The atmosphere fell silent, and Xiang Yong looked at Li Mengxi in astonishment.

Li Mengxi turned a blind eye to the embarrassing atmosphere, his expression remained unchanged, and he scolded, "What I say is a military order. If you dare to disobey, you will be severely punished!"

"I'm checking the ten numbers. If anyone doesn't line up, please wait for me!"

Li Mengxi cursed loudly and was full of vulgarity.

After scolding, no matter how the village heroes responded, "Ten, nine, eight, seven..."

Li Mengxi started counting down.

It wasn't until Li Mengxi read the number seven that everyone finally reacted, and then a group of people hurriedly got up from the ground.

Some of this group of people were local brave men, and some were unfamiliar faces. They were obviously newly recruited from among the prisoners.

Therefore, some people know what a queue is, while some people don't know a queue at all. They only see others standing in a row, and they follow them to the back.

Li Mengxi deliberately controlled the countdown time, slowly and urgently. When the slowest person also stood up, "One." Li Mengxi had just finished reading the last number of the countdown.

Looking at the group of people standing crookedly and moving randomly, Li Mengxi had a slight headache.

I came here to find a carpenter, but I happened to encounter two problems.

First, Li Mengxi discovered that as he continued to fight against the Yellow Turbans and continued to capture prisoners, he would inevitably add more people to the army.

However, the Yellow Turban Army has its fair share of good and bad.

Xiang Yong from the rebel headquarters had been trained by Guan Yu for a long time. He was able to form square, circular, conical, and many other formations, and he was already a skilled soldier.

But if you put a lot of soldiers selected from the prisoners into the army, well, let alone the formation, the queue will not line up.

If we assume that the organization level of the rebel headquarters can be 20, after taking prisoners, the organization level will drop to 2.

This won't work.

The problem is huge.

Without solving this problem, there is no way to expand the army quickly and efficiently. Unless you are willing to lead a group of unorganized and undisciplined rabble to fight.

No wonder, when he was in Zhuozhou, the rebel army also expanded. At that time, Guan Yu did not let the newly recruited young men join the army. Instead, he raised several hundred-man troops and sent some capable captains to serve as centurions. This ensured that

Yes, the rebel headquarters are all veterans, and their combat effectiveness will not be diluted by new recruits.

This is the first problem, a problem caused by military expansion.

As for the second question.

Regarding the carpenter, Li Mengxi came to look for the carpenter and found that the carpenter was not gathered together and could not be found for a while.

On the day of the siege, many carpenters were collected from the army. The carpenters completed the siege equipment overnight. After the siege was over, these carpenters dispersed back to their respective teams.

Now I have to look for a carpenter to work everywhere, which is very troublesome.

Not only is it troublesome now, but if we attack the city next time, we will still have to find carpenters everywhere temporarily, which is too laborious.

Perhaps, it is necessary to separate the carpenters into a separate battalion from the war camp.

In this way, it facilitates management and protects technical personnel.

After all, carpenters are special talents.

If not protected, the carpenter soldiers will be used as the bulk of the soldiers together with other soldiers, and then they will be killed if they are not careful while fighting.

When it came time to use it, I saw, oh, my goodness, there’s not even a carpenter left.

A camp of carpenters should be established.

Li Mengxi thought.

As for the third point.

Study-related issues.

These countrymen gambled when they had nothing to do, but they didn't want to learn a few more words.

Is it a problem of learning attitude, management, or military discipline?

Just three things.

Li Mengxi glanced at the helpless people standing there.

"Go, help me call the carpenters over." Li Mengxi instructed.

Everyone scattered and left to help Li Mengxi call for help.

The more people there are, the higher the efficiency will be.

The soldiers shouted everywhere, "Who is the carpenter? Come here quickly, the strategist is looking for you!"

After a while, carpenters came in a hurry from everywhere.

When everyone is almost there.

"Line up!" Li Mengxi ordered.

The carpenters lined up from the order.

After pacing back and forth in front of the carpenters' queue like an adult with his hands behind his back for a few times, Li Mengxi started to think twice.

After Li Mengxi stopped, he glanced around and said in a deep voice, "I think our carpenter camp should have its own camp." Li Mengxi looked thoughtful and touched his chin.

"I just checked and found that there are more than fifty of us, which is quite a lot of people. Let's do this. I will talk to Liu Xuande in a while and finalize the matter.

After the carpenter's camp is completed, I will lead the camp, that is, your leader. Are you willing to let me be the leader?"

Li Mengxi glanced at the carpenters. He was seriously asking the carpenters for their opinions. After all, he had some sense of democracy.

The carpenters all laughed and said they were willing.

It’s funny, the military advisor wants to be the leader, who doesn’t agree?

"Okay," Li Mengxi nodded, "I will be the commander of the craftsman camp, and I will have the same position as the uncle. There should also be a corps commander below. How about we select someone?"

After Li Mengxi finished speaking, he carefully observed the expressions of the Xie carpenters and saw that everyone's expressions were interested.

Li Mengxi thought that the truth was easier to deal with.

Then Li Mengxi walked from the beginning to the end of the queue again.

"You, get out of the queue." Li Mengxi took two steps and picked out one person.

The chosen person stood up with a puzzled look on his face.

"You, come out too." Soon, Li Mengxi picked out the second person based on his impression.

Then there was a third person, and then a fourth person.

More than fifty people are probably fifty-four people. If we add Li Mengxi, there are fifty-five people. There should be five chiefs and eleven corps commanders.

After selecting the people, Li Mengxi said to the ten selected people and everyone, "We don't want to choose anymore. Let's just follow the example a few days ago when we were building siege equipment. Whoever came up with the most ideas at that time would be chosen.

Isn’t it fair who should be the corps commander?”

Li Mengxi asked everyone for their opinions.

Li Mengxi didn't understand carpentry skills, so he couldn't tell who had good or bad skills. He also had no way of knowing who had strong management skills and who had weak management skills. Since there was no selection standard, Li Mengxi specified a standard that could convince everyone.

Whoever takes more strips of cloth from Liu Xuande and gets more military merit will be appointed as an official. Who can refuse to accept it?

"Since you all have no objections, well, these ten people will be the corps commanders of my camp. I will pick them out by myself in a while. There will be at least three people and a maximum of ten people. There is no limit to the number of people, you can choose them yourself.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Also, listen to me. From now on, my camp will be dedicated to building a variety of woodworking objects and will no longer go into battle.

But brothers, if you don’t go to battle and fight, if you can’t make meritorious deeds, then you won’t have food and wine, what do you think we should do?”

The carpenters stopped talking.

Li Mengxi's eyes moved from one person's face to another, and everyone's reaction was clear, "I also want to eat wine and meat. But in the army, military merit is the first priority. Without military merit, how can we get food and wine?"

"So, for the sake of the brothers in our carpenter camp, I thought, everyone in our carpenter camp has skills, and we can rely on them to make a living.

There is work to do now. We have just finished the battle. We carpenters can repair the broken shields and broken spear shafts of the soldiers, right? How can we say there is no work?

Also, apart from ladders, which of you can make any other siege equipment? Siege towers? Well traps? Catapults? Who can make them? If you don’t know how to make them, just try and figure them out. It will be difficult.

If nothing else, Liu Xuande will definitely reward whoever builds the tower, regardless of military merit."

Li Mengxi asked who could build the tower, and everyone shook their heads.

The foundation of the rebel army is still very weak. There are so many carpenters and there is not even a regular arms craftsman.

It seems that this matter cannot be rushed.

Improving military discipline was just incidental, and the thought of establishing a craftsman camp was also incidental. The main purpose was not forgotten by Li Mengxi.

"Each corps commander, look for someone you know well and choose someone by yourself."

After Li Mengxi gave the order, the carpenters were shouting and fussing, and it took a while to finalize the personnel.

Some are able to find only three or five people, while others find eight or nine people. From then on, the gap in ability initially becomes apparent.

I don’t know what happened to some corps commanders. Is it because of poor character or something else? A corps commander has no one under him who is willing to work with him.

For example, one of the carpenters Li Mengxi knew best, brother Lu Li, was very dull and dull. Other team leaders took the initiative to pull people over, but Lu Li stood motionless like a piece of wood.
To be continued...