Chapter 2056: Combat Supplies and Sugar
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Three thousand dragoons require 9,000 Eastern European Mongolian horses. Taking into account reasons such as loss and disease, it is estimated that more than 10,000 horses should be prepared. Fortunately, Mongolian horses in Eastern Europe are cheap, with only 20 gold coins for a war horse, and no more than 10 gold coins for an ordinary riding horse.
The horses of the dragoons are used for traveling and do not need to charge. Therefore, an ordinary riding horse is sufficient. Therefore, 10,000 horses are not worth much. Moreover, Eastern European Mongolian horses of Mongolian horse blood have very low requirements for feed. In general, eating grass is fine. If you only ride one horse for a long journey, you may need to add some fine materials. And the three horses are riding alternately, so there is basically no need to add much concentrate. Just take some salt with you to supplement the salt loss of the horses running and sweating.
In this way, even if you march for a long distance, the consumption is not very large, especially the consumption of food. In addition, it is very cheap to buy horses from the Crimean Khanate, so there is no need to cherish horses too much. Moreover, this is not a war horse.
You know, during the Boer War, the British took great pains to transport 350,000 horses from all over the world to the battlefield. But after the war, it was considered that the cost of transporting horses was more expensive than the horses themselves. Therefore, the British army directly sold most of the horses cheaply on the spot. But the problem is that the locals have no shortage of horses, and the Boers even organized horse teams to attack the British. Therefore, when the local people do not lack horses, the price of horses is very low.
Marin's battle this time is also the same, and the long-distance attack will definitely hurt the horse's body. If you don't feed some food, you will definitely lose fat. Food can be fed... The price of food in Europe is so expensive, it's not worth it...
According to the minimum standard of 25 days to arrive at the battlefield, if you feed 4.8 kilograms of grain every day like the French cavalry drills, the daily grain consumption alone will be 10 pounds, worth 10 pfennigs, and 6 days is a gold coin. 10,000 cavalry, 30,000 horses, 30,000 gold coins will be spent in 6 days, and more than 120,000 gold coins in 25 days... No wonder there are very few European countries that can dispatch tens of thousands of cavalry in this era. The cost alone is scary.
Just like France, if the whole country is mobilized, 100,000 knights can be pulled out, but usually, the French are absolutely unwilling to dispatch too many cavalry. Because, the cost of marching alone is a fucking sky-high investment!
Besides, on Marin's side, the purchase price of 30,000 horses is only 300,000 gold coins. According to the routine, more than 120,000 gold coins will be consumed for 25 days of food. If it takes more than two months, the cost of feeding the horse will exceed the value of the horse itself...
Therefore, summing it up, the most cost-effective way is to reduce food consumption as much as possible. Only when you see that the horses are really struggling, add some feed. In addition, it must be fed better before the battle. In this way, the overall cost is much less.
Even if less than half of the 30,000 horses are left in the end, the food saved is enough to replenish new horses.
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This is for regular riding horses and draft horses only. For war horses, try to ensure nutrition as much as possible. Therefore, you must prepare a batch of soy oats.
No, the new shipment of soybeans from America was all requisitioned as war supplies. Then, the logistics department put all the 100 tons of soybeans in the ship into a large iron pot and fried them until they became fried soybeans. Then, while frying the beans, add salt.
In this way, the fried soybeans are fragrant and can add salt. Afterwards, these fried soybeans with salt were milled by a windmill, and all of them were ground into soybean noodles, which were sealed in oil paper bags, isolated from the air and heated, and became military horse food that could be preserved for a long time. Moreover, there is a fixed amount. Each small bag of cooked soybean noodles with salt weighs 1 pound. Every time you feed the horses, open a bag and feed them, no more, no less. Feed up to two meals a day, and one more meal can be fed before the battle. Of course, war horses can be fed one more meal, while draft horses can be fed up to one bag per day for riding horses. If you don't put in a lot of effort, you won't be fed.
This is better than putting soybeans in the bag, because war horses are greedy. If one of the purses is not fastened, the war horse will steal soybeans. Therefore, use a sealed oil paper bag to seal the cooked soybean noodles with salt, which can not only quantify the quantity, but also isolate the aroma, and also prevent the war horse from stealing it.
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This is about horses, and the supply requirements of humans are much higher than that of horses...
No, the compressed biscuits provided by the North Sea Kingdom are nothing unacceptable to the experienced mercenaries. But the elementary school boy soldiers that Shaoer selected from various schools in Beihai State had much higher requirements for food and drink...
Those old mercenaries grew up in the poor mountains of southern Germany, and food was a problem. For example, Kohler bread with only grass bran added was a good meal for them at first. Because they can't eat bread all year round. In order to obtain food, they looked for wild vegetables all over the mountains to make up for the lack of grains. In the bread they eat, wild vegetables, sawdust and even soil are the main body of the bread. Rye, only a small part of bread.
Therefore, these mountain mercenaries have no resistance to eating Kohler bread on long-distance marches. Mainly, in contrast, Kohler bread is really better than their previous meals.
But the children in the Beihai State School, they are very lucky, under the rule of Marin, the school has opened a canteen. In order for children to grow up healthily, bread tubes are essential. In addition, salted fish, vegetables, and even cow and goat milk are given priority to schools so that they can grow taller.
As a result, there was no question of the children's loyalty to Marin. However, if they are used to eating plain black bread without adding grass bran, salted fish, milk and other foods, and let them march to eat monotonous compressed biscuits, they will frown.
Although they will not complain publicly, it also affects morale...
In desperation, Marin had no choice but to provide them with upgraded compressed biscuits-sweet compressed biscuits with maple syrup added. Then, there are also grilled salted fish (of course also sealed in oil paper bags), and dehydrated vegetables in sealed packages...
Then, these young dragoons eat maple sugar compressed biscuits for every meal, supplemented by bags of roasted dried salted fish, and dehydrated vegetables. This standard, in this era, can only be enjoyed by at least a centurion-level officer...
Fortunately, these children are not as extravagant as the old American soldiers later on. They don't have any requirements for drinking water, as long as hot water can solve the problem. As for dehydrated vegetables, they seem unwilling to wait for the vegetables to soak in water slowly before cooking.
During the marching and training, these teenagers tore open the paper bag and gnawed on the dehydrated Chinese cabbage...
It's no wonder that in this era, Europeans eat vegetables raw. Even in later generations, they all like to make vegetable salads, that is, cold lettuce. But fruit, they are used to cooking and eating...
Ma Lin has promoted stir-frying many times, and everyone accepts it. But the problem is that because of the insufficient supply of cooking oil, most serf families have no conditions to cook. What to do with vegetables without cooking? Eat it raw...
However, this is convenient for marching food supply. When the army is marching, there is no need to provide a lot of iron pots for cooking. Basically, one pot is needed for every 10 talents. Moreover, they don't ask for a pot to cook, but to heat hot water. Because Marin forced the soldiers to drink hot water.
Of course, there are also people who are used to eating cooked vegetables, they will throw the Chinese cabbage packed in oil paper bags into the pot, add some salt, and cook the vegetable soup for drinking. But most of the teenagers from serf families in the countryside are more used to eating dehydrated vegetables when they unpack them.
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However, from the daily training of three thousand dragoons, Marin felt worried. why? In the future, the requirements for combat readiness materials will be higher!
In the past, war preparations only needed to prepare ordinary compressed biscuits and salt for soldiers. But when the new generation of young soldiers came up, the requirements were greatly improved. They grew up soaked in sweet water, unlike those old mercenaries, it was not uncommon for people to starve to death. As a result, logistics costs have been greatly increased.
For example, maple sugar compressed biscuits, which Marin originally intended to provide to officers in peacetime, and then to front-line soldiers in wartime. After all, maple syrup doesn't produce much. Mainly, there are insufficient manpower to collect maple syrup, which affects production capacity.
But look at those young soldiers who are loyal to him, they usually eat sweet biscuits...too extravagant...
However, after eating maple biscuits, the teenagers did recover faster than eating ordinary biscuits...
"That's right, sugar is in the 20th century, but war supplies are here..."
Marin suddenly remembered that in China in the late 20s, before the reform, white sugar had always been a war preparation material, and the army was given priority. At that time, sugar, tobacco and alcohol belonged to monopoly sales, and they had no status and could not eat them. Only soldiers can receive sugar subsidies stably. During the self-defense counterattack period, the famous 761 compressed dry food contained white sugar.
It is said that eating sweet dry food containing white sugar will not only restore physical strength quickly. Moreover, soldiers are in a good mood, which helps to improve morale...
And what is morale? That is the guarantee of victory in the war! Therefore, Marin had to consider including sucrose, which was rarely eaten by the nobles in this era, into the scope of combat supplies...
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