The layout continued from the intersection to the southeast. After noon, we walked more than three miles southeast, carrying as many positioning flags as two vehicles. The positioning flags were from the intersection to.asxs., these three miles, the road

There is a flag not far away on both sides, and there is a flag not far away. It stretches all the way over, and the flags are denser than the trees.

After walking for a while, they stopped again, and the soldiers went to get ropes to measure the distance and dig a hole.

Not far ahead, there are woods on both sides of the road. The forest area is not small, and the presence of the woods has caused some trouble for everyone.

It has been discussed that the location of the preset encirclement should not be posted on the roadside, but should be fifty steps away from the roadside.

This is because if the distance is too close, the officers and soldiers will not be able to react in time if a sudden attack occurs.

Fifty steps away, the officers and soldiers suddenly launched an attack. Fifty steps away, not too far or too close, was enough for the Zhuozhou soldiers to prepare for battle immediately.

Secondly, in the marching road of the army, if the Zhuozhou Army was standing guard, they would stand on the side of the road. The two sides faced each other with swords and guns, and the tips of the guns were almost pointing at their noses. If the distance was too close, it would be very easy for a conflict to break out.

The outbreak of a conflict means that one trigger affects the whole body. It means that if one of the officers and soldiers accidentally triggers the crossbow machine, causing the crossbow arrow to be fired accidentally, a battle between the two sides will immediately break out. The encirclement circle is farther away, which can effectively avoid the officers, soldiers and soldiers.

"stress" response.

Now there are large woods on both sides of the road ahead, and here lies the problem.

Because there are woods, if they are still fifty steps away from the road, the soldiers have to line up in the woods. The trees in the woods are messy and they cannot form a tight formation. Therefore, after more than three miles of walking, there is no flaw in the encirclement. In this woods, there is an obvious

flaw.

Li Mengxi felt that there was no need to line up fifty steps away from the road in the woods ahead, but could just line up on both sides of the road.

Lining up on both sides of the road is not difficult, the problem lies in other aspects.

It should be noted that although the Zhuozhou Army could mobilize 80,000 to 90,000 men, it was actually extremely shabby. The vast majority of them were just civilians with a wooden gun. These civilians were in ragged clothes and were far away. With the neatness of the queue, they could not defeat the enemy.

It can be a bit powerful and a bit intimidating, but you can't look closely. If you get close, it is on the roadside. The queues are evenly lined up. When the officers and soldiers see the Zhuozhou soldiers, they all have yellow and thin faces, gray heads, and are extremely weak. Even those inside

There are also old people, who may have inspired the officers and soldiers to fight with courage. It would be bad if the officers and soldiers became willing to fight because of this.

Therefore, Li Mengxi felt that it was best to arrange soldiers to defend the section of the forest ahead.

The deterrent effect of a soldier standing by the roadside is completely different from that of a ragged civilian standing by the roadside.

After listening to Li Mengxi's suggestion, Guan Yu nodded in agreement.

It is easy to mobilize hundreds of soldiers to defend forest roads. However, special arrangements must be made and several teams of soldiers must be specially allocated to defend special terrain such as forest roads.

Moreover, to match this, there should also be a special flag dedicated to the assembly of soldiers to distinguish it from ordinary assembly flags.

The special flag is not difficult to make. The ordinary flag is just a piece of linen cloth. Just draw some ink on the linen cloth to make a distinction.

Li Mengxi thought for a while and thought that he could just draw something at will.

For example, make a circle, draw a cross, draw a few horizontal lines, or scribble a few lines.

Finally, Li Mengxi suddenly felt that the flag was on the roadside and would definitely be seen by the officers and soldiers passing by. Here, the flag could play a certain deterrent effect.

The method of deterring the enemy involves using the five senses, which are sight, hearing, and smell.

An ordinary flag cannot make a sound. If you have sufficient supplies, you can install some sensitive gadgets such as wind whistles on the flag, and when the wind blows, it will make a whirring sound.

Then, when the officers and soldiers, whose morale was already low, passed by the flag, whistles whirred and screamed like ghosts, the already low morale of the officers, soldiers and soldiers became even lower.

This is a method of deterrence.

It can't be used now.

As for the sense of smell, maybe it can also be used.

Use animal blood and pour a lot of blood near the flag.

The smell of blood does not make people feel comfortable. As a kind of beast, as a kind of animal, human beings are genetically determined to be nervous when they smell the smell of blood.

This means that officers and soldiers must be more nervous after walking through an environment full of blood smell than in an environment without the smell of blood lingering in the air.

This difference is insignificant, but size can also have the effect of defeating the enemy.

Li Mengxi thought it would be useful to splash some black dog blood under the flagpole to lower the morale of passing officers and soldiers.

But after taking into account the logistical issues, there is no such thing as a fool's errand.

I can only give up.

In the end, after many considerations, it was considered that roadside flags could have an additional deterrent effect, but due to the lack of logistical support, the only deterrent effect left was the flag itself.

Li Mengxi thought that he could draw some very scary ghosts and the like. The officers and soldiers were walking with their heads down, but suddenly they raised their heads and glanced at the flags on the roadside. They were startled when they saw a fierce ghost.

They were all shocked, how could their morale not be affected?

Moreover, it can not only scare officers and soldiers.

Human courage is much greater than that of animals.

A tiger will be scared off by a donkey in Guizhou three times, but a man will not be scared off by a donkey.

Also, animals are afraid of fire, lightning and thunder, but humans are not.

If a mere flag has little scaring effect, then using a flag to scare animals may be very effective.

Animals, what animals are there in the army? War horses!

How to make a war horse frighten?

Li Mengxi suddenly thought of a volume called "The Art of Warfare of Beasts" that he wrote a long time ago. The Art of Warfare of Beasts contains methods for fighting against beast soldiers. Suppose that one day he will fight against the beast soldiers of the Southern Barbarians. There are two strategies to deal with the beast soldiers, one is the right strategy and the other is the right strategy.

The shield wall, the spear forest, and the rain of crossbows are overwhelming. How can the power of mere beasts be the opponent of swords, bows, and crossbows? This is the plan.

As for strange strategies, there are fire attack methods, making fake tiger shapes out of tree branches, covering tiger skins, and making some statues of gods, drawing all kinds of big-eyed fangs to look like ghosts, and making them as weird as possible.

, can scare away ferocious beasts.

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Ferocious beasts can be restrained. War horses are also beasts, and war horses are no more courageous than wolves, insects, tigers and leopards. They can scare away tigers, and they can also scare away war horses.

Li Mengxi suddenly felt that he might have obtained another extremely practical strategy!

The scene is set as follows: the enemy cavalry is in hot pursuit. At this time, if there are several pieces of tiger skin, immediately make someone use wheat straw or tree branches to make a rough tiger shape, and then put the tiger skin on it, and then put the fake tiger skin on it.

The tiger was left in the middle of the road or in a ditch.

In this way, a mere fake tiger is more effective than a hundred cavalry who cut off the rear.

A hundred cavalrymen who cut off the rear might be overrun by the enemy in one round and would not be able to delay the pursuers for long.

However, a fake tiger blocked the road, its skin was colorful, and the enemy cavalry was pursuing fiercely. Suddenly, the shape of a tiger appeared in front of them. When the horses saw it, they were immediately frightened, and the enemy's pursuit was immediately halted.

Tigers have a strong frightening effect on war horses. If you are lucky, it is a heavy rainy day and the ground is slippery. If you are startled by a fake tiger, your horse may be knocked over. The enemy general may not be good at riding, and he may be knocked down.

Was thrown to death.

Therefore, the dead tiger frightened the living Sima Yi to death, which was simply miraculous.

Tiger skins and tiger skin extensions have the same effect as landmines. The general function of landmines means that when delaying the pursuit of enemy cavalry, you can throw a piece of tiger skin at a distance and throw it on the roadside bushes.

Then, whenever the enemy cavalry's horses see the colorful tiger skin, they will definitely be frightened.

The war horse was frightened and stopped moving forward. The war horse, which was originally running at full speed, immediately slowed down significantly.

Then he waited for the enemy cavalry to calm the horses, and then increased the horse's speed, which was delayed for a long time.

A piece of tiger skin, even if it is not carefully disguised or made of wheat straw, just throwing the skin casually in the grass on the roadside is enough to frighten the war horses.

Tiger skins don't weigh much. Carrying more than ten or twenty tiger skins will not increase the load much.

When tiger skins are used to block pursuing troops, if there are enough tiger skins, theoretically, the enemy will never be able to catch up.

Li Mengxi feels that [Animal Warfare] needs to be updated.

"The use of tigers in the art of animal warfare is that when retreating, the tiger skin can be thrown along the way, so that the tiger skin falls on the roadside and in the weeds. The tiger skin can be used to pretend to be a ferocious tiger, so as to frighten the enemy's pursuit.

Tiger skins are also useful in combat. When fighting in jungles and mountain streams, if I am in ambush and use my foot to control the cavalry, I can make the soldiers run around holding the tiger skins, frightening the enemy's horses and weakening the enemy's cavalry.

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Li Mengxi felt that he had to get the tiger, he had to get the tiger, and scare him Huangfu Song.

As for what to draw on the flag, Li Mengxi thought, try all of them, including Bagua Tai Chi, ghosts, green dragon and white tiger.

Also, since the flag is set up on the side of the road, it is different from standing fifty steps away. It is the same as the purpose of selecting soldiers. The flag can no longer be made of ordinary rags. The rags are really shabby.

, Renhuang Fusong was a general in the imperial court and a serious official in the army. When Renhuang Fusong saw that the Zhuozhou army used torn linen as a flag, he was not sure how to underestimate the Zhuozhou army.

Once Huangfu Song underestimated the Zhuozhou Army, he had a little more courage to fight the Zhuozhou Army. Huangfu Song had more fighting courage, and the possibility of a war between the two sides increased.

A few flags can reduce the possibility of war, and it is worth spending some energy.

Going back, it was past noon. Everyone came from the morning and didn't even bother to eat. A cavalryman brought some dry and hard cakes to Li Mengxi. He drank some cold water and ate the hard and rough cakes. Li Mengxi

After a hasty meal, he and everyone else went down the road to arrange things.

By analogy with the marching speed of the Zhuozhou Army, the entire Zhuozhou Army marched thirty miles upward in one day.

If we take into account that the officers and soldiers have been besieged for a long time, they must have marched in a hurry once they came out of the siege. In other words, if they normally march thirty miles a day, the officers and soldiers would probably march about forty miles a day.

Considering that they should be deployed at least one day in advance, before letting go of the encirclement, the Zhuozhou Army should at least arrange all encirclements along the seventy-mile road, occupy all advantageous terrain, and all pre-arrangements.

In the formation below, the flags must be completed without falling.
To be continued...