Chapter 11 The army is fighting logistics

Weihai Port is located in Weihai Bay at the eastern end of the northern part of the Shandong Peninsula and is an important port along the coast of Shandong Province. There are two port areas, the old port area located in the center of the city is mainly for passenger transportation and ro-ro transportation, and the new port area outside the city center is mainly for bulk cargo such as coal, mining construction, timber and international container transportation. At the end of 2013, Weihai Port had a total of 16 berths, with a total length of 1,273 meters and a maximum berthing capacity of 42,000 tons. There are 488037 square meters of storage yard, of which the warehouse area is 142944 square meters and the yard area is 345093 square meters; It is equipped with 173 sets of various loading and unloading machinery, with a maximum lifting capacity of 254 tons. There are 17 ships in the port.

Although the people of Weihai Port are determined to forge ahead, but in the context of the sudden turn of the international economy into a cold winter, the sharp decline in foreign trade of the Yanhuang Republic, coupled with the competition of traditional ports such as Qingdao Port and Yantai Port, the daily import and export throughput of Weihai Port is shrinking day by day.

Weihai Zhenguo Logistics Co., Ltd. is a local medium-sized logistics and warehousing service company, the company in the southwest of Weihai port, a little far away, with two large logistics and warehousing parks. But since the end of last year, the record of large containers and bulk cargo in and out is decreasing, the storage utilization rate is only 15%, removing land rent, labor costs, the company's net loss of 1.75 million yuan per month, the company's general manager Zhang Yuanshan has been worried about this, although the company's bank deposits are relatively sufficient, but domestic and foreign trade has not improved, and the feeling of sitting on the empty mountain makes him sit on pins and needles.

2 days ago, Mr. Zhang's fortune was high, ushered in a business owner who claimed to be from the south, and after a few words, he learned that because his relatives invested in Shandong to build a factory, he had a large source of exports, and the idea of the southern boss was naturally that the fertilizer water did not flow into the fields of outsiders, and he wanted to contract Zhang Yuanshan's storage park to carry the export business of his relatives. Mr. Zhang heard that he was willing to subcontract at a suitable price. You and I are willing, and I have successfully subcontracted two logistics parks. After the handover was completed, the southern boss hired a team of local construction workers to build a 5-meter-high fence along the edge of the warehouse in two days at a high price, completely eliminating the barbed wire wall that had been laid to save money. After 2 days of calm, there were large transport vehicles to transport goods one after another, and the goods were covered with rainproof cloths, so they could not see the appearance clearly, and the original warehouse management personnel were also concentrated in a school for training in the name of training. The entire warehouse is managed by some new faces, because it is a little remote in Weihai, there are no residential areas, and the vehicles coming and going are relatively low-key, so it does not cause a ripple in Weihai City.

After 7 days of entering and exiting like this, the gate was quiet again, and as a sum of money was transferred to the designated account in the world, the guards of the warehouse gradually decreased, and all the new faces disappeared, and finally only a few necessary gatekeepers remained. As the moon was dark and the wind was high, a vague shadow appeared in the woods 15 kilometers away from the warehouse, and after he closed his eyes and paused for a few seconds, he flicked his arm and disappeared from the woods again.

The next day, Second Lieutenant Yan and the contact person of the Africa Department of the Ministry of National Defense received a strange text message on their mobile phones, the money has been paid, the goods have been shipped, the cooperation is pleasant, and I am looking forward to the next transaction!

The person who carried out such a sneaky activity was naturally Comrade Wang Fan. As for the shock caused by the sudden disappearance of the munitions, it was not his concern. Anyway, after using the ring camouflage function, no one can recognize him, which accounts have been Yadi Azure through dozens of bank shadow accounts in more than a dozen countries, and only after traveling around the world did it arrive at the bank account designated by the Ministry of National Defense, if you want to trace back to the source, without the cooperation of those dozens of banks, open depositor information, there is no door!

While waiting for all kinds of military materials to be transported into the Weihai Port storage base, Wang Fan was not idle, and began to purchase various consumable materials such as food and clothing for the army through the online platform. Usually read the novel written that the war is superb, as if the protagonist raised his arms and shouted, as soon as the anger of the king was released, the enemy was killed, and the war was very simple, that is, how many thousands of people attacked, how many equipment fired, how many towns were captured, this time the actual estimate of the materials that the German Sixth Army needed to replenish, only then did I deeply realize the complexity of the army's equipment, the hard work and importance of logistics!

First of all, all German tanks that participated in actual combat in World War II ran on gasoline and never used diesel! Nani? You read that right, they use gasoline, Wang Fan has always thought that tanks eat diesel rice, how good is that, high horsepower, high ignition point! And since I read military journals, it seems that they are all tanks that drink diesel!

Through Aunt Qiandu's inquiry, I learned that although Germany during World War II realized that diesel engines as tank engines had the advantages of high output horsepower, low fuel costs, and not easy to catch fire after war damage, until the defeat, Germany was never able to develop a mature diesel tank engine that could be mass-produced, which was very painful, right? So from the earliest No. 1 ultralight tank, to the last King Tiger heavy tank, they all used gasoline engines as power. Dear, the question is which type of gasoline? 90, 93, 97, or 100 gasoline? No one knows, and if you ask the German soldiers of World War II, they don't know that there is the word 93 at all.

Fortunately, the power of the people is endless, cuddle the grass and beat the rabbit, I will buy more of everything, okay! Alibaba, lazy expert!! Wang Fan bought 5,000 tons of No. 97 from here, and 10,000 tons of No. 93 from that company, and purchased nearly 100,000 tons of gasoline of various grades by breaking it into parts and dispersing orders. At the same time, the store is required to use standard tin barrels, uniformly sprayed with black paint, no other handwriting is allowed on it, only the words "gasoline" and 97 and other marks are written in German (of course, the explanation is prepared for export), so as to solve the oil problem and prevent the leakage of the facts. By the way, during World War II, the Soviet Union was the only one in the world that mastered the full-fledged technology of diesel engines for tanks. The tanks of the rest of the countries, including the United States, Britain, Germany, Japan and other countries, can only use gasoline engines. It was only in the mid-50s that tank diesel engines gradually became widespread around the world. Although it is also mentioned in historical sources that alcohol can be added to gasoline in small quantities as a supplement to tank fuel. But this fuel mixture reduces the power of the gasoline engine by 10 to 20 percent, so it is normally prohibited. Pure alcohol, on the other hand, cannot be used in gasoline engines. Therefore, German tanks have also used alcohol and other refueling in emergencies, but it is only an individual case and does not have universal significance.

Here is a point in why Germany is so hungry for oil. To retrace the last two years of the First World War, when Germany experienced severe oil shortages, the only sources of which were Austria-Hungary and Romania, Ludendorff pointed out at the time: "Romanian oil is a top priority, but unfortunately Romania's oil production capacity has reached its limit and is not enough to change the overall situation of the German oil shortage." The British, on the other hand, took Baku in August 1918, which Ludendorff called "a heavy blow to us."

Before World War II, in the first year of Nazi power, economic strategy experts pointed out that in the event of war, heavy dependence on crude oil imports would be a key bottleneck restricting German operations. The "Kailin Mansion Plan" of July 12, 1938, called for 11 million tons of oil production by the beginning of 1944, but Hitler clearly could not wait for this time, and his strategy was to start the war first through reserves, and then solve the source of oil in the war. In the first half of 1939, German oil imports peaked, with Romania being the largest source. Despite the cut off from sources outside Europe after September, Germany imported 5.165 million tonnes of oil that year, 200,000 tonnes more than in all of 1938. On May 27, 1940, Germany and Romania signed an oil agreement, and 974,000 tons of the 2,075,000 tons of oil imported by Germany that year came from Romania, and nearly 657,000 tons were imported according to the Soviet-German Trade Agreement. In 1941, imports from Romania increased to 1,007,000 tons, and in the first half of the year, imports from the Soviet Union were 283,000 tons.

In the second half of 1936, Hitler took some decisive steps to arm Germany so that it could prepare for the war that was expected to take place in 1940. He embarked on a four-year plan with one goal to reduce dependence on foreign oil through new technologies and chemistry. In proposing that plan, he said: "It is now necessary to develop fuel production in Germany as quickly as possible. This task must be approached and accomplished with the same determination as it did at the time of combat, because future acts of war depend on the resolution of this problem. He added: "The cost of production of such raw materials is irrelevant. ”

Germany has built a very strong synthetic fuel industry for this purpose. By the time of the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, and the outbreak of World War II in Europe, it had 14 hydrogenation plants running at full speed, with another six under construction. By 1940, the production of synthetic fuels had increased dramatically - 72,000 barrels per day, or 64 per cent of the total oil supply. In terms of military needs, synthetic fuels are even more significant. The Beggeus hydrogenation method provides around 95% of the total amount of aviation gasoline in Germany. Without those synthetic fuels, the Luftwaffe would not have been able to take to the skies.

Despite the might of Hitler's war machine and the increasing availability of synthetic fuels, the oil problem never reassured him. Indeed, that fear had led him to develop a basic strategy based on a "blitzkrieg" - to concentrate mechanized forces for a ferocious and short-term attack in order to win a decisive victory before the fuel supply became a problem. Initially, this strategy was used with astonishing brilliance, both in Poland in 1939 and in the spring of 1940 when Norway, the Low Countries and France were ravaged. The campaign on the Western Front actually improved Germany's oil situation, as the Germans plundered oil reserves far more than they consumed in the war of aggression. Even if Hitler's subsequent attempt to conquer the British Isles by massive aerial bombardment failed in the autumn of 1940, Germany still seemed close to dominating Europe!

It was also in 1940 that the situation in Romania was precarious, with Hungary, Bulgaria and the Soviet Union all making territorial claims to it, and the Soviet Union simply sent troops to occupy Bessarabia on July 1. On November 23, Romania joined the Axis powers and the "Fan Comintern Agreement", and Germany's dependence on Romania for oil reached 94% that year, and by the time of Operation Barbarossa the following year, 2.086 million tons of oil exports to Germany were worth more than the 1 million Romanian troops who participated in the war.

Germany believed that victory would not be difficult to come by. So, when Romania's largest oil field, Proiesti, was threatened by the Soviet Union, Hitler turned his eyes eastward to his next target, which was the Soviet Union. Beginning with Barbarossa, the capture of Baku and other Caucasian oil fields was Hitler's vision of the center of the Russian campaign. One historian once wrote: "In the economic sphere, Hitler's goal was oil. The seizure of the Caucasus oil fields is even more important than the capture of Moscow! For Hitler, oil was something essential for the industrial age and economic power. It's the blood of the war machine!

After talking about oil, let's talk about food, each infantry division on the German Eastern Front consumes 200 tons of supplies per day, 300 tons per armored division, which is a day's consumption, and the consumption of 200 tons is dozens of tons of food and fodder, 1/3 is fuel, and the rest is a mess of ammunition and car parts. This should be wartime attrition, but certainly not combat attrition.

During World War II, each infantry division consumed 22 tons of supplies per day, and the supply capacity of the logistics unit was 12,000 loaves of bread of 1.5 kg each, and the meat processing station: 15 cows or 120 pigs or 240 sheep per day, totaling 3,000 kg of sausages. Feed for military horses: war horses: 10 kg (5 kg of oats, 3.5 kg of hay, 1.5 kg of straw), traction horses: 14.5 kg (6.5 kg of oats, 5 kg of hay, 3 kg of straw), each infantry division consumes 45 tons of feed per day.

Back to Wang Fan, Wang Fan just transported rice, flour, and fodder over, which was the simplest, but the fodder horses could be eaten directly, and the others needed to be cooked by fire there, which not only wasted time, but also easily attracted shelling by the fire, and after mid-December 1942, the drinking water of the German soldiers at that time seemed to only rely on eating snow, and there was not much fuel that could be used to boil water. Therefore, Comrade Wang Fan decided to be a good person to the end, and in one step, he found some enterprises around Jinhai City, placed a large number of orders, and produced a large number of steamed buns, bread, ham, sausages, jams, pastries, canned food, etc. every day (the actual estimate is 1 million servings per day). In addition, Wang Fan also ordered a large number of winter cotton clothes (many soldiers of the Sixth Army had always been single-clothed and were frozen to death by the severe cold of Stalingrad), and then bought a large number of export-oriented kerosene heaters, kerosene stove lamps and other extremely practical field equipment on the Internet (kerosene and diesel fuel for Type 59 tanks were also purchased in large quantities).

Finally, medical equipment, medicines, medical consumables, such as absorbent cotton, cotton elastic bandages, net elastic bandages, medical tapes, iodophor, cotton swabs, alcohol, glucose (powder), normal saline, tourniquets, all kinds of surgical instruments, burns and other ointments are easier to do, the biggest problem is that antibiotic drugs will be directly inactivated after transmission, so they can not be practical, and what needs to be solved is the production date, because many production packages are printed with the manufacturer's advertising and production date, once seen, It was revealed (Wang Fan had other plans after completing the Battle of Stalingrad, once it was recognized that there were Yan Huang fonts on the materials, it would bring a lot of trouble to the follow-up plan), and finally Wang Fan made a phone call for a day, ordered a large number of tooling drugs from some small pharmaceutical factories, and asked the manufacturer to put the production date on the carton, so that there was no trace of the drugs inside, and after the materials arrived, the box was replaced with a white cardboard box without marking in the warehouse (a color with the snow, consider shelling), With the German drug insert printed on A4 paper, everything is OK. In terms of the drug list, Wang Fan referred to the "World Health Organization Standard List of Essential Medicines" and purchased a large number of injectable drugs ketamine and propofol; local anesthetics, bupivacaine, lidocaine, epinephrine, ephedrine; Preoperative medications and sedatives for short-term surgery: atropine, midazolam, morphine, aspirin, etc. After depositing all of these into the ring space, Wang Fan began to travel again......

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