As the saying goes, soldiers are valuable and they are quick. Even a dozen seconds can be enough to become the decisive weight on the scale of victory at a critical moment.

Without the rope, pushing the wall would be a few seconds slower, but with the rope, the wall would be knocked down a few seconds faster. This back and forth, maybe just ten seconds or so, would be enough to gain a huge advantage.

Judging from the reaction speed on the battlefield, about ten seconds is enough for a well-trained soldier. Within these ten seconds, half of them will be assembled.

If it takes more than ten seconds to break through the wall and the enemy troops have not gathered yet, our army will break through the wall and rush in, which is enough to kill the enemy by surprise.

Now that he thought that ropes could play a role in breaking down the camp, Li Mengxi also thought in reverse and thought of how to prevent our camp from being pulled down by the enemy using ropes in the same way.

The answer is, first, make the wall as strong as possible.

Most of the time, there is no condition or time to make the wall strong, so the wall is still made of wood nailed to the ground for protection.

Since the stockade wall is not strong enough, in order to prevent the enemy from using ropes to pull down the wall, it is necessary to nail the wood that surrounds the stockade wall to the same height as possible to avoid any wood that is so protruding that it may be pulled down by the enemy.

Use a rope to pull him down.

The general height of nailing the stockade wall needs to be established as a routine requirement through the formulation of military regulations.

Not only the stockade wall, but also the sentry tower attached to the stockade wall should, if possible, have a smooth appearance without protruding angular sticks to prevent the sentry tower from being pulled down by the enemy.

Change the perspective again - if the enemy's wall nails are at the same height, then the noose will not be able to catch the protruding wood, and the noose will be of little use.

So, how to quickly break through a nearly perfect wooden wall?

What Li Mengxi thought of was - a grappling hook.

It is an iron hook like an anchor tied to one end of the rope. Even if the enemy's stronghold is neat and there is no place for the rope to draw strength, if there is a grappling hook, throw it behind the wall of the enemy's stronghold and the grappling hook will catch the wood.

Tight, at this moment the soldiers pulled hard, and in three seconds, the wall was broken.

Li Mengxi had seen how houses were demolished in rural areas. When demolishing a house, the tiles on the roof were first removed, and then the rafters and other things on the roof were poked out. In this way, only four walls were left in a tile-roofed house.

Then, someone stepped on a ladder, climbed up to the top of the wall, and used a hoe or chisel to chip away the bricks on both sides of the wall and at the joint between the walls, creating a crack.

Then a large rope was tied into a circle and placed on the wall. More than ten or twenty people pulled together with force. There was a loud bang, smoke and dust, and a strong double-layered red brick wall was pulled down.

Since no solid brick wall can be pulled down easily, just any wooden wall when camping can also be pulled down.

The grappling hook can not only be used to pull up the wall when attacking a stronghold, but also has other important uses.

Modern troops are equipped with tools such as grapple hooks during special operations, which are used when climbing stairs and can also play an important role when climbing mountains.

In ancient times, when marching and fighting, was it necessary to sometimes climb up cliffs and other places? It should be necessary.

Therefore, it is necessary to equip the grappling hook.

But if each soldier is equipped with a grappling hook, the soldier's load will be heavy.

Besides, every soldier is equipped with a grappling hook, so there are not many situations where it can be used.

It is still the same as the fishing nets I thought of before. It is necessary to carry fishing nets, but it is not necessary for everyone to bring one.

It is better to equip each hundred-man team with one or two grappling hooks.

On the battlefield, on average, there are two or three grappling hooks for every 100 people. When encountering a village wall in a hurry, you want to find the grappling hook immediately. If you shout, soldiers carrying grappling hooks will immediately come over to use it.

Because the weight-bearing capacity of individual soldiers is limited, the fishing nets involved in the front can weigh more than ten to dozens of kilograms for a large net. The soldiers carrying the fishing nets are bound to carry heavier loads than others. The soldiers' own belongings even need to be carried by others.

Shared.

Soldiers equipped with grappling hooks carry one more thing, and may not be able to serve as crossbows, because with the grappling hook tied around their waist, there is no room for the quiver.

Different from fishing nets, fishing nets are a type of baggage. When fighting, the fishing nets and bedding can be thrown directly on the ground. The grappling hook is equivalent to a special equipment and must be carried during combat. From the perspective of ease of management, if every

Bo is equipped with two soldiers carrying grappling hooks. These two soldiers should be personally managed by the centurion. For a hundred people, a messenger is needed, and the centurion also needs a messenger; in addition, the centurion must at least

One or two personal guards are needed for protection. It happens that the soldiers carrying grappling hooks are inconvenient to use bows and arrows, so they can serve as sword and shield soldiers and become the centurion's personal guards.

In this way, when the centurion thinks it is necessary to use the grappling hook, he can immediately command the grappling hook soldiers to use it.

Grappling hooks are technical weapons, and soldiers carrying grappling hooks can be called technical sergeants.

Li Mengxi thought so.

In the future, other soldiers carrying special equipment can also be called technical soldiers.

Or, if there are more qualified doctors in the future, each doctor will be equipped with a field doctor. The doctors can also be called technical sergeants to distinguish them from ordinary soldiers.

Each archer with the best shooting skills can also follow the centurion like a grappling hook soldier. When the centurion thinks that a high-value target is found, he will shoot first.

Whether it is useful to use a sharpshooter or a sniper on the battlefield needs to be tested through practice.

There are two uses for infantry archers on the battlefield. One is to form a formation and fire volleys of arrows to suppress the enemy's formation.

The second way of fighting is to follow the spearmen, swordsmen, and shields in the melee. While providing output, it also has the function of countering the enemy's long-range units.

Just like the Yuanyang small formation that specializes in small-scale melees, there are shields in front of the formation, spears in the formation, and crossbowmen behind the formation.

Crossbowmen are very useful in chaotic battles.

Li Mengxi thought maturely and informed Liu Bei and Guan Yu of his new ideas.

Li Mengxi mentioned the use of cavalry equipped with a noose, and also mentioned that every hundred infantrymen should be equipped with two iron hooks to facilitate combat.

This also involves the military policy of the camp, that is, when setting up camp, the wooden piles of the camp wall should be nailed to the same height. In this way, if the enemy wants to use ropes to pull the wall, the ropes will have no leverage.

It also involves the organization and management of the army, including soldiers with iron hooks, standard bearers of centurions, centurions' personal soldiers, and messengers, who can be organized into a single unit and led by the centurion himself.

In this way, an uncle has a hundred people, ten of whom are composed of grapplers, sharpshooters, flag bearers, messengers, and his own centurion's own soldiers.

The remaining ninety people can be soldiers.

Li Mengxi has always believed that the three-three system is the most scientific way of organizing an army, that is, a company is divided into three platoons, and a platoon is composed of three squads.

Three companies form a battalion, three battalions form a regiment, and then a brigade and a division.
Chapter completed!