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Chapter 60 Meeting a Marksman on the Road

Three days later, [-] Dazhou soldiers came to the place where the Yellow River Estuary was victorious at the end of last year, and then settled down.

According to this kind of marching speed of hundreds of miles a day, Zhao Yan can reach Shenzhou in more than ten days.

At this moment, the water of the Yellow River is rolling eastward, and the waves are unstoppable.

More than a dozen giant battleships about 20 feet long lie on the turbulent water, like ferocious giant beasts.

Zhao Yan stood on the deck of a big ship, looking at the Yellow River, with a lot of thoughts in his heart.

This river protects Dazhou like a moat, and at the same time, it also harms the people around it every year.

At this moment, Hei Wa in armor strode over and said, "Your Majesty, dinner is ready!"

Zhao Yan, who was wearing brocade and cotton clothes, came to the dining table, and seeing the dishes on it, he couldn't help but whet his appetite.

Braised Yellow River carp in braised sauce, steamed river prawns, uncooked eel with stone heads, natural vegetables, and a cup of three-paotai tureen tea.

There are a lot of fish in the Yellow River, and all the soldiers ate a whole fish feast tonight.

Zhao Yan was in a happy mood, and Yang Hong hurried over halfway through the meal.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, I found more than 20 sneaky men behind the reeds on the south bank of the Yellow River. These men were armed with various weapons, and some even carried bows and crossbows. They said that they also went to the front to kill the enemy. , but I suspected that they might be spies from Northern Mongolia, so I surrounded them, and I ask His Majesty to decide how to deal with them!"

"These people don't want to sneak attack us, do they?" Hei Wa asked suspiciously.

Hearing this, Zhao Yan and Yang Hong looked at Hei Wa at the same time.

More than 20 people attacked an army of [-] in surprise. This was not an egg hitting a stone, but it was completely because they thought they were dead.

No fool can do such a thing.

Hei Wa looked at the soldiers not far away, scratched her head, and said, "I don't think so."

"Go, go to the shore and have a look!" Zhao Yan put down his chopsticks, wiped his mouth, and said with a smile.

Not long after, the three of Zhao Yan came to the bank of the Yellow River.

At this moment, on the pale yellow sand, more than [-] men wearing only big underpants were surrounded by soldiers in a circle.

Their clothes were thrown aside, and some weapons were piled up outside the circle.

There are knives and sickles;

This kind of equipment is completely standard for bandits and bandits on wild mountains.

"Who is in charge, stand up and answer!" Zhao Yan said looking at these people.

This group of men saw that although Zhao Yan was young, but several people were standing beside him, their identities must not be simple.

Immediately looked at the man in the middle at the same time.

A thin man in the middle stood up, looked at Zhao Yan, and said neither humble nor overbearing: "Young master, we are also going to the border to kill the enemy. I don't know what crime we have committed. We will be arrested."

Yang Hong stared at him and said, "It is the mission of the soldiers of the Great Zhou to kill the enemy at the border. If you want to serve the country, why don't you join the army? You look like the enemy's spies!"

"You are the enemy's spy!" The thin man continued with his eyes widened, "We want to join the army, but the army doesn't want us at all!"

Zhao Yan looked at these people and couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.

Today's Great Zhou is a time for employing people. Anyone over the age of 15 and under 40 can join the army as long as they have no physical defects. Even if they can't join the Imperial Army and Shence Army, they can also become other arms.

And these twenty or so men, judging from their stature, were obviously born in physical labor and possessed a lot of strength.

Joining the Shence Army is not a big problem at all.

"Why doesn't the army want you? Are you signing up late?" Zhao Yan asked slightly puzzled.

The thin man sighed and said, "My name is Liu Zhan. The 23 of us were originally bodyguards of the Gyeongju Bodyguard Bureau, but we got into a lawsuit because we were robbed by gangsters a year ago when we were escorting the owner's goods. Although the master’s family has been compensated, the master’s register and the master’s family are brothers, and he deliberately made things difficult for us, making it impossible for us to join the army.”

"However, we wanted to kill the Northern Mongolian army, so we followed behind the army. We never thought that we would be caught so soon. You can say that our strength is limited, but you can't say that we are the enemy's spies!"

After hearing this, Zhao Yan was still a little moved.But now the army has taken shape, and the loss of these twenty or so people is harmless.

Therefore, Zhao Yan said: "You all want to contribute to the Great Zhou, and the soldiers of the Great Zhou will thank you, but this battle is a battle between soldiers and soldiers. Now, as ordinary people, your task is to grow good food , please believe that our Da Zhou army will definitely win a complete victory this time."

After finishing speaking, Zhao Yan looked at Yang Hong, the coach of Shence Army.

Yang Hong understood immediately, and immediately waved to the soldiers beside him, telling them to return the things to these people, and then let them go home.

If they followed the army all the time and joined the battle at the end, there might be an accident and everyone would die.

Such a death is not worth it at all.

"No... we won't leave. The grass people want to meet the emperor and show off their skills. With me in Dazhou, I will definitely be able to kill Ergu better." Liu Zhan said very stubbornly.

When Zhao Yan heard that the other party had unique skills, he couldn't help becoming interested, and said, "I am the emperor of our Great Zhou, what skills do you have to offer?"

As soon as they heard that Zhao Yan was the emperor, the twenty or so people all knelt on the ground, with their heads buried deep in the sand.

"If you can really show some special skills to kill the enemy on the battlefield, I can make an exception and let you join the Shence Army." Zhao Yan said with a smile.

The lean man Liu Zhan was overjoyed immediately, and said excitedly, "Your Majesty, Cao Min is a good archer. If you have a good bow and arrow, you can pierce a tree with a hundred steps. Last year, you even managed to pierce a stone with fifty steps."

A hundred steps away, an arrow pierces Yang.

In addition to the need for accuracy, it also needs strong strength.

This kind of strength, in the hands of the crossbowmen of the Great Zhou army, definitely cannot exceed ten people.

As for piercing stones in fifty steps, there are very few people who can do it, even Yang Hong can't do it.

In the Great Zhou territory, Zhao Yan knew that the only thing Zhao Yan could do was Shen Tuyi, the Commander of the Forbidden Army.

Yang Hong looked at Liu Zhan and said, "Liu Zhan, if you can't do it, it's a serious crime to deceive the emperor!"

Liu Zhan straightened his chest, and said confidently: "The grass-roots people have said it, so they can do it naturally."

"Okay, bring my black feather bow!" Zhao Yan said to Hei Wa.

The Black Feather Bow was a heavy bow, Zhao Yan couldn't even draw it, and it was placed in the military tent as a display.

A moment later, the black feather bow appeared in Liu Zhan's hands. Liu Zhan couldn't put it down, it was the most perfect bow he had ever seen.

Zhao Yan looked at a bush about two meters high a hundred steps away, and said, "As long as you can shoot through that bush, I will allow you to join the army."

Liu Zhan glanced at the bush, very excited, and said, "There is a knot on the trunk of that bush, and the grassmen will use this spot as their target. If you can't shoot through it, Your Majesty will kill me!"

Take the arrow, draw the bow.

Whoosh!
Almost in an instant, the long arrow shot right through the bush, and the location was exactly the lump the size of a copper coin.

(End of this chapter)