Chen Yue stayed at Dagukou for several days to purge the coastal defense battalion.

Although the number of sea boats in the Haiphong Battalion is too small, after all, this is a route that can escape to the south, and it may be used, and it must be operated and cleaned up.

In the past few days, Chen Yue has given a large amount of rewards, not only recovering the money and food that the soldiers have accumulated for several years, but also rewarding each soldier with five taels of silver, in order to collect the hearts of the soldiers. At the same time, military discipline was strictly enforced, and several soldiers who violated discipline were dealt with severely, and they were beaten with a big stick, beating the soldiers who violated discipline to death, and the other soldiers were so shocked that their faces were colorless.

With a carrot in one hand and a stick in the other, in just a few days, the entire coastal defense battalion was in order, and there was no longer the previous scattered scene.

Chen Yue announced the establishment of a new coastal defense battalion, with Yang Zhengping as the chief of the coastal defense army and Lu Tai as the deputy general, mixing Yang Zhengping's left post with the 2,200 soldiers of the original coastal defense battalion. Then the training began, imitating the training mode of the Xishan Army, and began brutal training, starting to train the queue martial arts in the morning, and training to go to sea to maneuver the ship in the afternoon.

Where could the soldiers of the former coastal defense battalion withstand such a strong training intensity, they naturally complained bitterly at first, but although they complained bitterly, no one dared to slack off, and they were afraid of military law was only one aspect, and the other was reluctant to give Chen Yue the excellent treatment. As long as you participate in training, you will have three meals a day, rice and white noodles at every meal, and one meal of meat for two days.

For these soldiers, even during the Chinese New Year, they can't eat such a good meal, although they are called the coastal defense battalion, in fact, they are still military households in the cantonment, and they live by farming on weekdays.

Since the treatment given by the governor is so good, then what else is there to say, grit your teeth and insist on training!

In order to quickly organize the coastal defense battalion into a well-disciplined team, Chen Yue can be said to have invested enough money to urgently allocate a large amount of grain from Tianjin, and sent people to purchase meat from everywhere.

Chen Yue is now the governor of Tianjin, so he naturally has the right to allocate grain, and Tianjin is also a transit station for grain, so there is naturally no shortage of grain. As for the money, Chen Yue still has nearly 200,000 taels in his hands now, and he left the Iron Lion in Tianjin Wei, if nothing else, the Iron Lion will get him a lot of money.

Chen Yue stayed in Dagukou for ten days, and he couldn't stay any longer, because there was news from Tianjin every day, and Tianjin Wei had become a mess, and the soldiers were prepared to Daoyuan Yuzong, Wei commanders Cao Youyi and Lou Guangxian, and even Liu Mo, the eunuch of the prison army who stayed in Tianjin Wei, sent a letter asking Chen Yue to go back as soon as possible.

Leaving Yang Zhengping to continue training the coastal defense battalion at Dagukou, Chen Yue hurried back to Tianjin with his personal guards. Before they entered the city, many people cried and shouted to greet them, begging the governor's men to show mercy.

"Lord Chen, why did you come back!" Liu Mo, the eunuch of the prison army, greeted him happily, and then complained in a low voice, "You still take care of that iron lion, he has gone too far." ”

It turned out that in the past few days since Chen Yue left, the Iron Lion sent troops to seal the canal and strictly inspect the ships, specifically targeting those grain merchants and salt merchants in Tianjin Wei.

At the beginning, some salt merchants relied on the backstage of their own court, and did not take the people sent by the iron lion seriously, and even wanted to forcibly clear the customs. So the iron lion gave an order, and hundreds of fire guns opened fire at the same time, beating the salt on the salt ship into a sieve on the spot. The sergeant of Xishan rushed onto the salt boat and captured the frightened and paralyzed shopkeeper. Not to mention the confiscation of a shipload of salt, the shopkeeper was designated as a mob in the name of attacking the government and imprisoned in the governor's prison.

After this incident, the other salt ships and grain ships no longer dared to despise the iron lion, and honestly accepted the inspection one by one, but regardless of whether the things pulled on the ship were illegal or not, the iron lion could find out the fault from the ship, and then issue a huge fine, if they were willing to deliver honestly, it would be fine, if they refused, the ship and the goods were confiscated.

This is just like bandits, these businessmen have been operating in Tianjin for many years, where have they seen such ugly officers and soldiers?

In addition to being shocked, one by one they were furious, and the people who could run a business in Tianjin Wei did not have a huge background behind them. Take Qian Salt Merchant as an example, he is a native of Shanxi, and he relies on Li Jiantai, a cabinet scholar, behind him, and Zhao Liangshang's backstage is the British government.

It is precisely because of the strong backstage that even the governor of Tianjin, Pingsu, has to respect them, and now that they have suffered such a big loss, how can they be willing to give up.

In the absence of the governor Chen Yue, they found Yuan Yuzong, the military commander, and Liu Mo, the eunuch of the supervising army, and sent huge profits, demanding that the iron lion who cut the canal be punished, the people who were seized were released, and the property of the big guy should be returned.

Most of these people have the identity of lifting people and prisoners, and they surrounded them one by one, and Yuan Yuzong secretly complained bitterly, although he was the second person in Tianjin except for Chen Yue, how could he control Chen Yue's subordinate Iron Lion. In desperation, he could only write a letter to Chen Yue and ask him to come back to deal with this matter.

Chen Yue left the iron lion behind just to beat these businessmen, but he didn't expect the iron lion to go even more than he thought, which was comparable to the army chasing stolen goods and helping to help.

However, since it was Chen Yue's own order to the Iron Lion, Chen Yue naturally had to bear the matter he provoked. After all, Chen Yue's current identity is the governor of Tianjin, and his duty is to protect the people in the territory, where is there a reason to rob the people and enrich themselves? You can find a way to get these businessmen to donate money to help them, but you can't fight with an open fire like an iron lion.

Chen Yue returned to the governor's yamen, immediately gathered all the merchants involved in this matter, reprimanded them with the righteousness of the family and the country, and told them that the Ming Dynasty is now very dangerous, and they rely on the Ming Dynasty to have today's wealth and status, so they naturally have the responsibility and obligation to serve the imperial court, rather than taking the opportunity to make the country rich.

And now that the thieves are attacking Shanxi, do you know that there is no detailed work of the army in Tianjin? The iron lion was ordered to check the ships coming and going, what is wrong, you people dare to resist the interrogation, is it not that you are secretly fornicating with the thieves, or that the food and salt are being transported to the army of thieves?

Chen Yue's words frightened these people's faces, the iron lion just robbed their ships, and Chen Yue framed them for colluding with the thieves, according to this crime, Chen Yue could kill them all, and all the family property was confiscated, although they have a tough background, but in today's chaotic situation, far water can not quench the thirst!

Chen Yue changed his words, saying that he believed that there were only a few people who had fornication with the thieves, and most of them were good people who understood the righteousness, and as the governor of Tianjin and an official of the imperial court, I would naturally be strictly tried, and I would never do anything that wronged a good person, and when the matter was found out clearly, I would naturally release the seized people and the ship's property.

In other words, these "good people" still did not understand what Chen Yue meant, although they were full of unwillingness, they could only pay a large amount of silver taels to the governor's yamen to prove that they were not spies of fornication and thieves, in order to bring out the arrested people and detained ships as soon as possible.

Turning over his hands for clouds and covering his hands for rain, in Tianjin Wei Chenyue is the largest, and there are thousands of elite standard camps in his hands, even if these businessmen have huge family assets, they have nothing to do with him, they can only honestly pay the silver to redeem people. As for what will happen behind these people, Chen Yue is unwilling to pay attention to it.

After some manipulation, there were more than 100,000 taels of silver in his hands, the grain ship that broke through was detained, more than 10,000 stones of grain were robbed, and there was still a lot of grain that had not yet been transferred in the Tianjin Wei Grain Depot, so that after calculation, at least for two years, Chen Yue no longer needed to worry about the food and salary of his army. But who's going to know what will happen in two years? Even now, who can guess how the situation will develop and what their fate will be?

Now the time has come to March, it is reported that Li Zicheng's Dashun army is attacking Shanxi, has already laid Taiyuan, it is estimated that it will be hit in the capital division in the near future, Chen Yue is very worried about the situation in Beijing, after all, his home is still there, there are still many people who care about themselves, father, Wu Wan'er, Aunt Zhang, by the way, and that cute little princess.

Although his current task is to get ships, defend Tianjin, and protect Chongzhen from the sea to the south. However, Chen Yue was very skeptical that Chongzhen could leave Jingshi and come to Tianjin. After all, in the history of another time and space, Chongzhen did not escape at all in the end, but chose to commit suicide and martyrdom after the Dashun army broke the city.

Just when Chen Yue was worried about the situation, a horse came from Beijing at a rapid pace, brought the holy decree of the imperial court, and ordered Chen Yue, the governor of Tianjin, to lead his troops to enter King Jingqin quickly! And brought the holy decree of the reward, and named Chen Yue, the governor of Tianjin, as Ping Nanbo, and rewarded him with five hundred taels of silver!

Ping Nanbo, this is a super earl, and he can only get it by making great achievements in Daming. Even the last time Chen Yue defeated thousands of Manchu Tartar cavalry in Panshan, he was not knighted. But now, without doing anything, I can easily get this knighthood.

Chen Yue didn't have much joy in his heart, but only deep sadness, which showed that Chongzhen couldn't take out too much for the soldiers to work for him.

After carefully inquiring about the envoys from the imperial court, Chen Yue learned that Chongzhen had already given himself a holy decree to be knighted. Wu Sangui has been named Ping Xibo, and Tang Tong has been named Ding Xibo, and they have been ordered to quickly lead troops to the king of Qin. At the moment, Wu Sangui didn't know what was going on, and Tang Tong led his troops to Juyong Pass to defend.

After Chen Yue asked the envoy, he knew that the thieves had broken through Ningwu and killed Zhou Yuji, the general soldier of Shanxi, and Jiang Huang, the general soldier of Datong, surrendered, and now he was attacking Juyong Pass, I don't know if Tang Tong, the chief soldier of Jizhen, can stop it?

The terrain of Juyong Pass is dangerous, if Tang Tong really blocks it, he will definitely be able to resist it, Chen Yue doesn't know if Tang Tong will resist. Having fought side by side with Tang Tong, Chen Yue still knows Tang Tong well, if he is facing the Mantars, maybe Tang Tong will fight. But now facing the Dashun army that has already founded the country, the number of Da Ming Qi has been exhausted, who else can there be besides Da Shun? Facing the future master of the world, will Tang Tong choose to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty like Zhou Yuji, or lead his subordinates to defect to the new dynasty and continue to be prosperous and rich?

In another time and space, Tang Tong chose to surrender Dashun and was named the Marquis of Dingxi and the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, but now how will he choose?

No matter what Tang Tong is, Chen Yue himself will definitely go to King Qin, who knows the development of history, knows that the Dashun army rises quickly and dies quickly, so naturally he will not plan to surrender Dashun.

The purpose of going to Jingshi is to rescue his family, and by the way, see if he can rescue Chongzhen and send him to the south. Chen Yue believed that if Chongzhen could escape to Nanjing, the Ming Dynasty would not be destroyed so quickly. With Chongzhen's prestige, he ordered the entire south to be fine. In this way, at least the world can be divided into two, and this Ming may not fall into the hands of foreign races and sink for three hundred years.

Since he had already made the plan for King Qin, Chen Yue immediately began to deploy the matter of going to the capital division. At present, Yang Zhengping is training the coastal defense battalion at Dagukou, and Tianjin Wei only has the pro-guard battalion and the right battalion of the Iron Lion, adding up to more than 3,000 people. Chen Yue planned to take these 3,000 people to Qinwang, and sent people to Dagukou to recall Yang Zhengping and let him sit in Tianjinwei. If Beijing wants to save it, Tianjin cannot afford to lose, because this is its only way back.

The Ordnance Division's baggage battalion was left behind, and Wang Yin was also left to take charge of Tianjin affairs, and the others Chen Yue was not at ease. In the case of the whole country surrendering, how can you expect others to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty?

If Dashun sends an envoy to persuade him to surrender, how will the soldiers prepare for the original Yuzong, and the Wei commanders Cao Youyi and Lou Guangxian will choose? Chen Yue didn't worry about them.

With Wang Yin in charge and Yang Zhengping, who has a calm personality, Chen Yue believes that even if tens of thousands of Dashun troops attack, Tianjin can be worry-free!

After arranging the defense, Chen Yue set off quickly with 3,000 soldiers and headed for the Beijing division day and night.

Tianjin is more than 250 miles away from Beijing, and Chen Yue set out on 14 March and arrived in Beijing on the morning of 17 March, arriving outside the Yongding Gate.

At this moment, the whole of Beijing has been in chaos, it is reported that the army of the Dashun army has occupied Changping, which is only a few dozen miles away from Beijing, and the forward cavalry of the Dashun army has arrived in the north of Beijing.

Seeing an army suddenly appear, the defenders at the head of the city were in chaos, many people ran wildly, some raised their bows and shots, regardless of whether they were enemies or friendly troops.

Looking at the chaotic appearance of the city, Chen Yue frowned, such a performance, such a combat effectiveness, what to use to resist Li Chuang, who had been on the battlefield for a long time?

Three thousand soldiers of the Xishan Army stood quietly outside the city, looking at the performance of the Ming army in the city with contempt, although they stood silent, but a terrifying murderous aura spread to all directions, and slowly the Ming army at the head of the city settled down, and then noticed that it was not the thieves, but the friendly army. Because the flag above the team fluttered the sun, moon and star flag of the Ming Dynasty, which was embroidered with the word Daming.

The Dashun army besieged the city, and the ministers of the imperial court were all sent to the city to guard the city, and it was Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the military department, who was responsible for the defense of Yongding Gate. After sending someone to inquire, he knew that it was the army of Chen Yue, the governor of Tianjin, who came, Zhang Jinyan couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered to open the city gate and let the Xishan army enter the city.

With the elite of the Xishan Army, there is no problem in holding the Yongding goalkeeper!

Chen Yue led the army into the city, immediately took over the defense of Yongding Gate, sent the iron lion to be responsible for the garrison of the city gate, and took the personal guard battalion as a reserve, after all, the personal guard battalion is cavalry, which is not suitable for defending the city.

Chen Yue made a request to Zhang Jinyan, asking to meet Chongzhen, Zhang Jinyan said, he would send someone to report to the emperor, let Chen Yue just wait, and soon there would be a holy decree coming.