On April 9, after being stationed in Nanpi City for a day for repairs, Liu Bei and Li Mengxi's two troops combined to form a total force of more than 12,000. After leaving some wounded and basic city defense forces behind in Nanpi City, the two led 10,000 troops.

The people's army wants to send troops to find the traitors and fight decisively.

On the day when Nanpi City was being renovated, the Julu Army Blacksmith Camp smelted a large number of farm tools and damaged weapons. After smelting a furnace of pig iron, more than 5,840 pig iron arrowheads were cast. There were many scattered pieces in Nanpi City.

There were farm tools and iron tools everywhere. The thieves once occupied Nanpi City, but when the thieves occupied Nanpi City, the thieves did not try to smelt the iron tools into weapons. Regardless of the enemy, anyway, the Julu Army was stationed for a day, and the arrows

The loss reserve increased by several thousand. Coke is really a good thing. The temperature of coke is high, and it can turn pig iron into molten iron with strong fluidity. Because of its strong fluidity, the casting efficiency is very fast. This is one, and the other is the heat of coke.

The value is large, and the furnace temperature rises quickly, which greatly shortens the smelting time. The value of this in actual combat is that if the time for stationing and repairing can only be half a day, then in this only half day, if you use wood, the wood will burn

It takes two or three hours for the kiln temperature to rise. As soon as the kiln temperature rises, you have to break camp. If you use coke, even if the camp time is only half a day, half a day is enough to smelt coke.

In addition, the carpenter camp repaired 37 pairs of wheels, and rushed out 14 pairs of spare wheels. It also made more than 300 gun shafts, and other items such as wooden spokes for wheels, bowls, shields, and countless miscellaneous items.

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During the short period of repairs in Nanpi, the fishing team had no time to spare. The fishing camp went out day and night to find water to catch fish. Before departure, the fishing team caught a total of more than 1,200 kilograms of fish.

The potter's camp produced more than 500 small clay pots. In an emergency, these 500 pots could be used as fire-throwing tools.

There are also the lime burned in the lime kiln, the processed meat and leather from the animals slaughtered by the butcher camp, the wood and firewood collected by the Zizhong team in the city, etc., all added up, the supplies stored in the logistics camps are extremely considerable.

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The difference between the logistics content of this army and the past is that this time there is an additional item of soil embryos. During the day when he was stationed for repairs, Li Mengxi was full of practical spirit and experimented with the campfire drying method, the soil embryo kiln method, and the fire leaving method.

Drying method.

The campfire drying method means that the wet clay embryos are surrounded by a stove, and when cooking, the firewood is placed on the stove, and the clay embryos are dried while cooking. After testing, in one meal, the flame

Under the baking, the clay embryo dries and cracks. In times of crisis, the cracked clay embryo can also be used for building fortifications. From this, the clay embryo can be further improved. When camping, the finished clay embryo can be used to build fortifications.

Part of the embryo is dried quickly by fire, and the other part is left to slowly dry in the shade. In this way, one batch of mud embryos can be kept for emergency use, and at the same time, another batch of shade-dried mud embryos with excellent strength can be used to build giant fortifications.

.After testing, the campfire drying method is effective. In one meal, an army of 10,000 people can dry about 800 to 1,000 clay embryos.

The clay brick kiln building method uses newly made wet clay bricks to build the kiln body. Before leaving, when the kiln is no longer in use, the kiln is broken open and two to three hundred completely dry bricks are obtained.

The last item is the fire-drying method. Li Mengxi found a lot of semi-dry branches and dead grass and other miscellaneous firewood, and then stacked the wet mud embryos close together, and spread the wet firewood in a thick layer.

Spread it on the clay, light a fire from below, and let the firewood burn slowly. This process lasted for almost a day. In the end, the firewood turned into ashes, and the hot ashes remained for a long time.

Keep it warm. At the end, pull out the ashes and check the clay embryo that has been smoldering for almost a day. The clay embryo is about 7788% dry. The drying method of leaving the fire on is useful. Use a fire before leaving.

Later, people failed to extinguish the fire. The fire burned for a day and a half, and the bricks were suffocated and dried up.

And if the weather is not right, or there is not enough firewood, in fact, in addition to storing supplies, the hamster strategy can also store workers.

When breaking out of camp, the army set off on the road, leaving the clay embryos in place, and one or two workers. When the army left, the remaining workers were responsible for processing the clay embryos. It was difficult to dry the clay embryos quickly overnight, and it was difficult to dry the clay embryos in one day.

It is also difficult to dry the embryos, but three to five days is enough time.

For three to five days, the workers can collect firewood calmly, have enough time to let the clay dry slowly, and even work hard and slowly to produce fine work.

Every time we break out of camp, it is enough to leave only three or two workers at each campsite. After marching for one month and setting up camp thirty times, we only need to leave 60 workers. However, leaving such 60 manpower can bring

The benefit is that the soil embryo that should have taken one to two months or even longer to dry in the shade can be dried in five days. At the same time, this is different from direct baking with strong fire. Direct baking with strong fire will cause serious cracking of the soil embryo.

The slow smoldering method of wet firewood greatly improves the quality of the clay embryo.

Inspired by this, why only keep workers? Carpenters can stay, potters can stay, and fishing teams can also stay.

In view of the fact that carpenters can process wood, the fishing team can keep fishing at the back of the team and continuously send fish to the front line, while potters and blacksmiths are of little use if left behind. Therefore, in the hamster strategy,

Only three types of logistics personnel, namely ordinary workers, fishing teams, carpenters, and others have been added.

The number of ordinary workers responsible for drying the mud is enough. The number of carpenters who process the wood is uncertain. It depends on the amount of wood cut around when setting up camp that day. The fishing team will decide based on the amount of water they encounter during the march. According to the number of the fishing team,

The working mode consists of an osprey boat, a vehicle carrying tools, and a vehicle responsible for transporting fish. A fishing team requires at least two vehicles and eight manpower.

From the preparation of materials for field fortification, to the clay embryo, to the rapid drying of the clay embryo, to the technology of keeping fire and sulfur drying, to the retention of manpower in the settlement, to the retention of manpower such as workers, carpenters, and fishing teams, and then to the issue of degree.

There is no big problem in retaining workers. There are only two fire workers at one location. It does not consume much manpower. It is very simple to burn fires. There is no need to retain elite manpower. You can leave the lightly injured to take charge, and the manpower consumption is even less.

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Carpentry is not a big problem. The wood left behind does not need to be processed too delicately. It only needs to be slightly trimmed. A day or two is enough. After the wood is processed, it will take a day or two for the carpenter to ride a horse.

Went back to the team.

Among the three types of manpower, the fishing team needs to be considered most carefully, because the fishing team essentially adds a supply team at the rear. Since it is a supply team, it must consider the issue of cost-effectiveness. The fishing efficiency is limited and not much can be caught.

If the fishing team is too far away from the main force, the fish caught will not be enough for the fishing team to consume on the road. Coupled with the problem of fish preservation, the fish cannot even be preserved for half a day in summer, and if the fish is only

If it can be kept for half a day, the fishing team will not be able to get out.

So at this step, we must solve the problem of fish preservation. Regarding preservation, the first method that Li Mengxi thought of was to pickle it with salt, but this idea was wrong. Not to mention the waste salt for pickling fish, and bringing a lot of salt would be a drag.

Logistically, using salt is not a good choice.

Li Mengxi thought of the method of smoking again, but it required a large amount of firewood and a hanging stove. At the worst, he had to find hundreds or even thousands of wooden sticks to string the fish together for smoking. He also had to find firewood, make wooden sticks, and

It takes a lot of manpower to smoke the fish one by one. This is too much work for a small fishing team of only eight people. So smoking is not possible.

Finally, Li Mengxi thought of the only feasible method - boiling.

Raw fish is prone to spoilage. Cooking the fish will make the fish less likely to spoil. The shelf life of raw fish is half a day. If the fish is cooked, the shelf life is two days at least. If the fish is boiled every day, the shelf life of the fish can last for ten years.

Half a month is not a problem.

What do you need to cook fish? A large iron pot, water, and firewood.

There is no need to prepare water. The fishing team can get water nearby. Only one large iron pot is needed or it is enough for a fishing team. As for firewood, the fishing team cannot collect the firewood needed for smoking, but they can collect enough to cook several pots of fish.

Firewood is easy.

With the boiling method, the problem of fish preservation is no longer a problem. There is only one problem left, the supply distance problem.

Taking into account multiple factors such as the average fishing efficiency, the transportation efficiency of horse-drawn carriages, and the speed of ration consumption, the farthest replenishment distance of the fishing team should be no more than three days away from the main force.

The original replenishment method of the fishing team was that during the march, after setting up camp, the fishing team went to the waters within a three-mile radius of the camping site to fish. The fishing time started from the time of camping and ended before returning to camp the next day. If the camping site

If there is no water within three miles, the fishing team does not need to set out.

Now that the fishing team supply law has been changed, the working time of the fishing team has changed from one night to three days and three nights, and the output will increase several times.

According to experience, the average number of fishing, hunting and raising troops is three to five hundred. That is to say, no matter what kind of army it is, whether it is an army of a thousand people or an army of ten thousand people, when the army is marching, if you are lucky, you will encounter a group of people along the way.

Wild boars, if you are unlucky, won't even have any wild vegetables. On average, if you add up all the wild vegetables, fish, and prey collected during a military operation, you can feed at most three to five hundred people.

Now the fishing team has three times more working time, and the supply distance has also increased a lot. The increase in supply distance is equal to the increase in resource points. The limit of the supply distance is a three-day march. There must be waters along the three-day march.

You must be able to find a place to fish. In other words, in the past, when you set up camp, you would catch fish if there were any, and forget about it if there were no fish. But now, you must have fish every day.

According to the previous method, the limit of the fishing, hunting and raising army was five hundred people. Now, with the addition of small fishing supply teams, the output of fishing and hunting has been increased by at least three times. In the past, the fishing, hunting and raising army could raise

There were 500 people, but now it can support 700 people.

Fishing is not difficult, nor is handling and transporting fish. During the march, the most difficult thing is to know where the water is and where the fish are. The second most difficult thing is to be able to find the main force at any time when leaving the large group of people.

The fishing team does not have intelligence capabilities. Whether it is looking for water sources or looking for the main force, it must rely on the help of scouts. This involves another issue. In marching operations, intelligence is the top priority. In order to detect the enemy's situation, scouts must be sent forward.

It is dozens of miles away, in a vast area that is dozens of miles long, with roads and byways extending in all directions, and there is air leakage everywhere. No matter how many scouts are sent to avoid missing any traces, no amount is enough.

In ancient times when intelligence methods were limited, no matter how many scouts you sent, it was not enough.

The scouts are too late to detect the enemy's situation, so wasting precious scout manpower just to catch fish is not worth the gain.

At this time, part of the essence of the Ambush from Flying Daggers method came into use.

It is too extravagant for a fishing team to send a scout to be responsible for communication. Unless the scout marks the river water area when detecting the enemy's situation, then precious scout power will not be wasted.

The method for scouts to leave a mark is to place sticks and stones as a mark. When the scouts pass by, they will place some soil clods according to a specific method on the roadside and insert some sticks. When their companions pass by, they can understand by just looking at the mark.

Road information.

The situation is different now. The Julu Army has paper and has initially recruited some drawing talents. Now the way for scouts to leave marks is much simpler. The scouts draw a small map by hand, roll it up and insert it into a bamboo tube, and it is still on the road.

Stick branches and stones were inserted as markers, and bamboo tubes were hidden among the clods of soil. In this way, when the companions saw the mark and opened the clod of soil and took out the map, the information about the road ahead would be clear at a glance. The fishing team only had to pay attention to the information left by the scouts.

The information is clear at a glance whether you are looking for water or finding a way.

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We broke camp and set off, looking for the traitors.

The current situation is that the rear has no worries. The southwest of Bohai County has completely locked up the rebel army's invasion of the capital. The door has been closed to beat the dog. The giant tiger of the Julu Army has jumped through the door.

The rest should catch the evil dog of the rebel army and kill it completely.

On the north-facing road, Liu Bei stood on his horse beside the road. He watched the marching column slowly pass by. The queue was very long, and it took a long time for the flow of people, carriages and horses to pass. Liu Bei looked at the tail of the queue and looked at it again.

Looking far away, the leader of the team is almost invisible. To this day, Liu Bei has long been accustomed to this sight of thousands of people.

With his last glance before leaving, Liu Bei looked back at Nanpi City. He didn't know what he thought of. Liu Bei's brows were slightly furrowed, and his face looked sad.

"What's wrong?" Li Mengxi asked.

"Nothing happened. Several brothers died of serious injuries and were just buried yesterday."

Speaking of casualties, Liu Bei especially mentioned that several wounded soldiers did not suffer serious injuries, but were hit by arrows. They were fine at first, but after four or five days they suddenly died.

(Tetanus again...) Li Mengxi frowned. He had already asked military doctors to develop drugs, but there was no result yet. The best sterilization method in the military now is high-grade alcohol, which is somewhat ineffective against tetanus.

Li Mengxi thought about penicillin. To kill bacteria, penicillin can be called a magic weapon.

Now that this has happened, we have to get out the penicillin no matter what. It is written in the history textbook that tailors in Chang'an would smear wounds with a liquid lake containing penicillium. It is probably useful to use natural penicillium without processing it, but maybe, what is written in the textbook

It's wrong, you still need to try it.
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