At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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At the end of the 11th year of Yande, Guo Peng took Guo Jin together to inspect the Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall and the Guard Barracks, and conducted a year-end review and condolences to the two important military units.

Together with Guo Jin, Guo Peng talked cordially with the lowest-level students and soldiers, asked about their life, study, entered their dormitories and barracks to observe their daily life conditions, food and clothing costs, etc.

Guo Peng has always paid attention to the treatment of the army, and his policy is obviously inclined to the army. He regards the treatment of the army as the number one concern and takes it seriously.

He told Guo Jin more than once about the importance of feeding the army well.

Different from the demands of the Roman emperors, they overfed the army to secure the position of the emperor. It was essentially a transaction, and the army sometimes took the initiative.

The emperor of the Wei Empire wanted to better control the army. The army did not have the initiative and could not threaten the emperor. The emperor's favor to the army was essentially a manifestation of power.

And this is more for the combat effectiveness of the imperial army.

When he first joined the army, he farmed the fields in Shanggu County and planted grain alone, so that the army could be fed and not hungry.

Only an army that can eat enough can fight, and it will not be defeated because of hunger. Without stable logistics, everything is empty talk.

Later, when he arrived in Qingzhou, he made a big effort to garrison farmland, vigorously implemented the policy of garrisoning farmland and villages, and personally held the army's logistics supplies in his hands and strictly guarded them.

What the army eats and drinks must be decided by him himself, and the people in the logistics system must follow orders and are not allowed to make their own decisions.

Driven by such a policy, Guo Peng's army was the only one among all the armies of the warlords in the world that could feed their stomachs.

Later, living conditions improved further. Guo Peng promoted the strategy of raising ducks to control locusts to increase protein supply for the army.

On the eve of the elimination of Yuan Shao, Guo Peng's army became the only army in the world's warlord army that could eat meat regularly.

Because they can eat meat, they are strong, strong, and free from labor, so they can receive better training.

The fighting power of the Wei army is the best in the world, and since then it has the foundation to dominate the world.

This foundation was laid firmly, and Wei Jun swept the world with invincible hands.

And Guo Peng is also constantly promoting the army's ration reform in this process, improving the army's ration treatment, and striving to make the soldiers eat better while eating enough.

Only with sufficient nutrition can we train better, and only with a strong body can we train elite soldiers.

At the same time, Guo Peng raised a large number of cattle, sheep and horses on the grasslands of northern Xinjiang, and increased the number of fishing fleets and fishermen at sea, increasing the army's meat supply.

Even a disheveled hemp stick can develop tendons after a year or two in the army.

Once the tendons are developed, the strength will be greater, and it will be able to carry heavy armor and combat loads.

The elite infantry of the Wei Army had a combat load of nearly [-] kilograms. They were not in good health and could not bear the load, let alone fight.

An army with insufficient physical fitness and hungry stomachs simply cannot withstand long-term and protracted battles. It is easy to be the first to exhaust their physical strength in fierce battles and lose the battle.

As an emperor who is well versed in this, Guo has carried out many successive reforms to the army's food.

Chapter 1401 One thousand three hundred and one Wei Jun's rations

After the establishment of the Wei Empire, Guo Peng spent several years discussing with the Ministry of Finance and the military supply department, and stipulated a fairly strict ration supply system for the army.

In the future, the treatment of the army will all be based on this system, and there must be no mistakes.

First of all, the army's rations are divided into three types: garrison rations, marching rations and combat rations.

Garrison rations are the favorite of the Huotou army because it is the most convenient.

Marching rations are disliked by both the firehead army and the combat troops, because they are the most monotonous and unpalatable, and it is very tiring to make.

Combat rations are preferred by combat troops because they are the most abundant and the most abundant.

Garrisoning rations is the easiest for fire-headed troops.

The army is stationed in the same place and has a fixed residence. The fireheads don't have to run around with the army. The kitchen is also set up with the most complete utensils. It is very convenient to eat directly at the meal time and rest when you have time.

Military camps are generally fixed. The so-called iron-clad camps and flowing soldiers have a relatively fixed amount of things to send to the military camp.

When the troops go out for training, the Huotou soldiers can cook leisurely, and when the food is cooked, the trained troops come back, and everyone eats together.

The staple food of the army is mainly wheat and southern rice. These two staple foods have the largest planting area under Guo Peng's rule, the highest yield, and the most overflow. They are most suitable for use as military food.

When there is no combat mission and stationed in the camp, what the army eats is steaming rice or barley rice, which is served with side dishes and hot soup.

The dishes are generally stir-fried dishes and stewed dishes in large pots that are served with rice, and there is no shortage of salt and soy sauce.

Because the most basic ration of the army is the garrison ration, which is eaten the most and is the most common, so the regulations are also the most detailed.

Under the leadership of the emperor, the logistics department and the old firemen agreed on a ten-day rotation menu.

What to eat in the morning on the first day, what to eat at noon, what to eat in the evening, what are the three meals on the second day, and what are the three meals on the third day.

After ten days of this cycle, the menu is finished, and then it starts from the beginning again, and the cycle repeats.

Try not to let the soldiers get tired of eating crookedly, and let the soldiers eat more balanced nutrition.

Meat is chicken, duck, cattle and sheep, and pork, which are commonly raised in the Wei Empire. There are also horse meat, fish and other meat, which are regularly rationed.

Although it is not possible to eat meat every day, compared to the days when no meat was seen in the past half a year, the life of the army is much better now, and it will not be like eating a meal of meat in the Han Dynasty. .

After Guo Peng occupied Qing and Yanzhou and began to raise livestock on a large scale, the Wei army could only eat one meal of meat in about ten days. After occupying Hebei, this number increased to one meal every five days.

After defeating Yuan Shu and becoming the strongest vassal, generally speaking, the army can eat a meal in three or four days. Guo Peng has more power and accumulated more power, and of course he will not treat his soldiers badly.

After the establishment of the Wei Empire and the great development of economy and transportation, it was normal for Wei Jun to stew meat every day or two, and the patterns and types of meat eating also developed a lot.

In addition to meat, of course, vegetables are indispensable. It might be better to say that vegetables are the main meal.

Usually there are all kinds of seasonal green leafy vegetables, and you can eat whatever you have. When there is a lack of vegetables in early spring and winter, you will use Chinese cabbage, which is long-lasting, as the protagonist.

Guo Peng once ordered to organize farms to widely plant Chinese cabbage, a storage-resistant vegetable, as an important winter vegetable for the people. It can be used by the people, and of course the army can also use it.

In the cold winter, Chinese cabbage stew is the soldiers' favorite hard dish.

A big steaming pot of stewed cabbage with meat or stewed fish and other hard dishes was rotten and full of flavor. A small group of soldiers gathered around to eat, and Xilihulu could eat several barrels of rice.

Soldiers without combat missions are not just training.

When geological disasters occur in the surrounding area, the garrison will be dispatched. In this emergency and disaster relief season, soldiers also have special food treatment, such as eating meat every day, and even rare things such as fruits.

Basically, from the beginning of the training of recruits in the big camp, the army eats this kind of food, and those who have a good face enter the barracks, and within a few years they will be men of dragon, spirit and tiger.

So there is a saying among the people that being a soldier is a tonic.

After a lot of training and battle missions or emergency rescue and disaster relief missions, bathing in the nearby creek, and then coming back to eat hot meals collectively, that is the happiest thing for the army.

Marching rations are much more troublesome.

In addition to garrison rations, the imperial army ate the most marching rations. Because the imperial army had a rotation garrison system, the army was relatively mobile and often ran back and forth to change garrison areas.

Although it is not a war, it will also be required to respond with a war attitude.

The most important thing on the marching road is the marching speed. The troops will be required to arrive at the battlefield as quickly as possible to fight, so the rations on the marching road are mainly characterized by convenience and speed.

Generally speaking, the marching rations are pre-baked flatbreads served with pickles, sauced meat, and water that the army carries with them.

Once the pancake is finished, even in the hottest summer, it can last for ten days and half a month without spoiling. Guo Peng improved it by referring to the pot helmet.

As for side dishes, Guo Peng was relatively poor at the earliest time, so he used salted vegetables as side dishes.

As long as there is salt and grain, it doesn't matter whether there is protein or not.

At that time, the requirements of the army were also low. If you can eat enough food and salt, you will not be top-heavy and fatigued, and you are already very content.

Later, Guo Peng became rich and powerful, and gradually reduced the size of the army, and had enough confidence to provide the army with better food.

Coupled with the gradual popularization of domestic poultry farming at that time, Guo Peng began to choose to add bacon, which was also easy to store and not perishable, to his marching rations as side dishes.

Like ham.

Marinate the pork to make ham, cook it and distribute it to the soldiers, or get some other meat to marinate, and cook it for the soldiers to equip the soldiers.

When soldiers are on the road, they can eat pancakes, bacon, and pickled vegetables to satisfy their hunger. There is enough salt, and there is also meat. The staple food is full and nutritious.

However, compared with garrison rations, for the sake of speed, marching rations are generally not hot food, dry and cold, so the taste is far inferior to hot food, soldiers generally do not like marching rations.

The Huotou army felt tired and didn't like to cook too much marching rations at one go.

However, Guo Peng rigidly stipulated that the frequency of burying pots for cooking should be reduced and the speed of the journey should be accelerated, so soldiers on the march can eat a fresh hot meal for three days, which is considered good.

Occasionally passing by the city, the city will provide some fresh fruits and vegetables for the army to eat. Soldiers often feel that those fresh fruits and vegetables are far better than marching rations.

As for the combat rations, it is the rations that the army will only eat when they arrive at the predetermined combat location and are about to meet the enemy army hand-to-hand.

It was widely used in the war years, but now it is the least used type of rations.

Because the war in the vast areas of the Wei Empire has stopped.

Now only four states, Yunzhou, Jiaozhou, Pingzhou and Mozhou, are still fighting sporadically, and combat rations are often used.

At that time, the rations were mainly protein and fat, and mainly meat.

Let the army eat dry rice and meat until they are full, and their stomachs are full of oil and water, so that the soldiers will have strength all over their bodies, fight with vigor, and can last longer in fierce battles.

Sometimes the two sides are evenly matched, and the battle is not about who is stronger and more elite, but whose physical strength is more durable and can persevere, and the side with stronger physical strength will often win.

They can wear out the weaker side, collapse them, and then turn to the pursuit, turn the offensive, and win a complete victory.

When Guo Peng led the army in the early days, the army was often not strong, and it did not have overwhelming combat effectiveness and equipment advantages against the enemy.

But because the army ate well, had sufficient physical strength, and was full of vigor, they were able to persist until the end, exhausting the physical strength of the opponent's army, and thus won the victory.

Later, during the war, Guo Peng paid special attention to supplementing the soldiers with enough protein and oil before the battle, so that they could be stronger, longer and stronger on the battlefield.

However, the enemy army did not have this condition. Facing the fierce and persistent Wei army, of course they suffered a crushing defeat and plummeted.

Therefore, the combat ration stipulated by Guo Peng is mainly dry rice and stewed meat, supplemented by rich broth.

It is absolutely necessary to let the soldiers eat and drink enough to nourish their spirits, and they are full of energy, and they are absolutely not allowed to encounter the situation of fighting hungry.

Often at this time, the soldiers can eat their mouths full of oil and are very satisfied.

Therefore, combat rations are the most popular among soldiers.

Big mouthfuls of rice, large chunks of stewed rotten meat, full of fat and gravy in one bite, and another bite of rice, full of meaty and oily aromas, that taste is simply amazing.

During the decisive battle, the width of the battlefield is limited, and the troops can take turns to fight and eat in turn.

Sometimes a battle can be fought fiercely from morning to dusk, and at that time the fight is about who can last longer.

How can it last longer?

Of course, eat better and get more energy.

Guo Peng has made many reforms and improvements in the aspect of army food and invested a lot of money.

He paid great attention to keeping the soldiers well fed. From simple food and pickled vegetables in the early days to full bloom later, Guo Peng took various measures to ensure the rations of the army.

For example, ducks from raising ducks to control locusts, cattle, sheep and horses from grazing in the north, meat pigs widely raised in the Central Plains, and fresh aquatic products caught by fishermen's fleets in rivers, lakes and seas, etc.

These would be purchased at military expense, from farmers, herders and fishermen.

Give them benefits so that they can also earn some money from the process, so as to achieve a positive interaction with the military and establish a long-term partnership.

This is generally the case with army rations.

Then there are some additional conditions.

For example, in an emergency, the cavalry needs to run for a long distance, or the cavalry needs to go out to perform sweeping tasks and cannot return to the station for a long time.

When encountering these situations, there are also special cavalry combat rations-air-dried meat buns and dairy products.

Chapter 1402. One thousand 310 two They eat well, which is very important to you

Dairy products are an important ration that cannot be obtained by grassland nomadic cavalry.

The development of dairy product military rations is an important aid to the military development of nomads.

So after Guo Peng had ample money, he began to learn how the Mongolians made rations.

He ordered large quantities of dried meat and dairy products to be carried and eaten by the cavalry.

The Mongols pay attention to efficiency and convenience in marching and fighting.

They will air-dry the meat of a whole cow. A cow can make about [-] catties of air-dried meat, and stuff it directly into the bladder of the cow. A cow bladder becomes a food bag.