History is the memory of things that have been said and done. —Carl Baker
On July 7, 1937, the Japanese invaders launched the Lugou Bridge Incident, and Japan began a full-scale war of aggression against China. As the saying goes: "Soldiers and horses do not move grain and grass first." Food is crucial to a war, without food soldiers do not have enough to eat, how to fight with guns.
On April 15, 1938, based on the japanese army's nearly one-year combat experience in China, Japan issued the "Correction of Rules and Regulations for Military Personnel in Wartime" to make new adjustments to the rations of Japanese soldiers. Let's take a look at what an average Japanese soldier's rations looked like at the time.
There are two main standards for the rations of ordinary Soldiers in Japan, one is called station food, that is, the food of soldiers when there is no war, and the other is wartime food. The station meal standards are as follows: "660 grams of polished rice, 210 grams of refined wheat, 210 grams of fresh meat, 600 grams of vegetables, 60 grams of Zean, 0.08 liters of soy sauce, 75 grams of miso, 5 grams of salt, 20 grams of sugar, 3 grams of tea leaves, 0.4 liters of sake or 120 grams of sweets, 20 cigarettes (about one packet)".
As for wartime food, some changes were made to the standards for stationed food, adding some biscuits, cans and the like. Its dietary standards are not lower than those of the station because of combat.
The Japanese soldiers' food was called a good one, almost all rice, and even the seasoning was prescribed. Most crucially, the soldiers in the garrison were required to eat fresh meat every day. So the problem is that fresh meat is no better than jerky and canned meat, and fresh meat is difficult to preserve. The Japanese army is far away from the country, how to ensure the supply of fresh meat for soldiers?
In fact, Japanese soldiers have a variety of fresh meat types, why? Because the fresh meat they eat is snatched from the hands of Chinese. In the areas controlled by wang puppets, the Japanese army took into account the so-called common prosperity of Greater East Asia and could not directly rob them, so they came up with the so-called purchase method. What they used to buy was a worthless military ticket. This method is no different from robbery.
But if it is other areas, the Japanese army will not take care of much, they will kill our compatriots through sweeping, rob our Chinese chickens, ducks, pigs and cows for them to eat.
Toshiro, a veteran of the Japanese invasion of China, once recalled in his diary that every time he went, these Japanese soldiers would snatch all the chickens, ducks, sheep, cows, etc. they could see to improve their food.
The supply of fresh meat to the Japanese army at that time mainly relied on the means of robbery, which is also reflected in today's film and television dramas.