"Your humble servant Li Rui pays his respects to the Emperor!" Li Rui walked to the platform and stood up straight. He cupped his fists and said solemnly.
"No need for formalities!" Yang Guang moved his body forward and said with a smile.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Li Rui stood up straight.
"He is indeed extraordinary!" Yang Guang smiled and said," I heard that your archery is very accurate. Can you perform for me and my beloved ministers?"”
"Not good!" Li Rui said loudly.
This 'not good' immediately caused a wave of exclamations. Wasn't this kid too bold? He actually defied the Emperor? Didn't he know that he would lose his head? Li Yuan, who was standing at the side, was also sweating. He secretly regretted not teaching Li Rui the etiquette of meeting the emperor beforehand.
Yang Guang frowned slightly, but he still had a smile on his face and asked,""Why not? Am I not qualified to see you shoot arrows?”
These words were very serious, and the others were already scared stiff. Anyway, Li Yuan could no longer stand up. Although he was wearing armor, he still knelt down with a plop and kowtowed repeatedly."Your Majesty. Li Rui was born in poverty and did not understand etiquette. Please consider his ignorance and forgive his sin of disobeying the etiquette before the king.”
Yang Guang ignored Li Yuan's apology and continued to stare at Li Rui, waiting for him to give him a satisfactory answer.
"My arrows are used to kill the enemy, not to perform," Li Rui said unhurriedly.”
"Good, you have ambition!" Yang Guang laughed instead of getting angry." You have to have this spirit." Since that's the case, I won't let you perform. I'll wait for you to kill the enemies on the battlefield.”
As they were talking, an eagle's cry suddenly sounded. Everyone looked up and saw a white eagle soaring in the sky.
"This flat-furred beast is strange." Li Rui felt a trace of vigilance in his heart for no reason, because he felt that the eagle was looking at him.
Yang Guang also put up a shade in his hand and looked up. Duan Wenzhen, who was beside him, went up and said,"Your Majesty, that's no ordinary eagle. It's a gyrfalcon.”
"gyrfalcon?" Yang Guang asked.
"Out of Liaodong, the most handsome one is called Hai Dong Qing.”Duan Wenzhen said," The gyrfalcon's vision can detect rabbits in the grass dozens of miles away from the sky, so it's most suitable for scouting purposes. This gyrfalcon is only circling above our army, so it's probably being raised for scouting purposes.”
"Shoot it down!" Yang Guang's expression darkened as he ordered in a deep voice.
With the Emperor's order, the people below immediately took action. Those who thought that their archery skills were not bad drew their bows and shot upwards. However, the gyrfalcon flew extremely high. It was difficult to even hit it, let alone hit it. After a while, not a single arrow touched the gyrfalcon.
Yang Guang's face was ashen. He had millions of troops under his command, yet he couldn't even take care of a feathered beast. Wasn't that too embarrassing?
Just as he was fuming, the gyrfalcon suddenly swooped down and pounced on Yang Guang with the force of a thunderbolt. Its pair of iron claws seemed to be able to shatter steel, and its huge beak could pierce through three layers of armor. If it really pounced on Yang Guang, then the Emperor of Great Sui would probably die before he could even finish the battle.
Seeing this, the guards beside Yang Guang hurriedly fired their arrows, but the gyrfalcon only flapped its wings and deflected all the arrows. Its momentum dived down without slowing down, and it was about to pounce on Yang Guang.
Right at this moment, the sharp sound of the air being torn apart could be heard. The gyrfalcon let out a miserable shriek, and the direction of its attack suddenly changed. It suddenly rose higher and higher, and higher and higher. Then, its wings suddenly flapped, and its entire body fell from the clouds.
The gyrfalcon fell to the ground, then wobbled as it leaped into the air, then wobbled as it fell to the ground. As if he was drunk, he flew up and fell again. Finally, it no longer had the strength to raise its wings. It raised its head and let out a desolate cry that echoed throughout the drill ground.
"Tsk!" The cries of the eagles were endless. The overlord of the sky could not believe that someone had shot it after it spread its wings.
"Li Rui! It's Li Rui!" The warrior couldn't care less about the Emperor and shouted Li Rui's name loudly. At this time, Li Rui still maintained the posture of raising his bow.
Li Rui wasn't deliberately trying to be cool, but he had a very strong feeling that the gyrfalcon wasn't a simple feathered beast, but rather, it was alive. This wasn't right. The gyrfalcon was a living creature. It was as if someone was attached to it.
Li Rui didn't know why he had such a ridiculous idea, but he had a strong feeling.
At the same time, in the city lord's mansion of Liaodong City, a white-bearded old man wearing strange clothes suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground.
City Lord Yizhi Wende hurriedly went forward and hugged the white-bearded old man, asking with concern,"Great Shaman, what's wrong?"
The white-bearded old man opened his eyes and said with difficulty,""They have condor archers, real condor archers!”
Yizhi Wende's face instantly paled. He understood what had happened. There were only a few shamans in Korea who could possess gyrfalcons, and there were even fewer gyrfalcons that could be possessed by shamans. Such gyrfalcons could be said to be made of steel and iron, and they were not afraid of arrows at all. It was not an auspicious sign that someone in the Sui army could shoot a gyrfalcon controlled by the Great Shaman to death.
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