The autumn wind rises, the crab feet are itchy, the ranch on the outskirts of Xiyang, Xiyang Wang Yuwenwen is watching the crabs in the room, and the big crabs that have just been fished out of the lake are demonstrating to him with their teeth and claws, but they can't change the fate of being about to turn into delicious. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Thanks to the abundant iron production of Daye Prison, the iron pot has now become a very convenient cooking utensil in the army, boiling water can be boiled quickly, cooking can also save a lot of firewood, and it is not easy to break the bottom and leak.

There are several sizes of marching pots, there are hot water kettles for boiling water, and there are also small iron pots for opening small stoves, and the small iron pot in front of Yuwenwen is a small iron pot, under the heating of the stove, the water in the pot boils quickly, so the end of the crab has arrived.

Yu Wenwen was very satisfied with the heating speed of the small iron pot, and motioned to his entourage to start cooking the crabs, he looked at the pocket watch, and then turned to the stable on the side to look at the baby war horse.

War horses are important strategic resources, and before the large-scale popularization of diesel locomotives, they were indispensable partners and riding tools for both sides in war.

Yu Wenwen has tried his best to save horses over the years, but he has not saved up the tens of thousands of war horses he imagined, after all, for many reasons, it is not possible to get his wish if he has money.

In the corner of the stable, Ma Wu was leading people to repair the hooves of the war horses, and Yu Wenwen did not rush forward to disturb them, so as not to startle the horses and cause casualties, after all, if the horse kicks the vital point of the person, he will not die or be disabled.

The trimming of the horse's hooves is quite cumbersome, and the hoof repairer must not arouse the hostility of the horse, and after coaxing the other party into obedience, he pouts the horse's legs, and then the hoof repairer then clamps the horse's legs with his feet, so that the horse's paw is facing him, and then bends down to trim the hooves with various tools.

The horse's hooves will continue to grow like human fingernails, and the horse's hooves, which originally played a role in protecting the horse's shoes, will affect the horse's walking and running if they grow too long and deformed, so it is the horseman's daily routine to repair the horse's hooves on a regular basis.

Of course, this kind of thing does not need Yu Wenwen to do, but he is very concerned about the skills of his grooms, if the war horse is the tank of later generations, then the groom or horse breeder is like the mechanic of later generations.

A groom with good skills and professional ethics can raise the war horse to be fat and strong, galloping like flying; And an irresponsible groom can raise a thousand-mile horse to death.

Yu Wenwen, who was already short of horses, of course did not allow such a situation to occur, so while improving the treatment of the groom, a strict punishment system was also set, and whoever dared to abuse the horse, he would abuse whomever he wanted.

Raising horses is a technical job, and Yu Wenwen is not very good at it, so he handed over his horses to the 'experts'.

Ma Wu, who was born as a herdsman for generations, has rich experience in raising horses, medical horses and training horses, so Yu Wenwen is willing to pay money to 'buy' experience.

Today's Ma Wu is much stronger than back then, married a daughter-in-law and has a small family, and his life is moist.

Ma Wu was busy repairing the hooves of a war horse, Yuwen Wen didn't step forward to disturb, and Ma Wu, who was concentrating, didn't notice that the king was not far away.

To repair the horse's hooves have to stand and clamp the horse's legs, and then bend over to repair the hooves, after a long time the waist is very tired, a horse has four hooves, repair up is a strength work, the horse is easy to finish, put the tools, carefully put on the hoof cover for the horse.

Just as people wear shoes to protect the soles of their feet, so it is normal for horses to wear hoof covers made of straw or leather.

Wait a minute, something seems wrong, what about the horseshoe? Why don't you nail a horseshoe to your horseshoes?

Yu Wenwen didn't think about this problem, but he discovered a fact: in order to protect the horse's hoof, nailing a "U" shaped iron sheet to the bottom of its hooves was already common knowledge in later generations, and in this era, it was not common.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, people already paid attention to the protection of horseshoes, and the measures taken at that time were like putting shoes on people, and let horses wear hoof guards, which has continued to the present, and as for horseshoes, it is not a popular practice.

The reason why it is not popular refers to the fact that in the Central Plains, Yuwenwen observed for many years, and found that the existing war horse hooves were indeed nailed to something similar to horseshoes, but more war horses were 'bare' horseshoe, and it was a big deal to wear hooves made of straw or leather.

Putting a horseshoe on the horseshoe can effectively reduce the wear and tear of the horse's hooves, why is this practice not popular?

Yu Wenwen was a little puzzled, and then probably figured out some ways: either he felt that using a horseshoe was too luxurious, or people didn't realize it.

Considering various factors, Yu Wenwen has been silent about the problem of horseshoes for many years, and even now, he has no intention of 'promoting' the horseshoe, because he does not want to find guilt himself.

The horseshoe is the power multiplier of the cavalry, and if the cavalry is small, it is very likely that the tragedy will be 'riding on foot', if the horses of the opposing cavalry are 'reloaded' with the horseshoe, then once the battle will be more dangerous.

Anyway, whether there is a horseshoe or not, everyone has been fighting like this for hundreds of years, so Yuwenwen suppressed his "desire to invent" and did not plan to promote the horseshoe for the time being.

He turned out of the stable and came to the pasture meadow, where a few horses were leisurely eating the hay from the manger, and more than a dozen people were busy beside them.

"My lord, the horses are ready."

"Is the armor ready?"

"Ready."

"Put on the horses."

A set of horse armor (armor) was carried out of the storehouse, and several horsemen began to put armor on a war horse, and after the draping was completed, it was an armored horse, a heavy horse in this era, and the impact was very fierce.

Horse armor with armored riding includes face curtains, chicken necks, chest chests, horse body armor, and backs, as well as 'parasites' for decoration.

The curtain is the armor on the front side of the horse's head, the chicken neck is the neck armor, and the chest is the horse's breastplate, and the horse body armor is the armor draped on the horse's body as the name suggests, and the armor of the horse's body after the saddle.

The decorative 'parasite' can be seen as a half-open folding fan, inserted upside down above the horse's hips on the back side of the saddle, which looks unusually windy, but has no protective effect.

Yu Wenwen couldn't understand the aesthetics of the soldiers of this era on 'parasitism', he felt that since he wanted to pull the wind, it was better to copy Polish bird feathers... The Polish hussars, the winged parasites, all looked normal.

However, the false wings of the Polish hussars were installed behind the cavalry, and Yuwenwen felt that if his cavalry was dressed like this, it would not be really regarded as a bird-feather cavalry.

"King, the equipment is ready."

The horses were wearing armor, and the people were also wearing armor, and several of the attendants were putting on armor for Yuwenwen, this armor was different from all the armor they had seen before, not even armor leaves.

The name of this armor is 'Three-Quarter Armor', a strange name, the breastplate looks like an eggshell, which is made of two large pieces of iron joined together, and the arm armor and thigh armor are riveted together pieces of iron, which look like shrimps.

The hood looks slightly more normal, but it is also different from the normal style of the hood, not the nail leaves are connected in series, but several pieces of iron are riveted together.

The hand armor even has iron gloves, and every finger can move freely; The leg armor was directly linked with a belt and cuirass, covering the knee pads, and there was no armor below the knee, which was a thick pigskin boot.

Yu Wenwen, who was draped all over his body, did not step on the armored war horse, and the endurance test of the armored war horse was carried out by others, and he was going to test three-quarters of the top three.

Each pair of armor costs more than 100 yuan, with a total weight of more than 40 catties, and it will be the charging armor of the Tiger Forest Army in the future, but the premise is that it can pass various tests and prove that it is worthy of the expensive cost, and then optimize the process and reduce the cost as much as possible, otherwise it will not be able to equip a large number of people at all.

"Your Majesty, you can begin."

Yu Wenwen brandished an iron shovel, like a crab with teeth and claws, looked at the noon sun, endured the stuffiness all over his body, and nodded to another entourage who was also dressed up: "Okay, after running this lap, let's eat crabs together!" ”