Li Mengxi ate in the women's and children's camp and did not go to eat with Liu Xuande.

On the other side, while Liu Bei and Guan Yu were eating, Liu Bei talked about what happened during the day.

"Yun Chang, Bairi Xi'er asked me if I wanted to leave twenty cars." As he said this, Liu Bei put his mouth to the edge of the bowl and took a sip of porridge.

Guan Yu looked confused, "Oh? Why is this?"

Then, Liu Bei casually mentioned to Guan Yu what he had done during the day.

Liu Bei said that he had vacated twenty empty carts and passed them from the end to the front of the line. He called the old people, children, and pregnant women among the people to the carts and took them away.

After hearing this, Guan Yu suddenly understood.

"Hey, I was busy training my troops, but I forgot about this!" Guan Yu couldn't help but put down his bowl and said, "With thousands more civilians in the army, it will be different from the past."

"The women, children and old people in the army are moving slowly and have to wait. They will slow down my marching speed."

"We could march sixty miles a day, but with women and children dragging us down, we can't even march thirty miles a day."

Having said this, Guan Yu's eyes were full of joy, "Fortunately, Xi'er helped to remedy the situation. Otherwise, I don't know when I would have discovered this mistake. I don't know how many miles my army's journey would have been delayed!"

Li Mengxi, who was licking his bowl, didn't know that Guan Yu, who was generally not a person he thought highly of, was praising him again.

When it comes to Li Mengxi, there is not much to say.

Guan Yu then asked many more details.

I asked about the food rations for the women and children camp and whether there were any helpers. I was afraid that Xi'er couldn't manage it by himself.

Liu Bei laughed and said, "If you don't worry about it, when it gets dark, a cart of grain and twenty men will be dispatched."

Now, Guan Yu felt very relieved.

How can there be any mistakes in what the eldest brother and Xi'er do together?

Guan Yu gently stroked his long beard and sighed again.

"Eldest brother called Xi'er a human mirror a few days ago.

What a good one [Looking at people as a mirror, you can know the gains and losses.]

If we use people as mirrors, we can only know people’s gains and losses.”

"Xi'er has a delicate mind and can detect things that we cannot. Brother, you might as well ask Xi'er more often and ask Xi'er what shortcomings we can see in our army.

Presumably, it will be able to make up for the shortcomings and bring benefits."

Guan Yu made serious suggestions.

Liu Bei couldn't help but put down the bowl, touched his chin with his hand, and pondered for a long time, "That's how it should be! If no one is always pointing out mistakes, how can we know the shortcomings of our army?"

Since a few days ago, Liu Bei decided to let Li Mengxi find fault with the three of him from time to time. After talking with Guan Yu that night, Liu Bei decided to frequently ask Li Mengxi about military affairs in the future.

I don't want to hear any kind words or compliments, but I want to know every mistake in the army.

Here, Li Mengxi looked at the women and children in the women's and children's camp, as well as the cooks, who had almost finished eating.

Li Mengxi then called the cooks aside and explained that in the future, no matter adults or children, even a baby under one month old, everyone must have a meal for one person.

Also, for those pregnant women, give them an extra spoonful of rice.

"This is a military order." Li Mengxi raised his head, glanced at all the local warriors, and said seriously, "Whoever can't do a small thing well, don't do it here."

Li Mengxi spoke harshly, and the village heroes quickly expressed their stance, saying that they could not make any mistakes.

"Well!" Li Mengxi put his hands behind his back, like a young adult, "Go to bed early."

After saying that, he took his brother and left.

As Li Mengxi walked away, the cooks started talking among themselves.

"The little ones eat the same food as the adults. The adults only eat three spoons. Can the little ones finish the three spoons?" A cook expressed doubts.

"That's right!" someone echoed.

At this time, someone among the cooks knew why the rice was divided like this. He was also helping to divide the porridge in Zhuozhou City at that time. At that time, he heard the military advisor mention why the rice was divided like this.

Knowing what is going on, a sense of superiority in knowledge arises spontaneously.

This knowledgeable Xiangyong came out and scolded his accomplices, "You can do whatever you want, and you can bite whatever you want!"

As soon as he spoke out, everyone else shut up.

Li Mengxi went to see the pigs being slaughtered. There was a local hero who knew how to kill pigs, and he killed the dead pigs.

As a reward, each of them was allowed to take a piece of pork, so many people came to help.

The pig died for at most one night. Because the military doctor valued the pig used for medical experiments very much and checked on the pig's condition every day.

Therefore, when the pig died, Tian Bu immediately discovered it.

The pork should not have changed too much.

After watching Pig Killing, it was still early, so Li Mengxi took his younger brother and ran around to play and eat.

At Liu Bei's place, Liu Bei and Guan Yu were talking in front of the bonfire. Seeing Li Mengxi and his brothers coming, Liu Bei seemed very happy, "Xi'er, come on!"

He waved.

Wait until Li Mengxi took a stick and sat down.

Liu Bei then smiled and asked directly, "Xi'er, day after day, have you observed any deficiencies in our army?"

After Liu Bei finished speaking, he turned to look at Guan Yu. The two made eye contact. Then, their eyes converged on Li Mengxi at the same time, waiting for Li Mengxi to say something.

Li Mengxi glanced at Guan Yu and Liu Bei.

"There are some shortcomings," Li Mengxi frowned, "There are indeed some."

Then, he counted on his fingers silently.

Then, he straightened his body and glanced at Liu Bei and Guan Yu, "What I saw today is that there are less than four in the army."

Upon hearing this, Liu Bei and Guan Yu couldn't help but glance at each other again, smile tacitly, and understand each other tacitly.

Just now, I said that Xi'er has a delicate mind. But when I asked him about it, I actually asked him something. Xi'er saw that there were deficiencies in the army. Not just one deficiency, but four more!

Liu Bei and Guan Yu pricked up their ears, waiting to hear Li Mengxi's wise words.

"The first point is the wounded barracks.

I saw a wounded soldier walking with a broken stick. This is inappropriate.

If a wounded soldier has one leg disabled, he can walk even if he falls down with a stick.

If so, the wounded soldier may have injuries to both legs, or his back may be injured.

At this time, he could no longer stand with support from a stick.

If it cannot walk, sit or lie on its own, it must be cared for by someone else."

"As for the crutches, the crutches are placed under the armpits. As long as the hands can move, even if the legs and back are disabled, you can still walk with crutches.

In this way, we can save one person to take care of.”

"A wounded soldier, without crutches, only needs a tired civilian husband."

"Ten wounded soldiers are also tired of one common man and one soldier."

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "There are hundreds of injured soldiers, and ten soldiers are exhausted."

"Thousands of people are tired of a hundred people, and tens of thousands of people are tired of a thousand people."

"I dare to ask General Guan and Duke Xuande, are the saved thousands of troops more or less, light or heavy?"

Li Mengxi looked at Liu Bei and Guan Yu and asked.

Liu Bei and Guan Yu both looked solemn.

Liu Bei nodded repeatedly and sighed with emotion, "A small crutch can save thousands of people from suffering."

"The few people don't find it useful, but the more people there are, the more useful it is."

This was not enough, Liu Bei and Guan Yu's eyes were filled with brilliance. They both thought it was right and felt that they had learned a lot.

"As for the second point, it's still the wounded barracks."

"I wonder if you have ever noticed that after a person is injured, the injury will heal quickly if he eats well.

For the same injury, if you eat well, you can go to the ground in one month, but if you eat poorly, you will have to recuperate for two months."

"There are wounded soldiers in our army, but the wounded soldiers eat the same food as everyone else, which is bland and meatless.

I feel that no matter what others do, wounded soldiers must be provided with meat for every meal."

"Suppose we have a thousand wounded soldiers. We provide them with meat every day. The wounded soldiers will recover in two months.

There was no meat supply, and a thousand wounded soldiers recovered in three months.

If, during these two months, there is a sudden war again.

If a wounded soldier recovers in two months, and if there is a battle in two months, there will be two thousand more soldiers ready to fight.

It takes three months for a wounded soldier to be out of danger, but it has only been two months and he has not recovered and cannot bear to fight. If he encounters a battle in two months, two thousand wounded soldiers will be a drag on two thousand soldiers.
To be continued...