Therefore, the ancient East Asian cavalry was generally not a simple light cavalry or heavy cavalry, when the opponent used foot archers to confront it, the cavalry attacked; When the opponent resists with a dense and well-organized infantry phalanx, the cavalry adopts a circle around the enemy phalanx, shoots the enemy's infantry's face, ribs and other armor gaps with large bows and heavy arrows at close range, and waits for the enemy's phalanx to loosen the formation and then use cavalry or dismounted knights to carry out a brave attack. Under this tactic, there were very high demands on the cavalry's accurate shooting and individual equestrian martial arts. Therefore, it is recorded in ancient Chinese history books: "The northerners are strong, and they hold three battles on their horses, and they gallop like flying." The three battles mentioned here refer to the three kinds of weapons held by the cavalry, such as long soldiers, short soldiers, and bows and arrows, and the ongoing female direct shooting willow activity reflects the exquisite equestrian, archery, and martial arts of the female straight knights.

While Zhao Wang and the two were talking, they suddenly heard a burst of cheers from the crowd, Zhao Liangsi raised his head and saw the onlookers cheering loudly to a female straight knight who was entering the arena. Wang Huan showed a strange look on his face, and the sticky appearance next to him explained with a smile: "It's the Wushu kid who is going to appear!" ”

Before Zhao Liangsi sent the envoy, he had carefully studied the main nobles of the upper echelons of the Jin people, and when he heard the name of Wushu, he reacted that he was the fourth son of the Jin Emperor Wanyan Aguta, and couldn't help asking: "The fourth prince also wants to perform in person?" ”

"That's nature!" Sticky Han said with a smile: "Although there is a distinction between the high and the low in my Dajin, there is only a difference between the upper and lower in the army. Come into battle, don't say that it is the fourth prince, even if the Great Emperor Yanjing wants to personally take the battle formation and kill the enemy with a bow. Don't say that the four princes, even His Majesty the Great Emperor may also participate! ”

"Your Majesty the Great Emperor?" Zhao Liangsi frowned, and at this time, two drums sounded in his ears, which meant that it was about to be the turn of the vultures. Everyone's eyes were cast to the middle of the field, only to see Wushu struggling to drive the war horse under his crotch, rushing along the gallop, and there was a slight exclamation from the crowd. Generally speaking, in order to shoot the wicker as accurately as possible, the archers will slow down the speed of their mounts when entering a section of the road close to the wicker, so that it is easier to pick up the broken willow after shooting the wicker, of course, this difficulty is very great, more than 30 female straight knights who have just participated in the competition have shot more than 20 of the wicker, and only a few of the four people who can shoot the wicker and pick it up.

With a "whoosh" sound, the sharp shovel-shaped arrow cut the wicker on the mound into two sections, and the crowd let out a burst of cheers, and before the cheers subsided, the vultures leaned down quickly, stretched out their arms to pick up the broken wicker, and the crowd immediately erupted into a higher cheer.

"Good skills!" Zhao Liangsi clapped his hands and praised, but a thin layer of sweat oozed from his forehead, and he thought to himself: "These barbarians are really difficult to deal with, it seems that you have to get along well after retrieving Youyan, don't tease, otherwise I'm afraid it will cause a big disaster!" ”

However, after picking up the wicker, the Wushu did not beat the horse out of the arena like the others, but accepted the cheers of the spectators, but kicked the horse twice in the belly, speeding up his mount, and then he turned around, pulled his bow with his left hand and aimed it at the wicker on the other side of the mound, and released the bowstring.

"Wow!" There was another burst of cheers from the crowd, and even the female nobles sitting on the earthen platform were excited, and even warriors like them who were skilled in bows and horses did not often see such a good show, and these people, who were not so accustomed to hiding their feelings, jumped up, shouted the name of the vulture, and waved their arms. Zhao Liangsi noticed that even Wanyan Aguda himself smiled, and twisted his beard with his right hand with satisfaction, looking triumphant.

But soon the cheers stopped as if they had been cut off by a knife, and it turned out that when Wushu leaned down to pick up the broken willow, not only did one of the belts on the saddle loosen for some reason, but the heavy body in heavy armor immediately fell from the horse that was advancing at high speed, and rolled on the ground for a dozen times before stopping, splashing dust all over the sky.

Zhao Liangsi and Wang Huan both looked at the scene in surprise, and then they saw Wanyan Aguda jump from the throne and rush towards the Wushu who was still lying on the ground.

"I can't imagine that this Yidi dog and sheep also has a heart of pity!" Wang Huan shook his head and said, Zhao Liangsi was about to remind his colleagues to pay attention to what was happening, but he was stunned by what happened in the field. I saw him raise his leather whip and slash his head at the vultures that were getting up from the ground, and the vultures neither dodged nor resisted, but just bowed their heads to bear it. Zhao Liangsi looked around in surprise, only to see that the female nobles on both sides had calm faces, looking like they were taken for granted.

"This, this, why did the Great Emperor whip Shiro-kun?" Due to excessive surprise, Zhao Liangsi stammered a little.

Sticky Han said with a smile: "According to the law of female straightness, if you dress improperly, you will have to cut off your head if you fall from your horse in battle!" ”

"But this is a willow shooting celebration, not on the battlefield?"

"Yes, so the emperor just whipped with a leather whip, otherwise he would be serving with a knife and axe!"

"But the vultures are the fourth prince?" Zhao Liangsi asked in surprise: "It's a noble person." How can it be compared to ordinary people? ”

"So what?" Mu Han asked rhetorically: "It's true that Wushu is the fourth son of the Great Emperor, but on the battle array, will the Khitan dog not shoot arrows at him because of his noble status?" Don't say it's him, even if the emperor himself violates the military law, he will be whipped! ”

"What?" Zhao Liangsi was stunned by what Sticky Han had just said, although Huaxia has a saying that "the prince violates the law and the common people are guilty of the same crime", but in fact, it is more in line with the reality of the Confucian "relatives and respect", not to mention the Taizu children like Wushu, even if it is a certain commander and Lingzhi in the Great Song Army, it is difficult to control their heads, let alone openly execute their sons in front of everyone like Wanyan Aguta.

Just as Zhao Liangsi was stunned, Wanyan Aguda had already whipped more than 20 Wushu whips in everyone, and Wushu only bowed his head without saying a word. After beating his son, Wanyan Aguda asked people to bring their own war horses, and did it again according to the methods of the vultures, he completed everything perfectly, and returned to the earthen platform with two broken willows, winning the cheers of the onlookers.

"The Great Emperor really shot a miracle, which made the ministers breathtaking!" Zhao Liangsi hurriedly got up and said with a smile.

"That's it!" Wanyan Ah Gu threw the two broken willows to the ground, shook his head and sighed: "It's not as good as before, a certain family didn't leave the bow when he was young, and where he could see it, he could get the bow with a bow, which was like now, and he had to be careful, he was really unforgiving!" ”

Zhao Liangsi said with a smile: "Although the emperor is very old, his children are all heroes, I think the talented Shilangjun is a good skill, and someone will definitely inherit the great cause." ”

"Then you will be able to make auspicious words!" Wanyan Ah Gu laughed loudly, and then his face became gloomy: "But a certain family is now over fifty years old, even if it is said that it will be dead, it is not for nothing, but Ah Shi (the nickname of Emperor Liao Tianzuo) has not been obtained, and a certain family will not be blinded!" ”

Zhao Liangsi heard that he had already talked about the meat, and hurriedly responded: "Song and Jin have formed an alliance on the sea, and they will definitely be able to capture Emperor Liao alive." ”

Wanyan Aguda nodded: "Exactly, after I break through the capital and raze the Liao Emperor's temple, it will be convenient for the emperor of the Southern Dynasty to form an alliance, and your envoy can rest assured, my Aguda will speak every sentence, and it will never change!" ”

Zhao Liangsi was overjoyed when he heard this, he had just seen that Jin Ren was so strong and disciplined, and he was already scared in his heart. He knew that although the female straight man was brave and fierce, she was simple, and she rarely regretted her words. With this promise, it can be said that most of the matter of Jinglu Youyan has become a fugitive, not to mention that on the side of the Liao, even on the side of the Southern Dynasty, I have heard all kinds of disdainful words. Some people say that he is a villain who seeks profit, and some people simply say that he is a villain who provokes a big country for his own benefit; Others say that he was a secret envoy of the Jin State, and he was heavily bribed by the Jin people to attack the Liao State. In the face of these various rumors, Zhao Liangsi knew very well in his heart that the only reliance on his safety was the support of Tong Guan and Huizong, but neither Huizong nor Tong Guan was an object worth relying on, and his only way out was to make a great achievement that made the people of the world speechless - to restore Youyan, if the Sea Alliance succeeded, all the attacks and grudges behind it would come to naught. At that time, the Great Song Dynasty, his own family, and even the entire Han people of Youyan will get rid of this dangerous situation at present, and he will be the hero of all this. Speaking from the heart, Zhao Liangsi's flight to the north certainly had a personal reason for fame, but he did not do it just for his own selfish interests, in a sense, he was more for the interests of his own family and even the entire Yandi Han people.

Since Yandi was occupied by the Khitans in the fifth dynasty, the Han people of Yandi were faced with the problem of how to survive when the Central Plains Dynasty was unable to send troops to repel foreign invasions. After the Liao people adopted the official system in the south and north to ensure the economic and political interests of the Han people in Yandi, the Han people in Yandi have gradually accepted the reality of Liao rule, especially after Liao Xingzong accepted the suggestion of Liu Liufu of Yan, he used the method of forcing the Song people to cut off the southern land in exchange for the Northern Song Dynasty to increase the annual coin, and then use this annual currency to replace the Yan people's taxation, so that the tax burden of the Yandi Han people at that time was much lower than that of the Song people in Hebei. In fact, the Yandi Han people, especially the local Han people, have already recognized the rule of the Liao State. The Northern Song Dynasty hoped that with the common culture, the Han Wang Shi of Yandi would look at the scenery as soon as he arrived, which was just a kind of paranoia.

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