Although the five royals and five shots are already very strict, the requirements are not met. When it came to the Warring States, with the further escalation of the war and the expansion of the source of troops, there were clear physical requirements for the chariots. Anyone who is honored in a chariot must be under 40 years old, at least 1.73 meters tall, and be able to chase galloping horses.

Elite armor soldiers are not easy to come by, and their life safety is naturally taken seriously. Therefore, whether it was the behavior of the nobles at their own expense at the beginning, or the standard that later evolved into the state's distribution, the armor always had the best armor in the whole army, especially the imperial who was inconvenient to dodge, and even wrapped his arms tightly in the Qin Dynasty. In addition to the armor, the combatants were equipped with a small square shield that was unique to the pre-Qin dynasty and was easy to use on chariots. However, sacrifice was inevitable, in order to ensure that the chariot would not be paralyzed by the dead and wounded soldiers, there were reserve armor soldiers after the Western Zhou Dynasty, and there were 7 people per cart in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

It's time to talk about horses. The Qin figurines and Tang Sancai are both world art treasures, but the very different images of war horses reflect the development trajectory of Chinese war horses. Compared with the sturdy Tang horses bred by the Qin and Han dynasties under the crossbreeding of inside and outside, the native pre-Qin war horses were not good-looking, short and rough to the point of frustration. It is a pity that although China is one of the birthplaces of horse breeds in the world, the local and surrounding horse breeds are congenitally deficient. Imagine if there are good horses in BMW, then with the unremitting horse politics of the past generations, why not have the world's rolling iron hooves?

The pre-Qin war horses are mainly divided into two branches: the horses native to the Central Plains and the Qin horses from the Northwest. Although the former was eliminated by the Mongolian horses with great endurance in the future, from the Spring and Autumn Period of Wei Wengong, there were 3,000 mares with a body height of more than 1.38 meters in Weiguo alone, and we can still get a glimpse of its scenery in those years. The latter is one of the important bloodlines of the Northwest War Horse in the past dynasties, and it is also the predecessor of one of the three famous horses in China today - the Hequ Horse, which was in the late Warring States period of the Qiang Qin, and its war horse body height was more than 1.33 meters. Although the war horses in these records are not comparable to the Mediterranean war horses that are about 1.5 meters fast and powerful, they can be called the crystallization of labor and technology in the pre-Qin era for China, which only produces small horses.

The armor worn by war horses appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period, which was the earliest vest in China, and the material was painted with a lacquered leather sheet, painted with elaborate patterns. In addition to the mighty pattern can inspire the morale of the army, sometimes it is also a weapon, it is rumored that in the battle of Jinchu Chengpu, the Jin army put the tiger skin on the horseback, and frightened the opponent's war horse. It is a pity that the ancients did not attach as much importance to camouflage as they do today, and there are very few examples of this kind of warfare.

The chariot gives the superficial impression of a powerful combination of speed and strength, and is a fortress of galloping, but once you consider that although it has experienced the changes of the Xia and Shang independent army, the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Period, and the return of the Warring States to ancient times, it has always adhered to the role of infantry leader, and the actual mobility is greatly doubtful.

The Spring and Autumn Period is the heyday of chariot warfare, and it is also the peak of the mixed formation of chariot foot, the establishment of 15 infantry per chariot in the Western Zhou Dynasty, after the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, has developed to 60 or even more, deployed in the front and left and right flanks of the chariot, there is such a huge direct infantry drag, even if it is a more flexible cavalry, I am afraid it is impossible to count on the freedom of the guerrilla field. The two armies approached slowly in the drums of the main general's chariot, and when they were only a few hundred meters closer, the vanguard was divided, the chariots were killed on all fronts, and the infantry followed closely behind, and the sound of wheels, hooves, battle flags and hunting, war drums rumbled, and horses neighed and people mixed into a fierce land, and after the men under the rain of arrows broke through the sky and turned over on their backs, two wide torrents violently collided together, stabbing, pecking, and dodging to stir the flesh and sand - the above description should be about the portrayal of the battlefield at that time.

The situation of the main battle of the chariot has changed by the time of the Warring States. It is recorded that the Korean crossbow can reach 600 paces, and the estimated effective range is not less than 260 meters. The arrow array in the bow outside the crossbow has become a sharp weapon against the vehicle array, under the shroud of the power of the strong crossbow, the protection of the leather armor suddenly shows shabby, so that the cost performance of the chariot is facing a serious threat, and many areas that are inconvenient for the chariot to travel have also become battlefields, and the main battle status of the chariot has begun to decline.

However, the decline of the chariot was not a sharp decline, although the chariot has lost its main battle status, but as a powerful iron fist for infantry charges, as the command center of the cavalry, it still has practical value. This process of decline continued until the Western Han Dynasty, until the Han-Hungarian War prompted the cavalry to abandon the chariot to follow, and the Central Plains with the end of the civil war also declined the assistance of the chariot, and then withdrew from the historical stage of galloping for 2000 years.

But Xiliang is an ancient country, after several generations of changes, gradually mastered the manufacture and use of chariots, Xiliang land is mostly flatland, desert, Gobi, especially in the desert, Xiliang is the invention of a special chariot suitable for sand driving, Gobi is windy and sandy, ordinary people can hardly bear, the shell of the chariot plays a protective role here.

Broadly speaking, the ancient chariots of the Central Plains Continent refer to the general term for various combat vehicles designed for combat use. It evolved from the late primitive society wooden round wheeled land vehicle, in addition to the baggage vehicle and special siege vehicle, mainly the Shang and Zhou Dynasty chariot warfare era used to carry soldiers to fight, and the Song Dynasty after the combat vehicle equipped with a variety of weapons.

According to the literature, China has had a car ride in ancient times. With the development of the productive forces of society and the expansion of the scale of warfare, the number of combat vehicles used is also increasing. In the battle of Muye (the area south of Qi County, Henan Province and north of the Wei River), which was destroyed by King Wu of Zhou, three hundred chariots were used. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the development of chariots reached its peak, and the country of a thousand times was not uncommon. In the twentieth year of King Xiang of Zhou (632 B.C.), in the battle between Jin and Chu in Chengpu (now Puyang, Henan, now Puyangji, Juancheng, Shandong), both sides dispatched 700 chariots each. By the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, some vassal states had chariots of more than 4,000 times. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, although the status of chariot warfare gradually declined due to the rise of infantry and cavalry warfare, the number of chariots owned by the vassal states was still considerable. To this day, combat vehicles still play a certain role in warfare.

Xiliang took out his housekeeping skills, and he was bound to fight to the death with the Black Country.

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Yin Shenglin and Tong Ansu waited outside the city gate for Liu Dehao and Wu Nian.

"See His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"The King of Thieves." Yin Shenglin said: "It's good to come back, thanks to the thief king personally going to Ju to avoid the union of Heiju, now the army of Hei Guo has been stationed in the south of Xiliang, and the war is about to break out, and our Dou State will also send troops to assist Xiliang." ”