However, it is necessary to get things in place from the order, and this time may be extended when the bureaucrats in the Southern Song Dynasty run it.
Wu Gong also knows that it is necessary to wait so that soldiers can get ready for winter clothes to keep out the cold before changing, so as to counter the increasing temperature drop.
However, in the following days, the situation not only did not improve, but intensified.
A large number of soldiers caught a cold and had a fever, and more and more people were sick than Wu Gong. He had to stop fighting and plan to use many barracks as temporary wounded barracks.
However, there was a shortage of military doctors in the Song army, with more than 20 thousand troops, and 27 military doctors were too busy to throw up.
Wu Gong anxiously sent people back to give birth to ginger and medicine while personally investigating what was wrong with the soldiers. Is it a plague for so many people?
It shouldn’t be. If it was a plague, it would have been dead long ago, and everyone could not escape if they counted one.
But what people who live in a military camp are still alive and kicking?
Wu Gong is puzzled.
Until one day Wu Gong visited the military camp and saw a soldier in winter clothes laughing at the other three soldiers in winter clothes for being afraid of the cold.
Looking at the soldier’s head held high and the three of him shrinking their heads with a face of cowardice, he flashed his light and rushed forward to tear all the four men’s winter clothes, and suddenly realized.
Chapter 926 Bureaucrats are fierce
It turns out that the winter clothes worn by the mocking soldier are filled with solid hemp and cotton wool to keep warm.
So he naturally won’t feel cold.
The other three people’s winter clothes are actually filled with some reed catkins, some rags, some worn paper and crushed reed stalks.
In this way, sewing a layer of cloth outside makes it look full and good winter clothes are no different, but in fact, such inferior clothes can’t keep out the cold.
Wu Gong and his closest Qinbing wear their own thick coats, not only cotton coats, but also trousers, boots and hats, so they can’t feel the cold when they are well equipped with gloves.
But his soldiers are different, especially those wearing such inferior winter clothes.
A cold wind with water vapor can blow away half their lives, which is as painful as an ant bite. If they stay in this environment for a few hours, their whole lives will be blown out without their souls.
Wu Gong realized the problem and immediately went to the barracks warehouse to have a look. He hasn’t sent winter clothes yet.
He asked Qinbing to pick out 100 pieces of these winter clothes, tear apart the outer layer of cloth and see what the filler was inside.
Finally, it was found that 94 of them were inferior, and there were no warm reeds and rags in them. Six of them could keep out the cold and were good winter clothes.
Wu Gong immediately realized that he was cheated by the rear management logistics bureaucrats.
These uniforms are usually determined by the Privy Council according to the number of troops, and then ordered by government-run workshops or contracted by private textile workshops, and then sent by the Privy Council to inspect the goods and then received them and stuffed them into the warehouse.
Without official approval, the general workshop will never get the order for making winter clothes for the army.
No, it’s very secure. It’s just very insecure
Wu Gong has also participated in the military logistics management since he was a child. He deeply knows how deep the head water is and how rich the oil and water are. How many people stare at a piece of fat meat and their eyes are red.
A person who has no official face or is an official face will never reach out, but if he does reach out, it will definitely make a lot of money.
When the imperial court orders winter clothes for the army, it will be exploited layer by layer. Officials at all levels must take some of them to satisfy their own desires, and then they can send them to the first class and finally fall into the hands of weavers.
But even the few children left are definitely going to be taken away.
Only a little poor money will be left to weave winter clothes to cope with the errands, so it is clear what virtue it is to produce winter clothes.
No one knows the bureaucratic virtues of the Southern Song Dynasty better than Wu Gong.
These bureaucrats must have taken the cards from it, and if they want to get rid of the money for weaving winter clothes, they will take a batch of defective products to cope with the inspection.
Of course, you can’t see the difference from the outside, but you can tell the difference as soon as you wear it.
Wu Gong was furious and stabbed this matter to Lin ‘an Privy Council to let Shi Hao know, while asking the rear to send more warm clothes.
Don’t make me take my troops back to ask for it!
I really want to lose the battle because of you, and none of you can run away!
However, this kind of thing is not immediate, but it takes a lot of time. At this time, even if Wu Gong gives two inferior winter clothes to soldiers to wear to keep out the cold, the effect is very poor
With the continuous drop of temperature, there are more and more wounded and sick people in Song Jun, but the prescription medicine and ginger have not started to appear the death of soldiers.
From a few to dozens a day, the number of non-combat attrition is increasing.
On the other hand, the peasant army in the other side of the city wore thick cotton clothes, thick hats, thick boots and even gloves. Every day, there was ginger soup to drink, and all the very few cases of illness were reported.
Since the defeat that day, Zhao Yu has made preparations for hard work. While actively preparing for the war, she asked the instructors in the army to get along with the soldiers at the grassroots level and do ideological work for them.
Instructors need to let soldiers know that a temporary failure is not a permanent failure, and they will surely win the final victory, even if it takes a long time.
And they can’t fail or retreat, or their relatives behind them will suffer.
They should know very well that Song Jun is cruel to their relatives and will never leave his hand.
After a period of ideological mobilization, the depressed atmosphere in the army has decreased a lot, and the army has set a basic principle-you must never retreat after your loved ones die.
However, there are still some people in the army who think that Nanchang city will be difficult to hold the fighting capacity gap between the two sides after all, so it is necessary to assess the situation and prepare for retreat.
Zhao Yucheng knew that after calling a meeting of officers, he expressed his opinion that there were enough troops and food in the city, and even if he persisted for another three months, there would be no problem, while the opposite Song Jun did not necessarily have to persist.
Having said that, Zhao Yucheng also knows how much failure will hurt morale and has been actively looking for opportunities to win.
After a period of observation, Zhao Yucheng found that the frequency of Song Jun’s attack on the city was greatly reduced, and the number of soldiers and horses dispatched was also reduced. Finally, there was a situation that there was no siege for three consecutive days, as if it were a successor
They ….. Want to hibernate in the battlefield?
Zhao Yucheng thinks about who is fighting and wants to end the fighting as soon as possible, otherwise it will be a huge blow to the national economy. In the case of the failure of many wars in the Southern Song Dynasty, their logistics can never be so comfortable that they can hibernate on the battlefield.
So what happened to them?
Zhao Yucheng reasoned and felt that 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 explore the specific situation in Song Jun.
Gao Meng has been blaming himself since he failed to win before. He learned that Zhao Yucheng decided to give himself another chance, and he decided to avenge himself.
"Song Jun defeated our army and should pursue 56-point thrashing to consolidate the results. It should be increasingly pressing our army to fight instead of stopping to give our army a breather. I think there is a problem in it. The Song Military Department may have any unexpected situation, and you should take the initiative to challenge you behind me, bring up the rear."
Zhao Yucheng gave Gao Meng a brigade to take the initiative to challenge with this 2,000-strong army, while he took three brigades behind the army to Gao Meng bring up the rear.
A total of four brigades and thousands of troops took the initiative to attack and set up a formation, and then they went to Song Jun barracks to challenge in the direction.
Wu Gongzheng’s more and more cases and sick soldiers have a splitting headache. Suddenly, they were shocked to learn that the peasant army had taken the initiative to attack, and they already knew about the large-scale injuries in Song Jun.
However, when he further learned that there were about 2,000 people in front of the peasant army, he determined that this wave of peasant army attacks was a test rather than a formal attack.
It must be that the peasant army was surprised that they didn’t launch an attack for several days, so they deliberately came to test it.
However, whether to say this group of people is considered to be knowledgeable, some leaders have more courage, but after a few days of not attacking, they feel that something is wrong and they are going to challenge.
Boy, if they find out about the Song Army Department, will that be great?
Wu Gong felt that Lun Ru could not be seen through by them, so he decided to send troops to resolutely fight back.
Chapter 927 This battle is impossible.
Gather together to gather together to gather together Wu Gong is barely less than two thousand soldiers who can fight in practical winter clothes, which is far from enough.
Naineng sent an extra group of soldiers wearing two inferior winter clothes to prepare for battle.
However, this is a swollen face and a fat face. He even feels very hung up.
In recent days, due to the continuous drop in temperature, the operation of the entire Song Jun military camp has been maintained by less than 2,000 soldiers wearing solid winter clothes, ensuring that his soldiers will not continue to get sick. Wu Gong allowed his soldiers to hide in the military tent and get together to keep out the cold.
However, he underestimated the absurdity and greed of those bureaucrats, not to mention that winter clothes and even bedding are mostly defective in winter, and there are so few coarse linen and cotton wool that they can’t keep warm.
Not only that, but even the tents showed signs of being inferior, and the effect of shelter from the wind and rain was very poor. Many soldiers kept sneezing inside the tents, feeling that it was unbearable to be wrapped in layers, and it was difficult to keep out the cold.
In the army, the amount of firewood is limited, so we can’t divide too much for the soldiers to keep out the cold, so that they can stand out from the cold by themselves.
However, can this integrity really resist the cold?
The soldiers thought it was impossible.
Whether they get together shivering or not, some soldiers enter the wounded barracks because of illness, and the number of people is increasing to the point where the morale of the army is hard to sustain.