Chapter 471 Shooting the Halberd

Yan Rou's confidence did not surprise Wang Yu, but made Liu Yu's side suspicious.

The scholars of this era are completely different from the Song and Ming dynasties, there are few pure hands without the power of the chicken, the scholars pay attention to the six arts of the gentleman, etiquette, music, archery, royal, calligraphy, and mathematics are all-round development, and the sword worn on the waist is not purely a decoration, and the bow can also lead the bow to kill the enemy.

Although Liu Yu is delicate and expensive, his attainments in archery are not low, and after a glance from afar, he can assess the difficulty of this matter.

The old man looked at Yan Rou without movement or words, but his solemn eyes were unprecedented. Yan Rou knew Liu Yu's intentions, and while adjusting the bowstring, he stepped forward, passing by the other party without a trace, and a faint voice came out of his mouth: "Don't worry, Duke Ming, Wang Yu's mind is already clear, he said that he is the same as the Chinese and the same as the peace, so what if the same is not the same?" ”

"Hmm!" Liu Yu's heart moved, the wrinkles on his face suddenly bloomed, and he only heard Yan Rou continue: "He set up this unsolvable problem, I'm afraid he is worried that things will be out of control. If he is lucky, today will be the time when his reputation will be ruined. If he really misses, he just needs to point out the trick, and he will always lose face. ”

Liu Yu didn't answer, his expression was the same, but the solemnity in his eyes still turned into peace, Yan Rou looked up to the sky and laughed, his steps turned from slow to fast, and he took a few steps to the front of the gate.

"General Wang, since you set the target, you don't mind if you take the lead, right?" Yan Rou squinted at Wang Yu and shouted with a big grin.

Although the probability of success is very low, Yan Rou can mix well on the grassland as a Han Chinese, and her tenacious temperament and flexible scheming are also essential.

He knew that Bai Ma Yi was very strong in riding and shooting, but he also had strong self-confidence, so Liu Yu deliberately pointed out the word riding and shooting before. However, after discovering Wang Yu's intentions. He felt the need to change the rules.

The accuracy of mounted archery is definitely not as good as that of infantry shooting, not to mention the range and strength of the bow, and the stability alone, it is much worse.

If he wanted to win, Yan Rou was naturally not afraid to compete with mounted archery. But he thought that he had seen through Wang Yu's intentions, and naturally thought that Wang Yu planned to be worse - as long as he couldn't shoot on both sides, the gamble would be mixed up by him. The troubles that arose before because of the reins were also easily resolved.

Thinking of this, how could he let Wang Yu get his wish?

Preemptively, it is to correct the rules without a trace. The so-called upward and downward effect, Liu Yu's subordinates. There is a little bit of his sleekness and city government on his body.

Of course, Liu Yu will use words to squeeze after the competition, but if he can hit the target, wouldn't he be very happy? When the time comes, we will have to see whether Wang Yu will tear his face and break his promise, or keep his promise and really give up Hebei. Retract back to Qingzhou.

"It's okay, Captain Yan, please take care of yourself." Since the gambling contract was proposed, Wang Yu seems to have changed into Mr. Shuijing, Sima Hui. Say everything well, nodded with a smile, not to mention the subordinate soldiers who were familiar with him, even Liu Yu and others who saw him for the first time. It feels weird, and I don't know the bottom of my heart.

"Good!" Yan Rou reined in her thoughts. looked at the halberd in the distance, and picked up the bow in his hand.

Due to the environment in which it is used, the riding bow is usually shorter, but it is not necessarily weaker than the foot bow, because the manufacturing process of the two bows is different.

The art of riding and archery originated from King Zhao Wuling. However, the method of controlling the bow is a stunt that has been passed down for more than a thousand years in the Central Plains. Making a good bow is not easier than making a good lance, and it also requires the selection of materials, glue, etc., each step is very strict and takes a long time, usually four years to get a good bow.

The so-called: winter treatment of the bow dry, spring treatment of the corner, summer treatment of tendons, autumn of all materials, cold repair appearance, wine steaming, fire section, clamping, hand tearing, slow smelting. Silk knots, dry glue, lacquered, stringed, re-tamed...... This is a fragment of the many processes involved in making a good bow, and the process of riding a bow is more complicated than a foot bow, and it is not an exaggeration to say that a good bow is worth ten thousand gold.

What Yan Rou is holding in his hand now is such a good bow. This bow was snatched from the other party when he united with the Xianbei people and killed Xing Ju that day, and I heard that it was a treasure given by the first emperor.

It is precisely because of this bow that his archery skills are truly crowned with the grassland, above the thousands of tribal warriors who have held bows since childhood. Archery may not be able to distinguish between superior and inferior, but weapons are available, which is also the main source of Yan Rou's confidence.

Yan Rou was not in a hurry to open the bow and release the arrow, but put his thumb into his mouth, and then put it up in the wind, as if he was praising someone, but those who knew how to do it knew that this was measuring the direction of the wind.

Bows and arrows are weapons that are greatly affected by the weather. For example, in heavy rain, the bowstring will become wet, not only will the range decrease, but if you barely open the bow, it is likely to break, even if it is light rain, or even just wet weather, the bow and crossbow need to be well maintained.

And in the process of use, the biggest impact on it is undoubtedly the wind direction. The headwind range is weakened, the downwind force is enhanced, and the wind coming from the side will affect the accuracy.

It's still early spring, and it's an uncertain wind, one moment it's southerly, the next it's a strong easterly wind, and it's not surprising that the next one a strong east wind blows, and occasionally it turns north.

A good archer has the most basic grasp of the direction of the wind.

Yan Rou's demeanor in the style of a master strengthened the atmosphere of this gambling fight, and the surroundings were unconsciously quiet. With different moods, people looked at the somewhat strange archers with bated breath, waiting for the critical moment to come.

I don't know how long I waited, but it seemed that the wind was a little impatient, and the chilly air suddenly stopped, as if a person was about to roar loudly to vent his dissatisfaction. There is always a brief pause before the roar comes out.

At the same time, Yan Rou, who had been closing her eyes and concentrating, moved.

His eyes opened suddenly, and he was shining; At the same time, the left hand of the bow has been raised, and the flexible right hand is as agile as an ape behind him, pulling out a feather arrow from the quiver, bending the bow, taking the arrow, between the lightning and flint, the preparation before shooting has been completed!

The process of aiming does not exist at all, standing still for so long, Yan Rou has already firmly engraved the direction of the arrow target in his heart, and years of experience have turned into energy, what he wants is just a moment without the influence of the wind!

The bow opens the full moon, the arrow is like a meteor, and the long arrow makes a sharp hiss, cutting through the sky and taking the halberd!

Someone is exclaiming, someone is cheering. Judging from the trajectory, the end point of the flight trajectory of the feather arrow is clearly in the direction of the halberd! And at this moment when the wind stopped, the momentum of the feather arrow was like a meteor piercing the night sky, and there was no sign of abating!

Under the watchful eye, the arrows and the halberd approached, and then closer, and finally overlapped...... However, in the end, it passed by the thin and curved sprig like a crescent moon.

It's just a little bit off. The crowd watching the battle near the gate even heard the subtle grinding sound of the feathers of the arrow's tail and the sharp edge of the crescent blade.

For a moment, the sound of inhalation, exclamation. Sighs, sighs of regret, staggered into one.

"I have heard that Yan Rou's name is moving, Xianbei and Wuhuan are all disrespectful, and when I see it today, it is indeed true, one hundred and fifty steps away. Raising the bow and shooting, it is still a fraction of a second, and this hundred steps through Yang Zhi is no longer enough to describe his superb archery skills. ”

"Who's to say it isn't? But how should this victory or defeat be handled? Strictly speaking. Although Yan Rou's arrow was extremely close, it still missed after all, and if Qingzhou didn't hit it, it seemed to be a tie......"

"You can't count it that way, can you? Wang Junhou didn't say that he didn't win, how can it be counted? According to common sense. None of them hit, and it seems that the closer one should be the winner...... Think about it. If there is not a halberd but an arrow stack, then the branch of the halberd is not a red heart, and the scope of the halberd is the arrow stack? Missing the target and missing the heart can't be the same thing, right? ”

"It's the pole, it's the pole." The listeners all clapped their hands and laughed.

"What Brother Zhongde said is extremely true." What is not very harmonious is that someone shouted out Cheng Yu's name, which made Cheng Yu very unhappy. But the words have been spoken, after all, they can't be taken back, even if Wang Yu is annoyed and angry, he won't be able to coax him like this, after all, the main owner is Liu Yu.

The old man is in trouble, and it's still a question whether Wang Yu can resist it, isn't it?

"General Wang, a little rough and shallow skills, are you still passable?" Liu Yu really lived up to Cheng Yu's expectations, and said with a smile.

"So-so." Wang Yuhun nodded absently.

Wang Yu refused to cooperate, and Liu Yu expected it, who saw that he was going to lose, and he would not praise the enemy, of course, Liu Yu would not just let the other party go, he pressed step by step: "Although the old man is not proficient in archery, there are many masters present, and Cheng Zhongde's argument is not unreasonable, I don't know what General Wang thinks?" ”

"What do you think? What did Mr. Cheng say? Wang Yu replied in a daze, how do you look like she is pretending to be stupid.

"Talking about him? General Wang is quite like the ancients. Liu Yu smiled more and more proudly, after all, that arrow missed, it was difficult to snatch Hebei from Wang Yu's hands with words, but then this opportunity made the other party lose face and lose momentum, but it was very promising.

He smiled and said: "Okay, the old man is not embarrassed by the general, when he was young Meng Lang, it is normal to have some unintentional mistakes." Just as the Son of Heaven is young, under the agitation of the mood, occasionally some indiscriminate rewards, which shocked the world, today's events are not surprising, not surprising. ”

This obviously refers to Sang scolding Huai, the Son of Heaven is younger than Wang Yu, and when he was named Wang Yu's official knight, he could only be regarded as a child. Although the Son of Heaven opened Chrysostom, it cannot be changed, but it can still be done to shake Wang Yu's righteous identity in terms of status, especially in combination with Wang Yu's failure to keep his promise today.

Of course, the winners and losers have not yet been completely separated, but Liu Yu really doesn't think there are any surprises. Yan Rou's arrow is a combination of luck and strength, Huang Zhong on the Qingzhou side can't play, can anyone defy the sky and win against the sky than Yan Rou who dominates the grassland?

Of course not!

Therefore, what he has to do now is to desperately squeeze Wang Yu and stir up this alliance.

In the eyes of Qingzhou's staff, this elder, who was famous for his generosity, was like a poisonous snake, constantly spitting out letters and spraying venom on his lord. If it weren't for Wang Yu's delay in sneering at each other, everyone would have drowned the old man with spitting stars.

Especially You Heng, as the number one scolder and loyal dog under Wang Yu, even the green tendons on his forehead are stretched. No one would doubt that as long as Wang Yu nodded, You Heng would pounce directly and bite Liu Yu to death.

At this moment, Wang Yu didn't have a trace of anger, but tilted his head sideways, listening to something from the guards.

Seeing this, Liu Yu was both proud and annoyed that he was neglected, and was about to make persistent efforts to ridicule Wang Yu, when he suddenly heard Wang Yu laughing: "Hahahaha, so it is, so it is, Liu Yuanjun, Mr. Cheng, please forgive me." The ear power is not very good, and the brain turns slowly, and I didn't hear what the two said clearly for a while, and I didn't expect that the two of them had already thought of this kind of situation. ”

After a pause, he took a breath, a smile on his face, and said, "Actually, it's not as complicated as you think. The general said, the winner wins, the one who doesn't lose, and the one who passes by or something, do you still want people to stand next to the halberd and measure? I really want to shoot it like Captain Yan with one arrow at a time. Isn't this meeting an archery competition? ”

After that, he didn't wait for Liu Yu and others to answer or ridicule each other, and raised his voice to break off: "Where is Ziyi? ”

"Tai Shi Ci is here!" Tai Shici didn't make a mistake this time, and stepped forward proudly.

"Go ahead." Wang Yu pointed to the painting halberd in the distance and gave an order indifferently.

"Whoa!" Tai Shi Ci hugged his fists and promised, and a personal guard had already led Huang Hu's horse, and he flew up. He took a few steps forward, then swept his horse's head and galloped in a direction parallel to the gate. Kick fine grass clippings and snow into the air.

In the smoke and dust, Tai Shici had already taken the bow from his back, but he just raised his head to feel the direction of the wind, and the bow and arrow in his hand had been drawn into a full moon.

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! "Arrows are like meteors. Meteor showers, to be exact! Tai Shi Ci actually released three arrows in a row on his horse. Shoot at the halberd in the distance!

"This is not in compliance ......" Yan Rou shouted loudly, the difficulty of riding and shooting arrows is higher than that of foot shooting, he naturally understands that Wang Yu wants Tai Shici to demonstrate, but with three arrows in a row, the chance of luck is naturally greater, which is obviously unfair.

What interrupted his exclamation was a loud 'dang' sound in the distance, it was the sound of gold and iron colliding!

"Hit!" There was an exclamation from the crowd.

"Where did you shoot?" Someone who was unwilling shouted loudly, and before the words fell, a second loud bang had already been heard, like a slap in the face, and it slapped heavily on the speaker's face.

Although it was far away, the painting halberd in the distance was still trembling by the huge force, and the one that trembled the most was the crescent moon at the tip of the painting halberd.

"Dang!"

"Click!"

At the same time as the third sound came the sound of metal overwhelmed and cracking.

What is that?

Even the rising sun seemed to feel curious, set aside the reluctant morning light, raised his eyes and looked down, and sprinkled the brilliant brilliance on both sides of the river and the entire plain without reservation.

Under the bright sun, a little silver star shines brightly, leisurely flies away from the crescent moon, draws a beautiful parabola, and finally falls between the remnants of snow and new grass, setting off the intersection of white and green more and more harmoniously.

The stars fall, the moon is broken!

The small branch of the halberd was broken by three arrows fired at the same position one after another!

Shocked to the extreme, there was no speech, the scene was silent, only the hooves of the yellow huss scattered with joy beat like war drums.

Just before someone could react, Wang Yu suddenly broke off again: "Where is Zilong?" ”

"Zhao Yun is here!"

"Go!"

"The last general obeys!" The white horse is like a dragon, the knight on the horse is as majestic as a mountain, riding a horse, galloping, bending a bow, taking an arrow, the man and horse quickly swim a round, and there are three sounds of gold and iron fighting, and the crescent moon is missing a corner.

The same action, done by different people in different orders, brings people completely different feelings. Tai Shi Ci made them feel a burst of fiery ferocity, which made people shocked, but Zhao Yun made people only feel a breeze blowing on their faces, indescribably relaxed and freehand, and handsome and graceful without explanation.

People were shocked and numb, but Wang Yu didn't mean to end there, as if he was about to dispatch the enemy, he called the names of his generals one after another.

"Where's Hansheng?"

"Huang Zhong is here!"

"Where's Komei?"

"Xu Huang is here!"

……

Numb, completely numb, the name of the five generals of Qingzhou is not a formal name, but the number five is used more in Huaxia Ming. But Wang Yu said casually today, the generals took turns to go into battle, and the painting halberd that was used as a target was ravaged into shape, which shocked everyone, but the name of the five generals was also more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

"Where is Qin Feng?" It's just that the name Wang Yu finally called out was beyond everyone's expectations, and he didn't order Yu Ban, but Qin Feng.

“…… The end will be here! Qin Feng hesitated for a moment, but finally stood up.

"Your own business, your own business, go!" It was still the same casual gesture of pointing, but Wang Yu rarely said a few more words.

"Whoa!" Qin Feng instantly understood what the lord meant, answered the promise loudly, and rode away. He didn't have the amazing archery skills of Shi Ci and others, and it was definitely not possible to shoot the halberd blade with arrows, but with his decades of bow and horse attainments, why was it difficult to shoot a halberd one hundred and fifty steps away?

This is Bai Ma Yi's opportunity to raise his eyebrows and vent the evil breath of the boundary bridge completely.

"Go!" The bow is like a full moon, the arrow is like a meteor, the light and shadow are intertwined, and the gold and iron are striking!

Qin Feng's extraordinary blow drew the most successful end to this gambling fight.