After Lin Ziran and Cheng Hongbin had lunch, they both rode horses and followed the transport troops with their respective guards.

But now in the afternoon, the transport convoy of the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment is only more than 5,000 meters away from Qingshan Town.

When Lin Ziran watched the horses drag a heavy mortar cannon with a full 300 mm caliber behind them under the groom's shouting, trying to climb the hill directly over the mountain, but no matter how much the groom urged, he couldn't pull it, he was stunned.

No wonder he knew why the 6th Heavy Artillery Regiment was expected to spend a full five days traversing this hilly and mountainous area, which was only ten kilometers long.

Lin Ziran said: "Brother Cheng, according to the current situation, let alone five days, I'm afraid I won't be able to pass for half a month!" ”

Cheng Hongbin was accustomed to this situation, and said disapprovingly: "It's not so exaggerated, my sappers have already surveyed the terrain ahead in detail, although the mountain road is difficult to walk, but it is not impossible to walk, and our preparation is also very sufficient, five days should be enough!" ”

Next, Lin Ziran just knew what Cheng Hongbin said about the preparation!

Seeing that the original horses could not pull the heavy artillery forward, a sergeant commanding with a wave of his hand, and more than a dozen horses were immediately brought over from the rear!

It's just that there is something special about these horses!

It's all behemoths!

These huge horses are completely different from ordinary horses, the body of the horse is short and thick, the legs are extremely thick, and the most important thing is that the body is extremely large, the shoulder height is more than two meters, and the total height should be more than two or five, so the behemoth is estimated to weigh more than a ton!

Cheng Hongbin said: "How about this horse, it's good!" ”

Lin Ziran said: "What kind of horse is this, the size is so huge!" ”

Cheng Hongbin said: "This is the Larma we purchased from the northern states, even if we look at the world, it is also the largest heavy horse, compared with the Ralma, our Shayang Horse is simply a toy!" ”

Lin Ziran agreed with his statement!

And it is true, when the Shayang horse dragged the artillery to climb the slope before, it couldn't climb up at all, but when it was replaced by these ral horses, the horseman shouted and raised the whip, that is, pulled the heavy heavy artillery and slowly went up.

It's just that after going up, the groom replaced these ral horses again, and put on the Shayang horses again.

Lin Ziran was puzzled: "Why do you change horses again, this road is not easy to walk, if you use these heavy horses, the speed should be much faster!" ”

Cheng Hongbin said: "This is also no way, although the traction of this larma is quite good, but these larhorses are not very suitable for the climate of our Nanzhou, and they can't be used too often, otherwise it is easy to get sick!" ”

After that, he just showed a helpless look: "This should be okay in an emergency, if you keep using it, it won't take a day, and these larhorses will have to be scrapped!" ”

"So, in addition to these special circumstances, most of the time you have to rely on Shayang horses, hard-working, whether it is the North Plains in the north or the jungle further south, Shayang horses can go, and they are extremely adaptable."

Cheng Hongbin just said that Shayang horses are just toys, but now they are lacking and sighing that Shayang horses are coming.

Lin Ziran also understood why he said this.

There is a reason why the troops and even the people of the Daheng feudal towns, especially the central and southern states, have widely used Shayang horses.

The average shoulder height of Shayang horses is about 1.55 meters, and the excellent ones can reach more than 1.6 meters, with relatively thick limbs, excellent endurance and strong adaptability.

But the explosiveness is relatively poor, and the speed is not fast, if it is used as a cavalry war horse, the Shayang horse is very unqualified, even if it seems to have a good shoulder height, but it is still not good.

These characteristics of the Shayang horse are destined to be a very good pull horse, rather than a riding horse.

Therefore, all over Daheng, especially in the central and southern feudal towns, Shayang horses are the main service horses, playing the role of transporting materials, artillery, etc., not only military, but also the most popular and important agricultural horses and transportation horses.

Basically, the horse-drawn carriages seen on the roads in the central and southern states, then the horses that pull these carriages are most likely Shayang horses!

Even if it was Lin Ziran's Qingshan Patrol Battalion, the artillery company and the baggage company were equipped with a total of more than 100 Shayang horses.

If you have to say that Shayang horse has any shortcomings, then the traction force is still a little smaller, although its pulling force has slightly exceeded its own weight, which is good in terms of proportion.

However, limited by its shoulder height and weight, the pulling force is relatively small, and when pulling heavier goods, it is still slightly worse than those who can reach a shoulder height of more than one meter and six horses.

Today's Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment, the main force used by the horses, is naturally also Shayang horses, and the number is quite large.

They already had hundreds of Shayang horses, and this time they went north to strengthen the transport force, so they added hundreds of Shayang horses.

However, even with so many horses dragging the vehicles forward, the hills and mountains in the north of Qingshan Town still made their progress very slow.

It's a little better when it's a few kilometers near Qingshan Town, although it's still hilly, but it's still a relatively gentle terrain, even if it's a three-hundred-millimeter giant mortar cannon, with a little effort, if you change to a Larma, you can barely drag it.

But after five kilometers to the north, the terrain is even more complicated, and there are mountains all over the place, although these mountains are not too high, but the road is not easy to walk.

They all have to climb or descend along winding mountain roads.

These roads can be overturned by adding a few more horses and people pushing them for those ordinary four-wheeled carriages.

But for the dozen or so heavy guns, these mountain roads are very difficult to navigate.

If it is an ordinary place, you can directly put on a dozen or even more horses and forcibly pull it, but these mountain roads are all on the mountainside, one side is a mountain, and the other side is a steep slope, and this road is only two or three meters wide, it is difficult to put on so many horses.

Even if the transport troops try their best, in the end they can only use the only and most stupid method, using a tug-of-war method, although the control is very troublesome, but it can be pulled away.

These mountain roads are walked, and sometimes you can only climb one hill in a day!

Heavy artillery weighing four or five tons, or even seven or eight tons, at every turn is not so easy to climb over mountains and mountains, and can only rely on death to retreat.

Even when encountering some roads that cannot be crossed or climbed, the transport troops directly gather soldiers to sapper shovels, hoes to dig roads, and even use explosives!

Looking at the mountain road after the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment passed, Lin Ziran felt that the people in the nearby villages and towns had to thank this Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment.

Because this road is much easier to walk in the future!

Thinking about it this way, this Cheng Hongbin and the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment are really good people, and they went all the way to Qingshan Town to repair the road!