Hares are very alert and very small, but they are very good at dodging and escaping, and when they encounter a predator, they will never run in a fixed direction.

Whether being chased by hunters or killed by other carnivores, their escape route is not fixed, but a few jumps to the left and then a few jumps to the right, with the help of their strong hind legs, each jump is high and fast.

Not only that, but the length of each jump of the hare is also under their control, which can be long or short, and it is also different, in order to confuse the predator and achieve the purpose of escape.

Therefore, it is very difficult to hunt a hare that is jumping and fleeing, and it is also a great test of a shooter's riding and archery skills and experience.

Yang Huairen and Lu Jinyi hadn't seen each other for a long time before they met this time and asked him to come to Liao with them, and because they were busy thinking about how to achieve the special purpose of envoying to Liao, they didn't have much time to sit down and talk quietly.

However, from the limited conversation, Yang Huairen still learned from Lu Jinyi that although he was his comfortable little landlord in his hometown, he did not waste the archery and martial arts taught to him by his master, but got up early every day and practiced diligently.

Lu Jinyi was very smart, and he had never practiced this kind of riding and archery competition before, but with the first example of the unlucky guy, he observed something and quickly came up with the trick of shooting at targets that were moving unevenly.

To describe it in simple language is prediction.

If you shoot a fixed target on a horse, because the running speed of the horse under the crotch is controllable, and the bow and arrow in your hand are also under control, you only need to judge the wind speed at that time, the flight distance between the arrow and the target, and through experience and calculation, you can figure out where to aim, and then pull the bow with the appropriate force, and the arrow will naturally hit the bull's-eye.

In other words, in fact, many times when the bow is drawn and aimed, it is not aimed at the bull's-eye, but a target that deviates slightly from the bull's-eye, allowing the wind to naturally bring the arrow to the target.

The moving target position needs to be more rigorously predicted, that is, the target bag thrown in mid-air, you aim at the target bag and release the arrow, and the position of the target bag has changed after a second, and it will not hit.

Therefore, it is necessary to predict the horizontal position of the target bag after one second in advance, and then slightly offset according to the wind speed, aim at that point and release the arrow, and the arrow will naturally hit the target bag after one second.

It is a bit like the mobile frisbee shooting competition in later generations, but the frisbee is thrown by a machine, and the power is also very large, and the short-distance shooting of guns does not have to consider customs, so it is a little more difficult to shoot a moving target on horseback.

Lu Jinyi closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, a confident smile appeared on his face, he slammed the white horse under his crotch, the white horse roared, and sprinted forward and galloped out.

He rode his horse to the position where the target bag was thrown, and a Khitan soldier threw a target bag full of flour high and vertically upward, and the target bag flew into the air five or six feet high.

Yang Huairen didn't know what Lu Jinyi's mood was now, but his mood became nervous, he held his breath and stared intently at the target bag flying upward, expecting Lu Jinyi to hit with one blow.

Lu Jinyi had already made preparations, but his mood was not at all nervous, the white horse under his crotch was driven by him, and he pulled the bow and arrow on the horseback, and shouted, "Look!" All the time, the feather arrow "swished" away from the string.

The crowd on this side of the stand only heard a distant "boom", and they didn't see the feather arrows clearly, but when they saw that fifty or sixty paces away from the shooter, the target bag flying in mid-air suddenly exploded with a "bang", and the tightly wrapped flour in the bag flew up.

When everyone saw that the white horse boy was hit by an arrow, and his movements were very skillful and elegant, they applauded in admiration.

Lu Jinyi was very focused, ignoring the applause from the stands, and continued to rush forward intently, and he had already drawn another feather arrow from the quiver behind his back.

The horse ran to the position of the second target bag, and it was another set of coherent movements, and it seemed that Lu Jinyi deliberately aimed, maybe the first arrow was easily hit, and the second arrow had experience and confidence, and the feather arrow flew out as soon as it was on the bowstring.

Another shot in one stone! The flour flutters upwards in the wind, and looks beautiful in the warm morning sun.

Needless to say, the third target bag is also hit by an arrow, and a set of actions is done neatly, which can't help but make people cheer.

Most of the people in the stands applauded loudly, indicating that the Khitan people have one thing that is still good, their respect for the strong is from the heart, and they will never be stingy with the cheers for the excellent performance of the strong.

Yelu Hongji nodded with a smile and praised Yang Huairen, "Envoy Yang has a lot of talents!" ”

Yang Huairen said modestly, "Ahem, Your Majesty has won the award, and a few subordinates have shown some carving skills, so why bother?" It's just that they usually let them play when they have nothing to do. ”

"Playing?"

Yelu and Lu Wei chuckled, "The Yang envoy of the Song Dynasty has such a big breath, I'm afraid that this trip to make us Daliao waste a lot of strength to choose the elite from the forbidden army of the Song Dynasty for a long time, right?" ”

Yang Huairen didn't care about his questioning, but replied lightly, "King Liang laughed, but you also look down on the envoy too much, and think that the envoy is so powerful, the envoy wants to thank you for raising the envoy so much."

In the Song Dynasty, this envoy was just a small county duke, and he was still a new little county duke, who was higher than my title, or a sea of people with a higher position than me, and there must be eight hundred if there were not a thousand.

Who are the people in the forbidden army? The generals are all princes and generals, and even if the envoy wants to pick someone in the forbidden army, no one will look down on me for such a small title or official position, and I don't have that kind of power, right? ”

Yelu and Lu Wei shook their heads disdainfully, expressing disbelief. However, after thinking about it, even if Yang Huairen was a favorite of the emperor of the Song Dynasty, he really didn't look like he could influence the forbidden army.

But what Yang Huairen meant by this was that the soldiers of the Song Dynasty were all very brave and their archery skills were very exquisite, which not only Yelu and Lu Wei, but also any official in the Liao court did not believe it.

Yang Huairen actually doesn't need to prove anything, he also knows how many catties and taels the Great Song Forbidden Army has, but the soldiers of Long Wuwei and Hu Benwei under his command have significantly increased their combat power after half a year of special training.

But since he blew the cow out, in front of the officials of the Liao State and the envoys of various countries, it was not easy to take it back, he pretended to be very casual, turned his head and glanced at Lin Chongdao, "That, you, by the way, just you, stand up and tell King Liang what position you are in our Great Song Forbidden Army......"