With the trade of steel swords, the Northland Huns and the Franks established trade relations. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The subjects of the Northland Huns were the Saxons, the allies were the Sincambri, and the Fries.

After Ye Feng received the messenger from the Franks, he painted other wooden structures of the iron plough overnight and handed them over to the carpenters to manufacture, Ye Feng patted the old carpenter on the shoulder and told him solemnly.

"Finish it, I'll reward you with a woman!"

The old carpenter was instantly excited, the old blacksmith was already in his 40s, and there was no hope for him, so he could only fight for a lifetime, after hearing this, the old carpenter quickly gathered his subordinate carpenter elite and built it overnight.

And Ye Feng also rode his horse to the blacksmith camp non-stop, the flag fluttered on the horseback, and the apostle guards guarding the blacksmith camp saw Ye Feng's cavalry team coming, and quickly got out of the way, they were excited about the recent apostles coming and going to the craftsman camp.

Because every time Ye Feng came to the craftsman's camp, he could bring divine revelations and miracles to everyone, Ye Feng looked at his knights without stirrups, and deeply felt the backwardness of technology in this era, Ye Feng entered the blacksmith camp under the belief of building his own heavy cavalry.

In Ye Feng's image, the introduction of stirrups to Europe came from the middle of the 6th century, a strong nomadic tribe called the stirrups was forced to move west for unknown reasons, and they introduced the technology of stirrups to Europe. Calling themselves the Avars, they fought very fiercely, and they crossed the southern part of Russia, settling between the Danube and Thesa rivers.

By 560, the Avars had posed a threat to the Byzantine Empire. So the Bébeans learned the stirrup technique of the Avars, adapted the cavalry, and Maurice Tybius compiled a military book, the Strategic, which appeared in 580.

The cavalry tactics that should be employed are detailed, and the use of iron hooves is stated.

Think about it, those Hun knights, wearing armor and holding heavy horses, those knights will not be so mighty, and the knights with such a heavy burden will inevitably fall from the back of the horse easily.

At the beginning of the Middle Ages, stirrups were rarely used in the standing armies of Western Europe, which was due to the lack of iron-smelting technology.

Ye Feng appeared to say, and in the expectant eyes of those old blacksmiths, Ye Feng said:

"This, called stirrups, has the effect of stabilizing the knight on horseback, so that the knight can stabilize his body when he charges."

Anthony, the camp leader of the blacksmith camp, had an excited look on his face, he knew exactly what it meant, he used to be a knight, because he fell off a horse, broke his leg, and now he walks with a limp, so he knows exactly how important stirrups are.

But he didn't really see the power of the saddle, but he couldn't help but exclaim.

After Ye Feng's explanation, these clever blacksmiths quickly understood Ye Feng's intentions.

Now, Ye Feng needs to demonstrate it again, so that the memories of these blacksmiths are more profound. Under the watchful eyes of a circle of blacksmiths, Ye Feng picked up the hammer and personally added coal to the furnace fire. At this time, Ye Feng felt that there was no bellows, and the temperature of the furnace could not be increased, but it was more than enough to build an iron saddle.

Ye Feng's hammer swung, and sparks flew everywhere. Before you know it, a shaped iron saddle is put into the water to cool down.

The last iron stirrup was completed, and finally, with the help of other craftsmen, the accessories of the stirrup were also completed, Ye Feng put the stirrup on his horse, and stepped on it easily.

This made Anthony's heart slammed, he can be a knight again, right?

Before there were stirrups, it was difficult for people to get on the horse, in addition to jumping up with the help of the force point, they could only let people squat, step on it themselves, and then get on the horse, there were other methods, but they all needed to exert force on the legs.

Anthony's left leg was lame, but his right leg was still fine, his left leg couldn't exert strength, but his right leg could, and now with the stirrups, he himself could not jump on top of the horse alone, and Anthony felt that his breathing was difficult. But thinking about the weight on his shoulders, Anthony gave up the chance to become a knight again.

Because he builds stirrups, he can realize other people's dreams of knighthood.

Ye Feng stepped on the stirrups, took the giant cavalry handed over by the attendant, rode his horse and charged, and stabbed into a scarecrow three hundred meters away, the horse's hooves flew, and the cavalry was straightened out.

Bang.

The scarecrow bursts all at once! Straw splashes, if this hits a person's body, imagine it.

And Ye Feng was still riding smoothly on the horse, and almost everyone let out cheers, all looking at Ye Feng with the eyes of worshiping the gods.

Ye Feng felt that it felt good to gallop on horseback, so he dropped his horse, ignoring the exclamations of the apostle guards, he rode around the blacksmith camp like this, only to feel that the wind swept across his face, and his lungs were burning like fire, Ye Feng stopped his horse and breathed heavily.

It will take a certain amount of time for the stirrups to be installed, because there are more than 3,000 stirrups, although the stirrups do not have high requirements for iron and technology, but with the current full production capacity, without affecting the construction of other steel swords and iron ploughs, about 300 can be built a day.

But to build a full-fledged knight, he still needs to do more, Ye Feng was a lover of heavy riding before.

When the heavy cavalry swept across the land, destroying everything, trampling everything, and charging without a brain made people explode.

Until the 8th century, the only way to pull a horse in the West was to "pull the horse with a belly belt in front of the neck", which was an extremely unreasonable method because the belt strangled the horse's throat, and the horse would suffocate if it had too much strength.

This kind of pulling makes the horse-drawn carriage extremely difficult, and no matter how good the horse or how good the rider, the long run becomes a great challenge, and the inferior horse can even die as a result.

This can also cause horses to become extremely frantic and uncontrolled cannibalism due to strangulation by the throat during the battle. This is probably why the Huns did not sweep Western Europe like the Mongols, and the Huns did have some advantages in military technology over Rome, but not completely.

Whenever we read the writings of Rome that it was mentioned that Rome would starve if it lost its food from Egypt, it is not difficult to ask, are there no other agricultural areas in Italy that have no food? Because of the technical factors of the horse's harness, it became extremely difficult for the carriage to transport food.

In the 4th century B.C., China invented a more advanced chest harness. What Ye Feng wants to learn from is the advanced technology of the East.

The so-called chest harness is that the throat of the horse is no longer covered with straps, but is carried by the sternum and collarbone.