"Third brother, take care of yourself!" The younger sisters couldn't hold back their tears. After all, Changle, the oldest among them, was only 15 years old.
"Okay, don't cry. The third brother is gone. I will bring you gifts when the third brother comes back." Li Ke smiled and waved his hands casually. I don't know why, but his mood suddenly became very good.
"The sea is smiling, the waves are rising and falling on both sides of the bank, and I will remember the present day with the ups and downs of the waves."
Li Ke turned the horse's head and sang a song loudly. He didn't bother to care whether the song was in line with the environment of this era. It just suited him. If it didn't fit the times, then let the times suit him.
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While singing, Li Ke waved to Changle and the others, and then clamped his legs together. The war horse immediately understood the master's intention and ran away with its legs.
Li Ke's novel singing voice still came from horseback.
"The sky laughs, and the world is full of tides. God knows who will lose and who will win."
"The mountains and rivers are smiling, the misty rain is far away, the waves are sweeping away..."
The singing was no longer audible as Li Ke went away, but for some reason, Changle and the others suddenly felt less sad. Perhaps they heard a sense of freedom and ease in Li Ke's interesting singing.
"Did you remember it?" Changle turned around and asked.
"After a few words, I'll compose the music when I get back." Baling was good at this and immediately spoke. As he spoke, she hummed, "The sea is smiling, the tide is rolling across the Taiwan Strait..."
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After returning to the queue, Li Ke and others followed the official road and headed straight to the Red Sea!
However, although the horses they went to the Western Regions this time were all the famous Qinghai Cong, this kind of horse was originally from Persia. After coming to Qinghai, it was gradually improved and could travel thousands of miles a day. It is a top-quality horse produced in Tuyuhun.
The largest number of Qinghai Cong are in Tuyuhun, and there are a small number in the Tang Dynasty. These are raised in the Qilian Mountains. The Shandan Army Horse Farm established by Huo Qubing, the Han Hussar General, is the largest military horse farm in the world even more than a thousand years later. Racecourse!
Although these war horses can claim to be able to travel thousands of miles in a day, they cannot really ride like this. Riding like this will be useless. Li Ke and the others ran wildly for a while, then moved forward slowly, letting the horses rest, and then ran wildly. They had to arrive at the post station at noon to rest. , the driving distance per day is limited to 300 miles.
The galloping speed of war horses is about 60 kilometers per hour, so the cavalry is still moving very fast.
The Qinghai Cong has very strong endurance, even stronger than the Mongolian horses of later generations, but unfortunately, it is not as good as the Mongolian horses in terms of rough feeding.
Genghis Khan's iron cavalry can sweep across the world, and the Mongolian horse is a great contributor. Its speed and size are not outstanding, and its endurance can only be regarded as an excellent horse breed. It uses its greatest advantage to kill almost all other war horses in an instant. Then It is rough feeding and handling tolerance.
The Mongolian horse can travel more than 300 miles a day. The key point is that it can continue this high-intensity march for ten or twenty days in a row. It only needs rough feeding, that is, it can be raised directly on the grassland.
You must know that all war horses in ancient times needed to eat grains. You can imagine how much convenience this rough feeding provided to the Mongolian cavalry.
In the evening, Li Ke and the others stopped at a post station. All the cavalrymen quickly helped the postmen park the horses, and then added grain feed to the horses. A large salt block was hung next to each horse. They lick themselves.
It is necessary to eat salt to raise good war horses, and eating good salt is naturally better. Therefore, if the Chaka Salt Lake is completed, it will also be conducive to the large-scale breeding of Qinghai Cong war horses in Qinghai Lake and Shandan Army Horse Farm.
Li Ke dismounted easily. Riding a distance of 300 miles a day was not difficult for him.
But for Li Min... it was torture. At this moment, Li Min was directly helped off the horse. It would be good if he could keep riding down. However, he was not wearing armor yet, but was wearing a suit. Leather armor.
Li Min can also ride a horse, but he has never ridden a horse with such intensity.
Li Ke went over and took a look. The place where the medical officer examined Li Min was in the courtyard of the inn. He did not enter the room. Li Ke specifically ordered him to come out and enjoy the blessing.
"Your Highness, His Highness Prince Liang's thighs have been worn out on both sides." The medical officer responsible for examining Li Min reported to Li Kehui.
"Third brother..." Li Min wanted to cry at this moment. He originally thought that going to the Western Regions was a fun thing, but after riding a horse one day, apart from eating and resting, he was just on the road. At the beginning, he could still maintain the correct riding posture. , but later on, his physical strength could not keep up, and he could only sit on the horse. He felt that his whole body was almost torn apart.
The pain in his legs was even worse than when he had to kneel all night that day. Now he felt that his legs were no longer his.
"Can we have a day off tomorrow?" Li Min asked tentatively.
"No, this is just a minor injury. Use this to disinfect him, then apply medicine, and wrap him with gauze boiled in boiling water." Li Ke took out medical alcohol from the items he carried and handed it to the medical officer.
"Yes!" The medical officer calmly took the alcohol. The medical officers in Li Ke's escort have all been trained and have a basic understanding of some modern medical knowledge, such as disinfection and how to prevent epidemics. , some ways to prevent wound infection, etc.
"Here are two people." Li Ke greeted again, and two more guards came in quickly.
"Hold him down." Li Ke pointed at Li Min.
Li Min looked confused, not knowing the seriousness of the matter. Medical alcohol was used to disinfect scratches like this, but it was much more painful than hydrogen peroxide. Hydrogen peroxide only hurts more than alcohol when the wound is very deep.
Although Li Ke brought hydrogen peroxide, as a child, it is better to suffer a little.
When the medical officer rubbed medical alcohol cotton directly onto Li Min's wound, he screamed, "Ah... it hurts me to death... ah, my highness is going to kill you."
The conscience of heaven and earth, Li Min didn't have this idea in his heart. He just said this sentence as a conditioned reflex. He was used to swearing like this, but he only cursed with his mouth and never actually took action.
"Stop." Li Ke raised his eyebrows and said.
The medical officer and the two guards who were holding Li Min stopped. Li Ke grabbed a handful of dirt from the ground next to the inn, and threw it directly onto Li Min's wound before he could react.
"Ah..." Li Min screamed again, and his whole body started to tremble.
"Give him the alcohol." Li Ke gestured with his head, and the medical officer silently placed the alcohol next to Li Min.
"You disinfect yourself, Li Min. Did you know that on the battlefield, 70% of the soldiers who were injured and died did not die directly, but died after the war because the wounds became infected and could not be disinfected, and then the wounds fester and ooze pus. "
"Wounds are infected regardless of their size. There is still a chance that a small wound like yours will become infected and fester and lead to death. Therefore, I am afraid that you will kill my medical officer, and the third brother cannot afford to offend you, so you can disinfect it yourself." Li Ke said calmly.
Li Min: "..."
Of course, what Li Ke said about wound infection is true, although it is not that mysterious. In his last life, when Li Ke was six or seven years old, his knees were not healed. He fell and bruised his knees while running without waiting, and he did not disinfect them. For anything, just rinse it with water at most, and the scabs will soon form. The wounds that Li Min got from riding a horse are at this level at best.
