Undoubtedly, the Soviet army will be more fully prepared for this battle, and the captured horses and vehicles will shine in this battle!
It is unimaginable for a soldier carrying a weight of 30 kilograms to march 50 kilometers on foot in one day. Even if he is a soldier with extremely high fighting enthusiasm, the huge amount of physical energy consumption can make him fall down from fatigue.
The straight-line distance on the map from the blacksmith village to the target Loyev is about fifty kilometers. If the troops were truly lightly armed, they would be able to reach the target on foot in one day and night. Because they brought too much equipment, running fifty kilometers day and night would be too much.
impossible.
Whether Balzen was willing or not, they had to equip some carriages, place some professional charioteers among the troops, and even a lot of fodder.
Raising horses is a professional job. Horses must eat a lot of grass every day. If they eat grains, they will be fat and strong. The grains in the granary are for people to eat, and horses can only eat grass. Some soldiers once thought,
Let the horses eat the potatoes with the most stock in the granary.
This suggestion was not only learned by Salinchkin, but he also directly wrote a ban on feeding potatoes to horses. The reason is that potatoes themselves are poisonous. Humans can basically ignore its toxicity, but horses cannot tolerate it. Not only
Horses cannot eat only potatoes, including dandelions, which are now used as vegetables and medicinal materials.
After the four battalion commanders left, Yang Mingzhi and Yevlov discussed it again.
"Each battalion must have at least four carriages, one of which is loaded with reserve ammunition, and the remaining three, one filled with grass, and two filled with potatoes!"
"Berekov, are four carriages enough?"
"Probably enough! These Romanian carriages have a very good load capacity, and there are suspension points at the rear end, so that each battalion can also mount a 45mm field gun. There are only four carriages, which will not affect the mobility of the troops.
Sex can actually speed up the march!"
"In that case, you can arrange it this way! I have no objection."
Regarding many matters of this battle, Yevlov really has no opinion, because it is not his turn to worry about the details of the battle! Unless the battle situation suddenly expands to the point where it is almost out of control, the commander himself will personally lead the battle. This
This situation should never arise, so Yevlov's job was basically to nod and answer in the affirmative.
There are more than 300 Romanian horse carriages captured that are still usable, most of which are already being used for daily production work, and a sufficient number are currently idle.
Yang Mingzhi knew that Heitu Village was training better cavalry troops. With the support of Salinchkin, they also used various reasons to control most of the good horses.
According to the report sent by Black Earth Village, the cavalry battalion began to expand after the battle. Its battalion commander, Womansky Jr., summed up the combat experience, and after expanding the cavalry battalion to an astonishing 800 people, he also reported on this unit
In future battles, it will use its extremely high mobility to deliver a fatal blow to the enemy's flank.
After Yang Mingzhi read these reports, he thought that the increasingly marginalized cavalry could only exist on the battlefield in this way. He was also curious about how the cavalry battalion expanded to 800 people in just one month!
It turns out that the entire guerrilla republic has included all men under the age of sixty into the scope of conscription, unless they are truly sick and disabled.
As a result, a large number of middle-aged people in their forties were added to the cavalry battalion. Almost all of them became cavalry because they had experience in riding horses. Yang Mingzhi really cannot expect too much about the combat effectiveness of this kind of cavalry.
Maybe they will become a special force one day?
But first, they must contribute the good horses they have captured, and even provide a professional charioteer and groom!
June 19th was a crucial day for the guerrilla republic to prepare for war.
Yang Mingzhi didn't sleep much all night. He woke up early with the sound of military bugles and started preparing for war like an ordinary soldier.
I, the ammunition depot began to gradually release the ammunition needed for combat. Some of these ammunition were produced in a surprise attack. The damp shells were filled with captured TNT, and brand new fuzes were installed before being delivered directly to the troops.
Each infantry squad must have a machine gun and an RPG launcher. Each platoon must have a recoilless rifle and a dedicated squad.
The firepower of the grassroots troops of the 63rd Group Army is astonishing, and it is also built on huge ammunition reserves.
Early in the morning, Yang Mingzhi arrived at the headquarters and went directly into the communications room and ordered the communications soldiers to contact the Black Earth Village Soviet Office directly.
After confirming that it was Warmansky himself, he gave a blunt order: "Our army is about to launch a battle to liberate Loyev, and you know it! For this battle, the army will invest a large amount of ammunition and logistical supplies. These military supplies require
Carriage transportation, I learned that Black Earth Village has a large number of fine horses! Now, you immediately prepare 500 horses for me and transport them to Blacksmith Village immediately!"
This news was like a bolt from the blue to Warmansky early in the morning.
Even if it was the commander, he muttered with extreme reluctance: "Comrade Commander, do we really need so many good horses? You know, I..."
"No need to talk nonsense! I know you cherish horses very much, but to the army, horses are just special trucks that can eat grass and kick! This is an order, and you are limited to bringing 500 good horses today.
In addition, you must bring enough fodder. Remember, you must not bring bad horses. If these horses are damaged during transportation, you will bear a heavy responsibility!"
Warmansky was sweating profusely as he listened. He loved horses even more than his nephew! Would he be happy to let these horses, who were like his own children, go to the front line?
The commander said harsh words. After all, this was also a fatal order from the headquarters, so Warmansky had no choice but to obey it!
Yang Mingzhi issued many more death orders on this day.
Any commander with a normal IQ knows the importance of providing food and grass before troops and horses are used. But when it comes to countries that attach great importance to military food, the first one is of course the United States.
As far back as the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress set very high food standards for the North American Continental Army, so-called soldiers could eat one pound of beef every day. In this world war, the huge industrial production capacity of the United States was also reflected in military rations.
The Soviet army also made a scientific plan for military rations. However, after the outbreak of the war, the Soviet Union, which lost a large number of elite areas, was no longer able to provide good food to the six million soldiers on the front line! Now, the soldiers can eat potatoes as much as they want.
, is considered a luxury.
At least the Guerrilla Republic was able to make its soldiers tired of eating potatoes. Potatoes are extremely productive and have high water content and good starch content. Eating them not only replenishes water but also replenishes sugar. But what Soviet soldiers lack most is fat, which is a concentrated form of energy.
, what Yang Mingzhi can think of is that it is obtained by boiling fish oil from the catch. Fish oil is indeed a kind of fat, and the fishy smell is also crazy.
Cattle are very valuable for plowing the fields, and so are horses. The number of livestock and poultry raised in the guerrilla republic is too small, and the supply of high-quality fat is pitiful!
Yang Mingzhitai knew that when human beings enter long-term high-load exercise, the main source of energy consumption changes from sugar to fat. Later generations of people who lose weight have to engage in long-term strenuous exercise to achieve the purpose of reducing fat.
.For these Soviet soldiers, they need fat so much! Yang Mingzhi also estimated that unless the Americans' large-scale support is fully launched, the superiors can throw a large amount of Spam lunch meat into the swamp, the soldiers' most urgent need for fat
can be solved.
This is an unattainable thing, and it is a shortcoming that the guerrilla republic cannot solve on its own. In desperation, the army can only increase the wartime food ration for soldiers, that is, on the basis of the daily ration of five kilograms, an additional two kilograms