The news of Huang Degong's beheading, Su Tiancheng quickly knew the truth, except for regret, he had no other feelings, after so many years, many things, Su Tiancheng's views are different, for example, for people like Huang Degong, it is said that it is necessary to use all their strength to win over, but sometimes, killing this kind of people is also to fulfill their reputation, and it will make Su Tiancheng's great cause of reunification realize as soon as possible.

The army is still divided into two ways, Su Tiancheng, Lu Xiangsheng and others, led the army to attack Yingtianfu directly, Hong Chengchou led the army to attack Zhenjiang Mansion, Yangzhou Mansion, Huai'an Mansion, and then launched an attack on Fengyang Mansion, it should be said that after the Ming army of nearly 200,000 was wiped out, the guards of Nanzhili were greatly weakened, except for Ying Tianfu and Fengyang Mansion, there may be some battles and fights, and there are basically no large-scale battles in the rest of the places.

The worst fate is the original Ming army stationed in Huizhou Mansion, after 40,000 of them entered Zhejiang, they have long been detected by Zhu Xianxuan and Yang Sichang and others, Jiangning battalion soldiers set up an ambush in Yuhang, waiting for this Ming army to enter the encirclement, it only took three charges, it completely defeated this Ming army, the captured Ming army was close to 30,000 people, these captives were used unceremoniously by Yang Sichang, after the autumn harvest, it is necessary to carry out large-scale renovation of water conservancy facilities in various places, after all, Fujian and Zhejiang and other places, Basically, there is no maintenance of water conservancy and alms, which is very detrimental to agricultural production. It is estimated that these captured Ming soldiers never dreamed that they would become coolies and begin to work with their backs to the loess.

As for the remaining 10,000 Ming troops stationed in Huizhou Prefecture, less than 2,000 were able to withdraw to Nanjing, and the rest were wiped out by the army led by Lu Xiangsheng, or surrendered.

Su Tiancheng sent all the captives to Zhejiang. It was handed over to Yang Sichang, who needed a large number of manpower, and the water conservancy facilities construction projects in Zhejiang and Fujian were fully rolled out, and what was needed was labor.

The battle to attack Ying Tianfu slowed down. Many places here are familiar to Su Tiancheng, when he was the magistrate of Jiangning County, he traveled through many states and counties, and the general situation is Zhilu Dao. But Hong Chengchou was different, and accelerated the speed of the march, after all, he wanted to lead the army to take Zhenjiang Mansion, Yangzhou Mansion and Huai'an Mansion and other places, no matter how much resistance he would encounter, at least the army would need to march thousands of miles.

Qin Sande had already known all the circumstances. In particular, the news that the 40,000 Ming army of Huizhou Mansion was completely annihilated in Yuhang, Zhejiang, was a fatal blow to him, and the arrangement with pride became a situation of total rout, with an army of 250,000 and only more than 50,000 people remaining, close to an army of 200,000. All of them have been exterminated, and they are always analyzed from the perspective of combat effectiveness. It is certainly unjustifiable, and the deployment and arrangement of operations are fatally flawed.

In the current situation, the main responsibility lies with Qin Sande.

You have to find a way, otherwise Qin Sande will have no place to be buried.

The foreshadowing in the early stage has been done, and the rest is to implement it step by step. Although Zhu Youxiang was directly responsible for giving orders in the later stages, Qin Sande was not idle, he was trying to relieve himself of his responsibilities, and the progress of this matter was still very good.

First of all, it was Zhu Youxiang who completely decided to suppress the battle situation. Qin Sande asked Zhu Youxiang to be in charge of all matters and make all decisions because of his physical discomfort, which was clear to all the officials of Nanzhili, so he couldn't blame him Qin Sande for suppressing the twists and turns, followed by the fact that the operational deployment mistakes led to fiascos, and if you want to directly shirk the responsibility, the difficulty must be not small, but Qin Sande is familiar with the situation in the palace, it is not impossible to hide from the world, and it is not the first time that the emperor has been deceived. can find a way to deal with it, Jin Yiwei and Dongchang completely control the public opinion in the capital, who wants to talk nonsense, as the Dongchang factory, how can Qin Sande have no way to deal with it, the most important thing in this is the cabinet, fortunately, the relationship between Zhou Yanru, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Qin Sande is good.

The last thing is how the court deals with this matter, since all the responsibility is put on Zhu Youxiang's body, then Zhu Youxiang's ending must be very miserable, according to the holy decree of the court, it should be conveyed by eunuchs, in this process, Qin Sande can certainly think of a way to make Zhu Youxiang unable to speak, or even to see the emperor.

There are also some officials of Nanzhili, such as Sun Tai, the secretary of the military department of Nanzhili, this is also the person Qin Sande needs to deal with, Nanjing has the same dark line of Jinyiwei, Sun Tai's various dissatisfied words and deeds and measures, how can Qin Sande not know the way.

Everything is in the process of hard work.

The news in the palace is already there, Wang Chengen scolded Qin Sande, the meaning revealed is very clear, the reason why the emperor arranged for Qin Sande to go to Nanzhili is because of his trust in Qin Sande, but unfortunately Qin Sande did not seize the opportunity, and thought about leaving at the critical moment, which will definitely disappoint the emperor, maybe it will affect the emperor's trust in Jinyiwei and Dongchang, and the consequences are still somewhat serious, but the matter has come to this, from his own position and the interests of many people, Wang Chengen chose to support Qin Sande.

There is also a deep-seated reason, Wang Chengen will not say it, the emperor has begun to worry about many imperial relatives, thinking that these imperial relatives entering the imperial court is not a good decision, especially Zhu Xianxuan's betrayal, which has a great impact in the imperial court, and has directly changed the emperor's previous thinking of trusting the imperial relatives and relatives. Wang Chengen fully supported the emperor's decision, and as for himself, he also felt that if the current trend continued, once the emperor trusted the emperor's relatives again, the status of the eunuchs would also be affected.

From Wang Chengen's point of view, Zhu Youxiang's ending is of course very miserable.

Knowing that Wang Chengen scolded himself, Qin Sande was relieved, if Wang Chengen didn't care about this matter, it would really be dangerous, since Wang Chengen opened his mouth, he would definitely go around it.

The news from Zhou Yanru is not very clear, which is probably due to Zhou Yanru's lack of a clear statement.

Qin Sande is a little resentful, you Zhou Yanru at such a critical moment, do not make a clear statement, so that one of his hearts is not at peace, swaying up and down, what does this mean, but after calming down, after careful analysis, Qin Sande understands that although Zhou Yanru did not make a clear statement, he actually supported him, if Zhou Yanru objected, there would definitely be words to reveal, this is probably because Zhu Youxiang is an official of the imperial court, Zhou Yanru at this time, can not make a clear statement, otherwise he will show his concern for the eunuch, What will the emperor think.

When people are in a hurry, a little thing will make everything happen. What's more, it's a matter related to his own life, Qin Sande thinks a lot, and he has implemented it step by step according to his own ideas, and now, he can only wait, and all the things that have been changed have been done.

In comparison, Zhu Youxiang's feeling is much more sluggish.

After Sun Tai reminded him, Zhu Youxiang also aroused vigilance, he originally wanted to inquire about the news from the capital, but because there were too many things at hand, especially after the news of the successive fiascos, in order to be able to guard Nanjing and Fengyang Mansion, Zhu Youxiang could be said to have worked hard and couldn't take care of other things for the time being.

The news came one after another, the news that the 40,000 army attacking Zhejiang was defeated and almost all annihilated, and after the news that Huang Degong's army was defeated and was unwilling to surrender and commit suicide, Zhu Youxiang already knew that all the arrangements made by Qin Sande at the beginning had failed, and it could be said that the Ming army of more than 200,000 had been lost, and a large amount of land had also been lost.

The responsibility in this is very heavy, after making a comprehensive deployment for the defense of Nanjing and the guards of Fengyang Mansion, Zhu Youxiang began to think about the size of the responsibility, to say that he has no responsibility at all, it is also impossible, after all, it is the commander, but all the matters in the early stage are arranged and deployed by the supervising army Qin Sande, which is also known to many officials, especially Sun Tai, the secretary of the Nanzhili Military Department, is even more clear about the reason, in this case, even if the imperial court wants to deal with it, it is also necessary to dispose of Qin Sande first.

Qin Sande said that he was sick, and Zhu Youxiang thought it was a heart disease, but in fact, he thought that the imperial court was about to be held responsible.

It was not until this time that Zhu Youxiang remembered that he did not report to the court in time about the battle situation in Nanzhili, and the court did not know the specific situation of Lu Dao, it should be said that the first stage of the battle was over, and the focus of the next battle turned to Nanjing and Fengyang Mansion.

The folds were quickly written and supplemented, Zhu Youxiang hesitated whether to show Qin Sande, it was all the truth, there was no contradiction to cover up, there was no avoidance of the problem, the main contradiction in this was also borne by Qin Sande, and Zhu Youxiang had part of the responsibility.

After hesitating again and again, Zhu Youxiang also made a selfish decision, not to show Qin Sande, and directly to the court, so long time has passed, Qin Sande has always been sick and does nothing, and at such a critical moment, he also needs to bear the main responsibility for the failure in the early stage.

Although the situation is very tense, he has to come forward almost every day to arrange large and small matters, all of which are personally attended, and this frequent way of appearing is actually to tell many officials in Nanzhili that there will be no major events in Nanzhili for the time being, so many officials can barely stabilize.

As for whether he can continue to stabilize Nanzhili and whether he can hold Nanjing City, Zhu Youxiang is not completely sure, but he feels that Nanjing City is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and the problem of holding here is not very big, besides, after the fighting begins, the imperial court will definitely send a large number of reinforcements to reinforce or attack Su Tiancheng. (To be continued......)