After the professionals' explanation, everyone also learned about the use of the small horseshoe.

The horse's hooves are composed of two layers. One layer that comes into contact with the ground is a hard keratin about three centimeters thick, and the upper layer is a keratin. When the horse's hooves come into contact with the ground, they will fall off quickly due to friction from the ground and corrosion by accumulated water.

During the Han-Hungary War, Huo Qubing led the cavalry to attack outside the Great Wall. There were a total of 140,000 horses. After the war, only 30,000 horses left behind, and the loss of the war horses was astonishing.

Unlike the Huns, the Han army was not the only duty to raise horses. They had enough horses to use without fear of loss.

The war horses of the Han army were relatively luxurious consumables. The accumulation of three generations of people accumulated the losses of the Han-Hungary War. Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing accumulated the number of war horses for decades, which gave Emperor Wu of Han the motivation to attack the Huns in the north.

Most of the reasons may be attributed to the damage to the horse's hooves.

During the fierce battle of running on the grassland, the horse's hooves wear out quickly and are damaged in large quantities, making it difficult for the war horses to continue to run, which can only be considered a loss. Even if the horse is not dead, it cannot continue to run and fight.

A horse has such a short service life, and even the Han treasury accumulated over decades cannot withstand such large losses.

It is said that during the ancient Roman period, that is, during the same period of Emperor Wu of Han, the ancient Romans began to use horseshoes.

Horse harnesses were recorded and physically used during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, but horseshoes were not officially recorded in China until the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. By the Northern Song Dynasty, horseshoes were still absolutely extraterritorial objects and were not equipped by the Central Plains army.

The damage to the horse's hooves was so simple and easy that it caused a headache for the Central Plains courts throughout the ages. They lost a lot of money and energy, and racked their brains to increase the number of war horses. They had half the result with twice the effort, and there was no major change.

The spread of horseshoes was so difficult that later generations sighed, thinking about how brilliant the Han cavalry would be, how bravely they could open their territory and dominate the grasslands.

Even the Song people would not suffer such a loss in the cavalry if they had horseshoes.

To be honest, in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Song cavalry after the training of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms was very strong. Even by the Zhenzong period, the Northern Song cavalry could repeatedly defeat the Liao cavalry.

However, the lack of horseshoe equipment and the loss of a large number of horse farming land in the northwest and Yanyun made the Song people extremely short of horses and could not raise a large number of cavalry. The battle of the large cavalry legion could only be theoretically stuck.

If you are not on the grassland, the land you need to raise a horse can feed thirty people.

The cost is too high to afford.

Ancient China was not unaware of the damage caused by the loss of horse hooves to war horses. It also thought of many ways to make simple horse shoes with bamboo, wood, rattan and leather to protect the horse hooves, but these were more like decorations and could not protect the horse hooves well.

And now with this horseshoe, the service time of a war horse can be greatly increased.

Guo Peng's army has never been dominated by cavalry, and the horse harnesses have not matured. Therefore, the loss of war horses is still within the controllable range. If the horse's hooves are damaged, they will be broken. If they pull carts, plow the fields, and kill and eat meat, they can be considered as the use of everything.

They really have no choice.

But this time, there is a way.

Wang Can's eyes flashed, and he kept stroking the horseshoe in his hand.

He said excitedly that this piece of iron, two feet and a high bridge saddle, could save Guo Peng a huge military expense, and this huge military expense could be used to do a lot of things.

He immediately volunteered and expressed his willingness to lead the accounting team to calculate the specific amount of this amount for Guo Peng.

Guo Peng laughed and nodded in permission, and said that after he calculated it, the entire accounting team would be rewarded.

No matter what, everyone can see that the full set of horse harnesses will be released and mass-produced to the army, which will bring huge changes to the cavalry.

The overall structure of the Wei army, as well as the future battlefield and military tactics, may undergo tremendous revolutionary changes.

The changes brought about by technological progress to human society are too great, and war is also an important driving force for catalyzing technological progress.

The series of technological advances Guo Peng has introduced in this relatively chaotic era can be maximized with the help of the power of war.

Such progress can be seen under everyone's noses.

I was amazed at it, stroking my palms, and smacked my tongue.

Then, cheer for it.

Mr. Guo looked at the surprised faces of his subordinates, and his heart was full of pride and full of enthusiasm.

In fact, he had thought about how to use a lot of money that could be saved after the appearance of the horse harness.

For him, it is enough to have a part of the money in his hands, so he can't have too much money. If he has too much money, the money circulated on the market will not make small money. Instead, it will cause deflation and cause economic problems.

How to spend it correctly and achieve the effect of benefiting the country and the people is a question that Guo Peng needs to think carefully.

After thinking about it for a while, Guo Peng decided to continue this stall and introduce the militia system, and fix, legalize and last long.

Just now, the official salt and iron policy has been implemented for a while, and the local private iron smelting has been almost hit, and the militia system can be implemented.

In Guo Peng's idea, the policy of restricting civilian force was mainly to reverse the social state of heroism and rampantness that was spawned by the free and scattered social atmosphere since the Han Dynasty.

This social state of killing people with a sword at a disagreement is not in line with the way of governing the country by Guo’s National People’s Congress.

The heroes of the Han Dynasty were everywhere, and there was a saying that heroes used martial arts to violate the ban. Although the heroes of the people were able to promote the people's martial arts style, the management of the government, production, and social organizations were obviously more harmful than beneficial.

Furthermore, whether the people are martial or not has no direct relationship with whether the country is strong or not. On the contrary, there is a clear boundary to whether this martial or not is brave enough to fight publicly or privately.

During the Warring States Period, the Qin people had a clear understanding of this. Most of the people who were brave enough to fight privately were afraid of public wars, which was of no benefit to the country.

War is a matter of the army, an organized armed force, not a group of scattered soldiers.

No matter how powerful the martial arts master is, he is not the opponent of a well-trained army. In the face of the well-trained soldiers who advance and retreat, the major martial arts sects in martial arts will suffer a crushing defeat.

After the number reaches a certain level, the outcome of the war will not depend on personal martial arts. What is important is organizationality, training, equipment excellence and strategic thinking.

What benefits will it be for the country to create a bunch of heroes that are terrifying the world?

If so, Emperor Wu of Han would not have vigorously attacked the heroes before the Northern Expedition of the Huns.

At that time, the heroes were so rampant that the government did not dare to control the heroes. Instead, they had to be respectful to the heroes. The heroes could kill officials while chatting and laughing. What's wrong?

Guo Peng wanted to reverse the social state of courageous private fighting and fear of public fighting since the Han Dynasty to courageous public fighting and fear of private fighting, so that the society was full of organization.

To this end, civil force must be restrained.

However, the number of Emperor* team is not that large. There are always places where there are too many power and nowhere to reach. At this time, local militias will make sense.

Institutionalize, officialize, and bind the civilian force, and become the reserve force of the army, hidden among the people, and whenever there is a need, you can gather together to go to the national crisis.

Guo Peng's idea was to rectify some of the veterans who had retired due to injuries in the army, put them in civilian places, and go to every village to become military officials, lead the strong men in the village to farm together, and train the battle formations in their spare time.

Of course, Guo Peng did not expect them to really go to the battlefield to fight. The Guo and Wei regime did not need these militias to go to the battlefield to fight. That was the business of 400,000 regular troops, not the militias, they were the national strategic reserve force.

Guo Peng trained and organized militias mainly to take control of the civilian armed forces in his own hands, and to let these militias protect themselves when necessary and be organized, and then follow the auxiliary soldiers to deliver food and fodder during war.

In addition, for the sake of local public security, as a ruler, of course I hope that the local area will be stable and not cause trouble.

If such a social state is allowed to continue, Xiahou Dun will continue to kill people at the age of fourteen, and Guo Peng will continue to kill people at the age of twelve.

That is something that Guo Peng doesn't want to see, and it is not something that will happen in a normal and healthy society.

By formalizing and officializing all armed forces, giving them status, and being commanded with integrity and openness, this social state can be reversed well.

So while Guo Peng announced the cavalry reform, he also announced the operation of the militia system. He carried out the first stage in Qingyan Prefecture, his base camp, and sent 500 wounded veterans into the villages in 500 local areas to start trial operation of this policy.

The implementation of the two new policies made Guo Peng know that the time to challenge the White Horse Alliance is almost the same.
Chapter completed!