"Bang bang!" The sound of knocking on the door came, and Gong Sheng in his sleep was upset for a while, who is this? Early in the morning!

In fact, it is already three poles in the sun, and it is definitely not early. It's just that Gong Sheng drank all night last night, so it is inevitable to fall asleep. Gong Sheng took the sound of the door as a deaf ear and continued to sleep, but the sound of the door was repeated repeatedly, and he had a lot of perseverance. Gong Sheng had no choice but to squint a pair of sleepy eyes, get up with a headache, get dressed and go to open the door.

Gong Sheng opened the door and looked, he smiled, "Fenwei." ”

"Ying Long, you slept lazily, you didn't miss a lot last night!" Xiahou Xiong smiled and stepped into Gong Sheng's small courtyard.

Gong Sheng came to the door and followed up in the back room, "Fenwei, are you coming back early to cancel the holiday?" Gong Sheng asked. Almost two months ago, Xia Houxiong took family leave in the army and returned to his hometown in Guanzhong, which is usually a three-month leave.

Xia Houxiong said: "Hey, I can't imagine that so many things have happened in the past few days since I left, no matter what, I am still in the army, and I am content if I am not fired." I've heard about you. ”

Gong Sheng shrugged his shoulders and made a helpless expression: "It's okay, I haven't heard of being unofficial and light, and I really can't play intrigues." ”

Xia Houxiong said: "So I bring you a message. ”

Gong Sheng asked, "What's the news?" ”

Xiahou Xiong accentuated his tone: "Five days later, in the Xuanwu Field in the north of the city, the imperial court will select civil warriors who can fight and compete in martial arts. Seeing the surprise on Gong Sheng's face, Xiahou Lie continued, "Xiangguo Sima Lun wants to set up Xiangguo's palace guard, and the establishment is said to have a number of 5,000 soldiers. ”

Gong Sheng frowned, he groaned for a while and said, "Fenwei, you know. At the beginning, when we were pacifying Qi Wannian, we fought to the death with General Zhou, and we were outcasts. Later, General Meng led us to fight, and it was I who broke through Qi Wannian's army first, but the credit was shared by those who had connections and good backgrounds. If it weren't for General Meng's efforts for me, I would have only been able to get some reward. Like a beggar on the street called Hanako? King Zhao's mutiny was my capture of Jia Nanfeng alive, and I was made to be Bi Ma Wen to raise horses, and now Bi Ma Wen has also been lost. ”

Gong Sheng smiled, and he asked Xiahou Xiong, "Do you think I should go?" ”

Xiahou Xiong was silent, and after a moment of silence, he said, "You should always give it a try." After all, it was you who broke through the formation in Qinchuan for eight hundred miles, and it was you who captured Jia Nanfeng in the Forbidden City. Are you willing? ”

There was silence again, and after a long time, Gong Sheng let out a long sigh.

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Five days later, the Xuanwu field in the north of the city was full of people, and if the city was busy, the people who couldn't wait for the participants and the people who couldn't wait to watch the battle couldn't wait for the grand event of Zhao Wang Sima Lun's martial arts competition.

Xuanwu Field leans on the mountain and water, is the site of the colonel of the forbidden army of the National Dynasty, the south is the north gate of the imperial city, the Daxia Gate, and the north is the north of the ghost capital. The Great Xia Gate is more than five zhang high, more than fifteen zhang wide, and the three layers of Xuanwu Temple on the city can overlook the Xuanwu field, and its majestic and majestic enough to confront the North Mountain in the distance. The valley water flows slowly under the Great Xia Gate, and the water waves are not slow, and it passes through the Luoyang city wall safely, providing a shallow barrier on the north side for the center of the world.

This time, the Xiangguo Mansion contested the selection of soldiers, Gong Sheng, Tai Shiyu, and Liu Yao ran together, and Gongsun Ce and Xiahou Xiong also came. Gong Sheng has the heart to return to the forbidden army, Liu Yao also has this heart, but Tai Shiyu is not.

Gong Sheng glanced at the continuous Beishan and Tai Shiyu, who came to take the exam together, and said: "Beishan is full of noble cemeteries, why don't we go and buy a Luoyang shovel to learn Cao Mengde's gold school captain?" ”

Tai Shiyu smiled: "Let's accumulate some yin virtue, be careful that someone knocks on the door in the middle of the night." ”

Gong Sheng diverted the topic and asked Tai Shiyu: "Yiyuan, do you really plan to give up the opportunity to join Rong after winning the competition?" ”

Regarding Gong Sheng's question, Tai Shiyu smiled casually and said, "Didn't you say that you would watch the fire from the other side?" I'm really just having itchy hands, and I just have to meet the heroes of the world for a while. As he spoke, he pointed to the crowd and said, "Look, it's started." ”

There was a chime sound in the distance, and the competition on the Xuanwu field officially began.

This time, the contest is divided into four sections, namely foot combat, horse combat, infantry shooting, and mounted archery. All four can be participated in at the same time without restrictions. Gong Sheng reported all four events, while Tai Shiyu only reported two items of foot shooting and mounted archery.

The first selection is rifle archery, the primary selection process is relatively simple, candidates in a group of 10 people, each with a bow, shoot a stake target 50 steps away, with a limit of 10 arrows to calculate the score.

Tai Shiyu took the turn first, and he threw a dashing back to a few people who came with him. On the shooting field, I saw Taishi Yiyuan bending his bow and arrows, one arrow after another, without stopping, and after a while, all ten arrows were shot, and all ten shots were hit, none of them missed the target, and he immediately entered the next round of candidates with the leader of this group.

Soon it was Gong Sheng's turn to play, Gong Sheng took a bow and arrow from the military attache and weighed it with his hand, he chuckled and said "one stone", and the bow he tried at the beginning of foot shooting was only one stone.

Gong Sheng stood still on the field with a bow and arrow, and he listened to the people next to him who were participating in the test saying, "I have been practicing archery for ten years, and I will learn from you today", and the other person said, "Each other, I have been hunting with my elders since I was a child, and I am also a veteran", but in Gong Sheng's opinion, the movements of the two brothers were very jerky, and I don't know if it was the first time I touched the bow and arrow.

Gong Sheng bent his bow and pulled the strings, he aimed at the straw wooden stake fifty paces away, and then loosened the string, only to hear the sound of "whoosh", the arrow went like lightning, and hit the wooden stake fifty paces away. Seeing that the same group of participants missed the target one after another, Gong Sheng smiled secretly in his heart. As soon as ten arrows passed, Gong Sheng hit all ten shots, and naturally advanced to the next round of competition.

After the first round of foot archery was completed, Gong Sheng went to see mounted archery, foot fighting, and horse fighting. Riding archery is to erect a wooden stake, draw a semicircle fifty paces away from the stake, and the person who participates in the test takes ten running horses with arrows and shoots the stake in the center of the semicircle in a circle. Foot combat and cavalry combat are simple, a group of eight people fight, two of them fight, win and lose, and each group takes two winners. Among them, eight rings were set up in foot combat, and the weapons were wooden swords and shields, and Gong Sheng was ranked in the third game of the C character. There are two places on the riding battlefield, and those who play can get a horse and a horse lance with a blade, and Gong Sheng is ranked in the sixth round.

Watching the battle all the way, Gong Sheng saw that most of the people who rode and shot were beginners, and many of them had never ridden a horse. Horse warfare is also very rough, and many people are not good at equestrian skills, and it is better to say that it is riding a horse to fight. It seems that only foot combat is decent.

After a while, it was Gong Sheng's turn to play in the first round of foot battles. Gong Sheng did not move the wooden shield at the military attaché, only took the wooden sword and shook it in his hand at will, and then walked to the field and stood still. The crowd on the side who only watched was discussed, "This kid is really good", "He regretted it for a while", "Looking at his skills is not small", the surrounding audience had mixed opinions about Gong Sheng's support, and Gong Sheng just took it as a deaf ear.

It's just a first test of martial arts, and I'm not at the point where I need a shield. Gong Sheng was very disapproving.

The warriors who participated in the test on the opposite side also brought wooden shields and swords to the field. He was twenty-six or seventeen years old, with resolute eyebrows, a straight nose, and deep eyes. He wore a plaid green sleeveless gown, revealing muscular arms, trousers that only skimmed over the knees, and a pair of straw sandals on his feet.

The military attache read aloud: "Shanggu Pichu wins against Jianye Palace, start!" ”

Gong Sheng walked forward with his sword, and the young man called Pi Chu also carried the shield sword forward, and as the two approached each other, Pi Chu's pace gradually slowed down, and each step became more and more dignified. Gong Sheng walked calmly, without the slightest urgency to meet the enemy.

"So calm?" "Is this the audacity of the artist?" "It's too casual." There was a burst of chatter from the crowd watching the battle.

How can it be so relaxing? Is he looking for death? Or is he sure he will defeat me? Pi Chu's footsteps became more and more solemn, he couldn't help but wonder in his heart whether Gong Sheng's calmness was true or false, he clenched the shield and sword hard, but Gong Sheng, who walked calmly, still gave him indescribable pressure.

Step by step, step by step, the two of them got closer.

Pi Chu felt that every step of Gong Sheng's approach gave him a lot of pressure, and every step of Gong Sheng was fast and without pause, although it was silent, the pressure in it was like a noisy war drum.

"Yikes!" Pi Chu suddenly shouted and slashed at Gong Sheng with a sword, he could no longer bear Gong Sheng's constant approach. "Bang!" With a bang, the two swords intersected, and the staggering of the blades made Pi Chu regain the feeling of fighting with people in the past, and he continued to swing his sword without hesitation.

Pi Chu has not learned any advanced swordsmanship, but Shanggu is a frontier, and killing techniques have always been circulated among the people.

On the martial arts field, I saw Pi Chu shouting and waving a wooden sword, the shape was extremely fierce, and Gong Sheng calmly dealt with it, swinging his sword to block and slash, and from time to time he avoided Pi Chu's fierce offensive with flexible steps.

"Hit! Hit hard! "Well done! Cut him! "I'll just say it's stupid not to take a shield." All kinds of shouts and cheers were shouted around the ring, Pi Chu was not listening at all, and Gong Sheng grinned when he listened, "I really think I can't win?" Gong Sheng smiled secretly in his heart, he slashed the wooden sword of Pi Chu with a sword, and then shouted in a low voice, "Go!" A kick on Pichu's shield.

"Yikes!" Pi Chu only felt that the strength on the shield was amazing, and he took four steps back before he barely stopped. The heart of the skin that stood firm was anxious, and the series of attacks did not help the opponent in the slightest, of course he understood the strength of the opponent.

This person is too powerful, he can't lose in the first round, fight! With a quick turn of thought in his heart, Pi Chu shouted loudly and rushed towards Gong Sheng with a shield, he wanted to win with one more shield than Gong Sheng.

Pi Chu raised his shield and rammed into Gong Sheng brutally, Gong Sheng retreated sideways, and the two quickly changed their way of fighting. Pi Chu hit and slashed from time to time, while Gong Sheng was flexible and changeable, retreating or dodging, and defused Pi Chu's offensive many times.

"Coward, don't hide!" "Hey, come on!" "Hit him! Hit him! The shouts of the audience were loud and loud. I saw Pi Chu's onslaught with a shield in one hand and a sword in the other, like a mad tiger, and Gong Sheng was forced to retreat.

Tai Shiyu and his friend Dai Yuan watched the game together, Dai Yuan was a native of Guangling County, a person with a leisurely demeanor and uninhibited conduct, and was recommended by the celebrity Lu Ji to come to Beijing as filial piety.

Dai Yuan was dressed in a sky blue flowing water pattern silk satin wide-sleeved brocade robe, his eyes were sharp, he looked at the situation and Tai Shiyu said: "Is it a little careless for this palace brother to give up taking the shield?" ”

Tai Shiyu smiled: "Don't worry, he will win." ”

"Let's take it!" Pi Chu roared angrily and killed Gong Sheng, he slashed with his sword and was blocked by Gong Sheng, and immediately swung his shield and slammed it. Seeing that Gong Sheng, who didn't have time to put away his sword, reversed the hilt of his sword and slammed it on the wooden shield, and a loud bang erupted on the shield and the hilt.

Pi Chu's hard blow was extremely strong, and Gong Sheng's hand holding the sword was raised high. Then in full view of everyone, his sword was taken off.

"Medium!" Pi Chu shouted, and he stabbed the unarmed Gong Sheng with a sword. Of course, he saw the sword that Gong Sheng took off, and he also saw Gong Sheng turn around and retreat in front of him, and he said fiercely in his heart, "I won!" ”

Pi Chu didn't know that when the wooden sword held by Gong Sheng's right hand fell vertically above his head, Gong Sheng's left hand was already waiting behind his back. The blade of the sword slid off his hand, and when the hilt slipped into his palm, Gong Sheng's hand instantly grasped the hilt.

Gong Sheng turned around and made a gesture of escape, and at the same time as the figure rotated, there was a sword stabbed out of his left hand. Blind Thorn - Gong Sheng completely relied on the movement of Pi Chu's body to stab this sword behind him.

"Medium!" Gong Sheng also meditated in his heart.

The scene was quiet, and in an instant Gong Sheng had already turned around, his sword was on Pi Chu's stomach, and Pi Chu's sword was pointing at Gong Sheng's left arm, which was still a few inches away.

"Back the knife! Wonderful! Dai Yuan, who was watching the battle, couldn't help but applaud.

Tai Shiyu also praised: "There are many people who can make a car knife, but it is Ying Long who makes it so good." ”

Dai Yuan couldn't help nodding: "Yes, according to local conditions, deliberately did not avoid the opponent's frontal impact, so that he was forced to change his tricks to knock the shield with the hilt of the sword, and then use the opponent's shield to knock his sword out of his hand, and then that turn around looked like he was going to escape, so that the opponent subconsciously thought that he was winning and lost his defense, so he used the back knife to win with one blow." It's wonderful, wonderful. ”

"Jianye Palace wins!" The military attache loudly announced the victory or defeat of the battle, and the crowd burst into cheers and boos.

Sweat hung on Pi Chu's forehead, he abandoned the wooden sword, if he lost, he lost, it was meaningless to be unwilling, there were still foot shooting, cavalry shooting, and cavalry battles to work hard, there was still a chance.