The first navigator of the Ming Dynasty

After accompanying Xiao Diyun to the school for a few days, Zheng Hai was thundered by his own calligraphy.

He was ridiculed by Xiao Xu Miaojin every day.

Compared to Xiao Diyun, his calligraphy has progressed very slowly. He felt that writing calligraphy was more difficult than practicing a sniper rifle, and his wrist was almost no longer his own.

Therefore, on this day, he did not accompany Xiao Diyun to Ji Shansuo in the palace to listen to the lecture, but followed the two generals Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng to learn swords and cavalry archery.

Although Zheng Hai has never used a broadsword, he has practiced grappling and fighting before and is good at daggers. He quickly mastered the sword techniques taught by Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng, and became familiar with cold weapons such as spears and bows and arrows.

Zhang Yu, a burly Confucian general with a smile on his face, nodded to Zheng Hai and said approvingly: "Brother Zheng, your understanding is very good, it is very good to master these weapons so quickly

!" "It is the two generals who taught it well, thank you two generals!" Zheng Hai hugged his fists and thanked the two.

Zhu Neng looked indifferent, and poured cold water and said: "Playing well does not mean that you can go into battle to kill the enemy, I have seen a lot of beautiful figures like you! However, I have seen a lot of cowards who are frightened as soon as they enter the battlefield, so let's talk about this when you kill them!"

Zheng Hai hugged his fists at Zhu Neng, smiled slightly, and did not give any other explanation.

Zhang Yu mediated and said: "Brother Zheng, don't mind, Brother Zhu is a straight man, what's the matter." You practice it yourself first, get more familiar with it, we still have some things, let's deal with some things first. I'm going to take my leave for now.

Zheng Hai returned the salute to Zhang Yu and watched the two leave.

He took up his bow and arrows, held the bow in his left hand and the feathered arrow in his right, and set the string, bending the bow like a full moon, and shooting an arrow at the target with a clatter. Although the arrow hit the target, it did not hit the red dot in the bull's-eye.

Zhang Yu pulled Zhu Neng out of the martial arts arena, and Zheng Hai heard Zhang Yu whisper to Zhu Neng from afar: "Brother Zhu, you don't know anything. This little brother Zheng is not stunned, he has killed people...

Brother, I heard someone say before I came to the Yan Palace, not long ago there was a case of floating corpses in the Taiye Pool in the inner city, and two black-clothed people died, and it was Brother Zheng who killed these two people..."

"Lord Zhang, is your news accurate? If he killed someone, how could he stay in the palace and not investigate his guilt according to the judge's side?" Zhu Neng's voice was very loud and powerful, and he didn't mean to hide it at all.

Zhang Yu glanced back at Zheng Hai, for fear that Zheng Hai would hear the sound of the two talking, but he saw that Zheng Hai was concentrating on practicing with a bow and arrow, not like hearing their conversation.

Zhang Yu took a breath and said softly: "Brother Zhu, you can't speak quietly, if he hears me waiting behind his back to talk about him, it's not good."

Zhu Neng said again: "Lord Zhang, I don't believe him! If he kills someone, how can he escape the arrest of the judge, and how can he let him stay in the palace..."

I was also surprised by this, so I asked the judge to check it out. According to the judge's side, this Zheng Hai was not only acquitted, but also there were people on the side of Tianfu, so not only did he not pursue it, but he also rewarded one or twenty taels of silver....."

"Lord Zhang, this is impossible!"

Zheng Hai took out a feather arrow from the quiver next to him again, tied the string again, bent the bow, and shot the feather arrow with another sound.

All I heard was the feather arrow swishing and hitting the red dot on the target. There are also two other feather arrows stuck in the target, one feathered arrow is on the top and the other is on the bottom.

There was no one around Zheng Hai, and he said to himself: "This archery is a bit like a sniper rifle, not only to aim, but also to pay attention to breathing and rhythm, and to judge the influence of wind direction and speed on the flight trajectory of the arrows." It seems that I still have to practice!" Zheng

Hai kept aiming, shooting, aiming, and shooting.

It didn't take long for the arrow targets dozens of feet away to be filled with feathered arrows, most of which landed near the red bull's-eye. Zheng Hai slowly developed some experience.

Just as he was about to take the feather arrows again, he found that the two quivers beside him were empty.

Zheng Hai put down the bow in his hand, and was about to go to the arrow target dozens of zhang away to pull out the feather arrows above, when he suddenly heard a sound of horses' hooves in the distance behind him: "Boom...

But after a while, Zheng Hai saw Zhu Neng galloping towards him on a high-headed horse with a red date.

Before Zheng Hai could react, on the galloping horse, Zhu Neng grabbed the bow, bent the bow, and shot the arrow from his body in one go.

Before the horse stopped, he saw that Zhu Neng had already set up a bow three times in a row and shot three feather arrows. Zheng Hai looked at an arrow target next to him, and all three feather arrows hit the bull's-eye.

"Awesome!" Zheng Hai sincerely admired.

"Phew-"

The jujube red horse stopped quickly, and the tall horse that Zhu Neng was riding just stopped not far from Zheng Hai.

When Zheng Hai came back to his senses, Zhu Neng had already turned over and dismounted, and stuffed the bow and arrow in his hand into Zheng Hai's hand: "It's not okay to learn archery just standing and practice, riding and archery is the most important!"

Zheng Hai was stunned for a moment, took Zhu Neng's bow, and replied: "I haven't ridden a horse..."

Zheng Hai felt a deep sense of contempt from Zhu Neng's expression and tone, but he couldn't argue with it, because he really had never ridden a horse.

Few special forces in the 21st century have learned to ride horses, after all, most of the time special forces are driving, boating, and flying. Horseback riding is almost a chicken skill in the modern military, and only appears in rare cases. Therefore, horseback riding is not among the special combat skills, and Zheng Hai has never learned to ride a horse.

Except for a few frontier companies in the army, which are also equipped with war horses, most of the troops no longer have military horses, so Zheng Hai can only drive boats, cars, and tanks, and cannot ride horses!

However, in the ancient era of cold weapons, horses and carriages were the most important and common means of transportation.

What's more critical is that the strongest and most capable army under Zhu Di is cavalry, but Zheng Hai can't even ride a horse, which really makes Zhu Neng have some contempt for Zheng Hai.

Zhu Di, the king of Yan, was one of the most capable of fighting among Zhu Yuanzhang's sons. In addition to Zhu Di, the king of Yan, Zhu Yuanzhang's most capable sons were Zhu Yu, the king of Jin, and Zhu Quan, the king of Ning.

King Zhu of Jin (1358-1398) was the third brother of Zhu Di, King of Yan, and Zhu Quan (1378-1448) was the seventeenth brother of Zhu Di, who was only 13 years old at this time.

There is another year, that is, in the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu (1391), Zhu Quan was only named King Ning when he was 14 years old, and in the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu (1393), Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, went to Daning to take up the domain.

At this time, the most capable princes in the Ming Dynasty were actually only Zhu Di and Zhu Yu.

In the twenty-third year of Hongwu (1390), Zhu Di proved with his own actions that he was the most capable son of Zhu Yuanzhang. Because in the recent attack on the Northern Yuan, the Jin King Zhu Di was afraid, and the Yan King Zhu Di braved the snow to attack, successfully besieged and made the Northern Yuan Taiwei Nai'er surrender.

Zhu Di has become the most capable son in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart, and he is Zhu Yuanzhang's favorite son except for the crown prince Zhu Biao. After Zhu Di's northern expedition to Naier did not spend a big victory, Zhu Yuanzhang began to reuse Zhu Di, which was an important turning point for Zhu Di, the king of Yan.

And the reason why Zhu Di was able to achieve a great victory over Naier was not only because of the correct command and the assistance of generals such as Fu Youde, but also because he had a cavalry under him that was not inferior to the Northern Yuan and Mongolian.

Zhu Di's cavalry was not only a heavy weapon to deal with the Northern Yuan (the remnants of the pseudo-Yuan Dynasty), but also the main force to deal with Zhu Yunwen's southern army later, but this is a later story.

Zheng Hai wanted to be a guard under Zhu Di, the king of Yan, but he couldn't ride a horse! This is also the reason why Zheng Hai was deeply despised by Zhu Neng.

"Get on the horse, why are you still stunned!" Zhu Neng yelled at Zheng Hai with an unhappy face, only to wake Zheng Hai up from his daze.