A centipede can grow thousands of knots when hung on a mountain ladder.

If one person carries one section, even if one section is twenty steps, then ten people carrying the ladders linked together will have two hundred steps.

As mentioned before, equipment with different weights should be allocated according to the size of the army.

So, the Centipede Hanging Ladder would be too much of a drag if placed in a team of 100 people, but it would be more appropriate to place it in a team of 1,000 people.

A team of 1,000 people carries ten sections of centipede ladders. When they need to cross mountains and gorges, the ten sections are paired into one pair.

The long ladder with two hundred steps is enough for almost all marching needs.

A long ladder, like a centipede, hangs high on the cliff. From a distance, it looks like a long ladder hanging from the sky. It is fascinating to think about it.

Li Mengxi once said that if a general cannot know how to use craftsmanship, he cannot know the importance of boats, ships, bridges and stacks.

Guan Yu thought so.

Within a short time, Li Mengxi introduced two sharp weapons: the special grappling hook crossbow arrow and the centipede hanging mountain ladder. Guan Yu felt that he had gained a lot.

It was late at night, and Li Mengxi took his younger brother back to rest. Guan Yu and Liu Bei continued to discuss the wonderful use of hanging mountain ladders.

While they were talking, "Oh!" Liu Bei suddenly slapped his thigh and exclaimed.

"Xi'er told me that we need to find some people who can read and write to teach the children how to read." Liu Bei looked at Guan Yu and said, "I forgot about you!"

Guan Yu couldn't help laughing, "Brother, it won't be too late to find you tomorrow."

Here, Li Mengxi sat cross-legged at the front of the car, writing furiously in the dim light.

There was no march today, and the army stopped for a day. Because the army stopped and did not move, the army did a lot of work, so Li Mengxi saw a lot and learned a lot.

"In ancient times, when marching, what kind of supplies did the army usually have?

There are roughly four types, one is to buy along the way, the other is to collect wild vegetables, firewood, etc. nearby when setting up camp, and the third is to fish when encountering rivers and hunt when encountering mountains. The amount of harvest can greatly reduce the loss of military rations.

As for the fourth, to plunder the four directions, this method can indeed benefit from food and grass, but to plunder the people, a teacher of benevolence and righteousness will not do it."

At this point, what Li Mengxi had seen and thought since entering the late Han Dynasty finally gave him a rough overview of the ancient march.

The ancient supply methods were mostly these four conventional methods.

The reason why it was just a conventional supply method was because Li Mengxi had not yet encountered a truly cruel and tragic battle. In a truly brutal battle, even the corpses would be food.

Perhaps until then, Li Mengxi would learn that in addition to conventional supply methods, there are also unconventional extreme supply methods.

Continue writing below.

“In ancient times, marching was greatly affected by climate.

It rained heavily all night, and the strong winds destroyed countless tents, and the bedding of all the people was soaked by the rain.

Therefore, regardless of heavy rain, wind or snow, if the weather is bad, it is better to postpone the march than to rush.

The march was suspended so that civilians could light up bonfires to warm their bedding, and tents that were damaged in the army could have plenty of time to repair.

Furthermore, after the heavy rain, wait a day and the road surface will become better for a few minutes."

This is what Li Mengxi learned to deal with bad weather during the march.

Further down is the Butcher’s Camp.

"It doesn't matter when you are marching or in war.

During the march, some livestock may die of illness, tigers and elk may be hunted, and so on.

During the war, there was a big battle, and many dead horses were left on the battlefield.

Therefore, the army needs skilled butchers to slaughter large animals efficiently.

See a dead cow in the daytime, and it takes six strong men, three in front and three behind, to lift it.

I also saw that when slaughtering a cow, people were gathered from all over to find long sticks and set up a tripod, which took more than two moments.

If there is a dedicated butcher's camp, butchering tools and tripod wood, as well as human hands, are gathered in one place. When an animal needs to be slaughtered, all the people will be there in an instant.

Therefore, we need to set up a battalion of butchers. We don't need too many manpower. Three or five teams are enough.

And because large animals, such as oxen, mules, war horses, etc., require at least six people to carry them, the minimum number of people in the butcher camp is six people per team.

This is why the butcher camp is different from the five-person team of war soldiers, and the reason why it is different from the ten-man team of cart-makers and six-man team."

Now that the Butcher Camp has been established, it is not enough to have a basic framework.

There are other details that come to mind during the day.

Li Mengxi stopped writing for a moment and then wrote again.

“Any task that requires multiple people to work together, such as making carts or slaughtering animals, must have an organizational structure, the ability to collaborate, and basic discipline.

At present, the only way to develop discipline is to have an organizational structure.

The formation of organizational structure lies in the cart.

Why on the cart?

A cart can be used to store all the tools that the butcher's camp is busy with, such as long sticks, various knives, hooks, and chopping boards for dividing meat.

The butcher's personal bedding and sundries can also be placed on the cart.

At this time, there is a battalion of butchers, who will pull the cart? How long will it take for the puller to be replaced? Who will replace it?

In all aspects, interests are entangled, and between butchers and butchers, in the process of coordinating these entanglements, coordination and organizational skills are exercised.

This is just like training a sailor before you become an aircraft carrier.

A cart is to a butcher what an aircraft carrier is to a sailor.

From this small lesson, we can learn that if the army is training to establish a camp, regardless of whether it is a cavalry or a navy, even if there are no horses or ships, it can still practice organization and discipline first."

All details of the Butcher’s Camp have been written.

What should I write?

Li Mengxi looked up at the sky. It was clear tonight and the moon and stars were sparse.

By the way, I haven’t finished writing the details of the Butcher’s Camp yet, so I almost missed it.

"Knives. There are not enough knives in the butcher camp. To slaughter animals, you need to use a pointed butcher's knife. When chopping bones, you need a thick-backed knife. But the army only has a ring-hand knife. The blade is not sharp, and it is not easy to peel skins. The back of the ring-hand knife is not thick, so it is difficult to chop.

The knife hurts the bone.

Therefore, after the butcher's camp is established, he will need dozens of pointed butcher's knives and dozens of bone-chopping axes.

You also need to chop several sides of the door panel and process the cowhide or other tools.”

After finishing writing, I had almost all the matters related to the Butcher’s Camp written down.

After that, comes the biggest harvest of the day - fishing.

“The Central Plains region is densely covered with river networks. With a long march of more than thirty miles in one day, the army will inevitably encounter water in ditches, streams, lakes, or rivers along the way.

You can set up a fishing camp, and every time you set up camp and go out to fish, if you catch hundreds of fish a day, it is equivalent to more than a thousand catties of food.

This can greatly reduce the loss of military rations.

From this we also know that if fishing is to be efficient, boats are essential.

Without a boat, you cannot go deep into the river, so you can only cast a net on the shore. However, the shallow water on the river bank has few grasses, and naturally there are few fish, so the fish catch will inevitably be small.

Therefore, if you want to net more fish, you need a fishing boat.

And because we were on the march, the transportation capacity was limited and large ships were inconvenient to carry. There were osprey boats, which were suitable for fish camps.

There are no shipbuilders in the army, so it is unknown whether the osprey boat can be built.

When I was a child, I watched fish in a pond and saw schools of fish floating on the water in the morning. When the sun first rose, the fish dived and disappeared. What is the reason for this? Is it because there are more fish floating on the surface in the morning and at night when there is no light on the water surface? What if

In this way, fishing at night may be several times more efficient than during the day.”
Chapter completed!