The north gate of the Acropolis, the Wharf of the Acropolis. The coolies were busy, carrying food from the city and loading them onto the riverboats.

Some of the coolies were responsible for transporting the materials of the city to the wharf in large carts, while the other part of the coolies were bare-chested, carrying heavy grain bags from the wharf to the trembling planks and loading them onto the cargo ships, employing thousands of coolies, and the whole scene was very noisy.

Groups of soldiers of the Xishan Army, fully armored and armoured, patrolled around the city's docks to guard against a possible riot.

In a teahouse not far from the pier, hundreds of samurai in full armor are distributed inside and outside the teahouse, and coolies and ordinary people are forbidden to approach.

In the private room on the second floor of the teahouse, Princess Kunxing looked at Chen Yue with tears in her eyes.

"Okay, don't cry, don't you want to ride the wind and waves on a sea boat? This wish is about to come true, and we should be happy. Chen Yue stretched out his big hand and clumsily wiped the tears on Kunxing's face, the girl's skin was tender and slippery, making his heart ripple slightly.

"You said you were going to take me on a sea boat yourself." Kun Xing opened his eyes wide and said pitifully.

"I'll be the talker, but not this time, the ship can't accommodate so many people, so I have to retreat by land with the rest of the people. Don't worry, when you take the boat to the beach in Huai'an, I will be waiting for you there. Chen Yue comforted softly.

Although Kunxing is an innocent girl who grew up in the palace, the suffering experience of these days has made her mature a lot, and she no longer has her original naivety. She knows the priority of the matter, and now it is a critical moment for both her father and the Ming Dynasty, and the forces in Chen Yue's hands are the key to whether everyone can gain a foothold in the south.

Without an army to rely on, even if his father is still the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he may not be able to make the governors and generals of the provinces obey. So she understood why Chen Yue had to take the cavalry south by land, instead of choosing to throw away all the burdens and retreat by sea. But she also knew how dangerous the road was, more than a thousand miles away, and how dangerous it was to pass through the area occupied by the thieves!

"You, you must be careful!" Kun Xing took Chen Yue's big hand, and his voice trembled and instructed.

Chen Yue nodded heavily, stretched out his hand, and gently took the girl in his arms.

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Princess Kunxing turned around step by step and reluctantly got on the boat. Chen Yue bowed to Chongzhen, who was about to get on the boat.

Looking at his daughter's back with a complicated expression, Chongzhen turned his head with a gentle smile on his face.

"Aiqing must be careful when she goes, I will remember Qing's merits!" Chongzhen Wen Yan encouraged, now is on the way to escape, it is too hasty to be crowned an official, because the emperor's seals are all lost, and there is no way to draft a holy decree, wait until Nanjing!

"Your Majesty rest assured, with my father here and two thousand soldiers of the Xishan Army, you will definitely be able to escort Your Majesty to Huai'an safely, and the minister will lead the cavalry to wait for you in Huai'an, and then we will move the capital to Nanjing together!" Chen Yue said respectfully.

Chongzhen nodded and got on the boat with Wu Mengming's support.

After sending Chongzhen on the boat, Chen Yue walked in front of his father Chen Jianghe again.

"Daddy, you should also be careful, Mr. Wang Yin is resourceful, and you can discuss things with him. In addition, the sea is not as good as the road, and the former coastal defense battalion has rich experience in guerrilla Lu Tai, so he can command the movement of the fleet. ”

Chen Jianghe nodded and gestured to write it down. The father and son talked a few more words, and Chen Jianghe instructed his son and got on the boat.

Chen Yue said goodbye to Wang Yin, Yuan Kewang, Yang Zhengping and others one by one, and all the materials were loaded onto the ship, and the fleet lifted anchor and pulled out.

The Haihe River is turbulent, and the speed of the boat in the river is extremely fast, as long as it takes one day and one night, you can reach the mouth of Dagu.

Looking at the distant fleet, Chen Yue's mood is very complicated, the difficulties and dangers at sea are not much worse than on the road, most of the sea ships in the coastal defense battalion are sloops, and the carrying capacity is only one or two hundred tons, which can not withstand much wind and waves at all, which is also the main reason why Chen Yue designed the route to let them go ashore from Huai'an, instead of arriving in Nanjing through the Yangtze River.

There are more than 100 sea vessels, and I don't know how many can reach Huai'an safely? Fortunately, it is spring, and it happens to be the northwest monsoon, which is also suitable for the fleet to go south, but if it is summer, the southeast monsoon rises, and it will be difficult to go south.

As soon as the fleet left, the Tianjin Acropolis suddenly emptied. Now all that remained in Tianjin were 1,100 cavalry and all the war horses. There are more than 1,800 war horses, and it is not enough to do one person and two horses. When the Mongolian Khalkha tribes were exterminated last winter, more than 2,000 war horses were captured, and at that time, the whole army had more than 2,500 war horses, which was basically one person and two horses. However, after experiencing the king of Beijing Qin, and the repeated battles of the breaking army, the war horses were seriously damaged, although in the sneak attack on the Tang Tong army, three or four hundred horses were captured, but now the number of war horses is only so much.

When he went to the south, he lost the channel to get war horses, and there will be fewer and fewer war horses in the future, which is why Chen Yue must choose to go south by land.

Yu Feng led the cavalry of his headquarters to defend on this side of the canal, and the pontoon bridge on the canal was burned, Zhang Nai's cavalry was blocked on the opposite side of the canal. Although Zhang Nai also organized several river crossings, he sent people to get dozens of river boats upstream and downstream, thinking of relying on river boats to transport troops across the river. However, under the fire of the Xishan Army's bows and crossbows, the soldiers on the boat fell into the river one after another, and in terms of long-range firepower, Zhang Nai's cavalry was much worse than the Xishan Army, so he had no choice but to give up crossing the river.

However, although the Shun army could not cross the river, Chen Yue could not choose to go south immediately, but had to hold it for a day, because it would take time for the fleet to reach Dagu Pass and then load the sea ships, and this time must be earned.

The news that Chongzhen is not dead should have leaked out, maybe there will be more and more troops coming to attack in the future, Chen Yue decided to hold on for another day, and immediately go south early tomorrow morning, rushing out before the army is encircled. To this end, he sent Liu Neng's subordinates to collect the night and ordered them to follow the canal to inquire about the news everywhere, especially in the direction of Haiqing County in Nanjing. Liu Neng took dozens of nights, one person and three horses, and quickly went south.

On the opposite side of the canal, in an open place, a new barracks was erected, which was the station of Zhang Nai's cavalry. Although he did not succeed in crossing the river, Zhang Nai was not idle that day, and he sent a large number of cavalry down the canal to collect hundreds of river boats. Moreover, the sentinel he sent brought him happy news that Li Guo had led 20,000 new troops to pass through Tongzhou, which was only more than 20 miles away from Tianjin. In the west, the right battalion led by Liu Fangliang was also rushing here, and Liu Fangliang divided several armies to go to Cangzhou, Qingxian County, and Chen Yue'er's way south had been cut off.

"General, look!" One of his subordinates shouted in a panic pointing to the other side of the canal.

Zhang Nai looked up and was surprised to see a fleet of boats heading east along the Wei River.

"It's the sea to the east, what are they doing at the beach?" Zhang Nai asked suspiciously, he saw that the Xishan Army was carrying out a large amount of materials from the city and loading them onto the ship, and he thought that the Xishan Army was going to flee south along the canal, but he didn't expect them to go to the beach.

"Not good!" Zhang Nai suddenly exclaimed, "They must have prepared a sea boat on the beach, this is to escape from the sea!" ”