Marquis Weiyuan and the Five Princes walked side by side, followed by Zhong Zibin and Gu Shinian, followed by Yan Changxin and Xiao Yao.

Then Xiao Lei came out with other soldiers who participated in the competition, as well as some other senior generals from Shanhaiguan, to accept everyone's cheers.

Twelve targets have been lined up, each three feet apart and placed in a line.

A hundred steps away, about twelve zhang away, there are also people who put twelve quivers in the designated position, as for who stands where, it depends on how Wei Yuanhou arranges.

Wei Yuanhou didn't talk much in the barracks, and seeing that Xiao Yao and Wang Zijie had already come out of the ranks and stood up, they just let them go over and stand in turn and were elected.

Zhong Zibin stood in the first place, Xiao Yao in the second place, and the other ten teams stood in turn. With Wei Yuanhou's order to "start", everyone opened their bows and set up arrows, and flew towards the arrow target with a "whoosh".

Ten arrows is not much, but in a moment, everyone has already finished shooting. The guards who are on the side of the target carry the target in front of their respective shooters.

Marquis Wei Yuan and the five princes came from behind and looked at them one by one.

Those selected in the army are really elites, and each of them is a bull's-eye. Every time the Marquis of Wei Yuan inspected someone, that person held the target high and accepted the cheers of the other soldiers.

Especially Wang Zijie, all his ten arrows hit the bull's-eye, tightly encircled, and looked like a thick arrow from a distance. When he raised the target, there was a cheer.

Wei Yuanhou nodded slightly, gave Wang Zijie an appreciative look, and then walked in front of Xiao Yao.

When he saw Xiao Yao's arrow target, he was stunned for a few breaths, and then looked at Xiao Yao with a complicated expression, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

Yan Shaoxun came over to take a look, there was an arrow in the middle of the bull's-eye, and the other nine arrows were arranged at intervals of about one minute, enclosing the arrow in the middle into a circle. The distance between each arrow is as if it had been measured by a ruler.

"Good! Wei Yuanhou, if it is really a tiger father without a dog, it is the first time for me to see Xiao Yao show off his skills, it is really beautiful! ”

Wei Yuanhou was silent for a moment, and said: "It's really good, when I was young, it was at most. ”

Xiao Lei, who was behind, came over to take a look, his face changed, and he looked at Xiao Yao for the first time.

Xiao Yao's face was not shocked, and he only raised the arrow target high, which caused all the soldiers to exclaim, it turned out that archery could be so beautiful.

The last is Zhong Zibin's, and his is also the bull's-eye, but ten arrows are densely arranged in a horizontal line to penetrate the red heart.

Wei Yuanhou sighed: "There is a successor to the Duke of Qinguo, which is gratifying. ”

Zhong Zibin said with a grin: "Master Hou is embarrassing me when he says this, I am not as powerful as Xiao Yao." I can line up a line, but I can't make a circle. ”

As he spoke, Zhong Zibin also held his target high and accepted the cheers and exclamations of everyone.

Finally, Wei Yuanhou announced: "The top three in archery, Zhong Zibin, Xiao Yao, and Wang Zijie!" The next race, the race horses, as for the order, the draw decides! ”

In order to show fairness, Zhong Zibin and Xiao Yao did not use the thousands of miles they rode over.

Instead, together with ten other people, they randomly drew lots to divide the army horses. In the end, Xiao Yao was lucky and was divided into the third lane, while Zhong Zibin was assigned to the eighth lane.

As Yan Shaoxun waved the small red flag in his hand, the twelve war horses rushed out like arrows from the string.

The inner circle has a little advantage, after a lap, Xiao Yao ranked third, Zhong Zibin temporarily ranked fourth, and Wang Zijie and Hu Xian were in front.

After eight laps, the twelve people obviously opened the distance, and the first echelon of five horses, the distance was only about a horse body. The second echelon had three horses, about seven feet away from the first, while the third echelon had four horses, which were more than a foot apart.

Since it was the last two laps, the few people in front of them all took out the unique skill of pressing the bottom of the box, wanting to completely get rid of the others.

Zhong Zibin lightly clamped the horse's belly, his whole body lay on the horse's back, grasped the reins, and tried to merge with the horse, rushing forward.

Hu Xian and Wang Zijie were too close to each other, and the two would inevitably start to interfere with each other.

As a result, Zhong Zibin took advantage of the situation and rushed forward and became the first for the time being.

Xiao Yao also made a slight adjustment, and the whole person stepped on the stirrup, using the word "sticky", suspending his body in the air as much as possible, less restraint for the horse, and striving to reduce the burden on him.

Sure enough, the horses were lighter, and they spread their hooves and ran faster. After half a lap of hard work, he chased behind Zhong Zibin and occupied the second position.

Hu Xian and Wang Zijie also tried their best to whip up their horses, and at the last lap, they couldn't see the people on the horses clearly, they only felt that the four horses were mixed together, and they couldn't tell who would be first.

From the perspective of onlookers, Zhong Zibin and Xiao Yao basically crossed the finish line at the same time.

But in the end, Wei Yuanhou announced: "I can see it very clearly, the first is Zhong Zibin, Xiao Yao is second, and Hu Xian is third!" ”

Wang Zijie has no dispute about this result, everyone looks at Xiao Yao in two cities, and their eyes are different.

Xiao Lei stood beside him and was silent. What kind of level these ten people are, he knows very well. But they were all defeated by Xiao Yao, and he didn't know who would win if he and Xiao Yao faced each other.

Yan Shaoxun also smiled: "It's so exciting, let's take a break, let's go to the lottery, whoever draws will be a pair with whomever you want." ”

In the middle of the martial arts training ground is the ring, but the ring is not big, and it is only about nine feet horizontally and vertically. There is a weapon rack under the stage next to it, and there are all kinds of weapons in eighteen kinds, which is convenient for everyone to use when they are in the ring.

In this draw, Xiao Yao was No. 1, and Zhong Zibin was No. 9, and there was no match in the first round.

In line with the twelfth is a big man, called He Datou, as his name suggests, tall and big. is about the same height as Xiao Yao, at least thirty or forty pounds heavier than Xiao Yao.

It looks like a fierce general.

When He Datou carried a pair of meteor hammers to the ring, Xiao Yao had not yet selected a weapon. He said loudly: "Master Hou, there are no eyes in the ring, what if I hurt the fourth son?" ”

Wei Yuanhou replied loudly: "The two sides will stop when they arrive, if they are injured, they will have nothing to do with anyone!" ”

He Datou laughed, Xiao Yao also chose an eyebrow-raising stick, walked into the ring, and stood opposite He Datou.

The two saluted each other first, and then with the sound of a gong, the competition began.

He Datou brandished the meteor hammer and smashed it straight towards Xiao Yao, the hundreds of catties of meteor hammer, if it was smashed, it would either be dead or injured.

Xiao Yao's Qi Mei stick was wooden, and if it was hit hard with the Meteor Hammer, it would easily be broken.

Therefore, Xiao Yao's figure flashed slightly, and he dodged He Datou's attacks several times one after another, not planning to fight him. He Datou can only be outwitted, and it is not appropriate to face the enemy head-on.

In this way, if you chase me and hide, the people in the audience will not be fierce or happy, and cheers abound.

He Datou heard the laughter and was even more anxious. A pair of meteor hammers were danced by him, and it seemed that Xiao Yao was forced to dodge everywhere by him, and he was simply unstoppable.