Chapter 301: Shooting the Light Out

Zhu Zhanji shot three arrows in a row.

But he was still young, after all, and when he fired three bows in a row, his energy was too much, so he panted, strangled his horse, and rolled down.

Zhu Di was already quick to step forward, holding him in his arms and calling out, “This grandson is like me.”

The words were indescribably excited and proud.

Zhu Zhanji then said, “Grandchildren don’t shoot well.”

The honored ministers around here couldn’t help but tsk and praise, at such an age, to still be able to make arrows without a single shot was truly remarkable.

If they were at that age, they just wouldn’t be able to do it.

So the crowd called for another hurrah.

Zhang Anshi was the only one who resumed squatting on the stone again, silently watching with a speechless face.

Zhu Zhanji was praised, so he came back to Zhang Anshi’s side, squatted down shoulder-to-shoulder with Zhang Anshi, and cupped his face and said, “A-uncle, do you see how well I shoot?”

“It’s okay.” Zhang Anshi said.

Zhu Zhanji said, “I’m also afraid that I can’t shoot well, but today it’s quite lucky that I didn’t shoot off, why doesn’t Uncle go shoot?”

Zhang Anshi said, “I’ll wait until they’ve all finished shooting, then I’ll wrap it up, lest we all run out of shots when A-Uncle makes his appearance and ruin everyone’s fun.”

“Oh.” Zhu Zhanji’s eyes blinked, “I’ll give Uncle a boost later.”

Driven by Zhu Zhanji, the atmosphere became more and more heated.

The crowd took to the field, and one man even shot nine rabbits outright.

The poor rabbits, not having provoked anyone, were shot down one by one for no apparent reason, and later lifted up by the giddy eunuchs by the ears.

Of course, there were those who couldn’t shoot several times, and those who accidentally fell off their horses, drawing laughter from the crowd.

Zhu Di was furious, tense face, pointing to that fell off the horse said: “Even the horse will not ride, visible weekdays must be deserted the bow and horse riding. Such a person, how can the court expect in the future? Come on people, drag down, hit a few lashes, will his name down, the next school parade if there is no growth, shall not inherit the title.”

These words could be considered extremely harsh, scaring the sons and daughters of the honored ministers into silence.

Can not inherit the title, but also may be pulled to the border towns to guard the border, then this life can be finished, not allowed to hand over the title to their own brother.

The scolded son of the honored minister was dragged down with his head hanging down, and his father then hurriedly bowed down and said, “I have failed to teach my son properly, and I am guilty of ten thousand deaths.”

Zhu Di is intentionally want to kill the chicken to warn the monkey, since it is a stern voice: “You enjoy the court salary, rich and noble to the extreme, if you teach your son like this, so that he let himself go, I Ming who can rely on? This time is only a little punishment, not next time.”

“Thank you, Your Majesty.”

However, at this moment, one of the guys arrow shot crookedly, and an arrow actually flew straight towards Zhang Anshi.

Zhang Anshi people are numb, his body stiff, only had time to open his eyes wide and exclaimed, “There are thorns ……”

Seeing this, Zhu Zhanji quickly overturned Zhang Anshi with one hand, protecting Zhang Anshi to fall to the side, so that the arrow deflected past a few feet away.

Zhang Anshi gave an overthrow to the ground, but when he looked at the arrow that was deeply inserted in the ground, he could not help but feel his heart palpitating, and his face turned white with fear.

Zhu Zhanji helped Zhang Anshi stand up and said with concern, “Uncle, you didn’t die of fright, did you?”

Zhang Anshi fixed his mind before he said angrily, “Damn it, I’ve already hid so far away, how come it’s coming towards me without any deviation? This must be a conspiracy ……”

The guy who shot off course had long since fallen off his horse in fear, and was almost knee-deep in Zhu’s direction to ask for forgiveness.

Zhu Di seems to have sensed the situation on this side, even more furious, drank: “The rabbit is in the east, you shoot the west, this is to conspire against the royal grandson and Zhang Qing? Into your mother, come on people, take down, give me hanging and beating.”

With that, Zhu Di had the eunuchs call Zhu Junji and Zhang Anshi to the front.

Zhu Di looked back and forth at Zhu Zhanji and Zhang Anshi with concern, saying under his breath, “Is everything alright?”

Zhang Anshi was stunned and his face remained ugly.

Zhu Zhanji, however, said triumphantly, “That arrow, was meant to come towards Sun’s son, but fortunately, Uncle was quick on his feet and protected Sun’s son.”

Zhu Di heard, can not help but look at Zhang Anshi appreciatively, emotionally: “Zhang Qing usually not agile, but is always top of the key moment, this time Zhang Qing set up a merit, I see …… this time even if his school parade passed.”

The crowd roared.

In fact, Zhu Di also knows that Zhang Anshi on horseback riding, sure to disgrace, but can not find an excuse to let him not have to participate in the school parade, if Zhang Anshi does not school parade, others inevitably say that he Zhu Di unfair, after all, this time, he is determined to ruthlessly dispose of a number of the children of the Lord’s ministers.

Now it’s good, Zhang Anshi has been credited with protecting the grandson, so let’s say he passes the test.

Zhu Zhanji grinned, happy.

Zhang Anshi, however, said, “Your Majesty, this …… this ……”

He was a little ashamed, or nephew is good ah, nephew heartache him, now let him cheekily admit that he protected Zhu Zhanji, but it is a little embarrassing.

So Zhang Anshi said, “Your Majesty, everyone proofreads, so how can I pull back? I implore Your Majesty, grant me permission to try.”

Zhu Di squinted his eyes, and mentally scolded this guy: to give you steps, you still have to get on the pole!

It was in full view of everyone, but it was not good to say anything more, so Zhu Di had to say, “Okay, then later, you also shoot a few arrows.”

Zhang Anshi said, “I’ll shoot last so as not to spoil everyone’s fun.”

Zhu then said, “This is up to you.”

Zhang Anshi retreated back to that corner with Zhu Zhanji again, but this time, the forbidden guards started to set up a guard around the duo to avoid stray shots because of their previous negligence.

The two squatted side by side, Zhang Anshi couldn’t help but look at Zhu Zhanji beside him and lamented, “My dear and beloved little Zhanji ah, still you have a conscience, uncle didn’t heartache you in vain.”

Zhu Zhanji said, “A-uncle, this is what should be done, I have grown up, naturally I have to protect A-uncle in the future, mother consort said, I only have one uncle, if A-uncle is gone, I will not have an uncle.”

Zhang Anshi hmmm’d, his heart was pleased, and he said cheerfully, “Later, I’ll take you gaga messy kill.”

Zhu Zhanji wondered, “What’s a gaga?”

Zhang Anshi said, “Later you will know, by then …… our uncle and nephew, is the world s first rabbit killer.”

Zhu Zhanji was holding a tree branch at the moment, scribbling on the ground, and didn’t seem to have much interest in it.

Immediately afterward, one by one, the sons and daughters of the honored ministers, because of their rusty riding and shooting, could not be avoided being carried out and severely reprimanded.

Dingguo Gong Xu Jingchang worst, because riding on the horse, scared face is green, and thus forgot to open the bow, we watched him on the horse at a loss for half a tea kung fu, did not see him bending the bow and arrow, it is not easy to take out the arrow, the bow is scared to fall down.

Duke Ding Guo Xu Jing Chang is the youngest, his father and Xu Hui Zu is a brother, his father Xu Zeng Shou in his early years, had been taken by Zhu Yuanzhang, appointed as a palace guards, after that, but also followed his own brother-in-law Zhu Di out of the desert, and made achievements, and later promoted to the left governor of the five military governorate.

According to reason, he is in the military ministers, has been regarded as a position of great importance, but Zhu Di Jingwu, after he heard Zhu Di rebellion, the first thing he did was to secretly pass military intelligence to Zhu Di, secretly support Zhu Di, the result was detected by the court, and ultimately was executed.

Zhu Di took the city of Nanjing, remembering the merit of this uncle, so he posthumously named him Duke of Dingguo, so that his son Xu Jingchang inherited the title.

This is where the Xu family came from with two males in one family.

This Xu Jingchang is young to inherit the title, even now, it is only fifteen or sixteen, usually, where is familiar with what bow and horse? This time to show fear, scared blind.

Straight away, Zhu Di was so angry that he called him to the front, directly picked up the horse whip, and fiercely beat him several times.

Xu Jingchang was beaten to the point of wailing, Zhu Di angrily cursed: “If your father is in heaven’s spirit, know that there is such an ungrateful son, must teach me to properly clean up you, you bastard, who will still point to you in the future?”

A few Zhu Neng on the side hurriedly pulled Zhu Di and urged, “Your Majesty, forget it, it’s still a child.”

“Just because he’s young and still not learning, he has to fight. This guy, he’s not even as good as an eight or nine year old royal grandson.” Zhu Di was furious.

Xu Jingchang then exclaimed, “My brother-in-law doesn’t know how to use a bow and horse, but he has also made achievements for the court, hasn’t he? Doesn’t His Majesty still praise my brother-in-law? Brother-in-law often says that one should use one’s brain.”

When Zhang Anshi heard it from afar, his face changed and he immediately buried his head, pretending not to hear it.

Speaking of which, the relationship between the Xu family and the Zhang family, as well as the Zhu family, was a bit of a mess.

For example, Zhu Di is Xu Jingchang’s father Xu Zengshou’s brother-in-law, and Zhang Anshi is Xu Jingchang’s brother-in-law, Zhu Di’s son Zhu Gaoqi is Zhang Anshi’s brother-in-law, to this day, Zhang Anshi has not been able to distinguish between this layer of which is related to which.

Zhu cursed, “You bastard, how dare you be stubborn.”

“Do not dare.” Xu Jingchang saw that the situation was not good, but also conceded quickly, immediately bowed down and said, “Ten thousand deaths.”

Zhu Di gasped: “circle up, not allowed to go out in March, teach people to watch him.”

Xu Jingchang, however, was as if he had been greatly pardoned and exclaimed, “Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace.”

All people are shot, so Zhu Di is very disappointed, although there are Zhu Yong, Zhang Fu, Zhang Yoking, Qiu Song, Gu Xingzu these people, are not bad, more so that he was surprised is the grandson, out of his expectations, but the vast majority of people, still deserted riding and shooting.

Tough scolded a batch, and called for a record file, or not to relieve the hatred, but also lost ha saw Zhu Di’s mind, then said, “Please your majesty shooting hunting.”

When Yiluoha opened his mouth, all the people said, “Please, Your Majesty, shoot and hunt.”

Zhu Di’s face eased a bit, also have the intention to give everyone a demonstration, at once agreed, called for people to bring the horse, sharp rolled up and down, then began to urge the warhorse to run wildly.

In the midst of the wind, around this hunting fence, bending the bow and arrow, an arrow shot out like a series of artillery.

The eunuch exclaimed excitedly, “Shoot one.”

“Shooting for two ……”

“Three ……”

“Four ……”

“……”

“Seven ……”

It was then that Zhu slowly slowed down his horse and tossed his bow and arrow.

Everyone erupted in cheers.

Zhang Anshi and Zhu Zhanji almost shouted through their throats, “Long live, long live!”

Then Zhang Anshi applauded, and Zhu Zhanji followed suit, snapping along with the applause.

Zhu Di is full of red light, the face of the color of triumph, but quickly and regretful look, said quietly: “old, old, body is not as good as before, and so I and we a few old guys old, this Jiangshan also refers to who to guard it? Into his mother ……”

Zhu Neng was also red-faced at this time because his son had made a big splash and received compliments, so he said, “Your Majesty, your children and grandchildren are blessed by your children and grandchildren.”

Zhu grunted, “Now do not work hard, still expect to have a blessing, there is a bird blessing, who was born with a blessing, the ability is not there, still expect blessing?”

Jounen grinned, happy.

He likes to listen to Zhu Di scolding other people’s sons, it should always be the time when I Zhu Neng face light, do not all say my son is stupid? Your son is smart and you are scolded.

At this time, Zhang Anshi saw that today’s roundup, was about to come to an end, so he hurriedly stood up and pulled Zhu Zhanji, “Go.”

At that moment, Zhang Anshi arrived in front of Zhu Di.

After bowing toward Zhu Di, he said, “Your Majesty, I’m going to shoot.”

Zhu Di seemed to be a bit tired and gave Zhang Anshi a smiling look, “Go on, go on, come, give Zhang Anshi my horse.”

Zhang Anshi, however, said, “Your Majesty, I don’t need to ride a horse.”

“No horseback riding?” Zhu couldn’t help but be a little disappointed.

But all the same, he hadn’t expected much from the guy, so he said, “You’re allowed to use a step bow, then.”

But then I heard Zhang Anshi say, “I don’t need a bow either, this school parade, didn’t I say that it would be a competition to see who shot more rabbits to death? I can shoot the rabbits to death.”

Zhu Di fell a little worried, this guy …… will not fool around, right?

However, at this time, in full view of the public, Zhu Di could only agree to it, so he said, “By you.”

Zhang Anshi said, “Then the minister will go.”

With that, he ran off in a huff.

Many people are looking forward to Zhang Anshi’s appearance, especially those who have been punished, the most unlucky Xu Jingchang, although he received a whip, but now he is happy.

He excitedly said to the sons and daughters around him who had been punished together, “My brother-in-law is here, my brother-in-law is here, my brother-in-law can’t even draw the bow, this is good, His Majesty won’t blame us anymore.”

But at this moment …… he saw Zhang Anshi puffing and pulling a small cannon.

Call it a cannon, and it’s really small, just two wheels, with a big tube thicker than your arm clamped on top, and two loaded shells on the side, and, most interestingly, the thing has a little wheel.”

Zhang Anshi was like a slender man at this time, ouch ouch ouch pulling and tugging at it, and when the crowd saw it, someone laughed and said, “But no cannons allowed.”

Zhang Anshi ignored them and pulled the thing to the mouth of the hunting ground, which was filled with wild animals, all driven from the nearby mountains.

Fang shot arrows, although many hares were killed, but after all, the arrows did not move much, the vast majority of wildlife is still leisurely appearance.

Zhang Anshi set up his machine gun.

After another improvement, this thing is much simpler, of course …… loaded with more bullets, hundreds of bullets loaded in advance, all in that cartridge box.

Zhang Anshi tried and began to adjust the direction of the muzzle.

Try to take aim.

Everyone looked at Zhang Anshi, confused.

Zhu Di’s face also rose with suspicion, and Zhu Neng on the side muttered, “Your Majesty, this doesn’t look like a cannon.”

Zhu nodded, but remained silent, only frowning gently and staring fixedly.

With his understanding of this Zhang Anshi fellow, he always felt that this thing Zhang Anshi took out was not simple!

Xu Jingchang on the other side, still smiling with his eyes arched up, very happy look: “My brother-in-law is going to cheat, he must want to muddle through again, everyone rest assured, such a small gun, that can not blow up a few rabbits, his majesty later to see him speculating, surely to be angry.”

The crowd all nodded and got happy.

As scummy as everyone was, there were always worse than them, and the thought of that gave everyone a feeling that they hadn’t wasted their time.

Zhu Zhanji rushed over, squatted down, looked left and right, and finally couldn’t help but say, “Uncle, what are you doing?”

“Hunting rabbits.”

Zhang Anshi is very serious about debugging.

“Does Uncle want to help?”

“Help me out later, cover my ears, I’m scared to death of scaring myself when I use this thing.”

“Oh.”

Zhang Anshi continued to seriously debug, worthy of being rubbed out by the hands of capable craftsmen, this is the true spirit of craftsmanship, this thing is very refined, after it was ready, Zhang Anshi took a deep breath and said, “Alright, I’m going to shoot, Zhanji, you have to be careful.”

Zhu Zhanji exclaimed, “Uncle, I will protect you.”

Not far away, countless wildlife were still leisurely seeking food.

They do not notice the approaching danger.

At that moment, Zhang Anshi shouted, “Zhang Anshi is coming.”

When he said that, he immediately pressed the trigger, and the …… hand cranked magazine.

When the crowd heard Zhang Anshi exclaim, their faces were all stunned.

But just then.

Suddenly …… da da da da ……

That muzzle started smoking.

And then …… the crisp da da da da da sound began to ring in everyone s ears.

The forbidden guards were startled and subconsciously began to try to surround Zhu.

Zhu kicked away a forbidden guard who was about to block his line of sight, “Get out of the way.”

Immediately following ……

Ta-da-da-da-da ……

This da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da is continuous.

The seven or eight muzzles, in turn, began to spew out flames.

Then …… countless bullets whizzed out.

The wildlife heard the commotion and were so frightened that they scattered like mad.

But it’s already too late.

Bullets don’t have eyes, but this kind of dense bullets, pouring out.

And the power is huge, everywhere is flying shrapnel, in a few moments, within the enclosure of the roundup, there are countless rabbits that have been knocked away, and there is blood and flesh flying everywhere.

An elk, shot through a thousand holes only in an instant, had no time to wail, but had fallen headlong, while the bullet pierced its body, but apparently showed no signs of stopping, and running through out, shot into the earth again, and so …… the dust flew up.

Zhu looked at it with straight eyes.

Everyone’s eyes looked on in unison, one showing incredulity.

This thing had a lot of recoil, and Zhang Anshi soon felt that his arms had gone numb.

Luckily, there’s no concept of aiming this thing, just shoot and be done with it.

Zhu Zhanji got excited, he covered Zhang Anshi’s ears and saw countless shell casings jumping out, occasionally splashing on his body, it was quite painful, but he didn’t care, only excitement in his eyes.

Ta-da-da-da ……

This machine gun shows no sign of stopping.

One by one, the magazines changed wildly under Zhang Anshi’s hand cranking, and bullets shot out from different magazines.

This terrifying sound was enough to cause the effect of a thousand birds flying away from a thousand mountains.

Unfortunately, the wildlife was surrounded by a fence and couldn’t run away, so a swarm of them gathered densely around the perimeter of that fence.

This precisely gave Zhang Anshi an opportunity, and the muzzle of this machine gun, then towards the densest place, spewed out flames.

The bullet is fired into the body of the wild animal, and in a sudden movement, it can cut off half the body of the hare.

The aftermath of this bullet, in turn, may take other approaching hares with it.

The countless wails of wildlife were muffled by the clatter of machine guns.

Zhang Anshi not only his arm has been sore and numb, the whole person has also been numb, in order to let himself insist on, mouth issued an exhilarating shouting voice: “yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah ……”

In a matter of moments, hundreds of rounds were fired.

Under the smoke and fire, the mouth of the machine gun is smoking, but because there are eight or nine barrels, so …… this barrel is smoking, this barrel can still support.

At that moment, Zhang Anshi said, “Junji, scoop up some water and chill the barrel.”

“Oh …… oh ……” responded Zhu Zhanji.

Zhang Anshi, on the other hand, began to pull out the bullet chain that had been shot off and began to replace it with a new one that had already been loaded.

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Immediately after that, it started again.

Ta-da-da-da-da-da ……

Everyone looked at Zhang Anshi in horror, as well as the machine gun that kept spewing out flames.

The wildlife began to stir again.

Countless wildlife shot flying, and countless corpses littered the landscape.

Zhang Anshi killed and called louder.

At this point, he was like a cold-faced rabbit killer.

Zhu had already sucked in a mouthful of cool air, and at this time, even he felt that his legs and stomach were a bit soft.

Zhu Neng, Xu Huizu, and Qiu Fu, several of them, also changed color, and in their eyes was a shock that could not be concealed.

The eunuch who was supposed to report the count was already paralyzed with fear.

Each of the forbidden guards did not say anything, but their eyes were glaring out.

Xu Jingchang wailed, the other teenagers, but also frustrated, at this moment, where they still have half a point to fight ‘weak’ good heart? Only feel that people are numb.

Ta-da-da-da-da ……

Click ……

The spinning wheel finally stopped spinning.

It should be stuck.

This da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da sound before it stopped.

Zhang Anshi only felt himself drenched in hot sweat, puffing and panting, though he hadn’t counted how many rabbits he had killed by now.

But …… Zhang Anshi is confident that he should be able to break the records of his predecessors, even if they are later generations, such as the record of a certain Emperor Kang who loved to kill rabbits, should have already been broken.

It is said that Kang killed three hundred and eighty-five rabbits in one day, and Zhang Anshi felt that, given time, he could kill three thousand eight hundred in one day.

And at this point ……

Silence.

The entire paddock, as silent as it could be, barely made a sound.

Only the knots of one’s throat rolled while a swallowing sound followed.

The wildlife in the paddock, has died a seven or eight, occasionally some activity can still move, now seems to be because of the desire to survive, but also lie down on the ground, eyes squinted open a slit, but the body seems to be frozen not to move, playing dead ……

In the eerie silence, Zhang Anshi said boldly, “Go and count how many have been killed.”