With the arrival of the slack season after the autumn harvest, the competition of the Autumn Bow and Arrow Society, which Gao Huaiyuan had already planned, also began to sound the gong.

This is a rare lively event in Daye County over the years, even a civil official like Liu Zhixian, because he was in a good mood during this time, he came to watch the competition of the bow and arrow clubs in various townships with great interest.

This time, he did not hesitate to gather some rich people in Daye County in the name of Xue Yan, and together took out a thousand yuan as a bounty, to reward the winner of the first prize, such a heavy reward in the eyes of the township warriors, but a super big pie, all excited about it, the heads of the township bow and arrow clubs and the archers have sharpened their knives, to win the first place in this competition, and have a bumper harvest of fame and fortune.

After more than half a year of training, the township bow and arrow clubs have produced some good hands, and after hearing the news of the autumn competition, these people are also busy carrying out the so-called intensive training, so before the competition, they are all angry bullfights generally assemble in the temporary school field outside Daye County, waiting for the coming of the gong.

There are a total of twelve townships and towns in Daye County, not counting the county government archer team under Gao Huaiyuan, each of whom sent twenty people to participate in the competition.

The project of the competition is also very simple, that is, a competition of archery, take the first place of a group, take another individual first, two competitions of offensive and defensive skills, the same is to pay attention to the cooperation of the group, of course, there are individual performances, divided into wrestler awards, the comparison is strength, who has the greatest strength who wins, and finally there is a fist and foot competition, but also to take a first place out, give rewards.

The awards are very rich, Gao Huaiyuan originally planned to set up a ranking of swords, guns and martial arts, but Liu Zhixian and others objected, saying that once the knife and gun are used, it is inevitable that there will be no casualties, for the sake of safety, it is better not to conduct such a competition, so Gao Huaiyuan had to give up and set up such an award for the bow and arrow clubs in various townships to send personnel to compete.

According to Gao Huaiyuan's requirements, the Bow and Arrow Club can not only train the archery of the villagers, but also practice from all aspects, which not only practice the skills of fists and feet, knives and guns, but also practice the method of offensive and defensive cooperation, basically from the actual combat to carry out a more comprehensive training of the villagers, the purpose is of course very simple, is to hope that if these villagers go into battle one day, they will not become a rabble.

The autumn competition is also a method that Gao Huaiyuan discussed with Ji Xiancheng at the beginning, the purpose is to stimulate the villagers in the bow and arrow clubs in the townships to pay attention to this matter, and the purpose of setting up heavy rewards is also like this, that is, I hope that through this method, the people will be encouraged to practice martial arts, and gradually in the area of Daye County, subtly cultivate a strong folk style, which will only benefit the Han people in the future!

Therefore, Gao Huaiyuan has worked this matter regardless of blood, and has advanced the matter to such a point, and finally reviewed his credit for the past half a year.

In the past six months or so, for his performance as an official, Gao Jian, his father who is far away in Shaoxing, has also been paying attention, constantly correlating with him, urging him to be his county lieutenant in peace and stability, don't look for trouble, for these things he did, he was quite unimpressed, not very happy, but after all, he was far away in Shaoxing, and he stared at Gao Huaiyuan's approach a little beyond his reach, so he sent someone to Ji Xiancheng to send a letter, asking Ji Xiancheng to restrain Gao Huaiyuan, and the result was that Ji Xiancheng has now completely fallen to Gao Huaiyuan, turned a blind eye to Gao Jian's instructions, and colluded with Gao Huaiyuan to confuse Gao Jian, the old man.

However, Gao Jian's situation of Gao Huaiyuan found out through other channels is still quite gratifying for Gao Jian, Gao Huaiyuan Anyway, in the past six months or so, he has mixed well on the ground in Daye County, whether it is the handling of the relationship between colleagues or the reputation in the countryside, it is quite good, although he does not agree with Gao Huaiyuan's promotion of the establishment of a private bow and arrow club, but for his overall performance, it is quite gratifying, so he is gradually relieved.

With the sound of an earth-shattering gong, Gao Huaiyuan, as the host, announced the start of the competition, such a grand event is rare in Daye County, the last time Zhang Cheng, Cao Laosan and other bandits were executed, the grand occasion was presented again, the people in the city have poured out of the city to watch the competition of the Bow and Arrow Society, and even the people of the townships have many people who do not hesitate to put down their work and go to the county to cheer for the archers of their Bow and Arrow Society.

The archers of the twelve archery clubs lined up, appeared in the school field, each stood straight in the field, although they were not wearing armor, but each was also wearing a new dress, looking very spiritual, such a scene, the township leaders did not want their township people to come out and be embarrassed, and did not hesitate to take out the money, tailor-made for each person, showing the strength of their township bow and arrow club, trying to overwhelm the other party in momentum first.

But when these twelve teams were pulled out and stood together, they were really a little evenly matched, and it was not easy for people to see what they looked like from their appearance, and which team could win.

Liu Zhixian also attended with great interest today as a county parent official, and was invited out by Gao Huaiyuan, a good speech, said a lot of encouraging words to come out, of course, he had to boast about his political achievements, put some color on his face, and by the way, he also praised Gao County, which was an affirmation of Gao Huaiyuan's work during this time.

As Liu Zhixian was complacent in the stands, someone served tea over, and he sat down with a group of officials such as the county minister, the lord Bo, and the priest, and Gao Huaiyuan stood up again and told the rules of the game.

The first competition is archery, each team of archery club sent five people to participate, no one five arrows, after the shooting, the top three are selected for the finals, and then the final team first place is determined, and then the top five individuals with the best results are selected for individual competitions to determine the top of the individual.

The team competition is very simple, each participating archery club team is equipped with a target in front, the archer is fifty steps away from the target, after shooting, whose target has the most arrows, of course, Gao Huaiyuan also ingeniously drew a ring on the target, and took out the set of target paper in the future, if the number of arrows in the province is the same, there will be no victory.

There is a special person who is responsible for recording the number of rings of each person, so that you can take out the top few rankings, such a competition is not difficult, but when it comes to the individual competition, there is a moving target, and it is not easy to shoot the moving target!

As the competition began, each team immediately selected the best archers in their archery club and entered the arena, and were led to their respective targets, and then began to shoot arrows in turn, and someone specially recorded their results.

Because it is the first time to carry out such a game, so the difficulty is not large, and the rules of the game are relatively simple, after a round of competition, the twelve teams have shot the prescribed arrows, and soon the results were counted, the cheers of the people watching outside the stadium are also one after another, lively and extraordinary, many people cheer for their own optimistic teams, and even women come to watch the biggest event in Daye County in recent years, and it is not lively inside and outside the field.

The only thing that Gao Huaiyuan didn't expect was that there were gambling houses involved in this competition, and they set up gambling games outside the stadium for a long time, so that the guys who like gambling buy those teams they like to bet on, and then according to the odds, those who buy win money, and those who don't win will naturally lose their money.

Gao Huaiyuan also only found out about this matter that day, Xing Zhutou's gang of guys hid from him, and secretly ran to bet, angry Gao Huaiyuan secretly scolded, this time inadvertently won a big opportunity to make money for the gambling house, and made up his mind that after this matter is over, settle accounts with the owner of the gambling house, and say that he will knock him out and make up for the loss of his spirit!

The three teams with the best results were immediately selected, such a result is very fair, winning is winning, losing is losing, no one has anything to say, the result is that the morale of the three selected teams is high, the losing team beats their chests, a look of frustration, and those who bet on the wrong guys are even more sad, have tore off the betting credentials in hand, looking for a place to lick the wounds.

Among the three teams, Gaojiazhuang's team is naturally indispensable, this team was trained by Gao Huaiyuan sent by Zhou Jun, if he can't even enter the top three, it is estimated that Gao Huaiyuan does not need to be reprimanded, Zhou Jun himself found a place to crash to death!

For the performance of Gaojiazhuang's bow and arrow club, Gao Huaiyuan is very satisfied, Zhou Jun's own archery skills are good, plus Gaojiazhuang is their land, and the selected township warriors also obey the orders, plus there is a master such as Zhou Hao from time to time to point out, the level is naturally quite good, and the selected arrows are all good shooters in the bow and arrow club, all 25 arrows are on target, none of them miss the target, in the first round of the competition, they stand out, beyond the second and third place a few arrows, dare not ask the first place, At the very least, it can be said that if nothing else, it can be regarded as a victory.

At this time, people turned their attention to the inconspicuous Gaojiazhuang Bow and Arrow Society, some people pondered, regretted and wanted to slap themselves, the Gao County Lieutenant was born in the army, and the people who repeatedly made military exploits in front of the army, although there are not many people who have seen his skills, but it is rumored that the Gao County Lieutenant is absolutely skilled, and Gaojiazhuang is the place where the Gao County Lieutenant's home is located, if you can't train a few decent archers, wouldn't you be laughing and generous? So the gamblers who didn't bet on the Gaojiazhuang Bow and Arrow Club before will regret it at this time.

As expected, in the next competition, Gaojiazhuang's Bow and Arrow Club really won the competition, took the lead, and won the other teams with a convincing heart.

The final is not as simple as the preliminary round, not only there are fifty steps of fixed targets to shoot, but also a hundred steps away from the fixed target competition, nine buckets of hard bow shooting fifty steps, it is good to aim, but if you want to shoot a target a hundred steps away, it is not so simple, at this time it is not only the eyesight and arm strength, but also the feeling of the bow and arrow, to put it bluntly, in addition to the accuracy of the aim, but also to feel the influence of the wind, as well as the grasp of the time of shooting, the more difficult is not to use direct aiming, but to use the angle of upward shooting, the bow and arrow as far as possible, in this way, If you don't control the force well, it will be much more difficult for the arrow to hit the target.

With the sound of the drums, the archers of the three teams of the Bow and Arrow Club took turns to go into battle again, still using turns to shoot arrows, fifty steps of fixed targets are good to say, everyone is not far behind, but when shooting a target a hundred steps away, there is a huge gap, the experienced Zhou Jun They are proficient in the skills of long-range shooting in front of the formation, and these valuable experience is passed on to the archers of the Bow and Arrow Society, after each person has five arrows, although the arrows and arrows are not on target, at least more than half of the targets, and the other two teams competing for the top team are much more miserableAfter the twenty-five arrows are shot, there are very few people who hit the target, and the arrows sent either fall in the distance, or fall in front of the arrow target, so that the group archery competition, the Gaojiazhuang Bow and Arrow Society is the best to take the lead, attracting a cheer in the field.

Gao Huaiyuan nodded slightly, expressing his satisfaction with Zhou Jun, Zhou Jun strode to the front of the stands, leaned over and saluted Liu Zhixian and the others in the stands.

"I didn't expect that our Daye County is also a place where the dragon and the tiger are hidden! Now in just half a year, so many good archers can emerge, if this continues, why worry about my homeland of the Great Song Dynasty! Come! Reward! Liu Zhixian was also in high spirits today, seeing that there were so many good shooters in Daye County, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion, and stood up excitedly and waved his hand to let Zhou Jun stand up, and said loudly to the onlookers below.

After hearing this, Gao Huaiyuan was quite emotional, in his opinion, a civil official like Liu Zhixian, who was cautious all day long, had already cut off the idea of recovering the old land, but today it seems that he is still wrong, most of the Han people, for the idea of looking north to the country, will never give up, the north that raised the Chinese nation, will never be forgotten by the Han people, even if it is a person like Liu Zhixian, there is still the ideal of recovering the old land in his heart, but now because of the failure of the Kaixi Northern Expedition, the Song people are demoralized, Coupled with the promotion of compromise policy after Shi Miyuan took charge, many people gradually hid this enthusiasm in their hearts, today's scene, in the end, still can't help but stimulate the blood of literati like Liu Zhixian, but unfortunately, now let alone the restoration of the old land, I am afraid that the Southern Song Dynasty will never have a chance again!

At the end of the team competition, someone reported the results of the previous count, and the names of the top five archers were reported, and the five people were called out and came to the bottom of the stands for a medical examination.

Two of the five archers are archers from Gaojiazhuang, including Zhou Jun himself, who is now nominally a strong man from the old mansion of the Gao family, so he is qualified to participate in such a competition.

In addition to him and another archer from the Gaojiazhuang Bow and Arrow Club, the other three are from different archery clubs, and their archery skills are good, and the reason why one of them failed to enter the team finals is mainly because he was dragged down by his peers, which led to his hind legs, and his strength should not be underestimated, it can be said that these five people basically represent the higher level of people who are good at archery in Daye County, of course, the premise is that a master of Gao Huaiyuan's level does not end the game!

Gao Huaiyuan first praised the five finalists, and then announced the rules of the competition, the rules of the individual competition are not complicated, in addition to the fifty steps and one hundred steps of fixed targets and added a consideration of shooting targets, Gao Huaiyuan also wanted to have a riding and archery competition, but there are few people who can ride horses, and even decent horses can not find a few, so they had to give up and simplify the way of the competition.

Even so, after increasing the activity target, the difficulty has strengthened a lot again, and the competition of fixed targets is not very difficult for five high-level archers like them, three arrows per person, after shooting, Zhou Jun actually only ranked third, the first two in the number of rings, and also grabbed ahead of Zhou Jun.

And the next moving target, no one dared to carry the target for them to shoot, if they were not careful, the person carrying the target would be shot over, so Gao Huaiyuan found another way, pulled a rope in the air, hung a target on it, and used manpower to control the pull, and the erratic target increased the difficulty at once.

Shooting dead objects is much simpler than shooting moving things, which is a matter of considering the archer's true skills, and if you are a little bit worse, let alone shooting the bull's-eye, even the edge of the target should not be missed.

Such a peculiar competition suddenly raised the appetite of the onlookers, and everyone couldn't help but start to quiet down, hold their breath, and look towards the field.

Gao Huaiyuan sat in the stands and felt a little drowsy, a competition like this, for a master like him, there is really nothing to look forward to, if such a target can't be missed, it will be really disappointing!

But such a competition aroused the interest of civil officials like Liu Zhixian, and a group of people stood up, craned their necks and looked into the field.

The atmosphere of this competition is more tense than when the group competition, for the contestants, there is a kind of pressure invisibly, there is a shooter who has good archery, first on the field, looking at the target flickering in the air, the arm trembled, after taking the arrow and opening the bow, aiming for a long time, the result of the arrow out, the arrow is almost desperate, this archer even if he is deflated, the remaining two arrows are even more outrageous, one arrow did not hit the target, and then he left the field in disgrace and hid in the crowd.

The defeat of the first person obviously affected the performance of the second person, this person also shot three arrows, but only one arrow was shot at the side of the dangling target, and he was about to be eliminated, so he threw his bow and arrow in frustration and strode into the team.