Chapter 2056： War preparation supplies and cane sugar

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Three thousand dragoons need 9,000 Eastern European Mongolian horses. Taking into account the loss and disease, it is estimated that more than 10,000 horses will be prepared. Fortunately, Mongolian horses in Eastern Europe are cheap, war horses only cost 20 gold coins a horse, and ordinary riding horses do not exceed 10 gold coins a horse.

The dragoon horses are used to drive on the road and don't need to charge. Therefore, ordinary riding horses are sufficient. Therefore, 10,000 horses are not very valuable. Moreover, Eastern European Mongolian horses of Mongolian horse descent have very low feed requirements. Under normal circumstances, just eat grass. If you only ride a horse for a long distance, you may need to add some fine materials. And the three horses change riding, basically do not need to add much concentrate. Just bring some salt with you to replenish the salt loss of the horses running and sweating.

In this way, even long-distance marching, the consumption is not very large, especially the consumption of food. In addition, buying horses from the Crimean Khanate is very cheap, so there is no need to cherish horses too much. Moreover, this is not a war horse yet.

You know, during the Boer War, the British took great pains to transport 350,000 horses from all over the world to the battlefield. But after the war, considering that the cost of transporting horses is more expensive than the horses themselves. Therefore, the British army directly sold most of the horses directly and cheaply. But the problem is that the locals are not short of horses, and the Boers also organized horse teams to attack the British. Therefore, when the locals do not lack horses, the price of horse processing is very low.

Marin also played this time, and the long-distance attack would definitely hurt the horse's body. If you don't feed some food, you will definitely lose fat. You can feed food... The price of food in Europe is so expensive, it's not worthwhile...

According to the minimum standard of arriving on the battlefield in 25 days, like the French cavalry exercise code, if you feed 4.8 kg of food every day, you consume 10 pounds of food every day, worth 10 pfennigs, and 6 days is a gold coin. With 10,000 cavalry and 30,000 horses, it costs 30,000 gold coins in 6 days, and more than 120,000 gold coins in 25 days... No wonder there are very few European countries that can dispatch tens of thousands of cavalry in this era. The cost alone is scary.

Just like France, if the country is mobilized, 100,000 knights can be drawn, but usually, the French are absolutely unwilling to send out too many cavalry. Because, just the cost of the march, it was a huge investment!

Besides, on Marin's side, the purchase price of 30,000 horses is only 300,000 gold coins. According to the conventional method, more than 120,000 gold coins will be consumed in 25 days. If you fight for more than two months, the cost of feeding the horse will exceed the value of the horse itself...

Therefore, in summary, the most cost-effective way is to reduce food consumption as much as possible. Only when I saw that the horses really couldn't hold them anymore, I could add more feed. In addition, we must feed better before the war. In this way, the overall cost is much less.

Even if less than half of these 30,000 horses are left in the end, the food saved is enough to add new horses.

Of course, this is only for ordinary riding horses and horses. For war horses, try to ensure nutrition. Therefore, a batch of soybeans and oats must be prepared.

No, the new shipment of soybeans in the Americas has all been requisitioned as war preparations. Then, the logistics department put all the 100 tons of soybeans in this ship into a large iron pan and fry them until they become fried soybeans. Then, while frying the beans, add salt.

In this way, the fried soybeans are fragrant and can add salt. Subsequently, these salted fried soybeans were ground by a windmill and stone, and all ground into soybean noodles, sealed in oil paper bags, insulated from air and heated, and became military horse food that could be stored for a long time. Moreover, the amount is set. Each small bag of salted cooked soybean noodles weighs 1 pound. Each time you feed the horse, you must open one bag to feed, no more, no less. You can feed up to two meals a day, and you can feed one more meal before the battle. Of course, the war horse can be fed an extra meal, and the horse riding a horse can feed one bag at most a day. If you don't work hard, you won't be fed.

This is better than putting soybeans in the coat, because the horse is greedy. If the bra is not fastened, the warhorse will steal the soybeans. Therefore, use a sealed oil paper bag to seal the cooked soybean noodles with salt, which can not only quantify, but also isolate the fragrance, and also prevent the horse from stealing it.

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This is about horses, and people’s supply requirements are much higher than horses...

No, the compressed biscuits provided by Beihai Country are nothing unacceptable to old mercenaries who have suffered. But the junior soldiers selected by Sauer from various schools in Beihai Country have much higher requirements for food and drink...

Those old mercenaries grew up in the poor mountains of southern Germany, and food was a problem. Like the Kohler bread with only grass crumbs added, it was a good meal for them at first. Because they can't eat bread all year round. In order to obtain food, they look for wild vegetables all over the mountains to make up for the lack of grains. In the bread they eat, wild vegetables, wood chips and even soil are the main body of the bread. Rye, only a small part of bread.

Therefore, these mountain mercenaries have no resistance to eating Kohler bread on long-distance marches. Mainly, in contrast, Kohler bread is really better than their previous meals.

But the children in Beihai State School, they are very lucky. Under Marin's rule, the school has opened a canteen. In order for the children to grow up healthy, enough bread tube is basic. In addition, salted fish, vegetables, and even cow and goat milk are given priority to schools so that they can grow taller.

As a result, there is no problem with the children's loyalty to Marin. However, they will frown if they are used to eating pure black bread without added grass bran, salted fish, milk and other foods, and let them march to eat monotonous compressed biscuits.

Although they will not complain publicly, it also affects morale...

In desperation, Marin had to provide them all with an upgraded version of compressed biscuits-sweet compressed biscuits with maple syrup added. Then, grilled salted fish (of course also sealed in oil paper bags), and dehydrated vegetables in airtight packaging...

Then, these young dragoons eat maple syrup compressed biscuits for each meal, supplemented by bags of grilled dried salted fish, and dehydrated vegetables. This standard, in this era, can at least be enjoyed by centurion-level officers...

Fortunately, this group of children is not as extravagant as the old American soldiers later, and there is no requirement for drinking water, as long as hot water can solve it. As for dehydrated vegetables, they seem to be reluctant to wait for the vegetables to soak in water slowly before cooking.

When they were marching and training, the group of teenagers opened their mouths and ate the dehydrated Chinese cabbage after they tore open the paper bags...

It is no wonder that in this era, Europeans eat vegetables raw. Even in later generations, I like to make vegetable salad, which is cold lettuce. It's fruit, they are used to cooking and eating...

Marin has promoted stir-frying many times, but everyone accepts it. But the problem is that because of the shortage of edible oil, most serf families have no conditions for cooking. What to do if you don’t stir-fry vegetables? Eat raw...

However, this has facilitated the food supply for the march. When the army is marching, there is no need to provide a lot of iron pots for cooking. Basically, every 10 people need a pot. Moreover, they don't want a pot to cook vegetables, but to boil hot water. Because Marin forced the soldiers to drink hot water.

Of course, some people who are accustomed to eating cooked vegetables will throw the Chinese cabbage wrapped in oil paper bags into the pot, add some salt, and cook the vegetable soup. But most of the teenagers from serf families from the countryside are more accustomed to eating dehydrated vegetables when they open the bag.

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However, from the daily training of the three thousand dragoons, Ma Lin felt worried. Why? In the future, the requirements for war preparations will be high!

In the past, war preparations only required ordinary compressed biscuits and salt for soldiers. But a new generation of young soldiers came up, and the requirements were greatly increased. They grew up in sweet water, unlike the old mercenaries, people who starve to death are not rare. In this way, logistics costs are greatly increased.

For example, maple syrup biscuits, this thing was originally intended by Marin to be provided to officers in peacetime, and then to frontline soldiers in wartime. After all, maple sugar production is not high. The main reason is that there is insufficient manpower to collect maple sugar, which affects production capacity.

Look at the young soldiers who are loyal to him usually eat sweet biscuits...too extravagant...

However, after eating maple sugar biscuit, the physical recovery speed of teenagers is indeed faster than eating ordinary biscuit...

"Yes, sugar was in the 20th century, but war preparations are coming..."

Marin suddenly remembered that before the reopening of Huaxia in the late 20th century, sugar had always been a war preparation material, and priority was given to the army. At that time, sugar, tobacco and alcohol were monopolized, and they had no status and couldn't eat them. Only soldiers can stably receive sugar subsidies. During the self-defense counterattack against the Yue Monkey, the famous 761 compressed dry food contained white sugar.

It is said that eating sweet dry food containing white sugar not only restores physical strength quickly. Moreover, the soldiers are in a happy mood, which helps boost morale...

And what is morale? That is the guarantee of victory in the war! Therefore, Marin had to consider including the cane sugar, which was rarely eaten by the little nobles in this era, into the scope of war preparations...

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