February 21 of the year in Britain. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Soon after the British army entered the city of Glain, it began to arm and defend it.

In this era, the fortification project was nothing more than digging tunnels and consolidating and maintaining the city walls. Wealthy towns can build a few more towers, richer cities can build crossbow towers and arrow towers, and the castle's basic defense is the arrow tower.

However, the city of Glain had recently been broken by the vanguard of the Fries, and the city was destroyed. Not to mention that there were no arrow towers and watchtowers in the first place, and now even the integrity of the city walls could not be maintained.

And now it is obviously too late to build the city wall.

So Char consulted with Artoria, Lancelot, and Bedwell. In the end, it was decided that Char would be given the task of organizing the defense project entirely to Char.

Because apart from Char, almost no one in Artoria and the others could understand those technical terms......

Char immediately began the project after gaining power. He first distinguished the more than 1,900 British troops, divided the infantry into 300 sword and shield men and 600 pikemen, 200 archers and 100 grenadiers, and then divided the cavalry into seven herald cavalry and twenty-five scout cavalry. The Knights of the Round Table are listed as Heavy Knights.

All the tools he had made before were distributed to the infantrymen, and all six hundred pikemen were sent out by Char to cut down the nearby woods. The requirement was that within a radius of twenty miles, Char did not like to see even a single branch outside, so he had to pack it all up and transport it back to Glain City.

Soldiers poured into the forest with double-headed saws and one-handed saws, two artifacts used to cut down trees in this era. At an average rate of 450 trees every three hours, Char could be transported back most of the materials he needed in a single day. But that's just the beginning, raw materials don't have any effect if they aren't treated.

Artoria had been following Char all this time, neither speaking nor interfering in Char's decision. Compared to being a king, she is more like a humble student running around behind Char's ass all day long......

At night, a large amount of raw materials pile up. But there was no secondary processing, and by this time the dozen barrels of fish oil had already been distributed. In order to accomplish the imaginary destructive effect, it is necessary to use pottery to hold it. But the Britons didn't have enough pottery to support it, so Char had no choice but to use all the means at his disposal.

"Char, what is this for?"

Artoria saw Char order Char to collect all the useless branches and soak them in fish oil barrels in bundles of units, which didn't take long to get up in three seconds. These twigs soaked in fish oil will become very flammable.

Char didn't answer Artoria's question right away, but told her to look down quietly.

The soldiers followed Char's orders and threw bundles of branches outside the city without the slightest disobedience, and then spread out the firewood on the ground. Soon, a field of firewood was placed around the city to occupy the entire perimeter of the city wall, and a layer of mud and snow was artificially laid to hide the traces.

Fish oil is a rather viscous substance, and even mud and snow can't stop its flammable properties.

The placement of the firewood is not just a circle of brains, but is arranged in a stepped order. From the outside, it looks like someone has set up passages on the ground. When the firewood is burned, it will automatically connect together to form a channel of flames. But at the same time, there is a deliberately vacant path in the middle for people to pass.

The wall of fire may not be effective in preventing the enemy from entering, but it can effectively guide the enemy to their intended target.

The moment the rocket ignites the fuel fire, the wall of fire that rises into the sky will form a short and complex passage. As long as the enemy does not dare to rush with fire, then he can only follow the passage formed by the wall of fire. And in this way, it is convenient for the archers to play, there is no need for thankless indiscriminate strikes, as long as you concentrate your fire to block one of the intersections, you can block all the enemies behind this intersection.

The longer the enemy crosses the wall of fire, the greater the casualties. This tactic can add a little bit of leverage to the British side.

Of course, this tactic also has weaknesses, the first is that it is winter now, not a scorching heat, so the burning time will be extinguished in a maximum of ten minutes. Second, it can't be rainy, if it happens to rain on the day of the war, then it's no fun......

But fortunately, there was a heavy rainstorm not long ago, and it probably won't be a second time in the last week or two.

"King Arthur, do you see this? This is our first layer of defense, the fire ladder. Char said.

"Hmm...... See. Artoria nodded seriously.

"The purpose of that fire ladder is to give the archers space to play, to block their offensive pace and sharpness. Prevent the enemy from attacking our army with a tiger's momentum. If you can, it's best to let them pluck up three times in a row and then break through. ”

"Why three times?" Artoria asked curiously.

"One is prosperous, two is declining, and three is exhaustion. This is the same as human strength, after a person has swung his fist with all his strength once, he cannot recover in a short period of time and continue to swing a fist with the same strength a second time. The goal of this tactic is to weaken the enemy's offensive and waste their strength and spirit. We're going to pile up rocks, little by little, to pull the advantage down on our side. Char replied.

"I see! ”

Artoria pulled out a small notebook out of nowhere, and began to write and draw on it with a quill. That cute and dumb and very serious expression made Char look slightly stunned.

Char thought with some surprise.

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Time is running out, and the feeling is useless.

Once the branches have been utilized, the raw materials need to be separated. It is divided into thick and thin trunks, old trees and green trees.

The old tree has a large roulette wheel and a thick waist, which is perfect for chopping into pieces to form a wooden wall. However, part of the wooden wall was used to repair the gaps in the wall, and the rest was used to make the "labyrinth".

How do you do the labyrinth? It's as simple as putting up walls of wood in the streets of this town, and dividing them into 1, 2, 3, and 4 lines according to Char's predetermined route...... 8 lines.

Eight lines run from south to north and from east to west, splitting the streets of the town into fragments of small areas. There are two doors in it: "life" and "death".

Death Gates are below, and pikemen are stationed on the front and flanks of the streets. Above the gate stands on a high platform above the labyrinth, where archers and grenadiers and knights of the round table are stationed.

The eight lines weave the entire town into a tortoise-patterned shape, so it is also called the tortoise-patterned array. (From the hand of Zhuge Liang in the middle of the Three Kingdoms.) ）

As I mentioned earlier, the infantry is divided into sword, shieldmen and pikemen. Sword and shield bearers are easy to deal withThe barracks are full of weapons and few people, and almost every sword and shield bearer can have a shield and a long sword, but the Britons are not in the habit of organizing pikemen. Or rather, the real first pikemen had not yet been able to reach Great Britain from Macedonia.

But it didn't matter that Char imitated the wisdom of the Scottish national hero by cutting off the bodies of those youth trees and sharpening them into sharp poles. More than 600 wooden spears were made from more than 300 trees, some of which were damaged during the process.

Overnight, Char completed the formation of pikemen and grenadiers, and by the way, completed the repair of the city walls and the construction of the first line of defense. At the same time, the labyrinth of long trees in the town is under construction.

Early the next morning.

A new batch of raw materials arrived, but this time it was more than 40 minutes later than the previous one.

"The surrounding woods were cut down almost overnight, and the soldiers had to walk further to cut them down. That's what Lancelot explained to Char. Lancelot, the hand-appointed caretaker, did not like the job very much, but his horse was the fastest here, so the task of issuing orders fell to him.

Although Britain now has a special herald cavalry, Char is still training them. At the very least, the signal identification and composition identification of the six-color flag must be completed first. For example, red is to advance, black is up, green is to spread the flanks, blue is to squat on the spot, purple is to break through the whole army, and white is to retreat in an orderly manner. These are the six-color flag orders.

For example, the blue-green combination deploys a formation to defend on the spot, the blue-red combination launches an all-army attack in a formation, the white-purple combination prepares for a counterattack to stop retreating, and the purple-black combination stops the assault of the whole army! These are the two-color command combinations of the military flag.

There are also tricolor combinations, such as blue, blue, and purple - spread out the formation, defend in place, and wait for the assault order......

This color command is life-threatening, because of the lack of time, Char can only surprise training. The higher-level eight-color flags, the sixteen-color flags have not yet dared to hand them over. However, generally speaking, the more colors of the flag, the more complex the order, and the higher the proficiency of the army required, so there is no need to rush too much for the time being.

Artoria was very curious about this way of transmitting orders, and this way of commanding complex orders could undoubtedly be more flexible in mobilizing large armies. Especially in this world without radio, it takes nearly fourteen minutes for 30,000 troops to give an order, and the more there are, the slower.

But if each team has a dedicated flag bearer, a flag change can be transmitted to the whole army in as little as five minutes.

It's far away......