It was already midnight, and the rebel camp was still mobilizing personnel and sending out combat-ready manpower one by one.

The military judges who were responsible for repeating the orders over and over again shouted until their voices became hoarse.

However, every time a new team is recruited, the order must be repeated from beginning to end, because in addition to the new soldiers, each team also has half of the people who don't know anything. The people don't know how to take off their shoes or bite the wooden sticks.

In the mouth, I don't know that I can't speak, and I don't know that I have to hold on to the rope tightly.

There must be no mistakes in these details that determine the success or failure of the night walk.

The military judges had no choice but to chop off several heads. There was a civilian who was like a fool. He refused to take off his shoes when asked to do so by the military judge. He had a conflict with the military judge and started fighting with the military judge without mercy, causing a chaos.

At the critical moment, Li Mengxi stopped being merciful and directly ordered the person to be beheaded.

Not only that, in order to enhance the deterrent effect and to make the severed heads have the strongest warning effect, Li Mengxi specially found wooden stakes, hung the decapitated heads and corpses on the wooden stakes, and deliberately hung them on the wooden stakes.

Nearby, a circle of torches was placed, and the light was bright, like a display stand, so that every civilian who passed by could see the bloody heads hanging left and right.

Those who saw it were silent.

After hanging the corpse there, Li Mengxi found that when he recruited new troops, whether they were civilians or new soldiers, they were much quieter and more honest.

Li Mengxi realized at this time that it was no wonder that ancient generals liked to kill people to establish their power. Cruel methods had excellent results.

While Li Mengxi and Liu Bei were recruiting a new team, Guan Yu encountered trouble again at the car formation surrounding the village.

Because when the troops were gradually deployed at the beginning, the original car formation of the archers and crossbows was centered on the left and right, but with more and more people, the car formation became longer and longer.

The formation of vehicles should be an encirclement, and it should be a way to surround the official and military camps. There is only a long wall of vehicle formations and cannot be encircled.

The key is here. With the lights on and the people not daring to light the torches, it is difficult to figure out how the car array should turn to surround the army camp.

Guan Yu looked at the dark night and felt a headache.

You must figure out where the car formation is best to turn.

Guan Yu, who couldn't think of an answer, thought of Li Mengxi. Guan Yu thought that the military adviser might have a way.

Soon, Guan Yu returned to the military camp, found Li Mengxi, and directly talked about the problems he encountered.

After hearing this, Li Mengxi frowned.

The problem is probably night measurement and night positioning.

It seems simple, but it is actually very difficult.

Li Mengxi felt that this at least involved various aspects such as engineering surveying, geometry, calculation, and coordination.

After thinking seriously for a long time, Li Mengxi hesitated and said, "If you want to locate your position, you must have a fire as a guide.

The cavalry can be ordered to approach the four corners of the enemy's camp first, then retreat dozens of steps from the four corners, while the cavalry holds fire and stands still.

Then, the chariot formation can be marked by the four-cornered cavalry, two by two in series, and the four-lane chariot formation."

Li Mengxi had the method of measurement. Using the estimation method, the cavalry set out from the four corners of the enemy's camp, walked about a few dozen steps, and stopped.

There are also positioning methods, four cavalry positioning in the four corners, and the four-corner positioning method.

At this point, Li Mengxi suddenly asked, "General Guan, are the army camps square or round?"

Guan Yu hesitated, "...I haven't looked at it carefully."

This is a little troublesome.

If the military camp is square, it will be easy to handle. If the military camp is round, it doesn't matter. It has two shapes: square and round, and there is no too prominent side effect.

However, if Huangfusong's camp is a sharp triangle, then if the positioning is wrong, the soldiers will line up the car array and bump into the army camp.

There are tens of thousands of soldiers, thousands of vehicles, a huge vehicle formation, a huge project, and the time is tight. It can only be done once, and there is no time for modification.

The information is insufficient, and we don’t know whether the official and military camps are round, square, or something else. According to common sense, the official and military camps should be either round or square, the two being the most compact.

Li Mengxi and Guan Yu said that the general shape of the official camp should be clarified first, and then the four corners of the cavalry could be positioned.

There is an easily exposed point here. The cavalry holds the fire at the four corners, and there is fire. People with good eyesight can see the car formation close to the fire. If the officers and soldiers become suspicious and come out to kill the general, the matter will be defeated.

Therefore, although the four-corner positioning method of cavalry holding fire is useful, it is dangerous.

Guan Yu frowned, feeling extremely troubled.

"...How about using a rope? After connecting the long rope and positioning the four corners of the military camp, pull the long rope from east to west, from south to east, and pull it apart in a straight line.

Then, even if there is no fire and the soldiers follow the rope in the dark, they can still form a chariot formation."

Li Mengxi understood what Guan Yu said. What Guan Yu said was the same as using lime to mark the boundary. The difference was that Guan Yu did not use lime, but pulled a blocking rope.

Soldiers don't need to see or have light. They are walking forward in the dark. If they encounter a rope blocking them, they should stand at the place where they should stand, so they can just stop.

"That will require a very long rope." Li Mengxi nodded, looked at Guan Yu, and said, "There is no bright light at the car formation, so it is difficult to make a long rope. It is better to make the rope in the camp and take it with you."

Guan Yu nodded and agreed with Li Mengxi's suggestion.

Then, Li Mengxi looked for spears and ropes in the army.

Then, because he didn't know how to make a long rope properly, Li Mengxi had to experiment temporarily.

Two spears were thrust into the ground, about three feet apart.

According to Li Mengxi's understanding, if a rope is tied between two wooden poles, because the rope itself has gravity, if the distance is far, the rope will inevitably fall in the middle.

Therefore, the distance between the two poles cannot be too long.

Also, if the spacing is too short, the process will be troublesome on the one hand, and the rope will be wasted on the other.

Li Mengxi chose a distance of three feet.

Consider also that the rope is actually a positioning blocking rope. It cannot be too high, too high, or above the head. If a person passes by in the dark, he will not know where the rope is.

It can't be too low, too low to the ground. Maybe you step over it and you don't know where the rope is. Maybe the rope is too low and you will trip. If you fall down, the rope will be pulled down, and a series of ropes will be destroyed.

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This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Li Mengxi once calculated that the most suitable height of the tripping rope should be able to catch the calf of the war horse. This height is most likely to cause the war horse to fall.

If it were lower, the war horse would leap over it; if it was higher, it would reach the chest of the war horse, and the war horse would directly rush over and take away all the soldiers holding the horse's rope.

The problem he had figured out at that time was now being used as a blocking rope to stop people, and Li Mengxi knew the most suitable height.

Unlike the tripping rope, which will trip the horse, the blocking rope that will be used later is to prevent people from falling, because if they fall, it will be a series of accidents.

Therefore, the rope should be about chest height, that is, roughly five and a half to six feet.

The rope is tied and tied to the gun shaft, and then the gun should be stabbed into the ground to secure it.

At this time, Li Mengxi discovered that although the gun could penetrate the soil, it could not penetrate very deeply and a hammer was needed.

You don't need a hammer, just use a shield. A big shield, bang bang, is easier to use than a hammer.

Another problem is the height of the gun.

The gun is too long. If you shoot it from the top with a shield, you can't reach it.

If you are riding a horse, the height seems to be enough.

In addition, you can choose a shorter gun.

Li Mengxi gave another order to take out all the short-range rifles in the army.

The order was issued, all parties united their efforts, and the short guns gradually gathered.

The soldiers helped tie up the ropes and spears.

Because he didn't know how long it would be, Li Mengxi ordered his people to keep tying them. When the ropes and guns were rolled up and there was a large bundle, he stopped and tied another bundle.

Between the two guns, there is a rope of three feet. If a bundle is fifty-one guns, the total length will be one hundred and fifty feet.

One cart could hold roughly four bundles of gun slings. This was enough for one cart and was handed over to Guan Yu. Guan Yu took his men and left with the gun slings.

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Arriving at the car formation again, Guan Yu first took a look at the army camp where the torches were still brightly lit.

Whether the army camp is round or square... Guan Yu frowned.

Driving his horse forward, Guan Yu circled around the official camp, observing carefully while circling. After completing the circle, sure enough, the official camp was square and square, and it was called a Fangzhai.

The military division's strategy can be to position the cavalry at the four corners of the camp and set up a car formation to encircle it on all sides.

Guan Yu went to find a few more cavalrymen and gave them face-to-face instructions.

The cavalry received the order and first dispersed towards the four-corner camp, then retreated several dozen steps diagonally, and then stood still.

Guan Yu then led the convoy responsible for nailing the gun ropes, and first approached the cavalry. When he approached, he ordered the cavalry to extinguish their torches, and then the convoy passed.

The soldiers groped in the dark to unload the bundles of gun ropes from the car, then starting from the first one, they stood the guns on the ground and began to rivet them.

Guan Yu personally took charge of this matter. Guan Yu held a large shield in his hand, and a soldier held the gun. Guan Yu was on the horse, and with the height of the war horse, he could just reach the end of the gun handle. He held the shield and bang bang bang on the gun. After a few times, Guan Yu lowered his voice.

Ask, "Are you okay?"

In the darkness, the soldier shook the gun a few times, and it was very stable. "It's done!" the soldier lowered his voice and returned.

In this way, every three feet or so, the rope was pulled open, and the gun marks were nailed down, one by one, extending towards the location of another cavalry position in the distance.

Halfway through, a bundle of fifty-one gun ropes was used up. The soldiers carried another bundle from the side of the car, connected it with ropes, and then pulled it apart one by one.
To be continued...