Zhao Peng built an elite iron armored grenade battalion for Li Zicheng, gaining Li Zicheng's trust, making his relationship with Princess Kunxing public and no longer need to be hidden from Shunjun.

At the same time, Gao Wencai gradually recalled his old subordinates and recalled more than a thousand Jinyiwei who originally belonged to him.

Gao Wencai was training his thousand Jinyiwei on the school field. More than a thousand Jinyiwei were wearing black armor and six-petal steep iron helmets. He was arranged in neat formations and was practicing with various weapons. Gao Wencai, wearing flying fish suits and wingless black hats, stood on the platform, looking around at the Jinyiwei training on the school field.

The shouts of killing on the school ground were shocking. The training of these more than a thousand Jinyiwei seemed to be quite as good as an elite force.

A familiar shout of "Brother" came from behind Gao Wencai.

Gao Wencai turned his head and punched Zhao Peng hard on the shoulder: "You thief boy, I know it's you!"

"Hahaha!" Zhao Peng laughed, "It seems that you are quite satisfied with these more than a thousand subordinates, right?"

Gao Wencai shook his head and lowered his voice and said, "Brother, this is not a place to talk. We will talk in another place later."

After the training, the two went to a tavern. After sitting down in the second floor room, Gao Wencai said, "Brother, I'm sure, these more than a thousand people, who knows how much sand is mixed in this place? Li Zicheng will mix sand in it, Luo Yangxing will definitely mix sand in it, and even Wu Sangui, and even Jiannu from the north may mix sand in our brothers! Do you think we can really rely on these people to escort His Royal Highness to Nanjing with confidence?"

Zhao Peng smiled slightly and said, "Brother, I came to see my brother today for this matter. I wonder if I would like to listen to my opinion?"

"Of course I'm willing to listen carefully!" Gao Wencai said.

"We can recruit people ourselves!" Zhao Peng said.

"I still think it's a good idea. I'll recruit people by myself? Is it too late? It's a question whether the people recruited are reliable or not. Even the new people are reliable, but we don't have time to train them." Gao Wencai shook his head and said.

Zhao Peng replied: "It is not difficult to recruit reliable people. We can follow the Qi army and recruit people from the mine disciples. Moreover, training mine disciples is much simpler than training ordinary people. They are disciplined themselves and only need a little training can become an obedient elite. Since the capital's change, there are many refugees coming to the capital every day, right? We can recruit mine disciples from them. In addition, we have to select a group of fatherless and motherless children. As long as they train them, it is a force of absolute loyalty to us."

"Also train children? How many years will it take for them to grow up? How can they have time?" Gao Wencai sighed.

"It's not time to train children. When we arrive in Nanjing, the water is very deep, and we need a force of absolute loyalty to us. Brother, you have also said that the Nanjing Jinyiwei is even more mixed. The Nanjing nobles have installed many of their children in the Jinyiwei. Can we use it with confidence? This requires our own people. After ten years of rigorous training for these children, we will definitely be our loyalty in the future." Zhao Peng was also inspired by the Turkish Sultan's personal soldiers. As a military enthusiast in his previous life, he naturally knew what the Turkish Sultan's personal soldiers were.

Turkish Sultan's personal soldiers selected children aged seven to ten from poor rural areas and conducted ten years of training, turning them into terrible war machines. Because these children are unable to eat enough at home and are at risk of starvation at any time. Once someone raises them, these children will be particularly loyal to their masters.

"Brother, you have considered the problem so far! You are also considering it ten years later!" Gao Wencai smiled.

Zhao Peng took a sip of wine, put down his glass and replied: "In fact, it doesn't take ten years at all. We can form a young Jinyiwei and select a group of orphans about ten years old from the refugees. It only takes five years to train to become the most elite young warriors."

In fact, the training time in the age of firearms can be shortened significantly. It only takes two years. A twelve-year-old boy can easily kill a Manchu elite soldier who has been practicing hard for more than ten years. This is the advantage of the use of firearms that allows the farming nation to defeat nomadic peoples. With firearms, more attention is paid to population base and discipline, and the requirements for physical fitness and martial arts are reduced.

Even the nomadic peoples are equipped with a large number of firearms, but their population base is small. One-to-one exchange, even one-to-two, or even one-to-three exchange, will definitely not be as good as the farming people, and from then on they can only become able to sing and dance.

"Did King Chuang know about His Royal Highness the Princess?" Gao Wencai asked.

Zhao Peng nodded: "I understand, it was Luo Yangxing's bastard who found out about us, but fortunately, King Chuang did not make things difficult for His Highness Princess. He also said that he would reward His Highness to me because I made great contributions to the sky-shaking thunder."

Gao Wencai said angrily: "What qualifications do he have to say that he would give you His Royal Highness the Princess to you? But that's fine, we don't have to hide the princess secretly. In this way, we can also do the etiquette that we should do. His Royal Highness, who is a dignified princess, is thrusting in a small shabby house for several days, would be too much for her."

"Where are the troops we recruited?" Zhao Peng asked.

Gao Wencai said confidently: "We temporarily placed them in the manor outside the city. By the way, there is another thing that almost forgotten. We have to take Wu Xiang's family out of the city these days and place them in the manor outside the city."

After drinking and eating, the two rushed to Wu Xiang's mansion immediately.

When the old slave saw that it was Gao Wencai and Zhao Peng, he hurriedly opened the door and welcomed them in.

When they saw Wu Xiang, they explained their purpose. Wu Xiang said, "Thank you for your care of the Wu family. I have asked you to prepare quickly. Today, you can send Chen Yuanyuan and Wu Xiaomei out of the city."

After saying that, Wu Xiang called a maid and explained a few words. The maid stepped back and did as the master told him.

After about a meal, two maids dressed in servants helped two men's beauties slowly walked out of the inner hall. When Zhao Peng heard the movement, he turned to look and saw that one of the two men's beauties was taller, a few points taller than Princess Kunxing, about 1.7 meters tall, and looked thinner than Princess Kunxing. Although she was wearing men's clothing, she could tell that she was a stunning beauty. However, her beauty was obviously different from Princess Kunxing's pure and elegant. She was a bit charming in her shyness. Her big round eyes were as clear as water, and her beautiful face was as charming as a flower. She was definitely a top beauty. If she was in later generations, she would be at the level of a celebrity model, and at least a boss worth hundreds of millions of yuan could be worthy of her.

Looking at another beauty in men's clothing, I saw the woman's round face and big black eyes. She looked very pure and not short, about 1.65 meters tall. She could also be considered a beauty. She was a thick figure, wide shoulders, and thick waist. She looked like a martial artist.

The tall man must be Chen Yuanyuan, and the strong girl should be Wu Xiaomei. Zhao Peng said in his heart.

While they were thinking about it, the two girls Yingying walked up to Gao Wencai and Zhao Peng, and had a good fortune and said gently: "The little girl Chen Yuan (Mistress Wu) has met two Jinyiwei brothers."
Chapter completed!