It has been half a month since the Julu Army was divided into three parts.

Two miles north of Nanpi City, the deserted village at that time had become a fortress. From the moment Liu Bei was stationed in the deserted village, Yao began to recruit people to dig soil and make clay embryos day and night. Making clay embryos was not a temporary achievement.

After it came out, it couldn't be used for one day, half a day, and seven or eight days. After half a month, the clay embryo was barely usable.

Liu Bei used clay embryos to build a ten-foot-high wall around the village. After the wall was completed, he built eleven arrow towers against the wall. The base of the arrow towers was much higher than the wall, and tall wooden shelves were set up on them.

The overall height of the arrow tower has therefore been raised to a very high height.

On top of the arrow tower, all the sniper crossbows in the army are set up on it. Taking advantage of the height advantage of the arrow tower, coupled with the precision shooting advantage of the sniper crossbow, each arrow tower is a long-distance sniping platform.

The earth walls and arrow towers, as the first defensive fortifications, have been completed. After half a month of operation by Liu Bei, the originally desolate village has completely changed its appearance. There is almost no open space in the village, and countless wooden sheds have roofs.

Every inch of space in the village is covered. If a battle breaks out, the wooden roofs scattered throughout the village will protect every inch of the sky.

Because of the angle, people under the roof can still shoot outside the village. If enemies from outside the village shoot into the village, their arrows will most likely be blocked by the roof. The village has become a fortress capable of both offense and defense.

, not afraid of any strong enemy.

Liu Bei has managed the village to the point of being impregnable, but this is still not the end.

One day ago, Liu Bei started digging trenches and setting up traps outside the village, preparing to build another defense outside the wall. However, because of this move, he got himself into trouble.

Today, Liu Bei stood on the Yijiao Arrow Tower. He looked helplessly at the enemy troops digging in the distance with a depressed look on his face.

Starting yesterday, when we started digging trenches outside yesterday, the enemy saw them, and today they are waiting to imitate them.

"[Those who are good at guarding are hiding under the Nine Earths], now I know that, alas." With a sigh, Liu Bei looked at the enemy troops busy digging trenches outside the village, and suddenly he had a major insight into the art of war.

As soon as the Julu Army dug a trench, unexpectedly, it inspired the enemy to develop a siege strategy. This situation and the other situation are in line with what Sun Tzu said in the Art of War: "Those who are good at defending hide themselves under the Nine Grounds."

Hiding under the Nine Earths refers to not exposing one's combat intentions easily.

Just like this, when digging a trench, you should dig it at night as much as possible and clean up the floating soil. It is best to make it invisible to the enemy. The enemy cannot detect it, so they will not think of ways to crack it, let alone be caught.

Inspired siege tactics.

Fortunately, the enemy saw the Julu Army digging trenches and used the same method to encircle the Julu Army with trenches.

If the situation continues to develop, the enemy will dig trenches for ten days and a half, and the trenches will be completed. By then, the enemy will turn from passive to active, and the Julu Army will be surrounded. However, this is not a big problem.

The Julu Army has long used the tactic of encircling the enemy in trenches, and has a corresponding method to break it. There are dozens of Xuanwu chariots in the army, and these dozens of Xuanwu chariots with a box-like body are like several

There are ten giant containers and dozens of Xuanwu chariots. If you want to break out of the encirclement, you only need to push the trucks into the ditch, and the trench that is three to five feet deep and three to five feet wide can be filled into flat ground in an instant.

This is the first, and second, from a grand strategic point of view, Liu Bei is just a lone army, and its sole purpose of deterrence north of Nanpi City is to firmly attract the main force of the enemy here so that Li Mengxi can recruit and prepare troops in the rear.

time. The enemy was preparing to dig a trench 300 steps outside the village. It was too far away and the encirclement was too large. It is estimated that even if the enemy was given a month, they would not be able to dig such a huge trench.

Judging from the war history of the Julu Army, on the way to the Yellow Turbans, in order to encircle Huangfu Song, tens of thousands of Yellow Turban refugees came as close as a hundred steps to Huangfu Song's camp to dig trenches and build fortifications. With tens of thousands of Yellow Turbans, the Yellow Turban refugees had many hoes.

Shovel tools, no matter what, are only a hundred paces away, and are almost not enough for tens of thousands of refugees.

Now, the enemy has expanded the encirclement to 300 paces, and the enemy's troops are insufficient. It is not expected that the enemy will get so many digging tools in a short time. The encirclement is too large, there is insufficient manpower, and there are insufficient tools. Liu Bei judged that the enemy's

Although the method of digging trenches and encirclement is now known, the enemy is expected to be unable to implement such measures.

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At the same time, during the same half-month period, a second major event occurred in the counties.

After half a month of departure from Julu, many Julu militia teams have completed their rendezvous in various places.

Somewhere in Hejian County, in the middle of the intersection of three villages, there is a graveyard. A training ground has been opened up on the wasteland of the graveyard, and more than 400 local soldiers are training here.

During the training, someone came to the instructor and said that Julu reinforcements were coming. The instructor quickly put aside the training matters and went to respond.

The two sides met, and the instructor saw the so-called Julu reinforcements.

The reinforcements are not regular soldiers. There are about a hundred people in the reinforcements. They bring their own fleets and provisions. They also have flags. The flags are simple paper flags with the twelve zodiac signs printed on them. Look at this team again.

The attire of the reinforcements was simple and crude. Most of the weapons were wooden spears, and a few were iron spears. As for the armor and stomach, there was not a single iron armor or a single leather armor. Each of these Julu militiamen wore one.

Nails made of thick mulberry paper, also known as "paper nails".

Seeing the instructor, the militia captain bowed his hands to the instructor and said, "According to the order from above, we are here to help guard this place."

In the past half month, people who are unfamiliar with this place have been almost busy. My family finally arrived. The instructor breathed a sigh of relief. He smiled and asked the militia captain, "Brother, how many of you are here?"

The militia captain thought for a while and said, "When we left Julu, there were more than 6,000 of us walking together. Halfway through, we were separated. When we reached the border between the rivers, we were separated again. We were the only ones left here.

More than a hundred."

The instructor nodded, and he made a mental calculation. The first difficulty was not having enough manpower to help defend the place. When we arrived at the place, there were only five people at first. Just these five people, even if they all went to train, one person would train sixty.

Five people can only train three to four hundred soldiers.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Now, the reinforcements have arrived. The arrival of the reinforcements not only means that reliable manpower is available, but also means that more people can help.

The instructor's first thought was to train troops. Julu came to support more than a hundred militiamen. These were more than a hundred people who were familiar with formation training. Of these more than one hundred people, one person was responsible for training forty, which was more than four thousand people.

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Even if these more than a hundred rural soldiers are sent elsewhere, even if only ten of them stay, ten people are enough to make the difficult task of training troops easy in an instant.

The reinforcements from Julu were actually early enough, but because the militiamen who set out from Julu were all on foot, they marched too slowly and arrived a little late.

The overall plan is that the reinforcements from Julu are the icing on the cake. They are based on the intention of helping as many as possible to enhance the strength of each ministry as much as possible. After the Julu militia and each ministry merge, each ministry will have a reliable

Although there are not many militiamen assigned to various ministries as the backbone of the army, these militiamen can not only assist in handling affairs. In case of going to the battlefield, these militiamen are more reliable than the local warriors. It can be said that with the arrival of the Julu militiamen

, the operational efficiency of each department suddenly increased by 50%, and the combat resilience also increased by 50%.

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The third part of the three-thirds force is at the rear of Bohai County, where Li Mengxi is.

What has Li Mengxi done in the past half month?

Too many things have been done.

First of all, Li Mengxi's base camp. This camp recruited more than 4,000 rural soldiers. The rural soldiers drilled non-stop all day long and became stronger and stronger day by day.

There is another thing. Because Li Mengxi sent military doctors to practice medicine nearby, the news spread like wildfire. Until now, I don’t know how many people came to seek medical treatment after hearing the news, and the medical team was lined up in two places.

Inside and outside, a lot of things happened during this period, including people jumping in line and fighting, people teasing women, and people suffering from emergencies who were too anxious to get in. As a last resort, Li Mengxi had to send a large number of people to maintain order.

There are so many people seeking medical treatment that people seeking medical treatment cannot be diagnosed in a day or two. For this reason, the people seeking medical treatment must be helped to take care of their food, drink, housing and transportation.

At the beginning, when there were not many people seeking medical treatment, Li Mengxi kindly took care of the food. As a result, there were so many people behind him that he couldn't take care of the food. But later, when Li Mengxi went to inspect, he looked at the adults who were seeking medical treatment.

The child is so hungry that he is weak, and I think it is not appropriate to do this. He cannot take care of food and drink, but it is not appropriate to ignore it, so he simply sets up a food stall and sells rice.

The Julu Army is not short of money and does not seek to make money, but it cannot lose money. The meals are sold entirely at cost, with zero profit, so it can be said to be affordable and affordable. The people who seek medical treatment have something to eat, and as for those who have no money

For those who buy food, the Julu Army provides a work-for-relief service. Anyway, there are places where a lot of manpower is consumed in the army. The defense line is so long. It requires manpower to dig trenches and build forts. It also requires a lot of manpower to collect firewood. It also takes a lot of manpower to make side-chariots.

Manpower is needed and there are enough jobs. Those poor people who have no money to buy food, both adults and children, can have a job to earn a living.

Later, a new problem arose. The medicine was not enough. The military doctors asked Li Mengxi for help. Li Mengxi thought that it would not be easy to buy ordinary medicinal herbs for a while, so he might as well get willow branches.

Li Mengxi gathered people to collect willow bark from everywhere. After the collected willow bark was crushed, he boiled it in a big pot. When the water was boiled halfway, he filtered out the residue and the remaining bark turned green.

The juice will not be extracted any further and will be used directly for medicinal purposes. Take the willow juice into a bowl, add a few spoons of vinegar, put it in a large bowl for the patient to drink, and keep it useful.

Willow branch extract can be said to be a true miracle medicine that can cure all diseases. It is anti-inflammatory and has anti-inflammatory effects. For most diseases, just drinking a bowl of concentrated willow branch can alleviate the symptoms without having to wait the next day.

Because the medicine is so effective, the news spreads from word to mouth, and more and more people know that there is a miracle doctor, and more and more people come to see the doctor. In the past few days, the queue for medical treatment has not been reduced, but has become longer and longer.

Now I went to see the medical queue. The long queue stretched along the road. The road was covered with white ash. The lime was used for epidemic prevention to prevent the spread of the disease caused by the gathering of a large number of patients. The lime was not prepared for patients.

Long before the patients arrived, according to the Julu Army's strategy, limestone was one of the standing supplies. Soon after the Julu Army was stationed, Li Mengxi sent people to find a local kiln and borrowed it to burn many kilns of lime.

, with this preparation, the lime can be spread along the road for ten miles and it will not be used up.

At the foot of the medical team, on the white ash on the road, were dotted the remains of black bonfires. These were bonfires lit for people seeking medical treatment at night to keep out the cold.

The Julu Army provided meals, job opportunities to earn money, and bonfires to keep out the cold at night. As for houses, there was absolutely nothing we could do about it. Without shelter, if you stayed outside at night, it was inevitable that someone would catch the cold. At this time,

, ginger water comes in handy. The Julu Army boils ginger water every night. The common people can go to get ginger water to drink. After drinking a bowl of hot ginger water, they will sweat all over the body. The coolness of the night can be ignored.

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During the day, Julu sergeants patrol around the medical teams and are responsible for maintaining order. At night, there are also teams maintaining order. There are more female soldiers patrolling at night. The female soldiers are out of political considerations to protect them in case of emergency.

When conflicts arise involving women, female soldiers can deal with them.

In maintaining order, printing once again played a role. In order to facilitate order management, the craftsman camp carved a simple stamp with a number printed on paper. People who came to seek medical treatment were given a number and arranged one after another. This eliminated

Things like queue jumping happen.

The reason why Li Mengxi would rather use medicinal materials and a lot of manpower to practice medicine at a loss is that on the one hand, he cannot see the suffering of the people's livelihood, and on the other hand, Li Mengxi believes that practicing medicine is extremely useful political propaganda. The fact is as Li Mengxi guessed, and the villagers because of this

After seeing the Julu Army's large-scale medical and drug delivery, when the Julu Army recruited rural soldiers, the villagers were very willing to support it.

On the Bohai County defense line, there are no military doctors elsewhere. Only Li Mengxi’s camp has a military medical team. Because of the positive impact brought by military doctors, the camp’s recruitment plan went extremely smoothly. In half a month, the camp recruited more than 4,000 soldiers.

These more than 4,000 people are all young and strong. This is the result of Li Mengxi's control of the number. If he had not taken into account the burden of recruiting too much food and grass, he could have recruited twice as many people.

To build a team, the most important thing is logistics. The most critical thing in logistics is food and grass. Food and grass are not a problem here in Li Mengxi.

Li Mengxi caught the powerful people bullying him, and the grain he bought from them was enough.

A powerful man is like a pig. When needed, he will kill as many as he needs.
To be continued...