Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 1028 Miscellaneous Battle
The horse made Lu Fei swift, bow like a thunderbolt.

This is a poem that has been widely circulated outside the Great Wall of Eternal Night. People around the Great Wall of Eternal Night know that this poem used to describe a female general.

The description is exactly... not the young commander, but the great commander.

After all, the horse of the young commander is not called Lu, but Heifengtou, and the horse of the chief commander is called Lu.

This poem was also inscribed on the Beacon Tower by Da Si Ming himself. Although she said that she did not write this poem, the people beside the Great Wall of Eternal Night would not believe it.

After all, Da Siming's horse is a Luma with white and half spots on its forehead.

Thinking of this, Qian Bofang couldn't help but secretly complained about Hei Feng's pure black fur, but retracting his thoughts, he clenched the bow wrapped in black cloth in his hand.

Although his general doesn't have Luma, the sound of her bowstring will always be a nightmare for the Xirong cavalry outside the Great Wall.

"My bow?" However, upon hearing what Qian Bofang said, Ying Baoyue stared at the black object in his hand and said softly, "Isn't this my bow?"

The last bow she used could not shoot arrows long ago, and I am afraid it has already decayed.

Hearing this, Qian Bofang's shoulders trembled slightly, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva and nodded.

Now he really has no doubt that she is his general, after all, ordinary people don't understand the way of it.

The so-called precious bow that can be handed down for decades does not exist at all. If there is, it can only be said that it does not exist for fighting at all, and has become a gorgeous decoration.

"I knew it," Ying Baoyue said with a smile, "my last bow was broken a long time ago, after I shot and killed the eleventh King Zhai of Xirong."

Qian Bofang's heart beat faster as he looked at the young girl in front of him.

In her previous life, Princess Zhaoyang stayed at the Great Wall of Eternal Night for seven years, and broke five bows in total, and every time a bow was broken, a big man from Xirong would be taken away.

Except for the first bow which was given by Da Si Ming, she made the remaining four bows by herself.

Two short tips, two long tips.

The winter of the Great Wall of Eternal Night is extremely cold and long, and she will make a bow every winter until the next winter. She will use the Xirong soldiers who invaded the Great Wall in the winter to test the arrows. The bow was declared scrapped, and it would take another year to redo it.

Compared with the time of making the bow, the material she used is also different from the military horn bow.In addition to the common horns and elm, she also collects a lot of animal bones and tendons and animal glue, and then covers the wooden bow with a layer of animal tendons, which are glued together with glue. Wrap a layer of birch bark obliquely.

Resistant to moisture yet flexible enough.

Including the birch bark, every layer wrapped on the bow body must be coated with isinglass, wrapped carefully, and finally integrated with the bow body.

Every winter, Chamberfang would watch her sitting outside the fire, quietly making a bow.

He watched those strong bows being born little by little in her hands, and breaking after completing their mission.

Before he knew it, he also learned how to make a bow.

The black cloth in Qian Bofang's hand slipped off, revealing a half-human long bow with colorful bows.

The colorful color is due to the natural color formed by the fusion of isinglass and birch bark, which is wrapped with the tendon fibers of various beasts.

The surface of the bow is smooth, and it can be seen that it is often touched.

Ying Baoyue stared fixedly at the bow and smiled, "It's a long-tipped bow."

"Originally there was a handful of short ends, but I didn't bring them with me in a hurry," said Qian Bofang with a bit of annoyed expression.

To be honest, he didn't expect that he would meet her so soon, and he would bring this long-tipped bow with him. It was purely because he was used to maintaining his bow and arrow every night before going to sleep. He always carried this bow with him as his amulet. .

"If you're just participating in the middle-level ceremony, a long bow is enough," Ying Baoyue bent down, gently stroking the naturally formed patterns on the longbow, each pattern is a different kind of animal tendon, she Know how long it takes to make a bow like this.

"You did this?" she asked softly.

"En," Chamberfang nodded.

"How long have you been doing this?"

"Three years," the man smiled, "the two that were made in the middle were broken. This is the only one that was made."

He is not as good as her, and it takes him three years to make a bow.

"How many bows like this have you made?" Ying Baoyue looked at him and asked.

"Three," Qian Bofang raised his head, looked at her and smiled.

Ying Baoyue's heart tightened slightly.

One for three years, a total of three, a total of nine years.

This is exactly the year they parted.

Nine years ago, she left the Great Wall of Eternal Night and went back to Efang Palace in Guiyang to attend her engagement. She had promised Li Meiniang that she would come in seven days, but in fact...

She never went back.

Ying Baoyue bent down and stroked the longbow in Qian Bofang's hand little by little, as if it still carried the warmth of his palm.

"Can you lend it to me?" she asked softly.

"This is your bow." Qian Bofang raised his head and smiled brightly, "General, you forgot that your subordinates don't know how to shoot arrows."

Yeah, he can't shoot arrows.

Ying Baoyue looked at the frail man in front of him. He couldn't shoot arrows, and he didn't understand the principle of bow, but he made such a strong bow.

"Okay, then I'll take it."

She didn't say much, she simply grasped the colorful bow neatly, straightened up, and slowly pulled it away in the direction of no one.

Qian Bofang stood behind her watching this scene nervously. Although every time he made a bow, he would take it out in winter to test whether it was strong and durable, but he was not an archer after all, and ordinary archers in the army were not used to this kind of bow. , so he never knew whether he had really reproduced the general's bow.

Watching Ying Baoyue draw his bow at this time, he was like a child whose homework was being checked by a teacher.

"General, this bow..." He asked anxiously, but Ying Baoyue put away the bow, turned around and looked at him with a smile.

"Great, it's time to be a teacher."

The man's eyes suddenly burst into brilliance, "That's good, that's good, that's good."

He said it three times in a row, and he smiled a little silly, not at all like Qian Duoduo, a big businessman known for his shrewdness on the frontier.

Ying Baoyue looked at him quietly, with many emotions surging in her heart, which finally turned into a smile on the corner of her mouth.

"You will be of great help now," she said with a smile, "I will have a lot of confidence with this bow in the battle the day after tomorrow."

However, when Qian Bofang heard the words, the smile on his face disappeared.

"Your Highness, don't be careless," he closed his eyes, looked at Ying Baoyue and said quietly.

"The subordinates got a message that the situation of the riding and shooting battle three days later is not right."

Qian Bofang fixedly looked at Ying Baoyue, and said that sentence word by word.

"It is rumored that among the practitioners participating in this session, there are eagle shooters."

Condor shooter?
Hearing this long-lost address, Ying Baoyue's pupils shrank slightly.

"Are the Xirong people so good?" She smiled wryly, "The mid-level grand ceremony held by practitioners below the heaven level, actually want to send out eagle shooters?"

Qian Bofang's expression was also extremely ugly.

Just because the words "Condor Shooter" are the eternal nightmare of the troops stationed at the Great Wall of Eternal Night.

Daqin had been stationed at the Great Wall of Eternal Night for nearly ten years. There were a total of 22 generals on the top of the wall, and 17 of them died on the battlefield.

And 17 of these 14 people died under the arrows of the eagle shooters.

　The practice of holding the moon bow refers to the historical Mongolian bow. In addition, the title of eagle shooter also existed in history. If you are interested, you can search it.

　　"The Xiongnu invaded Shangjun, and the emperor sent the nobles from Guangle to attack the Xiongnu. The nobles rode dozens of horses, and saw three Huns, and fought. The three shot, wounded the nobles, and killed their riders. The nobleman went to Guang. Guang said: 'He must shoot the eagles.'"--"Historical Records" Volume [-] Biography of General Li

　　
　
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