Chapter 202: Hanging and beating colleagues
The vast horse team passed slowly.
Almost all the horses did not start running. More than twenty miles were an endurance race. We should slowly accumulate horsepower in the early stage. Now is not the time to sprint.
Zhang Shao's right guard is still in front, and dozens of people run easily.
All the way out of Chang'an City.
Further forward is the official road, led by Zhang Shao, and began to let the horse jog.
The seated horse raised its four hooves, and Zhang Shao knew the terrain well. At this time, he ran first, and the flying cavalry in the team ran one after another.
Zhang Shao did not forget to remind him: "Everyone obeyed the order, jogged, and followed me closely."
But at this moment... Suddenly... a group of people began to cross...
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When Su Lie passed Zhang Shao, he shouted: "You jog slowly, Erpigou will go first."
Dada da... Dada da...
Erpigou Cavalry Camp passed by in a flash.
When Zhang Shao saw this, he smiled and watched the team of people leaving. He and other teams of flying cavalry were still jogging.
In his opinion... Erpigou Cavalry is indeed a group of idiots who are not familiar with war horses.
More than twenty miles away, it is extremely powerful and physically capable of taking the postgraduate entrance examination, especially in the long distance and complex terrain. Therefore... after all, there must be smart calculations to keep everyone in the best state, just like the riding method that has been running wildly, which is only available in later films and TV dramas.
The official roads of the Tang Dynasty were originally made of rammed earth. There was a lot of gravel on the road, which was not conducive to the galloping of war horses.
As for this cavalry camp, it was simply crazy.
They actually rushed from the beginning, and then... let's see how they ended.
Therefore, a trace of mockery flashed across Zhang Shao's lips, and he still calmly ordered the horse to run slowly, and ordered the rider behind him to say, "Don't pay attention to them, all follow me closely."
"promise."
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What Zhang Shao didn't know was that the flying cavalry camp that Su Lie was still running wildly. The four hooves of the war horse trampled over the official road of rammed earth, splashing countless gravels.
These gravels vary in size, some are like nails, and the war horses are running wildly. The strength of the war horses and the cavalry are combined, and then they fall to the ground hard, pressing only on the front and rear hooves, which is like hundreds of kilograms of force to crush the gravel on the ground. At this time... the gravel is splashing.
But Su Lie was still walking on flat ground. He didn't care, and the cavalry behind him were also very relaxed.
After several months of training, they are actually enough to deal with this situation.
You know, they are in the racetrack, but they run all day long, and almost everyone is on the horse. Even if they leave the horse, they still have other physical exercises.
These war horses... are actually similar.
Horses are all good horses, carefully selected from Turkic horses, and they can be said to be the best ones.
The horses are also the best ingredients for feeding every day, and they can maintain their full physical strength at any time.
Horses are the same as humans. If most of the time, you lock them in the horse's pen, or the feed you feed cannot keep them nutritious enough, then... although it is becoming more and more precious, it no longer has much physical strength or endurance.
However, these war horses are trained with their owners every day. They have long been used to riding their horses on their backs, and they do not feel that they have to bear much weight.
At this time, it seemed quite easy to run all the way. The long-term physical exercise has long made them accustomed to it.
The Chen family has improved the stirrups and saddles. Of course, this design not only makes the cavalry more comfortable. Chen Zhengtai’s design philosophy is that in addition to ensuring the comfort of riding, the saddle also needs to consider the comfort of the war horse.
In fact... the ancients did not realize the comfort of saddles for war horses. Anyway, just ride them and ride them.
But Chen Zhengtai believes that people and horses are symbiotic during riding. Only when the horse is comfortable can the horse be better exerted.
So... he gathered craftsmen to study horse engineering to ensure that the war horse will not feel uncomfortable after wearing the high bridge saddle.
Of course... the biggest contribution at this time was the horseshoe.
This horseshoe is equivalent to putting two pairs of shoes on the war horse.
Just like letting ordinary people run barefoot on a road full of gravel, no matter how good your feet are, it is difficult to run fast, and it is easy to cut your feet during the running process.
The same goes for horses. The war horses started to gallop on the grassland, because the ground on the grassland was relatively soft and the gravel was small, which could protect the four hooves of the war horses well. But even so, there were still many Hu people in the desert who dared not gallop at will to protect the war horses. But now it is different. After wearing "shoes", the war horses were almost without any scruples.
More than fifty people ran happily all the way, passing the official road like walking on flat ground. Going forward, the road became even more difficult, and it was a muddy mudflat.
Here... the cavalry still dare not run wildly, because the most test of such a ground is the horse riding horse. The horse that sits down will run wildly, and the horse riding horse will be very bumpy. The horse riding horse will have to tighten its whole body. If you are not careful, you may fall down immediately.
When Wang Jiulang was on the official road just now, he didn't feel anything. But as soon as he got here, he felt that the bumps began to become violent. He felt like he was in mid-air, rising and falling, and his body began to ignore his orders at all.
He tried hard to calm his mind, gritted his teeth, and followed Su Lie's teachings. His body was tense and slightly arched, and his head was as high as possible. His body was rhythmically rising and falling with the rise and fall of the war horse.
In fact, he has encountered such a situation many times. When he was practicing in the racetrack, he had to fall off his horse almost every time in the first month. Even now, he is still the worst in the cavalry camp. He can deal with such a scene, but he has long been accustomed to it.
"Continue, rush over!" Su Lie shouted again.
Da da da da..."
Along the way, the war horses still did not stall.
This war horse that is already used to running wildly every day, as if it can burst out with extraordinary power at any time.
Wang Jiulang clamped the saddle, and he didn't think there was anything too difficult about it. The only thing that made him feel scared was that he was afraid that he would fall out. As for the bumps on the horse, he was actually used to it.
More than fifty people roared past and continued to run towards Erpigou, without any stop in the middle.
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Zhang Shao's right guard is no longer slow, after all, compared with other guards, he is still one position ahead.
When he left the city and arrived at the official road, he was extremely careful and allowed the riders behind him to jog. After all, there was too much gravel on the ground, which could easily lead to the horse's hoof.
As long as a war horse loses its hoof, the horse's rider will have to ride with others, which will increase the burden.
Such a road... the Erpigou Cavalry running wildly in front must have lost their hooves.
Zhang Shao thought about the team that Erpigou Cavalry, which had not been established for a long time and was only running wildly, and couldn't help but laugh.
At that time... I'm afraid there will be a good show. They are like running wildly without any scruples. On the one hand, they don't have enough horsepower and physical strength to run fast on the way back. On the other hand, it is easy to cause injuries to the war horses. According to the rules, once the war horses lose their hooves, it will cause great damage to the entire cavalry team. After all, the rules of the competition are only the result of the entire team's return.
He looked at the hoof prints on the ground. It was obviously left by the cavalry in front of him. After Zhang Shao saw these horses' hoof prints, he knew that the people from Erpigou were making the war horse run wild again.
He continued to move forward with the mood of watching the show, but what was incredible was that the past... made him feel more and more annoyed... Why didn't he see a lost war horse along the way?
This is too unusual. It is really unreasonable to run like their way, without losing three or four horses.
Zhang Shao was also a person who had been on the battlefield with his cavalry. He knew very well that if a rush attack, it would be considered amazing that 70% or 700 people would not fall behind or lose their hooves in a thousand cavalry. However, people like Erpigou are simply unheard of.
"This group of guys who took the wrong medicine, everyone obeyed the orders, jogged, carefully under their feet, and must not let the horses lose their hooves. There is no need to rush. We have maintained the lead in each team. As for the people in Erpigou, we don't have to pay attention to them. They can't hold on for long with their running style."
He calmly issued orders, and the cavalry obeyed the orders and said that they were.
But... Even though Zhang Shao was experienced, careful everywhere, and kept reminding him to follow the door, he still miscalculated.
A horse riding horse suddenly let out a wail, and his front hooves immediately knelt down. The horse riding horse rolled down directly, and then fell to the ground fiercely.
Zhang Shao's face sank.
The rider was obviously a little behind just now, and in order to catch up with the front team, all ran faster.
He frowned and ordered, "Others continue."
After saying that, he turned over and dismounted, ignoring the riding horse for the first time, but looking at the falling war horse.
Once the war horse fell down, it could no longer stand up, and its left front hooves were obviously cut by a piece of gravel like a blade, and blood came out. This is a very common situation.
He glanced at the horse sympathetically and sighed, and now he could only abandon the horse on the side of the road.
As for the cavalry that landed on the ground, the cavalry fell and was bleeding, but he looked at Zhang Shao timidly and said tremblingly: "Prince, I am humble... I am humble and die."
Zhang Shao was in a bad mood and roared at him: "What did I say? Don't be impatient. You have been riding a horse for so many years, but you don't even know this common sense? Let's deal with you after returning to the camp. Now I will immediately take my horse and ride with me."
Chapter completed!