Under the attention of Zhou Yafu and other generals.````
Liu Che smiled and clapped his hands, and a man led a horse and walked over from a distance.
"A horse?" Zhou Yafu and others looked at each other.
They truly saw that there was nothing else around the man except the horse.
Even that horse is a pretty ordinary horse.
"Is this a divine weapon?" Zhou Yafu couldn't help but feel confused.
No matter from which aspect, this horse and that man are ordinary and cannot be more ordinary.
Where does it look like an artifact?
But Liu Che chuckled and said, "Lieutenant, please look carefully at the horse's hooves!"
Only then did Zhou Yafu and others notice that there seemed to be an iron-like object wrapped around the four hooves of the horse.
"Ning Cheng..." Liu Che said to the man holding the horse: "Get on the horse and run around to see!"
"Nuo!" Ning Cheng heard the words and bowed to the emperor, prince and generals in the distance. Then he got on his horse and waved his whip, click click click! The brisk hoofbeats of the horse rang.
The war horse, which was just an ordinary horse, burst out with strong sprinting force in an instant. Like a gust of wind, it ran around the field. Even in some places with sand, gravel and rubble, it was as smooth as grass.
This immediately caused Zhou Yafu and others to widen their eyes and look at all this in stunned silence.
In fact, all this is a revolutionary change!
Every general knows that the potential of cavalry is very great. However, there are also many restrictions that restrict cavalry.
For example, in the early days, when there were no stirrups and saddles, cavalry had no combat effectiveness at all. At that time, chariot riding was the mainstream and kingly way.
The emergence of stirrups and saddles at the end of the Warring States Period liberated the hands of the cavalry, allowing the cavalry to fight on horseback and shoot each other with crossbows. This allowed the cavalry to replace the chariot soldiers.
However, there are still many restrictions on cavalry.
For example, the cavalry needs a battlefield suitable for its movement. Otherwise, once the hoof of the war horse is injured and infected, it will be equivalent to scrapping a valuable war horse worth tens of thousands of dollars that takes four to five years to train and breed.
Therefore, when fighting in the Central Plains, the cavalry usually does not dare to maneuver on a large scale and always moves together with the infantry. Usually, most of the cavalry lead their horses and serve them like an uncle, for fear of bumping into each other.
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Only when there is a battle, he will ride his horse and sprint.
Even in the Great Wall area in the north, the Huns had an almost endless source of war horses. After they broke through the barrier, they basically dismounted and walked, and rarely maneuvered like they did on the grassland.
But now, the iron hooves on the horses that Ning Cheng rides are covered with iron. Anyone who is a soldier knows that this will completely change the way cavalry fights.
With this thing, the cavalry can be regarded as a real clutch weapon and can maximize its mobility!
even……
Zhou Yafu took a deep breath.
He knew that once this thing came out, many ideas that were previously regarded as fantasy and deviant would have room to be realized.
For example, he once fantasized about putting an iron shell on the cavalry, turning them into heavy armored cavalry that charged into battle with heavy armor.
Such an iron shell that is invulnerable to water and fire is enough to become a pioneer on the battlefield, crushing all military formations and scattering all enemies blocking the way.
When he came up with this idea, he enthusiastically told his father, but he was mercilessly criticized as an unrealistic fantasy.
The reason is that there are two prerequisites for the realization of this idea.
First, we need to find a war horse that can carry human armor. There are not many war horses that can carry such a weight, but each one is a BMW worth thousands of gold!
Second, even if there is a capable war horse, such a heavy burden will make the already fragile horse hooves even more fragile. It is fine on soft grass, but once it goes to other places, it will immediately become immobile.
target.
Instead of doing this, it is better to develop similar heavy armored infantry!
Although they are still unable to move, at least the heavy armored infantry can play a greater role in defense!
However, what he saw in front of him made Zhou Yafu regain his wild dream when he was young and frivolous - to create a cavalry that could crush the enemy like an iron wall.
As for the current situation, Zhou Yafu knew what this small change would lead to.
That is, as long as there are enough iron horse traps - Zhou Yafu doesn't know what that thing is called yet, so he will call it that for now.
Then, the main cavalry in his 100,000-strong army can arrive in Liang one or two days ahead of schedule.
In such a critical moment, if the reinforcements can arrive on the battlefield one day earlier, the role played by them is undoubtedly undoubted. At the very least, it can greatly boost the morale of Liang's troops and even change the situation on the entire battlefield!
More importantly, as long as he has enough of that thing, his cavalry can safely and boldly intersperse and fight, and can even appear in places where the enemy does not expect.
"It is indeed a divine weapon!" Zhou Yafu took a deep breath and said to Liu Che, "I wonder how many of these we have in our family now?"
Liu Che laughed twice and said: "Actually, in the middle of August last year, the lonely ministers Ning Cheng and Zhang Tang had already preliminarily worked out this thing, but there were still some technical problems that had not been solved at that time, so
No mass production!”
Liu Che has been paying attention to horseshoes since he was reborn.
After the examination and with enough manpower, he immediately set up a project and handed it over to Ning Cheng.
Even during those days in Hedong, Liu Che never relaxed his supervision of this project.
By mid-August, the first pair of horseshoes ready for actual use was produced.
However, there were still some technical problems at the time, such as structural and design defects, which prevented mass production.
Until the beginning of last month, Liu Che seized the Du family and several other merchant families. In addition to wealth and land, the biggest benefit Liu Che received were hundreds of craftsmen.
With the addition of these experienced craftsmen, the horseshoe project matured rapidly.
To date, one thousand sets of horseshoes have been cast.
Enough to arm a light cavalry capable of lightning strikes!
Originally, Liu Che thought that King Wu Liu Bi would wait until the first month of the year to raise troops like in his previous life. Therefore, he did not urge him too hastily. In order to keep it secret, he did not even transfer the craftsmen of the Shaofu.
Pity!
Therefore, Liu Che was also very ashamed. He lowered his head and sighed: "Due to lack of time and craftsmen, only one thousand sets have been made so far... However, Gu believes that in the next three days, the Shaofu should be able to urgently produce about three sets.
Thousands of sets will be made, and then sent to the front line with the baggage. I believe that when the Taiwei arrives in Suiyang, he will have a usable cavalry!"
"One thousand sets? It's a little short..." Zhou Yafu regretted, but then he said: "But it also helped me a lot. Please send the one thousand sets immediately..."
Liu Che smiled and said: "I have already prepared it!"
"At this moment, the carriage carrying horseshoes is already outside the military camp!"
"Oh, this thing turns out to be called a horseshoe..." Zhou Yafu praised: "What a good name! It's very appropriate!" (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!
ps: I went to get a doctor tonight. I got an injection. The medicine affects my brain and makes me very inflexible. I have only written a chapter from ten o'clock until now. What a tragedy.
I will definitely make up for what I owe yesterday and today~ tomorrow and the day after tomorrow~
Tomorrow and the next two days, each day will be 1w+
