In the evening, the Chu army finally finished dividing up the war horses.

As Xiang Zhuang expected, the pro-army at the beginning of the high school grabbed enough war horses, almost one horse, and the rest of the left, center, and right armies were about the same, each got more than 3,600 horses, the left army commander Xiao Kai ran to Xiang Zhuang to complain, but was reprimanded by Xiang Zhuang fiercely, Xiang Zhuang told Xiao Kai very clearly, you can't grab the horses, that's your own inability.

However, Xiang Zhuang also released his words, this time is not the distribution of war horses in the real sense, and after the end of two months of riding training, there will be a big test between the various armies, who performs well, who can give priority to the selection of war horses, and those who are backward in hand performance should ride the remaining inferior horses picked by others.

Xiao Kai got this and left with his mouth shut.

However, as soon as Xiao Kai left, the three beautiful shadows walked into Xiangzhuang's big tent one after another.

When Xiang Zhuang looked up, it was Wei Yue Wuyang, Qin Yu and Baili Yishui, who stood up to greet him, and said to Wei Yue with a smile: "Yue Niang, why are you here?" ”

Wei Yue went down the well towards Xiang Zhuang Yingying and said, "Yue Niang has seen the general.

Qin Yu and Baili Yishui, who were behind Wei Yue, also hurriedly followed down the well to salute.

Xiang Zhuang felt a little guilty in his heart, since the last time he used Wei Yue to kill Chen Xi in the Tiger Prison Pass, Wei Yue's attitude towards him began to become subtle, and even when the two were intimate, they reacted coldly, which made Xiang Zhuang also tasteless, and the two had never been intimate since they entered Hangu Pass.

Wei Yueken took the initiative to come today, but it was a bit unexpected for Xiang Zhuang.

However, seeing Wei Yueqing's cold and cold appearance of rejecting people thousands of miles away, Xiang Zhuang knew that she was most likely prodded by Qin Yu or Baili Yishui to come, Xiang Zhuang's conjecture was quickly confirmed, Wei Yue saw the salute and said: "General, all armies are conducting riding training, should the women's barracks also train riding?" ”

Xiang Zhuang patted his forehead and said: "Yes, the women's battalion does also have to conduct riding training, but now that the war horses have been allocated by various armies and battalions, I don't have any extra war horses here, otherwise, in a few days, I will definitely find a way to get another batch of war horses back and hand them over to the women's battalion to train riding." ”

Baili Yishui pouted and said, "General, you are lying." ”

Qin Yu also said: "That is, there are obviously five hundred war horses." ”

Xiang Zhuang scratched his head a little, there are indeed five hundred war horses in the camp, and all of them are good horses with a body height of more than seven feet, which Xiang Zhuang traded with five hundred scale armor from Lou Annoying, but these five hundred good horses are used to form heavy cavalry To be honest, the explosive power of Mongolian horses is really not good, but these five hundred good horses are barely okay.

At least these five hundred horses are more than seven feet tall and have enough bearing capacity to be crushed by the weight of hundreds of pounds of heavy armor and cavalry.

However, in terms of the speed of the sprint, the Mongolian horse is absolutely incomparable with the Arabian horse will return to Jiangdong in the future, if possible, it should really send a fleet to sail to the Middle East to try its luck, if you can buy back a batch of Arabian horses, improve the genes of the Mongolian horse, in the future in the face of the Hun cavalry, the Central Plains cavalry will have the upper hand.

Historically, there have been people who have done this, the local war horses of the Japanese also belong to the Mongolian horse breed, before the Meiji Restoration, all the cavalry of the Japanese were almost donkey cavalry, but later the introduction of Arab stallions in the Japanese army, the local horses were improved, and later when the Japanese army invaded China, the Japanese cavalry rode a tall and large Oriental horse.

These thoughts flashed through Xiang Zhuang's mind, and he said at the moment: "But these five hundred good horses have already been given to the guards. ”

After the words fell, Gao Chu strode in, and saw Wei Yue, Qin Yu and Baili Yishui three little ladies present, Gao Chu was slightly stunned at first, and then bowed to Xiang Zhuang and said, "The last general has seen the general." ”

Xiang Zhuang waved his hand and said to Wei Yue, Qin Yu and Baili Yishui: "Now that the main master is here, you can ask him for a horse, anyway, I have a war horse in my hand." ”

With that, Xiang Zhuang left the big tent directly.

Soon, the chatter of Qin Yu and Baili Yishui sounded in the big tent, Gao Chu barely resisted a few rounds, then raised his hand and surrendered, and obediently allocated more than 500 war horses from the pro-guard army and handed them over to the women's barracks, and now Qin Yu's women's barracks has also expanded to more than 500 people.

Of course, most of the female soldiers in the women's barracks are round-shouldered and thick-waisted girls, and occasionally there are delicate and delicate ones, like Wei Yue and Baili Yishui, who have also practiced martial arts, and they are all thorny roses.

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After leaving the big tent, Zhuang turned around and entered the reel camp of the bus car.

When Xiang Zhuang entered, the bus was concentrating on sewing a high bridge saddle, a little girl about thirteen or fourteen years old, with pigtails combing, was giving him a hand, and next to the bus loser, dozens of carpenters were nervously breaking down the poplar wood, and then turning it into small wooden strips, and then nailing it into a wooden frame with both ends upturned, and then sewing the morning skin.

Seeing the Takahashi saddle that was about to be completed in the bus driver, Xiang Zhuang's heart tightened slightly.

Gaoqiao saddle is another great invention of the Huns, Xiang Zhuang clearly remembers that the cavalry of the Central Plains at this time is still using a two-end flat saddle, while the Huns have long ago only begun to use the Gaoqiao saddle, and even the Hu people and the old Qin people of Jiuyuan have learned from the Huns to use the high-bridge saddle with both ends.

So Xiang Zhuang was a little hesitant, should he nail his cavalry to the horseshoe?

The benefits of nailing the horseshoe are self-evident, after the war horse is nailed to the horseshoe, it can effectively prevent the wear and tear of the horse's hooves and horns, so that the long-distance marching ability of the war horse in harsh road conditions will be significantly improved, and the non-combat wear and tear caused by the horse's hooves will also be greatly reduced.

But the problem is that once the secret of the horseshoe is grasped by the Huns, the consequences will be catastrophic, and with the horseshoe, the Hun cavalry will be able to go deep into the hinterland of the Central Plains with impunity!

Historically, the Huns fought in the grass valley near the Great Wall at most.

In fact, the fierceness of the Huns was completely below that of the Mongols.

The eloquence of Maudun and the military minister Shan Yu was probably not under Temujin and Kublai Khan at all.

However, the Huns failed to sweep the entire Eurasian continent like the Mongols, one of the most important reasons is that the iron-smelting technology is too backward, and even iron weapons cannot be built, let alone Mongolian scimitars, and another important reason is that the Hun cavalry did not nail the horseshoe and could not carry out high-intensity, long-distance maneuvers like the Mongolian cavalry.

However, once the Huns grasped the secret of the horseshoe, once the Huns were able to go deep into the hinterland of the Central Plains unscrupulously, the Huns would have enough opportunities to capture enough craftsmen from the Central Plains, so that within twenty years, the iron smelting technology of the Huns would be reborn and improved.

After thinking about it again, Xiang Zhuang still gave up the idea of nailing the cavalry of the Chu army, the risk was too great.

Although the most direct victims of the Hun cavalry were definitely Liu Bang, Zhang Er, Zang Tu and Han Wangxin after they were nailed to the horseshoe, Xiang Zhuang was never willing to risk the extinction of the Central Plains civilization to try this dangerous move, the Huns were too dangerous, and it was safer to confine them to the north of the Great Wall.

Stirrups and saddles are already there, and horseshoes don't dare to nail them, so what about weapons?

The sharpest cavalry weapon is, of course, the sabre, but this era can not be refined at all suitable high-quality steel, because the furnace temperature is not high enough, the quality of the pig iron smelted is quite poor, only repeated tempering, repeated forging can be exercised into fine iron, Xiang Zhuang and the generals of the Chu army used the horizontal knife is this repeated forging and forming.

Therefore, equipping the cavalry with sabers is simply wishful thinking, and at most it can only be equipped with a ring head sword plus a horn bow.

Although the horizontal knife is extremely sharp, it is a pity that the craftsmanship is too complicated, and it is extremely time-consuming and laborious to build, and it is impossible to equip 20,000 cavalry with a horizontal knife.

However, in addition to the ring-headed sword, in addition to the horn bow, should not one equip one's cavalry with a sharp weapon between long-range and melee combat? Because after returning to Jiangdong in the future, the cavalry of the Chu army had to face the Central Plains infantry more, and the infantry was generally protected by heavy armor and shields, and the dense angular bow projectile was not enough to constitute fatal damage.

If you use the ring-headed sword to engage in melee combat with the Central Plains infantry, the cost is too great.

Xiang Zhuang immediately thought of the Zhuge repeater, but the Zhuge repeater is clumsy and heavy, and it is difficult to maneuver, so it can only be used to guard the camp or the city, but what Xiang Zhuang needs is a light repeater that can be carried by a single soldier.

Xiang Zhuang watched a feature film in his previous life, which introduced a military enthusiast's self-made repeater.

The repeater is made of a bow, a bow and an arrow box, which can store up to ten short arrows eight inches long, the short arrows are all cast in iron, and there are no tail feathers, the arrow box is connected to the crossbow machine by a hinge, and each arrow is fired, only need to twist the arrow box once to re-tighten the crossbow string, and quickly carry out the second shot.

The repeater in the feature film shot ten short arrows in less than ten seconds!

The only drawback of that repeater is that the effective range is too close, only less than fifty meters, but for the cavalry of the Chu army, the distance of fifty meters is enough, because when the distance is farther, you can use the horn bow to shoot, and if you enter within fifty meters, you can replace the repeater crossbow to achieve absolute slaughter of the enemy!

Thinking of this, Xiang Zhuang couldn't hold back any longer.

At that time, Xiang Zhuang asked Jin Xiang to find a white cloth, and then drew a crossbow pattern on it with black charcoal, and then said to the public loss car: "Mr. Gongyi, look at this." ”

The bus carriage put down the saddle in his hand and took the white cloth from Xiang Zhuang's hand.

Gong Chuan Che is worthy of being a descendant of Lu Ban, and he is definitely a great grandmaster-level master, he only glanced at it, and then his face changed greatly: "General, this is a short crossbow that can be fired continuously?" ”

"Yes, it's a repeater." Xiang Zhuang nodded happily and said, "Gong loses the crossbow!" ”

"Male Repeater?" The public carriage's eyes lit up suddenly, and he said eagerly, "General, please give the old man three days, as long as it takes three days, the old man will definitely be able to make the first crossbow."