The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

As soon as Tai Shici heard that he had moved Liu Zheng by saying that he could become a general, how could he be unhappy?

"Great, how can I become a general?"

"You are so confident and think that you have great abilities, then I will give you a chance, as long as you show your best martial arts skills and defeat one of my generals, then I will promise you to be a general, otherwise, you will How about starting with soldiers?"

Liu Zheng looked at Tai Shici with a smile, and complimented Tai Shici on the surface, making him think that Liu Zheng really thought he was capable, but in fact, Liu Zheng had already begun to dig a hole in his heart at this time.

But Tai Shici didn't know. Hearing Liu Zheng's words, it turned out that he was just competing with Liu Zheng's subordinates. That was exactly what Tai Shici wanted. He also wanted to show Liu Zheng his own strength.

It's good to frighten Liu Zheng and let Liu Zheng look at him with admiration. When he becomes a general, it will be justifiable, and others dare not say that he has gone through the back door.

"Okay, that's exactly what I had in mind. You brought it up without thinking of it. Let me think about it, what's more."

Tai Shici happily accepted Liu Zheng's proposal, and after thinking about it for a while, he said it in one breath in just 2 minutes.

"Let's try archery. I'm very sure of my archery. If there is anyone under your command who is better than me in archery, then I will admit defeat and be your soldier with peace of mind. How about it?"

Tai Shici originally wanted to compete in other things, such as riding, fighting, etc., but when he thought that Liu Zheng was a famous man, he really had several capable people under his command. I feel that there is some threat, if I really fight Gan Ning.

To win against Gan Ning steadily, Tai Shici really didn't dare to boast like this, but if it was a competition of archery, Tai Shici was full of confidence and would not be afraid at all.

Although he also knew that Gan Ning's archery skills were good, Tai Shici still thought that his own archery skills were better than his.

And what Liu Zheng thought of at this time was also to believe that Tai Shici would say that he wanted to compete in archery.

Perhaps Tai Shici also knew that Gan Ning's archery skills were not as good as others. Liu Zheng also had some knowledge of Gan Ning's archery skills. After all, Gan Ning was also a famous archer in history.

Gan Ning in history has shot Ling Cao, Huang Zu, Cai Xun, and Le Jin.

Ling Cao was directly shot to death, and Huang Zu was beheaded after being hit by an arrow. Cai Xun only mentioned that he fell in response to the string, so he was probably dead.

Only Le Jin was rescued, but Le Jin basically had nothing to do with him in Cao Ying. Even if this arrow didn't end Le Jin's life, it probably ended Le Jin's military career.

This kind of archery is placed in the Three Kingdoms, not to mention ranked in the top three, but Gan Ning's archery is still very promising to be ranked in the top five among the many generals in the Three Kingdoms period.

Of course, facing Taishi Ci, Gan Ning's archery skills might be a bit inferior, but Liu Zheng didn't want Gan Ning to compete with Tai Shici in archery.

Under his command, there is also the number one sharpshooter of the Three Kingdoms!

The number one sharpshooter is Liu Zheng's bragging, but Huang Zhong's archery is definitely one of the best.

He dared to say that he was second, and the one who dared to show off his archery skills in front of him was probably only Lu Bu.

Liu Zheng has never seen Lu Bu's archery skills, but Liu Zheng has personally experienced Huang Zhong's archery skills. In Nanyang, Huang Zhong's arrow almost killed Zhang Mancheng. If Zhang Zhongjing hadn't rescued him , I'm afraid Zhang Mancheng is already a dead person now.

It was precisely because he had seen Huang Zhong's archery with his own eyes that Liu Zheng knew that there should still be some gap between Tai Shici's archery and Huang Zhong's.

Liu Zheng just wanted to let Tai Shici see that his subordinates, and those who were stronger, did not have to be Tai Shici.

At the same time, I also want Tai Shici to understand that in this world, there are people beyond people, and mountains beyond mountains, so that he can sharpen his haughty mentality.

If Guan Yu in history was not arrogant, he would not be defeated in Maicheng if he thought about it, and Liu Zheng knew that Tai Shici had the same arrogant attitude as Guan Yu, so he didn't want Tai Shici to keep this character.

"Since it's a competition of archery, there's no problem with that."

"How about this, I'm afraid that if you lose and regret it, why don't you hold an archery conference and call all the generals under you, if one of them can beat me, I will admit defeat, how about it?"

Tai Shici also felt that winning just one person was not enough, and he was also afraid that Liu Zheng would play tricks and make excuses that this person was not good at archery, so Tai Shici simply boasted that he would challenge all the generals under Liu Zheng's command.

This time, Liu Zheng was amused. He didn't know how to speak to Tai Shici and asked Huang Zhong to compare with him. Since Tai Shici is so good at Taoism, there is no reason for Liu Zheng to hesitate.

Immediately, he agreed.

"Okay, since you are interested, let's hold an archery competition during the Spring Festival."

In history, when Cao Cao built Tongque Terrace, in order to celebrate, he also held an archery competition at Tongque Terrace. Today, Liu Zheng followed Cao Cao's example and held an archery competition during the Spring Festival, and invited All the soldiers of the army participated.

Anyone who thinks they are good at archery can participate and set a lottery.

The top ten archers will be rewarded with a good horse. This is a war horse just obtained from Karasuma. It is very exciting in Jiaozhou, a place where there are no war horses.

The top three in archery will be rewarded with a hundred taels.

The one who is the first in archery will be named a general, with a thousand-forged sword and a hundred-forged armor.

After the news was sent from Liu Zheng, it immediately caused a sensation among all the soldiers and civilians in Jiaozhou.

Several military camps mobilized one after another, and everyone wanted to participate. Even when the news reached Guiyang County, Kuaiji County and other places, they all wanted to participate.

Many soldiers hoped to compete with other people under Liu Zheng's command. Liu Zheng never imagined that the casually mentioned archery competition would be so popular, so he had to make this competition serious and set a date in a month's time , it was the preliminary round, each general could select ten people to participate, and then a total of one hundred people would compete for the top ten and top three, as well as the strongest archery.

After the news spread, it caused a sensation in the whole Jiaozhou. In the army, everyone was guessing who would be the arrow god this time.

The folks are all talking about this game with great relish. Who prevents them from directly participating, but it can become a kind of chat after dinner.

Chapter 4 and One Contest Begins

A month passed quickly.

Early March of 187.

Jiaozhou is a very good time in March in Yangchun. The sun is not too strong, and it is accompanied by some lingering spring breeze, which is a bit cool.

The school grounds in Hepu City were now surrounded by soldiers.

These soldiers included the original Hepu County soldiers, and Xu Huang's first battalion soldiers.

Of course, they were all just sitting around outside, and the ones inside were a hundred shooters selected from various armies.

Liu Zheng has five military battalions, each of which has ten places, which can be said to be one in a thousand. Fifty shooters from each of the military camps have undergone a wave of auditions and have broken through from their own ranks. , won the qualification to come to Hepu for the archery competition.

These people are all archery masters in the various military camps under Liu Zheng. Among them, the ages of them are uneven. Some of them are old hunters for decades. commend.

There are also teenage boys who stand out because of their extraordinary talents and outstanding archery skills.

Of course, in addition to these 50 people selected from military camps in various places, there are another [-] people selected by the county soldiers in various counties and counties. The outstanding players selected from the competition will not be too bad, and they are all strong candidates who are expected to compete for the final championship.

In addition to these soldiers, there are also many generals who can be selected without direct registration through selection.

Directly enter the ranks of the selection of generals.Among them are Huang Gai, Cheng Pu and others who were originally subordinate to Sun Jian.

They originally assisted Sun Jian in defending some remnants of the foreign clan in Linyi County.

But after hearing the news of the archery competition announced by Liu Zheng, he became interested and wanted to show his skills in front of Liu Zheng.

Anyway, the date of the archery competition agreed by Liu Zheng is still a month away. They went north directly from Linyi County to Hepu City by merchant ship, but it took only a few days.

In this way, a mighty archery competition officially started, and the contestants were first arranged on a school field with a distance of [-] steps.

There are ten fixed archery targets on it.The 100 people were divided into ten groups, and a group of 10 people shot at fixed targets, with three arrows each time.The five highest scorers in each round win.

By analogy, compete for the top ten.

Then the top ten soldiers competed with Liu Zheng's generals, competing for the ten strongest archers in the real sense, as well as the top three and the final championship.

As Liu Zheng ordered the competition to officially start, the people who were divided into ten groups began to take their positions one after another, shooting their bows and arrows.Gradually launch the arrow in his hand.

The sound of whoosh whoosh came from the school field one after another at this time.

A sharp arrow was released from the hands of those contestants, and then shot out quickly, turning into a thin line, and landed on the archery target fifty steps away.

The distance of fifty steps can only be regarded as the entry-level level of archery, and it cannot be regarded as the distance used by real masters.

As far as Liu Zheng knew, Huang Zhong was able to pierce Yang with a hundred steps, and the distance of fifty steps was simply a piece of cake for an archery master like Huang Zhong.

And if the distance of fifty steps is measured in modern meters, it is at most about 30 meters.

The general distance of modern shooting competitions is 70 meters, and if it should be converted into ancient distance units, it is also around 100 steps.

Normally speaking, a hundred steps is the basis for a master shooter to achieve.

Of course, the main reason why Liu Zheng didn't directly place a hundred-step archery target is because not everyone who is good at archery can reach a hundred-step distance.

Fifty steps, a distance of 30 meters, is already a normal shooting range. When the two armies are fighting, the main general of the opponent can already be seen at a distance of 30 meters.

What he needs is accurate, not far.

After the first round of arrows was released, Yuan Zhou, Xu You and other literati went up to count the points.

Yuan Zhou and Xu You both know how to play archery. After all, the ancient times paid attention to the six arts, and literati also need to learn archery, but they only know how to do it, not proficient in it.

They are very good at things like counting the scores of the arrows on the archery target, and quickly counted the scores of ten people.

"27 points for the first target!"

"23 points for the second target!"

"26 points on the third target!"

After counting the scores, they continued to replace the second round of men and horses, and continued the test.

The whole morning was spent in these ten rounds of soldier shooting competitions.

It took two hours, and the competition of soldiers selected from various barracks was coming to an end, ten of them quickly stood out among the 100.

Seven of them were recommended by various states and counties, while the remaining three were all from Huang Zhong's second battalion.

And he was the first to follow Huang Zhong, the head of the first batch of shooter battalions trained by Huang Zhong from Runan.

These three are the best among the first batch of archers. After two years of Huang Zhong's continuous efforts, his archery skills have become increasingly sophisticated. Now, in the competition of the whole army, they have defeated many powerful enemies and directly broke into the top ten positions. It can be regarded as living up to Huang Zhong's high hopes.

Huang Zhong only sent ten people to participate this time. Of the ten people, only three broke into the top ten. This result still made him not very satisfied. The expressions on their faces were not very good-looking, but there were three people anyway. Be able to enter the ranks of the final competition with the generals, and even compete for the top ten places.

It still made Huang Zhong feel a little relieved, at least he was in the army, and as a master of archery, he couldn't escape.

After the competition of these soldiers was over, it was soon the turn of the generals.

Before the competition really started, Tai Shici also watched the competition of the soldiers under Liu Zheng's command.

Although Tai Shici sneered at the distance of fifty steps from the team, he was still a little surprised when he saw that these soldiers under Liu Zheng were able to hit more than [-] points, and none of them missed the target.

"Okay, brother Liu Zheng, those soldiers and horses under your command are very good at archery. With this ability, why are you still just a small soldier?"

Tai Shici felt sorry for those people, but Liu Zheng just smiled and didn't say much. No matter how good his archery skills are, he can only improve his rank, but his position in the army still depends on the overall situation.This point is not enough for a person to have a certain skill.

No matter how powerful the general is, no matter how strong his personal force is, he is only a general and cannot become a coach.

Anyone who can become a coach needs to be personally recognized by Liu Zheng to be eligible.

Chapter 4 and Two

"It's about to be a competition between generals. This time you are competing with ten generals under my command, plus the ten soldiers who stand out from among the ten soldiers. If you win the championship, I will give you one as agreed." General!"

"Well, let the ten soldiers under your command start."

Tai Shici didn't want to be the first to take the shot, because the first shot didn't have much shock, he wanted to save it until the end, and only the finale was the most eye-catching, so he asked Liu Zheng to let those soldiers go first shooting.

This time, it was still the target of these fifty steps.

Liu Zheng did not refuse Tai Shici's proposal, and began to arrange for the ten shooters to shoot.

But this time, there are no three chances, only one arrow, and one arrow represents your own achievements. This request was put forward by Liu Zheng, because in many cases on the battlefield, you only have one chance. If it succeeds, the opponent will be on guard, and it will be very difficult to hit the second arrow.

So every arrow will have a result.

The ten archers began to take turns to go into battle. Some people put their bows and arrows in one go, and soon the arrows flew out, landed on the target, and fixed on the red heart.

Some people, because of nervousness, stayed on the bow and arrow for a long time, but never shot it.

Even if they shot in the end, they missed the target directly because of nervousness. Of course, most of them still had high psychological quality. Except for one person who missed the target, the other nine people achieved very good results.

Ten points for one person, nine points for four people, eight points for two people, seven points for one person, and six points for one person.

In general, the results of these few people are still stable, at least, they can reach at least seven or eight points.

And just after the arrows of these soldiers were shot, Zhou Cang stood up.

"This distance is nothing, come here, move the target another thirty steps!"

The shooting of the soldiers was over, and it was the turn of the generals. Zhou Cang decided to be the first to play. Although his archery skills were well known to everyone, they were not worth mentioning in front of Huang Zhong, but he I don't intend to give up, but I want to try to show it.

Anyway, during these days, he has also practiced diligently, maybe his archery has been greatly improved, and he might be able to compare with Huang Zhong.

No one had any objection to Zhou Cang's opening.

These generals also want to show off, to prove that they are stronger than those soldiers, and increasing the distance is the most direct manifestation. Although they all have some confidence, at least eighty steps away, they are still sure to hit the target .

"Okay, come here, move the target thirty steps away."

Liu Zheng agreed to Zhou Cang's plea, and at the same time, he also wanted to see how his generals and archery skills were. Although Liu Zheng knew Xu Huang and Gan Ning well, he knew their martial arts were extraordinary, and their archery skills were also very good. It's okay, but it's really unclear what level it is.

With this opportunity, Liu Zheng can just see what level they are at.

Originally, moving the target outside was what Tai Shici wanted to do, but after being done by Zhou Cang, Tai Shici first glanced at Zhou Cang in surprise, and then heard that Zhou Cang had only moved thirty steps, and immediately showed a smile on his face. A look of disdain.