As evening approached, the work of building the camp came to a halt.

Li Mengxi went to see how the construction of the camp was going. He turned around and saw that the so-called village wall was just a slope of excavated earth. The slope was half a person's height and was not in the shape of a wall at all.

However, such a slope is enough to defend against direct arrows. Even in the era of deheating weapons, a slope as high as a person can defend against machine gun bullets.

The earth slopes dug by the peasants surrounded a large circle of the camp. In addition to the earth slopes, the other two structures of the village wall were wooden piles inserted into the ground. The wooden piles formed the wall one after another.

The wall had some of the appearance of a real military stronghold in Li Mengxi's memory. If there were a few more sentry towers behind the wall and some sharp wooden thorns inserted outside the wall, it would look more like it.

Thinking of this, Li Mengxi suddenly realized that there seemed to be something wrong.

The wooden walls have different configurations inside and outside, and the earth walls are the same.

When I just passed the earth wall, I found two deep trenches inside and outside the earth mound. This is because when digging on the spot, the soil was dug from both sides, and then the earth was shoveled to the middle to create a soil slope. Naturally, the two sides of the soil slope would

There is a deep ditch.

Obviously, the working method of the civilians is wrong. There cannot be a ditch inside the village wall, otherwise the enemy will surround us. We approach the wall to defend ourselves against the enemy, but a ditch blocks the front, which will be very inconvenient.

It is not appropriate for the ditch to be dug inside the camp, but it is very appropriate to dig the ditch outside the wall.

A ditch outside a wall is just like a moat or a moat trench, and can cause trouble for the enemy.

Therefore, when digging soil to build a wall on the spot, you cannot work in both directions. It is best to work in one direction, dig a trench in front and build the soil to the back.

In this way, if the earth wall is built well, there will be an earth ditch on the outside of the earth wall, but not on the inside of the wall.

I got some knowledge, "When building a temporary camp and erecting earthen walls, you should [work in one direction] and leave the trench outside to act as a moat."

In addition to earth slopes and wooden walls, the third component of the camp is the movable vehicle array.

I didn't pay much attention to it before, but now that all the vehicles are gathered together, the visual impact is very strong. There are a large area of ​​parked trucks.

I didn’t count the carts, and I don’t know how many.

When we left Zhuozhou, we carried 300 vehicles, but now we must have far more than that.

After the city-breaking battle in Wen'an County and the surrender of the Yellow Turbans in Qingyun Mountain, all the Yellow Turbans' grain and grass weights in the two places belonged to the rebels.

After such a long time, the carpenter camp has not stopped making carts every day, with an average of 20 to 30 carts a month.

A larger part of the supplement is the traveling caravan. The cart is a common tool among the people. As long as the traveling caravan encounters a village, it will definitely be able to buy the cart.

The traveling caravan frequently replenishes supplies more than a dozen times a day, and can receive more than a dozen carts a day, and sometimes even more.

The craftsmen's camp is already fully equipped with pallet trucks, which are enough for hauling wood and workpieces, storing tents, and empty trucks for hauling people.

There are enough carriages for the women and children's camp, so that all the children who are not able to walk quickly can get on the carriage and be pulled by adults, so as not to delay the march.

The fishing camp is fully equipped.

The Butcher's Camp is also equipped with five carts. The Butcher's Camp has less than thirty talents and is equipped with five carts, which is very sufficient.

Then there are the chicken and duck trucks that were finally established. There are eight chicken and duck trucks and three livestock trucks.

There are eight maltose production vans.

If there are too many vehicles to a certain extent, the logistics and marching capabilities of the rebel army will be greatly improved.

First of all, an empty cart cannot pull many people, even if it only pulls three, then the person pulling the cart in front, pulling the cart and the people on the cart, can keep up with the speed of the Zichong team.

Will fall behind. At this time, it is equivalent to four people marching, and only one person's physical strength is consumed.

After the person pulling the cart pulls for a while, another person comes, while the first person pulls the cart rests.

This is equivalent to increasing the efficiency of physical energy utilization by three to four times.

What does it mean to have the efficiency of physical strength utilization increased by three to four times? It means that when marching for a long distance, you can walk farther and walk the same distance, and the average human body consumes less energy.

It consumes less physical energy, which means saving food now.

The efficiency of physical strength utilization is increased by three times, which means that a lot of food rations are saved.

I drank a bowl of porridge in the morning, then walked for a day, and then pulled the cart for an hour during the day, and then sat in the cart for three hours. Comparing these two, it is easy to compare: pull for one hour, rest for three hours.

It is less likely to be hungry after an hour.

Not easy means that less food rations can be used to maintain the minimum daily energy requirements of the people.

Carts and rations, these two unrelated things, are unexpectedly closely related.

Pallet trucks can save one-fifth of ration expenses, or even more. This is the fact.

This is the advantage that tools bring.

This is related to a question: when people are fleeing famine, is it better to pull a cart or walk to escape famine?

You can do a simple calculation and calculate it as a family of four adults.

Then, according to the rotation sequence of one person pulling the cart and three riding the cart, and then rotating every hour, the average daily walking consumption per person can be reduced by three-quarters.

At the same time, pulling a cart takes more effort than simply walking.

Although the road conditions in ancient times were not good, the carriages were vehicles adapted to the ancient road conditions and were fully capable of driving on the ancient road conditions.

The savings of three-quarters of the physical energy spent on the road and the increase in physical energy consumption when pulling the cart are offset by two and one. Roughly speaking, the physical energy consumption of the road can still be reduced by a quarter.

In a desperate situation, four refugees who have no strength and walk separately will eventually fall halfway.

But if there is a cart, four homeless people with little strength, two people pulling the cart, and two others resting on the cart, can continue to move forward without reaching the end of the road.

Sometimes, if you can walk an extra three or five miles, there may be people and food ahead, which is a way to survive.

To sum up, a rough calculation shows that when escaping from famine, the probability of surviving the famine is much higher if you take a truck with you than without a truck.

Maybe it won't be used when escaping from famine or something.

But there are many refugees in the rebel army. The refugees follow the army and wander around. They are not fleeing, but also marching for a long time.

The carts can improve the traveling ability and save some food consumption. Calculations show that the more carts, the less logistical pressure.

Even if we go to the smallest calculation, a trolley can save one-tenth of the energy consumption of traveling per person.

Suppose we travel forty miles a day. If we need to consume the energy of one steamed bun for these forty miles, then the trolley saves one-tenth of the energy consumption of traveling, which is equivalent to saving one-tenth of a steamed bun.

There are ten thousand people in the army, and they save a thousand steamed buns every day.

A thousand steamed buns can feed a thousand people.

Food rations for a thousand people were saved.

This is food for a thousand people.

Once we calculate this account, we can see that the more carts in the army, the better, and it is best if there are so many carts for two people.

One person pulls the cart and the other rides in it, and one person sits in the cart, which is similar to an empty cart. The energy consumed by one person pulling an empty cart is only a little bit more, and it is not much more when converted into food consumption; and the energy consumed by one person walking forty miles

It's a lot. When converted into food consumption, it's less than half a steamed bun.

It is not difficult to draw a strange conclusion from this. If there is a shortage of food, more carts will be built. The more carts, the more food will be saved. It is simply weird.

The inventory of the rebel carts has basically met all transportation and production needs, and the excess carts have begun to be distributed to civilians. The average physical consumption saved by one cart, converted into food, is about one steamed bun per day.

[One person pulls three people on a cart, changing it every four quarters, one day, which can save a quarter of the physical energy loss per person on the road. Because physical energy loss is reduced, the demand for food can be reduced.
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