Xie Baoshu didn't have much to do these days, and he also helped build the city.

On the city wall, there are many acquaintances, Xie Baoshu chats with them every day, and his life is good. Those great monks who went out, in fact, there are many monks who are not in a high realm, come here to help.

Eating and sleeping has become a big problem.

Some people just sleep on the floor, but that's not the case. If the soldiers simply sleep on the ground, it is no different from surrendering directly to the enemy, in fact, the soldiers are still very particular about dealing with the problem of sleeping at night.

First of all, there will be tents for sleeping, and these tents do not need to be set up by the soldiers themselves when they arrive at the camp. There is a clear division of labor in the army, and the soldiers who fight the war have to do almost nothing but fight. Behind them, there is a powerful logistics force - the "baggage troops".

The soldiers of the baggage unit belong to the logistics team and are not responsible for going to the battlefield to fight. They set off earlier than the army and were responsible for transporting grain and grass to the designated camping sites, as well as fortification, camping, burying pots and cooking. In the military, they are "nanny"-like beings. When the soldiers are charging on the battlefield, they are behind them, solving all the trivial matters of life, so that the soldiers can fight on the field without worries.

Secondly, the camp at night will be patrolled by special sentinels, whose duty is to protect the camp and the food and grass. Sentinels usually work in two or three shifts, changing batches every two or three hours, so that the sentries can also get enough rest.

In their daily lives, the baggage unit provides great convenience to the soldiers, and the sentinels are responsible for keeping them safe. But even so, the soldiers still couldn't get a good night's sleep. The enemy could launch a night attack at any time, and the soldiers had to be vigilant at all times.

When soldiers sleep at night, they often use quivers as pillows or simply put their ears on the ground to sleep, because it is difficult to feel the sound in the air when sleeping. Such an approach helps soldiers to take emergency measures against a sneak attack.

The state of the soldiers on the battlefield is far more tragic than this. Because a battle is never over in a day or two, it is often a protracted battle that lasts for several months, or even more than half a year, and the soldiers travel long distances, and their lives are always in danger, even when they are sleeping at night, they cannot relax their vigilance.

Therefore, after a battle, soldiers endure a long-term physical and psychological test, and this is the reason why it usually takes months for soldiers to fully recover after a battle.

Datang's divine arm crossbow is known for its power, and the step armor is known for its weight. Therefore, many people have the impression that Tang Jun should be the kind of iron cans with strong crossbows. However, as some of the previous popular science of the Cold Weapons Research Institute, there are many records of insufficient defense of crossbowmen in the Tang Army, and the armor rate of many troops in the Tang Army is also average, and some troops even directly use cotton fur instead of iron armor.

If it weren't for the lack of financial resources and iron, the lack of protection of the crossbowmen of the Tang Army, it would be a matter of combat habits. The Tang army relied heavily on crossbows, and because of the Tang army's reliance on crossbows, many crossbowmen could not use bows. , because the Jianghuai region itself is famous for its crossbowmen. So the meaning of the crossbow is even more obvious. In the defense of Qizhou, the Tang army's arsenal had as many as 300,000 crossbow arrows and 75 bed crossbows.

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