1890 King of Southeast Asia

The Germans have continuously laid a number of defense lines that were not very strong in East Prussia, and successfully delayed the Russian offense.

Within the next ten kilometers, the Russian army needs to pay a price every 1 meter forward.

However, in general, the Russian army 1 maintained the offensive and had the initiative of the battlefield. Until April 3, with the precious spring rain, Russia also ushered in the freezing.

Suddenly, the land that was originally hard can directly drive the carriage and even the car, which became a difficult mud for walking.

The Russian army was chaotic and inefficient front -line logistics system immediately fell into stagnation.

"Alekseyev, my army has not received any supplies for a week. I heard that it was any supply. My soldiers have eaten mushrooms and wild vegetables since 3 days ago."

"In the commander of the commander, Nikki's troops can also use mushrooms and hunting in the forest to maintain their lives for one life, and my troops can only catch mice in farmland to survive. We need food, otherwise the army will be transformed."

"Alekseyev, my soldiers have 1 set of food, but we have no shells, there are no one, even the shells of the 76mm infantry gun have been exhausted, and we 1 week ago, we 1 week ago It should usher in the replenishment of the shells, but the supply team 5 only brings rifles and machine guns. "

In mid -April, the commander of the 1 major group and the group army squeezed into the front line command post in Alekseyev, because the supply was quarreled.

A small part of them has received one supplies in the near future, and most of them have not received any supply for more than one week, and those troops that are too far away have not even been supplemented for more than half a month.

Participating in this battle, especially the current army, is the elite field of the Russian army. The combat effectiveness has 1 guarantee.

However, during the offense, the motor army will not carry a large amount of supply. It will only slow down the marching speed of the army and delay the fighter. Their supply is all responsible for allocation and transportation by the General Headquarters of the Battle. Supply distribution to

The degree of mechanization of the Russian army is actually OK. A total of more than 3,000 vehicles are equipped, but the main transportation force is still a carriage, because the muddy road cars basically cannot play much. Essence

This is the reason that the horseshized army cannot carry too much supplies. The amount of materials carry is too large. The more carriage you need, the more feed you need, the greater the consumption, and the instead of the materials that can be carried.

Half a month, it has exceeded the limits of self -support in the Russian mobile troops.

"Nicholasevich, Alex, the food transport team has set off. If you are lucky, you should have encountered them on the way."

"As for the ammunition you need, Konas has enough ammunition and a large number of weapons, but you need to organize your own hand to transport it."

"How much ammunition do you need, just send someone to transport how much ammunition. As for the weapon, I need a war -damage report, do you understand?"

Alekseyev dealt with these things, which is not the first batch of officers he received to ask for supply.

When frozen on the land, the original one carriage and two horses and a simple carriage can pull hundreds of kilograms of supply. It can walk for 3 ten kilometers or more in 1 day. If it is a carriage, it can even pull 1 tons of materials.

However, after the weather warms and the snow melted, the muddy roads make the materials that can be transported by one carriage that can be transported into 3 or even 4 vehicles to transport, and sometimes it can travel ten kilometers in 1 day.

It is still that concept. In order to maintain the health and carrying capacity of the horses, 1 horses need about 5 to 6 kg of dried grass and two to 3 kg of beans in 1 day.

When the sloppy road allows the transport carriage to carry two days of feed and the food of the transport personnel, it often occupies 1 tenth of the carriage capacity.

If the distance is farther, the average distance increases by 5 kilometers, and one -tenth of the luck is added to the supplement of horses. (The carriage carriage must be lightly loaded, and the load cannot be moved.)

"Alekseyev, we don't have enough carriages. Most of my groups of the group army must give priority to ensuring the maneuverability of the artillery. The remaining carriages can't install enough things at all." Property on the table.

His group army is at the northernmost tip of the northernmost tip of Cunas more than 50 kilometers. Fortunately, the railway extends north. In the end, there is only a dozen kilometers where the carriage is needed. Otherwise, he will never get the supply.

"I don't have enough carriages. It is transported by a horse without a carriage. All the horses and all the war horses are used to transport materials. Even if 1 horse can only transport 5 cannonballs, it is always better than anything. "

Alekseyev was also very angry.

According to his pre -war preparation, the front line should have obtained sufficient material reserves at this time to ensure that it can spend snow melting.

As long as the snow melts ends, the land will dry to acceptable degree within a few days after the sun comes out.

But he was wrong, and the wrong one was outrageous. Most of the ammunition in Minsk's material reserve warehouse was indeed retained, but under the order of the Tsar, many other places were pulled away from several other wars. Materials.

Nicholas II was still a bit smart. He drew a lot of materials from the logistics warehouses beside the railways, such as Kiev. After the materials promised by the British arrived, they could directly reach these warehouses from the railway in Murmansk to replenish the materials sent out.

Moreover, a large number of materials stored in these warehouses were not very good, such as low-quality flour, weapons that were rushed, etc. The materials sent by the British were not necessarily better, but they were definitely not worse than those produced by Russia.

However, these materials piled up beside the railway were the materials that Alexeev had finally gathered for the spring offensive.

Placing them along the rear railway line can ensure both safety and rapid transportation, and can also provide material support to the nearby Russian troops defending when the Austro-Hungarian Empire launched an attack.

As a result, Nicholas II transported the materials away without even saying hello, causing chaos in Alexeev's logistics.

And there was chaos not in one place, but in many places, followed by chaos between trains that normally transported materials and trains that were urgently mobilized, which in turn affected the entire railway system.

After the railways were shut down in 1915 when Russia joined the war, they were shut down again in early 1918, resulting in the front line not receiving enough supplies in time, and even consuming the supplies stored in front.

"Let the noble horses carry the supplies?" Alex raised his head and shouted almost out of his voice.

Alex was a cavalryman, not a famous Cossack cavalryman, but a guards cavalry regiment. He was a lieutenant of the guards cavalry regiment since he entered the fifth year of his career. He was one of the few officers of the guards cavalry regiment who could accept advanced military theories.

Because of this, he understood that using cavalry horses to transport supplies was already the last resort, otherwise, the Russian army could only choose to retreat.

They couldn't even attack. The lack of supplies to varying degrees had made it impossible for the Russian army to even do the most basic coordinated attack.

Attack alone? The reason for the failure of the Battle of Tannenberg was that the army was out of touch, allowing the German army to defeat them one by one.

"Commander, Chief of the General Staff, our existing cavalry and horses cannot meet the demand for material transportation. Even if all the precious war horses are scrapped, it is not enough to replenish the consumed materials." Alex quickly adjusted and said.

The entire Western Front Russian Army has 29 cavalry divisions, which is the largest cavalry group in the entire Allied Powers and even the entire world. However, after many battles, a lot of losses have been suffered.

In this attack, the cavalry, as a high-speed mobile force, is equipped with ten divisions. Together with the cavalry separately equipped by troops at all levels, there are about 100,000 cavalry and hundreds of thousands of war horses.

Hundreds of thousands of horses sound like a lot, but a horse can only carry 100 kilograms of goods on a muddy road. It is not that you can't carry more. The maximum load is 5600 kilograms. It's just that 1 hurts the horse 2 is slow, and you can only carry light loads to ensure the continuity of transportation.

A division consumes 50 tons of food a day, 500 horses, and 100 more horses are needed, including the consumption of 10 kilograms per horse. This is just food. Ammunition and weapons are heavier and more difficult to transport than food.

Just one division has more than 600 horses to transport food. The Tsarist Russia has 60 divisions on the front line, which requires 40,000 horses.

Moreover, horses will get tired, sick, and injured, and the marching time is not constant. In order to ensure food security, at least 20% more should be prepared.

With only food, the army cannot guarantee any combat effectiveness. A 152 artillery shell weighs 40 kilograms, plus a 10-kilogram propellant cartridge. A horse can only transport two or three shells at a time.

A box of 62*54r Mosin Nagant rifle bullets weighs 22 grams, a box of 1,000 rounds plus a wooden box, and a horse can carry 4.

The weapons and ammunition needed to carry 60 divisions are far from being solved by these 1 military horse, even though their number has exceeded the total number of cavalry in many countries.

Without enough weapons and ammunition, the Russian army will be lucky to hold the line, let alone attack.

If it is a horse-drawn carriage, two horses can pull 800 kilograms of flour, or 20 boxes of ammunition, and there will be no pressure at all.

Unfortunately, the number of carriages and muddy roads are limiting the Russian army's transportation capacity.

This is easy to understand. Even after the great construction, Russia's roads are relatively backward. High-power diesel engines and wide wheels are the first choice for people in small cities in Russia to buy cars.

"First, ensure the demand for food and artillery. After you go back, you can find food locally. Soldiers without tasks will reduce some food supplies."

"In addition, the Air Force's planes and airships are conducting reconnaissance in Germany. I need to know how prepared the Germans are."

Alexeyev said very unwillingly.

He was ready to defend on the spot, and even shrink the defense line. What he was unwilling to do was that according to the plan, he should be able to further attack, recover the country and even push the front line to Prussia.

This is a merit, but now, Alexeyev has no fluke mentality.

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