Water Margin: Lu Bu sits on Mount Liang

Chapter 61 Arrow (seeking tickets, seeking investment~)

The dust rolled up on the ground, and the sound of horseshoes sounded in the empty school field. Four or five soldiers in the distance were busy setting up archery targets, but there were only these few living people in the entire school field.

"Brother, why is no one training here at this time?" Lu Bu ran on the empty school field riding a red rabbit, and turned to ask Hua Rong who was riding a white horse beside him.

Hua Rong was dressed in a white dress, looking clean and fresh. He heard it and said, "I don't know, brother, most of the soldiers in this army village are young and strong from the local area. They train in their spare time and farm when they are busy. Fighting with swords and guns. They can practice every half a month in this winter. Now it is the busy season of spring farming, so the training has been changed to one in January, and it needs to be divided into two shifts, otherwise the food in the field will be exhausted. No guarantees."

"How can we ensure that the soldiers are well trained?" Lu Bu frowned when he heard the words. His Bingzhou wolf cavalry would not say three days, and if he didn't practice for a day, he would be worried that it would be abandoned, not to mention that Gao Shun's training in the camp was even more harsh. ,want to rest?Practice lying down first.

Hua Rong smiled wryly: "Brother, it's not that I don't want to practice day and night, but I really can't. The civil and military generals in the nearby counties have the right to serve as sergeants. It is said that the sergeants here are often dispatched, and they are often exhausted to death without getting a copper coin."

He said with a sigh and said: "Before my brother came here, I had all kinds of pride, but I didn't know that when I entered the door, I got a slap in the face. Mr. Murong Xianggong, the prefect of this state, dispatched all the soldiers under my younger brother's command to prepare for him to move wood for the new house. It was only released five days ago, and my little brother was short of breath."

"All the soldiers in Zhuzhou City are like this?" Lu Bu frowned and looked at the empty school grounds. How could such an approach make the soldiers have the courage to fight?
Hua Rong thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "I really don't know what the rest of the world is like, I only know that my hometown Guangji Army and Qingzhou are like this."

Lu Bu squinted his eyes in silence for a while, then suddenly smiled. This was a good thing for him. If they were all elite soldiers, although he would not be afraid, he guessed that life would be more or less difficult in the future.

The two of them were chatting, when a man rode a horse in the distance, rushed over and saluted Hua Rong, "Zhizhai, the target has been set up."

Hua Rong was overjoyed when he heard the words, and finally got his mind right, he quickly pulled the rein and said to Lu Bu, "Brother, let's see my little brother's kung fu."

Lu Bu glanced at him with interest, urged his horse to keep up with Hua Rong, and ran to the shooting range on the other side of the school grounds.

Here, there is a huge military drum with a height of one person standing on a Dianjiang platform in the middle of the school field. Behind the military drum, there are also smaller drums on both sides of the Dianjiang platform. Two rows of military flags in front of the platform are waving in the wind, dividing the school field into On the east and west sides, the west side is open for weapon training, and the east side has more round archery targets, which are obviously used for archery training.

At this time, Hua Rong had someone replace the round archery target with a total of dozens of human-shaped targets. Apple-sized round wooden plaques about half an inch thick were tied to the target's head, throat, and abdomen. With a thick rope.

Huarong was dressed in military uniform, holding a carved bow, and ran across an arc directly from the west school field, slanting towards the shooting range, and did not stop the horse to readjust the direction. In the process, the arrows passed through the middle of the target and stuck firmly on the human-shaped target. After turning around, none of the thirty wooden cards missed, and the arrows hit.

"Beautiful!" Lu Bu couldn't help applauding as he watched from the sidelines. Hua Rong's archery skills are well versed in the three-character key of "steadiness, accuracy and ruthlessness". , Now they are all shot through and pierced into the target body, which shows that Huarong's control of strength is very clever.

"Brother's praise." Hua Rong rode over and heard Lv Bu applauding. He couldn't help but glow and was very happy. After all, he is a young man and likes to appear before others. Lu Bu applauded him as the big brother in the world. It was scratching his itch.

"Why don't you play tricks, brother?" Hua Rong said with a smile, he didn't want to say goodbye to Lu Bu, he was just worried that Lu Bu would be bored here.

Lu Bu felt itchy when he saw Hua Rong shooting an arrow, so he said immediately, "That's fine, but you don't need to put three brands, just put one on your forehead."

Hua Rong didn't think much about it, and ordered according to Lu Bu's words, and some soldiers went over to change the arrangement, and Shao Mo came back to report that the setting was completed.

Lu Bu kicked the horse's belly lightly, and Chitu snorted when he got the instruction, and ran forward with all four hooves.

The crowd saw a red light jumping out, Lu Bu held the iron bow with his left hand, and put an arrow in his right hand, they heard the sound of the bowstring, everyone saw that every arrow exploded the wooden plaque.

While everyone was sighing, Hua Rong instinctively sensed that something was wrong, and hurried to the side to look, only to see that each arrow hit the target with the same depth, and all the wooden cards were shot but the arrows could barely be seen. Looking from the side, I could only see the first arrow but not the rest, so I couldn't help blurting out: "Brother is good at arrows."

After hearing Hua Rong's call, a curious military man also ran over to watch and exclaimed, which immediately attracted everyone to visit and express their amazement.

"Brother is worthy of the name of Jade-faced Flying General, this archery skill is very good." Hua Ronghou Lv Bu said with a thumbs up when he came back.

"Brother, you really deserve the title of Little Li Guang, and your archery skills are superb." Lu Bu didn't want to hear his silly nickname, so he opened his mouth quickly, and praised Hua Rong without hesitation.

The two laughed together after they finished speaking, they both knew that the other party was supporting them, the so-called bridal sedan chair was carried by everyone, not to mention that both of them had real skills.

It's just that Hua Rong didn't hear it, and there was a hint of embarrassment in Lu Bu's laughter.

Huarong Xu was more excited to meet Lu Bu, who is also a sharpshooter, and immediately competed with Lu Bu again, but his Hua family's marksmanship was extraordinary, and he still couldn't break through Lu Bu's defensive circle, so he reined in and retreated for a while. sigh.

So Lu Bu lived in Qingfengzhai for two or three days, teaching the younger sister the halberd technique every day. Fortunately, Huarong had built the foundation for the younger sister before Hua Rong, and there was no need to teach it from the beginning. He just simplified the moves and passed on four moves. Occasionally fighting with Huarong to relieve boredom, I thought it would be enough to go to the big army after a few days of quiet life, but I didn't expect that the tranquility was broken.

One day, Lu Bu was fighting with Hua Rong in the school field. Three or five soldiers ran in with a man covered in dust, but he saw that this man was about 40 years old, his dark face was covered with bruises, and the corner of his mouth was broken. It was full of dried blood stains, and the sweat from the rush on the forehead washed the dust on his face one by one, looking extremely embarrassed.

"Zhizhai, please save my daughter." When the man saw Hua Rong kneel down suddenly, he opened his mouth and started to cry, hearing the voice was very sad.

Hua Rong was shocked, and quickly jumped off the horse, stretched out his hand to support the man and said, "Let's get up and talk first, who are you? What happened? What happened to your little lady?"

The man sobbed and said: "Zhizhai, I'm from the village, I do some small business at home, and my acquaintances call me Li Qiaozui because I can talk. My daughter Li Chunlian just passed the age of this year. I took her out to visit friends a few days ago. , I didn’t know that on the way back, I was snatched by a strongman and taken up the mountain, and I asked Zhizhai to save my daughter, I’m afraid it’s too late.”

"Where did the thief do it?" Hua Rong looked at Li Qiao and asked with a frown.

"It's from Qingfeng Mountain." Li Qiaozui answered quickly.

Hua Rong gritted his teeth and said in a hateful voice, "It's Wang Ying."

"My dear brother, what's the matter?" Lu Bu listened carefully from behind, but he didn't know who Hua Rong was talking about Wang Ying.

Hua Rong first said to the army man: "Go and assemble the team, bring more young and strong people with you, I'll set off right away. Oh, and take Li Qiao down by the way."

The soldier nodded yes, and hurriedly pulled Li Qiaozui to retreat together, Li Qiaozui followed him gratefully.

Hua Rong then turned around and said to Lu Bu apologetically, "It's urgent, please forgive me if I can't get back to my brother."

Lu Bu shook his head: "The business is important, besides, it's not like I can't wait for this moment."

Hua Rong first sighed, then patted his mount's neck lightly with his hand and said: "I don't know, brother, there are three villains near my Qingfeng Village, the first one is the golden-eyed tiger Deng Long from Erlong Mountain. The presiding officer in the temple ended up falling in love with a female pilgrim, who moved her heart to return to vulgarity and took her captive to become Mrs. Yazhai. Now she leads a group of monks who have returned to vulgarity to gather for robbery. One of them is Zhou Tong, the little overlord of Peach Blossom Mountain. People are not very capable, but they are very slippery, and they often run back to the mountains after looting some property, which is very difficult to catch."

There was a pause in the voice, and he said indignantly: "The last one is two devoid of conscience, one is named Jinmaohu Yanshun, with red hair and yellow beard, who was born as a sheep and horse dealer, because he lost his capital, Living in the green forest and robbing, this person is a lover of hangover soup, but this soup is made from the heart and liver of a living person, and has an extremely violent personality. The other is a hungry ghost in color, called Dwarf Tiger Wang Ying, I don’t know He ruined the innocence and surname of many women from good families. He only said that he was originally from the Che family. He robbed the guests because he saw a fortune on the way. People gather here to become bandits and rob houses, if the little lady of the Li family is taken away by this person..."

Hua Rong shook his head as he spoke, with a look of unbearable expression on his face, obviously not optimistic about the woman's ability to keep her innocence.

"The government doesn't do anything, and let these three bandits do evil here?" Lu Bu raised his eyebrows when he heard this. Thieves are born to oppose the officials and the people. Cannibalism and humiliation of women make people feel contemptuous or even disgusted, and they are simply not human beings.

Hua Rong smiled wryly: "Why didn't you go to fight? I just heard that the three bandits communicated with each other, but one of them was in a hurry to be attacked by the government, and the other two would raise troops to help. Therefore, although the governor of the state was brave, he was finally taken. There is no way to wait."

Lu Bu was also silent when he said that, from Hebei to this Jingdong, it seems that the officials have no way to deal with these bandits and bandits.

"Brother, Huarong is on military affairs, so I need to leave first, please forgive me." Huarong said, riding on the horse, ready to go back to Qingfeng Mountain, no matter what he thinks, he must go there first , in case Wang Ying has not succeeded, can Zhemo save that little lady?
"Wait a minute, brother." Lu Bu shook the reins and let Chitu take two steps forward to catch up with Hua Rong: "I'm going with you, this kind of evil-doer, everyone can punish him."

Huarong was overjoyed when he heard the words: "With the help of my elder brother, my younger brother has a lot more confidence. There are still surplus armors in the army. I will take my elder brother to choose a set."

Immediately, the two of them rode their horses together to go to the Armor Warehouse, and Hua Rong stepped forward to lead a suit of iron armor, and then assembled two hundred soldiers, and sent troops to Qingfengshan.

　The new crown is not healed yet, I will go, I have a headache from coughing. . .

　　
　
(End of this chapter)