European Emperor Cultivation System

Chapter 8
Early the next morning, Li Peijun was taken out of bed by Bernard for training again, full of anger.Today is the last day of the knight probationary day. After more than a month of training, tomorrow is the official knight canonization ceremony.Although Li Peijun has only practiced for two days, with the help of the system, he is still the best among several followers.

The first thing to do today was defensive practice. Knight Ater took out three commonly used shields - the square shield commonly used in arrays, the round shield for individual combat and the kite-shaped rectangular shield commonly used by knights.The knight shield is specially designed for knights. Its shape is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, which can protect the upper body of the knight without affecting the combat.

Due to limited conditions, Li Peijun could only watch helplessly as Atel was demonstrating the use of the iron shield with loose rivets and rusted surface.After the demonstration, it was practiced in groups again. This time, Artel assigned Li Peijun a heavyweight follower to practice.

"A mission appears, complete the knight skills training."

The system's notification sound came out again, and Li Peijun thought that he could wait until dusk to add skills by following the same steps as yesterday.

"Hey, my name is Cohen, please give me your advice." The man said hello politely first, without arrogance in his tone, and a bit timid in his expression.

"Hello, my name is Li... Bruno." Li Peijun almost said his name, he forgot that his name was Bruno in the Middle Ages.

Li Peijun carefully sized up his opponent this time. Cohen had a disheveled brown-red hair, exuding a youthful aura, coupled with a pockmarked face and a big pig nose. There was really nothing special about his appearance. Li Peijun still took a deep breath. Tone, he will go all out, because he respects every opponent.

"This feel, this image, I can imagine a housewife holding a rice spoon and knocking on the lid of the pot to call for dinner." Li Peijun held the dagger he used yesterday, and held the shield that didn't fit in his left hand. Stance.

As always, Li Peijun launched an offensive quickly. This time the opponent was obviously not as strong as Tiddell. Cohen's first block made Li Peijun push back a body, and Li Peijun retreated a body after the successful suppression Li Peijun didn't even need to use too fancy moves, and knocked off Cohen's sword and shield directly from the front.

"Bruno, you are really good. You will become an excellent knight in the future." Cohen kept praising Li Peijun's swordsmanship, and Li Peijun just apologized. After all, it was the system's credit.

On the other side of the practice, Tiddle also defeated his opponent effortlessly, and he glanced over to Li Peijun from time to time, with anger and unwillingness.

The next step is to learn the royal horse. Ater brought out his own and other guard horses for Li Peijun and the others to observe. The breed is a pure Western European forest horse. The horse is tall and strong, suitable for heavy armor and assault. Li Peijun Petting the horse, although it is domesticated, it is still somewhat wild.

Li Peijun stepped on the stirrup and took a big step to the other side before finally riding the horse. The horse was covered with a layer of quilted pads, and several pieces of iron armor were pasted on important parts, and the outermost layer was covered with a layer of leather. Horse clothes and horseshoes are also embedded with iron rings.Li Peijun felt that the outfit of this war horse was more expensive than the sum of several knights, and it was true that a man was not as good as a horse.

Li Peijun first tried to control the horse. He clamped the horse with his legs and rubbed the horse's belly with his pedals. The horse didn't move at first, but Li Peijun twitched the reins again, and the horse suddenly ran around like crazy. Li Peijun hurriedly whipped his whip non-stop, trying to get the horse to stop.

"Yu Yu Yu Yu, I'll go, why doesn't it work?" No matter how many times Li Peijun yelled, the horse didn't stop and was still running around. Li Peijun pulled the horse's rein back with all his strength, and the entire front of the horse was pulled The horse was raised almost fifty degrees, and the horse finally stopped.

Li Peijun got off his horse as if he had lost half his life, took a few breaths, and finally learned archery.Artel demonstrated with a standard straight-pull short bow. The length of the bow is only 1-1.5 meters, the effective range is less than 50 meters, and it cannot penetrate armor, so it is usually only used by nobles when hunting.

The practice project is target shooting. Li Peijun looked at the bow in his hand. The bow body is tough and elastic wood, the bow string is animal tendons, the arrow is sharpened metal, the arrow shaft is hard wood, and the arrow feathers are goose feathers.Li Peijun tried to draw the bow, but he didn't feel too strenuous, and he didn't have the finger guard he wore for archery. Li Peijun and the others just wrapped a cloth around their index finger to make do.

Li Peijun walked up to the target, drew the bow and set the arrow, and with a sound of "whoosh", the arrow pierced the outer edge of the red heart, which was considered an above-average achievement.

"Wow, Bruno, you are amazing. You can learn everything so quickly. You will definitely be an excellent knight in the future." Cohen looked at Li Peijun's results and began to praise him again.Li Peijun glanced at the situation on his side, but there was no arrow on the target, and then he looked at the ground, and the arrow shot into the gap between the bricks and tiles.

"I said no wonder, it turned out that this guy missed the target."

On the other side, Tiddell's arrow hit the red heart straight. He stopped and watched, his eyes saw Li Peijun's side again, and then he turned around and shot again with his bow.

"Whoosh", it hit the bull's-eye again. Tiddell watched the arrow hit the bull's-eye without any joy on his face, just clenched his fists.

　Western European archers had to wait until the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France to truly form a large-scale combat capability. Before that, because a large number of bows were short bows, they could not effectively penetrate armor, so they were rarely used on a large scale on the battlefield, mainly relying on cavalry and siege weapons.

　　
　
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