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Volume 2 The Theory of Equality of Things Chapter 49 Marching and Camping

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    Before he finished speaking, he heard the gong sound.  "Enemy attack, enemy attack!"

    Wu Qiu patted Li Shimin on the body, and Li Shimin felt relaxed all over his body. The remaining iron-blooded evil spirit was sucked out by Wu Qiu: "Go and see, what is going on?"

    Li Shimin agreed, immediately put on his clothes and walked out of the tent.  I saw that the army outside was busy but not chaotic, tight on the outside and loose on the inside.  The troops responsible for camp defense were mobilized urgently.  However, the other troops did not move at all. They should be resting.  He couldn't help but nodded slightly.  ¡¾¡¿ Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!

    It was still afternoon, and the army had been stationed here for three days.  Although it is a temporary camp, the camp layout is extremely complete.

    Marching and setting up camp is the basic skill of a general. Just like Fu said that in the past world, Sima Yi saw the traces of Zhuge Liang's setting up camp and sighed that he was a genius in the world.  For this reason, a temporary wooden wall should be built around the military camp.  The production method is to first cut two rows of tree trunks, one row long and one short, burn the bottom of the trunks and bury half of them in the soil. The long trunks are arranged in a tight row on the outside, and the short trunks are arranged in a row on the inside.  Wooden boards were placed between the two rows of tree trunks and divided into upper and lower layers, so that the part where the long tree trunks grew out became a protective wall. The upper layer of the wooden boards could allow soldiers to patrol and guard, while the lower layer could store defensive weapons and allow soldiers to rest.  It sounds like a simple city wall.  "Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels are better and updated faster!"

    But this time they were different, they used a car formation.  Thousands of large trucks were used to transport military supplies, baggage and other items.  When setting up camp, just use carts to form a protective wall, and then put up wooden boards on top.  It is much simpler.

    When camping, the tents should be facing each other, and drainage ditches should be dug around the tents and between the campsites.  Soldiers are strictly prohibited from running around between camps, and tents are not allowed to run around within the main camp.

    Each camp digs a public toilet. Interestingly, the Art of War also attaches great importance to military camp hygiene. It never tires of emphasizing that the location of the toilet is very important, and it must be far away from water sources and places where food is stored.  There must be a certain distance from the barracks, but not too far, so that the officers and soldiers who use the toilet will not be able to return to the team in time. Of course, it cannot be too close.  The military camp also attaches great importance to epidemic prevention. For example, domestic garbage from people and animals must be buried and burned in time, and seriously ill patients and patients with infectious diseases must be isolated, etc.  These are for health and epidemic prevention needs.  Therefore, many time-travelers know half-baked knowledge about hygiene. They traveled to ancient times and taught the troops to dig toilets and spread lime. It is better to save them as soon as possible!

    Even in many ancient military books, it is clearly recorded that during the march, water must be boiled for drinking, and drinking raw water is not allowed at all.  Perhaps the ancients didn't know what these common sense issues were for, and they didn't know there were bacteria in the water.  But thousands of years of war history.  We have already accumulated extremely rich experience and have already prevented all these problems.

    And it¡¯s no joke that the army only marches a few dozen miles a day.  First, the road conditions are so bad that after leaving the official road, it is basically wilderness.  Secondly, during the march, in the summer, it would light up at 5 a.m. and darken at 8 p.m., a total of 15 hours. It would be too hot at noon to walk, and tens of thousands of people would camp at night and break camp in the morning. This process would be all over the place.  Okay, it will take 4 hours no matter what. I have to take a break at noon due to the weather, plus eating and other things, so I can walk for 5 or 6 hours a day, which is good.

    During the War of the Spanish Throne, Churchill traveled thousands of miles to Germany, marching for eight hours starting at 6 a.m. every day.  Walking 4 kilometers every hour is less than 30 kilometers a day, and then start setting up an overnight camp at 2 noon.  Collect food, grass and fuel.  Fresh water and so on.  Start going to bed at 8pm and sleep until 6pm the next day.  This is already a first-class strong army.  Ordinary armies with inadequate organization and training may march like this before the entire army collapses from exhaustion.

    And according to "Mengxi Bi Tan", it was perfectly normal for ancient Chinese troops to march twenty miles a day!  Of course, you can do more than 40 miles a day.  But that only requires the most elite troops, and it can only be guaranteed for four or five days!  The normal situation is 2030 miles.

    And the marching ability of pure cavalry is even weaker than that of infantry.  In experiments conducted by the US military in the mid-to-late 19th century, a cavalry regiment and an infantry regiment were selected for marching experiments. The conclusion was that the infantry regiment would surpass the cavalry regiment after continuous marching over a certain distance (seemingly 150 miles).

    Mainly because the endurance of horses is far from that of humans.  Horses may be able to travel hundreds of miles a day in explosive bursts, but there is no need to move forward within a few days after such an outbreak, otherwise the horses will die in large numbers.  Another point is that if the horses are not fed food, they will spend more than ten hours a day grazing, and they will also need auxiliary care during this period.  I remember watching a documentary before and discovered the military rations stored during the Qin Dynasty.  There were even several warehouses of unshelled rice inside. It is said that these were not eaten by the Qin army themselves.Mainly eat pasta.  And these husked rice are fed to the horses.  Even some delicate war horses have to be fed bean cakes, eggs and so on.  If they only rely on eating grass during the march, the horses will die faster.

    When Li Shimin walked out of the camp, a group of soldiers immediately surrounded him and protected Li Shimin in the middle.

    "What happened?" Li Shimin asked in a deep voice, while speaking quickly towards the protective wall.

    The 50,000-strong army encamped on a large scale, covering several miles, almost like a temporary small city.

    "General, it seems that a pack of wolves has surrounded us?" said a soldier captain.

    "Wolves?" Li Shimin stopped, dumbfounded: "A pack of wolves, you actually want to warn us?"

    Perhaps ordinary people would be completely wiped out when they encounter a pack of wolves, but a group of wolves is nothing in front of a large army. At most, it only adds some wolf meat to the army.

    "General, you will know when you go and take a look." The captain of the soldiers looked solemn, not joking at all: "There are many wolves, they are very weird!"

    Capital City, Imperial Prefecture.

    Song Xiuxiu was sent to the Imperial Preceptor's Mansion. She had only heard that Hou Men was as deep as the sea. It was the first time she realized what it meant when she saw the Imperial Preceptor's Mansion.  The Imperial Master's Mansion was incredibly large. Compared to the house in her hometown, although it was exquisite, it was nothing.

    When she walked into the fire that day, she had no intention of surviving.  She even wanted to burn herself to death in front of the gate of the National Preceptor's Mansion to see if Fu said that cruel man would grieve for her and shed a tear for her.  (To be continued.)
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