It is actually not difficult to solve the mystery of the speed of the Bingzhou Army. Just find the cavalry and war horses of the Bingzhou Army to take a look and you can understand 70% or 80%.

This battle was a battle where the Bingzhou army had the advantage. It would definitely not leave prisoners or anything else for the Sima army, but there were no living people, so there were always some corpses. It was impossible to fight such a big battle. If the Sima army loses more than a thousand people, would the Bingzhou army be unscathed?

This time, Man Bing seemed a little embarrassed. The corpses of the enemy and horses were not missing, but they were pitifully few. There were only a few pieces, and they were finally dug out of the pile of dead people in Sima Jun.

Sima Yi didn't care. It would be fine if there was a corpse, but it didn't matter. If Sima's army was really expected to hurt the enemy by 800 times in a situation where he lost one thousand, then even if he lost this battle, he wouldn't lose it very ugly.

Sima Yi and a group of generals personally inspected the bodies of the Bingzhou soldiers. After watching for a long time, the generals could not see any clues. It was very ordinary equipment, but the weapons they used were a bit special, similar to the ring-headed sword, but they were not exactly the same. The blade body was slightly longer, the tip of the sword was bent, and the hilt was lengthened. Perhaps this sword was sharper than the ring-headed sword, but it had nothing to do with the speed.

Sima Yi asked Sima Zhao, "Zhaoer, have you seen something?"

Sima Zhao shook his head gently and said, "Apart from seeing this knife being a little special, I don't see anything else."

Sima Yi said: "You haven't noticed that these soldiers are wearing uniform leather armor and there is no unnecessary things on them. In other words, they greatly reduce their loads, which is of great help to increase the speed of the war horses."

All the generals suddenly realized that they did not know this, but ignored it. In the Sima Army, armor and leather armor were both equipped, but the protection ability of armor was higher than that of leather armor, and the value was also different. Those with higher levels would wear armor, and only those with lower status would wear leather armor.

Therefore, the generals instinctively believed that the Bingzhou army who died in battle did not wear armor because of their low status. At this time, after Sima Yi mentioned it, he realized that there was a reason why these cavalrymen wore leather armor. Only by reducing the load can the speed of the war horse be increased.

However, Sima Zhao raised a question: "Father, even if you replace all the leather armor and reduce the load, you may not be able to significantly increase the speed of the cavalry, which is obviously different from what we see."

Not all of the Sima army's cavalry were wearing iron armor, and those wearing leather armor accounted for a large part. However, the Sima army did not find that the cavalry wearing leather armor would be much faster than those wearing armor. Even if it was because of the weight of the burden, the cavalry wearing leather armor would run slightly faster, but this gap was minimal and was not enough to attract the attention of the senior executives of Sima army.

Of course, this is also related to other weight-bearing cavalry. Wearing leather armor can indeed reduce weight-bearing, but if you carry more other things, it will also increase weight-bearing. This increase or decrease may not reflect the real difference between leather armor and iron armor.

The Bingzhou Army obviously made deliberate arrangements in this regard. In addition to replacing all the iron armor, the other loads were greatly reduced. In this way, the carrying capacity of the war horses was lighter and the speed was increased.

However, as Sima Zhao said, even if the weight can be greatly reduced, the speed increase may not be able to reach an extremely obvious level. Obviously, the secret of the speed increase of the Bingzhou cavalry has to be studied.

"Come on, find a few war horses from the Bingzhou Army, and it is best to live!" Sima Yi ordered loudly. Since the real reason was not found from the Bingzhou soldiers, Sima Yi ordered to check the war horses of the Bingzhou army. Perhaps there were secrets Sima Yi wanted to know on these war horses.

Man Bing's face became even more difficult to look. Compared with the bodies of the Bingzhou army, the Bingzhou war horses were more searchable. After all, after the cavalry were killed, these war horses would become ownerless horses. As long as these war horses were not injured or were less injured, the Bingzhou army would take these war horses away when they evacuated.

So it was really difficult for Sima Yi to ask Man Bing to find a few war horses. Man Bing finally found the bodies of two war horses in Bingzhou. However, what is surprising is that the two war horses were naked on the backs and did not even have the most basic saddle, which is really strange.

However, this is obviously impossible to be the truth. No matter how lacking the equipment of the Bingzhou army is, it is impossible to not even afford a saddle. Then there is obviously this possibility, that is, when the Bingzhou army retreats, it cannot transport the huge body of the war horse, so it simply takes away the harness of the war horse.

Sima Yi frowned. It was obvious that there must be something unspeakable in this harness, otherwise the Bingzhou Army would not have been able to think about these harnesses in the chaos. The reason why they worked so hard to ensure that these harnesses did not fall into the hands of Sima Army was that they had other plans.

But now there is no real thing, and Sima Yi dares not make a rash assertion, so he specifically asked about the Bingzhou military harnesses.

Originally, Man Bing had no deep impression of the Bingzhou Army's horse harness. After all, during the melee, he paid more attention to the casualties of his own personnel and how to resist the Bingzhou Army's offensive. However, after Sima Yi asked, Man Bing recalled some things.

The saddle of the Bingzhou Army is indeed a bit unique. It seems to be high in front and back, and the middle is sunken. Man Bing didn't pay much attention to what size it is. Moreover, the cavalry of the Bingzhou Army did not hang on the air on the horse, and seemed to be stepping on something - oh, it should be stirrups. Man Bing is not unfamiliar with stirrups. After all, they will step on this thing when they get on and off the horse, but the stirrups of the Bingzhou Army are unique. Their stirrups are hung on both sides, and they will step on it when riding a horse, but not only when they get on and off the horse.

Although Man Bing didn't remember it very clearly, after recalling it, it could be roughly explained that Sima Yi had asked several people to verify it. What they said was similar to Man Bingbing. Although Sima Jun was curious about the strange equipment in Bingzhou, the battle was fierce at the time, and their focus was obviously not on this, so they could not provide Sima Yi with more detailed situations.

Although it was just a simple description, Sima Yi keenly realized that the speed of the Bingzhou army was so fast must have a great relationship with these two new horses. Otherwise, the Bingzhou army would not have to hide it.
Chapter completed!