? Or, guarding the shore?"

When Li Mengxi asked the first question, Guan Yu felt troubled.

Guan Yu stared at the long bridge, frowned and said, "If I guard the bridgehead, my soldiers at the bridgehead will be within the range of your thousands of crossbows, and the damage will be great, and they cannot last long.

It is not good practice to guard the bridge."

Li Mengxi nodded, and what Guan Yu said was indeed what he thought.

Although it is said that Chen Bing at the bridge head can indeed defend for a period of time relying on the narrow bridge deck, but the bridge head guard is too close to the enemy's shore and will be under the terrifying arrow feather blow, and the small number of troops at the bridge head cannot defend the bridge head.

For a long time, it won't be of much use.

Therefore, guarding the bridge is a very cost-effective option.

If you don't guard the bridge head, then you will be in the middle of the bridge.

"On the bridge, you and I are attacking and defending on two sides. The distance between the two sides is the same, and the power of the bow and crossbow is the same.

Moreover, when strangulating, crossbows are prone to accidental damage, so in the bridge, the power of the bow and crossbow is weak in both offense and defense." This is what Guan Yu said about the bridge.

Li Mengxi nodded. He agreed with what Guan Yu said. He touched his chin and stared at the long bridge, thinking thoughtfully, "On the bridge, except for the balance of bows and crossbows, the width of the foot formation is the same, and the formation is also balanced."

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Then, the foot formation is evenly matched, and the bows and crossbows are all weak, so why use this?" Li Mengxi said to himself, frowning, "Since the bows and crossbows are all weak, I am the attacker.

, if my bows and crossbows are weaker than General Guan, and if my infantry is better than General Guan, then in this bridge, you and I will both bow and crossbows. You will bend three thousand bows and crossbows, and I will only bend two thousand. Then at this time

, fighting in the bridge, I will make great profits."

"...Well, that's true." Guan Yu nodded, "On the other hand, if Guan is not strong in crossbows and is stronger in infantry, it will be in my advantage."

Using the method of surrendering troops, suppose that the battlefield suddenly rains heavily and suddenly becomes muddy. In this scenario, the cavalry troops of both the enemy and ours will definitely be severely reduced in combat strength, but in rainy days, the reduction of infantry will not be so serious. Therefore, two armies, one cavalry advantage

, an army with an infantry advantage, then it is obvious that an army with an infantry advantage should fight the opponent decisively on rainy days as much as possible.

At this key point in the bridge, all bows and crossbows are weak, which is a characteristic of this location in the bridge. Based on this characteristic, whoever has a strong bow and crossbow will be more restrained when both the enemy and ourselves surrender.

When the offensive and defensive deductions reached the bridge, Li Mengxi realized that the battle on the bridge was actually a hand-to-hand battle in a narrow corridor. It was obvious which side had more elite infantry and which side was more likely to push the other side over.

It was deduced that in the battle on the bridge, what kind of weapon should be used and what kind of formation is best.

Zhang Fei was from Li Mengxi's side. Zhang Fei scratched his beard and said thoughtfully, "I think that since the victory is determined by infantry, if both sides are skilled commanders, they will both use heavy armor and infantry in front.

Therefore, I think that heavy swords and big axes are the best."

Zhang Fei relied on infantry to win the battle and then deduced that on the actual battlefield, there must be heavily armored soldiers on the bridge. He further deduced that since they are all heavily armored infantry, they must use heavy swords and axes that can break armor.

Li Mengxi deeply believed this.

Li Mengxi raised his head and looked at Guan Yu, Liu Bei and Jian Yong. He smiled and asked, "General Guan, I am pressing forward with heavy armored infantry and heavy swords and axes. How should you respond?"

Guan Yu didn't answer. Liu Bei thought for a moment and answered first, "If I defend, I will use a spear formation."

After speaking, Liu Bei looked at Guan Yu.

Guan Yu thought for a moment and shook his head, "The spear formation is not appropriate. The bridge is narrow and the spear formation is weak. It cannot fully display the power of the spear formation. If I defend... I will use the spear formation as the vanguard, and then use the heavy sword and axe."

The talented people are the backup."

Guan Yu considered taking care of Liu Bei's face and did not refute the tactics of using a spear array on the bridge.

Hearing this, Li Mengxi became thoughtful. He formed a spear array in front and axes in the back. "If we add crossbows and fight face to face on the bridge, maybe we will use crossbows?" He raised his head and asked Guan Yu and the others.

Guan Yu frowned and thought for a moment, "It's not appropriate. The heavily armored infantry are fighting face to face, even if they use bows and crossbows, it is difficult for the crossbows to penetrate the heavy armor. Moreover, the bridge is narrow, and there are only three or five people in front of it. People are crowded together.

How can there be time to draw a bow? Moreover, if three or five people fight side by side and one person cannot fight with a bow, it will be a big disadvantage."

Mentioning the crossbow, Jian Yong looked at a few people on the side and said, "Do soldiers need to wear shields to defend themselves? In case of loss?"

"... Or not." Li Mengxi thought thoughtfully, "In the stalemate bridge, it is far away from the shore. Crossbows on both sides of the river are difficult to be accurate and can easily be accidentally injured. Moreover, the two sides are strangled and it is difficult to distinguish. No matter whose crossbow they are, they may not dare to hit it.

Shooting randomly?"

Speaking of this, Li Mengxi suddenly remembered something, and his eyes lit up, "But! It's better to wear a shield."

The bridge head is narrow, and the troops cannot be deployed. At the same time, the power of the gun array depends on its scale. On the too narrow bridge deck, the power of the gun array is reduced to the extreme. Therefore, the victory of the heavily armored infantry is on the bridge deck.

Similarly, due to the narrow bridge deck, only three or five people in front of the two sides were fighting, and a group of people blocking the bridge at the back could not squeeze through to the front.

And if the crossbows on the shore cannot accurately attack the enemy on the bridge because they are too far away, then the rear row of soldiers on the bridge are very close to the enemy and can attack accurately, so there is no accidental injury.

Li Mengxi thought of a weapon that could be thrown at close range to injure enemies - a javelin.

"In the fight on the bridge, the front line was fighting for their lives, and the rear line could not reach them. Therefore, a certain person believed that the soldiers in the rear line could use javelins, stones, cupping pots, and even fishing nets to throw them at the enemy.

As expected, there will be crowds of people on the bridge, and javelins, cupping pots, fishing nets and other objects will be easy to kill."

"The javelin can be used by the attacking side, and it can also be used by the defending side. Therefore, in order to protect against javelins, cuppings and other thrown objects, shields are necessary."

Jian Yong mentioned the shield, but it reminded Li Mengxi of the javelin. With the javelin as an offensive weapon, the shield is very necessary. If there is no shield to block it, the soldiers in the back row will be attacked by javelins, cuppings and other objects, which will be very embarrassing.

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Everyone thought that javelins, cupping pots, fishing nets and other items were very good and could greatly defeat the enemy when fighting on the bridge. At this time, Zhang Fei scratched his head and joked, "If you use shields, heavy swords and axes, what's the point?"

Go get it?”

As soon as he said this, everyone became quiet.

Indeed, as Zhang Fei said, because those who attack and kill on the bridge are all armored soldiers, the best weapons are naturally heavy swords and axes that can break armor. However, with the addition of javelins, cuppings and other throwing weapons, shields have become necessary equipment.

Equipped with a shield, if you hold the shield in one hand, you can't hold a heavy sword or ax in the other hand. But if you don't hold a heavy sword or ax, you can't break the armor.

"Hand hammer! (Use a short axe!)" Li Mengxi and Guan Yu said at the same time.

After saying this, the two of them looked at each other and smiled.

The hand hammer was mentioned by Li Mengxi. Li Mengxi thought of a bunch of various heavy armor can openers that could break heavy armor. He felt that a hammer would be very sharp against heavy armor, perhaps sharper than a heavy sword or axe.

Guan Yu chose an axe, while Li Mengxi chose a hammer. Afterwards, the two started discussing whether a hammer or a hand ax was better.

From the discussion, hammers and hand axes actually have their own advantages. In terms of cost performance, the hand ax is better, because the ax can also be used to chop firewood and do carpentry work on weekdays. It has many uses. The ax can be used as both a tool and a weapon. This is

As a result, there is no need to specially prepare a batch of hand axes as weapons on weekdays. When it is time to use them, just go and collect the axes from the carpenter's hand.

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In terms of cost performance and logistical pressure, the hand ax wins.

In terms of power, the hammer is stronger.

Li Mengxi and Guan Yu agreed that short hammers could be equipped in small quantities in the army. In battles such as attacking bridges, heavy armored soldiers equipped with hand hammers and some short axes would be enough for combat.

Mentioning the hammer and axe, Li Mengxi thought of a special armor-breaking weapon, "A mining pick, a pickaxe can dig a hole in the stomach of an armor. Moreover, a mining pick can also dig soil. It is also a tool. It can also be used as a tool."

It is a dual-purpose weapon. I think the army can keep some mining picks, which can be used when digging hard soil, and can be used together with hand hammers and hand axes when attacking bridges."

Li Mengxi mentioned the mining pickaxe, which surprised Guan Yu and others. The mining industry in Dahan was underdeveloped, there were few people mining, and even fewer people were exposed to mining pickaxes. Guan Yu and others did not know what a mining pickaxe looked like.

With everyone's collective thinking, the discussion on fighting weapons on the bridge was mature.

The best fighting weapon configuration in the bridge is a large shield with a hammer/short axe/short pickaxe. At the same time, people in the back row can throw cupping jars, javelins, fishing nets, stones, and even lime bags forward when not engaged in battle.

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Considering actual combat, be it javelins or fishing nets, a single soldier cannot carry too many of these throwing weapons, and the people in the back row will have nothing if they can't throw them twice.

Therefore, to ensure the continuity of firepower, people in the back row can only pass to the front row, and those in the front row can pass to the front row, passing javelins and other objects forward.

The javelin is considered a serious weapon, and the barrel can be sawed off. However, cupping pots, lime bags, fishing nets, etc. are special weapons and must be prepared separately.

If you want to use cupping, you must first have a small jar, and the jar must have a nose to make it easy to lift and throw away.

During the battle, some charcoal was put in the cupping jar, and the soldiers threw the cupping pot at each other. The cupping pot was thrown from a high place, and the heating charcoal was scattered all over the sky. If it fell on the hair or into the clothes, it could burn people straight.

jump.

Charcoal is the simplest weapon for fire attack. If you get tung oil and make it into a burning can, then throw the full can of tung oil into the enemy crowd, causing a sea of ​​​​fire to explode with a bang, and the enemy army will immediately be in chaos.

Thinking about the common utensils in the army, there are almost no small pottery pots that are suitable for use and can be thrown and easily sealed. Due to limited logistics capacity, it is a waste of transportation capacity to carry a large number of small pottery pots with little practical value. Therefore, the optimal solution is

Before the war, pottery was temporarily fired.

In order to make pottery before the war, you must have tools for washing clay and professional craftsmen. Thinking of this, Li Mengxi laughed, because the army already has a pottery camp, and there are also people who can pull it on a cart.

A small vehicle-mounted pottery kiln for firing while marching.

It was during the time when the Yellow Turbans were begging for victory. The Yellow Turbans were winning consecutive battles and captured a large number of Yellow Turban captives. The Yellow Turban refugees had nothing to offer, and many of them didn’t even have bowls to eat. They had no choice but to find ways to solve the bowl problem, and this is how I came up with it.

I bought pottery, and since I was on the march, it was too troublesome to go to Hu Kiln every day, so I thought of using a small kiln cart to pull it.

Unexpectedly, it was casually arranged at the time. From today's perspective, the Army Potters Battalion would play a huge role in the war.

Li Mengxi has decided to equip the army with vehicle-mounted pottery kilns and pottery camps as essential equipment.

Then there is a problem, production and time issues.

Li Mengxi was very familiar with the output of the truck-mounted pottery kiln. It was as big as a cart. Although the kiln could be fired while being driven by a cart, the capacity of one cart in one day could only be less than thirty pottery bowls. Even if it was added

The craftsmen were busy at night, and they were very busy. One small kiln was fired every day and night, and four kilns were fired up to the sky.

The output of the four kilns is only forty small bowls.

The cupping jars used for combat are large in size and can only burn a dozen or so in a day and night.
To be continued...