"We have heard from Mr. Xiao, but Masan and Madai have been around since ancient times. What is the significance of these improvements made by Su Shuai?"

Li Bian frowned.

Not only him, but many people present disagreed with the minor improvements made by Su Dawei.

"You guys..."

Su Dawei glanced at Xiao Siye.

I saw the old minister standing aside, stroking his long beard and having fun.

I couldn't help but shake my head secretly.

Sure enough, most second-generation soldiers are still too far away from the front-line battlefield.

Or, there are too many grassroots and basic things that they don’t need to think about.

For example, logistics supplies, such as military equipment.

Therefore, they do not have a very intuitive feeling about these tools that relate to life and death on the battlefield.

I only know how to use ready-made tools, but I don’t know that every piece of equipment will bring about technological upgrades and even changes in tactics.

"You all neglect the importance of weapons and equipment."

Su Dawei said carefully: "The different battlefield environments determine the tactics and weapons we use; on the other hand, new tactics and weapons can in turn change the rules of war."

Li Bian and others were confused and confused for a moment.

Gao Chongwen shouted, "I hope to hear the details."

"You have all heard that the Turks were also called the "Bannu". They were originally slaves of the Rouran people. They smelted iron tools for the Rouran people. Don't you know why the Turks became powerful?

In addition to Rouran's own weakness, the most important thing is the Turks' skill in iron control, which improved the armor-bearing rate in the army.

Among the Turkic soldiers, the heavy cavalry of iron armor was dominant.

Facing those grassland tribes that are not covered by armor, it is completely one-sided crushing.

How high is the Turkic armor rate? I don’t need to say more, right?”

Su Dawei looked around at everyone and saw that everyone was thinking, and then said: "Before the Turks, grassland tribes often used scimitars. The weapons popular in the Western Regions were also mainly scimitars. Why?

Because the scimitar is light and easy to carry, it is used to slaughter lamb and cut meat on a daily basis, which is even more convenient.

Most herders on the grassland do not have iron armor, so using a scimitar is enough.

However, after the rise of the Turks, due to the development of iron control, the army was equipped with a large number of iron armor and iron tools.

The original scimitar is difficult to break the armor.

Therefore, our Tang Dynasty inherited the Han Dynasty's ring head and then defeated the enemy with a horizontal sword.

The horizontal sword is longer than the scimitar and heavier than the scimitar. It also has a certain armor-breaking ability to face the enemy of armor.

The knife head is wedge-shaped, which is a benefit of axe-chiseling.”

Tang Hengdao is made of steel-blocking method and burns the blade with soil covering it, both toughness and sharpness.

And it is longer and heavier than the scimitar on the grassland.

It has the functions of stabbing and chopping, and has certain defensive ability for ordinary armor.

Later generations of Japanese swords were popular, and it is said that Japanese swords are in line with mechanics and well-made, and are very famous in the world.

However, I didn’t expect that the birth of a weapon would have an applicable battlefield environment.

Is it difficult to refine scimitars in the Tang Dynasty?

It was mainly the enemy of the Tang Dynasty, the Turks with extremely high armor rates.

It's okay to deal with people without armor. Once you deal with heavy armored cavalry with iron armor and armed to your teeth, you really want to be a waste of money.

When dealing with heavy armor, horizontal swords can only be considered alternatives.

The best one is a horse lance, a heavy weapon such as maces and hammers.

The reason why you don’t use heavy weapons such as axes and big swords is that you are not flexible in wielding on a war horse and can easily throw yourself off the horse.

More importantly, it is difficult to find the stem of the round-handed weapon.

If you cannot guarantee that the blade is perpendicular to the target, the effect is far less than that of a horizontal knife or a horse lance.

Regardless of it, just swing it.

As for weapons suitable for identifying the elliptical or square handles of the knife stem, the grip feel and rebound force are too anti-human.

Li Jinxing said thoughtfully, "The scimitar can deal with ordinary people, but it cannot deal with iron armor. The horizontal sword has a certain ability to break armor, so my Tang Dynasty mainly focuses on the horizontal sword."

"Su Shuai, you still haven't explained what role your improved stirrup and saddle played on the wolf riding during the battle of Kingsoft?"

"That is the effect of greatly improving the combat power of Hu people's servants."

Su Dawei patiently explained: "Before the Han Dynasty, cavalry did not have kicks. When people rode on horses, they needed to stabilize their bodies with their waist and legs. When war horses were running, it was extremely difficult to maintain the center of gravity.

Therefore, the cavalry at the end of the Qin Dynasty was mainly light cavalry and rarely had heavy armor.

Light cavalry is often equipped with crossbows.

Because it was not able to stabilize the center of gravity on the bumpy horse, it was too difficult to hit the target.

However, after the Three Kingdoms, Wei and Jin Dynasties, horse stirrups and saddles were widely popularized, which provided more possibilities for cavalry combat.

It is possible to achieve riding and shooting, and to make heavy armored riding possible.

But this is not the final form of the cavalry.”

Su Dawei's last sentence made everyone's mind very focused.

Not only Li Bian, Li Jinxing, Gao Chongwen and others were concerned about it.

Even Xiao Siye, who was standing aside, had the mentality of eating melons and watching shows, had a surprised look.

The final form of the cavalry is in a big tone.

"As what Mr. Su saw, what should be the final form of the cavalry?"

Gao Chongwen asked in a tone that couldn't help but feel a little ridiculous.

In his opinion, Su Dawei was quite arrogant when he said this to Xiao Siye.

Could it be that he felt that his vision was even better than a veteran like Xiao Shangshu?

Su Dawei smiled slightly: "This is what I said. If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools. Although the "Xuanjia Jingqi" of my Tang Dynasty is powerful, but on a war horse, you can stabilize your body and move forward and retreat freely, after all, there are still a few people who can ride on a war horse.

The stirrups and saddles I have improved will make most people walk on the ground on the horse's back.

In the past, cavalry charges, the reason why they used weapons such as horse lances and iron spears, which were mainly spears, was because they were difficult to move immediately.

The enemy and us only have a moment of fighting.

However, after improving the stirrup, in addition to straight stabs, you can also stabilize the body and perform more martial arts.

Weapons other than horse lances have more places to use.

You ask me why I could block the Turkish wolf cavalry after defeating the Mukun tribe by relying solely on those Hu servants.

This is the answer.”

Everyone fell into silence for a moment.

Su Dawei glanced at the audience and finally fell on Xiao Siye: "Shangshu Xiao, I still have something important to do, so I will say goodbye first."

Xiao Siye stroked his long beard and nodded thoughtfully.

Su Dawei then clasped his fists at everyone and left with great strides.

In this era, it was still an era of aristocrats, and there were still a few nobles who truly valued craftsmen and utensils.

They can use it, but from the bottom of their hearts, they don’t think that these objects are important.

Su Dawei also knew that he could not change the concept of the entire era by himself alone, but Xiao Siye wanted to reveal something, so he would reveal something real.

There is no mysterious and magical military strategy.

There is no so-called perspective of God.

If so, it is just a difference in concept and pattern.

Standing on the shoulders of later generations, Su Dawei's perspective is different from that of ordinary Tang people.

During the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the stirrups and saddles had developed to a very mature level.

But it is still different from later generations.

Later generations included Taizong's mount and the stone statue of the six horses of Zhaoling.

The saddle is not as consistent with human mechanics as later generations, and the stirrup is even more of a two-ring that can barely give people a stepping stone, which means providing some support for getting on the horse.

It would be a dream to rely on these to stabilize the center of gravity and to make any fun immediately.

Some minor changes made by Su Dawei were of great effect.

First of all, the saddle is raised higher at both ends, which can stabilize the force of the person shaking forward and backward on the war horse.
To be continued...