On the second day of the counterattack, the rural soldiers marched as usual in various counties. Compared with the previous day, the marching situation was generally the same, but there were also many subtle differences.

There have been some subtle but profound changes in the rural soldiers.

During the march the previous day, some teams were seriously disconnected from the front and back, and the team moved sparsely. After this experience, the commander had a deep understanding of the contents of the combat manual and understood why someone should be led from the front to lead the way behind during the march.

You should also leave someone behind to finish, in order to better control the team.

When some teams were marching, they encountered hares and the like on the roadside. The country soldiers ignored discipline and ran out to chase rabbits in the queue. Yesterday, the commander severely punished the person involved for chasing rabbits.

Today we were on the march again, and encountered wild vegetables, hares, and the like again on the roadside. The country soldiers could only look at them with envy and did not dare to leave the team and pursue them.

Marching operations are complicated. As a team with novices from commanders to ordinary soldiers, a large number of omissions and problems were exposed on the first day of the march yesterday.

After some teams marched for a day, they found that the firewood was not dry enough and it was troublesome to start a fire. So when they marched again on the second day, the commander asked the logistics team to lift the mats on the firewood trucks and prepare to use them during the day.

When marching, it would be easier to dry firewood to start a fire. Drying firewood is nothing more than a trivial matter, but for the rural soldiers with a very low starting point, no matter how small it is, it is still progress, no matter how small it is.

The progress is commendable.

Some teams were poorly prepared for their front and rear logistics. There were several fully loaded grain trucks in the team that had no animals to pull them, so they could only rely on manpower to pull the trucks. As a result, the marching speed of the entire army was slowed down by these few trucks. This is in line with the purpose of the march.

According to that law, the speed of marching does not depend on how fast the fastest part can be, but on how slow the slowest part can be.

After all, the commander of the Julu Army lacked experience. During the logistics preparation stage, the commander simply thought that there were already a lot of livestock, which should be enough. However, he did not expect that in terms of logistics, a person who walks a hundred paces would be half a hundred.

, logistics vehicles have two states, one is fully equipped with animal power, and the other is not fully equipped. Even if one hundred vehicles are equipped with ninety-nine pack horses, the overall marching speed is no different from that of one hundred vehicles with one pack horse.

When the commander realized the lack of preparation, he began to think about a solution. The solution the commander thought of was that since there was a shortage of livestock, why not buy one or two along the way. The commander counted the money carried by the army.

, prepare to go to the village to buy something when you encounter it.

But as soon as this idea came up, the commander felt embarrassed, because as early as the time of departure, there were military orders strictly prohibiting harassment of the people, especially when marching, not staying in villages, let alone having too much contact with the local people.

At that time, Li Mengxi strictly prohibited the rural soldiers from contacting the people along the way because he was worried that the rural soldiers were not disciplined enough and that there would be hidden dangers in allowing the rural soldiers to approach the villages. Things like molesting women and stealing would inevitably happen. It was with this in mind.

Li Mengxi simply waved his hand and directly banned all negotiations between the rural soldiers and the people.

The entire plan to assist the defense of the counties was very hasty, and Li Mengxi must have made some mistakes. The supply methods for the Julu Army Headquarters include fishing and hunting with the army, purchasing with the army, etc. For the Julu Army Headquarters, purchasing with the army is important.

One of the means of supply, Li Mengxi forgot, is that the situation that the headquarters can encounter can also be encountered by the rural soldiers. The headquarters often needs to purchase supplies from the countryside, and the rural soldiers will also need them.

Li Mengxi's rash ban became a yoke to restrain the rural soldiers. Commanders who wanted to buy livestock along the way did not dare to violate the ban, and had to abandon the purchase along the way.

Since purchasing could not be done, the commander honestly thought of other ways. The first way that came to mind was that the commander decided to give priority to using the supplies on those vehicles without pack horses in the past few days, so that the supplies could be used up as soon as possible so that the vehicles could be used as soon as possible.

It is lightweight, and without the drag of these vehicles, the march can be faster. This is a method that the commander came up with himself.

When the commander remembered to check the combat manual, he suddenly discovered that the combat manual contained a solution to the vehicle transportation problem.

Among the vehicle transportation methods, there is a [balanced load method]. That is to say, suppose one vehicle is full of wood and the vehicle is too heavy, and another vehicle is full of wheat straw and the vehicle is too light, which is a waste of transportation capacity. In this way, two vehicles can carry one vehicle.

Too heavy, one vehicle is too light, and the use efficiency of the vehicle is very low. The balanced load method is to uniformly deploy all logistics materials and transport heavy and light objects in a mixed manner. The whole vehicle is too heavy to pull wood, and the whole vehicle is too heavy to pull wheat straw.

Light, so divide the wood and wheat straw evenly into two carts, and each cart contains half a cart of wood and half a cart of wheat straw, so that each cart is neither light nor heavy, just right.

The commander could not understand the knowledge in the combat manual very well. When this happened, he thought about the contents of the manual and suddenly felt enlightened.

Inspired by the balanced load method, the commander immediately had a solution. The current problem in the army is that there are not enough pack horses, and vehicles without pack horses move too slowly. According to the balanced load method, the commander temporarily stopped the team and moved all the troops.

All logistics supplies were unloaded from the vehicle and after sorting them out, the heavy items were placed on other vehicles, while the lightest items were placed on vehicles without pack horses.

After such an adjustment, obviously there were still the same amount of supplies and the same amount of vehicles and horses, but once the vehicle hit the road, the overall traveling speed of the vehicle was several percent faster.

In fact, the soldiers have enough experience in daily life to solve such a small problem of coordinating vehicles and supplies. They would never have thought that it was just a matter of negligence due to the complexity of the affairs.

It can be seen that the Julu Army wrote down everything in detail, and wrote down many simple things that even children can understand. This measure is still useful, and even the simplest content in the manual can be useful.

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Hundreds of rural soldiers in each county can encounter as many problems as they may encounter during the march, and even more and more complex problems will be encountered due to lack of experience.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! While camping, someone actually stole something. This kind of thing has never happened to the Julu Army headquarters, but a team of rural soldiers showed up. After camping for a night, some

The rural soldier came to the commander and said that he had lost the money he brought with him. He said that someone else must have stolen it and asked for a thorough investigation. The man who lost the money was making such a loud noise that the whole battalion knew that there was a thief in the camp. The commander looked at it.

The soldiers who started whispering could not help but frown. The commander was a smart man. He knew that the money was not necessarily stolen. It could have been dropped by himself, or it could have been lost, or it could even be this person.

I misremembered. Money is a small matter, and the village soldiers who got into trouble for this little money were wary of each other and suspicious of each other. The gain outweighed the gain.

The matter is very complicated. If it is not handled well, it will affect the morale of the army. If it is not handled unfairly, it will lose people's hearts. If it is ignored, it will also undermine the authority. Such a matter is considered a thorny matter at the Julu Army Headquarters and at the Julu Government.

The commander of the Julu Army was not even an officer. His predecessor was just an ordinary cavalryman. Such an inexperienced and incompetent person would probably not be able to handle conflicts well.

At this time, the ban on the heads of various ministries played an unexpected role.

Li Mengxi was worried that the commanders of various ministries would not be able to grasp the amount of punishment well, so he did not give the commanders any right to impose severe punishments. The positive effect of this ban on this theft incident is that there is such a ban, locking people to death

This set the minimum limit for commanders to deal with conflicts, and since they did not have any right to impose severe penalties, commanders had to find other ways to deal with the problem.

Suppose, without this heavy sentence restriction, the minimum limit for commanders would be as low as a cruel commander who is addicted to murder and would cut off a person's head every now and then, thinking that he could establish his authority. This would have the worst consequences:

This will make the rural soldiers unable to bear it anymore and start a counterattack, which will cause the Julu Army to lose a lot of people's hearts and minds.

There is such a prohibition, and the minimum limit for the commander is that the commander can only whip the rural soldiers a few times, and the rural soldiers can only curse a few words in their hearts, but will not take it too seriously. In this situation, the commander cannot impose any severe punishment.

Under this situation, the worst result a commander can cause is that the punishment may not be enough to deter everyone, causing a large area of ​​soldiers to flee, causing the counterattack to fail.

Comparing the two, one forces the rural soldiers to rebel and offends the local people, while the other only fails to counterattack. Comparing the two with each other, it is obvious that the consequences of the latter are much lighter.

It is precisely because of the existence of the penalty prohibition that when encountering a theft incident, the commander is prevented from doing such a barbaric act as directly killing someone to establish his authority regardless of the facts.

Although, murder is indeed useful. You don't need to worry about who steals the money, and you don't need to collect personal or physical evidence. You can just find someone at random from the crowd, push the person out and behead him in public. The thief hidden in the crowd will see the head roll to the ground.

They must be frightened, so the theft will be prohibited.

However, acting so roughly, not only wronging the good people, but also letting the real evil people go, is really not a good thing.

The ban of the Julu Army has raised the lower limit for commanders to handle conflicts. Even though commanders may not be able to handle conflicts well due to lack of ability and other reasons, they are not too bad.

Back to the topic, let's talk about the commander. The commander has nothing to do with the theft incident. He really wants to go through all the packages of everyone in the camp. He doesn't believe that he can't find the person who stole the things, but he thinks of the restrictions of the ban. Even if he finds the person,

What can be done to the thief? He can't be killed. He can only be punished. But what if the punishment is over? He has to be taken away. Everyone in the same camp knows who the thief is. He can't see you when he looks up. Let that person

How to hold your head up.

The prohibition prevents commanders from using violence wantonly, but violence is the simplest and crudest way to deal with it. It cannot be simple and crude. Commanders have to use their brains to think of other ways. It's amazing if they use their brains. A fool must think a lot.

have to.

The last solution the commander came up with was to simply take his own money and give it to the soldier who had stolen the property to put an end to the whole incident.

The money for the long-term illness was not given by the commander, so how could he accept the money from the commander? The village soldier was flattered and refused, but the commander insisted on giving it. The two of them argued for a long time. This scene completely fell into the trap of other village soldiers.

In the eyes of the soldiers, inadvertently, the commander's actions made the village soldiers even more convinced.

The Julu Army's ban on executions directly prohibits the worst option for dealing with conflicts. Commanders can only choose a handling method among other options after excluding the worst option. Therefore, regardless of command

No matter how officials respond to conflicts, they are better than the worst.

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It was another smooth day's march. All aspects of the march on this second day were better than those on the previous day.

First of all, in terms of mentality, it is said that everything is difficult at the beginning. Yesterday, everyone from the commander to the country soldiers walked on the road with fear. However, after walking for a day yesterday, the country soldiers found that marching was not that difficult. After one day

After getting used to it, we marched again today, and the country soldiers were more used to it.

Secondly, it is the accumulation of experience. Yesterday, the queue was too scattered, and today the team deliberately narrowed down a little; yesterday, some country soldiers walked halfway to chase rabbits, and the commander reprimanded them, but today no one is there anymore

I dare to leave the team at will and move around freely; yesterday some teams burned too much firewood overnight. Today, if I am prepared, I will know how to save some firewood.

Some lost their weapons and learned to count their weapons every time they left camp. They almost caught fire if they failed to watch the campfire, so they learned to keep the campfire farther away from the baggage.

Everyone will grow, but the soldiers of Julu, who are accustomed to summing up experience, grow particularly fast.

As the sun was setting that day, it was still a little early to get dark, and many rural soldiers had chosen a good location to set up camp early.

If we could count the time the ministries set up camp yesterday and today, we would find that the time the ministries set up camp today is generally much earlier than the day before.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Yesterday, due to lack of experience in camping, the camp time of each department was generally late. As a result, there was not enough time, so we had to discredit the camp. After a day of experience accumulation, only one day

Since then, various methods have matured in terms of choosing the time to set up camp.

On the second day of the march, there was an additional matter. According to the overall strategic arrangement that controlled the overall situation, the rural troops of each department marched for two days from the day of the counterattack, and stayed for one day to rest. This is taking into account the different distances of the roads in each place, and the rural soldiers.

It was also difficult to exchange information among the troops. This arrangement had to be made in order to ensure that all units marched at the same pace and acted in a unified manner as much as possible.

At night, after the commanders who had set up camps in various places conscientiously patrolled their camps, they were all thinking about whether they should leave tomorrow or not.

There is some information in this, and the ministries are asked to stay for one day for every two days. This order is obvious and easy to understand, and there is no objection. However, the order itself is contrary to common sense. It is like the people who eat every day, and suddenly the order is given.

Asking the people not to eat tomorrow and wait until the day after tomorrow to eat, the people cannot understand the logic. When tomorrow comes, the people will be hesitant whether they should eat or not.

In the same way, when marching, a large amount of food has to be consumed every day. A considerable number of commanders cannot understand the purpose of wasting time by stopping and going. If they cannot figure out the logic, they will inevitably question it. Under questioning, this is also part of the commanders.

The reason why the official hesitated to make up his mind.

The commanders' doubts were dispelled by the Julu Army's backup. Compared with the commanders' hesitation, the scout team responsible for liaising with various ministries was also afraid that if some teams left tomorrow and could not find anyone to communicate with, they stayed overnight.

, the scouts traveled around to reiterate the order to rest tomorrow to every rural soldier team under their jurisdiction. The unsure commanders finally felt at ease.
Chapter completed!