Li Mengxi already knew the two major killing techniques: the horseback spear and the dragging knife.

If we talk about the difference between the two, the back-carrying gun is fast, while the drag-knife slash is powerful and heavy. The back-carb gun emphasizes the lightning-like return of the spear and strikes first, while the drag-knife slash emphasizes late strike. It would rather be shot than wait for the enemy to get close enough and throw the sword back.

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You can still escape if you miss a single shot from your carbine, but you can't make a move with your sword. Once the difference between life and death is determined, there is absolutely no other possibility.

Li Mengxi was curious about Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, two of the most powerful generals with spears and swords. He asked, "If we were in a battle formation and faced a situation where the sword was dragged back and the sword was drawn, who would win?"

This question made Guan and Zhang stop and start thinking.

For a long while, Zhang Fei looked at Li Mengxi like a fool, and muttered, "Damn, to turn back the carbine, you have to turn your horse and run away first, and you have to run away first to drag the sword. One of the two people wanted to turn back the carbine, and the other wanted to drag the sword to kill, but turned away.

Run away, run for eternity and you won’t hit me!

No one can win when fighting back with a sword and slashing with a knife! You can’t even take a shine to your face!”

Li Mengxi was stunned, looked at each other with Guan Yu, and laughed happily at the same time.

Indeed, dragging the sword to cut is no match for the carbine.

Li Mengxi asked curiously, "General Guan, three generals, if you two fight, who will win and who will be weaker?"

Guan Yu said sternly, "We usually compete with each other, and we are indistinguishable."

Li Mengxi followed closely and continued to ask, "What if it's a life and death fight?"

Guan Yu shook his head, "How can our brothers fight for life and death?"

Li Mengxi was very annoying. He insisted on asking for answers. He pestered Guan Yu and Zhang Fei and asked, "What if I say, what if there is a fight between life and death?"

Guan Yu said seriously, "There is absolutely no such thing as this."

Li Mengxi also asked.

Guan Yu was so annoyed that he had no choice but to look at Zhang Fei and said, "If there is a fight between life and death, the second brother will win."

Zhang Fei smiled when he heard this and waved his hand. He said to Li Mengxi, "Don't listen to the second brother being humble. The second brother is much better than me."

Li Mengxi then looked at Guan Yu.

Guan Yu laughed again and said, "My third brother is still stronger."

Zhang Fei said, "If you can't do something, you must be my second brother's opponent."

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Guan and Zhang praised each other's bravery and said that the other was stronger than him. Li Mengxi could see that the two were brothers and had a very good relationship.

Li Mengxi found it quite funny.

Li Mengxi said, "When a certain person just saw General Guan dragging his sword to kill, he saw the general kicking and twisting and stepping on the saddle to exert force, but the saddle was crude and could not be used for strength."

Guan and Zhang looked over. Li Mengxi glanced at them and said with a smile, "Both of you are equally brave in martial arts. But if someone has something, if one uses it, he can defeat the other. I don't know whether you believe it or not.

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Guan and Zhang looked at each other and looked over at the same time, "What is this object? (Does this divine object really exist?)"

He had just obtained the ultimate skill from Li Mengxi, and Li Mengxi had already shown his knowledge of fighting skills. How could Guan and Zhang not believe that there would be another special skill that he could use to defeat the enemy?

Li Mengxi said slowly, "It's a saddle."

"Saddle?" Guan Yu looked confused.

Zhang Fei also widened his eyes and wondered, "How?"

Li Mengxi said, "My big man's saddles are all single-sided soft saddles. This saddle can only facilitate mounting, but not riding."

"I only have one saddle, which can be called a weapon for the military. Using it, the cavalry's combat power can be increased several times."

"This saddle is called a high bridge saddle. It is equipped with iron and wooden pedals. The high bridge saddle has blocks at the front and back, and is shaped like a seat..."

Speaking of seats, Li Mengxi stopped. He thought that the big man didn't have a seat yet.

"The high bridge saddle is shaped like a city battlement, one in front of the other. Sitting in this hard saddle is like sitting in a city battlement. You don't need to work hard to clamp the saddle with your legs, and it can be as stable as a flat position on the horse's back.

The purpose of the high bridge is when charging and killing. If there is no high bridge, the spear will stab the enemy and the force will return, and the cavalry will be overturned in an unknown number of ways.

And there are high bridges to block the front and rear. The front high bridge can slightly protect the abdomen, and the rear high bridge can withstand the waist and back. When charging with a gun, it is not easy for the force to recoil and fall off the horse. "

"In addition to the hard-saddle high bridge, there is also a pair of double pedals. These pedals are as big as iron shoes and as flat as iron shoes. When riding and fighting, if you step on the pedals, you can stand upright and be as stable as the ground.

Compared with the old single-sided saddle pedal of the Han Dynasty, this pedal is stable and easy to use when riding. With a single-sided saddle pedal, 10% of the force can be used to produce 50% of the force in a horse battle, while with the iron pedal, 10% of the force can be used to produce 50% of the force.

Eight, wait for the two to fight, and the superior will be clear."

"Also, to match the high-saddle iron pedals, there are horseshoes. The horseshoe is a semicircular ring nailed to the horse's shoe. First, it can reduce the wear of the horse's shoe. Second, it can make the horse step harder and increase its combat effectiveness.

This item can reduce the possibility of war horses being lost due to hoof injuries by several percent."

Saddles, stirrups, and horseshoes are the inventions of the three modern eras of cavalry. The structures of these three inventions are extremely useful and extremely simple. After Li Mengxi told them, Guan and Zhang roughly understood the basics of these three pieces of equipment.

After careful consideration, Guan and Zhang realized the importance of hard saddles to the cavalry.

Guan Yu asked seriously, "How difficult are these three things to make? How much does it cost?"

Li Mengxi hesitated and said, "It is not difficult to make these three things, and the cost is very small, but."

Li Mengxi frowned and couldn't make up his mind, "As soon as the three saddles and pedals came out, the military situation changed drastically, and the cavalry suddenly became very important.

And because the saddle and pedals are simple, their opponents can imitate them precisely because of their simplicity."

"Some worry is that I don't know whether our rebel army will have strong cavalry in the future. If our army's horses are scarce and our cavalry is insufficient, it will be difficult to form an army. And if the cavalry is so weak that it is forced to use saddles and pedals, then if it is revealed, the enemy will

If an army has more cavalry, adding saddles and pedals will greatly increase its combat power, which will be detrimental to our army."

"I can't decide whether we should equip our rebel army with these three saddles and pedals in large quantities, or keep them secretly hidden."

This was what Li Mengxi was worried about. If the size of the cavalry was far greater than that of the enemy, then equipping a saddle with a set of equipment would greatly improve the combat effectiveness. Even if the enemy took it back, it would not have much impact.

But if one day you are trapped in a land lacking horses, such as the Shu Han, and if there are very few cavalry, then you should try not to equip yourself with a saddle.

Because once the saddles are equipped, here, Shu Han has three thousand elite cavalry equipped with saddles, and over there, Cao Wei has tens of thousands of cavalry.

In the first few battles, 3,000 cavalry with saddles may be able to achieve surprising victories repeatedly, but a mere 3,000 cavalry with saddles is far from enough to change the situation.

It won't take long for Cao Wei to learn about the saddle and stirrup. Once Cao Wei learns about it, Cao Wei will immediately have tens of thousands more cavalry with powerful impact.

Immediately, the military pressure Shu Han had to face would increase to several levels.

It is no exaggeration to say that a small saddle can directly destroy the Shu Han.

In his previous life, regarding World War II, Li Mengxi knew such a rumor. It was said that radar was first invented by Germany. After Germany invented radar, they immediately discovered its great value in military detection and air defense.

But at that time, during Germany's large-scale bombing of London, in order to prevent the radar information from being stolen by spies, Germany hid the radar it invented and did not install it.

Later, it turned out that Britain also invented radar. After the air battle in London, Britain also bombed Berlin, the capital of Germany. As a result, Germany suffered heavy losses because it did not install radar.

In his previous life, Li Mengxi felt that the Germans were afraid of leaking secrets so they hid an epoch-making mass murder weapon and did not use it. They were quite stupid and could not eat because of choking. They were extremely stupid.

However, when he was now in the late Han Dynasty and asked Li Mengxi to decide whether to promote saddles early, Li Mengxi now understood Germany's original choice.

Germans are not stupid, but very smart.

Just like the promotion of saddles by the Shu Han Dynasty did not increase the combat power, but greatly increased the combat power of Cao Wei's cavalry, which was the way to death. In the same way, Germany is bombing London, and the air battle in London is deadlocked. Once the radar information is known to the enemy

, if the enemy imitates radar again, it will be a disaster for Germany, which originally had air force superiority.

Think about the Zhuozhou Rebel Army. Today there are less than two thousand cavalry. Among the two thousand cavalry, a large number of cavalry personnel are from the old Yellow Turbans. What does the Yellow Turban army look like? What does the Yellow Turban war horse look like? If we remove those old soldiers from the Yellow Turban cavalry,

Weak war horses can be said to be strong, but there are only more than a thousand fine riders.

Only a thousand cavalrymen were not enough to be seen in the territory of the Han Dynasty.

When it comes to forming a large number of cavalry in the future, cavalry soldiers come second. First of all, there must be war horses, and Julu has no land to raise horses. Fortunately, Julu is in Jizhou, in the north, close to the northern grasslands, and war horses are not hard to come by.

But when it comes to buying horses, war horses are very expensive. If you buy hundreds of horses, it's not a small price. If you want to buy thousands of horses, it's even more expensive.

And even if there are thousands of horses and thousands of cavalry, it is still not very large, and it does not have much advantage compared with other princes.

And if one or two horse farms can be robbed, the source of war horses will not be a problem.

But now in Julu, it is far away from the horse birthplace, and according to the plan, it will not be able to expand on a large scale within two or three years, and it will not be able to capture the horse farm.

After much thought, Li Mengxi couldn't make up his mind. He didn't know whether he should promote the three magical weapons of the cavalry.

When I asked Guan and Zhang, they also felt that the matter was of great importance and they could not make a hasty decision.

Finally, Guan Yu said, "The saddles and pedals are very sharp, and our cavalry is very thin. It will not be easy to promote it until our army can have eight thousand cavalry."

What Guan Yu said made sense to Li Mengxi.
Chapter completed!