The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

Chapter 83: Eat well and wear warm clothes

The logistics supply of the Song Army mainly includes grain, weapons and war horses. The grain supply system adopts a fixed warehouse supply system and is implemented uniformly; the weapons are mainly cold weapons, supplemented by gunpowder weapons. Weapons factories are set up in the capital and important state capitals. According to the weapons supervision

The design factors, specifications, material standards, etc. are uniformly produced, and the weapons are delivered to the warehouses of the Ministry of War; war horses are selected by various horse farms and horse households.

After receiving the order from the Ministry of War, Gongzhou Prefecture sent people to deliver all the needed food, clothing, and clothing. The weapons were only for self-defense. The remaining armor and weapons had to be collected from the treasury at the residence. It was a bit like modern military logistics management.

It means that when the United States fought in Iraq, its soldiers went empty-handed.

Have you gone to various military bases to collect the weapons in reserve? The biggest problem is horses. You can't find so many horses at once, so you can only 'requisition' the horses from the prince's horse farm on the spot, and get some bad horses from here and there to make up the number.

It's not good to be a war horse, but it's okay to be a draft horse or a pack horse, so it's just right for the supply camp.

The issued military uniforms, the infantry winter clothes include soap silk cotton jacket, yellow silk cotton jacket, white silk cotton stockings and trousers, violet headscarf, blue and yellow shoulder straps, and hemp shoes. The Ma Army replaced the blue and yellow shoulder jackets with scarlet silk.

, add white silk stockings and trousers to their winter clothes. There is only three days' worth of food and grass, which clearly urges them to leave quickly and eat elsewhere!

Zhao Tao didn't care much about this, because he had already prepared everything, and he didn't have to worry about food. If he didn't leave in Xiangyi, he would have stored enough food to feed an army of 10,000 people for two years, and it was definitely better than

Others still have to eat well, but

He has always adhered to the concept of "don't eat for free, eat for free". Although these things are not as good as what he prepared, he still takes them all according to the order. The useful clothing and bedding are kept, and the useless ones are just used as reserves for the society.

Diners use.

"Unless the soldiers are fed and clothed, this army will be defeated." This is what the famous British general Duke of Marlborough said. Although this statement is not as subtle as the Chinese, it is the truth. Beautiful military uniforms can improve the army.

This is Hitler's idea of ​​improving morale. Zhao Tong also believes in this. He has put a lot of thought into designing and producing things that are suitable for this era. It can also be said that there is a revolution from head to toe, from mouth to stomach.

Let's start with the head. The soldiers of the Song Army are different from the military academy. They only have clothes and armor, no belts. They wear "leather hats" on their heads to prevent wind and rain and protect their heads. Zhao Tao made this

Improvement: The iron 'flying saucer helmet' worn by British soldiers during World War II was added to the inside. The outside is still wrapped in thin yellow-brown cowhide to prevent rust. A shock-absorbing lining woven with leather strips is added inside the helmet, which can be bundled.

Under the chin, it looks like there is not much difference from the outside, but in fact there has been a fundamental change. In addition, each person also has a unique black pure wool special cap that Russian soldiers often wear, which is both light and warm.

It can also be used as a face mask. Add a pair of windproof and dustproof all-inclusive glass goggles to resist the common wind and sand in the northwest, which solves the problem of protecting your head.

The color of the training uniform is yellow-green, thickened cotton and linen blended fabric, modern and universal style, equipped with multiple large-capacity pockets, and a detachable hood on the back of the head. Because the northwest winter is long and the climate is cold, cold protection must be placed

First of all, the close-fitting wool thermal underwear

, and then there is the fine woolen cold-proof suit, and the training suit with removable padding on the outside, plus a two-color wool cloak inside and outside, which is enough to withstand the severe cold of minus 30 degrees. Because the fabric is not waterproof, I have to add another one.

They were given a raincoat made of tarpaulin.

The military boots adopt a high-top design with a waist height of one foot. The upper is made of soft lambskin, with a sweat-absorbent and heat-insulating silk lining and a thick cowhide sole embedded with steel plates. People had sweaty feet at that time, and Zhao Tong could not develop modern breathable and sweat-absorbent shoes.

High-elastic socks, no one can give them two pairs of extra ones for them to wear.

. Hand protection is also indispensable. Everyone wears sheepskin gloves that both keep warm and can skillfully operate firearms. The bedding is a two-foot-wide and six-foot-long felt pad and an envelope-style duck down sleeping bag. There are not so many in the house.

The ducks you raised were not in vain. Zhao Tong had already calculated this and even kept the duck feathers!

The armor still uses half-body thickened leather armor, which mainly protects key parts such as the neck, torso and groin. Spare ammunition bags and water bottles, first aid bags, dry food bags, daggers, pistols and other small items can also be hung on the chest. See

It looks like a portable equipment for an individual soldier. In addition, each person is equipped with a backpack containing daily necessities such as change of clothes, spare rations, sleeping bags, raincoats, etc. This can be carried on the shoulders, or can be easily fixed to the horseback for carrying.

Throughout the ages, countless famous generals have emphasized the importance of food to the victory of military operations. Delicious and convenient military rations have always been the top concern of all military units. The following are the recipes of ancient armies when they go on expeditions:

For one stone of rice, take the grain-free grains and wash them cleanly and cook until cooked. Add the slurry to the water and expose it to Ren water. Wash off the dust and steam it again. After ten times, you can get two buckets. Take a large amount for each meal and soak it in cooked water first.

Let it wet thoroughly, then cook and eat it. One person can eat it for fifty days.

Mix three liters of salt with water in a pot, and burn it over charcoal fire until it is firm and small. It can be eaten by one person for fifty days, and it is suitable for the summer month. Soak a foot of coarse cloth with one liter of vinegar, expose it to dryness, and drain it with vinegar.

For the duration, cook it in a square inch and it can be eaten for fifty days.

Take wheat flour, make a steamed cake, soak it in one liter of vinegar, expose it to dryness, and use the vinegar as a measure. Boil it with sycamore seeds every time, and it can be eaten by people for fifty days. Three liters of black soybean paste, pound it like a paste, and add salt.

Five liters, twist to make pancakes and expose to dry. Eat as big as a jujube stone as a substitute for pickles. A person can eat for fifty days.

When the frontier soldiers travel far, they will have elk cakes, wrinkled rice, miscellaneous cakes and the like. Moose cakes are made from minced elk powder, mixed with boiling soup and made into cakes, one minute thick. Let cool, cut into pieces, exposed to dry, and stored.

. If you eat it with soup and fermented food in the camp; if you eat it dry on the road or in battle, it will be delicious and not thirsty. Leave aside miscellaneous cakes and wrinkled rice, and prepare it as usual, but expose it to extremely dryness, so that it can be eaten together

Lasts forever.

In an emergency, one liter of rice can feed a person for a day. One cow can feed fifty people for a day. One horse can feed fifty people for a day. One donkey can feed thirty people for a day.

In more urgent cases, those who use skins for military uniforms can also cook food to relieve hunger. When traveling in the mountains, pick pine bark and boil it with five grams of rice for every ten kilograms.

Let it be thoroughly cooked. Half a catty can be eaten by one person for one day. Each person can take half a liter of oil and sesame. If thirsty, take thirty pellets and hold it until it stops. You can also use black plums and cheese. Each person can take gourd seeds or bamboo tubes.

Skin, or those who receive two liters, are expected to have water for the future, which will prevail. For the horse army, each person will give cheese to the horse, fearing that the horse will be thirsty.

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As you can see, in the recipe, apart from rice and noodles, it is seasoned with salt and vinegar. There is no meat or vegetables at all. It is just to the level of starving to death. There are also recipes given without food, leather armor, war horses, livestock, and tree bark.

The way to eat it is simply incompatible with the modern way of eating it.

Dozens of flavors of individual soldier rations are often produced. Although Zhao Tao cannot make modern individual soldier rations, he can only make his soldiers eat well and be full, but he still tries his best to be nutritious.

Balanced to ensure the daily caloric needs of soldiers.

Now we have meat and vegetables during training, two vegetables and one soup for each meal. The food is delicious and delicious. If the outdoor conditions permit, we can also guarantee to eat hot meals; when it is impossible to make a fire, or when we are performing an emergency mission

, and he invented

Individual soldier rations. The staple food is newly developed compressed dry food, with easy-to-preserve meats such as bacon or sausages, supplemented by a few slices of pickled pickles and preserved fruits. Each ration also comes with a small bag of tea leaves and icing sugar.

Be a little more humane!

Now these people have joined the military, received military rations, and received salaries, which has saved themselves a lot of money. However, Zhao Tong does not intend to save this money, but to ensure that the soldiers who accompany him on the expedition have no worries.

In order to make up for the uneasiness in my heart, I decided to give it to their families as a kind of welfare subsidy. At least it can ensure that these people are gone and the living standard of the family has not been reduced, and it can also give them some comfort.

As for consumables such as clothes, armor, bedding, and food, Zhao Tao is not too worried because these items can be said to be for both military and civilian use. As long as you have enough money, you can buy them anywhere, but you can’t buy them.

Come, the price is right, and there is someone who can get it for you.

Come on. What troubles Zhao Tong the most is weapons. Even if you have money, you can't buy these things. He said that he can do it secretly, and others can't. Now that there are a thousand more people out of thin air, his own guns are not enough.

, and this cannot be solved in a short time.

Everyone has thought over and over again that they can only make a fuss about the distribution. Civilian personnel such as commanders and above, staff officers, secretaries, and military doctors will not be issued long guns, but only short guns. Reduce the weapon distribution for logistics personnel, such as craftsmen teams, transportation teams,

The engineering corps and the fire corps are allotted one-half to two-thirds. In this way, the old guns from the past must also be included.

There is almost no inventory. Another problem is ammunition. Although a base has been set up in the northwest, production is not normal. Things like artillery shells cannot be produced there for the time being. They mainly have to rely on high technologies such as compasses and telescopes.

Products, except for the scout team, which can have one for each team leader, the rest of the troops can only enjoy it if everyone is above the head.

Another one is the lack of horses. In the past few years, even with the effort of kicking and fighting, there are only less than 3,000 horses that meet the standards of war horses. Excluding those left for breeding, the ones that can be transferred are the standard ones for generals. To do

Everyone has two horses, and they have to wait until they reach the northwest to think of a solution. Zhao Tong has made up his mind. Whether it is stealing, robbing, cheating, or paying for it, he must implement it as soon as possible no matter what!

The more it was time to leave, the more time seemed to fly by. Ten days passed in the blink of an eye, and there were still three days before the expedition. If he was reluctant to leave, Zhao Tong knew that he could not stay any longer. November 20th

As soon as he led his team to leave Xiangyi, he turned back to Beijing. When he left, he looked back frequently. He knew that this time was so true that he didn't know if it would be the year of the monkey and the horse and the moon before he could come back.

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