Chapter 1059: Recruiting Relatives in a Contest (2)
Yelu Hongji thought for a moment, and then replied, "If, as the Goryeo envoy said, there really is a situation where the final winners of the three competitions are three different people, then the final choice is still left to Princess Anguo." ”
This rule is also reasonable, since it is for Princess Anguo to choose the horse master by using martial arts to recruit relatives, then there is a situation where three families are tied, and it is reasonable to finally let Princess Anguo choose her favorite candidate.
However, in this way, Xiao Sabi's face is more ugly, according to his relationship with Yelu Bawotai, if such a situation occurs, Princess Anguo will definitely not choose his son Xiao Dabuhe, so he secretly exerts himself in his heart, no matter what, he will win two of the three competitions.
And this rule is for the other contestants, they all secretly feel that it is beneficial to them, as long as they can win a victory in the next competition, they will have the opportunity to be selected by Princess Anguo and become the golden sword horse of Da Liao.
After Yelu and Lu Wei lost the competition with Xiao Sabi for the Longevity Pill a few days ago, they went home and sulked for three days, and greeted all the women in Xiao Sabi's family thirty-eight times one by one, and they didn't feel relieved, but seeing Xiao Sabi's gloomy face today, it made him feel a bad breath.
Sister Ghost hid behind the curtain and was indeed secretly happy in her heart, such a result was what she was most happy to see, as long as Yang Huairen could win one of the three competitions, it meant that he had the chance to win.
Compared with others' different faces, Yang Huairen's face was calm, and his heart was like water. He, like Sister Ghost, also understands that this rule is simply God's help, and he is actually not too sure of two wins in three games, but one win in three games can get the final victory, which is much easier.
It's just that he looked at the expressions of the others, and couldn't understand why this kid Ulaliga was so happy, and his big mouth cracked and laughed for a long time, as if he was the one who had this advantage.
Yang Huairen really wanted to walk over and ask him, buddy, where did you get your confidence? Do you take stupidity as cuteness or ignorance as personality?
Now that the rules have been agreed, the first competition officially begins. In the first game, the competition is the nomads' best at mounted archery.
If you try to ride and shoot, it sounds like the most unfavorable event for Yang Huairen, but Yang Huairen is not worried, if other competitors have seen Brother Black Bull's 100-step piercing Yang stunt, they will not despise Yang Huairen so much.
The specific method of the competition is that the contestants shoot arrows on horseback, and the target is not fixed, but a movable target bag.
The target bag is not large, it is filled with white flour, which should be filled, so the target bag is bulging like a flour ball, but the target bag is only the size of an adult man's fist.
During the competition, a team of Khitan soldiers was responsible for throwing the target bag into the sky, and the contestants were about 50 paces away, galloping through the horses, and at the same time had to hold their bows and arrows to shoot the target bags.
Because the target bag is stuffed with flour, if an arrow hits the target bag, the tight target bag will collapse, and the flour inside will explode in the air, so it is easy to judge whether the shot is missed or not.
Yang Huairen actually admired Yelu Hongji and Yelu Bawotai for coming up with such a novel way of competing in mounted archery, because for other contestants, such a fresh way of competition should be the first time for them.
In this way, it seems that the riding and archery competition is more fair, but the special way also has a special difficulty.
If you want to be accurate in horse archery, the original difficulty lies in the fact that the archer is riding on a galloping horse to shoot arrows, and maintaining the stability of the body and the bow and arrow in his hand can make the arrow shoot accurately.
But at this point, the requirements for archers are very difficult, of course, like the good archers in the Khitan army, they have all practiced since childhood, and they have long been adapted to archery on the back of a sporting horse, so this is not difficult for them.
The difficulty lies in the fact that the normal targets are fixed, and it is more convenient for the shooter to aim, but this time, in order to make it easier to distinguish the shooter's riding and shooting level, Yeluhongji thought of a way to turn the target into a state of motion.
The fist-sized flour target bag does not sound small, but if it is placed fifty steps away, the target is visually very small, the key is that it is still thrown in the air, not fixed, and under the action of gravity, the trajectory of the target bag movement is not a uniform curve, which further increases the difficulty of shooting.
The detailed rules have been announced, and everyone has mixed reactions, originally thinking that it was the envoy of their own advantageous project, but also playing drums in their hearts, increasing the difficulty of the riding and archery competition, the result is really hard to say.
Wanyan Aguda seems to be full of confidence, legend has it that their Jurchens can shoot down the eagle soaring in the sky, since the eagle flying high is not a problem for their Jurchens, then shooting a target bag fifty steps away seems to be a piece of cake.
But Yang Huairen does not believe in such a legend, to say that the Jurchen people shoot birds and pheasants, he believes that shooting eagles soaring in the sky, under the current level of bow and arrow production, such a legend obviously seems very unscientific.
The eagle, which is widely distributed in northern China, normally flies at an altitude of between 1,000 and 3,000 meters, with a maximum altitude of more than 8,000 meters.
A three-stone hard bow can only shoot flat at a maximum of 300 steps, and it is impossible to shoot an eagle soaring in the sky for more than a thousand meters.
The only explanation is that the Jurchens attacked the eagle resting in the eagle's nest on the cliff, boasting that they had shot down the eagle soaring in the sky.
So Yang Huairen is now a little confused about where Wanyan's self-confidence comes from.
While he was pondering, Wanyan Aguda actually came over and asked, "How is Yang Jungong's archery technique?" Do you want to try it out yourself? ”
Wanyan Aguda's tone was very kind, but the meaning of his words was to mock Yang Huairen, he was full of confidence, and he wanted to participate in the competition in person, and he was sure in his heart that Yang Huairen looked like a scholar, and he didn't know how to shoot at all, let alone try to ride and shoot.
Yang Huairenhe was very polite and wrote lightly, "Where do people like me know how to ride and shoot? And this kind of rough work doesn't require the use of wisdom, which is more suitable for Brother Wanyan, and I just need to send someone to participate in it.
As for the victory or defeat, we Song people don't usually play this, so I never thought of winning in this competition, so let's give it to Brother Wanyan, and let Brother Wanyan take the lead first. ”
Wanyan Aguda was scared back, and he didn't like it in his heart, and said in his heart, what do you mean? Riding archery doesn't need intelligence to suit me? Are you laughing at me for not having wisdom?
Also, you said that you Song people don't play this, but you said that you let me win this competition, the consciousness is that you deliberately don't make efforts, and you can let you win?