Not only fat, but also the supply of sugars has risen, from September 22, the daily supply of sugars has increased from about 30 grams to 60 grams. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info And after the start of the war, the Southwestern Army even raised it to almost 80 grams! And this high standard did not change until the beginning of 1915, and judging from this time period, the performance of Russian supplies in history coincided exactly with the old man's speculation!

If the prince remembers correctly, from March 25, 1914, the ration of meat on the front line of the Russian army was reduced from 1.5 Russian pounds to 1 Russian pound. Since April 1, the amount of oil has also been reduced, and the daily oil ration of frontline personnel has been reduced to 70 grams. And the rear personnel were reduced to 40 grams!

The supply situation deteriorated further from February 1916, when the Russian military stipulated four vegetarian meals per week for rear units. As the situation worsened, the soldiers at the front would also have vegetarian meals three days a week, and the Russians' food supply was completely in dire straits.

"Then I want to ask, if the war lasts more than 1 year, what will happen to the food supply of the Russian army?" The prince thought for a moment and asked.

"In two years at most, the entire national economy will be in an extremely dangerous situation, and there is no possibility of recovery." The old man replied firmly.

"Two years is still too long, is there a way to make this time come earlier?" The prince asked.

"If you can tear through the frontal line of the Russian army and go deep behind enemy lines, then anything is possible."

"But we need to know the supply system of the Russian Legion."

"That's no problem, I participated in it back then, I can't say for sure about the national supply system, but it's no problem at the corps level." The old man smiled slightly, and with the push rod in his hand, he placed the chess pieces marking the corps, corps, and divisions to various positions on the front line.

"The grain and fodder for the Russian military are transported in this way, and the headquarters is responsible for purchasing these materials, and is responsible for transporting them to the base grain depot on the front line by rail, and then the transport team of the base grain depot will send the materials to the intermediate grain depot of the group army and the payment of the military dependents according to the situation, although the two units are of different grades, but the level of receiving supplies may be the same."

"At this time, if the distance between the military grain depot and the division's grain depot is within 25 kilometers, that is, a day's journey, then the military grain depot will be directly responsible for transportation, and if this distance is exceeded, there will be a grain depot affiliated to the group army responsible for transportation."

"And the division's grain station is not on the front line, and the distance between them and the front line grain station is also about 1 day, that is, about 25 kilometers. The frontier grain station is only half a day's journey from the front line. That is, if you can break the Russian positions at once and go deep into 10 to 12 kilometers, then you have a good chance of leaving a division of troops without food. If you can hold out for 3 days, the other party will be self-defeating. ”

"Then if there is a railway, the distance between the middle grain depot to which the group army belongs and the front line should be relatively far." The prince asked.

"That's right, the design standard for the intermediate grain station is 500 kilometers from the front line if there is a railway, and if there is only a dirt road, then it is only 100 kilometers away. In addition to the two types of grain stations mentioned above, there are also two special grain stations, one is the reserve grain station and the other is the fortress grain station. ”

"The former, as the name suggests, is naturally used when the general grain station cannot meet the demand, while the latter is used for fortified areas and fortress areas. And almost all of the grain depots are next to the railroad and road, so if it's not particularly bad, you should be able to find the location of these depots very quickly. ”

"Grain and rusks can be transported like you said, but meat may not be transported, right? Canned meat is naturally suitable for long-distance transportation and storage. But fresh meat doesn't seem to have a choice, right? The prince pointed out a loophole in the old man's words.

"You're right, but meat transportation is different, and we have a specific plan." The old man said this, slightly proud.

"I don't know how big the next war will be, so I can't estimate the total amount, but there is an approximate standard for the meat consumption of every army, corps and division, each army needs to consume 700 to 800 cattle per day, the corps size unit consumes about 120 to 160 cattle per day, and the infantry division consumes 40 to 52 cows. And the infantry regiment is about 8 to 11 heads. ”

"If that group of officers does what is required above, then each regiment should have a herd of 250 to 300 heads. And an army group should have enough herds for the troops to feed for two days. Of course, if the local livestock industry is developed, the size of this herd will be relatively small. ”

"When we launch an offensive operation, all the herds will follow behind the army, and the distance between them will be about 20 kilometers, that is, about one day's distance. The European part of Russia is able to supply about 10,000 beef cattle a day, but I estimate that no more than 2,500 can be transported to the front, which means that if the front reserves are depleted, the supplies will get worse and worse. ”

"Of course, this can be compensated for by using substitutes, such as salted fish or dried fish or even egg powder instead of meat, but I personally don't think that the result of all this effort is too much of a mistake in our estimates." The old man thought for a moment and made a summary.

"Have you considered the question of how Russia can increase freight traffic in wartime by narrow-gauge railways and horse-drawn railways?" The prince thought for a moment and added a few more models to the huge sand table.

"Naturally, I have considered it, but the length of such railways is generally not very long, and the average length of narrow-gauge railways and horse-drawn railways is about 36 kilometers, and the maximum should not be more than doubled. Because the efficiency of these modes of transportation is very low, the former has an average transportation efficiency of 250 tons a day and night, while the transportation efficiency of the horse-drawn railway is about 180 tons, which is much worse than the 500 tons of day and night transportation capacity of the general railway. “

(Of course, there are exceptions to everything, the Russians have set a record of 623 tons a day on a horse-drawn railway and 1,147 tons a day on a narrow-gauge railway, of course, both for extremely short distances, generally no more than 15 kilometers.) ）

"I don't know how efficient your country's railway construction is, anyway, in my country, our narrow-gauge railway construction speed is about 1.6 to 1.8 kilometers per day, and the distance of the horse-drawn railway is about 2.88 kilometers per day.

"On narrow-gauge railways, trains don't run very fast, about 10 hours and 106 kilometers. On a 149-kilometer railway, we can only accommodate a maximum of 72 small locomotives, 320 wagons and 21 stuffy tank cars. The speed of horse-drawn railways is generally 4.2 kilometers, and there are an average of 1,200 horses on every 106 kilometers of horse-drawn railways. Although the trains are more efficient, unfortunately I estimate that about 80% of our transportation still depends on animal power. ”

"Every army group should have a building material, transport vehicles and related personnel capable of building troops and sustaining troops for at least 106 kilometers, of course, it is difficult to say to what extent."

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