After the opening of the bow and horse competition, the three Guanpu stores in Bianjing closed their betting. Everyone was holding their breath and waiting for the final result to come out. However, the bow and horse competition list opened by Guanpu store will not stop, and it will adjust it according to the daily results.

After the end of the Bow Bow knockout round, the Guanpu Store's archery and horse competition list still remained unchanged. All the ten masters above passed the knockout round. The Guanpu Store did not care about the step shooting results. Even if there were unknown masters of Bow Bow, it could not prove that the pattern of riding and shooting would change. Everyone is still paying attention to riding and shooting.

With the end of the step bow knockout round, the first round of riding and shooting officially kicked off.

Before dawn, Li Yanqing met with several partners in front of the martial arts gate.

"Old Li, you actually used an ordinary bow today?"

Wang Gui's eyes were sharp. He saw Li Yanqing holding a leopard-head bow at first sight, and he was shocked, "Didn't Master Xu ask you to use a bronze bow?"

"I plan to use the leopard head bow in the preliminary and semi-finals, and then use the bronze bow after entering the finals."

"Is this OK?" Yue Fei asked in confusion.

Li Yanqing nodded, "I have consulted specially and allowed to change the bow in the middle. Riding and shooting is relatively free, not as restricted as step shooting."

"Why!"

Wang Gui sighed resentfully, "Ride and shoot are enviable! Unlike us, we can't even use our own bow, and it makes people angry if we think about it."

Li Yanqing knocked on his head, "Stop saying depressed words, you should be well prepared!"

Tang Huai smiled and said, "Agui slept like a pig last night, and he slept until dawn. The old cow didn't sleep in the middle of the night last night, right?"

Niu Gao was as old as Tang Huai. Everyone called him Lao Niu, but Niu Gao joined the group late and was relatively shy. He scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "This is the first time I participated in such a competition, and I feel very nervous."

Li Yanqing smiled and said, "The first time everyone will be nervous. Just wait until you calm down when shooting archery. Let's go! It's getting late."

Everyone was excited and urged the horse to run towards Chenqiaomen.

Although it was not dawn, it was extremely lively outside the Taipei Camp military camp. The registration for riding and shooting was on the east side, with a small number of people, but everyone brought their companions to help lead the horse, which still seemed very lively.

The archery registration office was crowded with people. Although it was not qualified to ride and shoot, many participating archery warriors were extremely disappointed, but if the archery bow performed well, they still had the opportunity to be promoted. Therefore, most of the archery warriors who were eliminated yesterday did not leave, but continued to participate in the archery bow competition.

Wang Gui's mouth was almost pouting. He thought that more than a thousand people from Bugong had signed up and he still had a chance to enter the top ten, but in a blink of an eye, there were more than 7,000 people participating in the Bugong Competition. How could he not be depressed?

Li Yanqing handed the horse to Tang Huai. He walked into the registration point for riding and shooting. Registration was not registration, nor was it an imperial examination. He would not consider impersonation. The procedures were very simple. Report the name to the official. The official then found the name on the roster and gave it a license plate. The registration was over. Next, he had to go to a special troop field to wait for the game notification.

Li Yanqing walked back quickly, but there was no sight of Wang Gui and Niu Gao. Yue Fei pointed to a long line and said, "They are queuing there! It will take at least half an hour."

"Then I won't wait for them anymore, I'm going in."

Yue Fei and Tang Huai stepped forward and hugged Li Yanqing, "Old Li, do your best!"

"Don't worry! Let's have a celebration wine together tonight."

Li Yanqing turned over and waved to the two of them, then headed towards the entrance of the gate.

This time, the Ministry of War borrowed three marching fields in total, one of which was used as the field of intra-shooting competition, and the other two were the field of riding and shooting competition, and the smaller one was used for the place where the archers and warriors rested and waited. A temporary horse shed was also set up next to it, and more than a dozen experienced grooms were responsible for taking care of the horses.

However, there are not many war horses in the horse shed, and the first round of riding and shooting progresses rapidly. Thirty people entered the field in one batch, just like running water. Like step shooting, each person only has one chance. Even if the archery skills are outstanding, as long as they are not good, they will be eliminated directly, and there will be no chance to participate in the step bow competition.

Li Yanqing is number 420. Like all Arrow Warriors, everyone is paying attention to the changes in the license plate. Time is very tight. If you miss the time, you will lose the opportunity. It is this tension that makes no one speak on the military field, and everyone is concentrating on waiting for the changes in the license plate.

At this time, the license plates were replaced with a new batch, and soldiers shouted from afar: "Enter from 420 to 450!"

Li Yanqing immediately followed the crowd and rushed into the entrance. He handed his license plate to the examiner, and then took the sequence number from a basket. The note read No. 5, which means that he was the fifth of the thirty people in this group.

The scoring standards for riding and stair shooting are completely different. They will run a horse for 150 steps, shooting three arrows at targets a hundred steps away. The preliminary and semi-finals are fixed human-shaped targets, while the finals and championships are replaced with mobile targets. The scoring standards mainly depend on accuracy and strength. Other details are used as references, among which accuracy accounts for 60%, strength accounts for 20%, and other details account for 20%.

For example, Li Yanqing's two stone bows can get a full score of 20 in strength. If he accurately shoots an arrow in the head, he will get a 20 in 20 in 3 arrows. The total score of his two items is 80 in 20. The other 20 is determined by ten examiners, such as smoothness, opening bows with both hands, fancy archery, and the speed of arrows. In fact, it is quite casual, it depends on the examiner's impression of the archer warrior.

But if it is a stone bow, the strength is only ten. If you shoot another shot in the throat or chest, you will get fifteen points and ten points in other parts. This will add up to a low score. Then, two hundred people will be entries from high score to low score, and the other eight hundred people will be eliminated.

In addition, the archers from the Liao Kingdom and Xixia do not participate in the initial and re-examinations, they directly participate in the finals and the championship.

"Next No. 5!"

An examiner shouted, Li Yanqing walked forward and handed the bow and arrow up for inspection. The examiner was an imperial guard general. He carefully checked Li Yanqing's bow, tried to pull it again, and said to the recorder next to him: "Two stone bows!"

Everyone thought to Li Yanqing that more than 80% of the arrow warriors generally have one stone bow, and few have eight-dou bows, but few have more than one stone. One stone five-dou bows can be seen by chance, but two stones are extremely rare. This time, there are probably no more than twenty people in the bow and horse competition.

The examiner looked at him and asked again, "Is there anything else I don't understand about the rules?"

"The students understand!"

"Go! Good luck."

Perhaps because of the two stone bows, the examiner had a good impression of Li Yanqing. When he saw where Li Yanqing came from, he was even more surprised. He was actually a student.

Li Yanqing carried the sword archer behind his back, gently swung the bow, and threw the archer to his left shoulder. He turned over and waited for the archer warrior in front to participate in the competition. At this time, the third knight had ended. He hit the chest with two arrows, one arrow with the left shoulder and one stone bow, and the details were ten. In this way, the total score was sixty, and the level belonged to the top and bottom, and he would inevitably be eliminated.

‘Dang!’ A bell rang, and the number four arrow warrior in front of Li Yanqing urged his horse to run out. On the left was a stand, sitting on it, ten examiners and senior imperial guards watching the game, but Tong Guan was not there today. The surrounding stadium was full of people watching the game and imperial guards, densely packed, with tens of thousands of people. They shouted desperately to cheer for the arrow warriors.

The No. 4 Cavalry Warrior was an imperial cavalry. His first arrow had been shot, and he hit the chest of the first wooden man a hundred steps away. He started well. He got his hands at fifteen minutes and ran dozens of steps. The second arrow was shot out. He was very regretful. He wanted to shoot his head, but the arrow passed through his ears. The arrow shot empty, and there was a booing around him. The arrow warrior was obviously nervous, his arms were trembling. In the last ten steps, he shot the third arrow. Li Yanqing shook his head. The arrow was completely out of control. The arrow shot from the left ten steps away.

Three arrows were shot and were eliminated. Tens of thousands of people's eyes turned to Li Yanqing. Today, Li Yanqing wore a blue warrior uniform and a flat scarf. He was energetic. With his unique scholarly temperament, he seemed to have a unique elegance. As soon as he appeared, he attracted cheers around him.

‘Dang!’ With a bell ringing, Li Yanqing rode his horse and rushed to the runway. He calmly pulled out an arrow from behind his shoulders, drew his bow and pulled it like a full moon, and the big feather arrow shot like a white lightning toward the wood-carved human-shaped target a hundred steps away.

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Chapter completed!