Chapter 956 Zhou Xu’s Thoughts
Prairie City was not far from Black Moon City. Under the escort of the elf knights, Zhou Xu arrived quickly in a carriage.
Completely different from the prosperous Black Moon City, the existence of Prairie City today is mainly functional.
For the herdsmen on the grassland, Prairie City is actually a large market, where they purchase daily necessities.
On weekdays, most herdsmen do not live in cities. Their lives are mainly based on grazing on the grasslands. They will camp and rest wherever they graze.
The entire living conditions and customs here are completely different from other cities in the Zhou Dynasty.
In this way, the scale of Prairie City is actually not large, and it does not need to be built too big. Zhou Xu only spent half a day to complete a simple inspection of the city, and then took the The carriage rushed out of the city.
The next thing he is going to is their largest and most important racecourse in Dazhou!
"Weijun Ma Guotao, please see your Majesty!"
There are also restaurants here in Prairie City. As a horse farm owner, Ma Guotao belongs to the high-income group in Dazhou, so naturally he is also a restaurant. of regular customers.
Through the storyteller's mouth, Ma Guotao also knew that their Great Zhou Dynasty had become stronger and stronger in recent years, and their national power had become stronger and stronger, and the core figure who brought all this was their Majesty!
In this case, his respect for Zhou Xu increased day by day.
"No courtesy."
After meeting Ma Guotao, Zhou Xu was also concerned about the breeding and training of war horses over the years.
As an outstanding talent, Ma Guotao still has two skills. He has managed the grassland racecourse in an orderly manner over the years.
Under this premise, he selects good horses every year and continuously optimizes and breeds them. Now the grassland racecourse can stably produce war horses every year, and this number is still increasing year by year.
And BMWs like the Blood Horse have now initially developed to a certain scale.
While talking, Zhou Xu, who had followed Ma Guotao on a brief tour of the racecourse, brought the topic down to business.
"That's it. Our troops in the southern border of the Great Zhou Dynasty are fighting with the rat people right now, aren't they? After a previous battle, in the battle report sent back, the trapped camp reported to me A situation..."
Yes, this time he came to the grassland mainly to discuss this issue with Ma Guotao.
As he spoke, Zhou Xu briefly explained to Ma Guotao the problem that the horses in the trapped camp could not keep up with their physical strength.
After understanding the situation, Ma Guotao pondered for two seconds, and then slowly spoke...
"Your Majesty, this is actually a common problem of heavy armored cavalry. Take the heavy armored ones in our Chinese history. For cavalry, they all have this problem, which is the biggest reason why heavy armored cavalry are gradually being phased out.”
Although Ma Guotao was a horse breeder before traveling through time, for the cavalry in the cold weapon era. He knew the unit relatively well, after all, it was related to horses.
Sometimes, their racecourse will also hold some riding events for promotion.
"If your Majesty wants to improve this problem, you can consider using draft horses."
"Tell me more about it."
"Draw horses are used to pull goods and are known for their endurance and strength. But the flexibility and speed are poor. If you add the equipment of the trapped camp, the speed will probably be even slower."
At this point, Ma Guotao hesitated, but finally decided to tell his story. idea.
“Actually, Your Majesty, have you ever considered simply abandoning the heavy armored cavalry and changing the configuration of the trapped camp to light armor? In this way, the physical strength of the war horses will not be a problem at all.”
Having said these words, Ma Guotao also completely let go and spoke out all his thoughts at once.
“In the era of cold weapons, although the lethality of heavy armored cavalry was huge, it basically only had the power of one blow, and because of its limited mobility, it required the cooperation of multiple parties to achieve effective damage.”
"Although it can achieve great results once it is obtained, the conditions for use are harsh and the investment is huge. There are not many occasions where it can be used, and the price/performance ratio is too low." "And as long as there are crossbow troops on the battlefield, if you want It’s easier to target heavy armored cavalry. It’s better to use some mobility.”
I have to say that Ma Guotao does have some research.
However, he obviously didn't know that individual crossbows had been developed within the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the formation of crossbow troops had even begun.
In addition, the dwarves of Copperhearth Castle built crossbow troops earlier than them.
Of course, Zhou Xu has no plans to tell Ma Guotao this military information for the time being, and there is no need for the other party to know.
As for the cost-effectiveness of heavy armored cavalry, no one discussed this with him before. Now that Ma Guotao has spoken, he doesn't mind having a good discussion.
“I have actually considered these problems with heavy armored cavalry, but have you ever thought that the trapped camp is not a simple cavalry?”
"The trapping camp has always been positioned as an all-round unit. Mounted are cavalry and dismounted are infantry. As long as the battlefield requires them, they can even become archer troops."
"From the perspective of cavalry, heavy armor Cavalry is not cost-effective, but what about heavy armored infantry?"
Zhou Xu's question immediately silenced Ma Guotao.
Zhou Xu didn't care about this and continued talking directly.
“The positioning of the trapped camp means that they need to rush to the most dangerous places on the battlefield, and there is always the risk of being surrounded by enemy troops. Their situation is that they are often surrounded by enemies on all sides. As heavy armored infantry, When fighting, how can they ensure that their combat power can be fully utilized without the protection of a suit of armor? ”
Ma Guotao really couldn't answer this question right now.
Just like Zhou Xu said, he only considered the value of the trapped camp as a cavalry, but did not consider the value of the trapped camp as an all-round unit!
"The next step is to train draft horses to serve as mounts for the trapped camp?"
Ma Guotao's voice was still somewhat uncertain.
"Wei Chen also said just now that if you change to a draft horse, the speed of falling into the camp will probably become slower, and we actually don’t have any excellent draft horses in Dazhou. If I start looking for those with endurance now, Breeding and breeding with horses with excellent strength, and trying to breed a suitable draft horse, will probably not yield any results in just a few years.”
After hearing Ma Guotao's concerns, Zhou Xu shook his head.
"Old Ma, have you ever heard of strange beasts and extraordinary creatures?"
"Yes."
Ma Guotao was startled, and then his expression quickly became exciting. stand up.
"Your Majesty, do you want to..."
"I have an idea now."
Zhou Xu slowly said...
"If I get a drop of blood essence from an extraordinary creature, and then give it to a good enough sweat horse If you keep feeding it, is there a chance that it will evolve?"
"..."
"Once it succeeds, it will at least be a strange beast. If you are lucky, it can evolve into an extraordinary creature in the future. ! When we use it for breeding, the physical quality of the resulting war horses will definitely be better than that of ordinary sweat horses!"
"..."
(End of this chapter)