The autumn wind blew, the crab legs itchy, Xiyang suburban ranch, Wang Yuwen Wen of Xiyang was watching the crabs in the kitchen. The big crabs that had just been fished out of the lake were protesting to him with their teeth and claws, but they could not change their fate that was about to turn into delicious food.

Thanks to the abundant iron production of Dayejian, iron pots have now become an extremely convenient cooking utensil in the army. The boiling water quickly makes it possible to save a lot of firewood when cooking, and it is not easy to break the bottom.

There are several types of marching pots, including hot water kettles that specialize in boiling water, and small iron pots that make small stoves. In front of Yuwen Wen was a small iron pot. Under the heat of the fire, the water in the pot boiled quickly, so the end of the crab has arrived.

Yuwen Wen was very satisfied with the heating of the small iron pot and signaled his followers to start cooking crabs. He looked at his pocket watch, then turned to the stable beside him to see the baby war horses.

War horses are an important strategic resource. Before the large-scale popularization of internal combustion locomotives, they were an indispensable partner and riding tool for both the enemy and us in the war.

Yuwen Wen has tried every means to save horses over the years, but he has not saved up the tens of thousands of war horses he had imagined. After all, for many reasons, it is not something that can be achieved with money.

In a corner of the stable, Ma Wu was leading people to fight Mathew's hooves. Yuwen Wen did not rashly come forward to disturb the horses, so as not to startle the horses and cause casualties. After all, if they were kicked into the vital points of a horse, they would be disabled even if they were not killed.

The trimming of horse hooves is quite complicated. The hoof clone cannot arouse the hostility of the horse first, and coax the other party to obey and then stick out the horse's legs. The hoof clone then clamps the horse's legs with both feet, let the horseshoe face him, and then bend down to trim the hoof with various tools.

Horses' hooves will continue to grow like human nails. Horses' hooves that originally act as protecting horseshoes will grow too long and will deform the horses' walking and running. Therefore, it is a daily routine for the groom to regularly fight Matthew's horse hooves.

Of course, Yu Wen Wen didn't need to do this, but he was very concerned about the skills of his groom. If war horses were tanks in later generations, then grooms or horse-raising people were like mechanics in later generations.

A groom with good skills and professional ethics can raise a war horse to be fat and strong, and gallop like a flying horse; while an irresponsible groom can raise a thousand-mile horse to death.

Yuwen Wen, who was already short of horses, certainly did not allow such a situation to happen. Therefore, while improving the treatment of grooms, he also set a strict punishment system. Whoever dares to abuse the horse will abuse whoever he will abuse.

Raising horses is a technical job, and Yuwen Wen is not very good at it, so he handed over all his horses to the "experts".

Ma Wu, who has been a herdsman for generations, has rich experience in raising horses, pharmacizing horses and training horses, so Yuwen Wen is willing to pay for money to "buy" experience. Ma Wu has "helped, passed on and led" in recent years, and Yuwen Wen is also not reluctant to reward him.

Today, Ma Wu is much stronger than that in the past. He married a wife and had a small family and lived a comfortable life. Ma Wu, who was originally happy, is now getting more and more full of spring breeze.

Ma Wu was busy giving a horse to a horse fighting Mathew's hoof. Yuwen Wen did not come forward to disturb him, and Ma Wu, who was concentrating, did not notice that the king was not far away.

I have to stand and hold the horse's legs while clamping the horse's legs, and then bend over and trim the horse's hoofs. After a long time, I feel very tired. A horse has four hoofs. It is a laborious job to repair it. It is easy for Ma Wu to finish it. After putting the tools, carefully put the horse in a hoof cover.

Just as people need to wear shoes to protect their feet, horses also need to protect their horses, so it is normal to wear straw or leather hoof covers on horses.

Wait a minute, something seems to be wrong, what about the horseshoe? Why don’t you nail the horseshoe?

Yuwen Wen had thought about this problem, but he found a fact: in order to protect the horseshoe, "u"-shaped iron sheets on the bottom of its horseshoe have become common sense in later generations, but in this era, it is not common.

People in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period had already paid attention to the issue of protecting horseshoes. The measures taken at that time were like putting shoes on people and letting horses wear hoof protection. This measure has continued until now, and as for horseshoes, it is not a popular practice.

The reason why it is not popular is that in the Central Plains, Yuwen Wen has observed for many years. The existing horse hooves do have horses similar to horseshoes, but more horses are "naked" horseshoes, and at most they can wear straw or leather hooves.

Nailing horseshoes to horseshoes can effectively reduce the wear of horseshoes. Why is this practice not popular?

Yuwen Wen was a little confused, and later he probably figured out some tricks: either he thought using horseshoes was too luxurious, or people didn’t have that consciousness.

Considering various factors, Yuwen Wen was silent about the issue of horseshoe for many years and did not mention it. Even now, he did not intend to "promote" horseshoe because he did not want to suffer on his own.

Horseshoes are the power multiplier of cavalry. If you have few cavalry, you are very likely to be so sad that you "use infantry to control cavalry". If the enemy's cavalry's war horses are "changed" with horseshoes, you will be even more dangerous once you fight.

Anyway, no matter whether there are horseshoes or not, everyone has fought in this way for hundreds of years, so Yuwen Wen suppressed his "intelligence" and did not intend to promote horseshoes for the time being.

He turned out of the stable and came to the grassland of the pasture, where a few horses were eating the grass from the manger leisurely, and more than ten people were busy beside him.

"Master, the horse is ready."

"Is the armor ready?"

“It’s ready.”

"Put the horse."

A set of horse armor (equipped armor) was carried out from the warehouse. Several grooms began to put on armor on a war horse. After the dressing was finished, they were armored riders. The heavy riders of this era had very strong impact.

The armored horse armor includes a face curtain, a chicken neck, a chest, a horse's body armor, and a "parasitic" for decoration.

The face curtain is the armor on the front of the horse's head, the chicken's neck is the neck armor, and the chest is the breastplate of the horse. As the name suggests, the horse's body armor is the armor on the body of the horse, and after being fitted, it is the armor on the horse's body after the saddle.

The "parasitic" used for decoration can be regarded as a half-open folding fan, inserted upside down above the horse's buttocks on the back of the saddle, which looks extremely cool, but has no protective effect.

Yuwen Wen could not understand the aesthetics of the soldiers of this era for "parasiticism". He felt that since it was to be cool, it was better to copy the Polish bird feathers... The Polish winged cavalry, at least the parasiticism like wings looked normal.

However, the fake wings of the Polish wings were placed behind the cavalry. Yuwen Wen felt that if his cavalry was dressed like this, he might be regarded as a bird-feathered cavalry.

"Master, the equipment is ready."

The horse was wearing armor, and the man was wearing armor. Several followers were wearing armor for Yuwen Wen. This set of armor was different from all the armor they had seen before, and there was not even armor leaves.

This armor is called "Three-quarters Armor". It has a strange name. The breastplate looks like an egg shell, and is composed of two complete pieces of iron connected; the arm and thigh armor are riveted together, and look like shrimps.

The puffs look a little normal, but they are different from the usual puffs. They are not connected in series, but are made of several iron pieces riveted together.

There are even iron gloves in hand armor, so each finger can move freely; the leg armor is directly linked with a belt and a breastplate, covering the knee pads all the way to the knee pads, without armor below the knees, and is thick pigskin boots.

Yuwen Wen, who was covered in full body, did not step on the equipped war horse. The endurance test of the equipped war horse was carried out by others, and he was going to test three-quarters of the test.

Each pair of armor costs more than 100 jin and weighs more than 40 kilograms. In the future, it will be the charge armor of the Hulin Army's vanguard team, but the premise is that it can pass various tests to prove that it is worthy of the expensive cost, and then optimize the process and minimize the cost as much as possible, otherwise it will be impossible to have a large amount of equipment at all.

"Master, you can start."
Chapter completed!