Chapter 435: The Encounter Between Zhengde and Jiang Bin

Among the twenty people who passed the second round of the competition, there were only two people that Zhengde paid the most attention to, that is, Gu Sanlie and Xu Li's grandson Xu Cheng, who had been very eye-catching, among which Gu Sanlie showed extremely amazing riding skills and archery, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that he should not have done his best in the competition, and Xu Cheng was the only student who reached the third round, and he was naturally very eye-catching among many instructors.

But what Zhengde and others didn't expect was that in the third round of the game, a dark horse suddenly appeared. The difficulty of this round of the game increased again, not only the distance of the target was further away again, but also a few targets as obstacles were placed in front of the target, which made the difficulty of the game increase several times at once.

The first two were still Gu Sanlie and Xu Cheng who went down first, but this time they didn't all hit the target, of which Gu Sanlie shot eight arrows, and the other two arrows were blocked by the target in front, while Xu Cheng only hit five arrows, as for the rest of the contestants, most of them were around five or six arrows, and no one could exceed eight arrows.

But when there was only one contestant left at the end of the competition, everyone was surprised, this contestant was a young instructor with a scar on his face, his previous performance was not very eye-catching, and even Zhengde didn't notice this scar instructor, but when he was the last one to play, he suddenly burst out with amazing riding and archery kung fu.

I saw that this scar instructor lifted the horse up at the beginning, and when he rushed to the middle of the field, he opened the bow left and right with both hands. Shoot five arrows in a row. As a result, the five arrows seemed to have eyes. Passing through the gap between the obstacles in front of him, he shot steadily at the target behind him, which made the people around him shout hello.

Immediately after that, the scar instructor began his own performance, and the remaining five arrows did not use the conventional archery method every time, either with a bow or hiding, and shot an arrow every time he changed his movements, and the archery method was like a god, and he could hit the target every time. This made the people around them stunned, and even forgot about the applause, and for a while the field was silent, and everyone was stunned by the scar instructor's magic shot.

"Good!" Zhengde was the first to react, the first to shout, the others also reacted at this time, and they were all thunderous at the moment, and the entire arena was cheering on this scar young instructor, and even the always steady old man Xu Li was also amazed, he lived so old. It's also the first time I've seen such a miracle shot.

"Dayong, what's this person's name. I didn't pay much attention just now? Zhengde pulled Gu Dayong with an excited face and asked, he didn't expect that there was such a character hidden in the military academy, which really gave him a big surprise.

"Your Majesty, when General Qiu introduced it just now, the slave maid remembered that this person's surname was Jiang Mingbin, and he was an instructor selected from the Xuanfu!" Gu Dayong couldn't help but be a little happy when he saw Zhengde so happy, but after saying that, he was a little regretful, because his own Gu Sanlie could have become the champion nine times out of ten, but he didn't expect Jiang Bin, who was halfway through, to snatch the first place.

However, compared to Gu Dayong's careful eyes, the contestants led by Gu Sanlie were also amazed by Jiang Bin's marksmanship, and immediately stepped forward to congratulate, after all, Jiang Bin was the only one in the third round, so he naturally became the top spot in this mounted archery competition, and Jiang Bin also behaved very indifferently, bowing his hand and saluting others, but when no one was paying attention, his eyes glanced at the place where Zhengde was.

Jiang Bin won the indisputable championship of the mounted archery competition, and at that moment Xu Li stood up and personally invited Jiang Bin to a platform, and then announced that Jiang Bin won the championship, and also gave Jiang Bin a well-made strong bow as a prize, but unfortunately Xu Li was not Zhou Chong, otherwise he would definitely prepare another medal for Jiang Bin.

After the award, Zhengde immediately summoned Jiang Bin impatiently, after all, he has always been most interested in such a brave talent, such as Qian Ning, who is now in charge of Jinyiwei, is because he is good at riding and shooting, and as a result, he was promoted to today's position by Zhengde, not to mention that Jiang Bin's riding and archery skills are much stronger than Qian Ning.

"The last general, Jiang Bin, see Your Majesty!" After Jiang Bin saw Zhengde, he immediately bowed down and said, this is a military academy, not a court, so Zhengde asked everyone to only salute him, and there is no need to kneel.

"Ha Lu Ha~, Jiang Bin, your riding skills and archery skills have also opened my eyes, I don't know how you practice? I am also diligent in practice, but I am not at your level. Zhengde was also very greedy for Jiang Bin's riding and archery kung fu, so after he saw the other party, the first thing he asked was how the other party practiced this riding and archery kung fu?

Regarding Zhengde's question, I saw Jiang Bin clasping his fists and saluting with a murderous face: "Your Majesty, the last general's cavalry shooting has not been deliberately practiced, everything is learned from those Mongolian cavalry on the battlefield, but those Mongolian cavalry have all died in the hands of the last general!" ”

"Good! Sure enough, he is worthy of being a strong general of my Ming Dynasty, if everyone is like General Jiang, then why should I worry about the immortality of Mongolia? Hearing Jiang Bin's arrogant answer, Zhengde also praised loudly, he has been eager to go into battle to kill the enemy since he was a child, and he yearns for this kind of military life the most.

"Your Majesty praised falsely, the last general just told a few words of truth, and there are hidden dragons and crouching tigers in the border army, there are many people like the last general, and your majesty can't be so praised, for example, the border army of our Xuanfu broke the 50,000 cavalry of the little prince of Tartary last year, and the last general also shot a few arrows of the little prince of Tatar, but unfortunately the other party's guards desperately blocked the arrows of the last general, and then the other party fled back to the grassland!" Jiang Bin's words were still boasting about the good fighting of the Xuanfu border army at first, but after the end, he began to boast about his bravery and archery skills, obviously wanting to attract the attention of Zhengde through military exploits.

Although Zhengde is smart, he has no defense against a martial artist like Jiang Bin, and even in his opinion, people who are military generals are more honest than those civil officials, at least they don't play tricks on themselves, so he doesn't feel that Jiang Bin is boasting in his words at all, but feels that Jiang Bin is telling the truth.

However, Zhengde quickly thought of one more thing, and said a little strangely at the moment: "Jiang Bin, did you fight with the little Tatar prince in Xuanfu last year, why didn't I receive any news?" ”

"This ......" Jiang Bin knew that Dao Zhengde would ask this, and he was deliberately stunned for a moment before saying, "Your Majesty, last year, in order to select the instructors to enter the military academy, the chief soldier of our Xuanfu promised us who had the greatest military achievements and who could get the qualification to enter the military academy as an instructor, but it happened that the little Tatar prince went south at that time, so we fought a battle with the Mongols under the Huai'an Acropolis, and as a result, we killed more than 5,000 Mongols at the end of the year, but only lost two or three thousand people, which can be described as a rare victory. The last general also relied on his exploits on the battlefield to get the opportunity to enter the military academy."

Hearing Jiang Bin's answer, Zhengde's face also sank suddenly, and he immediately turned his head to Gu Dayong next to him and said, "Dayong, what's going on, why is there such a big war on the Xuanfu side, but I haven't heard any news?" ”

Gu Dayong is a close confidant of Zhengde, and he is also a clear man for the affairs of the court, so he naturally knows that the civil official group of Ludao concealed the exploits of the border army, and this kind of thing has nothing to do with him, so he doesn't want to offend the entire civilian official group because of this kind of thing, but now that Zhengde asked in person, he had to answer honestly: "Your Majesty, last year, the Xuanfu did write a document to report success, saying that it was a big battle with the little prince of Tatar and beheaded five thousand, but the military department suspected that the border army of Xuanfu was fraudulent, so he sent someone to investigate. As a result, it was later found that it was Xuanfu who killed a large number of herdsmen, but in fact, only a dozen Mongols were killed, less than 5,000 at all, and the military department also deducted half of Xuanfu's military salary. ”

"Bastard!" When Zhengde heard this, he naturally understood at once, after all, a few years ago, when Qiu Yue was serving as the chief soldier in Ningxia, he had been concealed by the civilian official group, and he was very angry when he knew the Tao, but he couldn't offend the entire civilian official group because of this incident, so after the last Zhengde, he could only transfer Qiu Yue from the border army to Beijing, which was regarded as giving Qiu Yue a compensation, but he didn't expect to encounter another incident of a civilian official concealing the border army's military exploits.

Thinking of this, Zhengde was also furious in his heart, although he didn't like the government, but it didn't mean that he didn't understand, especially for military matters, he knew better than anyone how much damage it would take to the morale of the army, and even this would destroy the Ming army from the foundation.

"Good! Very good! Jiang Bin, you are brave and brave, and you have made such a great contribution in the border army, I feel that it is really a bit wronged for you to serve as a small instructor in the military academy, so let's transfer you out of the military academy and temporarily serve as the commander of the Yanshan Metropolitan Command Mission, and listen to the driver! Zhengde said with a look of hatred, he can't make too much action against the civil official group for the time being, otherwise the entire court will be chaotic, so he can only promote Jiang Bin, firstly, to reward Jiang Bin for his previous military exploits, and secondly, to express his dissatisfaction with the civilian-official group.

"Your Majesty!" Hearing that Zhengde suddenly promoted himself to the commander of the affairs, Jiang Bin was also overjoyed, before he served as the commander of the guard when he was in Xuanfu, he was only the military attache of the fourth grade, but now he has been promoted to the commander of the third grade, which is equivalent to a two-level promotion at once, and what is even more rare is that he can follow the driver, that is, he can contact Zhengde at any time, which is a great opportunity for anyone, now it depends on whether he can seize this opportunity? (To be continued......)