In addition to ensuring the supply of weapons and equipment, the military logistics of the world's contemporary war in Varess also include clothing, food, shelter, and transportation that seem to be not directly related to the war.

Roland, as the "chief manager" responsible for the supply of military supplies in the Far East, must consider all aspects of the problem.

The problem of dressing officers and men was easily solved, and a bumper harvest of 800,000 mu of cotton fields in the Crescent Valley in southern Xinjiang brought about an upsurge in the cotton textile industry throughout the country, which was sufficient to provide the military with abundant cotton yarn, which could be processed into "cotton yarn-star synthetic fiber" with the star produced by Yinkong, which was used to make military uniforms with super toughness. In addition, furs from the Lucia Mountains will also be sent to the military industry to produce military coats to protect against the cold in winter.

When marching and fighting inevitably camped in the wilderness, Roland gathered the country's major textile business owners for a symposium to make a list of military supplies, including hundreds of thousands of tents and sleeping bags, in addition to military uniforms and bedding. All manufacturers are fighting for red eyes, and they all want to eat the fat meat of military orders.

Roland DG comprehensively considers the advantages and shortcomings of each manufacturer, distributes the order in batches, and if the product provided by a manufacturer is unqualified or fails to be delivered on time, the cooperation will be terminated immediately and the follow-up orders will be transferred to other competitors in the same industry.

From combat units to logistics teams, transportation is a top priority. The Far East is the first country in Varess to fully implement "military mechanization", but compared to this ambitious goal, the current domestic production of magic cars is far from enough. His Majesty Rudolph's dream of a "fully mechanized mobile legion" is a bit unrealistic for the time being, at least for now, the traditional cavalry is still the mainstream on the battlefield, and the horses and Lothmon are still far from being completely eliminated by the magic car!

For this reason, during his inspection of Dragon City, Roland visited two old friends, Anton and Zhuoya, and accompanied by them, they visited the local pastures and signed a military order. By the beginning of spring next year at the latest, Dragon City Ranch will provide the military with no less than 50,000 military horses, in addition to 5,000 highland lothmons with improved physique.

The three major events of clothing, housing and transportation have been arranged one after another, and Roland's current main direction of attack is the word "food".

When the army is dispatched, the issue of food is of paramount importance. Thousands of people marched en masse to fight, and the amount of food consumed every day was a huge number. In the pre-industrial era of obscurantism, the military food supply system was also relatively backward due to the inconvenience of transportation and the lack of technology for long-term storage of food. At that time, the army paid attention to "the three armies going first before moving the grain and grass"; wherever the army went, the grain transport teams and grain ships had to follow them, and the grain was collected from the country, and there was no lack of barbaric routines of plundering on the spot and feeding the war with war.

Obviously, this kind of logistics system is inevitably bloated and cumbersome, and the baggage convoys transporting military rations and fodder are even larger than those of combat units, and they have extremely high requirements for manpower and animal power, and it is difficult for them to support the large army in long-distance and long-term operations.

From the experience of the earth, Roland believes that the limits of an empire's expansion depend primarily on the limits of its military logistical supply capacity. For example, the Roman Empire, in its heyday, spanned three continents, Europe, Asia and Africa, turning the Mediterranean Sea into the inner lake of the empire. The Roman Empire's invincible history of conquest benefited from the convenient transportation of the Mediterranean, with the help of a large logistics fleet, wherever the Roman legions expanded, the logistics supplies from the sea followed, greatly reducing the transportation pressure; On the contrary, whenever the Roman Empire's legions moved away from the coast and fought inland, losing logistical supplies from the Mediterranean, the spirit of victory in the past ceased to exist, and the pace of foreign expansion had to be suspended.

The same experience applies in the world of Vares, as Marshal Sigmund said: "If an army needs its officers and men to fend for their own rations, it is difficult to ask them to win battles." ”

The current military rations in the countries of Varess are much the same: except for moldy black bread and hard jerky as firewood, all that can be turned into a bowl of disgusting fried noodles when poured with water.

For ordinary soldiers, it is considered lucky to be able to eat enough, and whether the taste is good or bad, they dare not ask for extravagance at all.

Ordinary soldiers didn't dare to ask for luxury, but Roland couldn't lower his requirements, and used his brain to ponder a question: can the marching rations be further improved? Could it be more portable, more shelf-stable, or even a little more palatable?

Extending along this line of thought, Roland naturally thinks of the most common type of canned military rations on the planet!

Roland remembers that the first canned food on earth appeared at the end of the 18th century. At that time, during the Napoleonic Wars, France required suppliers to seal pasteurized food in vacuum glass jars, thus inventing the world's first canned food. Napoleon's legions swept through the European continent without victory, and there was also a share of the credit of the "can".

In 1810, the Englishman Peter Duran invented tin cans that were easier to keep. Early tin cans were made of tin and lead alloys, and when the food itself was acidic, lead would enter the food, and the human body would be poisoned if the body ingested more than a certain amount of lead.

In 1915, Americans made the first aluminum cans, and in the same year aluminum cans appeared on supermarket shelves, and the modern canning industry was born.

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Glass is fragile, tin-lead alloys are poisonous, and as a traveler from Earth, Roland certainly wants to get it done in one step and promote aluminum cans in Vares. Unfortunately, it backfired, and after consulting with Jack and Duvalin, he learned that the alchemists of Varess had not yet discovered a metal element similar to "aluminum". Even if there is aluminium in the crust of the world of Vares, there is a question of mining and smelting costs. It should be noted that before the invention of electrolytic aluminum, the smelting and purification process of aluminium was very cumbersome, and the yield was so low that until the early 19th century, aluminium ware on earth was still a luxury item of gold and silver ware.

The road of developing aluminum cans is not easy, so Roland retreated to the next best thing and provided two ideas for replacing aluminum cans to the Far Eastern Military Technical Research Institute.

The first idea was to make canning boxes from the largest and cheapest tin sheets in the Far East. However, iron products have a fatal drawback, they are too easy to rust and corrode, and in the humid marching environment, the tin cans will rust and corrode in a few days, and they cannot preserve food for a long time. Therefore, if you use tin to process canned food boxes, you must come up with a set of effective anti-rust measures, and this is the specialty of the warlocks led by Kafta.

The second idea is to use the research results of "astral alchemy" to try to combine astral with other materials to prepare a new material similar to the plastic on the earth, which is used to make canned food packaging boxes. Considering the complex and changeable battlefield environment, this plastic material must have the characteristics of waterproof, oxidation resistance, corrosion resistance, and not easy to break, and can withstand a certain limit of high and low temperatures, and can be stored for a long time in the hot southern desert or the cold northern snow-capped mountains.