Li Mengxi gained a powerful siege tactic. He was very happy and lamented that he still had to gather the wisdom of everyone, just like the tactic of building a human bridge in the trench. If Guan Yu had not thought of it, Li Mengxi thought to himself, he might have fought a hundred

You may never even think of a battle.

Liu Bei said that Guan and Zhang both thought of ways to break the trench. Li Mengxi couldn't help but wonder what methods Zhang Fei and General Zhang Fei had.

After disbanding the shield wall, Li Mengxi turned to Guan Yu.

Guan Yu smiled and did not answer. "If we talk about how to be wise, my third brother's method is better than your and my shield bridge method. You can go and ask your third brother yourself."

Guan Yu didn't say anything, but Li Mengxi became curious.

What kind of method did Zhang Fei come up with? It couldn't be better than Dunqiao, right?

Li Mengxi, who was eager to know the third method of cracking the deep trench, immediately went to find Zhang Fei.

At this time, Zhang Fei and Liu Bei were still outside the city.

Finding Zhang Fei, Li Mengxi asked him how to cross the deep trench.

Zhang Fei laughed nonchalantly, "The eldest brother said to fill it with soil, and the second brother said to build a shield wall. As for me, there is no need to bother! Bring a ladder over here, put it on one end and put it on the other end, and you can get over it?"

Li Mengxi's expression froze on his face, and for a long time, he said "Fuck" in his heart.

Li Mengxi looked at Zhang Fei in surprise. He did not expect that Zhang Fei's method was really the best way to cross the trench.

No need to fill in the moat laboriously and clumsily. No more noisy climbing of human ladders. All you need is a siege ladder! The siege ladder is so long that it can be easily built from one end of the trench to the other.

Then, the siege soldiers stepped on the ladder and ran as fast as they could.

Crossing the trench here is like crossing flat ground, and you can climb the ladder quickly under the city. If the speed of climbing the ladder can be the same as the speed of climbing the ladder when Wen'an County attacked the city that day, yesterday's siege of the city would have been frustrated.

Zhang Fei thought of the most direct and simple method, but this method is indeed the most powerful.

After finding a good method to break the trench, Li Mengxi couldn't wait and immediately asked someone to carry a siege ladder. Then, he laid the siege ladder flat across both sides of the wide trench.

Without trying it, Li Mengxi also knew that this method could continue the people climbing the ladder in front and back, so that the siege soldiers would not be unable to continue in front and back and become a fuel tactic.

The ladder was set up at both ends, and Li Mengxi couldn't bear to try it out. He jumped from one end to the other end carefully step by step, and then turned back again.

Beside the trench, Liu, Guan, and Zhang watched Li Mengxi clumsily coming and going with a smile.

The steps are really too wide. Li Mengxi is still a child now. For an adult, the distance between the two steps is just right. But for Li Mengxi, the distance is too big. He has to take a big step every time he crosses a step.

After a round trip, Li Mengxi returned to the ditch.

He stared at the siege ladder set up on the trench, his mind racing, and he thought of many things.

Since the siege ladder can be set up on the trench to flatten the deep trench, the ladder can actually be strengthened. Instead of making steps, the ladder can be embedded with wooden boards to make it just like a real bridge.

Then, the siege soldiers no longer need to focus on their feet and step on each step accurately. Stepping directly on the steps is like stepping on the road.

If it is difficult to make a wooden ladder into a wooden bridge and the amount of work is large, the difficulty can actually be simplified.

Based on Li Mengxi's current understanding of late Han Dynasty technology and his experience in the carpentry camp for a long time, it is completely possible to make a soft wooden bridge.

What is a soft wooden bridge?

That is, first make an ordinary siege ladder, and then use the branches broken off during felling to weave net-like pockets between the steps.

Then, when the soldiers stepped on the tree branches and walked through the net, wouldn't it be the same as walking on flat ground?

If the branches are not strong, you can use ropes or weave a net with ropes. If the ropes are not enough, you can add more cloth. Use the old clothes of the soldiers to make a cloth bag under the wooden bridge, with cloth as a support, and the branches

The net will give you a more solid feeling when stepping on it.

This is the best method of making wooden bridges that Li Mengxi thought of. It is the best, not the highest quality.

The highest quality wooden bridge naturally has to use good wood, wooden boards, and tenon structure. Only then can it be a well-made wooden bridge.

However, when used in actual combat, when attacking a city, it is good to find trees. Where there is good wood, there is no time to plan the boards, and there is no time to make complex tenon structures.

Therefore, in actual use, good quality is not as cost-effective as simple ones.

To make a wooden bridge with wooden boards and tenons requires a skilled carpenter and a lot of time and manpower.

Weaving a net from branches, reinforcing it with ropes, and using rags to cover the bottom does not require the involvement of carpenters. When manpower is insufficient, ordinary soldiers can also complete the bridge.

This trench-spanning wooden bridge can be used alone or in parallel.

Even if a single bridge is a single bridge, the manpower deployment speed is still limited. Multiple bridges, or even enough bridges, can cover all the enemy's trenches. So, what is the difference between the enemy's trenches and the flat ground?

When the enemy's trenches are all smoothed out, our army not only reaches the maximum speed of troop deployment, but also has space for the soldiers to move around. Our army can have more troops to gather under the city, and can further increase the deployment of siege troops.

density.

If there is a moat, a moat, or a moat, and there are sufficient equipment, then the moat can be regarded as flat ground.

When climbing the ladder in the trench, the soldiers had to cover their heads with their hands and had to pay attention to their feet. After all, it was still difficult, for example, someone might miss the mark.

Li Mengxi ordered the siege soldiers to walk back and forth along the ladder several times to see how fast they could go and how likely it was that someone would have an accident.

The siege soldiers obeyed the order and rushed to the other side of the ditch one by one on ladders.

"Quick! Quick!"

Li Mengxi urged desperately from the side, "Faster! Faster!"

The siege fighters were pushed too hard and could only keep speeding up.

In this way, after a while, during this period, someone will indeed slip and fall into the air.

Then, the people behind were unable to hide and either bumped into him or had to jump to the side.

This made Li Mengxi frown.

Crossing a trench on a ladder is different from crossing a real wooden bridge. When crossing a ladder, you have to run to the end without stopping. Once you stop suddenly, you will inevitably lose your balance.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Now the trench is clean. In actual combat, there may be sharp wooden stakes in the trench, and people who fall into them will be dead.

Therefore, when crossing the ladder, you should cross it one by one, so that if someone does not step correctly, or suddenly stops due to an arrow, several people behind him will not fall down the long ladder.

But since then, after one person has passed, and then another, the speed is too slow, and it seems to have become a tactic to add fuel to the fire.

It seems that if conditions permit, it is better to make the wooden bridge as much as possible with a plank and a bottom. This way, if someone in front suddenly stops, the people behind can easily stabilize it, and no one will fall down without stepping firmly.

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Here, Li Mengxi was thinking about something, and over there, the siege soldiers were still crossing the ladder.

There was a sudden bang and an exclamation, and Li Mengxi came back to his senses. He looked over and saw that someone had fallen into the ditch, and the ladder was smashed into the ditch.

"What's wrong?" Li Mengxi asked. He didn't understand what happened.

"The ladder slipped in the ditch." The swordsman replied.

Will the ladder slip into the ditch? Li Mengxi was stunned for a moment.

Then, he looked towards the other side of the ditch and saw that there was a slope on the other side of the ditch. The ladder he had just put up was on the slope. Li Mengxi understood what was going on.

The ditches on both sides were not the same width. The ladder was set up on the slope, and then people kept passing people. The weight of people pressed down on the ladder, and kept sliding down bit by bit. Finally, the ladder slipped into the ditch.

The swordsmen and shield warriors held the ladder in place again, and Li Mengxi walked behind the tail of the ladder. "We have to find a wedge and nail it to prevent escape." Li Mengxi looked at the tail of the ladder and said thoughtfully.

Guan Yu came to the side and said, "You don't need to take the wedge, just use the ring-headed knife to pierce the ground and just nail it."

"Oh!" Li Mengxi was suddenly enlightened, "Then you have to get a hammer..." he said subconsciously.

Guan Yu looked at Li Mengxi with speechless eyes. He didn't even hold the wedge anymore. Why don't you hold the hammer even more?

"There is no need for a hammer. Just pierce the ground with the knife and stamp your feet. If it feels unstable, hit it with a shield. The shield is heavy and will penetrate deep into the soil."

When Li Mengxi thought about it, his eyes lit up, yes! I need a hammer! How much does a hammer weigh? How heavy is a large iron-clad shield? When the shield was slapped, the sword hilt was smashed into the ground without even having to aim it.

. And even if you take a hammer, the small hammer head, which is as small as a toy, has to be aimed, and you have to hit it bit by bit, hammer after hammer. It is not as useful as a shield.

Not to mention, the knife is sharp and long, but is it as useful as an iron drill? Not better than a wooden wedge?

The ring-shou knife can be used as tools such as nails, wedges, and iron drills.

When you are on the march, it is difficult to find iron drills, but ring-shou knives can be found everywhere.

Therefore, it is a good method to insert the knife into the tail of the ladder to block the sliding of the ladder.

But when Li Mengxi thought about it, something seemed wrong. He raised his head and looked at Guan Yu, "But General Guan, how can he fight if the siege soldier gives his sword to someone else?"

You can never go empty-handed.

I think a siege soldier carrying a ladder should be equipped with two knives, one for use as a wedge and one for fighting..."

Why are you carrying two swords? Guan Yu looked at Li Mengxi speechlessly again. This guy is thinking about something. Why does he sometimes think about trouble?

"You don't need to carry two knives. Wouldn't it be better to borrow someone else's knife? The person in front sticks the knife in the ground as a wedge, and borrows the knife from the person behind you."

Oh, I can still borrow the knife.

Li Meng scratched his head, "Then, doesn't the person behind him also have a knife?" Li Mengxi was still puzzled.

Guan Yu's eyes were subtle and he said, "Let's borrow from those who are behind us."

Li Mengxi frowned, "The person behind you is the person behind you, so don't you still have no sword?"

Guan Yu said calmly, "Just borrow it from behind."

But no matter how you borrow it, there will always be someone who doesn't have a knife. When you are attacking a city, if you lend a knife to others, you will be dead if you don't have a knife. Who is willing to lend a knife to others?
To be continued...