After some greetings, Captain Li's subordinates entertained the camel caravan.

Qiao Guoqiang ate the meat and looked at the horses in the stable, the horses at this time were much more handsome than those donkey-like horses in later generations. Although the Celestial Empire has been a great country in cavalry warfare since ancient times, it is much worse than the West in terms of raising horses.

The West attaches great importance to the use of mathematics, marking the pedigree of horses, and carrying out various scientific crossbreeding and breeding. Eventually, there were British thoroughbreds suitable for racing, Shire horses suitable for arable land, Dutch warmbloods suitable for racing and towing carriages, and Quarter horses (American flower horses) suitable for pastures.

and Hanoverian and Andalusian horses suitable for heavy cavalry, cuirassiers and medieval and modern times.

By the beginning of the 20th century, horses in Western countries were basically using specific species for specific jobs. There is a clear division of labor for thomps, horses, and war horses.

Even Japan, an island nation lacking grasslands, has cultivated its own Oriental horses by importing war horses from the West.

And what about the Celestial Empire? Because of the bad habit of castrating horses, the horse breed is not as good as the next. By the beginning of the 20th century, Mongolian horses were the size of donkeys, and riding on them felt like your feet were dragging to the ground.

Compared with Arabian horses and thoroughbreds, Mongolian horses actually have obvious disadvantages: small size, poor weight, slow speed, and low explosive power, which is not an ideal war horse for both light cavalry and heavy cavalry.

Mongolian horses are almost no longer to be found in modern international equestrian competitions. However, it is strange that most of the ancient Song Dynasty used Mongolian horses as military horses.

That's because Mongolian horses have irreplaceable innate advantages – they are resistant to rough feeding and extremely adaptable.

However, this effect is better than nothing in modern warfare. In the era when it was not fully mechanized, in addition to carrying cavalry mobile charges, the biggest role of war horses was transportation.

At this time, the shortcomings of the Mongolian horse's small weight and poor strength were more obvious.

You can't pull the cannon!

In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, because of the weak pull strength of domestic horses, the artillery of the Celestial Empire lagged behind the Japanese artillery in terms of mobility.

During the Battle of Xuzhou, the Celestial Empire army requisitioned a large number of Daqing mules from North China. As a result, after a war, the mule's back was full of wounds from ropes and harnesses, and its hooves were badly worn and unusable, and finally they were killed and eaten meat.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Celestial Empire, which suffered a loss in the Celestial Empire, finally crossed Western horse breeds such as the Don Hippopotamus with horses from the Northeast with the help of Big Brother, and finally bred a horse suitable for the Celestial Empire - the Northeast Horse, which can also be called the "Tieling Horse".

However, horses were more often used in the vicinity of the army station. Mongolian horses in the north, Ili horses or Kazakh horses in the northwest, and Qinghai horses in Tibetan areas.

Speaking of which, the horses of the Northwest are much better than the Mongolian horses in terms of size, strength and speed!

When Chang Wentian was a soldier in the Shannan region, the horse he rode was a Mongolian horse.

After the mechanization of the whole army began in 85, there were only two military horse farms left in the Celestial Empire.

One is in the Hexi Corridor and the other is on the northern slope of Yanshan.

The Shandan Military Horse Farm in the Hexi Corridor was converted from military to civilian use at the beginning of the 21st century. The Hongshan Military Horse Farm on the northern slope of Yanshan no longer breeds war horses by itself, but buys them from herdsmen. The war horse is acquired, and then I will train it uniformly and send it to the troops.

In the information age, there is no need for a tall horse to pull a cart and pull a cannon, nor does it need to charge in heavy armor. At this time, the dwarf Mongolian horse is suitable.

It's short, so it's small!

It's not easy to get hit by bullets when you fight!

Part of this knowledge comes from the information Qiao Guoqiang saw on the Internet, and part of it comes from Chang Wentian's memory.

The reward given to him by the system, "Changwentian's Riding Skills", includes knowledge about war horses.

However, Chang Wentian died at the hands of poachers in 2004.

At that time, the amount of knowledge he got was definitely not as strong as Qiao Guoqiang later.

got this riding technique, so that Qiao Guoqiang would not be pulled away by these natives in this world. How many modern Nima people can ride horses?

"My lord! Why do you still have two soldiers?" Wu Lao Er asked, "What is the camel caravan?" ”

"I don't know!" Captain Li rubbed his hands and said, "You shouldn't ask!" ”

Captain Li looked at the camel Lao Bao and Qiao Guoqiang, who was in charge of the guard, and said to Wu Lao Er, "Their brothers have saved me, and I can't help them." ”

"Your Excellency!" The one-eyed eagle Cao Jian said, "We are still brothers in life and death, what's the matter, let's talk." ”

As soon as Cao Jian said this, all four of them straightened up, waiting for Captain Li to answer.

"I'm here to see you! It won't be long. Captain Li said

"I'll leave as soon as dawn, and I have to go to the post station to help this old brother hire a few knife men."

"The post station has long been abandoned!" Zi Bao said. "No serious knife hand!"

"That's right!"

"Scrapped?" Captain Li was a little strange, but he still accepted this statement. This Silk Road is intermittent, and it is not surprising that the post station is abandoned.

"If I had known, I should have dumped them halfway!"

"Hey!" The brothers said approvingly.

"Soft-hearted, huh?"

"Hmm!" Captain Li admitted that he had relented.

"It's not too late to dump it!" After Wu Lao Er finished speaking, he asked about the camel's old bag and said, "Hey, he is a soldier." You don't have anything of value in your caravan, do you? ”

"Nothing of value!" Lao Bao said, "That's 100,000 scriptures!" ”

"It's nothing of value, you sell the camel and exchange it for two daughters-in-law to stay with us!"

"Hahaha..." Several of the brothers laughed.

Captain Li jumped down from the railing, looked at the forest and the water source, and said, "You guys are really good at picking places." ”

"How is this place?!" The old brothers were very satisfied with the place where they had settled.

"Or?" Captain Li looked at the scenery, turned his head to his old brothers, and said, "I also have a home here?" ”

"Okay!"

"It's long overdue!" Said a lamp hemp stick.

"Then I'll have to send these two guys away first."

Early the next morning, Qiao Guoqiang and Lao Bao went to the post station under the leadership of Captain Li and Ziyu.

"This is really abandoned~" Qiao Guoqiang said as he looked at the unpopular post station. This place, like the hollowed-out countryside of his time, could have made a horror movie if the land here wasn't empty enough.

Behind a wooden house, Qiao Guoqiang and the others saw two people sleeping against the wall. One of them was relatively small, and he looked like a child.

"Hey." Zi Bao walked over and kicked one of them. The kicked person took off the felt hat covering his head, revealing an old face with vicissitudes of life, and looked at Zi Bao with confused eyes.

Zi Bao asked, "Looking for a job?" ”

"Hey~" the other party admitted.

"It's a job of life!" Zi Bao emphasized.

"Hi..." The old guy didn't care, and said, "It's a life to play!" ”

"I've been mixed all my life, and I know the rules on the road!"

"What's it called?" Captain Li asked.

"Jianghu people say that the old are immortal!"

Captain Li was silent and blinked.

"Hey!" Zi Bao kicked out, and was blocked by the old immortal's arm.

Captain Li nodded with satisfaction, this kind of old Jianghu is experienced, although his physical strength may be worse, but it is no problem to ride on a horse to cut people or shoot arrows. In the desert, sometimes experience is combat effectiveness.

"Take the horse, follow me!"

"Horses?" The old immortal wondered, "What horse?" ”

"You don't have a horse to find any work, do you?" Zi Bao asked rhetorically

The old immortal explained: "It's just that there is no work, so I sold the horse for food!" ”