Having just experienced a brutal battle, it was naturally impossible to continue the march on this day.

And through this battle, Chongzhen and the ministers finally recognized the facts, that is, there was a big problem with the recital from Nanjing received a few days ago.

The chapter was written by Shi Kefa himself, and it was stamped with the big seal of the Nanjing Military Department, the eunuch of the town guard, and the Nanjing garrison, which was definitely not a forgery.

But why was there a midnight raid by Gao Jie and Liu Liangzuo's army? Didn't the epistle say that King Fu had been taken under control? Then how did he order Gao Jie and Liu Liangzuo to come and attack.

If it weren't for King Fu's promise, Gao Jie and Liu Liangzuo would definitely not be so bold and would have blatantly killed the king!

After reacting, Chongzhen immediately ordered He Bingzhen, the director of the Nanjing Military Department, who came to interrogate and send the chapter, and Chen Jianghe, the commander of Jinyiwei, personally went to the official ship where He Bingzhen was, but he could not find He Bingzhen's figure, according to the report of the soldiers on the ship, when the enemy raided the fleet, He Bingzhen asked for a small boat, claiming to go to protect the emperor, and rowed a small boat with a few retinues, and never saw him again.

Chongzhen was furious and ordered the whole army to search and be sure to catch He Bingzhen, but he also knew that if He Bingzhen had not died in the chaos, most of them would have fled at this time, and it would be difficult to find him again.

The matter is already very clear, although the chapter brought by He Bingzhen is not fake, it must be a conspiracy, the purpose is to lure Chongzhen out of Huai'an, and then attack and kill him halfway.

This shows that Nanjing must have been controlled by King Fu, otherwise it would be impossible for Shi Kefa and the eunuch Nanjing Garrison to sign and seal the seal at the same time.

Now that King Fu is in control of Nanjing, he can no longer go recklessly at this moment, and must discuss a countermeasure.

Therefore, the fleet stopped here for three days, first, Chongzhen wanted to discuss countermeasures with his ministers, and second, he needed time to clean up the battlefield, and the troops rested and dealt with prisoners.

In fact, there is nothing to discuss, if you want to win the throne, you must go to Nanjing, but in terms of the army currently controlled by Chongzhen, it is undoubtedly difficult to take Nanjing. So, should we return to Huai'an to mobilize troops from all sides, and then send troops to Nanjing after we have enough troops, or will we just rely on these thousands of people to go to Nanjing to quell the rebellion?

"Your Majesty has been the emperor for seventeen years, and there is no doubt that I am the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty. If Weichen doesn't believe it, the ministers of Nanjing will join forces with the Fu King Ma Shiying and others to rebel, and they will be willing to be rebellious ministers and thieves! Lu Zhenfei said loudly.

"The thieves have occupied Beijing, and although they are now at war with the Manchu Tartars who have entered the customs, no matter who wins, they will definitely send troops to the south. Time is running out. Wang Yin sighed.

Both Wang Yin and Lu Zhenfei were in favor of continuing to go to Nanjing to suppress the rebellion.

"However, we now have an army of six or seven thousand people, how can we take Nanjing?" Wu Mengming said worriedly.

There were 5,000 troops in the fleet, and after a night of fierce fighting, more than 1,000 were lost, and now there were more than 3,000 people left, and the infantry battalion and cavalry battalion of the Pingnan Army led by Chen Yue suffered little losses, and now there were more than 3,500 people, adding up to 7,000 troops. Such a small number of men and horses will definitely not be able to capture Nanjing, not to mention Yizhen, which is only a hundred miles away from Yangzhou, and Huang Degong's army that supports King Fu.

Huang Degong's army is nearly 20,000, and I am afraid that even he can't defeat this little bit of his own people.

"Pingnanhou, what do you think?" Chongzhen looked at Chen Yue. This army, Chen Yue's Pingnan Army is the absolute main force, and his opinion is very important.

"Since we have already set off, there is no reason to return to Huai'an, otherwise wouldn't we tell the world that we are afraid of King Fu and Ma Shiying?" Chen Yue said slowly.

"What are you afraid of, this is a war, not child's play!" Wu Mengming couldn't help but interject, last night's fierce battle was extremely thrilling, the rebels almost attacked Chongzhen's official ship, and he never wanted Chongzhen to experience such a danger again.

"Fighting, fighting is a breath of anger! We have just defeated the combined army of Gao Jie and Liu Liangzuo, Huang Degong must have been frightened, as long as Huang Degong is defeated again, there will be little army left to support King Fu, and at that time, the ministers of Nanjing, the governor of the world, will naturally know how to choose. Chen Yue said coldly.

A strong city has never been relied on, although Nanjing has tens of thousands of Beijing defenders, and it is a strong city with a tiger in the dragon plate, but so what?

When Zhu Di, the king of Yan, was martyred, could the strong city of Nanjing ever block Zhu Di's army?

In another time and space, when the Manchurian Eight Banners marched south, did the army in Nanjing resist?

Now Chongzhen is the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty, as long as he can win battles one after another and weaken the army that supports King Fu, when he arrives in Nanjing, the ministers and Jingying in Nanjing will naturally know how to choose.

"Pingnanhou's words are very good!" Lu Zhenfei nodded in agreement with Chen Yue's opinion.

"But" Wu Mengming was about to say more, but Chongzhen waved his hand to stop him.

The big victory he had just experienced made Chongzhen's spirit reach the extreme, and his trust in Chen Yue also reached its peak. Since Chen Yue said that he could defeat Huang Degong, Chongzhen absolutely believed that Chen Yue would not lie. Although there are only 7,000 troops now, the number is only one-third of that of Huang Degong.

"What Pingnanhou said is very agreeable, after resting for two days, the army continues to advance and sends troops to Nanjing!" Chongzhen said angrily.

"Yes!" Everyone hurriedly replied.

"Didn't we capture more than 10,000 rebels in this battle, and we can integrate all of them into the army, so that we also have more than 20,000 people, and we are no less than Huang Degong in terms of numbers." Wu Mengming pondered for a while, and suddenly suggested.

Chongzhen's eyes lit up when he heard this, yes, how did he forget this stubble? So he had a little more confidence in defeating Huang Degong.

"This, Zhenbei Hou, it's not that the more people you have, the better." Before Chen Yue could speak, Wang Yin said to Wu Mengming with a wry smile.

"These rebels have just surrendered, and they haven't taken care of themselves, and now they can't be used by me at all. If they are driven into battle in this way, if something happens and causes a riot, the consequences will be extremely serious. ”

Wang Yin is familiar with military books and knows military strategy, and has followed Chen Yue for half a year, and his understanding of war and military affairs is not comparable to Wu Mengming, a person born in Jinyiwei.

"What Mr. Yokoyama said is that the number of rebels who surrendered is more than twice that of our army, and it is not easy to control at all, and it will take time to reorganize before we can drive them to the battlefield."

Chen Yue is in line with Wang Yin's way, he doesn't want to go to the battlefield with an army that he can't control. There would be too many variables in that case.

"But what Zhenbei Hou said is also reasonable, after all, the number of our army is too small, so let's do it, we can select two or three thousand loyal and honest people from the surrendered army, supplement them to our army, gather enough for 10,000 troops, and send people to take them to Huai'an for a few months."

Chen Yue didn't want Wu Mengming to lose face, so he took a compromise solution.