Chapter 21 Riding and Archery Test

The winds blew in all directions from Wei Chixiu's lonely place, and the smoke and dust on the ground were blown up into the air, condensing into an earthy yellow mist.

The earthy yellow mist is wavy, and if you enter it, it is like diving into the water, and the speed is greatly reduced.

Wei Chi Xiu Lin just wanted to use this to control the speed of Li Rong's body, force him to defend head-on with his own spear, and give full play to the advantage of the big gun's frontal attack.

"Infinite flowing water", Li Rong said secretly in his heart, his body turned like a spinning top with a rotating air circle, and the dragon yin knife took advantage of the situation, drawing a perfect circle around the arc, and an invisible attraction arose from the circle.

The tornado formed by the tip of the stormy spear of Wei Chi Xiu hit the air circle, and involuntarily deflected, although the air circle was exploded, but it also lost its power, and the tornado was eliminated, and the gun body was deflected.

"Hmph", Yu Chi Xiu snorted in silence, took a wild breath, and exerted the power of the spear to the limit, and the tornado on the tip of the spear unfolded again, ignoring the heavy knife qi in front of him, and rushed straight over.

Li Rong smiled slightly, and the dragon yin knife drew one ring after another, blocking or leading the spears attacked by Yu Chi Xiu and blocking them one by one.

After dozens of breaths of effort, Wei Chi Xiu stabbed out hundreds of shots, but unfortunately they were all easily taken by Li Rong, and the loss of true qi was extremely great, and he couldn't help but slow down the momentum of the gun.

"Infinite Flowing Water Thousand Tide Strike," Li Rong immediately held the knife in both hands, and the brocade robe all over his body suddenly rose, and the milky white true qi rose green smoke around his body like a boil, and he slashed out with all his strength.

The dragon yin knife that had already released the sword immediately responded, and the blade suddenly brought a sound as dense as a thousand waves crashing on the shore, and roared with a sky-shattering sound, rushing towards Yu Chi Xiu's silence!

The overlapping knives hit Yu Chi Xiu's spear, and wave after wave of true qi came, causing Yu Chi Xiu's mouth to be shocked, and the spear in his hand was not loose, and he almost fell to the ground, and the true qi penetrated into his body, shocking him dozens of steps backwards, and he couldn't help but roll to the ground.

Everyone was stunned from the side, Yu Chi Xiu's martial arts were among the flying horses, and they were also counted among the hundred horses, but they didn't expect to be defeated by Li Rong so easily.

"The back waves of the river push the front waves, young people are not simple!" Yang Zhiyi sighed.

"Haha," Yuan Xingchong smiled slightly.

Li Rong easily defeated Wei Chi Xiu in the school field, which made him initially establish some prestige among the thousand horsemen.

Of course, Li Hui's aura is also one of the important reasons why Li Rong can stand on his feet, and the prestige that Li Hui has established in charge of the palace ban for decades is something that every military attache of the Praetorian Guard must think about, and no one will deliberately make things difficult for Li Rong.

In the next few days, Li Rong, with the cooperation of Wei Chi Xiu, began to select and appoint the grassroots military attachés of the Right Thousand Cavalry Battalion, a total of ten brigade commanders, as well as some team commanders and fire commanders.

"Yang Beifeng, Dong Xuanjing, Li Jingcong", the ten brigade commanders stood in front of Li Rong and Wei Chi Xiu in a straight body.

"See Lord Captain," the brigade commanders saluted the two on one knee, with their pockets in their hands.

These brigade commanders are all elite soldiers from the flying cavalry, the original hundred cavalry and some of the guard systems, more than six feet tall, in their twenties and thirties, and their physical strength and spirit are in the golden age of a soldier.

"Get up, there is no need for such a great gift in the camp." Li Rong said. One of the things he hated very much after his memory was the complicated etiquette, which was unbearable.

"It's not enough to just subdue Wei Chi Xiu, you have to subdue this group of guys," Li Rong said in his heart looking at the slightly disdainful look in the eyes of some brigade commanders.

Most of the brigade commanders did not see the scene of Li Rong and Wei Chi Xiu's lonely competition, and they were still a little unconvinced by the young and excessive Li Rong. As for their inadvertent ignorance of Yu Chi Xiu, it may be because Yu Chi Xiu is tall and looks mature, and it is also the reason why Yu Chi Xiu has made a name for himself in the Praetorian Guard system in the past three years.

"My name is Li Rong, and I am fortunate to come to Qianqi to serve as a captain. The predecessor of the thousand horsemen is the emperor's personal guard, which is the elite selected from the flying horse, which can be described as the elite of the elite, and can serve in the thousand horses with the monarchs. ”

Li Rong took the opportunity to make a speech on his assumption of office, hoping that he would be able to convince these brigade commanders and at least leave a good impression on them.

Wei Chi Xiu looked at Li Rong with a surprised expression, he had never seen anyone make such a speech, when did he encounter such a new situation.

"Wei Chi, you arrange a class test, everyone in the camp participates, let me see how everyone's level is, and take this opportunity to choose the team leader and the fire captain." Li Rong didn't care what Wei Chi Xiu thought about it, and opened his mouth to command.

After several days of hard work, the Right Thousand Cavalry Battalion initially set up a shelf and prepared personnel, equipment, and horses in place.

Li Rong also wanted to take the opportunity to get Ge Fushun a positive position and create an opportunity for him to gain a firm foothold in the thousand horses. Although Ge Fushun's martial arts are good, he is much stronger than the average thousand cavalry, but it is very difficult to serve as a brigade commander as soon as he comes in.

The class test system of the thousand cavalry is also derived from the flying horse, after decades of supplementation, the formation of a complete set of training methods, including long stacks, horse shooting, horse pistols, as well as foot shooting through the board, warping the weight, body speech, these six class test methods actually have the function of training cavalry and infantry, and the non-commissioned officers who can pass the six tests are not a problem to get a lieutenant in the army.

Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, most of the wars have been able to win more with less. Li Jing led 3,000 elite cavalry to attack Dingxiang at night and captured Jieli alive, which was the first time in the history of Middle-earth that the imperial court captured the overlord who ruled the prairie alive. Hou Junji destroyed Gaochang, Li Jiping Gaoli, and Su Dingfangyi Baekje did not have as many soldiers as their opponents, but they were able to defeat their opponents, in addition to the reason for weapons and equipment, elite soldiers and well-trained soldiers were fundamental.

Under the orders of the brigade commanders, the 1,000 soldiers of the right thousand cavalry battalion each led their horses and quickly arranged them neatly on the school yang.

The first military parade of the Right Thousand Cavalry Battalion began, and Li Rong looked at the Tang Dynasty cavalry like the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang in the previous life, and his heart was surging.

Human martial arts actually come from fighting, fighting with wild beasts in primitive societies, wars between each other in modern times, these have destroyed the development of martial arts, the fundamental reason for the decline of modern martial arts is the rise of firearms, a pistol can easily solve a well-trained soldier with cold weapons, then practicing martial arts has become a high-cost and low-return project, and a few people will work hard to learn, and the probability of a master will be less if there are fewer people to learn.

This time, Li Rong still made a carefully prepared speech in front of all the soldiers, to say that in this era, there is a strict hierarchy between military attaches and soldiers, and the army is restrained with strict military discipline and cruel punishments in peacetime, which is a reward and a red fruit of money and official positions.

Although Li Rong's youth and identity made everyone feel a little dissatisfied, these speeches won the favor of ordinary soldiers. Most of the soldiers were born as slaves and could not read, let alone be respected.

"This guy is really good at saying nice things," although Wei Chi Xiu Lin didn't know how to put on a show, he could feel Li Rong's intentions, "I have to take the opportunity to win back a game and beat him in the class test for a while." ”

Wei Chi Xiu has been in the army for a long time, a family of military generals, superb in riding and shooting, and his conceit is not under anyone, that is, although Yang Simiao has comparable martial arts, he is not as good as him in riding and shooting.

"Brother Li, why don't we two start for everyone and show it." Yu Chi Xiu said quietly.

"Okay," Li Rong said.

"It seems that this guy is still a little unconvinced! This time it completely convinced him. Li Rong said in his heart.

Li Rong didn't patronize martial arts all day long, and the horsemanship in the army was also first-class under the guidance of the old butler Ge Bao.

"There are more new soldiers in this thousand horses, and I have never seen a thousand riding class test before, this time I and Captain Li will show you the content of our daily class test of thousands of horses." Yu Chi Xiu said on the stage.

"Okay," the soldiers below applauded, and the shouts shook the sky.

Mounted archery is a very popular sport among non-commissioned officers. At this time, there is no TV network to watch, and most people don't even know words, let alone read, and the few entertainment projects will naturally attract everyone's attention.

The two walked off the stage, and the guards who followed them hurriedly grabbed the horses, bows and arrows, horse pistols and other things that had been prepared and followed the two lieutenants to the venue of the class test.

"Long stacks, ten arrows, enter the middle courtyard for the top, enter the second courtyard for the second, and enter the outer courtyard for the second," the guard next to him said loudly about the content of the long stack and the judging criteria.

"Wei Chi, there are six items in the class test, in addition to the last three, there are still long stacks, mounted archery, and carbines, we might as well finish it at one time, to see who completes the time quickly, and who completes it well, who wins. Take that place as the end point, and send someone to guard it to see who rushes through first. Li Rong pointed to the distance and said.

"Okay," Wei Chi Xiu nodded without hesitation, when it came to the art of riding and archery, he was confident that he would defeat anyone who rode a thousand horses or flying horses.

At this time, more than 1,000 soldiers stood on both sides of the school field in an orderly manner under the leadership of the brigade commanders, ready to watch the performance of the two captains.

The guards had already prepared horn bows, carbines, etc., put them on their horses, and handed the foot bows to the two captains.

These bows and arrows, and horse pistols are all standard equipment of thousands of horsemen, and the foot bow is a stone bow, the arrow weighs six coins, the horse pistol is one foot and eight feet long, the wooden shaft and the gun body, and the iron spear head.

"Bang", Li Rong casually pulled the bowstring and tried how strong the one-stone bow was, and whether it could adapt to his own strength.

"Good bow," Li Rong said.

The weapons and equipment of the thousand cavalry are the best among the guards, the military expenditure comes from the emperor's inner treasury, and the weapons are also specially made by the emperor's personal order.

Take this bow as an example, it is also a mulberry wood bow body, and the mulberry wood used by Qianqi is carefully selected, with a smooth texture, vigorous and powerful, bowstrings, feather arrows, etc. are also first-class things, and there are absolutely no corners to cut corners.

Wei Chi Xiu often used these things, so that he didn't have to try the bow and arrow like Li Rong.

"If that's the case, how do we get started?" Yu Chi Xiu said quietly.

"Okay, you go and give the order, beat the drum three times, and when it comes to the third time, Captain Wei Chi and I will start." Li Rong instructed his own personal guards.

"Yes," the guard hurried to fetch a war drum.