Sure enough, Li Mengxi was extremely intelligent and knew everything about him. Guan Yu was very pleased to have such a talented person to teach him.

Guan Yu's strategy of "drawing the ground as a prison" involves many aspects such as management, military discipline, and response to the enemy. Only one strategy and one strategy is more wonderful than all the wonderful ideas that Li Mengxi has studied and accumulated so far. It has inspired Li Mengxi many times.

The proud and even complacent strategy suddenly lost its luster.

Sure enough, Guan Yu was familiar with military books and was a classical strategist of high standard, not an ordinary person.

Guan Yu's knowledge, after Guan Yu taught Li Mengxi, became Li Mengxi's knowledge.

The military strategy - [draw the ground as a prison] has been obtained.

Li Mengxi asked Guan Yu how he came up with this wonderful method, and Guan Yu replied that it was recorded in ancient military books.

Li Mengxi suddenly remembered a saying, learning without thinking is a waste, thinking without learning is a disaster.

Thinking about it all day is not as good as learning in a moment.

Books and knowledge are the accumulation and transmission of the essence of human wisdom. Thinking is very important, but reading is more important. A person who dreams all day long is not as good as what he learns in a moment, which is exactly in line with Li Mengxi's current situation.

Li Mengxi's ideas were unconstrained, and one person could come up with hundreds of military strategies. The sum of these hundreds of military strategies was not as good as the one strategy Guan Yu got from ancient military books.

After examining himself three times a day, Li Mengxi has some self-awareness, which is a very valuable quality.

When he discovered that his study had entered a misunderstanding, Li Mengxi immediately decided to correct it.

Now we don’t have the conditions, and we don’t have many military books to read. In the future, if we have the conditions, we still have to read the military books as much as we can. The wisdom of the ancients is not inferior to that of people two thousand years later. For example, the camping method learned today

, Li Mengxi thought, if he pondered it by himself for a lifetime, he might not be able to recall the key points.

After a while, in the blink of an eye, it was completely dark. If Lu Li hadn't stood silently aside with a torch, there wouldn't even be any light at this moment.

Li Mengxi was always better at issues related to technology. Since he talked about nailing wooden stakes around the camp to serve as a stronghold wall, Li Mengxi felt that it was necessary to tie torches to the wooden stakes at night to illuminate them. Li Mengxi then thought of torch-related issues.

question.

Ordinary wood is not resistant to burning. Currently, only pine wood is resistant to burning. In the army, pine branches are indeed used as torches and are rarely used to burn firewood for cooking.

There is not much dry pine wood, and the patrol sergeant's torch does not necessarily have to be made of pine wood. The operations sergeant can just pull a piece of wood from the campfire and use it, and then replace it when it is almost burned.

As for the torches tied to the wooden stakes, it is not convenient to change them, and no one is always watching to change them.

It doesn't matter if the patrol team's torches are temporarily extinguished. The torches on the wooden stakes can mark the boundaries, prevent the camp from bombing, and enable our troops to react faster if they are attacked by the enemy.

The priority of maintaining the torches on the wooden piles should be the highest. If the torches in any corner are blown out, and the enemy happens to attack, it will be very dangerous if there is a gap that cannot be reacted in time. Pine torches have rosin to support combustion, and are more windproof.

, will not be extinguished easily.

After considering all aspects, Li Mengxi believed that a new military regulation involving the entire army could be added. The military regulations stipulate as follows -

[From now on, all pine wood will be used for lighting on the wooden piles set up in the camp every day, and shall not be used for other purposes.]

Pine wood that is resistant to burning and not easily blown out by wind has become a strategic material.

Moreover, Li Mengxi also thought about what to do if it rains heavily, what about lanterns? It should not be possible, the cost should be high, and the military does not have the material conditions to make batches of lanterns.

Or, like the lampshade of a street lamp, a large rain-proof wooden board can be stuck on the wooden stake to prevent the torch from being extinguished by the rain.

Rain-proof wooden boards are very easy to make, and any combination of wooden boards can completely block rainwater. As long as the wooden boards are not placed so high, sloping rainwater can also be blocked.

There is work to do in the carpenter camp, Li Mengxi thought.

Li Mengxi briefly explained to the carpenters how to make the rainproof boards, and then ordered that torches be tied to the erected pillars tonight.

Lu Li took the order and left.

Nothing happened at night.

When he returned to the car to sleep, his brother was unusually unwilling to sleep and insisted on looking out of the car for something.

Li Mengxi was curious and got up. He looked in the direction where his brother saw. Oh, far away, farther away, in the four directions of southeast, northwest, and those wooden stakes nailed to the ground. Each wooden stake had a torch tied to it.

, looking from a distance, around the dark camp, square torches were like long walls surrounding the camp.

"Brother, look, there is fire." The younger brother pointed at the torch happily and said.

Looking at the light around him, Li Mengxi suddenly felt inexplicably at ease.

It is said that human beings' fear of darkness has been rooted in human genes since primitive times. Having light will make people feel more at ease.

It turns out that these torches also have the effect of boosting morale. Li Mengxi realized that if there is no light and it is dark, people will panic if there is any movement, and then blow up the camp. But there is light all around the camp, and if there is any movement suddenly, people will

Immediately, I subconsciously looked towards the bright place. When I saw it, there was nothing there, and then I went to sleep.

Li Mengxi later discovered that the wall of fire could also stabilize morale.

Thinking about it conversely, if one day I attack the enemy camp at night, I should first knock down the enemy's lanterns and other things.

Without light, the enemy's army is more likely to be confused. The less light, the lower the enemy's morale, and the easier it is to be defeated. Although our army cannot be seen, because it is attacking the camp, it is prepared and unprepared, and its advantage will be far greater than the enemy's.

military.

This may be a detailed tactical supplement when attacking a camp.

Another tactic learned.

"Brick, sleep." Li Mengxi patted his brother's little head and said.

Brick hesitated for a while before he got into bed obediently. Maybe Brick felt it was new because he had never seen such neat torches before.

That night, I don’t know how many people who were afraid of the dark fell asleep peacefully looking at the wall of torches.

Li Mengxi naturally did not forget to write down what he learned.

He took out a pen and paper, held it by the light of the torch, thought for a moment, and wrote two sentences - [Camp at night, surround the fire as a wall, draw the ground as a prison]

[A night attack is a method of extinguishing the enemy's lights to confuse the enemy and demoralize the enemy].

[Thinking about it all day long is not as good as studying in a moment. One day, you should read all the ancient military books.]

The meaning of the first two sentences is that at night, surround the camp with wooden stakes, tie torches, and use fire as a wall.

When attacking enemy camps at night, destroy as many enemy torches, lanterns and other lighting tools as possible as a detailed supplement to the tactics of attacking camps.

You don't have to do it deliberately to put out the fire. After you enter the enemy camp and encounter a fire, you can subconsciously kick the fire at will. The fire will disperse and the light will not be so concentrated, and the same effect of weakening the light will be achieved.

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In the middle of the night, Guan Yu, who practiced running and attacking during the day and returned to camp in the evening, chatted with Liu Bei for most of the night, and then hurried back to the front army at night. There were hundreds of people in the vanguard of the front army, and there was no reliable adjutant.
Chapter completed!