007: Horse King (Modified)

"Carrie, go and bring the horse you spoke of."

On the way to Cass, Carrie, Ancarlo, and Igo all mention that Lynchko has a valuable possession, a huge horse.

Generally speaking, people like Carrie who have just killed their leader and choose to surrender are unlikely to have a high level of interest in chatting, but they can't stand Liu Jian's mind-controlling weapon like hypnosis.

Liu Jian's hypnotism has no effect on people with strong antagonism, but as long as there is a willingness to surrender and obedience, even if it is only a little, there is a gap in the spiritual defense.

As the surrenderers, Liu Jian's hypnotism easily had an effect on the three of them, and made them pour out all the information they knew like pouring beans from a bamboo tube.

In the process of chatting, Carrie, Ancaro and Ai Ge all mentioned the King of Horses with envy and awe on their faces, which naturally aroused Liu Jian's curiosity.

For the Dothraki people, horses are wealth, food, transportation, handmade raw materials, and of course, they are also the tools of war of the Dothraki people.

Each Dothraki warrior has a horse of his own, and no one else is allowed to touch it.

In such a situation, the possession of a valuable and athletic steed is something that makes the other Dothraki envious.

This also aroused Liu Jian's curiosity, because in his opinion, the horses ridden by these Dothraki knights were already very good.

Most of the horses raised by the Dothraki can be seen to be distinctly heavy, tall, muscular, with thick limbs, and most of the Dothraki have a round belly.

Generally speaking, a real war horse is like this, tall and muscular, it can have enough impact, and its limbs are thick enough to have enough strength to support its body and the knight on its back for a long time to run for a long time. A round belly is even more important, which means that it has enough fat to make up for the body's consumption.

As for the kind of Arabian horses with slender bodies and slender limbs, thoroughbreds, sweaty horses...... They may be fast, they may look beautiful, and there may be countless legends and historical stories that illustrate how powerful and precious these beautiful horses are.

But for the cavalry, whether it is heavy cavalry or light cavalry, riding such a horse on the battlefield is purely tired of their own life, thinking of ways to find death.

The horses mentioned above all have a fatal flaw, that is, their limbs are not slender and not strong enough.

It was a complete disaster, and the heavily armored knights would soon be unable to climb up these delicate and beautiful 'porcelain', and even break their leg bones.

There are also light horses in the Dothraki Meadows, and in the Dothraki language there is a special word for these light horses, 'Karikasser', which means beautiful ones that are not useful.

As a result, their fate was slightly worse than that of their fellow brothers, and they were either killed by the Dothraki for meat, or used as horses to pull carts.

Anyway, not a single Dothraki cavalry would take them as their own mounts.

Each of the horses domesticated by these Dothraki people was put in the Western Han Dynasty, even if it was a relatively unqualified horse in the eyes of the Dothraki people, it was considered a good war horse in the Western Han Dynasty. Even more than the Western Han Dynasty, even if it was placed in the same period of the Xiongnu, it was definitely a qualified war horse, and it would definitely appear on the embargo list of the Xiongnu against the Han Dynasty.

But such war horses are innumerable in the Dothraki Sea of Grass.

What's even more terrifying is that perhaps because the world is different and the living environment is different, the species are also different.

The hooves of the Dothraki horse are very special.

All horses have a cuticle on their hooves, similar to scales.

This cuticle protects the horse's hooves when it runs.

In nature, the wild horse's hooves cuticle grows and wears away during running, just enough to reach a balance, so there is no harm to the horse's health.

However, when they became cavalry mounts, the pressure on the horses' hooves increased greatly because of the heavy loads on their bodies, and the place where they ran changed from soft grasslands to hard ground, and they were often forced to soak in water. This causes the cuticles on their hooves to wear down much faster than they grow, and there is a great risk of injury.

Once the cuticle is badly worn out, or because of small stones on the hard ground or something, the horse's hooves are injured.

The horse was ruined, and he could no longer run.

Because of the need to solve this problem, the technology of nailing horses with iron horseshoe appeared.

The reason why most nomads have become strong is the reason why the horseshoe technology tree or simply learned the technique of nailing the horseshoe.

Even the Huns.

Although the Xiongnu did not have the technology of horseshoes, the Huns would wear leather shoes for horses.

They used the hard and thick leather they tanned to wrap around the horseshoe, which had the same effect as the horseshoe, but it wore out much faster than the horseshoe, and it was much more difficult to make, and the cost was higher than that of the horseshoe.

This was already proven by Liu Jian when he was in the Western Han Dynasty.

Because the horse's hooves in this world are not covered by a protective membrane of the cuticle, but by a hard exoskeleton, which perfectly protects the horse's hooves, and the technology of nailing the horseshoe has no need to exist in Dothraki, because the creator has given the technology that originally needed to be pointed out by people in the way of biotechnology.

This is one of the reasons why the Dothraki are so strong, they don't need a tech tree that points out horseshoes like the nomads of Earth's history to be powerful.

Even the Dothraki people couldn't help but envy the jealous good horse, which successfully aroused Liu Jian's curiosity.

"But honorable Kao." Carrie couldn't help but say with some concern, "It was a huge horse, huge and warlike, and Lynchko didn't conquer it, so he had to lock it up." ”

"It's okay." Liu Jian waved his hand, or because of this, Liu Jian was even more curious.

"Bring it here."

The horse that made Liu Jian curious took a long time before being brought to Liu Jian.

When it was brought to Liu Jian, Liu Jian almost thought that what he saw was not a horse, but an elephant.

The first is shoulder height.

Dothraki horses, adult shoulder heights are generally around 1.6 to 1.7 meters, which is the best war horse for cavalry. Higher up, it will be inconvenient for the rider to get on and off his horse. If it is shorter, the horse will not have enough strength, not strong enough, and not enough physical strength to carry the knight for long periods of time.

In ancient times on the earth, because the number of such excellent war horses was too small, the Central Plains Dynasty, including the grassland peoples, had to adopt the method of quality and quantity in many cases, and equipped the cavalry with one man and two horses, one for the road and the other for battle. Even more exaggerated, one person and three horses are ridden in rotation to make up for the lack of physical strength and strength of the war horse.

But the horse in front of him is obviously tall and sturdy, a little too exaggerated!

Liu Jian's height of one meter and early eights is also considered tall, but his shoulder height is even higher. Although it is not measured, Liu Jian estimates that its shoulder height must be about 1.9 meters, and its height is almost as tall as a story from the beginning to the end. If it weren't for the fact that it was actually a horse, it would feel more like an elephant.

Of all the horse breeds in the world that Liu Jian knows, only the Shire horse can match it in size.

But it is clearly not Sharma.

As the largest breed of horse in the world, the Shire horse is the best and strongest horse to pull up, but it is never a good war horse.

Because its body size is so tall, the average shoulder height is 1.9 meters...... While it can easily carry a heavily armed knight, a heavily armed knight is often unable to climb on its back.

Of course, this is a serious problem, but it is not an unsolvable problem. No, the knight can set up a ladder or something when he gets on the horse, and climb on the horse's back with the help of his squire.

But the other problem is very fatal.

Sharma is very, very, very docile, very, very timid, and says it three times because it is important.

As a pull-back horse, this is a plus. As a war horse, this is an absolutely inadmissible drawback.

Because they are too timid, almost not aggressive, and very docile. Therefore, when they are faced with a forest of enemy guns, no matter how the knight controls the drive, they will choose to stop or even dodge. To compensate for this shortcoming, the British cavalry chose to blindfold the Shire horses as they charged. But the 'blind' Sharma is also because of his timidity, once he is blindfolded, no matter how driven by the knight, he does not dare to sprint with all his strength, and cannot give full play to the impact advantage of his huge size, and because of his large size, they are very inflexible......

But the one in front of him was clearly not a Shire horse, although he had a very similar body shape to the Shire horse, with a broad forehead, broad shoulders, an equally broad back, and sloping hips. Not only is it much taller than the average Dothraki horse, but it is much stronger, and as it moves, you can clearly see the muscle streaks that scurry like a mouse under its skin, which are all symbols of strength. Its belly is also not round like the average Dothrakm, but is full of muscle and strength.

Judging by its size alone, it was clearly already a monster.

What's more important is its character.

Carrie, Igo and Ancaro worked together and called two people to help before they could barely pull the huge monster in front of Liu Jian, but even so, it did not stop resisting for a moment, the strongest Ankaro pulled the reins with all his might, and Aigo and Carrie kept comforting the huge monster, hoping that it would calm down, but even if there were three people to deal with, it never stopped struggling to resist, and even opened its big mouth from time to time to try to attack anyone who dared to approach it with its teeth.

Obviously, it was not a gentle and timid baby like Sharma, but an extremely strong monster with an equally aggressive personality.