Chapter 77 The Idea of Building a Heavy Cavalry

The next day, Ma Chao held a heavy sick body and went to the horse farm to see the war horse in person.

Since Ma Teng entered Fufeng County, the original horse shed of Fufeng County has been moved to the county guard and opened a new horse farm. The reason is that Ma Teng's subordinates are all Xiliang cavalry, and there are too many horses. Meng was helpless, so he specially selected a place, took out part of the county guard reserve, and built this Ma's ranch.

Ma Chao took a look at the war horses in this large horse farm, carefully asked the steward here, and learned that there are now 23,650 war horses, 5226 horses, 6,437 cattle and 11,44 sheep in Ma's Ranch...

Most of those war horses were brought back by Ma Teng from the Qiang tribe in Liangzhou. They are tall and big, with strong legs. Ma Chao walked back and forth. Sure enough, he was very happy to see that these horses were very powerful and wild.

"Young master, I can hear the world's sniper, which are nothing more than three types of Youzhou Wuwan, Bingzhou Xiongnu and Liangzhou Qiang people." When Pound saw that Ma Chao was so elegant, he couldn't help talking: "Youzhou and Bingzhou are both northern horses. They are short and have excellent endurance. Therefore, Wuwan and Xiongnu mainly use long-distance enveloping and light riding and archery on the battlefield. They pay attention to flexibility and stability, and can fight for a long time. And our Liangzhou war horse has a strong body, but it can't last, and it consumes a lot of forage. Therefore, it is very powerful to charge in a short range on the battlefield, break through heavy armor, and instantly speed up and sprint with explosive power.

"Oh? Is the load of Liangzhou's war horse quite amazing? When Ma Chao heard Pound say this, a terrible idea suddenly came to his mind.

"Well, that's right. Our Liangzhou war horse is tall and powerful. Even if it is with two or three people, it still runs like flying." Pang didn't know why Ma Chao asked this question: These war horses are different from those horse-carriors. If they take war horses as horse-carriage horses, it is simply violent!

Of course, Ma Chao did not want to use these war horses as a horse, but after receiving Pound's affirmative answer, the idea in his mind became more and more firm: heavy cavalry!

Heavy cavalry is a kind of heavy horseback riding during the cold weapon war. Generally, people and horses are equipped with armor and shields with good protective performance. The weapons are mainly spears and are famous for their strong impact and excellent defense.

During the Cold Weapons War, heavy cavalry was almost the hegemon on the battlefield. Any country with heavy cavalry does not use heavy cavalry to perform auxiliary tasks, and completely relies on the power of heavy cavalry to kill, destroy and conquer!

Heavy cavalry usually destroy their opponents through fast and short group charge in battle, with riding guns as the main strike weapon, supplemented by various short weapons for melee. After the appearance of the metal double stamen, the heavy cavalry completely destroyed the enemy in front of them with a 'heavy impact' tactics and an impeccable posture!

This horrible arms did not first appear in China, but in ancient Europe. However, China did not record heavy cavalry until after the Jin Dynasty. In the ancient Eurasian countries, there were more famous cavalry, Parthia noble cavalry, Gothic cavalry, Garlorian cavalry, Norman cavalry, etc. These cavalry were invincible and left a great reputation!

Of course, the emergence of heavy cavalry is related to the general environment of the times. For example, first, heavy cavalry needs extremely excellent war horses, and secondly, metallurgy and armor technology reach a certain level to produce super defensive heavy armor. In the study of future generations, it is concluded that the armor of cast iron military heavy arrows that cannot pose a threat 50 meters away can be regarded as heavy armor.

Secondly, the cost of heavy cavalry is also very amazing. In addition to the consumption and maintenance of horses and armor, the selection and training of heavy cavalry is also a big expense. In the Han Dynasty, a month's consumption of light cavalry is equivalent to a year's consumption of an infantryman. It can be expected that a month's consumption of that heavy cavalry is equivalent to at least three years' consumption of an infantryman!

Such expensive arms naturally gave birth to corresponding cultural systems, such as the famous chivalry system and chivalry in Europe, making heavy cavalry knights aristocrats with high social status.

But even so, no one can restrain the unique charm of the heavy cavalry. Especially for the time-traveling crowd, building an invincible and unstoppable heavy cavalry is simply a cross-generational achievement!

Think about it, when the enemy is on the vast battlefield, they see that the heads of a knight and a war horse are covered with cold iron helmets, and the whole army is a metal monster! In particular, those metal monsters swept over like a tide, crushing everything, bringing fear, helplessness and death to the enemy...

That kind of cavalry... Even if I give you a sharp spear, you don't know where to poke it~~

That kind of cavalry... Even if you want to fight for it, you have no chance of defeating!

At this point, Ma Chao almost fluttered: if he has a heavy cavalry force, why worry about the success of competing for the Three Kingdoms and sweeping the world?

"Young master, young master... What's wrong with you? Pound saw that Ma Chao's eyes were blurred, as if he had fallen into a fantasy, and hurriedly aroused Ma Chao.

"Well, it doesn't matter..." Ma Chao suddenly recovered, but his heart sighed sadly: The idea of building a heavy cavalry, let's brew it again. After all, it is impossible to have a suitable horse species alone with the land of Fufeng County and the production technology of the Han Dynasty.

"Bear by the way, Ling Ming, you mentioned to Brother Chou and Han Feng that there are not enough war horses, but at this moment, the number of horses in the pasture is enough to be driven by the army. What's wrong with it?" Thinking back to the original intention of coming here, Ma Chao couldn't help asking Pound.

"Young master, please look," Pound took a war horse casually. The war horse was psychic and seemed to be afraid of the murderous spirit on Pound and Ma Chao. Unexpectedly, he suddenly became obedient and let Pound lift its front hoof: "The horse's hoof of the war horse has long been worn and broken, and it can no longer fight. If you use this kind of horse to fight, then the horseshoe Painful and unbearable. Even the pain may cause the war horse to be irritable, lose control, and finally lift down the knight and run away.

Ma Chao looked at the broken hoof of the poor war horse with a strange expression and didn't know what to think about. When Pound saw Ma Chao like this, he continued to explain: "The horses I used to fight with the Qiang clan have been unbearable. In this battle of Fufeng County, the war horses ran on the blades and gravel, and most of the horses' hoofs were seriously damaged. Later, they captured the war horses of the thief army, which were also unbearable due to long-distance travel..."

"That is to say, the war horses are unbearable, not because of the insufficient number of war horses, but because of the horseshoe?" Ma Chao was stunned and asked with an unbelievable look.

"Yes." Pound nodded: Why did the young master look so much about such a natural thing?

And Ma Chao patted his forehead with great regret, and then said to Pound, "I have a way to solve the matter of war horse. After three days, I will definitely open my eyes!"

And Pound looked at Ma Chao in a blank way, and finally reached out and touched Ma Chao's forehead: "Young master, you don't have a fever..."

"I'll burn your brother-in-law!"