Chapter 1000: 16. Fortress vs. Fortress (25)

The battlefield is not a workplace. The lunch break is a near-criminal luxury for soldiers who put their heads on their belts. We must know that when the battle is fierce, all physiological activities-sleep, eating, and excretion must make way for combat. Urine is peeing in the crotch, and it is really not an exaggeration to endure a day. Even in the trench confrontation stage, you have to go to the toilet in groups, on the one hand to prevent voyeurism (in the sky), on the other hand to prevent the enemy from touching the whistle, the pants are caught before the tongue is pulled, or It's too stupid to think about squatting a hole and stepping on a thunder. In order to avoid this situation, it is common for brothers in the same robe to feel at ease with a large gun, holding a gun, and holding a grenade in the waist at the door of the toilet.
Nowadays, the choice between the Defence Force and the King Charlemagne Army is in disguise, but it is not how knightly they are. In the brutal modern war, all the beautiful traditional morality and order have been stepped on the muddy bottom soaked with blood and urine. Whether they were educated or illiterate, both sides were originally gentlemen and gangsters or rogue pickpockets. What they now have in their hearts is only a strong desire to survive and the animal nature that kills all the enemies in front of them. It is only the basic needs of creatures that prompt them to accept this "truce" for the time being.
If you don’t eat a meal, you might be hungry and not dead. If you continuously consume a lot of energy and don’t replenish water, then it will really kill you. It is not particularly rare to die from dehydration on the battlefield. As soon as you stop moving, the first thing the soldiers do is to rush to replenish water and rest.
By 12:00 noon, after four and a half hours of brutal fighting, the end of the battle was actually doomed. For the Charlemagne, although they invested a full 60,000 troops in the morning offensive, the battlefield situation did not improve, and nearly two-thirds of the casualties were paid, only the remaining troops were approached to the enemy trenches. And turn each crater into a "wedge" that threatens the front line of defense. In the absence of artillery fire support, the Defense Force had no good way to take these temporary works for a while. Simply seize time to recuperate troops and replenish ammunition. Charlemagne also took advantage of this opportunity to allow new troops to enter the trenches, and tried to open the gap with the troops stationed in the "wedge" in the next wave of attacks.
The time passed in one minute and one second, and the senior officials of both sides were seizing the time to dispatch troops. According to the fortifications, the soldiers also seized this moment of tranquility to enjoy lunch and inspect weapons, and then withdrew the wounded. It is ironic that the two warring parties, who do not share the sky, actually reached a consensus on something at this time.
"Adolf is eating his barbed wire, Grant is chewing K-bread, Dieter is chewing fossil beef, and Hans is simmering sausage platter. And we are eating "human meat" and throwing "spirit meat" into our mouths."
The members of the Reynolds machine gun group hummed a minor while putting their steaming lunch into their mouths. Every time they chewed, their expressions will be very exciting.
The food defense of the Defence Forces has always been good, with a large variety and large portions. As long as the officers and soldiers stationed on the Siegfried Line are not in combat, they can enjoy hot food and desserts and fruits every day. Coffee and hot soup are also served at the vigil. Compared with the counterparts in different countries, this is simply a luxury hotel-like enjoyment. No one can talk about what needs to be improved without knowing what it is.
However, this kind of "five-star satisfaction" is limited to normal meals. Fighting rations are never within the scope of "likes" by the majority of officers and soldiers.
As we all know, the Defense Army has a taste that is different from ordinary people. The cooking skills can be called the chieftain of the king of the dark cooking world. The dictator can fry an egg fried rice. It is possible to bring out a plate of unknown substances like nitroglycerin. The poor meal that can't afford to fall to the ground, the one can still enjoy it. Such a battle ration stipulated by a "superman" in various senses... not "destructive" is not enough to describe its taste.
Take the humming minor of the machine gun group as an example. "Barbed wire" refers to dehydrated and dried vegetables, that is, those dried in the instant noodle seasoning package. The dehydrated and dried vegetables supplied by the Defense Army are mainly carrots and cabbages, and a certain brand The braised beef instant noodles have similar vegetable seasonings. Add some hot water and grease together to make it a bowl of soup. As for the taste... It's about the same as hot water with oil and salt added, and the boiled vegetables are still very dry and hard, which is the origin of its "barbed wire" nickname.
As a member of the combat rations of unprecedented levels, K-Bread seemed to lack danger at first glance. This kind of wheat flour mixed with a lot of potato flour in order to increase the volume and calories is healthy and economical, but the taste is bad. Anyone who has tasted K bread can’t help but sigh: Will it be dead if you separate wheat flour and potatoes to cook well?
Fossil beef is corned beef jerky. Because it is not perishable, it has been accumulated in the grain depot to serve as a combat reserve. If it is tasted within the three-year shelf life, it is not a problem if it is too salty and requires a lot of drinking water after consumption. But God knows that the dried meat has been lying in the warehouse for a few years, and it can't be cut with a thick back chopper. So that I had to borrow axe and chain saw from the engineer to cut the distribution of the tree, and even the soldier who was a sculptor before joining the army took a hammer and a screwdriver to carve the corned beef jerky into various artworks and placed The sentiments are cultivated in the dull bunker, and the sculptures are intact despite the wind and rain. It doesn't make people think that this high-grade mahogany food was originally eaten.
Sausage platter () ranked third in "the most difficult combat rations" is a traditional dish of Yalfheim. Stew the bacon, sausages, steaks with pickled cucumbers, kimchi, etc., then serve them on the plate. The problem is because the time is tight and tasks are heavy on the battlefield, often the meat is not cooked well or the vegetables are not marinated. Every time you eat a bite that is unclear whether it is halogen or sour, you will have a more profound experience and understanding of the word "sourness".
The last is the M.R.E. and luncheon meat that dominate the top two for the longest time in the "most difficult combat rations". These two foods that make the brave defensive soldiers feel discouraged are not much to say. Just listening to the mess of nicknames that scare people, you know how much the officers and soldiers hate these two kinds of food. When these two are paired together on the table, their expressions are more like constipation.
Interestingly, the meals of the Charlemagne soldiers are not much better, not only dry but also severely deficient in vitamin C, and M.R.E and luncheon meat also occupy half of the battle rations of the King Charlemagne army. Before the battle started, the officers delivered a large amount of combat rations, almost a M.R.E and a few canned luncheon meat. After entering the rest, the Charlieman soldiers could not wait to open the canned food to replenish physical strength and heat. For a time, in addition to the smell of smoke and rust on the battlefield, there was also a scent of luncheon meat. Elven and Charlemagne curse and curse all kinds of bad foods also flooded every corner of the battlefield.
In any case, the ability to complain is finally a sign of being alive, and for those who have died and are dying, complaining has become an extravagant luxury.
The Charlemagne were not unprepared for the heavy casualties, in fact, they had already prepared themselves from material to psychological. The comprehensive treatment and transfer system for the wounded is the focus of attention before the war. According to the plan, the wounded will be transferred through multiple health service units, and each level of health service unit will provide treatment before the wounded are transferred to the next unit. This complete set of treatment and transfer procedures ends with the stretcher soldiers taking the wounded from the battlefield to the stage and sending the wounded to a large hospital with well-equipped facilities in the rear. In general, the stretcher soldiers first sent the wounded from the front line to the battalion, regiment, brigade, and division-level health units. After centralized treatment, they were transported to different hospitals by ambulance and railway according to the injury level of the wounded.
In theory, such a system can really improve the chance of survival or recovery of the wounded, but like all systems that seem to be very good in theory, the performance of Charlemagne's wound transfer and treatment system in actual combat is also not impressive. satisfaction. First of all, there was a major setback in the first link. The thoroughly angered defense army also regarded stretcher soldiers as targets of attack. Stretcher soldiers had to choose between rescuing their colleagues, being shot by enemy forces, and picking up weapons to protect themselves. As a result, not only a large number of stretcher soldiers died on the battlefield, but many wounded people were not taken back to the trenches, and were forced to stay on the battlefield to die slowly and miserably. Secondly, Charlemagne's poor management system once again played the role of the hind leg. With the sound of guns gradually sparse at noon, the health service units were immediately busy, and the bandages and field ambulances of the divisions began to contain a lot The wounded, UU reading www.uukanshu.com. Among them were the unlucky eggs that were hit at the beginning of the attack and fell back into the trenches. There were also lucky people who withdrew from the battlefield miraculously. The medical staff performed very well. After emergency treatment of the wounded, they immediately began to organize the severely wounded and sent to the next level of injury treatment station to ensure that the field ambulance continued to accommodate the wounded.
However, there was a problem in the process of transferring the wounded from the injury treatment station to the rear hospital. Only one of the 18 medical special trains prepared arrived at the station at noon. The other special trains were either blocked on the railway under repair, or Other special trains transporting the reserve team are competing for the railway line, and a large number of wounded people have to squeeze in the injury treatment station for transfer. Every tent, every bed, every passage was overcrowded, and the newly wounded had to lie outside the tent, wrapped in a blanket, wailing and wailing for help. So many wounded people have completely broken through the treatment capacity of the injury treatment station. In addition to the rescue of the wounded, the mad medical doctors exhausted the medicine and bandages that are not sufficient in their hands, and they can only roar at the bureaucrats who manage the railway. Vent anger and dissatisfaction: when can the first aid train come? ! ! If you drag it on, everyone will die! ! !
There is no breeze, only the defensive army reconnaissance MDS skimming the air from time to time on the dull battlefield. The living people and the dead are slowly struggling to spend a moment of tranquility in the mire of war. Everyone knew that every second passed, the and fierce fighting was getting closer. Countless flushed eyes were fixed on the battlefield, anxiously waiting for the fight to come.