Chapter 242: Arc Archery
Cao Junhong, as an authentic Huainan native and a soldier of the city guard battalion, logically speaking, his future should be very bright.
But unfortunately he became Zheng Gang's subordinates, although according to the system of the city guard battalion, they should all be Zhang Shuliang's subordinates.
But Zhang Shuliang is too upright, not a ruler, and too strict, so most of the soldiers in the city guard battalion prefer the more humane deputy commander Zheng Gang.
And Zheng Gang is very good at winning people's hearts, and Zhang Shuliang is not only the commander of the city guard camp, but also one of the deputy commanders of the entire Huainan army, so he will not care too much about the city guard camp most of the time.
Over time, the soldiers of the city guard camp didn't take Zhang Shuliang very seriously. The same is true of Cao Junhong, his original ambition was to become the Huainan Army, but he joined the city guard camp by mistake.
In the military system of Huainan Kingdom, the most respected is the black face army, although most of them are death row prisoners and felons, but their combat power is the strongest, so both the people and the government are highly respected for the black face army.
Next is the Huainan Army, and they are also the backbone of the entire Huainan Army. Finally, there is the city guard battalion, they are only responsible for defending the city and catching thieves, and they are relatively the worst in combat.
However, many of the soldiers of the city guard battalion had retired from the Doumen Army and the Huainan Army, and they were either too old or wounded on the battlefield.
There is a clear difference between this part of the people and the soldiers of the other city guard battalions, and there is also a relatively obvious gap between them.
For example, Xiong Guangyang, Zhu Yaolei and You Liming, they chose to stand by when Zheng Gang ordered to attack Mu Qingyun just now.
And when Zhang Shuliang arrived, they immediately joined Zhang Shuliang's command and pursued Zheng Gang and others without hesitation.
But Cao Junhong, as an authentic soldier of the city guard battalion, directly stood with Zheng Gang at the instigation of his companions.
Although he knew that Zheng Gang's actions amounted to treason, he still chose to follow Zheng Gang. Because he has completely lost confidence in Huainan and even the entire Dayu Dynasty.
In particular, the attitude of the Huainan people towards the black-faced army made him unacceptable. In his opinion, those people were death row prisoners who killed people and set fires, and they were full of evil and did all kinds of evil.
But in the end, after they came back from participating in a few battles, they became heroes who saved the country and the people, and their past crimes were written off.
This made Cao Junhong incomprehensible, and at the same time, there were many soldiers in the city guard camp who couldn't understand it like him.
It was through this that Zheng Gang enveloped them and taught them step by step to become resentful people.
At this time, the soldiers of the city guard battalion who were standing on the city wall in addition to them seemed to be neutral, but in fact, they also had some resentment in their hearts.
Cao Junhong looked at the six archers who were afraid to step forward with disdain, and then strode to the middle of the four feathered arrows.
That kind of calmness and calmness made the other six people a little jealous. And the reason why Cao Junhong is so confident is entirely because he has the same exclusive archery skills as Dong Jun.
After Cao Junhong stood still, he took out his half-human-high longbow, and then held the bow in one hand and pinched the arrow in the other, and with him slowly exerting force, the longbow slowly turned into a full bow.
At this time, Li Yi in the urn city also felt that Cao Junhong was different from the city. This is not only because his longbow is bigger than other archers, but also because of his calmness and calmness.
In the eyes of everyone, the momentum of Cao Junhong and Li Yi is really five or six points similar. Just as Cao Junhong pulled the longbow into a full bow, Li Yi also pulled the modified compound bow in his hand.
He aimed his sight at Cao Junhong on the city wall, and as soon as he shot the feather arrow, he immediately let go. Li Yi, who is the maker of this modified compound bow, is very clear about it.
He had tested this compound bow that could directly pierce through the fish scale armor at a distance of 300 meters, and it was a divine bow.
Cao Junhong on the city wall saw that Li Yi also pulled the bowstring but didn't let go, so he couldn't help but smile coldly.
"Since you like to be the last to come, then I'm going to have a good time with you today, and I'll see how long you can last if I don't let go now!" Dong Jun had reminded him before that after Li Yi had gone through several rounds of fighting arrows, his arm should have been about to lose his strength.
Therefore, in this case, he wanted to stalemate with this Li Yi to see if he couldn't help but strike first.
And once he strikes first, it means that his heart is already in turmoil, and he will have a greater chance of killing him with one arrow.
Even if he continued to stalemate with himself and waited for the latter to come, such a stalemate could continue to drain his physical strength.
This is of great benefit to his next fighting arrows. So Cao Junhong stood at the head of the city like a sculpture, holding a bow in one hand and leading the string in the other, and Li Yi in the urn city also held a compound bow like him and maintained a motionless posture.
As time passed, the two of them kept their bodies still, and the bows and arrows in their hands remained in this full state.
The people around couldn't help but secretly exclaim when they saw Li Yi and this Cao Junhong confronting each other like this. You know, the average archer doesn't last too long when they draw their bowstrings when they shoot arrows.
This is because a long time of full bow will not only consume a lot of your physical strength, but also cause damage to the bow and arrows.
Therefore, before learning archery, the masters would repeatedly emphasize that the bow and arrow should not be left empty and that the bow should be full for a long time.
However, at this time, both of them left this taboo behind, after all, at this time, they were not only comparing archery, but also gambling on their lives.
In this way, the time passed quickly, and Cao Junhong on the city wall was already sweating profusely, and his arms had begun to tremble faintly.
And he observed that Li Yi in the urn city still maintained the posture of holding the bow, and also showed a calm and relaxed posture.
Seeing that if he didn't let go, he would be about to lose his strength, so Cao Junhong had to let go angrily.
But the moment he let go, Li Yi in the urn city also immediately let go. All of a sudden, the two feathered arrows went up and down in the opposite direction.
The moment the two feather arrows met in the air, the air flow brought by the two feather arrows interacted with each other, and the two feather arrows were blown away from their original trajectory.
Therefore, Li Yi's feather arrow directly grazed Cao Junhong's right shoulder, and the sound of the wind directly made Cao Junhong's ears faintly tinnitus.
Although Cao Junhong's feather arrow was also affected by the air current, it slightly deviated from the original trick, but it drew an arc in the air towards Li Yi.
In the face of this kind of arced feather arrow, although Li Yi could roughly judge the direction it was going to fly from, it was very difficult to grasp the specific target point of its attack.
For this reason, he could only wait for the arrow to fly in front of him before he could dodge. Seeing this, Cao Junhong, who was standing at the head of the city, couldn't help but show a mocking smile on the corner of his mouth.
In the next second, he pulled his bow and arrows again, this time without stopping, and the second feather arrow shot towards Li Yi like lightning.
At this time, the first feather arrow had not yet reached Li Yi's face. This is one of Cao Junhong's fighting arrow skills, the first arrow he deliberately slowed down the speed of the feather arrow, and waited until the second arrow was shot, and the two feather arrows would form a continuous shooting effect.
In this way, even if the opponent blocks the first feathered arrow, it also greatly delays his reaction time to the second arrow.
So it's easier to hit the target. He smiled as soon as he fired the second arrow, as if he were already in the chest.
But how could Li Yi in the urn city let him get his wish, he saw that Li Yi finally made a move when the first feather arrow approached his side less than five meters.
With a sound of "bang", the feather arrow shot by Cao Junhong was directly blocked by Li Yi with a composite bow. At this time, Cao Junhong's second feather arrow was already less than ten meters away from Li Yi.
"Even if you can block this first arrow, I'll see how you dodge this second arrow!" Cao Junhong, who was on the city wall, said in a low voice.
"Good! This kid is finally going to die under this feathered arrow! Dong Jun on the side couldn't help but shout excitedly.
"Childe!"
"Li Yi"
"Li Gongzi"······ For a while, the people on Li Yi's side shouted nervously. Even Jun Keyi had already shook his head regretfully and closed his eyes.
He really couldn't accept that Li Yi was shot and killed by a feather arrow like this. But in the crowd, only Mu Junhe and Yu Zhenlei remained calm.
Yu Zhenlei knew very well how fast Li Yi's reaction was, otherwise he would not have been defeated in the battle against Li Yi at the beginning.
And Mu Junhe is completely because of his trust in his master, and in his opinion, it is absolutely impossible for his master to teach a stupid person who is slow to react.
Sure enough, just when the feather arrow was about to hit Li Yi's heart, Li Yi immediately raised the compound bow in his hand and shot an arrow quickly.
Although the force of this arrow he used was not large, and the speed of the feather arrow was not fast enough, this feather arrow slammed straight towards Cao Junhong's feather arrow as if it had been spelled.
"Smack!" With a bang, the two feathered arrows really collided in the air. This made everyone in the room gasp.
"What kind of luck does this have to be for two feathered arrows shooting at each other to collide in the air."
"It's kind of interesting!" Hai Yin couldn't help but whisper to himself. He didn't expect that Li Yi's choice of method to break the siege when facing the second feather arrow turned out to be this way.
Although most of the people present thought that Li Yi's arrow was a blind cat, it was luck that he ran into a dead mouse. But in Haiyin's opinion, this is completely Li Yi's intention.
The reason why he had this judgment was because he saw that the power of Li Yi's arrow was obviously very small, and according to his observation, it was impossible for this arrow to hit the city wall.
The second reason is that Li Yi has always been very calm in the face of Cao Junhong's second arrow, without the slightest panic.
And the other point is the most crucial point, when Li Yi faced the second arrow, his feet never moved a bit.
Under normal circumstances, people will subconsciously make dodge actions in the face of danger, but Li Yi's body did not make any movements, which shows that Li Yi did not think that he would encounter any danger at that time.
"Damn, this kid's luck is so good, he can do this kind of thing when two arrows collide." Seeing this, Dong Jun couldn't help but secretly cry out that it was a pity.
"Humph! If Dong Jun is worried, I don't believe that this kid can always be so lucky. Cao Junhong also thought that Li Yi's arrow just now was based on luck.
Immediately, Cao Junhong immediately shot another arrow, and this arrow was not very fast like his first arrow just now.
Everyone understood at this time that this Cao Junhong was planning to repeat his old tricks. However, since Li Yi had successfully dodged just now, it would probably be difficult to win if he wanted to use the same trick.
After all, Li Yi will definitely take precautions in advance this time. But just when everyone thought that things would turn out according to everyone's imagination, things changed dramatically.
The feather arrow, which had been flying straight in the air, suddenly seemed to be moved by something, and the entire body of the arrow suddenly deflected.
And the trick of the feather arrow traveling suddenly drew an arc, and the feather arrow, which was originally heading straight for Li Yi's face, was heading towards Li Yi's left side of the neck at this time.
"Arc Archery!" Yu Zhenlei couldn't help but be taken aback. There are very few people who can master this archery among the prairie archers.
It is said that this archery, when used to the extreme, can be used to shoot people hiding behind them over obstacles. Hence this arc archery is also called
"Blind arrow", which means that you can shoot something you can't see. Yu Zhenlei didn't expect that there were still people in the Dayu Dynasty who could use arc archery.
Today's Li Yi's arrow fight can be regarded as subverting Yu Zhenlei and Hai Yin's cognition of Dayu's archery.
Originally, they had always thought that the Jebes of the steppe tribe could completely crush the archers of the Great Yu Dynasty in archery.
And in their cognition, the archers of the Great Yu Dynasty can only use simple archery, and those slightly more difficult archery skills may not be heard of by them.
But today, they saw two kinds of archery in the archers of the Dayu Dynasty, and both of them were very difficult.
At the same time as Yu Zhenlei shouted the arc archery technique, Li Yi had already moved. This time, he directly raised the compound bow, then slammed the bowstring full, and as soon as he let go, the feather arrow in his hand flew towards Cao Junhong at a rapid pace.
"Hmph, you didn't even hide, it seems that this kid is planning to die with me!" Seeing that Li Yi did not block his own arrow but shot an arrow at himself, Cao Junhong guessed that Li Yi should have been completely messed up at this time, and he was planning to fight with himself.
But this is exactly what Cao Junhong wants. But once one of the masters of archery is out of balance, then what awaits him will be death.
Cao Junhong sneered, turned sideways to dodge an arrow shot by Li Yi, and then raised his longbow again to carefully observe the results of his first arrow.
Although according to his calculations, Li Yi should not be able to dodge his arrow, but in case of accidents, he is still ready to shoot at any time.
But just as his feather arrow was about to hit Li Yi's left side of the neck, Li Yi suddenly stretched out his right hand and grabbed it violently at his left side.
The feather arrows that flew towards him were actually grabbed straight in his hands.
"This ······ Is that possible? Dong Jun at the head of the city was already completely shocked.
The seemingly impossible thing of grabbing arrows with his bare hands actually appeared in front of him. And what he couldn't accept was that this kind of thing still happened to Li Yi.
"This ······" Cao Junhong, who was holding a longbow, was also shocked, he originally thought that he was determined to win this arrow, but he didn't expect Li Yi to crack it with such an exaggerated technique.
"Li Yi ······" Qi Ning, who was behind Li Yi, watched Li Yi holding a feather arrow in his hand, dripping blood from his palm, and she couldn't help but feel distressed.
Although Li Yi grabbed the feather arrow with his bare hands, the feather arrow still cut through his palm.
"Even if you could catch one of my feathered arrows with your bare hands, I don't believe you could catch my feathered arrows again and again." At this time, Cao Junhong was completely enraged by Li Yi.
In Cao Junhong's opinion, Li Yi could have chosen to avoid it, but he used this appalling method to grab his arrows with his bare hands, which was simply a naked slap in the face.
Enraged, Cao Junhong pulled the bowstring again, and then shot an arrow at Li Yi. This arrow is completely different from the arc archery technique just now, and the speed of the previous arc archery technique is not very fast and the strength is not very strong.
Once when he was in Guigu Gate, Tai Jizi was archery, and he once performed this arc archery technique for him. At that time, Tai Jizi did not want to teach him this archery, but through this archery, he and Liu Yu taught him and Liu Yu mechanics.
Therefore, Li Yi's understanding of this so-called arc archery technique may be more thorough than Cao Junhong's, although he cannot shoot this kind of archery.
However, he knew that in order to shoot this kind of arc archery, he had to stretch the bowstring with a full bow, and when he released the bowstring, he had to deviate from the bow by a certain angle.
In this way, the bowstring can bounce and twist the arrows when they fly out. Then the feather arrow will draw an arc by inertia.
However, although the direction of the feather arrow will change, the trajectory of the feather arrow will increase at the same time, so that when shooting at a distant target, its speed will decrease a lot when it approaches the target.
And as the distance increases, the speed of the feather arrow decreases more. This is where Li Yi's confidence lies in daring to grab the feather arrow with his hands, if it is replaced by the opponent's straight line angry shot, and Li Yi is given two more dares, he will not dare to catch it with his hands.
"Finally, I can't help it." Li Yi couldn't help but smile at the corner of his mouth when he saw Cao Junhong on the city wall suddenly change his previous shooting style.
In the face of this feather arrow that kept flying, Li Yi didn't dare to hold it up this time, he directly gave way to a sideways, and then directly put the feather arrow stained with his own blood on the compound bow.
"Since this arrow is stained with my blood, then it must also be stained with your blood, is this considered a courtesy!" Li Yi whispered, then looked at the sun in the sky.
At this time, the morning fog had been completely dispelled by the sun, and the golden sun was shining brightly in the sky.
Immediately, Li Yi pointed the compound bow in his hand at the front diagonally, and then directly released the bowstring.
"Projectile!" Hae-yin couldn't help frowning. He still knows a lot about this kind of archery, compared to the previous spirit snake archery and arc archery projectile, there is basically no difficulty, even children on the grassland can do it.
Although it can shoot farther arrows farther farther compared to flat shots, it will also greatly reduce the speed and accuracy of feather arrows.
There is no point in using a projectile in the case of an arrow, because it is simply too easy to dodge the projectile.
But just when he was puzzled, Cao Junhong at the head of the city suddenly let out a muffled snort. Everyone looked closely, but saw that the feathered arrow was stuck straight into his shoulder.
"What's going on?" This time, even Yu Zhenlei was surprised.