"Just what? Honestly, it is." Of course, Zhao Kuo knew what he wanted to say, but he still pretended not to know, turned around and asked with a smile.

"General Rongyu: Although the iron armor made by General Zhao Wei is extremely strong, ordinary swords are difficult to penetrate, if it is applied to the foot soldiers defending the city, it will have a good effect, but it can be ......" Zhou Qi looked at Zhao Kuo's face, and then continued: "This heavy armor can be covered on the cavalry, although it can also resist the injury of swords and arrows, but it loses the most important agility of the cavalry."

"Hmm." Zhao Kuo nodded, already clear in his heart.

Sure enough, the people of this era did not realize what a real cavalry was. Only the archers were regarded as the main means of attack of the cavalry, and the armored cavalry before the Zhao State was already the limit of their imagination.

However, they knew that the reason why the cavalry was known as the king of land warfare was not only because of its agile and elegant speed, no matter how powerful Ling Bo's micro-step was, he couldn't hurt the enemy without the six-vein divine sword! Only the mighty soup like a tide of steel torrent, wantonly slashing and advancing, is the final destination of the cavalry!

Of course, this can't be blamed on them, after all, before the stirrups, with nowhere to borrow, the heavy armored cavalry could not exert its power at all.

"Anything else?" Zhao Kuo did not explain his plans and plans about this, but continued to ask.

Zhou Qi saw that Zhao Kuo did not show any anger, and immediately continued: "There is also the iron chain, which tied the three horses together at the same time, between advance and retreat, it was quite troublesome, and what was even worse was that one horse was damaged, and three horses died. It's a bit ...... The gains outweigh the losses."

Zhao Kuo continued to nod and continued to ask, "Is there anything else?"

When the words fell, Zhou Qi immediately added, "Also, the preparation time is quite long! It's good to have auxiliaries on your side, but it's very difficult to complete a set of clothes by yourself."

Even Sun Gu on the side couldn't help but join the team complaining: "But its sustainable combat time is not long, even if the people and horses are all selected, they are already the elite choice in the army, and their limit is only about an hour, and if the time is longer, I am afraid that they will fall on the battlefield."

"Also, if it collides with its own weight, although it is effective, the man on horseback will not be able to accept such a heavy force at all, and this strategy of injuring the enemy by one thousand and inflicting eight hundred self-damage."

......

Obviously, these two boys have suffered a lot under this set of iron armor, and they have not discussed this new set of tactics in private.

Zhao Kuo listened quietly, but did not interrupt their complaints, and when the two finally poured out the bitter water in their hearts, Zhao Kuo answered their questions one by one.

"It is true that it is difficult to dress, but even if you don't have auxiliaries, you can work in groups of two or three to help each other get dressed. Although the weight of your armor and mine is not as heavy as that heavy armor, in terms of complexity and difficulty in wearing, which one is not more complex and difficult than that heavy armor? Do you and I go to war shirtless?" Zhao Kuo took the lead in starting with the small problem of dressing, and slapped Zhou Qi in the face.

"The reason why you ask such a question is not that the heavy armor is difficult to wear, but that you are simply unwilling to accept the new tactical methods of the heavy cavalry, let alone find a way to solve the problem for it. But no?" Zhao Kuo continued to ask.

When Zhou Qi heard this, he lowered his head, and his face was already a little red.

"Including what you say, you can't bear to fight a long war, and you hurt the enemy by a thousand and you lose eight hundred." Zhao Kuo then looked at Sun Gu again and continued: "And the so-called idea of abandoning the long and taking the short is also mostly out of distrust of the new tactics, disapproval, and unwillingness to accept it. But no?"

When Zhou Qi and Sun Gu on the side heard this, they immediately sweated down, and they were about to ask Zhao Kuo for guilt, but they were stopped by Zhao Kuo.

"The emergence of a new thing, the emergence of a new method of warfare, is inevitably accompanied by many questions and doubts." Zhao Kuo slowly continued: "As a general, it is very good to be able to discover these problems and raise these questions. But for a good general, that's not enough."

"A good general will have doubts about new tactics, but he will understand, try, and think about solutions with questions, rather than blindly complaining." Zhao Kuo sighed lightly and continued, "General Tiandan relied on it

You've all heard of the Fire Bull Formation, right?"

The two nodded silently, obviously at this time, the two had already expected that they should have made a big mistake.

"The fire bull array under Jimo City, hundreds of thousands of troops were disrupted in an instant, and its power is self-evident." Zhao Kuo continued to guide the two of them to think: "If you replace the fire ox with a faster and more powerful war horse, how powerful will it be?!"

"Of course, such a one-time consumption of war horses is obviously undesirable.

But what if it's not a one-time thing? Cover the horse with a layer of armor to make its impact even more powerful;

Then arrange the sword to dance wantonly on the horse, so that it can not only impact the enemy as it moves, but also slash and kill the enemy at will;

In the end, what if this warhorse, armed to the teeth, could be allowed to charge and kill according to the general's predetermined route and ideas?"

Zhao Kuo asked three times in a row, and directly stunned the two of them in place.

"If there is such a soldier, there will be no invincible opponent in the world!"

"You don't need more than 10,000 people, only 1,000 people, but you can go unpunished."

The hearts of the two people who heard the words were also mobilized by Zhao Kuo, and they sighed one after another.

"Isn't that the 3,000 heavily armored cavalry you have in your hands now?" Zhao Kuo immediately gave a hard blow when the two were most excited.

The two who heard the words were like lightning strikes! Yes, heavy armor, swords, and cavalry, don't they correspond to the three-piece set of armed war horses? In this way, this heavy cavalry is really invincible? What is smart and elegant, with that impact, it has to go around and around; What battle time is very short, and what formation can withstand a charge from this giant beast?

No, it's not! Something is wrong! I've tested it myself, but not only does it not have that power, but it ......

Something must be wrong!

Soon, Zhou Qi reacted, and saluted Zhao Kuo: "General Rongyu, if the war horse can fight alone, it is naturally invincible, but between the man and the war horse, it is separated, as the last general just said, if you rely on heavy armor to charge the enemy, you may be able to destroy the enemy, but you are bound to fall off the horse!" In this way, the war horse is bound to get out of control......

When Zhao Kuo heard Zhou Qi's rebuttal, not only was he not angry, but he was relieved. The reason why he talked to the two of them about this matter so carefully today, instead of throwing out the key things directly, was to cultivate the ability of the two of them to think independently and solve problems. Now it seems that it is really a teachable child.

"What if there was something that could combine horses and cavalry well?" Zhao Kuo continued to ask.

"General." Sun Gu obviously also sensed that Zhao Kuo was deliberately guiding the two of them to think, and immediately used his brains to reply: "If the cavalry is tied to the war horse, the cavalry will inevitably be unable to move around, and it is not counted as a target, and it is quite difficult to control the war horse. In this way, I am afraid that it will still be difficult to win on the battlefield."

Zhao Kuo, who heard this, nodded with satisfaction again, then looked at the two people in front of him with burning eyes, and continued: "As I just said, an excellent general has found a problem, and he should understand, try and think; And if you take a closer look, try it, and think about it, you will find that with those two pieces of heavy armor came along with two chests that were specially ordered not to be seen by others."

"And in those two inconspicuous little boxes, there's the answer you're looking for." Zhao Kuo shook his head and continued to strike: "Even if I didn't pay attention at that time, before I opened it, Zhao Wei should have deliberately sent more than a dozen large boxes with seals, and instructed that others still couldn't check them. And the answers you want are in it."

The two people who heard the words looked at each other and said, "The last general, the last general."

Looking at its embarrassment, it was obvious that he wanted to hurry up and check the large boxes.

Zhao Kuo shook his head, and casually took out two ropes from his arms, not the stirrups that were murderous in the battle of Yan and He.

"This is a stirrup!" Zhao Kuo handed it to Zhou Qi and Sun Gu one by one, and pointed out its usage: "One end of the nothingness is tied to the saddle, and the other end hangs low, and the cavalryman's feet are passed into the semicircle, which can be used in wartime

With this strength, if you are connected with the war horse, are you still afraid of being thrown out by the force of recoil?"

Hearing this, the two stared at a simple rope noose in their hands, both of them were battlefield veterans, and after Zhao Kuo's slight explanation, they immediately understood the importance of this seemingly simple "stirrup" to the cavalry.

When Zhou Qi was shocked in his heart, he couldn't believe it, and stammered: "Lord, General, this thing, this thing, is really so powerful?"

Sun Gu, who heard the words, also looked at Zhao Kuo with a look of hope, expecting Zhao Kuo to give an exact answer.

In fact, whether there is such great power, whether it is Zhou Qi or Sun Gu, they already have the answer in their hearts, but they don't dare to accept it for a while, and they dare to believe it only if their general personally agrees.

"In the battle of Yan and Yan, I broke Qin Ruishi with four hundred and fifty personal soldiers and six hundred, except for the fifty heavily armored Mo sword team, I relied on these three hundred pairs of stirrups!" Zhao Kuo calmly said the most exciting words in the calmest tone.

In this way...... The two looked at each other, and the excitement and excitement in their hearts were simply overflowing.

It's just that the two of them didn't have time to get excited for long, and Zhao Kuo's words reached the ears of the two again: "The key to this thing, there is no need for Ben Jiang to say more, but Ben Jiang cares more about you and the other two, not to be the mediocre general who finds the problem, but to be the one who will solve the problem, understand?"

"The last will be ashamed."

"The last general commands."

The two replied in unison again.