The logistical consumption of an army of 100,000 is simply scared to death, take compressed biscuits and bagged Chinese cabbage as an example, according to one bag of compressed biscuits (three pieces) and a bag of Chinese cabbage (a complete Chinese cabbage, but the weight is reduced a lot after dehydration, most of the weight is reduced), 100,000 troops consume 100,000 bags of compressed biscuits and 100,000 Chinese cabbage a day.

And that's just the consumption of combat troops, and that's not counting meat. Coupled with the logistics force of at least tens of thousands of people, the consumption is extremely terrifying. At present, no country in Europe can afford such consumption (except for the North Sea countries).

However, if the troops used all the easily portable compressed biscuits and bags of dehydrated vegetables, the transport pressure was expected to be much lower. Originally, an army of 100,000 needed at least 80,000 or even 100,000 people to transport grain and baggage. However, if Marin promotes military rations that are easy to transport, it is estimated that there will be 50,000 people, which is enough to transport military rations. With tens of thousands of mouths missing, food can be saved.

Of course, there is also the army that needs a lot of mules and horses. The daily consumption of these mules and horses is also an extremely staggering figure. Because, the daily food consumption of war horses is 5 times that of ordinary people......

With an army of 100,000, Marin estimated tens of thousands of horses. If it is a European war horse that eats a lot of food and consumes a lot of food, Marin is estimated to be unable to eat it. Therefore, except for some knights who needed to ride European war horses, Marin planned to use all the rest of the horses to use Eastern European Mongolian horses imported from Crimea. After all, Mongolian horses in Eastern Europe eat more grass and consume less food. For this, it was necessary to import large quantities of horses from the Crimean Khanate.

In addition, if necessary, Marin also intends to use the method of herding cattle with the army. The so-called driving cattle with the army is to drive tens of thousands of cattle to march with the army.

Along the way, the cattle only need to graze. Historically, cattle from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth were driven all the way to Western Europe.

If you drive the cattle with the army, you can not only let the cattle do some work of pulling carts and carrying goods when you are marching, but also slaughter the cattle directly to supplement the meat when necessary.

While this may seem like a luxury, it's not too expensive. Marin imported cattle from the Crimean Khanate for 8 gold coins each. 10,000 head of cattle is only 80,000 gold coins. Moreover, the cattle accompanying the army eat grass, do not consume food, and can also help pull carts and carry goods.

What the? You say that the ox-drawn cart consumes a lot of money and needs to be replenished with concentrate? Please, these cows are spare food, do they need to be concentrated? It's all going to be slaughtered anyway......

In addition, at a critical time, you may be able to learn Tiandan and give the enemy a fire bull formation. Of course, the Fire Bull Formation is not easy to use. Historically, Tian Dan was successful, and during the civil war, both our army and Jiang's army tried the fire ox formation, but the ox turned around and collided and injured their own army. Therefore, Marin did not dare to use it indiscriminately until it was absolutely necessary.

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It is also funny to say that the Crimean Khanate, a famous bandit state in history, because Marin buys a large number of cattle and horses from it every year. Now, the Crimean Khanate, which originally lived on robbery, has begun to vigorously develop cattle and horse grazing.

In order to expand the scale of grazing, the Crimean Khanate sent troops to attack the Grand Duchy of Moscow several times, robbed a large number of hairs, castrated them and used them as herding slaves, grazing cattle and horses for them.

Subsequently, the Crimean Khanate reduced its attacks on the Grand Duchy of Moscow and Poland. Because, they can make money by grazing, why should they exchange their lives for money? Besides, grazing cattle and sheep has a hairy father-in-law to help them work. Now, the nobles of the Crimean Khanate hold banquets and feast in the city all day long.

What is particularly interesting is that although the Crimeans are all Greens, they are still heavy drinkers. The Beihai Kingdom bought a large number of cattle and horses from them, and a large part of them were paid for in rye two pots, and it didn't cost much real money.

And in order to hide the fact of drinking, the nobles of the Crimean Khanate, when drinking, mixed spirits with mare's milk, which looked like milk tea. Then, this group of drunkards frequently and suddenly raised their glasses and shouted "milk tea" together. Whoever dares to make it clear that they are drinking will definitely be beaten up - Zunima, when did Lao Tzu drink? Open your dog's eyes and see, I'm drinking milk tea......

Well, at first glance, it's white, it's really milk tea. However, a mouth full of alcohol does not need to be measured by the traffic police's alcohol tester......

Even the Crimean Khan Mingri. At the court banquet of Gray, everyone also used this set - mixed some mare's milk or goat's milk into the rye second pot head, which looked like milk tea, and then raised a glass together - "Come, drink milk"! Then, everyone drank the two pots of heads......

At present, the rye two-pot head, or whisky, produced in the North Sea country, has successfully replaced salt as the most popular commodity in the Eastern European steppes.

Not only did the people of the Crimean Khanate learn the rogue trick of mixing liquor with milk, but even the Astrakhan Khanate and the Kazan Khanate, which were originally split from the Golden Horde, learned this method of "telling nonsense with their eyes open", and in the name of drinking milk, they gulped rye two pots. Of course, their rye two-pot heads, too, were bought from the Crimeans.

Because, the Crimean Khanate itself did not have enough cattle and horses, and it could not make up 10,000 cattle per year. So, every year the Crimean Khanate imported a large number of cattle and horses from the homologous Astrakhan Khanate and the Kazan Khanate. Cattle and horses were even imported from the neighboring Nogai Khanate.

Of course, the Crimeans are more chicken thieves. When they bought cattle and horses from these khanates, they used very low prices. Selling Marin 8 gold coins a cow, they bought it from several brothers and khanates for only 2 gold coins worth of spirits.

Marin also knew this, but he also couldn't get around the Crimean Khanate and trade with several other khanates. Mainly, even if Marin bought cattle and horses from several other khanates, he had to pass through the Crimean Khanate. If the Crimeans were upset, they would definitely intercept it. Therefore, he could only watch the Crimeans get rich as this second-hand dealer.

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In fact, Marin's massive importation of cattle and horses from the Crimean Khanate greatly changed the political landscape of the steppes of Eastern Europe.

Once upon a time, the Crimeans relied mainly on looting and trafficking in human beings from the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Poland, Romania, etc.

At that time, the only person who could help the Crimeans sell their stolen goods was Ottoman Turkey. Therefore, at that time, the Crimean Khanate was particularly dependent on Turkey, and was willing to act as Turkey's horseboy. There is no way, the economic lifeline is in the hands of Turkey. Disobedient, no food for a minute.

But now, through trade with Marin, the Crimean Khanate no longer has to look at the Turks. Therefore, the Turks are gradually discovering that the little brother of Crimea doesn't seem to listen to greetings lately......

But the Turks couldn't do anything about the Crimean Khanate, because the Crimean Khanate had become the boss of several khanates by monopolizing the sales channels of the spirits of the North Sea State in the steppes of Eastern Europe, which made Turkey jealous.

Therefore, through trade, Marin changed the political landscape of Eastern Europe, and Turkey lost the help of the Crimean Khanate, an important thug.

Of course, it's not a complete loss. Because, now, the Crimeans also sometimes send troops to cooperate with Turkey. This was so because when the Crimean Khanate sold slaves, slave ships had to go through the Turkish Straits. If the Turks were completely offended, the route could be cut off by the Turks. However, the originally incomparably close relationship between the two countries has only been left with superficial words. After all, having ceased to be economically dependent solely on Turkey, the Crimeans do not need to be "called and waved away" by the Turks......