A "whoosh" sounded in the air, and an arrow was seen flying out of the string very quickly, heading straight towards a rabbit moving in the snow. "Hit!" A young woman shouted proudly. Unfortunately, the arrow flew past the fluffy rabbit and stuck into a dead tree with a "thud" sound. The rabbit was frightened by the arrow, and after a swipe, it ran away from the snow and disappeared.
The one who shot this arrow was naturally the Emperor Liu Xie. He was seen riding on a galloping war horse, with his upper body tilted to one side and his arms still in the posture of letting go of the string. Although the arrow missed, there was still a look of pride on his face that could not be concealed.
Although the arrow missed, his archery skills were real - the little emperor Liu Xie originally had good martial arts, and was quite proficient in horseback riding and archery. These days, he trained with two generals, Xu Huang and Feng Qi. After practicing, I can already hit a fixed target within ten steps with a high probability when riding on horseback, but I am not very good at shooting moving targets.
And a group of highly respected ministers who were watching from the side also sincerely felt that their little emperor's martial virtue was becoming more and more abundant, and they all praised him from the bottom of their hearts.
"Good! Cum was great!"
"I never expected that the emperor would develop such skills in riding and shooting at such a young age!"
"With both hands free from the reins, shooting arrows sideways on the horse... You have to rely on your legs to tightly clamp the horse's back and belly to stabilize it and not fall off the horse. It is really not easy! It's Zaigu's army. There are very few people in the world who can possess such martial arts skills!"
"Mr. Cao, according to this, the emperor's martial arts are already quite outstanding?"
"Of course!"
Even Cao Cao agreed, which shows how advanced the young emperor Liu Xie's riding and archery skills are!
In fact, his kung fu is not all the result of hard training, but comes from technological progress, namely the high bridge saddle and bilateral stirrups. In this era, if someone can perform flying horse riding and shooting without relying on a high bridge saddle and bilateral stirrups, and the shooting is quite accurate, then he is already a very good knight, and he can be a white horse under Gongsun Zan. Yi obeyed. If anyone can charge on horseback with a lance between his legs, and does not fall off the horse when the lance hits the target, he will have no problem serving as a tiger and leopard rider under Cao Cao.
However, these two moves are not that difficult for the little emperor Liu Xie and his men.
Just after Liu Xie finished his riding and archery performance, another boy in white clothes and a white horse came on a trotting horse. He also drew his bow and arrow on the horse, and shot the arrow with a "whoosh" sound.
This young knight's riding skills are obviously not as good as Liu Xie's. The latter can bend down and shoot arrows sideways on horseback, but he rode upright on horseback and shot an arrow. Moreover, he did not shoot at a moving target, but directly Shot a dead tree that had been felled. But it’s not easy to be able to take off the reins with both hands, shoot an arrow while trotting on a horse, and hit the target! So the ministers watching also raised Thumbs up and praised him.
"This young man is also very good at riding and shooting! Whose son is he from?"
"It's from the Langya Zhuge family!"
"Langya Zhuge family? Oh, is he the nephew of the new Yuzhang County Governor Zhuge Xuan's family?"
"He is Zhuge Xuan's nephew. He is famous. He is only sixteen years old this year."
"Sixteen years old, the same age as the Emperor! With such martial arts at such a young age, he will definitely become a good general in the future!"
"Bo Yu, is that Zhuge Xuan also a good general who is proficient in riding and archery?"
"Of course, Zhuge Xuan is a man of both civil and military skills!"
This young man in white is Zhuge Liang! Zhuge Liang originally had some basic skills in horse riding and archery, and he had a strong learning ability. After learning from Xu Huang and Feng Qi for half a month, he was already able to hit the target in ten steps on horseback. Given time, he might be able to change from Zhuge Liang to another. Became "Zhuge Fei" - Zhang Fei's "fly"!
"Drive! Drive!"
The arrogant shouts of a young woman and the rapid clatter of horse hooves once again interrupted the discussion of the ministers. Everyone followed the sound and found that a woman in red was galloping over on a red horse. She also had her hands off the reins. He drew a riding bow, and with a "whoosh" sound, he shot out an arrow, which also hit the dead wood.
Who is this woman?
Why are you so good at horsemanship and martial arts? This riding and shooting skill seems to be better than Zhuge Liang, and on par with the little emperor.
When the ministers were surprised, the emperor Liu Xie had already rode back with Zhuge Liang. When he saw the woman hit the dead wood, he laughed and praised: "Dong Ji, good shot!"
She turns out to be Dong Guiren!
Cao Cao was startled, and cast his eyes at General Dong Cheng at the side. He noticed that Dong Cheng was strong and tall, and his posture on the horse was majestic... Then he remembered that Dong Cheng was the Seventh Colonel under Dong Zhuo's command. One of the captains!
Dong Zhuo is so powerful. His own riding and archery skills are very good. He can shoot the bow left and right on the back of a galloping horse! The captain under his command must be extremely skilled in martial arts! It seems that the martial arts of the emperor and Dong Guiren were all taught by Dong Cheng... You really can't underestimate the heroes of the world!
After Cao Cao thought about it for a while, he immediately looked at Dong Cheng, General Wei, with admiration. He had underestimated Dong Cheng before, thinking that he was a soft persimmon that could be easily manipulated, but he didn't expect that this persimmon was not soft at all.
Be careful in the future!
In addition, Liu Qi’s strength cannot be underestimated! Even Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Xuan's nephew, is proficient in riding and archery. Will Liu Jingzhou still have no generals under his command? By the way, Huang Zhong and Gan Ning brought by Liu Qi also look very good!
At this time, Liu Xie had already led Zhuge Liang and Dong Guiren to ride their horses to Cao Cao. Liu Xie looked at Cao Cao with a smile and said: "General, let's hunt at the foot of Huoyang Mountain today. How about chasing the big group tomorrow?"
It turned out that the little emperor had already embarked on the road back to Luoyang at this time - he had to return to Luoyang before the end of the first year of Jian'an, and then organize farming as soon as possible, so as to sow wheat before the farming season in the spring of the second year of Jian'an passed. . In this way, by the autumn of the first year of Jian'an, a season of wheat will be ripe around Luoyang.
However, there were a large number of soldiers, civilians and diesel trucks following him back to Luoyang, and all the diesel trucks were fully loaded, so the traveling speed could not be faster. It would be good if he could cover twenty or thirty miles in a day. From Luyang to Luyang It takes ten days to reach the two hundred miles of Luoyang.
The little emperor Liu Xie didn't want to be like when he came, sitting stupidly in a bullock cart and being pulled along slowly. He looked very ungrateful!
But now he has money, food, generals, soldiers, Zhuge Liang, and suspected magic. He is already full of martial virtue and extremely cruel. Naturally, I want to show off well and let the forces around Luoyi know that the emperor has become very powerful now. You must not come here to cause trouble!
That's why the emperor took Cao Cao, Dong Cheng and others, as well as one or two thousand cavalry, to leave the group and march while hunting. In order to show his martial virtue, the young emperor Liu Xie specially ordered people to build more than a hundred pairs of high-bridge saddles and double-sided stirrups. He also selected more than a hundred good riders from Huben and Yulin to equip them with Mounted on the war horse, high bridge saddle and bilateral stirrups. He also led them to hunt together, and showed the emperor's force to Cao Cao, Liu Qi and others.
Don't underestimate these more than a hundred "elite" cavalry. If they can be used well together with the more than a thousand tiger warriors, feather warriors, and sword and halberd warriors, the little emperor will have the most basic ability to protect himself.
In order to make Cao Cao mistakenly think that Dong Cheng and Liu Qi were also very powerful, Liu Xie specially arranged for Zhuge Liang and Dong Ji to demonstrate their riding and archery skills with him!
Cao Cao has not found any clues on Liu Xie's saddle and stirrups for the time being. Now that he heard that the young emperor invited him to hunt with him, of course he agreed. He also wanted to take a closer look at the horseback warriors, feather warriors, and sword warriors around Liu Xie. The martial arts of the Halberdier.
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One or two thousand cavalry from the Emperor's personal soldiers, the Northern Army, Cao's Army, and Dong Cheng's tribe also pulled dozens of carts. As the day's hunting ended, each of these cavalrymen took down the tents mounted on the vehicles and set them up. These tents were specially built by Cao Cao and Liu Biao for the emperor. They are all gorgeously decorated, spacious and warm. The tent door was made of fine cowhide to protect it from the wind and snow.
Drinks, ingredients, and seasonings were also brought down. Among the items presented by Liu Biao, they included a large amount of pepper, Sichuan peppercorns, Angelica dahurica, and lemongrass. These spices were expensive when the world was peaceful in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Nowadays, it is almost impossible to see it in the Central Plains. However, Liu Biao still had a way to get a lot from Jiaozhou and Yizhou. Dong Ji, who had learned a lot of cooking methods under Liu Xie's training, personally commanded dozens of swordsmen and halberds who were good at handling ingredients. They washed and skinned the rabbits and wild boars that were hunted today, and used some for cooking. Soup, some are marinated with spices and grilled over the fire.
After a while, the entire camp was filled with waves of aroma!
Liu Xie, Zhuge Liang, Liu Qi, Cao Cao, Guo Jia, Dong Cheng, plus a Taiwei Yang Biao and Yang Biao's son Yang Xiu, all entered the big tent together, warmed up the white wine first, and waited for the meal to be served. Start talking about the future.
After the little emperor Liu Xie sat down, he took a glass of white wine from Zhuge Liang, took a sip, and said with a smile: "Although I am the emperor, I just want to work in Luoyang and look down at the world. What do you think?" ?”
Taiwei Yang Biao was the first to answer Liu Xie's question: "Heavenly Family, when I heard about Yu Shun, he swam above Yanlang and bowed his head and did nothing, while the world was at peace. Today, my family cultivates in Luoyang, which is comparable to Yushun's wandering in Yanlang." "
Liu Qi also smiled and replied: "Tianjia, I thought that the chaos in the world was about to end. Now there is Yuan Benchu in the three states of Ji, Qing, and Bing, General Cao in Yan and Hezhou, my father in Jingzhou, Liu Jiyu in Yizhou, and Xuzhou There is Lu Fengxian. Basically everything has been calmed down! Only Yangzhou, Liangzhou, Hongnong and Sanfu are still in turmoil. But with the general, Yuan Benchu, my father and Lu Fengxian here, peace will return sooner or later. Although the Tian family is in Luoyang Just hang the arch!"
Cao Cao seemed to have anticipated the stance of the Little Emperor, Yang Biao, and Liu Qi. He just smiled lightly and asked, "I wonder how much land the Tian family needs to cultivate?"
Liu Xie smiled and said: "How about a total of nine counties, Luoyang, Pingxian, Yanshi, Fengshi, Henan, Guxian, Pingyin, Xincheng and Gongxian, be my farming land?"
"Nine counties...are they too few?" Cao Cao asked with a smile.
"It's quite a lot," Liu Xie said with a smile. "The territory is too big, and I can't manage it from the top."
"Okay!" Cao Cao nodded with a smile, "Then I will set up the shogunate in Xingyang, and at the same time send two thousand elite soldiers to join the Northern Army to defend the Tianjia! I wonder what the Tianjia wants?"
Liu Xie was overjoyed when he heard this: "Meng De is indeed my ally, the pillar of the country, and the leader of the noble clan. From now on, the affairs of Guandong will be entrusted to you! I will work hard in Luoyang and be a loyal king."
