The result of the discussion was that he had to go to Nanjing as soon as possible, after all, an emperor could only have the authority of the emperor in the national capital, and he could control the world through the imperial court.

However, before going to Nanjing, we must make full preparations, first, we must find out the movements of all parties, such as the plans of the Nanjing ministers and the movements of the general army of the four towns headed by Ma Shiying. Moreover, our own side must also be fully prepared to send troops and even war.

After deliberation, the matter of investigating the movements of all parties was entrusted to Chen Jianghe, after all, he was the new commander of the Jinyi Guard.

Chen Yue allocated more than 100 people led by Liu Neng to him, and then summoned the experienced officials and officials in Huai'an Mansion to form a brocade army of more than 300 people. Liu Neng's subordinates are skilled in equestrian skills and have amazing combat power, and the officials of Huai'an Mansion are local snakes who are familiar with the local situation, and it is only appropriate that this brocade guard composed of them is used to visit the movements of all parties.

Chen Jianghe served as the commander of the Jinyi Guard for more than half a year, and was familiar with the rules and operation of the Jinyi Guard.

The infantry of the Xishan Army came to Huai'an by land from Miaowan one after another, and together with the cavalry battalion, Chen Yue had more than 5,000 elites in his hands, oh, now Chen Yue has become the governor of Pingnan Hou Jiangbei and opened the town of Yangzhou. Later, Yangzhou was the station of this army, and this army became the pro-army of Pingnan Hou Chen Yue, and had a new name, Pingnan Army and Xishan Army have become history.

Originally, the Tianjin coastal defense battalion headed by Lu Tai had been incorporated into the Pingnan Army, and now the Pingnan Army has more than 1,200 cavalry, more than 2,500 infantry, and 1,500 naval troops. After careful consideration, Chen Yue organized his army into a cavalry battalion, led by Yu Feng, two infantry battalions, respectively led by Chen Ping and Jin Xin, a battalion of the naval army, led by Lu Tai, and Yang Zhengping promoted to the general soldier, as Chen Yue's deputy, responsible for the daily management of the army.

There is no time now, and when there is time, Chen Yue will establish a Pingnan Marquis shogunate, after all, there will be more and more troops in the future, and an effective army management organization must be established.

Chen Yue's troops were 5,000, and Lu Zhenfei's Huaiyang regiment also had more than 20,000 soldiers. Now that Lu Zhenfei has been promoted to the university student of the Imperial History of the Left Capital, the army under his command will naturally be taken over by Chen Yue, the governor of Jiangbei. In this way, the troops in Chen Yue's hands are close to 30,000, which is enough to escort Chongzhen to Nanjing safely, even if King Fu now has more than 50,000 troops in the four towns of Gao Jie, Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo, and Huang Degong.

Chen Yue didn't take these Nanming troops to heart, a group of remnants of the defeated rabble, if these people had combat effectiveness, another time and space would not encounter the Qing soldiers surrendering one after another, and they didn't even dare to resist at all.

Chen Yue's Pingnan Army of 5,000 people arrived in Huai'an from the sea one after another, but Huaiyang's regimental training was scattered in various places, and Lu Zhenfei assigned 17 generals to garrison at various ferries on the Yellow River, so most of the regimental training was on the Yellow River defense line, and some were stationed in the counties below. It takes time to gather them.

Moreover, Lu Zhenfei had a lot of complaints about Chen Yue's practice of summoning all the troops in Huai'an.

"Pingnanhou, if all the regimental training troops in Huai'an follow to Nanjing, then the entire Huaiyang will be extremely empty, what if the thieves attack?" Lu Zhenfei frowned and said to Chen Yue.

"Thieves? They are now too busy to take care of themselves, and they simply have no ability to attack Huai'an. Within half a year, even if Huai'an does not have a single soldier, it is as stable as Mount Tai. Chen Yue smiled mysteriously and said to Lu Zhenfei.

"Huh? Please also ask Master Hou to solve your doubts. Lu Zhenfei will be suspicious.

"Do you know why I went so smoothly from Tianjin to Huai'an by land? Thousands of miles through the territory of the thieves, but not many interceptions? That's because not long after I left Tianjin, Wu Sangui's cavalry, the general soldier of Ningyuan, who had already surrendered to the thieves, rebelled, and Li Zicheng hurriedly gathered all the troops near Beijing to go to Shanhaiguan to attack Wu Sangui. The main force of the thieves in Beijing is less than 100,000, and now it is simply not capable of organizing a southern expedition. Chen Yue said with a smile.

"Ping Xibo is really a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty!" Hearing that Wu Sangui was pinning down the main force of the thieves, Lu Zhenfei couldn't help but admire, "But with Ping Xibo's strength, I'm afraid I can't stop the attack of the thief Li Zicheng, right?" ”

"He can't stop it, but there are Manchu Eight Banners outside the gate! Wu Sangui, Li Zicheng, Man Tartar, hey, hey, now Shanhaiguan has become a mess. Chen Yue couldn't help laughing.

......

Unlike Chen Yue thought, the Battle of Shanhaiguan at this moment has ended. Like another time and space history, Li Zicheng led the main force of 70,000 Shun troops to attack Wu Sangui's army, but he did not know that Wu Sangui had defected to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Manchu Qing Army's 100,000 Eight Banner Army was stationed outside Shanhaiguan under the leadership of Dolgon.

Wu Sangui's army was only more than 40,000, of course, it could not withstand the attack of the Great Shun army, and when Wu Sangui's army could not resist the attack of the Shun army, the Qing soldiers suddenly rushed out of Shanhaiguan and launched a fierce attack on the Shun army from the flank.

The Shun army, which had been fighting for several days, could not resist the sudden attack of the Eight Banners at all, although it resisted desperately, it was easy to be strong and weak, and it was defeated in a short time in the face of the Eight Banners who were waiting for work. Li Zicheng saw that the defeat was decided, so he ordered a retreat. Then he fled all the way and broke the army, the Eight Banners followed and killed, the Shun army suffered heavy losses, and the general Liu Zongmin was seriously injured.

After fleeing for hundreds of miles all the way, the Shun army got rid of the pursuit of the Eight Banners, and after counting, more than half of the losses were lost, and in a fit of anger, Li Zicheng killed Wu Sangui's father Wu Xiang on the spot.

On April 26, the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, when Chongzhen arrived at Miaowan by boat, Li Zicheng led the defeated army back to Beijing and killed Wu Sangui's family of 36.

Originally, Li Zicheng planned to hold on to Beijing and wait for reinforcements from all over the country, but after deliberation, Li Zicheng still decided to abandon Beijing. Because at this time, the troops in his hands were less than 50,000 and his morale was low and exhausted, and the reinforcements were thousands of miles away, of course, there were more than 100,000 Ming Dynasty troops in Datong Xuanfu, but these troops were not trustworthy at all. If it is surrounded in Beijing by the Eight Banners and Wu Sangui's coalition army, I am afraid that there will be more than one luck.

On April 29, the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the day after Chongzhen arrived in Huai'an, Li Zicheng hurriedly ascended the throne in the Wuying Hall and proclaimed the emperor, and then hurriedly led the army to withdraw from Beijing.

Of course, Chen Yue didn't know the details here at this time, but what he could be sure of was that the Shun army at this moment did not have the strength to attack Huai'an, and the Manchu Qing were also making every effort to deal with the Great Shun army, at least this year, Huai'an was very safe.