Chapter 272: Riding a Bare Horse
Wei Xianyun and Zhang Bao'er are not mistaken, Li Yide is indeed a good master. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Li Yide's training method of archery for child slaves is relatively unique, and he solemnly hands over the brand-new longbows to the children.
Looking at the children with excited faces, Li Yide raised the bow in his hand and asked loudly, "What is this?" ”
"Bow!" The children replied loudly.
"That's right, it's a bow. But do you know what the bow is for us? Li Yide asked again.
The children didn't know how to answer.
"The bow is our life. People are in the bow, the bow is in the people, without the bow we leave our own life, as an archer, no matter when and under what circumstances, we must love the bow as if we love our own life. Do you understand? ”
"Understood!" The children's answers resounded in the sky.
Li Yide's intention is very simple: the weapon that is often used, once held in the hand, will have a natural and comfortable feeling, which is the "bow feeling".
From this day on, the children stayed with the bow twenty-four hours a day. They ate, slept, and trained with bows, and bows became their friends, brothers, and most familiar companions. The most they do every day is static aiming exercises and quick bow raising aiming exercises.
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It is not enough to practice archery, Zhang Baoer is still thinking about how to let the child slaves practice riding, if they can't ride horses, they will definitely not be able to ride horses in the future.
First of all, Zhang Baoer made it necessary for the child slaves to stay with their horses at all times, whether they were eating or sleeping, and for this reason, Zhang Baoer provided each of them with two horses.
Zhang Baoer asked the child slaves to make friends with their horses, and to communicate with their horses as soon as possible in the shortest possible time, regardless of what method was used.
In order to achieve better results, Zhang Baoer also asked Suba to teach the child slaves every day, and gave a detailed introduction to the horses' living habits, smell, sight, taste, hearing, and how to eat and sleep.
After that, it was time to train the child slaves to ride horses.
Zhang Bao'er's method is also very special, he asked Suba to ride a horse first to determine the route, probably with the big grass beach horse farm as the center, the whole circle is a big circle, a distance of 1,000 miles.
Zhang Baoer chewed the last mouthful of dry food, drank a sip of water, and then stood up. It was the fifth day since they left the Great Grass Beach, and the child slaves had traveled nearly 500 miles. Compared with the normal march of the cavalry, the speed may be a little slow, but Zhang Baoer is already very satisfied. Because, including the child slaves, all ride naked horses!
To ride a bare horse is to ride a bareback horse, without a saddle, pedal or bridle.
Before leaving, Zhang Baoer gave this order to the child slaves, but the child slaves did not react. In their opinion, Zhang Baoer asked them to do the right thing.
But when Suba heard it, she almost didn't drop her jaw.
It is not surprising to ride a naked horse, which child of the steppe has never ridden a naked horse. But as Zhang Baoer said, he wanted to ride a naked horse for a thousand miles, but he had never heard of it.
Riding a bare horse has no reins and a halter, so it is difficult to control the direction of the horse on a bareback horse. There is no saddle and pedals, so you can only use your legs to control your balance. The horse's spine is narrow and stiff, and the man on the horse moves with the undulations of the horse's gallop. Although Zhang Baoer has laid a piece of felt on the back of each horse, if the horse's back is lifted and your butt is turned down during the run, it will inevitably hurt to touch, which requires a lot of skill. In particular, nascent slaves like child slaves can't get off once they get on bareback horses. At this time, if you don't want to be a good man, you have to make up your mind and not be afraid of sacrifice. Sit firmly, clamp your legs, calm down, open your worn buttocks, and let the horses keep galloping forward.
In fact, Zhang Baoer also did not know how to train child slaves to ride. In later generations, he seemed to have heard that Genghis Khan used this method to train Mongolian teenagers into invincible cavalry in the world. So, without hesitation, such an order was given.
Now it seems that the effect is very obvious, and in just five days, the child slaves' ability to harness the horses has improved considerably.
On the first day, many child slaves threw their horses into the grass dozens of times, and their eyes were full of stars. Because there are no stirrups, there is no need to worry about the danger of being dragged away by the horse when you fall, and the most feared thing about riding a horse is the stirrup, which often kills people. It dragged on for more than 30 miles all day.
The next day, the child slaves gained experience, and in addition to the pain in their thighs, they traveled more than 50 miles throughout the day, and were thrown off their horses much less often.
On the third day, I still had pain in my inner thigh, but I ran a hundred miles. More than half of them were not thrown off by horses again.
On the fourth day, they had traveled 180 miles by changing horses several times on the way, and almost no one had fallen off their horses, except for a very few people.
Today is the fifth day, and although it is only noon, I have changed horses twice in the morning, and I have already run a hundred and twenty miles, and no one has fallen off my horse!
Zhang Bao'er looked at the child slaves, they were almost resting, and they had also fed the war horses, so they shouted loudly: "Get on the horse!" ”
There is something special about the way the child slaves get on the horses. Because of the lack of horses, and the small size of the child slaves, it was difficult to get on the horses.
However, this is not difficult for them. Hearing only the various whistles and shouts of the child slaves, the horse's hearing was so good that it could quickly distinguish the distinctive voice of its master in the midst of the chaos. After hearing the voice of the master, the war horse began to trot. At this time, the child slaves ran with the horse on the side of the horse, slowly approached the left hand of the horse to grab the mane on the horse's neck, held the horse's back with their right hand by inertia, jumped vigorously, pounced on the horse's back, took the right leg of the horse, turned over and rode upright, and clamped the horse's body with both legs. This series of actions must be completed in one go, without the slightest hesitation in between.
On the ninth day, Zhang Baoer returned to Dacaotan with the child slaves, a full day ahead of schedule.
Zhang Bao'er's method was crooked, and the child slaves never knew how to ride horses to become proficient in horsemanship, and it only took nine days
Since the child slaves knew how to ride horses, of course they had to be equipped with saddles and pedals.
Perhaps it was the progress of the child slaves that made Zhang Bao'er more confident, and he gave the child slaves an incredible order: they were not allowed to dismount for ten days.
Including Zhang Bao'er herself, everyone must live on the horse for ten days and are not allowed to dismount.
The child slaves carried out Zhang Bao'er's order to the letter, and sure enough, no one dismounted.
Eating and sleeping right away, it's already hard. However, there are even harder ones.
When Suba saw Zhang Bao'er and the child slaves, the urine and urine could be solved immediately, and she was completely speechless.
At this time, there was a child slave who, on a galloping horse, actually took off his pants and squatted on the saddle to defecate, and ran out for seven or eight miles before wiping his ass and putting on his trousers.
As for switching back and forth between several galloping horses, it was a piece of cake for the child slaves
Zhang Baoer's training method can be endured by people, but horses can't stand it. In just ten days, he lost a dozen horses.
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