In order to deter the Qianghu people in Shangjun, Lü Bu began to march against the water from Yuanyang, and traveled 150 miles in one day to Baitu County. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 After resting for half a day in the white soil, he hurried north and went straight to the northernmost Zhenlin in Upper County.

In this dispatch, all the horses of the whole army were nailed to their horseshoes, including the horses that carried the supplies. Judging from the situation of the march in these days, the effect is very good. It had been five days of rapid marching, but none of the battalions had horses to withdraw from the march because their hooves had been punctured by hard objects and gravel on the road.

Before leaving, Lu Bu was also considering whether to equip the troops with the two weapons of mass destruction, the Takahashi saddle and the stirrups. Zhang Liao suggested that the pack horse should be brought first, so that it would not be exposed for the time being, and if the situation was tense and it was necessary to fight the enemy, it would be too late for emergency assembly.

The production of Takahashi saddles and stirrups was more time-consuming, labor-intensive, and material-intensive than horseshoes, and after the Tiance army arrived at Lishi, dozens of craftsmen secretly gathered to work day and night to make them, and by now they have barely built 2,000 sets.

However, the invention process of the Takahashi saddle and stirrup was not complicated, but was actually a modification and upgrade on the basis of the existing saddle sheath and one-legged stirrups. The most important thing is a change in design thinking, as long as this layer of window paper is pierced, and the craftsmen are shown the direction, they can immediately produce a finished product that meets the requirements.

A saddle is a combination of a saddle and a saddle pad. At this time, the popular saddle was low in the front and back, and the recess in the middle was relatively shallow. The Takahashi saddle raises the front and rear blocks a lot, so that the middle recess is very deep, which can provide the rider with thrust from both front and rear, so that the rider is not easy to be thrown off the horse when the reins are spread with both hands.

If you rely only on the stability provided by Takahashi's saddle, the rider will not be thrown off the horse when moving back and forth on the horse, but it is still easy to roll off the horse when it is swaying from side to side. That's when the two-legged stirrup came into being.

The stirrup that was popular in this era was also a one-legged triangle, and its main purpose was to provide a pedal support for the rider when he was on horseback.

Lü Bu instructed the craftsmen to transform the triangular stirrup into the shape of the front half of the shoe, which in appearance resembled a large half-cut shoe cover. Crafted from brass and wrought iron, the large shoe covers were worn on the left and right sides with tanned leather ropes, passed under the Takahashi saddle, and rested on either side of the horse's belly. There are also small holes under the stirrups, and a thin leather rope is used to connect the two stirrups from under the horse's belly.

In this way, the Takahashi saddle and the two-legged stirrups are perfectly combined into a single unit, and from the cross-sectional point of the isosceles triangle occupies the three-point position of an isosceles triangle.

The rider sits in the groove of Takahashi's saddle, and his left and right feet are wrapped in the sleeve of the stirrups, and his body can be firmly controlled by the natural force of his feet and back and abdomen.

The knight's hands were completely freed, no longer holding the reins tightly with one hand as before, and holding a long weapon or riding bow in the other hand, and his combat effectiveness naturally soared.

Whether a knight can use one hand or two hands right away is not a simple process of one plus one equals two.

The main mode of attack of the light cavalry was mounted archery, but in order to maintain the balance of the horse's body, the interval between shots was very long, and it was necessary to shoot arrows with a bow in a short time in a stable state, which not only affected the accuracy, but also did not fire as fast as the archers standing on the ground. When the light cavalry no longer worries about falling off their horses, not only can the rate of fire be increased exponentially, but the accuracy can also be improved a lot. What's more, they can even hold a bow in one hand and a sword in the other, making them useful in both ranged and melee combat.

The main offensive method of the heavy cavalry is the long spur, which is the horse lance of later generations. ”。 Because of the huge inertia and reaction force, the heavy cavalry often injured the arm, and even fell backwards. With the stability provided by the Takahashi saddle and the stirrups on both feet, they can hold the saddle in both hands and force both arms together, which not only avoids injuries in one arm, but also increases agility and lethality.

When Lu Bu instructed the craftsmen at that time, he simply drew two somewhat ugly sketches on the white paper, and then compared the back and belly of the red rabbit horse a few times, and the craftsmen immediately understood and understood what Lu Bu meant.

The craftsmen used leather, hemp rope, silk cloth, furry grass, hardwood, brass, wrought iron and steel to make more than a dozen samples, and then Lu Bu selected the two that were both cost-effective and applicable, and then began to build them in large quantities.

Of the two options, one is a luxurious version of the saddle and stirrup, which is made for generals at great expense. The saddles and stirrups are made of the finest quality brass, steel, wrought iron and the strongest and most durable leather and velvet, which are not only finely made, but also very comfortable and perform optimally in all respects. The high cost of construction has made this luxury version of the saddle and stirrup so far only ten sets have been built.

Another popular version of the saddle and stirrup, in which brass and wrought iron are used for key components, and the rest of the saddle is made of heavy use of hardwood, hemp rope, silk cloth and ordinary leather, which is a little rougher in workmanship, but much stronger than the old-fashioned saddle and one-legged stirrups. Even this ordinary version of the saddle and stirrup is not easy to make, and so far it has not been possible for all cavalrymen to have a set.

According to Lu Bu's meaning, 2,000 sets of Takahashi saddles and stirrups, of which 500 were directly allocated to armored cavalry. Previously, there were no armored cavalry equipped with Takahashi saddles and stirrups, and they were not perfect heavy cavalry, but now the horseshoe, Takahashi saddle, and stirrups "Three Treasures of Cavalry" are all available, and armored cavalry is even armed to the extreme.

Of the remaining 1,500 sets, the flying cavalry battalion received 500 sets, and Gao Shun's middle battalion, Xu Rong's left battalion, Zhang Liao's right battalion, and Xu Huang's rear battalion each received 250 sets.

There were nearly two hundred miles between Baitu and Zhenlin, all of which were deserted fields, and Lü Bu ordered each battalion to take out the saddles and stirrups of the high bridge, and all the cavalry took turns to try them out, so as to familiarize themselves with the combat methods after using the new harness as soon as possible.

In order to keep it secret, the 5,000 cavalry and 1,000 warriors who went north this time were all composed of Han Liangjia who were from Bingzhou, and Bai Bo surrendered troops and foreign tribes did not ask for any of them.

Replaced by the "Three Treasures", the Han family erlang galloped between heaven and earth to his heart's content, and in the past, only the main generals and particularly agile horse athletes could make dangerous movements, ordinary knights with the help of new harness, all done.

Seeing that the soldiers were all active, Lu Bu issued an order, this time to go north to Jiuyuan, all the outstanding cantonment teams will be given priority to install new harness after returning to Lishi!

As soon as this order was issued, the battalions cheered, and the toil and fatigue of the soldiers were swept away.