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Chinese heavy pull horses are resistant to severe cold and heat, and have strong adaptability to dry and humid environments, and more importantly, they are resistant to roughage, eat less, and are not easy to get sick, and the cost of raising is much lower than that of Shire horses, which can be called the perfect heavy pull horses.

However, except for the cavalry guns, which required higher speed, Li Hui was not prepared to pull the horse, because he had a better choice - the mule, well, to be precise, should be the "horse mule" born of a male donkey and a mare

Due to their "heterosis", mules tend to be stronger and more powerful than stallions (provided that the donkey father is not too slow), but at the same time have an unattainable level of endurance, stress resistance and disease resistance, while their roughage tolerance and small food appetite dwarf any horse breed of comparable physique.

However, the modern army generally only uses mules as pack animals, and rarely replaces horse-drawn cannons, even the People's Liberation Army, which used a large number of mules to pull cannons during the civil war, with the regularization of the army after the founding of the People's Republic of China, mules have gradually retreated to the second line and have been replaced by horses, why is this?

First of all, mules cannot breed and breed in large quantities as needed, as horses do, and it is difficult to meet the needs of the army. Secondly, mules have a bad temper (most of the horse breeds in the East are as fierce as fire, and the mule is more docile in comparison, but compared to the tame Western horses, the mule is not obedient). And it is not as smart as a horse, and it is far more difficult to domesticate it to the extent that it can be used in the military with peace of mind than to pull a horse, and it is not easy to replenish it in wartime.

However, the mules produced by the system are completely domesticated, and as long as there are enough precious metals, they can be obtained in large quantities, and neither of these problems exists, so it is not surprising that Li Hui would choose to use mules instead of horses

And the system can choose the world's best horse breed as the female parent, the best donkey breed as the male parent, and the parents are also the best in the same species, respectively, the height (head height) is close to 2.5 meters, the physique surpasses most of the horse breeds of the French giant long-haired male donkey and the British giant Charles mare weighing more than 1.2 tons, the mules born of the two are naturally extraordinary, with a back height of more than 2 meters, a weight of more than 1.6 tons, and the strength is greater than the giant Charles stallion weighing 1.8 tons.

This, combined with the excellent endurance of a mule, which is far superior to that of a horse, allows it to easily pull a load of more than 1,200 kilograms on a single horse, and a load of 15 tons can be difficult if you use a rubber-tyred cart on an asphalt road.

In terms of the carrying capacity that mules are good at, this super horse mule is beyond the reach of all pack horses, it can easily hold up a thousand pounds of weight and travel hundreds of miles a day, even on not so easy mountain roads (but not sheep intestine trails), almost equal to the working capacity of five large pack horses

This kind of super horse and mule is so terrifying, and even many superstitious soldiers who are still very superstitious worship as gods (monsters) in the first appearance, which makes Li Hui cry and laugh a little.

Even after the misconceptions were corrected, the soldiers habitually called the mules "divine mules," and the name spread so quickly that the name Li Hui gave them became unknown

According to military standards, the single pulling capacity of the god mule can reach 1200 kilograms, and there are 3700 kilograms for four horses, which is really a waste only to pull Miss Qiwu, and the infantry unit's requirements for speed are not as high as that of cavalry, so Li Hui has optimized the caliber to 105mm on the basis of Miss Qiwu, and the use of more expensive naval gun steel can further lengthen the barrel. In the end, a 105mm cannon weighing 3.45 tons was developed, and its maximum range reached 18,000 meters, which is not comparable to the army artillery and even the naval guns in the world.

However, at present, Miss Qiwu's range and power are sufficient, and the ultra-long range needs to be completed after the key scientific and technological research of "indirect fire support" can highlight its advantages.

After all, the 75mm caliber is too small, and it can only deal with general civil fortifications, not to mention the permanent fortifications of reinforced concrete, and even the relatively strong city walls are difficult to knock open, and at that time the advantages of the large caliber and high muzzle velocity of the 105mm cannon can be brought into play

In other words, because he did not know enough about the defensive power of the ancient city walls, and considering the need to fight with the foreign powers in the future, Li Hui even made a 120mm cannon weighing 6.9 tons, with an initial velocity of 783 m/s

Limited by the research and development progress of the science and technology tree, Li Hui can only choose the manpower loading method when optimizing the army field gun, resulting in an extremely slow rate of fire of large-caliber artillery, so Li Hui only enlarged the caliber of the field gun to 120mm, and the focus was changed to lengthening the body barrel and increasing the muzzle velocity, intending to use the cannon to directly fire armor-piercing blasting shells to eliminate the enemy's strong strongholds, rather than using large-caliber howitzers to fire blasting shells at a longer distance to destroy the enemy's fortifications.

It is worth mentioning that this idea can also greatly speed up the speed of getting started with newly trained artillerymen, after all, artillery direct artillery shelling requires the lowest level of artillery education, and does not require such a high level of mathematics

Although none of these artillery pieces have been produced, there is a system, and a large number of them can pop up immediately when you want it, and it can be said that Li Hui is completely ready to pull the flag and rebel in terms of hardware.

The reason why Li Hui did not launch for a long time was, on the one hand, to be as well prepared as possible, and on the other hand, because he did not want the Japanese to take advantage of the loophole. At the very least, it will have to wait until the main force of the Japanese navy has been destroyed and the devils cannot directly attack the essence of China's eastern coast by sea

"Dadonggou", almost the entire month of September, Li Hui repeated these three words in his heart, he not only hoped that this battle would break out as soon as possible, so that he could put down his burden as soon as possible to become a thief, but also hoped that this battle would start later, because before the decisive battle at sea was won, the Japanese army would not dare to launch an attack with all its might.

If they could drag out the Korean war until winter, the Japanese would have to wait at least until after May of the following year, and the severe cold of winter and the mud of spring would definitely make the Japanese advance on land falter

However, God doesn't seem to care about Li Hui's entanglement, and the main decisive battle at sea in this Sino-Japanese War finally broke out as scheduled, and the place and time are no different from history.

This is not surprising, before the fall of Pyongyang, reinforcements from China will inevitably come ashore there, and if the Japanese Navy wants to fight a decisive battle with the Beiyang Naval Division, it must have the best hope of hitting the Beiyang Fleet in the waters in that area.

However, Li Hui's crossing still caused an unexpected butterfly effect, and even made him a little uneasy

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