Chapter Seventy-Three: The Qin Brothers
"Your Highness walks slowly......"
"No need to send it, let's go back to training."
At the gate of the Yanshan camp, the wind and snow had stopped, and the four hundred horsemen, under the leadership of Lu Wenzhao, were guarding the camp gate and preparing to escort Zhu Youzhen south.
The accompanying eunuch was Wang Chengen, and Qi Jin and others were at the camp gate to bid him farewell.
Zhu Youzhen explained some things, got into the carriage, and began to go south in front of the generals.
Seeing Zhu Youzhen's figure slowly disappearing into the sky, the generals turned around and entered the camp to continue training.
As for Zhu Youzhen, he sat in the rickety carriage, thinking about what he had done in the past few days.
He came to Changping from the capital, disarmed the Imperial Horse Prison in nine days, cleaned up the empty quota of the three guards of Yulin, and learned about the various situations in Liaodong, and already had an idea of how to plan Liaodong to contain Nurhachi.
What's more, more than 11,000 people in the Yanshan camp have basically turned to him.
not for anything else, but for the salary of fifteen taels of silver that year.
At the moment, 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 both promoted by themselves.
Sun Yingyuan led the Tengxiang left guard, and Mangui managed the three guards of Yulin, such a configuration is good.
However, 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 Zhu Youzhen wants to pull all the generals who can fight at the end of the Ming Dynasty under his command, especially those who have no background.
Xiao Cao, Huang Degong, Zhou Yuji......
This group of fierce generals should be co-opted and used, and they should not let go.
Thinking so, Zhu Youzhen spoke:
"Cheng En, Qin Bangping, they stayed in Gonghua City last night, right?"
"Back to Your Highness, yes." Wang Chengen, who was sitting on the side of the carriage, saluted and explained:
"According to the time of the great army, they should be no more than fifty miles away from us."
"At the moment, I am a cavalryman, and if I eat on the road, I should be able to reach the capital before dark."
"I'll be able to meet them on the road in about three hours."
"Hmm...... Tell the horse to go farther away. Zhu Youzhen nodded, and Lu Wenzhao outside the car window also spoke:
"Your Highness, rest assured, the humble post has already released the Tanma for twenty miles, as long as the route is the same, it should be able to meet halfway."
"That's good." Hearing this, Zhu Youzhen was also relieved.
He pulled out a military book from the bookshelf next to him, and when he opened it, it was filled with words and annotations.
This is Qi Jin's military book that Qi Jin has spent time and effort in the past few days to annotate Qi Jiguang's military book, which is a good learning material for "new soldiers" like Zhu Youzhen.
Wang Chengen next to him couldn't help but smile when he looked at Zhu Youzhen and looked at the annotated "New Book of Ji Xiao":
"It's the first time I've seen His Highness so fond of a book of soldiers."
"That's different...... Zhu Youzhen responded with a smile:
"Although the military books are all similar, with annotations, it will look easier and understand."
"General Qi has explained everything in this commentary, and the problems of reading books in the past have also been solved."
"Not to mention, the old general will also leave some of the experience he had when he led the troops to fight, or fought with Qi Shaobao."
"These experiences can't be bought for tens of thousands of taels of silver."
Speaking of this, Zhu Youzhen sighed:
"It's a pity that I came to Changping this time for too short, and there was a snowstorm, so I wanted to learn how to ride a horse but didn't have the opportunity."
"It seems that only after returning to the capital, ask Wen Zhao to teach me." Zhu Youzhen looked at Lu Wenzhao outside the carriage, and he also smiled:
"No wonder His Royal Highness asked Humility to find two three-year-old foals last night, and it turned out that he wanted to go back to the capital to study again."
"Hehe, there's no way around it, after all, this blizzard is too big." Zhu Youzhen chuckled helplessly.
The three of them talked like this, and if they were hungry, they would take some pastries to eat, and if they were thirsty, they would drink some water.
Although the carriage was large, it was rocking because of the road, and it was impossible to drink tea.
But fortunately, the time was faster than Zhu Youzhen thought, but two and a half hours later, the horse in front of him released the arrow.
With a "bang", after a cup of tea, a brocade-clothed guard came back to report:
"Lu Tongzhi, the Shizhuchuan soldiers were found ahead, do you want to invite Qin Dusi to come?"
"Well, you asked Qin Bangping to keep going, continue to go north, and pass on him and his two brothers to come together."
Without waiting for Lu Wenzhao to speak, Zhu Youzhen took the lead in greeting.
In his opinion, it is okay for generals to catch up with the past, but the people must not stop.
In case of delay, these 3,000 white-pole soldiers will only be camped in the wind and snow, and Zhu Youzhen doesn't want to let the army suffer in the wilderness.
"Yes!" Hearing Zhu Youzhen say this, Lu Wenzhao responded, and then motioned to Jinyiwei to pass on the three brothers of Qin Bangping, and when Jinyiwei saw this, he also turned the reins and rode his horse back.
After giving the order in this way, several horsemen soon came riding horses from afar.
After only a dozen breaths, the three skilled generals did not wait for the horses to stop, they turned over and dismounted, knelt down on one knee and saluted:
"The last general Qin Bangping (Qin Minping, Qin Banghan), see the Fifth Highness!"
is different from Zhu Youzhen's imagination that the three of them are young, among the three people who appeared in front of him, Qin Bangping has turned white on his temples, and Qin Banghan is the same, only Qin Minping looks younger, but it can also be seen that he is over forty years old.
Seeing the arrival of the three people, Zhu Youzhen got out of the car and helped the three of them up one by one, and said respectfully in his heart:
"I have admired the three generals for a long time, and now the three generals are leading the troops north to defend the imperial court against the Jianju, which really makes me admire."
Zhu Youzhen still consistently uses the self-title of "I" to people who need to be wooed to show closeness.
The three of them were also flattered and hurriedly returned the salute.
Looking at the appearance of the three of them, Zhu Youzhen first said the right thing:
"To avoid delaying the march, I'll make a long story short."
"The Yanshan camp is now resting with Zhejiang soldiers, and in the future, the three generals and He Shixian's general soldiers will be stationed in Shenyang together, and the Zhejiang soldiers will be stationed in Liaoyang, and they will be horns for each other."
"After arriving at the camp, I have already sent Cao Huachun, the eunuch of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, to prepare a resting place for the army, as well as the corresponding winter clothes, armor, and weapons."
"As long as the army needs it, it can be replaced, no need to ask me."
"This ...... How can a lowly person be so virtuous, and his Royal Highness has to be so loving......" Qin Bangping and the three of them were really taken aback.
As Tusi, even if they are Sichuan officials, they are not well respected, but they don't want Zhu Youzhen to lower his posture like this, so that they will be flattered.
"Aiding Liao for the country, naturally we should carry love." Zhu Youzhen helped up the three people who saluted again one by one, and then said:
"I heard that the old lady Qin Liangyu raised another 3,000 soldiers and horses to go north, and the three generals can write to the old lady and go directly to Changping, and after resting in Changping, they will go to Liaodong with enough grain."
"Thank you, Your Highness." Qin Bangping saluted restrainedly, and at this time, a red tide of centaurs also appeared on the edge of the sky......