During the twenty days when Li Mengxi led his troops to stay, the army stockpiled supplies including a huge amount of food, more than 10,000 point-steel spears, furniture, swords, bows and crossbows collected from local officials and civilians.

There are more than 5,000 other soldiers. The Julu Army's self-made carts and the carts purchased from the private sector add up to more than 2,000. These carts can be used for combat by simply adding a carriage plate.

It's a side chariot.

In addition, the kilns have been in operation for days and have produced a large amount of pottery. The stock of pottery urns for cooking and pottery bowls for eating is enough to equip a team of 10,000 people.

In addition to the supplies needed for marching and fighting, including food, armor, chariots and horses, and pottery urns and bowls for cooking and eating, there is another necessity for long-distance marches - bedding and bedding.

Weapons are easy to make, just cast iron, and pottery is easy to make. Find a few kilns and get more manpower. One kiln can produce hundreds of pottery, which is very simple to produce. However, bedding and bedding are complicated to produce.

Much more complicated.

With the manpower and productivity of the Julu Army, it is impossible to produce enough bedding and bedding in a short period of time, so they can only buy them in the countryside. Fortunately, every household in the countryside has bedding and bedding. The Julu Army spends some money.

, bought the common people’s bedding and bedding, then took them apart, washed them, refurbished them, and the brand-new bedding utensils were barely visible.

The need for bedding and bedding can easily be solved by buying them, but this is still not enough.

The army is marching outside. If it rains and there is no rainproof thing, the soldiers will all get wet. After a rain, the army will be full of sick people. If the sick patients spread to each other, the combat effectiveness will be extremely serious.

The soldiers of the Julu Army headquarters have sufficient logistics equipment. Each soldier of the Julu Army has a raincoat or a raincoat made of rainproof cloth coated with tung oil. The Julu Army has this equipment and is not afraid of rainy days.

But this time, we had to rely on the strength of the rural soldiers, who did not have that much rain gear.

Just like bedding and bedding, whether it is a raincoat or a tung oil cloth, these are things that are not easy to make, so you have to buy them as a last resort.

But at this time, the problem came again. The coir raincoat was obviously not a necessity of life, and was even a bit like a luxury product. Poor people could have bedding at home, but often did not have coir raincoats. This made the stock of coir raincoats in the countryside scarce. Li Mengxi spent a lot of effort to prepare them.

So far, we have searched all over ten miles and eight villages for rain gear, and have only raised less than 400 raincoats. There are 4,500 rural soldiers in training in the army, and this mere 400 raincoats are far from enough.

There are only ten days left in the one-month period agreed with Liu Bei. After ten days, we must lead the country soldiers to rush to the outside of Nanpi City and lead the country soldiers to fight all the way north to Yuyang. This way,

But it's very long, and it's almost summer, and rainy weather has arrived, so the lack of rain gear is really not enough.

For rain gear, Li Mengxi also offered rewards to the countryside and mobilized rural people to make coir raincoats. However, the season was not right and the thatch for making coir raincoats was scarce. In the end, even with the amount made by the villagers, the total number of rain gear was still less than a thousand.

number.

Logistics is extremely important. If the logistics are not enough, no matter how many people you bring, you will be caught in a heavy rain on the way and the soldiers will fall ill. There will be no war at all, and you will be exhausted just to take care of the sick soldiers.

Rain gear was now a dead end problem. The army could not produce it, and the countryside could not raise enough quantity in a short time. After thinking about it, Li Mengxi came up with the only remedy.

In the Julu Army, there is a method of rapid supply team.

A rapid supply team refers to a fleet of semi-equipped vehicles and fast-horse consignments that the military always maintains. This supply team is not large in size, with only a dozen or twenty vehicles. The purpose of forming this supply team is to have

This supply team exists. No matter how desperate the friendly army is, at any time, as long as the supply team arrives, it can directly bring the friendly army back to life.

The rapid supply team's consideration for bad weather was to prepare some large tung oil cloths in order to prevent heavy rain and snow. These tung oil cloths were unfolded and propped up to form a simple roof. Although this roof could not block the wind, it could

Enough to withstand rain and snow.

To combat the cold, the quick supply team prepared a small amount of bedding and clothing, as well as a sufficient amount of ginger boiled in ginger water.

Considering that in extreme cases, if friendly forces are trapped in the mountains, they will have no water, no food, and no dry firewood. Therefore, the rapid supply team has a water tanker and a truck of tightly sealed and absolutely dry firewood.

There is a complete set of pots, pans and utensils, as well as a windproof and rainproof tent for cooking in severe storms.

Others, such as a basic quantity of lost arrows, crossbows, relief medicinal materials, etc., are all available.

Consider all desperate situations and be prepared for all possible bad situations. It is no exaggeration to say that no matter what kind of bad situation it is, as long as a quick supply team arrives, it can be brought back to life.

Li Mengxi thought of a way to solve the shortage of rain gear, and he went to the rapid supply team to solve the need for rain gear in the most basic and minimum way.

Following the method of the rapid supply team, Li Mengxi prepared to get some large tung oil cloths. These tung oil cloths were used as rainproof equipment and marching tents. During the march, if it rained, more than a dozen soldiers would move forward wearing raincloths.

, if it rains at night, put up the rainproof cloth to cover the top of your head, barely ensuring that you don't get caught in the rain.

Counting the manpower in the army, there are four to five thousand rural soldiers in the headquarters. At the minimum, twenty rural soldiers squeeze under a tent-sized raincloth. Four to five thousand people will need more than two hundred raincloths. The cloths are easy to assemble.

The key lies in tung oil. We took out the tung oil stored in the army and found that if all the tung oil was used up, it would be enough to make more than two hundred pieces of defensive cloth.

At this point, the problem has been solved, and there are minimum rainproof conditions for marching and camping.

Weapons, food, carriages, chariots for combat, pottery urns and bowls for cooking and eating, firewood for fires, bedding and quilts for sleeping, rain-proof ponchos, and the most basic necessities for marching and fighting were all available.

After sorting out all the materials, Li Mengxi moved to the craftsman camp. The craftsman camp was located in the grain field. The grain field was empty and had enough space for work. Li Mengxi saw a huge grain field. Half of the field was piled with wood. The wood piles were like mountains and tree stumps.

Zi Lei's building was as high as two stories. Li Mengxi thought to himself, God, when did you get so many trees...

Li Mengxi obviously underestimated the operational capabilities of the Julu Army. Twenty days ago, a defense order came to the countryside. Under the leadership of the Julu Army, the people cut down the trees in the countryside in order to build fortifications. Then, the excess

All the trees have been sent to the base camp, and the amount of wood stockpiled is of course terrifying.

The Julu Army will break out of camp soon, and there will definitely be no way to use up all the trees.

Li Mengxi found Lu Li and scolded Lu Li because the way the wood was piled was wrong. The wood was round and rolled easily. The pile was so high. What if it collapsed and killed someone?

After scolding Lu Li, Li Mengxi looked at the mountains of wood and couldn't help but wonder, what can be done with these wood? Store it here? When it is needed for the battle behind, then transport it to the front line?

This is a way.
Chapter completed!