When Liu Fang and Xu Miao came to see Gongzi early in the morning, the warrior Murong Ping also came to the barracks with his big bow on his back.

Last night, everyone drank together, and the leader of the army who had good things called at Murong Ping to try archery and martial arts with Murong Ping, and also set up a colorful head, which was in Murong Ping's arms. In this world dominated by wealthy families, those who practice martial arts must show their true skills if they want to get ahead, and martial arts competition has become the best way to show off in addition to battlefield fighting.

As a witness to the gambling contract at that time, Shi A naturally wanted to accompany Murong Ping to the military camp. Some time ago, Shi A was very "honored" to accompany Gongzi's troops to train as soldiers, so for the distribution of the garrison in the city, it was a door clear, and he directly led Murong Ping to the place where archers usually practice archery.

After Sima of the Beimen Army, who proposed the competition, returned to the camp last night, he specially gathered several military marquis, tun commanders, and team leaders under his command, and ordered them to carefully select a few archers who shoot arrows accurately, and then select some soldiers who can fight as the "seed players" for tomorrow's competition.

Jun Sima attaches so much importance to this matter, of course, it is not just for the sake of winning or losing. Although the agreed bet is "payed" by the son, it must be taken seriously, and the face of the hundreds of brothers in the North Gate camp must not be lost.

Entering the camp, the field, targets, and arrows used in the competition were all ready, and the soldiers in the camp all came to watch in neat clothes, and they were surrounded by rows and columns, just waiting for the two sides to officially begin.

Sima Chong of the North Gate Army and Shi Ah hugged their fists and said: "Murong Zhuang, Commander Shi, today's competition is divided into two games, the first is a comparison of archery skills, and the second is a comparison of hand-to-hand combat skills, the specific rules and requirements are very simple, that is, to see who can shoot accurately and far, and see who has a large number of people to fight with hand-to-hand, I don't know if it is possible?" ”

Murong Ping and Shi A nodded together and accepted Jun Sima's proposal.

"Now let's start the archery competition, please enter the competition!"

The "off-court referee" Shi A gave an order, and Murong Ping and the four archers came to the table with the longbow and quiver.

"Fifty paces away, ten arrows per person, all of them are shot within twenty breaths, and the one with the most targets wins!"

"The fight begins!"

As soon as Shi Ah finished speaking, the four archers quickly picked up the longbow on the table, and very skillfully drew a feather arrow from the quiver, aiming at it, winding it, and shooting at the same time, almost without distinguishing between front and back......

"Whew!" The sound of feathered arrows breaking through the air sounded, and the four archers accurately hit the bull's-eye. The first round of arrows is fired, and the archers move swiftly to start the second round of retrieving, arranging, winding, and then another round of shooting.

When the four crossbowmen were methodically shooting round by round, Murong Ping didn't even shoot the first arrow, but took the longbow and carefully bent the back of the bow and pulled the bowstring, feeling the range of force that the longbow could bear, and didn't seem to be in a hurry to shoot.

Shi Ah made it clear just now that ten arrows must be shot within twenty breaths, otherwise it will be considered a failure. This is also the basic requirement of archers in their usual training, not only to ensure the accuracy of shooting, but also to increase the speed of shooting, otherwise how to achieve "fire suppression" on the battlefield?

When the four archers shot the fifth arrow, Murong Ping finally took the arrow and wound it and began shooting.

By the time the four archers had shot the ninth arrow, Murong Ping had already shot ten feather arrows and swung the longbow back on top of several cases.

The onlookers just now only saw Murong Ping holding a longbow steadily in his left hand, and his right hand was like taking red dates from his pocket, one after another with feather arrows, without a pause in between!

A cow who can do this kind of difficult maneuver must not only have outstanding arm strength, but also maintain a high degree of stability, all based on the feeling formed over the years, and shoot directly without aiming! In other words, Murong Ping is playing "blind sniping".

After the ten arrows were fired, the soldiers in charge of target inspection quickly came to the front of the target and carefully counted and reported the target.

"Left target, perfect in the middle!"

"The second target on the left, perfect in the middle!"

"Intermediate target, perfect in ten!"

"The right target, the perfect one!"

"The second target on the right, perfect in the middle!"

The target of Murong Plane is the one in the middle.

The distance of fifty steps, in the middle of ten, is really simple for Murong Ping. However, the fact that the four archers were able to do everything shows that they have some real skills.

In ancient times, taking one foot was called "step", taking two feet was called "step", and there was a famous saying called "no accumulation of steps, no way to thousands of miles", which mentioned the step and step. Therefore, one step in ancient times is actually two steps in the modern sense. In the Qin and Han dynasties, the distance of one step was defined as six feet, and one foot at that time was about 21 to 22 centimeters, so the distance of one step at the end of the Han Dynasty was about one meter three today.

The distance of fifty paces, almost sixty-five meters, although it does not seem far, it is not easy to hit all ten shots. Because bow and arrow shooting is different from pistol shooting in later generations, not only is there a big gap in shooting stability, but also the influence of wind is more obvious after the feather arrow is fired, and the accidental factor increases greatly.

In the archery competition of the Olympic Games, the maximum distance between the male athlete and the target surface was 90 meters, and the width of the target reached 1.2 meters! It is important to know that the athletes use the recurve bow with high-tech materials, which not only has more energy storage, but also has more reliable stability, but it is often seen that athletes shoot arrows into the empty space outside the target ring!

Shi A then announced: "This round is not a winner, let's move the target to eighty steps away, the same ten arrows, thirty breaths ** end, the competition begins!" ”

One breath is the time it takes to breathe, and normal people are about four to five seconds, and thirty breaths is one hundred and fifty seconds, that is, two and a half minutes.

In this round of competition, because Murong Ping was already familiar with the longbow used in the competition, he moved quickly, and it only took less than half the time of others to shoot ten arrows out of the court early.

When the other four all shot arrows, the soldiers who tested and shouted the target entered the field again, and in a short time the results of each of them were shouted out.

"One target on the left, six out of ten!"

"Two targets from the left, seven out of ten!"

"Intermediate target, perfect in ten!"

"The right target, eight out of ten!"

"The second target on the right, seven out of ten!"

In this round, Murong Ping won completely!

It seemed that there was no need to continue the comparison, but Shi Ah proposed: "Put the target one hundred and twenty steps away!" In this competition, there is still ten arrows to shoot, and there is no time limit! ”

One hundred and twenty steps, that is, one hundred and fifty-six meters, this is already the average maximum effective killing distance of the longbow in the army, if it is further away, not only will the feather arrow be light and weak, but also because of the influence of air resistance, the accuracy will plummet. The so-called 100 steps through Yang means that he can hit the target at this range, and he can be called a marksman in the army.

After hearing Shi A's words, Murong Ping picked up the longbow and said with a smile: "Commander Shi, if I break this bow later, don't let me pay for it!" ”

Shi Ah also smiled and said: "Despite your efforts, there are hundreds of top-grade longbows in the army, and I am not afraid that Murong Zhuangshi will break it!" ”

The competition continued, and the onlookers craned their necks one by one, looking forward to the next more exciting scene.

"Whew!" The sound of arrows breaking through the air sounded, but it was Murong Ping who shot the first arrow.

Because the distance was too far and there was no time limit, Murong Ping also became cautious, and after each arrow, he would put down his bow to adjust his breathing and recover some physical strength. As for the four army shooters on both sides, they were a little tired at this time, and they were struggling to support themselves. The two rounds of archery just now had already consumed a lot of their strength, and now they were on the highest difficulty all of a sudden, which was a great test of their physical strength and will.

Time seemed to have slowed down a lot, and by the time all four archers had finished shooting their arrows, Murong Ping was already chatting with Shi A on the side.

The number of soldiers who tested the target entered the field, but the number of soldiers who shouted the target was doubled, because the distance was too far, so they had to use the method of relay shouting to transmit the shooting results to the front.

"One target on the left, two out of ten!"

"Two targets from the left, three out of ten!"

"Intermediate target, perfect in ten!"

"One target on the right, two out of ten!"

"Two targets on the right, one out of ten!"

This time the data comparison is far more than the previous two. Murong Ping still hit all ten shots, while the four archers who played the best only hit three arrows, and one of them almost missed the target!

It can't be blamed on the four soldiers for their poor archery, but this distance is too difficult, and it has far exceeded their usual training requirements. The assessment standard for training archers in the army is to be qualified to hit the target at fifty paces, and the excellent standard is to hit the target stably at eighty paces, and to be able to hit the target at a distance of one hundred paces, that is, the best archers, not to mention that this time it is still a distance of one hundred and twenty paces.

Archers are the most difficult to train among all the infantry classes, and it takes about three months to train a qualified crossbowman, and at least a year and a half to train a qualified archer! Like the four archers who participated in the competition today, they are all veterans who have been in the army for more than seven years and have about five years of archery experience.

There is no doubt that when the competition came here, Murong Ping had won the game without any suspense with his amazing archery skills, and he also won the respect and admiration of everyone in the field.

However, Shi A seemed to be deliberately trying to make things difficult for Murong Ping today, and even said: "Murong Zhuangshi, I see that you have never used the big bow you carried when you came, why don't you take this opportunity to open the eyes of your brothers?" ”

Murong Ping nodded in agreement and said, "Since Commander Shi has this proposal, Ping should do his best. Ask the soldier to move the target one hundred and fifty paces away! ”

"One hundred and fifty steps?!" When Shi Ah heard this, he couldn't help but be shocked.

"One hundred and fifty steps!" Murong repeated calmly.

Since Murong Ping took the initiative to make such a terrifying request, Shi A would not object, after all, the better he performed, the more attention Gongzi would pay attention to, and the more face he would have when he turned back.

After a while, the target was moved by the soldiers to a position of one hundred and fifty paces, that is, about two hundred meters. In this era, the so-called land of one arrow, that is, one hundred and thirty steps, was considered the ultimate range of the bow and arrow. On the frontal battlefield, the commanding officer had to stand one stone's throw away from the enemy's advance in order to ensure his own safety, but Murong Ping asked to put the target one hundred and fifty paces away, which was twenty steps beyond one arrow!

Don't you dare to underestimate these twenty steps, if you are not careful with the enemy's generals and stand within the range of these twenty steps, what will be the result?

At this time, the black and white target is already a little blurred, and it is simply an unbelievable thing to shoot at such a long distance.

Murong Ping finally picked up the big black bow he had brought, took out a carved feather arrow that was slightly thicker than the arrows used in the army and three inches longer from the quiver he was carrying, and put it on the bowstring steadily.

Breath-holding, arm extension, wrist lifting, string pulling, finger release, ......, each movement is smooth and natural, with great visual impact.

The moment the black feather arrow was released, it shot out with a "whoosh", making it impossible to see its trajectory at all.

One arrow was fired, and after a moment, a second arrow was fired.

3rd & 4th Branch...... Murong Ping had been shooting ten arrows, and his forehead began to sweat faintly, and finally stopped.

"Start the target inspection, report the target!" Shia's voice rang out in the empty shooting range.

Not long after, the sound of soldiers relaying and shouting targets was heard in the distance.

"Target detection completed, nine out of ten!"

"Target detection completed, nine out of ten!"

When the sound reached this side of the venue, everyone who heard it was shocked.