"Chen Quan!" Li Yanzhao called the team leader who had just reported to him: "Take the money bag." When the drill is over, you will give me a thousand dollars, and I will find an opportunity to distribute it to the families of the fallen robes. Then distribute the remaining 4,000 dollars to everyone! ”

Chen Quan came out and hugged his fists. He couldn't help but feel a little ashamed in his heart. Just now, his subordinate Shao Lei spoke against this hundred-person leader. But he had a different mind, not only did he not stop his subordinates, but instead sat back and watched him contradict this Li Bairen Commander. However, instead of taking care of it, Li Bairen took all the rewards given to him by Gu Zang, and ordered him to distribute them to his cavalry brothers. For a while, it made this team leader feel a lot of emotion, and he didn't know what to say.

He stepped forward, took the heavy money bag with trembling hands, and bowed to the newly appointed hundred. Then he silently turned around and walked to the side of the shooting range, found a flat stone in his money bag and put it away, and then ran back to the head of the team. shouted the order: "Keep practicing!" ”

Hearing this shout, the horsemen turned around one after another and continued to pick up the bows and crossbows in their hands. The sound of rattling strings continued to sound in the range.

Li Yanzhao also asked another team to lead Lin Chao to pass his bow and arrow, walked to the shooting range, stretched his bow and set up an arrow at a slightly farther arrow target, closed his left eye and aimed at it slightly, and then released the thumb and index finger of the string, the bowstring sounded, and the arrow on the string left the string. Li Yanzhao's wide right eye caught the arrow's movement in the air. I saw that the shaft of the arrow swung slightly from side to side, drawing a beautiful arc in the air, and then with a bang, the arrow was plunged straight into the target.

Seeing this, many of the soldiers who were about to shoot with their bows and bows were ready to shoot, and they all put down their bows and arrows for the time being, and looked at the arrow nailed to the target, but the tail feathers were still swinging, and they couldn't help but cheer in unison. The arrow target was far away sixty or seventy paces, but it was usually used to practice crossbows, but it was expected that this hundred commanders, who had just taken office, raised his bow and shot at the arrow target so far away, and it was the first hit. This skill was enough to impress these knights. Thinking of before going out to quell the rebellion, this man who was the head of the stables at the time led a group of his subordinates to make a big splash in the drill observed by the lord of the palace, how could the cavalry be dissatisfied?

After Li Yanzhao shot an arrow, he felt that this bow was slightly different from the bow he used. The bow he used himself was a little weaker, but it was more accurate. And this bow, the bow is slightly stronger, in exchange for undoubtedly the arrow fired is a parabola that is straighter than his own bow. However, this bow is a little less accurate. Li Yanzhao was obviously aiming at the bull's-eye of the target, but the arrow shot out was crooked to the upper left of the bull's-eye.

Li Yanzhao took out another arrow, and this time he set the aiming point in the lower right corner of the target.

The bowstring sounded, and the second arrow went off the string, but it was the red heart in the center of the target. Li Yanzhao's movements did not pause at all, and he pulled out the third arrow from the quiver like a flowing water, and then put on the winding, aiming slightly, at this time he felt a breeze blowing on his right side, which made his right arm slightly cold, so he continued to deviate the aiming point to the right, and then let go, after a short silence, the arrow clicked again, inserted into the arrow target, but the third arrow deviated slightly from the red heart.

"Good!" The cavalry witnessed Li Yanzhao hit three arrows in a row, and they all applauded in unison. Sixty or seventy paces of crossbow with an arrow target, this hundred people with a bow and three shots. It was enough to make these horsemen wonder.

Li Yanzhao smiled reservedly, then waved his hand and said to the riders: "Let's continue training, if you want to be skilled, there is no shortcut, only hard training." In practice, be good at summarizing. For example, if an arrow does not hit the target, everyone wants to think about why the arrow did not hit the target, is it aimed at the wrong place, or does it not take into account other factors such as wind and rain? Summarizing the reasons, it is necessary to pay more attention to the following exercises. ”

When the cavalry heard that Li Yanzhao summed up these experiences with them, they all listened with relish. I couldn't help but glance at the newly appointed 100 captain.

Subsequently, Li Yanzhao observed the drills of the cavalry on the shooting range, and when he encountered the cavalry whose training results were unsatisfactory, he also stepped forward to give careful guidance. Gradually, everyone's target shooting results improved.

And on this shooting range, Cao Jian is the most popular. Like Li Yanzhao, Cao Jian also shot crossbow targets sixty or seventy paces away, but five arrows per round, and then alternated. But if Cao Jian is there, almost five arrows can be inserted into that crossbow target in every round.

Li Yanzhao stayed in the school field for more than half an hour, and then he heard the snare drum at the big tent sound at the right time. In the school field, Zhao Chengzhi's team of foot soldiers has already left as a team. Immediately, Chen Quan ordered the team to send a few soldiers to collect the arrows on the other side of the shooting range, return to the queue and return them to the last group of people who practiced, and then led the team back to the camp.

Now, although Li Yanzhao has not explicitly stipulated it, the more than 100 cavalry soldiers under him have all lined up regardless of whether they go to the canteen or elsewhere. Li Yanzhao himself was also satisfied with this.

After dinner, the horsemen also lined up and returned to their tents. Ma Ping hadn't left at this time, and Li Yanzhao naturally took his dozen or so people to live in one tent. When they returned to their accounts, they all took away their rewards. Soon after, Chen Quan came to the tent, returned 1,000 yuan to Li Yanzhao, and distributed 37 coins to everyone in the account.

After the distribution was completed, Chen Quan reported to Li Yanzhao that it would be the turn of the cavalry of the headquarters to be on duty in the camp for the next three days. Please arrange it for Li Yanzhao.

The battalion duty is responsible for the battalion's gate posts and night patrols. Li Yanzhao had never arranged such affairs before, so he was at a loss and asked Chen Quan to arrange it himself. Chen Quan took the order and left the tent. After a short time, he returned and handed over the arranged sentry watch to Li Yanzhao. Li Yanzhao was rough, but there was no problem, so he asked Chen Quan to go down and rest. He took a nap in the tent in boredom, and heard the drumming of the big tent, so he got up and led the people out of the tent, and after the assembly point was over, he returned to the camp, took off his armor, and then climbed into his bunk, and after a day of hard work, he was very sleepy, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

Not long after the ordering, the sound of drums in the big tent was heard. If there is no baldness, this drum is the last drum of the day in the camp, and the old soldiers in the camp jokingly call this drum "sleeping drum".

After the peaceful drums, the noisy Guangwu army camp during the day immediately fell silent. The autumn night is silent, and a few cicadas are heard from time to time, but it is the last song of those creatures before their lives are dying.

Li Yanzhao slept deeply. Although the snoring in the tent came and went at this time, he still slept to death without thinking about it after getting along with everyone for a long time. From time to time, I turned over and clicked my lips, as if I was enjoying some kind of meal in a dream. Everyone in the tent slept in a very different position, grinding their teeth, snoring and farting, but there were a lot of the same.

The night was getting deeper, and the camp seemed darker and darker under the cover of night. However, at this time, a pawn at the camp gate was not wearing armor, and after nodding to the two guards guarding the door, he quickly walked out of the camp gate, and then ran for a while, and the figure quickly disappeared into the night.

When Li Yanzhao slept the most soundly, he was woken up by someone, and the resentment in his heart can be imagined. He was half-open, and he struggled a few times on his bunk, but he was about to raise his head and scold the blind guy who woke him up.

Li Yanzhao in later generations was a gentle and humble person on weekdays, but at one point, he was angry when he got up. So Li Yanzhao, who was woken up at this time, reluctantly opened his eyes, and was about to lose his temper, but he heard the person who woke him up whispered: "Hundred people, it's not good, someone in the camp has escaped!" ”

"What? Deserter? Li Yanzhao, who was about to start the bed qi, suddenly sat up.