The exquisite and flexible Yuanyang Formation is extremely useful in tight places. The rural soldiers only have two or three days to learn the Yuanyang Formation. The Yuanyang Formation is relatively simple to master. After these one or two days of learning, the rural soldiers have initially mastered the Yuanyang Formation.

In order to improve their combat power, during the offensive and defensive phase of the village, the village soldiers relied on the mandarin duck formation to fight the Julu soldiers in a stalemate in the small corner in front of and behind the house.

The rural soldiers had several times the numerical advantage, and this manpower advantage was fully utilized in the melee.

In a corner of the village, the battle was going on. The soldiers of the Julu Army and the village soldiers were crowded in the alleyway and were in a stalemate. Suddenly, there was a noise from behind the walls on the left and right of the alley. The soldiers of the Julu Army reacted quickly and vigilantly and subconsciously moved towards the wall.

Look, the next moment, the soldiers who had been ambushing for a long time climbed onto the wall with wooden stakes and smashed the stakes in their hands into the pile of soldiers. The soldiers were hit hard in the head and were caught off guard.

Several people were hit and screamed.

Because of this episode, the originally stalemate situation was immediately reversed. The soldiers had to concentrate on defending against the attack from above. The shield array was temporarily relaxed. The country soldiers seized this opportunity and pressed forward, with a strong force driving the people back.

posture.

At this moment, something unexpected happened again. A soldier on top of the wall was happily smashing a pile with a stake. Suddenly he felt that the earth wall under his feet was a little unstable. The next moment, there was a crash, and the entire earth wall collapsed, and the earth wall collapsed.

It hit the crowds of people in the alley overwhelmingly.

The biggest casualty incident so far in the exercise has occurred. Hearing that the wall collapsed, Li Mengxi rushed to the scene after hearing the news. The scene was a mess. The soldiers were hurriedly cleaning up the collapsed wall. They were pressed against the wall.

The soldiers under the body crawled out one after another. Looking at the gray-headed and miserable looks of these soldiers, it seemed that they would definitely not feel comfortable after being hit.

Li Mengxi observed the scene carefully. He could not figure out why the walls on both sides of the alley fell down at once, and the entire alley was completely covered with broken walls.

I imagined it in my mind - when a group of dozens of elite soldiers walked into the alleyway, the ambush soldiers suddenly pushed down the wall from both sides. With the weight of the wall, the entire wall fell down, no matter how many elite soldiers

Shi Duo's thick armor is useless, no matter how brave he is, if the wall falls down, even Lu Bu will be beaten to death on the ground.

A few simple earthen walls, if used properly, can directly destroy a group of elite enemy soldiers, so there is no need to make any more money.

Li Mengxi was keenly aware of the huge role of earthen walls in setting traps, and his ideas started to open up.

Since walls can be used as ambush traps, when building houses and cities, the width of the lanes and the height of the walls can be calculated carefully so that after the walls are knocked down, they can cover the entire corridor and leave the enemy with no room to hide.

Come, according to this arrangement, the hundreds of large and small alleyways in the city will become hundreds of ambushes and traps, and the enemy's advance in the city will be difficult.

Offense and defense are always integrated. Since [Wall Ambush Trap] is so useful, if you are the attacker, how can you prevent your own soldiers from accidentally stepping into the trap?

There are two ways to break the trap. One is to go around without getting close. The other is to destroy the trap.

As for the first method of fighting traps, assuming that the enemy's city is perfectly laid out, there will be traps wherever you go and there is no way to avoid them.

Therefore, what is really practical is the second method - destruction.

[Wall Ambush Trap] is nothing more than knocking down the wall and hitting the enemy's head. The activation method of this trap is very simple. Just push the wall. Considering that in actual combat, the wall has a certain strength. In a hurry,

It is difficult to push the wall easily, so arrangements must be made in advance, such as hollowing out the base of the wall so that it can fall down with one push. When the wall can fall down with one push, traps and countermeasures can be launched in time in actual combat.

Here's the trick. Since the defender can easily knock down the wall, the attacker only needs to take a step forward and push the wall in the opposite direction. In this way, not only will they no longer be hurt by the trap, but they can also injure the enemy.

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From this, the counter-tactic was born - during siege operations, if the soldiers are caught in a melee in the city, when the soldiers are walking through the alleys, they should strike first and knock down the walls first to avoid being taken advantage of by the enemy.

If we go the other way and think from the perspective of the defender, if the attacker has to take the initiative to crash into the wall every time he passes through the alleyway, his trap will no longer be effective and may even injure himself. Then, is there any way to improve the trap again?

possible?

Li Mengxi asked the soldiers about his idea. What he was worried about was that the wall ambush trap would be a double-edged sword. It could be used to attack the enemy, but it could also be used by the enemy in turn. Things were not perfect.

The soldiers with rich life experience immediately dispelled Li Mengxi's worries. According to the soldiers, it is easy to push the wall outwards, but it is difficult to push it inward because there are more than one wall and the walls are against each other.

, Pushing it outwards, there is no obstruction, pushing it inward, it is difficult to push. Finally, the soldiers gave the suggestion that if you are afraid that the wall is not strong enough, just use poles to hold it up inside.

Just add two bars, and the situation will change immediately. Without the bars, the wall will easily fall down even if pushed forward or backward. After putting a shoulder on the inside of the wall, you can still push it easily from the inside, but you can't push it from the outside.

Moved.

Li Mengxi was very good at being his own opponent. He derived tactics one after another from the offensive and defensive sides, deduced countermeasures, and deduced countermeasures of countermeasures...

In the last step of [Wall Ambush Trap], the defender dug out the foundation of the wall and set up wooden poles behind the wall. At this time, the defender had a complete advantage. The defender could easily knock down the wall, and there was no way for the wall to be destroyed.

The worry about reversal is that at this time, what are the countermeasures for the attacker.

We have no countermeasures, so we can only hit the wall.

Siege operations are roughly divided into two stages, one is the siege wall stage, and the other is the city combat stage.

In the siege wall stage, the walls are high and the trenches are deep, requiring large equipment. In the city battle stage, the enemy may continue to resist by relying on buildings such as private houses and the city lord's mansion. Although these small buildings also have

It has the advantage of height, but its strength is far inferior to that of a real city wall.

In the battle sequence of the Julu Army's siege, there is a special type of soldier called the Gate Breaker. The so-called Gate Breaker is a soldier equipped with a personal door-rammer. When clearing the remaining enemies in the city, he wears a small, portable

Door slammers are enough to cause fatal damage to small buildings such as residential buildings and city lord's mansions.

With the destructive power of the door slammer, the wall of a private house cannot withstand a few hits and will fall apart. Once the wall falls apart, the trap will be broken without attack.

During the drill, the wall unexpectedly collapsed and buried a bunch of soldiers underneath. Li Mengxi deduced knowledge on the city's defense structure, wall ambush traps, and countermeasures against ambush traps.

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It was the last day of the thirty-day period. On this last day, Li Mengxi took stock of the supplies and made all preparations before departure. Then, Li Mengxi made the last preparation. He mobilized all the troops

After allocating the organization, Li Mengxi took the army to the wilderness, and then deliberately disbanded the team to mess up the organization. Then, Li Mengxi ordered the rural soldiers to find their own team flags and regroup.

According to the past experience of the rebel army, after the organization is established, it will take at least three days for the soldiers to firmly remember their belongings. But now there is no three days, only one day, which is not enough time, so the organization is not enough.

It took a whole day for the rural soldiers to disperse and gather together. The result of the whole day's training was that if the team was not too chaotic, as long as the rural soldiers did not collapse fifty steps away from the team flag, they would still be able to fight.

Being able to find them and reunite them under the banner. Reaching this level means that if there is a war, the country soldiers have the ability to reunite within fifty steps.

Soon, night fell. In order to reward the army before setting off, Li Mengxi had a lot of meat cooked for the whole army to have a good meal.

The top brass of the army gathered together to discuss the future battle strategy. All necessary logistical preparations had been made. Food and fodder, vehicles, weapons, arrows, medicinal materials, bedding, and even the soldiers' bowls were all ready.

According to the twelve zodiac signs, there are ten battalions under one banner, ten teams under one battalion, and one team consists of forty people. Li Mengxi calculated the troops on hand and found that he had over eight thousand troops. According to the organization, that is

Less than the strength of the two banners.

He looked up at the sky. The weather was clear and the sky was dotted with stars. "Eight thousand people, that's enough." Li Mengxi said to himself.

Eight thousand troops is not the limit of military strength, but the limit of logistics. In the one-month joint defense plan of the Julu Army, the Julu Army took the lead in organizing manpower and material resources in the countryside, so that there were military camps all over the countryside, except in one county in Bohai.

, the total number of rural soldiers in the countryside is estimated to be twenty to thirty thousand.

The next day, early in the morning, the army cooked meals early. After the army had a full meal, the mighty eight thousand army began to set off on the road.

The army had already set off. On the way, Li Mengxi always felt as if he had forgotten something, but he couldn't remember it.

After walking for more than ten miles, when he thought about whether the rural soldiers left behind were enough to defend, Li Mengxi suddenly realized that the problem was the rural soldiers! According to the Julu Army's defense plan, after the Julu Army's soldiers arrived at the local area,

He is responsible for recruiting rural soldiers, responsible for training, responsible for preparing weapons, food and grass, etc. What is more important than recruiting soldiers and preparing weapons is discipline.

This military action to help defend the local area was for political purposes. That is, we would rather not recruit a single village soldier than let the villagers curse in secret. Political correctness is more important than defending against the enemy.

Discipline is a top priority. It was fine before the army set off. Before the army set off, the instructors were still watching at each training ground, and they could still restrain discipline. However, when the army moved, there were not enough low-level officers in the army.

, we have to call all the instructors back, which will cause trouble.

Li Mengxi could almost predict what would happen next. Although the Julu Army left, the military camps in the countryside were still there, and the rural soldiers still gathered together. If someone restrained them, the rural soldiers would not dare to commit crimes, but they would wait until they lose restraint.

, the rural soldiers gathered together in a large group of young and strong men, and they were bound to cause trouble.

He made a mistake. Li Mengxi later thought that he should not recall all the soldiers. At least one soldier should be left in each training ground. This soldier is responsible for acting as a military judge to enforce discipline, so as to avoid lack of discipline.

The military discipline of the rural soldiers was ruined.

Fortunately, they were not far away, and there was still a possibility of remediation. Li Mengxi spent a lot of effort to remove the soldiers from the organization one by one. These soldiers will no longer go out with the army, and these combat instructors will return to their respective places.

Camp, strictly observe discipline as a military judge.

After taking the remedial measures, Li Mengxi thought again that this oversight was not included in the combat manual due to insufficient consideration, and those Julu soldiers who rushed to the counties were unlikely to be aware of the problem here.

The thirty-day period has arrived. In a few days, it will be time for the counties to counterattack at the same time as agreed upon. At that time, all the counties will send out troops together. Half of the rural soldiers will go out to fight, and half will stay in place.

Local rural soldiers are a major threat to rural security.

Li Mengxi had foreseen that there would be countless security incidents in the counties in the future. He took every precaution, but still failed to prevent it. The rural soldiers committed crimes and evil on their own, and in the end, the people would attribute it to the Julu Army.

It occurred to me that the counterattack time of Bohai County is different from that of other counties. Other counties will have to wait a little later. There may be a chance to make amends.

After thinking about it, Li Mengxi immediately dispatched "eight hundred miles" of urgent cavalry to the counties. The cavalrymen had two horses. They would not rest their horses. Even if the horses ran to death, they had to pass the news to the various ministries in time before the counties counterattack.

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Time is very tight, but if you think about it carefully, the matter is very simple. As long as the message is delivered to all places, there is no need to make any preparations in terms of materials and manpower. The commanders of each department only need to leave one person to take care of discipline when setting off. There should be no large-scale

A security incident occurred.

After the Julu Army's strength was reduced to three-thirds a month ago, most of the cavalry were taken away by Guan and Zhang to assist the counties. Most of the remaining cavalry remained in Liu Bei's hands. When Li Mengxi withdrew south, the cavalry in his hands was gone.

Less than a hundred horses.

Fortunately, Li Mengxi was well prepared. Within a month, in addition to preparing food and fodder, recruiting soldiers, and forging weapons, he also considered the scarcity of war horses. Li Mengxi was not willing to bully ordinary people, so all the war horses he obtained were from powerful men.

Got it from a wealthy owner.

In one month, Li Mengxi collected more than 300 war horses from the countryside, which also increased the number of cavalry in the army by more than 300. If not for this preparation, Li Mengxi would not have been able to expedite the 800-mile urgent summons to the counties.

, we don’t even have cavalry, how can we rush for eight hundred miles?

In short, Li Mengxi was once again ahead of the crisis. One step before the crisis came, he completed the preparations without knowing it.

The excellent logistics capabilities of the Julu Army are evident.

Based on the eight-hundred-mile expedited communication speed, and calculating the counterattack dates agreed with the counties, we can probably make up for the loopholes before the counterattack.
Chapter completed!