Song Mingyue

Chapter 152 Ambushes emerge suddenly (second update)
King hunting is divided into four seasons, spring hunting, summer seedlings, autumn hunting, winter hunting, and now is the season of spring hunting.

Hunting can exercise the emperor's body, and it can better reflect an atmosphere of martial arts among the people, and stimulate the emperor's martial arts emotions.As a result, in the Song Dynasty, an atmosphere of emphasizing literature over martial arts emerged. At the beginning of the founding of the country, Taizu and Taizong both favored martial arts and often hunted, but after Shenzong, there were very few records of emperors hunting.

Now that the Liao Dynasty is about to be united with the Jin Dynasty and the sixteen prefectures of Youyun are in sight, the romance and aestheticism in Zhao Ji's blood are also beginning to cause trouble. This king, who is determined to become an eternal holy emperor with excellent literary, political and martial arts, suddenly has the idea of ​​​​hunting.

Around Bianliang, there is a flat river, and indeed there is not much that can be used as a hunting ground. The royal hunting ground is in the vicinity of the Wansui Mountain in later generations. The mountainous area here is wide, but not too high, which is suitable for birds and animals to inhabit.

Drums thump.The sound of drawing horns.

Tens of thousands of forbidden troops cleared the way in front, in the middle were Zhao Ji, a cadre of clans, and hundreds of civil and military officials, behind and surrounded by densely packed guards of forbidden troops.

Zhao Ji rode a snow-white Dawan horse with a sword hanging from his waist, a carved bow slung across his shoulders, and a pot of golden arrows hanging on his shoulders. He was majestic and looked decent.

On both sides are Liang Shicheng, Cai Jing and several other high-ranking officials following around.

Following behind Zhao Ji are four teenagers dressed in strong clothes, each of them is dressed in fresh clothes and fine armor, with a sword hanging from his waist, a long bow on his back, and a pot of arrows on his back.

The young man on the left, about 20 years old, is dressed in a silver armor snow suit, with a face like a crown jade, imposing manner, high spirits, and a slender figure. He looks extremely handsome and elegant, different from others. This person is Zhao Ji's favorite son Zhao regular script.

The boy on the second left is also about 20 years old, wearing a golden armor and brocade robe, but his face is slightly dark, his body is slightly fat, and his face is also gentle and honest. Compared with Zhao Kai next to him, he is slightly inferior in appearance. Prince Zhao Huan.

Further to the right is an extremely thin young man, who looks to be about fourteen or fifteen years old, with thin shoulders, an extremely soft and delicate face, brows and eyes, skin like snow, a pretty face that is ready to be broken, although he is dressed in men's clothing, Anyone with a discerning eye could recognize Diji disguised as a man at a glance.

It can be said that Zhao Ji was forced to take her out to hunt, and the only imperial concubine in the harem was Zhao Fujin, the maode emperor.

On the right side of Zhao Fujin is the romantic young man Zhao Hao, Mr. Zhao, who is loved by everyone and is accompanied by personal guards appointed by the government.

Zhao Hao was dressed in silver chain mail, with a sword made of refined steel hanging from his waist, a compound bow with two stone horns on his back, a pot of spiked arrows hanging on his back, straddling a snow-white horse, and a fiery red cloak behind him. The wind fluttered and fluttered, appearing extremely vigorous.

Compared with the four Zhao family youths, Zhao Hao naturally seemed to be much more attractive than the other three, a little more vigorous than Zhao Kai, a little more handsome than Zhao Huan, and more handsome than Zhao Fujin. A little bit of masculinity, although it is on the far right, it is a bit dusty.

Zhao Kai is a little disdainful of Zhao Hao, a clan with seven uniforms and a fourth-rank official. Although Zhao Huan is gentle, but due to his status, it is inconvenient to talk about it. The meaning of the two brothers' attention.

Zhao Hao also liked this distant cousin from the bottom of his heart, the two talked and laughed all the way, only Zhao Fujin's silver bell-like laughter could be heard floating in the team.

Zhao Kai saw that the younger sister was getting along with the clan princes outside the seventh suit, although he was upset, he could only roll his eyes from time to time, because Zhao Fujin was not afraid of him at all, since he was a child, he was the only one who suffered when it came to his father.

As for Zhao Huan, he could only shake his head and smile wryly.

Because of Zhao Huan's slightly docile personality and slightly fat appearance, he is not as handsome as his father, so he is not liked by Zhao Ji.

Behind the four were civil and military officials, who followed each other on horseback. Gao Lian, as the head of the hunting organization, naturally took the lead and bore the brunt.

When the Son of Heaven travels, security work is of course the number one priority, and nothing can go wrong, otherwise it will result in the consequences of being dismissed from office at a light level, or losing his head or even killing his family.

Gao Qiu led the three Yamen as a Taiwei, and had a heavy responsibility, so he was extremely nervous.

As early as three days ago, the forbidden army had been sent to search the hunting ground, and a large group of people was sent to patrol the hundreds of miles around the hunting ground to prevent bandits, grass bandits, and rebels from suddenly appearing.

When they arrived at the Long live mountain boundary, more than 4 imperial soldiers and horses lined up in the paddock.The paddock has a radius of forty to fifty miles, and there are heavily armored imperial guards everywhere, majestic and majestic, like a mountain.

The crowd quickly entered the paddock with the high-spirited and high-spirited Zhao Ji.

There are different sayings about hunting in different seasons.Search for summer seedlings in spring, hunt in autumn and winter.

Spring search is to search for unpregnant animals in spring to reduce the number of animals; summer seedling is to hunt animals that harm the crops in summer to ensure the grain harvest; autumn hunting is to protect mature crops from being harmed by animals and ensure the harvest; winter hunting is to hunt animals , increase the harvest, and prepare food for the winter.

At this time, it is the season of spring, and the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming. It is the season when animals are rampant.I saw the imperial army galloping their horses into the forest, shouting and chasing them away.

What kind of rabbit is this fuss.The roe deer and the like ran around, and most of them were forced to run down the mountain.

Zhao Ji laughed loudly and shot again and again. I have to say that Zhao Ji is indeed an all-rounder, and his archery skills are not satisfactory. Ten arrows hit six or seven arrows, which caused endless praise from all around. The kind of flattery is not too nasty, which makes Zhao Ji more elated.

I don't know which army was so lucky.Unexpectedly, a big bear was kicked out from a cave. The bear was disturbed from sleep, and when he heard the commotion all over the mountains and plains, he couldn't help being furious.

Zhao Ji saw that the bear chased his army horses around, and the heroic and heroic complex in his blood became more and more intense. Suddenly, he patted his horse and went straight to the bear, roaring majestically: "Where is the beast, dare to see me?" Instead of kneeling, watch the arrow!"

Zhao Hao, who was following Zhao Ji, couldn't help but look shocked, he hurriedly left Zhao Fujin behind, and rushed out, following Zhao Ji's right, only eight or nine steps away.

huh~
The eight-dou bow in Zhao Ji's hand stretched over the full moon, and a golden arrow shot out, heading straight for the blind man. Hearing the wind, the blind man turned his head suddenly, and the arrow hit the blind man's shoulder, penetrating three points into the flesh. .

Xiong Xiazi was in pain and couldn't help being furious. With a roar, he rushed towards Zhao Ji crazily.

The crazy and angry Xiong Xiazi ran wildly like a wild horse. Seeing that Zhao Ji was too late to change arrows, and the eight-dou bow did not hit the vital parts, it would be difficult to cause fatal damage to Xiong Xiazi. Before, the consequences were unimaginable.

The imperial guards behind were shocked, and leaped out one after another with swords and guns in their hands, trying to stand in front of Zhao Ji.

puff~
A sharp arrow shot out from Zhao Ji's side, the powerful force tore through the air, and made a sharp sound of piercing through the air, like lightning, it disappeared in a flash, and went straight to the neck of the blind bear. It pierced through the thick flesh on the bear's neck and penetrated into the throat.

Hey~
The blind man let out a dull howl, and suddenly stopped his running steps, stood up like a person, grabbed the arrowhead that was still trembling fiercely, and pulled it out, bringing out a small piece of flesh and blood. Blood spurted like injections.

At this time, the Xiong Xiazi was only [-] or [-] steps away from Zhao Ji. Zhao Ji regained his composure, and aimed at the standing Xiong Xiazi, he just shot an arrow with his bow.

The arrow hit Xiazi Xiong's throat and entered through his throat.

The blind man's vitals were hit by two arrows, his throat was shot to pieces, his front legs thumped, and finally he fell down slowly, his bulky body hit the ground heavily, after a while of convulsions, Finally died.

Someone galloped forward, pulled out the golden arrow that hit the bear's throat, and shouted loudly: "The official's shot is deadly!"

The surrounding soldiers all prostrated themselves to the ground, and cheers of "Long live" were heard endlessly.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Kai and Zhao Huan also bowed down, and after that, all the civil and military officials.

On the right side of Zhao Ji, Zhao Hao had no choice but to bow down for the first time in his life. He just thought about it a little bit, his head did not face Zhao Ji, but changed the angle to face an open space...Quan as self-comfort Well, the situation is out of control.

Zhao Fujin, who was like a follower, naturally knew who shot the key arrow to kill Xiong Xiazi. Although his face was full of dissatisfaction and he was worthless for Zhao Hao, he could only pout and kneel beside Zhao Hao angrily.

Zhao Ji was overjoyed. He rode his horse forward, raised his long bow, waved his greetings to the surrounding subjects, and let out a heroic laugh, so majestic!
It's just that when he looked at Zhao Hao, his eyes became meaningful again.

My Dharma Protector is indeed well-deserved... It is not in vain to pamper him.

The crowd cheered a lot of "long live" before they got up.

The hunt continued.

Zhao Ji shot and killed the ferocious beast with one arrow, and became more and more energetic and excited. He drove his horse and ran wildly, chasing those rabbits, roe deer and the like running around, which shocked Zhao Hao and other four people and more than a hundred imperial guards to follow closely. I was afraid that I would lose track and be attacked by a beast.

But at this time, Liang Shicheng, Cai Jing, Bai Shizhong and other civil servants gradually couldn't keep up and had to drag behind. Only Tong Guanshang followed the tail and did not fall far behind.

Zhao Ji's spring wind is proud of his horse's hooves, and while he is chasing after him, a fat sika deer suddenly sprang out from the grass, and rushed towards the woods in front of him as if flying.

Zhao Ji laughed and pointed his longbow directly: "The competition in the world begins today!"

After finishing speaking, he urged the good horses under his crotch, and instead of shooting, he went straight to chase the deer, which made all the forbidden soldiers complain. Fortunately, these selected forbidden soldiers were all good players, and they rode good horses, so they followed suit superior.

And the eight-foot good horses that all the four young masters of the Zhao family rode were able to keep up.

Suddenly, Zhao Hao let out a heart-piercing roar: "Your Majesty, hurry back to the horse!"

As soon as the words fell, a black shadow like a dark cloud suddenly appeared in the forest ahead, and the shadowy pupils crowded the entire forest.

Countless soldiers and horses suddenly appeared!
(End of this chapter)