The breeding of Pegasus steeds held tremendous significance for Great Zhou.
Although Great Zhou had already possessed two types of flying cavalry—Wyvern Riders and Giant Eagle Knights—for quite some time.
However, the former's advantage lay in agility, while the latter's lay in speed. Under these conditions, both types of flying cavalry shared the same shortcomings: inadequate endurance and carrying capacity.
Whether Wyvern Riders or Giant Eagle Knights, the moment they carried one additional person, they essentially lost all speed. Their agility and swiftness were even less worth mentioning, and they could not remain airborne for extended periods.
And precisely because of this, the equipment of Wyvern Riders and Giant Eagle Knights was primarily lightweight.
Pegasus Knights, by contrast, were different.
Pegasi possessed outstanding endurance and carrying capacity. Even with one knight already mounted, a single Pegasus could carry another person and still fly with ease, without any obvious impact on its condition.
The Pegasus Knights even wore full suits of metal armor, making them veritable heavy-armored cavalry in the sky!
Setting everything else aside, as long as they had enough Pegasus Knights providing escort, Great Zhou's Royal Mage Corps would be able to take to the skies with agility and easily enter all kinds of battlefields.
"Thirty-seven mares and two breeding stallions in total. Let them get used to the environment here first. I plan to try breeding them next month, or in a month and a half at the latest."
As Ma Guotao led Zhou Xu around to inspect the Pegasi that had been delivered, he explained his upcoming breeding plans.
Horses were generally bred during spring and summer, because a mare's gestation period was approximately eleven months. If they were bred in spring or summer, the foals would be born around this time the following year. By then,