After receiving Yan Yingyuan's report, Su Tiancheng felt a little sudden. He believed that Sun Tai and Ma Shiying would surrender in the end, but in time, maybe half a month or even one month. If the time is too long, even if it will cause great losses, Su Tiancheng must make up his mind to attack Nanjing City. As for Zhu Shenxuan, who was dealing with matters such as Songjiang Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture, Changzhou Prefecture, Guangdezhou, Ningguo Prefecture and Huizhou Prefecture, was even more surprised. He could not have heard of it in such a short time.

In the eyes of Zhu Shenxuan and others, taking over Nanzhili and Nanjing City is of great significance. In this way, Su Tiancheng can officially become emperor and establish a new dynasty. Their civil and military ministers who followed Su Tiancheng to do things have a formal title and are justified in doing things.

The soldiers of Jiangning Camp quickly began to prepare. Su Tiancheng personally wrote a letter asking Hong Chengchou to lead the army to occupy Yangzhou Prefecture, temporarily abandon Huaian Prefecture, enter Fengyang Prefecture directly, take over Fengyang Prefecture, and then occupy Huaian Prefecture and other places. In fact, this is to require Hong Chengchou to speed up the marching. There is no decent resistance at all in Yangzhou Prefecture and Huaian Prefecture.

Su Tiancheng had many things to prepare, especially the matter of becoming emperor. There were many people concerned about this matter, and the first thing to do was Zhu Shenxuan, Yang Sichang, Fan Jingwen and others. Su Tiancheng had some considerations about the country name. Since he called himself King De, the country name of this dynasty could be called De, that is, the matter of the De Dynasty. The matter of the era is much simpler. According to the AD, there is no other title to add.

The most important thing at present is to meet the plan of Sun Tai and Ma Shiying surrendering, occupy Nanjing City without bloodshed. This is a matter that needs to be made in detail. There should be no negligence, nor can it waste time. Of course, Su Tiancheng also needs to pay attention to the suggestions of Qu Qingze and others. Who knows whether this is the plan of Sun Tai and others. In order to defeat Jiangning Camp, Su Tiancheng has sufficient confidence. Relying on the soldiers of Jiangning Camp, as long as they enter Nanjing City, even if they face the attack of tens of thousands of Ming troops, they can still win.

This is the power of self-confidence and the manifestation of strength.

Sun Tai began to deploy. There were a total of 120,000 Ming troops stationed inside and outside Nanjing City. Among them, 50,000 soldiers in Nanjing Jingzhan were mainly stationed at the gates of the southeast, west and northeast of Nanjing City. More than 50,000 soldiers under the former command of Zuo Liangyu were mainly stationed in the Jingzhan barracks five miles away from Nanjing City. In addition, there were nearly 20,000 soldiers in the garrison, mainly stationed in the Five City Military Command Office, mainly responsible for the public security in the city. Once the Jiangning Camp attacked Nanjing City, all Ming troops would enter Nanjing City and be responsible for defending.

Such a deployment was determined by Zhu Yousong and Sun Tai. Sun Tai was basically familiar with many officers of the 120,000 army. However, he was not sure that he could mobilize the 120,000 army to surrender. The one who was sure was the 50,000 soldiers in Nanjing Jingzhang.

Speaking of the sergeants in Nanjing Jingying, they still have some intersections with Su Tiancheng. When Su Tiancheng was the magistrate of Jiangning County, he had a lot of contact with the sergeant. At that time, the sergeant in Jingying was still relatively difficult. Relying on Su Tiancheng's lease of land, life was still good. Later, Su Tiancheng integrated the Maritime Warehouse Department, and the life of the sergeant in Nanjing Jingying became even better. The officers and soldiers of Jingying will not forget these things. At the same time, when Su Tiancheng was exterminated, he also used the sergeants in Nanjing Jingying, and some of the backbones of the Jiangning Camp, who were from Nanjing Jingying.

With such a foundation, Nanjing Jingying is the key target of Sun Tai.

Time is urgent, Ma Shiying has returned to Fengyang Mansion. The day they discussed the matter was September 1st, and it seemed that there was only three days left.

Soon, Su Tiancheng's handwritten letter was also delivered to Sun Tai. Seeing Su Tiancheng's handwritten letter, Sun Tai was finally relieved. As long as the Jiangning camp army entered Nanjing City, everything would be fine.

Sun Tai did not come to Nanzhili for a long time, and there were not many officials who could absolutely trust. Fortunately, after learning that he had clarified his idea of ​​surrender, Liu Jingting recommended an important person, namely Zheng Keyou, the head of Yingtian Prefecture.

Zheng Keyou was the governor of Yingtian Prefecture before and was promoted to the prefecture chief. Thanks to Su Tiancheng's help, fortunately, he never entered the capital, so he did not attract the special attention of the court. Moreover, because he was a civil servant and did not directly control the army, he would not be deliberately paid attention.

Zheng Keyou had a lot of contact with Nanjing Jingying. When he was a governor, he was responsible for contact with many officers in the Jingying. He was a versatile figure. As early as when Su Tiancheng was entrenched in Dengzhou and other places, Zheng Keyou thought about going to Dengzhou, but 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. Su Tiancheng was able to know in time that Qu Qingze and others could receive accurate information, and Zheng Keyou made great contributions to this. Even the safety of Liu Jingting, Yan Yingyuan and others in Nanjing was responsible for Zheng Keyou.

After Zheng Keyou saw Sun Tai, he took out a list from his arms, which were filled with more than fifty people's names. Sun Tai took the list and took a quick look. He was shocked. Many important officers in the Nanjing Beijing Camp were on this list, and there were even several guerrilla generals and deputy generals, more of them were guerrilla generals and garrisons.

Sun Tai took a breath and thought that even if he fought to the death, he might have persisted for a long time, but if all the officers on this list surrendered, the soldiers in the Nanjing Camp of Beijing would suffer great losses.

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

Sun Tai believed the candidate recommended by Liu Jingting, and there was no way to do it. His foundation in Nanjing was not deep, and he was far inferior to Zheng Keyou in front of him. Therefore, Sun Tai quickly expressed his arrangement, which was to first seize Qian Qianyi and Cao Huachun, and then asked the soldiers stationed in Nanjing to accept the reorganization of Jiangning Camp, and ultimately ensure that there would be no riots in Nanjing and that they must be stabilized.

Zheng Keyou made a suggestion. The official post station where Qian Qianyi was stationed was very cautious and there was little possibility of taking action. As for the palace where Cao Huachun was stationed, it was even more impossible to take action. If you want to seize two people, the best place is Yingtian Prefecture Yamen. Yin Hotel in Yingtian Prefecture is the best place. Moreover, when Qian Qianyi first came to Nanjing, he was planning to live in Yin Hotel in Yingtian Prefecture. Taking action in such a place will not arouse the alertness of Qian Qianyi and Cao Huachun.

Sun Tai fully agreed with Zheng Keyou's suggestion. You should know that Zheng Keyou is the head of Yingtian Prefecture and is responsible for many specific affairs of the yamen. Yingtian Prefecture can be regarded as Zheng Keyou's world. Once you enter the yamen, the many Jinyiwei and guards brought by Qian Qianyi and Cao Huachun will not have much effect.

Of course, in order to ensure the success of the operation, the soldiers and guards of the Jingying camp must be placed. Once Qian Qianyi, Cao Huachun and others are detained, the soldiers of the Jingying camp will be responsible for controlling the Jinyi Guards and guards of Qian Qianyi, Cao Huachun and others, including controlling the eunuchs and many officials in the palace. Once this step is achieved, the action will be basically successful.

The action plan is getting more and more complete, and the rest is to start implementing it in detail.

When Sun Tai started writing the order, his hands were trembling. Once he wrote this order, he had no room for turning back. This was an order to order more than 50,000 soldiers stationed in the Beijing camp, which means that on September 1 and 2, the soldiers stationed in the Beijing camp could rest for two days. In addition to arranging necessary sergeants on duty, the remaining soldiers could rest and go to and from the military camp freely.

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

You should know that for such a long time, all the soldiers were very tense and could not have time to rest. Everyone knew that the war was coming and that they were about to face the brave Jiangning Camp, many soldiers were a little sneered, and even had emotional problems. Sun Tai issued such an order at this critical moment, and the soldiers were definitely happy. It can be foreseen that a large number of soldiers would enter Nanjing City, at least they could relax.

If Sun Tai issued this order, it was actually a failure to make the power. After Qian Qianyi and Cao Huachun came to Nanjing, all the military's power should be transferred to Qian Qianyi and Cao Huachun. However, Qian Qianyi and Cao Huachun's important energy seemed to have not been in terms of how to deploy defenses, so Sun Tai was able to issue orders in the name of the Minister of War in Nanjing.

The soldiers stationed at the northeastern city gates of Nanjing also received an order that the soldiers stationed in Beijing can rest for two days. At that time, these soldiers enter Nanjing city and do not stop them.

Another most important arrangement is to arrange for the more than 50 officers provided by Zheng Keyou to be responsible for the guarding of the city gates in the southeast, west and northeast on September 1 and 2, especially the South Gate. If nothing unexpected happens, the soldiers of Jiangning Camp will enter Nanjing City directly from the south gate.

After the order was sent out, Sun Tai sat down in sweat, as if he was exhausted.
Chapter completed!