Coming out of the dressing room, both horses were led in front of Li Ke and the others. Li Ke first asked Li Chengqian to explain the stirrups, high bridge saddles, etc.
For example, there are nomadic stirrups and saddles, but they are all made of wood, and Li Ke's is naturally made of iron. The Takahashi saddle also has wood but the frame is made of steel, and then wrapped in leather and so on.
After telling Li Chengqian, Li Ke simply held the horse and let Li Chengqian get on the horse by himself. Li Chengqian was just lame, not weak. He put one foot in the stirrup and skillfully turned over on the horse, and then stepped on the other foot in the stirrup. .
Feeling the seemingly no different high-bridge saddle and the iron stirrups on both sides, Li Chengqian basically didn't feel any difference in his control of the horse, but he could feel that with the hard stirrups, his legs could assist. Use both feet.
"How is it?" Li Ke asked with a smile.
"It does feel like there's nothing wrong with it." Li Chengqian nodded.
Li Ke also jumped on his horse directly next to him. The guard holding the horse next to him let go of the horse. The two people did not run directly, but drove the horse to start strolling into the middle of the field. Changle and the others were slower at changing clothes, so they walked around a few times first.
"Over at Tuyuhun, I didn't quite understand the letter you wrote home. Is there any problem with Murong Shun?" Li Chengqian asked curiously while riding on his horse.
"What's the problem?" Li Ke told Li Chengqian about his strategy for Tubo, and then said: "Murong Shun's cavalry is not a big threat, as long as he is not stupid enough to charge into the enemy's position. That’s no problem.”
"Indeed, Tubo is not even as good as the Tang Dynasty in this aspect. There is absolutely no way to deal with the cavalry." Li Chengqian thought for a while and nodded.
In fact, many people have some misunderstandings about Tubo. It is true that many tribes in Tubo are nomadic people. At the same time, there are also some settled tribes in Tubo, but these tribes together are different from the Tuyuhun and Western Turks.
That is, Tubo has almost no cavalry. To be precise, Tubo does not have good horse breeds, so they have no combat cavalry. Their cavalry has no combat effectiveness at all, and the horses are more used for traveling.
In fact, the rise of Tubo was not due to how powerful Songtsen Gampo was. To be precise, the rise of Tubo was also indispensable to the right time and place. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the earth entered a warm period, and a lot of snow on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau melted rapidly, and conditions began to support it. Large-scale settlement.
During the Jin and Jin Dynasties, many areas in Tubo that could be cultivated were covered with ice and snow, which melted for a very short time each year. This made it impossible to grow crops. The water flow of some rivers was not enough, and there was only limited cultivated land along the rivers. not much.
The main force of the Tibetan army is infantry. Due to the limitation of horse types, the Tibetan cavalry's fighting method is also to dismount and fight on foot.
That's right, Tubo's horses were basically used for traveling. According to the "New Book of Tang Dynasty", the Tubo army "will dismount its horses and march in formation when fighting, and will surrender to the enemy if it dies, and will never retreat."
In other words, the Tubo army can be said to be mounted infantry, so Li Ke is not worried about Murong Shun's cavalry being surrounded and suppressed by the Tubo army. As long as he is not stupid, this is one of the reasons why Li Ke sent the cavalry. one.
Things like iron tools can still be solved, but it is impossible for Li Ke to sell horse breeds to Tubo, and Tubo has no chance to get excellent horse breeds from other places.
Now that Li Ke has taken control of Xizhou, a large number of outstanding Qinghai Cong will be bred in horse farms on the plateau, such as the Shandan Army Horse Farm at an altitude of 2,900 to 5,000 meters.
Moreover, the currently domesticated war horses have begun to feed them salt in an orderly manner, and Li Ke even asked people to compare the feedings separately.
For example, a group of war horses were allowed to lick the original coarse salt by themselves, another part was licked by the refined salt blocks sold by Li Ke, and the other part were fed according to the war horse breeding book Li Ke took out, and they were fed regularly and quantitatively every day. salt.
Anyway, it is through different controlled experiments to see if we can breed better war horses.
"Well, as long as they don't have cavalry in their hands, even after their leather armor rate increases, there is basically no threat to our Datang." Li Ke nodded. "Now that we are talking about this matter, the strategy of Tubo, brother, you still need to write a memorial. If you want to ask anything, just ask directly, and then I will tell you. You can write a memorial and present it in the court. "
"Why me?" Li Chengqian was a little confused.
"Of course you need prestige. It's good for a prince like you to have a higher prestige." Li Ke nodded.
Li Chengqian: "..." To be honest, he was a little speechless. How to say this? Although the prince and the emperor are father and son, sometimes the prince's prestige is too high, and the emperor is worried.
"It's okay, brother, don't worry. I've already told my father. Anyway, my father doesn't care, and I guess you don't care either. Besides, prestige is something. At present, brother, no matter how high your prestige is, you can't be as good as my father." The emperor is tall, so there is no need to worry." Li Ke said with a smile.
Li Chengqian looked at Li Ke with a somewhat strange expression: "Why do I always feel like you are raising a child?"
"Illusion, brother, you are all an illusion." Li Ke directly denied it.
"The problem is, you make me feel helpless." Li Chengqian was speechless. Although this is a good thing, he doesn't know why it feels so awkward? If you want to say that Li Ke is one of his advisers, Li Chengqian will handle the matter directly without any hesitation.
But if you say that Li Ke has already taken care of this matter, and then you ask him to write this memorial to reduce his reputation, then there is something wrong with Li Chengqian's thinking.
"This is obviously all your credit. Why do I, the eldest brother, take advantage of this reputation? I am already the prince now, how can I still take the credit from your brother? I won't do it." Li Chengqian thought for a moment, and then I simply refused.
"Brother, I am doing this for your own good." Li Ke said.
Li Chengqian: "..." They are nice words, but why do they sound so uncomfortable?
"Okay, okay, if you don't want to do this, then I can't violate your principles, brother. Then I will give you another idea, do you think it will work?" Li Ke asked.
"Say." Li Chengqian was a little curious. He was not curious about other things, but how many ideas there were in Li Ke's head. Others said that Li Ke was a reckless man, but have you ever seen such a smart and reckless man? ?
"Fu soldiers." Li Ke said with a smile.
"Huh?" Li Chengqian was a little confused.
"It is said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. If you control the army, you will control the foundation of stability in the world, so you can build your reputation among the soldiers." Li Ke snapped his fingers and said with a smile.
