Chapter 911

The method Su Xuan said was too simple.

Seeing Ying Zheng was a bit skeptical, and this was even because Su Xuan was the Imperial Preceptor and had never spoken without purpose in the past, so he believed half of it. If it were someone else, Seeing Ying Zheng wouldn't believe it at all.

The Xiongnu people, through decades of life on horseback, honed their riding skills. Can they erase the gap by relying on a few extremely simple tools?

Although that is the case, Su Xuan said so.

What else can Seeing Ying Zheng do? Immediately ask someone to build the corresponding tools, and then find a fast horse to try it out.

Saddles and stirrups are simple things, and they were soon manufactured.

After installing these things on the back of the horse, Seeing Ying Zheng immediately asked a Langwei who was good at riding and shooting to try it out. As a result, it exceeded Seeing Ying Zheng's expectations. According to this Langwei, with the help of stirrups to fix both feet, and at the same time with a saddle, even if he didn't hold the reins with both hands, his body could be more firmly fixed on the back of the horse. If the horse was stable, drawing a bow with both hands was not a difficult thing.

Seeing Ying Zheng was shocked when he heard these words.

Afterwards, he let the Langwei get off the back of the horse, and he tried it himself.

Seeing Ying Zheng, as an emperor, had also learned riding, shooting, and swordsmanship when he was young. Hooking both feet on the stirrups, Seeing Ying Zheng soon realized the extraordinary points.

In the past, cavalry galloped, although there were reins to control the direction, because both feet were suspended, if the riding skills were not refined, it was easy to fall from the back of the horse. In such a situation, one hand had to hold the reins tightly, looking for a support, naturally unable to free both hands to draw a bow with both hands.

But it was different after having stirrups. Stirrups are equivalent to another support point besides the reins. Both feet can use it to firmly stabilize the body on the back of the horse. Even if the arm does not hold the reins for a short time, it is enough to stay on the back of the horse and not fall down.

Seeing Ying Zheng tried it slightly and felt the difference.

When he got off the back of the horse again, he looked at Su Xuan who was watching quietly on the side.

He immediately stepped forward, bowed as an emperor, and gave a salute, "The Imperial Preceptor's wonderful ideas, I admire them to the extreme～～!"

"With these two things, how can the Xiongnu not be destroyed!"

If before, Seeing Ying Zheng firmly believed that even if the war was temporarily deadlocked, under the leadership of Meng Tian and Li Mu, the Xiongnu would still be destroyed, but he was not sure how long it would take to destroy the Xiongnu.

Then now, Seeing Ying Zheng determined that the Xiongnu must be destroyed.

He prepared to order the Gongshu family and the Mohist School to manufacture stirrups and saddles in large quantities, and must equip the cavalry at the border with these things.

"Although that is the case, this thing can only be used as a secret weapon once!" When Seeing Ying Zheng was full of confidence and said that the Xiongnu must be destroyed, Su Xuan expressed a new view.

"Please explain in detail, Imperial Preceptor!" Seeing Ying Zheng's attitude was humble.

Su Xuan said leisurely, "With the help of these two things, let our cavalry familiarize themselves with them, and they can also draw bows with both hands, which can be used to narrow the gap with the Xiongnu cavalry. But has Your Majesty thought that these two things have a simple structure, and once they appear in the world, it is easy for the Xiongnu people to learn them? If they learn them, the Xiongnu people, who are already skilled in riding, will only become more difficult to deal with."

"Therefore, after this thing appears in the world, we must succeed in one battle and not give the Xiongnu a chance to learn and imitate. With the help of these two things, we will completely defeat the Xiongnu in one fell swoop!"

A sharp light flashed in Seeing Ying Zheng's eyes.

He immediately realized the seriousness of the matter.

Indeed, the structure of these two things is too simple. It can only be said that it is a wonderful idea. In the past, no one had ever thought of using tools to improve riding skills, but once they appear, the Xiongnu people will soon discover their differences and imitate them.

The Xiongnu people's riding skills were already very powerful. If they had the help of tools, they would only be more powerful.

"One battle, destroy the Xiongnu?"

Seeing Ying Zheng whispered to himself, and then, he was full of confidence.

The Qin Guo could destroy the Six States of Shandong one after another, and could destroy the difficult Baiyue. Today, it can also destroy the Xiongnu.

Before there were these two things, the Qin Guo could still deadlock with the Xiongnu and have a slight upper hand. Now, with these two tools, the upper hand will be transformed into a winning situation.

Su Xuan looked at Seeing Ying Zheng, who was full of confidence, and added, "Besides this, in my conception, there is one more thing. If it is manufactured, it can reduce the loss of war horses by 70%!"

Seeing Ying Zheng's eyes lit up again, and he quickly said to Su Xuan, "Please tell me, Imperial Preceptor!"

Su Xuan had a strange smile on the corner of his mouth, "I named this thing horseshoe iron!"

"Horseshoe iron?"

Seeing Ying Zheng didn't understand what this was for a while, but he knew about horse hooves. It can be said that horse hooves are the most fragile part of a horse. After a long journey, because of the long-term contact with stones and the ground, the horse hooves will have irreversible wear. And when the horse hooves of a horse are completely worn out, this horse, no matter how young it is, is basically considered useless.

I don't know what this horseshoe iron is.

Soon, Seeing Ying Zheng knew.

The manufacturing of horseshoe iron is more troublesome than saddles and stirrups, but under Su Xuan's request, the Gongshu family soon manufactured it.

Watching the horseshoe iron being nailed to the soles of the horse's feet, Seeing Ying Zheng worried for this horse from the bottom of his heart.

Nailed to the soles of the feet like this, doesn't the horse feel pain?

Facts proved that it really didn't hurt.

This horse had no feeling. Although at first, because of the horseshoe iron, it was a bit uncomfortable to move its feet, but soon, it gradually adapted.

Seeing Ying Zheng finally understood what horseshoe iron was.

It is like the boots worn by people. People who don't wear boots and walk on roads full of stones will have sore feet, and their feet will hurt. Ma Pi are the same. But if you nail horseshoe iron, it is equivalent to putting on a pair of boots for it. Because the soles of the feet are not in direct contact with the ground, the wear of the horse hooves is not great, and the original wear is borne by the horseshoe iron.

When this thing was manufactured and verified by experiments that it was indeed feasible.

In Seeing Ying Zheng's mind, another picture was simulated.