"Uh, can you still only eat hard biscuits and miso today?" Artillery Corps Cao Xiaoze said.

"It's good to have biscuits, but logistics and soldiers who don't go to the battlefield can only eat two-thirds of the ration of biscuits." A man next to him muttered quietly.

"Hard biscuits are terrible." Ozawa said as he made the biscuits into small pieces and slowly soaked them in water. (This thing is a completely different thing from the current cookie.) At that time, hard biscuits were 100 grams each, and 2 pieces were eaten at one meal. It is mainly made of flour, salt, sugar and minced beef, which can theoretically feed soldiers for 7 days. But in reality? The truth proves that in order to eat this thing, the average person needs to drink 1,707 liters of tea. It takes 30 to 40 minutes! As you can imagine, what you are eating is definitely not biscuits, and it is not too much to say that it is a brick made of flour!! What's even more tragic is that now I can only eat hard biscuits every day, and I don't even have canned beef to go with hard biscuits!

According to the Japanese army's field food standards, a soldier could eat at least 6 biscuits and a 250-gram canned beef per day. The biscuits may dissolve into the same weight of rice. But now, I can only get biscuits every day. As for non-staple foods? I'm afraid that there is only miso and concentrated soy sauce, of course, if soy sauce is considered a non-staple food.

"It's better to be at the station." While eating, Ozawa reminisced about the Japanese army food when he was in Japan. To say that in Japan before the First Sino-Japanese War, apart from the various aristocratic bureaucrats, which class had the best food? Undoubtedly a military man. What did Ozawa eat before joining the army? Ozawa's sister used to work in a factory, and she could theoretically eat meat four times a week on a recipe. But these are only theoretical figures. And on the day Ozawa enlisted in the army, he thought he was dreaming when he saw the dazzling array of dishes on the dinner table. Except that the breakfast was rice and Fukujin stains. For lunch and dinner, you must see meat, all kinds of canned meat, cured meat, and so on. And there are also a variety of sweets from time to time. Thinking of this, Ozawa can't wait to throw away these re-burned biscuits that have been soaked for a long time and still don't get soft!

In addition to Ozawa, Nozu Michikan and others are also worried about their own food. When I came to Yuefeng Mountain, there were more than 13,000 people under my command, not to mention anything else, according to the diet of 1.5KG of staple food and non-staple food per person per day, 13,000 people consumed at least 20 tons of various foods a day. (Although the field fast food is 660 grams of biscuits and 250 grams of canned meat.) But this thing can only be used in an emergency, and no one can stand eating it all day long! Especially the flour bricks. And this is emergency food, and it can't be eaten casually without the order of the commander. ）

That's right. And those cavalry brigades and horses that pulled cannons. A HORSE SHOULD EAT AT LEAST 10+ KG OF VARIOUS FEEDS PER DAY. This horse can eat more than 10 people. Just talking about food supplies, this is not over, the various military stations and recruits along the way also have to consume food. In order to support the 13,000 men of Nozu Michikan at the foot of Mt. Gaspong, the Japanese army needed at least 50 tons of grain and grass per day to barely maintain the consumption of the troops. These 50 tons are to be transported from Busan to Wolbongsan!! As for other consumption. IN JUST THREE DAYS, NOZU MICHIKANI'S TROOPS LOST MORE THAN 500,000 ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION AND MORE THAN 3,000 ARTILLERY SHELLS, INCLUDING 107MM HEAVY ARTILLERY SHELLS. These are all drains.

According to the supply requirements of the Japanese army, a company-sized unit needs at least 3 sanitary pack horses, 16 ammunition pack horses, 12 grain and grass pack horses, and 7 cooking tool pack horses. Officers' pack horses were 7 to 10 horses. One can imagine how many pack horses and carts would be needed to supply the 13,000 men who supported them to fight! And this is only a supply requirement for ordinary infantry units, if it is replaced by artillery, it will be even greater. NOT TO MENTION ANYTHING ELSE, JUST TO PULL A 107MM HEAVY GUN, AT LEAST 8 HORSES.

And now, when Beiyang began to attack the Japanese supply line, the already stretched capacity immediately had a tendency to collapse. The entire supply line is actually composed of transport troops and military stations along the way, and the transport troops need to rest in places, and horses or personnel need to be replaced. Without a military station, it's hard to imagine how difficult it would be for a convoy that has always relied on mules and horses as its main capacity to get from Busan to the front line of Wolbongsan! And now, with the attack of the Beiyang guerrilla cavalry, the various military stations have suffered losses of different degrees. …,

Losses have been suffered in terms of human and material infrastructure, especially drinking water. The water supply trucks of each military station were the first targets of the Beiyang side in addition to grain and grass. At that time, it was not as polluted as it is now, but the water was not something that could be drunk casually. How many microorganisms and germs are there in the water of the mountain stream and the river? So in addition to purified water, it must be filtered and heated before it can be consumed.

In the face of the Japanese invasion, the vast majority of Koreans may not dare to resist head-on. But it's okay to throw some dead animals or feces into the well. What? What do you say the North Koreans should do? Is the name of the "army of locusts" called in vain? Hurry up and flash people, Yoshimasa Oshima, who was defeated not long ago, "requisitioned" a lot of supplies from North Koreans before he set off, and now that more "locust army" is coming, why are you still staying there? Looking for trouble?

It is not only the infrastructure of the military stations that has been hit. Those transport troops were even more targeted, and the small Qing army shot directly at the mules and horses of the transport troops, killing a few of them. Mules and horses don't know how big the hidden target is, who will they hit if they don't hit it? Once the mule and horse are injured, what do you say about this cart of supplies? Unload some of it and distribute it to other cars, or if it doesn't work, just throw it away. But as more and more Rangers joined the raiding business. These brought more than just trouble to the Japanese baggage troops.

What would happen if a heavy force of more than 200 people was ambushed by cavalry of more than 100 people, as well as machine guns and mortars? Anyone with a brain can think of it! As time went on, there were more and more cases of the baggage troops being eaten whole. So much so that the later baggage convoys no longer needed guides. Follow the wreckage of the cart and the bones of the horses along the way to find the way to the position of Moon Peak Mountain.

The military station was attacked, and the baggage transport troops were severely damaged, so that the logistics supply of the Japanese army was almost on the verge of collapse. In the later stage of the Battle of Yuefeng Mountain, not to mention the attack, the Japanese army only fired two guns and fired two shots every day. Shells and bullets are counted! If the Japanese army was desperate at the beginning and fought in the middle period, then it can only be described as soy sauce in the later stage.

Relative to the supply situation of the Japanese army. The Qing army had to go up a lot. The fundamental reason is not that the Qing army really has more strength to ensure that its transportation lines are unblocked, but because the supply lines of the Qing army are shorter, and the baggage from Asan ashore can reach the Chenghuan line without going far, and because of the problems of the battle line, it is impossible for the Japanese army to make a fuss on such a short supply mountain. Compared with the transportation line from Busan to Chenghuan, the supply line of the Qing army was too short and easy to walk.

On the other hand, the popularity of the Qing army is not a little better than that of the "locust army". The Qing State was originally the suzerainty of Korea, and the vast majority of the Qing army was quite restrained after entering the dynasty, especially Nie Shicheng's troops. Between the relatively abundant silver and the extremely low price of human resources in North Korea. Nie Shicheng used a lot of North Koreans to help transport supplies, and although you can't completely eliminate stealing, it's basically within a tolerance limit. Moreover, compared to horses, the logistics officers of the Qing army found that donkeys were more suitable for transporting supplies in the mountains, and although they had less strength, they ate less and were less prone to illness. Therefore, in terms of the import of materials, the Qing army was because of a shorter supply line and a relatively good mass base. Therefore, in terms of transportation, the Qing army had a certain advantage.

And in terms of food? How so? The Qing army also had re-roasted biscuits and dried meat! And the re-burning biscuits at that time were all a virtue. As for dried meat? After the evaluation of some people in the new army, this thing can have a mahogany-like luster when polished!! The hardness is comparable to teak!! In a word, it is a good thing to go all the way to the re-baked biscuits called bricks made of flour! However, there is one thing that the Qing army is stronger than the Japanese army, and that is in terms of vegetables. The Qing army had plenty of dehydrated vegetables to eat. And not just eating pickles. Therefore, in terms of nutritional balance, the Qing army was much stronger than the Japanese army. As for the transportation of food. The Qing army preferred to serve meat in special wooden barrels. A barrel holds enough meat for 50 or 100 people at a time. Simplified packaging and convenient production. Small cans, on the other hand, are only distributed as emergency food. …,

However, even so, the Qing army also faced the problem of food shortage. After the Japanese offensive gradually changed from fighting to playing soy sauce, Nie Shicheng and Ma Yukun in Pyongyang began to collect grain and forage according to the established plan. And with the North Korean officials, the population is transferred to the strongholds! According to the established plan, sooner or later the troops in Korea will have to retreat, and after the retreat, the food and human resources of the DPRK will certainly not be left to the Japanese. Therefore, even if you go to buy it, you must definitely buy as much food as possible, and in the end, even if it is burned, it is better than letting Japan snatch it, and this is especially true for human resources. Allowing the Koreans to hide in the mountains with their own rations would undoubtedly make it more difficult for the Japanese army to resupply them on the battlefield.

If the final state of the Japanese army was soy sauce, then the state of the Qing army was not much better, except for a small half of the troops used for defense, the rest of the troops were used for transport, collection and stockpiling supplies. Even people who started out with a bad sense of logistics began to collect supplies and capacity in large quantities after a few days of starvation. How so? From Chenghuan to the north to Pyongyang. The supplies in this area were basically collected by the Qing army. Of course, you have to give some money. The Koreans still have to keep their own rations, after all, the Qing State is the suzerain, and the officials can't be like the "locust army" after sweeping and not growing a single grass! Don't say it, these efforts paid off in the later wars, and without these material reserves, I am afraid that the Qing army would not have been able to hold out of Korea at all! And the Beiyang Army, which had the experience of working in the fortified wall and clearing the wilderness, made the Japanese troops who entered Chinese mainland suffer in the subsequent battles!

Thank you for the tips from the new old people~~. This week's collection is bleak~~Everyone help~~