In a Heng Olympic War a few decades ago, the only countries that benefited from it were several countries in the central and southern parts of the southern continent and several countries in the north and west of the central continent, and even countries from several other continents also benefited.

Only Daheng and the Orissa Empire fought to the death, and in the end, they were both defeated, and they became completely unlucky!

However, although Daheng fought a war decades ago that outweighed the losses, in the end, it collapsed internally, and the Ji royal family was unable to control the thirteen states of Daheng anymore.

But this situation is not uncommon in Daheng's thousand-year history of expansion.

Throughout the history of the Daheng people, you will find that the Daheng people are either at war with other countries, or fighting their own civil wars.

It is often because of the defeat of foreign wars or other factors that lead to civil strife in Daheng, but Daheng, as a single nation, has a very high centripetal force, but there has never been a split.

When the world was in turmoil, careerists did not want to build an independent country and split up, but to defeat their opponents and reunite Daheng.

It's not that those careerists don't want to be independent and divided, but the idea of great unification is deep in the soul of almost every Daheng person, he himself is willing, the Wenchen generals under him are unwilling, and the vast number of ordinary Daheng people are even more unwilling.

This is why the Ji royal family has been unable to control Daheng since decades ago, and the feudal towns are everywhere, but Daheng still maintains the appearance of a unified country, and no feudal town is willing or dares to establish its own national name, and then split from Daheng.

The ambition of many feudal towns is to defeat the other feudal towns, replace the Ji royal family, and establish a new generation of Daheng dynasty.

This is the reason why there have been many civil strife in Daheng for more than a thousand years, but it has never really been divided.

It is also the fundamental reason why the people of Daheng have been able to expand continuously for more than a thousand years and obtain 7.5 million square kilometers of land.

Of course, this also has a great deal to do with the superior natural geographical conditions of Daheng.

The territory where the Great Heng people first entrenched was the central and southern regions of the Central Continent, and this area was dominated by plains and low hills.

Most of the territories obtained by subsequent expansion are also in relatively favorable conditions.

Today, Daheng occupies most of the central and southern regions of the entire central continent, and more than 30% of these places are arable land.

The total area can reach more than 2 million square kilometers.

And these arable lands are basically subtropical regions, with a pleasant climate, flat terrain and abundant water resources!

There is a lot of arable land, and the per capita area is naturally large, and now there are more than 200 million people in Daheng, and many peasant families have hundreds of acres of land.

As for the current Daheng peasants have so much land, why they still can't eat enough, it is naturally because the feudal towns are eager to collect all the peasants' 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, so in recent hundreds of years, Daheng farmers have generally adopted the method of extensive planting and thin cultivation for farming, which has led to the popularity of horse farming, and horses are also widely used in transportation and other aspects.

Therefore, even if the government does not promote and encourage it, because the people themselves have a very large demand for horses, the number of horses in the vast rural areas of Daheng is very large.

Moreover, horses are not raised by grazing, but are generally fed with grass.

It is worth mentioning that the people of Daheng also raised cattle, and even cattle farming was very popular hundreds of years ago, but with the bitterness of the land and the sparse population, it slowly became horse farming.

So now, although there are cattle farming in some areas, most of the Daheng people raise cattle for eating beef and drinking milk, not for plowing the fields.

In the Daheng army, the soldiers of the various feudal towns are extremely disgusted, and the famous cured jerky is beef!

When the number of horses in the people increases, there will naturally be no shortage of horses.

Therefore, in Daheng, cavalry is not unusual, and it can even be said to be a very ordinary type of troops, and it is also the traditional superior class of troops in Daheng.

Not to mention how strong the cavalry corps of the Daheng Dynasty was in the past, even if it is the current feudal towns, except for a few feudal towns, cavalry is an indispensable type of military in the troops of most feudal towns, and there are generally a lot of them.

For example, Luo Anjun, don't look at it as just a small local town, but the total number of cavalry of the people adds up to nearly 10,000 horsemen.

In the Guang'an army in the north, there are thousands of cavalry.

There were also many cavalry in the armies of the surrounding counties.

In a country like Daheng with flat terrain to play hegemony, infantry and artillery are important, but cavalry is even more important, and it is an indispensable main force.

Lin Ziran fought with the Guang'an army several times before, except for the only one time he fought with the Guang'an infantry, and the rest of the time he fought with the Guang'an cavalry.

It is said that when Nanhai Prefecture was not divided, when it was under the rule of Meng Xiaoyun, the governor of Nanhai Prefecture and Duke Daheng, when Meng Xiaoyun conquered Dongdingzhou, he had a total of more than 200,000 troops, but the cavalry troops occupied 80,000!

It can be seen that cavalry in Daheng is actually a very common type of troops, and if you pull out someone from a feudal town, everyone can pull out thousands of cavalry.

Lin Ziran also deeply felt that there were too many cavalry in this broken place, and the threat was too great, and he also wanted to develop cavalry, but he lacked the background and the accumulation of time, so it was more troublesome to toss, and more importantly, so far he did not have a good source of channels to obtain top war horses.

In this regard, Lin Ziran had no choice but to retreat and prepare to use the service horse like Shayang horse as the main cavalry.

However, it is not a cavalry that charges into battle, and the Shayang horse, as a kind of service horse, can be used in other aspects, but the explosive power is very average, and it is not suitable for charging and fighting.

But it is possible to develop into dragoons.

Lin Ziran didn't even plan to develop them as cavalry, but as mounted infantry.

On weekdays, he marched with horses, rode horses and maneuvered quickly, arrived at the battlefield and dismounted on foot, taking advantage of the range advantage of the Mini rifle, and ran on the horse when he hit.

To put it bluntly, they want to engage in an infantry with the ability to quickly maneuver over short distances in war!

Why use it?

Fly a kite!

This is the positioning that Lin Ziran gave to the dragoons.

For this reason, Lin Ziran has given priority to recruiting people with a foundation in riding skills in the recent recruitment of recruits, and many people in Daheng can ride horses, but there are still not many who are proficient in horsemanship, and most of them can only ride horses simply.

Simple horsemanship is naturally not a problem for those charging cavalry.

But for the kind of dragoons that Lin Ziran envisioned, it was barely possible, anyway, riding horses and maneuvering, dismounting and fighting, there was no need for the dragoons to have high riding skills.

The newly recruited cavalry was directly organized into a dragoon company by Lin Ziran, numbered the second dragoon company.

The size of this cavalry company was somewhat larger than that of the previous 1st Light Cavalry Company, with more than 200 people.

This is not to say that the establishment of the First Cavalry Company should be small, in fact, the rated establishment of the First Light Cavalry Company also has more than 200 horses, but there are not enough horses in Nanzhou, and there are not enough elite cavalry, so it is just that it cannot be completed.

With the addition of this second dragoon company, then the current Qingshan Patrol Battalion already has two cavalry companies.

Not only more cavalry, but also more artillery, not to mention infantry.

By June of the 49th year of Yongchang, the scale of the Qingshan Patrol Battalion 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 also noticed it.