The snow finally stopped, and the weather gradually cleared, but then the cold snap that blew with the northwest wind made it difficult to straighten your waist.

This year's winter is colder than ever, not only Song Jun thinks so, but also the Xia people who have lived in Jingzhou City for a long time. During the Xuanhe and Jingkang periods, it was the Xiaoice period, and the climate was even colder than before. Because of the cold, the Tanguts gave up the attack they had to launch against the Song army after the snow stopped.

With the lesson of the failure of the last five-way summer war, the Song army specially ordered all the soldiers to prepare warm clothes before leaving the division, and the high-level officials of the Song Dynasty knew that no matter whether the summer was successful or not, the whole winter would inevitably pass the Western Xia.

The cold weather made the Song army in Jingzhou City feel a little unbearable, not to mention the Western Xia army stationed in tents for dozens of miles outside the city.

The warmth of the mink fur is satisfying, even if the weather in the northwest is very cold, and the body is lightly furped, Lotte does not feel that this northwest winter is much more difficult than Biandu. It's just that when entering and exiting the Shuaifu, Lotte found that those soldiers who were originally guarding outside the Shuai's Mansion either put their hands under their armpits to keep warm at this moment, or rubbed their hands from time to time, and at the same time held the blade in their arms, and lost the mighty momentum of holding the blade in the past.

"Marshal, this summer has been prepared, every soldier has prepared warm clothes, but there is no frostbite to death, but many soldiers have frostbite on their hands, if they start a war with the Xia people in the future, I am afraid that they will not be able to pull the bow and make no swords and guns." Entering the Shuai Mansion, Lotte only heard a general in the army report to the master and Liu Zhongwuyu.

"Xia Guo is much colder than me, and the northwest of Song is much colder!" The seed master nodded, and said: "Let the leaders of the army burn more heat, and let the soldiers soak their hands and feet with hot fire every morning and evening, so as not to lose their combat effectiveness due to frostbite of their hands and feet." ”

At this time, Lotte realized a problem, there were no gloves at this time in the Song Dynasty.

In fact, not only in the Song Dynasty, but also before the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was no such thing as gloves in China. To be precise, gloves were imported and introduced to China in the last years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty; In ancient times, Chinese people had long sleeves and could put their hands into their sleeves in winter, but in order to facilitate the war, the military uniforms were arrow sleeves with tightened cuffs, and naturally there were no long sleeves to put their hands in the sleeves, so it was normal for the soldiers to have chilblains on their hands every winter.

It's okay to have chilblains in normal times, but chilblains in wartime can affect combat effectiveness.

After returning from the meeting, Lotte drew a pair of gloves based on the memories of his previous life, and then instructed Xu Jiang: "Find a tailor and let him customize something called gloves according to the style drawn by this official!" ”

"Gloves?" Xu Jiang listened to Lotte's words, and was a little confused, staring at the drawings drawn by Lotte and asking, "Lord Zhongshu, what are these gloves?" ”

Lotte explained in detail: "To be precise, this glove is cut and shaped with cotton cloth according to the size of the hand, and cotton wool and other materials are stored in the middle to wear on the hand to keep warm. ”

"I understand, this thing is for the sergeant to keep out the cold!" General Xu immediately understood, and then said with some embarrassment: "Lord Zhongshu, with all due respect, although it is not difficult to find the fabric to make gloves for 70,000 soldiers in this Shunzhou City, there is no cotton wool that can be used to fill the warmth in Xia, and the cotton wool is very expensive, even in my Great Song Dynasty, the army cannot afford this large expenditure." ”

It has to be mentioned here that the use of cotton cloth to make clothes is a matter after the Ming Dynasty, before the Ming Dynasty, the cotton planting area was very small, the price was expensive, the rich could afford to wear cotton clothes, and the poor people could only wear linen clothes to keep out the cold; Large-scale cotton planting is a matter of the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, ordered a large-scale promotion of cotton planting in China, and the ordinary people who used decades before and after can afford to wear cloth clothes, and it is no longer a luxury that only rich people can have.

Lotte snorted: "There is no cotton wool that can be filled with wool, rags, hemp silk, reed flowers, fine grass and other objects, as long as it can keep warm and keep out the cold, this official does not believe that he can't make 70,000 pairs of gloves." ”

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Stepping on the slanting winter sun and the cold and biting north wind, a team of soldiers led the horses to walk step by step on the bank of the Yellow River.

"This ghost weather is really cold, I've been chasing it for more than a day, and I haven't even seen Xia Ren's hair!" A soldier cursed.

While walking, a soldier filled his mouth with fried noodles, and at the same time took a mouth of snow, muttering: "This ghost weather, boiling pot water can't be boiled for an hour, if it weren't for the fried noodles invented by Youle Zhongshu, we would all have to eat raw!" ”

"Chow mein is a good thing, but it's a little hot when you eat too much!" Another soldier also stuffed fried noodles into his mouth as he walked, and when he spoke, he untied a gourd from his waist and poured it into his mouth: "If there is not gourd wine to keep out the cold on this cold day, I am afraid it will be even more difficult!" ”

"If it weren't for these damn party members, Lao Tzu would have slept in Shunzhou City, and when Lao Tzu caught these dogs, he would have skinned them one by one......" A soldier said hatefully, and when he said this, he snatched the wine gourd in the hand of the soldier next to him, and muttered: "Don't patronize the leper head and drink alone, give me Lao Wu two sips......

All the soldiers laughed.

It was warm a few days ago, and the snowflakes melted soon after falling on the ground, and suddenly it became cold after the clearing, and the melted snow turned into an ice shell, and the horses stepped on it and slipped, plus the day was in the wild, and the horses' physical strength was very large, so that these cavalry had to dismount and walk.

Knights and horses have to establish a relationship, so horses will be ridden, coupled with the serious shortage of horses in the Great Song Dynasty, horses are naturally expensive, and the cavalry will cherish horses more.

"Liu Dutong, Qu Zhizhai, there is a person running towards us in front, it seems to be our brother!" As he was walking forward, a soldier walking in front reported loudly.

Hearing the report, Liu Qi ordered: "Go and take a look!" ”

After saying that, a group of cavalry mounted their horses and galloped forward.

When I got closer, I saw that the person was a soldier wearing Song Army armor, but he was covered in blood at this time.

As soon as he got closer, the wounded soldier gasped and said, "Everyone...... Just go...... We have been attacked by the Xia people, brothers...... They are almost dead, and the Xia people are lighting a fire...... Burn our grain and grass! ”

"When did it happen?" Liu Qi asked again.

"Half ...... Hours...... Before! The wounded soldier gasped.

Liu Qi cast his gaze at the group of people behind him: "In terms of time, the supply convoy should have been attacked by the party on the official road five or six miles to the south!" ”

While he was talking, the soldiers behind Liu Qi suddenly saw a column of green smoke rising in the distance. The wounded soldier also saw the pillar of green smoke, gasped and said, "This green smoke...... I guess it was the party soldiers who ordered our grain and grass......"

"Dog|mother|raised!" Hearing the words of the wounded soldier, Qu Duan raised his eyebrows and waved his hand: "Brothers, follow me!" ”

Hearing that the logistics supply convoy was attacked, a group of soldiers screamed one after another, and rushed to the south with Qu Duan's back, with this pillar of green smoke, it was equivalent to guiding Qu Duan, Liu Qi and others.

The horses galloped wildly, and the five or six miles of the road was only a moment of time, and when they were far away from the Xu Road, a group of Western Xia soldiers in the place where the green smoke was burning found Liu Qi, Qu Duan and others, and immediately got on their horses and ran south.

When they arrived at the place where the green smoke was lit, a tragic scene appeared in front of Liu Qi, Qu Duan and a group of subordinates, only to see hundreds of Song soldiers and men all lying in a pool of blood, in addition to leaving traces of fierce fighting, you can also see the traces of torture and killing of the Song army and the soldiers of the Western Xia soldiers.

Fighting a war is a soldier's business, but most of the people who transported supplies were Ding Ling, and these accompanying Song troops were guards, and those who transported supplies were all requisitioned and sent by Lao Ling.

In the cold weapon, in most cases, the cavalry fighting the infantry is like harvesting crops, how can these Song troops guarding the grain and grass be the opponents of the Western Xia cavalry, as for the Ding Ling who was requisitioned, they are all farmers who put down their hoes, and how do they know how to fight in battle, they are already frightened when they see blood.

Although they were inferior in numbers and weapons, these Song soldiers resisted very stubbornly, and many of them died with the Western Xia cavalry, but those requisitioned Ding Ling were tortured and killed alive by the Tanguts, who sprinkled all their anger on these unarmed laborers.

Some of these unarmed laborers were cut off their hands by the Tanguts, some had their legs cut off, and some were completely cut off their limbs into a human stick, these people were frozen to death in this cold weather with all their blood, and the coagulated blood was mixed with the ice and snow on the ground, red and white and cold and bloody.

"Leave some people to move down the grain and grass that is not burning in the car, and the rest of the people will chase after me!" Liu Qi gritted with a mouthful of steel teeth.

The weather was too cold and it was not easy to make a fire, so these Western Xia soldiers worked for a long time to light the fire, and the reinforcements of the Song army over there arrived, and although Ding Ling, the soldier who escorted the grain and grass, was all killed, most of the grain and grass were saved.

Unexpectedly, the Song army's reinforcements arrived so quickly, and this group of Western Xia soldiers fled south in a panic.

As a bloody man, seeing his siblings Tong Ze die, Qu Duan, Liu Qi and others showed hideous expressions on their faces, and the soldiers under him were also angry, and the next time was the sleepless pursuit of this group of Western Xia soldiers.

Except for more than 100 Song soldiers, the rest were escorted by the army, and they were ordinary people, if they had not been requisitioned, these people could have been warm and winter at home; These Western Xia soldiers are also from the common people, and the taxation and taxation of Western Xia are the same as those of the Great Song Dynasty, so they naturally know this principle, and killing hundreds of Ding Ling is tantamount to touching the moral bottom line.

Gradually, this group of fleeing Western Xia soldiers felt that something was wrong, and chased and killed the Song army behind them almost endlessly, staring behind them like a tail horse, just when these Western Xia soldiers were helpless, another Song army suddenly appeared in front, and this Song army was tens of thousands.

In a panic, the two Song armies were encircled, and the tired and tired Western Xia soldiers could no longer hold on, and the generals led by them were very aware of the choice of current affairs and led their corporals to dismount, raise the white flag and surrender.

Soon, Qu Duan, Liu Qi and others who followed closely also rushed to the front, looked at the Song army in the distance, their faces were slightly surprised at first, and then the two opened their mouths almost at the same time and said: "Kill them, not a single one will be left!" ”

This Western Xia general can understand Chinese, when he heard the words of Qu Duan and Liu Qi, he was busy on the horse, urging the horse and saying to his subordinates: "Come with me to surrender the Song army in front!" ”

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