Li Mengxi greatly appreciated Liu Bei's logistical work. Liu Bei built a small city in just one month. This required Liu Bei to start the city building plan and organize manpower to make clay embryos from the first day he was stationed. Only in this way, thirty

Only a genius can save enough soil to build the city. The soil has thirty days to dry and is barely usable. Otherwise, even if it takes ten days at night or five days at night, the situation will be completely different.

During the month Liu Bei was stationed, from the first day to the present, the making of clay embryos has never stopped. The earliest clay embryos have been drying for more than thirty days, and the latest ones were made today and cannot be used at all.

It is definitely not strong enough to use mud that is not dry enough to build a wall, but it is better to use it than not to use it.

Liu Bei's overall planning method for building the city this time was to use soil that had been dry for more than seven days on the bottom and soil that had not been dried for enough time on the top. This could be used in emergencies.

Li Mengxi realized the problem from this. Soil embryos are a good thing. Soil embryos are processed clay products and are more convenient to use than soil. For example, in construction, thousands of soil embryos are hoarded. When you want to build a city wall, the soil embryos have to be moved.

Wow, the wall was up in half a day.

And if you don't prepare a soil embryo and use soil to temporarily build a wall, you still have to dig out the mud, add water to activate the mud, and even make molds and spend manpower to compact it. The working hours are too long.

Mud embryos are an extremely useful construction base material. There are no raw materials needed to make mud embryos. They can be made by digging soil anywhere. Mud embryos can be made almost anywhere, such as in the city, outside the city, or by the river.

For example, in the woods, there is soil almost everywhere, so mud embryos can be easily produced almost everywhere.

Clay embryos are useful, easy to make, and extremely cost-effective. There is no reason not to make them.

In the logistics sequence of the Julu Army, in [Hamster Warfare], when marching, every time you set up camp, cut down the surrounding wood for preliminary processing and store it, collect the surrounding firewood and store it, find stones, and burn the stones into lime on the spot.

Every time a camp was set up, the pottery camp would fire pottery on the spot. Once the pottery was finished, it would be left behind and kept there. When needed for the war ahead, the pottery would be immediately taken to the front and used as fire attack equipment.

In the hamster strategy, the potter camp only needs to bake pottery, but now there is an additional item, the clay embryo is also worthy of being used as a war preparation material reserve.

Moreover, burning pottery requires fuel. Making clay embryos does not require any fuel cost. To fire pottery, you need a kiln. Making clay embryos only requires simple molds. The difficulty of making clay embryos is countless times lower than that of pottery.

If in the [Hamster Strategy], the drying of the mud embryo is not a big problem. In the Hamster Strategy, collect all the wet firewood near the camp, regardless of whether it is dry, and spread it out casually. Anyway, even if it is wet,

Yes, it can be dried if left in the open air for a few days. As the march proceeds, the supplies are stored behind. After marching for a few days, by the time firewood is needed, the firewood behind will have dried.

In the same way, if the clay embryo is ready and placed on the roadside, it will dry on its own in a few days.

As a reserve material, the clay embryos do not need to dry so quickly. But this time, after Liu Bei stationed in the village, he was afraid that the enemy would attack overnight, so he worked overtime to make the clay embryos. In just two or three days, the clay embryos were ready.

As soon as it was made and before it could dry, the enemy came to kill them. In a hurry, they could only temporarily pile the wet mud embryos to the front and use it as a defensive fortification.

Thousands of mud embryos piled together randomly can only defend one corner, but if the mud embryos are dry, they can be built up properly to build a wall that can defend dozens of steps.

In addition, the wet mud embryo is not only not strong, but also heavy and inconvenient to carry. The price-performance ratio between the two is world-wide.

Clay embryos are easy to make, and if there are enough manpower, it is not a problem to produce tens of thousands of clay embryos in a day, and the military is a place with sufficient manpower.

Although it is easy to make 10,000 mud embryos, it is difficult to dry them quickly. The hypothetical scenario is as follows: assuming that the enemy is going to attack tomorrow, and now it is necessary to strengthen the defense. There is no wood around now, and the only way is to dig mud on the spot. Can the mud be dug to make

After buying thousands of clay embryos, the clay embryos were still wet and soft, making them useless.

At the critical moment, there can be a big difference between having a few thousand more embryo bricks and a few thousand fewer embryo bricks.

At a critical moment, these few thousand extra bricks can build a small fortress that can accommodate dozens of soldiers. With such a small fortress standing in front of the enemy's front, the enemy's front will be sharply reduced. In extreme cases,

This small fortress was enough to be the straw that broke the camel's back.

This is an advantage brought by the strategic level. A small fortress that can accommodate dozens of soldiers can kill at least 200 enemy troops. Without the need for fighting, it can directly offset the enemy's 200 troops. Wouldn't it be a big profit?

Therefore, Li Mengxi believed that there should be technology to quickly dry mud embryos.

During the march and war, the only quick drying technology that could be used was to use fire.

But the problem is that if it is baked with fire, let alone whether it will work or whether the clay embryo will crack, the fuel consumption alone is not affordable.

It was necessary to use fire without consuming firewood. The only method Li Mengxi could think of was the "burning earth method to set up camp."

The origin of the so-called burning earth camping method is this. When cooking in the camp, firewood was burned on the ground for two days. After that, the ground was dry and hard, and turned into pottery.

The hardened soil is impermeable to water and does not become messy in the rain, making it perfect for road construction.

Just to build a road, thousands of kilograms of firewood must be burned all the way. This cost is too high, so the burning earth camp method of using waste has been developed.

The burning earth camping method means that when the cooks are cooking, they deliberately concentrate the burning places. In this way, when the rice is cooked, the ground is burned, and the road surface is extended bit by bit.

There are several burned paths in Julu and Julu Military Camp. There is no firewood on these paths. They are all burned when cooking. This means that it costs nothing and you get a few paths for nothing.

Clay hardened road.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! According to the idea of ​​[burning soil camping method], use the same method, after making the clay embryo, surround the clay embryo into a stove, and then raise the fire in the stove for cooking.

In this way, while cooking, the clay embryos are dried.

Judging from the number of stoves equipped in the army, ten people have one stove, and an army of 10,000 people has one thousand stoves. If four pieces of clay are formed into one stove, four thousand pieces of clay can be baked in one meal.

Semi-dry or semi-dry clay embryos are enough.

With four thousand mud embryos, you can build a short wall or a small barrier as big as a room. If you use a mixed method, build a layer of dry mud embryos, and then build a layer of wet mud embryos, four thousand yuan can be built.

Dry mud embryos plus four thousand wet embryos can produce the same effect as eight thousand mud embryos.

Eight thousand pieces of mud embryos are enough to build a barrier at a key point on the terrain.

The number of four thousand is a completely zero-cost production quantity without any consumption. If there is a crisis, no matter the fuel, it can be produced overnight, and tens of thousands of clay embryos can be produced in one night.

In addition to stoves that can be used to dry mud embryos, lime kilns and pottery kilns will also generate excess heat during the production process. If it is factory production, the hot air in the kiln can be led to the warehouse through pipes, and the hot air can be used

Dry the mud embryos in the warehouse. But when marching outside, there are no pipelines and no sealed warehouses, so there is no way to use the heat generated by the kiln body. The only way is to use mud embryos as kiln building materials and use wet mud embryos

When the kiln body is built and lime and pottery are fired, the clay embryo is also dried.

According to the working time of marching and camping, at most one kiln can be fired overnight. One kiln uses three to two hundred pieces of clay, which is equivalent to producing two to three hundred more pieces of dry mud at zero cost.

embryo.

Not only that, Li Mengxi thought of the method of dealing with firewood in [Hamster Warfare]. In the Hamster Warfare, the wet firewood collected is spread out casually on the roadside. After several days of wind and sun, the firewood will gradually become dry.

dry.

Drying can be completely postponed. Although, if you camp overnight, you can only bake one kiln of pottery and dry one kiln of soil. Why not pile up the semi-dry wet firewood into the wet clay when you break camp?

When you break camp, you light a fire and leave, letting it continue to burn slowly. In this way, when people leave, the fire is still burning. This does not mean that although the bricks cannot be dried overnight, it can

Thousands of bricks can be dried in one day, and the bricks can be dried within one day, which is also very fast.

According to Li Mengxi's guess, it may be better to use wet firewood to bake slowly than to bake over high fire. High fire can easily cause the clay embryo to crack, but low fire may be much better. In this way, wet firewood has a unique use.

Learning from Liu Bei's experience, Li Mengxi felt that he would also make clay embryos in the future. He would do it every day, whenever he had time. The more he made, the better. The clay embryos could be used to build a city on the ground, and they could be thrown from the top of the city to hit people.

It is used to block rivers and build dams. In short, it has endless uses.

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Li Mengxi felt that Liu Bei's logistics was excellent. After Liu Bei inspected the troops, horses, provisions, weapons, etc. brought by Li Mengxi, Liu Bei had the same idea.

Liu Bei saw a large number of vehicles in the Zizhong team. These vehicles had all been modified, with panels added to one side of the vehicle body, and became side-chariots that could fight. The quality of these vehicles varied, and some were obviously new and some were old.

The old ones were obviously collected from the collection, and the new ones were probably made by ourselves.

Among the heavy supplies, there were carts full of grain and grass, a large amount of wood and firewood, spare weapons, cloth, tools, and other supplies. Without exception, these supplies were extremely sufficient.

Liu Bei saw that the village soldiers brought by Li Mengxi each had one long spear, one crossbow per capita, and more than ninety arrows per capita. Liu Bei was quite impressed that Li Mengxi could raise so many weapons in just one month.

Praise.

Bows and crossbows took a long time to make and could not be produced quickly. The crossbows distributed to the rural soldiers were all collected from the countryside.

It is not difficult to raise armaments from the countryside, Liu Bei thought he could do it, but the key is how many places were raised to raise so much.

Li Mengxi thought for a while, "About fifty miles in radius."

This is the key point. Anyone can raise armaments, but Li Mengxi can collect them within a radius of fifty miles.

What is the concept of fifty miles? It takes a lot of time to walk through an area as big as fifty miles, not to mention raising armaments. The situation is unstable. The villagers have to rely on weapons to protect themselves, and they are not willing to give them up easily.

Liu Bei was puzzled. He didn't understand how Li Mengxi had raised so many crossbows, so he asked Li Mengxi his doubts.

"I bought it." Li Mengxi replied.

"Bought it?" Liu Bei raised his voice with disbelief in his eyes, "How can we get so much money?"

Liu Bei knew very well that when he divided his troops, there was not much money left in the army. Liu Bei glanced at Li Mengxi doubtfully and thought, is paper money really so easy to spend?

Liu Bei thought that Li Mengxi had successfully spent the paper money, so he had enough money to purchase military supplies. Liu Bei was completely wrong. It was not easy to spend the paper money. In other words, Li Mengxi had no money in his hands and had to spend the paper money.

If you don't go out, you won't have any money at all.

Li Mengxi's method of preparing ordnance was beyond Liu Bei's expectation. Li Mengxi bullied a large family again. He plundered money and grain from the big family, used the money and grain to collect crossbow weapons from the countryside at high prices, and used the money to smash them, and started the crossbow acquisition plan.

very smooth.

Paper money was not accepted in the countryside, and there was no surplus wealth in the army, but grain was collected from large households, and grain was more popular than money. In this way, more than 2,000 crossbows were easily raised with grain.

After all, food is in short supply, and even if enough food is obtained from wealthy and powerful families, no matter how much food is available, it cannot withstand unbridled consumption.

Therefore, in addition to food, there is another way to raise funds - exchanging weapons for bows and crossbows.

The Julu Army has an advantage in forging technology. Many soldiers in the army are equipped with sophisticated steel-clad knives. Such a steel-clad weapon is worth as much as a hundred-refined ring hand, and one is worth as much as a hundred-refined sword.

Most of the villagers will feel that they have made a profit by exchanging the weapons in Huan's hand for the crossbows in the hands of the villagers. By exchanging the weapons for crossbows, they can exchange for more than a thousand crossbows.

This chapter is not over yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading! In addition, it is not difficult to gather eight thousand crossbows and crossbows from the local government. In fact, Li Mengxi raised more than eight thousand crossbows. When he sent out troops,

Only the best batch was brought with them, and the rest were reserved for local soldiers to defend the territory.

Li Mengxi's complete method of raising armaments is here. The key is to spend money and food on it. If you give enough money and food, you won't be afraid of not being able to buy bows and crossbows. The key to raising food is powerful people.
To be continued...