Bai Sheng really doesn't want to pretend to be forced, but he has to get this first place, everything is for the sake of the child. If you paraphrase a popular phrase in the mouths of parents in later generations, that is, you can't let your child lose at the starting line.

Fortunately, the night jade lion is extraordinary, and he has a heart.

Exiting the weightlifting venue, he wanted to see Li Shishi and Zhao Fujin, but found that the two fainted girls had woken up, but they were carried back to the north stand by six palace maids.

The exam for subject 1 ended with the sacredness of Bai Sheng.

Next is the exam for subject 2, subject 2 mounted archery, night mounted archery.

Because the difficulty of simple standing archery is too low, everyone can shoot, and the difference is just whether it is accurate or not, so Tong Guan directly set the test content of subject 2 as riding archery, that is, cross-horse shooting.

At this time, the imperial dining room and Fan Lou in the palace had already delivered well-prepared meals, providing dinner for the monarchs and ministers in the north stand and the audience in the east and west stands respectively. The wine and food in the imperial dining room are free, and the meals in Fan Lou are profitable.

The decoration of the north grandstand can be described as luxurious, and there are red-hot charcoal braziers everywhere, which warm the upper and lower parts of the grandstand like early summer.

After seeing Bai Sheng's miracles, Zhao Ji's murderous intent became more and more intense, but he didn't want to show it in front of others, in order to cover up, he raised a glass and invited the concubines and ministers to drink, and even chanted half a Tang poem to show his appreciation for Tong Guan's creativity.

"The forest is dark and the grass is frightened, and the general draws the bow at night...... Tong Aiqing's exam question is exquisite, my great Song Liang will not lose to the previous dynasty, and he has the ability to shoot and kill at night! ”

Tong Guan immediately humbled himself, and at this time, there were already ten forbidden army knights in the audience who led ten war horses into the arena, stopped in front of the west stand, and saluted the north stand.

At the same time, on the south side of the school grounds, a lantern suddenly lit up in the darkness, and there were many people under the lantern, as if they were doing a hanging motion, but the exact distance could not be seen.

Tong Guan began to explain the rules of the examination of subject 2 to the emperor and the concubines and ministers, "The lantern is a hundred steps away. Each disciple chooses a horse, goes back and forth from west to east five times, and shoots ten feathered arrows in a circle, and the one who shoots the most lantern arrows is considered the winner......"

Without waiting for Tong Guan to finish speaking, Zhao Ji asked a question: "Then if two lifters both shot ten feather arrows, how should they be judged?"

Tong Guan bowed and said: "In this way, the arrows close to the center of the candle fire should be considered, among the ten arrows shot, whoever gets closer to the center of the lantern has more arrows and wins." ”

Cai Jing suddenly interjected: "If someone shoots an arrow through the lamp, then won't this person suffer a loss in counting?"

Tong Guan smiled: "The master is too worried, this lantern used for the arrow target is specially made, the back material is not ordinary paper yarn, but several layers of tough cowhide, as long as the lantern is hit by an arrow, the tip of the arrow must be nailed to the cowhide, neither penetrating nor falling." ”

Concubine Wei Xian listened to it for a long time, and then she suddenly thought about it, and said, "Then what if someone happens to shoot out the fire candle in the lantern with an arrow?

Tong Guan smiled: "Such a coincidence should not happen, but even if such a coincidence really happens, there is a way to judge the level." Regardless of how many of the 10 arrows he shot out, we counted him as the first, and if there were two or more of the candles that shot the candle, I would arrange for them to have a retest to determine the winner. ”

In this era, in the field of archery, people respect the realm of 100 steps through the Yang, but 100 steps through the Yang is something that only happens during the day.

There is no doubt that it is not less difficult to hit the wick in the lantern at night than it is to walk through the sun in the daytime, because the wick is separated by a layer of lantern paper, and it is not a bare target.

A person who can penetrate Yang in a hundred steps, of course, can temporarily identify him as the first, even if he is an arrow from Meng, it can only be regarded as his accuracy. Because after all, he shot the lantern, and besides, you don't accept that you will be given an arrow?

Zhao Ji said: "It's so good, let's start, let's see how the archery skills of the Great Song Dynasty are." ”

The number of examinees in subject 2 is 500, that is, the top 500 determined by weightlifting. These people took turns to play, except for those who brought their own mounts like Bai Sheng, they all had to choose one of the ten war horses provided by the forbidden army, and they shot under the noses of everyone in the three stands, and there was no possibility of cheating.

You don't know how to ride a horse? Sorry, just knock it out! You don't have to take subject 3, this is an exam, not a training!

Nowadays, except for the Jiaozhi Kingdom and the Dali Kingdom, which are two countries that are subject to the Great Song Dynasty, there are almost no cavalry, and the enemies who dare to argue with the Great Song Dynasty are all cavalry in the world. I don't know how to ride and shoot, and I still want to participate in the Western Expedition?

Tong Guan explained the rules to the emperor and ministers on the stage in order to improve the ornamentation of archery subjects, and at the same time, here in the West Stand, the examiners drawn from the military department and the forbidden army announced the examination rules to the people.

After the rules were announced, the first person to appear had not yet appeared, and a group of people left first.

The reason is very simple: these people don't know how to ride horses, or they ask themselves that their archery skills are so bad that they may not be able to shoot a lantern a hundred paces away, let alone a horse.

Among these people, Wu Song is particularly regrettable.

Wu Song ranked sixth in the weightlifting exam, and was originally one of the lifters with a high call to win the bid, but there was no way, this person couldn't ride a horse!

The inability to ride a horse here does not mean that it does not know how to ride a horse. Even Li Qingzhao and Yan Poxi and even Pan Jinlian could try to use horses to travel under Bai Sheng's support, and no matter how stupid Wu Song was, he would not be able to catch up with the three beauties who were weak and couldn't help it.

The inability to ride a horse here means that you do not know how to ride, that is, you cannot use force with people or shoot arrows from a distance while riding a horse.

In contrast, if it weren't for Bai Sheng's frequent horseback performance on horseback when he was a stuntman before the crossing, Bai Sheng would not have quickly learned to draw the bow immediately under Xiao Feng's guidance!

And how could Wu Song have such a good life as Bai Sheng, so he could only accept the cruel fact that he was eliminated.

Originally, Tong Guan meant that those who could not ride horses could not be generals to lead the army, and these eliminated lifters could be used as the first choice for infantry captains, and elimination was not equivalent to removal from martial arts.

But Wu Song couldn't accept this reality.

He felt that he could engage an enemy on horseback without riding a horse and not necessarily lose, and he also felt that although his archery skills were average, he was good at hand-to-hand combat, and once he rushed into the opponent's bow and arrow array, it was a good time for him to kill in all directions.

He was recommended by Chai Jin to come to Beijing Cangzhou Juzi, and he was directly exempted from the test in Cangzhou Mansion, but he was repeatedly deflated in the capital, and was first arrested by Kaifeng Mansion and beaten violently, and was released under the activities of Uncle Dawei, and then he was treated so unfairly.

With his fiery temper, where can he stand this? He only felt that the world was unfair and people's hearts were dark, so he chose to leave directly. You can't look down on grandpa, grandpa doesn't want to sell your life anymore!

He didn't come to serve the country loyally, but just wanted to be an officer.

Wu Song left with a group of strong men who couldn't ride horses and shoot arrows, Tong Guan didn't feel pity at all, in his opinion, people like Wu Song could be a sentry in front of his tent at best. What's the pity?