'When! The sound board knocked...... The thousands of guests watching the battle fell silent for a moment, and then the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and three knights galloped towards them, and in the night wind, the three archers were all vigorous and heroic, attracting admiration from all around.

The comparison between the Sui and the Turks has been experienced many times, although this time it is a night arrow, which is slightly different from the past, but the main rules remain the same.

The distance is sixty paces, and there is a requirement in time, a pot of thirty arrows must be shot in sixty drums, and the other must be a horse archery, and three riders must ride back and forth ten times in a distance of more than ten zhang wide, and if the number of runs is insufficient, they will be judged to lose immediately, regardless of the results that follow.

But the most nervous thing is that three people shoot arrows at the same time, that is, there will be three horses galloping back and forth at the same time at a distance of more than a dozen kilometers, and it is likely that a situation will be formed to interfere with each other.

If you finish 30 arrows at the specified time and distance, then the final result is to compare the archery results.

Sixty steps away there are nine large tables, three of them are one fight, each five feet apart, on the table lit fifty sticks of incense, no matter what technique is used, whether it is an arrow to sweep away, or one by one to shoot out, and finally with the still burning incense theory, whoever burns the least incense, who wins.

"When! …… Another knock on the cloud board, the three archers had already arrived at the starting point, and the three war horses were in good spirits and leaped to try.

Yang Yuanqing held a strong lead, his eyes squinted at the other two competitors, the Turkic archers were dressed in traditional Turkic white robes, wearing hats, leather armor on the front and back, leather belts around the waist, he was a native of the Qiangas, the Tigers were the Jiankun of the Han Dynasty, they claimed to be the descendants of Li Ling, everyone was painted black, but in fact they were Caucasians, their eyes were blue, and many women were still blonde.

This young warrior is called Aratu, with a strong body and a resolute eye, he is a genius archer of the Rakas who can participate in bear hunting at the age of five, and has extraordinary courage, in the Turkic archery competition, he won the first place with a score of 100 arrows and 100 shots, while the second place Utu only has 100 arrows and 80 hits, but the golden crown does not belong to Aratu, his identity is only an arrow slave, and he is not qualified to compete with the Turks.

At this moment, Alato's mouth was clenched, and he held a stone from the Sui Dynasty in his hand, staring at a fiery red bright spot sixty paces away.

Gasuwen still maintained his indifferent gaze, neither arrogant nor enthusiastic, like an inanimate stone statue, only the hand holding the bow and arrow was slightly exerting force, and he could feel the expectation in his heart.

Yang Yuanqing's gaze fell on Gai Suwen's longbow, it was a black sè riding guide, the lead arm was six feet long and the string was as thin as silk, in the faint glimmer of light from the direction of the main hall, his lead arm flashed with a faint layer of jade sè crystal.

This lead is at least two stones or more Gai Suwen has already taken off his black robe, and he has taken out a thin scale armor tight-fitting samurai armor, with broad arms and slender hands, as if he has the strength of a thousand catties.

"This is a fierce opponent with peerless martial arts! …… Yang Yuanqing thought secretly.

A shiman came galloping on horseback and shouted, "Three archers, start after listening to three drums!" ”

"Boom!" The first muffled drum sounded, Alatou didn't understand Chinese, he wanted to gallop on his horse, but was pulled by Yang Yuanqing, Alatou was startled, he immediately reacted and restrained the horse.

"Boom!" The second muffled drum sounded, and the onlookers felt a low murderous aura, and began to slowly retreat, and more than a dozen boat guards surrounded Yang Guang, which made them a little uneasy.

"Boom!" As the third muffled drum sounded, another metallic drum began to sound, 'Boom! Boom! Boom! Knock ......"

This is the real drum sound of the game, the three of them roared at the same time, a column of horses galloped out, three arrows shot out at the same time like lightning, whistling towards the three pieces of fire, fifty incense sticks were inserted on the table in three rows, the incense was half a foot apart, there was a trick in this, the more you started, the easier it was to shoot out.

The three incense burning tables are quite far away from the guests, and most of them can hardly see what is famous, but there are also many martial arts masters among the guests, they can see it very clearly, the first arrow of the three archers is shot, and their respective incense tables immediately change, and three incense sticks were extinguished on each side of the table, while Yang Kanqing's table in the middle was extinguished in two rows of six incense, which caused everyone to exclaim.

Changsun Sheng half-squatted beside Yang Guang and explained to Yang Guang in a low voice the battle situation of the first arrow, "Turkic and Goguryeo each shot an arrow, the accuracy was abnormal, and they both shot a column of three incense sticks with one arrow." ”

"What about us?"

Yang Guang asked a little nervously, although this is a competition to help the wine, but if it is really a competition, it begins to be about the glory of the country, how can Yang Guang not care about the victory or defeat, how can he laugh at it, twenty years after the emperor's opening, He Ruobi was exempted from the death penalty because of the victory over the Turkic archers by the arrow, and Yang Jian began to reuse him, which shows the importance of the arrow in the emperor's heart.

Changsun Sheng said with some emotion: "Your Majesty, Yang Yuanqing's first arrow turned out to be a double arrow, and the double arrow killed six incense sticks, and his skills were superior." ”

"Good!" Yang Guang clapped his hands excitedly, "Sure enough, his archery skills are outstanding!" ”

"Your Majesty! The fourth arrow was shot, Goguryeo also shot two arrows, but Yang Yuanqing changed to a single arrow, and now he is still ahead of Sanxiang. ”

"Why change?" Yang Guang said urgently.

"Your Majesty, because they are only allowed to shoot a pot of arrows!"

Yang Guang woke up, and looked nervously at the arena, exclamations around the arena came one after another, the schedule was more than halfway, and the competition began to heat up.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! The drum is still beating unhurriedly, it has been beaten to thirty-seven times, the three shooters on the field have run six times, Yang Yuanqing's war horse is the head of the mount, is a Dawan sweat and blood BMW, known as the king of horses, not only fast, but also extremely dexterous when turning around, the advantage has been revealed, he is ahead of the other two three horse bodies, archery has no obstacles, more calm, he has shot twenty arrows, there are still ten incense on the table, at this time can not use double arrows, he just needs to keep steady, one arrow and one incense, You can finally shoot out all the incense.

He moved quickly, pulled out an arrow from the quiver behind his shoulder, controlled the horse with double tui, exerted force at the waist, and the horse turned around violently, at this moment, he twisted his body and pulled the bow, and the arrow came out of the string, fast as flying, and a incense fire on the very edge, poof! …… The earth is extinguished......

Behind Yang Yuanqing, although Aratu's horses are not the best, his horse control skills are the most superb of the three, and his archery skills are also talented, although he is not like Yang Yuanqing to build a foundation and practice martial arts, but he is also keen-eyed, the arrows are not missing, he does not know double arrows, he has shot eighteen arrows, and there are still twelve incense sticks on his table burning.

Behind half of the horse in Aratu is Gai Suwen, Gai Suwen's war horse is pure white, with slender and strong limbs, and there is no miscellaneous hair, and it is also one in a thousand BMW good horses, which is the Yuan family exchanged 20,000 sheep from the Khitans, which is regarded as a priceless treasure by Gai Suwen.

Gai Suwen also has a natural talent for martial arts, his family has strong financial resources, when he was five years old, he sent him to the Central Plains to worship a famous teacher to practice martial arts, the foundation is very deep, at the age of fourteen he practiced a transcendent martial arts, archery is even more outstanding, at this time Gai Suwen's quiver still has ten arrows left, and his incense fire still has ten bright spots...... The results are on par with Yang Yuanqing, and he is not in a hurry, they still have three and a half trips, and twenty drum beats are enough for him to shoot out all the remaining ten incense sticks on the table.

The arrows have reached the late stage, and the results of the three are almost the same, but Aratu shoots two arrows less than them, but there is still plenty of time, at this time, Alatu Zhang led the arrow, aimed at the last incense on the right, his feeling is getting better and better, and he has enough confidence in this arrow.

But at this moment, an accident happened, the soles of Gai Suwen's boots suddenly lushed out an inch-long blade, he moved quickly, and kicked the back tui of the Alathu war horse, and suddenly the blood burst out, the war horse neighed, and the back tui lost its strength, so that Aratu's body shook, his arrows shot out at the same time, the arrows rubbed the incense, and the eleven incense heads were still lit, but there were only ten arrows left in Aratu.

The surrounding guests exclaimed, Yang Guang didn't see the problem, and asked Changsun Sheng urgently, "What's the matter?" ”

Changsun Sheng sighed with regret, "Aratu's most critical arrow missed. ”

Behind him, he smashed his fist on the couch, and he knew in his heart that they lost this game, and it was impossible for Yang Yuanqing and Gai Suwen to make any more mistakes, and Alatu couldn't chase them back.

There was silence all around, only the sound of horses' hooves was heard running on the field, and everyone was nervous in their hearts, and finally there was the dispute between Yang Yuanqing and Gai Suwen, whether it was the Great Sui or Goguryeo, to win this competition.

On the field, Alas received a hand of blood from the horse, he stared at Gai Suwen who had surpassed him with hatred, he suddenly gritted his teeth, drew another arrow, drew his bow and shot at the fire of the incense head, the arrow was like a rain, and an incense head was extinguished in response, his will was extremely tenacious, and it was not affected at all, he gritted his teeth, increased his speed, and chased after him with one arrow at a time.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! The drums had beaten fifty-five times, and they had one last trip left, and they would sprint the last dozen zhang distance, and then end the race.

Yang Yuanqing only had two arrows left, and there were only two incense fires left on his table opposite, and there were five drums, a distance of ten zhang, at this time his forehead was slightly sweaty, and thirty arrows honed his mind, making him seem to enter a long dark hidden passage, and the entrance of the cave was already seen in front of him, and a ray of light was obvious, only the last step was missing.

Gai Suwen was a half-horse away from him, he had just shot an arrow to extinguish an incense fire, he only had two arrows left, the two incense heads were lit up, he was also sweating profusely, his heart was haggard, and he had done his best.

Aratu also had only two arrows left at the same time, but to his despair, he still had three incense sticks lit, and he understood that he had lost, but ...... It wasn't that his archery skills were backward, and his angry gaze was once again shot at Gai Suwen, his gaze sharper and stronger than an arrow.

"Boom! , The fifty-sixth drum sounded, Yang Yuanqing drew the arrow and pulled it away, and in the dark, he could see the two bright spots clearly, in the side stopper, he had to shoot five hundred arrows every night, and he had never stopped for three years, creating his tenacious determination and archery skills.

"Boom! , Yang Yuanqing's arrow came out of the string, a beat slower than him, Gai Suwen and Alatu's second arrow also shot at the same time, three arrows flew in the air one before and two behind, and the three incense heads were also ...... Poof, the ground was extinguished one after another.

There is still the last arrow, Yang Guang glanced at Dye Gan, shook his head with some regret, and turned to Yuan Taizuo and smiled: "It seems that we have to compete again." ”

"Yes! Goguryeo is willing to obey His Majesty's arrangement. ”

Yuan Taizuo laughed a little proudly, his son did not disappoint him, Goguryeo was already able to keep pace with the Great Sui.

"Boom!" This is the fifty-ninth drum beating, at this time Yang Yuanqing is only three Wen left from the end of the front, he is not in a hurry to pull out the last arrow, pull the bow like a full moon, the arrow goes like a meteor, an arrow seems to give life to the fire, the arrow body brushes the fire point, and then extinguished, Yang Yuanqing's three tables are dark, and there is no light.

There was thunderous applause and cheers all around, and even the women's families could see that the warriors of the Great Sui had completely extinguished the incense.

Gai Suwen sneered proudly, this was his first laugh tonight, and his last arrow also came out of the string, straight to the last incense fire, at the same moment he shot it, Aratu's last arrow was also shot at the same time, the two arrows drove side by side, but the distance between the arrows was getting closer and closer...... Getting smaller and smaller......

There was a slight sound in the darkness, the two arrows disappeared, and the surroundings became silent, and everyone could see clearly, the last incense fire on Gaisuwen's table was still lit, and the last two incense fires on Aratu's table were also lit, and the last arrow, neither of them hit.

Gai Suwen turned his head and glared at Alatu, but Aratu snorted coldly, dropped a Turkic sentence, and walked away, but Yang Yuanqing understood this Turkic language, which is a Turkic proverb.

"The eagle of the steppe will never bring hatred back to the nest! ……

"Boom!" The sixtieth drum sounded, and the game ended.

A Shi guard ran to the front of the steps and shouted: "Archery competition, Da Sui wins with one arrow!" ”

There was a burst of cheers all around, Yang Guang was so happy that he looked up and laughed, his mouth couldn't close, yes, Yang Yuanqing lived up to his expectations and saved face for him, he must be rewarded, he turned back to his wife Xiao Hou and smiled: "Zhangtong, this is the first arrow in the world of my Great Sui, known as the Yin Mountain Flying General, you also have to praise him." ”

Empress Xiao had a trace of embarrassment on her face, and she smiled reluctantly, "Your Majesty has such a good general, which is the blessing of the society." ”

At this time, the three archers jumped off their horses and came to the front of the steps together, and Aratul patted Yang Yuanqing on the shoulder, and the two said a few words in Turkic, and Aratul gave him a thumbs up.

Gai Suwen followed behind them, taking a step slower, the expression in his eyes was extremely complicated, it was Yihe who was annoyed and angry, and he was not convinced, he suddenly stepped forward and whispered to Yang Yuanqing: "I want to compete with you again, and compete with the weapons on the horse!" ”

Yang Yuanqing stopped, glanced back at him, and said with a faint smile: "Yes, I will accompany you, but not now, not here, but in the land of Goguryeo, we will see you on the battlefield!" ”

After speaking, Yang Yuanqing ignored him anymore and turned around to go to the top of the mountain.