Chen Yue led his troops to the west gate of the Acropolis, and was pleasantly surprised to see that the military flag of the Xishan Army was planted at the head of the city.

"Open the gates, your lord is back!" Yuan Kewang shouted at the city, and soon the city gate opened, and Yang Zhengping greeted him with a look of surprise.

"Your Excellency, you're back!" Yang Zhengping exclaimed excitedly.

"Well, it's back. Brother Yuan said that the Acropolis was lost and captured by the rebels, Brother Yang, you are trapped in the governor's yamen, what is going on? Chen Yue asked suspiciously, pointing to the military flag at the head of the city.

"Hey, I fought back and kicked them out." Yang Zhengping smiled shyly and briefly explained what happened.

"Hahaha, Brother Yang is brave and strategic, he is really a general." Chen Yue praised.

"My lord, what should we do next?" Yang Zhengping asked.

"Of course, it's time to exterminate the rebels. Brother Yang, you and Yu Feng each took 500 people to kill the rebels, and it is enough to leave 100 people to defend the acropolis. I must catch the original Yuzong and the messenger of the thief. Chen Yue ordered in a deep voice.

"Yes!" Yu Feng and Yang Zhengping agreed in unison and went with their own troops.

At this time, Cao Youyi fled with a few hundred people, and four or five thousand rebels were scattered in the city outside the acropolis, most of whom were desperately robbing, and there was no organized resistance at all.

A group of 1,000 Xishan troops in groups of 100 people cleared along both sides of the canal. The musketeers and crossbowmen followed, and the pikemen followed, and when they encountered the rebels, they first fired their firearms and crossbows, and then the pikemen rushed over to assassinate them, until the rebels cried wolf howls.

Occasionally, a large group of rebels gathered, and the pikemen lined up in a spear array, spears like a forest, and the array was attacked, often breaking up the rebel array with a single look, and the rest was to chase and kill. As for the silver money and wealth seized by the rebels, they all fell into the hands of the Xishan army.

"Rich, rich!" Seeing the truckloads of silver and property brought back, He Lu smiled happily, and took a group of scribes to count the amount of seizures.

"Just waiting for His Majesty to come to Tianjin." The situation was very good, Chen Yue was in a better mood, and said to Wang Yin with a smile.

"When will Your Majesty arrive?" Wang Yin asked.

"The back are all infantry, in order to rescue you, I brought the war horses over, I guess it's almost dark." Chen Yue thought about it, when he parted, he was fifty miles away from Tianjin, and at the speed of marching, he could almost reach Tianjin before dark.

"The lord attacked Tang Tong's army, it must have attracted the attention of the Dashun court, maybe the chasing army will arrive soon, we have to think about how to leave Tianjin and go to the south." Wang Yin said.

"What Yokoyama Gong said is, how do you think we should retreat?" Chen Yue asked humbly.

"Our army and the coastal defense battalion are close to 5,000 people, as well as a lot of baggage materials, and the materials have been transported to the Dagukou coastal defense battalion one after another, where Chen Ping is stationing. However, we currently only have more than 100 sea ships, which will definitely not fit so many people, not to mention that there are nearly 2,000 war horses to divide the troops south. Wang Yin said that during these days in Tianjin, he thought about how to evacuate day and night.

"Just raise enough ships to hold all the horses?" Chen Yue asked.

"There are a lot of ships in Tianjin, and there are hundreds of riverboats in the canal, but you have also seen it, my lord, they are all riverboats that can only run in the canal, and they can't withstand the wind and waves at all, and it is too difficult to get a seaboat that can walk in the sea." Wang Yin sighed.

Chen Yue nodded, he also understood the difficulty of the matter, Tianjin Wei is not a seaport in the future after all, it is still more than a hundred miles away from the sea, where to find so many sea ships here.

"I have already thought about it, let's go south in two ways, one way is by sea, the infantry carrying material baggage to the south by boat, bypassing the Shandong Peninsula, passing through Haizhou to the mouth of the Yellow River, along the Yellow River, to Huai'an. On the other hand, all the cavalry went south along the land route, passing through Dezhou and Yanzhou, passing through Xuzhou to Huai'an, and the two armies converged in Huai'an, and then went south along the canal to Nanjing. Wang Yin talked eloquently and described the evacuation route he had been thinking about for a long time to Chen Yue.

"The sea route is dangerous, there is a risk of capsizing at any time, although there are many sea ships in the coastal defense battalion, there are not a few sea ships, in fact, it is not suitable for long-distance navigation. But there is no way, the thieves have occupied the entire northern part of the Ming Dynasty, and the distance from Tianjin Wei to Nanjing is thousands of miles, and it is possible to encounter the interception of the intrusive army at any time, and it is too difficult to go down with the whole army. But the sea ships could not transport so many men and horses, so they had to divide their troops and go south. Chen Yue sighed.

"Fortunately, the pure cavalry takes the land route, and the speed and flexibility are much faster, so you don't have to worry about the interception of the intruding army. It can also be used as a suspicious soldier, so that the thieves mistakenly think that His Majesty is in the army, and share the pressure of the sea route. Chen Yue thought about it and agreed with Wang Yin's plan.

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"Boss, there are thieves chasing after you!" After listening to Tanma's report, Jin Xin hurried to Chen Jianghe's face.

"What? How many people are there? Chen Jianghe's face suddenly became ugly, there were still more than ten miles away from Tianjin Wei, and he was chased by thieves, how good is this!

"There are about two or three thousand cavalry, only three or four miles away, we are definitely not opponents, boss, you take Your Majesty to retreat quickly, and I will lead people to line up to block them!" Jin Xin hurriedly urged.

Chen Jianghe raised his eyes and looked north, and he could already see the dust rising on the official road in the distance, and knew that the matter was very urgent.

"Lord Wu, you protect Your Majesty to retreat first, and I will lead someone to block it." At the moment of the great enemy, Chen Jianghe rushed at Wu Mengming.

"Let's, let's withdraw together!" Wu Mengming's face was pale, facing Chen Jianghe.

"No, Ah Yue handed over this rear army to me, I can't run away from the battle, Lord Wu, you don't need to say much, it is important to protect the safety of Your Majesty and the princess." Chen Jianghe urged.

Wu Mengming glanced at Chen Jianghe deeply, and escorted Chongzhen's carriage away quickly.

"The father and son of the Chen family are truly loyal ministers." Chongzhen lowered the curtain and sighed secretly.

"Jianghe, you, be careful." The second carriage passed by Chen Jianghe, the curtain was lifted, and Aunt Zhang stretched out her head, worried about Chen Jianghe.

"It's fine!" Chen Jianghe smiled and waved his hand to Aunt Zhang, his heart was full of warmth.

Under the command of Jin Xin, dozens of chariots were laid out on the official road, forming a thick car formation, on the chariots, the crossbows were opened, a door tiger squat cannon was urgently placed, and the muzzle of the black hole pointed directly to the north.

The 1,000 soldiers left, with the sword and shield soldiers in front, cooperated with the wooden wall on the chariot to form a defensive line, and behind the sword and shield soldiers, there were musketeers, who were nervously reloading ammunition.

In the distance, the cavalry of the invading army was getting closer and closer, and the thunderous sound of horses' hooves resounded in the ears, and a cloud of smoke and dust rolled in, and in the blink of an eye, it was already in front of them.