Otherworld Advance Team-Chapter 1815 - 1808: Returning Home Again

"Alright, don’t be at odds with your father anymore. Stay here for a while longer, and I’ll try to persuade your father and also find some supplies for your troops. If you’re free, go home and have a look, even if it’s not to see your father, seeing your brother would be good."

"Thank you for your help, Mother."

"Why such formality between mother and son? I also hope you can fight a beautiful battle, which will certainly make your career path smoother."

Speaking slowly, Gaofeng Yu rose from the chair and said leisurely, "Well, I should be going back now. This position of General, I dare not sit too long."

"What is Mother saying? With Mother in authority, how dare I sit in the main hall?"

It should be said, the Wen Family Court indeed gave Jiuyun Shuang some time, allowing him to linger in the Northern Province. Not for anything else, just to persuade the Jiuyun Clan to send troops for assistance.

The Imperial Court’s plan was meticulous, having the Jiuyun Clan send troops to help the court in battle, allowing the court to divert as much force as possible to Beichang.

As for whether it’s reasonable for local troops to assist the court in external warfare, that can be said to have its own reasoning.

In principle, the court can deploy any troops within Kyushu to carry out combat operations, which includes the Private Nine Thousand Battalion.

Thus, nominally there is no so-called private soldiers.

All troops, whether the Nine Thousand Battalion or border defense units, are part of the Dongsheng Court’s armies.

But in fact, compared to the more than two hundred years of Wen Family Court system, Kyushu’s Private Soldiers System has existed for over a thousand years.

Therefore, for these actual local lords, private soldiers are indeed private soldiers, and a military force of their own family.

Although nominally the Court can indeed deploy their Nine Thousand Battalion, really doing so has been quite rare.

Actually, even now with the Wen Family flourishing, the Court doesn’t dare to directly decree and command the Jiuyun Clan to send the Nine Thousand Battalion for cross-border combat, instead using such a subtle form to compel the Jiuyun Clan to deploy troops.

The court can actually mobilize only the central army.

However, even if the court can directly summon the central army, it still has a lot of the Wu Family’s members mixed in.

Thus, the court repeatedly sends the central army for external combat or local turmoil suppression.

This army is like a beast infested with lice, constantly scratching until covered in wounds, with the aim of scraping all those lice away.

Hence, in the West Outer Heaven war, the Wen Family Court leveraged the Demon Clan army and the western continent people’s power, directly concentrated to scrape all those lice away, leading to later army reform.

After military reform, the new central army no longer inherited the Civil Captain and Military General system, aiming to expel all the Wu Family’s members.

So they extensively armed with powerful muskets and cannons, rapidly restoring the army’s combat power to its pre-reform state.

Moreover, the Wen Family Court also extensively recruited civilians to join the army, including slaves.

Especially the Demon Clan people, whose integration naturally disgusted the Wu Family, unwilling to mingle with them. This is somewhat like a beast covered in mud, even lice find it hard to get close.

One could say, the Wen Family Court on one side is integrating the military force it can actually control. On another side, it’s also planning to abolish fiefs or confiscate the command of each Nine Thousand Battalion, ensuring there’s no more private soldiers in the world.

But the difficulty of the latter is obviously a level higher, and a slight mistake could provoke widespread opposition from all Kyushu. Hence in handling such matters, the Wen Family’s stance is to be cautious upon cautious, preferring slow and steady over risky.

If the troops were plentiful, the court wouldn’t have to use such means to compel the Jiuyun Clan to send troops.

But the fact is, as soon as the new army was formed, it would face two wars, with shortages almost inevitably existing.

For the Wen Family Court, concentrating superior force to resolve the biggest anxiety with no doubt is the optimal choice.

Thus, they decided to dispatch the new army’s main force to Beichang to resolve the Wen Family Court’s biggest anxiety.

The primary commander of the new army’s main force is still a member of the Gaofeng Family, with intentions clear. If Gaofeng Yang truly cannot endure, the Gaofeng Family would not sit idly, but rather would directly exit from the Snow Boundary Pass and aid Gaofeng Yang’s battle.

But in any case, as long as the main force isn’t defeated, there’s no need for the Gaofeng Family to send troops.

In fact, the Wen Family Court has always hoped to resolve the issue with The Pretender’s Regime using its own power, and so isn’t particularly keen on relying upon local private soldiers.

But the situation in the Northern Province is different, given the main force’s East Expedition, the troops available to dispatch to Jiuyun Shuang was pitifully scarce.

Thus, on the western front, the Wen Family Court’s intention is clear, wishing the Jiuyun Clan to send troops to assist the new army in the conquest of the Yipa’s three divisions.

For the Wen Family Court, this is merely an expedient measure, but for Jiuyun Shuang, ten thousand men are sufficient to handle the war situation.

Yet despite having full confidence, Jiuyun Shuang ultimately did not disobey the court’s order, stayed in Northern Province for a period, intending to seek Jiuyun Zheng’s consent for troop deployment assistance.

After bidding farewell to Gaofeng Yu, the next day, Jiuyun Shuang donned civilian clothes and took two brothers to visit his family mansion once more.

His goal this time was very clear, to pay homage to Jiuyun Ying, for without him, he would not have today’s position.

Probably due to yesterday’s incident, Jiuyun Zheng was clearly still angry with him and did not acknowledge him, only his second brother Jiuyun Ke was early waiting at the main gate. Upon seeing him approach, he eagerly welcomed him.

"Second brother!" Jiuyun Shuang and Jiuyun Ke hugged tightly, and said excitedly.

"You really are something," Jiuyun Ke released his younger brother and said complainingly, "Arriving just to argue with father, yesterday father didn’t eat anything, completely full of anger from you."

"I don’t want to argue with him, second brother, do you still intend to mention him?" Jiuyun Shuang asked with a slight frown.

"Ah, let’s not talk about that, stop talking about that," Jiuyun Ke said to mediate, "It’s a separate matter, our brotherhood is deep, let’s not let those things cause division."

"I’m home this time mainly to honor our eldest brother."

"I know, everything’s prepared for you, I offer incense daily to him, really, without him, where would you be today?" Jiuyun Ke said patting his chest.

"Thank you, second brother."

"No need for such formality, who are these two?"

Jiuyun Ke looked over at Yungui and Ziyan.

"Oh, they are my sworn brothers and also my lieutenants, Yungui and Ziyan," Jiuyun Shuang introduced.

"Nice to meet you, Manor Lord," the two quickly said with clasped hands.

"No need for such politeness, being juniors of Fourth Brother means you’re also my brothers. Family among family, you two don’t stand on ceremony, please come in."

Jiuyun Ke appeared generous, paying no mind to the civilian surnames of the two.

His build was tall and strong, even Jiuyun Shuang was half a head shorter than him; standing in front of the three gave people a strong sense of oppression.

As the second son of the family, after Jiuyun Ying’s death, Jiuyun Ke became the eldest son. Thus, he was kept by his father, being raised as the successor of the family.

Jiuyun Zheng actually really liked his eldest son Jiuyun Ying, wholeheartedly wanting to groom him as his successor.

But unfortunately, fate didn’t grant his wishes; Jiuyun Ying, after a catastrophic defeat at Snow Boundary Pass, was left with residual ailments and ultimately passed away.

This incident caused a rift between Jiuyun Zheng and the Wen Family Court; Jiuyun Zheng believed if it weren’t for the Wen Family Court’s mistakes, his promising son wouldn’t have died.

Hence when the court summoned Jiuyun Shuang, Jiuyun Zheng was a thousand times unwilling, even sending troops to surround the officials proclaiming the decree.

Finally, it was Madam Gaofeng Yu who mediated, persuading both sides, leading Jiuyun Zheng to agree to the conscription, and Jiuyun Shuang to hence begin his journey to the capital life.

Arguably, without Jiuyun Ying’s death, the relations between the Jiuyun Clan and the Wen Family Court might not have been so tense.

So ultimately, Jiuyun Zheng isn’t that type of absolutely stubborn Wu Family member; he’s actually in agreement with the Wen Family order.

It’s just that due to this series of events, he harbored resentment towards the Wen Family, hence the Wen Family could only resort to such tactics to induce the Jiuyun Clan to send troops.

Of course, Jiuyun Zheng wasn’t keen for Jiuyun Shuang to depart immediately, mainly out of concern over whether he would repeat Jiuyun Ying’s misfortune.

Thus, before he resolved to send troops for assistance, he hoped to keep Jiuyun Shuang and his army in the Northern Province to prevent any uncontrolled unforeseen incidents concerning his son.

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