Chapter 63: The Tournament (Part II)
Zhu Cheng stroked the horse's mane and said to the horse: "Rhubarb, rhubarb, it's all up to you to win the championship this time, you have to fight for it." β
Rhubarb is the name Zhu Cheng gave to this yellow-fat horse. Zhu Youzhen ridiculed Zhu Cheng more than once for this name. However, because the yellow fat horse did not object, he came as soon as he shouted rhubarb, so the name was decided.
The yellow fat horse hissed a long time, as if to say, look at me.
Zhu Cheng rode on the horse, and as soon as his legs clamped the horse's belly, the yellow fat horse ran up.
This time it is a mobile shooting, the target is placed on the runway, and there is a horizontal line at the position of 50 steps, 100 steps, and 150 steps away from the target, and the candidates are required to shoot once on each horizontal line to test the candidates' riding and archery ability.
The yellow-fated horse galloped towards the target with four hooves. When he reached the first horizontal line, Zhu Cheng pulled the reins, and the yellow fat was reduced. He rode on his horse, put his hands on his guns, and took aim at the target and released a shot.
There was a loud "bang", the yellow fat horse was startled, and the "bang" looked up to the sky and neighed, and the person stood up. Zhu Cheng didn't pay attention and was overturned to the ground. Fortunately, Zhu Cheng usually exercises regularly, and although he fell hard, he did not hurt his muscles and bones.
It turned out that the people of Jingxi Huangzhuang took good care of the yellow fat horses, and usually kept them in the quietest stables in Huangzhuang. Brought to the examination room today, Huang Fat Ma naturally heard the sound of firecrackers and firecrackers, but it was far away, and he didn't think there was anything special. But the terrible explosion just now came out of his body, and it wasn't scared to the bottom of his nose. This is still a yellow fat horse, and it must be shocked to change to an ordinary horse.
Zhu Cheng lay on the ground for a long time and couldn't get up, Zhu Youzhen was worried about Zhu Cheng, regardless of the obstruction of his entourage, jumped in, and rushed forward to help Zhu Cheng up.
Zhu Cheng gritted his teeth and said, "Ah Jian, don't worry, I'm fine." β
Zhu Youzhen saw Zhu Cheng's painful face, tears flowed down, and said, "Brother Cheng, why don't we take the test, go back and rest." β
Zhu Cheng took a breath and said, "I don't have anything, I missed chess today, but I didn't expect that this horse had never heard a bang, and I was shocked when I heard a loud noise." β
Zhu Cheng barely stood up, and the yellow fat horse was no longer neighing and running around, but the muscles on his body were still trembling, obviously frightened.
Both the guards and the recorder arrived. The guards came to invite Zhu Youzhen out, and they saw that Zhu Youzhen was wearing a python robe, and his words were more polite.
Zhu Youjian saw that Zhu Cheng had recovered to normal, and he was afraid that it would affect his exam, so he went out obediently. But this time I walked through the door, and I didn't climb over the guardrail again.
The recorder asked, "Zhu Cheng, can you still take the exam?" β
Zhu Cheng nodded, but he didn't immediately turn over and get on the horse. I was lucky just now, I only suffered a skin injury, and then I fell down, but I didn't necessarily have such good luck. It seems that the horses of the Huangzhuang should be as familiar with the sound of fire. In Zhu Cheng's heart, the 10,000 elite soldiers he trained were all-firearms troops, and the weapons used were firearms and artillery. If the horses are not used to hearing the explosions, and the enemy does not hurt a few, and their own cavalry and chariots are overturned, then it is funny.
However, that's a later story, so let's not mention it for the time being, the key is what to do now? I can't tell the examiner that my horse can't hear the sound of fire, so let me train for three or five months and then come back to the exam. Alas, how can this horse's ears be so sharp? If only it were deaf. Deaf, there is a way, just find something to plug its ears.
Zhu Cheng's clothes are thin, of course he can't tear a piece of cloth off his body, otherwise he will become an exhibitionist. He turned over his horse, rode to the side of his cheerleading team, and said to Wang Chengen: "Quick, give me some cotton." β
Wang Chengen was about to cry and tearfully clean up the three dirty quilts, which were carefully made of fine silk and fine cotton, and they were ruined like this. However, Zhu Cheng's firearm was really powerful, and it actually shot through the double quilt. Originally, Zhu Cheng also asked Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun to arrange the quilt behind the new target, but Wang Chengen resolutely refused to hand over the quilt on the grounds that there was a gable behind the target and there would be no incident of stray bullets hurting people.
Hearing Zhu Cheng's request, Wang Chengen had the psychology of breaking the jar and destroying it, anyway, if it's broken, then let's just break it more thoroughly. He vigorously tore through the corner of the quilt, tore off a large ball of cotton from it, and handed it to Zhu Cheng.
Zhu Cheng split the cotton in two and stuffed it into the horse's ears. For the first time, the horse's ears were stuffed with such a large mass of foreign bodies, and he felt very uncomfortable, and kept shaking his head to shake the cotton out.
Zhu Cheng gently touched the horse's head and soothed the yellow fat horse. The yellow fat horse is a good horse of BMW, very humane, and when he felt Zhu Cheng's comfort, he calmed down.
Zhu Cheng took the reins, turned the horse's head, clamped the horse's belly between his legs, and the yellow fat horse ran towards the target again. Running to the first line, Zhu Cheng took the reins, raised the gun with both hands, aimed at the target, and fired a gun.
There was a loud "bang", and the horse shivered, apparently it heard the sound of a gun. However, the sound of the explosion was drowned out by heavy cotton, and the volume was reduced a lot, and the horse was not frightened.
Zhu Cheng was overjoyed, it seems that this method has worked. If you know it, you can plug the horse's ears first, and you don't have to fall in vain.
Zhu Cheng rode forward, walked to the second horizontal line, and put another gun, and then, ran to the third horizontal line and put the third gun. After the three guns were finished, he turned his horse's head, ran back to the examiner, turned over and dismounted, and said, "Candidate Zhu Cheng, after riding and shooting, please check the examiner." β
The guard pulled up the target and carried it to the examiner, and the recorder carefully checked the bullet holes and reported loudly: "Candidate Zhu Cheng, shoot four guns, all four guns, one of which has ten rings, one gun has eight rings, and two guns have seven rings." β
The audience listened calmly to the recorder's report on the results, and when they heard this, the audience burst into thunderous applause. This Zhu Cheng is really remarkable, after falling off the horse, he insisted on taking the exam, and the result was not off target, so that many people with weak perseverance were deeply educated.
Seeing that Zhu Cheng was so good at riding and shooting, the candidates behind him were also desperate, but unfortunately riding and archery skills could not be achieved with ambition. The score is closer to Zhu Cheng is Wu Xiang, he hit all three arrows, including one arrow and nine rings, one arrow eight rings, and one arrow and seven rings.
Zhang Jiyuan discussed with the deputy chief examiner for a long time, and finally decided on the shooting results, the first place Wu Xiang, the second place Zhu Cheng. The reason is that it is impossible to judge whether Zhu Cheng's ten rings are the results of the first shot or the second shot, so these ten rings are not counted. The results of fixed-point shooting and mounted archery add up, Wu Xiang has 54 rings and Zhu Cheng has 52 rings, so Wu Xiang has become the first place.
Zhu Cheng shook his head, he was not surprised by this result, fortunately he didn't test his riding skills when he rode and archery, otherwise he should have been brushed off just by falling off the horse.
The third is riding.
Riding is divided into two races, a running race and an obstacle course, both of which are similar in that the winner is the fastest to reach the finish line. The race is a three-week ride around the school field, while the obstacle course is a series of obstacles along the way.
There are a lot of candidates, and although the school field is large, it is impossible for all candidates to run together, so the exam adopts a group round-robin competition.
Zhu Cheng didn't appear first this time, he watched the game while stroking the yellow fat horse and establishing a relationship with the yellow fat horse. The yellow fat horse was full of pride, and when he saw other horses running, he was anxious, and he stomped on the ground with all four hooves and snorted violently.
Zhu Cheng took off the cotton in the horse's ears, patted the horse's body, and said, "Rhubarb, don't worry, we'll play later." You have to rest well, otherwise you will lose face if you lose. β
When Huang Cheng's words were heard, Huang Fat Ma seemed to understand something and quieted down.
Zhu Cheng looked at the arena again, and almost burst into laughter. One of the players in the field didn't seem to understand the rules of the game, and he hid in a kick, put his hands on it, and stood in the saddle again. If only he had good skills, it would have been fine, but when he stood in the saddle, he did not stand firm and fell to the ground. He hurriedly climbed on the horse and continued to move forward, but this fall and climb delayed a lot of time, and he won the penultimate place.
After running this round, it was Zhu Cheng's turn.
Zhu Cheng turned over and walked slowly to the starting point. The examiner threw a shot into the sky and signaled the beginning. Zhu Cheng clamped the horse's belly between his legs, shook the reins with both hands, and the yellow fat horse rushed out. It was already suffocating and couldn't stand it anymore, and when it saw that its master asked him to run, it withdrew and ran out.
Zhu Cheng held a horsewhip in his hand, but when he saw the yellow fat horse running fast, he was reluctant to whip it. The knight next to him kept whipping the horse, beating the horse's butt to the point of blood. But no matter how hard he fought, it was impossible to turn an ordinary horse into a BMW, so he could only watch Zhu Cheng rush to the finish line ahead of his position as a horse.
After three rounds of semi-finals, Zhu Cheng won the first place with an advantage of half a horse's head ahead of Wu Xiang.
Zhu Cheng was a little strange, Wu Xiang weighed 285 catties, what horse could carry him so fast.
Wu Xiang jumped off the horse, and Zhu Cheng looked at his horse and almost fell off the horse with laughter. It turned out that Wu Xiang's horse was about to be ridden like a camel by him - the horse's waist was a little collapsed, and the saddle squeezed the flesh on the waist to both sides, like a Bactrian camel.
Wu Xiang heard Zhu Cheng's unbridled laughter, glared angrily, and said, "Zhu Cheng, don't be complacent, I'll see how grandpa wins you in the obstacle race." β
Zhu Cheng pointed to Wu Xiang's mount, laughed, and reminded: "Wu Xiang, you should pay attention, your camel's waist is a little collapsed, when jumping over obstacles, be careful." β
Wu Xiang heard Zhu Cheng's ridicule, and was shocked and angry, surprised that although his horse ran fast, his jumping ability was not strong, and angry, Zhu Cheng ridiculed his thick flesh and heavy body.
Wu Xiang was about to ridicule each other, and when he heard the recorder announce the start of the obstacle race, he left a sentence and hurried to the competition.
Zhang Jiyuan is a six-rank military general, and he is usually used to riding a good horse, but he accidentally raised the difficulty of the obstacles. This time, it can pit many poor candidates. They poured all their possessions into buying a horse, and they were either frightened by the obstacle or jumped over it, only to be cut through the belly by a sharp obstacle and die tragically behind it.
In this round, at least half of the candidates were brushed down.
Zhu Cheng ran first without any suspense, Wu Xiang was fat, and the horse actually carried him over the high obstacles, not too slow, and only ran third.
Zhang Jiyuan discussed with the deputy examiners again, and was ready to announce the ranking of today's exam.
Wu Xiang pondered for a long time, lifting the stone lock was slightly inferior to Zhu Cheng by half a chip, winning Zhu Cheng once in shooting, and losing to Zhu Cheng in riding, one win and two losses, if there was no accident, Wu Jieyuan should have no chance with him.
Wu Xiang is a native of Liaodong, and has enlisted in the army as a lower-level military attachΓ©, and this time he took leave to go to the capital to participate in the township test, and he has already boasted that he wants to win the first place in martial arts. Now seeing Zhu Cheng gently and skillfully take away Xie Yuan, which should have belonged to him, he was unconvinced, and shouted: "Martial arts should win the championship in martial arts, what kind of ability is it to just lift the stone lock, is the enemy standing there and you can't cut it?" When I cut Jiannu in Liaodong, that kid was still breastfeeding, and I didn't accept him as a champion! β
The audience watched the excitement, and the stone locks and shooting at the beginning were very boring, and some people wanted to doze off. Later, the riding and archery and horse racing were finally more intense, but unfortunately the time was too short, and many people did not enjoy it. Now seeing the candidates making trouble, their interest has increased greatly, and they have waved their flags and shouted.
Zhu Youzhen's face was pale, and Wu Xiang's purpose was very clear, that is, to compete with Zhu Cheng. But Zhu Cheng is young and weak, how can he beat Wu Xiang, who is experienced and powerful?
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