A Journey Through the Worlds of Film and Television.

Chapter 454 Arena Competition

(Pang Qiuxia)

The night of spring is short, and in the blink of an eye it is already New Year.

Since Hu Sanniang arrived at Lujiazhuang, she quickly became friends with the other women in the family.

After all, if she was alone at night, she would be very lonely and weak, with limited physical strength, so she would have to find allies and fight side by side.

Of course, after marrying into the Lu family, Lu Cheng also taught Hu Sanniang martial arts and gave her a full set of body-strengthening pills.

After that, Hu Sanniang and Ji Ruxue practiced swordsmanship and exchanged martial arts together every day, and they lived a very happy life.

Just after the Chinese New Year, Hu Sanniang, who was restless, asked Ji Ruxue to gather some maids in the house and recruit some young girls from the farm, saying that she wanted to train a female soldier to protect the safety of Lujia Village.

Lu Cheng naturally had no objection to this and let them do whatever they wanted.

After the Chinese New Year, Pei Xuan has followed Yang Zhi northward and will settle down in a northern mountain stronghold for a long time, responsible for managing the relevant financial accounts, military regulations and discipline.

In the spring of the fourth year of Zhenghe (1114 AD), Jeju Prefecture began to become lively as soon as the first month of the year came to an end.

Through publicity and invitations before and after the New Year, masters from all over Jeju Prefecture and nearby areas came to participate in the Jeju Prefecture’s military competition.

In order to attract more people, Lu Cheng asked the governor of Jeju to set up the arena in advance and set conditions. Anyone who came to participate in the arena, as long as they could lift the stone lock to test their strength, would pass the first level of the assessment and their food and accommodation would be provided by the government.

The second level is a basic combat assessment. Anyone who participates in the competition will pass as long as he can defeat the elite soldiers selected from the army.

In the end, if you can enter the top ten in the competition, you will receive corresponding rewards.

It is precisely because of this that it attracted many capable fighters to come.

Lu Cheng looked through the roster of participants in the competition, and there were some people who later joined Liangshan, including Hua Rong, the Little Li Guang, Lu Fang, the Little Wenhou, and Dong Ping, the Double-Spear General.

In fact, there were also some later Liangshan heroes in Dengzhou, Laizhou, Qingzhou and other places, such as Qin Ming, the Thunderbolt, Huang Xin, the Guardian of the Three Mountains, and Sun Li, Jie Zhen, Jie Bao and others.

Among the 108 generals on Zhongliang Mountain in the original novel, thirty or forty of them were located in Shandong.

However, at this time, many of them had already defected to Liangshan, and some had become bandits, and they did not dare to participate in the government's competition.

As for Qin Ming, he is currently serving as the commander of the Qingzhou Command and is a seventh-rank military officer. As the partner of the Qingzhou prefect, he naturally would not come all the way here to participate in the competition.

There is also Huang Xin, the guardian of Sanshan, who is also the military commander under the Qingzhou prefect.

As for the double-gun general Dong Ping, although he was also the military supervisor of Dongping Prefecture, he was not content to be an eighth-rank military officer. He wanted to take this opportunity to seek promotion, so he took the initiative to participate in this competition.

Hua Rong, Little Li Guang, is the chief of Qingfeng Village and a militia captain without rank. He is suppressed by his superiors in Qingfeng Village and also wants to make a name for himself.

As for the young Wenhou Lu Fang, he was originally from a wealthy family, and his family was engaged in the herbal medicine business. He heard that there was a big shortage of medicinal materials in Shandong, so he took most of his family's money and bought a cargo ship of medicinal materials, intending to send them to Shandong for sale. As a result, the cargo ship capsized while crossing the river, and all the medicinal materials fell into the water, and he lost all his money.

Lu Fang felt extremely ashamed and had no face to go home to see his elders. He was just about to find a mountain stronghold to become a bandit. When he heard that there was a boxing match in Jeju Prefecture, he ran over to try it out.

The Jeju government has conducted detailed investigations on those who came to participate in the competition, and only allows them to participate after confirming that their backgrounds are clean and there are no problems.

When Lu Cheng turned to the last page of the roster, he saw a familiar name, Pang Wanchun.

This man, known as "Little Yang Youji", was proficient in archery and later became a general under Fang La. When Liangshan was fighting Fang La, Pang Wanchun shot Shi Jin with one arrow, and later led archers to shoot and kill Shi Xiu, Chen Da, Yang Chun and many other Liangshan generals, with brilliant achievements.

After Pang Wanchun's name, there is another name, Pang Wanqiu, who looks like Pang Wanchun's brother, but the original book does not record that Pang Wanchun has a brother.

Of course, these are not important. Lu Cheng is still very interested in Pang Wanchun.

The combination of generals under Fang La has many similarities with the combination of generals under Liangshan. Liangshan has the Five Tiger Generals, and Fang La also has the Five Tiger Generals. Liangshan has the Eight Horsemen, and Fang La has the Eight Flying Generals of Suzhou.

Moreover, the abilities of many generals on both sides are very similar. Pang Wanchun is known as "Little Yang Youji", and his counterpart is Hua Rong, the Little Li Guang. Both of them are first-class sharpshooters and can be regarded as the top snipers of the Song Dynasty.

Now, Hua Rong and Pang Wanchun have both come to participate in the competition. It would be best if we could recruit both of them under our command.

However, I don’t know whether Pang Wanchun has defected to Fang La now.

At this time, there were still five or six years before Fang La's uprising, and it was estimated that his generals had not yet been gathered together.

Afterwards, Lu Cheng gave the order to start the competition immediately.

Since Jeju Prefecture had made adequate preparations in advance, the first two rounds of assessments were completed quickly.

After passing the first two rounds of assessments on strength and spears and sticks, there are less than fifty candidates left to participate in the competition.

The third round is about archery, which consists of two rounds: archery on foot and archery on horseback. If you are not proficient in archery, you can still use hidden weapons such as flying knives and darts.

In this round of assessment, Little Li Guang Hua Rong and Pang Wanchun undoubtedly achieved the best results, and they were even on par with each other.

After the results came out, Pang Wanchun and Hua Rong looked at each other, and a hint of fighting spirit flashed in their eyes, and they obviously wanted to have a good fight.

What surprised Lu Cheng was that the young Wenhou Lu Fang's archery skills were quite good and above the passing line.

There is also Pang Wanqiu, who is good at using nine nine-leaf flying knives. His skills are not bad, but he is still not as good as Li Ying, the Flying Eagle.

When Lu Cheng saw Pang Wanqiu, he immediately recognized that she was a girl dressed as a man. Although she was dressed in men's clothes and had smeared some dust on her face and hands, her white neck without an Adam's apple, her pierced earlobes, and her casually revealed girlish demeanor all revealed her true identity.

(Pang Qiuxia)

Immediately afterwards, Pang Wanchun, Hua Rong and five or six others performed their riding and archery skills.

Then, there was a weapons contest on the ring.

Those who can participate in the final competition all have some real kung fu skills. In order to avoid them from getting hurt, Lu Cheng specially asked them to fight with wooden sticks, wooden spears, and wooden swords. They painted red paint on the tip of the spear and the blade. Whoever could hit the enemy's vital point with the paint would be considered the winner.

The remaining twenty or thirty people finally competed in different arenas. Dong Ping, Hua Rong, Lu Fang, Pang Wanchun and others soon won in their respective arenas.

But the girl named "Pang Wanqiu" soon faced the powerful double-gun general Dong Ping. The two fought for less than 10 rounds, and the girl was defeated by Dong Ping. The opponent also discovered that she was a girl, so she jumped off the ring unwillingly.

Of course, Dong Ping did not loudly reveal the fact that Pang Wanqiu was a girl, but instead whispered it when the two sides were fighting, causing Pang Wanqiu to panic and quickly jump off the ring.

On the other side, Hua Rong and Pang Wanchun each wielded a spear, fighting back and forth, with no clear winner.

But Lu Cheng realized that Pang Wanchun was still slightly inferior in spear skills and would eventually be defeated by Hua Rong.

Sure enough, the two fought for fifty or sixty rounds, and Pang Wanchun was stabbed in the shoulder by Hua Rong and lost his combat effectiveness.

Immediately afterwards, Young Marquis Wen Lu Fang was defeated by Dong Ping, and Hua Rong and Dong Ping faced off in their final battle.

In terms of close combat, Hua Rong naturally cannot beat Dong Ping.

A ring match is about to end, and Lu Cheng is also ready to win over and assign these people in front of him...