Li Mengxi felt that the torches were not very durable and they had to be replaced every once in a while. It was very troublesome for the guards to frequently replace the torches.

The trouble was that I had to keep replacing the pine torches on the torch holders.

The trouble with constantly changing torches is that you have to keep putting down the heavy torch stand before you can replace the torch.

So, is there any design that simplifies the process of replacing torches?

Li Mengxi thought of the tumbler.

I thought about it in my mind and made a hemispherical heavy object. The torch holder was inserted into the hemisphere. When I needed to change the torch, I gently pushed the wooden pole and the wooden pole was easily pushed to one side. Then,

Responsible for replacing torch soldiers, you can easily replace them.

After changing the torch, as soon as I let go, the wooden pole straightened up automatically under the action of the tumbler principle.

This is simply a semi-automatic flagpole. It is easy to use and very fun.

If there is a relatively heavy and semi-shaped heavy object, Li Mengxi can design a semi-automatic torch holder.

However, an object that is heavy enough and is a hemisphere should preferably not take up transportation capacity. Li Mengxi could not think of such a universal object.

And it would be a waste of transportation capacity to carry a few extremely heavy large pillars just to make it easier for the soldiers to change torches.

What could Li Mengxi think of as a hemispherical solid stone mound?

Catapult shells?

It is impossible for an army to be so powerful that it could transport stones thousands of miles to its destination and then use catapults to throw the stones into the enemy city.

There is no need to drag rocks with you. They are everywhere and it is easy to find some.

If you really can't find wood, you can cut a thick wooden pile into short sections that cannot be carried by a person, and throw the wooden pile with a catapult, and you can still kill people.

Therefore, based on various considerations, there is a high probability that the tumbler-structured torch holder cannot be used in the military.

The fire stand, or fire flag, was part of a previously negotiated system of flags that functioned at night as a conspicuous light signal.

One of the functions of the flag is to distinguish the various ministries, and the more important function is to quickly recruit soldiers.

Suppose the enemy suddenly attacks the camp at night. It is completely dark, and there are shouts of killing everywhere. It is not known where the enemy is attacking from and how many people there are. The soldiers in the camp are panicked.

At this point, all battle formations and strategies are useless. There is only one factor left that determines the success or failure of attacking the camp and the success or failure of defending the camp - whether the guarding camp can gather the troops again. As long as the troops can be gathered together, soon

, the panic will be suppressed, and then a counterattack can be launched quickly.

If the defenders fail to gather their men together, the chaos in the camp will become increasingly intensified, and a complete defeat will not be far away.

The key to victory or defeat has never been as simple as it is now. If the defenders can successfully gather men, the defenders win; if the defenders fail to gather men, the attackers win.

In this case, a torch stand that lights up like a torch at night is like a beacon and plays an extremely important role in rallying soldiers.

When the enemy suddenly attacks, the most important thing for the defenders to do is not to fight back immediately, because it is so chaotic that for a while it is impossible to figure out where the enemy is coming from.

The top priority or even the only priority is to immediately gather the soldiers according to the daily plan. At this time, there is only one order for the soldiers to execute - ignore the others and do their best to gather at the commander's flag, which is the torch stand.

.

As long as more and more people gather and there are more and more orderly people, then there will be fewer and fewer people who are disorderly and chaotic. When the chaos subsides, the people under the commander's command have been gathered here, so you can rest assured and work hard to do something ruthless.

Attacked the enemy forcefully.

Generally speaking, in terms of scheduling difficulty and other aspects, the raiding party usually sends a smaller number of elite soldiers.

A mere few hundred people attacked a large camp with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of troops. If they really stood there and didn't move, how many people could die if they were allowed to be chopped down by hundreds of enemy troops attacking the camp for a long time?

On the contrary, the casualties caused by chaos were far more than those who died directly in the fighting.

Therefore, as long as the defenders don't get into chaos, the small number of people attacking the camp can't do anything to take over the camp.

Therefore, the focus of the attack by both the attackers and defenders is that the defenders must try their best to prevent the camp from becoming more and more chaotic, while the attackers must try their best to cause chaos in the camp.

With the intensity of the torch lighting, a dozen of the commander's soldiers stood in a group, holding a torch. The light of these torches was enough to illuminate the commander's flag next to the commander clearly, and the soldiers in the chaos could see the commander's flag clearly.

, so there is a direction of assembly.

In fact, a torch stand is not necessarily necessary.

However, it is better to have a torch stand, which is more conspicuous than the flag itself which does not light up.

If possible, you can use a lantern instead of a bulky torch stand.

It is still programmed with lanterns. The lanterns of ordinary soldiers are single lanterns.

For lanterns used as handsome flags, multiple lanterns can be strung together into a long string, and then lifted high with a stick.

In this way, a long string of lanterns can be distinguished from other single lanterns and conspicuous enough. Moreover, the lanterns are much lighter and more convenient than torch holders, and they can also prevent rain.

However, from the perspective of actual combat, if the enemy has a sharpshooter and the lantern is just raised, the enemy will shoot an arrow, the lantern will fall to the ground and die out in an instant, and the military situation will be fleeting, then it will be over.

Therefore, even if there are lanterns, the torch holder designed by Li Mengxi is still useful and is an effective supplement to the flag system.

The lantern is as light as the lantern, and although the torch stand is bulky, it is very strong. Even if it is shot with a bow and arrow, it is unlikely that ten sharpshooters will shoot out all the torches if they shoot at them for a long time.

The thickness of the torch and the thickness of the lantern hanging rope are two different things.

There is a saying that the more original something is, the more reliable it is.

There were many sharpshooters in the late Han Dynasty. Lu Bu could shoot a halberd from behind the gate. He could shoot down the rope hanging a lantern with one arrow from a long distance, just like playing.

However, even if Lü Bu's halberd shooting skills were superb and he could shoot ten arrows, he would not be able to extinguish the torch on the torch stand.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! From the perspective of durability, a bulky torch stand is more secure than a lightweight lantern.

Moreover, torches save money, as lanterns require burning candles, and candles are extremely expensive. Where can I find cheap wood?

Therefore, the torch stand designed by Li Mengxi is remarkable in terms of coping with camp attacks, recruiting manpower, and fault tolerance.

It is troublesome to use and needs to change the torch from time to time, and its heavy weight is its unavoidable shortcoming.

——

There is a shortage of flags in the army. There are no signs to distinguish the various units at night. There is also a lack of flags during the day.

Regarding the flags, Li Mengxi has already ordered people to do it. The flags to be made are also not ordinary soft flags, but hard flags that are supported by a skeleton and can hold up even if it rains. It is estimated that there will be several flags tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow at the latest.

The military flag is ready.

At the same time, the torch stand made tonight is very good in all aspects. Each camp also needs a similar stand.

There is no doubt that Liu Bei is the commander-in-chief of the entire army. In order to distinguish it from Liu Bei's fire flag, Li Mengxi felt that his flag could be raised with only one torch and a wooden pole. If it was not bright enough, then two

Put the torches together and then raise them.

In the same way, Liu Bei's fire flag is the most important. At the critical moment when the enemy attacks the camp, it is responsible for the victory or defeat of the entire army. Therefore, Liu Bei's fire flag should be the highest, brightest and unique.

As for other ministries, such as the Carpenter Camp, the Military Medical Camp, and Li Mengxi's place, it will be fine if they can be marked slightly to make it easier to find people.

After introducing the torch stand, it was late at night and Li Mengxi began to yawn.

Instructing Liu Bei to rest early, Li Mengxi took his leave and left the torch stand in front of Liu Bei's tent. From now on, this torch stand would serve as a handsome flag used exclusively at night.

After Li Mengxi left, Liu Bei's curiosity remained unabated.

Li Mengxi said, "Why can't the torch stand be broken?" Liu Bei thought, "Is it really impossible to break it?"

Liu Bei, who was very curious, picked up the torch stand, stood it up, and then let go and pushed it.

With a bang, the fire smashed the shelf to the ground.

The shelf is good.

If Liu Bei was not satisfied, he would try it again. He would try again, raise the torch frame again, and then knock it down.

Snapped!

The torch stand was smashed to the ground again.

This happened more than ten times, and the fire torch slammed the frame to the ground more than ten times, but it was still not broken.

Not only was the torch stand intact, not a single torch inserted into the stand fell off, and was firmly fixed there.

Liu Bei was convinced now.

Although the torch stand looks simple, it is actually quite technical. This simple stand has reinforced snap rings and a "bumper". To be precise, it is a torch stand that cannot be broken no matter what.

.

Liu Bei specially called the soldiers who were keeping watch at night and asked them to watch the torches and replace them with new ones when they were almost burned out.

Soldiers are very fast. Since we have caught up tonight, we will raise the fire as a flag starting from tonight. Starting from tonight, we will let the soldiers become familiar with changing torches. If not, we can make the soldiers familiar with the fire flag as early as possible.

Such a little advantage is also an advantage.

Thinking about it to the extreme, it was already midnight, and the torch stand was used at this time. Then, when the soldiers patrolling the camp in the middle of the night looked up and saw the torch stand, they had never seen it before, and they were curious. When they asked each other, a group of soldiers started to wonder.

Now I know what the torch is for.

Then the next day, the soldiers guarding the big tent tonight will be rotated to patrol the camp in other places tomorrow. If the enemy suddenly attacks the camp, the civilians in the civilian camp will panic. The soldiers who stayed outside the tent the night before will rush to help the civilians.

They pointed out, "Have you seen the fire at the top? Hurry up and gather there, don't run around!"

As a result, a dozen soldiers guarding the big tent the night before accidentally became the source of information to convey the correct military orders the next night. As a result, the civilians were directed where to go, thus avoiding chaos, and then the soldiers

They were able to assemble quickly and contain the decline before the war situation deteriorated. The war that should have been a disastrous defeat was turned into a victory, with hundreds or even thousands of casualties saved.
To be continued...