Chapter 109: Blind Shooting
But whenever it comes to the competition, it will involve an organization that does not see the light but will always exist, which is not standardized and unified, and can have a great impact...... Bet. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The swallow people are rough, good at wine and gambling. And gambling on this kind of thing is not just a small game such as rolling dice and pushing pai gow for Yan Ren. Some of the larger cities in the Yan Kingdom regularly hold horse races every year, and the stakes on the surface have been very large, and the stakes in the secret are so big that people are afraid. So someone once said that if one day suddenly confiscate all the money from the Yan people gambling on horses, then they can build a strong army that sweeps all countries.
On the one hand, the military department and the household department are stretched thin to raise military expenses, and on the other hand, there are thousands of gold and silver in and out of the underground gambling game.
Yanren's good bet involves all aspects.
For example, the internal competition of any academy or sect may involve a gambling game with many participants. For such a major event as the recruitment of the Martial Arts Academy, of course, it is impossible to miss some people who are secretly opening. And this year, the handicap for the recruitment of the martial arts academy is very large, and the big one is beyond imagination. Because there have been a lot of major events in the martial arts academy this year, some people even opened a separate handicap to bet on whether Anzheng would be killed.
The recruitment and gambling game of the martial arts academy is still so big, and after a period of time, it is conceivable how many people have pressed their net worth and lives into it.
However, Anzheng is always confusing, and his style of action has caused even the most experienced gamblers to fail time and time again. When he competed with Lang Jing, someone on the scene made a bet on who would win on the spot, and the result was a lot of money, but the result was beyond everyone's expectations. An Zheng actually hired Lang Jing to become the teacher of the Heavenly Apocalypse Sect, and he was also the first official teacher of the Heavenly Apocalypse Sect.
And when An Zheng walked into the gate of the martial arts academy, a new gamble was born.
Will it be at the top of the list?
In just half a day, the gambling money involved in this gambling game has reached a jaw-dropping level. Whether you like it or hate it, it's crazy enough to bet.
To what extent are Yan people so good at gambling? Even the military has not explicitly forbidden military gambling. In other words, the Yan people may be the best gambling group in the world today. Soldiers also gamble, but those who lose will never admit it, and those who win will not be arrogant. In their eyes, gambling is a part of Yan people's lives, and it can never be eliminated.
After waiting for the people of the martial arts academy to make arrangements, An Zheng entered the martial arts arena and waited for the assessment, and what was about to be carried out was the riding and archery assessment.
The Yan people are the only country among the sixteen northern countries that is not short of war horses, and even in the most weak and impoverished period, the nomads in the north did not have any rifts with the Yan country. In order to maintain the relationship with the grassland people, the Yan people have to send a large number of iron tools to the grassland every year. Exchanging iron weapons for iron riding is a strategy formulated during the reign of King Wen of the Yan Kingdom, and no one dares to oppose and question it until now.
Therefore, among the almost 600,000 troops of the Yan people, they can maintain a cavalry scale of about 50,000. The vast majority of the cavalry were light cavalry, and the cavalry was not very well equipped, and almost abandoned all defensive measures in the pursuit of speed. The cavalry, dressed in cotton armor and armed with long knives, came and went like the wind.
Among the cavalry, the most frightening is of course the Yan Army's iron fire.
This is also the only heavy cavalry among the Sixteen Kingdoms, like a war machine, as long as the iron is fired, it can form a crushing on the battlefield.
Therefore, in the assessment of the martial arts academy, riding and archery is a must.
There are 10 people in each group, and 10 people start the exam at the same time. Mounted archery is divided into two parts, one is fixed archery. People stand at a certain distance from the target, each with five arrows, to see who has the highest score. The second is mobile archery, which is to shoot arrows at a target on horseback, also with five arrows per person.
Every Yan person in An Zheng's group looked very confident, even if they were from poor backgrounds, they had a certain grasp of their archery skills.
An Zheng was given a longbow of one and a half stones, he weighed it for a moment and walked up to the examiner: "Sir, can you change a bow?"
The chief examiner in charge of the riding and archery competition was Chang Huan, and he frowned slightly: "This is a standard configuration, and every candidate's bow is the same." ”
An Zheng pulled it casually, and pulled the bow off with a click: "It's too light." ”
Wang Kaitai, the general of the four-grade Yingyang of the Ministry of War, who was in charge of supervising the examination, saw that An Zheng easily broke the hard bow with one and a half stones, and couldn't help but cheer: "Okay! You are worthy of being a good man from my border army! An Zheng, you have done a good job, remember to pay the money for the damage of the bow and arrow in a while." ”
Anzheng: "......"
Deputy examiner Xu smiled rannyly, chose a three-stone iron tire bow and handed it to An Zheng: "Use this." ”
The longbow used by the Yan army is generally a composite material, not a wooden bow. Bamboo and mesh are bonded layer by layer, and the flexibility is excellent. There are not many woods that are naturally suitable for longbows, and boxwood on the grassland can be made, but there are few such things in the Yan Kingdom. A soldier who is born with amazing arm strength, and his favorite is the iron-tired bow, which is heavy and powerful. The three-stone iron-tired bow can easily send the weighted feather arrows more than 300 meters away.
An Zheng took the iron tire bow, stretched out his hand and weighed it, the weight was still a little light, and he pulled it casually...... With a snap, the bowstring was snapped by him, and the iron-tired bow was bent into a shocking arc.
An Zheng shook his head: "Is there anything heavier?"
All the invigilators couldn't help but look at it, saying that this guy was deliberately showing off, but soldiers like such young people the most, so most people have no objection to him.
Wang Kaitai beckoned: "Bring my bow to him, lend it to him, and ...... another."
An argued: "I will pay the money for the iron tire bow in a while......"
Wang Kaitai nodded approvingly: "Well, I can give you a discount." ”
After a while, two strong soldiers came over carrying Wang Kaitai's longbow. The bow is one and a half meters long, and the bowstring is a finger thick. An Zheng took it and weighed it, and the bow was at least one hundred and twenty pounds or more. If you are an ordinary man who has not practiced, it is extremely difficult to level the bow with one arm. This bow was not an iron bow, but a wooden one, and An Zheng recognized at a glance that it was made of iron pear wood on the cliff.
Cliff iron pear wood is extremely rare, and ordinary wood more than 100 years old is worth 10,000 gold to make a bracelet. The value of a longbow of this magnitude in the world is immeasurable.
An Zheng thanked him with a longbow and picked up the quiver. The arrow was also used by Wang Kaitai himself, each arrow shaft was thicker than a thumb, and the arrow shaft was made of stainless steel, and the tail feathers were sharp blades.
Ten people lined up in turn, and according to the rules, the most basic distance was fifty meters. Fifty meters away, each person has five arrows, and after shooting, they will be judged by their accuracy. In order to judge the high and low, people who think they can shoot arrows at a greater distance can bring it up.
In addition to An Zheng, the other nine people have actually given up fighting for the first place. They felt unlucky, and they were actually in the same group as An Zheng. All they have to do is compete with the other eight people. I have to say that the archery skills of the Yan people are extremely good, and those nine people fired arrows in a row, and there was almost no time to aim and pause. Nine men, the slowest one, shot the fifth arrow in two minutes.
And Anzheng, not a single arrow was fired.
Chang Huan was slightly angry: "You said to change the bow, I changed it for you, I used General Wang's treasure bow, but now you don't shoot a single arrow, are you deliberately making trouble?"
An Zheng shook his head: "It's too close, I'm afraid of hurting the people behind the target." So I beg to step back a bit, and I hope that the examiner will allow me. ”
Before Chang Huan could speak, Wang Kaitai said: "As long as my bow is pulled out, it is not difficult to send the arrow out of 500 meters, so you let him retreat." ”
Chang Huan didn't want to say anything more, so he had to nod: "You go, others think they can shoot at a greater distance, and they can also retreat." ”
There is an assessment in the martial arts academy, and people are constantly passing on the latest news. The gambling game outside the martial arts academy will change the odds according to this latest news. The results of the competition have always been the most concerned by people outside the gambling game. So outside this competition venue, there were at least dozens of people observing.
Everyone knew that they couldn't compete with An Zheng, but they didn't want to admit defeat to others easily, so the other nine people also retreated one after another to widen the distance. Some retreated to 70 meters, some 80 meters, some 100 meters, and some more than 150 meters. After everyone stopped, they went to find An Zheng, wanting to see how far he had withdrawn. Then everyone saw An Zheng standing there and didn't move, but looked at his arrow target as if he was facing each other.
Chang Huan couldn't help but ask, "What are you doing?"
An Zheng smiled: "Remember the location, it's okay now." ”
Then he began to retreat, one step at a time, further and further. As he went backwards, those who were in charge of observation had to go backwards as well. And the person in charge of supervising the examination of the Martial Academy also had to follow An Zheng, through a flower bed, through a long corridor, and then around a row of houses...... In the end, he climbed over the wall and went out of the martial arts courtyard.
An Zheng jumped over the wall, dozens of people followed him like dumplings and jumped out of the wall, and the person in charge of supervising the examination had to go out of the wall regardless of his personal appearance. An Zheng walked all the way, muttering how many steps he had taken, followed by a large group of people who were becoming more and more surprised.
The arrow target is at least a kilometer away from the outer wall of the martial arts academy, An Zheng climbed over the wall and walked another street, and then walked to the outside of the Junxin Building, which is located more than a hundred meters away from the gate of the martial arts academy, he actually carried the iron pear bow into this green building, and then went up to the second floor and then to the third floor in the surprised sight of a group of prostitutes and women.
He seemed to have chosen a random room and pushed the door in, and a girl wearing only a thin shirt inside immediately exclaimed, subconsciously blocking the whiteness of her chest.
An Zheng smiled apologetically: "I'm sorry sister, I took the liberty to disturb me, but I am participating in the assessment of the martial arts academy, and I ask my sister to fulfill it." ”
The woman was about twenty years old, beautiful as a flower, or had slept late last night, so she still had some lazy beauty. She nodded subconsciously, although she didn't know what An Zheng meant at all. Before she could react, more than a dozen people came from behind Hulahula, all of whom stood there staring at An Zheng without blinking.
An Zheng picked up the kettle from the table and poured a glass of water, then took a sip, turned to the woman and smiled, "It's so fragrant." ”
The woman's face suddenly turned red, and she was a little happy.
An Zheng took a sip of water, then pushed open the back window. This place is at least 1,500 meters away from the arrow target on the martial arts arena in the martial arts academy.
An Zheng held the iron pear bow in his left hand and raised it, and with his right hand, he pulled a steel feather arrow from the quiver hanging behind his back, adjusted his breathing slightly, and then let go and shot the steel feather arrow. The steel-feathered arrow flew diagonally into the heights, then slowly descended in a beautiful arc.
An Zheng turned to the invigilator and said, "Please run and help me see if it's wrong?"
The man was helpless, so he had to run out of Junxin Building with a sigh of relief, but he actually forgot to walk through the gate of the martial arts courtyard, and ran back over the wall to see, and then ran back with a confused face: "Red heart...... One finger to the left, shot through. ”
An Zheng bowed slightly: "Thank you." ”
He raised the Iron Pear Bow again, and then shot out four steel feather arrows in a row, and in less than a second, the four steel feather arrows flew out in a line.
Then An Zheng smiled at the woman and said, "Thank you sister, this is to buy rouge for my sister." ”
He placed a silver ingots on the table and strode away. The woman looked at the young man's back and was stunned for a moment.
A group of people followed An Zheng Hula back to the martial arts courtyard, and then they were all stunned, all of them looked confused.
Except for the first arrow, which pierced a little to the left of the heart, the next four arrows all shot through the center of the heart, leaving only a round hole. And everyone, including Chang Huan, has not yet recovered from the shock.