October 18 Royal Schoolyard.

It was a large leveled open space, and on the north side of the ground was an earthen platform nearly two zhang high, which was the point platform. The emperors of previous dynasties set up the Western Xia army here dozens of times to open up territory and resist aggression. There are granite on the perimeter of the earthen platform, the blue brick auxiliary ground, the wall behind is carved with a five-clawed green dragon, a five-clawed yellow dragon, two dragons soar through the clouds, open their teeth and dance claws, and the main pole in front of the tent is a white tiger flag, this is the handsome flag of the emperor in person, it is composed of three hundred Chongzong's cronies and guards as a guard of honor, and the two sides are the proton army and the capture army of 600 horses each composed of the tooth flag team to protect the left and right. The guard of honor is together, and the flag is hunting.

The competition area and the viewing area are all painted with white lines in lime, and the line is guarded by the proton army with guns.

Xingqing Mansion is empty of thousands of people. People poured into the schoolyard. are vying for the style of the two young heroes in a battle, and maybe they can see the emperor, the princess, the queen mother, and the prince because of this.

At the end of the day, the emperor arrived, and all the people shouted long live!

Due to today's arrangement of a martial arts competition in front of the palace of the highly favored Li Xiao'er, the palace ended hastily today's early court, and before the hour, Li Qianshun led the civil and military officials to the royal school in the eastern suburbs. When the emperor arrived, Gao Zhong and everyone were already waiting in the designated area.

Chongzong Li Qianshun sat down in the center, on the right was the prince, the young master, the prime minister and a group of civil officials, and the Shu Wang Renli, who was known to Gao Pet, also rushed over from Xiping Mansion, and on the left was Cao Huangfei, the third princess Mingzhu, the Jin King Chage, the Taishi, the Taifu and a group of military generals. Pu Wang Renzhong is the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and is responsible for presiding over this competition.

This competition also decided the fate of the three princesses, Mingzhu's concubine and her life.

At three o'clock, the tournament began.

"Xuan: The guard doctor ranger general Li Xiao'er, the son of the Gao family in Tongling of the Great Song Dynasty, is highly favored to see the driver."

Gao Zhong handed the lance and the bow and arrow in his hand to the big pillar, and climbed the steps from the long platform on the right. Today, Gao Zhong is wearing the silver-gray armor given by the prince, wearing a tungsten steel sword at his waist, holding a gilded helmet in his hand, and stepping on Yunlu whirlwind boots. On the other hand, although Li Xiao'er is only 22 years old, he has made meritorious contributions on the battlefield to a personal guard doctor and a ranger general from the fifth grade, and is among the high-ranking officials among the military generals, and he has his own extraordinary.

The two entered from the left and right corridors to meet Chongzong Li Qianshun, reported their names, places of origin, and positions, and shouted long live.

"You two are the pride of the world, I plan to decide the winner from the two of you through a competition, the winner is the concubine of my three princesses, and the loser can also get my reward, do you have any objections?"

"It's all up to the emperor," the two replied aloud at the same time.

"Well, King Jin, you will proclaim the rules of the competition to General Liang Li and Gao Gongzi and all those present to show justice."

"Yes!" King Jin went out of class to preach the rules of this competition to everyone. Wait for King Jin to finish reading. Chongzong Li Qianshun asked again:

"Everyone, Aiqing, do you have any doubts?" After waiting for a while, I saw a person walking out of the martial arts class:

"The minister has his own music." Chongzong looked at it, but it was Li Liangfu, Li Xiao'er's father.

"Quasi-play."

"Your Majesty, the generals will inevitably suffer casualties in the competition, and this competition is even more extraordinary. In order to prevent unnecessary troubles caused by casualties, it is better to ask the two of them to sign a life and death certificate. ”

Aiqing is right. Li Xiao'er, Gao Pet, are you willing? ”

"Yes!" Although both of them said they were willing, but the two of them thought differently in their hearts, in Gao Chong's view, the master fights, retracts and releases freely, if he does not deliberately want to kill each other, there are few accidents of life and death, but since it is a martial arts competition, it is inevitable that he will be injured, from Li Liangfu's intention to deliberately sign a life and death certificate, the Li family has murderous intentions, and he must be more careful. What Li Xiao'er thought in her heart was that you dared to go against me Li Xiao'er, and you must not let you go out of this royal school intact. Gao Zhong had already felt the killing intent in Li Xiao'er's eyes.

The little school under King Jin has prepared a life and death situation, and Gao Zhong has signed his name in the past. Stand aside and wait for the game to begin.

Concubine Cao and her daughter the third princess stood beside Chongzong, and saw that one of the two would become the husband and concubine of the third princess, both of them were tall, handsome and chic, no matter which one was very satisfied, and the third princess Mingzhu kept staring at Gao Pet with both eyes, and she was always very worried in her heart, and she didn't dare to speak, for fear of affecting this competition, she was very conflicted in her heart, she even regretted it, why did she promise her father, seeing that Gao Zhong signed a life and death certificate, her heart hurt for no reason.

"Let's race! First Mounted Shooting! ”

This riding and archery competition field is relatively large, in the middle of the field every fifteen steps to stand a target, a total of five targets, three rounds of horse shooting, five arrows per round, and must not cross the line, the target and the white line are about 70 steps apart, the horse line is only 100 steps, this is a quite difficult game, not only to calculate the time of each arrow, more importantly, to control the rhythm of the horse, such as the horse runs fast you have no time to aim, and run slowly, you are in such a short time, the game is 15 arrows per person, there is a time limit, the time can not shoot again, If you shoot, you don't score.

Gao Zhong took off the bow from his back, took off the bow coat, installed the stability balance bar, set the ruler at a position of seventy steps, and put on a spreader and arm guard on his hand. Run from one end to the other end of the race and wait for the race to be scheduled. Everyone saw a strange and ugly bow with wheels. Don't even know what it is. Is this a bow.

Chongzong was also very strange, and turned his head to look at the crown prince and Ren Cong:

"Xiao'er, Gao Pet, this is a bow?"

"Father, this is a new bow made by Gao Zhong in the past two days, he said that this is a compound bow, and he hasn't taken a name yet, he said that if it is easy to use, let his father name it."

"Let him show me then."

"Yes!" Li Qianshun calmed down a little and looked back at the field.

King Jin came over and asked the two to draw lots to decide who would go first. Gao Pet drew a short branch, and Li Xiaoer compared it first.

This mounted archery is only a basic skill for the party clan to ride on a horse from the toddler and start archery at the age of five. So Li Xiao'er was confident and calm, let the horse run, took off the bow on his back, and shot at the target with one arrow. A row of five arrows has run to the end, but only four arrows were hit, this is also Li Xiaoer's best result, turn back to the starting point, and shoot down in another round, this round lost two arrows, to the third round Li Xiaoer has no strength, only one arrow, the others all fell in front of the target. The overall score is a middle eight arrow, and there are no hearts. Overall, Li Xiaoer is quite satisfied with her results. This kind of strong bow can shoot five or six arrows for ordinary people, and it is also a first-class archer. Li Bo'er pulled twelve arrows with a full bow.

This also shows that King Jin has understood the situation of the contestants when formulating this competition method, but he only knows Li Xiao'er and does not know Gao Pet, but this is enough.

Gao Pet began, and his horse came running, but the horse ran significantly slower than Li Xiao'er's. Some civil and military officials on the stage have begun to speak:

"The equestrian skills of the Great Song Dynasty are still not comparable to my Great Xia Kingdom, he can shoot a few arrows at such a speed, and it will take him so long to aim."

"It's really embarrassing, my seven or eight-year-old children in Daxia are better than him, and the third princess must be General Li" These people have everything, the third princess and the prince are also very uncomfortable in their ears, and in the gambling house outside, he listened to Ren Cong's words and bet a lot of money on Gao Pet, not to mention that he really doesn't want Gao Pet to lose. Ren Cong knows the strength of Gao Pet, and Ren Cong knows the foundation of Gao Pet when he tries his arrow in the training ground.

"Don't worry, just watch, prince."

The horse was slow, but kept a very good rhythm, and threw his strange-looking compound bow, and shot one arrow at a very rhythmic pace, without looking at the result. When they reached the end of the white line, there were still three arrows in the five arrows and five hearts.

Turning the horse's head, he was not as fast as Li Xiao'er, but as fast as just now, but his people had turned their backs forward, and shot five arrows, five arrows and five hits, but because of the relationship between his back, he only hit two hearts. At this time, the entire school field was silent, and I was stunned by Gao Pet's back shot.

In the third round, Gao Chong increased his horse speed a little, and the speed of archery was obviously faster, and the time for the fifth arrow to shoot was up. The king of Jin raised the white flag and said that this arrow was invalid, and this round of five arrows could only be counted as four arrows, and the five arrows also became four, and there were only three red arrows in the four arrows. Therefore, the total score of Gao Pet is 15 arrows and 14 out of 8 hearts.

King Jin took the two of them to the high platform and announced the results in front of Chongzong:

"In the first mounted shooting, seventy steps fixed target, Li Xiao'er Li was eight out of fifteen arrows, and there was no red heart; The son of the Gao family is highly favored with fifteen arrows and fourteen in eight hearts, and in the first competition, Gao Pet wins. ”

"Ershi strong bow seventy steps riding and shooting, how can fifteen arrows and fourteen hits, it must be cheating, it must be cheating!" Li Liangfu said eagerly.

Other officials who were good with Li Liangfu also discussed, was there such an archer in the history of the Great Xia Kingdom? I have a lot of strength, but it's a bit ridiculous.

"General Li Liangfu, don't you believe this king?" The king of Jin pulled down his face, and the bows, arrows and horses were all inspected by him, and it was better to say that Gao Zhong cheated than to say that he was cheating in Jin.

Of course, Li Liangfu wouldn't believe that King Jin would help a foreigner, but there must be something strange about Gao's strange bow.

"If there is no cheating, can you let me check the other party's bow" Li Liangfu finished speaking, his eyes looked at Li Qianshun.

"The rules of the competition don't say that you can't use other bows, so why should I show you my bow." After the game, Gao Zhong had already removed the relevant attachments and put the whole bow into the bow bag.

"Your Majesty, the ministers have their own music." Li Liangfu was still unwilling.

"Quasi-play."

"I'm going to apply for arbitration, and there is a problem with the bow of the high pet." Li Liangfu wanted to know what was wrong with this bow.

"No, I know this bow. That's it, King Jin prepares for the second game. Since there is no problem with the competition, Li Qianshun doesn't want this bow and arrow matter to be pursued.

"Minister, obey!"