If you want to do the mystery of the speed of the state army, it is not difficult, as long as you find the cavalry and war horses of the state army, you can understand it.

This battle is a battle in which the Bingzhou army has the advantage, and it will definitely not leave prisoners or anything for the Sima army, but there are no living people, there are always so many corpses, it is impossible to fight such a big battle, the Sima army has lost more than 1,000 people, and the Bingzhou army will be unscathed?

This time Man Bing looked a little embarrassed, the corpses of the enemy soldiers and horses were not absent, but they were pitiful, only a few of them, and they were finally picked up from Sima Jun's pile of dead people.

Sima Yi didn't care, as long as there was a corpse, it didn't matter how much, if he really expected Sima Jun to be able to injure 800 enemies in the case of self-loss of 1,000, then even if this battle was lost, it would not be ugly.

Sima Yi and a cadre of generals personally inspected the corpses of the soldiers, the generals looked at it for a long time, but they couldn't see any clues, very ordinary equipment, but the weapons they used were somewhat special, similar to the ring head knife, but not exactly the same, the blade was slightly longer, the tip of the knife was curved, and the handle was also lengthened, maybe this knife was sharper than the ring head knife, but it had nothing to do with speed.

Sima Yi asked Sima Zhao, "Zhao'er, can you see something?" ”

Sima Zhao shook his head lightly and said, "Except for seeing that this knife is a little special, I don't see anything else." ”

Sima Yi said: "None of you have noticed that these soldiers are wearing uniform leather armor, and there is nothing superfluous on their bodies, that is to say, they have greatly reduced their loads, which is a great help to improve the speed of the war horses." ”

All the generals were stunned, not to say that they didn't know this, but to ignore it, in the Sima army, armor and leather armor are equipped, but the protective ability of armor is higher than that of leather armor, and the value is also quite different.

Therefore, the generals instinctively thought that these Bingzhou soldiers who died in battle did not wear armor because of their low status, and at this time, after Sima Yi mentioned it, it was understood that there was a reason why these cavalry wore leather armor, and only by reducing the weight could the speed of the war horse be improved.

However, Sima Zhao raised a question: "Father, even if you change all the leather armor and reduce the load, you may not be able to greatly increase the speed of the cavalry, which is obviously different from what we have seen." ”

Not all of the cavalry of the Sima Army were wearing iron armor, and those wearing leather armor also accounted for a large part, but Sima Jun did not find that the cavalry wearing leather armor would be much faster than the one wearing armor, even if it was indeed because of the weight of the cavalry wearing leather armor would run slightly faster, but this gap was also very small, and it was not enough to attract the attention of the senior management of Sima Jun.

Of course, this is also related to the other burdens of the light armored cavalry, wearing leather armor can indeed reduce the weight, but other things carry more, it will also increase the weight, this increase and decrease, may not be able to reflect the real gap between leather armor and iron armor.

The state army obviously made a deliberate arrangement in this regard, in addition to replacing all the iron armor, the other loads were also greatly reduced, so that the load of the war horse was lighter, and it was not surprising that the speed increased.

However, as Sima Zhao said, even if the weight can be greatly reduced, the increase in speed may not really reach the point of being extremely obvious, and it is obvious that the mystery of the speed promotion of the cavalry in the state still needs to be studied.

"Come on, find a few war horses of the state army, it's best to survive!" Sima Yi commanded loudly, since he couldn't find the real reason from the Bingzhou soldiers, Sima Yi ordered to check the war horses of the Bingzhou army, maybe there were secrets that Sima Yi wanted to know about these war horses.

Man Bing's face became more difficult to look at, compared to the corpses of the Bingzhou army, the Bingzhou war horses were more able to be found, after all, after those cavalry were killed, these war horses would become ownerless horses, and as long as these war horses were not injured or were lightly injured, the Bingzhou army would take these war horses away when they withdrew.

So Sima Yi asked Man Bing to find a few war horses, which was really a bit difficult, and Man Bing finally found the corpses of two war horses in Bingzhou, but what was surprising was that the backs of these two war horses were slippery, and they didn't even have the most basic saddles, which was really too strange.

However, this obviously cannot be the truth, no matter how lacking the equipment of the Bingzhou army is, it is impossible to not even be worthy of a saddle, so there is obviously this possibility, that is, when the Bingzhou army retreated, it could not transport the huge body of the war horse, so it simply took away the harness of the war horse.

Sima Yi frowned, obviously, there must be something hidden in this harness, otherwise it would be impossible for the state army to worry about these harnesses in the chaos, and the reason why they worked so hard to ensure that these harnesses did not fall into the hands of Sima Jun was that they had other plans.

But now that he can't see the real thing, Sima Yi didn't dare to make an assertion, so he specially asked about the horse harness of the Bingzhou army.

Originally, Man Bing didn't have a deep impression of the horse harness of the Bingzhou army, after all, in the melee, he was more concerned about the casualties of his own personnel and how to resist the offensive of the Bingzhou army, but after Sima Yiyi's inquiry, Man Bing recalled something.

The saddle of the Bingzhou army is indeed a little different, it seems to be high and concave in the middle, what size is it with, Man Bing didn't pay too much attention to it, and the cavalry of the Bingzhou army was on the horse, and neither foot was hanging in the air, it seemed to be stepping on something - oh, it should be stirrups, Man Bing is no stranger to stirrups, after all, they get on and off the horse, and they will also step on this thing, but the stirrups of the Bingzhou army are unique, their stirrups are hung on both sides, and they will step on it when they ride a horse. It's not just for getting on and off the horse.

Although Man Bing doesn't remember it very clearly, but after recalling it, he can roughly tell that Sima Yi has found a few people to verify, and what they said is similar to Man Bing, although Sima Jun is more curious about the strange equipment in the state, but the battle was fierce at that time, and their focus was obviously not on this, so they could not provide Sima Yi with a more detailed situation.

Although it was only a simple description, Sima Yi was keenly aware that the speed of the state army was so fast, it must have a great relationship with these two new horses, otherwise, the state army would not need to hide it. Baidu: Read the latest chapter of "The Last Three Kingdoms 2 Xingwei Jiezhong Literature" for free for the first time.