Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 73 The Qin Brothers
"Your Highness, go slowly..."

"No need to send them off, let's all go back to training."

At the gate of Yanshan Daying Camp, the wind and snow had stopped, and Si Baiti, led by Lu Wenzhao, guarded the camp gate to escort Zhu Youjian to the south.

The accompanying eunuch was Wang Cheng'en, and Qi Jin and others saw him off at the gate of the camp.

After Zhu Youjian explained some things, he got into the carriage and started heading south in front of the generals.

Seeing Zhu Youjian's figure slowly disappearing into the sky, the generals turned back and entered the camp to continue training.

As for Zhu Youjian, he was sitting in the shaking carriage, thinking about what he had done these days.

He came to Changping from the capital. In nine days, he disarmed the Imperial Horse Supervisor, cleared the vacancies of the three guards in Habayashi, and learned about various situations in Liaodong. He already had an idea on how to plan Liaodong to contain Nurhachi.

More importantly, more than [-] people in the Yanshan camp have basically returned to him.

Not for anything else, just for the military salary of fifteen taels of silver for that year.

Even if the army is handed over to Qi Jin for training, they will not betray themselves, not to mention that Sun Yingyuan and Man Gui were promoted by themselves.

Sun Yingyuan leads the left guard of Tengxiang, and Mangui manages the three guards of Yulin. This configuration is not bad.

But when the army is recruited, the two of them alone will be a little worse.

It's not that they can't do it, but that Zhu Youjian wants to bring under his command all the generals who can fight in the late Ming Dynasty, especially those who have no background.

Big and small Cao, Huang Degong, Zhou Yuji...

This group of fiercely attracts those who should be wooed, and those who should be used can't be let go.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian said:

"Cheng En, Qin Bangping and the others stayed in Gonghua City last night, right?"

"Return to Your Highness, yes." Wang Chengen, who was sitting on the side of the carriage, saluted, and explained:

"According to the time when the army set off, they should be no more than fifty miles away from us."

"Right now, I am a cavalry soldier. If I eat on the road, I should be able to reach the capital before dark."

"I can meet them on the road in about three hours."

"Well... tell Tanma to go further away." Zhu Youjian nodded, and Lu Wenzhao who was outside the car window also said:

"Your Highness, don't worry, I have already released the scout horse for twenty miles. As long as the route is the same, we should be able to meet them halfway."

"That's good." Hearing this, Zhu Youjian felt relieved.

He took out a volume of military books from the nearby bookshelf, and when he opened it, it was full of words and notes.

This is the book of war that Qi Jin spent time and effort to annotate Qi Jiguang's book of war in the past few days. It is a good study material for "new recruits" like Zhu Youjian.

Wang Chengen, who was next to him, watched Zhu Youjian's annotated "Ji Xiao's New Book" and couldn't help laughing:

"This is the first time this servant has seen His Highness love a book of war so much."

"That's different..." Zhu Youjian responded with a smile:
"Although the books of war are similar, but with annotations, it will look easier and understandable."

"Old General Qi has explained everything in this note, and the difficulties in reading books in the past have been easily solved."

"Not to mention, the old general will leave behind some of his experience in leading troops in battle, or in fighting Qi Shaobao."

"These experiences cannot be bought with tens of thousands of taels of silver."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youjian sighed:
"This trip to Changping was too short, and there was a snowstorm. I wanted to learn how to ride a horse but I didn't have the opportunity. It's a pity."

"It seems that only after returning to the capital, I asked Wen Zhao to teach me." Zhu Youjian looked at Lu Wenzhao outside the carriage, and he also said with a smile:
"No wonder Your Highness asked Beizhi to find two three-year-old foals last night. It turned out that they wanted to go back to the capital to learn again."

"Hehe, there's no other way, after all, the blizzard is too big." Zhu Youjian chuckled helplessly.

The three of them chatted one after another like this, if they were hungry, they would eat some pastries, if they were thirsty, they would drink some water.

Although the carriage was big, it was shaking because of the road, and it was impossible to drink tea.

Fortunately, the time was faster than Zhu Youjian thought, but two and a half hours later, the Tanma in front of him fired an arrow.

Accompanied by a "bang", after a cup of tea, a Jinyi guard came back to report:

"Lu Tongzhi, Shi Zhuchuan soldiers are found ahead, do you want to invite Qin Dusi to come?"

"Well, you tell Qin Bangping to keep going and continue northward, just pass him along with his two brothers."

Before Lu Wenzhao could speak, Zhu Youjian greeted him first.

In his opinion, generals can reminisce about the past, but the troops must not stop.

In case things were delayed, the three thousand white soldiers would have to camp in the wind and snow. Zhu Youjian didn't want to let the army suffer in the wild because of his own affairs.

"Yes!" Hearing what Zhu Youjian said, Lu Wenzhao responded, and signaled Jin Yiwei to pass on to Qin Bangping's three brothers. Seeing this, Jin Yiwei also turned the reins and galloped back.

After passing the order like this, several riders rode from afar soon.

After a dozen or so breaths, the three skilled archers dismounted before their horses stopped, knelt down on one knee and saluted:
"The last general, Qin Bangping (Qin Minping, Qin Banghan), see His Highness Fifth!"

Unlike Zhu Youjian's imagination of the three young people, among the three who appeared in front of him, Qin Bangping's temples were already graying, and so was Qin Banghan. Only Qin Minping looked younger, but he could also see that he was over forty up.

Seeing the three people coming, Zhu Youjian got out of the car and helped them up one by one, respectfully saying:

"I have admired the three generals for a long time, and now the three generals are leading the army to the north to defend the imperial court against the Jian captives. I really admire them."

Zhu Youjian still always uses the self-proclaimed "I" to show his closeness to those who need to be wooed.

The three of them were also flattered and hurriedly returned the gift.

Seeing the appearance of the three of them, Zhu Youjian said the business first:

"In order not to delay the march, I will make a long story short."

"At present, the Yanshan Camp has Zhe soldiers resting. In the future, the three generals will be stationed in Shenyang together with He Shixian, and the Zhe soldiers will be stationed in Liaoyang. They will be each other's horns."

"After arriving at the camp, I have sent the horse supervisor and admiral Cao Huachun to prepare a resting place for the army, as well as corresponding winter clothes, armor, and weapons."

"As long as the army needs it, it can be replaced without asking me."

"This... how can someone with such a humble rank be so favored by His Highness..." Qin Bangping and the others were really taken aback.

As chieftains, they didn't get much respect even from Sichuan officials, but they didn't want Zhu Youjian to lower his posture so that they would be flattered.

"Aiding Liao for the country, it is natural to show love." Zhu Youjian helped up the three people who saluted again, and then said:

"I heard that Mrs. Qin Liangyu is recruiting another [-] troops to go north. At that time, the three generals can write to the old lady and go directly to Changping. After resting in Changping, they will bring enough food and fodder to Liaodong."

"Thank you, Your Highness, General." Qin Bangping saluted restrainedly, and at this moment, a red tide of troops appeared on the horizon...

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