Chapter 221: A Dilemma Section 1 The Problem of Eating

Turning a sneak attack into a clear garrison, Qing Shui Dazuo has not thought about it, but many problems are placed there, and it is not something that is taken for granted as soon as the head is hot, in the hinterland of the base area of the Eighth Route Army, there is no reinforcement, there is no communication line, and there is a strong garrison, why hold on for three to six months?

What's more, Zoumayi, Kawaguchi Town, and Yinfang Town, which were also occupied by the Japanese army back then, were used by the Eighth Route to cut off the communication line and block reinforcements.

At present, it seems that the communication line from Zoumayi to Laiyuan and Lingqiu will not be open for a while and a half, and it is snowing heavily, waiting for reinforcements to open up the highway line, which is basically something that cannot be counted on in winter.

In this way, he can only be trapped alone, and Qing Shui is still very confident in the combat effectiveness of his troops, and the 3,000-strong troops, there are almost no non-combatants, and since they joined the special operations wing, they have all received cruel and strict training, and even those baggage soldiers, engineers, and so on are all soldiers with good military qualities.

If you want to survive, in this mountainous area isolated on all sides, there is no food reserves, no warm clothing, no complete and solid garrisons, and within a few days, the troops will be in chaos.

So if Qing Shui wants to hold on, according to the three-month standard, how many supplies does he need? Roughly calculated, it would take more than 400 tons just to eat! This is still calculated according to the minimum field ration standard for individual soldiers, and Qingshui's special operations wing carried rations according to normal field standards when it set off, and on the fifth day, the standard ration base was replenished by planes, and it is this part of the rations that have been replenished since then.

On April 15, 1938, the Japanese Army promulgated the "Correction of the Rules and Rules for the Wartime Allowance for Military Personnel", which revised the ration standards for military personnel. Based on the actual combat experience in China over the past year, the Japanese military raised the ration standards for the food and meat of the Japanese soldiers, and thus formulated the standard food for the Japanese army for more than seven years after that.

The basic food ration of the Japanese army was: 660 grams of polished rice (about 13 taels), 210 grams of refined wheat (about 4 taels), 210 grams of fresh meat, 600 grams of vegetables, and 60 grams of Ze'an. 0.08 liters of soy sauce, 75 grams of miso, 5 grams of salt, 20 grams of sugar. 3 grams of tea, 0.4 liters of sake or 120 grams of sweets, 20 cigarettes (one pack).

Special ration (mainly used during battles): 580 grams of polished rice, 230 grams of biscuits or compressed dry food, 150 grams of canned meat or 60 grams of dried meat, 120 grams of dried vegetables, 45 grams of umeboshi or Fukujin pickles, 30 grams of soy sauce powder or 40 grams of concentrated soy sauce, 30 grams of miso powder, 5 grams of salt. 20 grams of sugar, 3 grams of tea, 45 grams of nutritious food, sake, sweets. The cigarette is the same as above

Replacement quantitative: There is another substitution quantitative, which mainly provides the above two quantitative replacements for insufficient materials in wartime. Taking the staple food as an example, 870 grams of polished rice or 1020 grams of bread, or 690 grams of biscuits, or 60 grams of compressed dry food, or 900 grams of refined grains, that is to say, all five of them can be replaced.

Meat includes 80 grams of bacon or 180 grams of eggs. Pickles include: 120 grams of salted or bran pickles. The seasoning is 150 grams of miso or 0.08 liters of salt or 0.08 liters of sauce

Arguably. During the war, the Japanese army had a very high level of food, and not only did it have a high amount of staple food, but also a lot of meat as a side food, and it also provided various things such as pickles, miso, and sweets that suited the taste of the Japanese.

The wartime rations of the Japanese army basically took into account the necessary calories for the human body during daily marching and fighting. vitamins, proteins are needed. To tell the truth, this is much stronger than the units of the Eighth Route Army, which regard being able to eat as the best standard for the general population, and the Eighth Route Army of the Shandong Military Region had a few green onions and dry food bags with pancakes tied to their luggage, which shows very well that the Eighth Route Army did not have such a scientific ration standard at that time.

Due to the consistent attention to the food issue, the soldiers of the 11th Division of Yang Bangzi were able to eat enough in the most difficult 42 years. Vegetables are what to eat, meat is an irregular supply, if you have to meet a lot of seizures or purchases, you have to eat more often, if not, I am afraid that I will not be able to get a few months of meat.

For example, the special training camp came out of Duyu to fight this time, and each soldier carried a three-day ration, which was composed of cornmeal and sorghum flour mixed with steamed wotou for one day and raw noodles for two days, and each soldier also carried a large piece of pickle gnocchi, which was the basic ration! It's nice to be able to eat well.

As for the other three battalions of the 20th Regiment withdrawn from the Eastern Front, in addition to the rations with similar coarse grains, Yang Bangzi also ordered to take out all the captured canned meat from the logistics department's inventory and distribute them to each company, and at the same time asked the Lingman Administration to help buy some goats and other things as meat supplements.

However, because they are guarding their own doorstep, marching and fighting or garrisoning and resting, they don't need to carry a lot of food, this is the only place where the Eighth Route Army is stronger than the devils, and the crops of the entire 11th Division in 43 years are good, and the grain reserves of the military division and the administrative department are enough to support half a year.

That is to say, from the point of view of both the offensive and defensive sides, at present, Yang Bangzi's eight roads are not to eat worries, and then look at Shimizu Daizuo's worries, first calculate an account, usually when the Japanese army's field troops are performing combat missions, at the beginning of the troop march, ordinary Japanese soldiers need to carry 6 days of rations.

The 6-day ration consisted of 3 days of polished rice (2610 g), 1 day of biscuits (690 g), 2 days of compressed dry food (1380 g), 1 day of canned meat (180 g), 6 days of dried meat (720 g), 6 days of miso (180 g), 6 days of miso (450 g), 6 days of sugar (120 g), 6 days of salt (30 g), and 6 days of nutritious food (270 g), and the total weight of these was already close to 7 kg.

In addition to these 6 days' rations, each Japanese soldier had to carry 2 days' emergency rations. Emergency rations weigh 1,700 grams and are mainly biscuits (which can also be rice) that do not need to be cooked, canned meat, salt and pickles, as there is generally no time to cook in the heat of battle.

Emergency rations are not intended for emergency use when soldiers are unable to eat themselves, but must be ordered by the commander before they are allowed to be used. Otherwise, even if the soldiers starved to death, they were not allowed to use emergency rations, and violators would be severely punished.

Emergency rations were generally used in the last moments of the Japanese army's operations. In the case of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, once the commander ordered the use of emergency rations, it meant that there were two situations, one was that the Japanese army's logistical supply had been cut off or interrupted, and the other was that the war had reached a critical stage, and if the Japanese army could not succeed within 2 or 3 days, I am afraid that it would have to retreat.

During the Anti-Japanese War, once the Japanese army was surrounded by ** and the supply was cut off, the Japanese Air Force would often airdrop a large amount of this emergency ration. For example, the 10th Division that was severely attacked during the Battle of Taierzhuang, the 5th Division that was surrounded in the Battle of Pingxingguan in the Battle of Taiyuan, and the 106th Division that was surrounded in Wanjialing in the Battle of Wuhan all relied on these airdrops and supplies to support them.

With an average ration of almost 2 kilograms plus emergency rations, the ration alone weighs nearly 9 kilograms. Together with rifles, ammunition, 99-style backpacks, clothing, raincoats, blankets, toothbrushes, tooth powder, towels, soap, and even 150 pieces of toilet paper, the Japanese army carried 20 kilograms of weight. Fortunately, when the Japanese army maneuvered over long distances, they often relied on railways, automobiles, and transport ships, so the real march on foot was still limited.

In addition to carrying the weight of these ordinary field troops, Qingshui's special operations wing also added five kilograms of ammunition to each person, that is, the ammunition base of the whole wing was increased by one base and distributed to the soldiers, so that the individual soldiers of the special operations wing reached at least 25 kilograms of weight per person.

From this point of view, if Qing Shui Daizuo wants to stay at the horse post for three months, according to the basic ration consumption of each soldier for one day, he needs to reserve more than 300 tons of rations alone! This is also a very difficult transportation task for the North China Front Army in the rear! Because the land route is different, it is really difficult to rely on aircraft to complete this kind of supply.

Qing Shui doesn't plan to report any hope for the regular supply of the Air Force, the winter is windy and the climate is harsh in the mountains, and it is impossible to say whether the planes will come or not, and they can still be expected to be airdropped regularly? It is better to let the planes airdrop the basic supplies for three months as soon as the front army asks him to be stationed!