Liu Song Hanque

Chapter 351 Castrated Version, You Deserve It
Cui Hao promised to change the direction of government affairs now and put a lot of energy into the formation of the armed cavalry.

It's just that you don't know if you don't build it, and you will be shocked when you build it!
The standard horse armor is composed of six parts, namely: the face curtain, the chicken neck, the chest, the horse body armor, the back, and the parasite.

Each of these parts is extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive to build, and it often takes a qualified craftsman three months to complete.

In addition, the armor of the knight is Mingguang armor.

The weapon is a horse lance...

If you want to manufacture a complete set of armor, with the national power of the Northern Wei Dynasty, it may take less than ten sets in a month!

And this is just the cost of the equipment.

There is also the cost of use. An armored cavalry usually needs to be equipped with one or two servants and several nanny horses. Count the consumption of these people's horse chews on the ledger...

Calculated in this way, I am afraid that the taxes of hundreds of ordinary people can support a knight in armor who can fight!

Tuoba Tao, who was still high-spirited before, is now scalp numb and a little at a loss.

terror!
so horrible!

According to this set of procedures, the Northern Wei Dynasty may go bankrupt in less than two years!

In two years, less than three hundred armored knights could be produced.

"hiss--"

At this moment, Tuoba Tao has a deeper understanding of the cost of equipped cavalry, and also understands why among so many northern forces since the Five Husbands, only the former Qin Dynasty, which unified the north, has the capital to play with equipped cavalry.

Like other forces, if hundreds of countries have gone bankrupt, what's the point of playing?
At the same time, at this moment, Tuoba Tao also had a deeper understanding of the gap between the Northern Wei Dynasty and Liu Song Dynasty.

"It would be great if Hebei is still in my hands!"

If Hebei is still there, with those 1000 million Han people as sacrifices, the Northern Wei Dynasty may easily form a cavalry of thousands of people to crush the entire north!

"Your Majesty, do you want to form an armored cavalry?"

Cui Hao placed the ledger in front of Tuoba Tao, acting as if you could figure it out by yourself, so he didn't say any more.

Tuoba Tao is also in an embarrassing situation at the moment.

Let's build it, the Northern Wei Dynasty that has just burst into vitality may die immediately.

Don't build it, I just finished arguing with Cui Hao, where is the emperor's face?

Well, even if you don't consider this issue, then everything is back to the beginning.

If Liu Song formed an outfit cavalry, what would Tuoba Tao stand against?

Tuoba Tao worried about this for several days, until after Pingcheng he was depressed.

In order to have a full set of cavalry, he even went to observe the process of craftsmen making vests and Mingguang armors, thinking that the reason why it took so much wealth and time was because the craftsmen themselves were embezzling!
But after observing for a month, Tuoba Tao saw the whole process from iron embryo to complete equipment, and he accepted the fact that equipped cavalry was really expensive.

Face curtain, chicken neck, dang chest, horse body armor, rear, parasitic...

Suddenly, Tuoba Tao had a flash of inspiration!

"The armored cavalry is always destroyed after being run over! How can I use the armor behind me?"

Not just battle armor!And soldiers!

Why do you need to equip the armor behind you?Could it be that the enemy can still raid the mountain-like armored cavalry from behind?

Thinking of this.

Tuoba Tao's pattern opened with a "click"!
A month later, a very strange costumed knight appeared in the palace of Pingcheng.

To say weird might not be accurate.

It may be reasonable to use the word "castration".

I saw that there was no iron curtain on the head of the knight's war horse, but a piece of animal skin was placed perfunctorily.

There is a chicken neck, but it only covers the lower half.

The chest and horse body armor are barely complete, but... it's just barely.

Other than that, there is nothing left on the back of the horse!
From a distance, it looks like a person only wearing clothes on the upper body but with a big butt, which is indescribably weird.

And that knight...

Seems perfectly normal from the front.

But looking from the back, it turned out that the knight's armor was only half!
His back, like the buttocks of that war horse, is all bare!
Seeing this, the officials of the Northern Wei Dynasty who were observing were silent.

Is this still armored cavalry?

Let’s say it doesn’t matter, there are indeed vests and armors.

Let’s face it, always have a conscience.

Tuoba Tao ignored the strange eyes of the officials and excitedly recommended his masterpiece to them.

"I've watched horse battles, and horses are often injured because the neck and side are easy to be hit, so it must be covered with iron armor."

"As for behind..."

Tuoba Tao said proudly: "Don't worry about what's behind you!"

"Once the outfitted cavalry charge, there will be thousands of troops and horses in front of them that can be easily crushed. At that time, the enemy army will have no chance to fight back!"

"If there is, it can only mean that the cavalry has been surrounded by the enemy! In that case, it doesn't matter whether there is rear armor or not!"

"the most important is……"

Tuoba Tao said the key point with bright eyes——

"The cost of building this kind of armored cavalry is only one-third of that of normal armored cavalry!"

"And because of the reduction of its armor, the logistics will also become half of the original cavalry!"

"In this way, our country can still build a thousand-man armored cavalry, which is longer and shorter than Liu Songyi!"

For this "castrated version" of the armored cavalry, Tuoba Tao exhausted his efforts.

Although it looked weird, it was obtained by Tuoba Tao based on his cavalry combat experience.

Compared with the real armored cavalry, such castrated cavalry may not be as powerful.

But this kind of cavalry is already the product of Tuoba Tao's helpless compromise.

The Northern Wei Dynasty really couldn't afford to build real armored cavalry!

In order to dispel the concerns of the ministers, Tuoba Tao personally put on this suit to cover them up.

Not to mention, the cavalry looks severely castrated, but the combat power against the cavalry has indeed improved a lot.

When someone asked Tuoba Tao why he didn't equip the war horse with a curtain that was also in front, Tuoba Tao perfunctoryly said haha.

Could he say that it was because the Northern Wei Dynasty was indeed too poor to make face curtains?

Where is the face of the emperor after all this is said?

"Don't worry, when the horse charges, it is difficult for ordinary arrows to hit the horse's face. When it reaches the local infantry formation, it will naturally be harvested by the cavalry!"

Speaking of this, Tuoba Si laughed: "Could it be that you think there are weapons in this world that can smash a horse's head with one blow?"

The other courtiers also laughed.

How could there be such a thing!

If there is, then why are you still fighting!Wouldn't it be nice to go back and hug your wife and children to herd sheep?
From this point of view, this castrated version of the armored cavalry... is really worth having!

(End of this chapter)