At night, the cooks set up a large iron pot and started cooking. When the iron pot was hot, they poured in a few tablespoons of lard. After a while, the aroma began to rise. From a distance, Liu Bei could smell the aroma.

My stomach immediately growled.

There is one well in the village. This well is supposed to be enough, but the drilling team is still digging out the soil with Luoyang shovels to explore for water, preparing to find the water veins and open a new well.

In the countryside, wells often dry up overnight. It is also common in the countryside. When digging a well, the well is drilled very deep but no water is found. After moving a few steps and digging again, water is found.

I asked, will the well water in this unknown village where we are stationed suddenly dry up? I don’t know, it is possible. It is possible that the well water may dry up overnight. Similar things have happened in various places in the countryside.

Therefore, in order to prevent this accident from happening, since we have enough manpower and nothing else to do, we might as well dig an extra well as a backup.

Late at night, Liu Bei secretly sent people to leave the village and go to the nearby villages. According to the military order, those people needed to transport back all the supplies from the nearby villages, including all firewood, trees, stones, etc. If there is no firewood,

Use trees and stones, demolish the house, and transport the soil embryo back. The soil embryo can be used to build walls directly.

After a day's battle, the enemy troops have retreated. Although the war has been temporarily over, many affairs have accumulated and they have become even busier.

Even late at night, the potters, blacksmiths, and carpenters in the army continued to be busy. It was even busier after the war than during the war. During the battle, it is necessary to ensure that the soldiers have enough rest to conserve their physical strength. This is a good thing when there is no battle.

To gain an advantage, you must seize the time to stock up on armaments and build fortifications.

On the first night after the war, at least more than 700 soldiers in the army were making clay embryos. Yellow mud and crushed wheat straw were put into the molds, tamped, and demoulded. The clay embryos were made one by one and placed three or five times.

After a few days, the clay embryo is ready for use.

Judging from the amount of manpower invested, hundreds of soldiers worked all night, and thousands of clay embryos could be produced in one night.

If the enemy were to attack tomorrow, thousands of semi-dry mud embryos might not be strong enough, but they would definitely be enough to build a long wall.

With the addition of a long wall, this terrain advantage far outweighed the disadvantage of hundreds of soldiers who were physically exhausted from working all night.

All night long, the Julu soldiers were extremely busy.

Liu Bei was sleeping soundly on the bed, and then he was woken up by the loud crowing of a rooster, followed immediately by the barking of a dog.

When Liu Bei just woke up, he heard the crow of chickens and dogs, and suddenly he almost thought he was at home.

Roosters have the effect of boosting morale. This was proven during the crusade against the Yellow Turbans. The Yellow Turbans refugees were worried that they would starve to death if they ran out of food. The army kept so many roosters, and every day at dawn, the roosters kept crowing.

It can be heard all over the camp.

This is a very simple psychological logic. When you hear the crow of chickens, it means there are chickens. The constant crows of chickens mean that there are many chickens. If there are many chickens, it means that the army has food to feed and they are willing to feed it. If they are willing to feed the chickens, it means that there is food.

There is still more, and there is still more food, which means that we will not starve to death for a while.

It is precisely because of this that during the Yellow Turbans petition, after the army raised roosters, the Yellow Turban refugees clearly felt peaceful.

This time, the army also brought military dogs. In Li Mengxi's "Animal Warfare", the role of dogs is as follows. Dogs have two advantages: smell and hearing. They can be used for early warning and patrolling.

.Actually, dogs also play a role. Like roosters, dogs can also stabilize morale.

In the countryside, chickens and dogs are common. In the army, there are the sounds of chickens and dogs barking, and the atmosphere is as peaceful as the countryside.

At dawn, after a quick meal, Liu Bei discussed with the craftsmen how to build houses and fortifications.

According to Liu Bei's idea, when enough soil embryos are stored, a circle of soil embryo city walls will be built around the village. Once the city walls are completed, it will be extremely difficult for the enemy to invade if they have countless times the force.

Construction matters include building houses and building open-air arrow-proof roofs. Liu Bei also wants to build some arrow towers around the village. The project has not yet started, but a huge construction blueprint has been formed.

Two days later, the military situation suddenly broke out.

The scouts urgently reported the enemy's movements, and the enemy troops in Nanpi City attracted a large army to kill them.

After receiving the emergency report, Liu Bei quickly deployed his defenses.

The car formation started up again. This time, it was just two or three days later. Although the car formation remained unchanged in general, many small details had changed.

The chariot array has been prepared, and the crossbowmen and the soldiers responsible for hand-to-hand combat stand on the chariot and stare vigilantly outside. Behind the chariot, the soldiers in the rear group are on standby.

A simple shed roof was set up above the heads of the soldiers in the rear. The roof was very simple. It was just made of four long pieces of wood at the four corners, with branches and sticks on top. The sticks were covered with rags, and the rags went up to the lake.

With a palm's worth of soil, such a shed roof, although crude, is enough to defend against stray arrows coming from above.

Within three days, on the preset battlefield, a long circle of anti-archery sheds was set up on the top of the car array, and almost all the soldiers were under the protection of the roof.

After the queue was updated, the military judges were walking around carrying large axes. The axes in the hands of the military judges could cut off spears and make javelins at critical moments. This was another change.

Next to the chariot, on the inner side, behind each chariot are placed square baskets made of bamboo or vines. The baskets are placed on the ground at a height just suitable for stepping on them. With so many baskets, the speed of getting on the chariot is very fast.

Almost half way.

The chariots have also changed. The shields hanging on the outside of the chariots are no longer there. On the panels of some side-chariots, there are some small holes the size of five baht coins. Traces of carbonization can be clearly seen in the small holes, which are caused by burning.

With these small holes on the carriage board, it becomes a structure similar to a battlement. Soldiers can shoot out of the holes, but it is not easy for the enemy to miss the arrows and shoot them in through the holes.

The weapons in the hands of the soldiers fighting on the chariot have also changed. In the previous battle, the soldiers mostly had long spears, but this time, they mostly had divination halberds.

There were other subtle changes, as well as houses. After hearing that the enemy was attacking, the Julu Army piled up some high earth walls in front of the car formation as quickly as possible. The earth walls stood vertically facing the outside. The two earth walls cooperated with each other, like

An urn wall invites you to enter the urn, and its mouth is wide open to invite the enemy troops to enter.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! If the enemy soldiers are not smart enough and ignore the earth wall, when they are surrounded by double walls, if they knock down the earth wall, they will be buried in the wall immediately.

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And if the enemy soldiers are clever and knock down the wall immediately, it doesn't matter. After the wall collapses, the soil will be messy and rugged, and the soil on the ground will seriously hinder the enemy's movement.

Also, after the train formation, there were some more iron pots, and some disgusting golden juice was boiling in them.

When it came time to cook the golden juice for battle, I finally discovered the benefits of the iron pot. First of all, the iron pot heats up extremely quickly. The faster the golden juice is boiled, the faster the attack frequency of the golden juice is. Secondly, the iron pot is extremely light, and its lightness makes,

Holding a pot with a pot of golden juice, it splashes out all the way. But if you use a pottery urn, the pottery urn is not only heavy but also has a small mouth, making it extremely inconvenient to operate.

All in all, today's car formation is generally the same as before, but a lot has changed internally. Today's car formation is more dangerous and difficult to attack.

Other things that have not yet been arranged, such as digging a hole in the grass ditch next to the village entrance and hiding seven or eight soldiers so that they can suddenly rush out from behind at the critical moment. Another example is throwing a grain truck in the ditch.

Outside, soldiers were hiding in the grain trucks. They waited for the enemy troops to pass by and then suddenly jumped out.

Another example is that the arrow tower and the city wall have not yet been built.

The enemy army came again. Expecting that this time, the enemy army would be stronger. Liu Bei stood on the roof and looked down at the car array that was tightly fortified around the village. He felt extremely calm.

The enemy is coming.

The enemy's large army came in thick and dark colors.

After the enemy established their position outside the shooting range, they did not move for a while, which seemed to predict that this time the enemy would use tactics different from the previous one.

Then, sure enough, the enemy infantry formation remained behind and the crossbowmen moved forward.

Liu Bei immediately understood that the enemy wanted to consume his own troops by missing arrows, and then wait for his own casualties to be huge before the enemy infantry took advantage of the situation and pounced on him.

After understanding this point, Liu Bei quickly came down from the roof and hid in the house.

Two days ago, if the enemy had directly sent superior troops over and directly consumed the Julu Army with a hail of arrows, they were not well prepared at that time and the soldiers were completely exposed in the open space with no way to hide. The soldiers would have suffered many casualties in the rain of arrows.

We are no longer afraid. Although the enemy troops are coming, the Julu Army has already taken the lead and completed the defense against arrows.

The thief archers came a hundred steps closer and set up a formation. The thief general drew his sword and pointed at the village, "Fire arrows!"

Thousands of crossbowmen fired arrows at the same time, the power was extremely astonishing, and the arrows fell like rain from all directions into the village.

The first wave of arrow rain came down. Liu Bei stood in the house. He looked up with interest and watched the arrows fall from the sky and were nailed to the soil in front of the house. The arrows fell one after another. Liu Bei also

I am leisurely counting the number of arrows.

The battle in this deserted village was the second battle that Liu Bei single-handedly commanded in his life.

Yes, after fighting so many battles against the Yellow Turbans, this was the second battle that Liu Bei commanded alone.

The first time Liu Bei commanded alone was to defeat the Yellow Turbans Cheng Yuanzhi and Deng Mao's troops. After this battle, Li Mengxi came. In every subsequent battle, Li Mengxi participated in it and everyone discussed tactics and tactics.

After fighting for such a long time, Liu Bei finally ushered in a battle that he commanded completely by himself.

Liu Bei experienced firsthand how cool it is to anticipate the enemy's first move.

Oops, the enemy's arrows are so powerful, but what's the use? The Julu soldiers are all covered under the roof, and the enemy's arrows are directly destroyed by fifty percent.

The Julu Army themselves have tried it. The enemy's rockets are useless against dry and hard soil that is more than a palm thick and cannot be penetrated by arrows.

Liu Bei listened for a long time. He also paid attention to the military medical camp on the left for a long time. For a long time, he neither heard the screams of soldiers who were hit by arrows nor saw any wounded soldiers being carried over.

This seems... not right, Liu Bei thought.

Wouldn't it be bad if the enemy knew that the rain of arrows was useless and stopped firing arrows?

Since our own side is well prepared, it is best to take advantage of this opportunity and quickly consume the enemy's arrows.

Thinking of this, Liu Bei quickly sent messengers to convey military orders to each team. He wanted to use the "method of deceiving the enemy".

Liu Bei's first order ordered the spearmen to put up their guns and flags so that the enemy could see a forest of spears.

In the second order, the soldiers were ordered to scream pitifully after a while, pretending to be injured by an arrow.

Then, after a while, mess up the spear array a little and knock down a few spears to let the enemy know that their arrow rain is indeed effective.

After the order was passed on, the spearmen did as ordered. The soldiers inserted their spears into the ground one by one, neatly arranged like a queue.

Liu Bei is well aware of the method of frightening the enemy. The best way to frighten the enemy is to use spearmen to frighten the enemy. Cover, the long spears can be seen from a distance like a forest, and their strength is at their strongest. However, the troops with swords, shields, bows and crossbows cannot be seen from a distance.

Using the method of frightening the enemy and using it in reverse is the method of deceiving the enemy by weakening one's own power.

After the gun formations behind the Julu Army's vehicle array were erected one after another, the enemy generals were frightened. The enemy generals thought that the Julu Army was going to mobilize their troops to fight. However, after a while, no troops were dispatched. The enemy generals
To be continued...