After the professional's story, the usefulness of the small horseshoe was also known to everyone.

The horse's hooves are composed of two layers, the one that comes into contact with the ground is a layer of hard keratin about three centimeters thick, and the upper layer is the living keratin.

During the Han-Hungarian War, Huo Qubing led the cavalry to attack outside the Saiwai, a total of 140,000 horses attacked, after the end of a big war, only 30,000 horses were left behind, and the loss of war horses was very amazing.

Unlike the Huns, the Han army took raising horses as their vocation, had plenty of horses to use, and was not afraid of attrition.

The war horses of the Han army belong to the more luxurious consumables, and the accumulation of three generations has accumulated the loss of a Han-Hungarian war, and Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing have accumulated the number of war horses for decades, so that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty has the mobility of the Northern Expedition against the Huns.

Most of the reasons for this may be attributed to the damage to the horse's hooves.

In the process of fierce galloping battle on the grassland, the skin of the horse's hooves wears out quickly, and a lot of damage is made, and it is difficult for the horse to continue galloping, which can only be regarded as a loss, even if the horse is not dead, it can not continue to gallop to fight.

The service life of a horse is so short that even the Han treasury, which has been accumulated for decades, can hardly withstand such great losses.

It is rumored that during the ancient Roman period, that is, the same period as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the ancient Romans began to use horseshoes.

The harness was recorded and physical in the Wei and Jin dynasties, but the horseshoe was not officially recorded in China until the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, and by the Northern Song Dynasty, the horseshoe was still an absolute extraterritorial thing, and was not listed by the Central Plains army.

The damage to the horse's hooves was so simple and easy that it gave the Central Plains court a headache in all dynasties, so it cost a lot of money, spent a lot of energy, racked their brains to increase the number of war horses, and did not change much.

The spread of the horseshoe is so difficult that it makes future generations sigh, thinking that if there is a horseshoe during the Tang Dynasty, the cavalry of the Han people will be so brilliant, and how they will be able to bravely open up the territory and dominate the grassland.

Even if it was a Song people, if they had a horseshoe, they would not suffer so much in the cavalry.

There is a saying that in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, after the experience of five dynasties and ten kingdoms, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the Song army was very strong, even in the Zhenzong period, the cavalry of the Northern Song Dynasty could repeatedly defeat the cavalry of the Liao State.

However, the lack of horseshoe equipment and the loss of a large number of horse breeding grounds in the northwest and Yanyun made the Song people extremely short of horses, and they could not pull up the number of cavalry at all, and the battle of the large cavalry corps could only stay in theory.

If you are not on the grassland, you can raise a horse on the land you need to feed thirty people.

The cost is too high to raise.

Ancient China was not unaware of the damage of the horse's hooves to the horses, and also thought of many ways to use bamboo, rattan, and leather to make simple horse shoes to protect the horses' hooves, but these were more like decorations, and could not protect the horse's hooves well at all.

And now with this horseshoe, the service time of a war horse can be greatly increased.

Guo Peng's army has not been based on cavalry as the main force, and the horse harness has not matured, so the loss of war horses is still within a controllable range.

There's really nothing they can do.

But this time, there is a way.

Wang Cang's eyes flickered, and he kept stroking the horseshoe in his hand.

He said excitedly that this piece of iron, two pedals and a high bridge saddle can save Guo Peng a huge amount of military spending, and this huge military expenditure can be used to do many things.

He immediately asked Ying and said that he would take a team of accountants to calculate the specific amount of this amount for Guo Peng.

Guo Peng smiled and nodded in agreement, and said that after the calculation was made, the entire team of planners would be rewarded.

In any case, everyone can see that the release of this full set of harness for mass production and promotion to the army will bring great changes to the cavalry.

And the overall structure of the Wei army, as well as the future battlefield and army tactics, may undergo huge revolutionary changes as a result.

The changes brought about by technological progress to human society are too great, and war is also an important driving force for technological progress.

A series of technological advances introduced by Guo Peng in this relatively chaotic era can be greatly advanced with the help of the power of war.

Such progress can be seen right under everyone's noses.

Be amazed by it, slap your hands for it, and smack your tongue for it.

Then, cheer it on.

Guo looked at the surprised faces of his subordinates, and his heart was full of pride and high spirits.

In fact, he has thought about how to use a large amount of expenses that can be saved after the appearance of horse harness.

For him, a part of the money in his hand is enough, not too much, he has too much money in his hand, and there will be less money circulating in the market, and the money stuffed in the warehouse will not produce small money, but will cause deflation and make the economy go wrong.

How to spend it correctly to achieve the effect of benefiting the country and the people is a problem that Guo Peng needs to think about carefully.

After thinking about it for a while, Guo Peng decided to follow this stall, launch the militia system, and make the militia system fixed, legal, and long-lasting.

At this moment, the policy of salt and iron official camps has been implemented for some time, and the local private iron smelting has been almost cracked down, and the militia system can be carried out.

In Guo Peng's thinking, the policy of salt and iron official camps and restricting civilian force was mainly to reverse the social state of heroism that had been born of the free and loose social atmosphere since the Han Dynasty.

This social state of killing people with a sword if they disagree is not in line with the way of Guo Zhi's government.

The heroes of the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty walked everywhere, and there was such a saying that chivalry violated the prohibition with martial arts, and the heroes walked everywhere to drive the folk martial arts, but for the management of the government, for production, and for social organizations, it obviously did more harm than good.

Furthermore, whether the people are martial arts or not is not directly related to whether the country is strong or not, on the contrary, there is a clear boundary between whether this martial arts is brave in public war or private fighting.

During the Warring States Period, the Qin people had a clear understanding of this, knowing that most of the people who had the courage to fight privately were afraid of public war, which was not beneficial to the country.

Fighting a war is a matter for the army, an organized armed force, not a matter for a group of stragglers.

No matter how powerful the martial arts master is, he is not the opponent of a well-trained army, and the major martial arts sects in the martial arts are going to suffer a fiasco in the face of well-trained soldiers who advance and retreat neatly.

After the number reaches a certain level, the victory or defeat of the war does not depend on individual martial arts, but on the degree of organization, the degree of training, the sophistication of equipment, and strategic thinking.

What good is it for the country to make a bunch of heroes who are mighty in the world?

If there were, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty would not have vigorously attacked the heroes before the Northern Expedition to the Xiongnu.

At that time, the heroes were rampant to the point that the government did not dare to control the heroes, but they had to be respectful to the heroes, and the heroes could kill the officials while talking and laughing, which was okay?

Guo Peng wanted to turn the social state of courage in private warfare and cowardice in public warfare since the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty into courage in public warfare and cowardice in private warfare, so that society would be full of organization.

To this end, it is necessary to control the civilian armed forces.

However, the number of imperial troops is not so large, and where there is always power, there is always a place where the whip cannot reach, and at this time, the local militia makes sense.

It is necessary to institutionalize, formalize, and restrain the civil armed forces, and turn them into the reserve force of the armed forces, hiding them among the people, and when there is a need, they can gather together to go to the national crisis.

Guo Peng's idea was to rectify some of the veterans who had been discharged from the army due to injuries, put them in civilian areas, go to every village to be military officers, and lead the strong men in the villages to collectively cultivate during agricultural time and collectively train battle formations in leisure time.

Of course, Guo Peng didn't expect them to really go to the battlefield to fight, Guo Wei's regime didn't need these militias to go to the battlefield to fight, that was the matter of the 400,000 regular army, not the militia, they were the national strategic reserve force.

Guo Peng's training and organization of the militia is mainly to control the civilian armed forces in his own hands, and let these militias protect themselves when necessary, and be organized, and then it is enough to send food and straw with the auxiliary soldiers when fighting.

In addition, for the sake of local security, as a ruler, of course, I hope that the place will be stable and not cause trouble.

If such a social state is allowed to continue, Xiahoudun killed people at the age of fourteen, and Guo Peng killed people at the age of twelve.

That's what Guo Peng doesn't want to see, and it's not something that would happen in a normal and healthy society.

By regularizing and officializing all armed forces, giving them a name, and appointing them in an upright and bright manner, we will be able to reverse this social state of affairs very well.

Therefore, while announcing the reform of the cavalry, Guo Peng also announced the operation of the militia system, which was carried out in his base camp in Qingyan Erzhou, and 500 wounded veterans were sent into the Tuntian villages in 500 places to start a trial operation of this policy.

The implementation of the two new policies let Guo Peng know that the time to challenge the White Horse Alliance was almost up.

Let's get started.