After the last anti-rebellion war, the military structure of the Song army's Jinghu War Zone changed a lot, mainly divided into two parts.

One part is the imperial guards from the central government. Zhou Yun, commander of the Guard Infantry Division, led 15,000 soldiers from the Guard Infantry Division to station in the Jiujiang area, replacing the original Qi Fang's position.

Of course, this was not what Zhao Xing wanted, but was just an emergency measure helpless. After the defeat, the Jinghu War Zone was in short supply, so he had no choice but to let the Guard Infantry Division take over and monitor the peasant army on Jiangnan West Road.

Another part is the remnants of Wu Gong's troops and the 20,000 troops brought by Yao Zhong himself. This part of the troops are mainly stationed in Xiangyang and are responsible for guarding the Ming army's Henan Corps in Henan.

However, in this way, the defense in the Ezhou area became empty, and the military strength of the peasant army was not enough to suppress the military power from the Hanyang direction.

If the peasant army suddenly chooses to break through this direction, it will be able to break through the Hanyang defense line in one fell swoop, and then head north to Xiangyang, threatening the rear of the most important defense zone of the Southern Song Dynasty.

That would be too dangerous.

Therefore, after the Southern Song Dynasty's government was relatively stable, the 80,000 troops recruited in the later stages. The Privy Council began to send 30,000 troops originally planned to supplement the Zhao Gou Dianqian Department to Ezhou to rebuild the Ezhou army, and try to restore the suppression of the Jiangnan West Road area.

In order to ensure that this army obeys orders and does not cause trouble, 60% of the army are newly recruited from the formation of soldiers to the formation of officers, and many of the officers are recruited through special military training and civilian selection.

The Privy Council believes that this army is very elite, brave, and equipped with good equipment.

Of course, the generals who commanded the army still had to use experienced people. The Privy Council chose the son of Wang De, the few famous generals under Zhang Jun who were truly good at using troops, Wang Shun.

Wang Shun followed Wang De in the army for many years, followed Wang De through life and death several times, made military achievements, and was famous for his bravery and good at fighting. So he was appointed as the commander of the Ezhou army and led this army to Ezhou along the Yangtze River.

In addition, the Guard Infantry Division was also added to 15,000 troops and restored its 30,000 troops. Therefore, in the second half of the fourth year of Hongwu, the troops in the Jinghu War Zone of the Southern Song Dynasty basically returned to their pre-war state, and the troops were fully equipped...

However, since most of them are new recruits and combat-capable troops are mainly gathered in the Xiangyang area, the Privy Council has been unable to issue orders for combat.

The Privy Council required two new troops to conduct strict training, and the court provided part of the daily expenses, and the local government provided part of the logistics support to the local government for allocation and transportation to the military camp.

This is the problem.

Some of the logistics transportation and military supplies guaranteed, etc., are originally subject to expenditures by local government officials, and most of the others are also subject to storage by local government officials. This is another expenditure.

It consumes time and energy, but there is no extra income. In addition to the long-standing conflict between civil and military affairs, it is natural for civil officials in the Jinghu War Zone to seek some benefits for themselves.

However, the civil servants in the Jinghu War Zone are still a bit conscientious in their work.

They seized the military supply of the two troops, the Ezhou army and the Xiangyang army, but they were relatively relaxed to the Jiujiang army and were not too targeted, and basically maintained a regular level.

The reason is of course that the Jiujiang Army is the Guard Infantry Division, which is the emperor's personal army. Most of the military officials have senior executives in the capital, so local officials cannot afford to punish this emperor's personal army.

If they offend them and they start the relationship between the capital, local officials will have to have a good drink.

Everyone is very skilled in using magic to deal with magic. When they encounter tough guys with tough relationships, they really don’t dare to do anything.

However, the Xiangyang Army and the Jiujiang Army are the local army organization, and the chief officer has no relationship at the central level, so they are very easy to bully.

Wang Shun, who was in charge of the military affairs of Ezhou, was not qualified enough. Although he was quite annoyed when encountering such a thing, he also knew the twists and turns here, so he chose a tolerant strategy and sent people to bribe military officials with money, trying to get preferential treatment.

If you don’t give money, you won’t give good products. Then I’ll give you money. You can give me some good things, right?

The civil servants in Ezhou were quite satisfied with Wang Shun's superiority, so they were relatively better with Wang Shun's Ezhou army, and the number of good and defective products was given was relatively balanced.

But Yao Zhong couldn't bear it.

He himself was a long-standing general. When he followed the Wu brothers to fight the Jin army in the Immortal Pass, these civil servants were hiding in Jiangnan and trembling.

He looked down on these civil officials who were hiding behind the army and claiming to be noble. He was always dissatisfied with them. When he was in Sichuan, he became famous in the officialdom. Because of his profound qualifications and military merits, no one dared to touch him with the support of the Wu brothers.

Sichuan itself has a relatively special situation, and the military supplies are relatively clean. The military chief still has certain power in distributing materials. He distributes his own things and does not allow outsiders to interfere.

But this is not the case when you arrive in Jinghu area. Yao Zhong is an outsider in Jinghu area. The civil servants in Jinghu area do not care whether you are an awesome person or not. As long as you are not the emperor's personal army, you can do whatever you should do.

The Xiangyang army led by Yao Zhong was at the forefront of the Ming and Song battlefield, facing the elite Ming army Henan Corps every day and facing their fierce murderous aura, it was really under a lot of pressure.

Under such circumstances, most of the military supplies sent were defective and few good ones, which made Yao Zhong very unhappy after hearing Wu Gong's complaints.

Finally, when inspecting the military items, Yao Zhong found that more than 70% of the more than 1,000 Divine Arm Bows sent were more than 30% of the good ones, and even the loss of daily training for the army could not make up for it, which made him unable to hold back.

He immediately submitted a letter to the court to explain the situation of the Xiangyang army and the current crisis situation, accusing the inaction and corruption of the military officials in the Jinghu War Zone, and while personally leading the troops to Ezhou and other places to ask for an explanation.

He took the rusted steel knife, a low-quality spear, and a wooden piece as armor made of iron piece, and went directly to the Ezhou Governor's Mansion to confront Song Chen, the governor of Ezhou.

“Can this kind of steel knife be used?”

Yao Zhong waved the steel knife to the tree next to him in front of a group of civil servants. The steel knife hit the trunk and broke it directly.

"Can this kind of spear be used?"

Yao Zhong held up the spear that was ten feet long again, and with force both hands, he broke it directly.

"Can this kind of armor be used?!"

Yao Zhong pulled down a series of "iron pieces" from the armor with one hand and threw it at Song Chen's feet, his face full of anger.

"Wearing this kind of armor on the battlefield, do you want my soldiers to die directly? What kind of armor is the Ming army on the opposite side? What kind of armor are we using? Can this kind of armor be used for war? The Song army has never been strong enough in combat, but the things on their hands are too poor! It is so bad that it is outrageous!"

Facing the veteran Yao Zhong who came to make trouble directly, Song Chen's expression was very bad.

Of course he knew the inside story of this matter, because he himself was one of the masterminds behind the whole matter, and he was the leader of organizing the official warehouse in Ezhou to trade with the peasant army.

It was under his permission and protection that those "ordinary" merchants could obtain the trading of the ordnance and peasant army like the Divine Arm Bow and then make a lot of money.

He had made more than 200,000 stagnant of money through this trade, and he settled the money in his hometown with gold, silver, silk and land, and became his own property.

It can be said that it's a nuisance.

But now that the victim comes to the door, he can't help but give him an explanation, otherwise the stinky Qiuba will make a fuss and he will not be able to explain after the superiors investigate.

"Zhi Yao, this matter is indeed a negligence from the rear. Let's do this. I will arrange someone to investigate immediately. After the investigation, I will give you an explanation immediately."

Yao Zhonglao is well aware of the essence of official communication. He knew at first glance that this guy was perfunctory and was working on a delaying strategy.

"What is explanation? I don't understand the Song envoy."

Song Chen patiently dealt with him.

"Zhi Yao, this matter is very involved and needs to be investigated slowly. It is impossible for you to stand here and ask me to give a result. If you lead troops to block the governor's mansion, will the impact be bad, right?"
Chapter completed!