Daming Yuanfu

The "imperial chariot", which was temporarily used as a pragmatic carriage, rushed all the way to the Mianshinzhai Racecourse. The car had just stopped and Chen Ju dismounted and was about to help the emperor get out of the car. His Majesty the Emperor had already opened the car door impatiently and jumped out of the car. Chen Ju was so frightened that he hurried forward to help him.

Zhu Yijun pushed his hand away and quickly looked around at the surrounding environment while asking: "Where is Rixin?" As soon as he finished speaking, he had already seen it - not far away, there was a wooden building with the shape of a table. , there are many people standing on it, all looking in the same direction.

Zhu Yijun followed their gaze and saw two horses, one white and one black, running slowly carrying the knights on the horses. One of the two knights on the horse was holding a bow and arrow, and the other was holding a blunderbuss. It seemed that They are all preparing to shoot.

The knight holding the bow and arrow is thin and looks shorter than the other knight, but his riding skills must be good, because this man does not control the reins with his hands, but only controls the horse with the strength of his legs.

Zhu Yijun rarely rides a horse, and no one dares to let him easily ride a real horse. In theory, the Royal Horse Prison is responsible for managing the emperor's horses. The horses that are actually left for the emperor to ride are so-called "Taiping horses". ".

This kind of horse is also selected and bred. It has the pedigree of Guangxi pony (called Guoxiama in ancient times). It is not tall in itself and needs to be specially trained for one or two years so that it will never do anything that will hinder its smooth progress. , and then it can be ridden by the emperor - of course, many high-ranking officials and even people who do not actually participate in the battle but are nominally generals will also ride this kind of horse.

Despite this, Zhu Yijun does not understand equestrianism at all, because he knows many theories. For example, in the current situation, although he has never tried it himself, he also knows that to be like this knight, without holding the reins with both hands and only relying on the strength of the legs to control the horse, is the level of Mongolian elite riding. Usually, it often takes several years of professional training for the Han cavalry to reach this level.

This only means controlling the horse with only leg strength, but this knight is more than that. At this moment, the knight seemed to have found a good opportunity. He happened to hold the bow in his left hand and nocked an arrow in his right hand. He pointed the bow without firing and aimed at the target on the side of the horse path.

Zhu Yijun subconsciously held his breath and concentrated. There was only a gap for a breath. The knight loosened the fingers of his right hand, and the arrow in his hand shot out of the air with a "whoosh" and hit the target with a "pop", which aroused cheers on the stage.

The emperor also breathed a sigh of relief, clapped his hands and praised: "Good riding skills, good archery skills!" Then he paused, looked at the distance and said: "This person is petite, he cannot be Rixin, it seems that he must be your Gege Is that right? She is truly a woman, and she has never ruined the name of the Ye He family."

At the end of his words, he was obviously talking to Fei Yingdong.

Fei Yingdong did not answer immediately, but squinted his eyes for a while, then shook his head gently and said to the emperor: "To be honest with the emperor, Ge Ge has neglected to practice in the past few years since he came to Beijing, and his riding skills have not deteriorated much. , but her arrow shooting skills are as good as three days without practice... Her arrow just barely hit the target, but her aim was far off."

Zhu Yijun looked at the distance between the target and his position, and said in surprise: "It's so far away, can you clearly see where she hit?"

Fei Yingdong gestured and said: "Your Majesty doesn't know something. People who practice archery must train their eyesight from an early age. This distance is indeed difficult for ordinary people to see clearly, but it is nothing for people who have practiced archery since childhood.

As far as I know, the Mongolian "Zhebie Shenshe" must not only see clearly at such a distance, but also shoot accurately. No matter whether he is on horseback or dismounted, the wind is strong or light at that time, it does not affect the accuracy of his archery skills, which is really as difficult as climbing to the sky... Fortunately, since Tutuo Qataiji, it seems that the Mongols have not produced new weapons for several years. Zhebie's magic shot. "

When Zhu Yijun heard this, he regretted a little and said, "Really, so this Zhebie Shenshe is so rare? If I had known, I should have asked Tuotuo to come to Beijing and demonstrate it for me."

Fei Yingdong was startled and felt a little unhappy. In his mind, although Tottok Chatterjee was a Mongolian, he was also an unrivaled hero. How could you say that he would come when you asked him to come, and he would demonstrate when you asked him to demonstrate? But Fei Yingdong also knew that if the emperor really wanted to do this, I'm afraid Chaterji would really have to come.

Power, this is power. And the Emperor in front of him is the most powerful person in the world.

But then he thought about it, and Fei Yingdong said angrily to himself: You are the most powerful, but once the master gives up, don't you have to rush to beg him to intervene? This idea was somewhat akin to Ah Q's, but Fei Yingdong's mood actually calmed down a lot.

While Zhu Yijun was chatting, he walked straight to the general station. At this time, Fei Yingdong said hello and said that he would pass the ball. The emperor agreed, and then he saw Fei Yingdong running like a gust of wind towards the general stage, and he arrived in a few breaths. Then I saw him dancing and shouting a few times, and a group of people over there hurriedly trotted towards this side.

Zhu Yijun turned to Chen Ju and said: "This Jurchen runs really fast... This is probably the so-called running at lightning speed and chasing the wind, right? There are really everyone among the Japanese novices. The key is that they were picked up for nothing."

Chen Ju smiled and said: "Thousand-mile horses often exist, but bole does not always exist. Your Majesty, when Liu Wei was young, why wasn't he such a strange person? At the age of thirteen, he won the first place and killed the three great thieves and chieftains of the Nine Silk Barbarians. . But so what, isn’t he still a minister of the emperor? Not to mention that Fei Yingdong is just a servant of Yuan Fu, but Yuan Fu himself, isn’t he also a minister of the emperor? Do you think this is true? "

Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "That's true, but Rixin is still different from others."

At this point, a group of people on the general stage had already arrived to pay their respects, and they quickly fell to their knees. Zhu Yijun glanced around, but no one looked familiar. He thought they were all members of the Gao family, either relatives or servants. Since he didn't know him, he didn't bother to say more and just asked: "Where is your master?"

In fact, he already knew in his heart that the knight riding the black horse behind the white horse knight should be Gao Pragmatic, but he still had to ask, otherwise Gao Pragmatic would be rude if he didn't count.

Sure enough, a group of people all said in one voice: "Report to the emperor, where is the master..." Someone else explained: "The master is competing with the third lady in riding and archery. He did not know that the emperor was coming, and he was not welcomed at a distance, so he begged for forgiveness." Another person explained. He said: "Your Majesty, do you want us to stop the competition and invite the master to come and see us?"

Amidst all the confusion, Zhu Yijun waved his hand and said, "No need. It's rare that your master has such leisure. I happened to watch the excitement, so I'll wait until he finishes the competition. Let's go, I'll go and have a look too."

The emperor's words were of course true to his word, and everyone immediately gathered around the holy driver and went up to the general stage. Zhu Yijun was not polite and took the best position to watch the competition. At this time, Fei Yingdong very thoughtfully gave a pair of binoculars to Chen Ju, who nodded approvingly and presented them to the emperor. Zhu Yijun had seen the telescope made by Jinghua. He was not surprised after receiving it and started looking at it. It was also a coincidence that Gao Pragmatic, who was riding on a black horse, raised his gun with one hand and shot.

Zhu Yijun could see clearly that Gao Pragmatic's riding skills should be inferior to Meng Guzhezhe's, because he did not take off the reins with both hands, but continued to hold the reins with his left hand, while holding a gun with his right hand to shoot.

There was only a "bang" sound, and fire and white smoke spurted out from the muzzle of the gun. Gao Pragmatic didn't pay much attention to whether he hit the target. Instead, he immediately handed the short gun to his left hand, holding the rein in his right hand instead, and held the rein in his left hand. Slip the short gun into a holster on the left side of the horse's back.

When Zhu Yijun was surprised, Gao Pragmatic changed the hand holding the rein again and returned to the state of holding the rein with his left hand. In his right hand, he took out an identical short gun from another leather holster on the right side of the horse's back. At the same time, his eyes turned to Next archery target.

It turns out that they did not just hit one archery target this time, but hit the targets one by one while marching. However, Meng Guzhezhe used a bow and arrows instead of a musket.

Even if today's muskets can use flintlocks, loading is still a task that requires both hands. Generally speaking, it is difficult to complete on horseback - it's not that it can't be done, but it is too slow. It seems that the current competition requires rapid and continuous firing. If you have a gun, you can only change the gun directly.

As for the battlefield, generally speaking, unless it is time to charge into battle, the musketeers usually retreat after one round, withdraw a boomerang-style line and then fight back to start the next round, so they can retreat during the period Reload inside.

But even so, the current musketeers of the Ming Dynasty are usually equipped with 2-3 cavalry-style short guns, because in the process of charging into the formation, from entering the musket range to hand-to-hand contact, there is usually time to fire 2-3 shots. According to many battlefield practices, firing one or two volleys of muskets at the enemy first when charging into the formation can effectively damage the enemy's morale and even directly shake the enemy's formation, which has very good actual combat effects.

[Note: Generally, only the front-line cavalry charging into the formation need to fire. The cavalry behind does not need and cannot use muskets, otherwise it will endanger the front-line cavalry. The reason why all members are still equipped with 2-3 lances is because a well-trained cavalry unit can change from the front to the rear, the rear to the front, or the vertical to horizontal, and the horizontal to vertical at any time. In this way, the cavalry need to keep enough muskets before charging into battle. ]

It was Zhu Yijun's first time to see this kind of competition, so it wasn't until Gao Pragmatic fired his gun for the second time that he understood the meaning of Gao Pragmatic's actions just now. But at this time, he discovered something embarrassing - even with a telescope, he couldn't see Gao Pragmatic's results clearly.

It's not that the telescope doesn't work, but that as Gao Pragmatic shoots again and again, the smoke in the racecourse affects the vision, and whether the musket shooting is accurate is not as easy to judge as the arrow - the latter has an arrow clearly inserted, but the former does not. It only creates a perforation, which is difficult to see.

Zhu Yijun was feeling embarrassed when he suddenly saw two cavalry, one white and one black, suddenly speeding up towards the general station. Zhu Yijun thought it was Gao Jingshi who noticed that he was coming, and he subconsciously stood up straight to say hello to his classmates and friends, when he heard Gao Jingshi shouting from a distance: "Prepare the target, increase the distance to three hundred steps!"

Many people on the stage screamed in surprise, and even Fei Yingdong had a strange look on his face. Zhu Yijun was a little confused and asked: "Is three hundred steps very far?"

Three hundred steps is equivalent to 150 meters, which is not far at all. If it is an assault rifle from later generations, the effective range is generally about 300-400 meters. But the thing is, this is not the "hereafter."

In today's era, a distance of three hundred steps is generally not considered an effective range for a single soldier on the battlefield. Unless you are commanding an archery team and using projectile volleys, which don't rely on hit rate at all, you can't expect any real results from shooting at 300 steps.

This is true for bows and arrows, and even worse for muskets. The famous European model of "queue to kill", the classic combat method of the British lobster soldiers, is the first round of salvo fired at how many meters apart between the two sides? The answer is 30 meters.

That's the saying: Only when you can see the enemy's nose clearly can you shoot. Therefore, it did seem a bit outrageous for Gao Pragmatic to shout "set a target at three hundred steps" at this time, and even Fei Yingdong had a strange look on his face.

A precise hit of 150 meters is not impossible. For example, Chatterji's rebirth must be possible, but who is Chatterji? That's Zhebie's marksmanship. How can your marksmanship, Gao Yuanfu, be so powerful?

It was late at first and then fast at the same time. There was no doubt about the speed of the two horses running back. Soon, another clear female voice was heard: "Three hundred steps is too far, and the slave family can't compare."

Zhu Yijun followed the sound and saw a woman wearing a lake-green gown coming into view through the white smoke. Although this woman is wearing men's clothing, it is obviously just for the convenience of movement, and her hair accessories are not "masculine", which makes her look unique.

Perhaps because he had never seen it before, Zhu Yijun subconsciously looked at it more, but he immediately woke up and quickly looked away to the other side, just in time to see Gao Pragmatic looking at him with a smile.

The emperor was startled, and he took the initiative to speak as though he were covering up: "Rixin, you are very leisurely, but you still have to be invited by me personally before you are willing to come back to the pavilion to take care of things?"

Gao Pingshi laughed, but was not in a hurry to answer. Instead, he stood up and dismounted vigorously, then stepped forward and cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty came here and didn't inform me in advance. Could it be that I have to let you fall into the trap of treating your Majesty so slowly?" Isn't it a crime? Your Majesty, that minister is going to be aggrieved."

This was obviously not a normal exchange between a monarch and a minister, but Zhu Yijun was very happy that Gao Ponggong spoke in this tone, because it seemed close to him. But he obviously would not admit such an accusation. He rolled his eyes and said, "Hey, I have dismissed so many serious crimes for you. Do you still care about this 'crime'?"

Gao pragmatic laughed again, but immediately became serious, bowed and said: "I have met the emperor, Gao pragmatic..."

"Come on, come on." Zhu Yijun took a step forward, stretched out his hand to support him, and said, "There's no need to do anything like a courtesy. Let's get down to business first."
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