The tents in the army come in different sizes and shapes.

Some tents have long edges, but some tents are as simple as a big umbrella canopy. When set up, they can only serve as a barrier against rainwater. It is impossible to pull down the edges and bury them in the soil.

Dig a shallow ditch around the tent, and then bury the tent with soil. This rainproof principle is not difficult. Liu Bei and Guan Yu figured it out immediately.

This method is useful, but as Li Mengxi said, you have to redo the tents, unify the tent specifications, and leave enough redundancy on the edges of each tent.

The method is good, but there is currently no solution.

Let alone making new tents, the old tents are not enough.

"As for the fourth point, it's on the bed." Li Mengxi continued.

"If you are camping on a high ground, have dug drainage ditches, and buried your tent in the soil to isolate it from rainwater. If rainwater can still enter the tent at this time, you can raise the bed.

If the bed is one foot high, no matter how heavy the rain is, can the water be one foot deep? No.

Therefore, as long as the bed can be raised one foot, our soldiers can sleep peacefully in their tents, no matter how heavy the rain pours."

Liu Bei and Guan Yu listened intently and nodded slightly.

At this time, Li Mengxi changed the topic again.

"It sounds easy to raise the bed one foot, but that's the difficulty."

"How to increase the height by one foot?"

"Digging? No way. Let's not talk about how much effort it takes to dig the soil.

Another thing is that if the soil is not soaked in water, the high platform built up will fall apart in a moment if the rain soaks it for a while."

Liu Bei and Guan Yu frowned deeply.

"That's what I wanted to do. Think of a way on the bed.

There are two quilts, one for spreading and one for covering. The covering one should be soft, and the covering one should be flat."

"You can sew some small square wooden boards on the quilt, the size of the wooden boards is the same size as the quilt blocks when folding the quilt.

In this way, the quilt can still be folded and is strong enough to support things."

Liu Bei and Guan Yu were surprised by the method Li Mengxi said. They thought for a long time before they figured out what Li Mengxi was talking about.

That is, to put it simply, sew a door panel on the back of the quilt.

In this way, the quilt can be lifted up and turned into a bed.

However, if the quilt is sewn onto the door panel, it cannot be folded and is difficult to carry.

The best way to achieve both ends is to still sew thin wooden boards on the quilt, but change the wooden boards into small pieces, one piece at a time, just like the folds of the quilt.

Then, it does not affect the folding of the quilt, and the quilt can be supported like the bed board.

"After the bedding can be put up, when it rains heavily, find six bricks, two at the head of the bed and one on each side.

Two pieces in the middle of the bed, one on each side.

There are also two pieces at the end of the bed, one on each side."

"Then, there is no need to find a bed stick, just use the barrel of the gun and put it on the brick.

Six bricks can hold three guns and build three horizontal fences.

Then, the quilt is placed on the gun shaft. Because there is a thin wooden board on one side of the quilt, it can be carried on the gun and is as stable as a bed."

"In this way, if the bricks are half a foot high, the bed will be half a foot off the ground. Rainwater will enter the account and cannot wet the bed."

"The barrel of the gun is round and scrawled on the bricks. If the person laying it on the bricks makes a slight move, the barrel of the gun will move and fall.

There is a way to solve it: grind a groove on the brick, and then stick the gun barrel on it, making it extremely stable. No matter how you turn it over, it will remain stable."

After speaking, Li Mengxi looked at Liu Bei, then at Guan Yu, and asked, "What do you two think of this method?"

"This method is wonderful!" Guan Yu said in a deep voice.

"That's right!" Liu Bei also replied.

Li Mengxi opened his mouth and shook his head, "I think this method is inappropriate."

As soon as he said this, Guan Yu and Liu Bei both looked over.

Li Mengxi went on to explain why the method of using bricks to support the bed was inappropriate.

"Ten men, according to our army's current equipment, one of the ten carries a tent without a bed, and one carries a pottery jar of grain and firewood without a bed.

Among the ten people, eight people carried bunks on their backs, and there were eight chapters in total."

"If you use bricks to build a bed, use six bricks for one bed.

The bricks are too heavy. Carrying six bricks would be too much of a drag.

Furthermore, just say there are enough bricks.

Where did that bed spear come from?

If you build a bed and use three spears, you can say that there are ten people, all of whom are spearmen.

I have so many spears that I can only support the bed for three chapters, what should I do with the rest?"

Li Mengxi's words made Liu Bei and Guan Yu think deeply again.

"These are still ten people who are all spearmen. If it is a bow team or a team with many swords, there will be fewer guns."

At this time, Liu Bei suddenly suggested, "Well, Xi'er, we can't carry sticks. Each of us can carry three short sticks..."

"Inappropriate! (Inappropriate!)" Guan Yu and Li Mengxi refused in unison with a tacit understanding.

There was such a tacit understanding that Guan Yu and Li Mengxi couldn't help but smile.

"Xi'er, please tell me why it's inappropriate." Guan Yu stroked his beard and looked at Li Mengxi with a smile, asking Li Mengxi to explain.

Li Mengxi explained, "Three or five short sticks are not much, but when we are ready to march, the heavier the backpack is, the more it will be a drag.

Just to support the bed, it’s not worth carrying three more sticks.”

Liu Bei understood.

In terms of military strategy level, currently in the army, only Li Mengxi and Guan Yu are at a higher level. Liu Bei is really a novice.

Therefore, both Li Mengxi and Guan Yu were aware of the logistical problems, but Liu Bei was not.

This cannot be learned by studying the art of war, it must be accumulated.

The bed issue is stuck here.

I didn't expect that the method of setting up camp would get stuck on the bed.

The three of them discussed the bed issue.

"How about a hammock?" Li Mengxi had a sudden idea. As soon as he finished speaking, before Guan Yu and Liu Bei could react, "A hammock won't work." Li Mengxi frowned and rejected the idea himself.

Liu Bei asked curiously, "Xi'er, what is a hammock?"

Li Mengxi explained to Liu Bei what a hammock was.

A hammock is just like a bag tied between two trees, and people lie down on it to sleep. This is a hammock.

It turned out to be this, Liu Bei suddenly realized.

Keeping the hammock away from the ground can also solve the problem of water marks on the ground. However, the reason why Li Mengxi rejected the hammock himself is because the hammock cannot be hung on the ground.

To put it another way, if you bring some stakes, set up camp every day, and drive two stakes, isn't this a waste that outweighs the gain?

Just to support a bed, you have to bring two large stakes, which is too cumbersome.

However, Li Mengxi suddenly remembered something, and his eyes lit up.

It seems that naval forces, such as submariners and sailors on battleships, all use hammocks because the space on the ships is limited.

Hammocks save space and are stable.

Why is the hammock still stable even though it is shaking?

That's because if it's on the sea, people on the deck of the ship will fly up if they don't hold on to something.

It's like this on the deck. If it were an ordinary hard bed, sleeping on it would cause you to bump your head as the ship swayed, ups and downs.

As for the hammock, you know the principle of the pendulum, right?

Although the hammock shakes, if the boat shakes, the hammock will start to swing and adjust itself.

People sleeping in a hammock, as the hammock swings back and forth, feel like sleeping on a violent version of a cradle. They sleep quite comfortably. Compared with the hard bed, people will roll off the bed at a sway, or keep knocking.

Head down.

Hammocks are the most suitable for the sea, both in terms of comfort and safety.

If a navy army is formed in the future, it is necessary to promote hammocks.

Li Mengxi thought.

The hammock is indeed simple, but it took thousands of years for this bit of experience to be popularized.

The naval forces of the Han Dynasty would not deliberately use hammocks on the ships, but Li Mengxi knew.
Chapter completed!