Yuan Yao touched these Xiliang war horses with his hand, and the silky hair on the war horses exuded a dark and bright luster. It is very smooth to the touch.

These Xiliang war horses gathered together, stepping on the green bricks on the ground with their front hooves from time to time, making a clattering sound.

From time to time, he shook his head, the mane on his back swayed in the wind, and his mouth made a sneering sound.

The huge Xiliang war horse is the most suitable for military war horses.

Because of his large size, he has a strong body and is very fast when he runs.

Coupled with the large body size, the weight-bearing capacity is greater.

Let the Xiliang War Horse wear more armor and form the Xiliang Heavy Cavalry.

In fact, in the late Han Dynasty, there were some horses under the princes in various places, but very few could have Xiliang war horses.

Most of them are Wuhuan horses and Xianbei horses sold from the hands of northern nomads.

These horses are slightly smaller, and although they can run far in comparison, they are still a little inferior once they meet the real Xiliang Dawan horses.

Yuan Yao looked at these Xiliang war horses, and couldn't help but shake his head.

That's how history goes.

Dong Zhuo, who had so many war horses, would have been killed if he hadn't been killed by Lu Bu.

With these soldiers and horses alone, Dong Zhuo's strength has the ability to dominate the world.

It's a pity that Dong Zhuo died, and the remaining troops were divided up by several generals under him.

And these generals under his command attacked each other, and finally missed the qualification to dominate the world.

With these five hundred horses, Yuan Yao was completely enough to form a cavalry.

"General Ji, you select 500 soldiers from the army who can ride horses, and I plan to use these horses to form a cavalry."

"Don't worry, Childe, I'll take care of this matter, and I promise to select some young and strong young men for you."

Ji Ling followed Yuan Yao's advice and was just about to go down to select talents. Yuan Yao suddenly remembered something again.

"Come back, get me some more blacksmiths."

Although with these war horses, there is a basis for the formation of cavalry. However, Yuan Yao didn't plan to let these cavalrymen go to the battlefield casually.

In order for these cavalry to play a greater role and become a terrible weapon of killing, it is necessary to arm themselves on this basis.

That is, to match these horses with strong enough armor.

At the same time, let these horses become heavy cavalry.

If you want to do it, you have to do it well.

Although ordinary cavalry is powerful, it is only for ordinary foot soldiers.

Once faced with the enemy's cavalry, the advantage was not so obvious.

Although the light cavalry is faster, it can meet the enemy archers. Casualties will still be relatively high.

What can really be called terrifying, extremely powerful in combat is the heavy cavalry.

The heavy cavalry covered the horses with armor all around them, and the horses were protected from arrows by armor.

It greatly reduces the casualties of horses, and at the same time, because of the increase in the size and weight of the horses, the impact ability of the horses becomes stronger.

Even if there are only a few hundred horses charging on the battlefield, the terrifying movements caused by it are enough to terrify ordinary soldiers.

Therefore, it is the best choice to arm all these 500 horses into heavy cavalry.

It not only increases the role of cavalry, but also reduces the casualties of war horses.

In today's era of lack of horses, Yuan Yao can only do this.

However, if you want to arm these war horses to the teeth, the armor required is not a small amount, and it is not easy to make the saddles, necks, and curtains on the horse's back.

Moreover, in this era, the technology of making armor was not advanced, and it was generally a craftsman forging some pieces of iron, and then making holes in the pieces of iron, and using ropes to connect these pieces of iron to form a whole piece of armor.

However, because of the size of the iron plate, the armor cannot fully fit everyone's body shape, so this kind of armor mostly only protects one chest, and at most two shoulder armors are added.

This method of production is also commonly known as iron armor.

It is precisely because such a production process is more cumbersome, and requires a large amount of iron to be consumed, and it is quite cumbersome, that people who can match such armor either have good martial arts or have a respected status.

Ordinary soldiers can only wear leather armor, and they are not even qualified to wear armor.

As for the war horse, because of its large size, the number of iron pieces required is more, and it is more troublesome to make.

Yuan Yao originally thought that it would not be a problem for him to find a few craftsmen and fire a batch of iron ore to make the armor of horses.

But when Yuan Yao asked from the mouths of these blacksmiths, he did get an amazing answer.

These blacksmiths, without exception, didn't even know how to forge armor.

This made Yuan Yao quite surprised, he knew the ability of these blacksmiths, after Yuan Yao was surrendered to those Yellow Turban Army, there was a shortage of weapons and equipment, and there was a shortage of tens of thousands of weapons all of a sudden.

He didn't have so many weapons in his hands at that time, and the imperial court didn't have so many weapons to supply before, and even if he did, he couldn't supply them by this time.

Therefore, if you want to arm your own manpower, you can only forge your own weapons.

Yuan Yao relied on these blacksmiths to create thousands of weapons in just one month, plus some of the original old weapons of the Yellow Turban Army, and barely armed these soldiers and horses.

Although the forging skills of these blacksmiths are not outstanding, there is still no problem in forging some basic weapons.

Yuan Yao thought that they would be able to forge weapons, and it would not be a problem to forge some armor.

Who knew that these blacksmiths had never made armor or anything like armor, which made Yuan Yao quite curious, and hurriedly asked.

"Master Huang, you have good skills in building weapons, why don't you make armor?"

The leading Master Huang looked embarrassed and hurriedly explained.

"Lord Taishou, it's not that we don't want to learn how to build armor, but the government doesn't allow it."

"Although the imperial court has relaxed its control over the years, it will not be particularly investigated for those who secretly hide weapons, but for those who secretly hide armor, it will be severely punished!"

"Once discovered, it will be a capital crime, so where do we blacksmiths dare to forge armor without permission, it is all a matter of losing our heads."

Master Huang's words made Yuan Yao understand.

It seems that in the Han Dynasty, there was indeed such a prohibition that forbade anyone in the private possession of armor.

After all, armor is too dangerous.

One top three crossbows, three top three into the underworld!

With this sentence, we can know the role of armor in ancient times, and the strictness of the government's control over it.