Chapter 15 The Battle of Moscow (3) Reconnaissance

According to the previous deployment, Andrei arranged for four squads to disperse into the rear of the German army for sabotage missions, while Andrei himself led a group to the rear of the German army for reconnaissance missions. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

Kolochkov also led a group, and Andrei and Kolochkov agreed to gather forces for a surprise attack if they encountered a high-value target, and now Andrei can gather two squads of troops in one day.

And Russia in October is already going to winter, if it is the end of October, there should be snow in Moscow, and now the leaves are falling one after another, and the gilly suit is only easy to use when it is lurking, and you can't run while wearing it, so Andrei and the team members have not made food yet, as for the elite troops, they carried canned meat and condensed milk that were already difficult to see in other troops, but after a few days of action, their food was not much, because this time they were lightly armed, and there were airdrop supplies, and now Andrei decided to camp here, The kettle was used to boil boiling water, which was based on the experience of later generations, and the wild survival kettle made by the technicians of the Ministry of Internal Affairs can boil water or cook the box, which is very useful.

And after a while, the second lieutenant Leonov, who had been sent to fetch supplies, returned, carrying a large package on his back and walking slowly. He dropped the package:

"These are the military rations of the Americans, which have just been airdropped by the superiors. Knowing that the more convenient it is for us to eat, the better, and the crate is a 12-serving U.S. Army K-type ration, which is suitable for us to eat when we are lurking. With that, Leonov kicked a box to the side of everyone.

"This Yankee's army rations have caught up with the department store, and it is said that I will get dizzy when I go to receive it and listen to the quartermaster!" As he spoke, he picked up a large pile of canned food, "This is a person's daily ration, what is it called a C-type ration, by the way, there is also an accessory package." ā€

When I opened that accessory bag, I was dazzled by the things inside! Packs of four cigarettes, dissolved coffee pods, salt packets, plastic spoons, and even toilet paper!

"Leonov, what is it?" Alyosha, everyone is a comrade-in-arms, and they don't care that the other party is an officer, and they call them by their nicknames directly.

"Chewing gum." Leonov had to teach his comrades how to chew gum so as not to choke on himself!

Snipers don't smoke, but that doesn't mean everyone else doesn't smoke: a few of the smokers have been out of food for a long time, and the American cigarettes are immediately divided, "and there are other accessory bags, and there are also in the crates, American brands, good colors, and camels." ā€

It was still a member of the team who boiled the water and made a cup of American coffee when everyone was asking, "It tastes good!" ā€

"It's beef stew with baked beans, it's ham egg with potatoes, this jar is chicken stew, there's biscuits, that's cereal, jam, raisins, sugar and lemon powder in that jar. This is just a series, and you will eat other combinations of varieties in the future, and I can't say all about it, it seems that there are also toffee, sugar-coated peanuts, sugar cubes, stewed pork with roasted beans, stewed beef with macaroni, stewed ham with kidney beans or something. You'll know what it is when you open it, and it probably tastes good. It doesn't matter if you don't know what, at least you can't eat the dead. ā€

Leonov's introduction made the comrades listen to it a little and couldn't reflect it at once - is this a military ration or a big meal in a Moscow restaurant?! This American soldier is enjoying it too much, right?!

"Leonov, this looks like a canned meat, right?" Team member Gurov asked, looking at Spam.

"Oh, this is called luncheon meat, there are not many other nutrients except calories, eating too much will make people fat and cholesterol rise, the taste, you can taste it, I haven't eaten it."

Leonov said this, and he noticed the captain's expression and attitude when he saw the luncheon meat: it seemed that he did not have a good opinion of this food.

What Gurov had in his hand was a can of "Spam luncheon meat", which Leonov quickly opened with a matching can opener and gave everyone some points with a knife he carried.

"Tastes good, fat? Haha, I wish I could! "Alyosha is not afraid of being fat - it is good to eat in a war, and according to the current combat intensity, starvation is victory!"

Leonov, who tasted this American luncheon meat in his mouth, would also find it difficult to understand why Comrade Marshal had such an attitude towards luncheon meat.

As for luncheon meat, Andre feels average, although it has not reached the level where American GIs call it "spirit meat", hateful and simply unforgivable, but he is not interested in this kind of luncheon meat, which is difficult to eat except for starch, salt and spices. The comrades thought it tasted so good that probably only the pampered American GI and Andrei, who was accustomed to Chinese food, would not be interested in Spam luncheon meat.

Andrei reluctantly ate a few bites of luncheon meat, after all, it's better than rusk!

What they saw when they opened the crate made the comrades once again puzzled for a moment - the staple food inside turned out to be chocolate that was about to catch up with the wall tiles!

In the Soviet Union, chocolate was a luxury, and even the city dwellers of Moscow could only eat it on festivals, and they were reluctant to buy it at all, because the prices were very high, not to mention the vast countryside.

The cocoa needed to make chocolate had to be imported, and a lot of granulated sugar had to be imported, and only the milk was their own - many of the team members had never seen chocolate before joining the army! Even at the top of the Soviet Union, chocolate was a luxury item for good.

No better than Andrei's previous life, chocolate was already an ordinary candy at that time!

Now a pile of chocolate as thick as bricks appeared in front of his eyes, of course, everyone was dumbfounded: in fact, Leonov's introduction was a little problematic, and these were a mixture of D-type rations and K-type rations of the US army -- when the Americans gave this batch of supplies to the Soviet Union, as the most cost-effective K-type rations, they could not make up enough and did not have time to produce compressed baklavaries, and many K-type ration packages replaced the baklavas with D-shaped rations of the same volume.

Of course, there is no problem with C rations, which have been successfully developed before World War II, which is easy for individual soldiers to carry with them and meet the needs of three meals a day. The C ration consisted of 6 small cans of tin sheets, 3 of which were meat (called "Ingredient M") and 3 cans of bread (known as "Ingredient B"). Among them, canned meat includes meat/beans, meat/vegetables, meat/macaroni noodles, eggs/potatoes, meat/rice, sausages/beans, ham, etc. By the beginning of 1944, sugar-coated peanuts, raisins, lemon/orange drink powder, cocoa powder, caramel, chewing gum were also added to the C rations.

And of course it's all there.

What is a Type D ration? It's military chocolate. Alyosha immediately divided a large chunk of it, and it was divided into six small pieces along the dividing line, and each of them tasted one piece. Everyone ate with relish, although the taste was not as good as the chocolates in the living room during the festival, but in the hearts of Vasily and others, this kind of military chocolate was almost a delicacy in the world.

Of course, the taste of this D-type ration of the US military is not as good as the chocolate produced by the famous Mars company (one of the products is "Dove"), but it is obvious that the Americans themselves can eat chocolate on the front line is also good for morale, not to mention that it can quickly replenish calories. In fact, these military chocolates from Helmsey, Pennsylvania, didn't taste very good -- "only slightly better than boiled potatoes." ā€

If military chocolate tastes too good, hungry soldiers will eat it in non-emergency situations, while military chocolate is usually served as emergency food. Of course, it is the fastidious American GIs, in a difficult combat environment. The fighters of the Soviet Red Army "didn't feel much" about anything heavier than boiled potatoes!

I have to lament that the Americans' supplies are sufficient, even to the point of wastefulness -- those elaborate outer packaging alone probably consumes a lot of manpower and material resources. A little envious, but not worshipped. All in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, like Leonov, knew why the Americans were able to do it: if no country on the edge of a great power could threaten them. In addition, there is also the ocean separated from other powers. Its economy could easily be highly developed.

However, the US imperialism, which has been hostile to the Soviets for so many years, is now so sparing no effort to help the Soviets, and everyone feels unbelievable, but Andrei knows that this is the benefit, it was these Yankees who came to invest in the Soviet Union at the beginning, like Hammer, and Ford, these capitalists scolded Soviet Russia on the one hand but kept coming here to obtain benefits, these capitalists did not have any discipline, and now once the Soviet Union falls, Germany will really dominate the world, so now the United States will fully support the Soviet Union, The support was almost to move the belongings to the Soviet Union and use them casually, and at this time the two countries were indeed like brothers, just like their own homeland and the honeymoon period of the United States.

However, the world is bustling, and all of this is based on the national interests of the United States.

With these imperialist supplies, Andrei and the soldiers had a good meal, and the ration standard of the US army was much higher than that of the Soviet army.

After resting for an hour, Andrei led the team to the side of the road to reconnoitre, everyone put on auspicious clothes, lurked in the forest, and Andrei picked up the telescope and began to observe.

And a German convoy attracted Andrei's attention, because this is a transport team, judging from the size of the transport team, it should have just opened from the supply point, that is to say, the German army's logistics supply point is nearby, because after a few days of searching, Andrei They have never found the German army's supply depot, if the German army's supply depot can be ended, the role of delaying the German offensive is far greater than the annihilation of several small German troops.

Because war is about logistics, especially in modern warfare, logistics is very important, because the logistics line is the lifeline!

So after nightfall, Andrei decided to lead his team along the road to continue reconnaissance.