The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

On the first day of the formal training, Xun Zhen first checked the weapons of the people.

The most knives and the least bows. Eighty percent of the people in the village carry knives, and only two or three percent have bows and arrows—this also includes the bamboo bows and arrows used for hunting.

Xun Zhen asked the people in the village for their opinions: "Today's first practice, hand fighting, swordsmanship, and archery, which one do you want to learn from?"

The people in the village discussed for a while, and came to a unified opinion: "I would like to learn archery first."

This answer was not what Xun Zhen expected. Because on the surface, the easiest reward among the three is archery.

Hand fights and swords require competitions to get rewards, and if you want to compete, you must first train for a period of time. There is no need for archery. According to Xun Zhen, as long as you can hit the money on the target, you can take it immediately.

"Quick success and instant benefit", it is human nature. This also fits Xun Zhen's mind. From the very beginning, he stumbled and fought, and practiced hand-fighting and swordsmanship with hand-to-hand hands. Archery is different. Even if the archery skills of the people are generally not good, but with Xu Zhong, Jiang Qin, Gao Jia, and Gao Bing, there will always be people who can shoot and get money. You can give the people a message. Think, make them more actively involved in training.

Xun Zhen said "as good as a stream": "If that's the case, let's learn archery first." Chen Bao and Cheng Yan took out the archery targets that had been prepared long ago from the car. son.

A copper coin has been placed on the target.

Five baht coins were commonly used in the world. The outer circle was square and the diameter of each coin was about one inch. Converted to the length of later generations, that is more than two centimeters. Two centimeters are very short. If you use this as a target, even if you practice for two years, it will be difficult for the people in the village to hit it. Therefore, Xun Zhen nailed nine copper coins in the middle of each target, divided into three columns, three in each column, and connected closely together, thus forming a "bull's eye" with a length and width of seven or eight centimeters. ”, and then put the distance of the archery closer, and the people in the village are likely to be hit.

The target is set, and the distance of the arrow has to be set. For the above reasons, in order to stimulate the enthusiasm of the people in the village, the initial distance is not too far, so Xun Zhen tentatively set it to fifty steps. Han followed the Qin system, one step is six feet, and fifty steps is three hundred feet, which is more than thirty meters. From more than 30 meters away, it is difficult, but not impossible, to shoot a "bull's eye" with a length and width of seven or eight centimeters.

In order to further stimulate the enthusiasm of the people in the village, Xun Zhen also stipulated: "If you can't hit the money but can hit the target, you will also be rewarded.

- "One ring in every middle": Xun Zhen divided the entire archery target into five rings. The copper coin in the center was five rings, followed by the fourth ring, the third ring, the second ring, and finally one ring.

Everyone in the village is full of interest, whether with or without bows and arrows, they are all eager to try.

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The target is set, and the rules are set. Xun Zhen took out a bamboo basket from the cart, and lifted the cloth covering the basket. The residents of the village could see clearly: all copper coins were inside.

The bamboo basket is not small, and the copper coins of yellow and orange are piled up to the edge of the basket, and there are no less than two or three thousand. The eyes of the people in the village were all focused on it, and there was a small commotion, and someone couldn't help but shouted: "Ting Chang, is this the money used for rewards?"

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"How many are there in such a big basket?"

This question was simple and cute, and Xun Zhen smiled involuntarily and said, "No matter how many, as long as you can hit the target, I will reward you with money. I am not afraid that you will take too much, but I am afraid that you will miss!"

Xun Zhen's "keeping promise" has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and now there is a large basket of copper coins in front of the people, all the people in the village are bright, and immediately two or three people squeezed out of the queue, volunteering to ask: "Master Ting, The villain asks to shoot first!"

Xun Zhen originally planned to let the brothers Gao Jia and Gao Bing shoot a few arrows before the formal training. They were good at shooting. Opened his mouth and said that Limin had volunteered. He thought to himself: "Sure enough, there must be a brave man under the heavy reward." Naturally, he would not refuse, because he smiled, "Okay! I will let you shoot a few arrows first."

These two or three people rushed to the field with bows and arrows.

As early as when the target was set, Chen Bao, Xu Zhong, Huang Zhong, Du Mai and others had already measured the distance of fifty paces and drew a line on the ground. After the three of them ran to the line, they lined up, each aimed at an arrow target, and turned their heads to ask Xun Zhen, "Can you shoot?"

"Three arrows per person. Ready to shoot."

The people in the village were all monks and monks. Without formal training, Xun Zhen looked at them and found that their movements of raising bows and arrows were not standard. Some walk crookedly, some hold their bows too high. Even one of them was not using a long arrow, but a "簰". "簰" is a short arrow with a silk rope used for hunting. After shooting, the arrow can be dragged back for secondary use.

Brothers Gao Jia and Gao Bing are both archery masters who have learned from others. After seeing the movements of the few Limins on the field, the corners of their mouths showed contemptuous smiles. There were five targets in total, three were on the field, and two were still empty. The two of them said, "Xunjun, my brother also wants to take a shot."

Xun Zhen stared intently at the three on the field, turned her head upon hearing this, and said with a smile, "Okay."

Brothers Gao Jia and Gao Bing did not wait for the few Limins to finish shooting, and immediately came on stage with bows and arrows.

When the two of them came on stage, they immediately attracted the attention of many Limin. Someone in the Qing Xia cheered them on loudly: "Da Gao, Xiao Gao, come up with the means, and let them see what it means to be a sharp shooter!"

The Gao brothers were disdainful of standing fifty paces away, then walked a distance back, and stood at a position of about eighty or ninety paces. The two looked at each other and drew their bows in unison. . One arrow followed the other, and the arrowhead of the next arrow closely followed the tail of the previous arrow. The crowd in the audience could only hear the sound of "papapapa", and three bowstrings sounded. There were three crisp sounds of "ding, ding, ding" again. Everyone looked, but these three arrows all hit the copper coins on the target.

The bow used by Gao Jia was strong, and the arrowheads of the three arrows all cracked the copper coins and drilled deeply into the target. The bow used by Gao Cing was weaker, but two arrows penetrated into the target. The people in the village were silent for a while, and then they cheered in unison. Xun Zhen was also very happy, and said to Xu Zhong and Jiang Qin, who were standing beside him, "I know that Kun Zhong of the Gao clan is good at archery, but I didn't know that the two of them could be so good at archery!"

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At the same time, the three Limins who came into the field first had not finished shooting, the one with the fast hand only shot two arrows, and the one with the slow hand shot one arrow, and they aimed hard. One of them was startled by the outbursts of applause from the villagers. With a slip of his hand, the arrow came out of the string, and flew out a dozen steps crookedly before falling to the ground. When the people saw this scene, they couldn't help laughing.

The Gao brothers were so powerful that the three people in the village had no fighting spirit. They hurriedly finished shooting the three arrows, folded their bows and arrows in dejection, and were about to return to the team. Xun Zhen stopped them and asked, "Where are you going?"

"Before the villain waits for the ugly, it is known that it is wrong, and the people of the countryside are not self-sufficient, so don't blame the pavilion."

"What are you talking about? The Gao brothers have a famous teacher, so they have a stunt. Although you are not as good as you, as long as you work hard, sooner or later, you will be able to pierce Yang with a hundred steps like them. ... The three of Shicaier each shot three arrows, although they did not shoot. If you hit the copper coin, each has a target. I have already said that as long as you hit the target, you will get the reward, and you will come forward to receive the reward.”

Seeing that Xun Zhen didn't blame Xun Zhen, the three of them were grateful and bowed forward together with the Gao brothers.

"The three arrows of the Gao brothers all hit the money, and they were shot from eight or ninety steps away, so the reward was doubled, and one person rewarded seventy-two." Xun Zhen first handed out the rewards for Gao Jia and Gao Bing, and then asked the onlookers inside. The people said, "The three people who came on stage first, one person won the third ring twice, one person won the second ring twice, and one person won the first ring once, and they were rewarded with six coins, four coins, and one coins respectively."

The copper coins were rewarded on the spot.

Seeing that the Gao brothers were holding a pile of money alone, and seeing that the few Limins who played on the field also achieved their own achievements, the Limins were greedy. Only three arrows were shot, and the money was made in a short time. This good thing is rare in a century. Someone asked: "If the villain can also hit the target at eight or ninety paces away, will the reward be doubled?"

"The same double."

After hearing Xun Zhen's words, a few more people crowded out and wanted to play.

Xun Zhen's purpose of taking the money as a reward was to practice the archery skills of the people in the village, not just to "reward money", so she stopped these people and said with a smile, "Don't worry, wait for me to say a few words. First."

Xun Zhen's prestige has been established, and those few people stopped immediately, and the villagers bowed in unison and said, "Xunjun, please speak!"

"Just now, Gao Jia Kunzhong shot three arrows in a row from 80 paces away. Like a meteor chasing the moon, they all hit the target money. It can be said that they are very skilled. I wonder if you have noticed? People are different."

After being reminded by Xun Zhen, many people in the village thought about it and said, "Yeah. That's true."

"It does make a difference."

Someone wise asked, "Could this be the reason why the two of them were able to hit the money with three arrows eighty paces away?"

Xun Zhen smiled at Gu Gaojia and Gao Bing, and said, "Why don't you ask his brothers to answer in person?" She quietly changed the atmosphere of the scene to how to shoot arrows.

Gao Jia and Gao Bing do their part. Gao Bing is the younger brother, please tell Gao Jia.

Gao Jia collected the money, held the bow and arrow, stood on the field, and talked to many people in the village, saying: "There are three ways to shoot, the first is the weapon, the second is the trial, and the third is the straight body." He raised the bow and arrow in his hand. , "The tool is the bow and arrow. Before shooting, if you don't adjust the bow and examine the arrow, then no matter how strong your archery is, it will be useless. The strong use a strong bow, and the weak use a weak bow. Hand. UU reading www.uukanshu.com This is one of them. The second is that the arrow depends on the strength of the bow. The stronger the bow, the shorter and heavier the arrow."

Having said that, he paused. Chen Bao knew the interest, and immediately asked, "This is a 'tool', what is a 'trial'?"

"Judgment is to judge the distance of the enemy. The enemy is far away and the enemy is close, and the archery techniques are different. ... Now, taking the archery target as an example, the examination should be within 80 steps. When opening the bow, the front hand and the shoulder should be facing one another."

"What is a forehand?"

Gao Jia pulled the bow away, holding the bow with his left hand in front and his right hand pulling the bowstring behind: "The hand holding the bow is the front hand. . . The position of the front hand is very important." Aligning his hands with different positions of himself, he gave an example to the people in the village, "One should meet shoulders within eighty steps; one eye should meet within one hundred steps; one eyebrow should meet within one hundred thirty or forty steps; One against the crown and the crown."

"This is 'trial', what is 'orthodox'?"

"Although the shot is in the hand, it's actually in the body. If the body is not upright, the shot is also not upright. The most avoidable chest is hunched over. Shoulder, elbow, waist, and leg strength should be concentrated in one place."

"I would like to hear the details, please explain it to Gao Jun."

"First of all, the handwork must be straight, and when it is full, use the right eye to observe the left hand,..."

There was even the Meteor Three Arrows at the 80th pace, and Gao Jia's words were all common sayings, simple and easy to understand, and everyone could understand. One after another, the principles of archery, and the points that should be paid attention to when shooting arrows, came out of Gao Jia's mouth and passed into the ears of the people.

Xun Zhen is also good at archery, and he corroborates Gao Jia's words with the "General Li's Shooting Method" that he learned at home, which is quite similar. However, his current mind is not on this. He watched the more than 100 people who listened carefully, and thought, "This formal training starts today. . . . I don't ask everyone to shoot, I just hope that they can get a rough idea in two months. I'll be satisfied."