Chapter 1533： Logistics preparation

Whether it's marching for a war or sailing, logistics is very important. If the logistics are inadequate, the army will collapse and the crew will die. All ambitions will be turned into bubbles.

At the same time, an important feature of logistics is convenience. During the war, the rhythm is very fast, and it is simply too late to knead the dough to make food. So, how come it is convenient and fast.

Therefore, the military food of later generations includes convenience foods such as compressed biscuits, canned meat, canned fruits and vegetables, and instant noodles.

These foods are easy to eat and easy to transport. These two characteristics are also important indicators for military-supplied food. The reason why Marin struggled to get canned food, compressed biscuits, and even dehydrated vegetables packed in oil paper bags was based on the important principle of "easy to eat and convenient to transport".

It's just that the cans of this era are not the same as the cans of later generations. The cans of later generations are mostly aluminum tin cans, which are easy to carry and are not afraid of collision. In this era, Marin can only produce canned food in glass bottles, which is inconvenient to carry.

Therefore, Marin turned his attention to the dehydrated vegetables packed in oil paper bags. After all, it is very convenient to carry in oil paper bags. Like the backpacks of girls in later generations, there are many snacks in bags.

For example, military officers and crew of the North Sea State can now put a few bags of compressed biscuits and a few bags of dehydrated Chinese cabbage in their backpacks, and they will be able to persist for several days. Moreover, these two kinds of food can be eaten with just one bubble. If it is an ordinary schoolbag of later generations, filled with compressed biscuits and dehydrated vegetables, it is estimated that it can last for a month. After all, no matter whether compressed biscuits or organic vegetables in bags are very light and easy to carry. This is the biggest reason why Marin strongly advocates the packaging of food in oil paper bags.

What's the point of being easy to carry? It may be much less meaningful to the crew. After all, the cabin space is actually very large. But for the Army, the significance can be overwhelming.

The most important meaning is that the army with compressed biscuits and bagged dehydrated vegetables can easily carry out raids!

Yes, raids are possible! Compressed biscuits and dehydrated vegetables in bags are very light, and a backpack can hold food for a month. As long as you carry a backpack, you can let an army launch a long-distance raid, without waiting for the heavy troops to transport grain and grass!

You should know that the heavy troops that transport grain and grass are composed of the strong people, and their marching speed is very slow. After all, they have not received the physical training that the regular army of the North Sea State often runs for 5 kilometers. Sometimes, large-scale military operations, in order not to starve, can only make regular soldiers wait for those civilians.

Despite the heavy use of lightweight unicycles by the Beihai army, the overall marching speed was dragged down. If each person carried a backpack of compressed biscuits and bags of dehydrated vegetables, regular army soldiers could temporarily drop the heavy troops and advance lightly. As long as they can guarantee that the heavy troops can catch up in a month, they can launch a rapid attack.

Marin vaguely remembered that when the special forces of the later generations attacked, they started with compressed food in the package and could leave the big forces for a long time. Of course, the gangs of special forces have strong survivability in the wild and dare to eat everything. But compressed biscuits are still their main food. Eat everything if you have no choice but to learn from Master Bei.

However, eating Chinese cabbage raw is really not a wonderful feeling. Although Europeans are more used to it, Marin is not used to it. He remembers that when he eats vegetable salad in later generations, he seems to have to put tomato sauce ...

"Yes, ketchup! If conditions permit, the crew and soldiers will be served with ketchup in the future. Dehydrated Chinese cabbage leaves soaked in water and eaten with ketchup, looks good ..."

Of course, this is just a vision plan. After all, it is only now that the Marin colony has begun experimenting with tomatoes imported from Mexico. Wait until you can brew ketchup in large quantities, some are expected. But the European natives in this era did not account for those, because they grew up eating raw vegetables. They dare to eat raw like onions, not to mention the relatively light Chinese cabbage?

The reason why Marin chose to use Chinese cabbage as dehydrated vegetables is no other reason to be cheap!

This is the food that serves tens of thousands of troops and tens of thousands of crew members. The taste is not important, the cost is the most important. The output of Chinese cabbage in later generations is as high as 5000 to 10000 kg, and Marin uses the Ming dynasty varieties. After applying three fertilizers, the output per mu is also 3 to 4 kg, and the cost is very low. Therefore, it is the best munitions vegetable.

As the size of the army becomes larger, expenditure becomes a very important issue. If the cost is not well controlled, an army of tens of thousands of people is estimated to be able to feed a large country into poverty. That is to say, the North Sea country has enough money under Marin's gold fingers, especially food. Otherwise, the Beihai State cannot raise so many troops at all. Didn't see a top power like France, usually have 20,000 or 20,000 people? No way, European food is too expensive! In a country with cheap food like the Ming Dynasty, the number of troops is hundreds of thousands. Placing a Yao people uprising actually used hundreds of thousands of people. Resting in Europe, food alone can't be consumed ...

Marin remembers that before the introduction of advanced agricultural technology from the Ming Dynasty by the Dutch in the 17th century in Europe, the size of the army was generally up to tens of thousands, unless it was a multinational coalition. Otherwise, it is difficult for a country to bear the food consumption of tens of thousands of troops. The only exception is that the army of China's Leinstein in the "Thirty Years' War" has reached the scale of 100,000.

However, in order to feed this 100,000-strong army, Germany paid a few heavy prices! Wallenstein had no money and no food to feed the 100,000 army, so the 100,000 army's food and drink depended on robbery. Its practice is known as "destroying Siye to support itself". Wherever the army passed, food was robbed, and the animals were all killed to eat meat. Then, a large number of German farmers starved to death. This army from south to north also brought a serious disaster to the German area. Many civilians starved to death because they were robbed of their food ... and this army of 100,000 people was also called by Ma Dawei Wallenstein's locusts have passed through locusts, without grass ...

Only Marin, a veteran who has mastered modern agricultural technology, can support tens of thousands of troops in this era. When it comes to the number of standing troops, Beihai is actually already the first in Europe.

But because 60,000 troops were scattered in the North Sea country and England, their strength was greatly weakened. If they join forces, even France will be afraid.

Of course, it was because he did not join the army together. If this were to be true, the German princes would not mind uniting France to clean up Marin together. Therefore, Marin thought about hiding soldiers abroad. He put a large army of 30,000 or 40,000 in the country, but in fact he has reached the limit of the patience of the German princes. No matter how much he adds, a fool can see his ambitions, and he may be preempted by the princes.

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But in any case, in the future German religious war for the world, Marin will definitely not use only 30,000 or 40,000 people to fight. In that case, the attack will make the local area unsafe.

His plan was to gather 100,000 troops by the time, and have a life and death duel with the princes. After victory, they occupied the little Germany in the north of Germany and established a new Germany in advance.

Therefore, he is now engaged in this dehydrated vegetable, in fact, in preparation for the future 100,000 army. The soldiers and horses did not move, the forages went first. The grain of 100,000 troops is not a small amount. Moreover, preservation and transportation are also major problems.

Compressed biscuits, vegetables, even milk powder, roasted dried fish, dried meat, etc. packed in oil paper bags are prepared for the future use of 100,000 troops.

With an army of 100,000, Marin will not be afraid even in the face of the coalition forces of the German princes and France. But now, he can only secretly accumulate soldiers and horses, secretly engage in logistical preparations, looking forward to the day of the outbreak ...

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