Using sheepskin bags and sacks to hold earth to build a wall is the most ideal way, but unfortunately Winters lacks both sheepskins and sacks.

If you don’t have anything, you can only make do with what’s shabby and adapt to local conditions, whatever is useful.

After thinking hard, Winters found another way and improved the engineering methods used by Lieutenant Colonel Vauban to build the tunnel on Red Sulfur Island.

The tunnel of Red Sulfur Island is "bounded with cages", while Winters is "bounded with baskets".

Because the structural strength of baskets is not as good as that of cages, and it is difficult to stack them neatly like cages.

Therefore, on the basis of the basket structure, Winters drove an additional wooden stake as the "backbone". This not only increases the strength of the wall, but also securely holds the basket in place.

With a "wall" of this strength, it may be difficult to withstand artillery fire, but there is no problem in stopping the war horses.

Compared with ordinary earth walls, using baskets of earth to build the wall can make the wall steeper, making it impossible for the war horses to find a place to draw strength. Moreover, no matter the building materials, mud and gravel can be used.

The construction efficiency is slower than sheepskin bags and sacks, but much faster than rammed earth, mortar and other methods.

…

When Taichi looked at the wall and sighed, Winters on the other side suddenly woke up from his sleep.

Winters's body suddenly sat up straight. He stared at the tent curtain, motionless.

Bud heard the noise and walked into the inner tent: "What's wrong?"

"I dreamed about something terrible," Winters replied.

Bud was surprised to see cold sweat breaking out on Winters' forehead.

Winters tossed his coat, jumped up, and shouted outside the tent: "Give me a horse! Call all company commanders!"

There was a sudden commotion in the small command post.

"What's wrong?" Bud, who had always been calm, was a little surprised when he saw Winters' appearance.
Chapter completed!