As the three treasures of cavalry that have been written in a bad way: Takahashi saddle, stirrup, and horseshoe, these three are almost inventions that must be written in ancient history and early wars in the early stages of medieval history.

It has been raised to a military weapon for the fighting between farming countries and nomadic tribes. In order to prevent it from spreading to the grassland or among hostile forces, some pig's feet also need to carefully dismantle them after each use-up to prevent them from being stolen and imitated by hostile forces.

But in the book, I don’t want to spend too much on these three treasures.

Because I always felt that from the late Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms period, the so-called high-bridge saddles, stirrups, and horseshoes did not have much possibility of leaping into the combat power of the cavalry.

The development process of horse saddles is improved step by step from a piece of leather or cloth cushion to a wooden low saddle to a high bridge saddle. The so-called high saddle is said to have appeared in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. There are riding figurines and painted wooden carvings of saddle horses unearthed from the Han tomb of Leitai on the Internet to prove it as physical evidence. This development process is also acceptable to most people.

What about the stirrup? Could it have a similar development history?

Currently, the single-sided stirrups unearthed from the Western Jin tombs and the double-sided stirrups unearthed from the Sixteen Kingdoms tombs can be used to prove that mature stirrups that did not appear in the form of iron pedal rings in dynasties before this, but before this, would there be any prototype of stirrups or other forms of horse-riding pedaling?

I personally prefer to imagine that before the iron stirrups appeared, for the war of riding horses and shooting and killing, riders would tie bandages and belts on the saddles, and leg bands used to hang their feet.

This stirrup, which had just taken shape, gradually evolved with the times into the shape of a mature stirrup that we are now familiar with.

This imagination comes from my belief in the coherence of the development of things. Just as the style of the Wei and Jin Dynasties had already shown signs in the late Han Dynasty, social emotions that were free and unruly would not appear inexplicably. They must have been brewing for enough time before they would emerge in such a form in a specific era.

So I think that mature stirrups will not suddenly appear in front of the world like that.

Of course, my imagination does not have physical arguments unearthed from archaeology. At present, it can only be argued through the historical books on the various records of the Western Han Dynasty, the Wuhuan Cavalry that was in charge of the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the tiger and leopard cavalry in the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty.

The last horseshoe was said to be an invention by the Romans and was not popularized in the Tang Dynasty. This did not improve the combat effectiveness of the cavalry, but was only conducive to reducing the damage to the horses' hooves and protecting the most important horses' hooves.

Compared to saying that this invention was spread slowly, I would rather believe that it was the lack of iron tools in the Middle Ages that made the widespread promotion of iron horseshoes among the people very slowly. It is said that in the Han Dynasty, there were records of "fashionable palm hooves" about nailing horseshoes in "Salt and Iron".

The above is my dream and sorting out the harness. So in this book, I will not focus on the Three Treasures of Cavalry. Well, this is also a historical novel routine that has been repeatedly verified and belongs to the category of success.
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