Chapter 469: As a general, his joy and anger are invisible(2/2)
What we are talking about is the daytime siege of the city.
It would be okay if he didn't mention it, but Zhang Fei would be very upset if he mentioned it.
"I said Xiao Meng, the siege spine is not good." Zhang Fei directly said that Li Mengxi's equipment was not good.
Li Mengxi hurriedly asked, "What can't be done? Please make it clear to the three generals."
"You can't lift your siege spine, not here." Zhang Fei pointed at his bandaged head and expressed his bitterness, "If you can lift the siege spine from inside, why should I go out?
If you lift it, how can you let a stone hit your head?"
Li Mengxi was extremely confused when he heard this. He hesitated and said, "Third general, you don't need to carry the siege spine, right? You can push it."
"Shit!" Zhang Fei rolled his eyes at Li Mengxi, "The wheel is broken. I don't think you can push it, so you can only lift it."
Zhang Fei said this, and Li Mengxi understood. It turned out that the wheel was broken. No wonder Zhang Fei said he had to lift the siege spine, but the siege spine was so heavy, could it be lifted up?
Another thought: Although the siege tower was heavy, there were many people under the roof.
If we work together to lift the siege spine, even if it cannot be lifted far, it may be useful to lift it a little or move it a few inches, but sometimes it may be useful.
Although the siege vertebra has wheels, sometimes due to terrain restrictions, the wheels are stuck by rocks, or other circumstances, if the siege vertebra is only capable of wheeled travel, the siege vertebra will be stuck, unable to advance or retreat.
And if the siege spine can be lifted and moved a few times, it will be enough to eliminate most of the trouble.
Thinking about it this way, it was completely beyond Li Mengxi's expectation that the siege spine could actually be raised for use. If Zhang Fei hadn't said that he couldn't remember this even if he wanted to die, it would not be consistent with common sense at all.
Such a thing, it actually has to be lifted up to use.
Now that I think about it, the traffic capacity of the wheeled type is indeed not strong enough. Li Mengxi also knows that the structure that is stronger than the wheeled type is crawler type. But the crawler type was too stupid to use in the late Han Dynasty. The technology is extremely complicated and the probability of failure is high.
Extremely high, extremely low cost performance.
What is more powerful than wheels is human feet.
The steep ditch cannot be passed by the siege wheel, so a group of people can lift it off the ground and carry it across.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Furthermore, sometimes if the wheels of the siege vertebra are all broken, and you happen to be blocked in front of the city gate, if you don't move the siege vertebra, the rear siege vertebra will go up.
Not coming.
At this time, it must be lifted. If the siege vertebra is not done correctly and there is no place to apply force to lift it, then it is over. The siege vertebra has to be moved little by little, and it will not move for a long time.
Therefore, Zhang Fei said that it was necessary to find a place to make a few levers on the roof of the siege roof so that they could be lifted up and walked in case something happened. Li Mengxi thought it was true.
As a result, the structure and weight of the siege vertebra had to be reconsidered.
In terms of structure, the wheel of the siege vertebra was smashed. Li Mengxi remembered that the big wheel of the siege vertebra was on the outside. If stones fell from the city, it would easily break the wheel.
In order to make the siege tower strong, the wheels should be hidden under the roof. Even in order to protect the wheels, the roof above the wheels should be specially reinforced.
As for what Zhang Fei said, when you want to lift the siege vertebra, there is no place to apply force on the roof, and if you try to lift it outside, you will be hit on the head by a stone. To solve this problem, dig a hole in the siege vertebra.
Or install a few bars, it's easy.
It was purely accidental to find that the siege vertebra needs to be lifted and moved. With this new and strange requirement, it seems that the weight of the siege vertebra cannot be piled up desperately, but should be improved in terms of refinement and defense.
At the same time, lose as much weight as possible.
To improve defense without increasing weight, Li Mengxi just thought of using a dome structure for the siege vertebra a few days ago.
The dome structure can have stronger defense with a lighter roof.
If the siege vertebra must be easily lifted, it must be light in weight. To reduce weight without reducing defense, the dome structure is the perfect choice.
At this point, the structure of the siege cone has been determined. If a dome can be used, it must be a dome.
The dome style is not only about defense, but also about the passage capacity of the siege cone and the ability to handle complex situations.
When he mentioned the siege spine, Zhang Fei mentioned the Wengcheng again. When he mentioned the Wengcheng, Zhang Fei felt that the dull pain in his head that had been injured by the stone hurt again.
At that time, rocks and arrows were raining down from the top of the barbican city. The barbican city was so short that if there was a ladder, they would have climbed up in no time. It cannot be said that the siege soldiers climbed up the wall faster than the siege vertebral column broke through the door, but at that time, they were stunned.
There are no ladders.
At this point, both Li Mengxi and Guan Yu were silent.
Before attacking the city, they did not expect that there would be an urn city behind the city tower. Both Li Mengxi and Guan Yu felt that it was their negligence, so that the siege soldiers were trapped in the urn city and suffered heavy casualties.
In addition, the deep trenches outside the city also hindered the siege. The combination of two and one was a bad word! The siege was a mess and everyone lost their lives!
Liu Bei came over quietly. Seeing that Li Mengxi and the others were not in a high mood, Liu Bei asked in a low voice.
"Alas! This attack on the city was extremely miserable! The gates and walls were in terrible shape. It was a mistake!" Guan Yu felt extremely regretful.
Liu Bei responded with silence.
It was difficult to attack the city in the daytime, and it was indeed not done well.
Liu Bei looked at Guan Yu and Li Mengxi, and then secretly glanced at the attackers. Liu Bei lowered his voice and said, "Whether it's good or bad, the city has been captured."
Cheer up, a big victory should always look like a big victory!
Everyone is looking at you and me, don’t make everyone unhappy.”
Liu Bei's words made Li Mengxi startled and he looked at Liu Bei in surprise. Li Mengxi suddenly felt that he had been taught a lot.
At this moment, Li Mengxi understood many truths in an instant. At this moment, he deeply understood that he was actually the core of the army and the person who attracted everyone's attention.
Also, it’s no wonder that a general should keep his emotions and anger hidden.
As the commander-in-chief of an army, how many people would stare at a big victory? It should have been a happy event for the whole battalion to celebrate. However, as the commander-in-chief, after the victory, he felt depressed and frowned at the loss of his troops.
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In this way, when the general's officers, big and small, see that the general is in a bad mood and don't know why the general is in a bad mood, they don't dare to ask. When celebrating, they don't dare to be too showy.
Emotions are contagious. If the commander is in a bad mood, the lieutenants will suppress their emotions and dare not show off. The centurions will also become depressed. Finally, ordinary soldiers will also feel the depression of the atmosphere and will not dare to have fun.
Originally, one general's achievements were so great that thousands of bones were withered. After a great victory, as an army commander, he did not feel any joy of victory, but instead worried about casualties. This is commendable.
But they forget that the head coach serves as a role model for the entire army, and his words and anger can affect the morale of the army.
Let's just say that after a big victory, even if it is not a big victory, even if the casualty ratio between the enemy and ourselves is calculated, it is actually a disastrous defeat. The more disastrous the defeat, the less sad the coach should be. Instead, he should act like he has won a big victory and be happy.
Reward the sergeant with heart and arouse the morale well.
In this way, no matter whether he wins or loses or suffers casualties, as long as his morale is good, he will not be at the end of his rope.
This is where Li Mengxi and Guan Yunchang fell short. On the night of the great victory, when they rewarded all the troops, their faces were full of sorrow. Anyone who looked at them would inevitably wonder what happened.
This time we managed to break the city, which was fine.
What if one day there is a stalemate between the enemy and ourselves, with heavy casualties?
At this time, the commander of our army had a sad face and stood outside the commander's tent of the Chinese army, pacing back and forth, sighing after taking two steps.
When the officers and soldiers in the army saw the situation of the commander, and combined with the tragic battles in the past few days, they began to speculate whether they were going to lose? Are they running out of food and grass? Otherwise, the commander would not be like this
So uneasy. At this time, if our army is like a yellow turban army, and there are rumors and rumors, there may be soldiers who are afraid of death and run away overnight.
If our army is more elite, no one will escape, but when rumors start to spread, some of them are preparing to run away to steal military rations, hiding pancakes that they won't eat, and turning a blind eye when sleeping.
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Those who steal military rations are bold and bad, which will lead to abnormal loss of food and grass in the army; as for those who hide the cakes and do not eat them, these are rare smart people. Such people think long-term and know that they will run away if the army is defeated.
, it was important to have something to eat in hand, so he hid the pancakes that were supposed to be used to fill him up for fighting. Then during the fighting in the next few days, he was so hungry that he had no strength and died; as for sleeping in the middle of the night, he hid it.
A person who closes one eye is also a smart person and knows how to guard against danger, but how can he sleep peacefully if he turns a blind eye. During a war, if he has low energy and slow reaction, he is more likely to die.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The reason for all this is because the general stood in front of the tent and sighed. If the general is low, the whole army will be low, and the morale of the whole army will drop.
In our army, this happens because the coach is in a low mood.
As for the enemy's commander, the enemy's losses were greater than ours, and they had less food and fodder than ours, but the enemy's commander knew how to keep his emotions and anger hidden.
Obviously, the enemy army has suffered setbacks in recent days, but the enemy commander is very shameless and the battle is not going well. He is very thick-skinned. Every battle is trumpeted as a great victory, and every battle is rewarded to the three armies.
In this way, the enemy soldiers, who had no ability or channels to judge the actual situation, really thought they had won consecutive victories, so their morale was high.
When morale is high, many situations that may occur in harsh environments will not occur.
In an army with high morale, the soldiers will not think that they will be defeated in the next two days, and the people in charge of food and grass will not steal food. Therefore, the army's food will still be lost normally, and there will be no additional losses; because the soldiers think that they have won in consecutive days, there will be no
, hiding the pancakes that should be eaten and saying that they will be eaten when they escape; that way no one will turn a blind eye to sleep and lose energy.
Such a comparison.
The commander-in-chief of our army showed signs of joy and anger, the morale of our army dropped, the soldiers stole food and grass, hid cakes, and did not dare to sleep peacefully.
The enemy commander showed no emotion or anger, and was in a high mood no matter what happened. Therefore, the enemy soldiers did not steal food and grass, did not hide cakes, and slept soundly.
Originally, based on losses, the enemy and ourselves were evenly matched.
However, due to the difference in the ability of the enemy and our commanders to control their emotions, our side actually fell into a huge disadvantage.
Wanting to understand this, Li Mengxi understood at this moment, "As a general, his emotions and anger cannot be expressed in his expression. The commander only speaks and acts, and the three armies take pictures. If the commander is depressed, the morale of the three armies will be low, which will increase our decline."
Therefore, at any time, the coach can be solemn, excited, or indifferent, but he must never be depressed or sigh.
Therefore, the commander has one person who can shake up the morale of the entire army.]
Li Mengxi showed a smile and followed Liu Bei, walking among the soldiers, chatting and laughing.
Chapter completed!