It's not enough to keep your soldiers warm on their feet, you need to provide enough food to compensate for the soldiers' consumption on the battlefield. Vertex. Fastest updates

In the just-concluded European war, the German army has always been in an offensive position, fully grasping the initiative on the battlefield, not only having sufficient time to prepare for combat, but also being able to reasonably arrange the rest time of the soldiers.

Once the offensive begins, the German army will continue to maneuver on the battlefield, the physical exertion of the German soldiers is very large, in order to achieve the effect of the blitzkrieg, the German army must maintain a high-intensity offensive rhythm, do not let the opponent have any respite, and their own soldiers will not have time to rest.

During this time, the German soldiers had to eat the dry rations they had brought with them, usually canned cured meats and rusks that were easy to keep, with some cheese and margarine on top, and if they were lucky, they might even get a bottle of jam or something, which was a hearty field meal for the German soldiers.

To say that the German canned cured meat, the absolute workhorse of the "iron ration", looks somewhat similar to the famous British canned corned beef, but in fact it is a mixed meat sauce with plenty of salt and fat, and no one wants to know what exactly this thing is made of, but it still tastes good in the mouth.

In addition to the large amount of food in the German Army, I really don't see any bright spots. In fact, in the past few years, the field food in the armies of all European countries has been equally bad. The French Army dispensed soldiers small pieces of bacon and bread, as well as sardines and canned meat, and if the logistics line was clear, there would be some beer and wine. But most of the time, the soldiers were given only bread and bacon.

The British Army was no better, with standard field rations ranging from canned hard biscuits to grind teeth and canned corned beef that would last for 10,000 years, and often a few ounces of tea and cheese, jam, butter, and thunderous rum.

At this time, there was no systematic military ration, and each ** team purchased food on the spot or subcontracted it to civilian food vendors. German troops often ate whatever logistics got them, and they weren't very picky eaters.

In the history of the German army's food supply on the Eastern Front, there has never been any quality problems, and the German army's logistics procurement units are still more concerned about the food ration of the troops, but the problem is that many of the materials transported from China are stuck in the warehouses of military stations at all levels, and they are not delivered to the front-line soldiers in time.

This was mainly the responsibility of the German logistics department, and in the middle of the war, in the face of the continuous destruction of the Soviet army, the German army's transportation capacity began to become seriously insufficient, and the dispatchers were forced to choose between delivering ammunition or food supplies to the front, and the officers of the command often chose the former.

So when the Soviet army launched a counteroffensive, the seized food materials in the German logistics warehouse were almost piled up, including many high-grade ingredients looted from Europe, so these seizures all became weapons for the Soviet side to launch psychological warfare, they claimed that the German logistics officers colluded with senior generals, deliberately overstocked these foods, and used them to do business on the black market, as a result, many German soldiers really believed it, and resistance to the officers' orders began to spread.

Now let's see what good things Xu Jun has prepared for his soldiers. Military canned food is indispensable, and the original canned meat sauce of the German army is actually quite good, just adjust the materials and flavors a little, and there is no need to deliberately develop any spam.

The main problem is how to heat it, as all cans will freeze like stones in the snow and ice. Historically, soldiers would use "Esbet", also known as the "pocket stove", to heat cans, which is a miniature folding stove, "Esbet" is the manufacturer's brand, this kind of stove is only the size of the palm of an ordinary person's hand, and after unfolding, it needs to be used with the solid alcohol block carried with the stove, just like the one lit under the dry pot in modern restaurants, because it does not emit smoke when burned, so it is very suitable for use in the battlefield.

It's just that the head of this kind of stove is still a little smaller, and it is not very windproof, so the German army is also equipped with a small gasifier, the size is about the same as the German army's gas mask tank, and it can use all the fuel issued by the German army, which was originally imitated from the Swedish civilian stove, and has become a military-grade heater after modification, which can heat a class of hot food at a time, because the weight and volume are relatively large, so it is only distributed to the class level, unlike the pocket stove above, which can be done by one person.

As mentioned above, Xu Jun equipped the troops with chemical heating bags to heat field food, but in an outdoor environment where the temperature is below minus 20 degrees, the heat generated by the heating bag is obviously not enough, and it must be heated with an open flame.

So Xu Jun came up with canned solid alcohol and a matching folding stove. It looks like a normal round can, and when you open the lid, you can light it with just a match, you can use the included shelf, you only need to put up a few pieces of gravel or bricks, even if there is nothing, you can build a stand out of dirt, and then you can heat anything you want on it, a 200-gram fuel can, which can last for about an hour. There are three kinds of such cans: 50 grams, 100 grams, and 200 grams, and soldiers can choose one to carry according to their needs.

However, in between battles, there may not be time for soldiers to light fires to heat food, so they can only eat their own rations, so the Führer developed a high-calorie food, which he called "energy bars" with chocolate as the main ingredient.

This is a bar of cocoa butter, butter, caramel, glucose, vitamins, wheat flour and salt, one can provide about 1,000 kcal, and two sticks are enough to replenish the consumption of soldiers in a high-intensity battle.

However, this is only a calorie supplement, emergency food, can not be used as regular food, only after obtaining the permission of the officer, the soldier can tear open the seal of the outer iron box, take out this "energy bar" to eat, a packaging box contains four energy bars, after eating, the iron packaging box does not need to be discarded, the soldier can use it as a waterproof container, can also be recycled and reused.

The Führer also developed a batch of instant soups, which compressed various seasonings, wheat flour, egg powder, mixed oils and dehydrated vegetables into lumpy solids, six of these soups in a group, packed in a cardboard box lined with oiled paper, and only needed to be stirred in boiling water to brew a delicious cup of hot soup, replenish the salt and sugar needed by the body, and at the same time bring pleasure to the soldiers and comfort the hearts of the wounded by the war.

The Germans purchased a new batch of canned food, such as Italian anchovies in oil, which were very popular with the soldiers, and praised the Italian special spice-marinated belly, chopped and placed in cans, each weighing 150 grams, which the soldiers of the experimental detachment found to be very suitable for eating in slices of bread.

When agriculture in Europe began to resume production, it was expected that the level of food of the German army would be raised even higher, and under the leadership of a foodie Führer, it was believed that sooner or later, the food of the German army would make the American GIs feel red.

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If you have any suggestions for the German army's military rations, you can leave me a message in the book review area, and I will choose some to eat later.

Thank you. (To be continued.) )