Cheng Zhijie's efficiency is very high, in the early morning of the third day, he took Xue Wanche straight to the palace, compared with the previous bulls, although Cheng Zhijie has a bad reputation, he is still more serious in things, and his attitude is naturally not picky.

Li Yuanji has had a lot of contact with Cheng Zhijie early, and the two also look at each other very well, and they have a good impression.

"A whole thousand people, all of them are selected according to your requirements, there are no clan relatives who are married within three generations, most of them are good at using bows and arrows, all of them can ride horses, but half of them are not very good at riding, this is also a helpless thing, the cavalry can't pick out so many people we want." Cheng Zhijie handed a roster to Li Yuanji and said.

Li Yuanji took the roster and flipped through it boringly, what was recorded on it was very simple, there were only three circumstances: life, age, and which military government he came from.

"It doesn't matter if it's all infantry, as long as there are horses, this king doesn't believe that he can't train cavalry." Li Yuanji snorted coldly, how could he not hear the meaning of Cheng Zhijie's voice?

The scale of the cavalry of the Tang army is indeed inferior to that of the Turks, but it is not as scarce as in the early Han Dynasty, not to mention that there are 100,000 cavalry around the entire Chang'an City, at least 10,000 cavalry are still there, and 10,000 people can't pick out a thousand suitable candidates? This makes it clear that someone doesn't want to give it to themselves.

However, Li Yuanji never suspected that this person was Cheng Zhijie, because he knew that it was impossible with his eyes closed.

"How can cavalry be so easy to train? Besides, it's only three months, don't blame me Lao Cheng for not reminding you, when the time comes, I won't lose this person with you. Cheng Zhijie pursed his lips, he had seen King Qi's arrogance and arrogance, but this was the first time he had seen his self-confidence, blind self-confidence.

"Go and ask Qin Yuan to bring the things!" Commanded Song Zhong.

Since you do it, you will do things perfectly, and you will win above board, and you will not be able to find any fault.

Combat units are more concerned with details, and if they tie countless details together, they will not be defeated in the end.

"Isn't this a saddle?" Seeing Song Zhong walking with Qin Yuan, carrying a heavy saddle on his back, Cheng Zhijie couldn't help frowning again and again, and said without hiding his disdain.

"Don't underestimate this saddle, this is something that this king has spent several nights trying to come up with." Gently stroking the different saddle, I secretly sighed in my heart, such an inconspicuous thing, something that everyone in the future generations knows, but it can bring earth-shaking changes to Datang, the mood is very flat, there is no excitement that is about to change history, maybe the result has already been expected.

Without stinging with his praise, Li Yuanji praised without hesitation: "With it, the infantry who have never ridden a war horse can become a real cavalry within a month, and the cavalry who has ridden a war horse but is not refined can exert a stronger combat effectiveness than the elite cavalry within half a month." ”

"This thing is a little different, it shouldn't be that mysterious, right?" Cheng Zhijie took two steps forward, but in addition to seeing the difference, he didn't see other problems.

Saddle Tang Jun also has it, this is a very ordinary object, but it is smaller than the one Li Yuanji took out, and this one seems to be complicated except for the big one.

Xue Wanche banged around the saddle and found a lot of new things, and at the same time fantasized a little bit in his mind, and even put the saddle on the ground himself, and sat on it without caring about the image and experienced it.

It's just that when Xue Wanche stood up, his face was full of shock.

"In this competition, His Highness's chances of winning have exceeded fifty percent!" After a long time, Xue Wanche uttered an astonishing sentence.

"Less TM, I haven't even seen the soldiers yet, how can I have a more than fifty percent chance of winning? Even if you're from His Highness, you don't have to be so obvious, right? Cheng Zhijie was very dissatisfied and reprimanded in public.

Xue Wanche's complexion changed suddenly, it is true that he is the king of Qi, but he should be the crown prince's person, the emperor's person, although the little idea in his heart is still there, but Cheng Zhijie made it so clear that he still let him put this face?

"I tried this saddle myself, and the saddle is more comfortable to sit on than it is now, and the front and back sections can wrap the body well and help stabilize the body on the horseback. And the biggest difference, it should be here! Not to be outdone, Xue Wanche explained, and while grabbing one of the pedals, he stepped forward and grabbed one of the pedals, "Our saddle is not equipped with this. ”

"Nonsense, isn't that just pedals? It's a waste of things. Cheng Zhijie is still unhappy.

"If Zhijie really thinks so, he is very wrong, although that thing is a pedal, but the pedal also has a pedal difference." The corners of Li Yuanji's mouth rose slightly, and he reminded lukewarmly.

After Li Yuanji's reminder, Cheng Zhijie let go of his contempt, stepped forward and grabbed the pedal, and his face changed instantly: "Made of iron? ”

Li Yuanji nodded, "I didn't have that time, so I found a complete piece of iron and tied it up, and then you can let the general use some hard wood instead, but you have to make more in case of backup." ”

After confirming that the stirrups were made of iron, Cheng Zhijie was shocked in his heart, and he didn't know how to speak?

Why are cavalry so difficult to train? In the earliest days, cavalry was a warrior on horseback, without any auxiliary tools, and could only rely on the legs to clamp the horse's belly to prevent falling.

Later, there was a saddle, but the saddle only served to make it more comfortable for the warrior to ride on horseback.

The role of the stirrup is to help the warrior get on and off the horse, in fact, it is where a rope is set, often after getting on the war horse, the foot will be taken out of the rope, otherwise when fighting, it is very likely to be tied to the foot by the rope, and dragged by the war horse for a long time, which is extremely dangerous.

Therefore, the current cavalry is no different from the previous cavalry, while fighting, it is still necessary to firmly clamp the horse's back to prevent itself from falling, and when it is on the horse's back, it is also necessary to disperse its own strength to maintain balance, so the cavalry training will naturally not be so easy.

Cheng Zhijie doesn't understand those principles, but he knows a truth very well.

The cavalry is like riding a stick, and needs to rely on itself to maintain balance and fight the enemy, but this stirrup seems to raise the ground a little, which is equivalent to giving the soldier a place to borrow strength on horseback, so that the combat effectiveness will inevitably be stronger.

The new saddle came out, and the horseshoe that appeared with it naturally could not escape.

But for this thing, let Li Yuanji say that the sky is rotten, Cheng Zhijie still refuses to believe it anyway, in his words, this horse is the same as a person, try to nail an iron guy in your foot? See if you can still run?