The water and grass are plentiful, and thousands of horses are galloping. This is what Bailang saw when he drove his mule cart to the Pegasus Ranch. The herdsmen on horseback drove the horses, and it looked like they were outside the Great Wall - but this place is actually not far from Xiangyang. It's not just that.
There are tens of thousands of horses in the racecourse, and even the four gangsters who are hostile to the ranch have tens of thousands of horse thieves combined.
At this time, Bailang was about to complain again, "Does the guy who 'created' this world have any idea about cavalry? He must have never seen what tens of thousands of cavalry look like, right? This is a distance of ten people."
A queue of several miles, just the various daily supplies for the horses and cavalry is a huge number - what kind of horse thieves can gather tens of thousands? With this number, they can directly sell themselves to those big forces and become the founding heroes!"
The author has no concept of numbers, engineering, or military. This is normal. Otherwise, how could he see the ten-foot-high city wall? The author has no concept of geography. As for the 400-millimeter precipitation line, it definitely belongs to him.
A tall thing that I have never heard of. Bailang muttered this while driving the mule cart to the inn used to receive guests at Pegasus Ranch.
For the Northern and Southern Dynasties, which have been unified for many years, and later the Sui Dynasty, a unified dynasty, there was actually a commercial power with tens of thousands of war horses. At this moment, Bai Lang could only forcefully think that this was normal - he could not follow "
The author's "war setting". It is precisely because Pegasus Ranch is almost the only place for military horses for those forces that are causing trouble in the Central Plains and even the south, so there is an endless stream of people coming to buy military horses to receive these horse dealers.
The inn can almost be called a small town.
Bailang is very, very inconspicuous among them - there are no independent gangs of horse dealers, and those big forces who come to buy horses will send out hundreds or even thousands of people at once. He came alone - no, he brought someone with him.
It is indeed rare for maids to come. What Bailang still needs is retail rather than wholesale - that is to buy a BMW. You have to be confident in your own strength before you bring a maid to buy it alone. You are not afraid of losing your head on both sides of the road.
Are you throwing it away too?
Bailang is not afraid. Buying a BMW doesn't seem too outrageous given the current situation. If it were the Song Dynasty, a real BMW would probably have to bleed a lot. However, it was the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and there should be more horses in the world, so there were many choices.
There is also a lot of room for improvement - the bloodline degradation of the horses brought from the Western Regions has not yet begun.
"But we still need to buy weapons and armor first." Bailang has money in his pocket and money in his car, so he probably can buy a complete outfit. At this time, the war in the Northern and Southern Dynasties had just passed, and the Sui Dynasty had unified the world for more than 20 years.
At this time, the world was in chaos again. Therefore, although the control of weapons had clear laws in the Sui Dynasty, it was no longer in effect.
There are people selling weapons and armors at Pegasus Ranch, but Bai Lang knows that the gang that sells the most and best weapons in the world is the Yin Queen's Daughter's gang. Of course, the name seems to be from Ryukyu - basically it's almost a joke. Even if it is.
In this way, the weapons shop here sells a lot of weapons, from horses to armor, shields, and bows and crossbows.
There is even a high-priced Mingguang Armor in the armor, but it is not easy to display this outside. "Is there chain armor? But the price is really expensive!" This chain armor seems to have been brought for sale by merchants from the Western Regions, and the price is two levels higher.
The armor was average. Bailang chose the leather armor. Anyway, he had practiced the golden bell all over his body. The armor was just an extra layer of insurance, and he had to consider whether the horse could bear it.
Pegasus Ranch actually does not sell any equipment - if there were any equipment, no one in the court would be able to tolerate such a businessman. Bai Lang could only ask the blacksmith to customize the weapons for him - the pattern Bai Lang gave to the blacksmith
It's a pair of iron divination halberds.
There are very few people using this kind of weapon nowadays, and the equipment of this weapon has basically been canceled in the serious army. Bai Lang asked the blacksmith to make a divination halberd that is not assembled separately, but a weapon that is formed in one piece and has an enlarged gun tip.
, the gun blade is sharpened at both ends like a dagger, and the chisel blade is also sharpened at both sides for pecking, pushing, and hooking. Below the gun is a steel sleeve to prevent the opponent from cutting off the pole.
Such a divination halberd weighs about twenty kilograms, plus the barrel and hammer, it is probably almost thirty kilograms. It can be regarded as a heavy weapon for immediate use. And Bai Lang also asked the blacksmith to make two iron maces, three feet and six inches.
It is long, four-sided with a cone, and as thick as an egg. After giving the deposit, the blacksmith started forging it.
To choose a horse, you have to follow the steward to see it. The wholesale and retail places are completely different. Those outstanding BMWs will be placed in a separate place for the really rich people to choose slowly. Bai Lang also carried Wei Zhen with his hands behind his back.
Zhen slowly followed the steward who received him to see the horse - the gold and silver had been exposed beforehand, otherwise she would not have been qualified to see the horse.
"They really all have good war horses." Bai Lang flicked his tongue and made a beautiful flicking sound to express his admiration. Regarding horses, he had read some information about famous modern horse racing, and he also knew a thing or two about traditional war horses. The horses here
Although it is not as majestic as those carefully selected horse breeds in Europe after the 18th century, it is still very good in this era. The Tang Sancai horses that are common in later generations are artistically exaggerated, but the current horses are already very good.
Okay - it's a bit more majestic than the war horse Bai Lang rode in the Ming Dynasty, at least a few inches taller.
Horses' coat colors are mostly cyan, black and brown, and some have spots and patterns. Bai Lang has no particular preference for this. "It's not necessary to travel thousands of miles a day. It's true that you need a strong physique and good endurance." Bai Lang is still prepared to prepare for his own.
The horse should be equipped with a leather armor that can at least cover the horse's neck and front half to avoid being injured by stray arrows.
According to a casual estimate, just buying these things would cost the money for a house - so it is true to say that in the past, the good family members who could prepare their own horses and weapons were the Yulin Lang and Hu Benlang. By extension, they can protect themselves.
It is true that the army of the ancient dynasty, which was composed of yeoman farmers and children of small landowners who were equipped with weapons and joined the army, was a first-class strong army. After the collapse of the agrarian policy, the combat effectiveness of the army was also ruined.
What Bailang bought was a large green horse with rain-like patterns. After he said a few words to the steward and presented him with a small ingot of silver, the steward also secretly called a boy, "Bring this
Sir, go take a look..." This means asking someone to take him to fit the horse armor. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, especially the Northern Dynasties, this situation lasted for more than a hundred years. Under the government's military system, they prepared their own pommel and horse weapons. Normally,
In order to train during the off-season, during the war, the military government issued an order and ordered the people to serve as soldiers. This is just the beginning of the Northern Dynasties. This kind of thing is rare in the Southern Dynasties.
Bai Lang can be regarded as buying horses, saddles, armor and weapons, but this guy is mumbling poems from Mulan. Wei Zhenzhen followed behind and kept looking at Bai Lang.