Even though Li Mengxi felt that he was familiar with Lu Li, who looked like a lump of wood all day long, Lu Li did not realize this.

Hearing the military advisor calling him, Lu Li turned around and stopped, holding on to the straw rope that was about to fall off his shoulder. "Is something wrong?" Brother Lu Li replied dully to Li Mengxi.

"It's okay." Li Mengxi chuckled, brought his younger brother up to him, followed him, and started asking questions.

Lu Li would only reply "Yeah".

Just like that, after Lu Li hummed dozens of times, the carpenter team arrived at the grove and started cutting down trees.

Seeing that there were many shrubs and vines in the woods, pricking the rice seedlings, Li Mengxi didn't want to go in and stayed outside with his brother.

There are cockleburs beside the woods, and the cocklebur fruits have matured one by one and turned into gray color. When my brother saw the cockleburs, he felt like he saw a treasure, so he trotted to pick them.

"This is a cocklebur." Li Mengxi picked a cocklebur fruit and pinched it lightly with his fingers, feeling the pressure of the cocklebur fruit covered with thorns on his fingers.

"It's Mao Changzi." Brick corrected his brother's mistake while picking cockleburs.

"Ah?" Li Mengxi didn't hear clearly.

"Mao Zongzi." The younger brother said seriously. Seeing that his older brother didn't pick a few, he put the cockleburs in his little hand into his older brother's hand and let him play with it first.

The scientific name of cocklebur in the Han Dynasty was probably Mao Zhizi. If you add a radical, it is Mao Zhizi. Well, Li Mengxi understood.

Li Mengxi looked at the bunch of cockleburs in his hands and was speechless, "Brick, what's this for fun?"

Brick stopped picking the cockleburs and enthusiastically taught his brother how to play, "It can be like this." Brick picked up the cockleburs and pressed them on his hair, "Look, it's stuck, it won't fall off.

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"Haha!" His younger brother looked so stupid. Li Mengxi couldn't help but laugh.

"It can still be like this." Brick took the cocklebur again and stuck it on the linen clothes on his body.

The thorns of cocklebur have barbed hooks, which stick to clothes.

"See if it's stuck." The younger brother pulled on his clothes and pointed out the cocklebur hanging on his clothes to his elder brother.

The silly brother wore the cocklebur as an ornament, and Li Mengxi couldn't stop laughing.

The younger brother also insisted on wearing a unique Xanthium brooch on Li Mengxi, but Li Mengxi refused. In the end, he couldn't resist his younger brother and only let him wear one.

About a quarter of an hour later, Li Mengxi heard someone shouting in the woods, telling Li Mengxi and his two brothers to go farther outside and plant the tree.

After it was confirmed that Li Mengxi and the two brothers were gone, the carpenters tied a straw rope to the tree. Seven or eight people pulled the straw rope together, and with a click, a big tree as thick as a bucket was pulled down with its roots half cut off.

Already.

After the first tree was successfully knocked down, the second and third trees were also knocked down one after another.

In the evening, the Carpenter Camp felled fourteen trees, large and small.

Seeing that the carpenters had worked so hard to put down the trees, it looked like they still had to pull them out one by one. Li Mengxi felt hard for them.

So Li Mengxi went back and told Liu Bei, and a large group of people came to help.

After a while, the tree trunk with its branches cut off was dragged outside the woods.

Near the woods, you can build siege equipment nearby without dragging the tree trunks too far.

The highlight that Li Mengxi wanted to see is here.

The carpenters gathered in a group to discuss. Li Mengxi thought the carpenters were discussing what siege equipment they should make. When he walked over and listened, he heard that the village warriors were actually discussing what they should make.

I bet they have no clue at all.

Li Mengxi then walked over.

"I heard from General Zhang San that the city we are going to attack tomorrow is a small city. It is difficult to make large objects such as carriages, carriages, and railings, and it takes time to make, so we can just make ladders and siege spines." Li Mengxi gave these to the side.

Here are some suggestions from carpenters who have skills but no ideas.

A ladder, right? The carpenters scratched their heads and thought they could do it.

A cloud ladder is just a taller ladder.

It is not difficult for carpenters to make a ladder.

So the carpenters called on their acquaintances to unwrap the wood together.

Except for the two or three thinner trees that can be planed and sawed, and the tree trunks can be used directly as the two main shafts of the ladder, other trees as thick as buckets are too thick and must be broken open.

Li Mengxi thought he had to break the wood into planks, but he didn't expect that the carpenters' ideas were more flexible than his own.

The carpenters used axes to chop, drove wedges into the wood, split the wood, and then used saws to cut from one end of the trunk. Although it was still troublesome and laborious, by the time night fell, Li Mengxi had already seen the carpenters cutting the wood into pieces.

A tree stood upright and split into four halves.

Although the broken piece is not very straight and rough, and looks almost like unprocessed broken wood, it is enough to make a ladder. The ladder is a one-time consumable. The faster it can be made, the better, and the higher the cost-effectiveness, the better.

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Li Mengxi specially went to see the tree trunk that had been broken into four halves. It was a tree as thick as a bucket. After being broken open, each trunk was still thick, but it should be within the weight that the siege soldiers could bear.

When attacking a city, it is not just three or four people who carry the ladder to attack the city, but a dozen or even more people, carrying it together, and the heavier ones are carried.

Li Mengxi also wanted to see how the carpenters assembled the broken wooden strips into ladders, and Lao Tie came to ask him to eat.

Li Mengxi looked at the carpenters who were working under the torch and asked, "Don't you eat first? It's not too late to start working after eating."

The carpenters didn't even raise their heads, "The military advisor will go first. General Guan has an order. The siege equipment must be ready tonight. Anyone who disobeys the order will be punished."

Li Mengxi advised again, "Whether you are cutting firewood while sharpening your knife, how much time can be wasted in one meal, just leave, and then get back to work after eating!"

Seeing that the carpenters were indifferent, Li Mengxi went to pull them one by one.

The military order told us to rush to build siege equipment tonight, but the order didn't say we wouldn't be allowed to eat.

If you don't eat, you won't have the strength to work.

Li Mengxi finally persuaded the carpenters to go to dinner, and he went back to eat with Lao Tie.

Liu Xuande came to invite him, and when he saw Li Mengxi chatting and laughing with the village heroes, the atmosphere was harmonious, so he couldn't send him away immediately.

"Meng Xi, come over and have a chat after dinner."

Liu Bei's voice sounded behind him.

"Oh...okay!" Li Mengxi hurriedly turned around to respond.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! When other village warriors saw Liu Bei coming, they also got up hurriedly and even called the general.

Liu Bei pressed down with his hand, signaling to the local warriors that there was no need to be polite and that they should eat the food while it was still hot.

Liu Bei chatted with the local heroes for a while, and he chatted with everyone, without leaving out or ignoring anyone, which made all the local heroes feel like spring breeze.

There will be a battle tomorrow, and the soldiers eat with open stomachs. There is a lot of food. The millet porridge is very thick, as thick as dry rice.

Li Mengxi's bowl was just right, but Brick's bowl couldn't be finished. Li Mengxi took Brick's bowl and finished eating Brick's leftovers.

It's great. The two brothers went from being about to starve to death to now having almost nothing to eat. This is not a blessing.

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Beside the bonfire, Liu Bei waited until Li Mengxi arrived.

"Xi'er, sit down." Liu Bei motioned to Li Mengxi to find a place to sit down and chat.

The flames of the bonfire were swaying, and in the light of the fire, Li Mengxi saw Liu Bei's worried look.

Li Mengxi pondered, "Is Mr. Xuande worried about the war?"

"Hey," Liu Bei sighed, "I also know that [The Art of War says, "Surround the city ten times]", our army is not as good as the Yellow Turbans, and attacking the city is not a field battle. I don't know if our army will be able to defeat the city in one battle tomorrow."

Although Li Mengxi knew that Liu Bei's army actually had an advantage and that the courage of Guan and Zhang was the guarantee of victory, this was the rebel army's first siege and it was normal for Liu Bei to be worried about the war.

Li Mengxi looked at the dancing bonfire in trance, "Our army has no experience in attacking cities, so the casualties are bound to be considerable." He frowned slightly and looked up at the sky. After a while, "I asked the military doctor to steam alcohol. There were many wounded at that time.

, can receive proper treatment.”
Chapter completed!