Li Zhen saw Wang Xiaojie's appearance clearly, he first saw a pair of extremely sharp eyes, as if he had seen through his heart, only to see that he was about forty years old, nearly seven feet tall, bearded and tiger-eyed, murderous, and very powerful.

Li Zhen bowed and saluted, and said unhurriedly: "The students don't dare to bully the general, what they say is true." ”

He was not afraid to face Wang Xiaojie, his eyes were full of confidence, Wang Xiaojie also nodded secretly, ordinary people would be so frightened when they saw him that they kowtowed like garlic.

But the young man in front of him was neither humble nor arrogant, behaved decently, and was not frightened by himself, and was quite bold.

Li Zhen's first impression on Wang Xiaojie was not bad, and Wang Xiaojie asked again: "Why do you say that there was favoritism and fraud in this Wuju Township Test?"

"The juniors don't dare to hide the general!"

Li Zhen said the matter of Li Jin looking for him in a hurry, and finally said: "Although he is the patriarch of the student family, he is involved in favoritism, first of all, he is disloyal to the Tang Emperor, and he is unjust to many scholars in Shazhou, such a disloyal and unrighteous person, the student will never protect him!"

Wang Xiaojie laughed in his heart, it was the first time he saw it, this young man actually reported his family master, he was really bold, if the family owner learned about it, would he still be able to stay in the family?

Wang Xiaojie didn't know at all that Li Zhen had nothing to do with the family since he was a child, since the head of the family Li Jin wanted to sacrifice him, how could he, Li Zhen, not rise up and resist?

After thinking about it, Wang Xiaojie asked again: "But you have no evidence, and your words are unsubstantiated, what should I do?"

Li Zhen said proudly: "Students are the best evidence, if there is no me in the quota for the three of them to enter Beijing, then the township test is favoritism." ”

"What a big breath!"

Wang Xiaojie sneered twice, he turned around and took his treasure carving bow from the bow frame and handed it to Li Zhen, "This is two stones and five bucket bows, can you pull it away?"

"Students are willing to give it a try!"

Li Zhen took the bow, it felt quite heavy, his arms scrambled, the bowstring creaked and opened, he changed his hand again, and pulled a full bow, although it was slightly heavier than his two-stone shadow bow, he could easily pull it away.

"The students are ugly!"

Wang Xiaojie's eyes showed a look of surprise, not only did Li Zhen easily pull away his bow, the strength was amazing, especially Li Zhen's unconscious hand-changing action just now, which made him seem to be able to open the bow left and right.

You must know that you can pass the riding and archery training for one year, but to be able to open the bow left and right, it will take at least ten years of hard work.

Could it be that this young man began to practice riding and archery at the age of seven or eight? It is unlikely! Wang Xiaojie drew out two more arrows, handed them to Li Zhen, and immediately ordered his guards, "Lead my red-blooded horse!"

Li Zhen also understood what Wang Xiaojie meant, he had to watch himself shoot two arrows with his own eyes before he would believe what he said.

A strong courage also poured out of his bones, and he knew if he could get justice or not, so he did it in one fell swoop

The riding shooting range was not far from the Chinese army's tent, and Li Zhen rode on an unusually majestic red horse, which was a bloody horse from Dawan, and was one of the trophies of Wang Xiaojie's recovery of Anxi.

The war horse has a strong physique, slender limbs and powerful limbs, and a long ponytail fluttering in the wind.

Li Zhen's sharp eyes stared at his arrow target in the distance, and drew a straight horse path one zhang wide in the middle of the riding shooting range, two hundred steps long, about one hundred and fifty steps in front of the horse road, and a straw man was placed on each side, about eighty steps away from each of the horse roads.

That is to say, he had to gallop along the horse path, and when he ran to one hundred and fifty paces, he opened his bow left and right at the same time, and shot two straw man targets, although the horse path was long, but the archery area was only twenty paces, and the time left for him to shoot the arrow was only a short moment, which was the highest standard for riding and archery.

Wang Xiaojie sat on the viewing platform, he admired the courage of this seventeen-year-old boy, and dared to come to himself to complain, this courage alone is something that ordinary people cannot have.

And he can also pull his own two stones and five bucket bows, with his age, it is really rare to have this power, Dunhuang City actually has such a talent, if it is buried like this, it is a pity.

But Wang Xiaojie was more looking forward to seeing Li Zhen's riding archery skills, and he decided to test him with the highest mounted archery standard in the army.

"General, he's ready. ”

Wang Xiaojie nodded, "Let's start!"

Some soldiers waved flags and shouted, "Here we go!"

Li Zhen took out an arrow and bit it in his mouth, put another arrow on the string, and slammed his legs between the war horse, and the red-blooded war horse neighed, and galloped out with four hooves.

This war horse was obviously faster than his white dragon horse, and the momentum was even faster, Li Zhen only felt the wind whining in his ears, and the war horse instantly rushed to a hundred and fifty steps.

Wang Xiaojie stood up nervously, watching Li Zhen's every move with cold eyes, and hundreds of soldiers watching the battle around him also stretched their necks, waiting for the young man to shoot two arrows.

The war horse had just jumped over the firing line, Li Zhen controlled the horse with his legs, stabilized his body, opened his bow like a full moon, and shot an arrow.

He didn't look at the result, then changed his bow to his left hand, drew another arrow from his mouth, his body was slightly elevated, and another arrow shot out like lightning, and the war horse galloped wildly, instantly rushing through the twenty-step firing line.

There was silence all around, and then the applause was like thunder, and the cheers rang out, Li Zhen shot two arrows with his bow in just twenty steps, the movement was as smooth as flowing water, and the two arrows hit the bull's-eye, which amazed the soldiers.

The two soldiers carried the straw man and ran to the bottom of the viewing platform, and shouted excitedly, "General, both arrows hit the eyebrows!"

Wang Xiaojie was silent, he was moved, he had never seen such a clever young man in riding and shooting, there was such a talent in Dunhuang, how could he let it go?

At this time, Li Zhen rode his horse slowly, he turned over and dismounted, and raised the bow high, "Thank you to the great general, the treasure bow, so that the student can swing it with all his strength!"

Wang Xiaojie nodded, "Go back to the big tent and talk!"

The two walked quickly to the door of the big tent, but they happened to meet Zhang Ting, the deputy military envoy of the Doulu Army, Zhang Ting is the Zhang family of the four great families of Dunhuang, the Zhang family has been in Shazhou for generations, and is the most powerful snake in Dunhuang.

Although the Wuju Township Test was in charge of Shazhou Sima, Zhang Ting, as a local military envoy, also participated in it.

Zhang Ting knew Li Zhen and knew that this young man was quite successful, just now, he also happened to see Li Zhen's riding and archery performance, and Li Zhen's high archery skills made him admire.

But he was also very strange, how could Li Zhen appear in the Tang army camp? How could he perform archery for Wang Xiaojie, what was going on here?

Zhang Ting knelt down on one knee and saluted Wang Xiaojie with a fist, "The last general will see the general!"

"Envoy Zhang, please get up!"

When Wang Xiaojie saw Zhang Ting, he felt a little embarrassed, Zhang Ting came at this juncture, and some things were not good to confront in person.

What's more important is that Wang Xiaojie cherished Li Zhen's talent, and letting this young man confront Zhang Ting could only harm him.

Wang Xiaojie's mind changed, and he smiled mildly at Li Zhen: "I want to discuss military affairs with Zhang June, I know what you said, go back and rest first! Prepare well for tomorrow's township test, I hope you won't let me down tomorrow." ”

Li Zhen had already achieved his goal, and there was no point in him saying more, so he saluted the two of them and left, Wang Xiaojie looked at him and walked away, and then said to Zhang Ting: "Let's go in the tent and talk!"

Wang Xiaojie walked into the tent and ordered his soldiers to retreat, and then said to Zhang Ting: "Don't be restrained, sit down and talk!"

Wang Xiaojie is the head of Wuwei Dao, and Dou Lujun is also under his jurisdiction, so he is naturally Zhang Ting's top boss.

Wang Xiaojie took a sip of hot tea, pondered for a moment and said, "This young man's archery skills are very skillful, does Zhang Junenvoy know?"

"Of course, he knows that he is not only good at archery, but also very good at polo, and I plan to let him join the Shazhou polo team. ”

"But I know that he is going to take the Wuju Township Examination tomorrow, can't he get a quota for entering Beijing with his riding and archery skills?"

Zhang Ting was a little drumming in his heart, he had been in the officialdom for more than 20 years, and he had enough officialdom sensitivity, he realized that Wang Xiaojie might already know about the quota setting, whether Li Zhen said it He couldn't be sure, but someone must have leaked the matter to Wang Xiaojie.

However, this kind of township tribute quota must be a very normal thing, and it is a trivial matter in any prefecture and county, and if this kind of opportunity to get ahead is not given to the children of powerful families, will it not be given to the children of poor families? Zhang Ting believed that Wang Xiaojie would not make a fuss about this.

He smiled and said: "Tomorrow's township test is mainly to test foot archery and mounted archery, and it is estimated that Li Zhen is not a big problem in foot archery, but the on-the-spot swing of mounted archery is very important, if he swings abnormally, he may not be able to get a place in Beijing, although I also appreciate his riding archery skills." ”

What Zhang Ting said is very reasonable, and the on-the-spot swing is indeed an important factor affecting mounted archery, so that Wang Xiaojie can't refute it.

In fact, Wang Xiaojie didn't want to ask about any internal transactions in Shazhou, it was a matter of the Ministry of War and had nothing to do with him, but if he was asked to write a letter of recommendation, it would be related to his vital interests.

Wang Xiaojie pondered for a moment and said: "Since I promised to write a letter of recommendation, I naturally won't go back on my word, but the person I recommend, I must see his riding and archery level with my own eyes, and I can only write it if it meets my requirements, otherwise, the saint will blame it, and I, Wang Xiaojie, can't afford it, does Zhang Junzhi understand?"

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