Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 941 Daningdusi
The arrival of the Crown Prince was naturally taken very seriously by the people of Daning. When they were still thirty miles away from Daning City, Chang Sheng personally led three thousand cavalry to greet him. When they were ten miles away from Daning City, Duke of Zheng Chang Mao personally went out to greet him.

Seeing this momentum, the officers of the guards were divided into two sides, each standing according to their rank. The infantry and cavalry squares were all in high spirits, with swords and spears shining and full of energy. At a glance, the flags were trembling, and the soldiers' ranks were solemn and immovable. It was truly the strongest army in the world!

Although Zhu Xiongying was exhausted from the long journey, he remembered the teachings of his grandfather and fifth uncle, and never acted like a high-ranking grandson. He left the tall and magnificent four-horse carriage empty. Although sweat was already on his forehead, he still insisted on riding a horse, and accompanied by Chang Sheng, he slowly came to meet the soldiers. Chang Mao had been waiting anxiously for a long time, and when he saw him coming, he was delighted. He rode out to greet him from a distance, dismounted in front of Zhu Xiongying, half-knelt and clasped his fists, and said: "I, Duke of Zheng, Chang Mao, pay my respects to His Royal Highness the Grandson."

"Uncle, please stand up, please stand up quickly." Seeing Chang Mao, a very familiar relative, Zhu Xiongying was also very happy. He stepped on the stirrup, jumped off the horse and helped Chang Mao up. He said, "Uncle, there is no need to be so polite. You and I are close relatives. Besides, Xiongying came here to serve as the military supervisor. In terms of official rank, he is lower than uncle. How can a superior official salute a subordinate official?"

Seeing Zhu Xiongying winking playfully, Chang Mao couldn't help but laugh. Then he looked Zhu Xiongying up and down and sighed, "Time is unforgiving. In the blink of an eye, the grandson has become so heroic."

"Back when my uncle followed the Fifth Prince to wipe out the remnants of King Cheng and fight against Nahachu, the Fifth Prince was in high spirits and was about the same age as the Crown Prince. When I met the Crown Prince today, I thought it was the Fifth Prince in person!"

Zhu Xiongying admired Zhu Su the most. When he heard his uncle compare him with his fifth uncle Zhu Su, he couldn't help but feel happy. He looked around at the soldiers who stood like a mountain in the wind to welcome him, and said, "The wind is very strong today, so we should not stay outside the city for now."

"Let the soldiers return to the camp quickly. Uncle, to be honest, I have been traveling all the way and am exhausted... I was hoping to be treated by you two uncles and have a hot bath first!" Zhu Xiongying blinked.

Chang Sheng and Chang Mao looked at each other and couldn't help but burst into laughter. Chang Mao said with a smile: "Just now I said that you look like the Fifth Prince, but I didn't expect that your character is also very similar."

"Even when the Fifth Prince goes to war, he never misses a day of bathing and cleaning... You are such a clean person!"

"Let's go, let's go into the city. After you take a bath, your uncles will treat you to some delicious food and wine from Daning!"

The nephew, uncle and three of them were very affectionate and entered Daning City under the escort of the Daning army. Zhu Xiongying took a comfortable hot bath under the hospitality of Chang Mao and Chang Sheng, and then met the generals of Daning Dusi with his two uncles. Then the generals and Zhu Xiongying held a banquet in Daning City, and the generals toasted each other at the banquet, which was very lively.

Zhu Xiongying was still young and of noble status, so the generals would not drink without restraint in front of him. After the generals politely toasted Zhu Xiongying one by one and made him familiar with their faces, they tactfully started drinking with the generals, leaving space for Zhu Xiongying to talk privately with his two uncles Chang Mao and Chang Sheng.

"The Crown Prince suddenly sent me a letter saying that he would send the Grandson to our army as a military supervisor. I was really shocked when I received the letter." Chang Sheng said with a smile. "In my mind, the Grandson is just that big, not even as tall as my calf! How can he go to the battlefield..."

"Now I see, haha, he is actually taller than me. Great, that's great. If my father were still alive, he would be very happy to see his grandson so heroic."

"Hahahaha, I'm not surprised. No matter what, the Crown Prince has half of the Chang family's blood flowing in his body."

"How can we, the Chang family, not go to the battlefield? If you ask me, the prince will let his grandson go to the battlefield for training sooner or later."

"Well, although the prince is handsome, he is still a little too white... No matter, no matter, if he gets a little tanned and has some experience in the army, he will definitely be a reputable man! He is a descendant of my Chang family..." Chang Mao looked Zhu Xiongying up and down, and the more he looked, the more satisfied he became.

"Xiongying is young and ignorant, and I will need my two uncles' instruction on matters of battle in the future." Zhu Xiongying put himself in a very low position. When facing Chang Mao and Chang Sheng, he was close and admiring, and made the Chang brothers laugh.

Zhu Xiongying suddenly thought of something and asked the Chang brothers, "My two uncles, I just saw our Daning soldiers. They are strong and powerful, and they are worthy of being the strongest army in the world."

"But why? I heard that Bayanchur has been claiming to be the Great Khan and raising the flag against the Ming for more than a year."

"Those Tatar rebels have been around for so long, but they still can't be wiped out? Could it be that those Tatar Mongols are particularly capable?"

Zhu Xiongying looked innocent and naive. From childhood to adulthood, he had heard about how his fourth uncle led his army to destroy many armies that swept across the Timurid Empire, and how his fifth uncle led his fleet to the sea and conquered many daimyo in Japan...

I just think that the Ming army is invincible. As long as the Ming army is determined, it will be invincible wherever it goes. If there are occasional shortcomings, it must be because the officers and soldiers here are not the main force of the Ming army. As long as the main force of the Ming army arrives, it will be effortless to turn all the enemies into dust.

But just now, he saw the officers and soldiers of Daning in person, and saw that they were well-organized and well-armored. It was obvious that they were not the weak troops he had imagined. Moreover, these Daning generals were all strong and brave, and the two uncles who were the commanders were all great generals of the Guo Dynasty who had made military achievements. There should be no reason for them to tangle with a group of grassland bandits and remnants of the Yuan Dynasty for so long.

But the news that Ben Ya Shi Li had raised his flag and proclaimed himself Khan had spread to the capital for more than a year. Zhu Xiongying was really puzzled as to why the elite soldiers and generals of Daning had not yet destroyed them directly.

Chang Mao was startled, and looked at Chang Sheng, with a hint of helplessness in his eyes. He said, "Your Highness, you don't know that Ben Yashili, that bird thief, is really not a powerful person. We in Daning can easily beat them to a pulp."

"But even though we have this strength, we can't stand up to that bird thief..."

Before he could finish his words, a soldier outside the hall suddenly ran over with an anxious look on his face and was saying something anxiously to the guards outside the door.

Chang Mao saw this and realized that something might have happened, so he waved outside and asked, "Who is coming to report this? Is there any urgent military information?"

"Duke!" When the guards heard him speak, they stopped trying to stop him. The soldier rushed in anxiously and knelt in the hall, panting.

"General He of the Quanning Guard has reported that thirty miles north of the Quanning Market, he has found traces of 20,000 Tatars!"

(End of this chapter)