In the Hengao War decades ago, the only countries that benefited were the central and southern countries of the Southern Continent and several countries in the northern and western parts of the Central Continent. Even countries on several other continents also benefited.
Only Daheng and the Orissa Empire fought to the death, and in the end both were injured and became completely unlucky!
However, although Daheng fought a war with more losses than it gained decades ago, it finally collapsed internally, and the Ji royal family was no longer able to control the thirteen states of Daheng.
But this situation is not uncommon in Daheng's thousand-year expansion history.
If you look at the history of the Daheng people, you will find that the Daheng people are either at war with other countries or fighting a civil war within themselves.
It is often due to defeat in foreign wars or other factors that lead to civil strife in Daheng. However, as a single nation with extremely high centripetal force, Daheng has never been divided.
When the world is in chaos, the careerists are not thinking about establishing an independent country and splitting off, but they are thinking about defeating their opponents and reunifying Daheng.
It's not that those ambitious people don't want to separate independently, but that the idea of unification has penetrated into the soul of almost every Daheng person. He himself is willing, but the civil servants and generals under him are not willing, and the vast number of ordinary Daheng people are even less willing.
This is why the Ji royal family has been unable to control Daheng since decades ago. There are vassal towns all over the place, but Daheng still maintains the appearance of a unified country. No vassal town is willing or dares to establish its own country name, and then from Daheng
The reason for the split.
The ambition of many vassal towns is to defeat other vassal towns, replace the Ji royal family, and establish a new generation of Daheng dynasty.
This is the reason why Daheng has experienced many civil strife over the past thousand years, but has never truly split.
This is also the fundamental reason why the Daheng people have been able to expand continuously for more than a thousand years and acquire 7.5 million square kilometers of land.
Of course, this is also closely related to Daheng’s superior natural geographical conditions.
The territory that the Daheng people first occupied was the central and southern region of the central continent, and this area is mainly composed of plains and low hills. To put it bluntly, as far as you can see, it is all cultivated land!
Most of the territory gained in subsequent expansions also had relatively favorable conditions.
Today, Daheng occupies most of the central and southern regions of the entire central continent, and more than 30% of the land in these places is arable land.
The total area can reach more than two million square kilometers.
And these arable lands basically belong to subtropical areas, with pleasant climate, flat terrain and abundant water resources!
There is plenty of arable land, so the per capita area is naturally large. Today, Daheng people only have a population of over 200 million, and many peasant families own hundreds of acres of land.
As for why the farmers in Daheng now have so much land and still can't have enough to eat, it's naturally because the feudal towns are eager to take away all the farmers' income in order to compete for hegemony and collect taxes!
Because the arable area is relatively large and the land is vast and sparsely populated, farmers in Daheng have generally adopted the method of broad planting and thin tillage in recent hundreds of years, which has led to the popularity of horse farming. At the same time, horses are also widely used for farming.
Transportation and other aspects.
Therefore, even if the government does not promote or encourage horses, the demand for horses among the people is very large, so the number of horses in the vast rural areas of Daheng is very large.
Moreover, horses are not raised by grazing, but by planting fodder.
It is worth mentioning that the Daheng people also raised cattle, and cattle farming was very popular even a few hundred years ago. However, as the land became more difficult and sparsely populated, it gradually turned into horse farming.
So although cattle farming is now practiced in some areas, most people in Daheng raise cattle for eating beef and drinking milk, rather than for farming.
In Daheng's army, the famous cured meat jerky is made from beef, which disgusts the soldiers of every vassal town to the extreme!
When the number of horses among the people increases, there will naturally be no shortage of horses.
Therefore, cavalry is not uncommon in Daheng. It can even be said to be a very common unit. It is also the traditional superior unit of Daheng.
Not to mention how powerful the cavalry regiments of the Daheng Dynasty were in the past, even in the current vassal towns, except for a few vassal towns, the cavalry is an indispensable unit in most of the vassal towns, and the number is generally large.
For example, Luo An's army, although it is just a small local vassal town, has nearly 10,000 cavalry in total.
The Guang'an Army in the north also has thousands of cavalry.
There are also many cavalry in the armies of several surrounding counties.
When fighting for hegemony in a country with a flat terrain like Daheng, arms such as infantry and artillery are important, but cavalry is more important and is an indispensable main arm.
Lin Ziran had fought against the Guang'an army several times before. Except for the only time he fought against the Guang'an infantry, the other times he fought against the Guang'an cavalry.
It is said that at that time, Nanhai Prefecture had not been divided and was under the rule of Meng Xiaoyun, Duke of Daheng, the governor of Nanhai Prefecture. When Meng Xiaoyun conquered Dongding Prefecture, he had a total of more than 200,000 troops under his banner. However, the cavalry troops occupied
Eighty thousand!
It can be seen from this that cavalry is actually a very common unit in Daheng. If you bring in people from any feudal town, they can pull out thousands of cavalry.
Lin Ziran also deeply felt that there were too many cavalry in this poor place and the threat was too big. He also wanted to develop the cavalry, but he lacked the foundation and the accumulation of time, so it was more troublesome. More importantly, so far,
He doesn't yet have a good source of access to top-level war horses.
In this regard, Lin Ziran had no choice but to take a step back and prepare to use service horses such as Shayang horses as the main cavalry.
However, it is not a cavalry that charges into battle. As a kind of service horse, the Shayang horse is good in other aspects, but its explosive power is very average and is not suitable for charging operations.
But it is possible to develop into a dragoon.
Lin Ziran didn't even plan to develop them as cavalry, but as mounted infantry.
On weekdays, they marched with their horses, maneuvered quickly on horseback, and dismounted to fight on foot when they arrived at the battlefield. Taking advantage of the range advantage of the Mini rifle, they mounted their horses and ran away after being hit.
To put it bluntly, we want to build an infantry with the ability to maneuver quickly over short distances in war!
What is it used for?
fly a kite!
This is Lin Ziran's positioning for the Dragoons.
For this reason, Lin Ziran has given priority to those with basic riding skills in recent recruits. Many Daheng people can ride horses, but there are still not many who are proficient in riding skills, and most of them can only ride simple horses.
Simple riding skills are naturally not possible for those charging cavalry.
But for the kind of dragoons that Lin Ziran imagined, it is enough to do it reluctantly. Anyway, maneuvering on horseback and fighting without dismounting do not require the high riding skills of the dragoons.
The newly recruited cavalry were directly organized into a dragoon company by Lin Ziran, designated as the Second Dragoon Company.
This cavalry company is larger than the previous First Light Cavalry Company, with more than two hundred people.
This is not to say that the establishment of the First Cavalry Company is smaller. In fact, the rated establishment of the First Light Cavalry Company is more than 200 cavalry. However, Nanzhou does not have enough horses and elite cavalry to make up the establishment.
With the addition of the second dragoon company, the Qingshan Patrol Battalion now has two cavalry companies.
Not only were there more cavalry, but there were also more artillery, not to mention infantry.
By June of the 49th year of Yongchang, the size of the Qingshan patrol camp had exceeded 2,000 people.
And this number is enough to attract the attention of many people around.
The Jian family noticed it, and similarly, the Cheng family also noticed it, and even someone from the Guang'an Army noticed it.