The 3,000-step cavalry escorted more than 20 carts on the official road from Nanjing to Zhenjiang, and the queue was two or three miles away.

There were more than 200 cavalrymen among the 3,000 guards, and 100 cavalry were divided into the vanguard, and 100 cavalry were the two wings. Of course, this is not wartime, and the soldiers are more comfortable marching, without the tension of the war.

From time to time, pedestrians and caravans passed by on the official road, and when they saw the officers and soldiers of the brigade, they avoided the side of the road to let the officers and soldiers pass, and the leader of the caravan stood by the road with a smile on his face, ready to spend money to eliminate the disaster when he was troubled. However, the harassment did not happen, and the officers and soldiers just walked down the official road and ignored them.

Tall poplar trees are planted on both sides of the official road, and the dense foliage shades the scorching sun, and through the gaps in the trees, you can see the busy people in the fields not far away, and some people sit in the shade of the trees to take a break.

Riding on a war horse, looking at a harmonious scene, Chen Yue couldn't help but feel a little satisfied in his heart.

In another time and space, the Mantar had crossed the Yangtze River at this time, trampled the entire Jiangdong with iron hooves, and a shaving order to keep hair without a head spread all over the north and south of the river, and countless Han people rose up to resist. Jiangyin, Wuxi, Songjiang, Suzhou, everywhere there are righteous people uprisings and rebellions. The Qing soldiers, wielding butcher knives, carried out brutal suppression. On the 10th of Yangzhou and the 81st of Jiangyin, Jiading was slaughtered three times, and hundreds of thousands of people died tragically under the butcher's knife of Mantar.

And in this time and space, all this will not happen again, the two Qing soldiers have fallen into the sand, the Ming Dynasty has turned the corner, and the people in Jiangnan continue to live a peaceful life.

And the Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Suzhou and other places that he passed through along the way did not experience a little war.

Looking at the busy people in the farmland on both sides of the official road, Chen Yue was very satisfied, the countless battlefield battles in the past were so worthwhile.

It's June, and the weather is extremely hot, and although there is shade from the trees, the sun shifts westward in the afternoon, and the temperature in the afternoon is extremely high, and the people and horses walk as if they have been fished out of the water.

Chen Yue then ordered to set off early in the morning, rest at noon to escape the heat, and march thirty or forty miles a day.

No matter how slow the march was, it arrived at Zhenjiang from Nanjing three days later.

Outside Zhenjiang City, the prefect of Zhenjiang brought officials and gentry to greet each other on the side of the road, with the two wars, Chen Yuezhi's prestige has spread all over the world, and the hereditary title of Duke of Qi marks that he is the first person in the Ming army.

Although there is a difference between civil and military, Chen Yue can't control himself, but Lin Quan, the prefect of Zhenjiang, still does not dare to slack off, and personally leads the crowd to greet him outside the city gate.

Chen Yue dismounted and exchanged a few words with Lin Quan, the prefect of Zhenjiang, and politely refused to invite him to stay in the city and catch the wind and wash the dust, knowing that Chen Yue's trip was for a funeral, Lin Quan was not reluctant, and returned to the city after sending a Cheng Yi, saying that it was a little heart of the gentry in Zhenjiang, and Chen Yue smiled. Three thousand taels of silver, Lin Quan's handwriting is really not small, of course, this money is definitely not from him, but from the Zhenjiang gentry who were pulled by him.

After Lin Quan led the gentry away, Li Xiong, Zhang Chengkai, Ren Yu and others appeared in front of Chen Yue, and Chen Yue showed a knowing smile on his face.

After Chen Yue led the troops out of Yangzhou, there was still a lot of family to stay in Yangzhou, since it was determined that the abandonment of officials and filial piety, the shogunate departments began to leave Yangzhou. There are more than ten workshops subordinate to the Governor's Mansion outside Yangzhou, and there are thousands of craftsmen, so many people will certainly not be taken away, so the movement is too big and Chen Yue has no place to place so many people.

The workshop nominally belongs to the Jiangbei Governor's Mansion, not Chen Yue's private property, and the craftsmen in it belong to the official craftsmen.

Therefore, the people who evacuated with Li Xiong and others were the old people among the craftsmen, and many of them accompanied them all the way from Beijing. In addition to craftsmen, there were also members of the shogunate, etc., with Chen Yue's departure, the Jiangbei Governor's Office was dissolved, and the shogunate divisions were not in the imperial court establishment, which was equivalent to Chen Yue's staff. It was incomparably free to come and go, and the group of more than 600 people, together with the craftsmen, all took a boat to Zhenjiang.

In addition to the manpower accident, there were also the belongings of the shogunate's various divisions, the equipment of the armory's workshop, and the remaining weapons and armor in the warehouse, which filled more than 20 flat-bottomed river boats.

"Guogong, there are also ten two-masted sea ships loaded with thirty-six red-coated cannons captured from outside Yangzhou City, more than 100 Franc machines, captive cannons, tiger squat cannons, and more than 1,000 bird guns are also on board, which were produced by the Ordnance Department this month. Under the protection of more than 20 warships, the sea ships have already traveled from the Yangtze River to Hangzhou by sea. Old Li Xiong whispered in Chen Yue's ear.

Chen Yue nodded slightly. After arriving in Hangzhou, in addition to burying his father, he had to create a new situation in the next three years, and he needed a large number of manpower, ships, and firearms to support overseas development. It just so happened that in the battle of Yangzhou, 100,000 Qing soldiers were drowned under the flood, including the artillery in the Qing camp, of course. In order to blast open the city wall of Yangzhou, Duoduo mobilized dozens of red-coated cannons and hundreds of artillery pieces of various types, and after the war, the flood receded, and all the artillery was salvaged, most of which were loaded by Li Xiong on sea ships.

As for the dozens of sea ships, they were the warships used to escort Chongzhen to escape from the sea lane, of which there were ten two-masted sea ships, and the others were single-masted warships. Although Chen Yue later ordered the establishment of a sailor battalion, because it was fighting on inland rivers such as the Yangtze River, the two-masted sea ship was left in Miaowan because it was a little bulky in the inland river, and was not incorporated into the water battalion, which happened to be used this time.

In the future, an ocean-going fleet will be formed, and these ten two-masted seagoing ships can be used as initial warships to train the navy. Of course, it is not enough to rely on these ten two-masted sea ships, these sea ships are considered big in the rivers, but they are nothing in the sea, and they will need to buy and build more huge warships in the future.

After meeting Zhenjiang and making peace with the shogunate, Chen Yue ordered repairs in Zhenjiang for two days, and at the same time sent people to hire a large number of cargo ships. Zhenjiang is at the confluence of the canal and the Yangtze River, the sails are everywhere, the boats are like shuttles, and it is easy to hire enough boats, and then all the horses and horses get on the boats and take the waterway along the canal to Hangzhou.

Zhenjiang to Hangzhou more than 600 miles, along the canal all the way through Danyang, Changzhou, Wuxi, to Suzhou, and then from Suzhou to the south through Wujiang Jiaxing to Hangzhou.

Passing through more than a dozen prefectures and counties, the local government officials led the crowd out of the city to greet them, and Chen Yue refused all the invitations to enter the city to rest, and only accepted the Cheng Yi sent by the officials and gentry.

On June 15, Chen Yue and his entourage finally arrived outside the city of Hangzhou, and Zhang Bingzhen, the governor of Zhejiang at the time, led the city with a smile on his face to welcome the civil and military forces out of the city.