This is already May 8th.

The second day of the siege of Yuyang.

Li Mengxi circled his own front line in a full circle. He didn't know it without looking at it. But after looking at it, he noticed something unusual.

You know, Yuyang City is a big city, not small in size. Surrounding such a large city, there are still continuous formations surrounding it at a considerable distance from the city. Just look at how many people there are.

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With doubts, Li Mengxi went to Liu Bei personally and asked him about the military strength.

Liu Bei frowned slightly, raised his head and thought for a moment, "There are more than 92,000 people coming one after another..."

"How...how much??" Li Mengxi's eyes widened in surprise when he heard such a large number.

Liu Bei thought carefully again, then turned to look at Li Mengxi, "More than ninety-two thousand, that's the number."

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There are a total of more than 92,000 people. To exaggerate a little, this is the true meaning of "an army of 100,000"!

The legendary 100,000-strong army...

How did the military strength inexplicably expand to this extent...

Li Mengxi was almost excited and went to inspect his 100,000 troops.

The time was around midnight. To guard against the possibility of enemies in the city leaving their nests, the whole army was still on alert and could not take a break. This was a disaster for the country soldiers who had been busy all night, and countless of them were dozing off.

Li Mengxi came to a place. This front line was not much different from the others. There was a ditch at the front, and behind the ditch was a pile of dirt slopes. There was a long string of carts across the slope. This was a formation of carts. Behind the carts

Beside it, a crudely made flag was stuck straight there.

If you look closely at the flag, you will see that the flag is made of coarse linen. The material is thick and drooping naturally. You can vaguely see a pattern of a rat tattooed on the flag.

You only need to see this to understand that according to the organization, this is the twelve zodiac flags. The first flag is the rat flag. As for which section and team of the rat flag it is, it is unknown.

Down the slope is the rural soldiers' camp. The exhausted rural soldiers are sitting on the ground. Many of them are taking a nap. Even if they are sitting and taking a nap, the rural soldiers are still arranged in front and back in formation.

Looking at the rural soldiers, there are about fifty or sixty rural soldiers in this area. The uniforms of the rural soldiers are all different, and they are generally shabby and shabby. Newer clothes are rare.

Compared with the messy clothes, the military equipment of the rural soldiers appears to be extremely neat. Every rural soldier, no matter how he is dressed, must have a bow or a crossbow on his body, and there is another person on the ground at his feet.

The long spears are placed on the spot. No matter how good the quality of the spear is, even if it is a wooden spear with a sharpened stick, it is enough for everyone to have one.

A small thing makes a big difference. This is generally the case for the soldiers from all the villages along the way. They may not have other armaments. The equipment rate of crossbows and guns is very high. It seems that the officers from their own country have carried out the orders very well.

Li Mengxi and Liu Bei had been watching the camp for a long time. During this period, some soldiers noticed the two of them and looked back frequently.

Finally, a soldier in the front row could not help but touch the soldier next to him, and leaned over to whisper a few words.

The soldier was sitting with his head hanging down. He had been asleep for a long time. He was suddenly woken up. He quickly got up. While holding on to his helmet, he turned around and looked back. He saw Liu Bei wearing a helmet and shaking his armor.

shock.

The soldier hurriedly ran forward, he was cautious and helpless and said with an embarrassed smile, he just wanted to take a rest, but he fell asleep.

This is an obvious dereliction of duty. This is wartime. The country soldiers can be lazy, but the commander of the soldiers in charge must always be vigilant.

Liu Bei also knew that he was too tired these past few days, so he did not criticize him too much. He just asked the soldiers to be more alert and said nothing more.

After leaving here and walking far away, Li Mengxi looked back and saw that the soldier who had just slept had already gone up the slope, holding a gun and looking in the direction of Yuyang City, standing straight.

Continuing the inspection further down, it will be said that for an army of tens of thousands, 90% are newly recruited rural soldiers. There are really a lot of scattered problems in the middle term.

For example, regarding the layout of the camp, the Julu Army's front line is now like this, with the ditch and barrier in front, and the camp and troops close to the barrier in the back. This greatly facilitates management and combat. However, the layout of each department is different, and some

The camp was too close to the vehicle formation, which was very disadvantageous. Once a war broke out, the soldiers would need to rely on the vehicle formation to fight behind the vehicle formation. A considerable amount of open space would need to be left behind the vehicle formation to arrange manpower. In this way, the tent would become an obstacle.

A better approach is that the camp should not be too close to the battle site, but should leave enough distance.

If you think about it carefully, if a battle breaks out and there are frequent exchanges of arrows from both sides, fragile items like tents can easily be damaged by enemy arrows.

Things were in a hurry, and they attacked Yuyang City at night that day. There was no time to make detailed arrangements, so they had to camp on the spot and start setting up fortifications on the spot.

While walking on the road, there were similar small camps next to them. The camp should be as far away from the battlefield as possible, Li Mengxi couldn't help but think.

Taking into account the powerful destructive power of arrows on the camp, if the camp is to be safe enough, the camp must be set up at least 150 steps behind the position. But in this way, if the enemy in the city suddenly breaks out, the country soldiers will be 150 steps away from the position.

If you rush into battle in a hurry, you may not be able to react in time.

Thinking of this, Li Mengxi's brows suddenly widened, and then suddenly relaxed. Could it be that he was stupid, why did the soldiers have to be on standby in the camp? The camp could be arranged five hundred steps away, and the soldiers were not in the camp. The soldiers went to the back of the formation and were on standby, so they could respond in time.

However, there is another problem. The advantage of combining the camp and the position into one is that in the event of a sudden heavy rain, the soldiers can hide in the tent to take shelter from the rain, and at the same time, they are close to the position, neither being caught by the rain nor delayed.

fighting.

And if the two are separated and the tent is far away from the position, the tent will naturally be safe. However, if a heavy rain suddenly falls, the soldiers will not be able to use the tent to shelter from the rain, and one of them will always be unhappy.

Especially given the current situation of the Julu Army, it has to maintain a huge front, and the entire Julu Army must be on standby at all times, and 90% of the army's manpower are hastily recruited rural soldiers. The rural soldiers generally have poor physical fitness and weak logistics.

Necessary clothing to keep out the cold and rain. Once a heavy rain falls suddenly, the impact will be severe if you don’t use a tent to take shelter.

After thinking about it, Li Mengxi realized a problem. The Julu Army's current situation of maintaining the front line could be roughly divided into three types: positions, standby areas, and camps.

That is, the camp is far away from the battlefield, and safety is the most important thing; it has shelter from wind, rain and even cold, and can even block arrows for rest, and it is close to the battlefield where timely support can be provided. This is the standby area.

Based on this consideration, the standby area must be able to keep out the rain, and at the lowest level, it must have a tung oil cloth roof; to keep out the cold, it needs at least a bonfire or four wind-blocking walls; and to block the rain of arrows, it needs a

A thick defense against the enemy, either a large shield, a wooden wall, or an earth wall, and considering the arrows being thrown, it is best to have a solid wooden roof on top.

Combined with the consideration of reducing logistical pressure and the consideration of general armaments, a roof is needed to keep out the rain, fire or four walls are needed to keep out the cold, a wall in front of the arrow is also needed, and there is also a roof on the top. In other words, all the needs are in [

Wall] and [Roof] overlap.

I also thought of the arrow-proof shed roof that Liu Bei built when he was defending the village, and the inspiration came.

The structure of the simplest and most complete frontline rest house should be like this - use a large piece of tung oil cloth as the base, paste a foot thick yellow mud on the tung oil cloth, and then use wooden stakes to support the tung oil cloth and yellow mud.

Start making the roof.

After drying, the cheap and easy-to-get yellow mud can protect against falling arrows. The yellow mud also protects the fragile tung oil cloth underneath. At the same time, the tung oil cloth is also beneficial to shaping the soil.

For rain protection, a waterproof tung oil cloth is provided, and a wooden or earth wall is set up in front, and the function of protecting against arrows is complete.

The remaining thermal insulation item is to build four walls to prevent wind and heat. Not to mention the large amount of work, the effect may not be good. Therefore, for the thermal insulation item, there is no need for four walls, only a bonfire.

Well, the three main requirements of the position rest area for rain protection, arrow protection and cold protection are all met. However, there are only two simple requirements, one is tung oil cloth and the other is wood. The wood may be used to support the roof.

It can be used to build wooden walls or be burned as firewood. The supports can be replaced by long spears and long sticks, or even mud embryos. The wooden walls can be replaced by earth walls. In the end, the most economical method requires only a piece of tung oil.

, a bundle of firewood for heating, nothing more.

In addition, tung oil cloth can be reused many times without being wasted. As for the efficient use of firewood, Li has a method of burning soil with flames to obtain dry clay. The dry soil can be used to pave tents on rainy days.
Chapter completed!