Short video spoiler history: The beginning of modern warfare

Chapter 20: Three Cavalry Artifacts
Nanjun in the late Han Dynasty.

A month has passed since the last time the sky curtain went out, which made Liu Bei and others very worried. They didn't know what had happened, and they were also worried that the sky curtain would never light up again.

It was clearly out for half a month last time!

However, everyone was not idle this month. Liu Bei first confirmed that Pang Tong was in good health before he felt relieved.

Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Chick, talents who can assist the king, there are two of them at once!
Liu Bei seemed to be floating when he walked.

After being exposed on the sky curtain, the prestige of the two men was unmatched for a while. They are truly figures who will be remembered for generations to come!
Zhuge Liang, in particular, made Cao Cao and Sun Quan jealous, and they all extended olive branches to him.

At first, letters from Zhuge Ziyu and Zhuge Gongxiu came like snowflakes, and then the two of them came in person.

The two of them stayed there for more than half a month!
Liu Bei felt a little overwhelmed, and the worry had just left his brow, but it came back to his mind again.

Hey!
In addition, another major event was the negotiation with the Eastern Wu regarding the entry into Shu. The Eastern Wu offered a heavy stake, with no room for maneuver, which meant giving up the entire Jingzhou!
The two sides negotiated on this matter no less than five times, and each time ended in a bad mood.

Letters from Zhang Song and Fa Zheng in Shu were also sent secretly, urging them to raise troops and march into Shu.

The people in Shu are in unrest, and this is the time to enter Shu.

Another thing is that there has been no progress in the search for the raw materials for gunpowder in Jingzhou, as no one knows what they are.

Even if someone wants to cheat the 500 gold, they can't do it. The clear ratio is here, and you will know the truth by trying it.

Of course, there are people who want to get away with it, but after getting rid of a few scammers, everyone became honest and no one wanted to embarrass themselves anymore.

In addition, Liu Bei personally went to Changsha County and persuaded Doctor Zhang to come to Nan County. The old doctor was in good health, and as soon as he arrived in Nan County, he diagnosed the soldiers, which moved everyone. Fortunately, no one was seriously injured.

While Liu Bei was thinking about it, his servants reported that the skylight had come on again, so everyone left their state affairs alone and hurried out.

During the Hongwu period, Jinling City.

The Ming army only slightly adjusted the ratio and quickly produced it. On the day of the test explosion, all the middle and senior generals and civil officials who were still in Jinling City were called into the palace to observe.

On the day of the test explosion, the thunderous noise was heard throughout most of Jinling City. Immediately afterwards, the entire city was placed under martial law, and the Imperial Guards urgently protected the Imperial Palace!
A wall of the Wen Building to the east of the Fengtian Hall was blown down. A hot breath swept up the dust and knocked over a group of civil and military officials from a distance of ten feet. The horrifying explosion made everyone temporarily deaf, and many people fell to the ground, at a loss.

Zhu Yuanzhang and his generals were stunned. Was this the gunpowder they knew?

Only the ratio was adjusted, the quantity remained the same as before, and even Zhu Yuanzhang didn't notice anything wrong!
Then the whole city was under martial law, and in less than three days the imperial court drafted an edict to nationalize two of the materials, put them under strict control, and prohibit their trading.

[Crossing Collection: Three magical tools that cavalry used to change the rules of war#Crossing Collection#Cavalry]

[In the absence of modern means of transportation, horses are one of the best means of transportation for humans]

[On the battlefield, once the horse is equipped with the three artifacts of stirrups, horseshoes, and Takahashi saddles, the rules of the battlefield will be completely changed]

[According to research, stirrups and high-bridge saddles were both developed around the Han Dynasty]

[Horseshoes appeared in the Sui Dynasty and were widely promoted in the Yuan Dynasty]

[If you travel through time to an era without these three artifacts, you will most likely gain a great technological advantage and dominate the battlefield]

[It should be noted that these three artifacts are extremely simple and easy to be copied]

[Please use it with caution when your power is too weak to prevent leaks]

Late Han Dynasty, Yecheng.

Cao Cao was a little excited. It seemed that the sky curtain lit up and went out regularly, with an interval of fifteen or thirty days.

Looking at the Takahashi saddle in the picture on the sky curtain, it looks familiar. Isn't this the one used by the army now?
As for stirrups, they also existed at that time, but they were only used as auxiliary tools for getting on a horse. Are they so magical?

What is a horseshoe?
No matter whether it is true or not, try it first.

Cao Cao knew that later generations were serious about time travel, and at least their knowledge in this area had not been false.

In the words of later generations, that is technological leadership.

During the Zhenguan period, in Chang'an City, Li Shimin breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the sky was lit up again.

Half a month had passed and the sky had not been lit, which made him upset, so he arranged for a eunuch to watch outside the door.

At this time, the skylight lit up again, and the eunuch was quickly sent to the government hall next door to invite all the important ministers.

This was his guess as to the pattern of the sky lighting up. Although he didn't know why the sky didn't light up half a month ago, he still specially invited all the ministers to the palace today.

I didn't expect that I actually caught him.

By the Tang Dynasty, stirrups and high-bridge saddles had already become popular, so what are horseshoes?
When the people of Chang'an heard that the sky had lit up again, they ran around telling each other, and the atmosphere was full of joy.

[Stirrups not only help people get on the horse, but more importantly, they support the rider's feet while riding]

[Free your hands to the maximum extent possible and give full play to the advantages of riding a horse to improve the combat effectiveness of the cavalry]

[With it, cavalry can chop left and right, shoot arrows with bows, and use long weapons to fight on horseback] [And it is extremely simple to make. To put it simply, it is a pair of iron rings. If there is no iron, wood or rope can be used]

[Use one foot for one use]

[The Takahashi saddle stabilizes the cavalryman's body and prevents it from sliding back and forth]

[No matter how the horse runs, the cavalry can stay stable on the horse's back]

As the video progresses, you can see cavalry archers appearing and shooting arrows in multiple directions!
???

During the Yuanshou period of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Liu Che was a little confused. Could this thing really significantly improve the combat effectiveness of the cavalry?

However, since people in later generations took it so seriously and there is video evidence, it should not be a problem.

Liu Che knew that people were serious and professional about time travel!
The craftsman easily drew the stirrup.

Liu Che compared it personally and found it to be exactly the same as what was shown on the sky curtain, so it was indeed easy to leak secrets.

The picture album of Takahashi saddle was quickly drawn. To put it bluntly, these two things are really simple and you can learn them at a glance.

People in later generations really have better brains!
There was no hesitation and he immediately asked someone to make fifty sets.

If you want to know whether you can improve your combat ability, it's very simple. Just equip one group of people with stirrups and Takahashi saddles and let them fight against another group of people.

[As the name suggests, a horseshoe is a U-shaped iron object on a horse's hoof. Its main function is to protect the horse's hoof.]

[There is a thick layer of cuticle at the bottom of the horse's hoof, similar to human nails, 2-3 cm thick]

[The hoof is also the most vulnerable part of the horse. Once the horse runs for a long time under load or walks on hard roads]

[It is very easy to wear the cuticle of the horse hoof to the flesh]

[Horses with horseshoes can run for a long time, and their endurance and load-bearing capacity have been qualitatively improved.]

[Again, these three things will completely change the war mode in the era of cold weapons, no less than the invention of gunpowder. The combat effectiveness of nomadic peoples will be qualitatively improved as a result.]

So please use with caution.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, Jingzhou, Jiangdong and Yecheng all issued orders to build them quickly.

Among them, Yecheng was the most excited. The reason was that the Cao Cao group would benefit the most from the emergence of these three.

In Nanjun, Pang Shiyuan seemed to be hesitant to speak, and Liu Bei was also helpless.

The one who benefited the most from the three items, the salt making last time and the stirrups this time, was Cao Cao.

It's because our territory is small, sparsely populated and not near the sea.

If what Tianmu said was true, then the next time they met on the battlefield, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry would become their nightmare.

"Why do you always travel to ancient times? Have you ever traveled to the future? [狗头]"

"People cannot imagine things they have not seen, so it is difficult to write well"

"There is no advantage in going to the future. Everyone wants to be a dragon and no one wants to be a chicken."

Zhang Fei has been studying Chinese characters seriously for more than a month. Now he can finally understand most of the words on the sky curtain. He couldn't help but face darkening.

Are you polite?

Zhao Yun, Guan Yu:
Li Shimin: Oh, yes, yes, yes!

"I remember reading a novel recently where the author researched that one of the reasons for the large-scale use of horseshoes in the Yuan Dynasty was the iron smelting technology [covering face]"

"It's useless. Without stirrups and horseshoes, there is probably no iron. If you want to smelt iron, you must first rub the blast furnace by hand, refine coke, or dig coal, and invent a bellows! [Covering face] and a series of other things. Learning any one of them is useless or at most you will be content with a small fortune."

"When will you teach me how to smelt iron? I'm ready to travel through time"

"Iron making is relatively simple. After ore selection and washing, coke is used to dissolve the iron ore to produce pig iron with many impurities. The iron is then repeatedly heated and hammered to produce wrought iron. Carbon powder and other metal powders are then added to the melt. The iron is then stirred with a wooden stick to produce steel."

"Remember, horseshoes were introduced to ancient China in large quantities during the Yuan Dynasty after the end of the Southern Song Dynasty. If you could travel back to before the Southern Song Dynasty and make this, you would never have to worry about food and drink."

Nanjun in the late Han Dynasty.

Zhuge Liang was in a very complicated mood. This kind of knowledge that should be a military secret was like cabbage in later generations.
Moreover, the refining methods that have been passed down must be obsolete or relatively backward ones.

This later generation has conducted in-depth research on weapons and equipment.

Is there any scientific research on this?

(End of this chapter)