Whether it's a march or a voyage, logistics are very important. If the logistics are insufficient, the army will collapse and the crew will be finished. All ambitions will come to naught.

At the same time, an important feature of logistics is convenience. In the course of the war, the pace was so fast that there was no time to slowly knead the dough and make food. So, how convenient and fast how to come.

Therefore, the army food of later generations included compressed biscuits, canned meat, canned vegetables and fruits, instant noodles and other convenience foods.

These foods are easy to eat and easy to transport. These two characteristics are also important indicators of military food. The reason why Marin went to great lengths to get canned food, compressed biscuits, and even dehydrated vegetables packaged in oily paper bags was based on the important principle of "easy to eat, easy to transport".

It's just that the canned food of this era is not very different from the canned food of the army of later generations. Most of the military cans in later generations were aluminum cans, which were easy to carry and not afraid of collisions. In this era, Marin could only engage in canned food in glass bottles, which was inconvenient to carry.

That's why Marin set his sights on dehydrated vegetables packaged in oily paper bags. After all, oil-paper bag packaging is very convenient to carry. Like the backpacks of girls in later generations, there are a lot of bags of snacks.

For example, the soldiers and crews of the North Sea Army can now carry a few bags of compressed biscuits and a few bags of dehydrated Chinese cabbage in their backpacks for days. Moreover, these two foods can be eaten by soaking them in water. If it is an ordinary schoolbag in later generations, filled with compressed biscuits and dehydrated vegetables, it is estimated that it will last for a month. After all, whether it's compressed biscuits or bagged organic vegetables, they're lightweight and easy to carry. This is the biggest reason why Marlin strongly recommends oil-paper bags to package food, which is easy to carry.

What's the point of being portable? It may be much less significant for the crew. After all, there's a lot of space in the cabin. But for the Army, the meaning is heavenly.

The most important significance is that the army with compressed biscuits and bags of dehydrated vegetables can travel lightly to carry out surprise attacks!

Yes, raids are possible! Compressed biscuits and bags of dehydrated vegetables are lightweight, and a backpack can hold a month's worth of food. With a backpack on your back, you can send an army on a long-distance run without waiting for a heavy army carrying food and grass!

You must know that the baggage troops that transport grain and grass are composed of people and strong, and their marching speed is very slow. After all, they hadn't received the kind of physical training that the regular army of the Beihai State often ran 5 kilometers. Sometimes, in order not to starve, the regular army soldiers can only wait for those people.

Although the Beihai Heavy Baggage Force made extensive use of light wheelbarrows, the overall marching speed was slowed down. If each person carried a backpack of compressed biscuits and bags of dehydrated vegetables, the officers and men of the regular army could temporarily leave their baggage troops behind and advance lightly. As long as they could guarantee that the baggage troops would catch up in a month's time, they would be able to launch a quick attack.

Marin vaguely remembered that when the special forces of later generations attacked, they set off with compressed food in their packages, and they could break away from the large army for a long time. Of course, those special forces have strong survivability in the wild and dare to eat anything. But compressed biscuits are still their main food. Eating everything is in the absence of a way, so I will learn from Bei Ye.

However, eating Chinese cabbage raw is really not a wonderful feeling. While Europeans are more accustomed to it, Marin is not. He remembered that when he ate vegetable salad in later generations, he seemed to have tomato sauce......

"Yes, ketchup! If possible, the crew and fighters will be served with ketchup later. The dehydrated Chinese cabbage leaves soaked in water are dipped in tomato sauce and eaten, which seems to be good......"

Of course, this is only a long-term plan. After all, Marin's colony is only now experimenting with tomatoes imported from Mexico. Wait until you can brew a large amount of ketchup, it is estimated that there are so on. But the indigenous Europeans of this era did not care about those, because they grew up eating raw vegetables. They dare to eat it raw like onions, not to mention Chinese cabbage with a relatively light taste?

And the reason why Marlin chose to use Chinese cabbage as a dehydrated vegetable is that it is cheap for no other reason!

This is food for tens of thousands of troops and tens of thousands of sailors, and the taste is not important, the cost is the most important. Chinese cabbage yield per mu in the later generations is as high as 5000 ~ 10000 catties, Marin with the Ming Dynasty variety, after applying three fertilizers, the yield per mu is also three or four thousand catties, the cost is very low. So, it is the best military vegetable.

When the army is large, 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 impoverish a large country. It is also the Beihai Kingdom that has enough money and food under the various golden fingers of Marin, especially grain. Otherwise, the Beihai Kingdom would not be able to raise so many troops at all. Don't you see that a top power like France usually has 10,000 or 20,000 people? No way, European food is too expensive! In a country like the Ming Dynasty, where food was cheap, the number of troops was often hundreds of thousands. To quell a Yao uprising, more than 100,000 people were mobilized. In Europe, you can't afford to consume food alone......

Marin remembers that before the introduction of advanced agricultural technology from the Ming Dynasty by the Dutch in Europe in the 17th century, armies were generally in the tens of thousands of men at most, unless they were multinational coalitions. Otherwise, it will be difficult for a country to afford the food consumption of tens of thousands of troops. The only exception was the army of Leenstein in China during the Thirty Years' War, which reached 100,000 men.

However, in order to feed this army of 100,000 people, Germany paid several heavy prices! Wallenstein had no money or food to feed the 100,000 army, so the 100,000 army was fed and drunk by robbery. Its practice is called "ravaging the four fields to self-nourishment". Wherever the army passed, the grain was plundered, and all the cattle were killed and eaten for meat. Then, a large number of German peasants starved to death. This army fought from the south to the north, and also brought great disasters to the German region, and many civilians starved to death because they ran out of food...... And this army of 100,000 people was also called "Wallenstein's locust" by Ma Dabeard......

Only a traverser like Marin, who has mastered modern agricultural technology, can feed tens of thousands of troops in this era. And when it comes to the number of standing armies, the North Sea State is actually the first in Europe.

However, because the 60,000-strong army was scattered in the North Sea and England, the power was greatly weakened. If the army is united, even France will be afraid of it.

Of course, it was also a loss that he did not unite the army. If that were the case, the German princes would not mind uniting with France to clean up Marin. That's why Marin thought about hiding troops abroad. He put 30,000 or 40,000 troops on his own soil, in fact, he had reached the limit of patience of the German princes. If you increase your troops, even a fool can see his ambitions, and you may be preempted by the princes.

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But in any case, in the future German religious war for the world, Marin would certainly not use only 30,000 or 40,000 men to fight. In that case, if you attack it, the mainland will not be safe.

His plan was to concentrate 100,000 troops and have a life-and-death duel with the princes. If they win, they will occupy the small Germany in the north of Germany and establish a new Germany ahead of schedule.

Therefore, he is now engaged in this dehydrated vegetable, in fact, he is also preparing in advance for the future army of 100,000. The soldiers and horses did not move, and the grain and grass went first. The grain and grass of an army of 100,000 is not a small amount. Moreover, storage and transportation are also big problems.

And compressed biscuits, vegetables, and even milk powder, grilled dried fish, dried meat, etc., packaged in oil-paper bags, are all prepared for the future mobilization of 100,000 troops.

With an army of 100,000, Marin was fearless even in the face of the allied forces of the German princes and France in the future. But now, he can only secretly accumulate troops and horses, secretly engage in logistics preparations, and look forward to the day when the outbreak will break out......