Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 54
In a blink of an eye, the streets were full of soldiers. Daochen saw that they were wearing iron breastplates, gold-plated bronze helmets, and snow-soaked cloaks clinging to their backs. He didn't have time to count them, but at least a hundred Riders, those in the first row had already dismounted, their spears were held flat, and the sharp points of the spears gleamed coldly.

"Behind!" Suddenly Dao Chen heard someone shouting, but when he looked back, there were more soldiers, who had already cut off his retreat.

"Put down your weapon and get out of the way, this is Master Daochen, the right general!" The captain of the guard shouted loudly.

"It's not anymore!" The soldiers in front gave way to Fukunobu Onimuro, who jumped off the bay red horse and raised his chin proudly: "Or the former right general, as for now, he is just a criminal. !"

"What about the will? Your Highness's order to remove me from office?" Dao Chen said in a deep voice.

"Decree?" Onimuro Fukunobu pulled out his saber: "This is the decree, those who don't want to die get out of the way, and don't be buried with this old man!"

None of the guards fled. They all drew their weapons, but the ratio of the number was twenty to one hundred. The residents hid behind doors and windows, and no one planned to interfere.No one on Daochen's side was riding a horse, but there were dozens of horses on the opposite side, so the outcome was self-evident.Dao Chen tried his best to find a safer strategy: "You pretend to kill me, Your Highness will not let you go!"

"Hehehe!" Onimuro Fukunobu laughed: "If I kill you, I will annex your followers. What can His Highness do to me? What's more, my sister already has his child in her belly, you understand I mean it?"

"You traitor!" Dao Chen immediately understood the subtext of the other party, and he drew out his knife: "You have already harbored the rebellious intention of killing the master!"

Onimuro Fukunobu sneered disdainfully, and said to the officer, "Don't let anyone die!"

"No—!" Dao Chen screamed, and the enemies surrounded him from all directions.Dao Chen blocked a slash, stabbed a person down, swung his sword and slashed at the ghostly cloak around him, but the cloak fell apart in front of him.The captain of the guard swung his knife and slashed, hitting a soldier's face with a tooth-piercing click.The second person dodged, and for a moment he seemed to rush out, but in the next second he was pierced by a long spear, and the captain of the guard staggered to his knees, blood gurgling from the wound.Dao Chen slipped and fell to the ground, he only felt a sharp pain in his ankle, and his mouth was full of blood.

Sitting on the ground, Daochen saw his guards fall one by one, and the enemy stood beside the fallen, with their swords rising and falling, blood and flesh flying everywhere. He supported the ground with the scabbard and struggled to stand up, but a knight He rushed over, swung the knife violently, his head flew up, and blood spattered everywhere.

Zhou stayed in the city.

Gui Shiyun sat on the ride and watched the archery competition going on in the courtyard.The curtain of Chengyu is made of raw silk, and the workmanship is extremely fine. She can watch the heroic posture of the archery athletes through the curtain. Queen, it's not appropriate to show your face casually.

According to the customs of Baekje, the shooting field is about 120 steps long. Usually they shoot two kinds of targets - a standing target of about 50 steps, and a square target of about [-] steps. The former is a wooden board similar to a human figure. The latter is a target about two meters long and one meter wide, which is placed flat on the ground. Obviously, the former is used for flat shooting, while the latter is projectile.Gui Shiyun was not the only woman in the arena—there were dozens of noble ladies sitting on the benches on both sides, laughing loudly and pointing out the athletes who were competing.

For the Baekje people, archery is a "national skill". Their ancestors, the Buyeo people, were famous for being good at archery. Hundreds of years of continuous wars on the peninsula have added a bit of romance to this skill.When Gui Shiyun was a young girl, she had heard the names of sharpshooters from ballads, but now they suddenly appeared in front of her eyes, and each one was more heroic than the other.Among them, the most outstanding ones are noble youths from the surnames of Sha, Yan, Jie, Xie, Zhen, Guo, Mu, and Xie. They all wear buckskin tights with embroidered Brocade robes with their own family crest, holding bows, waiting to be called to shoot arrows before their names.

In addition, there were many people that Gui Shiyun didn't recognize. They were dressed in different colors, but they didn't have brocade robes on their bodies. They stood a little far away, carefully adjusted their bows, and prepared to play.According to the tradition of the Baekje people, there is no superiority or superiority in the archery field. Even the Sanhan shepherds have the right to compete with their masters.

The game started, and the first ones to play were those noble youths in fine clothes. Whenever they hit the bull’s-eye, the house slaves beside the target would wave white flags and sing loudly the names of their masters, and the audience would also Cheers and screams followed, especially these noble ladies, who forgot their usual reserve, waved handkerchiefs at these handsome archers, and called their names.Gui Shiyun couldn't help secretly rejoicing that the curtain blocked the sight of others, otherwise she might lose the dignity of the queen with her blushing face.

It may be because of the wind direction that the archers performed well that day. After three rounds of shooting, there were still four people who were not eliminated.According to the prevailing rules at the time, each archer could shoot twelve arrows, six at a standing target 50 paces away, and six at a square target one hundred paces away. If one arrow missed the target, he would be eliminated. (This difficulty is actually very high. The length of the recurve bow competition in modern archery is only 70 meters, and one step is equal to one and a half meters. The accuracy is far better than archery bows in ancient times; now the bow used for competition is a kind of sports equipment, and the general pulling force does not exceed forty pounds, while the weapons used by archers in ancient times for competitions are killing weapons, and the minimum pulling force is seven buckets , if the pulling force is more than 70 pounds, the difficulty is naturally higher.) And if after three rounds, the winner is not determined, then move the target farther away, moving five steps at a time, and the person who persists until the end is winner.

"Your Highness, who do you think will stay till the end!" Without waiting for Gui Shiyun to answer, the female companion gave her choice: "It must be the gentleman wearing the Liwu hat, look how handsome he is!" ! If you can marry such a person, you will be willing to die!"

Gui Shiyun laughed, she also saw the archer chosen by the maid, the young man was indeed extremely handsome, the tall black gauze hat just supported his fair skin, and his figure was tall and straight like a green pine.But she saw more than her companion.

"That's the legitimate son of Yan's generation, I'm afraid that family background is not worthy of you!"

(End of this chapter)