Nanjing City can be said to be the largest battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Xingtian Army, plus the preparation time of the Xingtian Army before the war, which lasted a total of about a month, and annihilated nearly 100,000 or so officials and troops of Nanzhili as a whole, of which nearly 80,000 officers and soldiers took the initiative to lay down their weapons and surrendered to the Xingtian Army, nearly one-third of these people were later reorganized by the Xingtian Army and placed under the command of Xiao Tianjian, and the rest were ordered to be disarmed and returned to the field, repatriated to their hometowns to work in agriculture or settled on the spot to work.

For those officials left behind in Nanjing, most of them were eventually either captured by the Xingtian Army or directly surrendered to the Xingtian Army.

However, there were also more than a dozen left-behind officials in Nanjing, who chose to die for the country when the city was finally broken, either taking their families to fight to the death and being killed, or choosing to commit suicide.

As for the property confiscated from the homes of the nobles, gentry, and corrupt officials in the city after the Xingtian Army entered the city, there is no need to list it in detail, it is definitely an astonishing number, at least it is no problem to let Xiao Tianjian eat for two years, as for the captured armor and weapons, naturally there are not a few, at least there is no big problem in arming tens of thousands of elite soldiers.

And it is worth mentioning that one of the historical ministers Shi Kefa, when he was broken in Dinghuai Gate, he sat in the Jubaomen in the west of the city, after hearing that the city was broken, he took his righteous son Shi Dewei to lead the troops to the north of the city, trying to turn the tide and recapture Dinghuai Gate, but He Nai after he got the news, Sun Yingyuan has been killed in battle, a large number of Xingtian army has entered the city, Shi Dewei's official army after encountering the Xingtian army, only lasted less than an hour, and then collapsed by itself, and finally Shi Dewei was captured, Shi Kefa was powerless to return to the sky, Jumped off the city wall and died of martyrdom.

Xiao Tianjian did not find Shi Kefa's body until Nanjing City was completely controlled, and he personally interrogated Shi Kefa's body, Xiao Tianjian was quite helpless and very sorry for Shi Kefa's death, but he also knew that there was no way for him, for Shi Kefa such a loyal minister, even if he caught him, it was difficult to persuade him to surrender himself, and in the end he would still choose to die, this may be the fate of people like him, when the country falls, it is inevitable that such a thing will happen.

So Xiao Tianjian ordered the burial of Shi Kefa's body, and also gave him a thick burial, and at the same time, when he took the time to bury Shi Kefa, he also personally went to incense to commemorate it, which was regarded as fulfilling his reputation as a loyal minister.

At the same time, Xiao Tianjian ordered Shi Kefa's family to be treated favorably, to protect his family and property from any harassment, to settle in Nanjing City, and to give his family a confiscated courtyard to live in, which can be regarded as the highest courtesy.

After Xiao Tianjian took control of Nanjing City, he immediately sent Luo Li, Liu Yaoben and other generals to start attacking around.

The loss of Nanjing City and the capture of Ding Qirui undoubtedly completely destroyed the command system of the entire remnants of Nanzhili, so that the remaining areas controlled by the government of Nanzhili fell into a situation where the dragons were leaderless and fighting for themselves, and at the same time, it also gave the most serious blow to the government and even the official army of Nanzhili and even the world. They have all lost the basis for confronting the Xingtian Army.

At the end of September, when the city of Nanjing was broken a few days, Chuzhou announced the surrender of Kaicheng when Li Xuanzhu led his troops to arrive in the city, and in early October, the sixth Xingtian army transported a large number of soldiers to cooperate with Liu Yao's main force to arrive in Yangzhou City, at this time Yangzhou prefect Ren Yumin swore not to surrender, and led nearly 10,000 defenders in Yangzhou City to confront Liu Yao's department, and the general soldier Zhuang Zigu led his troops out of the city at night to carry out a night attack on Liu Yao's department, but because of the propaganda of the Xingtian Army in advance, the soldiers and civilians in Yangzhou City were not very resistant to the Xingtian Army, Moreover, after Nanjing was broken, some residents of Nanjing went to Yangzhou and told the people of Yangzhou that the Heavenly Army was a benevolent and righteous army, and after breaking the city of Nanjing, they did not plunder, but opened a warehouse to relieve the hungry people in the city.

Originally, the common people were most afraid of the scourge of the people after the thief army broke the city, but after hearing about these things, it was natural that they would not be hostile to the Xingtian Army, although there were some rich people and some scholars who were officials hated the Xingtian Army, thinking that the Ming Dynasty was orthodox, but the common people did not have this kind of consciousness, who in the world would do it had little to do with them, the most important thing was to eat a full stomach, the first half of the year when the Jiangnan flood, Yangzhou City also suffered from the flood, but the government did not think of relief, and the rich people refused to take the money out for disaster reliefOn the contrary, many grain merchants took the opportunity to close their crops and did not sell their grain, which led to many families inside and outside the city being starved to death, so the common people did not support the government.

So after Liu Yaoben led his troops to attack Yangzhou City for four days, the city should take advantage of the chaos to make Liu Yao's department attack the West Gate, Yangzhou City was also broken, and the defenders also heard about the preferential treatment of prisoners by the Xingtian Army, so the resistance was not fierce after the city was broken, and soon put down his arms and surrendered to Liu Yaoben.

At the same time, Luo Li led his troops to Changzhou Mansion, Changzhou Mansion resisted for only two days, and the prefect of the city was arrested by an official and led by his officials because he refused to surrender, and then opened the city to surrender, and Changzhou Mansion was declared broken.

At this time, the Xingtian Army was fully capable of dividing troops and horses into several routes, and launched a large-scale offensive operation in the area of Nanzhili, but compared with the unified mobilization of the Xingtian Army, all parts of Nanzhili were fighting on their own, and when each place was attacked by the Xingtian Army, the officers and troops in other places only considered the problem of self-protection and did not support at all, so the Xingtian Army could easily form a superior force in the local area and quickly break through the city.

The government has completely lost the hearts of the people at this time, as long as the Xingtian army goes, often the people will immediately raise their hands to welcome, turn around and help the Xingtian army attack the city, even some defenders are secretly looking for the Xingtian army to contact, the Xingtian army will surrender as soon as it arrives, and become the people of the Xingtian army, so that in the next month or so, the actions of the various departments of the Xingtian army are very smooth, and all parts of the troops attack, without letting the local government make any preparations, it is like a broken bamboo to continuously capture Chuzhou, Yangzhou, Changzhou, Suzhou, Zhenjiang Mansion, Songjiang Mansion and other places, including Chuzhou, Changzhou, Zhenjiang and other places are almost effortless, the government and the defenders in the city took the initiative to open the city to surrender, although the rest resisted, but the resistance was not fierce, some of the defenders turned against a blow, and immediately announced that the city was broken, and by November, the entire South Zhili was only left in the northeast of Huai'an Mansion and Ningguo Mansion The two mansions have not been broken by the Xingtian Army, but as long as the Xingtian Army will go north, these two places are estimated to be difficult to hold on for long.

The news of the destruction of Nanjing soon spread to the Beijing Division, Chongzhen cried and fainted on the spot after hearing it, the government and the opposition were even more mournful, and those courtiers and nobles were even more panicked and overwhelmed like frightened birds, at this time, everyone knew that the Ming Dynasty was probably going to be completely finished, after the Xingtian Army captured Nanzhili, the imperial court had lost the largest source of finance and the base of food supply, and the area that the imperial court could control was only the northern Jingfu and Shandong provinces, The decree could no longer be effectively transmitted to the rest of the provinces, let alone receive support from the other provinces, let alone revitalize and destroy the Xingtian Army.

So although Chongzhen cried and fainted, it was to no avail, they could only stay in the capital in panic, waiting for the day when the world would be overturned.