Bai Yuqi asked strangely: "Why is there only one stirrup?"

Yuchi Baolin was stunned and said honestly: "This disciple's riding skills are quite good, but he doesn't use double stirrups like women..."

Bai Yuqi twitched the corner of his mouth speechlessly. Is using double stirrups and single stirrups together to show the difference between good and bad riding skills?

"Wouldn't it be more stable and more powerful to use double stirrups?"

Bai Yuqi asked strangely: "When you go to war, you don't still use a single stirrup, right? Others do the same?"

Yuchi Baolin was a little confused: "The stirrups are just for mounting the horse. The disciples are accustomed to single stirrups, so they only use one stirrup. Others use single stirrups and double stirrups..."

Is it so magical? There are already more convenient double stirrups but you don't use them? What's the reason?

Bai Yuqi, who felt that she had witnessed history again, became even more curious, but after careful inquiry, she was surprised to find out.

Although the double stirrup has been around for a long time, it has not become fully popularized or even completely replaced the single stirrup as he imagined.

There are many reasons for this phenomenon, including usage habits, social trends, and another one is iron deficiency... Because there is less iron, do you save one stirrup to save money? What kind of nonsense is this? If there is no iron, just install a piece of wood.

Something is better than nothing, right?

As for the issue of social trends, women in the Tang Dynasty liked to ride horses and play polo, but women were weak, so they used double stirrups for the convenience of playing and ensuring safety.

Gradually, the custom of using double stirrups for women and single stirrups for men came into being during polo matches. Inexplicably, this strange idea was formed that riding with double stirrups is better than single stirrups.

During the Han Dynasty, people knew how to use double stirrups and high-bridge saddles to maintain balance and increase impact. How come they regressed in the Tang Dynasty? Isn't this reversing the course of history?

No matter what the reason was, Bai Yuqi was not going to explain the reason to Yuchi Baolin.

He jumped off the horse and ran into the villa to get iron materials, and used [Metal Dissolution] and [Shaping] to make a pair of tactical stirrups.

Tactical stirrups are stirrups with wide footplates and wavy teeth, which are more conducive to bearing weight and making it easier to exert force.

And it can also reduce the burden on the soles of the knight's feet...the soles of these days' shoes are all made of cloth, which is remarkable for being thicker than animal skin. Generally, it is soft. If you step hard on a thin iron rod, you will feel it after a long time.

Does it hurt to say that the soles of your feet hurt?

He also asked Gouzi to find some animal skins. There is no shortage of these in Kushui Village.

Then I used [Wood Plastic Technique] to make a high bridge saddle, which is an inverted figure saddle with two relatively deep boards in front and one behind, which can squeeze people tightly on the saddle.

He put on the animal skin and nailed it tightly, fastened the stirrups and put it on the horse again.

Then he called a Qian Niuwei who was watching the excitement and asked: "Which one is better at riding, or is it Yuchi Baolin who is better at riding?"

The Qianniu Guard looked at Yuchi Baolin and said with a smile: "Of course the captain is more powerful!"

Bai Yuqi didn't care whether he was flattering Yuchi Baolin or not. He used [Wood Plasticry] to create two wooden sticks with small discs on the top and handed them to them. He nodded and said: "Then you ride this horse."

Horse, let him ride your horse, you simulate a battlefield hedging and knock each other down! Be careful, don't get hurt!"

Although they were a little confused, the two of them still distanced themselves from each other as instructed.

They nodded to each other, shouted loudly and urged the horses to run wildly. After getting close to each other in an instant, they stretched out their round wooden sticks to push against each other!

I saw Qian Niuwei's body thrown back after being stabbed, while Yuchi Baolin's decisive body swayed and fell off the horse!

Fortunately, it is not a real battlefield after all, the distance cannot be extended, and the horse cannot charge very fast.

Yuchi Baolin's own riding skills were also very superb. In addition, she was mentally prepared to fall off the horse. She rolled over and stood up.

"Come again!"

Yuchi Paulin was somewhat unconvinced.

Picking up the disc stick, getting on the horse again, the two of them faced off again, but no matter how many times they came, the result was already determined.

And because he gradually realized the benefits of double stirrups and high-bridge saddles, Qian Niuwei actually let go of the horse's reins and grabbed the saddle with his left hand to stabilize his body, and started fighting Yuchi Baolin with sticks in both hands.

He even stood up on horseback coquettishly, condescendingly bullying Yuchi Baolin who could only hold a stick with one hand.

After being knocked off his horse with a stick again, the disgraced Yuchi Baolin stood up, rushed over and pulled Qian Niuwei down.

I rode on it and experienced it for a while, and was surprised: "These stirrups and high saddle are so powerful in horse battles, why has no one thought of it before?"

Bai Yuqi shrugged helplessly and spread his hands. It would be fine if he hadn't invented the double stirrup and the high bridge saddle yet. He already had them but didn't know how to use them. He thought this was probably an IQ problem.

He also ignored Yuchi Baolin, who was tossing his horse with a face full of surprise.

Bai Yuqi turned around and was about to ask the Qianniu Guard to bring his war horse over for some modifications, but she saw him looking at it with a distressed look on his face as he broke off one of the horse's front hoofs.

Walking over and taking a look, Bai Yuqi was stunned for a moment. Well, there really were no horseshoes in the Tang Dynasty!

This is certain. Although horseshoes appeared before the Sui Dynasty, it was really popularized in the Song Dynasty... Is it finally my turn to perform (pretending to beep)?

Bai Yuqi coughed dryly and said with an inscrutable expression: "We know that horses' hooves are easily injured, so why don't you put shoes on them?"

After saying the lines that she didn't know from that novel, Bai Yuqi secretly felt happy: Ouch! It feels so good to be an inventor!

Qian Niuwei was originally very distressed, but when he heard Bai Yuqi's words, he was stunned: "Put shoes on the horse?"

"You all know that you wear shoes to protect your feet, why can't you put on a pair of... uh, two pairs of shoes to protect the hooves of your horse?"

As Bai Yuqi spoke, he squatted down and tried to use [Treat Minor Injuries] to heal the horse's hoof that was slightly cracked and bleeding a little.

However, he was prompted by the system that [Treat Minor Injuries] cannot be used to treat animals, and then recommended a [Medical Animal] to him.

"If you can treat people, why can't you treat animals? Aren't people also animals?"

While complaining, Bai Yuqi used [Medical Animal] to heal the injury on the horse's hoof. Bai Yuqi reached for the iron material and shaped four U-shaped horseshoes.

However, he took the horseshoe and looked at the horse that was too tall for him, and decisively handed the hammer and the finished horseshoe nails to the Qianniu Guard: "Here you go!"

Then he explained to the Qianniu Guard how to put shoes on the horse. He was shocked when he heard the words: "Nail it on? Wouldn't that make the injury worse?"

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Trouble: In order to write this chapter, I checked the information for half a night. Regarding stirrups and saddles, various information showed that they existed before the Tang Dynasty, but I could not find any details about the large-scale popularization of double stirrups and high bridge saddles.

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Instead, I found the theory that the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty was restructured and new harnesses were used on a large scale to enhance the combat effectiveness of the cavalry. It was mentioned that the heyday of the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty was due to the double stirrups and high bridge saddles. I don’t know.

Right or not.

As for not using high bridge saddles, it is not that there was no invention.

But in the Tang Dynasty, in order to fight the Turks and pursue the relationship between speed and mobility, light cavalry was the mainstream.

Therefore, it is tentatively believed that the Tang cavalry used lighter and thinner flat saddles in order to reduce the load.

The information I found only vaguely mentions that it became popular in the Tang Dynasty. Considering that it takes time to popularize, it is tentatively believed that in the early Tang Dynasty, double stirrups and high bridge saddles were already in existence, but they were not popularized due to various reasons.

The explanation for not using double stirrups and high bridge saddles in the article was made up by Lao Ma based on his own assumptions and speculations in order to make the plot look reasonable. It is not historical fact... But who knows? Maybe these are the reasons Lao Ma guessed.
Chapter completed!