My brother Ying Zheng, who dares to kill me?

With a heart full of shock, Ying Zheng rode back to Ying Chengjiao's side.

Although it was his first time using this set of horse harness, Ying Zheng was already familiar with it and stepped on the stirrups easily to dismount.

Patting the Takahashi saddle gently, Ying Zheng praised it repeatedly: "This thing has many disadvantages, but this thing has great advantages!"

"The Six Strategies says: Cavalry is important to know the unusual paths."

"The Art of War by Sun Bin also says: Cavalry is the servant of the army, so it can defeat the enemy, cut off the food supply, and attack the enemy."

"You can meet the enemy when they first arrive, take advantage of the enemy's weakness, chase and attack them, meet the enemy from behind, block their food supply, destroy their bridges, attack the unorganized troops, attack their laziness, burn their accumulations, and plunder their fields."

"Cavalry is amazing!"

"Yes!"

"With the advantages of Takahashi saddles and double stirrups, cavalry should be more than amazing!"

Before the appearance of Takahashi saddles and double stirrups, knights already had a considerable position on the battlefield, but they did not occupy a dominant position. All the uses of knights can be summed up in one word: fast!

Use high mobility to quickly reach the strategic position, and then dismount and become infantry to achieve the strategic goal.

Or use high mobility to distance and shoot arrows to kill the enemy's manpower and hit the enemy's morale.

War horses are to knights just like motorcycles are to motorized infantry. They are just tools for mobility rather than weapons that can improve combat effectiveness.

Except for a few generals like Xiang Yu who have a strong family background, have a large number of elite cavalry and are very good at finding the flaws of the enemy, almost no one will use knights to face the enemy head-on.

It was not until the advent of the Takahashi saddle and double stirrups that knights truly became a type of soldier tied to war horses, with the possibility of breaking through the enemy's formation!

Ying Chengjiao nodded slightly and said, "What elder brother said is what I think."

"From now on, knights will no longer be just soldiers on horseback, but can be soldiers who use horses as weapons like chariot soldiers."

"In addition, stirrups can make it easier for shorter soldiers to get on horseback, and the height requirement for selecting knights will be greatly reduced."

"The high-bridge saddle will allow knights to avoid having to clamp their legs together to maintain their posture, and the leg strength requirement for selecting knights will be greatly reduced."

"Horseshoes will preserve the combat effectiveness of a large number of war horses, making the stock of war horses in our Qin Dynasty more and more."

"With the superposition of these three, the number and importance of our Qin knights will rise sharply."

"It won't be long before knights will become an important branch of the army!"

The increase in the number of war horses, the surge in the number of qualified cavalry, and the surge in the combat effectiveness of cavalry, these three alone are all major changes that are enough to rewrite tactics.

When these three are combined, the chemical reaction will not only directly rewrite the status of cavalry from a strategic level, but also directly rewrite the national strategy and national strength comparison!

The three treasures of cavalry are worthy of their name!

Ying Zheng's heart was surging, and he patted the Takahashi saddle hard: "Good! Good! Very good!"

"These three are all treasures!"

"My brother really gave me a huge surprise!"

Ying Zheng turned his head and looked at Ying Chengjiao and said: "My brother dismissed everyone and only showed me these three treasures with unprecedented caution."

"What are you worried about, Hu?"

Ying Chengjiao said in a complicated voice: "Brother is right."

"Takahashi saddle, stirrup, horseshoe, can be called the three treasures of knights."

"But these three treasures are not only the treasures of my Great Qin, but also the treasures of the Hu people!"

"Especially the Takahashi saddle and stirrup, which can be called the treasures of the Hu people!"

"Although these two things are big It is good for war, but it is very easy to make. Even the Hu bandits who are not good at craftsmanship can easily imitate it. "

"Although the Hu bandits today rely on horsepower to come and go like the wind, they are weak and cannot bear the big battle. They can only harass and kill the enemy with horseback shooting. Once they are intercepted and besieged by our Chinese soldiers, they will die in an instant."

"But if the Hu bandits get these two things, the Hu bandits' bowmen will all be able to attack, fight hard, and fight head-on! "

"Although my Great Qin has good horses, the number of good horses, the places where horses are raised, the quality of horses, and the people who ride horses are all inferior to the Hu bandits. "

"The knights' combat power has soared, which is good for my Great Qin, but it is the most beneficial to the Hu bandits! "

"Brother, I have to worry."

Ying Chengjiao expressed his biggest worry.

The three treasures of cavalry are indeed treasures, but as the saying goes, technology needs to serve politics, and technology that is beneficial to political demands is good technology!

The difficulty of obtaining food for farming groups and nomadic groups is destined to make the average physical fitness of farming groups better than that of nomadic groups in the war years when materials are scarce.

Why can a person who has been hungry for a long time be stronger than a person who can occasionally have a full meal? !

Therefore, in the case of infantry warfare, the average individual combat effectiveness of the nomadic group is completely incomparable to that of the farming group.

Before the three treasures of cavalry were not yet available, it was a matter of course for one Han to fight against five Hu.

Li Mu, with an absolute disadvantage in terms of military strength, launched a counter-encirclement against the Hu bandits with 160,000 troops, and killed more than 100,000 Hu bandits in one battle after the encirclement was closed! The record of Qin Kai and other generals against the Hu bandits was not much less.

In this era, the Chinese countries never worried about how to kill the Hu bandits, but how to find the Hu bandits who came and went like the wind, and how to complete the encirclement before the Hu bandits moved. Once these two problems were solved, killing the Hu bandits was as easy as cutting melons and vegetables.

But when the three treasures of cavalry came out, the situation changed.

The number of horses owned, the growth rate, the iteration speed, the breeding accuracy, and the number of young and strong people who were good at riding horses in the northern nomadic groups were all beyond the reach of the farming groups.

The more equipment the cavalry has, the more tactics the cavalry has, the more important the cavalry is, and the stronger the cavalry's combat effectiveness is, the greater the war advantage of the northern nomadic groups.

It can be said that the three treasures of cavalry are one of the key factors in changing the offensive and defensive situation of farming groups and nomadic groups!

Ying Zheng frowned slightly and said, "My brother, I have given you a great gift."

"But it is also a great problem for you, my brother!"

"If you don't use such a treasure, you will waste your life."

"If you use it, you will give the enemy a sharp weapon and kill the lives of my children!"

"It's difficult, difficult, difficult!"

"My brother has made this thing for a long time, and he should have thought about it a lot. Do you have any good advice to help you?"

Ying Chengjiao spread his hands and said, "If I have good advice, I would have presented these three treasures to you, why did you hide them until today?"

"These are matters related to the general situation of the world, how can I think clearly?"

"Your elder brother also knows that I don't understand government affairs!"

"Such important matters should be decided by your elder brother."

"Your elder brother is the king!"

You ask your younger brother about the important matters that directly determine the future of the two nations?

How can my little shoulders carry such a big thing!

Ying Zheng looked into Ying Chengjiao's eyes with deep eyes and said: "My brother is not without good advice, but he dare not speak!"

"The reason why my brother showed these three treasures to you today is not because I can no longer hide them after hiding them until today."

"It is because you asked me to fight against the Hu bandits in the north in this battle!"

"My brother's advice should be to advise you not only to defeat the Hu bandits, but to destroy them completely!"

"Is what you said right?"

The three cavalry treasures were not found by Ying Zheng from Ying Chengjiao's study, but by Ying Chengjiao himself.

Since Ying Chengjiao chose to take them out today even though he knew the impact of this item and had hidden it for several years, it means that something big happened recently that prompted Ying Chengjiao to make a decision.

In Ying Zheng's view, Li Mu alone was not enough to make Ying Chengjiao so reckless.

Then what Ying Chengjiao wanted was only the other target of this battle - the Hu bandits!

Ying Chengjiao pursed his lips: "Brother, you are so stupid!"

Ying Zheng comforted him in a gentle voice: "You and I are brothers. I know you as well as you know me. How can you be stupid?"

"Your Majesty, I should tell you everything you think. There is nothing that cannot be said!"

Ying Chengjiao sighed softly, sat on the ground, looked to the north and said: "I do have such an idea."

"But I think my idea is too extreme!"

"In our lifetime, we can unify the world, Unifying the world, stabilizing the universe, and leaving peace for future generations is already an extremely difficult task. "

"If we also include the extermination of the Hu bandits in our goals, we will have too much to do in this life."

"If we die before our business is halfway done, we will leave a lot of trouble for future generations!"

Ying Zheng felt that Ying Chengjiao's sitting posture was too ugly, and it was not the posture a feudal lord should have. Then he sat on the ground like Ying Chengjiao and said softly: "But you know, my brother, I have always been cautious and resourceful."

"My brother knows this, but it is still difficult to make a decision. My brother must have his concerns."

Ying Chengjiao turned his eyes to the stirrup and said, "Brother, is this thing difficult?"

"As long as there is a Hu thief who wants his child to learn to ride a horse early, he may hang a rope on the side of the horse as a soft stirrup. When the child is riding, he may find that he can stand on the stirrup, and then make a double stirrup for better standing."

"As for the Gaoqiao saddle, what is missing is just a flash of inspiration."

"Even if I seal this Knight's Three Treasures in the grave, someone will develop this thing."

"If you and I make the Knight's Three Treasures first and equip the entire army, my Great Qin can take the lead and swallow up the northern border with the power of the Knight's Three Treasures, and even turn all the Hu thieves into China."

"But if the Hu thieves make the Knight's Three Treasures first, my Great Qin will be passive!"

When did the Cavalry Three Treasures appear? There is no final conclusion.

But the manufacturing difficulty of Gaoqiao saddle and double stirrups is too low. If soft double stirrups are made of wood, ropes and leather, the manufacturing difficulty will be even lower. All that is missing is a flash of inspiration!

With the general situation in the world having changed drastically, who knows whether that flash of inspiration will break out more than 480 years later, or more than 400 years later, or... in the head of a herdsman today.

Instead of leaving a big bomb for future generations to solve, why not throw this bomb at the Hu bandits and blow them upside down?

After a long silence, Ying Zheng shook his head gently and said, "The northern border is bitterly cold and difficult to survive."

"Brother, do you think the land of the northern border is worth the bloody battle of my Qin sons!"

"Even if my Qin sons take those territories, it is impossible to wipe out the Hu bandits."

"Those who are close to Di are Di."

"The Hu bandits will never be killed!"