Since the enemy troops in the direction of Yiyang had been driven away and counterattacked Xin'an, the war in Heyin did not require this powerful brigade that made great contributions in the Yiyang War, Li Rui naturally had time to train his army. So for the next few days, he was practicing walking in the queue with his cavalry.

This queue is not allowed to walk neatly by just learning it. It requires quite strong horse control skills. At the same time, each cavalry must have a good understanding and absolutely obey orders. The brave ones cannot compete for the first place, and the cowardly ones cannot fall behind. Tens of millions of people advance and retreat together, and be integrated, so that the most powerful impact of the cavalry can be exerted. This requires a lot of training. It is definitely not an easy task to remain strict when practicing to sprint at a high speed.

In addition to training, Li Rui also improved the equipment of the cavalry.

The double stirrup has been arranged long ago. The cavalry despised this thing at first, thinking that only those with poor riding skills needed it. However, after trying it a few times, they found that this thing was very useful. It can better maintain body balance and exert more powerful strength when the horse gallops. The spurs and horseshoes also have to be arranged. These two things actually have no technical content, but they are very important. The spurs can allow the cavalry to control the horses freely when both hands are off the reins, while the horseshoes can

To protect the horse's hooves, the former can greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the cavalry, and the latter can give a war horse a better battlefield survival ability. You should know that the horse's hooves are not very hard. When running at high speed, stepping on protruding hard objects, such as stones, may cause the horse's hooves to break, and the horse will be useless. In addition, the horse's sole can also play a role similar to high heels, allowing the horse's hooves to leave the ground to avoid ground friction and water corrosion. At the same time, it can greatly increase the horse's hooves' grip ability. It can be said that there are many benefits.

So these days, the craftsmen have been busy making horseshoes and spurs. These two things are not technically high, and skilled craftsmen are very easy to make. It is estimated that it will not take long for all the horses of the tiger cavalry to wear horseshoes and all cavalry can be equipped with Spurs.

Then there are weapons and equipment.

The main combat weapons of Chinese cavalry in this era were generally spears and halberds, and several of them were used more. During the Eight Kings Rebellion, Sima Yi, the King of Changsha, tied the long halberds to the body of the war horses, tied two war horses, and equipped the cavalry with a long halberd, and rushed to Sima Ying and Sima Yong's army in groups. Of course, the way of binding the long halberds was not to face the tip of the halberd, because it was easy to pick up the soldiers who were stabbed. The war horses were physically strong and could not run even if they carried two corpses. He tied them up.

The method of long halberds is probably to put the long halberds upside down and aim the horizontal blade of the long halberds at the enemy's neck that lacks protection. As the war horses ran at high speed, the long halberds turned into extremely sharp sickles, and people threw their heads everywhere. The scene can only be described as "terror". No wonder Sima Ying, Sima Yong clearly has an absolute advantage in military strength, but was beaten again and again to lose his troops. Such a bloody scene is indeed a bit beyond their psychological ability.

However, more and more people have chosen expensive horse lances. The horse lances are not only full of force, but also have amazing lethality. The terrifying piercing ability alone is not comparable to that of a long halberd. However, this powerful weapon has a complex manufacturing process and high cost, so there is no way to equip cavalry troops in large quantities. However, Wang Fu's more than 200 people were from the Western Jin Dynasty imperial guards, and the 400 people snatched from Shi Chao were the sucker of the Bohai Shi family. Whether it was the Western Jin Dynasty court or the Bohai Shi family, they were not the ones with a shortage of money, so such expensive main combat weapons were basically one.

In addition to horse lances, everyone will also bring a long sword or a sword for later use. If the horse lance is out of hand, they can draw out the sword and continue fighting. Most people choose to use a knife because the tricks that people use most during fighting are always chopping, which is human instinct.

There is no problem with the knife, the problem is that their knife does not seem to be very suitable for cavalry combat.

At this time, whether it is the Hu people or the Jin army, the most equipped straight sword is the straight sword, that is, the ring-head sword. This sword is straight and has a small opening angle. It has a huge lethality when chopping. It can often cut off the leather armor on the Hu people with one knife, causing him to splatter blood for five steps. This weapon is fine in infantry battles, but in cavalry warfare, it is not very useful to face the more and more equipped cavalry in cavalry. If you want to chop, the cavalry who dares to hedge against them are basically wearing armor, even if it is just

Ordinary leather armor can also greatly weaken the lethality of the ring-headed sword; if you want to say straight stabs, the tip of the ring-headed sword is not suitable for piercing the armor target at all. If you stab hard, not only will it not be able to stab, but it will also slide because the tip of the knife is subject to resistance and the handle of the knife becomes a grasping blade body. If you don’t pay attention, a few fingers will come down. In addition, the straight knife has another disadvantage, that is, when you cut the opponent, the blade is straight, and it will not have the same cutting effect as the scimitar, which will affect the killing effect.

How can you retaliate against society?

The wuz knife he uses now is very good. It has a beautiful outer curve and is extremely sharp. It can cut an adult boar into two pieces in one swing. Unfortunately, to make such a scimitar not only requires very exquisite knife casting skills, but also extremely excellent steel. This is destined that this weapon can only be used as a niche and universal equipment? Then the money you have to burn is too hot.

Or, find a way to design a scimitar yourself?

After thinking about it, he still gave up. At present, the equipment of the Hu people's cavalry is far from perfect, and the existing equipment of the Tiger Cavalry is enough to cope with. Besides, the equipment of the Tiger Cavalry soldiers is all purchased at a high price, and the quality is very good. These sergeants are used to using such equipment. They rashly ask them to switch to machetes, which may not have better results, and they may be counterproductive.

He ran to the warehouse where the spoils were stored, and he picked more than 600 swords and took them back to equip the tiger cavalry. These swords were typical four-sided Han swords, with a narrow body and a blade on both sides. The total length was one meter and two left ears, and the weight was nearly 800 grams... For the Han sword, which is famous for its thinness, this is considered heavy.

"Everyone wears one," he said.

The tiger cavalry disdained this kind of weapon that looked quite gorgeous: "Captain, who else uses a sword these days? Isn't it good to use a knife?"

Li Rui frowned and asked, "What's wrong with using a sword? Is it difficult to ask you to bring a sword to the battlefield?"

The Tiger Cavalry Officer who had fought with him for several rounds with his flexible skills said: "It's okay to defend this thing for literati and poets. If you fight on the battlefield, whoever chooses it will be an idiot!"

This guy's surname is Zhuge and his name is Jun. It is said that he has a blood relationship with Zhuge Liang. It is unknown whether it is true or false. After all, Zhuge Liang's descendants are not rich, and there are no outstanding talents among his descendants. Since Zhuge Liangzhan died in Mianzhu, his family has faded out of people's sight and has never caused any trouble. Zhuge Jun originally settled in Yanzhou and has a wealthy family. He has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and he is very good at swordsmanship, bows, horses and spears, especially his sword skills, which are extremely fierce and cruel. He will see blood when he takes action. He is the number one loud figure among the tiger cavalry. Unfortunately, he met Li Rui, who was so amazing that he could play with a gun charge. He couldn't even get close to Li Rui's body for several rounds, so he could only admit defeat.

As a master of swordplay, he has a strong say in what kind of weapon to choose in a melee. His opinion is that the best weapon to use in melee is a knife. Don’t use a sword. Swords are useless. It’s okay for literati and poets to scare little thieves with it. If you really want to use it for battle on the battlefield, then you will be dead!

Li Rui pondered for a moment, but decided to speak with the facts. He asked someone to bring armor, a wooden knife and a wooden sword, and threw the wooden knife to Zhuge Jun, saying, "Put on armor, you use a knife and I use a sword, let's fight another battle to see if this sword is really useless as you said."

Two days ago, Zhuge Jun suffered a loss in the school game. He was suppressed by Li Rui. Although he gave up on his own initiative, the boss was dissatisfied. He heard that Li Rui was going to fight him again. His eyes were shiny, and he quickly put on his armor. He said while busy: "Capital, I have been very strong since I was a child. I have never had any serious attacks when I start. Don't blame me if I hurt you!"

Li Rui said: "No, if you have any ability, just use it."

Zhuge Jun grinned, assisted by the auxiliary soldiers to get on the horse, and walked out a hundred steps with his back to Li Rui, then turned his horse's head and shouted: "Captain, are you ready?"

Li Rui said, "Just come here!" He said that he kicked the horse's belly, and the war horse neighed and rushed towards Zhuge Jun. Zhuge Jun was honest and unceremonious, waving the wooden knife and rushing towards Li Rui, his eyes shining with excitement. He thought that if he compared the horse spear, he would definitely not be as good as Li Rui, but now the competition is swords, and ten Li Ruis are not his opponents!

The opportunity to avenge revenge is here!

The two horses were like two meteors, whistling over a hundred steps away, and rushed straight towards each other.

When they were about to meet, Li stood up in the stirrups, leaned forward, staring at Zhuge Jun, and the wooden sword pointed straight at the other party's chest!

At this moment, Zhuge Jun once again recalled the fear that his finger was finally pointed at the vital point by a horse spear, and he had enough martial arts but could not perform...

Almost instinctively, he also stood up from the stirrups, and the wooden knife slashed down hard on Li Rui's head!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

With two crisp sounds, wood chips flew around. Zhuge Jun's wooden knife slashed hard on Li Rui's helmet, making a loud noise, which shocked Li Rui's eyes. But Li Rui's wooden sword pierced heavily on his chest. Even through the thick armor, it made him feel heart-wrenching. He leaned back heavily and rolled down from the horse's back!
Chapter completed!