After Yu Qiuping led the main force back, Miyoshi Nagayi and Miyoshi Masaysu, who were originally active, immediately led their troops back to Takaya Castle and Kishiwada Castle, and they only had more than 2,000 soldiers in their hands, and their combat effectiveness was not as good as Chang Panbei. Therefore, he did not dare to act rashly, and seemed to want to wait for reinforcements from the Miyoshi family.

However, Yu Qiuping barely stayed at Maple Leaf Mountain Castle, and led his army to Wakae without stopping, and ordered Charlie himself, who was in the area of Otori-gun, Sakai Town, to also rush to meet him. Those who are familiar with Yu Qiuping know that Yu Qiuping is estimated to have to deal with the previous dispute between Charlie and Yoshioka Katsumasa.

As soon as the evaluation meeting was held, Yoshioka Katsumasa sat in a corner of the table angrily, and it was useless for Nakahide Omaezaki and Yasunari Fukushima to persuade him. And Charlie looked as calm as ever, and sat quietly on the stool opposite Yoshioka Katsumasa, waiting for Yu Qiuping to speak.

"Your Highness, you have to take care of the foreigner brother!" However, before Yu Qiuping could speak, Yoshioka Katsumasa spoke first angrily: "He refuses to cooperate with me in life or death!" If he attacks with me, we'll all take down the castle now!" ”

"Do you mean that acting with you means the same as listening to your command?" Hearing this, Charlie shot back without humility or arrogance, "Your Highness gave me the order to guard Sakai Town, and did not ask me to accept your moderation. ”

"Brother foreigner, don't be unreasonable, the fault of this matter is yours!" Seeing this, Yoshioka Katsumasa was about to speak again, but was stopped by Yu Qiuping with a wave.

"Okay, okay, don't talk about it, it's not yours to fault this matter, it should be me." Yu Qiuping smiled bitterly and played the round, glanced at Yoshioka Katsumasa, and then turned his head to look at Charlie, "It was because I had a problem with the deployment before leaving, and I didn't determine a clear command, which led to such a command contradiction." Both of you are major generals, and you are indeed not subordinate to each other. Thompson is right, and so are you. ”

"What does Your Highness mean?" Nakahide Omaezaki heard the sound of the strings, and said excitedly: "You want to set up a new command system?" ”

"That's right. You're a clever kid. Yu Qiuping nodded in satisfaction, and then continued, "I plan to apply for a budget from the Congress, and then expand one company of infantry and half a company of cavalry. In this way, we will have 6 companies of infantry and 1 company of cavalry. ”

"And then." Yu Qiuping paused, and after attracting everyone's attention, he said the focus of this meeting, "I plan to split these 6 infantry companies into two halves, 3 companies are still subordinate to Tokiwa Bei, and the remaining 3 companies will form a new reserve. ”

"What?" As soon as these words came out, the samurai who participated in the meeting were taken aback. Ever since Akihei was given the Maple Bird Banner and the name "Jobanbei" by Imagawa Yoshimoto himself twelve years ago, the three characters "Jobanbei" have always been the symbol of the Autumn Autumn Family's Red Leaf Soldiers. These old subordinates had long been accustomed to fighting as Chang Panbei, but at this moment, they suddenly had to have a brand new reserve, and half of the senior officers had to be divided, so they could no longer fight as Chang Panbei.

Yu Qiuping saw the embarrassment of His Royal Highness, understood the reason, and said with emotion: "You must know that the situation of the Yuqiu family is not as good as before. In the past, we only had to deal with enemies in one direction, and every time we went into battle, we had to assemble all of them, so there was nothing wrong with me commanding all of them. But now, we are surrounded by enemies on all sides, and not only do we need to divide our troops to garrison, but sometimes I have to lead a part of my troops to follow my lord on the expedition. In this case, it is impossible for me to remotely control all the Tokibanbi divisions that are thousands of miles apart at the same time. Therefore, only two reserves can be set up to facilitate the command, and I can also give the commander enough authority to act according to his own judgment. With unity of command, there will be no more chaos like the one of the previous days. ”

"But don't worry, even if you leave Tokiwabei, the new reserve team can still wear the Momiji Flag and wear Momiji on the helmet. However, the flags of the two reserve teams should be distinguished. As he spoke, Yuqiuhei took out a Tokiwabei team flag designed by Imagawa Kaede from his bosom - a pattern of a mountain with autumn leaves, which he also painted to commemorate his acquaintance with Imagawa Kaede.

"Although half of you will leave Chang Panbei, you may not feel very comfortable psychologically, but this is for the great cause of the Yuqiu family, please be considerate."

"Your Highness doesn't have to be like this, you have no time to make a living for the Yuqiu family at the lower level, how can you interfere with Your Highness's deployment because of this." Seeing this, Fukushima Yasunari was the first to stand up and saluted Yu Qiuping, "Your Highness just orders!" ”

"Your Highness, just command!" Seeing this, the other samurai also saluted.

"Thank you." Yu Qiuping glanced at his loyal subordinates with great gratitude. However, the reason why the cohesion of his subordinates is so high is inseparable from the fact that he withstood the pressure at that time and did not divide the seal, but took back the land of the Xiaohao clan. If every general had a fiefdom and the troops under his command were his private deployments rather than Chang Iwa's officers and soldiers, then it would be a fantasy for Yu Qiuping to carry out such an organizational adjustment, which is why many Japanese daimyo even though they were strong, their troops were still relatively loose.

"That's good. Let me announce the list of personnel. Yu Qiuping took out a list from his arms again, cleared his throat, and whispered: "Chang Panbei's general command commander Fukushima Yasunari, the military rank is promoted to brigadier general. The company commanders of the three infantry companies subordinate to Tokiwa were Colonel General Yoshioka Katsumasa, Lieutenant Colonel General Mizuatoma, and Major General Aoki Kazuki. ”

After learning that he was still in Tokiwabei, smiles appeared on the faces of Yoshioka Katsumasa, Mizuatom Jing, and Aoki Kazuki, while the other senior officers were a little helpless. Although Yu Qiuping felt a little unbearable in his heart, he was faintly relieved - this shows that everyone loves Chang Panbei and loves Yuqiu's family.

"Your Highness, what is a brigadier general?" The young man Mizenzaki Nakahide repeated Yu Qiuping's pronunciation again in confusion, "Is it a new military rank?" ”

"That's right." Yu Qiuping nodded, and gestured a few times with his hand, "Above the school officer, there are four military ranks: brigadier general, major general, lieutenant general, and general, and brigadier general and major general are equivalent to generals, and lieutenant generals and generals are almost family elders and city lords, and they can be captains and independently command the reserve." ”

"And the newly formed reserve team, the captain of the department is Charlie, and the rank is also promoted to brigadier general. The company commanders of the three companies attached to this new reserve were Colonel General Nakahide Omaezaki, Colonel General Yuto Ogawa, and Lieutenant Colonel General Kitabatake Keiie. The cavalry company led by the colonel's general, Nobuyori Anayama, was under my direct jurisdiction. Yu Qiuping finished reading out the list and added, "As for the rank promotions of other officers, Lord Takenaka will announce them uniformly afterwards." ”

"And Your Highness, what about the name of the new reserve?" Nakahide Omaezaki immediately cared about his reserves, "What's it called!" ”

"Thompson, you're the captain, do you have any ideas?" After Yu Qiuping thought about it, he still left the decision to Charlie, "Why don't you come up with a name, this is your reserve." ”

"Please also ask Your Highness to give your name and give you a military flag." Charlie did not hesitate to salute Yuqiu, and at the same time leaned over slightly and said, "This is my honor as a soldier." I will be the sharpest arrow of Your Highness, and I will go forward wherever Your Highness wants me to shoot. ”

Yu Qiuping was stunned for a moment, realizing that this might be an English tradition. He looked at Charlie again, who was leaning over, and suddenly felt a little touched.

Of so many people present, Charlie was the first to follow him, and even Naoe Tadahei met later. When he bought chickens for his subordinates who were still slaves, it was Charlie who helped. Before you know it, it's been more than ten years. Time flies.

"I know, then I'll tell you tomorrow." Yu Qiuping smiled and patted Charlie on the shoulder, "Prepare a surprise for you." ”

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After Yu Qiuping returned home, Imagawa Kaede was taking care of the mountains of official duties for him. After hearing the sound of the door opening, she raised her head, pouted a little resentfully towards Yu Qiuping and complained: "It's too much, don't be lazy and run around yourself, hurry up and come over to help!" ”

"Okay, good, hard work." Yu Qiuping sat next to Imagawa Kaede with a smile, but did not lift the pen to deal with official business, but wrapped his left hand around Imagawa Kaede's waist, and gently rubbed Imagawa Kaede's crisp chest with his right hand, and said with a wicked smile: "Treat you well?" ”

"Hey! You bad guy! Imagawa Kaede's cheeks turned red, and he pinched Yu Qiuping's waist with disgust, "Daylight!" What do you want! ”

"I want you to draw!" To Imagawa Kaede's surprise, Yu Qiuping changed his words and actually mentioned an inexplicable thing.

"Drawing?" Imagawa Kaede was stunned for a moment, the flush on his cheeks had not yet faded, "Draw a military flag?" I'm not already helping you draw the military flag of Tokiwa. ”

"This time it's for Thompson's backup. I've designed it, so you'll be the main writer! ”

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Early the next morning, Charlie had been waiting in the barracks for a long time, waiting for the name of his reserve team and his team flag.

Yu Qiuping came as promised, smiled at Charlie, and then reached out and took it into his arms. Charlie looked expectantly at the military flag that Yu Qiuping took out from his arms, but unexpectedly found that Yu Qiuping took out a ringing arrow.

"Mingdi?" Charlie was stunned for a moment, recognizing this particular arrow.

"Where the sound of the arrow is pointed, the arrow is directed." Yu Qiuping walked up to Charlie, took out a military flag from his pocket, and slowly unfolded it in front of Charlie - what was painted on the military flag was the Ming Di that Yu Qiuping was holding in his hand.

"Give the name Ming Di Bei."

"As my sharpest arrow, shoot a peaceful and prosperous era for me."