The return from Yuncheng was much smoother, and in the early morning of the fourth day, Li Yanqing arrived in Bianjing, where he and Zhou Wenyuan diverged their way in Chenqiao Town, Zhou Wenyuan returned to Bianjing, and Li Yanqing rushed to the military camp on the north bank of the Wuzhang River.

At this time, it was exactly the tenth day since he left Bianjing, and when he left, the barracks was still an empty barracks, and now when he returned, it seemed that many soldiers had been stationed in the barracks, and the generals transferred from all over the country had already arrived one after another.

There were more than a dozen soldiers standing in front of the barracks gate, Li Yanqing ran to the camp gate and turned over and dismounted, just about to step forward to ask the soldiers to report, only to hear someone behind him shouting, "Is it Yanqing in front?" ”

As soon as Li Yanqing turned around, he saw that dozens of steps away, the veteran general Zong Zezheng and a civilian official were riding towards the camp, Li Yanqing hurriedly led the horse to meet him, "Old general, I haven't seen you for a long time!" ”

Zong Ze smiled and said, "Yanqing was ordered to travel far away, and it was hard work. ”

He also introduced the civil officials around him to Li Yanqing, "This is the waiter of the Ministry of Rites and the governor of Xuzhou, Zhang Shilang, you should know." ”

It turned out that this person was Zhang Shuye who exterminated Song Jiang in history, Li Yanqing couldn't help but look at him carefully, only to see that he was about fifty years old, with a slightly pointed chin and burnt yellow skin, but he was tall and looked very thin and powerful.

Li Yanqing hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted, "The lower official sees Zhang Shilang!" ”

Uncle Zhang returned the salute with a smile: "I have also heard of Li Tanhua's name for a long time, and when I saw it today, it is really a talent, and it is worthy of its reputation!" ”

"The squire has won the award, and I hope the squire will help me a lot in the future!"

"Huh! Li Senjun is a kind of handsome general, and with a kind of handsome support, we don't have to interfere. ”

Seeing that he was funny, everyone laughed together, and Zong Ze said to Li Yanqing again: "Today's martial arts have started, Zhang Shilang and I are about to go to observe, do you want to go and see if Li joins the army together?" ”

"There are important things to report to the marshal."

Uncle Zhang smiled and said, "Since that's the case, you should go with us." ”

Li Yanqing's mind turned, "Could it be that the marshal is also watching martial arts?" ”

"He didn't go to see the martial arts, he was the chief judge of the martial arts, and he asked to serve as one of his own, probably because he wanted to pick some young talents from the martial arts!"

Since the Seed Master Dao is also at the scene of the martial arts, of course Li Yanqing has to take a look, not to mention that there are still a few of his good friends participating in the competition, Li Yanqing nodded, "Then let's go together!" ”

The three of them turned their horses and ran in the direction of Bianjing with a dozen cavalrymen.......

Martial arts is divided into two parts, the first martial arts test and then the literary test, there are a total of five, including weightlifting, marksmanship, foot shooting, mounted archery and the art of war, of which weightlifting was tested in advance ten days ago, and infantry shooting and marksmanship have ended yesterday, today and tomorrow two days to test the art of war.

There are more than 1,000 people participating in the martial arts, and about 100 people are admitted, in addition to the martial arts bachelors, there are also those who have passed the martial arts examination in various places, but in fact, most of the scholars who participated in the martial arts are from the northwest and Hebei and Bianjing, and there are very few scholars in the south.

In addition, the living environment and atmosphere are also different, a large number of civil bow and arrow clubs are organized in the counties of the northwest and Hebei prefectures, and the scholars have heard and seen since childhood, and are full of interest in martial arts, while the southern soldiers have no war pressure, they have focused on reading since they were young, and there is basically no way out for learning martial arts, so some people jokingly called: 'Southern Wen and Northern Martial Arts'.

As for Bianjing, it is because a large number of meritorious children are military generals, family traditions allow them to use martial arts, many children of official eunuchs have been guards in the palace for many years, and their qualifications have been boiled up, and they can officially go out of office and start their official careers after being admitted to the martial arts, so martial arts are extremely important to the meritorious children and officials of the capital, and almost thirty percent of the reference scholars are them.

Li Yanqing, Zong Ze, and Zhang Shuye came to the martial arts riding and archery range, and a stand that can accommodate hundreds of people has been set up at the end of the north, and nearly 100 military attachés are sitting in the stands to watch the riding and archery test.

Li Yanqing walked up and bowed to the planter, "Participate in the big handsome!" ”

"Ahh You're back. ”

Seed Master Dao was suddenly surprised and delighted, "Yesterday, your subordinate Yang Liang ran back for help, saying that Liang Shanjun was searching for spies on a large scale, he was caught and escaped again, saying that you were lost in Sucheng, I was worried!" ”

"It's true that the situation is very tense, and the lowly post also escaped by luck, but the lowly post did find out a lot of information."

Li Yanqing was about to take out the information, but the seed master Dao hurriedly stopped him and gave him a look, Li Yanqing understood, nodded and said, "I'll report back when I go back!" ”

At this time, Li Yanqing saluted Gao Shen who came not far away, and said with a smile: "The leader of the Bow and Horse Competition will also come to judge and see how this year's martial arts warriors are?" ”

"I'm here to watch the battle!"

The seed master said to Li Yanqing again: "Tang Huai and Niu Gao have already passed, both of them have scored up and down, and the accuracy is not bad, but the left and right bows are slightly inferior." ”

"May I ask the commander, how many grades are considered qualified?"

"This is not necessarily, the last martial arts, three of the five exams must be on, and the minimum cannot be lower than the middle school, in order to pass the martial arts, this year to admit a hundred people, if everyone has good results, then the admission conditions will be improved, but now it seems that it is similar to the last martial arts."

At this time, a bell rang, and five scholars rode out, with quivers on their backs, bows and arrows in their hands, ready to start the exam, Li Yanqing saw Yue Fei and Wang Gui at a glance, Yue Fei was the second to appear, Wang Gui was the fourth, Li Yanqing hurriedly asked the seed master, "How did Yue Fei do in the previous exam?" ”

Seed Master Dao said with a smile: "Yue Fei is good, so far tied for the first place, especially the marksmanship is very good, and he has a high score, but you also know the other first, Yang Zaixing." ”

"Does Yang Zaixing also want to take the martial arts exam?"

"He passed the martial arts examination a few years ago and is eligible to participate in the martial arts.

As he spoke, the first man had already crossed the finish line, shooting a total of three arrows, fixing the target eighty paces away, and asking to shoot one arrow each with the left and right bows.

At this time, Yue Fei came on the field, he urged the horse to gallop, and eighty paces away, he opened his bow and shot an arrow at the wooden man's arrow target, an arrow hit the wooden man's chest, Li Yanqing nodded, he shot well, and he could see that he had done a lot of hard work.

Running out of dozens of steps, the second arrow was shot, this arrow was slightly off, shot in the shoulder socket, Yue Fei then changed to the right hand to hold the bow, the left hand pulled the string, and shot to the wooden target on the other side, this arrow hit the leg, the two arrows did not hit the vital point, which means that there is no chance with the above, but riding archery has always been Yue Fei's weakness, as long as it is not too bad, it is not a big problem to take the Wujinshi test.

Gao Shen said next to him: "The arrow is not smooth enough, the riding and archery coordination is not skillful enough, and the two arrows missed the vital point, but the two stone bows are used, which can be given to the middle." ”

Seed Master Dao also agreed with this score, although he was a friend of Li Yanqing, but he showed no mercy, he also gave Yue Fei a middle and upper score, he sighed slightly: "Compared to marksmanship, riding and shooting are far behind, and I am afraid that the first one will not have a chance with him." ”

Li Yanqing also understands in his heart that Yang Zaixing can break into the top ten in the cavalry archery competition, and based on this alone, this year's martial champion is none other than him, but Wuju does not have the saying of champion, list, and flower, and even Wujinshi, but is called Zhongwuju and passed the selection examination of the Ministry of War and the Privy Council.

Yue Fei also knew that his performance was average, so he shook his head and went down, and soon the third soldier came out of the game, and the third arrow missed, which meant that he couldn't even get it, and it was very likely that he would be eliminated.

At this time, Li Yanqing was a little nervous in his heart, Wang Gui appeared, among the four friends, he had the deepest friendship with Wang Gui, and in the Hedong Army, Wang Gui was also his subordinate.

As the commander shouted, Wang Gui rushed out of the horse, he controlled the horse with his legs, and shot an arrow with his bow and arrow, which hit the chest, "Okay!" Li Yanqing cheered lowly, Wang Gui was very calm when he shot the arrow, and sure enough, the more important the exam, the better he played.

Immediately after Wang Gui's second arrow was shot, it was still shot in the chest, at this time, Wang Gui had already run sixty steps, he changed his right hand to hold the bow, suddenly lay on the back of the horse, lying down and shot an arrow, but this arrow did not hit the chest, only shot the shoulder socket.

All the spectators laughed, this gentleman was very funny, and even came up with a trick of fancy archery, but it seemed to be self-defeating.

Gao Shen shook his head, "I think I'm smart, I can obviously get into the middle, but I have to play tricks and give up and down." ”

Seed Master Dao hesitated slightly, but scored a high score in the upper middle school.

Li Yanqing sat not far away and could see clearly, he couldn't help but turn his head away and snicker, who said that he was handsome and selfless, who said that he was not partial?