shouted violently: "This, this is not ......" said and stopped suddenly.

I saw Zhang Yunwen take out a string of water ducks tied together from a bush, turned around, and said to everyone proudly: "Look at this is the prey we have worked so hard to get today!" ”

As he spoke, he picked up the steel crossbow and shot arrows one after another, nailing the water ducks that were already dying to the ground one by one.

Next, he also took down the deer that had been hung all night from the tree, and took out the hare with its legs tied from the cave in the stone, and made up one or two arrows next to each other, indicating that the prey had been killed by himself!

Suddenly, the three people behind Zhang Yunwen glanced at each other, and the corners of their mouths twitched at the same time.

In this way, they walked along the Kunming Pond for nearly an hour, and everyone was full of all kinds of gifts, from water birds to wild deer, and even a wolf. But they hunted the wolf themselves. Ma Wangshan made a move, bent his bow and arrow, and hit an old wolf who was walking alone with one arrow.

Seeing that a lot of prey had been placed on everyone's horses, Zhang Yunwen said in high spirits: "Okay, I'll wait for today's bumper harvest!" After fighting so many prey, it's enough to get the first place! ”

Yang Shi suddenly said weakly: "Uh, Brother Zhang, these are the brothers of the reconnaissance battalion!" ”

Zhang Yunwen shook his head and replied with a smile: "Who said that, these prey are all shot by us and others, and they can't be counted on their heads!" Besides, they are not working in vain, Lao Tzu has to invite them to have a good meal in the natural house! So, these prey are all ours, remember, it's ours! ”

At the end, Zhang Yunwen was already gritting his teeth, and a vague voice came out of his mouth: "Damn, how much does it cost me for more than 50 people to eat a meal in the natural residence!" ”

All the way back to where you started. Along the way, I saw the returning knights, and they only carried one or two prey in their hands. And when those knights saw Zhang Yunwen's group returning with a full load, they almost fell off their eyes.

When they came to the camp, they unloaded the game on horseback and piled it on the ground, making it a hill.

Zhang Yunwen: They didn't come back early. At this time, most of the knights had returned, but they had three or four prey at hand, and one or two at least, and they really couldn't compare with the prey piled up next to Zhang Yunwen.

At this moment, I heard the sound of horses' hooves, and a bald man came on horseback. This big man was the big man next to King Lu Wentai of Gaochang at the beginning, but he was wearing a felt hat at that time, and he couldn't tell that he was bald.

To everyone's horror, there was a black bear among the big man's prey, and I don't know where he found it.

Although the knights have returned, Li Shimin is still nowhere to be found, and he does not know where he is hunting. The crowd had to wait patiently.

At this time, Zhang Yunwen found that the bald man was staring at himself and the prey beside him like a hill from time to time, and his eyes were definitely not friendly. Zhang Yunwen was not afraid, and glared back fiercely.

The movements of the two were noticed by Lu Wentai, who immediately stopped the bald man and smiled apologetically at Zhang Yunwen.

It wasn't long before the sound of horses' hooves came from the northeast like thunder. Everyone immediately knew that this was Li Shimin's return, and they all gathered outside the camp tent to wait.

Li Shimin took dozens of guards and turned over and dismounted. Look at his prey, only a few waterfowl are still flapping their wings and jumping alive. Walking all the way with a smile on his face, he saw the prey on the ground, and praised a few words, which made those knights suddenly flutter and excited.

When he saw the pile of prey beside Zhang Yunwen, he couldn't help patting him on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Yunwen is worthy of a generation of good generals, in such weather, he can hunt so many prey, it's really amazing!" ”

When he saw the black bear on the ground, Li Shimin said to Lu Wentai with a voice of admiration: "There are warriors around the lord of the country!" No wonder he asks me for a reward! As he spoke, he asked the bald man, "The warrior can shoot Xiong Zhen, which is really extraordinary!" Uh, didn't know your name was ......"

"Bone strength! Your Majesty the Emperor, my name is Guli! The big man said respectfully.

Li Shimin smiled, pointed to Zhang Yunwen's pile of prey and said, "Guli, tell me, who is the first in this hunt?" ”

Guli was suddenly speechless, and he was stunned for a long time before he said: "If it is about numbers, it is General Zhang who is the first." But in terms of weight, I'm no worse than him here! ”

Li Shimin suddenly laughed out loud and said, "You are right, just with this black bear, all of General Zhang's prey is not as heavy as it!" But before the hunt, we didn't stipulate whether the winner should be divided by weight or number, so tell me, how do you two decide to be the first? ”

Li Shimin provoked the bone strength in two sentences. I saw him immediately half-kneeling on the ground: "Your Majesty, I am willing to decide with General Zhang who is the first with a bow and arrow!" He looked at Zhang Yunwen defiantly.

Zhang Yunwen stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, I won't test the bow and arrow with him!" ”

Before Li Shimin could speak, Na Guli hurriedly said: "General Zhang, don't you dare to compete with me?" This is a coward's behavior! ”

Zhang Yunwen innocently spread his hands and said: "It's not that I don't compete with you, Ben will not be good at using a bow, how can I compete with you!" ”

"Nonsense, if you are not good at bows and arrows, how can you hunt so many prey?"

Zhang Yunwen took out the steel crossbow from his back: "Use this!" ”

As soon as Guli saw this steel crossbow, he stopped talking, and turned to look at the arrows stuck in the prey. Sure enough, these arrows were all crossbow arrows made of pure iron.

For a while, the four monarchs and the envoys of the various states couldn't help but feel ridiculous at the same time, it was really a waste to hunt with this kind of crossbow arrows cast of pure iron! In particular, many chiefs from the southwestern Lingnan had a slight twitch in their hearts, knowing that they were still using bone arrowheads many times.

Zhang Yunwen aimed the crossbow machine at the head of the black bear on the ground, pulled the trigger, only to hear a "buzzing" string sound, and the crossbow arrow flew out, and actually shot the black bear's head in half, and then inserted it into the ground.

Zhang Yunwen said with a smile: "This thing is much easier to use than bows and arrows!" ”

Seeing such a great power as the steel crossbow, the surrounding chieftains were suddenly surprised and looked at each other in shock.

The Gaochang King Lu Wentai was slightly stunned at first, and then asked tentatively: "Dare to ask General Zhang, this kind of steel crossbow Datang is fully equipped?" After speaking, he quietly glanced at Li Shimin, and found that the latter didn't notice his words, so he put his mind at ease and looked at Zhang Yunwen with anticipation.

Zhang Yunwen shook his head. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, but Zhang Yunwen continued: "Now only those military governments in Jiangnan in Henan Province are not equipped with this kind of steel crossbow!" However, almost within next year, the Tang Army will be up and down, and everyone will have one body! ”

Lu Wentai and Chief Zhong were speechless for a moment. With one hand, to what extent should the combat effectiveness of the Tang Army be improved!

Seeing the shocked expressions of these people, Zhang Yunwen decided to add some more fierce material to them, so he said loudly: "Brothers, take out the steel crossbow and let the lords and chiefs of the country take a look!" ”

Yu Linwei, who was standing solemnly on the side, suddenly took out a steel crossbow from behind his back and raised it high.

Lu Wentai looked at these steel crossbows, and a thick look of envy flashed in his eyes.

At this time, after inspecting the arrow wounds on the prey, Na Guli stood up violently, walked to Zhang Yunwen's side and said, "General Zhang, you use crossbow arrows, I use bows and arrows, let's have a competition!" ”

Zhang Yunwen smiled slightly: "Okay! But how do we compare? ”

Gu Li didn't think about it, and opened his mouth and said: "Of course it's a target!" ”

Zhang Yunwen shook his head and said: "The arrow target is a dead thing, and the prey is a living thing, so we also have to shoot a living thing!" ”

Gu Li immediately agreed.

The two stood in the center of the field, and Song Waterfall stood in front of them with an arm-thick branch. The rest of the crowd dispersed far away, looking at the three people in the field.

"Later, this soldier of mine will throw the branch into the sky with all his might, and then we both will shoot arrows at the same time, and whoever shoots more arrows will be the winner!" A total of five branches. Brother Guli should be ready! Zhang Yunwen took out the crossbow arrows from the arrow box one by one, and said to Gu Li with a smile.

Guli nodded, indicating that he knew.

Zhang Yunwen set up the steel crossbow and aimed it in the air. The bone force pulled up the three-stone bow, opened it to form a full moon, and the arrow also pointed into the air.

Song Pu looked at the two of them, saw that they nodded at the same time, and immediately threw the branch in his hand into the sky.

"Zheng-" The sound of the strings thought at the same time. Two arrows flew like meteors into the swirling branches of the trees in the air.

Although it was shot at the same time, the speed of the crossbow arrow was not as fast as the full three-stone bow, and the white feather arrow shot at the branch first. The force of the impact sent the top of the branch diagonally to one side. The crossbow arrow shot by Zhang Yunwen suddenly missed.

However, just when Gu Li glanced at Zhang Yunwen with some pride, he saw that the latter had already raised the steel crossbow again, aiming at the falling branch is an arrow.

Gu Li was suddenly a little surprised. It is said that the shooting interval of the crossbow machine is much longer than that of the bow and arrow, but the time for Zhang Yunwen to shoot the second arrow is so short from the first time that he can almost catch up with the archer.

I saw that the second crossbow arrow shot by Zhang Yunwen shot directly at the branch that was less than three feet above the ground, and pushed the branch diagonally out again. After a few moments, the branch fell to the ground.

The branch fell, and a crossbow arrow, a feathered arrow.

Zhang Yunwen let out a sigh of relief, it was so dangerous, fortunately he shot the second arrow in time, otherwise he would have lost this game. Turning his head, he smiled lightly at Guli: "Hehe, Brother Guli, this first branch is a tie!" ”

Guli "snorted", and said angrily: "Aren't there still four!" ”

Zhang Yunwen stopped talking, and quickly picked up the crossbow arrow in front of him and wound it, the process took as little time as the archer shot the second arrow.