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Chapter 284 Disappointment

In contrast, Li Rui is very reliable. Every step he makes is in line with reality and every step is practical. He is really an excellent strategist. Beigong Jing is very satisfied with him!

Li Rui was also very satisfied with the major general who was willing to listen to his advice. When he was happy, he took out another treasure: "Major General, I will give you another treasure... Look at what this is?"

The treasure he took out was yellow and looked ordinary, and he really couldn't see anything surprising. Beigong Jing glanced at it and was slightly disappointed: "What you want to give me is the stirrup?"

Li Rui handed the stirrup to him like a monkey offering treasure: "A stirrup made of copper! With it, you can ride more steadily on the horse's back, and dancing guns and archery can exert greater power!"

Beigong Jing lacks interest: "This thing is useless. Even our Liangzhou men can run around the rugged mountains even if they are weak riders."

The so-called weak riding is riding a horse without a saddle without stirrups. This is a very dangerous behavior. There is neither a saddle nor a stirrup. People can't find a point of focus on the horse's back. They are easily thrown out by a running war horse and fall half dead or even go straight to the street. Otherwise, the number of cavalrymen in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties has always been small, and riding horses is too dangerous. It is not in line with their noble temperament. Of course, it does not mean that riding a horse without a saddle without stirrups. Some people can do it, but it is a big challenge for skilled riders. It can even be said to be a game for brave people. When Beigong Jing was eleven years old, he could not rely on saddle stirrups and rode a tall horse on the field without relying on saddle stirrups. He really doesn't care much about stirrups.

Li Rui suffocated and said, "But with it, you can wear heavier armor and use longer and heavier weapons! Isn't this a good thing?"

Beigong Jing was a little moved: "With it, you can really wear heavier armor and use longer and heavier weapons?"

Li Rui kept nodding: "Can, can, must!"

Beigong Jing said: "Then I'll try it."

Li Rui said: "Go together."

So the two of them came to the stable together and prepared to conduct the experiment.

In the stable, a large number of war horses were eating horse feed in big mouthfuls. It can be seen that the soldiers in Liangzhou had a deep affection for horses. The horse feed was cut very finely, and they also added wine and salt to it. For example, Beigong Jing, Zhang Xiong and others even had to add eggs to the horse feed of war horses. God knows where they got the eggs. To be honest, those soldiers who were gnawing unleavened cakes every day might have to drool when they saw what the war horses ate.

Beigong Jing pulled out his white horse, accompanied by stirrups, and led it to a long street with few pedestrians. After the Black Hawk Swordsman cleared the street, he turned over the horse and tried on both sides of the stirrups. He felt that... it was indeed much more stable than the one-sided stirrups.

Immediately afterwards, he began to sprint on the street, making various difficult movements while speeding. He was surprised to find that many of the difficult movements that were previously quite difficult for single stirrups can now be easily completed, and even challenged higher-level difficult movements.

After running back and forth twice, he basically knew it. So he asked for a bow and arrow from his follower, pulled the bow and shot the arrow on the speeding horse's back...

Li Rui looked at him and nodded secretly. This major general is young, but his work is really rigorous. If you want to fool him, the difficulty is really very great!

The test results made Beigong Jing very satisfied: he could only drive a seventy-pound bow on the horse's back, but with the double stirrups, it would be no problem to draw a ninety-pound bow.

Of course, there are not many people who can drive ninety-pound bows on the horse's back.

He showed an excited look and stopped the horse and shouted at Li Rui: "Li Rui, how did you come up with this method? With it, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry will be greatly improved!"

Li Rui said: "I don't have to think about this. I'm not very good at riding. It's always awkward to ride a single stirrup, so I tried to change it to a double stirrup, and then I found that even if the horse runs fast, I don't have to worry about being thrown off by it!"

Beigong Jing: "...it's that simple?"

Li Rui said: "It's that simple."

Beigong Jing was speechless: "Why hasn't anyone discovered such a simple thing?"

Li Rui shrugged: "Maybe I am more lazy than them."

Beigong Jing was speechless: "Is this OK?"

It's really good. Many great inventions are made for lazy. For example, saddles are to save those guys who are not very good at riding for a long time and develop combat effectiveness faster; single stirrups are also to make cavalry trained faster. Without this gadget, a large number of rookies can be injured by a horse training. These inventions greatly shorten the cavalry training cycle. Is it a blessing brought to them by lazy people? As for who discovered the huge effect of the double stirrups and gave the cavalry a leap-up improvement, it is probably impossible to find out, but one thing is certain, this is another accidental discovery.

This accidental discovery directly kicked off the legendary prelude of the cavalry in the era of cold weapons, and laid a solid foundation for the Xianbei cavalry to sweep the Central Plains, directly raising the difficulty of the northern expedition of the four southern regimes of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the later Song, Qi, Liang and Chen to the level of hell.

Originally, Li Rui did not intend to take out this magic weapon, but now he brought the weak chicken in Jin to the extreme. Let the Hu people know the magical use of the double stirrups, and the combat power will be improved by a certain level. Not to mention the Western Jin Dynasty, I am afraid that the Eastern Jin Dynasty will have to be taken directly. Don’t forget that Shi Le has hit the Yangtze River and even took Xiangfan down, which almost scared the Eastern Jin court! If he had discovered the effect of the double stirrups in advance by the Hu people, it is really hard to say where history would go. But now he can’t care about so many. Tens of thousands of Hu people surrounded the three outer and three layers of the new city tightly. I may die at any time, so how could I care about your life or death in leading the Jin Dynasty!

The world is great, my dog ​​has the greatest life!

"Many times, if you think appropriately, you will still be surprised if you are lazy." Li Rui said with a smile.

Beigong Jing said: "I've been taught. By the way, do you have any other ways to be lazy?"

Li Rui said: "Yes!" He took out a pair of strange-looking things. The thing was made of iron, one end was U-shaped and the other end was a small gear. "This is the blessing of lazy people riding horses, Spurs!"

Beigong Jing had never seen this place before, and asked curiously: "Spurs? What's the use? How do you use it?"

Li Rui said: "It is mainly used to control the horse. With it, if you want the horse to run faster or in which direction, you just need to gently prick the horse's belly with a spur. No need to shake the reins anymore, so that your hands will be freed up!"

Beigong Jing didn't believe it: "Is there such a magical one?"

Li Rui said: "It's so amazing. If you don't believe me, I'll demonstrate it to you." After that, he tied the Spurs belt, stuck the Spurs fork into the base of the boots, tied it tightly with the Spurs belt, and then turned on the horse. This guy really let out his hands, and didn't grab the reins, and controlled the horse with his legs. He ran on the long street. Beigong Jing didn't blink, and saw that when he needed the war horse to turn, he gently stabbed the horse's belly with the Spurs. The stinged war horse immediately responded and ran in the direction where he was stabbed. When the war horse needed to accelerate, the Spurs on both sides would stab the horse's belly together, and the war horse would run wildly... It's really amazing!

Li Rui had a good time and simply gave Beigong Jing a dance performance. It was entirely up to the spurs to lightly prick the horse's belly, and the horse made horizontal movements, rotation of the hind limbs, and other movements. If he hadn't been paying attention to his small movements, Beigong Jing would have suspected that his horse had become a sperm!

When he finished the performance, Beigong Jing was already fascinated by the little spur and stared at it without blinking. Seeing this, Li Rui took out another pair: "If the Major General doesn't dislike it, you can try this pair."

Beigong Jing was embarrassed: "This...why are you embarrassed?"

Li Rui said: "It's not a valuable thing, just use it."

Beigong Jing then took it away and happily imitated Li Rui to put on the heel of his combat boots...

Unfortunately, just after fixing the Spurs, Zhang Xiong came over in a hurry, with a grim expression: "Major General, there is an emergency military situation!"

Beigong Jing was stunned: "What's wrong?"

Zhang Xiong said: "A military envoy risked his life to enter the city, which brought important military information!"

Beigong Jing didn't even bother to try whether the Spurs were really so useful. She turned over and said, "Where is the military envoy? Take me to see him!" After thinking about it, he turned his head and said, "Come on too!"

Li Rui pointed at his nose: "Me?"

It seems that at his level, he is not qualified to get in touch with the most important military information at the first time, right?

Beigong Jing said: "Don't talk nonsense, keep up!"

Li Rui could only obey the order: "Hey!" He also turned over and followed Beigong Jing, and headed straight for the central army's tent.

After entering the Central Army tent, the first thing Li Rui saw was a man lying on a stretcher. This man was dressed in a Hu man, but he had a typical Central Plains man. He suffered more than ten injuries on his body, and he was shot like a hedgehog. His wound was still bleeding, and the entire stretcher was dyed red. It looked scary. If it were an ordinary person, after suffering so many injuries, he would have been in shock for a long time, but he remained awake. Seeing Zhang Xiong leading Beigong Jing in, his eyes lit up, and he supported the stretcher with his hands as if he wanted to get up. Beigong Jing quickly stopped him, and looked at the injuries on his body and frowned: "What the hell is going on? Why did he suffer so many injuries?"

Zhang Xiong said: "While patrolling the city wall, suddenly a Hu cavalry was running towards the east gate. Twenty or thirty cavalry behind him were chasing him hard. In a blink of an eye, he had suffered many injuries and was still sacrificing his life to fight and retreat. When approaching the city gate, he shouted loudly that he was General Qian Duan's military envoy and had important military information... The Hu cavalry did not dare to be negligent, so he quickly led more than ten cavalry out, killed the Hu people and rescued him in. But the Hu cavalry was one step slower after all. When he killed the Hu people, he had suffered more than ten injuries, and he was even more than ten arrows..."
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