After Kang Changning's cavalry troops set off first, followed by the main forces such as the infantry and artillery of the Chinese army led by Fang Xitong himself, there were also cavalry in these troops, but it was naturally impossible for these cavalry to march on horseback, so they could only lead the horse to march honestly.

The Tang Army clearly stipulated in the cavalry drill code that unless there were extreme circumstances and a clear order from the commander, it was not allowed to ride a combat horse (that is, the war horse used to charge and fight) during the march.

The cavalry troops that can enjoy the march on horseback are only those cavalry units that are equipped with two horses or three horses, and even under ordinary circumstances, even if they are cavalry units with two horses, the cavalry will not ride on horses, because the war horse cannot be ridden and does not bear weight, and the spare horse is a load with equipment and other things, and the cavalry can only walk on foot.

Only cavalry units with three horses will frequently appear cavalry marching on horseback, and this does not mean that the cavalry has been marching on horseback, but that the knight walks for a certain distance, and when he is tired, he rides a spare horse for a while, and then dismounts and walks, and so on, and so on, not to say that he has been marching on horseback all the time.

If you want to march on horseback all the time, you'll have to have five or six or more horses! Well, this has to be a Mongolian horse with very good endurance, and if you change it to other horses with poor endurance, no matter how many horses you have, the horses themselves are tired and you still want to ride on the march, just kidding.

And even if they march on horseback, they can only ride spare horses, as for the war horses used in charging operations, it is impossible to ride, such as the cavalry with two horses and three horses, when they are marching, they can only occasionally ride spare Mongolian horses or northwest horses, as for those Arab horses, Central Asian horses, they are ridden when charging, not when they are marching.

Kang Changning's cavalry troops, are a single horse, a single cavalry troop with three horses, the speed of the march is naturally much faster than a single horse, this runs fast, it needs fast transport vehicles to provide supplies, these tens of thousands of people plus more than 100,000 horses, this needs to consume grain and grass is not a small amount, although the horses can directly eat grass on the grass, but on the one hand, it takes a lot of time for the horses to eat grass, on the other hand, this grass alone has too much impact on the physical fitness of the horses.

If you want the war horse to run fast and maintain physical fitness, you have to feed ** feed, and it is not enough to just graze and graze.

Speaking of which, the cavalry combat of the Tang Army is more troublesome and complicated than the cavalry combat of the Tatars and other steppe nomadic tribes, and the main reason is that there are not as many horses as others.

However, the Tang cavalry has always been trying to shorten the gap in this marching ability, but it is not so easy to shorten.

This is also why the Datang Army has been supporting the construction of the railway, the construction and testing of the Jingzhen Railway, in addition to the Ministry of Industry, the most concerned is the Army.

If it can be confirmed that this kind of rail transit is feasible, then the army will immediately build a special military railway in some areas, and even the route they have already chosen, that is, the railway from Tianjin to the Hetao area, which will be specially used to transport supplies and the rapid movement of troops.

It's just that in the process of construction, the Jingzhen Railway has encountered many troubles, and this construction period has been repeatedly postponed.

This kind of railway system built in the wilderness is quite difficult to build, and it is more troublesome and complicated than the railway system used in the city.

Among them, the problem of stealing railroad tracks has always existed, even if the Tang Empire has formulated very severe punishment measures for stealing railroad tracks, but today's steel prices are high, even if they sell scrap iron, they can get a lot of profits, and there will always be criminals who try their best to steal rails.

And no matter what era, the idea of relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to draft is deep-rooted, and many villagers in the countryside think that since the railway is laid at the door of their homes, it is not a matter of course to go to 'pick up' a track back at both ends in the past three days.

In addition, I don't know when it started, there are rumors that these rails will destroy feng shui or something, and many ignorant people do not allow the railway to pass through their hometown.

This is quite a headache for the Ministry of Industry, but the Ministry of Industry itself has nothing to do, all they can do is to increase propaganda and let people gradually accept these things like railways.

On the patrol side, they continue to increase patrols and search shops, and at the same time, they also carry out extensive publicity along the railway!

The slogan is simple and straightforward: "Stealing the rails is a crime!" ”

But not to mention in ancient times, even in the modern society of later generations, there are people who steal public goods, so it is impossible to completely ban this kind of thing.

All the patrol can do is maintain a strong patrol.

However, the army obviously does not pay much attention to these problems, the army is more concerned about the practicality, as for what people are afraid of affecting feng shui, and then stealing railroad tracks and the like, the army said that there is no problem at all!

The Army's handling of these issues may be different from that of the Ministry of Industry and the Patrol Police, and the Army's handling of these issues is simpler and more brutal.

Stealing railroad tracks, sleepers, and other facilities on ordinary railways is only an ordinary crime of theft, and even if it is severely punished, it is limited to ordinary criminal offenses.

According to the relevant regulations, military installations belong to military restricted areas, and if they rashly intrude into a military restricted area, patrol soldiers can be killed directly on the spot, and deliberately destroying military installations will be punished as conspiracy.

In any country where the feudal monarch has centralized power, the crime of rebellion is very serious, and killing the head is the lightest, and it is a raid at every turn, and even relatives will be implicated.

With such a deterrent, ordinary criminals would not dare to attack these military facilities at all.

Even some foolish people dare to gather crowds to sabotage the railway, shoot them on the spot, and then report to the local government for in-depth investigation.

Well, this kind of rebellion is a major crime, and it will implicate many people!

If there is someone who is unwilling to let the military railway cross the border under the pretext of feng shui, or even cause a large-scale civil unrest, the army said that it is simpler: a few cannons, a few rounds of guns, and the last one will be charged with bayonets and everything will be solved!

No matter in any era, don't expect the army to have any mercy, it is a professional violent institution, not to mention the army in the feudal dynasty, the object of the army's allegiance is not any country, the people, etc., the object of their allegiance is the emperor!

The most important duty of the army of the Tang Dynasty is not to defend the country, but to maintain the imperial power and the rule of Li Xuan, the emperor.

The army is confident that it will use the railway, but the question now is that the army does not know whether the large-scale construction of the military railway will really bring enough results.

You must know that the construction of railways is expensive, and the army is preparing to build military railways on its own, which costs all military spending, and it is natural to see relevant effects when it costs so much.

In fact, the army also thought about asking the Ministry of Industry, especially the railway company, to build a railway from Tianjin to Dongshengcheng, but most of the sections of this kind of railway are on the grassland where there are no people, and there is no demand for passenger and freight transportation except for the military, so it is not profitable at all.

Therefore, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises have already given a very clear answer to the Army, and for the time being, the Cabinet will not consider building railways in areas where there is no possibility of profit.

This is true not only in the Hetao region, but also in the same northeast region, northwest region, etc.

In order to maintain the good momentum of the development of the railway, and absorb more social capital investment to reduce the financial pressure, the construction plan of the railway in the last ten years or even a longer period of time is limited to areas with huge passenger and freight demand, such as the Jiangnan region, the Central Plains region, etc.

The border lands, regardless of the southeast, northwest and northwest, are not included in the plan.

The cabinet is unwilling to make a loss, and the army has no choice but to build a purely military railway on its own.

However, the army and the cabinet have also reached an agreement, that is, the army can repair and use it on its own, and when the time is ripe, the railway company controlled by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises will acquire these military railways and incorporate them into the operation network of ordinary commercial railways, and the army will be compensated to a certain extent at that time.

Naturally, it is impossible to give money directly to this kind of compensation, because after all, the military is not allowed to do business, so when the time comes, compensation may be given in the allocation of the budget, or in other forms such as the construction of railways in other border areas.

Although it seems that the army is still losing a lot, whoever makes the army have this demand, this loss must also be done.

Anyway, in the north and northeast now, military transportation is facing great difficulties, and huge sums of money are spent every year to maintain supply lines.

However, even if the army has planned to build a military railway in the border areas of the north, it is still in the planning, so whether it is the transportation of materials in the northern grasslands such as Hetao and Fengzhou, or the transportation of materials in the northeast, it can only use traditional methods.

Fang Xitong led the army to set off, and in the rear, there were more than 100,000 people engaged in the transportation of materials.

These materials are produced from the major arsenals in the country, and then transported by ship to various ports in the northeast, and after unloading, they will be transported by the transport regiment of the logistics department, and transported to the large cities where strategic materials are stockpiled by various means of transportation, mainly heavy four-wheeled horse-drawn carriages, which are often also strategic material reserve stations of the army.

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