On the afternoon of the third day of the twenty-third year of spring

"People who participated in the archery competition came to gather." Su Yan said to the more than two hundred clansmen in front of him who had just come of age.

All the items of the sacrifice have ended, just now Su Yan gave various weapons to the more than two hundred people who have just come of age in front of him, and now their coming-of-age ceremony has ended, and all the items of the sacrifice have also ended, but everyone has not left, and there is an archery competition next.

In primitive times, entertainment was scarce, and suddenly an archery competition appeared, and the tribesmen were happy to watch it together.

Hearing the king's words, people kept coming out of the crowd, both men and women, but the number of women who came out was very small.

More than 80 of the more than 200 clansmen who had just reached adulthood were awarded bows and arrows by Su Yan, of which nearly 60 were male clansmen, and the remaining more than 20 were female clansmen.

Compared with the use of spears, swords, and knives as weapons, the use of bows and arrows as weapons requires a long time of practice to master certain archery skills, and the female tribesmen almost do not participate in hunting and conquest against other primitive tribes, at most as an auxiliary team, they do not need to learn archery, and there are few and far fewer women who choose bows and arrows as weapons.

Eventually, a total of thirty-seven clansmen came forward, and there were only five female clansmen among them, and the rest were all male clansmen, who observed the surrounding clansmen, and these were their rivals.

Originally, there were more clansmen who chose bows and arrows as weapons, but they knew that their archery skills could not achieve good results, so they did not participate in the archery competition, after all, there were so many clansmen watching, including their relatives, and it was okay to have good results, but it was a bit embarrassing to have bad results.

"The rest of the people are scattered." Su Yan waved his hand, and the clansmen who did not participate in the competition retreated to both sides, and some male clansmen walked back and forth, carrying round targets made of straw rope and wood to the field.

This target was specially made by a carpenter for the archery competition, there are ten in total, five of them are used first, and the remaining five are used as backups.

The participants each prepared their own bows and arrows, and the competition venue here was also preparing, first drawing a straight line as the contestant's standing area, and then taking out a wooden stick one zhang long, measuring one zhang and one zhang forward, until fifteen zhang did not stop, and placed the five targets at a certain distance.

Soon, the participating clansmen came over with their own bows and arrows, which were not the bows given to them by Su Yan at the coming-of-age ceremony, but the bows they had been using before.

Every bow can't be the same, for such an important competition, they have to use the bow they are used to, so that they can have a good result, if they use a new bow casually, they are very new to the new bow, and the probability of getting a good result is very low.

"Let me talk about the rules of the game, see that there is no line, your feet are not allowed to cross that line when shooting, the target is fifteen zhang away from you, the score of hitting the bullseye is the highest, five points, the outermost target is one point, no shooting target zero points, each person shoots ten arrows, the three people with the highest score get the bow made by Qi, these are the rules, what else do you not understand."

"Nope." The clansmen who participated in the competition said one after another.

"Okay, since there is no problem, then the game starts, there are a total of five targets, and only five people can go up at a time, which of you goes up first."

Some of the clansmen who participated in the competition were thinking about whether they should go up first, after all, it was the first time to use this kind of target, and it might be possible to make mistakes because they were not familiar with this kind of target, so it was better to let other clansmen go up and experiment first.

While they were thinking, several clansmen had already stepped forward, the first five clansmen had taken their positions, and the remaining two clansmen had to stop and wait for the second group.

"Free archery, a total of ten arrows, no time limit, until the end of the shooting, you can start."

As soon as Su Yan's words fell, the sturdy clansman standing in the middle of the five people pulled up his bow and shot the arrow directly, and after the first arrow was shot, the second arrow was shot out, followed by the third arrow, the fourth arrow, and ten arrows were shot out one after another, and there was only time wasted in taking arrows and drawing bows.

Sou! Sou! Sou!

One arrow shot straight at the target, all ten arrows hit the target, Su Yan's eyesight was very good, and he clearly saw that eight of the ten arrows hit the bull's-eye, only two were slightly off, and the ten arrows scored a total of forty-eight points.

The perfect score is only 50 points, 48 points is already very high, and it is not surprising that he is in the top three in the archery competition.

His confident face seemed to be very confident in his archery skills, and probably only Satsuki could surpass him in archery skills among the dragon tribe.

"Yes Wei." Looking at the face that was somewhat similar to Zhi, Su Yan thought of his name, he was Zhi's son, and it was not clear how many sons he was.

Snake Wei quickly shot ten arrows not only attracted the attention of the audience, but also made the other participating clansmen focus on Snake Wei or Snake Wei's target, no one in the participating clansmen showed a surprised gaze, obviously they knew that Snake Wei's archery skills were very high, and it was not strange to have such a result.

After Snake Wei shot ten arrows, the four participating clansmen on the left and right sides of Snake Wei pulled their bows and shot arrows, and their shooting speed could not be compared with Snake Wei, and their results were worse.

Fortunately, everyone knows Snake Wei's archery skills, and their mood is not affected by Snake Wei's good results.

Soon, the first five people all shot ten arrows, and none of them missed the target, and two people ran over the target, one of whom was still holding a pen and paper.

"Forty-two points for the first target." The person in front counts the arrows on the target to calculate the score, shouts out the final score, and the person behind writes it down on paper.

"Thirty-nine points for the second target, forty-eight points for the third target, forty-three points for the fourth target, and forty points for the fifth target."

The third target is the target of Snake Wei, with the highest score, and everyone else generally knows his results, but after the scoring clansmen repeated it again, a trace of disappointment flashed in their eyes, obviously dissatisfied with this result, only Snake Wei has always shown a confident face.

"You go and register your name, and the next batch will come forward."

The five of them withdrew, and five more clansmen stepped forward, including two female clansmen.

"Let's get started."

There was no more snake power among the second group of clansmen, and the five of them calmly shot out the ten arrows one by one.

One of the two women also made a mistake and missed the arrow, and she was expected to have the worst result of the five.

On the other hand, the results of another female clansman will feel very good, although they can't compare to Snake Wei, but they can be at the top of the competition.