In the previous chapter, it was mentioned that Zhao Gou made ninety-nine precious metal ring targets, hung them at the camp gate, and the archers who shot through the ring targets could win gold or silver rings. Lin Xuesong www.biquge.info the pen and the fun pavilion took the lead, three arrows went down, shooting through a silver ring, and the onlookers inside and outside the camp cheered and applauded.

Zhao Gou was on the high platform, and when he saw Lin Xuesong winning the first prize, he also nodded happily, and he came to the archery range with applause, saying that he would personally cheer for Lin Xuesong.

When Zhao Gou rushed behind Lin Xuesong, he had already made persistent efforts and shot through a silver ring again, the atmosphere of the scene was completely ignited, and the applause was like a tsunami, and I don't know who was leading, and the onlookers began to shout again, "Shoot the gold ring!" Shoot the Golden Ring! ”

Lin Xuesong listened to everyone's shouting, and he was also very good, he and Zhao Gou glanced at each other, and really ran to a golden ring, took arrows, took arrows, stretched their bows, aimed, and held their breath.

There was silence inside and outside the camp, and even Zhao Gou was so nervous that he held his breath, the inner ring of the silver ring was two inches in diameter, and the inner ring of the gold ring was one inch in diameter, and you must know that a standard arrow of the Song army, the widest part of the arrow was only half an inch! This means that in order to shoot through the Golden Ring, the archer must barely deviate by a fraction of a second!

Lin Xuesong took about two or three pieces of chopsticks, seeing him like this, Zhao Gou knew that he was going to finish, he practiced archery every day after crossing over, and knew that if the arrow wanted to shoot the red heart, aiming a little longer would increase the success rate; However, if you want to shoot in the middle of the heart, you can't get too entangled in aiming at the target.

Sure enough, with a clanging sound, Lin Xuesong's arrow shot onto the golden ring and flew out, about half an inch away from the middle of the golden ring. However, at this time, no one laughed at Lin Xuesong, and everyone in the audience made a voice of regret. Lin Xuesong actually didn't have the confidence to shoot, so he just smiled and shook his head, and according to what he had discussed with Zhao Gou, he said loudly, "Cedar let you comrades, you folks laugh, Cedar still has five arrows to shoot, and he must practice archery diligently in the future, sooner or later, he can shoot the golden ring!" ”

Lin Xuesong's speech was sonorous and powerful, and the onlookers inside and outside the camp were infected by him, and shouted loudly again, "Good! ”

Zhao Gou applauded and smiled while glancing at Feng Yuan. Feng Yuan hurriedly ran, took off the two silver rings that Lin Xuesong shot through, and handed them to Zhao Gou with both hands. Zhao Gou learned from the appearance of the chairman of the Olympic Committee on TV presenting awards to the Olympic champions, hung two sterling silver rings around Lin Xuesong's neck, and then patted Lin Xuesong, saying to Lin Xuesong, and even more to all the officers and soldiers of the Volunteer Army, "Those who are brave and pioneering, reward!" Those who violate military discipline will be punished! Marshal Ben is true to his word! ”

Hearing this, the onlookers applauded again, especially the volunteers, whose eyes were full of expectation and enthusiasm, and a few of them were anxious, and they didn't have the heart to watch the play, so they directly put on their bows and arrows and ran to the side to practice.

Seeing this, Zhao Gou was in a good mood, and felt that the effect of Yingkou's shooting ring even exceeded his expectations. Zhao Gou is a person who is easy to get carried away when he is proud. Seeing that everyone in the audience was very interested, he immediately became impulsive, took out the Nine Dragons jade ring hanging around his neck, smiled slightly, and said, "This jade ring was given by Emperor Daojun (renamed Emperor Daojun after the abdication of Emperor Huizong of Song) when this marshal was one year old. The middle of this Kowloon Ring also looks an inch wide. Now, this marshal also hangs it out, and according to the rules, whoever can shoot through this ring can get this imperial gift! ”

Hearing Zhao Gou say this, the officers and soldiers who were watching were all stupid, the scene was silent, and everyone looked at Zhao Gou with fear. The expression seemed to say, Generalissimo, are you sure?

Lin Xuesong and Feng Yuan, who participated in the planning of the "Yingkou Shooting Ring" event from beginning to end, were also stunned when they heard Zhao Gou say this, and their eyes turned to Zhao Gou as if they were saying, Director, how is this different from the script?

Fortunately, Lin Xuesong reacted quickly, and he immediately said loudly, "The generalissimo treats our soldiers like brothers, and his subordinates thank the generalissimo!" ”

At this time, Feng Yuan also reacted, only to see him turn to face all the officers and soldiers of the Volunteer Army who were watching, arched his hand to the sky, and said sharply, "The law of the Great Song Dynasty, those who deliberately destroy the things given by the emperor will kill the three clans!" ”

Seeing the two of them like that, Zhao Gou was happy in his heart, and at the same time shocked by the Song people's involuntary awe of the imperial power. But he has traveled for more than a month, and he has already practiced poker face, no matter how rich the ideological activities in his heart are, his face is still serious, and he looks like he is in control of everything. In fact, he doesn't care about the things given by the emperor, but the jade ring is finely carved and warm as fat, and it is indeed a pity if it is broken by which stunned blue.

At this point, Zhao Gou felt that it was enough, so he nodded to the audience inside and outside the venue, and said, "Okay, everyone, let's all be diligent in performing martial arts!" ”

"Yes!"

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Since then, the atmosphere of the whole volunteer army has changed. Of course, nine out of ten people who come to sign up for the Volunteer Army are patriots, plus they are strong and strong, so it can be said that they are natural elite generals. However, in the past, they just practiced martial arts hard and trained seriously, but starting from Yingkou Ring Shooting, they practiced martial arts desperately and trained frantically. Archery instructors and Lin Xuesong, Zhang Sanlang, and Han Yuan are several excellent archers, just like the top stars of modern times, and everywhere they go, there are a group of people who ask frantically.

The officers and soldiers of the Volunteer Army did their best to practice archery during the training time; Drilling holes in his spare time to practice archery; Even, when it was time to go to bed, a large number of volunteers still did not rest, and had to continue practicing by the moonlight. Zhao Gou had no choice but to stand up and announce that resting on time was also military discipline, and this unhealthy spirit of fighting desperately regardless of his body could be stopped.

After six days of fulfillment, Qiu Da Belly cried to Zhao Gou with the scars of being strangled by the bowstring on his face, saying that he couldn't shoot arrows well no matter what he did! Zhao Gou looked at what Qiu's big belly looked like, and said yes, looking at this person's honest appearance, it was obviously impossible to shoot through the ring target no matter how he practiced. There must be many people in the army who are like him, and in the long run, it will also be a blow to enthusiasm. Besides, even if the archers are the first in the cold weapon era, a reliable army needs cavalry, spearmen, swordsmen, and heavy infantry.

So, Zhao calculated how much treasury silver there was, discussed it with Lin Xuesong, and announced that three activities would be held on the eighth day of the lunar month: the lifting competition, the charging competition, and the flexibility competition. The first place in the three events will receive 20 taels of gold ingots, the top 10 will receive 10 taels of gold ingots, and the top 50 will receive 10 taels of silver ingots.

As soon as these three activities were released, they once again caused a sensation to all the military and civilians in Xiangzhou, Cizhou, after all, there are only a few people who can shoot with gold and silver rings, but these two activities are named after them, and there must be a large number of soldiers who have been rewarded. The officers and men of the volunteers are as diligent as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

And military discipline, needless to say, Zhao Gou even felt that Feng Yuan's gendarmerie had no need to exist. "Only those who have not violated military discipline can participate in the activities," said the officers and men of the volunteers, who were deeply impressed by this rigid condition. As a result, strict discipline and excellent work style instantly became the aura of the volunteers, not to mention taking the initiative to violate the three major disciplines and eight points of attention, even if someone stuffed big meat and wine into the hands of officers and men, they also politely and resolutely refused.

Zhao Gou was very satisfied to see that his volunteer army had become a real army, but the people of Xiangzhou and Cizhou were even more satisfied with this army, from the big families in the two states to the poor people, they all sincerely trusted Zhao Gou and trusted the rebel brave army.

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