Not only fat, but the supply of sugar has also increased. From September 22, the daily supply of sugar has increased from about 30 grams to 60 grams. After the war started, the Southwest Legion even increased to nearly 80 grams! This high standard did not change until early 1915. Judging from this period of time, the performance of Russian supply in history is exactly consistent with what the old man speculated!

If the prince remembers correctly, from March 25, 1914, the Russian front-line meat quantity was reduced from 1.5 Russian pounds to 1 Russian pound. From April 1, the quantitative amount of oil was reduced from the beginning, and the daily fat quantity of front-line personnel was reduced to 70 grams. The rear-line personnel reduced to 40 grams!

The supply situation further deteriorated since February 1916. The Russian military stipulated that the rear units had vegetarian meal days per week. As the situation continued to deteriorate, the soldiers in the front would also have vegetarian meal days per week. At this point, the Russians' food supply was completely in trouble.

"Then I would like to ask, what would the Russian army's food supply if the war lasted for more than one year?" the prince thought about it and asked.

"After two years, the entire national economy will fall into an extremely dangerous situation and there is no possibility of recovery." The old man answered firmly.

"Two years are still too long. Is there any way to make this time come earlier?" the prince asked.

"If you can tear open the Russian army's front line and go deep into the enemy's back, then everything is possible."

"But we need to know the supply system of the Russian Legion."

"This is no problem. I participated in the national supply system back then. I can't say it's right, but there is no problem with the legion level." The old man smiled slightly and put the pieces that marked the legion, army and division one by one in his hand to various positions on the front line.

"The grain and feed for Russian military supplies are transported in this way. The headquarters is responsible for purchasing these materials and transporting them to the base grain station on the front line using railways. Then the transport team of the base grain station will deliver the materials to the intermediate grain station and the military-owned grain station to the army according to the situation. Although the two units have different levels, the level of the supply may be the same."

"At this time, if the distance between the military grain station and the division grain station is within 25 kilometers, that is, the itinerary for one day, the military grain station will be directly responsible for transportation. If this distance exceeds, the grain station belonging to the group army will be responsible for transportation."

"The division's grain station is not on the front line. They are about one day away from the front line grain station, which means about 25 kilometers. The front line grain station is only half a day away. In other words, if you can break the Russian position in one go and go deeper within 10 to 12 kilometers, then you will have a great chance to make a division's army have no food. If you can persist for 3 days, the other side will defeat you without attacking."

"Then if there is a railway, the distance between the intermediate grain station to which the group army belongs should be relatively far from the front line." The prince asked.

"Yes, the design standard for intermediate grain stations is to have 500 kilometers away from the front line if there is a railway, and if there is only a dirt road, it will be only 100 kilometers away. In addition to the two grain stations mentioned above, there are two special grain stations, one is a reserve grain station and the other is a fortress grain station."

"As the name suggests, the former is naturally called when the general grain stations cannot meet the needs, while the latter is used in fortification areas and fortress areas. Moreover, all grain stations are almost next to railways and highways. As long as it is not particularly bad, you should be able to find the locations of these grain stations soon."

"The transportation of grain and rusk bread can be as you said, but meat transportation is probably not good, right? Canned meat is naturally suitable for long-distance transportation and storage. But there seems to be no way to fresh meat?" The prince pointed out a loophole in the old man's words.

"You are right, but meat transportation is different, and we have also made targeted plans." The old man said here, a little proud.

"I don't know how big the next war will be, so I can't estimate the total amount. However, there is a rough standard for the meat consumption of each army, army and division. Each army needs to consume 700 to 800 cattle every day, the army-level units consume about 120 to 160 cattle every day, and the infantry division is 40 to 52. The infantry regiment is about 8 to 11."

"If the officers do as required by the above, each legion should have a herd of 250 to 300 cattle. And an army should have enough herds for troops to eat for two days. Of course, if the local animal husbandry is developed, the scale of this herd will be relatively small."

"When we launch an offensive battle, all the herds will follow the army, with a distance of about 20 kilometers, which means about one day. The European part of Russia can provide about 10,000 beef cattle every day, but I estimate that the maximum number of people who can be transported to the front line should not exceed 2,500, which means that if the reserves in the front are exhausted, the supply behind will become worse and worse."

"Of course, this can be compensated by using alternatives, such as using salted fish, dried fish or even egg powder instead of meat, but I personally think that the results of all these efforts will not make too much mistakes in our estimates." The old man thought about it and made a summary.

"During war, Russia can increase freight volume by increasing narrow-gauge railways and horse-rail railways. Have you considered this issue?" The prince thought for a while and added several models to the huge sand table.

"Of course I have considered it, but the length of this kind of railway is generally not very long. The average length of narrow-gauge railways and Mala railways is about 36 kilometers, and the maximum cannot be more than twice. Because the efficiency of these transportation methods is very low, the average transportation efficiency of the former is 250 tons in one day and night, while the transportation efficiency of the Mala railway is about 180 tons, which is much worse than the 500 tons day and night transportation capacity of the general railway."

(Of course, there are exceptions in everything. The Russians have created a record of 623 tons per day on the Mara Railway and a record of 1147 tons per day on the narrow-gauge railway. Of course, this record is created with extremely short transportation distances, generally not exceeding 15 kilometers.)

"I don't know how efficient your country's railway construction is. In our country, our narrow-gauge railway construction speed is about 1.6 to 1.8 kilometers per day, while the distance of the Mala railway is about 2.88 kilometers per day.

"On narrow-gauge railways, the trains will not run very fast, about 10 hours and 106 kilometers. On a 149-kilometer railway, we can only accommodate up to 72 small locomotives, 320 trucks and 21 tank trucks. The speed of the horse-drawn railway is generally 4.2 kilometers, and there will be 1,200 horses on every 106 kilometers of horse-drawn railway. Although the train is more efficient, unfortunately, I estimate that about 80% of our transportation still needs to rely on animal power."

"Every army should have a building material, vehicle and related personnel that can build troops at least 106 kilometers. Of course, it is hard to say what level it can reach."
Chapter completed!