Chapter 664: It's raining

"It's raining really hard." Xiao Maoqi, who was wearing a raincoat, looked at the cloudy sky and wiped the drops of water on his face.

Seeing that the exercise was about to start in two weeks, the Prussian regiments participating in the exercise began to prepare for entry. The light infantry entered, and when the big guy came on the field, it suddenly rained. This is three days... ..... The wilderness of the exercise site directly turned into a swamp. The dirt road that was originally awkward caused a pile of mud under the crush of tens of thousands of people, thousands of horses, hundreds of vehicles and artillery carts. Not far from Xiao Maoqi, a 210MM heavy howitzer was tilted down beside the roadbed. There were more than 30 horses and more than 200 people tried to drag this thing out of the mud pit, but it was useless.

Accompanied by a gunshot from a distance, everyone just looked up at the distance, and then continued to work on their own affairs. This was the execution of a wounded horse. This kind of thing has happened many times. People It's not surprising already, and it also means that everyone will have a piece of half-baked horse meat in the lunch box tonight.

   "How many horses is this?" Xiao Maoqi asked.

"There are more than 30 horses, and there are hundreds of horses that are sick or unusable. The quality of the horses has deteriorated greatly. If this continues, within three days, we will only use capable people or trucks." Hindenburg on the side also said with a gloomy face.

   "It's okay to use a truck, can you transfer it over? The Bavarians on the opposite side have already entered the arena. They may be watching our good show in the tent now. The Kaiser is already very dissatisfied." Xiao Moqi said.

"I want to use heavy-duty trucks on this road? It's impossible. Now gun cars over 5 tons can't pass. See the ground, go all the way, two ditch. How to go?" Hindenburg wiped it. Said angrily with the rain on his face.

  "What should I do? Wait until the weather clears, and then let the Austrians see this tattered piece that stretches for several kilometers? The dignity and face of the empire are gone!" Xiao Maoqi gritted his teeth. That's a psychological imbalance.

In the past, it was not during the exercises that there was no heavy rain. If it happened, it would be fine to postpone it for a while, but this time it was different. The southerners on the opposite side didn’t know what was going on. They ran so fast. Bavaria came to the exercise site earlier than he came! Except for tracked vehicles, all the remaining wheeled vehicles and half of the wheeled vehicles ran over by themselves.

  Now Xiao Moqi still remembers the scene when the Bavarian Army arrived at the exercise site. A convoy of hundreds of vehicles of various types stretched for several kilometers, dragging artillery and supplies to swagger through the market. It was arrogant and boundless in front of the German army and high-level military officers participating in the exercise. All the vehicles easily walked to the exercise site at an average speed of 15 kilometers per hour, and then began to lay out and repair the ground. So much so that Prince Wilhelm said to Xiao Maoqi in private: "The Bavarian soldiers are so comfortable."

  Even if it is three days later, the Bavarian soldiers on the opposite side will be playing in the mud on a rainy day like the Prussians. Marching on a rainy day is just as troublesome for the immature mechanized troops. but now? Bavarians who have completed most of their preparations are much happier than their Prussian counterparts.

  "What did you say? They can still eat pasta in this weather?!" With a click, the biscuits in Little Moqi's hand fell to the ground.

"No, no, the point is not this. The point is how they send this thing to the army. Think about it, the army of nearly 20,000 people can still eat hot spaghetti every day, so they must have a way to A large amount of supplies were transported, food, warm clothing and fuel, especially fuel." Hindenburg said.

"Huh?! Yeah, let’s say nothing else. Such an army consumes no more than 100 tons of fuel, water, and food every day. Think about it, a division consumes 30 to 40 beef every day. Around. How did they bring it in? It doesn't make sense." Xiao Maoqi, who has eaten rusks, compressed biscuits and half-baked rice for three days, finally turned his attention from his rice bowl to transportation.

   "A half-tracked vehicle, it must be a half-tracked vehicle!" said Mackensen, putting aside the rusk in his hand. "Although tracked vehicles have the best passability, general tanks and armored vehicles have large ground weights, and half-tracked vehicles are actually cars equipped with a part of the track. They have a small weight and a large grounding area, so the passability is also good. If the ground is covered with straw and wooden boards, it can also be maneuvered."

   "We don't have a better and faster way now, don't we? God knows that this **** rain is going to rain for a few days!" Xiao Maoqi said something that everyone didn't understand.

  "In this case, um, General Mackensen, now I am handing you an important task. I will immediately contact the Bavarian side to see if they can borrow a few half-tracks." Xiao Moqi said.

   "But half of the tracked vehicles are not easy to go in this weather, right?" Mackenson said.

   "Even if the rain stops, the ground is still muddy. We lack effective towing tools, damn, why can't we think of it? Why can't Prussian companies make what we need?" Xiao Maoqi cursed. However, Xiao Maoqi seems to have forgotten one thing, before he became the chief of staff, he was responsible for equipment procurement!

"That's right, and I really want to know how Bavarian soldiers eat hot food in this situation. UU reading www.uukavanshu.com officers rely on their brains to fight, and soldiers rely on their stomachs to fight." Xiao Maoqi watched again. He glanced at the bread in his hand and said.

At the same time, Prince Ruprecht, who was eating lunch in the temporary headquarters, looked at the instant noodles called "Military Special Pasta" in front of him. It was already the third day that they were called junk food. Yes, black pepper steak, tomato sirloin, um, rib noodles today? ! I have to say that the prince is tired of eating.

But when he thought of making the German soldiers who are used to black bread and biscuits like instant noodles, the prince was very proud of it. This thing can be eaten raw as salty biscuits, and when cooked, it can pretend to be pasta in the army. Chinese is still very popular because it is very easy to learn. Long storage time and rich taste. Of course, the most important thing is that this is the most convenient cooked food when the cooking cart cannot provide enough brown bread. It would be nice to have a hot bite on the battlefield. Who cares about noodles or biscuits?

   "Has our plane arrived?" The prince looked at the sky and said.

   "It's already here, there's a clear sky over there." Baron Schmidt put down his knife and fork and said.

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