The next day, Ma Chao carried his heavy sick body and went to the horse farm to see the war horse in person.

Since Ma Teng entered Fufeng County, the original war horse shed in Fufeng County was moved to the outskirts of the county guard, and a new horse farm was opened. There is no other reason, it is because Ma Teng's subordinates are all Xiliang cavalry, and there are too many war horses. Meng He had no choice but to choose a place, take out a part of the county guard's reserves, and build this Ma Ranch.

Ma Chao glanced at the war horses in this large horse farm, carefully inquired about the steward here, and learned that the Ma Ranch now has 23,651 war horses, 5,426 foals, 6,437 cattle, and 11,444 sheep......

Most of those war horses were the war horses that Ma Teng brought back from the Qiang tribe in Liangzhou, tall and big, with long legs and strong legs. Ma Chao walked back and forth to take a look, and sure enough, he saw that these war horses were very miraculous and wild, and he was very happy in his heart.

"Young master, I can hear that the world is riding strongly, it is nothing more than Youzhou Karasuma, Bingzhou Xiongnu and Liangzhou Qiang people." Pang De saw that Ma Chao had such a Yaxing, and couldn't help but talk eloquently: "Youzhou and Bingzhou are both northland horses, short in stature, and excellent endurance, so Karasuma and the Xiongnu on the battlefield are mainly long-distance outflanking and light cavalry archery, paying attention to flexibility and stability, and can fight for a long time." And our Liangzhou war horse, the body is majestic and powerful, but it can't last, and the forage consumption is also more, so on the battlefield, it is good at short-range charges, heavy armor breakthroughs, and instant speed sprints with explosive power, which is extraordinary. ”

"Oh? The weight of the Liangzhou war horse is quite amazing? When Ma Chao heard Pang De say this, a terrible thought suddenly arose in his mind.

"Well, that's right, our Liangzhou war horse is tall and powerful, even if it is carrying two or three people, it still runs like flying." Pang De didn't know why Ma Chao asked this question: These war horses are different from those pack horses, if they use war horses as pack horses, it will be a tyrannical thing!

Of course, Ma Chao didn't want to use these war horses as pack horses, but after getting Pound's affirmative answer, the idea in his mind became more and more firm: heavy cavalry!

Heavy cavalry is a kind of heavy cavalry during the cold weapon war, the general men and horses of this class are equipped with good protective armor and shields, weapons are mainly spears, and are known for their strong impact and excellent defense.

During the Cold Weapons War, the heavy cavalry was almost the hegemon on the battlefield. Any country with heavy cavalry does not use heavy cavalry to perform auxiliary tasks, and completely relies on the power of heavy cavalry to kill, destroy, and conquer!

Heavy cavalry usually destroys opponents in battle through fast and short group charges, using mounted spears as the main striking weapon, supplemented by a variety of short weapons for melee combat. And after the appearance of the metal double stirrups, the heavy cavalry completely used the tactics of 'heavy impact' to destroy the enemy in front of them with an invulnerable attitude!

This terrifying type of military did not first appear in China, but in ancient Europe. It was not until after the Jin Dynasty that there were records of heavy cavalry in China. In the ancient countries of Eurasia, there were more famous cavalry such as Macedonian cavalry, Parthian noble cavalry, Gothic cavalry, Carolingian cavalry, Norman cavalry, etc., these cavalry were invincible and left a great reputation!

Of course, the emergence of heavy cavalry is related to the general environment of the times, for example, first of all, heavy cavalry needs extremely good war horses, and secondly, metallurgy and armor technology reach a certain level in order to create heavy armor with super defense. In the research of later generations, it was concluded that armor that could make cast-iron military heavy arrows unable to pose a threat at a distance of 50 meters could be regarded as heavy armor.

Secondly, the cost of heavy cavalry is also very amazing, in addition to the consumption and maintenance of horses and armor, the selection and training of heavy cavalry is also a large expenditure. In the Han Dynasty, the consumption of a light cavalry for a month was already worth the consumption of an infantry for a year, and it can be expected that the consumption of a heavy cavalry for a month would be worth at least three years of consumption for an infantry!

Such an expensive type of military naturally gave birth to corresponding cultural systems, such as the famous knightly system and chivalry in the European Middle Ages, which made the heavy cavalry knights a nobleman with a high social status.

But even so, no one could contain the unique charm of the heavy cavalry. Especially for the traversal, building an invincible and unstoppable heavy cavalry is simply a cross-era achievement!

Think about it, when the enemy army is on the vast battlefield, and sees a knight and a war horse whose heads are covered by cold iron helmets, the whole army is a metal monster army! In particular, those metal monsters swept over like a tide, carrying the momentum of crushing everything, bringing fear, helplessness, and death to the enemy army......

That kind of cavalry...... Even if you are given a sharp spear, you don't know where to poke ~~

That kind of cavalry...... Even if you want to fight, you have no chance of defeating!

Thinking about this, Ma Chao almost fluttered a little: if he had a heavy cavalry unit, why worry about the great cause of dominating the Three Kingdoms and sweeping the world?

"Young master, young master...... What's wrong with you? Pound saw Ma Chao's eyes were confused, as if he had fallen into a hallucination, and hurriedly aroused Ma Chao.

"Well, it's okay...... Ma Chao suddenly came back to his senses, but he sighed gloomily in his heart: The idea of building a heavy cavalry should be brewed again. After all, with the production technology of the Han Dynasty, it is simply not enough to have a suitable horse breed.

"By the way, Ling Ming, you mentioned to Brother Ugly and Han Feng that there is a shortage of war horses, but the number of horses in the ranch I am looking at at at the moment is enough for the army. What is the shortcoming? Thinking back to the original intention of coming here, Ma Chao couldn't help but ask Pound.

"Young master, please look," Pound led a war horse over, the war horse was psychic, and seemed to be afraid of the murderous aura on Pound and Ma Chao, so he became well-behaved and let Pound raise its front hooves: "The hooves of this war horse have long been worn and broken, and it is no longer possible to fight, if this kind of war horse is used to fight, the horse's hooves will be painful and unbearable." Even, because of the pain, the horse may be irritable, lose control, and eventually throw off the knight and run away. ”

Ma Chao looked at the poor war horse's broken and broken hooves, his expression was a little strange, and he didn't know what to think about. Seeing Ma Chao like this, Pang De continued to explain: "The war horses I used to fight with the young master to conquer the Qiang tribe are all unusable. In the first battle of Fufeng County, the war horses were running on the blades and gravel, and most of the horses' hooves were seriously damaged......

"In other words, the war horses are unusable, not because of the insufficient number of war horses, but because of the horses' hooves?" Ma Chao was stunned and asked with a look of disbelief.

"Yes." Pound nodded: This kind of natural thing, why does the young master show such a look?

And Ma Chao patted his head, with a look of annoyance, and then said to Pang De: "I already have a solution to the matter of the war horse, and after three days, it will definitely open Ling Ming's eyes!" ”

And Pang De looked at Ma Chao in a daze, and finally reached out and touched Ma Chao's forehead: "Young master, you don't have a fever...... right?"

"I'll burn your brother-in-law!"