The enemy has retreated. No matter what the enemy is like, whether the enemy wants to mobilize their troops and come back later, or whether they want to retreat and close the city gates in Nanpi City, it doesn't matter. No matter what the enemy is like, the Julu Army has only one response.

, stay in the village and stay firmly anchored here.

After the battlefield was cleaned, Liu Bei ordered his soldiers to sum up their gains and losses in the battle, and said that after half an hour, if anyone can speak up, he will be rewarded.

It is a common practice in the military to gather the wisdom of everyone. On weekdays, soldiers are ordered to hold discussions after every training, let alone now.

Soldiers from all over the village gathered together in units of one soldier and one ten to have a heated discussion. There may be some among the soldiers who don't like to use their brains, but using their brains is related to interests. If you use your brains more and think about it, maybe you can come up with something.

I have a good idea. If I have a good idea, I might be able to exchange for wine and meat. The reward method is very effective. Every one of the soldiers is counting. Whether they are smart or stupid, they are all scratching their heads and thinking, and they are all discussing.

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While the soldiers were summing up their combat experience, Liu Bei walked around the village. When he walked to a small forest at the entrance of the village, he looked up and saw three or two arrows nailed high on some tree trunks. Liu Bei remembered that during the battle, there were a large number of arrows nailed to them.

The enemy troops poured into the village through this small forest. With this forest, the enemy troops were covered under the trees, making it difficult to defend. Liu Bei secretly made a note that he had to find someone to cut down the forest quickly.

If you want to cut down a tree, who should be sent to cut it down? This is another point of knowledge. Should you send craftsmen to cut down trees? Send cavalry? Send crossbowmen? Or send others?

The answer is, send spearmen to cut down trees. Not only do you send spearmen to cut down trees, but you also send spearmen to collect supplies, you send spearmen to carry corpses, and you send spearmen to do all kinds of chores.

The reason for this is that different types of arms have different physical requirements. For example, crossbowmen need strength to fire a strong bow, and sword and shield soldiers also need strength to fight, not to mention cavalry, which are among the most elite personnel.

, Physical strength is also important. For lone spearmen, spearmen have the lowest physical requirements. In spear formation combat, as long as the discipline of the spearmen is still there, they can only raise the gun, which still does not affect the combat.

With this in mind, if there are chores, use spearmen if you can. It can be said that in the Julu Army, spearmen are the hardest working group.

Liu Bei turned to the small road at the entrance of the village, where his grain truck was still parked and had not been taken away.

Liu Bei walked around the grain cart. He walked behind the cart and looked at the village from behind. He found that if he stood in this position behind the cart, all the arrows shot from the village would be blocked.

Liu Bei thought, fortunately the enemy army was not smart enough, and fortunately they did not use this grain cart when they attacked the village. If the enemy army used the grain cart as a cover to push the grain cart to attack, the rain of arrows would be difficult to suppress the enemy army.

The purpose of leaving grain trucks on the road was to lure the enemy. In this battle, the strategy of luring the enemy was a great success, but there were major shortcomings.

Liu Bei concluded that the shortcomings were that, first, the grain carts were abandoned on the road. Although this was to lure the enemy, the abandoned grain carts were worth investigating. If the grain carts were abandoned in the middle of the road, they would provide the enemy with supplies.

In order to cover up, it is detrimental to our army. On the contrary, if the grain truck is thrown in the right place, it can dismember the opponent's formation.

If the vehicle cannot be used to cause trouble to the enemy, then no matter how hard it is, the vehicle cannot be used by the enemy. You can push the vehicle into a ditch on the roadside, and it is best to smash the wheels to avoid being used by the enemy.

The second summary point about the grain cart is that Liu Bei thought of the [ratchet] mentioned by Li Mengxi. The ratchet can rotate forward but not reversely. This thing is good. If one day he needs to throw a grain cart to lure the enemy, he can use it to lure the enemy.

Ratchet loaded the cart, and when the enemy tried to push the grain cart away, they found that it couldn't be pushed away. Wouldn't it be wonderful?

Liu Bei thought about it again, "Trojan Horse Art of War", Trojan Horse Soldiers and Horses, is a method of using things to defeat the enemy.

With the help of grain carts, you may be able to plot against the enemy. If you put fire starters or poison on the carts, and when the enemy troops gather around the grain carts, they will fire rockets to set the grain carts on fire. In an instant, the fire will spread.

If poisons are used together, the enemy army will be in chaos.

In the land of Troyin to the west, the Troyin people hid their elite soldiers in wooden horses to sneak into the enemy's city.

If there are soldiers hiding in the grain carts, and if the enemy is not aware of it, at the critical moment, the soldiers hiding in the carts suddenly jump out, how can the enemy not avoid a huge loss?

Thinking of this, I thought that if this method had been used before the battle, when the enemy's infantry siege was in full swing, and the soldiers suddenly came out from behind, the battle would have been over a long time ago.

Thinking of the Trojan horse strategy, this was not the end. Thinking of hiding in the car and suddenly attacking from behind, Liu Bei also thought of how when he surrounded Huangfu Song, the military advisor ordered the scouts to dig holes in the earth and hide in the pits to get close to the enemy.

, this method is good.

Liu Bei couldn't help but move his eyes to the outside of the village. His eyes wandered to the center of the grass ditches. Liu Bei's eyes moved slightly. What if someone dug deep caves underground and the soldiers hid in them, and then carefully disguised themselves outside?

It is a weapon that can win by surprise!

Thinking of such a powerful magic weapon, Liu Bei felt full of accomplishment and in a good mood. He secretly thought it was a pity that the military advisor was not here, otherwise he could have had a free talk.

What Liu Bei didn't know was that Li Mengxi had already known this method of hiding soldiers in caves.

Li Mengxi was secretly digging the tomb. After the tomb robbers finished digging the tomb, they carefully reinforced the tomb chamber and it became a cave for hiding soldiers underground.

Li Mengxi was afraid that he would be exposed when he robbed the tomb, so he did not leave any relevant records. Otherwise, the army would have had a method of digging holes to hide soldiers.

It is great that Liu Bei can independently think of this method of concealing his troops, but if Li Mengxi is allowed to come, Li Mengxi can be more professional. Li Mengxi has a full-time team of tomb robbers. The tomb robber team has rich experience in digging holes, digging straight and diagonally.

It can be used to dig out any complex terrain. There are also some powerful carpenters in the tomb robber team. The flexible carpentry skills are very suitable for reinforcing underground caves with complex shapes.

If Li Mengxi were to hide troops, it would not be as simple as a small pit, but a tunnel that could hide hundreds of troops, or even dig directly into the middle of the enemy's camp.

The topic changed. During Liu Bei's subsequent inspection around the village, Liu Bei saw that the village was higher in the east and lower in the west. If the enemy army sent a cavalry to attack the village, the enemy army would be strongest if it rushed from the east. But at the same time, the road to the east of the village was even more powerful.

Because of the uneven terrain, and the terrain of the village does not undulate so much from east to west, the impact of the terrain can be ignored.

During Liu Bei's inspection, he also saw large and small stones everywhere outside the village. When he saw the stones, Liu Bei thought that the stones could be used as defensive materials. More importantly, after the stones were burned into lime, they could also be used as anti-plague materials.

There was a plague, and there was not enough lime, so the casualties were expected to be heavy. When Liu Bei saw the stone, he was about to ask someone to pick it back up, when he immediately saw two men dressed as craftsmen pulling a cart coming over.

The craftsman smiled at Liu Bei, stopped the car, worked together to move the stone to the car, and then pulled the car to another stone in the distance.

Liu Bei suddenly realized that the work of collecting stones had always been under the management of the potter.

All kinds of materials, trees, stones, firewood and grass found around the village are all useful, not only for oneself, but also for the enemy.

At the end, Liu Bei looked into the distance, and he vaguely saw the shadow of the village in the distance.

In that village, there must be trees, firewood, grass and other materials. If the wall fails, the wall will be pushed down, the soil will be broken and the soil will be pulled back. The soil will be piled up, and a high wall can be built directly. This is faster than digging soil to build a wall.

Liu Bei stared at the village in the distance for a long time. He was hesitant to send people to collect supplies. He was afraid that if he sent people out, if the enemy suddenly came to kill him, and the two troops were divided into two, he would not be able to respond.

Trouble.

After much thought, Liu Bei was reluctant to part with the supplies, so he decided to send more people, a few hundred people, and then work day and night to return the supplies quietly.

After inspecting the surroundings of the village, Liu Bei returned to the village. Everything in the village was in order, including storage areas for supplies, wounded soldiers' camp, blacksmith camp, carpentry camp, and potter's camp.

Liu Bei only had to look up and see the flags of each ministry and immediately know where each battalion was.

Liu Bei went to the carpentry camp. A group of craftsmen in the carpentry camp were busy. Speaking of today's battle, the weapon that lost the most was the spear. The army was not equipped with javelins. When it came time to throw javelins in battle, the spearmen directly cut the barrel of the gun into two.

I made a semi-improvised javelin, but after a battle, I don't know how many spears had to be replaced.

The reason why Liu Bei used such a tactic that destroyed a large number of troops was because of careful consideration. Weapons are not important, but killing the enemy is important. If you can kill one enemy soldier by throwing ten spears, it is a profit, and broken spears can be repaired.

Coupled with the seizures after the victory, there will be no shortage of guns at all.

The statistics after the war were indeed the same. During the battle, more than 700 guns were broken. When cleaning the battlefield after the war, more than 600 long guns were seized. The seizures alone almost made up for the consumption.

Seeing that the carpentry camp had all the wood and other materials piled outside, Liu Bei gave an order to give the craftsmen time to move the wood into the house.

The captain of the craftsman hesitated a little, "...There is no room, and there is no room for it."

As soon as the craftsman said there was no house, Liu Bei subconsciously looked around. When he saw it, Liu Bei realized the problem. Although the village he was stationed in was a large village with many houses, there were thousands of troops in the army, and there were far from enough houses.

use.

Thinking again, during this battle, arrows were flying all over the village, and many people were injured by the arrows.

Think about it, if the enemy army comes to attack, for example, there are tens of thousands of enemy troops, and if the enemy army has tens of thousands of crossbowmen, they shoot randomly at the village. There are few houses in the village, and the soldiers are exposed to the rain of arrows, and there is no way to hide.

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According to the battle plan, we have to stay here for a month, so why not build a house on the spot?

I don’t know when the enemy army will come, no matter when the enemy army comes, anyway, in January, it is definitely enough to build a hastily built house to block the rain of arrows.

If you want to build a house that can shelter from wind and rain, it is a little more difficult, but if you just build a house that can protect you from stray arrows, it is much simpler. Just put a few pillars, add a roof, and put a layer of rags on the roof.

There is a thick layer of yellow mud on Bu Shang Lake, and the roof of this shed is enough to shield the rain of arrows.

Liu Bei wrote down the details of building the house and prepared to start construction immediately after the materials were gathered and the manpower was freed up.

Liu Bei arrived at the blacksmith camp again. When Liu Bei arrived, the blacksmiths happened to be looking for something. The blacksmiths showed Liu Bei a strange-shaped iron gun that they had completed.

Liu Bei took the iron gun and looked at it. The iron gun was as long as his eyebrows. It was made of iron. The gun tip and blade were a bit strange. The gun blade was not a gun tip, but a crescent-shaped blade. This shape was similar to that of a city defense weapon.

【Fork lever】.

Liu Bei knew the purpose of this iron gun. It was a "crowbar". It was used in bridge battles. Our warriors used it to prevent enemy vehicles from turning over. This iron gun shaped like a fork pole,

Another use is that it can be supported under the jack to hold up the jack. It is for this purpose that the gun head is made into a crescent shape.

Liu Bei praised the craftsman very much. Since he didn't know what Li Mengxi wanted from this special-shaped iron gun, Liu Bei smiled and said to the craftsman, "The military advisor is not here. I will ask you for credit when I see him."

The Julu Army carries with it a blacksmith camp and a full set of smelting and forging equipment. Although there are not many smelting and forging equipment, there is only one set, but the presence of this set of equipment means that the army can start arms production at any time.

Just like now, a blacksmith brought a basket containing weapons that were damaged in the battle. The craftsman asked Liu Bei what kind of weapon should be made after the iron melted, whether it should be a sword, a spear head, or an arrowhead.

Liu Bei thought for a while and thought of defending the village. Defensive battles mostly rely on arrow losses, so arrow losses are important.

"First make sure the arrows are lost and keep some iron material for other uses." Liu Bei explained.

The blacksmith nodded and took the order.

Making arrowheads is too easy. The Julu Army has a weapon - coke. Coke can directly turn iron into molten iron. Using the casting method, a furnace of molten iron can directly cast hundreds of arrowheads.

There are furnaces, coke, and casting molds in the army. The only problem is that there is not much coke and not much iron. Because there is not enough iron, it is a waste of charcoal to start smelting directly. Therefore, the craftsmen are prepared to wait until they have enough.

Then make a furnace of iron and start smelting it.

When they arrived at the potter's camp, Liu Bei saw the potters in the lake kiln. The kiln was half as tall as a man. After all, the truck-mounted kiln brought by the army was too small. If he wanted to fire pottery or lime on a large scale, he still needed a large kiln.

To make pottery, only soil and firewood are needed. The soil can be dug on the spot, and the only supplies required are actually firewood.

When it came to firewood, Liu Bei calculated the supplies. The army had enough food for a month. There was water in the village and there was no shortage of water. However, firewood could not be too abundant. When defending, firewood should be used for fire attacks and iron smelting.

Firewood is needed to make pottery. For making iron and making pottery, it is better if you have it. If you don't have it, it won't have much impact. But for fire attack operations, no matter how much firewood you have, it will not be enough.

If there is enough firewood and a huge fire is lit around the village, even if there are hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, they will not be able to attack through the flames in a short period of time.

Firewood is an important military resource. You have to save firewood. Use soft firewood if you can for cooking, and save hard firewood for making iron and pottery. Considering that you have to be stationed for a month, during that period, the army will stock up on firewood.

It's enough to make a fire for cooking, but it's far from enough for attacking with fire.

The enemy's situation is unknown, we don't know when the enemy troops will come back, and we don't know how many tens of thousands of enemies will come back. Anyway, the more military supplies we hoard, the safer we will be.

The materials that could be collected around the village were extremely limited, so Liu Bei made up his mind to collect all the materials from the surrounding villages as quickly as possible for future use.
Chapter completed!