On July 15, Zhu Cihong led his army out of the Great Wall of Liaodong and traveled all the way west, and the surrounding terrain slowly declined, and the sparse low mountains and hills gradually turned into a vast Mongolian steppe.

Zhu Cihong grew up in the Forbidden City, and has been in the south of the Yangtze River for many years, and is accustomed to seeing rows of palaces and winding lanes.

Looking at the vast grassland, the sky is high and the ground is wide, the forest is high and the grass is lush, and the fox and rabbit are running, which is the dividing line between farming and nomadism.

A gust of wind blew, the clouds shook the trees, the grass was wavering, which was refreshing, Zhu Cihong in Luan couldn't sit still, walked out with great interest, jumped a few times on the grass, and shouted: "The air is fresh, the heart is relaxed!" ”

Xu Sheng knew that he wanted to ride a horse, so he ordered someone to bring the royal horse, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the army is ready to bury the pot and make rice, why don't you finish your meal and go out for a walk?" ”

Zhu Cihong jumped on his car, shook the rope, gently whipped the horsewhip, and said loudly: "Go around with me, and roast some yellow sheep to eat!" ”

The so-called yellow sheep is a beach antelope that is active in the Mongolian steppe, the whole body is yellow-brown, the rump spot is white, and it is regarded as a national first-class protected animal in later generations, and hunting is strictly prohibited, and the kind that violates the law must be investigated.

During this period, the number of tanyuan antelope has not been drastically reduced by human activities and ecological deterioration......

Zhu Cihong's crotch royal horse was originally from Mongolia, and when he saw the vast grassland, he immediately hissed and ran away.

Xu Sheng clamped the horse's belly between his legs and rushed over with hundreds of Imperial Forest Army guards to escort him.

Zhu Youneng also followed behind with a Hai Dongqing, his yellow flag was blown out, and his loving father had not yet confirmed a new position for him, so he could only follow behind to find opportunities.

Under the blue sky and white clouds, Zhu Cihong galloped wildly, and where he passed, more than a dozen yellow sheep formed a small group were so frightened that they rushed out of the grass and fled in panic.

Zhu Cihong took a bow and arrow from the war horse, and quickly pulled out a carved feather arrow from the quiver, pulled it into a full moon shape in one breath, and shot it at a yellow sheep.

Listening to the sound of "whoosh", the feathered arrows flew out like meteors, and the locked yellow sheep turned over and fell into the grass, rolling under the huge force and inertia.

"Master, good archery!" Zhu You, who came on horseback, slapped his fart loudly.

Zhu Cihong laughed on the horse, continued to pursue, and then locked on to another target, bent his bow and shot several arrows in a row, hitting mixed results.

Although he hit the target with the last arrow, due to the lack of distance and strength, the yellow sheep quickly got up and fled after falling.

Zhu Cihong was speechless, this bow and arrow is really hard to play! He only used a low-strength war bow of only eighty pounds in the Ming army, and he was weak after a few shots.

Eighty pounds, equivalent to sixty pounds of tensile force, according to the "Ming Huidian" record, the Yongle period of the Ming army war bow system tensile is divided into forty catties, fifty catties, sixty catties, seventy catties four, etc., a catty in the Ming Dynasty is 595 grams, which is equivalent to about 48 catties to 84 catties, that is, 53 pounds to 93 pounds.

In the Chongzhen period, wars broke out frequently, and the limit of the Ming army's war bow was one hundred and twenty catties, about one hundred and forty-four catties, that is, one hundred and sixty pounds.

Seventeen-year-old Zhu Cihong can pull an eighty-pound war bow, which is already very powerful, after all, people who play with bows in later generations will normally use bows of about thirty pounds, and bows of more than forty pounds are difficult for most people to pull, and they can only hit the target within ten meters.

Those who can shoot bows of more than fifty pounds are all god-level players, and ordinary enthusiasts pull away and shoot an arrow, and it is estimated that they don't even know where the arrow flew.

Ancient army soldiers, whether it is endurance or strength, are very strong, such as the Ming army military order requirements, soldiers are not allowed to unload their armor in the march, those perennial combat elite soldiers, their combat effectiveness can be imagined.

Some outstanding generals are even more powerful, such as Huang Degong, who used to use a tiger power bow with a bow power of 200 pounds, and he can shoot left and right on a war horse, pointing where to shoot, and it is not impossible to shoot the eagle eagle with a curved bow.

An arrow failed, Zhu Cihong was just about to pull out a gun to save face, only to hear a scream, a gray and white bird of prey spread its two-meter-long wings, soared into the sky, circled in the air and then swooped down, pressed the injured yellow sheep to the ground, and then fluttered a few times and grabbed it and flew more than ten meters high, and finally fell down.

Zhu Cihong shouted behind him: "Zhu Youneng, your Haidongqing is good!" ”

Haidongqing is produced in Liaodong, the weight is strong, the beak and claws are as hard as an iron hook, fly fast and high, can catch swans, wild ducks, rabbits, roe deer and other birds and beasts, is the highest totem of the Manchus, the legend of 100,000 eagles only out of a Haidongqing.

During the Liao, Jin and Yuan dynasties, the emperors and nobles in the north began to use the custom of Haidongqing to hunt.

Zhu Youneng hurriedly rushed over and said with a smile: "Sharing worries for the master is a matter for the slave." ”

Zhu Cihong threw the bow to him and said, "Then I want to ask you, come out to fight, what are you doing with Hai Dongqing?" Play? ”

Zhu Youneng hurriedly said: "Back to the master, the Hai Dongqing brought by the slave is trained and can reconnoiter the enemy situation on the grassland!" ”

"Oh?" Zhu Cihong suddenly became interested.

He has seen some plots in movies and television, several tribes in the north are fighting, one of them is marching, and suddenly there is an eagle call, and then the camera is turned, showing that there is a Hai Dongqing flying in the air, and I don't know what to do with this shot.

So this thing can really detect the enemy?

Zhu Youneng explained hard for the sake of performance, and Xu Sheng led people to pick up the hunted yellow sheep.

During this period, Zhu Cihong listened to it with relish, and then he understood that Hai Dongqing could still play like this, isn't this thing just a high-altitude reconnaissance plane?

The vast steppes were the home of the Mongols, and the nomads were best at running and harassing, and it was difficult to find the exact location of their nests.

As long as the nest is not destroyed, their main force will always be there, and they can keep the waves, and if they can't beat it, they will run, and even see the Ming army brigade out of the jam, and run away if they don't fight, and then come back after the Ming army retreats, which is very obscene.

With Hai Dongqing, who can reconnoiter from high altitudes, things are much easier.

Zhu Cihong asked him: "How many Haidongqing did you bring this time!" ”

"The minions trained five, all of them were brought, and the others were in the camp."

"Good!" Zhu Cihong praised it from the bottom of his heart.

At this moment, there was a sound of brushing in a pile of grass and trees not far away, and some of the frightened birds that had just returned were startled again.

"Master, be careful!"

In Zhu Cihong's surprised look, Zhu Youneng roared and protected his side.

Dozens of royal forest soldiers around them surrounded Zhu Cihong and protected him.

"What's going on?"

Before Zhu Cihong's words fell, he only heard the war horse sitting down suddenly neigh, and his whole body gradually trembled, as if he had encountered something terrible.

The same was true of the horses under the Royal Foresters, and several of them were even shocked into a mess of mud, and collapsed to the ground.

"Horses are also spiritual, and they will neigh when they perceive danger, could it be a beast of prey?"

Seeing that the legs and feet of the war horse were not good for him, Zhu Cihong hurriedly turned over and dismounted, and took out the fire gun to guard.

"Roar!"

The grass and trees surged, and a tall colorful tiger slowly walked out, and the big tiger's head was raised high, and let out an earth-shattering roar, which could be heard from miles away.

Not only was the horse frightened, but a young Imperial Warrior screamed at the sudden situation.

Zhu Cihong looked unusually calm, he glanced coldly at the Royal Forest Army armor, and said, "Pull down and beat fifty military sticks, eliminate the Royal Forest Army, and never hire them!" ”

The power of the tiger was certainly terrifying, but the dragon power of the Tianwu Emperor was even stronger, and the Imperial Forest Army armor soldier collapsed all of a sudden, his face pale.