It turned out that the filling in the winter clothes worn by the soldier who laughed at him was real numb and cotton, which was large in quantity and kept warm.

In this way, he naturally won't feel cold.

The fillings in the winter clothes on the other three were actually a little reed floss, some rags, some worn paper, and crushed reed poles.

Just sew a layer of cloth on the outside to make it look full, which is no different from a good winter clothes. In fact, such inferior products cannot keep warm at all.

Wu Gong and his closest personal soldiers were wearing thick jackets they brought with them, not only cotton clothes, but also pants, boots, hats, and even gloves. They were equipped very well, so they couldn't feel the cold.

But other soldiers are different, especially those wearing such inferior winter clothes.

A cold wind with water vapor blows over and can blow half of their lives away. It will hurt like an ant bites it. If you stay in such an environment for a few hours, your whole life will be gone and your soul will be blown out.

Wu Gong realized the problem and immediately came to the military camp warehouse to take a look at the winter clothes that had not been distributed.

He ordered the personal soldiers to pick out a hundred pieces of these winter clothes, tear open the layer of cloth outside, and see what the filling inside was.

Finally, I found that ninety-four of them were inferior products, filled with reed poles and rags that had no warmth. Only six of them could protect the cold and were good winter clothes.

Wu Gong suddenly realized that he was cheated by the bureaucrats who managed the logistics in the rear.

These military uniforms are generally determined by the Privy Council based on the number of troops, and then place an order to order. They are weaved by the official workshop or contracted by private textile workshops. The Privy Council then sends people to inspect the goods, and then receives the goods and stuffs them into the warehouse.

Without official relations and government approval, ordinary workshops will definitely not get orders to make winter clothes for the army.

Don't think this is very guaranteed, it is just unguaranteed.

Wu Gong has been in the army since he was a child and has also participated in the management of military logistics. He knows deeply how deep the water is and how rich the oil is. How many people stare at a piece of fat and their eyes are red.

If you don’t have any official relationship or are a person on the official side, you don’t even think about reaching out, but if you really extend your hand, you will definitely make a big profit, and you will make a lot of money.

The money for the court to order winter clothes for the army would be exploited layer by layer. Officials at all levels had to take a little from it to satisfy their desires before they could be distributed to the next level. When it finally fell into the hands of the weaving party, there would be no few left.

But even those remaining sons will definitely be taken away.

Only the last little money is left to weave winter clothes, and it is barely used to deal with errands. It is clear what kind of virtue the winter clothes produced from this are.

No one knows the virtues of the Southern Song bureaucrats better than Wu Gong.

These bureaucrats must have eaten and asked for money from it, and they greedily lost the money for weaving winter clothes, so they took a batch of defective products to deal with the inspection.

Of course, I can't see anything strange when I look outside, but I know what the difference is when I put it on.

Wu Gong was furious and reported this to the Lin'an Privy Council to let Shi Hao know, and asked the rear to send more cold-proof clothes.

Don't force me to lead the troops back!

If you really fail the battle because of your affairs, you will not be able to escape!

However, such a thing is not immediate, and it takes a lot of time. During this period, even if Wu Gong sent two inferior winter clothes to soldiers to wear to keep warm, the effect would be very poor.

As the temperature continued to drop, more and more wounded and sick people in the Song army, but the medicine and ginger in the rear had not arrived for a long time, so soldiers began to die of illness.

From a few a day to dozens a day, the number of non-combat personnel is increasing.

On the other side of the city, the peasant army wore thick cotton clothes, thick hats, thick boots, and even equipped them with gloves. There were ginger soup to drink every day, so there were only a few cases of illness.

After losing that day, Zhao Yucheng was ready for arduous battles. While actively preparing for the war, he asked all the instructors in the army to go to the grassroots level to get along with the soldiers and do their ideological work.

The instructors need to let the soldiers know that temporary failure is not permanent failure, and they will definitely usher in the final victory, even if it will take a long time.

Moreover, they cannot fail or retreat, otherwise their relatives will suffer.

The Song army was cruel and would never hold back when it came to their relatives. They should be very clear about this.

After a period of ideological mobilization, the depressed atmosphere in the army has been reduced a lot, and a basic principle has been determined in the army-for the sake of the relatives behind them, they must never retreat.

However, there are still some people in the army who believe that Nanchang City is difficult to defend after all, and the combat effectiveness of the two sides is large, so we still need to judge the situation and be prepared to retreat.

After Zhao Yucheng found out, he convened all officers to meet and expressed his opinion, believing that the city had enough troops and enough food to store, and even if he persisted for another three months, there would be no problem. The Song army on the opposite side might not be, so he must persist.

Although Zhao Yucheng also knew how big a blow to morale would be to failure, so he was actively looking for opportunities to win the battle.

After a period of observation, Zhao Yucheng found that the frequency of the Song army attacking the city was greatly reduced, and the number of troops dispatched was also reduced. Later, there was a situation where there was no siege for three consecutive days, as if it was powerless.

They... want to hibernate on the battlefield?

Zhao Yucheng thought that anyone who fights a war would hope to end the battle as soon as possible, otherwise it would be a huge blow to the national economy. Due to the failure of the Southern Song Dynasty to launch wars many times, their logistics would never be enough to allow them to hibernate on the battlefield.

So, what's wrong with them?

Zhao Yucheng thought about it and felt something was wrong. He felt that there was something wrong here, so he decided to send troops out of the city to take the initiative to challenge and test the specific situation of the Song army.

Gao Meng has been blaming himself since he failed to win before. When he learned that Zhao Yucheng had decided to give him another chance, he was ready to take action and decided to avenge his previous shame.

"The Song army defeated our army, and we should have taken advantage of the victory to pursue the battle results. We should be more eager to attack the city and suppress our army to fight, rather than stopping to give our army a chance to breathe. I think there is something wrong with it. There may be any emergencies within the Song army. You should lead the troops to challenge it actively. I will be in the back to put the formation for you."

Zhao Yucheng assigned Gao Meng a brigade and asked him to take the initiative to challenge the two thousand troops, while he himself led the army of three brigades to suppress Gao Meng from behind.

A total of 8,000 troops from four brigades took the initiative to attack. After making formations, they headed to the Song army camp to challenge.

Wu Gong was having a split headache for more and more cases and soldiers who died of illness. He suddenly learned that the peasant army came to attack on his own initiative, and he was shocked and thought they had known about the large-scale injuries of the Song army.

But when he further learned that there were only about two thousand people in front of the peasant army, he determined that the peasant army's attack was a temptation, not a formal attack.

It must be that my behavior of not launching an attack for several days made the peasant army feel strange, so I came to test it out.

But whether it should be said or not, this group of people has some knowledge and skills, and even more courageous. They felt something was wrong after not attacking for a few days and were about to challenge.

Good guy, what if they discovered the internal problems of the Song army?

Wu Gong felt that they could not see through the problem no matter what, so he decided to send troops to fight back resolutely.
Chapter completed!