In the evening, the Chu army finally divided the war horses.

As expected by Xiang Zhuang, Gao Chu's personal army grabbed enough war horses, and almost everyone rode it. The remaining left, middle and right armies were about the same, each with more than 3,600 cavalry. Xiao Kai, the commander of the left army, ran to Xiang Zhuang to complain, but was severely scolded by Xiang Zhuang. Xiang Zhuang clearly told Xiao Kai that if you can't grab the horse, you are incompetent.

However, Xiang Zhuang also spoke at the same time that this time was not a real horse distribution. After two months of riding training, the army would have to conduct a big test. Whoever performed well would be given priority to select the horse. As for those who performed poorly, they deserved to ride the remaining inferior horses that others would choose.

Xiao was able to speak, and then he left with a pout.

However, as soon as Xiao Kai left, three beautiful figures walked into Xiangzhuang's tent one after another.

When Xiang Zhuang looked up, it was Wei Yuewuyang, Qin Yu and Baili Yishui three little ladies. Xiang Zhuang stood up to greet him, and then smiled and said to Wei Yue: "Yue Niang, why are you here?"

Wei Yue bowed to Xiang Zhuang Yingying and said, "Yue Niang has met the general."

Qin Yu and Baili Yishui, behind Wei Yue, also quickly paid a visit.

Xiang Zhuang felt a little guilty. Since the last time he used Wei Yue to kill Chen Xi at Hulao Pass, Wei Yue's attitude towards him began to become subtle. Even when the two were intimate, they had a cold reaction, which made Xiang Zhuang bored. Since entering Hangu Pass, the two have never been intimate again.

Today, Wei Yueken came with the initiative, which was somewhat beyond Xiang Zhuang's expectations.

However, seeing Wei Yueqing's coldness and coldness and keeping people away from each other, Xiang Zhuang knew that she had mostly come by the instigation of Qin Yu or Baili Yishui. Xiang Zhuang's guess was quickly confirmed. When Wei Yue saw the ceremony, he said, "General, all the troops are conducting riding training. Should the female barracks also train riding?"

Xiang Zhuang slapped his forehead and said, "Yes, the female barracks do need to conduct riding training, but now the war horses have been allocated by each army and battalion, and I have no extra war horses here. Otherwise, I will definitely find a way to get another batch of war horses back and give them to the female barracks to train riding."

Baili Yishui pouted and said, "General, you lied to others."

Qin Yu also said: "That's right, there are obviously five hundred war horses."

Xiang Zhuang scratched his head a little. There were indeed five hundred war horses in the camp, and all of them were good horses with a height of more than seven feet. This was traded by Xiang Zhuang from Louanren with 500 scale armor. However, these five hundred good horses were used to form heavy cavalry. To be honest, the explosive power of Mongolian horses was really not good, but these five hundred good horses were barely enough.

At least the height of these five hundred good horses is more than seven feet, and the weight bearing capacity is sufficient. They will never be overwhelmed by the weight of hundreds of pounds of people, heavy armor and cavalrymen.

However, in terms of sprinting speed, Mongolian horses are absolutely incomparable to Arab horses. If they go back to Jiangdong in the future, they should really send a fleet to voyage to the Middle East to try their luck. If they can buy back a batch of Arab horses and improve the genes of Mongolian horses, the Central Plains cavalry will firmly gain the upper hand when facing the Hun cavalry in the future.

In history, there have been people who have done this. The local war horses in Japan also belonged to Mongolian horse breeds. Before the Meiji Restoration, all Japanese cavalry were almost donkey cavalry. However, Japan later introduced Arab stallions and improved the local horses. Later, when the Japanese army invaded China in large numbers, the Japanese cavalry rode tall and large Eastern horses.

These thoughts flashed through Xiang Zhuang's mind and said immediately: "But these five hundred good horses have been given to the personal guards."

As soon as he finished speaking, Gao Chu strode in. Seeing Wei Yue, Qin Yu and Baili Yishui three young ladies present, Gao Chu was a little stunned at first, and then bowed to Xiang Zhuang and said, "I have seen the general."

Xiang Zhuang waved his hand and said to Wei Yue, Qin Yu and Baili Yishui: "Now the master is here, you can ask him for a horse. Anyway, I have a war horse on my hand."

After saying that, Xiang Zhuang left the tent directly.

Soon, the chirping sounds of Qin Yu and Baili Yishui sounded in the tent. Gao Chu barely resisted for several rounds, then raised his hand to surrender, obediently allocated more than 500 war horses from the personal guards and handed them to the female barracks. Now, Qin Yu's female barracks have expanded to more than 500 people.

Of course, most of the female soldiers in the female barracks are round-armed and thick-waisted girls, occasionally with delicate and sensual, like Wei Yue and Baili Yishui, who have also practiced martial arts, and are all thorny roses.

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After leaving the big tent, Xiangzhuang walked around and entered the bus's supplies camp.

When Xiangzhuang came in, the bus was concentrating on sewing a high bridge saddle. A little girl about thirteen or fourteen years old and with a braid was helping him. Next to Gongshu, dozens of carpenters were nervously decomposing poplar wood, sawing it into small wooden strips, then nailing it into wooden frames raised at both ends, and sewing it with cowhide.

Seeing the Tagaoqiao saddle that was about to be completed in the bus driver, Xiang Zhuang felt a little nervous.

The Gaoqiao saddle was another great invention of the Huns. Xiang Zhuang clearly remembered that the Central Plains cavalry at this time were definitely still using flat saddles at both ends, but the Huns had already started using the Gaoqiao saddles. Even the Hu people and the old Qin people in Jiuyuan also learned that the Huns used the high bridge saddles at both ends.

So Xiang Zhuang was a little hesitant, should he nail his cavalry to his horseshoe?

The benefits of nailing horseshoes are self-evident. After nailing the horseshoes on, they can effectively prevent the wear of the horny horses of the horseshoes. In this way, the long-distance marching ability of the warhorse under harsh road conditions will be significantly improved, and the non-combat loss caused by the wear of the horny horses of the horses of the horses of the horses will be greatly reduced.

But the problem is that once the horseshoe's secret is mastered by the Huns, the consequences will be disastrous. With the horseshoe, the Hun cavalry can unscrupulously penetrate into the heart of the Central Plains!

In history, the Huns fought at most grass valleys near the Great Wall.

In fact, the fierceness and strength of the Huns was not inferior to the Mongols at all.

Maodun and the great talents and strategies of the military minister Shanyu were not inferior to Temujin and Kublai Khan.

However, the Huns failed to sweep the entire Eurasian continent like the Mongols. One of the most important reasons is that the iron smelting technology is too backward and even iron weapons cannot be built, let alone Mongolian scimitars. Another important reason is that the Huns cavalry did not have horseshoes and could not perform high-intensity and long-distance maneuvers like Mongolian cavalry.

However, once the Huns mastered the secret of the horseshoe, once the Huns could unscrupulously penetrate into the heartland of the Central Plains, the Huns would have enough chance to plunder enough craftsmen from the Central Plains. In this way, within twenty years, the Huns' iron smelting technology would be completely improved. If this were the case, the Central Plains might be destroyed!

After thinking about it over and over again, Xiang Zhuang gave up the idea of ​​nailing horseshoes to the Chu cavalry, which was too risky.

Although the most direct victims after the Huns cavalry were nailed to the horseshoe, Liu Bang, Zhang Er, Zangtu and King Xin of Han, Xiang Zhuang was never willing to risk the Central Plains civilization being extinct to try this dangerous move. The Huns were too dangerous, so it would be safer to limit them to the north of the Great Wall.

The stirrups and saddles are already there, and the horseshoe dare not nail them. So what about the weapons?

The most sharp cavalry weapon is of course a saber, but in this era, it is impossible to make suitable high-quality steel. Because the furnace temperature is not high enough, the quality of the pig iron refined is quite poor. Only by repeated tempering and repeated forging can it be trained to become refined iron. The horizontal swords used by Xiangzhuang and the generals of the Chu army were repeatedly forged and formed.

Therefore, equiping cavalry with sabers is simply a delusion, and at most it can only be equipped with a ring-headed sword and a horn bow.

Although the horizontal sword is extremely sharp, the craftsmanship is too complicated and it is extremely time-consuming and laborious to build. It is impossible to equip 20,000 cavalry with a horizontal sword.

However, in addition to the ring-headed sword and the horn bow, should we also equip our cavalry with a sharp weapon between long-range shooting and close combat? Because after returning to Jiangdong in the future, the Chu cavalry will face the Central Plains infantry more, and infantry generally have heavy armored oar shields to protect them, and dense horn bows are not enough to cause fatal damage.

If you use the ring-headed sword to engage in close combat with the Central Plains infantry, the cost will be too high.

Xiang Zhuang suddenly thought of Zhuge's crossbow, but Zhuge's crossbow is stupid and heavy, and has difficulty maneuvering, so it can only be used to guard camps or cities. However, what Xiang Zhuang needs is a light crossbow that can be carried by a single soldier. As a time traveler, Xiang Zhuang really knows the principle of firing crossbows.

Xiang Zhuang watched a special film in his previous life, which introduced a crossbow made by a military enthusiast.

The crossbow is made of a crossbow machine, a bow arm and an arrow cassette. The arrow cassette can store up to ten eight-inch-long short arrows. The short arrows are cast in iron and have no tail feathers. The arrow cassette is connected to the crossbow machine through a hinge. For each arrow, the arrow cassette is twisted back and forth and tightened the crossbow string again and quickly fired the second time.

The crossbow in the special film shot ten short arrows in less than ten seconds!

The only disadvantage of the continuous crossbow is that its effective range is too close, less than fifty meters, but for the Chu cavalry, a distance of fifty meters is enough, because when the distance is farther, you can use a horn bow to shoot. If you enter within fifty meters, you can replace it with a continuous crossbow to achieve absolute massacre of the enemy!

Thinking of this, Xiang Zhuang could no longer hold back.

Xiang Zhuang asked Jin Xiang to find a white cloth, then used black charcoal to draw a crossbow pattern, and then said to Gongshuo: "Mr. Gongshuo, look at this."

The bus put down the saddle in his hand and took the white cloth from Xiangzhuang.

The bus is worthy of being a descendant of Luban, and is definitely a master of the great master. He only took a look and then changed his face: "General, is this... a short crossbow that can be launched continuously?"

"Yes, this is a kind of crossbow." Xiang Zhuang nodded happily, "Kongshu crossbow!"
Chapter completed!