The next day, Shen Ruoyu went to the court too early, and after listening to a great debate on the restoration of the Jingtian system in the Manchu Dynasty, he obtained Zhu Yunwen's permission and followed Dong Yuan to the camp of Yulin Erwei.

The camp is located outside the Xuanwu Gate at the north gate of the palace and inside the Bei'an Gate. The soldiers of the two guards of Yulin are all gathered in the playground at this moment, waiting for the collective lectures and drills once every ten days. More than 10,000 horses filled the huge playground. Dong Yuan took Shen Ruoliao to the high platform in front of the playground, looking down at the huge team below, reviewing the brothers who had been inherited from his father by blood and practiced martial arts in unison.

After the soldiers had stopped practicing, he faced the crowd and said aloud:

"This Lord Shen is the close guard of the Imperial Front by the Son of Heaven, from today on, he is the commander of the Yulin Guard, in charge of everyone's martial arts exercises, do you understand?"

The soldiers had already heard that King Yan's Cheng'an Yibin had become their new leader, and some of them had already learned Shen Ruoliao's skills when they were standing guard, and they were seriously despised, and they had already discussed it in private, but at this moment, when they heard Dong Yuan's question, they were obviously well-trained, and immediately replied loudly in unison:

"Understood!"

Dong Yuan looked at Shen Ruoliao and said with a smile: "Ruoliao, you can play two tricks for them, let them see what it means to be invincible in the world." ”

Shen Ruoyu looked at the more than 10,000 heads pressed by the black pressure under the lookout, and he was a little dizzy. He shook his head and said:

"Brother Dong, forget it. For no reason, for no reason, I don't like to use swords and swords, let's talk about it another day. ”

Dong Yuan looked at him in surprise: "Didn't you say it yesterday?" Why did you change your mind temporarily? ”

Shen Ruoyu was embarrassed to say that he was stage frightened. He was flustered and said perfunctorily:

"Look, it's not a martial arts competition, I'm playing treasure alone, what can I do, it's not enough to show my eyes. Forget it. ”

Dong Yuan just wanted to speak, and the thousand households with good deeds under his hand had already shouted:

"Lord Shen shoots arrows for the brothers!"

The soldiers roared and chanted, "Shoot arrows!" Archery! ”

Shen Ruoyu panicked. He's never learned to shoot an arrow, he's never shot an arrow, he doesn't know how to shoot at all. However, at this moment, more than 10,000 soldiers in the entire playground shouted in unison to see him shoot arrows, and if he had just arrived, if he refused to perform, no soldier would ever look up to him again. However, he can't do anything, and if he slaps a swollen face and becomes fat, wouldn't it be even more embarrassing, and make these more than 10,000 soldiers look down on him?

Dong Yuan smiled: "Why don't you shoot two arrows for them?" ”

Shen Ruoyu said in a low voice: "Brother Dong, I don't know how to shoot arrows." ”

Dong Yuan said: "It's okay, it's all about playing, the brothers will watch the fun, they won't mind." If you don't shoot and you wipe their face, they'll get angry. ”

Shen Ruoyu was helpless, walked to the hundred-step line, took the longbow handed to him by Dong Yuan, and looked at the distant and small arrow target a hundred steps away. A row of arrow targets backed against the tall and majestic gray city wall of Bei'anmen, and there was a little red heart in the red circle, so small and so far away, he couldn't believe that there was once a position where Li Guang could shoot a red heart with an arrow, and the power was so great that it penetrated the rock.

Dong Yuan handed him three long arrows. Shen Ruoyu picked one up, hesitantly put it on the bowstring, looked at the completely unfamiliar weapon in his hand, hesitated for a moment, and slowly pulled the bowstring in his heart.

This thing is not small, and it makes his fingers hurt. Shen Ruoyu pulled the bow very bent, and the eyes of the soldiers in the audience widened, they had never seen anyone pull the strong bow so open. This arrow goes down, let alone a hundred steps, but I am afraid that it can be shot in five hundred steps. Shen Ruoyu had no confidence, let alone experience, he just intuitively aimed the arrow at the distant red heart, and carefully aimed at it for a long time, aiming at the audience who were a little impatient to wait, he finally made up his mind, let go of his hand, and the arrow shot out, and immediately disappeared.

It's completely gone. No one knew exactly where the arrow had gone, but there was no bull's-eye, not on the entire target, not even on the mountain-like wall behind it. God knows where it went.

More than 10,000 soldiers immediately burst into laughter, and Shen Ruoyu was not embarrassed. He took the second arrow, put it on the bowstring, and pulled the string for a full moon, and his eyes could see clearly, the arrow was already aimed at the heart, and when he let go, the arrow was off the string, and this time it was not missed, but an arrow hit the ground, and it was crooked far away, and it rubbed a foot-high dust on the ground, and slid against the ground to the support of another target, and shot through the support of the stake. Seeing that arrow target crashing to the ground, several targets separated from Shen Ruoyu's original target. The soldiers burst into laughter again, and this time, someone gloated and whistled sharply, and almost beat the drum and waved the flag.

Shen Ruoyu was extremely depressed. Dong Yuan patted him on the shoulder comfortingly and put the third arrow in his hand.

Shen Ruoyu looked back at Dong Yuan's encouraging gaze, and had to secretly comfort himself, the ugliness has come to this point, and it doesn't matter if he is ugly again. He drew his bow and arrow, still seriously aiming at the bull's-eye, and shot the last arrow.

All they heard was a sharp crash and a cracking sound. It's not big, it's not crisp, but it feels so heavy, everyone was stunned and looked at the front of Shen Ruoxiao's arrow.

The target was still clean, and there was nothing.

Immediately, however, the crowd discovered the location of the arrow. On the city wall behind the arrow target, there seems to be something stuck on the wall bricks, far away, I can't see it really, I can only vaguely see a little red in the gray wall tiles, and the arrows dedicated to the second guard of the feather forest, the tail feathers are painted bright red.

Dong Yuan rode his horse and galloped under the wall, shouting:

"It's the arrow!"

He reached out to pull out the arrow, but the arrow had already penetrated deep into the city wall, revealing only a few shafts and tail feathers, and with all his strength, the arrow still did not move, as if it had grown with the wall bricks, and it was impossible to pull it out. After a long time, he found that he was in vain, so he had to break off the small piece of arrow tail that was exposed outside the wall, and rushed back to show the tail of the arrow to the soldiers.

More than 10,000 soldiers, when they saw the short arrow tail with red feathers, not a single one laughed anymore. There was silence on the playground for a while.

Dong Yuan handed the tail of the arrow to Shen Ruoliao and sighed:

"Do you know how strong the walls are? Emperor Gao put a lot of effort into the construction of this city wall. From ancient times to the present day, there has never been a more impregnable wall. But look at your arrows. If you shoot a few more arrows, the walls will fall. ”

Shen Ruoyu almost wanted to find a crack in the ground and get into it immediately. He looked at the more than 10,000 soldiers in the audience, and everyone was looking at him in silence. Desperate, he opened his mouth and said clearly to everyone:

The brothers laughed. I, Shen Ruoxiao, have never learned archery, so I really don't have the face to show off anything in front of everyone. But from today onwards, I will work hard to learn, and I hope everyone can help me learn all the skills I don't know as soon as possible. In this way, I can also live up to the trust of the Son of Heaven. ”

After saying this, he felt that he had reached the point where he was about to cry, and he had no face to stay any longer, so he turned around and fled, all the way out of the camp, and fled straight back to the Son of Heaven. For several days in a row, when he saw the soldiers standing guard beside the Son of Heaven, he couldn't help but blush.

The first experience of military training in his life ended in failure.

However, Dong Yuan didn't care, and even felt that this was a good thing. In the afternoon of the same day, he ran to comfort Shen Ruoliao and told him that it didn't matter, once he was born and twice cooked, no one could come up and shoot arrows, not to mention that the soldiers were dumbfounded when they saw his extraordinary internal strength. He felt that Shen Ruoyu had made a good start, and the key to being a general was not to be superior, but to be able to integrate into the army; As long as he is close to everyone, he will soon be accepted by the soldiers, and even mingle, just like himself.

Shen Ruoliao's life by the side of Emperor Jianwen has been going on like this every day since then. Go to court, meet, deliberate, read, and review the chapters; Get up, move, eat, rest. Every ten days, Yulin Erwei has a training exercise, since the second time, the situation has changed greatly, Shen Ruoliao gradually became familiar with the rules of procedure, but also familiar with the face of the soldiers, no longer stage fright, people also quickly let go, with the full assistance of Dong Yuan, meticulously completed their duties of teaching martial arts drills. In addition, it is to chat with the Son of Heaven from time to time to relieve boredom, as long as there is no one else around the Son of Heaven.

But the affairs of the court were far less smooth than his own. King Yan's army made rapid progress: on July 9, Jizhou was captured, and Ma Xuanli, the commander of the retreat to Jizhou, died in battle; On the twelfth, he captured Juyong Pass. Zhu Yunwen and Fang Xiaoru divided most of their minds on the Jingtian system, and a group of Wenchen led by Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng tried their best to persuade the Son of Heaven to wait for the news of the Song Zhong garrison. The matter of the general expedition was repeatedly delayed, and Zhu Yunwen did not do any more work to cut the domain. In Shen Ruoyu's opinion, it seems that since the day King Yan raised his army, the imperial court has no movement, and it has completely fallen into a state of being beaten passively.