"How do you want to compete?" To Nuo Min's surprise, the corners of Li Yuntian's mouth, who originally had a stern expression, suddenly showed a hint of a smile, and he asked in a deep voice.

Nuo Min couldn't help but be stunned, staring at Li Yuntian with a shocked expression, could it be that Changshengtian had manifested his spirit, which made this young high-ranking official of the Ming army actually want to compete with his eldest brother.

"My lord, this matter must not be allowed, the slightest mistake and despicable people cannot explain it to the emperor." Gu Liyu was even more taken aback, he never imagined that Li Yuntian would accept the challenge of Brother Nuo Min, and hurriedly bowed his hand at Li Yuntian and bowed down and said.

"Please think again, sir." Seeing this situation, Pei Jun and other military attachés standing on the side bowed to Li Yuntian one after another, wanting to prevent Li Yuntian from participating in this competition.

It is worth mentioning that since the military attachés at the scene were all senior officers of the Liaodong Battalion of the Xiaowu Army, they all knew Li Yuntian's identity, and no one wanted Li Yuntian to take this risk.

"Since this official has been named and invited to fight, how can he back down?" Li Yuntian laughed when he saw this, and said disappretently to Gu Liyu, Pei Jun and the others, "Don't worry, this official has his own sense of proportion. ”

Seeing that Li Yuntian had made up his mind, Gu Liyu and Pei Jun looked at each other and stood aside helplessly, looking at Li Yuntian with a nervous expression, and secretly prayed that there would be no accidents.

"One is to shoot the enemy, two is to wrestle, and three is to kill the enemy." Under Li Yuntian's gaze, Nuo Min bit his lip and said the content of the competition in a coquettish voice, "Two wins in three games." ”

"Okay, just do as you say." Li Yuntian nodded when he heard this, and shouted at the sergeant on the side, "Come on, prepare the venue, this officer wants to see how powerful the Mongolian warriors are." ”

The sturdy man didn't expect Li Yuntian to really accept his challenge, and couldn't help but be stunned, looking a little hard to believe for a while, obviously these three competitions were all beneficial to him, didn't Li Yuntian see it?

Needless to say, Mongolian men have drawn bows and arrows since they were young, and Genghis Khan's army swept through Eurasia without being invincible, relying on cavalry with excellent archery skills.

As for wrestling and killing the enemy, not to mention, it is his forte, Li Yuntian, as a high-ranking official of the Ming army, must be pampered on weekdays, how can he be a warrior opponent like him who has to study hard every day to defend his family.

After learning that Li Yuntian was going to compete with a strong man, the captives suddenly burst into a commotion, exchanging heads with each other, discussing a lot, and their faces showed excited looks.

"Master Hou, this person's name is Harbara, and he is the best Mongolian in the prison area, Master Hou should be careful." While the sergeants were preparing for the competition, Gu Liyu leaned over to Li Yuntian, who was warming up there, and whispered that he had just learned some details about the sturdy man from the chief of the prison district.

The captives in the prison area were all from the two major Mongol tribes, the Tatars and the Warats, and since the Mongol Yuan was driven out of the city of Beijing, the two tribes have been fighting for territory and the Mongol Yuan's orthodox attacks, and there are many grievances between each other.

Therefore, not long after the prisoners entered the prison area, a large-scale group fight broke out, which was not only related to the past grievances between the two sides, but also in order to compete for the control of the prison area, the prison chief finally mobilized the army to calm down the situation, more than 100 people died in this group fight, and the fierce fighting was still seen.

In this conflict, Halbara alone killed five members of the Vara tribe, including a well-known warrior of the Vara tribe, and became famous in the melee.

Because Halbara has a noble golden family bloodline, coupled with the Mongol worship of heroes, after this group fight, the captives of both the Tatar and the Varat tribes are all looking at his horse, making Halbara the leader of the captives, so the captives expect Halbala to defeat Li Yuntian at this time, and raise their eyebrows.

It is worth mentioning that Halbara means black tiger in Mongolian, which means that Halbara's parents hope that he will grow up to be as brave as a tiger, and Halbara has lived up to the expectations of his parents, not only brave but also burly and strong, and has become a warrior on the grassland.

"Ben Hou doesn't compete with him with brute strength, don't worry, he can't win Ben Hou." Li Yuntian didn't care about Gu Liyu's reminder, and after hearing this, he smiled slightly and replied lightly, in his opinion, this is just right, as long as Harbara is defeated, then it can severely demoralize the prisoners.

Soon after, Halbara had obtained the longbow, leather armor, and scimitar used by the Mongols, and he stretched out his hand and drew the longbow with satisfaction, the longbow was of good texture and strong force, which allowed the arrow to shoot farther.

To Halbara's surprise, Li Yuntian's weapon was neither a longbow nor a crossbow, and a sergeant brought a stick more than a meter long, with a round slender iron cylinder at one end and a handle similar to a bird's beak at the other.

Of course, Halbara didn't know that the stick in Li Yuntian's hand was the arquebus developed by the Academy of Sciences, and this time he brought a total of 3,000 arquebuses to Liaodong to equip the sergeants of the Liaodong Suzaku Battalion of the Xiaowu Army to form an arquebus unit.

In fact, there was a musket battalion of 3,000 men in the Suzaku Battalion in Liaodong, equipped with 500 arquebuses for training.

Li Yuntian came to Liaodong this time to formally improve the musket battalion of the Liaodong Zhuque Battalion of the Xiaowu Army, which would be the most powerful unit in Liaodong in his hands, capable of carrying out fierce long-range attacks on the enemy.

After receiving the arquebus, Li Yuntian raised it up and aimed at a humanoid target erected in the open space 100 meters away, skillfully adjusting the ruler on the barrel to determine the distance of the target, so as to improve the accuracy of shooting.

The reason why Li Yuntian dared to compare his archery skills with Halbara was not a whim, relying on the arquebus in his hand, because he admired firearms to attack, his shooting skills had already been outstanding, and he was naturally not afraid to compete with Halbara in archery.

Nuo Min looked at the arquebus in Li Yuntian's hand with a surprised expression, she knew that the Ming army was equipped with a firecracker, but the arquebus in Li Yuntian's hand was obviously different from the firecracker, the style looked very strange, and it felt like a bird's beak crutch.

Vaguely, Nuo Min had an ominous premonition in her heart, and couldn't help but look at Halbara who was there with great ambition to conduct a test firing, although she hoped that Li Yuntian could win this competition, but she didn't want Halbara to lose, and her mood could be described as very conflicted.

Under the gaze of everyone, Halbara drew his bow at the humanoid target in front of him, his arm strength was so strong that the bowstring was tight, and then as soon as he let go, the arrow flew out with a whizz, and after drawing a beautiful arc in the air, it hit the forehead of the human target.

"Oh!"

Seeing this, the captives at the scene immediately cheered, for the first time with an unfamiliar longbow could shoot at a target a hundred meters away with such accuracy, there was no doubt that Halbara was a marksman, and the Mongols have always worshipped the marksman.

Li Yuntian smiled when he saw this, and after installing the projectile, he also walked into the field, raised his arquebus and aimed at the humanoid target in the distance, and then pulled the trigger.

With a muffled bang, a black projectile shot out of the barrel of the arquebus like lightning, and hit a water tank more than ten meters behind the humanoid target with a snap, making a crisp sound.

"Off target!" Looking at the scene in front of him, a voice full of mockery sounded among the captives, which immediately caused the captives to laugh, Li Yuntian's archery skills are simply heaven and earth compared to Harbara, and Li Yuntian will definitely lose this game.

Gu Liyu and Pei Jun couldn't help but glance at each other depressedly, the two of them were ready to cheer Li Yuntian just now, but who would have thought that Li Yuntian would miss the target, which made the two of them and the Xiaowu Army sergeant at the scene feel a little embarrassed.

Seeing this, Halbara smiled and raised his longbow at the captives and made a triumphant gesture, which caused the captives to burst into a loud whirl.

Nuo Min's face couldn't help but show an anxious look, and he looked at Li Yuntian worriedly, worried that Harbara's behavior would anger Li Yuntian, no matter how Li Yuntian was also a high-ranking official of the Ming Dynasty, Harbara couldn't step down in public, which inevitably made Li Yuntian angry.

What Nuo Min didn't expect was that Li Yuntian didn't care about the ridicule of those captives, but walked over and talked and laughed with Gu Liyu and Pei Jun casually, as if he was not affected by the off-target incident in the slightest.

Li Yuntian's abnormal behavior made Nuo Min confused and confused, and this situation was obviously completely unreasonable.

However, then she thought of a terrible possibility, and couldn't help but lose her face, and looked at Li Yuntian who was talking and laughing there with a shocked expression: Could it be that Li Yuntian didn't plan to win Harbara, so that she could naturally sit back and watch her mother fall ill.

After figuring this out, Numin's mood suddenly became restless, how she wished that she could go and remind Harbara of this, so that Harbara would be deliberately defeated in the hands of Li Yuntian, only in this way could her mother be saved.

It's a pity that the competition has begun, and Nomin can't make contact with Halbara anymore, so he can only look at the high-spirited Halbara with an anxious expression, hoping that Halbara will wake up in time, after all, the mother who gave birth to him and raised him is more important than Halbara's reputation.

When Li Yuntian was chatting with Gu Liyu, Pei Jun and others, a sergeant came over with a large bowl in his hand, and there were more than a dozen hard-boiled eggs in the bowl.

At Li Yuntian's signal, a military attache placed an egg in a groove on the top of the head of the humanoid target, which immediately attracted the attention of everyone at the scene.

"Best-of-three games, whoever hits the most eggs wins." Li Yuntian asked people to summon Harbara over, and explained in Mongolian with a smile.

"Good!" Halbara glanced at the humanoid target in the distance, his brows furrowed slightly, it was not easy to hit an egg at such a distance, and then he groaned for a while, and said to Li Yuntian with a proud face, "I have been practicing archery since I was three years old, so I don't want to bully you, you can let someone take your place in this competition." ”

"This official's 'Shenwei General' is not easy to mess with, and it is still unknown who will kill the deer!" Li Yuntian immediately laughed when he heard this, patted the arquebus in his hand and said.

Because Emperor Xuande gave the arquebus the name "Shenwei General", he called the arquebus "Shenwei General" in the weapon preparation of the lecture hall.

Halbara was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then glanced at the arquebus in Li Yuntian's hand, and a contemptuous smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, thinking that Li Yuntian was just bluffing, otherwise Li Yuntian would not have missed the target when shooting in full view of everyone just now.

Li Yuntian noticed the contempt on Halbara's face, and couldn't help but smile slightly in his heart, he was going to show Halbara the power of the arquebus.