Palace scheming: Empress Leng Palace

Chapter 274

The scene of this martial arts competition was beyond Yun Qing's imagination. Originally, she also thought in her heart that most of the contestants came from the rivers and lakes and folks, and there were hidden dragons and crouching tigers, but some reckless men still accounted for the majority.

However, on the first day of the competition, she discovered that she had thought wrong.


With the sound of the thunder drum, the pennant flying high above the martial field flew with the wind, and the powerful aura emanating from all the warriors caused the horses in the field to neigh. Before the competition started, the field was in chaos.

Yun Qingmei's eyes were wide open, watching the upcoming first competition - archery, her mood was slightly twitched by the waves of turbulent air in the field.


A group of imperial guards quickly entered the field and sprinkled white stone powder on the martial field, or circled or dotted, or straight or curved, and then a row of eunuchs followed behind and sprinkled some water on the stone powder when the stone powder was spilled, so as to prevent the stone powder from being destroyed. The dust blows away.


The drums sounded four times, and the military officer wore a white brocade robe and stood at the center of gravity of the competition, asking the horse officer to lead the horses beyond the line defined by the stone powder, and then raised a small bright yellow silk banner, facing those waiting for the notice on the sidelines. The martial artist raised his head high and said loudly:

"The first batch of warriors are invited to mount their horses and compete! The drumbeat is used as the time limit, and when the drumbeat starts shooting, when the drumbeat falls, the competition is over!

With the white line in the scene as the boundary, the three arrows of frontal shooting, riding shooting and reverse riding shooting are used as the selection criteria:

The one whose three arrows hit the red heart on which each person's trademark is written 500 meters away will be selected!
If any arrow misses, lose the election!Well, the drum rolls—'.


With the wave of the pennant in the hands of the military officer, the soldiers of Thunder Drum immediately waved their powerful arms and began to beat the drum, boom, boom, boom...

For a while, thunder stirred the sky, and the dust and wind rose vigorously.

In the open space of Ruo Da's martial arts field, there were only [-] participating warriors in different costumes riding high on their horses and ready to go. When the thunder drum sounded, the bows in everyone's hands were all drawn to their full bows.


Gradually the thunder became louder, and Yun Qing could only see that the shoulders of the warriors in that field were all loose, and the white arrow feathers with everyone's names on them also flew towards the row of arrow rakes outside the field like raindrops. And then, for a while, even the sound of the huge drum could not cover the whizzing sound of the flying arrows, which attracted everyone's eyes as if they were frozen, and they all looked at the flying arrows closely, with shocking expressions.


"Dong dong dong!" Thirty sharp arrows sank into the neat sound of the arrow rake, and I saw that the people in the field remained calm, while all the officials on the steps gave a surprised admiration, a little dumbfounded. Seeing that the white arrow feathers seemed to have eyes, they were nailed straight to the red part of the arrow rake, motionless.


"Okay!" Some military officers couldn't help shouting, but the people in this side of the stand were full of surprises, and the people in that field had already started their horseshoes and galloped towards the white line on the right.


In the process of galloping, those warriors quickly pulled out the second arrow feathers from their backs again, aiming at the arrow rake they shot just now while walking, and in an astonishing posture, they arrowed again and again. It was the sound of feathers swishing, swishing, which made Yun Qing's mouth open slightly.

"Wow!" Seeing that the arrow feathers showed a beautiful and magical ray arc, everyone's exclamation was accompanied by the sound of the arrow falling feathers, the scene was spectacular and wonderful.


"Papa!" Among these sounds, there were actually a few cracking sounds of arrows, which caused Xuanyuanze to condense his handsome eyes deeply. Looking at the few masters who could actually shoot through arrows, he felt the same in his heart. gratified.


Why doesn't the boy wear a Wu hook?Charge Guanshan Fifty States!
It seems that Jianghu is indeed a place where dragons and tigers are hidden. This time, the rash recruitment not only did not attract those who wanted to fish in troubled waters, but actually attracted these capable people who usually disdain to be officials in the court. It is really a blessing from heaven.

It turns out that when the enemy is at hand, there are not only internal and external troubles, but also the shock and gratification that many patriots are willing to show up to serve the country!

Yun Qing turned her head and saw the joy on Xuanyuan Ze's face, she also smiled comfortably, and gently stretched out her hand from the side to hold the back of his hand, which moved him to hold her tightly with his back hand, and turned his head to meet her They looked at each other and smiled.


At this moment, the situation in the third reflection in the arena became even more tense, and even Yun Qing, who had been watching outside the arena, was tightly gripped, watching the dust all over the sky raised by the galloping horses in the arena, There was a moment of confusion in front of my eyes, as if I saw the two armies with a large lineup on the battlefield confronting each other.


"Boom boom boom boom boom boom!"

The sound of the drums became more and more urgent, the horseshoes ran faster and faster, and the arrow feathers shot farther and farther. Those warriors who were originally in front of the arrow rake were now rushing towards the opposite direction of the arrow rake, also rushing to the white line 500 meters away , Raised an arrow where the red rake heart could not be seen, and the third arrow feather, which represented the end, flew straight to the arrow rake again.


"Okay!" The audience cheered, and even some civil and military ministers who were excited to see them clapped their hands, admiring the wonderful archers who pierced the arrow feathers of the red heart in front of them with one arrow, and their faces showed great shock.

Yun Qing breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at the arena where the dust gradually subsided, with a smile on his face again.


In the first match, because everyone was better, except for some archers who were slightly away from the red heart, there were 26 players left.

This time, there were a total of 120 contestants. They were divided into four batches and played in turn. The first three batches were 30 people each, and the last batch was 32 people.


After such a batch of competitions for the first riding and archery competition, there are still 96 people, which is far beyond the expected number, and it is enough to make everyone deeply impressed.


After a short intermission, the horse officer went on stage again and took away all the horses. Those finalists also picked up their own weapons from the weapon fence that had been put away by the military officer before the competition. Almost none of them used the weapons in the palace. After preparing all kinds of weapons, they began to wait for the start of the second competition.


In the crowd, Yun Qing saw Xuanyuan Yi's slender figure standing quietly on the field. Just now he was in the third batch of the archery competition. The joy and complexity of the film also made her not know whether to laugh or worry.


(End of this chapter)