Tiefutu, also known as Tiefutu, is a heavy armored cavalry, the history is recorded for the Jin general Wanyan Wushu created, together with the abduction horse with the Jin Wushu expedition to the Song Dynasty, made great achievements, and was later exterminated by the Song generals Liu Qi and Yue Feibu.

"That Tiefutu and the kidnapper horse are just Jinren, so they may not be taken seriously. How can there be a reason in the world that three heavy armored cavalry are parallel, you must know that the northerners of the road make horses, but the main thing is to control and indulge conveniently. If the three horses are connected, the horsepower is uneven, and it is bound to be the same; And the three of them are connected, or the courage is uneven, and the brave are burdened by the cowardly, which is easy to understand. You have been in the army for many years, how can you not know? But I don't know why I want Xiao Cao to build this iron floating slaughter for you? ”

Qiu Hejia is familiar with the book of soldiers, and naturally knows that the Jin Army Tiefutu contained in the "History of the Song Dynasty" said, when he read the history to this time, he had doubts, and always felt that the three horses of the Tiefutu and one ride were not credible, and now I heard that Shi Dayong was also going to build an Iron Float, and he couldn't help but say his doubts, and he intuitively felt that Shi Dayong wanted to build the Iron Float too much, and it was not desirable or desirable.

Shi Dayong said: "The last general thinks that the iron float should be true, and the reason for the three of them to ride together is like a retreat from the iron lock of Cao Cao in the battle of Chibi, the difference is that one is in the water and the other is on land. As long as the practice is done properly, it is not impossible to ride three horses in parallel, advance like one ride, and retreat like one ride. ”

Hearing Shi Dayong compare Tiefutu with Iron Lock Lianzhou, Qiu Hejia couldn't help laughing: "Dayong, Dayong, how do you want to say you." Since you know the allusion of the iron lock and the boat in Lu Dao, how can you not know the fate of Cao Cao's 100,000 sailors? Even if the three of them can ride together, one ride falls to the ground, and the other ride cannot be loosened, and it is bound to stumble, so that the horse and the person have not all become fish on the chopping board, and they are slaughtered? ”

"This ......"

Shi Dayong was stunned there, he only wanted to build the Iron Floating Slaughter of the Han people, but he forgot the great disadvantages of this Iron Floating Slaughter. His head turned sharply, trying to think of a way to solve it.

Seeing that Shi Dayong didn't speak, Qiu Hejia smiled and continued: "There are clouds in the book of soldiers, and there are ten benefits in riding horses: one is to meet the enemy; Second, it is said to take advantage of the enemy's false back; The third is to chase and scatter and attack; Fourth, after meeting the enemy's attack, they will run in chaos; Fifth, it is said to cover its food and cut off its military path; Sixth, it is said to defeat its Jinguan and send its bridge; Seventh, it is said that it is not prepared to attack its unorganized brigade; Eight said to attack its slackness and surprise; Nine said to burn its accumulation, empty its city; Ten said that they plundered their fields and burdened their children. This ten benefits are the essence of riding, let me ask, what is this related to the iron floating slaughter? ”

The way of cavalry lies in mobility, and cavalry has always won victories, and victory lies in this mobility. The Tiefutu is a heavy armored cavalry, weighing more than 200 catties with armor, just ask, how can this horse run, and how can it run fast. Having lost the most important mobility of the cavalry, how is it different from the infantry?

Throughout the dynasties, there are not many heavy armored cavalry, since the Mengyuan Dynasty, the cavalry has been dominated by light cavalry, and this is the case with the Eight Banners of Jiannu. During the battle, he came and went as fast as lightning, which really made the Ming army suffer a lot, but there was no way to take him. During the Northern Song Dynasty, the Liao army and the Western Xia army also used light cavalry in this way, and there were very few heavy armored cavalry like Tiefutu charging head-on.

Just like the Iron Floating Massacre, there are only 3,000 horsemen at most, and 15,000 light horsemen and kidnappers must cover before they can charge the Song army head-on. Even if it was really as powerful as a humanoid tank, wasn't it broken by the Song army at the end. Since then, the Jin Kingdom has never built the Iron Floating Massacre.

From this, it can be seen that this Iron Floating Massacre is by no means a big killing weapon, and it is not invincible. Now, Shi Dayong has a whimsical idea to build an iron floating slaughter of the Han people, which is a reversal of history. Just imagine, if this heavy armored cavalry is really invincible and will win every battle, why has it disappeared since Jin?

In the sixteenth century, the West was already the era of firearms, and in the future, it will also belong to firearms, but Shi Dayong wants to go against the trend of history and engage in this heavily armored cavalry that has been eliminated.

The traverser is to lead the times, not go against the times.

But Shi Dayong didn't think so, and after thinking for a while, he still insisted on his opinion, and he said to Qiu Hejia: "What Lord Futai said about riding ten benefits is true, but the last general thinks that this Tiefutu is really a sharp weapon for me to break the Ming Dynasty, and if you use it to get the law, then Pingliao is just around the corner." ”

"Oh, I see."

Although Qiu Hejia felt that this Tiefutu was too whimsical, he was not old and stubborn, if Shi Dayong was reasonable, he might not support it.

"The Eight Banners of Jiannu are all light horses, and they are good at riding and shooting, and when the last general engages them with the yellow and red flags in the Daling River, he suffers the loss of their big arrows. Now that I think about it, I'm scared. That's why the last general thought of using this iron float to restrain their big arrows. Regardless of the people and horses, this iron floating slaughter is heavily armored, only the eyes are exposed, and there is no gap in the upper and lower parts of the body. ”

"That's the reason, thick armor and arrows can't reach, but you don't have to rely on this iron floating slaughter, but you can ask the soldiers to wear two more layers of armor." Qiu Hejia said disappreciably.

Shi Dayong nodded, but said, "If you wear more armor, it will not be as powerful as this Iron Floating Slaughter." Lord Futai also knows that in the world today, whether it is my Ming Dynasty, Jiannu, or Mongolia, the armor worn by the cavalry is nothing more than chain mail, cotton armor, and in addition, it is matched with the cavalry without heavy armor. Imagine, when the two armies were fighting, a team of Tiefutu suddenly came out from the front, and took the head of Jiannu with an unstoppable momentum, and it was difficult to resist with Jiannu's light cavalry. In this way, the Jiannu formation will be chaotic, and the rest of our army can take advantage of the situation to advance in one go, if so, it will be able to win. ”

Speaking of this, a look of pain appeared on his face, "If there is no cavalry that can restrain Jiannu, my Ming soldiers can really only fight with Jiannu's cavalry with flesh and blood, killing a hundred enemies and losing eight hundred, which is really heart-wrenching." ”

"Ugh..."

Qiu Hejia also sighed, the Jiannu cavalry was powerful, but the Ming Dynasty was a lot of infantry, and the casualties were naturally heavy.

After a while, he said: "Ben Fu understands that your so-called Tiefu Tu is just trying to use it to make a surprise move and take out its unexpected effect, and it is definitely not a deliberate operation, thinking that it is a long-term way?" ”

"Lord Futai's words are wrong again, the last general really wants to build a heavy armor iron cavalry iron floating slaughter that belongs to my Ming army and my Han family's boys! … However, the last general also knows that it is not easy to build this iron floating massacre, even if Lord Futai fully supports the last general, the last general does not dare to ensure that it can really be built. ”

Shi Dayong really has no bottom, the cost of heavy armored cavalry is too high, and with Daming's current finances, I am afraid that he can't afford it. What's more, this is just a private act of one of his generals, and in the eyes of outsiders, the Tiefutu he built is actually building his own family, where is to build a strong army for the imperial court.

But if he had the support of the governor of Liaodong, Shi Dayong would be able to build the Iron Floating Massacre openly, and he would be able to obtain all the resources allocated by the governor's yamen, so he would not have to worry about the silver. However, there are many things that do not worry about money, but there are many other things that cause people to worry.

War horses are not the main problem, most of the horses ridden by the Liaodong Army are Mongolian horses, with excellent endurance, and they can carry more than 200 catties. The difficulty is in this armor, everyone is equipped with armor, and people are completely placed in the armor, and the selection and creation of this armor is a big problem.

Of course, Shi Dayong hopes that this armor can not only lift the effect of the armor, but the lighter the better. But how to get a sweet spot between the two is not something he can know.

There are also craftsmen in Jinzhou, and there are quite a few people, there are hundreds of people, but there are not many wrought iron, and they need to be transported from the customs, so it is too late to come and go. With the existing resources, it is unknown how many Iron Floating Slaughter can be created.

The Iron Floating Massacre was built, how to let the riders run in, the same scheduling between soldiers, and the best way to give full play to the grinding pressure of the humanoid tank, etc., are all difficult problems to be solved. Another Tiefutu needs at least two auxiliary cavalry, so he Shi Dayong's men do not have enough cavalry and war horses to use.

Huang Taiji's army is coming soon, and his Songshan army is already crippled, and it is impossible to pull out of it at the moment. Qiu Hejia was outside the pass, in addition to his own personal army to patrol the yamen, he also had a descendant of Shi Dayong, so there was no way to send troops to supplement him.

At the moment, don't look at Shi Dayong as a general of the third grade, but in Jinzhou City, his men and horses are the least. The 500 cavalry allocated by Zu Dashou and the 200 remnants of the cavalry battalion were the only ones he could show his hands. Turning these 700 cavalry into heavy armored cavalry is afraid that it is also the only choice for Shi Dayong in desperation.

He was really scared of the big arrows of the Eight Banners, and when he was thinking about how to avoid being shot by the Eight Banners Cavalry, he instinctively thought of wearing heavy armor, and then thought of wearing heavy armor, and then thought of wearing heavy armor cavalry, and then naturally thought of the heavy armored cavalry, and then, the name Tiefutu flashed in his mind.

But it is undeniable that another important reason why Shi Dayong insisted on building the Iron Floating Massacre was that he did not believe that the Han people could not really defeat these nomads in the field except for improving the fire guns!

The Heavy Cavalry was his second attempt to belong to the Cold Weapon Era after Nagagi.

Failure is not terrible, what is terrible is when the traverser has the idea that only firearms can defeat foreign races, because this undoubtedly tells the world from the side that we Han people are useless, we Han people can be conquered casually, and we Han people are bloodless!

No, by no means!

A civilization that can be conquered by barbarism, we would rather not.

What we need is savagery capable of conquering savagery!

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"How's Xiao Cao's doing?" Qiu Hejia suddenly asked.

Shi Dayong replied: "It's been a few days, and the last general is also anxious to go back to see what the hell is, if it can really work, please also ask Lord Futai to fully support the last general to create a heavy armored cavalry that can defeat the enemy!" ”

Qiu Hejia groaned slightly, and did not agree on the spot, but said: "Let's see if this ride can be successful, if it is feasible, Benfu will do his best to make it convenient for you." ”

Shi Dayong hugged his fists and said: "Thank you, Lord Futai!" ”

Qiu Hejia nodded slightly: "Your heart is not here now, Benfu won't say much to you, you go back and see, if it succeeds, call someone to inform Benfu, Benfu will come to your camp to have a look." Let's see if your Tiefutu can really help Ben pacify Liao! ”