After receiving Yan Yingyuan's report, Su Tiancheng felt a little sudden, he believed that Sun Tai and Ma Shiying would eventually be obedient, but in terms of time, maybe half a month or even a month, if the time was too long, even if it would cause great losses, Su Tiancheng would make up his mind to attack Nanjing City. As for Zhu Xianxuan, who had not yet had time to leave and was dealing with the affairs of Songjiang Mansion, Suzhou Mansion, Changzhou Mansion, Guangde Prefecture, Ningguo Mansion, Huizhou Mansion and other places, he was even more surprised, and he did not expect that there would be news in such a short period of time.

In the eyes of Zhu Xianxuan and others, it is of great significance to take Nanzhili and Nanjing City, so that Su Tiancheng can officially claim the title of emperor and establish a new dynasty, and their group of civil and military ministers who follow Su Tiancheng to do things will also have an official name, and it is reasonable to be bold when they start doing things.

The soldiers of the Jiangning battalion quickly began to prepare, and Su Tiancheng personally wrote a letter, asking Hong Chengchou to lead the army to occupy Yangzhou Mansion, temporarily abandon Huai'an Mansion, directly enter Fengyang Mansion, fully take over Fengyang Mansion, and then occupy Huai'an Mansion and other places, in fact, this is also to ask Hong Chengchou to speed up the march, Yangzhou Mansion and Huai'an Mansion There is no decent resistance at all.

Su Tiancheng needs to prepare a lot of things, especially the matter of being called the emperor, there are many people who are concerned about this matter, the first is Zhu Xianxuan, Yang Sichang and Fan Jingwen and others, about the matter of the country name, Su Tiancheng has some consideration, since he calls himself the king of Germany, then the name of this dynasty can be called Germany, that is, the German dynasty, the matter of the era is much simpler, according to the era of the Common Era, don't add any other titles.

At present, the most important thing is to respond to Sun Tai and Ma Shiying's plan to return to Shun and occupy Nanjing City without bloodshed. This is something that needs to be planned in detail. There can be no negligence, let alone delay time, of course, for the suggestions of Qu Qingze and others, Su Tiancheng also needs to pay attention, who knows if this is the strategy of Sun Tai and others, thinking that he can defeat the Jiangning battalion, Su Tiancheng has sufficient self-confidence, relying on the soldiers of the Jiangning battalion, as long as he enters Nanjing City. Even in the face of the attack of hundreds of thousands of Ming troops, it is completely capable of victory.

This is the strength of self-confidence, this is the embodiment of strength.

Sun Tai began to deploy, and there were a total of 120,000 Ming troops stationed inside and outside Nanjing. Among them, 50,000 soldiers of the Nanjing Beijing Camp were mainly stationed at the southeast, northwest and northwest gates of Nanjing. More than 50,000 sergeants under the command of Zuo Liangyu. Mainly stationed in the Beijing barracks five miles away from Nanjing City, in addition to the guard post nearly 20,000 sergeants, mainly stationed in the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Command Division, mainly responsible for the security of the city, once the Jiangning battalion attacks Nanjing City, all the Ming troops will enter the Nanjing City. Responsible for sticking.

Such a deployment was jointly determined by Zhu Youxiang and Sun Tai, and Sun Tai was basically familiar with many officers of the 120,000-strong army. However, he was not sure that he would be able to mobilize 120,000 troops to surrender, and he was sure that the 50,000 soldiers in the Nanjing Jingying were certain.

Speaking of the sergeant of Nanjing Jingying, there is still some intersection with Su Tiancheng, when Su Tiancheng served as the magistrate of Jiangning County, he had a lot of contact with Jingying, at that time Jingying was still relatively difficult, relying on Su Tiancheng to lease land, life was still good, and later Su Tiancheng integrated the city of Bo Division, Nanjing Jingying's life was even better, these things, the officers and sergeants of Beijing Camp will not forget, at the same time, Su Tiancheng also used the sergeants of Nanjing Jingying when he exterminated the Liukou, Some of the backbone of the Jiangning camp were sent out of Nanjing Jingying.

With such a foundation, Nanjing Jingying is the object that Sun Tai focuses on.

Time is urgent, Ma Shiying has already returned to Fengyang Mansion, and the day for the two to discuss the matter is September 1, and it seems that there are only three days.

Soon, Su Tiancheng's handwritten letter was also delivered to Sun Tai's hands, and seeing Su Tiancheng's handwritten letter, Sun Tai was finally relieved, as long as the Jiangning battalion army entered Nanjing City, everything would be easy to say.

Sun Tai has not been in Nanzhili for a long time, and there are not many officials who can be absolutely trusted, but fortunately, after Liu Jingting learned that he had a clear idea of returning to Shun, he recommended an important person, that is, Zheng Keyou, the Cheng of Ying Tianfu Mansion.

Zheng Keyou used to be the governor of Yingtianfu, and he was able to be promoted to the governor, thanks to Su Tiancheng's help, fortunately, he never entered the capital, so he did not attract the special attention of the imperial court, and because he was a civilian official, he was not directly in charge of the army, so he would not be deliberately concerned.

Zheng Keyou had a lot of contact with Nanjing Jingying, when he was the governor in the past, he was mainly responsible for the liaison between the upper and lower levels, and many officers in the Beijing camp had a relationship, and he belonged to the kind of eight-sided exquisite character, as early as when Su Tiancheng was entrenched in Dengzhou and other places, Zheng Keyou thought that he could go to Dengzhou, or Su Tiancheng persuaded him to stay in Nanjing.

It should be said that when Zheng Keyou was in Nanjing, he did a lot of things secretly, many things in Nanjing, Su Tiancheng was able to know Lu Dao in time, Qu Qingze and others were able to receive accurate information, and Zheng Keyou had a lot of credit for this. Even the safety of Liu Jingting, Yan Yingyuan and others in Nanjing is Zheng Keyou's responsibility.

After Zheng Keyou saw Sun Tai, he took out a list from his arms, which was densely filled with the names of more than 50 people, Sun Tai took the list, glanced at it hurriedly, and was greatly surprised, many important officers in the Nanjing Beijing camp were on this list, and there were even several generals and adjutant generals, and more were guerrilla generals and garrisons.

Sun Tai gasped, he thought that even if he resisted desperately, he might hold out for a long time, but if all the officers on this list surrendered, the sergeants of the Nanjing Beijing camp would suffer great losses.

Zheng Keyou's meaning is very clear, these people can be absolutely trusted, and they can also be entrusted with big things.

For the candidate recommended by Liu Jingting, Sun Tai believes it, and there is no way to believe it, his foundation in Nanjing is not deep, and it is far inferior to Zheng Keyou in front of him, so Sun Tai quickly said his own arrangement, that is, first detain Qian Qianyi and Cao Huachun, and then ask the sergeants stationed in Nanjing City to accept the reorganization of the Jiangning battalion, and finally ensure that there can be no riots in Nanjing City, and it must be stabilized.

Zheng Keyou has made a suggestion, the official post where Qian Qianyi is stationed is heavily guarded, and the possibility of wanting to do it is not great, as for the palace where Cao Huachun is stationed, it is even more impossible to do it, if you want to detain the two, the best place is Yingtianfu Yamen, and the Yin Hotel in Yingtianfu is the best place, and when Qian Qianyi first came to Nanjing, he was going to live in the Yin Hotel in Yingtianfu, and doing it in such a place will not arouse the vigilance of Qian Qianyi and Cao Huachun.

Sun Tai completely agreed with Zheng Keyou's suggestion, you must know that Zheng Keyou is the official of Yingtianfu Mansion, responsible for many specific affairs of the Yamen, and the Yingtianfu Yamen can be regarded as Zheng Keyou's world, once he enters the Yamen, the many brocade guards and guards brought by Qian Qianyi and Cao Huachun will not play much role.

Of course, in order to ensure the success of the operation, it is necessary to place the soldiers of the Beijing camp to guard, once Qian Qianyi and Cao Huachun and others are detained, the soldiers of the Beijing camp will be responsible for controlling the brocade guards and guards guarding Qian Qianyi and Cao Huachun and others, including the control of the eunuchs and many officials in the palace, once this step is achieved, the operation will be basically successful.

The action plan is becoming more and more complete, and all that remains is to start the concrete implementation.

Sun Tai's hands were trembling when he wrote the order, once he wrote this order, he had no room to turn back, this was an order to order more than 50,000 sergeants stationed in the Beijing camp, which means that on the first and second days of September, the sergeants stationed in the Beijing camp can rest for two days, except for arranging the necessary sergeants on duty, the rest of the sergeants can rest and enter and leave the barracks freely.

The purpose of this order is to make the Beijing camp empty, and when Su Tiancheng leads the army of the Jiangning battalion to Nanjing, he will not meet resistance and can enter the city of Nanjing as quickly as possible.

To know that the road has been very tense for so long, all the sergeants are very tight, there is no time to rest, everyone knows that the battle of the road is coming, about to face the brave Jiangning battalion, many sergeants have some cups and bows, and even emotional problems, Sun Tai at this critical moment, issued such an order, the sergeant is absolutely happy, can predict that there will be a large number of sergeants into Nanjing City, at least be able to relax.

After Qian Qianyi and Cao Huachun came to Nanjing, the power to dispatch all the troops should belong to Qian Qianyi and Cao Huachun, but Qian Qianyi and Cao Huachun's important energy did not seem to be in terms of defensive deployment, so Sun Tai was still able to issue orders in the name of the Nanjing Military Department.

The sergeants stationed at the southeast, northwest, and northwest gates of Nanjing also received an order, that is, the sergeants stationed in the Beijing camp could rest for two days, and when the time came, these sergeants entered the city of Nanjing and did not stop them.

Another most important arrangement was to arrange for the 50 or so officers provided by Zheng Keyou to be responsible for guarding the four city gates in the southeast, northwest, and northwest on 1 and 2 September, especially the south gate.

After the order was issued, Sun Tai sat down sweating profusely, and the whole person seemed to be collapsed.

In this life, the fate is determined by so many steps, Sun Tai finally took the most important step, as for whether it is good or bad, it is impossible to determine at present, but since he has taken this step and made a choice, there is nothing to regret, he has to bear all the consequences, every scene he has experienced from this moment on, he will never forget, and he will always remember it. (To be continued......)