We all know that in the era when there was no high-tech, there were no tanks, ships and other combat tools at all, and people at that time could only rely on horseback to kill the enemy on the battlefield, so royal equestrianism also became a very important skill at that time, and there were many cavalry on the battlefield. Cavalry plays a key role in the army, not only on the horse to easily give others a fatal blow, but also after being injured and quickly riding a horse to escape, so the ancients paid great attention to raising horses.
Horse breeding in our country is also very exquisite, especially in the palace of horses, we often see in the TV series, the emperor will have a special horse farm, from time to time and the princes riding a horse race to play, but in our country, the cost of raising horses is very large, legendary a horse cost can reach 20 two gold, such a huge number, the average civilian family where to raise, so the ordinary people's horses must be that kind of relatively low horse.
So for those high horses, it must be well maintained, do you think the horses only eat grass every day? No, you also have to feed it beans, cereals, and occasionally you have to come to some meat, you have to nourish it at any time, especially war horses, which play an important role in the national battlefield, and you must treat it well, so many poor people can only ride donkeys, and most of the ancient horsemen are still relatively wealthy at home.
In fact, Japan also proposed in the early years that it should raise 1.5 million horses in the time period from 1906 to 1936. At that time, Japan had not yet begun world war II when the military strength developed very well, so seventeen regiments were established, and there were cavalry in the regiment, but the number of cavalry at that time was not much, so even if each division used up to five hundred horses, seventeen could not use so many horses, so why did the Japanese government propose to raise 1.5 million horses? Such a huge number is definitely not for cavalry alone.
In fact, there is another reason behind it, that is, they want to use these horses on the battlefield against China, because of the backward technology at that time, the artillery is difficult to pull, can only use the car to pull or horse, but the car is a little difficult, after all, it is difficult to take this measure in traffic, plus the road surface is not easy to get, so Japan thought of using horses, so it will better solve this problem, so the Japanese government decided to start a large number of horse breeding operations, not only that, they also left a hand, That is to make the artillery a little lighter, so that if the horse can't be ma, then the easier artillery is also easy to do, this method can see how much the Japanese are thinking about it.
Not only that, they also specially picked that kind of good breed of horses to raise, at that time Japan introduced horse breeds from many places, the number was as high as 6,000 kinds, but it was very effective that they cultivated a kind of "Oriental horse", its height is almost higher than people, almost one meter six, and the Japanese soldiers at that time were about the same height, plus the length was very strong and large, so it played a great role in the battlefield, and the two horses alone could pull the moving artillery to pull.
However, they play this kind of careful machine only for a while, the original purpose is not correct, so even if it is useful in the moment to the end, it still ends in failure, after all, the purpose at the beginning is not pure, the ambition is too big, and the expansion is relatively fast.