Thinking of a good siege tactic, Li Mengxi hurriedly stopped the village warriors who were practicing the attack.

The method Li Mengxi came up with was this - since the siege team would be subject to the rain of arrows shot down from above by the defenders, they should use shields to cover the top.

Most of the siege teams are sword and shield soldiers, and long weapons are not easy to use when climbing the city to fight.

Li Mengxi collected all the shields of the 200-man siege team, and then covered the shields one by one on the siege ladder like tiles, until the ladder was covered tightly, and the siege ladder became an indestructible one.

Ventilated door panel.

"Tomorrow we will attack the city. The siege ladder will be flat. People are carrying the ladder on the left and right. Put the ladder on your shoulders and support the ladder with your shoulders. Then put the shield on the ladder and hold the shield with your hands from under the ladder to protect yourself from the arrows coming from above.

.”

Li Mengxi showed how the village warriors carried the ladder while holding the shield firmly with their hands.

"Each person holds a shield on both sides. The person carrying the ladder on the left has his right hand stuck on the ladder to protect from the top, and the left hand holds the shield to protect from the side."

"Two people at the front, use shields to guard against the arrows in front of you."

"When you rush to the city wall, you throw away the shield covering the ladder. Do you understand?"

After Li Mengxi finished speaking, he asked the village heroes if they understood.

The village heroes all nodded.

Just nodding and saying nothing, Li Mengxi didn't like this.

Every question must be answered. If on the battlefield, people and horses are neighing in confusion, and they just nod their heads, what if they don’t hear it?

"Louder! You can't hear me!" Li Mengxi roared in a milky voice.

"Understood!" The village heroes couldn't help but laugh and replied in a flurry of words.

"Okay!" Li Mengxi turned around in a circle and looked at a circle of adults who were much taller than him. "Then let's try. Each person holds two shields and carries the siege ladder. Can we run away?

quick."

The siege team did not have enough shields, so they borrowed all the shields from Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to solve the problem.

Anyway, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's troops were just feinting and there was no need to attack the city.

It's still seventy steps, with a row of torches stuck in the ground as the wall.

"Follow my orders——"

"Charge!!" Li Mengxi ordered.

"Kill!!" The siege team carried the ladder and ran away.

Before he could even take two steps, the shield on the ladder fell off several times.

Moreover, Li Mengxi was watching from the side and saw that the people holding shields on both sides of the siege ladder forgot to keep their shields at opposite angles as soon as they ran.

There are many problems.

Carrying the ladder only with your shoulders requires close cooperation between all members of a siege team, and if you hold a shield in both hands, you cannot control your balance by swinging your hands, and it is easy to fall.

Once the new tactics were previewed, Li Mengxi was greatly disappointed.

The tactics are good, but the complexity is a bit high.

"Xuan Degong, what do you think?" Li Mengxi asked, pointing to the man who ran back to pick up the shield.

Liu Bei frowned slightly.

Liu Bei also noticed that no matter how well he had practiced before, once each person had two more shields, he would have to start from scratch.

When all seventeen siege teams had arrived, Li Mengxi and Liu Bei arrived in front of everyone.

"I have two points to make. First, if you have both hands occupied and you only use your shoulders to carry the ladder, the ladder will definitely not be very stable. This requires people on the same team to run at the same speed, otherwise the ladder will definitely become crooked.

Second, when running, the shield on the side should always ensure the opposite side. If you want to attack the city, not only the archers on the city directly opposite will shoot you with arrows, but also the archers on the wall farther away can shoot you. Crossbows can shoot at you from far away.

If it flies in, it will be a side shot. Whether the shield on the side can block the arrow depends on whether you can hold the shield well."

"Okay." Li Mengxi clapped his hands, "Let's start practicing again. We don't want to be too fast. We need to run steadily first."

As the saying goes, those in authority are confused, but onlookers know clearly.

It is difficult for the siege team to find the problem by themselves, but when others look at it, it is obvious where the problem lies.

In the second round of the new tactical drill, Li Mengxi specifically told them not to try to be fast, so the local warriors did not run fast the second time.

Sure enough, it was stable, but someone else's shield fell off. While running, Li Mengxi observed that the shield on the side was still not well protected.

"Stop!" Li Mengxi called out at halftime.

As soon as the word "stop" was shouted out, all seventeen siege teams stopped.

Li Mengxi walked over, starting from the nearest team, and corrected the shortcomings bit by bit.

"What's going on with your ladder? It's high on one side and low on the other. How can you keep the shield from falling off? It's not the same height as it is. I don't know how to change it, so why should I tell you?"

Li Mengxi scolded him, and pulled two or three people in succession, until the heights of the people on both sides of the ladder were matched.

"Okay, this is the order. If the heights on the left and right are the same, the ladder won't be crooked."

"Do you remember?" Li Mengxi asked.

No one answered.

"I asked, do you remember?" Li Mengxi asked loudly again.

"remember."

"remembered."

…

This team of country warriors responded sparsely.

"Louder, you can't hear me!" Li Mengxi roared.

"Remember!" the village heroes shouted back.

very good.

Li Mengxi found something familiar, that is, watching military TV dramas. This is how recruits are trained in the military camp. They have to yell at everything they do, and when they yell, they feel a sense of bravery.

Li Mengxi then went to the second team.

After walking around the second team, there was no problem with the height disharmony in this team. However, Li Mengxi discovered a more serious problem.

The ladders in the second team were too narrow, and the shoulders of the people carrying the ladders on both sides were almost touching, which was very awkward.

Li Mengxi turned his head and shouted outside the court, "Lu Li! Come here!"

The carpenter brother Lu Li ran over in a hurry. Li Mengxi pointed to the ladder, "If the ladder's crossbars are completely dismantled and widened by one-half, can it be changed?"

"Hmm." The carpenter brother said dullly.

"How long will it take to change?" Li Mengxi asked again.

"In a moment." The carpenter brother cherished his words like gold.

"Then go back and change it."

Li Mengxi said to the second team, "Go and carry the ladder to the carpenter's camp, change it and then carry it back."

After a few more steps, we reached the third team.

…

"I think the problem with your team is the shield at the top. Why is it unstable? Pull the shield hard and pull it down. The shield surface is caught by the ladder bars. In this way, not only can you stabilize the ladder, but your hands are also equivalent to

A handshake is much more stable."

…

"There's no big problem with your team. Let's run next and think about how to run faster."

Team after team, Li Mengxi shuttled among the siege teams, carefully correcting the shortcomings in the tactical movements of each siege team.

Liu Bei followed Li Mengxi. Liu Bei also wanted to say something, but Liu Bei found that every time Li Mengxi pointed out a problem, Liu Bei took a long time to think about it. As for tactics, Liu Bei thought that there was nothing he could do.

Seeing that Li Mengxi in front could chatter endlessly, Liu Bei was really envious.

A beautiful son is sent from heaven, and I, Liu Bei, am lucky enough to meet him. Liu Bei sighed with emotion.

"alright."

The 17th siege team also finished the inspection. Li Mengxi walked around to the front and said loudly to nearly two hundred people, "Remember what I just said and practice again!"

It was getting late at night, the village heroes were very tired from training, and Li Mengxi was also tired, and he yawned.

Liu Bei looked distressed and said, "Xi'er, if you think you're done practicing, you should go back and sleep first."

"It's early!" Li Mengxi shook his head vigorously to drive away sleepiness, "I have just practiced carrying the siege ladder and running under the city wall. There are also erecting ladders, climbing ladders, and climbing the city. I haven't practiced any of these.

Woolen cloth."

When Liu Bei heard what Li Mengxi said, he was a little surprised. He still had so much to practice, and how could he still practice so much?

No wonder Yunchang felt relieved and left the siege to Li Mengxi.

The new siege tactics were proposed by Li Mengxi and improved many times while practicing. They were practiced many times by the village warriors and finally became mature.

The local heroes used two extra shields to block their heads and sides, and they could still run as fast as they would without shields.

It was almost time to start the next stage. Li Mengxi breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Wait a moment." Li Mengxi suddenly thought of a small detail that he had not noticed.

"Mr. Xuande, let me go up the ladder and take a look."
Chapter completed!