Chapter 9: Fighting in the Ring

After Hong Chao passed smoothly, Cheng Kun went to the others to take a look, and the results made him quite satisfied. There were more than 300 people in Jinyang County on this trip, and only 27 people were eliminated, and the rest were all stayed.

Such a high pass rate is really rare.

This is thanks to Cheng Kun's guidance to everyone in his spare time during this time, with his boxing skills, as long as he steps forward and clicks two sentences and demonstrates again, there is basically no problem. Among the twenty-seven people who were eliminated, a few of them had too poor understanding, and some were too lazy and reluctant to sweat to practice hard, so Cheng Kun had no choice.

In the specially divided archery field, Gai Yuntian calmly picked up the bow in his hand under the gaze of a group of people, and grabbed four arrows at one time in his right hand

But Gai Yuntian did not hesitate, he opened the bow directly with his right hand, and the four arrows were fired at once, as if a group of swallows were thrown into the forest, "ding" "ding", "ding", all four arrows hit the arrow target fifty meters away, and circled around the innermost bull's-eye.

The noisy venue was silent for a moment, and then there was a burst of cheers, such archery skills can not but be admired.

Gai Yuntian put down his bow, although the expression on his face did not change, his quietly clenched fists revealed his uncalm mood at this time.

Ten years of loneliness no one asked, and he became famous all over the world in one fell swoop!

The veterans who registered their results also looked admiring, although they did not say it explicitly, but all the veterans knew that the most popular in the barracks were the archers. Especially those who are skilled in archery, they don't have a good relationship with him, and they may save their lives at a critical time.

Soon, Cheng Kun also heard that there was a master on the other side of the archery field, with a bow and four arrows, and everyone worshipped. He also came to be interested, such archery, if it wasn't taught by a master, then this guy's talent would be quite amazing.

The first item of Dabi lasted for a total of two days, and the test of spear and archery skills had long been over, and the rest was all about choosing knife skills.

In order to survive five minutes in front of the veterans, these people can be said to be eight immortals crossing the sea, each showing their abilities. There are those who roll on the ground to perform the Underground Knife Technique, there are those who run around the field to try to delay time, and there are those who simply complain to the other party to make the veterans merciful......

Cheng Kun watched it with relish at the bottom, but the face of the Tie Niu instructor on the stage was as black as the bottom of the pot, and in the end, all those who tried to get through the test were kicked out, in his words: "The Dingshan Army doesn't accept such a bad seed, and it can't afford to lose this person!!"

In the end, there were only 2,106 people left, and almost a third of them were eliminated. No wonder it was able to change the long-standing defensive position of the Central Plains Dynasty in the face of the steppe peoples, and pulled out the border fortress and the Hun cavalry just head-on, and did not fall behind!

By the third day, Dabi began to move on to the next item.

The Iron Bull Instructor announced the rules for this one: all teams were disorganized and randomly mixed into groups ranging from 400 to 500 for a scuffle. The blades are all made of wood, so the blades naturally have no blades, and the heads of the spears are removed and turned into clubs. There is no time limit, and the ten people in each group who persist to the end can move on to the next item.

...... It was actually a scuffle, Cheng Kun raised his eyebrows, which was unexpected by him, was it to simulate the chaos on the battlefield?

But then things get interesting. He originally thought that the last person who stood out in this big competition would only be the families of the other six counties, at best, plus which archery genius Gai Yuntian had only emerged in the past two days. After all, the gap between ordinary people and masters who have practiced martial arts is too big.

If that's the case, it's really boring.

But if it is a scuffle, there will inevitably be accidents, and there will be more variables.

Even if it is an ordinary person, if you add a little more to the organization and command, it is not impossible to temporarily organize a group of people to deal with a master like Cheng Kun. If a few people are not careful, I am afraid that it will inevitably capsize in the gutter. In the face of the strong, it is a matter of course for the weak to survive together.

It's really exciting to think about such a happy thing, anyway, as long as it's not him who capsizes.

Fang Han, who heard the rules clearly, looked much more solemn, and what Cheng Kun could think of, they quickly thought clearly. Everyone reminds themselves in their hearts that they must be careful, in case the horse stumbles, it will definitely become the laughing point of other people's lives!

On the other side, Gai Yuntian's face couldn't be relaxed, if there was any scenario that was most unfavorable to him, the melee was definitely one of them.

Archers have been destined for a ranged profession since the day they were born. Distance is their lifeline, and they have never seen archers "flying kites" from afar, and when they have been seen rushing forward and the warriors are tough.

Do you want to stab the enemy to death with an arrow in your hand?

No kidding!!

However, it was not the first time that the Joyama Army's recruit barracks competition had been held, so how could it be possible to leave such a big loophole.

Instructor Tie Niu soon announced a supplementary rule for people like Gai Yuntian alone: as long as they can continuously shoot ten arrows from the bull's-eye at a distance of eighty paces in twenty breaths, they can skip participating in the melee and go directly to the next item. And when the last ten people are contested in the end, you can also come forward to challenge, and if you win, you can eliminate the loser.

Gai Yuntian breathed a sigh of relief, for him, this kind of standard is still easy to meet.

In the end, there were only one hundred and six people who chose to take the archery test, and the remaining 2,000 people were divided into five groups, and Cheng Kun was in the second group.

Among the four hundred people in the first group, Cheng Kun didn't know much, but he saw Zhuojun Tian Huayu at a glance, this guy was white and fat, mixed with others, quite conspicuous.

For this big competition, the military camp set up a special ring, which was enough to accommodate 500 people to fight on it.

At this time, all 400 people in the first group stood in the ring, waiting for the moment when the competition began. The men stood scattered, separated by a few paces from each other, and no one knew who would strike at them in a moment.

It's already nine o'clock in the morning, the summer sun is swaying wantonly, and the tension in the air is getting stronger and stronger.

Finally, Captain Tie Niu gave an order, and the competition began.

Suddenly, everyone shouted loudly, holding wooden knives and sticks and swung at the people around them. The rules are very clear, only the last ten people in each group can advance, so the more people who fall, the better, and the scene can be said to be chaotic.

The ring was close to Cheng Kun's side, and Cheng Kun saw it clearly, and when the instructor gave the order, there was a guy who didn't react because he was too nervous. It's just that this momentary trance gives others a chance. Without hesitation, one of the men standing next to him grabbed his arm with his left hand, and the hilt of the knife slammed into his stomach. The guy covered his stomach with his hands in pain, hunched over like a cooked lobster, and was directly eliminated from the game.

Such scenes can be seen everywhere, although wooden knives and sticks can't kill people, but few people can withstand a ruthless beating.

If you look down from the sky, you will find that these people are like a swarm of dazed ants, mixed up in a mess, and they can't figure out a clue. There was only one corner on the right side of the ring, and for some reason a piece was free.

Tian Huayu has practiced the mixed yuan gong passed down from his family since he was a child, and now he has opened up the four strange scriptures, so don't look at his appearance is not amazing, in fact, the depth of his skill is rare among the younger generation.

At the same time, the mixed yuan gong is cultivated both inside and outside, and the combination of rigidity and softness is not as extreme as the Shaoyang true qi, but it is rare that there are no shortcomings, and it can be said to be a comprehensive addition. If it weren't for the fact that the more you cultivate, the more difficult it would be to break through, and the Tian family had no one to break through the realm of the grandmaster with this skill for more than a hundred years, I am afraid that this technique would have been famous all over the world for a long time.

The open space above the ring was made by him with a long stick. His mixed element true qi is densely spread on the body of the stick, like cotton wrapped in iron, and any part that hits other people will immediately shake the other party out, and it is really convenient to use it to clear the field.

Yu Dayou, a famous general of the Ming Dynasty, was good at stick methods, and once broke into the Shaolin Temple alone, defeated a group of monks, and retreated. In his later compilation of the Book of Swords (the Ming Dynasty stick was also known as the sword), there is a mention of the stick method:

Zhongping eight rigid and twelve soft,

Shave up and down and roll about

Kill high and low left and right,

Manual foot entry and mutual assistance.

The eight rigid and twelve soft in this refer to the eight methods of hard attack and the twelve methods of defeating the enemy with softness.

Eight rigids: one just Mount Tai pressed the top, two just faced straight g, three just walked with two palms, four just folded elbows and hard worms, five just stuck to the door against the wall, six just hard collapse at the bottom, seven just left and right crutches, eight just fell two points.

Twelve soft people: see just and return to the hand, start and steal the hand, cut the hand and roll the hand, stick and fan the hand, straight hand and do not hand, pick the hand and start, hold the hand and enter the hand, knock the hand and start, flutter the hand into the hand, pick the hand and start, open the hand and fold the hand, sticky and break the hand.

These four sentences can be said to concisely point out the essence of the stick method, and it is even more vividly reflected in Tian Huayu's stick method.

Although Cheng Kun has never practiced the stick method, he can use one method and ten thousand methods. He watched Tian Huayu below carry a six-foot-long stick and hit it with his fingers, and the shadow of the stick flew over, like a dragon dancing in the air, moving freely, and no one could enter the rest of the space around him, which could be said to be free and easy.

Soon, the people around him recognized the reality and stopped touching his hard stone, but turned to look for other people's bad luck. Tian Huayu didn't make much effort, put away the long stick and stood there without moving, watching the others come out with dog brains like nothing else, this scene looked really weird.

Cheng Kun looked at it and shook his head, it's a pity that there are no smart people in the first group, otherwise, after seeing Tian Huayu's threat, he could have encouraged others to go up and beat this guy together, although it may not be of any use, but it can also bring him some trouble.

After about a stick of incense, the people in the ring basically fell, and only the last ten people were still standing.

Except for Tian Huayu, who almost won by lying down, the remaining nine people were a little embarrassed, not to mention their wrinkled clothes, and there were many shoe prints on them. However, it is not a fluke that these people can hold on to the end, they have more or less learned a little rough kung fu and know how to be beaten, so they can protect themselves in the melee.

After sending these ten people down, the second group went to the ring, and Cheng Kun also took a long stick and walked up.

For him, the difference between stick and marksmanship is not really much.

His eyes scanned for a moment, then he paused. In the other corner opposite him in the ring, Ling Zhen of Beiping County on the right grabbed a wooden knife and arched his hand to him with a smile.

He smiled softly, like a suave scholar, out of step with the tension in the ring.