The rebel craftsman camp started working at full strength, whittling all the sticks and other things on hand into wooden guns.

Because the rebel craftsman camp had no time to expand in the future, there were still less than 300 carpenters, not as many as Zhang Jiaobu. In order to complete the armaments production as quickly as possible, Li Mengxi ordered most of the wooden sticks to be brought to the Yellow Turbans.

Help with it.

The production of wooden spears and wooden armor did not take a moment. Li Mengxi and Liu Bei went to discuss the matter of grass armor.

Straw armor, also known as wheat straw clothing, is used to keep out the cold.

Wheat straw is part of firewood and part of livestock feed. Cattle eat wheat straw and part of the bran. Wheat straw is needed everywhere. Although wheat straw is easy to obtain, although there is a lot of wheat straw in the army, there is not much.

The wheat straw is all in the Zizhong convoy. The carts pulling firewood are half hardwood and half wheat straw. Firstly, it balances the load and prevents the cart from being too heavy. Secondly, it makes full use of the space.

A whole truck of wheat straw is fully loaded, but it is too light and is a waste of transportation capacity.

If it were a whole cart of wood, the cart would be full, but it would be too heavy and the animals would be exhausted.

Half a cart of wood, half a cart of wheat straw, the load is moderate, perfectly achieving a balance between space utilization and load-bearing.

When Li Mengxi saw that the firewood train was composed of a lower layer of wood and an upper layer of wheat straw, he thought for a moment and understood why he did this. He was immediately impressed by the method of balancing the load.

Asked Liu Bei who came up with this method, Liu Bei was stunned by the question, "This... is there any need to think about it?"

Liu Bei was puzzled.

In fact, Li Mengxi had very little life experience. He was a man in the late Han Dynasty who had a lot of experience in pulling carts and loading firewood. He didn't even have to think about it. He knew that half a cart of wood and half a cart of wheat straw were neither light nor heavy.

What Li Mengxi once thought was to unify logistics as much as possible. The trucks pulling wood would pull wood, and those pulling wheat straw would pull wheat straw. This would make management easier and it would be easier to find firewood.

However, the actual situation is that mixing wood and wheat straw will not make logistics management much more complicated. On the contrary, it will greatly improve the transportation capacity. The whole truck is made of wheat straw, which wastes half of the load. The whole truck is made of hard wood, which is too heavy, wastes the physical strength of the animals, and also makes

The wooden carts slowed down, slowing down the marching speed of the army.

The gap between incomplete and taken-for-granted theory and reality is just that big.

Li Mengxi realized an important piece of knowledge with just one glance on the humble diesel carriage.

"[Balanced Capacity Method of Logistics Vehicle Management]

Vehicles are the most important part of the logistics system. A flatbed truck has limited load space and limited livestock towing capacity. Various supplies in the army, including soldiers, armor, food and grass, etc., vary in weight. Some are large and some are light.

There are many small but high-quality ones.

Therefore, if the vehicle is full and the load is light, more than half of the vehicle's capacity will be wasted. If the vehicle is full and the vehicle is heavy, it will consume a lot of animal energy and slow down the marching speed.

Therefore, there is an overall method of balancing the load. Military supplies are light and heavy, robes and straw are light, and weapons and firewood are heavy. Therefore, robes and weapons can be mixed together, and firewood and straw can be mixed.

This method alone, without adding carriages, horses, oxen and mules, without tiring manpower, and only using the overall planning method to balance it, is enough to increase transportation capacity by 50%."

This is the most important knowledge that Li Mengxi has gained in the past few days. If the war is about logistics, then logistics is the most important key content of the war.

With only coordination and without improving any technology, the army's logistics capacity can be increased by 50%, and the logistics capacity can be increased by 50%, which is an important bargaining chip that affects victory or defeat.

Fifty percent may be more, but at least a 20% increase in transport capacity, even if it is only 20%, is still the key to victory.

The balancing method of logistics load includes not only the load of carriages and horses, but also the load of ordinary soldiers. It can also reduce the load pressure through overall planning.

If one person is carrying a tent, someone else can do the bedding and bedding for him. If someone is carrying a pottery pot for cooking and firewood and food rations, someone else can do the bedding for him.

Li Mengxi suddenly remembered that the so-called weight-bearing balancing method had already been practiced in the military.

Guan Yu's tribe had ten people per ten, and ten people had bedding and eight beds. Why did they only bring eight beds? Because some people had to carry the tent on their backs during the tenth. The tent was very heavy, and it was impossible to carry the bedding when carrying it.

Some people have to carry earthenware urns with firewood and other items, but carrying earthenware urns with firewood cannot carry bedding.

Therefore, ten people make eight beds on their backs. When resting, the eight beds are placed next to each other, and ten people are squeezed together, which is enough to sleep.

This is Guan Yu's method of balancing weight, and it was decided by Guan Yu himself.

Now that I think about it, the method of balancing the weight is not profound. At least, both the logistics team and Guan Yu used this method.

However, without explicit rules, the method of balancing weight cannot be applied to the limit, and the logistics capability cannot be increased to the limit.

There is a lot of wheat straw in the army. The part that the animals need to eat cannot be moved, but the part that is used to light the fire can be saved.

Li Mengxi didn't know how much wheat straw was needed to make a piece of straw armor. Li Mengxi didn't know how much wheat straw was needed to make a piece of straw armor. Li Mengxi didn't know. The difficulty of making straw armor was much more troublesome than straw sandals. The army distributed wheat straw.

Li Mengxi also didn't know whether everyone in the group knew how to weave straw armor.

"Estimated...three or four kilograms of wheat straw?" Liu Bei answered the first question hesitantly.

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"I'm afraid the wheat straw is not enough." Liu Bei frowned, "If we want to stockpile cloth in the army and collect it from everywhere, we should do it reluctantly." There is not enough wheat straw for all the soldiers to have one piece of cold-resistant straw armor.

Using wheat straw to keep out the cold is shabby enough, but even wheat straw is not enough.

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As for whether the straw armor was easy to braid, Liu Bei, who was an expert at weaving mats and selling shoes, grabbed a handful of wheat straw, twisted it a few times at will, and braided the straw into a braid.

"It's a little difficult." Liu Bei said.

Finally, Liu Bei discussed with Li Mengxi, "Xi'er, we will still follow the old method of collecting straw sandals. First, we will give an order to the whole army, saying that we will collect a thousand pairs of straw armor, and stop after collecting it. Then, we will distribute wheat straw to everyone, so that everyone can consciously weave armor."

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Li Mengxi nodded, and then added, "Straw sandals are easy to make but straw armor is difficult. You can exchange five kilograms of grain for a pair of straw armor."

Then, Liu Bei ordered his soldiers to gather the wheat straw. The soldiers pulled the wheat straw cart to the Minfu camp. Liu Bei gathered the people in the Minfu camp and showed them the straw armor first. Then he said that one piece of straw armor could be exchanged for five kilograms of grain. He only received one thousand pieces of straw armor.

Don’t accept it after collecting it.

Because straw armor is different from straw sandals, straw armor is an ordinary thing, and most people in their sixties or seventeen years old can weave it. However, straw armor is not very common. Even if straw armor is made, many people may not know what it is.

Because the grass armor was scarce and there was not enough to divide it for everyone's reference, Li Mengxi came up with an idea. He ordered his sergeants to take several long bamboo poles and set them up in various places in the civilian camp. Then, tie a long rope to each bamboo pole, and tie it to the rope.

A pair of straw armor, so the people can come close to see how the straw armor is being woven.

The straw armor is tied to a high pole, so the limited number of straw armor can be easily found by everyone, instead of being passed around for a while and no one knows where it went.

The straw armor is tied with a rope and will not be lost.
Chapter completed!