Liu Bei had been busy all morning, and finally managed to get more than 100,000 people together.

Outside the south gate of Julu City, the first row closest to the city, from east to west, are the three flags of the twelve zodiac signs: flag, rat, ox, tiger, thirty battalions, and three hundred teams. Each team has thirty-five people facing upwards, a total of three

More than ten thousand people.

Then, after that, there are the three flags of rabbit, dragon and snake, which is more than 30,000.

The Twelve Banners were organized with three flags arranged horizontally and four flags erect. A total of 120,000 to 30,000 people were spread out neatly in the open space outside the south gate.

Liu Bei, who was inside, could not see the overall situation of the camp. On top of the city wall, Li Mengxi was eating happily with a bowl of hot broth. From a high position, he could see that the huge sea of ​​people outside the city looked like a chessboard.

It is straight vertically and horizontally, with square edges and corners, which is very good. The whole camp is close to the standard giant square.

However, everything was going so well, but Guan Yu on the side was not very satisfied.

Next to Li Mengxi, Guan Yu stood with his hands behind his back. He stared at the camp outside the city and frowned slightly. "It's still a good measure." Guan Yu said to himself.

Guan Yu remembered the confrontation with Huangfu Song. He heard Liu Bei and Zhang Fei say that at that time, there was a forty-mile siege, and every step was measured with a rope.

According to the descriptions of Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, it was forty miles long, and the encirclement was as tight and jointed as an iron wall. It was as neat as a wall. It was true that the spears were like a forest and the people were like feathers.

Liu Bei and Zhang Fei were full of admiration when describing the battle at that time. Guan Yu felt deeply regretful because he was stationed in Julu City at the time and had never witnessed the grand occasion.

Guan Yu wanted to see with his own eyes how well a hundred thousand people could form together if they measured their formation with ropes and then stood in formation.

There were hundreds of thousands of people camped outside the city. It was possible to use ropes to carefully measure the camp before setting up camp. However, things were in a hurry. Liu Bei just set up camp in a hurry without measuring the length of the camp. Therefore, a sufficiently neat formation could not be seen.

, Guan Yu deeply regretted it.

Liu Bei wouldn't be able to eat for a short time. Liu Bei was running around on the crunching snow, one foot deep and one foot shallow. He was already covered in sweat.

Liu Bei was the only one to take charge of the camp, and Liu Bei made his own decision.

The total strength of the Twelve Zodiac Flags is less than 100,000 people. The establishment of these 100,000 Zodiac Flags was the result of the deployment of almost all combatable manpower in the army, including almost all men, including the old, weak, sick and disabled.

Well, including the soldiers, it was barely less than 100,000.

But apart from these 100,000, there are still 50,000 women who are not included in the twelve zodiac flags.

Now we need to rely on the establishment structure of the Twelve Zodiac Flags, and then manage the rotation and camping system as a whole. Women who are not in the establishment have become an extra part.

After Liu Xuande thought carefully, he simply dispersed the 50,000 women and incorporated them into the twelve zodiac flags in proportion.

The Twelve Zodiac Flags were first organized after the second batch of the rebel army's major training. At that time, each recruit instructor was responsible for training thirty to forty soldiers, and this number was maintained for each group.

Liu Bei divided the 50,000 women equally among the 100,000 men, which means that each level of the twelve zodiac flags will have one-half more people, which means that the number of people in each team will expand from more than thirty to four.

Ten to fifty people.

Liu Bei's arrangement also means that everyone in the rebel army, whether they are real elite armored soldiers, civilian husbands, or women, all the people in the army are all integrated into one, and all are included in the establishment of the twelve zodiac flags. Military and political affairs

People's livelihood has been completely integrated since then.

After the manpower was divided, Liu Bei finally began to allocate camping tents.

According to the size of the tent and the beds it can accommodate, the number of people three times the number of beds will be allocated. After these people are matched with the tents, they will be divided into three batches. Then, a lot of cloth was wasted last night, and a lot of soldiers can be gathered overnight.

The small pieces of cloth that were made in a hurry came in handy.

Beside Liu Bei, there were many soldiers carrying large baskets. The baskets were all filled with small pieces of cloth printed with ink.

The soldiers divided the pieces of cloth among everyone according to batches. The first batch was divided into pieces with circular ink marks on the top, the second batch was divided into pieces with square ink marks on the top, and the third batch was divided into triangular pieces.

After the distribution, Liu Bei said to everyone, "We have all brought the cloths of you and others. Don't lose them. We will use this to stay in the camp to avoid the cold in the future. If anyone loses his cloth, he will not be able to enter the tent and will freeze to death!"

After saying that, Liu Bei looked at the capable centurions following behind him, "Go! Just like this, divide the account into three times the number of people, and divide the people into three groups, each with different shapes, and make it clear that the cloth must be hidden, and make it clear.

If you lose it, you will need to engage in military law enforcement."

The capable centurions were ordered to leave. Each centurion was followed by three supporting soldiers. Each soldier carried a large basket in his hand. The baskets were made of cloth with three different patterns.

After hundreds of centurions left, according to the arrangement, the centurions first left the camp, walked outside the camp, and then dispersed around the perimeter of the camp. Finally, they began to distribute the cloth from the outside to the inside.

The cloth must be distributed to hundreds of thousands of people efficiently and quickly, and management methods are the top priority.

If the hundred centurions are not spread out in all directions and there is no agreement from the outside to the inside, then the working areas among the personnel will be duplicated, which will greatly affect the efficiency.

The efficient management method implemented by Liu Bei comes from previous experience, from the previous teaching team.

During the previous march, Li Mengxi found that it was difficult for the recruit instructor alone to demonstrate the complete formation movements to the recruits during formation training. If there were multiple people forming a formation, multiple people must cooperate to perform it.

So at that time, Li Mengxi came up with a method to teach the team.

To form a training team, there are only a limited number of people who are familiar with the entire set of formation movements. Only the forty people from the first batch of training can be qualified. And there are more than a thousand teams of new recruits. The forty people have to teach more than a thousand teams.

Showing the queue is too busy.

At that time, there was a shortage of manpower, and training encountered problems that had to be solved. Under the compelling circumstances at that time, it was necessary to maximize the efficiency of the limited forty instructors.

Therefore, a sophisticated method was adopted at that time. After setting up camp, the camp was shrunk into one area, and the teaching team started from the four corners and moved in one team at a time. This was the most efficient method that was experimented at that time.

If there is no teaching team, and if there is no method for the teaching team to efficiently transfer knowledge to the queue, then the progress of the rebel army's training will be several times slower, the training progress will be several times slower, and the formation of soldiers will be equally slow. Then when facing Huangfu Song, there will be no

There is no more combatable manpower of one hundred thousand people.

It can be said that the way the teaching team displays the formation one by one from the four corners inwards directly determines the final success or failure of the confrontation between the rebel army and the official army.

It's all the small details that determine the overall situation.

Liu Bei did not have outstanding management skills, but along the way, he was busy with everything, and Liu Bei's ability improved a lot.

Liu Bei specifically ordered the centurions to disperse in a circle before entering. This method was just a copy of the method used by the teaching team at that time. But without this method, it would be impossible to arrange the camping before nightfall. The most terrible consequences would be

Things will come one after another. Because the camping arrangements have not been completed, many people cannot sleep in the tents. The weather is freezing. It is not just as simple as missing a meal, it will kill people.

Fortunately, the hundred and ten capable centurions were deployed properly, and they came from all directions. Each person was responsible for one area, so that they could achieve the highest efficiency and be able to arrange the people before dark.

Liu Bei's most important task was divided among the centurions, and he himself went to inspect the camp.

He randomly found a tent and walked in. It happened that the soldiers were carrying the manuscript mat and throwing it into the tent. Liu Bei saw that the tent was full of snow. When he set up the tent, he forgot to tell him to shovel the snow away first.

Liu Bei's brows suddenly rose.

Is it okay to sleep on the snow with the manuscript table spread out?

Have to shovel snow.

After leaving the tent, Liu Beili called his soldiers and ordered them to take people back to the city and pull out all the shovels in the city.

"Pull out the carts and carts together." Liu Bei added.

The soldiers left in a hurry.

By this time, it was already afternoon.

The snow is still falling and the sky is still dark.

Li Mengxi had been at the top of the city for a long time looking around, but Liu Bei still wasn't done yet.

Suddenly, Li Mengxi saw a large group of soldiers walking out of the camp and returning to the city.

Li Mengxi looked at it suspiciously.

After a while, Li Mengxi saw the soldiers returning to the city pulling a cart with many shovels on it and leaving the city again. They were obviously going to do something.

After just one glance, and then a distant look at the white campground, Li Mengxi suddenly realized that the snow sweepers had to sweep away all the snow in the campground. The overall temperature of the campground could be one degree higher and much warmer.

Then, Li Mengxi realized a problem. Brooms were needed to clear the snow. However, the army was so short of brooms that he could not bear to look at it. The entire army, a city, and hundreds of thousands of people could not find hundreds of brooms for such a large body.

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Thinking of this, Li Mengxi couldn't help but frown.

There were two things he thought about. The first was about technology. If brooms were mass-produced, the technology would not be difficult. But where would the raw materials come from? Branches?

The second point is that you need a broom to clear the snow. When you think about clearing the snow, only a shovel will be clumsy and a broom is indispensable. Then think about the time when you camp in the snow, clearing the snow is a priority, and cleaning the camp on weekdays is also a must.

A broom is needed.

It turns out that the auxiliary tools of the army, in addition to shovels and hoes for digging, axes and saws for chopping firewood and clearing roads, and scissors for cutting grass and harvesting wheat, brooms are also a necessity.

According to the previous design, military tools should be as versatile as possible to reduce logistical pressure. They can be used as an ordnance shovel. An ordnance shovel can be used as an axe, a shovel, a saw, a hoe, and a weapon.

An ordnance shovel is equivalent to carrying an axe, shovel, saw, hoe and weapon, which is equivalent to carrying seven fewer tools. General-purpose tools can save considerable logistics capacity.

According to the idea of ​​a universal tool, in addition to sweeping the floor, what other functions can a broom have to save transportation capacity?

Li Mengxi thought for a long time, but no.

The broom is incompatible with any function. The broom can't do anything except sweep the floor. In other words, when defending the city with fire, the broom is more or less like a bundle of firewood, which can be lit immediately and thrown under the city. Other than that,

No other functions are possible.

Furthermore, it doesn’t matter if one person has one broom when setting up camp, but when marching, it’s impossible to have a hundred or ten vehicles pulling brooms, right?

So, how much of a special auxiliary tool like a broom is appropriate?

After careful consideration, Li Mengxi thought that it would be enough to have a dozen or twenty brooms, which could be used, and could be used to tie the brooms to the horses' tails to sweep away smoke and dust when it was necessary to deploy suspicious troops.

A broom is different from a shovel or a hoe. If you don't have a hoe or a shovel, you don't have it. It's impossible to make it immediately on the spot.

As for brooms, you can make a bunch of brooms by just finding some branches in the wild. Even if you don't take any with you when you march, after setting up camp, you can send people to collect the branches. You can make a lot of brooms in an instant, and then you have the tools to clear the snow. On weekdays,

Tools for cleaning the camp are also available.
To be continued...