In the next few days, as people expected, the sky in the northern Xinjiang began to rain lightly again. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 It is said that the first half of the autumn season will rain for about half a month, and the grasslands will also return to the grass that was about to wither and yellow because of this rain, and the nomads will graze on a large scale.

Many people are glad in their hearts that they have a place to shelter from the rain, and they don't have to let the wind and rain blow in the wilderness as usual, and those who are happy have their reasons to be happy, but Lin Bin is not happy at all, because a continuous drizzle broke his plan, and the matter of building armor and weapons can only be temporarily abandoned due to the lack of dry firewood.

What comforted Lin Bin was that the operation of measuring the robes had been vigorously carried out under the organization of Cui Niang, and the first batch of robes had been delivered to the hands of the soldiers.

In the wind and rain, Lin Bin led the cavalry to explore the surrounding wilderness, not because he was afraid of the Huns, but because he hoped to seize the time to train the soldiers with war horses. He listened to the open-minded words, and brought a lot of rope nooses, which he tied to the makeshift horse mat, and extended to the horse's belly, and joined the two rings, leaving only two rope nooses that looked inconspicuous, but could be used as a real point of strength. Maybe it's a bit of a reversal, giving up a good stirrup and not making a scholar to play retro, but this is no way to do it, and only the seemingly inconspicuous rope sleeve will not arouse the idea of a caring person, and you can't feel the benefits of that thing without riding it yourself.

Lin Bin tried a few times and also learned to play riding and shooting, but he was very disappointed that on the high-speed galloping war horse, with the rope sleeve as the focus point, the body was still constantly shaking with the galloping of the war horse, or the wind direction was wrong, and the arrows shot out were seriously deviated. When he couldn't think about it, he found Koga, who was good at archery, and asked him if he could ride and shoot, Koga smiled proudly and said "yes", demonstrated it, and then told Lin Bin that this needs to be cultivated from a young age, and riding archery not only needs to adapt to the bumps when the horse gallops, but also learn to observe the wind direction.

"My lord, don't expect the baby to learn to walk as soon as he lands. The skill of riding and archery is difficult to master if you don't learn it for three years and five years. ”

Koga suggested collecting more crossbows, because the crossbow machines would not be affected when galloping at high speeds, which was also the fundamental reason why in several battles, except for the knights with crossbow machines under Koga's command, who could shoot arrows in gallops, while other knights with ox tendon bows could not do it. The idea of an unfamiliar knight to shoot an arrow on the back of a bumpy horse is as ridiculous as it is to make two people who are not very well balanced run to a single-plank bridge and fight desperately.

Lin Bin was helpless, but there was no way to think about it, saying that he was collecting crossbow machines, but is the high-end thing of the crossbow machine so easy to collect? There were many battlefields they passed, and they picked up a lot of low-level things such as war knives, iron swords, spears and axes, and even ox tendon bows were also slightly found, but not even the parts of a crossbow machine were found.

The main reason why the Han army can confront the Xiongnu and other alien races is the existence of crossbow machines, ordinary crossbow machines can shoot 350 steps away, and some better crossbow machines can shoot up to 400 steps away, while the upper limit of the distance of the Xiongnu cow tendon bow is about 200 steps, one in the sky and one underground. Therefore, some people say that the war between Han and Hungary was a contest between crossbows and bows.

It's a bit dizzy to say, but it's a big fact! At this time, the Han army archers, in fact, called it archers, it is better to call it 'bow infantry on war horses', that is, a group of soldiers riding war horses and dragging bows, they charge the battle and do not shoot arrows on horseback, because archery on horseback only shoots a hundred and fifty steps at most, and one hundred and fifty steps is already within the enemy's shooting range, unless it is stupid, otherwise no general is willing to let a group of archers for the purpose of archery to charge the battle. They would jump off their horses when they were close to the enemy's formation, set up a quick formation, throw a shot, and then climb on the back of their horses and retreat, and so on. Funny? It's not funny at all, three hundred and fifty steps at a foot or one hundred and fifty steps at a horse, which is better? Even the nomads, who are famous for their riding archery, can shoot only a hundred and sixty paces on horseback.

The robes on his body have long been soaked in the rain and look heavy, but looking at the knights' galloping horses, the dirt splashed under the horses' hooves, and the faces of the Han knights on horseback with a desperate desire to fight in excitement, who would be unhappy?

Every point of their strength increases, that is, there is more hope of survival, and what leader is not satisfied when he looks at such a scene? At least Lin Bin is very satisfied now, he has discussed with his subordinates to postpone the date of going to Heshuo, not all because the armor and weapons have not been made, but to let the infantry on war horses go to fight the Huns is undoubtedly a fool.

"This thing under your feet is very useful!" Kaga was excited, because with the rope noose under his feet, the knight's dexterity on horseback increased, and he was sincerely curious to hear that Lin Bin was going to ask the master to create something called a horseshoe.

Some people may not understand a truth, in fact, in the era of cold weapons, there is one thing that is inconspicuous, but it is really more meaningful than anything, that is, the U-shaped horseshoe! The horseshoe is like a tire made of high-grade rubber for the wheels, otherwise let the four iron wheels support the body and roll away, it is estimated that except for a burst of noise, it will not take long to see the whole road full of iron wheels rolling on its own. The horseshoe can protect the horse's hooves, and the consumption of war horses in this era is not only the death and injury on the battlefield, the most serious thing is that the horse's hooves of the war horse are stepping on a stone or something hard due to the rapid galloping, and the horse's hooves burst out, as if a person was suddenly cut off his toes and could not stand firm at the same time, with the protection of the horse's shoe, not only the speed of the war horse gallop will be accelerated, Lin Bin They also did their best to make the war horse not be consumed due to non-combat reasons.

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To paraphrase an old saying, it is a shameless announcement: another month has passed......

After restoring the sunny weather, the operation of building armor and blades has begun for five days, and one after another fish scale armor and horizontal knives have been sent to Lin Bin, Lin Bin carefully inspected and praised again, people in ancient times were reliable and very pragmatic, and they always continued to work according to the requirements after being affirmed by the officials.

Lin Bin put on a new robe, put on a fish scale armor, held a freshly baked horizontal knife, and stepped out of the house under the admiring gaze of the swallow. All the way to the sound of the nail pieces rubbing, the skirt armor around the waist swayed each other to show off the polished armor, he pulled out the horizontal knife, gestured, and felt very satisfied. Although this horizontal knife is still a bit short, only 80 centimeters, but after the desperate exchange with the Han army's iron sword or the Xiongnu scimitar, there are only a few gaps in the horizontal knife, and the iron sword and scimitar have become corpses......

It's not that the structure of the blade is good, but because the style of the knife has changed, a large part of the curved blade has removed the force of slashing and slashing, and it is relatively less likely to break. Therefore, the superiority of the times really has its advantages, at least the same material, to create a different blade, it becomes easy to use and much tougher.

Lin Bin looked around and found that both the soldiers and the common people were looking at him with wide eyes. Lin Bin laughed, and everyone laughed back implicitly, making Lin Bin look down at his armor in a little confusion, and raised his hand to put the helmet on his head, but he didn't find anything wrong, so he simply ignored it, and walked straight to the horse tied to the side, turned over, sat firmly on the back of the horse that already had a horse mat, put his feet into the rope sleeve of the foot, grabbed the reins and shook it, and shouted: "Drive!" ”

Driven by its master, the horse first trotted, as if warming up, waited for a distance, and happily galloped on all fours......

"Mighty! Lord Lin is mighty! ”

Lin Bin heard the cheers, the horizontal knife immediately, looked back, and saw the soldiers waving their weapons, and the people and the common people rubbed their hands excitedly, and suddenly in their hearts, it turned out that the new-style fish scale armor and the horizontal knife were very cool to wear together, and people would stare at themselves to death.

Lin Bin saw more than 20 horsemen galloping out of the village, and the knights had also changed into military uniforms, with horizontal swords at their waists, a majestic and majestic appearance. He took out his horizontal knife and made a few chopping movements, and found that it was very easy, and he sincerely thanked the craftsmen for their hard work, which led to the current results.

Twenty-four horsemen and Lin Bin were on a par, and at the same time drew out the horizontal knife, and it was also a few slashes in the void, everyone felt that the weapon was in hand, the armor did not hinder the battle, and the sound of joy was endless.

Lin Bin looked in the northwest direction and put the knife back into its sheath, "It's time to do something earth-shattering!" ”