Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 365 The sound of horses trampling into the valley

In later generations, Fei Qian was also limited to the concept spread on the Internet. He believed that in the Three Kingdoms period, there were no such two big killers as Takahashi saddle and double stirrups, and there was no such thing as a horseshoe that could last forever. of.

  I used to think that if in the Han Dynasty, a group of cavalry was collected, and then these cavalry were given these guys, then they would be invincible all over the world...

  But when it came to the Han Dynasty, Fei Qian found that these things had already appeared in this era. Although they were not in a very complete and complete form like those of later generations, they obviously had a prototype.

  Stirrups, the Han people mostly use rope wood, and the Hu people mostly use leather ropes, but there are no iron ones. The reason is simple, iron is heavier and more expensive than any wooden leather rope...

   As for single stirrups and double stirrups, hehe, ancient people were much smarter than modern people imagined.

The Hu people not only have stirrups, but also have many thick leather ropes on the belly of the Hu people to fix the saddle. The "Thirty" structure formed by these leathers is used to fix the body. This is also the secret of many Hu people's hiding in Mali.

  As for the Han people, most of them used stirrups made of rope and wooden sticks, and some even had only rope sets without wooden sticks. However, double stirrups had already appeared.

The prototype of this stirrup had been used on a large scale as early as the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Since Emperor Wu, the status of cavalry has further risen, and cavalry has gradually changed from an auxiliary scouting unit to a main combat force. Going to a battlefield thousands of miles away to fight, this kind of long-distance long-distance combat, if there is no stirrup, only rely on the cavalry's legs to clamp the horse's back, even if all of them are rough-skinned and thick-skinned, the physical strength of the cavalry The consumption is also quite huge, and it is difficult to keep from falling behind, let alone be able to fight.

  The same is true for the saddle. Although it is not a complete Takahashi saddle, there is already a depression in the saddle, which can provide part of the front and rear strength support, but this depression has not yet reached the high level of later generations.

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There are only wooden ones, not horseshoe-shaped, but simply like a clog made for a horse, with four small holes punched on it, and then four holes are pierced on the horse's shoe, and it is good to tie it on. "...

   Moreover, in the Bingzhou area where Fei Qian is currently located, most of the roads are flat, and there are very few rough stone roads, so the horse iron palm has not yet become a necessary equipment.

   As for the future...

  I'll talk about it later.

  The horse steered forward slowly, walked forward alone for a short distance, and then did not look back, but raised the spear in his right hand.

  Ma Yan shouted loudly: "Bingzhou veterans, line up!"

  A soldier drove his horse up behind Mayan, and responded loudly: "Wuyuan He Yinzhang!"

   "Shuofang Dachengchang!"

   "Lee in the cloud!"

  …

Without too many words, in such a simple response, these Bingzhou veterans gradually stood up from the team, shouted their hometown names, and lined up behind Ma Yan, as if they were calling With the names of their loved ones...

  They were calm, as if what was about to be carried out was not a fight, but a journey, with a little ease and freedom.

  They are silent, like hard stones. Although there are not very many people, they are like a thick stone wall.

  They silently tied the rope behind the ring head knife knife ring to their wrists, and then waited quietly, quietly looking at the figure standing in front of them, that body standing upright like a mountain...

  Ma Yan pressed down the spear he held high, and rushed out first!

   No slogans, because they no longer need any slogans attached to motivate;

   There are no drums, because the sound of their hooves is the most shocking drum.

  The wind is howling.

  The horse is neighing.

  They were silent, like a mudslide falling from the top of a mountain. Although there was no huge and incomparable sound, they had the bearing and strength to swallow everything...

The two sides confront each other, and there is only one chance to shoot arrows. The arrows shot by the bows of the Huns in a panic are sparse, and they are subconsciously shooting at Ma Yan. Basically it didn't have much effect.

Ma Yan felt the wind blowing across his face, felt the blood churning in his body, looked at the loose formation of the Huns rushing forward in a panic, showed a contemptuous smile, and adjusted the direction of the horse slightly, like Like a sharp cone, it pierced in fiercely!

  A Hun on the right screamed strangely, and before he could turn around and insert the bow in his hand, he threw it at Mayan so that he could free his hand to draw his sword...

  A Hun on the left raised his saber high, ready to strike it down when the two horses crossed each other...

With a shake of his spear, Mayan changed the direction of the bow thrown by the Huns, and hit the face of a Hun on the left with a "slap", knocking him back on the spot and falling off his horse; Yan Shun picked up the spear, and the Hun knife on the right was only half drawn out, and the point of the spear had already been slanted across the neck, spraying out a cloud of blood, and fell off the horse slumped.

Mayan is like the sharpest point of the awl, and the spear in his hand is pointed at the sharpest point of the point. The loose formation of the Huns is like thick layers. Although the cloth is trying to block it as much as possible, it is of no avail.

After Fei Qian came to Beiqu, he equipped these former veterans with the best equipment, replaced all the original leather armor with fine iron armor, added arm guards and pockets, and the protection was greatly improved strengthening.

The iron sheets of the Iron Zhajia cover each other, and they are made of high-quality materials, which have a certain degree of toughness and strength. In this era, especially in front of the soldiers of the Huns, it is a kind of bare|naked|naked metallurgical technology. The material on it is rolled.

The sporadic arrows shot by the Xiongnu bounced off the iron armor, bringing up sparks and falling into the dust; Sound, staggered to one side; good equipment makes Bingzhou old soldiers more and more courageous, but makes the Huns more and more discouraged...

The Bingzhou old soldier was like a torrent, following behind Ma Yan, following Ma Yan's back, constantly tearing up the formation of the Huns, expanding the results of the battle, like a sharp cone, and like a sharp knife. The Xiongnu stabbed blood dripping with blood!

  The sound of horseshoes breaking the valley.

  The veterans of Bingzhou fought more and more bravely. Although they were not as many as the Huns in number, they were fighting against the Huns under the leadership of Mayan!

   Fei Qian looked at it, and a sense of pride rose spontaneously in his heart!

   This is the veteran of Bingzhou!

   This is the Han army cavalry!

   This is the iron cavalry of the Han family who ran across the Yinshan Mountains in the Han Dynasty and beat the Huns to cry for their father and mother!

   "In the spring of the fifth year of Yuanshuo, the chariot and cavalry general Wei Qing of the Han Dynasty sent 30,000 riders out of Gaoque"

   "General Hussars Qubing sent Wanqi out of Longxi, crossed Yanzhi Mountain for more than a thousand miles, and attacked the Xiongnu"

   "In the spring of the fourth year of Yuanshou, General Qing and General Hussars were ordered to go out of illness and dispatch 50,000 horses each."

   Cavalry has become the main combat force, and they can run for long distances, which is unimaginable without stirrups and saddles...

   "It is feasible to teach the envoys of Jin to make horseshoes with wood, wood with four holes, horseshoes with four holes, and camel's hooves wrapped with yak skin."

   This is the prototype of the Horse Horse Iron Palm...

   In addition, these saddles and stirrups are not top-secret things. There are saddles and stirrups for women riding horses in "The Large Mural Tomb of the Western Han Dynasty Existing in the Southern Suburbs". If you are interested, you can pick up Du Niang's clothes by yourself...

   PS: The ancients didn’t pay much attention to these inventions, and the historians were even too lazy to memorize them. It would be more meaningful to save some ink and record how many women the emperor slept with today...

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