The idea in his mind suddenly came to relief materials, and Li Mengxi suddenly remembered compressed biscuits and instant noodles.

Li Mengxi suddenly realized, "Damn it, since the rapid supply team is for emergency, why bother bringing pots and bowls of firewood? Why don't they just send compressed biscuits?"

Compressed biscuits can be eaten directly, so why send food, firewood, and cooked food.

Li Mengxi suddenly realized that compressed biscuits were very useful in emergencies.

This emergency, how important the emergency is, how meaningful the emergency is.

Compressed biscuits should be difficult to make, but not too difficult.

Even if the cost of compressed biscuits is high, it is too high to replace the main ration of the army.

However, it is necessary to make compressed biscuits in small quantities as emergency supplies for emergency support.

If there are no compressed biscuits, to support a certain place, you have to bring pots, firewood, tents, fire starters, bowls, and spoons.

With compressed biscuits, tents, pots, firewood, bowls, and spoons, there is no need to bring any of these.

And using the saved transportation capacity to send all compressed biscuits, wouldn’t it mean that the transportation efficiency of materials has been improved several times?

There must be compressed biscuits, even if they are expensive, even if the flour is made into meat, but it must be there, Li Mengxi made a secret decision.

Suddenly a gust of night wind came out, and Li Mengxi shivered from the cold.

Just as he hugged his arms tightly and leaned against the fire, Li Mengxi suddenly opened his eyes wide.

"...Firewood to keep out the cold, you need to bring firewood with you!" Li Mengxi stared at the bonfire, his eyes flashing.

On the side, Zhang Fei looked over and asked doubtfully, "What firewood?"

Li Mengxi came back to his senses, looked at Zhang Fei, and asked, "Third General, there is something I don't know about. If we are camping in a cold storm and snow, will firewood be important?"

Seeing that Zhang Fei was confused, Li Mengxi paused for a moment, and then asked in a different way, "One day, when we set up an army in the middle of a blizzard, with plenty of dry food and no firewood, a large army will

Can you survive?"

In other words, Zhang Fei understood.

Zhang Fei frowned, and after hesitating and thinking for a moment, he said, "No!" Zhang Fei shook his head.

"Xi'er, you don't know how difficult it is when the weather is cold and the ground is freezing. If you only have dry food, you won't be hungry, but you will freeze to death."

With the feedback from Zhang Fei, a man with rich life and survival experience, Li Mengxi knew that only compressed biscuits and no firewood were enough to save an army in embarrassment when the weather was freezing.

With only food, people are far from enough to survive in the ice and snow, so emergency supplies and compressed biscuits cannot replace pots and firewood.

To eat compressed biscuits, you don’t need to start a fire to cook, but you still have to bring firewood, you still have to have a pot, and if you have a pot, you still have to have a matching thick tent.

It is known that an army at the end of its rope is trapped in the mountains, and there is continuous ice and snow. The food problem can be solved, but how to solve the problem of keeping out the cold?

Thousands of troops were trapped in the mountains, and unfortunately encountered the bad weather of wind and snow. The clothes of the soldiers must have been soaked through. I am afraid that one-tenth of the number will be reduced overnight.

When Li Mengxi thought of keeping out the cold, he immediately thought of thick clothes.

But clothes require each person to wear one piece of thick clothes. To support an army of several thousand, thousands of pieces of thick clothes are needed. The quantity is too large and the logistical pressure is too great. It is simply not something that the rapid supply team can bear.

It's definitely not enough for anyone to have a thick piece of clothing.

After working together with Zhang Fei for a while, Li Mengxi and Zhang Fei came up with a method.

It is not necessary to provide one piece of thick clothing and bedding for each person. It is enough for an army. Twenty thick clothing and four beddings are enough for one cart.

With these twenty pieces of warm clothing and bedding, the soldiers shivering from the cold should each wear the clothes to keep warm for a while, and then quickly distribute them to the next person. Everyone takes turns. Assuming that there is an average of ten minutes of keeping warm per hour, people

At the very least, if you can't freeze to death, then a lone army of a thousand men, but supported by 60 thick coats, can prevent the entire army from freezing to death.

This is the minimum supply of warm clothing.

Combined with the method of preserving wheat straw, thick clothes must be tightly wrapped in tung oil cloth so that in harsh transportation environments, all clothes will be dry when they arrive.

Wrapping clothes is technically not difficult.

But Li Mengxi felt that 60 pieces of thick clothing were required for 1,000 people, and 600 pieces for 10,000 people. This was extremely compressed, and the logistical pressure was still great.

Warm-proof clothing is different from food. If the food is transported less, the consequences will only be that the soldiers will be hungry for an extra day or two, and the reduction in numbers will not be too serious.

But the cold cannot be delayed at all. If the food supply is less, the soldiers will be hungry for one more day, but the people will still be alive. If there are a few sets of cold-proof clothing, dozens of people will be unable to keep warm and will freeze to death that day.

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Warm clothing is important, logistics pressure is great, and the carrying capacity of the rapid supply team is small. It is a dilemma.

"No way," Li Mengxi frowned, "It takes too much capacity to transport clothes.

If you can transport one piece of clothing, you can transport several kilograms of grain. But, are there any other ways to keep out the cold that don't require transporting capacity?"

Li Mengxi's experience ends here. He can't think of any other way to keep out the cold for the time being.

Beside him, Zhang Fei scratched his head, thinking anxiously.

After a while, the hot water became cold, so Zhang Fei picked up the water and took a sip.

Inspiration comes unexpectedly.

After taking a sip of hot water in his mouth, Zhang Fei lowered his head and glanced at the bowl in his hand, turned around and spit out the water.

"Isn't it okay to just drink hot water! Hot water! Haha!" Zhang Fei burst into laughter.

Then Zhang Fei happily explained to Li Mengxi, "Didn't you say bring cooking utensils? Didn't you say bring firewood?

There is firewood for cooking and hot water."

Zhang Fei looked at Li Mengxi with a proud look on his face.

In an instant, many things suddenly appeared in Li Mengxi's mind.

Yes!

Before the Red Army climbed the snow-capped mountains, everyone drank hot water and brought chili peppers to keep out the cold.

Hot water! Chili!

...There is no chili pepper.

My thoughts were flying around in confusion, and suddenly I thought of the late Han Dynasty. I thought of someone who cured typhoid fever in the late Han Dynasty. Zhang Zhongjing, who cured typhoid fever, invented dumplings. Ginger was put in the dumplings to prevent ears from freezing.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Ginger!

Li Mengxi remembered that in his previous life, he sometimes had a cold that wouldn't go away. He read on the Internet that drinking two bowls of ginger water boiled with brown sugar would cure the cold.

It turns out that ginger’s heating and sweating effect is really abnormal. After drinking a bowl, I started to sweat immediately.

I had a severe cold that could not be cured for a long time. I drank brown sugar ginger water and within two days, I felt better.

Ginger is a good thing.

If the effect of ordinary hot water on keeping out the cold is one, then adding ginger to the hot water will have a effect of keeping out the cold on five.

After drinking the hot water, it will be hot first and then cold. After drinking the ginger water, the whole body will feel warm and getting hotter and hotter.

It's just ginger. Ginger is very effective. Two pieces of ginger can boil three or four pots of water.

How much ginger is needed for an army of 100,000? Jiang's logistical pressure is too small.

Ginger does not account for transportation capacity, so water, then use hot water to keep out the cold, how many people can be fed by one pot, Li Mengxi started to calculate in his heart——

A pot can boil a pot of hot water in one minute.

Soldiers standing in the cold wind can drink a bowl of hot water every hour to avoid freezing to death.

A pot of hot water is divided into one bowl per person, and a full pot can be divided into thirty bowls.

That being said, one pot of water can feed thirty people for an hour.

In one hour, the jar can boil eight jars of water.

That is, one vat can handle the hot water needed by 240 people to keep out the cold, and can supply at least one bowl of hot water to each of the 240 people every hour.

One thousand people only need five pots, and ten thousand people only need fifty pots.

Fifty pots, calculated based on the carrying space of the pot. To transport one pot, you need the space of one pot. To transport two pots, it is still the space of this pot.

Stacking the pots together saves space when transporting them.

Fifty pots for ten thousand people can be transported in one cart.

The problem of keeping out the cold is completely solved.

The cheapest way to keep out the cold is hot water.

Hot water protection against cold can be divided into physical protection against cold and chemical protection against cold.

Ordinary hot water only physically protects against cold, while chemically using chili or ginger to stimulate the body to generate heat and resist the cold.

When the problem of keeping out the cold is solved, the problems of food rations and keeping out the cold are all solved. This means that in the Three Kingdoms of the late Han Dynasty, on any battlefield, in any desperate place, in any desperate situation no matter how embarrassed the army, in any extreme

In such a harsh environment, as long as the rapid supply team can arrive, the logistics that can directly cause its collapse can be immediately set up, which can directly allow it to survive.

Summarize all the materials that the rapid supply team needs to carry, use compressed biscuits to replace food, reduce the pressure on logistics capacity, and even out the logistics pressure at ordinary times; others include pots, bowls, wheat straw bags, a set of fire starters, and some water

Buckets, a heavy tent, a pack of emergency herbs, a cart of weapons, a pack of ginger, optional cold-proof clothing, and some simple awnings for shelter in the wild.

This awning was the last thing Li Mengxi thought of.
To be continued...