Chen's house, backyard.

The courtyard is wide, with a bluestone-paved path running through it.

Chen Xu placed a target at the end of the bluestone path, and in his free time, in addition to reading and writing to "recharge" himself, he would also take time to practice martial arts.

Archery, an important martial arts skill, is naturally also a compulsory course.

Since its invention, the bow and arrow have been one of the most important weapons of war in the hands of mankind for a long period of time. In the forbidden army, basically good martial arts and archery skills are also good.

About a hundred paces away, Chen Xu began to shoot at the target in the distance with his bow and arrow.

In ancient times, one foot was a step, and two feet were a step, and one step was equivalent to about one meter four in modern times.

One hundred and forty meters apart.

Riding a bow and archery, Chen Xu took the trouble to repeat these actions again and again.

Things that seem boring in the eyes of outsiders, Chen Xu is immersed in them at this time and enjoys himself. Strangely, he did not feel bored, but was in a very calm mood, and in the repeated archery with a bow and arrow, it seemed that there was a kind of calm when practicing calligraphy.

If a calligrapher wants to write a good work, he needs to be distracted; In the same way, a good archer needs to be distracted if he wants to perform at a normal level.

An anxious person tends to play aberrations, and the same is true for other things.

What he needs most now is not the improvement of strength, but a normal heart, neither humble nor arrogant, not arrogant or impatient, and determined to move forward and never stop!

Eliminate distractions, let the mind enter a keen state, take a bow and pull arrows, no reason, it's as simple as that, archery itself is a simple and rough thing, it is a feeling, an intuition!

A feeling!

Yes, that's how it feels!

Some strange and scattered ideas suddenly popped up in Chen Xu's mind, and they gradually merged to form a new and complete idea.

At this time, he actually closed his eyes.

"Hearing is false, seeing is believing", this is a sentence that people have summed up for a long time.

But in fact, in many cases, what the eye sees is fake.

When you see a certain target, it takes a certain amount of time for the image you see to reflect the human mind, if the target is stationary, it is not a big problem, but if the target happens to be moving, you will inevitably have a certain degree of error in the judgment you make with your vision.

Close your eyes, use your ears, your skin, and most importantly, feel with your heart.

Chen Xu suddenly grasped a feeling, which was not just a mysterious intuition, but a kind of comprehensive observation and judgment on auditory responses, air flow laws, and prediction of the target's moving speed and landing position.

At this moment, he suddenly had a feeling of blending into the "wind", no, it should be said to be air, to be exact.

In the past, his archery skills were all based on superhuman physical advantages, and the result of the coordination of strength, eyesight, and reaction speed.

Trying to blend in with the "wind" and observe the world through the eyes of the "wind", he saw that the thick fog around him surrounded him, blocking the world, and these fogs are the air that people need to breathe!

The fog seemed to be still, but Chen Xu could sense that they were moving, albeit subtlely.

Chen Xu felt as if he had many pairs of eyes around him, and through the eyes in the "wind", within a radius of five zhang, through the fog medium, there were almost no dead ends in his perception.

Chen Xu's face was happy.

Who said that reading books and novels is useless, don't you use them now.

Nian Zhen and the third sister saw Chen Xu in the backyard with his eyes closed and bent the bow and arrows, but the arrows hit the bull's-eye, and felt that his whole body was integrated into the heaven and earth, and they were very curious, but they didn't dare to disturb, they just put tea and other things in the pavilion not far from him, so that he could use them when he was resting.

But Chen Xu hasn't used it for a long time, and he is still precipitating and digesting what he has just realized in order to reach the point of mastery.

This is the "epiphany" mentioned in the novels I read before.

I don't know why, this skill has been mastered very smoothly, could it be that the previously strengthened attributes have also improved the learning ability by the way? Chen Xu thought.

In fact, this is also because of Chen Xu's tireless continuous practice, so that he can accumulate and have today's epiphany.

And now, he has a lot of pride in his heart, as long as he gives him a bow and enough arrows, he can shoot everything by himself!

Chen Xu seemed to be idle, but in fact, he had already smelled the gunpowder of war.

Yesterday, the front division of the palace sent someone to the house to inform Chen Xu of the news, and someone had already told him that he was going to be reappointed to the guard department.

He also led the guards and pro-army Si Hujie, the commander of the first army and the second army of the left chamber.

The current forbidden army of the Great Wei Dynasty is divided into two systems, the front division of the palace and the division of the guards.

Among them, there are two main forces in the front division of the palace: the Iron Cavalry Army (Horse Army) and the Crane Control Army (Infantry Army); As well as the inner hall straight, scattered command and other soldiers and horses.

The Guards Division has two main forces: Long Jie Army (Ma Army) and Hu Jie Army (Infantry Army); and other soldiers.

The inner hall where Chen Xu is currently located is an army of the Suwei Imperial Palace, not a conventional military-level establishment, and the people in it are all people with strong martial arts selected from all states in the world, although the combat effectiveness is very strong, but the number of troops is not much.

The left wing of the Hujie army is one of the main forces of the guard division, which belongs to the conventional military-level establishment, and the army-level army generally has five commands (of course, it is not fixed, and some military-level troops command more than this), one commands five hundred people, a total of two thousand five hundred people, Chen Xu also leads the first army and the second army of the left wing of the Hujie army, which is equivalent to commanding an army of more than 5,000 people.

He was somewhat unexpected.

Well done, why do you want to change office for no reason?

What attention did the people above pay attention to, Chen Xu didn't know, but he vaguely felt that the imperial court might be going to use force against the surrounding countries, I don't know which country it was for, the Southern Tang Dynasty? Or Shu?

Chen Xu's reappointment to the Department of Guards is insignificant compared to the recent vigorous and in full swing rectification of the former division of the palace, like waves in the sea.

Only people who know Chen Xu will notice this, but they will only regard it as a normal reappointment and will not care too much.

Chen Xu first took back all the arrows that had hit the target into the quiver, went to the pavilion to drink tea, and rested for a while.

It didn't take long for someone to see outside the door.

When Chen Xu arrived at the door, he saw a person waiting outside.

This person Chen Xu has never seen before.

When the man saw Chen Xu, he asked, "Is it Chen Du's envoy on the other side?"

Chen Xu replied: "Exactly. Don't know what to do with me? ”

The man hurriedly handed out a post with the words "Invitation" written on it.

"In a few days, it will be my family's Ah Lang's birthday." The messenger said, "Ah Lang specially instructed to invite Chen Du. ”

"I'll go." Chen Xu responded.

When I opened the invitation, it turned out to be him.

I didn't expect him to invite myself to a banquet, and yes, I didn't know many people in Tokyo.