Chapter XXVII
"Your Majesty, this person's skills are even better, no wonder he was able to win the first place in the preliminaries!" Wu Zetian, who was watching the performance, picked up a blank spot when Liu Yi turned his horse to temporarily stop shooting, and said softly to Li Zhi on the side, "Look, concubine, this person's skills should be better than those warriors in front..."
"The queen is right, this person's popularity is very different from ordinary people, he must not be a child of an ordinary family, I am just strange, such a person, there is no one in the court to recommend him, why is this?" Li Zhi nodded, followed Wu Zetian's meaning, and explained the incomprehension in his heart, "This son is from Chang'an, whose family will it be?" ”
"This son may be born with a proud surname and want to win with his own strength, don't recommend it to the officials of the DPRK and China," Wu Zetian said with a smile, "If Your Majesty also thinks that this person is good, after the martial arts is over, you can personally summon him over to inquire, don't you know?" ”
"If such a skilled person performs better in the future, and the art of war and strategy are also extraordinary, I think that he is the one who is the first in this martial arts! It seems that the holding of this martial arts event has really recruited a lot of talents for the imperial court, if there are such outstanding people who can be discovered every year and awarded a not low position, then my Tang Dynasty's martial arts will gradually recover! Li Zhi gently patted the handboard on the throne with his hand, and said with some pride, "If there are more and more generals in my Tang Army, and there are more and more people who know strategy, just like when I first founded the Tang Dynasty, there were a large number of generals in the court, such as Li Jing, Li Shiji, Li Daozong, etc., who were good at fighting, so what is Hu Lu afraid of!" ”
"What the emperor said is very true, and it is really as Wei Yuanzhong said, it is because the imperial court has not paid attention to the selection of generals in recent years, which has led to very few good fighters in the army, and the war has been lost one after another, and there has been a situation of Tubo becoming troubled!" Wu Zetian sighed slightly, staring at Liu Yi, who had already turned around on the field and was ready for the next round of shooting, "I hope that this son's next performance will not disappoint the emperor, and he will be able to defeat several other people in the later competitions.
"What the queen said is very true, and I also hope that this son will perform better and better in the future..."Li Zhi nodded, looked at Liu Yi's strange behavior on the field, and stopped talking in some consternation.
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Riding archery also has to shoot ten arrows, just shot five, there are still five arrows left, Liu Yi is also very satisfied with his performance just now, so he also made a bolder move, all the remaining five arrows in the quiver are thrown into the ground in front of the arrow target, one is distributed at intervals, and then the horse runs to the other side of the field.
The people watching were a little puzzled by Liu Yi's behavior, and they were all stretching their necks to look at Liu Yi's strange behavior, some people didn't see Liu Yi's action of throwing arrows because they were far away, and thought that he continued to shoot, but they didn't see the arrow fall on the target, and they were disappointed, but they didn't expect Liu Yi to run a round on his horse, and when he got to the field, he stopped holding the horse, turning the horse, and stopped.
In the midst of many people's ignorance, Liu Yi drove the horse forward again, and the speed slowly increased, and then the whole person moved away from the saddle, hung on one foot, hooked the saddle with the other foot, in order to maintain body balance, and picked up the arrow on the ground with his hand, and did not straighten up that he shot the arrow he picked up, and in the exclamation of the spectators, the arrow fell on the bullseye with the sound of the wind, Liu Yi rose and fell several times, and shot the two arrows into the bull's-eye in a similar posture, and then when the horse ran to the edge of the field, he sat up straight again, and when the horse ran back after turning in a circle, Hang up from the other side, always facing the direction of the target, pick up the arrows as you did before, and then pick up the two arrows from the ground and shoot them into the bull's-eye.
Such a wonderful performance won the applause of the audience, this way of shooting is also very useful on the battlefield, if you run out of arrows, there is an enemy on the side, pick up the arrows on the ground in this way, you can avoid the situation that there are no arrows to shoot, let the enemy chase and kill, and win the initiative for yourself.
Liu Yi's performance was too exciting, since the start of the cavalry shooting, the applause on the field, and the cheers have come and gone, and they have not stopped, and the soldiers of the Yulin Army who watched the battle almost shouted in their throats, which was much more lively than when Huan Yanfan and Jinghui played just now.
The soldiers in the army are the most admirers of bravery, and the courage shown by Liu Yi's performance is something that most people have never seen, and these soldiers of the Yulin Army also use their applause to show their respect for this extremely brave young man, just like the recognition of Huan Yanfan and Jinghui's performance just now.
The small bullseye was full of arrows, but because Liu Yi's archery was very powerful, although it was a little dense, it was also inserted deeply, and no arrows were shaken down, and this time Liu Yi deliberately left a small vacancy in the middle of the bull's-eye, and he had to have a more exciting performance.
Liu Yi wanted to shock the elites of the Tang Empire present with a near-perfect riding and archery performance.
Liu Yi picked up the last arrow with a very fast movement, but did not shoot immediately, but sat up straight, almost full of bows, and shot the arrow out in the medium-speed running of the mount under him, and in the cheers that still did not stop on the field.
What made everyone on the field stunned happened again, the last arrow flew forward with the bullseye for a while, before it landed, and the nine arrows that were shot at the target before were all shot down by Liu Yi's last powerful arrow and the bull's-eye.
The target was shot through, leaving only a hole in the bull's-eye, and not a single arrow landed on it.
There were bursts of exclamations on the field, which was incredible.
The officers of the military department who ran up quickly to prepare to count the targets were a little overwhelmed, and they did not know how to calculate the number of targets shot this time, so they had to pick up the bullseye and arrows that fell on the ground, and ran back to hand them to the adjudicator sitting on the side.
The first few arrows were shot at the bull's-eye, because Liu Yi used too much force, there were ring-shaped cracks, and the last arrow shot vigorously, and finally fell to the ground through the hole, which was also something Liu Yi did not expect.
Liu Yi originally wanted to shoot through the target with an arrow, and this arrow flew a little further to let the viewers know the strength of his arrow, but he didn't expect to shoot down the bull's-eye and the arrows on the bull's-eye.
Accident, a complete accident.
Many people sitting together were discussing each other, and even Pei Xingjian and Cen Changqian, who were judging the results, exchanged different views on this bull's-eye full of arrows.
If the emperor was not present, then Pei Xingjian would immediately sentence Liu Yi's results to full rings, but now the emperor and the queen are here, and the previous rules are to look at the number of rings of arrows shot at the arrow target, and now Liu Yi has shot the bull's-eye away, which is outside the rules, Pei Xingjian is not good at making a judgment, and at the same time he is angry with Liu Yi's arrogance, and it is difficult to make a decision...;