Whether it is a marching and war or a voyage, logistics are very important. If the logistics supply is insufficient, the army will collapse and the crew will be ruined. All ambitions will turn into bubbles.
At the same time, an important feature of logistics is convenience. During the war, the pace is very fast and there is no time to knead the dough slowly to make food. Therefore, how to be convenient and fast is the way to do it.
Therefore, military food in later generations included convenient foods such as compressed biscuits, canned meat, canned vegetables and fruits, and instant noodles.
These foods are easy to eat and convenient to transport. These two characteristics are also important indicators of military food supply. The reason why Malin struggled to get canned, compressed biscuits, and even made dehydrated vegetables wrapped in oil paper bags were all based on the important principle of "easy to eat and easy to transport."
However, the canned food in this era is not much the same as the canned food in later armies. The canned food in later armies are mostly aluminum leather cans, which are easy to carry and not afraid of collisions. In this era, Marin could only make canned food in glass bottles, which is inconvenient to carry.
Therefore, Marin turned his attention to dehydrated vegetables wrapped in oil paper bags. After all, it is very convenient to carry oil paper bags. Like the backpacks of girls in later generations, there are many bags of snacks.
For example, the soldiers and crew of the Beihai Kingdom can now put a few bags of compressed biscuits and a few bags of dehydrated cabbage in their backpacks, and they can last for several days. Moreover, these two foods can be eaten with soaked water. If an ordinary schoolbag from later generations is filled with compressed biscuits and dehydrated vegetables, it is probably possible to last for one month. After all, whether it is compressed biscuits or bags of organic vegetables, they are very light and easy to carry food. This is the biggest reason why Marin strongly advocates oil-paper bag packaging food - easy to carry.
What is the meaning of easy carrying? It may be much less meaningful to crew members. After all, the cabin space is actually very large. But for the army, it means it is a big deal.
The most important significance is that the Army, which brought compressed biscuits and bags of dehydrated vegetables, can go on a lightweight battle to carry out a raid!
Yes, you can do raids! Compressed biscuits and bags of dehydrated vegetables are lightweight, and a backpack can hold food for a month. Just carry a backpack and you can launch a long-distance raid without waiting for the supplies troops that transport food and grass!
You should know that the supplies troops transporting food and grass are composed of civilians and brave men, and their marching speed is very slow. After all, they have not received physical training like the regular army of Beihai Kingdom, which often runs 5 kilometers. Sometimes, in order to avoid starving, regular army soldiers can only wait for the civilians.
Although the Beihai country's logistics forces used a large number of light wheelbarrows, the overall marching speed was still dragged down. If each person carried a pack of compressed biscuits and bags of dehydrated vegetables, the regular soldiers could temporarily throw off the logistics forces and advance lightly. As long as the logistics forces could catch up in a month, they could launch a fast attack.
Marin vaguely remembered that when the special forces attacked in later generations, they set out with compressed food in the package, and could leave the large army for a long time. Of course, those special forces had strong survivability in the wild and dared to eat anything. But compressed biscuits were their main food. Eating everything was only when there was no way to do so, so they could learn from Bei Ye.
However, eating raw cabbage is really a bad feeling. Although Europeans are used to it, Marin is not used to it. He remembers that when eating vegetable salads in later generations, they seemed to have to put ketchup on...
"Yes, tomato sauce! If possible, I will give the crew and soldiers a tomato sauce in the future. The dehydrated cabbage leaves soaked in water and dipped in tomato sauce, it seems good..."
Of course, this is just a long-term plan. After all, the Marin colonies have only begun to try to grow tomatoes introduced from Mexico. When they can brew a large amount of tomato sauce, some may wait. But the European natives in this era will not care about those, because they have grown up with raw vegetables since childhood. They dare to eat onions like raw, let alone the lighter cabbage?
There is no other reason why Marin chose to use Chinese cabbage as dehydrated vegetables - it's cheap!
This is the food that supplies tens of thousands of troops and tens of thousands of crew members. The taste is not important, the cost is the most important. In the later generations of cabbage, the yield per mu was as high as 5,000 to 10,000 kilograms. After applying three fertilizers to Marin, the yield per mu was also three or four thousand kilograms, which was very cheap. Therefore, it is the best military vegetable.
If the army is large, expenditure becomes a very important issue. If the cost is not controlled properly, an army of tens of thousands of people will probably be able to make a big country poor. Only Beihai has enough money and food, especially food under various golden fingers of Marin. Otherwise, Beihai will not be able to raise so many troops at all. Didn’t you see a top-level country like France that only raises 10,000 or 20,000 people? There is no way, Europe’s food is too expensive! A country with cheap food like the Ming Dynasty has a military force of hundreds of thousands. It is only a matter of quenching a Yao people’s uprising, and it actually uses more than 100,000 people. In Europe, food alone cannot be consumed...
Marin remembers that before the Dutch introduced advanced agricultural technology from the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century in Europe, the army generally had a maximum of tens of thousands of people, unless it was a multi-national coalition. Otherwise, it would be difficult for a country to bear the food consumption of tens of thousands of troops. The only exception was that the army of Wallenstein in the "Thirty Years' War" reached a scale of 100,000.
However, in order to support this army of 100,000 people, Germany paid several heavy prices! Wallenstein had no money and food to support this army of 100,000, so the food and drink of these 100,000 troops were all robbed. Their practice was called "ravage the four fields to support themselves". Wherever the army passed, all the food was robbed, and all the animals were killed and meat were killed. Then, a large number of German farmers were starved to death. This army fought from the south to the north, which also brought serious disasters to the German region - many civilians starved to death because of their robbery... And this army of 100,000 people was also called "Wallen Stein's locusts" by the horsebeard. The locusts passed by, and no grass grew...
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Only time travelers like Marin who masters modern agricultural technology can support tens of thousands of troops in this era. In terms of the number of standing troops, the Beihai Kingdom is actually the number one in Europe.
However, because the 60,000 troops were scattered in the North Sea and England, their strength was greatly weakened. If they were united, even France would be afraid.
Of course, it was a blessing that he did not unite the army. If he really did that, the German princes would not mind joining France to deal with Marin. Therefore, Marin thought of hiding soldiers abroad. He released 30,000 to 40,000 troops in his local area, but in fact he had reached the limit of patience of the German princes. If he had increased his troops, he could see his ambitions as a fool, and he might have taken the initiative by the princes.
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But no matter what, Marin will definitely not only use 30,000 to 40,000 people to fight in the future. In that case, if it attacks, the local area will be unsafe.
His plan was to concentrate 100,000 troops to have a life-and-death battle with the princes. If he wins, he will occupy the small German in northern Germany and establish a new Germany in advance.
Therefore, when he is making this dehydrated vegetable now, he is actually making preparations for the future 100,000 troops. Before the troops move, food and grass will go first. The food and grass of the 100,000 troops are not a small number. Moreover, preservation and transportation are also big problems.
The compressed biscuits, vegetables, even milk powder, dried grilled fish, jerky meat and so on packaged in oil paper bags are all prepared for the future use of 100,000 troops.
Chapter completed!