You have time to kill the pig, so there is no meat left to eat tonight.

Putting aside the meat, Liu Xuande left the women's and children's camp under his control, so Li Mengxi had no choice but to go over and take a look.

The so-called women's and children's camp consists of 20 empty carriages that were vacated during the day, and then walked through them from beginning to end, calling all the children, pregnant women, or elderly people in the army who couldn't walk fast, and pulled them into the carriages.

, the group of people who finally come together.

There are twenty carts in the women's and children's camp, plus children, pregnant women, the elderly, and their relatives, and there are several hundred people in total. This is the entire establishment of the women's and children's camp.

When Li Mengxi was wandering around the women's and children's camp, wherever he went, people gathered and greeted him frequently.

In the past, Li Mengxi was in the baggage train, spending all day in the car, and had little interaction with the Yellow Turban prisoners (civilians).

Many people have never even met Li Mengxi.

However, after Li Mengxi and Liu Bei led cars and people everywhere during the day, everyone recognized him.

Li Mengxi responded to every greeting with a smile.

Because there are many children in the women's and children's camp, when the children gather together, it is as if a certain critical condition has been reached, and it suddenly becomes lively like a pot of water exploding.

Before this day, the children were scattered among the people, one by one, and most of them were in a very low mood.

Because we have to travel every day, even if we stop after setting up camp, the adults will be exhausted after traveling all day. How can they have the energy to coax the children?

Every evening when we set up camp, these children would lie bored in the arms of adults, looking here and there, with nothing to play with.

A child can only be bored.

If two children face each other, they will look at each other in a tacit understanding, happily kick me with their feet, and I will kick you, and they will play happily.

This is, two.

When three children get together, there will be other games.

For example, the small stones picked up by oneself may be exchanged with the grasshoppers caught by another person, or the three of them may take straw sticks and beat them randomly.

When many, many children get together, it becomes Monkey Mountain.

It was so noisy that if you didn't open your eyes to see it, you would have thought it was in a village rather than a military camp.

Seeing the children running wildly and playing, Xiao Bian didn't want to run around with his brother anymore. He broke away from his brother's hand and said, "Brother, I want to play too."

The younger brother raised his head and looked at his older brother eagerly.

Li Mengxi thought for a moment, then touched his brother's little head and said, "Go. Don't run too far."

It was a small camp with only a few hundred people, and Li Mengxi finished the tour in a short time.

During his inspection, he saw the following situation.

Most people have manuscript seats. Some people have already spread the manuscript sheets on the ground, and adults and children are sitting on the manuscript seats and playing.

Secondly, there are so many children.

If you don’t gather the children together, you won’t feel it. After you gather them together, you will feel that there are children running all over the floor.

Also, according to time, at this point, the cooks have already started to light the fire to cook.

On weekdays, the peasants manage the food extensively, and the food is uniformly distributed by the village heroes. There is a long queue, and each person has a bowl of porridge.

Now, the women's and children's camp is independent.

How is the food supply arranged? Is there any arrangement?

What if Liu Bei thinks that he has arranged it, and he also thinks that Liu Bei has arranged it long ago, and ignores this matter.

Then something went wrong.

When the Women and Children Camp became independent, they originally wanted to do good things.

Well, on the first night when the camp was set up, all the women and children in the camp were starving. How could we have to pay for the loss?

In addition to missing the cook, Li Mengxi also discovered that there was no tent.

There are more than a thousand soldiers in the army, and there are only more than a hundred tents. If there are not more than 4,000 yellow scarves to recruit, the tents are enough.

With so many civilians, the originally good logistics suddenly became weak.

It is obviously impossible to allocate tents that can accommodate a thousand people to four thousand people. However, women and children, or to be precise, the youngest children, still have to gather a few tents to give them to them.

Otherwise, children will easily catch cold and get sick if they sleep outside.

Li Mengxi was about to go to Liu Xuande and ask Liu Xuande for something.

But a group of village warriors came pulling grain carts and carrying pottery jars and other things.

The leader of the country was a very brave man. Li Mengxi looked familiar but could not recognize his name.

When people arrive, so does food.

During the exchange, we learned that what Liu Bei sent was enough food for hundreds of women and children to eat for seven days. He said it was seven days, but Liu Bei gave him much more than he said, and he probably couldn't finish it in half a month.

Very big bags of grain, at least seven or eight bags per cart.

Enough cooking utensils for cooking were also gathered and delivered.

There were twenty cooks in total who came to the camp to help the women and children, each carrying an urn on his back.

One big vat can make porridge for twenty people.

If there are twenty people per stove, and the number of women and children in the camp is more than six hundred, a total of thirty-two cooking utensils are needed, which means thirty-two bonfires need to be raised. If the cooking is left to a specialized person, one

If you look at three fires, it would take about ten people to serve as cooks.

There are not enough cooking utensils and not enough people to cook.

Li Mengxi looked at the twenty cooks supported by Liu Bei.

If you don’t have enough pottery jars, you can make more. If you don’t have enough people, where can you find them?

Li Mengxi's first thought was to let the women and children camp and the parents of the accompanying children come to help cook, but after thinking about it, it seemed that this was not possible.

Because the interests are related, everyone will give their children a lot of food, and it is not surprising to even take advantage of cooking to secretly hide a handful of food or something.

Because he put himself in Liu Bei's shoes and thought about it, Li Mengxi thought that if he was not taken seriously by Liu Bei, he would have to succumb to the women's and children's camp and not have enough to eat all day long. In order to eat more food and prevent himself, especially his brother, from going hungry, Li Mengxi just

I don't want to care about morality. Whenever I have a chance, I will secretly hide food and feed it to the two brothers.

Therefore, the cooks still have to be left to the brave villagers, not to the women.

It was getting late. Liu Bei's men arrived in time. Li Mengxi assigned tasks on the spot. He ordered the chief cook to tell him where to go to borrow fifteen more jars.

Then, the remaining people, each in charge of three stoves, started cooking.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After things were arranged, Li Mengxi felt that the problem was not big.

Thirty-five urns, one urn cooking porridge for twenty people, can serve 700 people.

There are not so many people in the women's and children's camp, so there is a surplus.

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There are only twenty cooks, but they have to cook thirty-five pots of porridge, and each person has to take care of more than one.

Li Mengxi watched the cook take the grain from the grain bag and put it into the urn. There was one detail that Li Mengxi didn't understand, that is, how much grain should be put in each meal? Is there a quantitative amount?

If you cannot control it accurately and put in one more meal and one meal less, if the control is not good, the food may be eaten before the expected time.

On a small level, if a person cannot allocate rations well, he may finish the military rations prematurely from time to time, but dare not go to the general to ask for more rations for fear of being reprimanded, and then starve for a day, and then starve.

I feel so tired, and I encounter the enemy again. I want to fight, but I don't have the strength, so the probability of being hacked to death by the enemy is too high.

At a large level, if the army cannot accurately count the amount of food and distribute it accurately, there will be errors every time the military food is distributed. When the errors accumulate, it will be a huge error.

It would be fatal if the military rations were exhausted a few days earlier than expected.

Hunger has a great impact on combat effectiveness. If you are hungry for one day, the combat effectiveness of a soldier will be greatly reduced. If you are hungry for two days, even Lu Bu's force value will drop to Hua Xiong. If you are hungry for three days, the morale of the army will be greatly reduced, and the soldiers will not even have weapons.

It's almost too late to lift it, and the army has no fighting strength. Let's just wait and lose the battle.

It is currently unknown whether the entire army has accurate statistics on the amount of military rations.

Li Mengxi guessed that in the army, how the rations are distributed every seven days should be decided by each squad leader.

As Li Mengxi thought earlier, if we rely solely on the moral integrity of the squad leader when defending the city, there will be problems. Because it is inevitable that the squad leader will be greedy for life and fear death, forcing others to rush forward while he hides behind.

If, while defending the city, conflicts intensify, the city wall will be destroyed.

The same is true when it comes to military ration distribution.

It is too unreliable to rely on the personal integrity of the corps commander to determine whether the distribution of military rations is fair or not.

People are the most unreliable and accident-prone uncertain factors.

If there is a bastard, every time you eat, always serve yourself a bowl of thicker food first, leaving the thinner food for others. A high-ranking official will kill someone, but a soldier dares to be angry and dare not speak out.

As time goes by, conflicts accumulate.

If you wait for a dark and windy night in a certain month, it will be so cold that a dog will freeze to death.

This time, the dog's day was so long that he had all the thick porridge for himself with one spoonful.

If the conflict intensifies at this time, and the accomplices draw swords against each other, in the dark, the whole camp will move as soon as there is the sound of fighting, and the camp will be blown up accidentally, resulting in countless casualties.
To be continued...