Chapter 334 The Imperial Princess

At the gate of the courtyard, more than a dozen personal soldiers stopped Byzantine princess Ellenni. She carried a bow and arrow with her. The soldiers asked her to put her weapons at the door. Ellenni refused and the two sides had a dispute.

The soldiers were quite polite to Ellenni. The captain Cao Bao was proficient in Turkic language and bowed to her: "Your Highness, the princess, has not received the special consent of the general. No one can approach the general with weapons. This is our rule. Please forgive me."

"I heard that your general's archery skills are very good. I came to him to compete and put the bow and arrow at the door. How could I compete with him? I can't accept it."

"How do you know that I am willing to compete with you?" Li Qingan appeared at the door with a smile.

Ellenny smiled slightly and said, "It's very simple. If you can't defeat me, we won't have to talk about the possibility of military cooperation between Anxi and Byzantine."

Li Qing'an's eyes slowly narrowed, and he guessed it right. This beautiful Western princess was responsible for the military cooperation between the two sides. How could she suddenly leak? It's strange. Li Qing'an realized after a second thought that this must be the reason for the trade agreement between the two sides. The Byzantines may have set a premise that they would not discuss military cooperation without reaching a trade agreement.

Li Qingan looked at her. In the dark moonlight, she was wearing a tight suit and a pair of high leather boots, which made her beautiful body look curved, which was so beautiful. Li Qingan smiled happily and said, "Then please come in!"

The soldiers dodged to both sides, Ellenny walked into the yard with her head raised. She glanced at the environment and said proudly: "We are better at shooting at night. Archery in the dark, let's start!"

Her bow was very long. She inserted one end of the bow to the ground. She pulled the bow and shot it diagonally towards a small tree as big as a cup sixty steps away. The arrow drew a parabola, hitting the tree's body, and it was three points into the wood. Li Qing'an applauded gently and said with a smile: "Good arrow technique! There are really not many arrow techniques that can shoot you in women!"

"Among women?"

Ellenni snorted dissatisfiedly: "I am one of the three major archers of Byzantine, and I am the most proud disciple of the Byzantine Arrow Emperor. How did you humiliate me like this?"

Li Qingan smiled slightly. Just now, from the series of actions he used to shoot Ellen Nibal's arrows, arrows, bows, and shoots, it can be seen that this woman has indeed been guided by a famous teacher. Her movements are very beautiful, like flowing water, and done in one go. It can be seen that she has practiced hard work. It is indeed very good among young people of her age, but her fingering is still not sophisticated and a little immature. It is a bit of a praise for saying that she is one of the three major archers in Byzantine, just because she is a Byzantine princess.

"You should be aiming at that white tree scar! But you are one inch away from it. Do you know why?"

Ellenni's face turned red. She was aiming at the small white tree scar. But for some reason, when the arrow was shot, she couldn't find any feeling, so she turned a little bit. Although Li Qing'an told her, she refused to admit it and curled her lips and said, "Can you tell?"

"Do you know why you didn't shoot?" Li Qingan said with a smile.

Ellenni refused to admit it, but she wanted to know it in her heart, and she couldn't help but blurt out, "Why?"

"Because you are nervous, your heart is not calm enough. As an archer, you are a little tender."

Li Qingan took her bow and arrow, and turned his back to the little tree. He turned around suddenly. The moment he turned around, the arrow broke out from the string, as fast as lightning. With a "dot!", it hit the center of the white tree scar. Ellenni's eyes were stunned. Li Qingan returned the bow and arrow to her and shook his head. Although the bow was also very long, it was a single bow, and its strength was too soft and it was not satisfying.

He said to his personal soldiers: "Go! Get my bow and arrow."

A personal soldier ran away and took his bow and arrow for a moment. The giant bow was the same height as Li Qing'an. It could be seen that it would take great force to pull it open. This is also a seven-stone bow. It is one of the famous bows collected by Li Qing'an. It seems inconspicuous, but it was made by the three best bow makers in Anxi. It took three years to make the arrows, and the arrows were also iron arrows. Only such a hard bow can exert the power of the iron arrows.

Seeing that she was staring at her bow and arrow, Li Qingan's eyes were filled with surprise, so he handed the bow and arrow to her and smiled, "Do you want to try it?"

Ellenny took the bow and arrow with some dissatisfaction. Her hand sank. Only then did she realize that the arrow was actually cast from pig iron. Under the faint moonlight, the arrow was shining with a dark and green light. She hit the iron arrow. At this moment, she finally understood in her heart that her archery skills were too far apart from Li Qing'an. She couldn't even pull the bow away. She held it hard, but the giant bow, which was a little taller than her, was only halfway open, and her arms trembled. Li Qing'an secretly praised it. It was already very good for a woman to pull his bow away halfway.

He reached out his hand and smiled, "Give it to me, this bow is not for you."

Ellenni returned the bow and arrow to Li Qing'an with shame, but her curiosity in her heart defeated her shame again. She wanted to see Li Qing'an's archery. The bow reminded her of the master's giant bow, and she couldn't pull it open. Could it be that Li Qing'an could actually compete with his master?

"General, shoot an arrow!"

Li Qingan took the bow and arrow and smiled and said, "I'll shoot that scar on the tree!"

He retreated and retreated to the corner of the wall. It was already 120 steps away from the tree. In the eyes of ordinary people, under the night sky, he might not even be able to see the shadow of the tree clearly, but Li Qing'an wanted to shoot a tree scar the size of an egg on the tree. Fortunately, the scar was white. In Li Qing'an's eyes that were different from ordinary people, the scar was a small white dot.

He raised his bow flat, his arms competed with each other, and the creaking sound was heard. The bow string slowly opened. He pulled the bow like a full moon, his arms remained motionless, as if there was a huge force. Ellenni's eyes next to him suddenly widened. She was an expert. When Li Qing'an used her bow to shoot, he could not see the reputation, but when Li Qing'an used his own bow, his grandmaster-like aura was revealed. He was as stable as a mountain, his mighty aura was extremely powerful, and the sharp arrow was terrifying.

Li Qing'an narrowed his eyes slightly. At this moment, his mind was clear. All the struggle for hegemony and all the uneasiness in the house were far away from him. There was only one arrow in his heart. He felt the power of the arrow and the beauty of the power, making him extremely comfortable, as if this arrow also had life and was in touch with him.

He smiled slightly, the iron arrow broke out from the string, and the long arrow shaft drew a black shadow in the air. The arrow was not fast, but it seemed to have a thousand pounds of force, silently rushing straight to the small tree a hundred and twenty steps away. With a "click", the arrow shot in from the tree scar. The powerful force actually tore the small tree apart two feet long hole longitudinally. The tree scar was shot out a round hole, and the arrow passed through the round hole and continued to advance, nailed to the wall ten feet away.

Li Qingan let out a breath, he was very satisfied with the arrow. He hadn't shot an arrow for a long time. He thought that archery would become unfamiliar, but he didn't expect that it would shoot so perfectly, and even he himself secretly admired it.

Ellenni was stunned. Her master could not shoot such an arrow. This heavy sword had no edge and the accidental archery technique shocked her deeply. This was archery technique. She felt her insignificance. She was so excited that she couldn't suppress her excitement. She slowly knelt down. At this moment, her experience of archery technique suddenly reached a higher level.

Li Qingan walked forward, pulled out an arrow from the wall, and handed it to Ellenni, "This arrow is given to you!"

A trace of dissatisfaction with Li Qing'an in Ellenni's heart had disappeared without a trace. She had only admiration and contempt in her heart. She took the arrow respectfully and stared at Li Qing'an sincerely and said, "I hope this arrow can connect the willingness of military cooperation between Byzantine and Anxi."

Li Qing'an nodded and said, "I hope your father can have the same idea as you!"

At night, Li Qing'an had a dream, dreaming that Mingyue and Wuyi were standing in front of him at the same time and cried, both saying that they were wronged. They suddenly grabbed one of his ones and pulled them desperately like a tug of war. He broke free from them in anger, but found that he used too much force, and both of them fell to the ground and died, with blood flowing on their bodies.

Li Qingan was suddenly awakened, his heart was pounding with palpitations and sweating profusely. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and sat up. Looking out the window, a hook-like moon was still hanging in the air, and a few dark clouds floated past the moon, and the moonlight became bright and dark.

Li Qingan couldn't sleep anymore, so he turned over and sat up, put on a coat and walked to the gate. There were two personal soldiers standing outside the gate, loyally on duty for him. Li Qingan smiled at them and said, "What time is the update?"

"It's been five years old."

Li Qing'an nodded and smiled at them again, "You go and rest! I don't want to sleep anymore. There are guards outside the gate and patrols around me, so nothing will happen."

The two soldiers hesitated for a moment, bowed and retreated. The yard was quiet, and he was the only one. He stood on the steps, and a gust of wind blew towards him. There was no chill in the wind, and with a hint of spring, he was surprised to find that what was blowing was actually the southeast wind, the wind blowing from the Rehhai, with a unique warm atmosphere.

Today is the first day of the second month. In the next generation, it is already March. Early spring has come. Li Qing'an felt a sense of restlessness in his heart. This is a spring desire that has been ignited in his heart. But when he thought of the conflict between two women in his family, this desire was mixed with a hint of trouble. This desire mixed with troubles made him upset. At this time, he wanted to find a woman to vent the anger in his chest with great pain.

At this time, Li Qingan accidentally saw the tree that was shot and cracked. Ellennina's curved body seemed to appear in front of him again. The Western beauty was full of fatal temptation. Her towering breasts, slender straight and round legs, and round buttocks, he remembered the reluctant look when she left. There was a boldness full of hints in that look, which made Li Qingan's heart beat. He should have left her tonight. At this moment, Li Qingan's heart was filled with a desire to possess.

Li Qingan never fell asleep again. He lay on the bed and kept thinking about it. The sky was turning white. He had just fallen asleep in a daze. The neigh of a war horse woke him up again. At this time, a personal soldier came to report: "General, the Byzantine princess has arrived."

Li Qingan was shocked. He turned over and sat up, and asked anxiously: "When is it now?"

"It's not completely dawn yet, it's still early!"

Li Qingan breathed a sigh of relief and thought to himself: "She is so anxious to come, do you want to see her too?"

At this moment, a bold thought arose in his heart.

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Li Qingan simply washed up and walked to the yard. He saw Ellenni practicing archery on the grass. She stood eighty steps away with her back to herself. The target was the crack in the small tree last night, with five or six arrows inserted into the crack.

Li Qing'an's eyes fell on her. She was wearing a tight suit that was the same as last night. Last night was red, but today it was changed to white, but tighter, revealing her devilish figure. Li Qing'an's eyes finally fell on her toned round buttocks. He admired the ups and downs between her hips and waist when she was shooting archery, and the bold thought in his heart became even more intense.

At this time, Ellenni suddenly turned around and stared at him with a smile, as if seeing through his thoughts. Li Qingan was a little embarrassed. He coughed twice and said, "Did you come so early?"

Ellenny put away the arrow, walked slowly to him, looking at him with a hint of ambiguous gaze and said, "Why didn't you go home last night? Sleep here."

“I often live here when I’m busy with official business, which is normal.”

"Hypocritical!" Ellenni shook her head and said, "You obviously have other reasons. You have been away from home for so long and have just returned for only one day. Don't you want to be with your family?"

Li Qingan didn't want to talk about this to her, so he changed the subject and laughed: "Prepare it! We're going to set off."

"I'm ready and can leave at any time."

"Oh well!"

Li Qingan turned around and ordered his personal soldiers. The personal soldiers went out. Soon, a large carriage stopped at the gate. When Ellenny saw it was a carriage, he couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Don't you ride a horse?"

Li Qingan shook his head and said, "I have a lot of business. I can handle some official business while sitting in a carriage. Besides, we can talk about military cooperation."

Ellenny looked at him thoughtfully and smiled, "Okay! I'll ride the carriage with you."

Li Qingan cleaned up briefly. They got on the carriage, and hundreds of personal soldiers guarded the carriage. The carriage went south. The place Li Qingan was going to was frozen city, about 300 miles south of Saiye, located in the south of Rehai. It was originally a small town affiliated to Saiye, but now it is the Anxi Army's crossbow soldiers training base. Li Qingan wanted to take Ellenni to see the powerful Anxi Army's crossbow soldiers.

The carriage was walking very slowly, and Li Qing'an sat in the carriage to review two urgent documents in the river. This was just delivered. Bukhara had another bloody conflict between the Zoroastrians and Islamic Shiites, killing more than a hundred people. This is indeed a headache. The root cause is that after the Zoroastrian temple of Bukhara was demolished by Dashi, a huge mosque was built because the leader of the Alipai was buried there, making it the Is in the river.

Lan Holy Land, but its original site is also a holy land of Zoroastrianism. The holy lands of the two religions overlap. In order to compete for this holy land, it has become the root cause of bloody conflict between the two factions. Now Li Fei Yuanli proposes to forcibly demolish the mosque and restore the temple, but Li Qing'an disagrees. Now that the Hezhong area is unstable, excessive means will trigger the Shiite uprising, giving Dashi an opportunity to take advantage of it. He then slammed four words in the report, "maintain the status quo!"

Ellenni, who was sitting opposite Li Qing'an, was a little bored. She was half lying on the soft mattress and stared at Li Qing'an's every move with interest. She had a good impression of Li Qing'an. Yesterday morning, Li Qing'an's teasing of her angered her. If it were someone else, she would have had a long time ago, but Li Qing'an had a good impression of her. Although she was annoyed, she decided to "forgive" him. Last night's archery comparison, Li Qing'an's superb archery technique conquered her, admiration, and admiration turned into a kind of admiration in the heart of a young woman, which made her sleepless all night. The agile figure flashed in his mind, so that she came before dawn.

At this time, her eyes fell on a crossbow above Li Qing'an's head. She looked at the crossbow curiously, but she had never seen it before.

After Li Qingan finished the report, he saw Ellenni's eyes staring at his head, so he put down his pen and took off the crossbow from the hanging wall. This was a standard Tang crossbow with exquisite workmanship and hung it on the carriage as an ornament. He handed the crossbow to Ellenni and smiled: "I heard that the Byzantines do not use such weapons?"

Ellenny shook his head and said, "I feel like a bow, but I really haven't seen it."

In fact, military crossbows appeared in Europe during the Western Han Dynasty, and later lost again and did not appear again until a thousand years later. Therefore, it is reasonable that Ellenni had never seen a crossbow. This is also one of the reasons why Li Qing'an took her to see the crossbow army.

He knew that after several battles between the Anxi Army and Dashi, several advanced weapons of the Tang Dynasty would inevitably be transmitted to Dashi, including crossbows. He had already obtained news from the river that Gao Xianzhi had 300 crossbowmen among the soldiers captured in Tocharo. Dashi had already obtained crossbow arrows in their hands. This is why Mansour came to the Tang Dynasty to obtain more advanced crossbow making techniques. In fact, even if he could not get them, they could imitate this matter. Li Qing'an thought about this for a long time. He knew that the panic caused by crossbows in Europe in history. If the Arabs were given sharp crossbows, it would not only break the balance of power in the West, but also make Arabs stronger in the conquest of Europe, and turn around to threaten the security of the East. Therefore, Li Qing'an considered whether the eliminated old crossbows should be sold to Byzantium to allow them to compete with Dashi, which is also conducive to achieving military cooperation between them.

Li Qingan handed the crossbow to the string in front of Ellenny, handed it to her, and smiled and said, "You try it!"

"But I can't use it." Ellenni took the crossbow and said in confusion.

"Come on! I'll teach you."

Li Qingan came behind her, held her arm with one hand, and asked her to hold the crossbow, "Yes, that's it, raise your head and raise your chest!"

But his hand slid to her waist and gently pressed her waist, "You must straighten your waist, this is very important."

He pressed her buttocks with his palm again, "It's going to be straightened here too."

The amazing elasticity on her hip made him feel reluctant to let go, but he still let go reluctantly, holding her hands with both hands. He almost half held her in his arms, whispered in her ear, holding her hand with her index finger, bent into the hanging knife, and whispered in her ear: "Yes! Hold it down and listen to my order."
Chapter completed!