Although Xu Rong and Gao Shun worked together to make a draw with Huaxiong, they did not despise the two because of this, but paid sincere respect to them.

After all, in the entire army, there are almost no people who can compete with Hua Xiong, and Hua Xiong usually uses one as a hundred.

The strong have always deserved people's respect, and this is the law of the army and the law of the strong. No matter how time passes, this law is eternal in the military.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

The sound of drums shook the sky, like nine days of thunder.

The three players in the field were entangled again and played inextricably.

Dong Zhuo raised the cold and shining sword in his hand, the drumming became more intensive, and the soldiers in the formation also raised their troops and roared again.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

The battle in the arena became more tense and fierce with the shouts of 10,000 troops and the dense drumming.

"Bell!"

Hua Xiong's tiger head decapitation broadsword blocked the bronze spear that Xu Rong stabbed through the wind and the white tiger sword that Gao Shun slashed with the momentum of opening mountains and cracking stones. Hua Xiong's hands were bruised, and the big knife in his hand was holding on. Xu Rong and Gao Shun also used their strength to eat, wanting to press down Huaxiong's big knife.

The two sides were in a stalemate for half a day, and their physical strength was constantly declining. After all, Gao Shun was still young, and gradually began to lose his physical strength.

Hua Xiong was keenly aware of this, and his strength burst out, violently shaking Xu Rong and Gao Shun's weapons away. Before the two of them could react, Hua Xiong galloped behind Gao Shun with lightning speed, swept away thousands of troops with a big sword, and knocked Gao Shun off the horse at once.

With the strength of the two, it is difficult to defeat Huaxiong. At this time, Xu Rong was the only one left, how could he withstand Hua Xiong's bravery. Within a few rounds, Xu Rong was defeated by Hua Xiong's spear in his hand.

Dong Zhuo under Daxu can see it clearly, if it weren't for Gao Shun's exhaustion, the two would still be able to hold out for some rounds. This reminded Dong Zhuo of a crucial thing - stirrups.

If the war horse could be equipped with stirrups, the two would never have been defeated so quickly, and it is unknown whether they will win against Huaxiong.

In the days when horses were not equipped with stirrups, riding a horse was a chore. For when the horse gallops or leaps, the knight sits in the saddle with his feet in the air, and can only clamp the horse's legs and at the same time hold the saddle tightly with his hands to prevent him from falling off the horse.

It's so difficult to even ride, let alone a Pegasus fighter or a horseback rush. When the cavalry is hand-to-hand, they have to clamp the horse's belly with their legs and chop with their weapons. With such a double purpose, even if you have ten things, it would be good if you could make six achievements when you were fighting.

Just like before, Gao Shun was not very skilled in horseback fighting, and used too much strength to clamp the horse between his legs, and soon he was exhausted and defeated.

Therefore, even though King Wuling of Zhao during the Warring States Period was cavalry and archery, various countries began to train cavalry, but in the Three Kingdoms period, chariots were still in use. After all, the Han people, like the northern nomads, grew up on horseback since childhood.

Before the invention of stirrups, cavalry was very strict in its selection and training. Moreover, the cavalry at that time did not have the role of charging and killing, and could only do tactical actions of cavalry shooting.

The so-called cavalry archery means that the cavalry rushes to a point and stops to release the arrow, and then sprints forward for a certain distance and stops and releases the arrow again, and so on.

However, the invention of the stirrup changed that. After the invention of the stirrup, it made the war horse easier to control, so that the person and the horse were connected as one, so that the person riding on the horse freed his hands. Cavalrymen can ride and shoot on galloping horses, or swing sharply from side to side on horseback, completing military maneuvers of left and right without fear of falling off their horses.

The knight can use the stirrup to borrow the power to attach the impact of the horse to the knight's body and its weapons, which greatly improves the combat effectiveness of the cavalry and makes the combat power of the cavalry be brought into full play.

The stirrup has been hailed as an epoch-making invention in human military history, and it is not groundless. As the later British historian of science and technology Wright said:

"Few inventions are as simple as stirrups, and few are of such historical significance. The stirrup applied animal power to hand-to-hand combat, so that the cavalry and the horse became one".

According to the research of later historians, stirrups should have appeared in the Western Han Dynasty. However, at that time, stirrups were supposed to be used only by a few Huns, and they were not mature.

The real use of stirrups in military should be in the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, during the Five Hu Rebellion, as the northern nomads entered the Central Plains, frequent wars prompted the invention of the stirrup.

At this moment, Dong Zhuo was quite happy, which can be described as an unexpected joy. Originally, he planned to let Xu Rong and Gao Shun fight with Hua Xiong, establish prestige in front of the sergeants, and command the troops in the future. I don't want to think of the stirrup, an important thing, which is really unintentional.

Dong Zhuo's face was silent, but he began to think about it in his heart, and after returning to the city, he would definitely summon a blacksmith to make stirrups.

"See the lord!" At this time, Hua Xiong and the others rode back to Dong Zhuo, dismounted and saluted.

"Gongsheng Xuandao doesn't have to be so lost, Xuanba (Huaxiong's word, apocryphal) has followed me for many years, and he has been tempered by a hundred battles, so he has the ability to do it today. You and the two are still young, and if he has experienced the battlefield every day, he will definitely be able to surpass Xuanba. Dong Zhuo saw that Xu Rong and Gao Shun were a little depressed, so he said kind words to comfort them.

After the two of them looked better, they turned to Dong Huang and said, "Shaojin, do you know the wind forest volcano?" ”

Dong Huang couldn't help but be stunned when he heard that his uncle was teaching him at this time, and after thinking about it, he replied: "The wind forest volcano is cloudy and thundery, from "Sun Tzu's Art of War: Military Struggle", so the soldiers are established by deception, by profit, and by dividing and making peace. Therefore, it is as fast as the wind, as slow as a forest, as invading as fire, as immobile as a mountain, as difficult as a cloud, and as moving as a thunderstorm. Plundering the countryside and dividing the people, dividing the land and profits, and suspending power. The prophet's roundabout plan wins, and the law of this military struggle is also. "Recently, Dong Zhuo has strengthened the education of Dong Huang, and the art of war and martial arts are not behind.

Dong Zhuo nodded with satisfaction. Then he said to the people: "Now our army has 14,000 men, and the army is divided into four parts, with the Wind Forest Volcano as the name. ”

All the cavalry was grouped into one part and was called the Wind Battalion, which was commanded by the cavalry commander Hua Xiong.

The second part is the Yulin Battalion, with 1,000 archers, 1,000 pikemen, and 1,000 sword and shield men, led by Captain Xu Rong.

The third part is the Flame Battalion, with 3,000 school swordsmen, led by Sima Gaoshun of the other department.

The fourth part is the Qingshan battalion, with 3,000 sword and shield soldiers. For the time being, it is concurrently led by Lieutenant Dong Min.

The remaining two thousand, one thousand were arranged into Dong Zhuo's personal barracks, which was led by Dong Huang.

The remaining more than 1,000 were old, weak, sick and disabled, and were organized into the defenders of Hedong County, which were naturally led by Dong Min, the governor of Hedong County.

After the distribution, Dong Zhuo couldn't help but sigh, he still lacks at least one general! I hope that Wen Zheng finds out the whereabouts of that person, and then there will be someone in charge of the Qingshan camp.

Returning to Anyi County, Dong Zhuo immediately sent Dong Huang to gather all the famous blacksmiths in the city to the Taishou Mansion.

Some of these reliable ones were carefully selected, and they were given drawings of stirrups and horseshoes, which were ordered to be built overnight. and Dong Huang personally led Dong Zhuo to guard it.

Since the stirrup is to be made, the horseshoe naturally cannot be left behind.

If the horse runs for a long time, the horse's hooves will break and fall off when they come into contact with the ground. Nailing horseshoes to the horse's hooves can not only delay the wear of the horse's hooves, but also make the war horse grasp the ground more firmly, so as not to run too fast and cause the horse's hooves to not grasp the ground firmly and lose the front hooves.

During the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the martial mourning king Ran Min was unparalleled in the world, but in the end, he was captured because of the horse Zhulong horse lost his front hooves and was captured.

The importance of the horseshoe is evident from this.

Dong Zhuo believed that the cavalry equipped with stirrups and horseshoes would inevitably greatly improve the combat capability of the cavalry. In the future, when he creates 100,000 Xiliang Iron Horses, this troubled world will soon come to an end.