After the city of Wen'an County was captured, a lot of cloth was seized, and countless carts were pulled.

From the fact that Li Mengxi gave silk to Tian Bu and Tian Bu used the silk as a bandage, we can see how abundant cloth was in the army.

Not only is there a lot of cloth, but a considerable part of the cloth is high-grade silk and brocade.

The cloth-pulling cart was covered with several layers of manuscript mats, which were tightly covered to prevent rain.

Liu Bei raised his hand and opened the manuscript mat. "Xi'er, go up and get it yourself." Liu Bei instructed Li Mengxi.

Li Mengxi was not pretentious. He placed the pen, ink, and scissors on the ground, then climbed up using his hands and feet like a monkey on the wheel.

I rummaged through the car and found two rolls of cloth, all of which were burlap.

With a bang, Li Mengxi jumped out of the car holding the cloth in his arms.

Liu Bei still doesn't know what Li Mengxi wants to do.

Li Mengxi threw one roll of cloth on the ground and opened the other roll.

"Mr. Xuande, help me pull him."

Liu Bei stepped in to help.

The cloth was rolled out to a length roughly the length of an arm, and Li Mengxi used scissors to cut the cloth open.

The cut-out piece of cloth is roughly square in shape and slightly larger than a schoolbag.

After the cloth was cut, Li Mengxi thought about tying the cloth to the wooden pole again. He thought that there was no way to tie a square piece of cloth.

This is not appropriate, the cloth must be left in small braids.

So, when it came to cutting, Li Mengxi’s cutting method became complicated.

It is still a square flag about the length of an arm, but there is a redundant part left.

In the redundant part, that is, between the two flags, he cut out an E-shaped inlay.

That is to say, the flag here has an E-shaped side and three cloth straps that can be used to tie it to a wooden stick.

Then, the two missing gaps in the middle of the E-shape are just right, and they are the two strips of cloth for the other flag.

Since then, with this cutting method, every flag has not only a flag surface, but also a tied cloth strip.

It provides convenience for making simple flags next.

There are more than 4,000 rebels and civilians. Even if a hundred people send one flag, forty flags are needed.

Li Mengxi kept cutting, and soon there was a pile of cut flags on the ground.

When one piece of cloth was used up, he would take a second piece of cloth, until the second piece of cloth was also used up, and there was a thick pile on the ground.

When he was cutting it just now, Li Mengxi counted the flags and found that there were sixty-eight flags in total.

After cutting it, Li Mengxi put down the scissors.

He looked up at Liu Bei and said, "Let's make a flag."

Li Mengxi took the cloth and Liu Bei took up the pen and wrote the word "Liu" in a big dou on the flag.

Seeing the font written by Liu Bei, Li Mengxi was thankful that he didn't write it himself.

Otherwise, once the simplified characters are written, they have to be explained, and Li Mengxi doesn't know the traditional characters.

Liu Bei held his breath and concentrated on writing on the flag, feeling a little emotional in his heart. This flag with the word "Liu" written on it was his name, Liu Xuande.

I don't know how many people will hold this flag, and there will be many flag holders who need Liu Xuande's protection.

This task is arduous and has a long way to go.

Liu Xuande suddenly remembered what Sage Kong said and couldn't help but sigh.

There are not many flags, just over sixty.

Not long after, Liu Bei finished writing the flag.

Li Mengxi and Liu Bei went to find Guan'er again.

In the ordnance vehicle, I found a lot of headless gun barrels and the like.

These are all leftover from damaged weapons.

Maybe Guan Yu thought that these damaged gun barrels were valuable, so he collected them all.

He hadn't noticed it before, but now he saw that most of the car had hundreds of broken poles of varying lengths. For the first time, Li Mengxi had an intuitive idea of ​​the frequency of wear and tear of weapons in war.

Half a cartload of broken gun barrels were gathered together, and it was shocking to see. It had only been a long time since Zhuozhou, and half a cartload of broken gun barrels had already been piled up. This was just a siege.

The flagpole was also available, and then Liu Bei and Li Mengxi tied the flag to the gun pole.

When tying them, Liu Bei found that the strips of cloth specially cut by Li Mengxi were very convenient.

On the flag, there are either three long cloth strips or two long cloth strips.

No matter there are three or two, tie the flags together and the flags will look straight.

Liu Bei tied up a few of them and couldn't help but admire Li Mengxi's thoughtfulness.

After a while, the flags were all tied up.

Li Mengxi picked up a flag and waved it randomly.

Although, the linen cloth is a bit heavy and cannot be wielded.

However, when the flag is slightly tilted and carried on the shoulders, the flag is fully unfolded. It looks like that, and it is actually very elegant.

A lot of flags are ready.

Liu Bei called to a group of local warriors who were passing by and called two people over to help carry it.

Liu Bei looked at Li Mengxi with his eyes as if to say, what should I do next?

"Go and see the civilian camp." Li Mengxi extended his hand to invite him and said.

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When we set up camp today, we still camped along the way.

There was a high loess hill beside the road. Li Mengxi and Liu Bei stepped onto the high hill and had a panoramic view of the situation in the camp.

Not far away is the Minfu Camp.

Elsewhere, village warriors can walk around wherever they want, and the civilian camp is crowded with people, all sitting on the ground like sheep in a pen.

Li Mengxi looked down at the civilian camp for a long time.

He looked intently and asked pointedly, "Mr. Xuande, if one day the army is short of food and grass, will you kill these civilians to relieve the army's food shortage?"

When Liu Bei heard this, he suddenly lowered his head and looked at Li Mengxi with a look of disbelief on his face. "Bei Jian would never do such an unkind thing!" Liu Bei raised his voice with some dissatisfaction in his tone. He was dissatisfied with Li Mengxi's questioning of Liu Xuande's character.

"Yeah." Li Mengxi hummed noncommittally.

His eyes were still looking into the distance.

"Then if one day, Duke Xuande, in order to get a chance to be promoted, will take the former Yellow Turban prisoner who is now a common man, and turn him over to the government for disposal?" Li Mengxi asked again.

"The common people have surrendered to me, how can I risk the lives of others because of my own selfishness?" Liu Bei couldn't help but returned with a slight annoyance.

"Yeah." Li Mengxi still hummed.

"Also, if one day we want to attack the city, will Duke Xuande drive away the civilians...?"

"No!" Liu Bei interrupted Li Mengxi, "Killing without instruction is called a thief! Xi'er, you also know that attacking a city requires tactics, preparations, and battle formations. To drive away the refugees who don't understand tactics and attack the city forcefully

, how different from killing someone!"

Killing without teaching is called a thief...

Li Mengxi recited this sentence in his mind, and suddenly felt that this sentence was very good, and he didn't know who said it.

The words were well spoken. Liu Bei refused to drive the civilians to attack the city. Liu Bei was even more skillful. Li Mengxi couldn't help but look up at Liu Bei.

Seeing Liu Bei's worried expression, he asked questions.

Li Mengxi smiled.

"Xuan De Gong will not kill civilians to save food, nor will he send civilians to the government, nor will he forcefully drive civilians to attack the city."

"I know that Mr. Xuande is benevolent and generous!"

"I know it, General Guan knows it, and the soldiers in our army also know it and believe it. But the people don't know it."

Speaking of this, Li Mengxi sighed with emotion.

"If we do something practical, we must also speak plainly."

"People often escape at night in the civilian camp. General Guan came up with the idea of ​​setting up torches around the camp and using the fire as a wall. The flames were bright all around, which stopped the civilians from thinking about escaping."

"But if you think about it, this is just a way to stop the boiling water and cannot cure the root cause."

"The people have no shortage of food and gruel, and they are not treated harshly. Why do some people keep running away?"

"Because he is afraid of death."

"Why are you afraid of death? If you are afraid of food shortage, you are afraid that you will be killed as a civilian, you are afraid of being turned away to the government, you are afraid of being forced to attack the city."
To be continued...