Compared with the "leisurely" Chongzhen, Chen Yue is much busier. Chongzhen took the ministers ashore, but left all the things about the conquest of Huang Degong to him, which was a trust in him, but it also put a lot of pressure on him.

Huang Degong was stationed in Yizhen, although it was a small riverside city, but it had an army of nearly 20,000. With less than 10,000 troops combined, it is not a small pressure to attack twice as many enemies.

Although the successive victories in the battles made the Pingnan army full of confidence, they did not take the enemy in their eyes. However, Chen Yue was still extremely cautious, because he knew that his catties and taels had not yet reached the point where he could despise any enemy.

After all, his army is only half of the opponent's, and he has to take the initiative to attack the enemy. This kind of tough battle is not easy to fight.

War has always been a complicated matter, involving many factors, such as food, grass, weapons, and ordnance, weather and climate change, military morale, and even geographical conditions. That is to say, the right time, place and people. It's never as simple as a pat on the head and say that you can fight, and you must always be fully prepared to fight.

And the highest level of battle is a soldier who surrenders without a fight!

By defeating the combined forces of Gao Jie and Liu Liangzuo, the morale of the Pingnan Army had reached its peak, and its reputation for being good at fighting had also spread throughout Lianghuai, presumably to Huang Degong's army. Maybe Huang Degong is extremely worried at the moment and is in the midst of contradictions.

After defeating Gao Jie and Liu Liangzuo, Chen Yue had already established his majesty, and the Pingnan Army also achieved a high reputation in Jiangbei. Rescued the emperor from the hands of millions of thieves, escorted thousands of miles to the south, and then defeated the rebellious strong enemy, coupled with the good military aircraft and never disturbed the people, these days, the prestige of the Pingnan army spread rapidly, and in the hearts of the people, it can be compared with the Yuejia army of the former Song Dynasty who "froze to death without demolishing houses, starving to death without plundering".

This prestige helped Chen Yue to quickly gain a foothold in Yangzhou in the future and control the situation in Jiangbei. So now for Chen Yue, it is no longer necessary to continue to attack Huang Degong and make more achievements.

In Chen Yue's impression, Huang Degong in another time and space is very heroic and loyal. He was the only general in the four towns of Jiangbei who did not surrender and died in a bloody battle. Of course, Gao Jie did not surrender and died in the Northern Expedition, but he died of his own arrogance and his own hands, and he could not be compared with Huang Degong at all.

Therefore, for Huang Degong, Chen Yue did not want to kill everything, but wanted to keep such an army that still had combat effectiveness, and support each other with his Pingnan army to jointly fight against the strong enemy in the north.

According to history, in less than a year, the Manchu Tartars will go south, leaving little time for themselves to recruit and train the army, relying only on his own strength, Chen Yue can not guarantee that he can repel the Manchu Tartars to hold the south, so now we must unite all the forces that can be united.

Judging from Huang Degong's reputation in another time and space, this is an object that can be united.

Therefore, while actively preparing for battle, Chen Yue also asked Chongzhen for an order, requesting that an envoy be sent to persuade Huang Degong to give up King Fu. Always fighting in the same room, it is not the gospel of the Ming Dynasty.

Lu Zhenfei and Wang Yin also agreed to support Chen Yue's analysis and judgment, and Wang Yin even greatly appreciated Chen Yue's overall view and made many kind remarks in front of Chongzhen. So Chongzhen wrote an edict, called the Yangzhou prefect Ma Zhi, and ordered him to send someone to Yizhen to pass on the decree to Huang Degong.

Yangzhou magistrate Tang Laihe volunteered to take people to Yizhen in person to persuade Huang Degong to surrender, Chongzhen encouraged him, and then ordered him to set off.

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Yizhen, known as Zhenzhou in ancient times, is a small county near the Yangtze River, attached to Yangzhou, and is now the station of Huang Degong's army.

After supporting King Fu to arrive in Pukou, because of the ambiguous attitude towards Chongzhen's life, Huang Degong was not trusted by King Fu and Ma Shiying like Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo, and Liu Zeqing, after King Fu "ascended the throne" in Nanjing, Huang Degong only raised his title by one level and became the Marquis of Jingnan.

Because of distrust, Ma Shiying did not dare to take him to Nanjing to help King Fu ascend the throne, nor did he dare to let him participate in the attack on Chongzhen's fleet, for fear that he would defect to the battle.

So Huang Degong was beaten to Yizhen and stationed on the Yangtze River. As long as Huang Degong is willing to stay in Yizhen honestly, it will be a kind of help for King Fu, because there is Huang Degong's signature on the support table. And Huang Degong's 20,000 troops are also a very powerful force in Jiangbei, and it is precisely because of this force that many local officials do not dare to blatantly express their support for Chongzhen, but choose neutrality under the unclear situation.

And for the current Huang Degong, he is also in a dilemma, whether to continue to support King Fu, or turn his head and worship at the feet of Chongzhen, the "old" emperor, Huang Degong is hesitating.

Ma Shiying wrote to him many times to show that he was powerful, telling him that since he had chosen to support King Fu, he was already a rebellious sinner in Chongzhen's eyes, and where would the rebels end well from ancient times to the present! Therefore, there is only one way in front of Huang Degong, that is, to follow King Fu to the black, support King Fu to be the emperor and kill Chongzhen!

Although he knew that what Ma Shiying said was reasonable, Huang Degong couldn't get over the hurdle in his heart. In his opinion, since Chongzhen is still alive and the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is here, King Fu has no reason to ascend the throne. There are no two heavens and no two people, how can the Ming Dynasty have two emperors?

Now that the strong enemy is in the north, he will send troops to the south at any time, and the Ming Dynasty is already in danger, how can he have civil strife?

Ma Shiying's move is the root cause of the civil strife in the Ming Dynasty, if he follows him all the way to the black, and really fights with the Pingnan Army that protects Chongzhen, and the soldiers are connected to the destruction of the Ming Dynasty, wouldn't he become a sinner of the Ming Dynasty!

Another factor that caused Huang Degong to hesitate was that the news that Gao Jie and Liu Liangzuo's combined army was defeated by the Pingnan Army had already arrived, and even Liu Liangzuo had fled to Yizhen in a hurry with thousands of remnants and was stationed in the north of Yizhen City.

Huang Degong also met Liu Liangzuo and sent him some food supplies, but he was perfunctory about Liu Liangzuo's proposal to join forces to continue the attack on Chongzhen's fleet.

With the arrival of Liu Liangzuo's remnants, an inexplicable emotion suddenly spread in the army, that is, the invincible combat power of the Pingnan Army made the people in the camp panic. At the same time, the fact that the Pingnan Army escorted the emperor to the south is also legendary in the army, saving the emperor in a million troops, breaking through the pass and cutting the generals all the way south, and the loyalty and courage of Chen Yue, the Marquis of Pingnan, can be compared with Guan Yunchang of the Han Dynasty.

If he was against the Southern Army and brazenly attacked the emperor, what role would he play? This made many lieutenant generals and soldiers of Huang Degong's army worried, Huang Degong himself had not yet made a decision, and the morale of his army was still greatly reduced.