Yuri

Sharp, impatient with civilians. Ran intelligence around the besieged Tverdynya, coordinated with Sedekamp during the convoy crossing, and bemoaned the refugee column that capped the convoy speed at 25 li/day.

**Recon discipline.** Ran a 200-li-per-day light cavalry patrol around the besieged Tverdynya all winter; the officer who keeps wishing the refugee column would just disappear so the convoy could move at sixty li a day.

**Strategy chamber.** Sits in on every Fatty Shi-led council during the Kobo winter; co-architect of the seven-station relay that moved a hundred thousand refugees in twenty-nine days.

Brusque and impatient with delay. He forever grumbles that without the refugee column his convoy would make sixty li a day instead of twenty-five — yet his scouting discipline is flawless.

Commander of House Norton's light scout cavalry — the unit that screened the northern convoy and ran patrols at up to two hundred li a day.

In ch 158 he scouts against the Second Prince's fortifications and grumbles about the refugees slowing the convoy. In ch 162 he leads the northern caravan's vanguard with Tiger Ross; Yuri's scouts are the first to run into the lord who demands a toll to cross his hundred-li stretch of riverbank.

All winter he runs the light cavalry around the besieged fortress (ch 165), noticing in good time that the enemy has grown uneasy and is sending out ever more patrols.

A master of mounted reconnaissance and long-range screening: he runs the light cavalry on patrols of up to two hundred li a day, leads the caravan's vanguard screen and uncovers the enemy's intentions ahead of time.