In the main force of the Julu Army, there are outlying branches.

While Li Mengxi and Liu Bei were chasing the enemy, they had many contacts with local forces. Local people knew that Liu Bei was going north to fight against thieves, and they all agreed with him.

At the beginning, Li Mengxi tried to dissuade Liu Bei on the grounds that his army already had enough troops, but the soldiers who rushed to surrender were not familiar with the disciplines of the Julu Army and did not know the tactics of the Julu Army.

He politely declined the offer of troops from many investors, but as the number of people coming to invest became more and more frequent, Liu Bei felt that it was a bit unreasonable for others to help him outright, so he discussed with Li Mengxi whether to accept the offer or not.

The key lies in a measure. Not accepting one soldier at all is inhumane and cold-blooded. But if you accept it all, the Julu Army headquarters now has no shortage of troops and limited logistics supplies. If someone comes to surrender, it is reasonable and reasonable.

Taking care of people's meals, if there is a storm or rain, you have to prepare camping supplies for others. The army only has so few supplies, and it is already very difficult to maintain the logistics of the headquarters. If you recruit troops rashly, the logistics will be overwhelmed.

Considering logistics, we cannot recruit too many troops. Considering the political impact, we have to recruit. Considering the two aspects, considering that the Julu Army already has enough troops and manpower, and there is no shortage of infantry, we recruit infantry.

It is a completely negative return for the department.

The only types of troops that can be divided into rural teams are infantry, civilians, crossbowmen, and cavalry. Infantry is not needed, and civilians are even less needed. The only options left are crossbowmen and cavalry.

Whether they are crossbowmen or cavalry, they can still play a combat role if they are directly absorbed into the team without being forcibly integrated into the Julu Army system. There is definitely no shortage of experts who are proficient in archery in the countryside. When these senior archers come to the army, even if they are ordered to

They can exert considerable combat effectiveness when fighting alone, not to mention the cavalry. Any cavalry is worth several infantry.

On balance, recruiting crossbowmen or cavalry is a positive benefit to the Julu Army. However, given that the headquarters does not lack the strength of crossbows and there are enough crossbowmen in the army, it also makes the cost-effectiveness of recruiting crossbowmen from the countryside

Not that high.

Therefore, in the end, the only option with the highest cost performance is left - cavalry.

If there are people from the countryside who come to surrender, only the cavalry will be recruited, and no others will be accepted.

After the recruitment regulations were finalized, they marched and recruited cavalry all the way. The number of teams coming from the countryside to submit varied. Some groups only had three or two cavalry, while others could have dozens of cavalry at most. No matter how large the number was,

Few, just like that, the cavalry began to accumulate gradually from east to west, and gradually increased.

When the march reached the territory of Zhangwu County, they counted the number of people and found to their surprise that they had already gathered more than 300 riders without knowing it.

Originally, Li Mengxi didn't have much hope for the number of cavalry. At first, he just arranged the rural brave cavalry as ranger scouts to do some reconnaissance intelligence or convey orders. Suddenly, he found that the number of cavalry had reached several hundred.

It has become an important strategic force.

The headquarters was suffering from a lack of cavalry strength, so the addition of rural cavalry relieved the urgent need.

The cavalry came from all over the countryside and were completely scrapped together. Their organization level was even lower than that of ordinary rural warriors. At this level, they were obviously unable to withstand a tough battle.

In order to enable the rural brave cavalry to have basic legion combat capabilities, Li Mengxi unified all the rural brave cavalry into one unit, established the overall organization, awarded the flag, and then began unified training during the march.

Unexpected troubles came one after another. How should the cavalry be trained? Only when things happened did Li Mengxi realize that he did not know how to train cavalry.

Others, such as infantry, train the infantry to walk in formation and practice command and prohibition. After practicing for a while, they can barely use it.

The crossbowmen can only practice formation and discipline, and then practice some slightly more complex shooting tactics, and the crossbow unit will be basically usable.

But the most troublesome thing about cavalry is the addition of war horses. War horses are different from humans. Humans can easily understand orders. Humans can understand complex passwords, but war horses cannot. This only adds to the difficulty.

Li Mengxi tried to train cavalry, but failed. After discovering that he was lacking in ability, Li Mengxi simply handed over the training task to Chi Zhi'er, making Chi Zhi'er, the former Xiliang Army Cavalry Commander, fully responsible for all training matters.

During the subsequent march, Chi Zhi'er only did one thing. He led the Wuyangyang cavalry team to toss hard, and then ran forward fiercely, asking everyone to follow them.

Punishment; or Chi Zhi'er let hundreds of Wuyangyang cavalry crowd into the sky and stand there for a long time. During this process, if anyone can't control his horse and let the horse run around, he will be punished.

Another whipping.

Chi Zhi'er's behavior was similar to that of tormenting people. The previous order was to dismount and rest. As soon as the rural warriors dismounted and sat down, Chi Zhi'er suddenly gave another order and ordered everyone to move forward for five miles immediately.

The brave cavalrymen suddenly cursed and hurriedly got on their horses.

After three or two days like this, Li Mengxi saw that Chi Zhier had some tricks in training the cavalry, so he felt relieved.

But within two days, Liu Bei discovered a problem.

When Liu Bei was patrolling the camp one day, when he arrived at the Xiangyong Cavalry Camp, he accidentally heard a cavalryman pointing to the rat flag above his head and said angrily, "This Liu Xuande is too bullying! Just tell us if you don't like us, why bother?"

Rats humiliate you and me!”

As soon as the words were spoken, there was a chorus of responses.

Liu Bei hesitated for a moment and quietly retreated without confronting him.

The next day, on the march, early in the morning, Liu Bei came to Li Mengxi and invited him to patrol the camp. On the road to the camp, he walked to a team of rural soldiers. In the team, the zodiac paper flags carried on the shoulders of the rural soldiers were neatly scattered.

Liu Bei called Li Mengxi, pointed to the zodiac flag in the team, and asked pointedly, "Xi'er, what do you think of this flag?"

Li Mengxi followed what Liu Bei pointed at and saw that this was the head position of the rural soldiers. All the flags had a picture of a big rat on it. Li Mengxi stared at it carefully for a while, and the more he looked at it, the more satisfied he became. This picture of a rat was so colorful.

Simple and so cute.

This chapter is not over yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading! He turned around and said to Liu Bei, "This flag is really good. Look, it's still as good as new even after being exposed to the rain."

Liu Bei couldn't help but laugh.

Later, Liu Bei talked to Li Mengxi about the Xiangyong Cavalry Camp.

When Liu Bei finished speaking, Li Mengxi immediately frowned, as if yes, rat, here it means, a cowardless rat...

Things are getting serious.

Realizing the negligence, Li Mengxi immediately discussed remedial measures with Liu Bei urgently.

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Chi Zhi'er was leading the cavalry to start a new round of galloping. He ordered the cavalry to catch up and asked them to stop training immediately.

Soon, all the brave cavalrymen from the country were invited by Liu Bei to the vicinity of the Chinese army's column. Liu Bei pointed to the strange zodiac flags in the column and explained the reason to the cavalrymen.

After Liu Bei's patient explanation, the cavalrymen suddenly realized that the rat flag given to everyone was not an intentional insult, but was a common practice. Most of the cavalrymen were relieved, but only a few still felt that it was an insult.

It's not a big problem, there are backup plans behind it.

After Liu Bei had explained the misunderstanding and took the opportunity to communicate with the brave cavalry, Li Mengxi was busy writing behind him.

It wasn't until he needed to draw on the car that Li Mengxi realized how bumpy the car was, how difficult it was to draw on a bumpy car, and how important it was to have a vehicle that remained stable while driving.

Consider the most critical situation. In a critical situation, orders need to be issued on moving vehicles during a rapid march. In this case, of course, orders can be passed orally instead of written, but you must know that the more urgent it is, the more urgent it is.

At this time, the more likely it is to make mistakes, the less error-prone written orders are particularly important at this time.

What seems to be a simple problem turns out to be extremely difficult in practice. Writing is an extremely delicate task and cannot be carried out even if there are slight bumps. The traffic situation in the late Han Dynasty was that everywhere there were bumpy dirt roads. Is there any flat spot?

The bumpy road is as difficult as climbing to the sky, and the vehicles of the late Han Dynasty had extremely primitive shock absorption systems. Under such rudimentary technical conditions, it is difficult to climb to the sky if you want to be able to drive quickly and write on the car.

Unable to draw in the car, Li Mengxi had to temporarily get out of the car and set up wooden boards on the roadside to improvise.

While painting, Li Mengxi was thinking about how to write stably on a bumpy car.

Use the control variable method to analyze.

In the entire system of writing on vehicles during the march, analyze all the constituent factors. The constituent factors include roads, vehicles, pack horses, people, paper, pens, and writing methods, roughly speaking.

First of all, the road must be unsolvable.

Secondly, as for the car, a shock-absorbing system can be added to the car, the chassis can be equipped with boards and springs, the wheels can be wrapped with soft materials to absorb shock, etc.

As for draft horses, I am not familiar with draft horses and have no experiments. I don’t know what kind of draft horses run the most steadily. I also don’t know whether I can make the horses run more steadily through training methods.

For people, maybe, after years of special training, some people should be able to write as usual on a galloping horse. The first solution is to train some clerical talents specifically to be responsible for writing military orders on vehicles.

In this way, the problem is solved.

Continuing the analysis below, regarding paper, I can’t think of how paper can help writing in bumpy scenes.

Next, the pen is really useful. After trying it for a while, I found that the soft pen is easier to write in a bumpy environment, but the hard pen, that is, a pencil, is easy to break when bumped.

As for the last item, writing method. Li Mengxi felt that if writing is really difficult, why bother writing? Wouldn’t it be easier to use a seal? Make common characters into character molds, and when writing orders, just press the paper and print the fonts.

Wouldn't it be convenient to go up there?

Besides, printing is a good thing.

There are roughly as many orders as there are in the military, so there are as many orders printed in advance.

For example, for the item of camping, a batch is printed, [camping in the first five miles] [camping in the first six miles] [seven miles in front...] [eight miles in front...]

Keep preparations for various situations, and when necessary, directly issue the corresponding order documents according to the needs of the situation. At this point, issuing orders has changed from writing to reading, and you have to write the words well on the bumpy car.

It's hard, but it's easy to flip through papers on a bumpy car.

Even if this method is not enough to deal with all situations, then you only need to prepare for common situations. When the situation is urgent, simple orders will be issued in standard documents, and other complex orders will be written temporarily, which greatly reduces the pressure.

The ability to draw a picture can be obtained by two mature methods, one is the method of cultivating special clerical talents, and the other is the standard military order method. Both are feasible.

The painting was finished. Li Mengxi looked at the painting intently. On a piece of paper more than five feet long, a vivid picture of a roaring and filial tiger appeared on the paper. This picture was different from all the pictures of tigers in the Han Dynasty.

It's as simple as it gets, but it's completely realistic, and more importantly, it's three-dimensional.

Later, Li Mengxi found Liu, the embroiderer, and asked her to help sew the flag.

When it came to the sewing step, Li Mengxi looked forward and saw that the team had long disappeared.

There are times when it is necessary to write on a speeding carriage, and there are also times when it is necessary to sew flags or even make other utensils on a speeding carriage.

Military orders can be printed directly, and flags can be drawn directly using the drawing method, but other artifacts are difficult. This highlights the importance of a stable marching platform.

Half a day later, the embroiderer Ms. Liu embroidered the Menghu flag with the most gorgeous fabric according to Li Mengxi's design.

Then I went to the carpentry camp and found the smoothest, straightest and most polished pole painted with paint and mounted the flag on it. A super exquisite flag was made.
To be continued...