Yelu and Lu Wei were still pondering, Lin Chong had already turned around and performed another Luo circle salute, returned the bow and arrow to Brother Hei Niu, and stood back in an inconspicuous position behind Yang Huairen.

Yang Huairen got up and said with a smile, "Thank you King Liang for the reward." ”

Yelu and Lu Wei came back to their senses at this time, remembering the words he left down just now, they regretted it a little in their hearts, and they were also a little distressed, one hundred taels of silver, not too much, no less, but he felt that the one hundred taels of silver were the same as white.

"Oh? Oh! Oh...... After a while, the king will send someone to give Lin Zhuangshi a hundred taels of silver and send it to Wanguo Temple. After Yelu and Lu Wei finished speaking, they returned to their seats without a few wilts.

After seeing Lin Chong's archery skills, Yelu Hongji was also a little uneasy, he couldn't help but think, are the soldiers of the Song Dynasty so strong?

Yelu Hongji has always respected Han culture, and he also knows that the Khitan ethnic culture has a weak foundation and needs to learn from the culture of the Han people to rule a country.

But for the Song Dynasty, Yelu Hongji's ideas were somewhat contradictory, and he naturally coveted the land and resources of the Song Dynasty for a long time.

But he also knows that with the strength of the Khitan people, it may be difficult to dominate the world, after all, there are still a large number of other tribes in the Liao State, including the Han people, and such a thing as a fire in the backyard may happen at any time.

Of course, it was unrealistic to destroy the Song Dynasty by force, at least at that time, the Khitans did not have sufficient strength to not only have enough troops to occupy the land of the Song Dynasty, but also to stabilize the situation of the Liao State.

Therefore, like several Khitan emperors, he was friends with the Song Dynasty and was called a brother, taking advantage of the Song Dynasty on the one hand, and gradually completing the centralized rule of the northern steppes on the other.

In recent years, with the aging of age, he is even more powerless, his own knees are thin, and the Khitan people are not so united, every Khitan family loves power and does not want to forge ahead, he can only put away his ambitions and keep the throne of their family first.

But a gradually strong Song Dynasty is also what Yelu Hongji does not want to see, in the past, the Song Dynasty was strong in culture and economy, but the situation in the military was weak, which is exactly what he is happy to see.

If this situation is reversed and the military strength of the Song Dynasty becomes stronger, he is worried, even if his grandson Yelu Yanxi successfully inherits the throne of Liao in the future, but how will Sun Tzu face the threat from the Song Dynasty?

So Yelu Hongji had new worries, but he also knew that Yang Huairen was a little deliberately pretentious.

If the forbidden army of the Song Dynasty was like Lu Jinyi and Lin Chong who he had just sent out, how strong was the strength of the forbidden army of the Song Dynasty? If this is the case, I am afraid that the Song Dynasty has long been reluctant to send New Year's coins to the Liao State every year.

For the sake of today, it is to stabilize the Song Dynasty first, so that the imperial power of the Liao State can be smoothly handed over, as for the distant future, he is already powerless, and can only see how his descendants deal with it.

And to stabilize the Song Dynasty, we must do our best to win over Yang Huairen, let him win in this contest, and give him the princess Anguo to marry, which is what Yelu Hongji is most willing to see.

Lu Jinyi, who Yang Huairen sent out to participate in the cavalry and archery competition, performed well and was the first person to hit all three arrows, and Yelu Hongji felt very pleased.

The players who participated in the mounted archery competition on the field did not know that such a small episode had happened in the stands, and after waiting for a long time, they saw that another commander in the stands issued a flag, signaling the competition to continue.

The next contestants, because the first person was the negative teaching material, and the second Lu Jinyi was the positive teaching material, after observing the performance of the two, they also touched some doorways.

The people who appeared later, there was no situation where all the three arrows were empty, and the least of them also hit a target bag, such as the Mongolian Wulaliga of the Liji Division, Xiao Huhu sent by Xiao Sabi, and the Thousand Mountain Bird represented by Goryeo, until the last Jurchen Department Wanyan Agu Hit, all three arrows hit the target bag.

As a result, there was a situation where all five people hit all three arrows.

Yelu Hongji didn't expect that there would be a five-person draw, and he secretly thought that the warriors of all countries and departments still had a certain strength, and the way he designed the competition still seemed a little difficult enough.

In the first round, there was no winner or loser, and all the Khitan officials and envoys from various countries present were also secretly surprised, but there could only be one winner, Yelu Yanxi thought about it, and suggested to his grandfather, "In this case, it is better to have an extra round of riding and archery competition." ”

Yelu Hongji felt that Sun Tzu's suggestion was very good, but he had no feasible way to add the game for a while.

When everyone began to discuss, it was Yelu and Lu Wei who stood up and said, "Since it is an extra game, it will be more difficult than the competition just now."

This king thinks that since every time he throws a target bag, several warriors can shoot, it is better to throw three target bags at a time, and see who shoots more target bags, who is the best person in archery, and naturally should win the first competition, I don't know what the emperor wants? ”

Yelu Hongji said with a smile, "King Liang's method is good, shoot three arrows at a time, and all of them can hit the target bag, this really tests the archery skills of an archer, I think such a comparison is very good." ”

Everyone nodded in agreement, everyone knew that it was already difficult to shoot a target bag thrown into the air from a distance, but judging from the results just now, the warriors of all countries and departments who were proficient in mounted archery still did it.

And to distinguish which of the five shooters has more superb marksmanship, the only way to use a more difficult test method, the method mentioned by Yelu and Lu Wei, really tests how much ability a shooter has.

Throw three target bags into the air at once, if you shoot one arrow at a time, no matter how fast you shoot and how skilled you are, it is definitely not enough time to shoot three arrows in an instant.

The only way to do this is to put three arrows on the bowstring at the same time and shoot them at the same time, so that the three arrows hit three different target bags at the same time, which is called true archery mastery.

But can anyone really do it? No one had ever seen such an archery before, so I was a little skeptical.

Shooting two arrows at the same time has been seen by anyone, but that is also a fixed target, and now several shooters are required to shoot three arrows at the same time, and they also have to hit three target bags moving in mid-air at the same time, which can be imagined.

Even if no one can hit three target bags with three arrows, as long as they perform better than the other four, they will win the actual competition, and all they need to do is shoot one more target bag than the other opponents.

Yelu Hongji nodded in agreement, and the others naturally did not have any objections, and a petty official who ordered the petty official stepped down and ran to the court to inform the five first-round winners of the decision to play the playoffs.