After Lin Bin finished reading the war horses, he felt a little sorry for the horses that were lost or killed or injured on the battlefield. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

When it was at its strongest, Lin Bin had nearly 15,000 horses under his command, but it didn't mean that he could let people ride to fight if he was a horse, the reason why a war horse was a war horse was because the horse was specially tamed. An untamed horse cannot be ridden, because a horse that is not very good will be frightened and run away, so that not only will it not be able to ride and kill the enemy, but it will also mess up his own riding formation.

After the last war, Gongsun Hong reported that there were more than 7,000 horses, of which only nearly 2,000 could provide knights to ride across the battle, and Li Xi left nearly 4,000 after leaving, and these more than 4,000 war horses were all mounts of the Qiang cavalry, that is to say, war horses that could be used in battle without taming. Now Lin Bin has more than 6,000 war horses, and the rest are horses. The so-called horse is a kind of horse that cannot run fast, and it is an inferior horse that is specially used to carry supplies.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, it was popular to castrate war horses, so that they would not be in estrus on the battlefield, which was of course conducive to warfare, but the result was that the war horses of the tall and divine horses were castrated from generation to generation, and this generation of tall war horses castrated could not have offspring, and the good war horses were castrated after the selection of the inferior war horses to be castrated again, and the castration was finally no longer suitable for the knights to ride the war horses, so after the good war horses were castrated, there was no longer a heavy riding establishment until the Song Dynasty.

Lin Bin originally thought that the war horses of the Qiang nationality should all be geldings, but after checking them in person, he was pleased to find that the war horses of the Qiang nationality were not castrated (castrated) and were not geldings. Of course, this will take time. As far as he understood. The war horses of the Han Kingdom are all geldings, this is because they are afraid that they will not be able to ride in estrus during the battle, and they are also afraid that the war horses will be lured by the enemy's mare when they are in heat. This is the choice of castration. During the Warring States Period, an interesting incident occurred, that is, the war horse of Wu was led away by the enemy's mare, which caused the knight of Wu to surrender without a horse.

Out of the horse farm in the south of the city, Lin Bin turned to the east of the city, where armor and weapons were in full swing. Naturally, the armor does not need to be repeated, the only thing to mention is that Lin Bin saw the power of the knight holding the dragon lance to charge into battle last time, and asked the craftsmen led by Chang Yan to research a long weapon suitable for charging immediately. Chang Yan told Lin Bin very directly that the long weapon Han Guo would naturally use immediately, and they would make it as soon as possible.

Lin Bin was strange at first, since there was. So why don't you use the elite cavalry of the Northern Army? asked about Qingshui, and Qingshui replied, "It's not that it's not used, but it's not available." It turned out that the knight had no way to spare his hands. So it was designed, but no one wanted to use it.

Came to the east of the city. Lin Bin said hello, Chang Yan naturally knew that he was here to observe, and asked people to lift out a spear about four meters long, with a short sword head and an oval iron ball at the tail. Lin Bin took over and held it, this spear weighed about twenty catties, because of the existence of the iron ball in the tail, so there was no head-heavy and tail-light imbalance.

Lin Bin knew that there was a kind of long weapon called a horse lance that was used on horses, so he asked curiously.

Yan blinked her eyes. "Horse lance? What? ”

Lin Bin couldn't answer the question, so he immediately changed the topic. "How long does it take to make this spear?"

Chang Yan replied: "This place is the northern frontier, the wood is very scarce, and the body of this spear is a French tong, which is very easy to break, I am afraid that it will ...... I'm afraid I can't ......."

Lin Bin knew that the conditions were too restrictive, but he didn't want to use tough wood as a gun body, after all, it was all a one-time consumption. He said: "The spear doesn't have to be too elaborate, it just needs to have a strong piercing force. By the way, the iron ball at the end of the gun is replaced by something else, and the iron is saved to create other weapons. ”

Chang Yan blinked his eyes again, and he didn't know what he was talking to himself, so he chattered for a long time, and asked very suddenly: "My lord is saying, don't waste too much material, this spear has been used and lost?" ”

How does this answer Lin Bin? He only had a detailed explanation, and when Chang Yan understood the meaning, the two entered the refining site one after the other, Lin Bin looked and saw that there were earthen cellars everywhere, and the heat was rolling in, and the craftsmen gathered around the cellar in three or two, enduring the intriguing heat, observing the graphite. Lin Bin didn't understand much of this, so he couldn't see why, and walked straight to the weapon rack on the left.

There were already unopened weapons piled up on the weapon rack, and the craftsman in charge of cherishing the good and bad selected the qualified weapons and placed them on a flat cart, waiting for a certain number, and someone came to pull the flat cart away and send it to polishing.

Because Lin Bin's army was mainly cavalry, he only made a small number of weapons used by foot soldiers, so he picked up a head and looked at it in detail.

Ge has always been one of the most important infantry weapons in the era of cold weapons in China, it is definitely not a fluke to have such a status, there is a vital reason that Ge needs less metal materials, and the second is that Ge's lethality is very large, but later with the cessation of the war, the skills of holding Ge combat were buried, and because Ge's head is easy to fall off, it was gradually replaced by other weapons, and then became a guard of honor weapon.

After inspecting it, Lin Bin explained a lot in detail before leaving. He is the head of an army, and some things just need to be explained, if he doesn't do anything, he pounces here all day long, he simply changes jobs and becomes a craftsman.

In winter, there are often periods of snowfall in northern Xinjiang, and the snow covers the roofs and roads, hiding the appearance of various objects, and the whole fortress is dressed in snow-white uniforms.

Lin Bin looked up at the sky, the gray sky, it seemed that it was going to start snowing again today.

Finally, the snow began to fall again, the snow was at the beginning of the snow, often the snow flakes were not big, not too dense, such as catkins fluttering lightly with the wind, as the wind blew more and more fiercely, the snow fell more and more densely, and the snowflakes became bigger and bigger, like weaving a white net, and Zhang saw nothing far away.

Lin Bin walked forward quickly, there was the drill venue for the new recruits, and the newcomers could be vaguely seen from a distance, as if they were trying to avoid the snow, and the officers began to shout, looking a little chaotic. In fact, it was not cold when it first snowed, but it was really cold when the snow was about to melt, as long as it was not a blizzard, it had no effect in the open area, and the soldiers began to drill again in the sound of shouting.

Snowflakes fluttered and fell, and the snowflakes danced in various postures in the air. or flying, or circling, or falling straight and fast. In the snow-white, the soldiers shouted loudly, holding or pecking, or hooking, which was just to familiarize them with the life of the soldiers. Strict drills help to give the non-commissioned officers a sense of discipline and make them understand that they are already soldiers, and not unarmed men who only need to exercise food, and if properly trained, there will be a sense of cooperation. This is a kind of adjustment of mentality, which is linked to combat power, but the use is not particularly obvious. They're just playing under the snowflakes.

Of course, the above are by no means Lin Bin's own ideas, he knows that any era has its own way of training troops, if it is forced to move over and impose it in an unsuitable era. It's as ridiculous as letting people jump into the water to learn to walk. The same is true of the establishment of the army. In the era of cold weapons, the Central Plains army has a good establishment system summed up from countless wars, take the smallest infantry formation of the Han army as an example, ten people and one tithe for a small formation, there is a coordinated combat method adapted to the small formation, one less person can not be more than one person, that will destroy the formation, if Lin Bin's head is not broken. We will never cleverly impose a modern military establishment system on the current armed forces.

The officer currently in charge of supervising the new recruits is Chen Xi, and he immediately greeted Lin Bin when he saw him walking alone. He greeted with a smile: "My lord, how do you have time to come here?" ”

Lin Bin really wondered why Chen Xi asked that.

Chen Xi took off the helmet on his head and patted off the edelweiss on it, "Tomorrow is the Winter Solstice Festival, and I thought that adults were busy for a while." ”

This is the second time Lin Bin has heard of the Winter Solstice Festival, and there are only a few modern traditional festivals, and he does not have the Winter Solstice Festival in his impression, so he is a little curious, "Will the Winter Solstice Festival be very busy?" ”

Chen Xi didn't know that Lin Bin didn't know some customs, but he was stunned for a moment when he was asked, "Adults are laughing?" Is there anyone in my Chinese land who doesn't know the Winter Solstice Festival? Seeing that Lin Bin's expression was still confused, it didn't look like he was joking, so Na Na explained, "This is the Chinese Festival, every year 'Meng Dongyue (October)' on the 22nd day, the winter solstice yang rises, and it needs to be congratulated." ”

Lin Bin didn't understand, and after Chen Xi tried his best to explain, Lin Bin finally understood that people at this time attached great importance to the winter solstice, and the winter solstice was regarded as a big festival. In the Book of Han, it is said that "the winter solstice is yang, and the monarch is long, so he congratulates." "It is believed that the winter solstice, when the days are getting longer and the yang energy is rising, is the beginning of a solar term cycle and an auspicious day that should be celebrated.

The winter solstice is one of the 24 solar terms and is one of the most important. The winter solstice is a solar term divided by astronomy, which was called 'short days' and 'short solstice' in ancient times. On the day of the winter solstice, the sun is located at 270 degrees of ecliptic longitude, and the sunlight almost directly hits the Tropic of Capricorn, which is the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, and correspondingly, the southern hemisphere has the longest days of the year on the winter solstice.

The winter solstice is one of the most important solar terms in terms of health preservation, mainly because of the "winter solstice and one yang". According to the gossip theory, at this time it is a repetition of landmines. In the hexagram, there are five yin lines at the top and one yang line at the bottom, symbolizing the birth of yang energy. In ancient China, the winter solstice was set as the sub-month, that is, the beginning of the year. In the twelve hours of the day, the child hour is also the time when the human body is born.

The winter solstice is also known as the winter festival, according to the traditional calendar of our country, with five days as a wait, three and fifteen days as a section or a gas, and divided into twelve festivals and twelve gases in a year, collectively known as the twenty-four solar terms, this is the solar terms used in the day selection school, the day selection is based on the solar terms of the lunar calendar to select the auspicious lesson, and the so-called lunar calendar is the combination of the solar calendar and the lunar calendar, the solar calendar refers to the twenty-four solar terms (the cycle of the sun is divided into twelve stages, and then divided into twenty-four solar terms, one section and one gas for one month), the lunar calendar is a pure month ( According to the cycle of the moon), the days are on the 22nd or 23rd day of the twelfth month of the national calendar.

The so-called New Year, this is not in the Han Dynasty, the winter solstice is quite a relatively large festival now, can be regarded as a New Year, before and after the winter solstice, the gentleman is quiet, the officials are absolutely eventful, do not listen to the government, choose auspicious days and then save trouble. That is to say, you don't have to do anything in this big festival, so on this day (Winter Solstice Festival), the court should have a holiday to rest, the army is on standby, the border is closed, the business travel is closed, relatives and friends give each other food, visit each other, and happily live a quiet holiday.

"So much exquisiteness!?" Lin Bin is very strange, why is such a big festival no longer in modern times? I finally knew why Liu Jing told herself so cautiously that tomorrow was the Winter Solstice Festival, and it turned out that she had to prepare well in advance. However, Lin Bin was stunned again, he didn't know what to prepare!

"Huh? Oh! Ravioli...... Face? There are wonton noodles at this time!??? ”

That is, what is still happening at this time, the Xiongnu often harass the frontier, the people are not at peace, and there are two leaders of the Hun tribe and the Tun clan, which are very ferocious. The people hated it to the bone, so they wrapped it into horns with meat filling, took the sounds of 'muddy' and 'tun', and called it 'wonton'. Hate to eat, and seek to calm the war, so that you can live a peaceful life. Because the first wontons were made on the day of the winter solstice, every household eats wontons on the day of the winter solstice.

Lin Bin was stunned after hearing this, it turned out that chaos came from this way, and he consciously gained a lot of knowledge, "Dog meat is not!" Naturally, there is no shortage of mutton, and in the evening, I told the captain of the gang to let them choose the lamb, which must be done before dawn, and tomorrow they will have a good time with the soldiers. Oh! Yes, and wine, take out the wine you stole and use it! New Year's ......, it turns out that the winter solstice is the New Year? ”

The custom of eating dog meat on the winter solstice is said to have started in the Han Dynasty. According to legend, Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, ate the dog meat boiled by Fan Hao on the day of the winter solstice, and felt that the taste was particularly delicious and full of praise. Since then, the custom of eating dog meat on the winter solstice has been formed among the people. Nowadays, people eat dog meat, mutton and various nourishing foods on the day of the winter solstice in order to have a good omen in the coming year.

In a daze, Lin Bin beckoned Chen Xi to continue to supervise the soldiers' drills, and walked back happily in his heart, this is to ask Liu Jing in detail what preparation method should be. He has been in the Han Dynasty for six or seven months, and this will be the first time he has ever experienced it...... Well? It's a New Year, right?

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I tried my best to catch up, but it was still not enough words, and I was four thousand, so I had to sacrifice sleep at night.

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