Li Mengxi's trip to Luoyang was the second large-scale military operation of the rebel army. Compared with the previous time and compared with Liu Bei's trip to Luoyang, this time the rebel army made obvious progress.

One of the improvements was that Li Mengxi brought a large amount of money with the army, as well as a large number of military doctors and medicinal materials. Whether it was money or medicinal materials, the effect was the same - to win people's hearts.

During the march, Li Mengxi ordered the cavalry to purchase seasonal vegetables, chickens, ducks, poultry, and livestock along the way to supplement military supplies. This was a secondary purpose. The main purpose was to establish credibility. The cavalry caravan used the banner of [Liu] to purchase along the way.

He had a kind attitude and didn't bargain at all, even if the villagers paid twice the price, he would buy it.

Just imagine, if the caravan makes a trip like this, none of the people along the way will know that Liu Beijun spends a lot of money and trades fairly.

If after ten days and a half, there is an emergency and we have to temporarily recruit rural warriors to expand our troops, then we will come all the way, and the caravans will buy all the way. The people in the countryside are all aware of the credibility of Liu Bei's army, and the public opinion has been fermenting for ten days and a half.

, the recruitment of troops at this time is not a temporary and hasty act, but everything is ready after some advance public opinion foundation.

It doesn’t cost much to buy things along the way. Walking all the way there costs half a truckload of money. Even if you spend half the money on a truckload and don’t buy anything as publicity, you can still make enough money.

For half the price of a truck, you can easily recruit thousands of troops, which is a huge profit.

In the same way, the large amount of military doctors and medicinal materials they brought had the same purpose.

At the same time as the Ranger Caravan, the military medical team was also sent out. The military doctors also carried the banner with the word "Liu" to treat people and administer medicine in the villages along the way. If the Ranger Caravan was to make huge profits and trade fairly, it had established a reputation

If it is ten, then the credibility established by the military medical team for treating patients and administering medicine without charging a penny is one hundred, and the hearts of the people it bribes are also one hundred.

Thanks to Julu's breakthrough in pharmaceutical technology, the military doctors themselves have superb medical skills. Coupled with the help of highly effective medicinal materials, the military doctors are considered to be semi-miracle doctors.

When the military doctors applied medicine along the way, most of the medicine they scattered was medicine powder extracted from willow branches or medicine powder extracted from garlic. Both of these medicines can be regarded as cure-all medicines. They are very effective and can really cure diseases, and they are free of charge.

, if the disease is cured and no money is collected, how can the people not be grateful?

Along the march, when the military doctors were returning, it was common for the grateful civilians to send the military doctors several miles away.

With such people's hearts, when Li Mengxi marched thousands of miles, and the people along the way were all grateful, if there was an emergency and Li had to flee in a hurry, he would only have to flee back, or just flee along the roadside.

Recruiting troops.

After escaping for thousands of miles, I looked back and saw that tens of thousands of troops had gathered under my command. Many of these tens of thousands of troops did not want military pay but came to repay their kindness and fulfill their righteousness.

Before Liu Bei came back from Luoyang, the rebel army did not have a rule of winning people's hearts along the way. After Liu Bei came back from Luoyang, everyone concluded this rule afterwards.

This is progress. When Liu Bei went to Luoyang, if anything happened, Liu Bei had to flee back in a hurry. When Li Mengxi went to Luoyang this time, if anything happened, Li Mengxi also had to flee back, but as long as he escaped halfway, he didn't have to go back to Julu.

, Li Mengxi could pull up tens of thousands of people halfway and kill him directly.

The second progress of the rebel army is in the hamster strategy. The hamster strategy refers to collecting trees, firewood, stones and other things near the camp during the march, and storing them in one place. Things like trees, firewood, etc.

Things like stones are useful if you carry them, but they are too cumbersome. But if you don't carry them, it is a waste of materials.

So we have the hamster strategy. Every time you set up camp, cut down as many trees as you can near the camp. Process them if you can. Collect firewood near the camp, and collect stones that can be found nearby. Stones

It can be used in battle or for burning lime.

All these hoarded materials, trees can be used to build camps, can be used as siege equipment, firewood can be used for fire attacks, stones can be used for warfare, lime can be used for fighting, and they can also prevent plagues.

During the march, piles of trees, piles of firewood, piles of stones, kilns of lime after kilns, and piles of fired clay pots were left behind.

Dropping so many supplies means that once a war breaks out, you only need to send a team of fast horses and light vehicles. In three to five days, hundreds of logs will be transported to the front line, and there will be enough cut logs for backup in the back road.

, you can set up camp in one day.

If we want to launch a fire attack, we have to collect hundreds of piles of firewood along the way. All we need is a bunch of fast horses and light carts. Within three days, 100,000 kilograms of firewood can be transported to the front line.

If there is a war, thousands of boulders can arrive at the front line in three days, tens of thousands of clay pots filled with tung oil can arrive at the front line in three days, and tens of thousands of fire throwing equipment can be obtained overnight.

If a plague breaks out suddenly, there will be a large amount of lime left on the way back, and the huge amount of lime can be delivered within three days.

This is the hamster strategy, which is to collect some materials that are inconvenient to carry anywhere and leave them on the road for emergencies.

The third area of ​​progress for the rebel army is the method of fishing and hunting.

When Zhang Fei went to Luoyang last time, Zhang Fei also brought bird-catching nets and hunting tools such as osprey boats. But Zhang Fei encountered a little trouble last time. When Zhang Fei smoked rabbits, the rabbits ran away after being smoked.

After the conclusion, the fishing and hunting methods were improved.

Returning to Luoyang this time, the army brought bellows, blowers, and poison.

When setting up camp, Zhang Fei encountered a rabbit hole. He used poison to light the poisonous smoke and used a blower to blow the poisonous smoke into the rabbit hole. When the rabbit ran out of another hole, the rabbit was fainted by the poisonous smoke and easily

Got caught.

The usefulness of poison is not limited to this. When Zhang Fei encountered a small puddle, he took poison and sprinkled it in. The poison was really effective. In less than half an hour, all the big and small fish in the pit turned their stomachs and floated up.

The efficiency of poison is really high. Zhang Fei dropped a bottle of poison and brought up a pit of fish. He filled seven or eight buckets full of fish. Although he got the fish, Zhang Fei did not dare to eat it for fear of being poisoned to death.

At this time, the usefulness of [Animal Warfare] was demonstrated. When Li Mengxi led people to dig graves, he realized the biochemical early warning function of roosters, and then extended from tomb robbing to combat. Roosters are excellent poison-testing creatures, so when marching, they

Brought a cock.

Zhang Fei fed the rooster the fish that had been treated with medicine, and sure enough, the rooster was poisoned to death.

That's good, the fish can't be eaten anymore, and a rooster is put on it.

The fourth improvement of the rebel army is that they learned more during the march this time. Each of the soldiers carried a carrying tool. Behind the carrying tool was a piece of paper with words on it. While the soldiers were marching, their legs moved and their eyes moved.

Never stop and learn while walking.

The fifth point of progress is when using water. Every time when water is taken, the military doctors check the water source and then test it with a rooster. After a while, there is no problem, and then the soldiers are allowed to take water for cooking.

In this way, when Li Mengxi went to Luoyang this time, his military strength was not only twice as large, but the strength of the two forces was even different.
Chapter completed!