When the morning sun shines into the barracks. All of them were given a tawny warhorse! Many people are riding horses for the first time today! I'm so excited! Stroking the long hair on the horse's body is happier than touching the body of a woman herself.

The instructor aloud told everyone the essentials of horseback riding: "1. Never stand behind the horse and behind the side to prevent being kicked, and check whether the belly strap is fastened before getting on the horse. Second, horses are spiritual creatures, and they also have joys, sorrows, and tempers. You have to be nicer to it than to your own woman! All horses recognize their owners, and they have a deep relationship with their owners, and the IQ of ordinary war horses is equivalent to that of a three-year-old child. The first time you ride a horse, if it feels that you can't ride, it will jump desperately and try to throw you off, and you will only listen to your command until the end it recognizes you as the master. Finally, no one is allowed to beat and abuse war horses, violating the military rule of law. ”

After speaking, he demonstrated the horse-riding skills: "Hold the front of the horse's back with both hands, and don't grab the hair on the horse's body." With a strong grip on both hands, he turned over and got on his horse. ”

There were no high-waisted saddles and stirrups in this era. Montenegro was also riding a horse for the first time, and after receiving the instructor's prompt, he turned over and got on the horse, and galloped towards the road with his legs together. Others also got on their horses and tried to ride. After running a lap and coming back, Montenegro felt that his buttocks were in unbearable pain, and his internal organs and six mansions rolled straight and almost threw up. Not to mention fighting, it's good that you didn't fall to your death.

Everyone came back one after another, and several of them fell and their noses and eyes were swollen. Only that is not an exception, the horse seems to grow under his ass. He moved left and right on his horse, doing all kinds of difficult maneuvers on the back of a fast horse! Breathtaking.

Baturu exclaimed: "I didn't expect you to have such a good equestrian here!" ”

"His name is not very good, he is also a Huns, and he grew up on horseback." Montenegro replied.

Half a month has passed in the blink of an eye! Montenegro and the others learned how to ride a war horse and got used to the rhythm of the horse's running. You can pull the reins in one hand and hold a sword in the other to learn some simple slashing moves.

In the past half a month, in addition to feeding the horses in person once a day, Montenegro will take time out of the afternoon to take Da Hei and Xiao Hei for a walk outside the barracks! Today he went out again with the big and small black.

"It's over, handsome, I'm fascinated by Tsushima Spirit, and I'm ready to marry Heima as my aunt!" The veterinarian said.

"But the black horse is male! How to make a handsome aunt? ”

"That black horse is a horse spirit, and at night it will turn into a black woman, which fascinates the handsome man."

"Shuai Shuai, when will you teach you to sing a new song? It's been a long time since there's a new song! Meatloaf asked.

"When you can memorize the "Disciple Rules", I will teach it immediately." Black Mountain didn't go back, he left.

Montenegro came to the county workshop in the city, which was located in the northwest corner of Nanyang City, which was a large independent courtyard.

"I have something to see the ironsmith in the workshop." Montenegro showed his test to the doorman.

The doorman looked like an officer of the Grand Doctor, and he didn't dare to slack off! After registering, he immediately asked a military official to take Montenegro to the blacksmith's workshop.

The blacksmith is just one of the houses in the county workshop, with a row of large stoves and a bucket of water next to it. Flames erupted in the hearth, and dozens of blacksmiths were at work. The blacksmith holds the iron tongs in his left hand to turn the iron, and holds the small hammer in his right hand to direct the apprentice to forge with a specific striking method, and at the same time uses the small hammer to modify the key position, so that a square iron is beaten into a round iron rod or a thick iron rod into a slender sickle.

"Is the engineer there?" The porter asked.

A master blacksmith put the iron in the furnace, put the little hammer down, turned around and said, "Here I am!" "It's really like a bell, and people are like black bears, and they are naughty all over. Red yellow eyebrows, red phoenix eyes. A thick beard like a brush.

"In Lower Montenegro, there is something to discuss, please take a step to speak."

"If you have something to say, let it go. I'm busy beating the sickle, how many people are waiting to harvest the crops with it? The big black man said impatiently.

"The scythe you are fighting now is the one I made a year ago, and I now have something better than the scythe, are you interested?" Montenegro was not angry, and said to the big black man with a smile.

"You made the scythe? Montenegro, are you Montenegro, Dahe Township, Tongbai County? The big black man suddenly realized.

"Yes, yes, it's down there." Montenegro replied.

"Oops! You're so dark, you look like we're a good blacksmith! Alas, you talents, you don't have any eyesight at all, this is our great engineer from Nanyang County, Montenegro, and the sickle you are fighting now is his masterpiece. Wait a minute, let Montenegro show you two hands, let you know what is the best of the strong, and the best of the best! After the big black man finished scolding the guy, he smiled at the black mountain again, revealing a mouthful of white flowers, "In Xia Feng Mofeng, he is a disciple of the Mo family!" Please give me more advice, brother Montenegro! ”

"Junior, meet the Black Mountain Master!" And they all laid down their work and came to meet them.

"Don't dare to be, you're a junior!" Montenegro saluted everyone, and said to Feng Mofeng: "I have something important to visit this time. Please take a step to speak! ”

"Let's go to work, don't think about being lazy!" Feng Mofeng drove away his subordinates and said to Montenegro: "Let's go, it's too noisy here, let's drink tea in the front yard." ”

Feng Mofeng took Montenegro to the reception room, and the two of them knelt on the ground.

Montenegro doesn't know much about the Mo family! I only know that there are many contradictions between Confucianism and Mohists, such as the Mohists want to love each other and be the same, but Confucianism says that they can't punish doctors and courtesy; Confucius wanted to teach without class, but the Mohists were extremely strict in accepting disciples; Confucianism pays attention to filial piety according to the rites and burials, but the Mohists advocate the festival of burial and use.

Montenegro said tentatively to Feng Mofeng: "You are a Mo family, but I am a disciple of the Confucian Meng Zhao. There have been many antagonisms between Rumo and Mo in the past hundred years, what does Brother Feng think? ”

"The Montenegrin brothers are by no means pedantic Confucians, so to speak, my ancestor Mozi is also a Confucian disciple, and thousands of children of my Mo family are also Confucians." Feng Mofeng said with a smile.

The Mohists were one of the schools that arose during the Warring States period, with strict discipline, and their leader was called Juzi. Mozi studied under Confucianism in his early years, and often had many contacts with Confucian Mencius. Later, he abandoned Confucianism and created ink, so although most of the Mohists advocated opposition to Confucianism, they were also deeply influenced by Confucianism. The ten major ideas of the Mohists are "love", "non-attack", "Shangxian", "Shangtong", "Tianzhi", "Ming ghost", "non-life", "non-music", "festival funeral", and "saving use". After Mozi's death, the four great disciples divided the Mohists into several branches: one was the pragmatist school, which focused on the study of epistemology, logic, geometry, geometric optics, statics and other disciplines. The other is a theoretical school that insists on advocating non-offensive and equal Mozi doctrine. Mozi's youngest female disciple Xuan Qi, because her ancestor had followed Qin Mugong for hundreds of miles, Xuan Qi had a deep affection for Qin Guo, and Xuan Qi himself fell in love with Qin Xiaogong by mistake and became the queen of Qin Guoguo. After the death of Qin Xiaogong, Xuanqi formed his own faction as Qin Mo, because of his identity as the queen of the country, Qin Mo was well developed during the reign of King Qin Huiwen. Qin Mo believed that it was contradictory to attack the monks and monks, and it was impossible to unify China without fighting. Later, he gave up the non-offensive and stopped the war with a war instead. Because the Qin State is very tolerant of talents, as long as they don't violate the Qin law. As a result, there were many Mo disciples who served as officials and engineers in the Qin State in an open capacity, and the equipment of the Qin army could lead the world, and the Mo family engineers made great contributions. And the disciples of the Mo family in other countries are difficult to be tolerated by the government, so they can only act secretly, and they have become the dominant Qin Mo family. ”

"Today, I know that the Mo family has such a deep relationship with the Qin State, and I have been taught!" Montenegro said politely.

"You came to me today, didn't you come to listen to me tell the story of the Mo family? I wonder what the Montenegrin brothers have researched more practical than a sickle? Feng Mofeng asked.

"Then I'll get straight to the point. I've heard that war horses lose a lot of money in war, and the biggest loss is when the horse's hooves fall off or wear out! I want to make a horseshoe that can be nailed to the horse's hooves, if it is done, the Great Qin Iron Cavalry will not be able to fight for thousands of miles, although I am said to be a great engineer, in fact, I have never even touched an iron hammer, so I hope you can help with this. After Hei Mountain finished speaking, his eyes looked straight at Feng Mofeng.

"Oh! It's something new, it sounds useful, and it should be easy to do! Feng Mofeng pondered.

"My horse is on the stable side of the yard, so I will test it with my horse. This is the shape that I have grinded out one by one, and you can refer to it as well. As he spoke, Montenegro handed Feng Mofeng a piece of wood with a horse's hoof on it. Getting up, the two of them went to the stable.

"This is my brother walking through the clouds." Montenegro said.

"Good horse, the real god horse has only lost a little weight. Why didn't the left front foot hit the ground, could it be that it hurt the hoof? ”

"It hurt one foot, so I thought about remedy." Montenegro replied.

"You've thought it through, you should just do what you draw!" Feng Mofeng raised a horse's hoof while looking at the sketch on the wooden slab, and said seriously: "Wait a minute, I'll do it myself, you will come to me at this time tomorrow." You can rest assured. ”

"If this matter is successful, Daqin Tieqi will have another sharp weapon, which is not trivial, and it must be kept secret. You do it according to the picture first, and I will bring the dark clouds and snow again tomorrow at noon. Montenegro said.

"It's so good, I'll keep it a secret." After saying that, the two said goodbye to each other and left.

At noon the next day, Montenegro took Da Hei to the county workshop again. Master Feng took out four thumb-thick horseshoes, Montenegro took a look, the horseshoe was dark and bright, heavy, knowing that Master Feng was made of good fine iron, very grateful, the horseshoe was flat and smooth on one side, and there was a groove on both sides of the other side, and there were four small holes in each of the grooves, and the small holes were used to nail the nails, so that when the horse was running, the ground would not wear out to the iron nails, causing the horseshoe to fall off.

Montenegro expressed great satisfaction. He led the horse to the ironwork and used a knife to remove the dirt from the horse's hooves, scraping them flat like manicures.

"Wait, I'll comfort the horse, tell it not to move, you first burn the horseshoe red, then press it tightly on the horse's hooves, and nail it." Montenegro explained to Master Feng.

"Why didn't I think that the red-hot horseshoe could stick to the horse's hooves better? Okay, let's nail it like this. Feng Mofeng said.

Black Mountain hugged the head of the horse that was walking on the snow, comforted it and said: "Da Hei, don't move for a while, we are doing this to help you heal your feet, and you will soon be able to run freely like before!" ”

Da Hei is extremely humane, must have understood the words of Montenegro, when the red-hot horseshoe pressed on the horse's hoof, it never moved, only heard a "squeak" sound, a very smelly burning smell, with the white smoke drifting away.

When the horseshoe was nailed to all four feet, Daikoku was so happy that his front feet rose into the air and hissed loudly! It's like saying to Montenegro: "Ride on my back, I'll take you to fly." ”

"I'm going to pull it out and try it out and see how it goes. I'll talk back to you later. Montenegro said.

"Go and come back, I'm waiting for your good news!" Feng Mofeng waved his hand and said to Montenegro.

Qin law stipulates that galloping horses in the city is a felony, and it is punishable by the top three, and the face is a servant. Montenegro could only lead Da Hei to the city gate, and along the way, Montenegro could deeply feel Da Hei's excitement. As soon as he came out of the city gate, Montenegro didn't care that Da Hei didn't have a saddle, and directly turned over and sat on the horse's back. Da Hei hissed excitedly and ran away. Black Mountain lay on horseback, and his heart was even more excited, and the dark clouds stepped on the snow, not only running extremely fast, but also very smooth. It's not like the bumpy feeling of riding a horse before! It's like the feeling of being used to a tractor in later generations and suddenly changing to a Mercedes-Benz sports car! In less than half an hour, he had already run more than 100 miles away, and Montenegro restrained his horse. "Turn around and go back to camp." Montenegro said to the horses. Da Hei raised four more hooves and flew towards the camp. On the way, after several recruits who practiced horseback riding, they saw Shuai Chang riding a black horse, galloping all the way, and greeted him enviously: "Shuai Chang, are the big black feet well?" ”

Before Montenegro could answer, the horse was already gone.

After running for 200 miles in one go, he returned to the camp, and the dark clouds and snow were sweating all over, and his nose was spraying hot air.

"That's not very good, KPMG, Instructor Baturu, come here!" Montenegro shouted excitedly.

That's not right, KPA and Baturu walked over, and saw that Montenegro was excited, and the dark clouds around him were stepping on the snow, sweating straight out, and the soaked horse body was even darker. The nose was bubbling rough, apparently a long run, just returned.

"You three, let's see what's different about my big black now? I've just ridden it for 200 miles. ”

"It's no different, all I smell is a scorching smell." Baturu said.

"I also smell it, the dark clouds are stepping on the snow, the left front corner is still like that, it doesn't hit the ground, how can you run so far at once?" KPMG said suspiciously.

"Look under the horse's hooves, I made it for me. My big black is like us, with a pair of combat boots, and now it is like it has wings, and it can fly into the sky. Montenegro said proudly.

He didn't caress the big black horse's neck first, and then slowly lifted the big black's injured right foreleg, turned over the horse's hooves to see that there was a U-shaped iron nailed under the horse's hooves. After watching it repeatedly, it dawned on everyone, why didn't we think of doing this before?

"Wonderful, wonderful!" Everyone sighed!

"I'm going to give it a test ride, okay?" That doesn't really ask Montenegro.

"Okay, you all try to ride it, don't hit it, and don't ride too far." Montenegro explained a little distressedly.

"Everybody knows it's your brother during the day! It's your aunt at night! I don't dare to hit your brother and aunt-in-law! "It's not too damp, and it doesn't need a saddle, just turn over and sit on the horse's back. Da Hei hissed, raised his four hooves, and galloped away.

Several people have a test ride, and they are all amazed!

"Isn't that the equivalent of putting wings on a horse?" That's not too much to sigh about.

"If Daqin has tens of thousands of iron horsemen equipped with this, it will no longer be difficult to travel thousands of miles in the future! In the past, cavalry generally only did battlefield killing, and when marching thousands of miles, it was only more than 100 miles a day, and if the horse's hooves were continuously marched, they would also be injured. Baturu said.

"The stakes are high, Baturu, to whom should we report this discovery?" Montenegro asked.

"Report to the General immediately! It is up to the general to decide. Now take my horses with you, and let them pretend to do the same, and the two of us will go together to see the general." With the horseshoe, it can be reached in one day. Baturu suggested.

Two days later, in the morning, Montenegro gathered everyone and explained: "Today I went to Xinzheng with Instructor Baturu, and when we were away, Dong Jian was in charge of the Yongchun White Crane Boxing exercise in the early morning, and he was not very responsible for the riding training in the morning, the dead fat man was in charge of the sword and shield at noon, and the carpenter was in charge of archery in the afternoon. Meng Hao is in charge of the evening literacy class, no one wants to be lazy! We'll be assessed when we come back. ”

Montenegro and Baturu calculated the time, set off on time, the two of them let the horses run wildly all the way, one is good at equestrianism, one is fast, you chase me along the way is comparable, the sun is noon, the two just arrived at Xiangcheng Pavilion.

Since the return of Nanyang County to Qin, Xiangcheng has become a border city between Qin and Han. The army of Qin was still besieging Xinzheng, and the military officials, officials, and postmen of Xiangcheng Pavilion were constantly coming and going, and it was very lively.

"We're almost halfway there, so we'll rest here for dinner before we leave." Baturu said.