Chapter 282 Cavalry Plan

The mere absence of a saddle is a big problem. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Why can't people do the horsemanship that later generations can do? Could it be that the riding skills of the people at this time were much worse than those of later generations? This kind of primitive skill will only degrade with the development of science and technology, and even if there are a few excellent geniuses in the riding skills of later generations, it is basically a dream to catch up with the ancestors at the overall level.

There is a theory that the more science and technology develop, the worse people's physical fitness becomes. Ziyan agrees. Otherwise, how can the strength of today's people not be as great as the ancestors of the orangutans thousands of years ago? Even if this is too far, but it is the two eras that Ziyan has personally experienced, and the physical fitness of people in the Qin Dynasty is much better than that of modern people. Even if you don't count freaks like Xiang Yu, even if you are an ordinary soldier, traveling hundreds of miles a day is also regarded as the most basic requirement.

Of course, at this time, Li is not five hundred meters and one mile in later generations, Ziyan is probably calculated, it is about more than three hundred and seventy meters, one hundred miles, even if it is thirty-seven kilometers, it seems very little, but it is walking. How many people in modern times can walk more than thirty kilometers in a day? The marathon is only 42 kilometers! And there are a lot of people who run half a marathon!

What's even more terrifying is that they are marching, so they are carrying their belongings on their backs, and they have a lot of weight. The worst thing is that their requirements are every day.

Walking more than 30 miles with more than a dozen catties of things on his back every day, walking for a month or two, how many people can do it in modern times?

Even the instinctive walking of a human being has opened up such a big gap, let alone riding skills that are not innate instincts. At least in the future, there will be few people who dare to go on the back of a wild horse with their bare hands, let alone a person on the back of a bare horse can form an army of tens of millions of people.

It's not the reason for riding, but why is that?

Because, compared with later generations, the saddle bridle at that time had two very important props.

That's the reins and stirrups.

Especially stirrups.

Without stirrups, the two legs on the horse's back were empty and had nowhere to focus, and it was rare to be able to clamp the horse's belly, let alone sit firmly in the bumps of the horse's galloping. As for making moves on horseback, it's even more of a joke.

There are also reins, there is also this reason for the high cost of cavalry training at that time, except for the nomads who grew up on horseback, the men of our Central Plains farming people only came into contact with horses when they grew up, and there were very few talented people who could really sit firmly at the beginning, and most people were slowly learning and practicing repeatedly to master this skill. But in this process of slowly mastering, how many of them can never sit down steadily without being thrown off by the horse? And after falling off the horse's back, it is good to break hands and feet, and direct falls to death abound. In this way, it is impossible to train cavalry at a high cost.

There were already saddle bridles in this era, but there were no reins and stirrups yet. At that time, Ziyan was very surprised when she saw such a cavalry, because she remembered that the reason why Xiang Yu had the upper hand at the beginning when Chu and Han were fighting for hegemony was the cavalry, and the cavalry in the illustrations at that time already had reins and stirrups, otherwise Xiang Yu would not have been able to organize such a cavalry that would have traveled thousands of miles!

However, Ziyan carefully inquired, and the station of Taoyuan Village spread all the way to the edge of the grassland. According to the news from them, the people on the steppe are not as good as them, and even the utensils have only developed to the bridle, not even the saddle! They can ride horses without being thrown to death, all by real kung fu. It is also because of this that the Xiongnu at this time have not yet caused a big trouble in the Central Plains, and only a few vassal states located in the bitter cold land can seal the steppe wolf between the white mountains and black waters, and they do not let them threaten the safety of the Central Plains.

This realization surprised Ziyan, but it also made her very excited. It seems that the reins and stirrups have been available in the past few years, and in this case, it would be an idiot not to seize this opportunity!

Needless to say, the power of the cavalry, the Yuanmeng iron cavalry swept across Europe, and the Manchu iron hooves trampled all over the rivers and mountains of Kyushu, relying on it, but it was the cavalry! The Central Plains has been suppressed by the barren steppe peoples for thousands of years with the richness of Kyushu, and they rely on cavalry!

But cavalry cavalry, cavalry is cavalry! China has never been a place to produce horses, and even before Ziyan brought Wu Qi, Xiang Yu couldn't even find a suitable horse! Ziyan took a fancy to the natural pasture of the prairie and wanted to turn that vast grassland into their private horse farm!

In order to prove the role of stirrups and reins, Ziyan had already asked Shugongze to make a set in the Ghost Gate, such a powerful weapon, but the structure was very simple, Shugongze relied on an inaccurate structural diagram drawn by Ziyan, and made several pairs in two days and sent them over.

Xiang Yu and Xiang Zhuang are both good riders, they tried it, and the results speak for themselves.

From its inception to its global use, there have been minor changes but no fundamental changes. The scientific and practical nature of this set of stirrups and reins can stand the test of time, and naturally it can also stand the test of man.

Now that he had an idea and a plan, Xiang Yu was not a procrastinator, so he turned around and gave the order to march.

Where is there anything simple about the mobilization of the army? Grain and grass, ordnance, change of guards, marching routes, isn't that a thousand things? Even if Ziyan doesn't have to go out to socialize and issue orders, just to deal with the paperwork, he is fighting every day and at night, and he is a lone lamp until dawn.

Xiang Yu will never re-transcribe the document drafted by Ziyan, and he is the most annoying to write. Ziyan's handwriting of a woman is too conspicuous among a group of rough old men, and those documents that are obviously women's handwriting are often stamped with Xiang Yu's own big seal, which is even more conspicuous.

Within a few days, everyone in the Xiang family's army knew that there was a female military division in Xiang Yu's mansion, and everything big and small was actually written by that woman, which was obviously very important! There is no impermeable wall in the world, no matter how secret it is, it can't withstand people's curiosity, not to mention that Ziyan's military behavior when he first arrived at the Xiang family originally meant to build momentum, and soon everyone knew the legendary story of Ziyan. Not to mention anything else, the most elite part of the Xiang family's army has fought Taoyuan, and they have all personally experienced the dreamy and nightmarish Taolin psychedelic array, and they have also seen the Taoyuan City that is like a fairyland, and they know that Ziyan is the goddess who established Taoyuan City, so they can't help but be even more curious.

No matter who it is, they have a burning gossip heart, Ziyan lives in a simple place, basically does not go out, and when they can't see each other, they can only retreat to the second, so the manuscript drawn up by Ziyan himself has become a hot item, but it is unlikely to go directly to the door to ask for it.

The people's brains are endless, so Xiang Yu has some very inexplicable words on his desk, and he also needs to take out a charter on paper for things that are not big or small.

Naturally, Ziyan was even busier.