Rider-arrow
The rider-arrows are an essential component of the Mongolian Armée at the time of Gengis Khan and its successors, by ensuring the transmission of the messages of any types in the vast wide ones dominated by the Mongols, at the mean velocity of 1400 to 1800 km per week (except the winter or in rough ground).
To carry out these performances records, they sleep and eat in saddle. They have the right to requisition the horses which they need, including the best horse of highest graded Mongolian than they cross. Their horses have a harnessing equipped with small bells, which informs the travellers to be put on the side of the road, in order to leave them the free passage.
Lastly, these men chosen among more enduring carry equipment facilitating the task to them, like bands supporting the kidneys or the head.
The importance of this communication system at long distance was such as it was entrusted to a oerleuk (kind of marshal).
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