Tang Yi is in a very bad mood, very, very bad, thousands of years of history, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, no one is an exception, if you want to be famous through the ages, so that all the people remember, you need to expand, Qin Emperor Han Wu, Tang Dynasty and Song Ancestor, it is better to be. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info and hold on to the defects, no matter how good it is for the common people, such as Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, such as Song Renzong, such as Ming Xiaozong...... It is a long way from the Holy Tomorrow, and no matter what, it is inevitable to expand the territory.

And in a closed system, the improvement of seams and seams is far less real than earth-shaking change. Tang Yi understood that it was necessary to use troops abroad, expand land, open up shipping routes, occupy new chassis, and create new interests in order to ensure the success of future reforms.

If you want to fight, before the invention of heavy machine guns, cavalry has always been the master of the battlefield, even if firearms are heavily equipped, cavalry has an important place.

He promoted two things, small station Tuntian, orchard horses, counting, horse breeding is 10,000 times more important than Tuntian, 100,000 times!

Tuntian is at most a play ticket, and raising horses has poured all his efforts into it.

Throughout the summer, as long as I have time, I went to the orchard to check, but the result was more and more deviated from his assumption, after half a year, the horse did not have any fat and strong, but very thin, often sick, the most angry horse is not a foot taller than the stupid, and the running is not as fast as the stupid!

Tang Yi is almost mad, how did Lao Tzu raise a group of donkeys!

Not to mention Tang Yi, even the confident Yu Dayou kept muttering, but the big words were outrageous, if you can't raise a good horse, wouldn't you be beating yourself up?

If you lose face and can't get a suitable war horse, you won't be able to solve the threat of Alta, and if you don't settle the grassland, you will hoard hundreds of thousands of troops on the nine sides, and spend one or two million military dollars a year.

With a heavy burden on his shoulders, what else can he do?

Both of them were worried, thinking about it, Tang Yi felt that he couldn't do it behind closed doors, he wrote a letter to Ma Fang, and in less than ten days, Ma Fang's son Ma Dong arrived. He didn't even get off the horse, but circled around the orchard, and ran to the hill again, and looked closely, and finally Ma Dong shook his head and sighed.

"My lord, Rong Xiaozi is not welcome, these people pull carts to plow the fields at most, and if they want to go into battle to fight, they are simply dreaming!"

Yu Dayou was so angry that the goats trembled, "Virtuous nephew, aren't they all four-legged, feed more concentrate feed, and when you get to the battlefield, don't you run differently?" ”

Listening to Yu Dayou's words, Ma Dong wanted to be happy but didn't dare, so he could only hold back.

On the contrary, it was Tang Yi's old face that turned red, "Old General Yu is an expert in water warfare, playing horses is not as good as your father and son, if there is anything wrong, you just have to say it directly, but I will make a statement first, no matter what, Bi Ma Wen I am decided!" I will not give up until I get 100,000 horses! ”

"Well said." Yu Dayou stroked his palms and laughed, "There is nothing difficult in the world, I am only afraid of people with hearts, I don't believe it, the Han and Tang Dynasties can raise so many war horses and pull up more than 100,000 cavalry, what are we missing?" ”

Ma Dong was blushing when he said it, to say that he was most looking forward to the herd of war horses, and the cavalry galloped on the father and son. Tang Yi was willing to work hard to raise horses, of course Ma Dong was happy, he kept talking about the inventory in his stomach.

When Tang Yi and Yu Dayou heard this, their faces gradually turned green, and they lamented together: "It's not easy to raise horses!" ”

Horses, like many animals, have a keen sense of smell and hearing, are sensitive to noise and smells, are afraid of fire, and are easily startled...... If you want to become a qualified war horse, you must overcome your innate weaknesses through training.

From the third month of birth, it is necessary to carry out simple training and selection, and after the age of three, it is equipped with a saddle, and professional knights are arranged for training, and it lasts for four or five years, from seven or eight years old to fourteen or fifteen years old, which is the most suitable age for war horses, and after that, they will face retirement. If not, it will be like the tragedy of the red rabbit horse, the old Guan Yu, riding an older red rabbit, can jump over the pit is strange!

War horses require middle and upper intelligence, sense of smell and reaction to be sensitive, and in training, can not be injured, usually, three horses participating in training, only one can stand out and become a war horse, the proportion of elimination is so high, it is simply staggering!

Just hearing this, Tang Yi and Yu Dayou were not good.

Three horses are chosen, one horse is worth the expenses of three people, and if you want the cavalry to maintain the ability to run long distances, one person must also be equipped with three war horses!

A fine cavalry is almost as tall as thirty ordinary infantrymen, no wonder the "trench" reached the point of the Song Dynasty, and after losing the horse farm, there were not many cavalry.

Of course, not all eras of war horses are so strict.

Take the Liao Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom, which started as a horse archeryman, for example, when they were prosperous and declining, the gap between war horses was also quite large. I am no exception, although it is known as 200,000 people who control the strings, compared to the Mongolian cavalry who conquered the world back then, it is a world of difference. It's just that the Ming army fell faster, and sometimes it was not "good" that was better than "bad", and obviously the Ming Dynasty was also a worse era.

Ma Dong told Tang Yi that according to his father Ma Fang's estimate, there would be no more than 50,000 elite Mongolian war horses, and the rest would be full.

But even these 50,000 horses were like big stones, pressing on his heart, making Tang Yi breathless.

Even if you succeed in raising horses in an orchard, the horses you raise will not become war horses.

If you want to have a good horse, you can't spare the cost, you have to have strong genes, you have to feed the best materials, and you have to bring it out from time to time to run for training. The difference is so big, just like ordinary people in later generations, and professional athletes, the difference cannot be reasoned with.

Take feed as an example, in addition to grain grass, hay, alfalfa, there are a large number of concentrates, including soybeans, peas, barley, oats, sorghum, carrots, eggs, batter, etc., the two are reasonably matched, and a certain amount of salt and bone meal should be fed to supplement the salt and calcium in the body of the war horse......

All in all, most of the time, war horses eat better than people.

Tang Yi also heard that Mongolian horses have good endurance and don't pick forage, can they save some? Ma Dong shook his head like a rattle, listen to who fooled, my lord, you have met a liar!

Mongolian horses are not forage, hardy, and easy to feed, but Mongolian war horses are different, war horses need to carry knights on their backs, move a certain distance at a certain speed, and how much energy they need to consume, which can be calculated with physics, and physics will not be invalid because it is a Mongolian horse.

In fact, most of the war horses in the Ming Dynasty were Mongolian horses, and the combination of concentrate and roughage was also painstakingly explored. Maybe Mongolian horses are more economical than other horses, but they are only fed roughage and grass, and they want to save costs, but the result is that Tang Yi can only raise horses for work, not horses for war.

Tang Yi still didn't give up, and continued to ask, "If you use firearms to control the enemy, and the horse is just transporting supplies and carrying the soldiers, can you use a bad horse?" ”

"That's fine, but—it can't be too bad." Ma Dong said helplessly: "My lord, horses are more delicate than people, even the best-trained cavalry, a hundred miles of marching in a day is almost the same, if it exceeds a hundred miles, the horse is easy to be injured, and after being injured, it takes a long time to recover, and there are many that cannot be recovered at all." Judging from the horses in the orchard, even if you are given good material, the march will not exceed fifty miles in a day, no, it is useless! ”

Ma Dong's voice is getting smaller and smaller, his head is getting lower and lower, Tang Yi is willing to interfere in Ma Zheng, he raised his hands to welcome, but he can't lie to Tang Yi, Ma is indeed a very complicated thing, if it is easy to solve, there are so many geniuses in the two Song Dynasty, it took three hundred years, and it can't be solved when it comes to destroying the country......

"My lord, I won't tell you, my father raised hundreds of war horses a few years ago, he fed them carefully and trained them strictly, just like when he was under my command, but the war horses trained are not as good as my answer, and I don't know what's going on!" Ma Dong said in annoyance, could it be that the Han people can only farm the land and not raise horses?

"It's terrain!" Tang Yi sighed and said, the Mongolian grassland is high, horses are the same as people, there are long-distance runners on the East African plateau, if you want horses to run fast, you also need plateau grasslands, and raise them on flat land, but you can't!

After talking for a full day, Yu Dayou's eyes were red, he got up and shook and walked outside, stumbling, and when he got outside, he looked up at the blue sky, and his eyes were red. In front of him, there seemed to be a cavalry prancing horse galloping, the banner flying in the wind, and the huge Ming characters were shining!

Those who commit strong men will be punished even if they are far away!

The heroic words of the ancestors echoed in the ears, and after more than a thousand years, no one could make the same domineering roar! was pressed and beaten by a mere 100,000 iron horsemen, and attacked the Jingshi several times, if you let the predecessors of the Han know, don't laugh off your big teeth.

Two lines of turbid tears flowed out of his eyes, Yu Dayou shook his head, full of bitterness, how much hope, how big the disappointment, he didn't blame Tang Yi at all, it was great to think of Ma Zheng, it was just a problem for more than a thousand years, no one was a god, with a wave of his sleeves, it could be solved.

Yu Dayou staggered and was about to leave, when someone suddenly tapped him on the shoulder.

"Adult"

Yu Dayou looked up and saw Tang Yi standing there with a smile on his face.

"Brother, do you have to give up?"

Yu Dayou had the heart to say no, but when the words came to his lips, only a wry smile remained, people have to recognize the reality, it is useless to just say big words!

"The reality is that Daming needs horses, we need horses! In any case, at what cost, I will also get the war horse out! Tang Yi suddenly swung his fist hard, pointed at the night sky, and roared loudly: "Two thousand years ago, what our ancestors could do, we can do the same!" If you can't be opportunistic, I'll smash it with silver! No matter how much you spend raising horses, it is better than building the Great Wall every year and being bullied every year! Isn't there no good horse in Daming? If you go to the Middle East, you will go to the West to buy horses. Isn't there no money? Let the rich people in the world pay for the silver together, the north and south of the river, the banks of the Yellow River, so many places, and still can't find a suitable horse farm? Even if you don't have it, there are still overseas, and there are endless wild places. What I, Tang Yi, am determined to do, no matter how difficult it is, I can't stop it! (To be continued.) )