"Of course, the credit of this son is not only this change."

Hearing Emperor Qi's words, Zhou Hongyang and the three couldn't help but be stunned.

At this time, I saw Emperor Qi smile and said, "Three Aiqing, didn't you ask me how the horseshoe and stirrup were obtained before?" ”

As if thinking of something, Zhou Hongyang and the three of them looked at Emperor Qi suddenly: "Your Majesty, are you saying that this stirrup and horsehoe are from here?" ”

"That's right! The stirrups and horseshoes were given to me by this son through Yi'er's hand. ”

"It's this!"

Zhou Hongyang's expressions were immediately moved.

Previously, without the presence of stirrups, their cavalry battles with the Tatars to the north were basically the end of their defeat, and even a small victory in numbers was enough to make them ecstatic.

With the same number of people, the Tatars, with their superb horsemanship, were often as easy as the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, after all, the people on horseback were not called in vain.

The only thing to be thankful for is that their country is much larger than that of the Tatars!

Yes, I admit that our cavalry is far inferior to you Tatars, but we still have more infantry, and what else can you Tatars do except cavalry? No! Not at all!

It was precisely by virtue of the size of the country and the deterrence of the number of infantry that the Tatars in the north did not dare to invade the Qi country easily.

Once they Tatars invade Qi in a big way, it is okay to destroy Qi in a short period of time by surprise, but this is too difficult, once they can't destroy Qi in a short time, when Qi comes to their senses, it must be their Tatars who lose, because they can't afford it.

Although the Tatars in the north did not dare to invade on a large scale, when winter came, due to the shortage of food caused by the cold weather on the steppe, the Tatars would invade south, they burned, killed and looted, did all kinds of evil, and took away everything they could eat, which brought a major disaster to the border of Qi.

In the face of this group of ultra-mobile Tatars, the infantry of Qi has no good way at all, the only way is to hold the city, set up traps, and wait for the Tatars to attack, but those Tatars are also very cunning, they have already investigated the situation of the deployment of troops in each city in advance, and picked those weakly defended cities to attack, and when Daqi received the news and sent a large army to go, the Tatars had already left.

In fact, this situation has existed since the early days of the establishment of the Qi State, and the Emperor Taizu at that time naturally noticed this situation, so he spent a lot of money to build a cavalry, trying to turn defense into the initiative and take the initiative to attack the steppe to eliminate the Tatars.

However, the idea is beautiful, but the reality is very cruel, and it slapped Daqi hard at that time!

Just when this cavalry, which had spent a lot of money to build, was attacking the steppe with great ambition, the Tatars used practical actions to tell the world that their cavalry was unrivaled in the world!

Two cavalry teams of almost equal numbers met each other, without any fancy or trickery, and launched a charge at the same time, but in the end it ended in a crushing defeat for the cavalry that Daqi had spent a lot of money to build, and the defeat was terrible!

If it weren't for the fact that the commander at that time saw that the situation was not right, and immediately ordered a quick retreat, I am afraid that this cavalry that had spent a lot of money to build would all be lost on the grassland.

After this battle, Qi was no longer able to take the initiative to attack the grassland, and could only defend passively.

Emperor Taizu did not withdraw the cavalry that was built with a lot of money but ended in a fiasco, but kept it, because he also knew that in order to really want to defeat and destroy the Tatars, cavalry was indispensable.

It's a good thing to have that determination, but there are some things that can't be done well with determination alone.

The money that should have been spent was spent, and the hard training was done, but every time I felt that I was about to go to the test army, I was almost invariably taught a hard lesson by the Tatars, of course, there were occasional times when there were small victories, but this was based on the numerical advantage......

This continued until the present dynasty, and it was not changed in any way, until the appearance of the stirrups.

At first, when Emperor Qi took out the stirrup, most people were not very hopeful about it, believing that it was just a trick and could not have any effect on the situation in the north.

However, when the stirrup was first thrown into battle, it surprised the people, and then ecstasy poured out.

I saw that the cavalry of the Qi State with the help of stirrups was like a god of war, and their strength had increased several times, and they were completely inferior when facing the Tatars one-on-one, which was simply unimaginable in the past.

Naturally, the Tatars paid a heavy price for arrogance in this battle, while the Qi State finally ushered in a hearty and exciting victory after facing the Tatar cavalry!

After this battle, the ministers of the court finally realized the importance of this stirrup, and said that this stirrup must not fall into the hands of the Tatars and other countries, so the Emperor of Qi took a series of measures in this regard, and the specific measures will not be talked about here.

And another thing, the horse's hooves fall, its effect compared with the stirrup is also comparable, when there is no horse's hooves falling, due to the problem of horse's hooves wear and tear leads to the scrapping of one war horse after another, each war horse means a sum of silver for nothing, even if it is a great family of great Qi is also distressed.

With the horseshoe, the problem of horseshoe wear and tear was solved, so a lot of money was saved, and the country's finances were greatly improved.

It can be said that it is precisely because of the existence of this small or even inconspicuous stirrup and horsehoop fall that the situation in the north of Qi has completely changed, so that Qi no longer can only blindly defend, and has begun to have the ability to take the initiative again.

But now, His Majesty is frankly saying that these two artifacts are from the hands of a young man named Li Anyi, how can this not make Zhou Hongyang and the three of them stunned and moved.

Emperor Qi was very satisfied with the reactions of the three Aiqing, and then continued: "In addition to the contribution of the stirrup and the horse's hoof fall, this son also has a credit. ”

"And?" , Zhou Hongyang and the three of them were stunned again.

Emperor Qi smiled faintly and said, "Three Aiqing, have you ever heard of the technique of sewing wounds?" ”

"The art of sewing wounds?"

Zhou Hongyang frowned slightly, and then made a gesture: "Your Majesty, is the technique you mentioned to sew the wound the same one that appeared in the army some time ago, sewing the wound with a needle and thread, and then sewing it like sewing clothes......

Servant......

Hearing such an unbelievable, appalling, and unheard of thing, even Liu Jinpin, the imperial prince, and Wu Jinyan, the imperial guard, couldn't help but show a look of horror, and when they thought of the needles with threads passing through their skin, and then sewing up stitches one after another like clothes, the corners of their eyes couldn't help twitching slightly.