Chapter 82 The Power of Dismounting
The county school class is much later than that of Lushan School. It is only at 3:00 am, that is, at 8:30 am, when the bell rings in class. The professors have to finish their tea before they walk slowly to their respective schools.
This brings great convenience to the students living outside the school, who can finish their meals calmly and then go to school to study.
In the canteen, Tang Huai was telling everyone a joke that happened to Wang Gui yesterday.
"The man looked like he was in his thirties, with such a long beard and walking in the forest with his hands behind his back. Lao Gui walked up, saluted him respectfully, and shouted "Hello Master!"
Wang Gui was so anxious that he pinched his neck from behind, and shouted in anger: "No more!"
Tang Huai was so angry that he couldn't breathe, and gestured with his hands, "That man... was suddenly panicked and said to Lao Gui, "You don't have to be polite, I am also a freshman this year..."
Everyone burst into laughter, and several little maids also covered their mouths and laughed secretly. Wang Gui explained with a blushing face: "Who would have thought that he was still a freshman when he was so old, and his beard was one foot long. You will definitely think he was a master when you see him."
Zhang Xian held back his smile and said, "I know that person, named Yang Yun. He has been staying in the county school in order to pass the imperial examination. I heard that his son is ten years old."
"It seems that he is more than the only one!"
Li Yanqing also smiled and said, "When I went to listen to the class "Zhou Guan Xinyi" yesterday afternoon, I also met several old students, who were almost thirty or forty years old. I was very surprised, why did the county school have so many old students?"
The student living with Zhang Xian is named Qin Liang. He is the son of Qin Xuan, a gentry in Tangbei Township. He is also thirteen or fourteen years old. He has a very quiet personality. He took Li Yanqing's words and explained with a smile: "This is also the tradition of county schools. Except for the examinations and the examinations, the student status will not be cancelled. Therefore, there are nearly 3,000 people in the name of county schools. This is why some people have counted that there are about twenty-seven old students over thirty years old in county schools, and we will often encounter them."
When Yue Fei heard these words, he couldn't help but pick up the book he had just put down and began to lower his head to study. He didn't want him to still study in the county school when he was in his thirties.
Li Yanqing looked at Zhong Lu, stood up and said, "It's almost time, we have to leave."
Everyone packed their bags and walked out. Zhang Xian ran up and asked, "Old Li, what class are you doing this morning?"
"This morning is the archery class, and the first day of class starts. Should I try it together?"
"I think so! But my archery skills are not qualified, Master Zhou doesn't want it."
Zhang Xian was really depressed, and Li Yanqing smiled and comforted him, "Practice the arrows well and we can get on together."
"Okay! I'll go to the archery field to shoot a few arrows in the afternoon, and try to go to class with you as soon as possible."
Zhang Xian and Qin Liang left first. At this time, Yue Fei led their horses out of the livestock shed. The house they lived in had a large livestock shed. In addition to four horses, there were seven or eight donkeys. Wang Gui's livestock store specially sent a groom to take care of them. Usually, they rode their donkeys to school, and only when they were riding a horse to school would they ride to the school.
Everyone turned over the horses and rode their horses slowly towards the county school. There were not many horses in the Song Dynasty. Even if there were horses, most of them were horses that were pulling carts and livestock horses that were cultivated on the land. There were very few horses for riding, and they were usually donkeys.
There are even fewer horses in Tangyin County. The four of them ride horses and mingle among the large group of donkey riding students, which is particularly eye-catching. Everyone knows that these four people are students who go to the riding and archery class.
On the archery field, twelve students rode horses in a row. Master Zhou Tong stood on a wooden platform in front of him. He was tall, standing in front of everyone like a tall tower, giving the twelve students a huge sense of oppression.
"For twenty years, my students have been the elite army of the Song Dynasty. Today is the first time to teach students. But I want to tell you that I will not be tolerant because you are scholars. If you think this way, you will be very wrong. I will be stricter than the army. I will make you tired and die. Now I will give you a chance to choose, and you can leave if you want to withdraw from my training!"
The twelve students all practiced martial arts since childhood. This time, the magistrate of Dadao was very proud and actually invited the 800,000 imperial guards instructors in Tokyo to teach them riding and shooting classes. Where can I find such an opportunity? Everyone's eyes were firm, their waists were straight, and they didn't move, but no one left.
Zhou Ti was very satisfied with their attitude, so he walked down the wooden platform and turned over a horse. He pointed to a row of bows next to the horse whip and said, "Everyone goes to get a bow and a pot of arrows!"
Everyone urged the horse to move forward, and they all leaned forward to take a bow and a pot of arrows. Li Yanqing carefully looked at the heavy riding bow in his hand. This was also a eight-dou bow, but the riding bow was slightly smaller than the staircase bow, with a slightly longer upper bow arm and a round and shorter lower bow arm. This was to prevent the lower bow arm from affecting the war horse, but the workmanship was more complicated, short and tough and powerful, which required the cavalry to use rapid-fire method to shoot arrows.
A good riding bow takes four years to complete, it is very expensive and is difficult to buy on the market. This batch of riding bows was specially created by Zhou Ti for them to practice from the army.
Zhou Ti pointed at Li Yanqing with a whip, "Come up and try shooting an arrow!"
Li Yanqing's lunge was the first, but he started from scratch like everyone else.
He urged him to come forward, take out a thumb and draw an arrow from the quiver on his back. He found that the arrow was shorter than usual, and the feathers behind him were trimmed, very neatly.
Put the arrow on the string, the arrow is on the right side of the bow, and the eyes are on the left side of the bow, slowly pull the bow string away.
"wrong!"
Zhou Ti immediately discovered his mistake, and Li Yanqing was still shooting with the step bow. Zhou Tong shouted sternly: "The momentum is like chasing the wind, the eyes are like electric current, the bow is full, the arrow is tightly shot, the eyes should not be seen instantly, the body sits arrogantly, and the arrow is like breaking!"
Li Yanqing felt awe-inspiring in his heart, and suddenly pulled the bow and his eyes were like lightning, sweeping forward, almost without stopping. When the arrow touched his finger, a feathered arrow shot out like lightning, click! With a sound, there was an arrow target eighty steps away. Li Yanqing couldn't help but secretly cheer him, and the students next to him applauded.
The riding bow is small, but the potential energy is greater. The strength of both arms is generally not lasting, so you have to shoot it when you open the bow, so you need to have a very high eye and archery skills.
But Zhou Tong sneered, "You are still shooting archery, what's the difference between shooting and shooting step by step?"
Zhou Tong pulled out a huge bronze bow from his quiver and pulled out two more iron arrows. Everyone exclaimed in unison, "Bronze bow and iron arrow!"
The legendary copper bow and iron arrow appeared in front of them today, which made the twelve students shake their minds. Zhou Tong is known as the iron arm, and is famous all over the world for riding and shooting. There are countless excellent riding and shooting in the Song Dynasty. The reason why Zhou Tong stood out among countless riding and shooting was his unique copper bow and iron arrow.
Zhou Tong ran away with a horse, with an arrow target on each side. He saw his bow full of bows like the moon, and an iron arrow shot out like lightning, penetrated the arrow target a hundred steps away. He twisted his body and took the bow with his right hand, pulled the strings on his left arm, and another arrow suddenly shot out, piercing the arrow target a hundred steps away again.
When he turned around and ran back, he leaned under the horse's belly and shot his bow left and right again. This time the target was two fast-moving wooden men a hundred steps away. Two iron arrows accurately shot the moving wooden men, shooting their left eye with their left first shot and their right first shot with their right eye, which was exactly the same.
Everyone was stunned. When did they have seen such a brilliant archery technique and even forgot to applaud. Li Yanqing lowered his head in shame. He claimed to be a master of archery technique. Now he knew what it means to be outside people and there is a sky outside the sky. His tiny archery technique is simply a firefly and a bright moon compared to Zhou Tong's copper bow and iron arrow, which is 100,000 miles away.
"You all saw it, you can draw the bows from left to right. This is your level in a year. Now start training, and each person draws the bow a hundred times!"
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