General Bessler of the Third German Reserve Army rode his war horse, trotting around the slowly advancing "Big Bertha."
The scene of towing "Big Bertha" was extremely spectacular; it was designed to be quickly disassembled into five parts for transportation, but Bessler only broke it down into three parts to save deployment time.
The main body of "Big Bertha" required hundreds of horses to drag it. For this purpose, Bessler almost assembled all the pack horses, draft horses, and even some war horses from the military logistics transport team and harnessed them.
Horses pulled from the front, humans pushed from behind, with the sounds of horse neighs, shouts, and commands filling the air, while "Big Bertha" continued to move forward at a tortoise pace of 4 to 5 kilometers per hour. (A human walking speed is approximately 3 to 6 kilometers per hour)