In the previous chapter, it was mentioned that Zhao Gou decided to follow Shang Ying's example and govern the army according to the law, since it was according to the law, the most important thing was to establish authority and lixin. As for the www.biquge.info Liwei, he openly punished Zhang Sanlang and Han Yuan for fighting at the banquet, and decided to set up a gendarmerie and let Feng Yuan, the lieutenant of Xiangzhou County, recognize the captain and take charge of military discipline. However, Wei is established, the most critical Lixin is still far away (in fact, Liwei is also for Lixin in the final analysis), Zhao Gou referred to Shang Ying, since Zhao Gou has always advocated "not to follow", then he is naturally not interested in doing Shang Ying's city gate standing wood, not to mention, moving wood can not promote the soldiers to actively practice martial arts.

Zhao Gou rubbed his chin without a beard, thought for a while, and had an idea, he asked the craftsmen to create nine one-inch diameter gold rings and ninety two-inch diameter silver rings. It took three days to make the gold and silver rings, and on the morning of the fourth day, all the gold and silver rings were hung at the entrance of the camp of the volunteers, and a notice was issued, "The generalissimo made gold and silver rings to inspire the world." Anyone who has not violated military discipline can test ten arrows from a distance of 100 paces. Whoever shoots an arrow through the gold or silver ring will immediately lead the ring target. This notice was posted at the same time in Xiangzhou and Cizhou, two states and counties actually controlled by Zhao Gou, and in an instant, the public opinion field of the two states was detonated.

Concerning gold and silver, every ordinary person is a free propaganda team, a voluntary seeding machine, before noon, Xiangzhou and even Cizhou on the other side of the river, thousands of empty alleys, the common people have run to the entrance of the volunteer army camp outside Xiangzhou City to see the excitement. In the morning, it was the time for the commander of the ten to lead his soldiers to learn martial arts and practice the formation of ten people, and the officers and soldiers were not allowed to participate in the activities, but the people looked at the gold and silver ring targets outside the camp and discussed them first.

"Oh, it's really real money, look at that shiny look, it's real."

"It must be true, the generalissimo is the Heavenly Palace Zhao Heavenly King, can he still lack gold and silver?"

"Mom, look at that silver ring, I can make a solid silver bracelet no matter how I say it. The gold ring, redeem two or three gold rings, there is no problem! Such a good thing, you can take it away with a real shot?! ”

"It's not so cheap, the generalissimo even dares to steal the emperor's oil tea noodles, shouldn't he be so generous? I see it's still greasy. ”

"I think so."

There were a lot of people outside the barracks, and the masses were talking about it, and Zhao Golei, who was holding a small notebook in the barracks to record the performance of the ten commanders, was scorched on the inside, but on the surface, he still pretended to be majestic, and he had the posture of the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses.

After finally staying up until the noon break, the soldiers, who had not bothered to train all morning, rushed forward with their bows and arrows on their backs, and in an instant ninety-nine firing positions were occupied. It's just that the ninety-nine brave men who were ranked first in the queue all stared at the ring target a hundred paces away, and none of them dared to shoot.

The officers and soldiers exchanged heads and muttered in a low voice, "This is too far, can you really shoot?" ”

"yes, that's impossible, right?"

Zhao Gou looked at the mountains on the high platform in the center of the barracks, he had no embarrassment, at this time he chewed peanuts generously, and said in his heart that Hu Die's spiced peanuts were made, tsk, in northern dialect, it was so good that it was so good.

After the training, Zhang Sanlang and Han Yuan, who had been re-tied together, jumped to a shooting position together and said, "Let's try!" ”

"No!" Feng Yuan, the chief captain of the gendarmerie, said with a straight face, "Generalissimo ordered, anyone who has not violated military discipline can participate in the event." Captain Zhang, Captain Han Shi, you two have violated military discipline and can't shoot rings! ”

Zhang Sanlang Han Yuan stared at Feng Yuan in surprise, looking incredulous.

"County Lieutenant Feng, San Lang and Han Yuan are the best archers in our army!" Li Ziming is now a legend in the Volunteer Army, and he feels that San Lang has been wronged, so he naturally takes the initiative to stand up for him.

"I'm now first of all Captain Feng of the Volunteer Army, not the county lieutenant of Xiangzhou." Zhao Gou had already asked Feng Yuan to prepare the case, and how to say it when he encountered a plea or how to say it when he encountered a threat, they had all discussed it, so Feng Yuan's answer now was reasonable, and people would definitely not be able to jump out of the problem, "Zhang Sanlang and Han Yuan are indeed the best archers, but the rules are there, and anyone has to follow them." It's not that I don't let the two of you shoot arrows, it's that the rules don't let you; And at this time, I am also right about things, not people. ”

Zhang Sanlang and Han Yuan were stunned when they heard this, their mouths were open for a long time, and they couldn't think of anything to refute, so they had to give up and glared at each other fiercely, both of them looked like they were angry and blamed on you.

Seeing this, the officers and men exchanged heads again, openly and secretly glad that they had not violated military discipline, otherwise they would not even have had a chance to try. But at the same time, I was even more suspicious in my heart, everyone knew that Han Yuan and Zhang Sanlang were the archers who were the most promising to win the grand prize, but the rules didn't let the two of them shoot arrows, could it be really boring?

Everyone was thinking about it in pieces, and the little official Lin Xuesong appeared with a bow and arrow on his back. The Lin family has been a scholarly family for generations, but his son Lin Xuesong likes archery and hunting. The status of the warriors in the Song Dynasty was low, and the big families agreed that archery and hunting were not a proper business, so few villagers knew Lin Xuesong's archery skills. Now that Lin Xuesong is the first to try, most of the volunteer officers and soldiers and the crowd watching the excitement outside the camp don't know his ability, so they basically don't believe that you can shoot with an expression. But even if they were suspicious, they still held their breath and waited expectantly for the big show to start, shooting cheers and laughter.

Lin Xuesong first picked the innermost silver ring, tried the wind direction and wind speed, and then pulled the bowstring to find the feeling, then raised his head with his chest up, opened his bow to aim, excited, and the arrow flew over the silver ring.

The people outside the camp laughed, especially the people of Cizhou laughed even more happily, how could they not be extremely happy if they had the opportunity to laugh at the son of the Lin family? But the soldiers of the Volunteer Army have been practicing archery for a few days, and they have already seen from Lin Xuesong's posture that this is a veteran archer, although an arrow went out and did not shoot through the silver ring, but the archery technique is really not bad. Therefore, although some of the sergeants laughed heartlessly, there were many who nodded and praised good archery.

Lin Xuesong's cheeks were slightly red, he took a deep breath, and soon sent another arrow, this arrow seemed to be not adjusted properly, and it was even more off, and the onlookers laughed again, and some even leaned back and fell back with laughter.

Zhao Gou sat on the high platform, thinking that he should make a telescope, and at the same time he was anxious for Lin Xuesong, and said in his heart that he had made the ring cast small? If no one could have been shot, then this "Lixin" would have become a joke.

Zhang Sanlang saw that Lin Xuesong missed twice, and he was also anxious, don't look at Lin Xuesong when he was in Cizhou, San Lang still looked down on Lin Xuesong, but now that he has entered Xiangzhou, facing the hated Han Yuan, Lin Xuesong instantly became San Lang's own person. He rubbed his shoulder against Han Yuan, who was sneering beside him, and then said loudly, "Don't worry, little official, take a few more breaths!" It's the same as shooting a bull's-eye! ”

Lin Xuesong was reminded by Zhang Sanlang, and also understood, but it was just a two-inch diameter silver ring, not much smaller than the red heart of an ordinary target, he took a deep breath, calmed down, opened the bow to aim, excited, brushed, the arrow passed through the silver ring cleanly, and the arrow passed through instantly, and even the feathers stuck to the tail of the arrow handle did not touch the silver ring for half a minute.

There were 10,000 people at the scene, but at this time, it was silent, and even the sound of arrows falling on the ground could be heard, Zhang Sanlang was the first to react, and the arm that was not tied to Han Yuan was raised high, shouting, "Okay! ”

The crowd of onlookers reacted and shouted, "Good! Then there was thunderous applause and jubilation.

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