The first-level biochemical war horses, although they are far inferior to the third-level biochemical war horses, they are also much stronger than the current first-class war horses, although they can't really travel thousands of miles in a day and eight hundred at night.

But there is no problem in running four or five hundred miles in one night, and there is not much burden, after all, the one-mile distance in the late Han Dynasty is actually only four hundred meters when converted into the current unit.

When Zhao Mu led Cheng Wu's four golden generals and three thousand heavy cavalry to Huaiyin City, it was less than two hours.

Zhao Mu called to open the city gate, entered the city without stopping, directly passed through the city, rushed out from the other city gate, and attacked the Yangzhou boundary with a thunderous force.

Cao Bao was secretly surprised when he followed him, and he was surprised to find that Zhao Mu's heavy horsemen were not only strong and fierce, but also equipped with a magical saddle on the horseback, so that people could sit firmly on the horseback, and their feet could also step on the foot sling, and it was effortless to ride the horse.

This is the reason why everyone has traveled hundreds of miles in one night, but they still don't need to rest, and they can directly continue to fight.

It didn't take long for him to make an even more astonishing discovery, it turned out that all the war horses were nailed with a piece of iron, and with these iron pieces of protection, there was no need to worry about the horse running for too long, and the horse's hooves had been worn and could not run.

Why were there so few cavalry during the Three Kingdoms period?

There are probably a few reasons mentioned above, but there is a more important reason, and that is that there are no saddles and horseshoes at this time.

The saddle allows a less skilled soldier to ride up and run quickly, saving the more skilled cavalry the problem of having to keep the horse's belly on the horse's back.

Although it is just a simple supporting device, but there is no advanced consciousness, and now in the late Han Dynasty, no one can think that there is one more such thing, which makes riding a horse easier and more labor-saving.

Besides. The real reason why the number of cavalry of the Three Kingdoms was not large was that there were no horseshoes during this period.

The horse's hooves, in fact, are equal to human fingernails, once the long-term friction with the ground, especially now that most of the road conditions are too bad, such a continuous rapid run, it is estimated that the horse's hooves are worn off after hundreds of miles back and forth, then the horse will be scrapped.

Therefore, it is not only difficult to raise horses in ordinary times, but also consumes a lot. The main thing is to get a thousand cavalry, and often in many cases, it is necessary to have 2,000 or even 3,000 horses.

A cavalry must have at least two horses to be able to form combat effectiveness, and the mobility of the cavalry can barely be brought into play, and one person and three horses are actually the real standard.

But the problem comes again, one person needs to be equipped with three horses, so a thousand cavalry needs three thousand horses, which naturally has to pay a great price.

Secondly. Cavalry needs to fight in wartime, and they need to seize time to rest in non-war time, so who will these three horses find to take care of?

Therefore, often a cavalryman was trained. Not to mention the expensive things such as horse armor and armor, a cavalry alone must be equipped with at least two horses, and then it will be followed by a logistics team of two or three people. So this is the fundamental problem in ancient times, when the princes did not have many cavalry at all.

Even if they do, they often don't have the characteristics of maneuverability and heavy riding at all. One person, one horse, how to play?

In many cases, the cavalry of this period, at most, played a deterrent role, and was a strategic type of arms, just like today's modern strategic missiles, which are not used in warehouses in peacetime, as long as they are available, the role is enough.

Secondly, it is either used for reconnaissance, reporting, or chasing and harvesting defeated soldiers, and who will really use it for thousands of miles to attack.

But now for Zhao Mu, this is very different, with a saddle and a horseshoe, and his own war horse is a first-class biochemical war horse, so he doesn't need to worry about these problems at all.

More than 3,000 black torrents, like a black ghost at night, full of coldness and murderous aura, without any rest, Zhao Mu led them into the Yangzhou boundary and rushed into Zhang Chao's territory.

And what is even more alarming for Cao Bao is that Zhao Mu seems to know where Zhang Chao is at this time, only to see Zhao Mu leading people and horses all the way to the left and right, and galloping for a quarter of an hour.

Finally, everyone saw from a distance the open space in front of them, covered with bright torches and camps, and large banners with Zhang characters swaying in the night wind.

"This is Zhang Chao's temporary barracks!" Cao Bao was taken aback, he didn't know how Zhao Mu came directly to Zhang Chao's camp without the guidance of scouts.

I have to say that Zhang Chao's rapid march was very fast, and in just one day, he led an army of 30,000 to less than a hundred miles from Huaiyin.

However, he never imagined that the opponent he met was so fierce and perverted, and in less than three hours, he rushed from the lower embryo six hundred miles away to Huaicheng overnight, and he also rushed here in a hurry.

"Light the fire, put oil on it, and shoot me to death later."

Zhao Mu inspected Zhang Chao's army at a glance, there were not many soldiers patrolling at all, it is estimated that even Zhang Chao did not expect that now he is still in his own territory, Zhao Mu has the ability to attack at night, after all, there are only less than 2,000 third-rate guards in the entire Huaicheng.

This can only be said that it is not that Zhang Chao's sense of marching is too poor, but that the enemy is too perverted.

Zhao Mu gave an order, and then brutally spit out the word "kill".

Suddenly, a mile of road, under the full speed of all the heavy cavalry, in the blink of an eye, the earth shook violently, provoking the small number of patrolmen on duty in the fortress to be taken aback, but they still did not expect that it was the enemy's heavy cavalry.

Other than that, all the soldiers were still sleeping.

When the soldiers on duty finally spotted the black torrent heavy cavalry that was getting closer and closer, and when they saw the Zhao banner blowing and waving wildly in the dark, it was too late.

I saw Zhao Mu take all the cavalry to split into two, run around the entire barracks, and shoot rockets intensively inside.

The rockets with fire oil were blown by the night wind, and the camp inside was suddenly full of fire, and many enemy soldiers were burned by the fire in their sleep before they could react, and they howled in despair and pain.

Two heavy horses, one on the left and one on the right, shot around the barracks in a snake formation for a few rounds, and when the remaining lucky survivors rushed out of the fire, the entire army of 30,000 was not much.

Less than 7,000 soldiers had recovered a life from the fire, but a rain of arrows awaited them.

With these untidy clothes and armor, morale was greatly lost, and the panicked soldiers fell row after row, and Zhao Mu raised his hand to stop archery.

"The whole army obeyed the order, and all of them were killed, and no one was left."

Immediately, three thousand murderous heavy horsemen kicked down the camp gate and rushed in, shouting and killing. (To be continued.) )