In the blink of an eye, at night, the 30,000-strong official army had just finished encamping, and the Zhuozhou Army had already set up camp.

In other words, before the officers and soldiers in the encirclement were properly encircled, the Zhuozhou Army's encirclement outside had already been established.

The strength of the Zhuozhou army was several times that of the official army, and the speed of setting up camp was much faster than that of the official army. There were two main reasons.

First, the official army had heavy equipment, tents, chariots and horses, etc., which was a mess. The Zhuozhou Army was responsible for encircling the troops, and they were all lightly-armed. These lightly-armed soldiers did not even bring tents, bedding, or grain trucks.

Zi Zhong and the like are even more useless.

The tens of thousands of Zhuozhou troops each carried only a piece of cloth, a bag of thick porridge wrapped in the cloth, and weapons and armor. Other than that, they had no other logistics.

Compared with the army, which had to arrange vehicles, livestock, tents, etc. to set up camp, Zhuozhou soldiers and soldiers took off their shoes and sat on the ground to set up camp.

Secondly, setting up camp requires the deployment of the entire army, and the deployment amount is huge, but the Zhuozhou Army does not need to deploy, and does not even need Li Mengxi and Zhang Fei to keep an eye on it. It only requires a few adjutants and people to go around and lay out according to the flags along the road.

There is no need to worry about stationing a team under the banner, the location of the camp, the location of the camp, and the distribution and deployment of manpower.

A mere flag saves all deployments. The Zhuozhou Army has an army of tens of thousands. Even if the organization is abolished and only small groups of recruits are left, and then thousands of small groups can find a place to camp by themselves, then even though it will be chaotic,

But the recruit team spent a while searching everywhere, and eventually they were able to fill all the flag spots with troops.

The ambush formation from all sides that Zhang Jiao passed to Li Mengxi was really sharp.

After setting up camp, the officers and soldiers began to light a fire and prepare to cook.

It will be difficult for the officers and soldiers to cook, and the difficulty lies in the water source.

The Zhuozhou military used a supply convoy of fast horses and light vehicles to fetch water from nearby water sources. Dozens of trucks of water were brought back, along with pottery urns for boiling water and water.

The soldiers of Zhuozhou brought dry food with them, so they did not need to cook the rice and only needed some drinking water.

The officers and soldiers were surrounded inside, and the Zhuozhou army was calm outside. This meant that there was no problem for Zhuozhou soldiers to drink water, and there was no problem for the horses to drink water.

If the water for dozens of trucks is not enough, dozens more trucks can be pulled. If it is not enough, water can be delivered continuously from tonight to tomorrow morning all night long.

As for the officers and soldiers, the limited water resources were not enough for cooking. The officers and soldiers could only let the soldiers eat dry food and then drink water to quench their thirst.

Given the lack of water for the officers and soldiers, the officers and soldiers who had been running for a day could drink three to five sips of water each, which is pretty good.

The water for people to drink was so scarce, and the animals of the army, the cattle and mules for pulling, and the horses of the cavalry were even less able to drink water.

Compared with the soldiers of Zhuozhou who had sufficient water supply, the officers and soldiers were in great embarrassment.

Counting today in detail, at dawn in the morning, the officers and soldiers came out of the encirclement. At that time, the officers and soldiers were in relatively good condition and the soldiers had sufficient physical strength. If a war had started at that time and the officers and soldiers were in good condition, they would have caused many casualties to the Zhuozhou Army.

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However, after a long day of marching, the officers and soldiers were exhausted and finally set up camp. However, there was a lack of drinking water in the army. There was no water replenishment. The officers, soldiers and soldiers must not have recovered well. Without drinking water, the condition of the cattle, mules, livestock and war horses declined even more.

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The difference is only one day. When you wake up in the morning, although the morale of the officers and soldiers is low, they are full of fighting strength.

In the evening, after a day's march, the morale of the officers and soldiers was even lower, and their combat effectiveness declined seriously.

The officers and soldiers were like this, but the status of the Zhuozhou Army did not change much.

The Zhuozhou Army remained unchanged, but the combat strength of the official army was much weaker, which meant that the gap between the two sides widened even further.

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To the east of the crossroads, on the road directly in front of the army camp, two hundred steps ahead, in the middle of the road, there was a bright fire.

There were at least twenty torch stands on both sides of the road, creating two rows of bright lights. The flames clearly marked the location of the Zhuozhou Army headquarters. Wherever there was military information, the messengers could find it directly with the torches.

Li Mengxi and Zhang Fei were among the two rows of torch stands, and soldiers from all sides kept coming.

Li Mengxi received various information from the messengers. After slowly summarizing the information, Li Mengxi figured out all the details of Nuo Da's encirclement.

Order the cavalrymen to go back and report in time if there is any movement at night.

Finally, they finished their work. Li Mengxi and Zhang Fei sat down next to the bonfire. Hanging on the bonfire was a large urn with water burning in it. When they saw the water boiling, they brought a bowl and a spoon. Li Mengxi filled it for himself.

He brought a bowl of hot water and a piece of hard dry biscuit, ready to nibble on the biscuit with the hot water.

Dinner was handled very simply.

After finishing eating the pancakes and drinking a bowl of hot water, Li Mengxi called the captain of the traveling caravan and told him, "It's cold at night. You have to work hard to transport more water and boil more hot water.

Everyone keep warm from the cold."

The captain of the Ranger Caravan agreed.

After a pause, Li Mengxi asked again, "Is there enough firewood?"

The captain of the caravan replied, "That's enough, there are several cars."

Li Mengxi nodded.

Now that I think about it, the Ranger Caravan was originally set up to purchase things and supplement logistics. I didn’t expect that the Ranger Caravan would be particularly useful after using the Rapid Logistics Supply Team.

This rapid supply team only had more than thirty vehicles and horses. Each vehicle carried many empty pottery urns, as well as wooden sticks for hanging the pottery urns, as well as many wooden bowls, tubs, and wheat straw for igniting the fire.

There are several vehicles, and with the rapid supply team, these half-loaded carriages come and go quickly and are well prepared. Without any assistance, the supply team can directly light a fire to boil water. After the water is boiled, there are wooden bowls for the soldiers to drink water.

The basin is convenient for cavalry to feed and drink water to their horses.

If there is no rapid supply team, the army sergeants will have to have many people carrying pottery jars and firewood to camp, and they will have to walk to distant places to fetch water. The human carrying capacity of dozens of people is not comparable to that of a half-loaded truck.

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With water, when it came time to distribute the water, many people did not bring utensils and it was inconvenient to drink water.

A mere thirty carriages made supplies ten times easier.

Li Mengxi saw the extremely high efficiency brought about by having dedicated personnel in charge of logistics.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! There is no special logistics supply team in the army. The army now collects water for cooking when setting up camp. After the scouts find the water source, they lead the cooks from various places to distant places.

Get water.

For every tithe of a cook, the army has one-tenth of its strength.

And if the logistics in the army are handled by a specialized logistics team, take the matter of fetching water as an example. Let the cooks fetch water by themselves. It would take two seconds for one person to walk several miles alone to retrieve a jar of water.

If a special water fetching team is used to fetch water, a carriage can carry 300 kilograms of water with a half load and 600 kilograms with a full load.

The carriage half carried three hundred kilograms of water, which was at least equal to the amount of water carried by fifteen cooks.

Moreover, the speed of horse-drawn carriages is much faster than that of people. People can go back and forth to fetch water while horse-drawn carriages can go back and forth three times.

That is, a carriage specially used to fetch water is equivalent to forty-five cooks.

One hundred thousand troops and one hundred and fifty water tankers were enough to supply the entire army with water.

Li Mengxi learned more about logistics and gained more insights.

While drinking the hot boiled water, Li Mengxi felt happy when he thought that the officers and soldiers had no water to drink.

He found that the rapid supply team was really useful. Li Mengxi felt that this rapid supply team could be used as a supplement to the normal logistics method.

The normal supply method is that people carry the goods on their backs, and the oxcarts and carriages are loaded with grain and grass to transport to the target. The people's back transportation method has low requirements and strong applicability. It can be carried on people's backs at any time and in any terrain.

; On the other hand, cattle and horse vehicles are fully loaded with grain and grass for supply, and their advantage is that the transportation capacity is large.

The advantage of the rapid supply team is that it can supply quickly, and speed is its biggest advantage.

The speed of the rapid supply team is used when an emergency occurs somewhere. For example, a certain city has been out of food for a long time. At this time, the carriage should be half loaded with food and grass, and the food should be transported as quickly as possible. As long as the food arrives, the crisis can be solved.

If the carts were loaded with oxen, the grain would be sufficient, but the speed would be too slow. Before the grain arrived, all the people in the city would starve to death.

The army must always have empty carriages, Li Mengxi thought.

It must be always available, and it must be a horse-drawn carriage.

Because when there is an emergency, it would be too late to vacate the carriage or find the horse to pull the carriage.

There must be a carriage ready. The carriage can be loaded with things to make full use of its transportation capacity, but the things it contains cannot be wood, which is inconvenient to move, nor can it be grain, which is also inconvenient to move.

Carriages can and can only transport things that are easy to evacuate and unload, such as a few bundles of wheat straw or a few bundles of clothes.

Moreover, these horse-drawn carriages, which are used for rapid supply, are best grouped together, preferably together with grain and weapon vehicles.

The carriages are naturally grouped together so that when an emergency occurs, all the carriages can be called together immediately to achieve the fastest response speed.

The reason for grouping the carriages and the grain and weapons carts together is that the general use of carriages and the emergency use of rapid supply teams are nothing more than the urgent transportation of grain and grass to a certain place, or the emergency transportation of weapons, which are basically two situations.

Therefore, the carriage team was organized separately, and the carriage team was deliberately packed between the grain cart and the weapons cart, so that the food was in the front and the weapons were in the back. In two steps, the weapons, grain and grass were all moved to the carriage.

Also consider that sometimes the military situation is not only urgent, but even bad.

For example, if a friendly army is defeated and flees to the mountains, waiting for help, the most urgent task at this time is to send food, grass and weapons to the rescue.

But having only weapons and food may not be enough.

What if it happens to be a continuous heavy rain, and there is no way to light a fire for cooking in the mountains, so the food is transported and left to be chewed?

Therefore, the rapid supply team also needs to transport daily necessities.

There are a lot of daily necessities. There must be a pot for cooking, dry firewood, something to start a fire, a spoon, a bowl, and a small tent that can cook normally in heavy rain.

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You don’t need to have many pots, firewood, bowls, and spoons in your small tent, but you must have them. Even if you only have one set, you must have them.
To be continued...