"good!"

"Practice like this this afternoon. You don't need to shoot too many, just thirty or fifty arrows will do!"

"Uh-huh!"

Li Jue's luck ran out after the first arrow; he missed three times in a row, and only managed to hit the straw man's head on the fourth attempt.

This shows that his first arrow hit the target with a large element of luck.

However, Li Shimin still watched with great interest, because these were situations that beginners often encountered when learning archery.

Even seasoned archers can occasionally make mistakes in judgment.

Therefore, the only way to become a sharpshooter is through constant practice, making archery an instinctive reaction, and achieving perfect accuracy.

On the first day Li Shimin taught his eldest grandson archery, his aim was to cultivate his interest in the art, not to immediately train him into a master archer.

He himself was one of the top archers in the Tang Dynasty, and he knew all too well how difficult it was to train a master archer. Even if Li Jue was exceptionally talented, it would still take at least three to five years.

To become a sharpshooter, you not only need to shoot accurately, but also shoot far and fast...

To shoot far, you must use a powerful bow. To shoot fast, you must have explosive power.

Neither of these two things is something that eight-year-old Sun can do. He must be an adult and his bones will be fully formed before he can be trained!

Seeing that his grandson had shot more than a dozen arrows and was sweating profusely, Li Shimin quickly called him aside.

"Take a break first!"

"Uncle Li, I'm not tired!"

Didn't you hear what I said?

Seeing that Old Li was about to get angry, Li Jue immediately put away his bow and arrows and sat down next to Old Li.

"I'm letting you rest for your own good. You're in the middle of it all right now, not conserving your energy when you're shooting arrows. You'll know how uncomfortable it is when you wake up tomorrow after you take a nap!"

"Your arms will be sore by then, you'll be grimacing just from lifting one arm, hehehe!"

"Oh oh oh..."

Seeing the disappointment written all over his grandson's face, Li Shimin immediately sat down on a stool and explained the finger techniques for archery to him.

"There are two methods for controlling the string. One is to overlap the little finger with the ring finger, press the thumb with the middle finger, and hold the string vertically. This is the Chinese method."

"Bend your thumb and press your index finger against the hook finger; this is the Hu method."

"Apart from these two, all other finger techniques are inferior and not worth learning."

Li Jue had always thought that archery was simply about shooting arrows with a bow, but he never imagined there were so many intricacies involved. He immediately asked with anticipation in his eyes.

"Uncle Li, which is better, Chinese law or Hu law?"

Which is better?

Li Shimin pondered for a moment and then spoke.

"It's impossible to say which is better; each has its advantages and disadvantages."

"The Hu method requires less effort, which is advantageous for shooting arrows on horseback. In contrast, the Chinese method requires more effort, but the arrows travel farther, making it more suitable for infantry training."

"Oh oh oh..."

"Uncle Li, you know so much! I never imagined that you could explain so much about just the action of shooting an arrow!"

When Li Shimin heard his grandson praising him so highly, he immediately grinned and chuckled foolishly.

This is a compliment from the eldest grandson! It's more satisfying than all the officials in the court flattering him! Hehehe!

"Little one, this is just the beginning. There's still a lot more to learn in archery!"

"There are more than a dozen different actions involved in stringing a bow..."

At this point, Li Shimin immediately removed the bowstring from his hand and showed off his bow-stringing skills in front of Li Jue.

He tucked the bow between his legs, then stepped forward with one leg, standing there diagonally. With his right hand, he twisted the other end of the bow and re-hung the bowstring in the blink of an eye.

This set of fluid movements completely stunned Li Jue. He never expected that simply stringing a bow could be so cool!

"Uncle Li is so handsome!"

"Uncle Li, what's the name of that movement you just made when you hung the string? Could you teach me?"

"This..."

"This is a way of looking back at the moon, a way of nocking a longbow!"