Water Margin: I, Wang Lun, will have many children and many blessings in Liangshan.

Liangshan's heavy cavalry is also the same as that of the Northern Wei Dynasty, with face curtains, chicken necks, chests, body armor, backs, and parasites.

And they are all made of fine iron, which are excellent and strong, reducing unnecessary burdens as much as possible.

After all, good horses are rare!

These three thousand heavy cavalry are already the result of the selection of the best among the so-called fifty thousand cavalry.

Among Qingtang horses and Mongolian horses, the taller and stronger ones should be chosen as heavy riders.

We are still buying Tianfang horses, and then breeding and crossbreeding them to select those who are tall and strong, and then breed those with enough endurance.

It is expected that in about five years, a more powerful cavalry will be available.

It is not easy to gather these three thousand cavalry now.

Basically, they are more than 1.4 meters tall at the shoulder, which is considered a tall horse in this era. Their load-bearing capacity, sprinting, and endurance are also the best horses selected among tens of thousands of horses.

It can only be said that there are no generals in Shu, and Liao Hua becomes the vanguard.

If there are good horses in the future, they will be replaced one after another.

Even now, the armored cavalry cannot run very far. The limit is that the sprint speed is about ten miles, and the trot does not exceed thirty or forty miles.

Otherwise the horse will surely die in front of you.

The usual feeding basically requires refined grains, hay is just snacks for the horses to play with, and eggs are fed multiple times a day for free, otherwise these war horses will not be able to bear such a heavy burden.

A strong young cavalryman, even a strong man who is not too tall, should weigh about 150 kilograms or 850 kilograms.

No matter how light you are, don't talk about being an athlete in the military.

The armor on his body, the iron helmet weighing five or six kilograms, plus the basin collar, shawl, arm guards, shin guards, iron mesh boots, iron mask, iron gloves... This set already weighed nearly forty kilograms.

Fortunately, he was wearing a breastplate that weighed more than ten kilograms. Even so, the total weight was nearly sixty kilograms, which was only ten kilograms lighter than the Song Army's infantry armor, which weighed more than seventy kilograms.

It is as light as a full body armor.

This is already a load of more than 200 kilograms, and the horse armor also weighs nearly 50 kilograms. With weapons, crossbows, some water, first aid kits and other necessary supplies, the load is between 260 kilograms and 270 kilograms. Between kilograms.

The average horse can only carry more than 20% of its own body weight.

Some short and thin horses can only carry 200 to 300 pounds, or even less than 200 pounds.

Some camels weighed five to six hundred pounds, and those that could weigh a thousand pounds were extremely rare, and they must be tall and powerful horses. No one would use such a strong horse as a camel.

In later generations, various methods of selecting and breeding good horses have continued to emerge. There are some famous camel and draft horses, such as the Shire horse, which can weigh more than 900 kilograms. Is it still a big deal for such a horse to weigh a thousand kilograms?

If it is pulling a cart, a two-six-meter-tall Sharma can pull tens of thousands of pounds!

Of course, this horse looks majestic, but it has almost no running or sprinting ability. Because it is too heavy, it can only be used as a camel or draft horse, not a war horse.

The best is a cross between a Tianfang horse and a European horse. It has top-notch endurance, sprinting ability, and load-bearing capacity. It was also the most mainstream military horse in Europe from the 19th to the 20th century. Until after World War I, with the emergence of tanks and machine guns, Only then did various countries eliminate large-scale cavalry establishments.

Even so, as long as there is no national power as arrogant as the United States, all countries will have to raise large-scale military horses, but not to build cavalry, but to provide logistical support, whether it is the Japanese country with hundreds of thousands of military horses, or the two hundred Germany, which has more than 10,000 military horses, or the Soviet Army, which has more than 3 million military horses, and France and the United Kingdom, which have hundreds of thousands of horses. The war horses of the major powers all start with hundreds of thousands of horses. Even the island country of Japan is the same..

Liangshan's war horses weigh between more than 500 kilograms and more than 600 kilograms.

This is already the result of selecting the best among the best. Generally, the thinner and shorter ones only weigh less than 500 kilograms.

Theoretically, these war horses can carry a load of five to six hundred kilograms or more. After all, a war horse can carry more than 20% of its own weight.

But doing this will greatly shorten the sprint distance of the war horse, and the gain outweighs the loss.

In a brutal battle involving tens of thousands of cavalry, it is quite normal for the battlefield to span dozens of miles from the beginning to the end.

The number of dead horses is not counted in thousands, but in thousands or tens of thousands.

After the battle, horse meat is enough for many days. Who would be willing to eat this precious thing unless it was killed in battle or fell down?

There are more than 200,000 Liangshan troops and nearly 50,000 cavalry. They have been buying horses for several years and breeding them themselves. They are also blessed by the prosperity of the six livestock.

Now there are only these three thousand armored cavalry.

Thinking back to the Northern Wei Dynasty, tens of thousands of armored cavalry fought fiercely in Mang Mountain. They fought against each other, with Yu Wentai on one side and Gao Huan on the other. Those who charged (acfj) were brave generals like Peng Le and He Basheng, who were invincible. What a magnificent sight it would be!

At this moment, there are only three thousand riders, which is still spectacular enough.

The iron helmet, basin collar, and breastplate are polished into silver. He is holding a long beryllium and a ring-headed sword that exudes silver luster. The horse armor under his body is also polished into silver. Except for the parasite on the tail, which is red, the whole body is also silver-white.

The red tassel on the top of the iron helmet, the red parasitism on the pony tail, and the silver light all over the body are dancing with little scarlet colors.

The queue of hundreds of people is endless.

A tall horse with a full body of armor, it feels like mountains, boulders, and lakes when it moves.

The jumping red tassels are like blood surging in the silver sea of ​​light. They are dazzling and eye-catching, and contain endless murderous intent.

"Armored cavalry, follow me to kill the enemy, advance without retreating, and those who do not obey military orders, behead!"

Hu Yanzhuo didn't say much to encourage the morale of the soldiers. (To read Baoshuang novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

The morale of the Liangshan Army does not need to be encouraged. Those who can be selected as armored cavalry must first be elite, with martial arts, skills, and physical fitness. Courage has to pass.

Secondly, loyalty also has to pass!

Armored cavalry, at least the treatment of a village commander, the annual income is not low, and there are alsoTian shares, interests and Liangshan are deeply tied together.

The larger the Liangshan territory, the greater their interests.

Moreover, if you choose an armored cavalryman who is qualified in all aspects, you will choose someone who has family members and relatives in Liangshan.

For the same reason, if there are family members under the rule of Liangshan, the loyalty will be higher.

If they were defeated and Liangshan was finished, they themselves would become prisoners of war, worse off than dead, and their families and relatives would return to a life of dire straits.

This is the normal thinking of normal people.

Coupled with the restraint and deterrence of military law and discipline, and the habit of obeying military orders naturally formed by daily training, and even muscle memory, these armored cavalry are all elite veterans, who can be said to have experienced hundreds of battles.

The worst one was once an elite soldier, who had killed people with a knife, fought with police officers, and fought with officers and soldiers with a knife.

Coupled with the training and actual combat experience in the Liangshan Army, this group of armored cavalry is indeed the strongest in the Liangshan Army gathered together. The strength they unleash is far beyond that of ordinary cavalry.

The leader was Hu Yanzhuo, and there were also Huang Xin, Guo Sheng, Lu Fang, Chen Da, Yang Chun, Li Zhong, Zhou Tong and other powerful horsemen in the team.

It can be said that except for the top Tiangang, they are concentrated in the armored cavalry.

This is why Wang Lun needs a large number of top experts to command Wanhu.[]

Otherwise, there will be more masters in the armored cavalry.

What the armored cavalry pays attention to is the indomitable breakthrough, rushing into the formation, and hedging.

The master's reaction, speed, and strength can rival several ordinary cavalry.

It also plays a huge role in breaking the formation in an instant.

According to historical records, in every battle, Chang Yuchun would ride forward with a spear, shouting loudly to break the formation, so that the enemy could not stop him. When the soldiers behind him saw his bravery and momentum, they followed him to break the enemy.

Famous generals and great generals are certainly rare, but the brave generals who can break the formation in the Chang Yuchun style are also rare..