"Uh, can we still only eat hard biscuits and miso today?" Artillery Corpsman Cao Ozawa said.

"It's nice to have biscuits, but the logistics and soldiers who are not on the battlefield can only eat two-thirds of the biscuits." A person next to him muttered in a low voice.

"Hard biscuits are so unpalatable." Ozawa said as he broke the biscuits into small pieces and slowly soaked them in water. (This thing is completely different from today's biscuits. The hard biscuits at that time were 100 grams each.

Eat 2 pieces in one meal. It is mainly made of flour, salt, sugar and ground beef. In theory, soldiers can eat it for 7 days. But in reality

How about it? Experiments have shown that in order to eat this thing, a person has to drink an average of 1707 liters of tea. It takes 30 to 40 minutes! It is conceivable that what you eat is definitely not a biscuit. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a brick made of flour.

!!) What’s even more sad is that now we can only eat hard biscuits every day, and there is no canned beef to go with the hard biscuits!

According to the Japanese army's field food standards, a soldier can eat at least 6 biscuits and a 250-gram can of beef every day. The biscuits may be turned into rice of the same weight. But now, only biscuits are distributed every day. As for non-staple food? Are you afraid?

There are only miso and concentrated soy sauce, of course, if soy sauce is considered a non-staple food.

"It's better to be at the station." Ozawa was eating while reminiscing about the Japanese army's food when he was in Japan. In Japan before the Sino-Japanese War of 1888-1894, which class had the best food except various aristocrats and bureaucrats? It was undoubtedly the soldiers.

What did Ozawa eat before he joined the army? His daily staple food was various vegetables, radishes and pickles (Fukugami pickles, a kind of pickles made from 7 kinds of vegetables including radish, eggplant, and sword beans). At that time, Ozawa's sister worked in a factory.

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Theoretically, you can eat meat four times a week. But this is just a theoretical figure. On the day Ozawa enlisted in the army, he thought he was dreaming when he saw the dazzling array of dishes on the dinner table. Except for the breakfast of rice and Fukugami pickles.

For lunch and dinner, you will definitely find meat, including all kinds of canned meats, cured meats, etc. There are also various sweets from time to time. Thinking of this, Ozawa wanted to throw away these roasted biscuits that were not soft after being soaked for a long time!

In addition to Ozawa, Nozu Michinuki and others were also worried about their own food. When he came to Yuebong Mountain, he had more than 13,000 people under his command. Not to mention anything else, these people only had a diet of 1.5kg per person per day.

Counting staple food plus non-staple food, 13,000 people consume at least

20 tons of various foods. (Although field fast food is 660 grams of biscuits and 250 grams of canned meat. But this food can only be used in emergencies. No one can bear to eat it all day long! Especially the flour bricks. And this is emergency food, no officer’s food.

Orders cannot be eaten casually.)

By the way, there are also those cavalry brigades and military horses that pull cannons. A horse needs to eat at least 10+kg of various feeds every day. This horse can eat more than 10 people. Just talking about food supplies, this is not the end.

Each military station and military expedition also consume food. In order to support the 13,000 men of Nozu Michizuki fighting at the foot of Yuebong Mountain, Japan

The army needs at least 50 tons of food and grass every day to barely maintain the consumption of the troops. These 50 tons have to be transported from Busan to Wolbong Mountain!! As for other consumption. In just 3 days, Nozu Michizuki's troops killed more than 500,000

bullets and more than 3,000 artillery shells, including many 107mm heavy artillery shells. These are all consumption.

According to the supply requirements of the Japanese army, a company-sized unit needs at least 3 sanitation pack horses, 16 ammunition pack horses, 12 grain and grass pack horses, 7 cooking tool pack horses, and 7 to 10 officer supplies pack horses. You can imagine the need for supporters.

13,000

How many packhorses and carts are needed to provide supplies for people fighting! And this is only the supply requirement of ordinary infantry units. If it is replaced by artillery, it will be even greater. Not to mention anything else, just to pull a 107mm heavy artillery requires at least

There are 8 horses.

But now, when Beiyang begins to attack the Japanese supply line, the already stretched transportation capacity immediately tends to collapse. The entire supply line is actually composed of transportation troops and military stations along the way. The transportation troops need a place to rest and horses need to be replaced.

Or personnel. Without military depots, you can hardly imagine how difficult it would be for a transport team that has always used mules and horses as its main transport force to move from Busan to the front line of Yuefengshan Mountain! But now with the attack of the Beiyang guerrilla cavalry, all military depots have suffered

varying degrees of losses.

The personnel and material infrastructure suffered heavy losses, especially the problem of drinking water. The water supply trucks at various military stations were the first targets of the Beiyang side in addition to grain and grass. Although the pollution was not as severe as it is now, the water was not easily drinkable. Mountain streams

How many microorganisms or germs are there in spring water and river water! Therefore, in addition to purified water, it must be filtered and heated before it can be consumed.

In the face of the Japanese invasion, the vast majority of Koreans may not dare to resist directly. But it is still okay to throw some animal carcasses or feces that died of disease into wells in other places. What? What do you think the Koreans should do? "

Is the name "Locust Army" called "Locust Army" for nothing? Hurry up and get out of the way. Oshima Yimasa, who was defeated not long ago, "requisitioned" a lot of Korean supplies before setting off. Now more "Locust Army" are coming.

Why are you still there? Looking for trouble?

It was not only the infrastructure of the military depots that was hit. The transport troops were also targeted. The small Qing army shot at the mules and horses of the transport troops indiscriminately, killing a few of them. The mules and horses did not know how to hide.

The target is huge. If you don’t hit it, who will hit it? Once it’s a mule

After the horse is injured, what do you want to do with this cart of supplies? Unload some of it and share it with other carts, or just throw it away if it is no longer enough. But as more and more rangers join the robbery business, these supplies will be brought to the Japanese army's supply troops.

It's not just trouble anymore.

What would happen if a baggage troop of more than 200 people was ambushed by cavalry of more than 100 people and weapons such as machine guns and mortars? Anyone with a brain can think of it! As time went by, the baggage troop was eaten up in its entirety.

The situation became more and more frequent, so that later baggage transport teams no longer needed guides. The road to the Yuefeng Mountain position could be found by looking at the remains of carts and horse bones along the way.

The military depot was attacked and the baggage transport troops were severely damaged, which brought the Japanese army's logistical supplies to the edge of collapse. In the later stages of the Battle of Yuefengshan, let alone attacking, the Japanese army only fired two artillery pieces and two shots every day. The shells and bullets were all gone.

It’s for counting! If we say that the Japanese army fought tooth and nail in the beginning and fought in the middle period, then in the later period it can only be described as soy sauce.

Compared with the supply situation of the Japanese army, the Qing army is much larger. The fundamental reason is not that the Qing army really has more strength to ensure that its transportation lines are smooth, but because the Qing army's supply line is shorter and comes ashore from Asan.

With the baggage, you can reach the Chenghuan line without walking far, and because of the problem of the battle line, it is impossible for the Japanese army to make a fuss on such a short supply mountain. Compared with the transportation line from Busan to Chenghuan, the Qing army’s supply line is really too long.

It's a good short trip.

On the other hand, the popularity of the Qing army is not a little better than that of the "Locust Army". The Qing Dynasty was originally the suzerainty of North Korea, and most of the Qing troops were relatively restrained after entering the country, especially Nie Shicheng's troops.

Relatively abundant money and North Korea's extremely low human resource prices. Nie Shicheng used a large number of North Koreans to help transport supplies, although you can't completely eliminate theft

, but basically still within a tolerable limit. And compared to horses, the logistics officials of the Qing army found that donkeys were more suitable for transporting supplies in mountainous areas. Although they were weak, they ate less and were less likely to get sick. So in

In terms of the input of materials, the Qing army had a certain advantage in transportation because of its shorter supply lines and relatively good mass base.

And in terms of food? How should I put it? The Qing army also had roasted biscuits and dried meat! And the roasted biscuits at that time were all a virtue. As for the dried meat? After the evaluation of some people in the New Army, this thing needs to be polished.

It has the luster of mahogany!! The hardness is comparable to teak! In a word, it is the same as the roasted biscuits called bricks made of flour! But there is one thing that the Qing army is stronger than the Japanese army, and that is

In terms of vegetables, the Qing army had a large amount of dehydrated vegetables for consumption, not just pickles. So in terms of nutritional balance, the Qing army was much better than the Japanese army. As for food transportation, the Qing army preferred to use meat.

The meat is packed in special wooden barrels. One wooden barrel stores enough meat for 50 or 100 people to eat once. The packaging is simplified and production is convenient. The small cans are only distributed as emergency food.

But even so, the Qing army faced the problem of food shortage. After the Japanese offensive gradually changed from a war to a soy sauce campaign, Nie Shicheng and Ma Yukun in Pyongyang began to collect food and fodder according to the established plan. They also worked with North Korean officials to relocate the population to clear the country!

According to the established plan, the troops in North Korea will retreat sooner or later. After retreating, North Korea will

Fresh food and human resources must not be left to the Japanese. So even if you go to buy, you must get as much food as possible. In the end, even if it doesn't work, even if it is burned, it is better than letting the Japanese take it away. As for the manpower

This is especially true for resources. Allowing the Koreans to hide in the mountains with their own rations will undoubtedly make the Japanese army's battlefield supplies more difficult.

If the final state of the Japanese army is soy sauce, then the state of the Qing army is not much better. Except for a small half of the troops used for defense, the other troops are used for transportation, collection and hoarding of supplies. Even if they are not interested in logistics at first

After being hungry for a few days, the people began to collect a large amount of supplies and transportation capacity. How should I say? From Chenghuan to the north all the way to Pyongyang. The supplies in this area were basically collected by the Qing army. Of course, the money

How many

You have to give some. The Koreans still have to keep their own rations. After all, the Qing Dynasty is the suzerain state, and the officials cannot be like the "locust army" who swept away and left no grass growing! Not to mention, these efforts paid off in the later war. If

Without these material reserves, I am afraid that the Qing army would not be able to survive the day of withdrawing from North Korea! And the Beiyang Army, which had experience in clearing the country with strong walls, made the Japanese army that entered mainland China suffer a lot in the subsequent battles!
Chapter completed!