After listening to Wu Mengming, Chen Yue suddenly felt the urgency of time, although the person sent by Luo Yangxing to investigate was killed by Wu Mengming, but the matter must not be covered up for long, maybe Luo Yangxing will report it soon, if Li Zicheng orders the investigation, it will be a big deal!

I only hope that Luo Yangxing will not report before tomorrow, as long as he leaves Beijing, everything will be fine. As for fleeing now, how can it be done, the time of sending troops has been reported to the Dashun Military Government, and if the troops are not sent on time, it will definitely attract the attention of the Dashun Army, and the matter will be worse. Besides, you have to be prepared to send troops out of the camp.

With complicated feelings, he asked people to lead Wu Mengming to see Chongzhen, and at the same time instructed Chen Yan to send a few more people to stare at Wu Mengming, and kill him if there was any change. Because Chen Yue couldn't be sure whether Wu Mengming was lying, at such a critical moment, he couldn't make a mistake again. Just get through this night, and tomorrow will be all the same.

At the same time, he sent someone to secretly order the whole camp to loosen the outside and tighten the inside, and ordered Liu Neng to send sentry spies to ambush at the city gates, and immediately report the movement of the main force of the Shun army out of the city.

By the time it got dark, all kinds of materials that needed to be carried with the army had been sorted out, and the whole army was ready to be pulled, just waiting for the camp to be drawn out early tomorrow morning.

......

The night was dark, and the lights were still on in a courtyard near Qipan Street.

Luo Yangxing frowned, walked around the room, and sent Ma Jiu, a subordinate to investigate Chen Yue, never returned, which made him feel anxious.

"Your Excellency!" A subordinate hurried into the study.

"Did you find Ma Jiu?" Luo Yangxing asked anxiously.

The subordinate shook his head: "I went to Ma Jiu's house, and I also went to the tavern and casino he frequented, and I searched for all the places I should be looking for, but I didn't find any trace of him." ”

"Something must have happened!" Luo Yangxing said, "Otherwise, it is impossible for Ma Jiu not to come back, you go to find it again, and bring a few more people!" ”

"No, my lord," his subordinates looked embarrassed, "It's curfew now, and it's not a joke to be caught by the patrolling Shun army." ”

Luo Yangxing sighed, today is not the past, he is no longer the former commander of the Jinyi Guard, and there are hundreds of Jinyi captains to serve him at the first order. Now he is just a thug under Liu Zongmin's wing, and he can only use five or six of his subordinates in his hands. If the curfew of the Shun army is violated, the soldiers of the Shun army who check the night may directly order him to be shot, no matter who he is.

"Tomorrow, you have a good night's rest, and tomorrow morning you go out to investigate! By the way, the focus of the investigation is the Yulong Hutong outside the Bei'anmen Gate of the Imperial City, where most of the palace maids and eunuchs live, and Ma Jiu may have happened there. ”

......

At the end of the day, the drums in the camp sounded, and the soldiers hurried out of the barracks, and the food soldiers had already prepared breakfast. At three o'clock, the whole army finished eating and began to line up, and the sky was just dawning at this moment.

Two thousand people lined up in a neat line, the cavalry and infantry formed two square formations, Chen Yue rode on the horse, looked at the familiar faces, was silent for a moment, and waved his hand.

Wei Yang took a cavalry in front and took the lead out of the camp, they were responsible for opening the way for the army, followed by the infantry led by Jin Xin, and Chen Yue followed the infantry with the personal guard battalion. Chongzhen, Kunxing, Zhang Xiu'er, Aunt Zhang and other female dependents sat in several light carriages, and were set up in the middle by the army, protected by Chen Jianghe and Wu Mengming, and Yu Feng with three hundred cavalry for the army.

The carriage started slowly, Chongzhen lifted the curtain, and looked at the farther and farther city wall, this was the first time he had left Beijing City in his life, and he didn't know if he would be able to come back in his lifetime.

No, I will definitely come back again, I will come back again with hundreds of thousands of troops to retake my country! Chongzhen swore in his heart.

......

"Did you find Ma Jiu?" Luo Yang looked at his subordinates coldly, he had already made three strokes a day, and heard that Chen Yue had already led his troops to open up, and he had not found any evidence on his side for a long time.

"No, no." The subordinate replied in a low voice.

"Bastard, rubbish!" Luo Yang roared, "Go and look for it again, no, don't look for Ma Jiu, you all go and ask Lao Tzu, you must find out whether Chen Yue has entered the palace or not, what he did when he entered the palace, there are so many eunuchs and palace maids in the palace, I don't believe that no one has seen Chen Yue!" ”

Blasted out all his subordinates, Luo Yangxing himself turned anxiously in the yard. He had already heard the news of Chen Yue's troops, and naturally knew that time was pressing, but he didn't dare to go to Liu Zongmin without evidence, after all, Chen Yue was now a general trusted by Li Zicheng, and he had the title of Earl of Pingnan.

When Luo Yang anxiously sent his subordinates to investigate Chen Yue, Chen Yue led the army to walk on the official road to the east. Because it was light, the team traveled quickly. I walked thirty miles in one morning.

For the Xishan Army, a march of this scale is trivial, but for the Tang Tong Army that followed behind, it was already miserable.

Although Tang Tong's army was originally the border army of the Ming Dynasty, it didn't do much training on weekdays, except for the five hundred personal soldiers under him, it was good for other ordinary soldiers to practice three or four times a month.

After listening to Chen Yue's words, Tang Tong also ordered the troops to be dispatched early, and started marching almost at the same time as Chen Yue. At first, his army could still catch up with the speed of the Xishan army's march, but after twenty miles, some soldiers began to complain. By the time Tang Tong urged his subordinates to rush to the resting place of the Xishan Army, the Xishan Army had already eaten lunch and rested for half an hour.

"Lord Chen, is it necessary to go so fast?" Tang Tong got off the horse, sat down beside Chen Yue, and asked weakly.

"Of course it's necessary, we just left Beijing, if we all drag on now, let Your Majesty think of us, maybe you still think that our troops are all rice buckets." Chen Yue said with a smile.

"Alas, my men are all fucking ruffians, how can I compare to your army being well-trained." Tang Tong lamented. He was still not very convinced of Chen Yue before, but now he is already convinced after only half a day's march.

"Come on, it's less than twenty miles from Tongzhou, and we'll camp in Tongzhou tonight." Chen Yue encouraged.

"Okay, but you can't go this fast tomorrow." Tang Tong nodded stupidly, grabbed a piece of flatbread in front of Chen Yue and chewed it fiercely.

In the afternoon, the Xishan Army had already arrived outside the city of Tongzhou, the perennial war, the current Tongzhou has almost become an empty city at the moment, only a few hundred troops are stationed.

Chen Yue did not lead troops into the city, but set up a large camp by the canal outside the city, and kindly chose a place a mile away for Tang Tong's army as a camp, and sent someone to build a pot stove for them, and boiled hot soup.

When it was almost dark, Tang Tong arrived at the camp with an army of 8,000, looking at the proper camp and the hot soup, the soldiers of Tang Tong's army all showed grateful looks.

PS: The third update, character recovery!