In ancient times, there were no convenient ignition tools such as lighters. In the Han Dynasty, flint and a flammable plant called moxa were used to start fire. However, the efficiency of flint to start fire was not high, and thousands of people had to be supplied.

If you need to raise a fire for cooking, you need to save the fire. It is more efficient to use the fire directly to start the fire when cooking.

According to Li Mengxi, the fire of the rebels was charcoal stored in a clay brazier. It was necessary to add firewood from time to time to ensure that the fire would not go out. When a heavy rain came suddenly, I wonder if the soldiers responsible for keeping the fire moved the brazier to a place where it would not be exposed to rain.

If the tinder is gone, starting a fire will be extremely troublesome.

Thinking of this, Li Mengxi couldn't help but wonder if there was an easy way to preserve fire.

There are methods, such as matches, which are familiar to later generations. However, Li Mengxi did not know any relevant details about how the matches were made. He only knew that there was red phosphorus in the matches.

Moreover, Li Mengxi also knew that the chemical properties of phosphorus are extremely unstable, and it was already after the Industrial Revolution when humans mastered the technology to mass-produce red phosphorus.

Therefore, matches are very useful and were considered artifacts in the Han Dynasty, but Li Mengxi had no possibility of producing matches at his own expense.

In addition to matches, I thought about it and came up with some other very simple primitive methods, such as adding a shed to the cart for storing firewood, so that even if it rains, the firewood will not get wet.

Not only firewood but also kindling can be placed in the van.

There is also a more useful method - sulfur. Sulfur is very flammable. Apply sulfur on a dry wooden stick. When starting a fire, use a flint and steel to create a small spark. Blow the stick and it will catch fire. It is quick and convenient.

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Alchemists used sulfur to make elixirs during the Spring and Autumn Period. Now in the Han Dynasty, sulfur is not too difficult to find.

Sulfur plus dry wood is equivalent to a large match that can burn with a small spark when struck with a flint. Although it is not as effective as a real match, it is completely sufficient.

In addition, rainwater pouring into the tent is also troublesome. Once the water enters the tent, it will be impossible to sleep on the ground.

It can't be that every time it rains heavily at night, the soldiers should stay up all night and stand around.

It's okay to stand all night, but at most we won't have enough energy the next day. If it rains for several days and the soldiers don't sleep for several nights, our army will be exhausted without the enemy attacking us.

Even if Lu Bu is brave enough, he can't bear it even if he hasn't slept well for several days and nights.

The tent must be able to block the rain, so that even if it rains heavily, the soldiers can sleep well in the tent until the rain stops.

Like now, when there is a heavy rain, water pours in, and the water even reaches the top of the feet. It is impossible to sleep in this situation.

The soldiers' beds were manuscript mats. The manuscript mats were spread out on the ground, just three or two centimeters above the ground. The wheat straw on the manuscript mats would also absorb water. On heavy rainy days, they could sleep on the manuscript mats on the ground overnight. There was no need to wait for the next day.

The quilt was completely wet in the middle of the night.

Camping in the rain, Li Mengxi thought of many troubles that needed to be solved, but with Li Mengxi's intelligence, he also thought of many solutions.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! To prevent rainwater from pouring into the tent, you can at least start from several aspects.

First, the camping location. Choosing to camp at a high place can effectively avoid rainwater backflow.

Second, you can start with the shape of the tent. Make the four sides of the tent as long as possible, so that when it rains, dig some shallow trenches around the tent, bury the edges of the tent in the shallow trenches, and then cover it with soil.

It can prevent rainwater from pouring into the tent. In addition to making the sides of the tent longer, the material of the tent must also be good enough. It must be a thick canvas with fine texture, and the canvas must be brushed with tung oil.

After the tent has basic anti-flooding function.

Third, you can also use drainage projects. For example, dig shallow drainage ditches around the tent, so that the collected rainwater will flow away from the tent along the drainage ditch and will not flow into the tent again.

After selecting the campsite, tent shape, and drainage system, you can also add some improvements to the bed.

For example, you only need a door panel and a few bricks to set up a bed high off the ground. In this way, even if rainwater pours into the tent, the water will not flood the bed.

Nowadays, the beds in the army are all soft beds. The manuscript mat is spread on the ground, and a straw mat is spread on top. A quilt is spread on the straw mat. The person sleeps on the quilt, covered with a quilt, and they work together.

Go to sleep.

Because it is a soft bed, there is no way to support it with just a few bricks, so a hard door panel is needed to support it.

It can be said that given the current transportation capacity of the Rebel Army, in order to support beds, one bed per person will put too much pressure on logistics and is almost impossible to achieve.

Li Mengxi couldn't help but think that the bed board was too heavy and too big to carry. So was there any other way to support the bed on the bricks? Li Mengxi thought hard and came up with a good method.

You can sew some thin wooden boards on the quilt. The wooden boards don't need to be too big or too thick. They just need to be as big as the back of the block when the quilt is folded into tofu blocks. In this way, it will not affect the folding of the quilt and the quilt will remain the same.

Can be folded into tofu cubes.

When you want to prop up a bed on bricks on a rainy day, just put the bricks on both ends of the long sticks. Place the long sticks one after another smaller than the width of the quilt board. Then, unfold the quilt and lay it flat.

On the stick.

If the quilt is sewn with wooden boards on one side, it will be stiff, but if the quilt is spread underneath without covering it, it doesn't matter if it is harder.

In this way, the bed can be set up with only a few bricks and three or four long wooden sticks.

There is no need to even use long wooden sticks. It is simpler to just use gun poles to prop up the bed, which further reduces the logistical pressure.

If you use a gun pole to support a bed, there will definitely be dangers. For example, when someone wakes up at night, his foot will accidentally kick the head of the gun, and he will die from tetanus.

This problem is not a big one and can be avoided through rules and regulations. For example, it is stipulated that when making the bed, the tips of the guns should face the direction of the head of the bed. It also stipulates that everyone's heads should be in the same direction when sleeping, and stipulates that when getting up at night,

Getting out of bed from the end of the bed, not from the head of the bed, can avoid the non-combat attrition situation where someone accidentally kicks the tip of a gun and dies of tetanus.

The remaining minor problems should be that the round gun barrel is supported on the bricks and is easy to move around. If you turn over at night, the gun barrel may escape and the bed will collapse.

To prevent the gun rod from slipping, it is very simple. Grind some dents on the bricks. The dents do not need to be too deep. A slight dent can catch the gun rod and prevent it from sliding.

With just a few bricks, the problem of the bed being afraid of flooding is solved.

At this point, we have taken all the steps to set up camp and choose high ground to avoid rainwater gathering in low-lying areas; dig drainage ditches around the tent to drain away the rainwater and prevent it from flowing into the tent. This is the second level of protection; bury the four sides of the tent in

Cover the soil with soil to prevent rainwater from seeping in; after completing the above three steps and setting up the bed, prop up the bed. Even if there is still rainwater coming in, the water will not be so large that it overflows the height of the bricks and reaches the bed.

Under the protection of four layers of measures, the soldiers could sleep peacefully in the tent even if it rained heavily.

The heavy rain outside seemed to have no intention of stopping, and the rain became more intense.

I couldn't sleep. The sound of rain outside was very scary. My brother was so scared that he hid in Li Mengxi's arms without saying a word.

Trapped in a tent, with no place to stand, no way to go anywhere, and it's so dark that you can't see clearly. No one should panic.

Like the current situation, the lights are turned off on a rainy night. If the enemy attacks the camp on a rainy night, it will be inconvenient for our army to communicate and organize manpower. It is very likely that a small group of enemy elites will kill the people on their backs.

No wonder, in ancient wars, as soon as one party was attacked at night, it was immediately defeated and out of control.

It is true that if you are not guarded against the enemy's night attack, you will be seriously injured.

Especially on rainy nights, the torches were extinguished by the rain, and the sound of pouring rain covered up the enemy's footsteps and the sound of horse hooves. In addition, the heavy rain caused many people to hide in tents to take shelter from the rain, so the enemy was prepared but not prepared.

Our army couldn't hear the enemy's footsteps. The torches were out and the sentries couldn't see far. Even the soldiers on guard were shot by an arrow and fell from the sentry tower. The sound of the corpse falling to the ground was mixed with the sound of rain, so no one could hear it.

Yes, even if the enemy moved away the horse blocking the door, no one might be able to hear it.
Chapter completed!