The rebels are getting more and more on the right track, and many things are becoming more organized.

After setting up camp, the peasants dispersed without instructions, centered around the camp, and searched for all available supplies.

Dandelion roots, thatch roots, plantains, shepherd's purse, and some tough long grass can be used to weave straw sandals. By now, the army has collected a thousand pairs of straw sandals and no longer collects them, but the civilians are looking for straw weaving.

I have developed a shoe habit, but I am still looking for espadrilles.

Up to now, there are ten thousand people in the army, and all of them have shoes on their feet, but no one has shoes.

Compared to when the Yellow Turbans first surrendered, there was a huge difference between heaven and earth.

The civilian camp is short of all supplies, except for straw sandals, which have a lot of surplus.

In addition to growing grass, firewood is also an important material.

Folks don't need to make their own fires to cook. The usefulness of dry wood is that they can light a fire at night to keep themselves warm. It is also much warmer to sleep next to the fire.

There are also branches. The army no longer collects straw sandals, but only large baskets. Straw sandals are easy to weave, but large baskets are more difficult to weave.

The basket must be big, but not too big. It must be able to hold a quilt and some sundries. The basket must be square, and the stubble of the basket must be woven on the outside.

The only stable material for making baskets that can be found in the wild is tree branches. Folks pull the branches and don't use the thick ones, and they don't use the thin branches and leaves by brushing them off, leaving only paper strips of suitable thickness for making baskets.

As for branches and leaves that are too thick or too thin, tie them up with ropes and take them away.

Although the branches and leaves are wet and not dry firewood, this is not a problem. We carried the wet branches on our backs for two days and dried them in the sun.

Even wet branches can be dried.

At night, the collected wet branches were piled up against the bonfire. The heat of the bonfire dried out the branches by 70 to 80% overnight.

It is by relying on this method that at a speed visible to the naked eye, the people went from being short of supplies to now having more and more bundles of firewood on their bodies.

While the peasants were gathering around, the rangers, who did not need to run back and forth to communicate, spread out in all directions, keeping an eye on everything in case there were any tigers or wild beasts in the wild.

The fishing camp once again carried the fishing boat, fishing nets, carts, and baskets, and followed the scouts who led the way to carry out the great fishing business.

The number of fishing boats in the fishing camp has reached four.

The number of fishing nets has accumulated to twenty-seven.

Judging from the upper limit of the number of people in the fishing camp alone, the fishing net may be enough.

However, if we look at fishing nets as semi-battalion-level auxiliary equipment, one fishing net is required for every 150 people. They can be used to net fish when the mountains and rivers are exhausted, or to catch enemy generals.

If the fish nets are equipped according to this ratio, for ten thousand people, nearly a hundred fish nets will be needed, and twenty-seven nets will not be enough.

The highest harvest record in the fishing camp, two thousand kilograms of fish were netted in one night.

Good luck doesn't come often. What we encountered this time was in a swamp. Not to mention the shallow water, the fish were definitely not big.

The last time I was able to net two thousand kilograms of small fish, I was lucky enough to come across a pond dug by the villagers.

There must be more fish in pond waters than in the wild.

This is because, firstly, compared with long and narrow small rivers, the water surface of the pond is wider, and you don’t have to go far upstream to cast a net like fishing in the river ditch.

When netting fish in a pond, you can move to a new netting point with a little movement. This is a different efficiency.

Furthermore, the depth of the pond water is most suitable for fishing.

In the wild, the water in the big lake is too deep, and the fish will dive deep when they are startled. The fishing net cannot cover the deep water, and the fishing efficiency is reduced; as for diving in the swamp, the water is too shallow, and the net will be filled with mud when it is cast.

The depth of the water in the pond is generally just right. The water depth allows the net not only to drag mud, but also to roughly touch the bottom when the net is cast. Even if the swimming fish dives, they cannot escape the coverage of the net.

The third thing is that the ecological environment of the pond itself can support more fish.

Waters such as rivers flow very fast, so many small aquatic plants cannot grow on rivers, such as some small algae.

I only saw algae growing on the pond, but no algae on the river, that's all.

Algae and other aquatic plants cannot grow in rivers, but they can grow in ponds.

Therefore, for some herbivorous fish, there is more food in the pond, and the ecological environment of the pond can accommodate more fish.

Furthermore, in most cases, ponds have more food resources than in the wild. Because they are close to human settlements, dead sparrows, rotten persimmons, bad pumpkins and other messy things that hit the door often enter the pond in front of the door.

Throw it away, which greatly enriches the fish food in the pond. With abundant food, there will naturally be more fish.

In the pond ecosystem, fish have fewer natural enemies.

Because people are moving around, fish-eating birds such as egrets and waterfowl don't dare to approach the pond.

Fish in rivers are hunted by waterfowl, and their numbers are constantly depleted.

The fish in the pond will not be hunted by natural enemies, and the number of fish in the pond is naturally more than that in the river.

For various reasons, there are many more fish in pond waters than in rivers in the wild, even without artificial input of fry.

From this we can know that if you can find a pond, you will definitely catch more fish that day. If you don't find it, you will catch less fish.

However, no matter how many fish there are, there are limits.

Relying on fishing can indeed support many more people, but it is completely unrealistic to rely solely on fishing and hunting to provide food for a large army.

An army of a thousand men camped in one place could collect fish within a radius of five miles and hunt wild animals within a radius of five miles.

If an army of ten thousand people camped in one place, the area they could collect could only be five miles in radius at most.

Thousands of people are not enough, but ten thousand people are a lot more manpower, and a lot more materials can be collected.

But within a radius of five miles, there are only so many supplies. No matter how many people there are, the total amount of supplies will not change.

Judging from the current fishing situation of the rebels, the average number of fish caught in the net every day is about a thousand pounds.

A thousand pounds of fish can feed a thousand people without starving to death.

But the soldiers have to be well fed. A thousand pounds of fish can only be worth the rations of three hundred soldiers.

Today, the fishing fleet has not reached full size.

If the fishing fleet was of full scale and every time it set up camp, it would catch as many fish as possible in all waters within five miles of the camp, it would probably require two to three hundred fishermen.

The fish caught weighed three thousand kilograms.

In other words, the limit of fishing during the march was an average of three thousand kilograms of fish per day.

By fishing, you can raise up to a thousand more soldiers.

This does not mean that a thousand soldiers without military provisions can be self-sufficient just by fishing.

Because if there are only a thousand soldiers, then every time a camp is set up, hundreds of people will have to go out to fish at once, fishing all night, and a second group of people will have to be replaced the next day.

Fishing alone took up two-thirds of the troops. Because of fishing, the soldiers were exhausted and lost any combat power.

Therefore, an army of ten thousand people can fish with all their strength.

With an army of five thousand, only three or five fishing teams are enough.

An army of a thousand people and a fishing team of thirty or twenty people, the same size as the current rebel fishing team, would be enough. Any more would be a loss of military strength.

Just like net fishing, sometimes when encountering a forest, maybe three or two hundred soldiers would surround the small forest and blast it, and maybe drive out a nest of wild boars.

You can get two to three thousand kilograms of meat at once, which greatly supplements your food rations. However, the income from hunting is extremely unstable, unlike fishing, which can be relatively stable.

No matter how high you go, in the mountains and rivers of the Central Plains, there is the most fishing and hunting during the march, which can not offset the food rations of 1,500 people.

That is to say, if there is an army of ten thousand people, one-tenth and two percent of the rations can be supplemented by fishing and hunting.

For 100,000 people, it’s 12%.

Throughout the history of the East-West war, only Genghis Khan's Mongolian cavalry was able to get rid of its dependence on logistics.

An important key is that it is unclear whether it is a horse breed that can produce mare's milk, whether it is a Mongolian pony or something else.

If you can find a horse that is the same as the Mongolian pony, even if the impact force and speed of this horse are weaker, it won't matter at all.

As long as there is grass, horses eat grass and people drink mare's milk, there is no fear of starvation.

If we can get rid of logistical dependence, we will be invincible.

Li Mengxi didn't know what happened to horses. Using the analogy of cows, cows include cows and oxen. Oxen don't produce much milk unless they are suckling their calves. Cows, on the other hand, produce milk every day.

It can be seen that cattle include dairy cattle and cattle, and horses should also be divided into ordinary horses and milk-producing horses.

I have no clue where to find this milk-producing horse.

The most horse breed resources are found on the grasslands of Northern Xinjiang, where all kinds of horses are found. If there was a chance of finding a horse breed similar to the Mongolian pony in the late Han Dynasty, it must be found in Northern Xinjiang.

It can be said that if the Mongolian army can almost provide more than 50% of its rations, and it only needs to bring 5,000 rations for 10,000 people, then its logistical pressure will be less than half that of its opponents.

War is all about logistics.

With half the logistical pressure, 90% of the enemy can be killed with delay.

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The fishing camp encountered trouble fishing in the swamp. The water was shallow and there were few fish. After netting for a long time, we only caught some small fish.

However, some people found loaches from the mud, and dug out many triangular snails, crabs, etc. from the mud.

Originally, the three-cornered snail fishermen were about to lose their fish. The fishing camp lacked a qualified manager. No one in the entire fishing camp thought that water snails were also useful.

Water snails cannot be eaten by humans, but they can be broken open and fed to ducks.

After being reminded by the scouts who followed, the fishermen remembered to collect the triangular snails.

Fishermen dive into the beach looking for loaches, crabs and water snails.

There weren't many fish, and it seemed like we couldn't catch many loaches either.
Chapter completed!