Gong Dingyu set off from Qingjiang nine days later, that is, on November 20 of the 17th year of Chongzhen.

When he was leaving, he went to say goodbye, but he happened to meet the crown prince to send Wang Chengen back to the southern capital.

It was inconvenient for him to stay, so he only watched from afar.

Wang Chengen did not bring many followers, except for a few personal companions who served as eunuchs, there was only a team of guards from the guard office, wearing extremely beautiful guard clothes, clustered around the Wang eunuch, looking around with curious eyes.

These guards are all the children of the pro-xun and the ministers of civil and military affairs, and it was not smooth when they recruited the guards at the beginning, but later the situation got better and better, and there were more and more candidates for the guards who sent their children into the palace.

After all, a big family may have many children, and it is impossible for all of them to have the opportunity to become officials on the right path, they may live at home, they may also serve as staff members for their relatives who are officials, and they are more likely to go into business or do evil.

Now, as long as you practice riding and archery a little and read the military book, you will have the possibility of entering the palace as a guard.

Once selected as a guard, it is a sixth-rank military attaché, and then it is divided into third-class promotions, and the highest first-class guard is a third-rank military attaché.

Of course, you can't be a general directly, but you can become the deputy of a battalion military attache and learn to lead the troops, as long as you work hard, it is not difficult to become the head of a town.

With the Qingjiang camp deliberately controlling public opinion, the implementation of the system of loyal martyrs' shrines and the families of military martyrs, and in the future, there will be measures to increase the status of military personnel, such as the pension system for military personnel, and now the people are no longer as contemptuous of military attaches and military personnel as before.

Originally, it should be like this, the status of martial artists actually has a strong backlash in the Nanming Society, Zuo Liangyu's burning, killing and looting, Gao Jie, Liu Zeqing, and Liu Liangzuo's arbitrary behavior is simply a kind of rebound that martial artists have been despised for more than 200 years.

Now it is fortunate that the crown prince has suppressed the military ministers, but if he still insists on the way of being noble and cheap, he will have a big mess sooner or later in the future.

With this understanding, the Qingjiang camp still spared no effort to deliberately promote the image of the warriors, and many measures were silent, but extremely effective.

As soon as the soldiers of the Pinglu Army show up now, the big girls and the little daughters-in-law look hot, and many young and middle-aged men come to inquire about joining the army, and Yu Lu is of course the first, but the beautiful military uniforms and military ranks of the Pingyu Army are also a very important reason.

Seeing that Zhu Cihong and Wang Chengen were extremely affectionate, and even brought a mount to this eunuch himself, Gong Dingyu couldn't help but smile.

The crown prince did not have any good feelings towards the eunuchs, even if it was this royal eunuch who was as loyal as an old dog.

But so what?

In terms of etiquette and treatment, Zhu Cihong has never treated Wang Chengen badly, and he has never lost half a point in the courtesy.

At this time, before leaving, I came to see him off, and the posture was enough.

After Wang Chengen went back, even if Chongzhen was dissatisfied with Zhu Cihong's self-assertion, at least in these details, the fastidious emperor couldn't find anything wrong.

In the harem, it will not be rumored that the prince is flying and domineering.

After all, they are so polite and respectful to their father's house slaves, and these guards are all looking at it.

"The prince is getting more and more ......"

Riding on the horse, Gong Dingyu himself also laughed to himself, it doesn't matter how the prince changes, what matters is that isn't this change more reasonable and appropriate?

"Let's go!"

He looked left and right, there were two staff officers around him, both of whom were very rigorous middle-aged people, with experience as lower-level military attachés, all of whom were from families, familiar with military books, and had been in the camp staff department for so long, familiar with the camp military system and rationing, and were also familiar with the local military system, plus after receiving so long staff training, he could easily look at the map and calculate the distance of the ruler, although it was a different thing from modern staff officers, but at this stage, the staff system has gone from being completely blackened to now everyone has a clear concept. This is already a rare thing.

The people of the General Staff Department, the people of the Secretariat, the attachés of the Quartermaster Department and the attachés sent by their General Affairs Department, as well as a shed of cavalry escorts dispatched by the Military Affairs Department, Gong Dingyu, the chief officer of the First Division, was ordered to travel, and there were fifty or sixty people in the attaché around him, more than 100 horses and a few carts pulling luggage and supplies, and the scale was already extremely large.

From Qingjiang all the way to the north, passing through several towns such as Wangjiaying, crossing the Liutang River, passing Shuyang, Tancheng, the official road along the way is smooth and wide, and the road that could have been taken by water was not only very fast, but also not tired.

Along the way, there were soldiers of the patrol garrison battalion, and according to the road, the pond, and the flood were divided, and the largest number of sub-patrols was three or four hundred, and the minimum was only a dozen or twenty people, but they were all well-armed, and their eyes were vigilant enough when they looked at the people and horses of the brigade.

All the way to the north, by the dusk of the eighteenth day, he had arrived outside Xu Town, and he could have rushed into the city to rest, but Gong Dingyu did not want to alarm the city defense camp, so he directly found an inn outside the city to settle down.

In the early morning of the next day, because the weather was too cold and the road was tired, everyone got up a little late, and when there was a crackling knock on the door outside the inn, everyone including Gong Dingyu woke up.

"Is Master Gong of the Quartermaster of the Qingjiang Camp Camp here?"

Outside, he banged on the door and shouted loudly.

Gong Dingyu only felt dizzy, and every bone in his body was very tired. It is a straight and wide official road all the way from Qingjiang, even so, the journey of 500 miles can be driven out in more than three days, which in the past unless it is by water, and it is necessary to have a smooth journey.

Of course, the officers and men of the express delivery of the military newspaper ran even faster than this, and they could travel 400 miles or 400 miles to expedite, but that was until they changed horses without changing people, and until they ran dead horses, the speed of the brigade here was 200 miles a day, which was simply a god speed.

But think about Zhang Quanbin and Cao Qing, from the end of the meeting, they got up on the third day, and I heard that it was seven days before the three battalions of kung fu rushed to Xuzhou City.

The march was more than sixty miles a day, and the speed of the march was simply frightening.

The officers and men of the baggage battalion are very effective, the vehicles are sufficient, each baggage battalion has a large number of horses and mules to help transport, and the carts are built very much, each battalion has hundreds of carts, and the baggage of the infantry of the three battalions, including armor, food, medicine, bandages, sundries, gunpowder, arrows, small artillery, artillery, etc., are all transported by the baggage battalion.

Ordinary soldiers just carry their own iron halberds and spears or firearms, and then their own water bottles and sundries bags, firecrackers and pigtails of different sizes with medicines, a small number of strong crossbowmen are the most relaxed, their bows and arrows are carried by baggage trucks, they only need to wear a short knife, carry a strong crossbow and bow and arrow to walk.

Even if it is lightly armed, the weight of each soldier is still about fifteen catties, Gong Dingyu watched on the side when the army traveled, but when he heard the rustling footsteps, such as the sound of spring silkworm activities at night, soon, the three battalions of more soldiers walked out of the camp, all of them wore dark gray combat training uniforms, spears and halberds like a forest, like a giant snake winding and marching, and soon disappeared into the morning mist.

He and all the priests watched in silence, and everyone was shaken.

It's one thing to train and it's another thing to see the army go out on an expedition.

The long period of physical fitness and marching training was not wasted, and at least the speed of the march alone could have sparked a wave of discussion in the pen of the Information Department.

"Lord Gong, Lord Gong!"

The knock on the door outside became more and more urgent, and the people at the inn had already opened the door, and at this time, the boots were full of sound, and they had already arrived outside Gong Dingyu's residence.

"Here we are."

Gong Dingyu got up in his clothes, opened the door, and was noisy, the look on his face was not good-looking.

Outside was a very handsome young military attache with bright armor and bright armor, and when he saw Gong Dingyu come out, a handsome face was raised and his face was very cold: "Taibao heard that Lord Gong has arrived, and ordered Lord Gong to go to the army immediately to speak." ”

"Oh, I'll go."

"The last general is waiting outside."

Without waiting for Gong Dingyu to say anything, Sun Chuanting's flag officer of the Chinese army nodded reservedly and coldly, and then turned to leave. When they arrived outside the courtyard, they and more than a dozen cavalrymen in bright armor all turned over and got on their horses, and looked at the situation in this small inn together.

Being so despised and coldly treated, coupled with Sun Chuanting's order, Gong Dingyu was anxious and angry, hurriedly changed his clothes, wiped them indiscriminately, and went out with his busy subordinates.

"Although Lord Sun is the supervisor, this official is not under the direct control of Lord Sun." Outside the hospital, Gong Dingyu also held his face high and said to this Chinese army flag.

"Please explain this to the Taibao, the general can't control it."

"This is nature."

They were moved by each other, and they had nothing to say all the way, only through the city of Xuzhou, and rushed towards the place where Sun Chuanting was, passing through the city, and rushing nearly twenty miles, and they didn't have time to eat lunch.

Several large cars seriously slowed down the speed of travel, and the road was in disrepair, with a deep depression in the middle, and all sides were full of floating dust, making it very difficult to move.

Most of Gong Dingyu's attachés were civil officials, and they rode very slowly, so in this way, many people complained.

It's Gong Dingyu himself, and it's very painful to step down, and he can't wait to ride for a while and then come down and walk, so he can't improve his speed. If it weren't for the fact that he and this military attache had resisted the cow and gambled like this, I am afraid that Gong Dingyu would have to order a temporary rest, and wait for everyone's physical strength to recover.

He was ordered by the crown prince to assist in the deployment of military quartermasters, but he was really not a subordinate of Sun someone!

In the evening, as far as the eye could see, there was no trace of the army stationed except for a few suspicious wisps of smoke.

Although he didn't want to talk to this flag official, Gong Dingyu couldn't help but ask: "Didn't Taibao camp in Luohe Town today?" We've just passed by. ”

"Back to your lordship," the flag official said: "The morning is in Luohe, the end of the faction has already set up camp when he comes out, if we camp now, we can catch up at noon tomorrow, if we chase overnight, we will be able to catch up in another hour." ”

(To be continued)