Bai Yuqi said strangely: "Why is there only one stirrup in this one?"

Yu Chi Baolin was stunned for a moment, and said honestly: "The disciple's riding skills are acceptable, so he doesn't use double stirrups like a woman......"

Bai Yuqi twitched the corners of his mouth speechlessly, is the joint use of double stirrups and single stirrups used to show the difference between fine riding skills?

"Isn't it more stable and better to ride with double stirrups?"

Bai Yuqi said strangely: "When you go to war, you don't still use a single stirrup, right?

Yu Chi Baolin was a little confused: "The stirrup is only convenient for getting on the horse, the disciple is used to the single stirrup, so he has always used only one pedal, but others have a single stirrup and a double stirrup......"

Is it so amazing? There are already more convenient double stirrups but they don't use them? What is the reasoning?

Bai Yuqi, who felt that he had witnessed history again, was even more curious, but after careful inquiry, he was surprised to find out.

Although there were already double stirrups, they were not as widely popularized or even completely replaced by single stirrups as he imagined.

There are many reasons for this phenomenon, such as the problem of usage habits, the problem of social trends, and the problem of iron deficiency...... Because there is less iron, do you save a stirrup to save money? What kind of sand sculpture idea is this? Without iron, it is better to have wood than nothing, right?

As for the social wind direction, women in the Tang Dynasty were good at riding horses and playing polo, while women were weak, so they used double stirrups in order to facilitate play and ensure safety.

Gradually, when the polo game was derived, the custom of women's stirrups and men's stirrups was inexplicably formed, and the strange view that the use of stirrups was not as good as the riding skills of single stirrups.

During the Han Dynasty, everyone used double stirrups and high bridge saddles to maintain balance and increase impact, but how did they regress in the Tang Dynasty?

No matter what the reason was, Bai Yuqi didn't plan to explain the principle to Yu Chi Baolin.

He jumped off his horse and ran into the villa to get the iron, and made a pair of tactical stirrups with [Metal Dissolution] and [Shaping].

Tactical stirrups are those with wide pedals and wavy tooth patterns, which are more conducive to bearing weight and making it easier to generate power.

It also reduces the burden on the horseman's feet...... The soles of the shoes in this year are sewn from cloth, which is a thick animal skin, generally soft or soft, and pedal a thin iron rod.

He also asked the dog to find some animal skins, which are not lacking in Kushui Village.

Then he used [wood-forming technique] to build a Takahashi saddle, that is, the kind of inverted splayed saddle with two deep boards in front and one behind, which can squeeze people tightly on the saddle.

Cover the animal skin and nail it tightly, tie it to the stirrup and put it back on the horse.

Then he called a Qianniuwei who was watching the excitement on the side, and asked, "Is it because you are good at riding, or is it because Yu Chi Baolin is good at riding?"

That Qianniuwei looked at Yu Chi Baolin and said with a smile: "Naturally, the captain is more powerful!"

Bai Yuqi didn't care if he was patting Wei Chi Baolin's ass or not, he used [Wood Shaping Technique] to make two wooden sticks with a small disc on the top and handed them to them, nodded and said: "Then you ride this horse, let him ride your horse, and you simulate the battlefield hedge to stab the other party down!" Be careful, don't get hurt!"

Although they were a little puzzled, the two still pulled away as they said.

Nodding their heads to each other, shouting and urging the war horses to gallop, and after approaching in an instant, they stretched out a disc wooden stick and pushed each other forward!

I saw that Qianniuwei's stabbed body was raised backwards, and Yu Chi Baolin's decisive body slipped off the horse with a crooked slump!

Fortunately, after all, it is not a real battlefield fight, the distance cannot be opened, and the horse is not fast.

Yu Chi Baolin's own riding skills are also very exquisite, and with the psychological preparation for falling off the horse, she rolled over and stood up.

"Come again!"

Yu Chi Baolin was somewhat unconvinced.

Picked up the disc stick, turned over and got on the horse again, and the two hedged again, but no matter how many times they came, the result was already doomed.

And because he gradually realized the benefits of the double stirrups and the Takahashi saddle, that Qianniuwei actually let go of the horse's reins and grabbed the saddle's left hand to stabilize his body, and fought with Yu Chi Baolin with a stick in both hands.

Even stood up on horseback very coquettishly, condescendingly bullying Yu Chi Baolin, who could only hold a stick in one hand.

was knocked off the horse again by a stick, and after the disgraced Yu Chi Baolin turned over, he rushed over and pulled Qian Niuwei down.

I rode up to experience it, and was surprised: "These stirrups and high saddles are so strong in horse battles, why has no one thought of it before?"

Bai Yuqi shrugged his shoulders helplessly and spread his hands, if he hadn't invented the stirrups and Takahashi saddle, he would have already had it but didn't know how to use it, he felt that it should be an IQ problem.

Ignoring the surprise on his face, Yu Chi Baolin, who was tossing the war horse.

Bai Yuqi turned his head and was about to let that Qianniuwei bring his war horse over to transform it, but he saw him looking there with one of his war horse's front hooves on his face full of distress.

Walking over and taking a look, Bai Yuqi paused for a moment, well, there is really no horseshoe in the Tang Dynasty!

This is certain, although horseshoes appeared before the Sui Dynasty, but the real popularity should be in the Song Dynasty...... Is it finally my turn to perform (beep)?

Bai Yuqi coughed dryly, and said with an unfathomable expression: "I know that the hooves of horses are easy to hurt, why don't you put shoes on them?"

After saying the lines that I don't know from that novel, Bai Yuqi was secretly cool: Ouch! It's so enjoyable to be an inventor!

That Qianniuwei was still distressed, and when he heard Bai Yuqi's words, he was stunned: "Put shoes on the horse?"

"You all know to wear shoes to protect your feet, so why can't you put a pair on your horses...... Uh, two pairs of shoes to protect your hooves?"

Bai Yuqi said as he squatted down and tried to use [Treat Minor Injuries] to heal the horse's hooves that were slightly cracked and bleeding a little.

However, he was reminded by the system that [Treating Minor Injuries] could not be used to treat animals, and then recommended a [Medical Animal] to him.

"Why can't we cure animals? Aren't people animals?"

While complaining, while using [medical animals] to heal the injury on the horse's hooves, Bai Yuqi reached out and took the iron material and molded out four U-shaped horseshoes.

But he took the horseshoe and looked at the war horse that was too tall for him, and decisively handed the hammer and the finished horseshoe nail to the Qianniuwei: "You come!"

As he said that, he explained to the Qianniuwei how to put shoes on the horse, and he was taken aback when he heard this: "Nail it? Isn't that more serious?"

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Trouble: In order to write this chapter, I searched for half a night's worth of information, and there are references to stirrups and saddles, all of which show that they existed before the Tang Dynasty, but I have not found a detailed time when stirrups and Takahashi saddles were popularized on a large scale.

Instead, he found the rhetoric that the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty was restructured, and only then did he use new horse harness on a large scale to enhance the combat effectiveness of the cavalry, and mentioned that because of the double stirrups and the high bridge saddle, there was such a sentence that the Tang Dynasty iron cavalry was at its peak, and I don't know if it was right.

As for not using the Takahashi saddle, it is not without invention.

Instead, in order to fight with the Turks, the Tang Dynasty pursued the relationship between speed and mobility, and light cavalry was the mainstream.

Therefore, it is assumed here that the Tang cavalry used lighter and thinner flat saddles in order to reduce the load.

The information found is only very vaguely mentioned that it began to be popularized from the Tang Dynasty, considering that it takes time to popularize, let's just think that in the early Tang Dynasty, there were already double stirrups and Takahashi saddle, but for various reasons it was not popularized.

The explanation of the lack of stirrups and Takahashi's saddle in the article is made up by Lao Ma in order to make the plot seem reasonable, and it is not a historical fact...... But who knows? Maybe it's Lao Ma guessing these reasons, maybe not?